Mr. Buckley we have a message for christopher sununu. 2018 is coming. [cheers] [applause] mr. Buckley yesterday we launched a project to keep sununu accountable for his out of touch policies that are favoring his family, his friends, and corporate special interests instead of average granite staters. Proponents of phony doublespeak and his aw shucks act, so we are calling him out. Our focus is five key issues where his policies are hurting New Hampshire education, the economy, health care, the environment, and ethics. We cant hold him accountable alone. We need your help, so follow sununureality, like sununu reality check on facebook, go to our website www. Sununu realitycheck. Com to learn more about his record, and share it to hold him accountable. In 2016,unu won by 2 so lets get to work and make sure he loses by far more than 2 in 2018. [applause] mr. Buckley is everyone clear . [applause] mr. Buckley everyone clear what our focus is for the next 11 months . All right then. Good evening, democrats. I am pleased that we are joined by congressman and president ial candidate john delaney. [applause] mr. Buckley congressman tim ryan. [applause] [cheers] friend,ley my good congresswoman and dnc vice chair grace meng. [applause] mr. Buckley congresswoman annie kuster. [cheers] congresswoman carol sheaporter. [applause] mr. Buckley and our extraordinary senator, maggie hassan. [applause] tonights dinner is a chance to pause and reflect on the year we have had. While we have plenty of work to do, New Hampshire democrats have a lot to celebrate. This year we celebrated and have sworn in the first ever all democratic, allfemale congressional delegation in american history. [cheers] [no audio] mr. Buckley congresswoman kuster, fight for us in washington every day, and they are winning incredibly important battles to protect all the progress we have made. This year we sent donald trump a message on his very first day in office by showing up in concord, across the state, around the country, and throughout the world at the womens march. [applause] this year we have won eight out of 10 special elections. [applause] five in republican districts. Senate first state special election victory since 1984. [applause] mr. Buckley we have won house special elections across the state. In carroll county, merrimack county, sullivan county, hillsboro county, and rockingham county. Districtt, there is no that a democratic candidate who works hard cant win in 2018. [applause] mr. Buckley that would be enough to celebrate, but it is not all we did. Broke records we across the state with our incredible municipal victories. Joyce craig became the first woman elected mayor in manchesters 171 year history. [applause] [cheers] [applause] mr. Buckley her victory flipped the largest city from red to blue for the First Time Since 2003. And in nashua, suite nashua swwet nashua, we pulled off a clean sweep of the at Large Council seats. [cheers] [applause] show shauna kelly and linda became the first women of color elected to nashuas board of aldermen. Think about this. Nashua hadgo today, a republican mayor and had had one for over 25 years, with republican majorities of aldermen and school board members. A democratic mayor with overwhelming majorities on both boards. Lets hear it for the nashua city democrats. [applause] mr. Buckley and jerry cannon became the first ever Transgender School board member in all of New Hampshire. Congratulations, jerry. [applause] mr. Buckley it has been a long time coming. Became thehison first lgbtq city council or in rochester history city councilor in rochester history. And an openly gay mayor was reelected to his third term. Burlington mayor was reelected to a record fifth term. A congressman was elected to a record sixth term. Election night was a historic ,ight of record of 110 women Young Democrats, persons of color, the lgbtq community, and a great night for democrats. But folks, we have a lot to accomplish. We need to make chris sununu a one term governor. [applause] mr. Buckley we need to hold on to the first and second congressional districts. We need to win majorities on the council, the senate, and the house. Democrats, with our success of play 17, we have the team, the energy, and attitude to win in 2018. So lets go do it. [applause] mr. Buckley so there is another line here that they added in since i last saw it. I was reading it and i was thinking, there is another line. For all of you wonderful yankees this will be the best line of the night please dont forget, take the pumpkins at the conclusion of the program. The centerpieces are yours. [applause] got a full we have program tonight, but i want to start and take a moment to acknowledge our fantastic staff. Our executive director, amy kennedy. [applause] Communications Director wyatt roden. Political director aaron trammell. Finance director dallas thompson. Operations director peter kramer. Communications assistant Sarah Guggenheim are. Deputy political advisor donald stokes. County organizer aaron cotton. Deputy Operations Director ethan moorhouse. Our phenomenal intern. Ourlets also acknowledge caucus director nick taylor. Caucusse and Senate Finance director, michael kennedy. And the New HampshireYoung Democrats executive director, representative amelia keane. We are so lucky and so proud to have the best damn party staff in the country. Lets take a moment to acknowledge our officers. First vice chair, senator martha fuller clark. Our second vice chair. Secretary our secretary. Our treasurer brian mast. Legal counsel bill christie. Finance chair katie wheeler. Woman county sullivan. Dnc man bill shaheen. Member joannrge dardell. Thank you, everyone. Lets have a great night. [applause] New Hampshire democrats, to lead us in the pledge of allegiance, please welcome the newly elected atlarge members of the National Board of aldermen, shoshanna kelly, dave tencza, and brandon laws. The nashua board of aldermen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [applause] New Hampshire democrats, please welcome to the stage manchesters mayor elect, joyce craig. [applause] ms. Greg the men raig the manchester folks are the loudest. I am honored to welcome you here tonight as the mayor elect of manchester. And as the first woman elected to lead the queen city. [cheers] ms. Craig it is so wonderful to be here with all of you. So many of you joined the hundreds of manchester residents in knocking on thousands of doors, making phone calls, sharing our campaigns messes with your friends, neighbors, colleagues. Your work over the many months really make a difference, and i will forever be grateful for your support. I want to offer a special thank you to Senators Hassan and shaheen and congresswoman kuster and sheaporter for their support and encouragement. New hampshire has led the way in demonstrating that we all do well when women serve in leadership roles, and i am thankful [applause] i am so thankful to have four outstanding role models. Thank you to chairman buckley supportstaff for your of the campaign and for organizing tonights festivities. I would also like to thank congressman delaney and ryan for their support during our campaign, and also congresswoman mang for being with us tonight. While im extremely proud of our efforts to bring change to city hall, i know the real work begins now. As mayor, i will focus on improving schools, making streets safer, bringing businesses tower city, and making real and lasting progress against the opioid crisis. [applause] ms. Craig thank you. Manchesters best days are still ahead of us, and i hope you all will join me in building a Better Future for the people of manchester, because we all know that when manchester prospers, so does the rest of our great state. Thank you all, and i look forward to this wonderful evening. [applause] New Hampshire democrats, please welcome to the sage congresswoman welcome to the stage congresswoman carol sheaporter. You are still the one i want to talk to embed still the one that turns my head we are still having fun and you are still the one [applause] sheaporter it is i who have to thank all of you. I am so grateful for the gift that you gave me to serve New Hampshire and all the help that came from across the state over and over again. I want to thank all of you and say we are not done yet. We have a lot of work to do. You heard what the chairman had to say. I am sitting here with some wonderful colleagues and i know we are going to turn this around in 2018. A full reckoning is coming [applause] rep. Sheaporter soon, very soon. 2006, iecided to run in said i was running for the rest of us. We have had different slogans that we have used, keeping that, for the rest of us, the bottom 99 . To be seriousd since donald trump came. I started running through some slogans that would help me every single day. One of them was from Winston Churchill, very helpful lately. He said when you are going through how, just keep going going through hell, just keep going. [laughter] rep. Sheaporter he said a number of things like that. Then i started thinking of my own slogans, because we have to stick together. We have shown what we do when we stick together. We have done great things and we will continue to do great things. Sometimes there are things we dont like, somebody said this or thinks that or something out of washington. Now when i look at myself in the mirror every morning, i say to myself, shut up and row. [laughter] rep. Sheaporter that is our message, at least my message right now. We are definitely in turbulent waters, we know that. We are confronted with a president that we never could have imagined even in our worst nightmares. Nobody would have written a story about it because nobody would have believed it. If it was a screenplay, we would have laughed and said not possible. That we are confronted with an administration and president that challenges all of us and our understanding of our great country. The wonderful thing is that we are a very good people, and we know what we need to do, and we are working on it every day. [applause] rep. Sheaporter on wednesday night, i had the privilege of hearing tony bennett, and he received the gershwin award for american music. Absolutely beautiful, 91 years old. He came running out faster than joyce and i. When it was time for him to give his speech there was nothing wrong with them, he belted out left my heart in San Francisco , ihe just sat there and said was not really prepared america is the greatest country in the world. It was the best speech i ever heard. Because that is who we are, that is what we are. And we will overcome this. So yes, we are in turbulent seas. But when we get to shore and we will we can pull out our maps and say, should we go left or right . I prefer to go to the left for some may want to go a little right. But we will get ourselves out of this. We are the people we have been waiting for. We are here. You can see the energy, feel the excitement. Joyce, i cant tell you if i didnt have a wonderful mayor in rochester, i would be looking to move to manchester. We have everything we need, New HampshireYoung Democrats, which have done tremendous work. We see the deep bench. I love the candidate in my seat, i think it is awesome and i think it will help amplify our message and the rest of our state will be able to hear what we stand for, because we know what we stand against tyranny , the deconstruction of the administrative state, the violation of Human Dignity and rights and all that. But we also stand for economic security. Stand for we advantage for everybody, fairness, supporting business and families and individuals. We have something we can be very proud of, we have a marquee that has all of our good stuff on it. Now we just need to stand together and put this message out across our state. We will win and we will win because we have something they dont have we are right. We are on the right side of history. [applause] rep. Sheaporter no question about it. And people are realizing that around the country. They are realizing that this agenda is the agenda that will help lift them and their families. I just want to say thank you for your confidence in me and the hard work you have done, and say im not going away. I plan to be very involved. We will get through 2018 and have a really big list, which is called the 2020 president ial election. We will get it done right here in New Hampshire. Thank you, everybody. I love all of you and i am so grateful. [applause] New Hampshire democrats, please welcome former and hdp chair Kathy Sullivan former nhdp chair Kathy Sullivan. This girl is on fire this girl is on fire [applause] ms. Sullivan i know, i came on stage before they did my walk on music, i was so anxious. I want to say a few things about carol sheaporter, because she was my congresswoman, and i was always so proud to have csp as my congresswoman. [applause] ms. Sullivan every vote she took was always the right vote. , as shewas always there said, fighting for the rest of us. She i remember the first time i met carol, she came to my office and talked about running for congress. I was quite impressed. At that point, she had stood up and protested the policies of george w. Bush. [applause] went to geoffshe rileys town halls, knew his record better than he did and was able to ask him the pointed question that drove him crazy. One thing i will always remember about carol sheaporter is she made me cry once. Story, but know this a lot of people do because some of you were there when this happened. It was the night of the election 2006, when she was running for congress the first time. And i was in manchester at the coordinated campaign headquarters. People say, you must have known you were going to have a good night. No, i always think we are going to lose. I had a good feeling about john lynch, ok . Other than that. Judy and i had been driving around all day going to different goals. At 1. I called to headquarters and said, hows it looking . Mike and nick were like, the turnout is not the way it should be in some of the districts. I was like, i knew it. It was really, the best night of my political life, because we came from losing badly in 2002 to coming back in 2004. And then 2006, the results are coming in and we are all standing there, numbers are coming up, this town, that down. John lynch was winning, things were looking good, some senate races, we are all feeling really good. But things in the First District, a little close. And then having and then epping came in, and carol won epping. And i started crying. Paul to me was there and he was like, im going to take a picture. I was like, get that camera away from me. I am crying because when carol won epping, i knew she was going to be our congresswoman and i knew we were winning everything that night. That is the night that carol sheaporter made me cry, because she took epping. Been, through her political career, one of the most courageous people you could ask her you could ask for. [applause] someoneivan this is who no secret when she ran for congress, people were like, i dont know about this. People in washington were not necessarily supportive. But she came out and surprised the heck out of everybody and andt primary and said then won the general election, was reelected, and then lost delays then lost a race in a republican wave year. But she came back, she did not give up, she came back and she ran again. When we had another republican wave year and her opponent lied lyingher and ran a tv ad about her and unfortunately defeated her, she came back again. In theer said, im done light of events where some people might have i have done enough. But she always came back and pick yourself up. It is not just because of the work she did in congress for veterans and the middle class and working people, but also because she just always came back and fought back. That is why i am so proud to give you and im going to cry again because im going to miss you the Kathy Sullivan courage award, because you deserve it, congresswoman. [applause] rep. Sheaporter thank you. I just said to kathy, i wondered why you kept talking about me. Thank you very much, i am so honored. What Kathy Sullivan does not say about herself is there might be a tougher irish woman around, but i dont think so. Thank you, everybody, i am so honored. New hampshire democrats, please welcome congresswoman grace meng. Tonight is the night we will fight till its over put your hands up like the city can hold us like the city cant hold us [applause] meng thanks, ray. Good evening, everyone. It is great to be in the granite state. Thank you for diving the temperature up 10 degrees for me thank you for dailing the temperature up 10 degrees for me. Thank you for your friendship. It truly means the world to me. Is one of the reasons i was elected to be the vicechairman of the dnc. On a good dnc newsday, i am so thank all to him. [laughter] which means on most a of the year, i am not. [laughter] but in all seriousness, it means the world to me to share the stage this evening with three of the four great women who represent the state of New Hampshire. Yet heard lots already tonight about congresswoman carol sheaporter, who was my classmate going to congress. She gives a new meaning, as you know more than anyone else, to the phrase, never get of never give up and always keep getting up. Thank you for your service. [applause] to senator maggie hassan, who barriers, notmany just for women but for all americans. She only saves health care for the whole country. [applause] n my closest friends in congress, also my, classmate congresswoman annie custer. [applause] ego and theas no fights that she leads in congress. Whether it is working on Workforce Development