Nice to see you. Mr. Patrick thank you for doing this. Oh, my gosh, so grateful [indiscernible] here in New Hampshire, this event [indiscernible] to moderate todays debate, and governor patrick to the stage. [applause] thanks a lot. Professor, thank you for moderating this. Thank you all for being here. Thank you to open democracy for the invitation to be here. I could make it as plain as possible by taking that card and reading it aloud. I actually wrote that sentence. Look, we have a handful of big ideas, and when i say we, i mean we americans, on which there is a broad consensus. But they dont happen, and they dont happen because we have been treating our democracy for a long time as if it would tolerate limitless abuse without breaking. So the things like the amount of money, much of it dark, the gerrymandering of districts so that, as the phrase goes, representatives choose the voters and not the other way around, the influence of lobbyists, especially lobbyists for money interests. These things conspired and the Voter Suppression, and frankly, how hard we make it to register to vote. All of these things conspire to prevent us from getting democratic outcomes from our democracy. So my view is that we have to start here, we have to go right at that, we have to call it out for what it is and move legislation that makes our democracy function. As a representative democracy, if we are to have a fighting chance on big system reforms on health care or Immigration Reform or criminal Justice Reform and on down the list, and the strategy that we will propose, what we call an opportunity agenda, which is about expanding the economy out to the middle and the marginalized instead of just up to the wellconnected. So first hundred days. You need this . I went to school at oxford. I did 24 hours, i promise i will do 24 seconds. [laughter] apologize, governor, this will not be a walkout, but as soon as i am done, we are going to a focus group where we are going to test your messaging. I think it is going to do quite well. Mr. Patrick what you just it is a push poll where you decide what the outcome is going to be. [laughter] frank if the money is right. [laughter] he is correct that money is corrupting our political system, and it took me a while to come to that one of you, and that is why i instead come to that point of view, and that is why im standing before you now. It is a serious problem and it needs a solution, but it cannot just be solved by democrats. Republicans have to be part of it. So my question to you is it is not a matter of beating them, it is a matter of pulling them in. Mr. Patrick thats right. Frank you as governor found a way to govern across the aisle. How do you convince republicans that that agenda is not just good for the country, but good for them as well . Maybe that is the answer. How do you win republicans . Mr. Patrick somebody asked me the other day, frank, about the composition of the senate, and how you know, dont we have to work to have more democrats and a majority of democrats in the senate to drive this agenda of ours . Not just this one, but my agenda across the board as president . I said, you know what, i would love to have some more democrats but i would take a few patriots. We have got to start making the case we on both sides have to start making the case about what is good for us. Not what is good for our party, but what is good for us. That is a hard case to make in an environment where muscle memory more and more is about what is good for the party. Or if you are talking about something else, what you really mean is what is good for your party. I think if the ideas are compelling, then they will be compelling. You dont actually have to actuallyt have to cheat to win. Timing often affects outcomes. Other competing agendas affect outcomes. But when you know that we have National Consensus around issues like many of the gunsafety measures, or the key elements of comprehensive immigration , even choice,nkly and you cant get action, and i am not saying the vote is always going to go the way you to, but i want it would rather have the vote. Maybe, frank, when i want to say to you, in my experience, getting change that last requires that you bring lots of voices in, and when you have that win, it is our win, not just mine. When i describe that as a Leadership Strategy nowadays, folks say you are talking about being a moderate and it is not time to be a moderate. Increasingly, i think that a moderate is a progressive who actually has results. Im not talking about a moderate agenda. Im talking about ambitious and progressive goals. But it requires some humility alongside the boldness in order to get stuff fixed, and that means you have to bring in folks with competing ideas. Frank the world is watching. The world is in this room now, 11 countries, not walking out [laughter] mr. Patrick thanks a million, frank. Nice to see you. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you to the students. All the best and welcome. Costsis good for system going down. I also think it is good for medicare, if that is the public option, to have some reason to innovate its game. Today if you are eligible for medicare, you buy supplemental policy on top because medicare doesnt get it done. Just having that reason to innovate on the public side as well, that is how we get to the next step. Frankly, having all these voices at the table is how we got to 99 coverage in massachusetts. I like the middle step as well. I was against the Affordable Care act when it was first coming out. It was a guaranteed income for insurance companies. Everyone was going to get mr. Patrick well, interestingly, the public option was originally part of it, and it lost by one vote. One democratic vote in the senate. But the whole theory was that that piece was supposed to be incentive fore the private Insurance Market and we got what we got because it was there. Thank you. Mr. Patrick thank you. Thanks for coming. Have a great day. Mr. Patrick appreciate it. Hi. I know that book. Im actually from massachusetts. Ive had it for a long time. Mr. Patrick thank you. Tell me your name. Mike . How is it going . Mr. Patrick i am having a ball. I am having a ball. Whole autograph. Mr. Patrick how about that . Going to sell it on ebay . Not unless you get elected. [laughter] if somebody is willing to give me some big, big money, maybe. You give them to me, everybody wins. Mr. Patrick ok, all right. Im told i think it depends [indiscernible] somebody mr. Patrick got a i appreciate you doing it. Mr. Patrick you bet. Did i get them all . Must be cool to be on a baseball card. Mr. Patrick the first time i got them i got them in the mail from someone i never met. That is a weird looking uniform you are wearing. 3, 2, 1. Perfect. Mr. Patrick thank you. Youve got a good cameraman. I left because you were talking to so many voters i got hungry. [laughter] mr. Patrick and you do get hangry. I see. How you doing . Theyre closing, so we got to [indiscernible] at the same time, polls are showing you are less than 1 . Does it ever cross your mind is cross your mind that maybe this is not a good idea . Mr. Patrick no, because the polls that matter are the election polls. We are building fast, and i know from previous experience to be skeptical of polls and im skeptical of polls now. Dont keep insinuating that i need to do something other than what im doing. Bych is billed by build introducing ourselves to people, person by person, for by voter, voter by voter, and answer polling phone calls, but whether there are folks who feel there are many unseen and unheard and need to be invited back into politics and civic life. Do you feel like you have a legitimate shot at winning . Mr. Patrick i do. I do. Are you willing, given your late entry, to accept a sort of lateentrance handicap when the vote is tallied and accept the fourth or fifth place a victory of sorts . Mr. Patrick that is an impossible question to ask someone as competitive as me, adam. I want to win, and i think we can. I think the challenge is to reintroduce myself, or introduce myself, as the case may be, to voters and make them understand that it is not pundits or pollsters who decide the outcome. It is they. They get to make the decision. Theyi meet folks who say have not made up their minds, i say, listen, im not late to you. [indiscernible] we have heard a lot of candidates say they want to change dnc debate regulations. What are your thoughts on that . Mr. Patrick for the next one . They are saying mr. Patrick i think the rules are wellintended, but i dont think that not just the rules for being on the stage, but the format has not worked as well as hoped as a means of communicating with voters. I hope that probably it is unrealistic for the tuesday debate, but for the ones after that, that the dnc will reconsider the rules. I have also heard all of the candidates say the rules should be reconsidered, and ive heard that some of the campaigns have said to the dnc behind closed doors, dont you dare, because they dont want actually more exposure from some candidates on the stage right now. During the event, there was talk about the Citizens United case and maybe amending the constitution to do that. Another way is with another case to go to the jury system. The republicans seem to know how to get their voters pumped up about changing judges and that kind of stuff and electing that sort of thing. Should the democrats try Something Like that . Mr. Patrick i think we have to do more than one thing, but you are right that Republican Leadership have been much more effective over time at focusing on the composition of courts upanddown the system, and we need to be more intentional about that. Mitch mcconnell has stopped everything. Thank you. Mr. Patrick thanks, everybody. Take care. Not really. There was also a [indiscernible] coffee shop there. Its over this way. Its down here. Sorry. Perfect, thank you. [indiscernible] yes, yes. Mr. Patrick and i heard from an old, old friend who lives i met in new york, who lives in North Carolina. He is going to be there. [indiscernible] how long is it to get for him . Mr. Patrick well, so he lives in North Carolina careful, there is snow back there. Thanks. We need you. Oh, wow. Clippings. They have been propagating this ivy for 20 years now. Oh, my gosh that is awesome. Very cute little gift. And she wore this straw hat that [indiscernible] mr. Patrick that is amazing. That is amazing. Apparently grew on her house. Mr. Patrick and she brought it . Olivia brought it sure, ok. Excellent. Mr. Patrick my grandmother had [indiscernible] mr. Patrick my greatgrandfathers home in kentucky. [indiscernible] where are we . Is this us . Thank you so much. Great to see you. These are students with the top campaign school. Hi. Chris. Hi, im jennifer. Nice to meet you. Im emma. Nice to meet you. Im julia. Nice to meetden, you. Hi, im emma. Hi, im jack. Hi, im carolina. [inaudible] hi, im dani. Allex. Nice to meet you. David. Hi, im jenna. Nice to meet you. [inaudible] thats a big broad question. We are campaigning alongside republican challenges democratic challengers to republican roadblocks. [inaudible] mcconnell gets to do a lot of what he does because a number of republicans do get to do what they because we democrats dont get after it. I chose not to go because what i had seen in the special election was that a lot of people were voting republican because democrats had that. We lost three by a hair and one was a do over in North Carolina. Thats what we should be about. The candidates who were successful and most compelling were saying look, dont think about this solely as a win for democrats, think about this as a win for them. This is how we bring them. Not one of them were driven away by their party. I was right through alabama. You go and you talk. You are intentional about honoring them and telling them in other voters who feel this way that you are going to show up in between elections and i think we can win. I feel like one of somebody whos talked about or immigration in general, during this Campaign Cycle in response to that, its just throughout your campaign address the issue and talk more about that. Its not like they are separated from their parents, express our outrage and then go on. Maybe its obvious, i hope its obvious. First thing we have to do is [inaudible] weve been here before. At the end of my second term, we had children coming across the southern border and federal authorities were overwhelmed. President obama ask a number of states and i agree with patriotism and i explained that to the public. Not all governors agreed. For that decision, i was called everything but a child of god. A couple of days after that, the light morning on a saturday morning, my wife gave me a list and i said okay, im going to go my need security details so i run out and run this area. I thought okay, i had on a tshirt, jeans, a baseball cap and dark glasses. I pulled up and i was outed by the manager from the very first moment. He said welcome to home depot. [laughter] im standing in the checkout lane in this guy just lets me have it. Hes yelling and screaming, angry and loud. I think you were wrong and i spent my life as an immigrant. We came here legally and i think him for his feedback. Theres no. And engaging in that. I have had other encounters and stores and every one of those [inaudible] thanks for looking out for those kids. Three to one in favor of sheltering them. When i reflect on it, i told the story a bunch of times, we have come to shout our anger and whisper our kindness. We need to learn again to shiite shout our kindness. When i talk about the gap between our reality and ideal, this is one of those moments, i believe where thanks to you, we are confronting that and the opportunity to reinvent america which happens every once in a while is right there. So to me, the question when they are convinced more and more people shop justice than anger, they need permission to do so. They are encouraged to do so. They dont need to be perfect on every issue but they need to have their heart in the right place. We do that, not only do we deserve to win for the character of a country deserves it. [inaudible] [laughter] there you go. What have you been hearing in response to that . Democracy . A lot of encouragement. Which is terrific. I think its interesting how many people seem to take, need to be persuaded for our best thinking but if you have a better idea, lets hear it. People come in hot. How could you not agree . Tell me why your idea is better than mine. One of the students who was talking about, he was about 16, the one who asked me the question in the form much afterwards as we were walking, asked me to persuade you. I said no, thats your job. I love when asked the question, you give your response but then you ask what would you do . Puts them on a spot in a good way. I enjoy, i dont try to put people on the spot, i just enjoy you just want to hear. You learned so much. Yes. Which is great. [laughter] i am ready, keep going here. [inaudible] [laughter] hey man, how are you . Say that again. Call. We got a lot of wonderful support. A coffee shop with a bunch of people. They talked about lowering the voting age to 16. The other thing was the [inaudible] is also pretty interesting. Yeah. Are you in a car . Where you driving . Oh. You know, its amazing. In this building are several other stations so we came out and a gentleman is from another one. But just before starting to go down the stairs, another fellow came downstairs. You and i met when you came over to check up on us in afghanistan. [inaudible] they developed a relationship over a few years. He is always thinking theyd try to negotiate, he would say to her, i need this for my daughter so she can go to yell. Years later, they showed up for a Summer Program from Columbia Law School and they got talking and she said mike diane said, where did you go to undergrad . She said i went to yale. She said how is it from yale to columbia and the woman said because my father told me to. Then she explained and her father was the person who went on the other side of the table years before saying i need money so i can afford to send my daughter to yale. She went to you and Columbia Law School and now she works with diet. I know, i know. Isnt that beautiful . He came today. I had never met him. I never met him i met his daughter. Its cool. Its been a good day. Ive got more to do. Brick by brick. Anything for me . You did. Okay. Whos working on that story . Okay. I dont think so. Yeah. Way cool. Very good. All right. Cool stuff. Thank you, bye. What was i saying . Before i got on the phone. We were talking about 16yearold and feedback. And larry and actually, its on tape. We can roll it back. Thats right. This is more convenient than i realized. [laughter] im excited to meet her. I wonder how many women elevate in their delegation. [inaudible] i like that one. [inaudible] [inaudible] is she here . [inaudible] oh my gosh. [inaudible conversations] ive had my chance. I had a chance to go to College First in my family to do so. To serve as a civil rights lawyer, i have literally the American Dream but i know, and i always knew there were other kids on the south side just as ambitious and creative, who didnt get the chance. I think increasingly its been truth of the American Dream has been slipping further and further out of reach for more and more people and more and more places in america. My few, im testing this, this isnt what i see but economic indicators, they dont tell the whole story. Unemployment is low as long as you count both or all three of the minimum wage jobs it takes to survive. Inflation is low, as long as you count or dont count the cost of housing or education or healthcare. The very things that stabilize to launch ourselves under economic mobility. Its not just the folks in my Old Neighborhood on the south side who are feeling unseen and unheard. Small towns and Rural Communities whose kids move away to make away. Its folks in suburbs making ends meet with their credit cards for feeding their families on the local food pantry. They are oversubscribed in every suburb and every level of income and prosperity in america today. Immigrants, legal and undocumented who want nothing more than to contribute to strengthening our country without being made to feel marginalized and unwelcome. Its factory workers and day laborers and our neighbors. Yours and mine. People we know and people we have never met