Kwwl. Com. Check out both interviews. Monica vernon has become prominent here in the last few years in fact, one of your commercials calls you politician Monica Vernon. Well talk about that later, but you served two terms to the cedar rapids city council. Shes been a Small Business owner. In fact was a Business Owner for many years with her Vernon Research group and it was just sold to the cedar rapids gaz zet in 2013. She was a candidate for congress in 2014, lost to murphy this year, was also on the democratic ticket a couple years ago with jack hatch as a candidate for Lieutenant Governor rg married to her husband bill for more than 30 years and they have three adult daughters. Welcome to the program. In announcing your candidacy to challenge rod blum, you saturday northeast iowans deserve a representative in congress with a track record of solving problems and getting results for families and Small Businesses across our community. So what do you point to as your record for assuring
Its not going to be the constituents the rise and intersect with the government without official, the agent. A big deal for us because its a big deal for iowa. Is that good . Is that good, bill . A good. Thank you all very much. I really appreciate it. [applause] thank all the students here. You were patient and u. S. Brilliant questions. This plan is a national zealous reporter. Thanks again for coming. Applaus[applause] [inaudible conversations] Iowa Governor Terry Branstad is running for a fifth term against democratic challenger jack hatch. The two candidates face one another tonight in a televised debate. Could look at the ads running in the race. Four years ago 114,000 iowans were out of work. Unemployment was the highest in five years and oustates budget was 900 million in debt. Terry branstad came back and so did i will. Today with a budget surplus, 140,000 new jobs, unemployment reduced nearly 30 and governor branstad is just getting started. Terry is back. Iowa is back. Terry
One of the lessons of the last decade if it has to become pulled with a significant force on the ground. It depends on what your goal is. If youre all is to degrade urgent organization or terrorist group im a drug can be useful with the caveat that of course is very government you have to partner with saying it places a lot of political pressure because it is not popular with the people, but it is still a very useful tool integrating those organizations. Degrading and containing. That is exactly right. That is the problem with the free work when applied in syria because the president has said not only degrade, but destroyed and that goes far beyond anything he has achieved with the same framework in yemen or smalley have. Mary. I agree. Airstrikes are really an important tool and i dont think anybody believes airstrikes should be gotten rid of or drones should be gotten rid of. On its own, attrition will not deal with an insurgency. Most of these countries, that is what we are dealing
It is not the other person in the village town or city. It is a shake who answers a lot of these questions for them. The reason why women are important is for two reasons. One, as you said the mother said the first in a childs first years. They are seeing things as children. If you are looking at some of these radicalization prophecies and you go back and talk to parents they have seen signs. Mothers talk about things they have seen. They influence the ecosystem within the home. But theres another piece of this and that other piece of it is how you use women to mobilize the perspective globally and connect those things. That is where we began to look at models that would work at a Grassroots Level that are very local and inspired by regular people. It wasnt government coming in and saying something. In the Bush Administration we looked at the mothers against drunk driving and asked how did that get off the ground . How do we build this and they began to think about what would happen if
Colleague Steve Birkenau teaches at the Army War College in fort leavenworth. He welcomed me to cal state northridge in 2000 and pretty much taught me how to be a professor. I appreciate that. The other person i really appreciate is my ophthalmologist. If you buy the book, you know the book is dedicated to my ophthalmologist. Terrible series of eye surgeries a few years ago and he literally saved my vision and my life as i want to live it so a shout out to him. Look him up. He is the best there is. I think i will talk specifically tonight not on all of the different aspects of the Wallace Campaign but to give you a sliver in particular on wallaces tour through the south in august and september of 1948. Openingways, it was an for what became the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Theres plenty of time for questions at the end and i would any things onwer american communists which is a big part of the book and Foreign Policy and the cold war. Tonight, my focus will be primarily on the s