ms. cahill for congress." at the same time ms. cahill doesn't spare schools when she thinks they shouldn't be scared, she has been a teacher and she knows what it's like to work in those venues. now i should offer would and i suppose to say, and admission so you can know where i'm coming from. my mother was a schoolteacher and taught in the d.c. public schools so i have great affection for the d.c. public schools and the d.c. charter schools in particular, probably education has been part and parcel of my own life beginning with my own parents. that wouldn't be enough to make me defend schools and i don't think being a teacher was enough to make you offer the defense you do in a paragraph in this book where you call a a mirror of society that can't turn away kids and go on further. so why don't you describe your own sense of what it's like to have to work in a transient district like many of nv's for the reno schools today. whenever they throw at you you have got to teach. what's it like for somebody in the profession today thrown

ms. cahill. ms. cahill, last year audienced think the whole book is about high points in joy and wonder, remember how it started out. this was a single mother, no money, decides to run for congress. there were some low points in this campaign. you had a time, three part-time jobs. one of the lowest points for me was almost 10,000-dollar commission you got, i would say cheated of, the suicide line. tell us about that little boy or those three low points. >> guest: well, the commission. i sold real estate part-time on the weekends to support my teaching habit, and i had worked with the family for a number of months, and they ended up going to another agent. they walked into an open house and bought that house from that age and that was sitting there instead of me, after spending months and months with them driving around and showing them homes and that kind of thing, so that was rather disappointing particularly because they were high-school friends i had grown up with. i was really shocked that they wo

ms. cahill. the holiday season was always reminded me how little we had and how unfair i felt that was to my children. she's talking about her own three children now. they were all some of little kids and i felt so guilty no matter how hard i worked there was never enough. you're talking about a mother that was a schoolteacher and worked three jobs, people, in order to support her family. people don't think of teachers as underpaid, but my own children qualified for free and reduced lunches, which meant that we fell below the poverty line. how sad is that? says he economically, our family ranked in the bottom 25th percentile even though i was college-educated and an award winning teacher. you think if that doesn't get you, let's try this. ms. cahill helped an elderly black grandmother deliver groceries at thanksgiving or christmas, one of those holidays. >> guest: she's a saint. >> host: after doing her duty they delivered the groceries we read this later on in a book that's never self pity but i

ms. cahill. his gentle response was surely politically motivated, but while a campaign spearheaded by students made it very hard for people to attack me, it became a double edged sword because it was also hard to get anyone to discuss the issues. i am a serious candidate and wanted to say. but it was hard to get the press to focus on a much more than how cute our campaign was an acuteness was not going to win this race. why don't you describe that description of the race? >> guest: well, there was a little frustration as related to the primary which i have to say was a surprise. i never anticipated making to the primary here and there is a gentleman we ran against i did not know but he was in vegas and i'm figuring that as the democratic mecca of the state and he will win this. >> host: just a moment. was he supported by the party at all or was a primary you don't support anybody? >> guest: abstract. >> host: he beat him by how much? this is in the primary everybody. >> guest: honestly that morni

ms. cahill. his gentle response was surely politically motivated, but while a campaign spearheaded by students made it very hard for people to attack me, it became a double-edged sword because it was also hard to get anyone to discuss the issues. i am a serious candidate, i wanted to say but it was hard to get the press and to focus on much more than how acute the campaign was, and cuteness was into going to win the race. why don't you describe that description of the race? >> guest: well, there was a little frustration as we made it through the primary which i have to say was a surprise. i never anticipated making it through the primary. there was a gentleman that we ran against that was in vegas and i'm figuring that's the democratic mecca of the state. he will win this. >> host: just a minute, tierney, was he supported by the primary and or is this where you are not supported -- >> guest: that is correct. >> host: how much did you beat him? >> guest: honestly that morning i woke up and read th

ms. cahill and hercules mittal volunteers, and here is ms. ahill in frustration if i can read from you, ms. cahill. his gentle response was surely politically motivated. but while a campaign spearheaded by students made it very hard for people to attack me, it became a double-edged sword because it was also hard to get anyone to discuss the issues. i am a serious candidate, i wanted to say. but it was hard to get the press to focus on much more than how cute our campaign was, and cuteness wasn't going to win the race. why don't you describe that. >> guest: there was a level of frustration as we made it through the primary which i have to say was a surprise. i never anticipated making it through the primary. there was a gentleman we ran against and i didn't know him but he was in vegas and i figure that is the democratic mecca of the state, he will win this. >> host: just a moment, tierney, was he supported by the primary or is this where you don't support. >> guest: that's correct. >> host: you beat him by a much, this is the primary everybody

ms. cahill for congress" the story of her and probable campaign for u.s.sixth grade students. with only $7,000 in campaign staff of 12-year-olds, she won the 2000 democratic primary and nevada's second district. she discusses her book with district of columbia delegate eleanor holmes norton. >> host: welcome to c-span cahill welcome to washington. >> guest: think you so much. >> host: this is the book, "ms. cahill for congress," and the subtitle, one phyllis teacher, her sixth grade class and the election that changed their lives forever. let me ask the obvious question. ms. cahill, how does a divorced mother with three children, no house, two bedrooms, one bath, how did you figure that out, apartment, two or three jobs, one cocktail waitress and where you sometimes get helm or galt home mabey 2:00, 4:00, who's counting, in the morning, extra curricular activities for students -- how does such a woman beside to run for of all things congress? not the school board or the city council but the congress? >> guest: right. well, actually, the students asked me t

ms. cahill and her cute little volunteers. and here is ms. cahill in frustration, if i could read. his ginger response was surely politically motivated, but while a campaign spearheaded by students made it very hard for people to attack you it became a double-edged sword because it was also hard to get anyone to discuss the issues. i am a serious dent in it, i've wanted to say. but it was hard to get the press to focus on a much more than help you to our campaign was. and cuteness was not going to win this race. why don't you describe that description. >> well, there was of the bull of frustration. we made it through the primary, which i have to say it was a surprise. i never anticipated making it through the primary. gentlemen we ran against. add to know him. the democratic mecca. he will win this. >> system moment. was he supported by the party at all? >> that's correct. >> belt, he beat him by how much? >> you know, honestly that morning when i woke up and read the paper i was in such shock that i had one. i later heard that it was some technicality. he was a felon and was not a

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