lenora fulani: i have two quick things. we keep talking about voting for candidates but we are trying to transform what the process is. part of what independence should be doing as they run for office is working on that issue. whether they win or lose. that is the issue. if i run for president of the united states, and i won't, but the system is not going to change. we are trying to change things systematically. what was the first thing you said? the first question you asked? >> if the president is not -- lenora fulani: oh. you dump him. [laughter] [applause] i'm serious. that's what you do. obama did that. he went from talking about the poor when he first ran and the 92nd inauguration, he talked about middle classes. [applause] jackie salit: we are going to take two more people from this side and two more people from this side. keep your comments very short. everyone else, you will get a chance to talk in the second audience discussion. >> i am a member of u.s. -- u.x. cica and involved with kids. my question is this. we h

lenora fulani: i have two quick things. one is that, and i know we keep talking about voting for candidates but we are trying to transform what the process is. so part of what independence -- independents should be doing as they run for office is working on that issue. whether they win or lose. that is the issue. if i run for president of the united states, and i won't, but the system is not going to change. we are trying to change things systematically. what was the first thing you said? the first question you asked? >> if the president is not -- lenora fulani: oh. then you dump him. [laughter] [applause] no, i'm serious. that's what you do. and obama did that. he went from talking about the poor when he first ran and the 92nd inauguration, he talked about middle classes. i turned the tv off. [applause] jackie salit: we are going to take two more people from this side and two more people from this side. please keep your comments very short. everyone else, you will get a chance to talk in the second audience discussion. >>

lenora fulani: one myth that i would like to totally eradicate.he current system, if you vote, you can make a difference. [applause] because the issue isn't just simply voting. it has a lot to do with what you are voting for. what the parties represent, what the people represent. and people get beat up so much all the time around not going to the polls and voting. but in some ways, i think it's important to recognize that when people keep voting and the same things happen, it turns them off to politics, power, anything. i was thinking that people are smart. you don't vote unless you give a real and actual alternative. you play into the hands of the people that take the vote and do nothing. the other thing that i just want to say is that poverty is self-perpetuating. that it is personal. even in segregation, i don't think that we self segregate. i think we have been segregated. people don't even think they can live next door to each other unless you are of some elite class. neighborhoods are organized in that way and that keeps able from knowing wh

he follows close behind and pulls her over. 37-year-old lenora lucas steps out of the car to open the trunk, and out pops her 9-year-old son, her 3-year-old daughter and an 8-year-old friend. then she places a box that was taking up room in the back seat in the trunk. sergeant tyler is mystified. >> why would you let the kids ride in the trunk? >> they wanted to be in the trunk. >> the entire scenario is strange enough, but it's this next exchange that astonishes the officer. >> i see you have a "b" license. what do you do for a living? >> school bus. >> you drive a school bus. >> officials say at the time of the incident lucas hadn't driven for the school system for two years. lenora lucas later tells a frederick county judge she let the kids ride in the trunk because she wanted to be a cool mom. lucas is convicted of reckless endangerment and sentenced to 18 months of probation and community service. >>> coming up -- tow yard employees fear for their lives. >> am i going to die today? that's what i actually thought. >>> mcnuggets rage sparks a tantrum at this drive-through. >> she p

lenora fulani: i have been thinking about this a lot.he first time i voted, i was, nancy and i were running for governor. i was running for lieutenant governor. i had never been in a voting booth in my life. where i had been in the world was in the midst of poverty. i am a from -- i am from a small town. my family is poor, my cities poor. more and more poor people exist and are coming to be poor in this country. and so, i think it is critical for people, poor people, and people who are not for who care about poverty, to come together around the issue of strengthening democracy. to me, what that means, it has nothing to do with who gets elected, because the people get elected in formation that have created the poverty. they don't care about it. they don't want anything, basically, to do with it. they don't talk about poverty in this country. so i think that we have to continually deepen people's understanding about the relationship between these two. i think the african-american community has a particular role to play in this. we have bee

lenora fulani, a leading figure in the reform party, because of concerns that the populist left-right coalition will have too much of an appeal to your constituents and to the base of the democratic party. and i think you should be afraid. >> progressives just don't have the full clout. without compromising the principles, they can enter into these ad hoc alliances, and that is the only way they will prevail. jackie salit: i think you make an error when you focus on using independent politics as a mechanism to quote unquote move the democratic party to the left . what the left has to do is get out of the democratic party, out of the confines of political correctness, and go to the american people. >> you are a member? i am aim member -- a member of the anti-party. [applause] >> thank you for the kind introduction and thank you for having me to your biannual conference yet again. i sent to cathy stewart that this has become a growing, and i daresay enduring, pleasure for me to have a chance to introduce jackie salit. i say growing pleasure, because as a political consultant, you are su

old coalitions your magazine recently ran an article attacking the buchanan sit down with doctor lenorai, a leading figure because you are concerned about populist left-right coalition is going to too much of an appeal to your constituents and to the base of the democratic party. i think you should be afraid. >> progresses just don't have the full clout. without compromising any of the principles they can enter into these ad hoc alliances, fine that's the only way they will prevail for the time being spent i think if you make a mistake, make an important and significant error when you focus on using independent politics as a mechanism to quote-unquote move the democratic party to the left when in fact what the left has to do is get out of the democratic party out of the confines of political correctness and go to the american people. >> brad, you are a member of the tea party. >> what do you think? >> i'm a member of the anti-party which is about what 40% of the country is today. [applause] >> kind introduction and thank you for having me to your biannual conference yet again. i said to

lenora. >> how are they going to do it without just totally missing the point? >> this is a really great question and it's a huge experiment. i talk about in the books of thanks for asking. the number one instrument of schools across the country using for social and emotional climate is a simple survey. the majority of questions students and teachers edge. a pretty simple in terms of i'm excited to come to school every day, that somebody at school who cares about me. when you integrate this data and make it high-stakes there's always a chance of gaining the system. any management can be gained. any management can be undermined. in the public schools which introduced a social and emotional measure they instituted social and emotional walk-throughs. it became a component not the schools will be punished for this information at the have to integrate into the school and approve the plan. metrics that they work on include very clear things like absenteeism, turnover and behavioral issues. but what the walk through does is a way of assessing on a personal basis and it