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Tenacious about our constituent pressure. that senators are movable with time and steadfast pressure from the people who support them locally, and for us, you know, as grass roots people who organize across the country, it was just so -- it was inspiring to hear from him, someone who grappled with this very issue, which is the senate, a place he loved, a place he knew so well and excelled at was changing and it was changing for the worst because republicans were using it for extremist views. in ...

Whole segment on cnn.com, if people want to watch it, is he explains his reasoning behind it, and he says he thinks busing makes sense when you have black students and white students living on the same block, to bus them to the same school. what he was opposing and he had a lot of constituent pressure in the 70s and 80s back in delaware, what he was arguing was that when you have people living long distances, it didnt make sense to bus them in to the same school district. he said it raised all s...

That might be a new possible leverage point when this federal government is trying to create what are basically baby jails in texas. >> i cant stress strongly enough. im in contact with a lot of folks that are organizers. the outcry over this is like nothing people have seen. the trump administration will double down and they will try to wait it out until it goes away. they wont lift a finger. they wont stop it unless they are made to stop it. were going to put babies in detention as americans u...

They wont stop it unless they are made to stop it. were going to put babies in detention as americans until some alignment of political forces in this country through constituent pressure and local leaders and elected officials in washington say enough, stop, we cannot do this. this is madness. and unless and until that happens, they will keep doing it. so local officials standing in the way of licensing of these facilities, political leaders of washington, constituents who have been burying con...

But presumably the house has to pass the same bill. they dont want to go to conference that could take months. >> what about the deadline here? a moving target to me. this idea of introducing and hammer it through. that doesnt work. largely because of constituent pressure. the bill is building at 14%, somewhere around there. going to try it again. what happens if you hit the recess? >> if you hit august recess? nothing good. going back to opposite 200 t200n the democrats went home. we had all th...

That doesnt work. largely because of constituent pressure. the bill is building at 14%, somewhere around there. going to try it again. what happens if you hit the recess? >> if you hit august recess? nothing good. going back to opposite 2009 when the democrats went home. we had all those very disrupting town hall meetings that i think we were there. i think the democrats got hammered and the same thing would happen and this time republicans. this is a bad case scenario. going home for august rec...

I think they know this is bad politically for them. and just the image for ted cruz in texas having that image, thats worth something in 2018. for corey gardner, hes saying maybe i can weather this for two years so i prevent that image from being ingrained. >> it is the bizarre through the looking glass politics. it is not polling very well. huge amounts of constituent pressure. from doctors to aarp. corey gardner will not go to fourth of july parades. every politician goes to the july 4 parade....

Wished they hadnt. >> they were getting upset because ted cruz brought constituent pressure on them. >> lets go back to this question here of the not gun issue. were going to be talking about this as long as we live. to me its all about intensity. on the liberal or centrist side, or gun safety side, whatever you want to call it, most people who are for gun safety are also for a better environment. theyre also for jobs, if you will. theyre also against wars. they tend to have a point of view on a...

Who did vote for the bill voted against background checks but wished they hadnt. >> they were getting upset because ted cruz brought constituent pressure on them. >> lets go back to this question here of the not gun issue. were going to be talking about this as long as we live. to me its all about intensity. on the liberal or centrist side, or gun safety side, whatever you want to call it, most people who are for gun safety are also for a better environment. theyre also for jobs, if you will. th...