Transcripts For CSPAN2 Campaign 2020 Deval Patrick Speaks At

Appreciate it its been very warm. Its been a terrific field as you all know. Marvelously talented in many cases friends in every one of those great Public Servants and im hoping to have the chance to compete in every state and speak to every voter. We were delighted that in the first couple of hours of our white website going up we had people identify themselves from every one of the 50 states and we look forward to leveraging that kind of engagement through the primaries so im glad to be here and thank you for taking the early does i think im going to speak and you will all be ready to end your day i think. Questions . [inaudible] how do you navigate a field this large especially comingin late . A lot of people are voting. Im not going to get into the strategy buti can tell you two things. I would have come in a year ago and that was the plan, two weeks or so before we were ready to launch and i think some of you, my wife was diagnosed with uterine cancer and im really grateful to be able to say shes cancer free today. And still thought that i might just get behind another candidate or wait for the nominee but ive heard so much encouragement from so many quarters and i think in some ways the most moving kind of encouragement comes from people ive never met who just talk so i looked hard and whether there was a path. Im confident there is a path. Every place ive been so far ive been assured by others on the ground that there is a path and we will be building overtime but not much time, i get it. We want to be respectful of everybody and be respectful of the process. And i also want to say it gives me an opportunity to make anotherpoint. I want folks to know that from my perspective voters and citizens are not just important in the state or the context that political people thinkof and talk about as important. This campaign and i think its an opportunity to bring people together. Ive lived a life thats been about that and with peoples engagement and their help if i serve i intend to serve as president of the unitedstates. Are you not trying to qualify . I didnt say i didnt care. Can you clarify that . First, i think the strict requirements for participating in the debate are important and im going to be trying to meet those requirements as quickly as possible. What i said and i said this, im watching the debates. I have also commented on the debates on the air. Im not sure its something i want to aspire to because the format is really hard as a means to communicate with the public and ill just give you oneexample. We have every candidate in the field i believe committed to delivering universal care meaning healthcare thats affordable and acceptable to every citizen in the United States. The other side is not. That issue, what the means are to get there is what weve been talking about in the debate and thats interesting, but at the end of the day everyone should understand that we have all committed to making that a priority. That is the right priority and i will also say i think im the only onewhos actually delivering health care to over 98 percent of our residents in massachusetts. A lot of your opponents have tried to figure out the obama legacy, who has the best casefor healthcare and create that coalition again so why are you the best person . You see yourself as an heir apparent to obama . I think obama was a terrific president , he was a friend long before he was in Public Office and i supported him from the beginning and still do but i also think that the moment demands Something Different from whomever our next president is and will get from me. I think that we have an incredibly exciting level of interest in big ideas, ideas commensurate with the size of the challenges we face and Climate Change to what the tax system looks like and in order to deliver on an agenda as ambitious as that we have to leave room for people who may have a different point of view about how to accomplish those objectives, not just the objectives but to leave room to bring others in so the changes we make last and having driven a change agenda in a different kind of crisis, and economic crisis and in a different kind of environment, a state not nationally but i will say you need to bring other people in in order to make the change last. Can we get your reaction to mayor bloomberg walking backhis support of stop and frisk policies . Its good. You mentioned a filing deadline for alabama, what about your voters in the state and what makes you want tocompete in other states when youre not going to be on the president ial ballot . Theres a practical deadline and so forth and i get that and i respect that that doesnt mean that im going to ignorealabama and arkansas. We will have organizations on the ground to the extent we can but the point im trying to make is that maybe ill put it this way. When i was growing up in chicago we were made to feel important all of us that Campaign Time and not in between and i think there are people who feel unimportant and unseen and unheard. All over the country in all kinds of quarters and you shouldnt have to depend on a campaign so im developing ways together with my team to make sure they feel that they are seen and heard and they will be seen and heard and i intend to serve everyone. You think its appropriate for president obama to fund raise for 50,000 . I appreciate your asking the question but im not going to answer that. Im not going to talkabout democrats. If im going to fight about me if i may. Look. Ive never taken a job. Ive never taken a dime where i have felt i had to or was willing to leave my conscience at the door. We have a broken election system in terms of being awash in money. I get that. And that is the opportunity, thats one of the things i can change as part of the policy platforms that were girl rolling outthe next couple of weeks. In the meantime, yes. In an ideal world we be taking small dollar contributions exclusively. And i rememberwhen i ran the first time , i should tell you i a people for money. But i remember when we were running the first time, we got a check in the mail for five dollars with a handwritten note from someone that said this is all i can afford but i want to do as much as i can as i can and because i believe in what youre trying to do for us and it was so important to be reminded that its not just the mighty, this is your point, its the me, this notion of everyone everywhere that is the responsibility of taking on the job. I will say i think what a super back does and let me be clear, i hope there are no supporters if there isnt a super pack thats organized, i would certainly hope at a minimum there would be full disclosure of contributions and transparency. [inaudible] the mind until i get to know youbetter some of your first names . How soon will you know if its a lastminute wall longshot bid for success 40 . Is not a fools errand and i wouldnt be on it and david , i just ask you, ill put it this way. Ive been dealing with differences my whole life and i expect if i got it a year ago to be asking other questions about why. But you should be skeptical about my candidacy, iwouldnt have made a decisionif i didnt think it was. Going to have to prove that you. And we tend to do just that. [inaudible] i understand your question and well get to that deadline and it will be whatever you thought i intended by what a measure of success is and youll say okay, hes done area im not going to dothat. And im going to be, were going to be intentional. Im not interested and by the way, anybody who would be interested in going through this and all that it demands of the candidate and their family and the people who rallied around the hell, if i didnt think this was real. And i would respect that you are people. And when i prove you otherwise, i hope you will respect that you were wrong. Im not going to commit to anything. Its presumptuous. There is a colleague of yours who just is expressing expressing skepticism might be in the race at all. But i think if you look at my experience in massachusetts, we had a highly diverse and intentionally so he researchers. Im not going to do it by the numbers. But im very very interested in encouraging talents. Which i know arises and is available in every community in the country. Sharon bernstein from reuters i was wondering if you can talk to us with a little more efficacy about what you thought has been missing from the discussion so far and how that propels you to get into the race . That was part of it. I wanted to get in a year ago , just about now and explain the reasons why ididnt. And i knew i had a sense of what the field was going to be even then because a lot of these candidates are friends of mine, wevebeen talking about it. Their potential candidates candidacy and my own so its not, its not a frustration with the field debate, its about what i think i can offer. Ive worked in and solve problems in the private sector, in the Public Sector and notforprofit and forprofit in this country and all over the world and i have had the great lesson of living the american dream, having grown up in poverty in chicago and ask had a great education and great opportunities and i want that dream constrained. So that the perspective of having those different assignments and solve problems in those different assignments at the same time watching the country so generously made available to me has been less and less available to generations set. I have some ideas about some ideas. About how we restore that. And how important it is that we restore that for everybody and not just for some. And part of that is when i was trying to make earlier i think your question, is that i think we have to be open right from the start and through the campaign. People s ideas may not be the same as ours, meeting me, not him so when i hear we should do, we should accomplish or example universal healthcare in one way and only one way , ive been at those tables and that is legalistic way to accomplish what should be for all of us and is an ambitious campaign. [inaudible] s nbc news, youre in las vegas right now and what is your take on the criminalization of sex work. I have to study that, i dont know. I know theres a robust debate. Where in massachusetts where the experience is very different but also the culture so i dont have an opinion yet. Thank you guys. [music] thank you massachusetts in the house, all right. Its good to be in nevada. Accu Nevada Democrats for having me. I do have to tell you its a little strange to be in the hall where every other candidate but mine has a cheering section already organized. But i want to say first of all to my fellow candidates how much i appreciate and respect them and how much i appreciate and respect all of you who have been supporting it. The first time i ran, the first time i ran for governor was the first time id run for anything and i remember being blown away all people set aside what theyredoing and pick up your cause. You are the ones who make our democracy work and i want to acknowledge that and thank you. Now, i have a chance tonight to introduce myself, maybe ill do so briefly so that you can get home because events like this are fabulous , as good as they are but i still believe they should end the day they begin. Let me just say i grew up on the south sideof chicago. And spent a lot of time in massachusetts but i started off on the south side of chicago and i lived there with my mother, my sister and my relatives who came and went and my parents spent a lot of that time on welfare. My mother and sister shared a lot of that space and the bunkbed so you go from the top bunk to the bottom bunk to the floor. I went to big from broke to overcrowded, under resourced sometimes violent public schools. But my grandmother used to say never tell us your poor. Just say youre broke because broke is temporary that was a time for all the things we didnt have. Where we had a strong senseof community. Because in those days every child was under the jurisdiction of every single adult on the block. If you messed up down the street, that mother would go upside your head as if you were hers and call home and i think what those adults were trying to teach us is that membership in a communitys understanding you have a stake in your neighbors struggles as well as her own. The other lesson they tried to get across to us is one that every single one of us has learned from our grandparents. And that is that in our time we are supposed to do what we can to make thingsbetter for those who come behind us. Those two lessons i brought with me through the ivy league, through my work as a civil rights lawyer, through my work as a Business Executive and as head of the Civil Rights Division in the justicedepartment and the clinton administration. Those two lessons of community and generational responsibility i brought with me through my work as governor of massachusetts for eight years. By the way, the first democratic governor in 16 years in massachusetts and the first africanamerican governor inmassachusetts history. Community and generational responsibility. Thats what i brought to my work as governor and because of those strategies and a team guided by those strategies, i am proud to report that after eight years of hard work and teambuilding massachusetts emerged from recession number one in the nation in student achievement, number one in the nation in healthcare coverage, 98 percent of massachusetts residents have health insurance. No otherstate in america can yet claim that. Number one inamerica investment services,in entrepreneurial activity, and energy efficiency. We shape our own future. By thinking about the state we have in our neighbors dreams and struggles and doing what we could to bear our generational responsibility. We didnt achieve those results by accident or with a moderate agenda but by setting Ambitious Goals and asking our neighbors to turn to each other instead of on each other. I am a proud democrat and i am proud to be with democrats , but i have to tell you sometimes democrats get on my last nerve. We are for a long time anyway the first one to believe the Republican Party and a whole lot of us, a whole lot of you thankfully have broken that fever. But if we want to make change that lasts, we have to talk to everybody. The folks in this room and the folks out. Your friends,your neighbors , your coworkers that youre about to havethanksgiving with and most of all , we need to be willing to talk to people who dont alreadyagree with us. Why . Because we have to a policy that says you donthave to agree with us on everything before we Work Together on anything. And thats what it means i think to build a National Community and that National Community is what it will take to bear our generational responsibility so i am going to campaign hard. Im going to roll out an opportunity agenda, a reform agenda and a democracy agenda over the course of the next couple of weeks im also going to be listening, listening in the way Louise Pasteur lease used to describe it by listening to anything without losing my temper or my selfconfidence and sometimes i find you learn things that surprise you and ill leave you with this. In 2014, we had a crisis at our southern border the likes of which the one were dealing with today. Thousands of unaccompanied children, some as young as two or three years old coming across the border fleeing violence in their home country to central america. And the federal authorities were overwhelmed and the Obama Administration asked a few governors if we would shelter those childrenwhile they were being processed by the refugee laws. To me, that was a pretty straightforward decision. For both patriotic reasons and frankly for reasons of faith. This country has given refuge to Vulnerable Children for centuries, for centuries. One time we didnt, when we turned jewish children back and its been a blight on our National Character and reputation ever since. Its important to remember america is great when we are good. My faith tradition also teaches me that you welcome the stranger. That we treat each other the way weourselves would like to be treated. But even so, i knew i would be called everything but a child of god when i announced what our decision would be that we would offer welcome. Well, you can imagine i was called everything but a child of god on social mediaand hate radio. So the saturday after i made that decision public, i had an unusually sort of easy schedule and a beautiful spring morning and my wife of 35 years diane gave me a list ofthings to get from the home depot. And apparently its true that you cannot be elected to office high enough not to be sent with a list from your wife of 35 years. I knew where everything was right from the local home depot and i thought i would slip out and grab things without telling the troopers, who usually did not like when i did that but i had on a tshirt and a pair of jeans and flipflops and a baseball cap and dark glasses and i jumped in the trunk and drove over to the home depot and i was outed by the manager in the very first file and he said governor, welcome to the home depot, how can i helpyou . Im standing in the checkout lane and there was a man in the checkout lane who was very angry and he told me so area he was loud, not threatening but angry and he said governor, i could not disagree with your decision more because my own wife came here legally. He said thats exactly how it should be and i think you should know im wrong and i thank him for his feedback. It wouldnt have done to engage and then about how being a refugee is in fact legal. I just thanked him and letit go. I had six other encounters in the home depot that day on the same subject. And in every one of those , someone whispered governor, youre doing theright thing. Governor, thanks for looking out for those children. The call from the office were two and 3 to 1 in favor of sheltering those children. And it struck me we have learned to shout our anger and to whisper our kindness and its completely upside down. We need to learn again to shout our kindness, to shout our sense of justice and if we do that, we will rebuild the character of this country which you all know is at stake today. And so i offer that as i part because i have learned over time and just as from that example i offer you that every boy scouts. Not just the ones who are shouting the ones who havent said a word area not just the folks whoagree with us already. Not just the pundits and the pollsters who tell us who is important , but everyone everywhere. And thats why i want to be clear with you. Love you as i do as a democrat i am not running to be president of the democrats. Im running to be president of the Public Servants<\/a> and im hoping to have the chance to compete in every state and speak to every voter. We were delighted that in the first couple of hours of our white website going up we had people identify themselves from every one of the 50 states and we look forward to leveraging that kind of engagement through the primaries so im glad to be here and thank you for taking the early does i think im going to speak and you will all be ready to end your day i think. Questions . [inaudible] how do you navigate a field this large especially comingin late . A lot of people are voting. Im not going to get into the strategy buti can tell you two things. I would have come in a year ago and that was the plan, two weeks or so before we were ready to launch and i think some of you, my wife was diagnosed with uterine cancer and im really grateful to be able to say shes cancer free today. And still thought that i might just get behind another candidate or wait for the nominee but ive heard so much encouragement from so many quarters and i think in some ways the most moving kind of encouragement comes from people ive never met who just talk so i looked hard and whether there was a path. Im confident there is a path. Every place ive been so far ive been assured by others on the ground that there is a path and we will be building overtime but not much time, i get it. We want to be respectful of everybody and be respectful of the process. And i also want to say it gives me an opportunity to make anotherpoint. I want folks to know that from my perspective voters and citizens are not just important in the state or the context that political people thinkof and talk about as important. This campaign and i think its an opportunity to bring people together. Ive lived a life thats been about that and with peoples engagement and their help if i serve i intend to serve as president of the unitedstates. Are you not trying to qualify . I didnt say i didnt care. Can you clarify that . First, i think the strict requirements for participating in the debate are important and im going to be trying to meet those requirements as quickly as possible. What i said and i said this, im watching the debates. I have also commented on the debates on the air. Im not sure its something i want to aspire to because the format is really hard as a means to communicate with the public and ill just give you oneexample. We have every candidate in the field i believe committed to delivering universal care meaning healthcare thats affordable and acceptable to every citizen in the United States<\/a>. The other side is not. That issue, what the means are to get there is what weve been talking about in the debate and thats interesting, but at the end of the day everyone should understand that we have all committed to making that a priority. That is the right priority and i will also say i think im the only onewhos actually delivering health care to over 98 percent of our residents in massachusetts. A lot of your opponents have tried to figure out the obama legacy, who has the best casefor healthcare and create that coalition again so why are you the best person . You see yourself as an heir apparent to obama . I think obama was a terrific president , he was a friend long before he was in Public Office<\/a> and i supported him from the beginning and still do but i also think that the moment demands Something Different<\/a> from whomever our next president is and will get from me. I think that we have an incredibly exciting level of interest in big ideas, ideas commensurate with the size of the challenges we face and Climate Change<\/a> to what the tax system looks like and in order to deliver on an agenda as ambitious as that we have to leave room for people who may have a different point of view about how to accomplish those objectives, not just the objectives but to leave room to bring others in so the changes we make last and having driven a change agenda in a different kind of crisis, and economic crisis and in a different kind of environment, a state not nationally but i will say you need to bring other people in in order to make the change last. Can we get your reaction to mayor bloomberg walking backhis support of stop and frisk policies . Its good. You mentioned a filing deadline for alabama, what about your voters in the state and what makes you want tocompete in other states when youre not going to be on the president ial ballot . Theres a practical deadline and so forth and i get that and i respect that that doesnt mean that im going to ignorealabama and arkansas. We will have organizations on the ground to the extent we can but the point im trying to make is that maybe ill put it this way. When i was growing up in chicago we were made to feel important all of us that Campaign Time<\/a> and not in between and i think there are people who feel unimportant and unseen and unheard. All over the country in all kinds of quarters and you shouldnt have to depend on a campaign so im developing ways together with my team to make sure they feel that they are seen and heard and they will be seen and heard and i intend to serve everyone. You think its appropriate for president obama to fund raise for 50,000 . I appreciate your asking the question but im not going to answer that. Im not going to talkabout democrats. If im going to fight about me if i may. Look. Ive never taken a job. Ive never taken a dime where i have felt i had to or was willing to leave my conscience at the door. We have a broken election system in terms of being awash in money. I get that. And that is the opportunity, thats one of the things i can change as part of the policy platforms that were girl rolling outthe next couple of weeks. In the meantime, yes. In an ideal world we be taking small dollar contributions exclusively. And i rememberwhen i ran the first time , i should tell you i a people for money. But i remember when we were running the first time, we got a check in the mail for five dollars with a handwritten note from someone that said this is all i can afford but i want to do as much as i can as i can and because i believe in what youre trying to do for us and it was so important to be reminded that its not just the mighty, this is your point, its the me, this notion of everyone everywhere that is the responsibility of taking on the job. I will say i think what a super back does and let me be clear, i hope there are no supporters if there isnt a super pack thats organized, i would certainly hope at a minimum there would be full disclosure of contributions and transparency. [inaudible] the mind until i get to know youbetter some of your first names . How soon will you know if its a lastminute wall longshot bid for success 40 . Is not a fools errand and i wouldnt be on it and david , i just ask you, ill put it this way. Ive been dealing with differences my whole life and i expect if i got it a year ago to be asking other questions about why. But you should be skeptical about my candidacy, iwouldnt have made a decisionif i didnt think it was. Going to have to prove that you. And we tend to do just that. [inaudible] i understand your question and well get to that deadline and it will be whatever you thought i intended by what a measure of success is and youll say okay, hes done area im not going to dothat. And im going to be, were going to be intentional. Im not interested and by the way, anybody who would be interested in going through this and all that it demands of the candidate and their family and the people who rallied around the hell, if i didnt think this was real. And i would respect that you are people. And when i prove you otherwise, i hope you will respect that you were wrong. Im not going to commit to anything. Its presumptuous. There is a colleague of yours who just is expressing expressing skepticism might be in the race at all. But i think if you look at my experience in massachusetts, we had a highly diverse and intentionally so he researchers. Im not going to do it by the numbers. But im very very interested in encouraging talents. Which i know arises and is available in every community in the country. Sharon bernstein from reuters i was wondering if you can talk to us with a little more efficacy about what you thought has been missing from the discussion so far and how that propels you to get into the race . That was part of it. I wanted to get in a year ago , just about now and explain the reasons why ididnt. And i knew i had a sense of what the field was going to be even then because a lot of these candidates are friends of mine, wevebeen talking about it. Their potential candidates candidacy and my own so its not, its not a frustration with the field debate, its about what i think i can offer. Ive worked in and solve problems in the private sector, in the Public Sector<\/a> and notforprofit and forprofit in this country and all over the world and i have had the great lesson of living the american dream, having grown up in poverty in chicago and ask had a great education and great opportunities and i want that dream constrained. So that the perspective of having those different assignments and solve problems in those different assignments at the same time watching the country so generously made available to me has been less and less available to generations set. I have some ideas about some ideas. About how we restore that. And how important it is that we restore that for everybody and not just for some. And part of that is when i was trying to make earlier i think your question, is that i think we have to be open right from the start and through the campaign. People s ideas may not be the same as ours, meeting me, not him so when i hear we should do, we should accomplish or example universal healthcare in one way and only one way , ive been at those tables and that is legalistic way to accomplish what should be for all of us and is an ambitious campaign. [inaudible] s nbc news, youre in las vegas right now and what is your take on the criminalization of sex work. I have to study that, i dont know. I know theres a robust debate. Where in massachusetts where the experience is very different but also the culture so i dont have an opinion yet. Thank you guys. [music] thank you massachusetts in the house, all right. Its good to be in nevada. Accu Nevada Democrats<\/a> for having me. I do have to tell you its a little strange to be in the hall where every other candidate but mine has a cheering section already organized. But i want to say first of all to my fellow candidates how much i appreciate and respect them and how much i appreciate and respect all of you who have been supporting it. The first time i ran, the first time i ran for governor was the first time id run for anything and i remember being blown away all people set aside what theyredoing and pick up your cause. You are the ones who make our democracy work and i want to acknowledge that and thank you. Now, i have a chance tonight to introduce myself, maybe ill do so briefly so that you can get home because events like this are fabulous , as good as they are but i still believe they should end the day they begin. Let me just say i grew up on the south sideof chicago. And spent a lot of time in massachusetts but i started off on the south side of chicago and i lived there with my mother, my sister and my relatives who came and went and my parents spent a lot of that time on welfare. My mother and sister shared a lot of that space and the bunkbed so you go from the top bunk to the bottom bunk to the floor. I went to big from broke to overcrowded, under resourced sometimes violent public schools. But my grandmother used to say never tell us your poor. Just say youre broke because broke is temporary that was a time for all the things we didnt have. Where we had a strong senseof community. Because in those days every child was under the jurisdiction of every single adult on the block. If you messed up down the street, that mother would go upside your head as if you were hers and call home and i think what those adults were trying to teach us is that membership in a communitys understanding you have a stake in your neighbors struggles as well as her own. The other lesson they tried to get across to us is one that every single one of us has learned from our grandparents. And that is that in our time we are supposed to do what we can to make thingsbetter for those who come behind us. Those two lessons i brought with me through the ivy league, through my work as a civil rights lawyer, through my work as a Business Executive<\/a> and as head of the Civil Rights Division<\/a> in the justicedepartment and the clinton administration. Those two lessons of community and generational responsibility i brought with me through my work as governor of massachusetts for eight years. By the way, the first democratic governor in 16 years in massachusetts and the first africanamerican governor inmassachusetts history. Community and generational responsibility. Thats what i brought to my work as governor and because of those strategies and a team guided by those strategies, i am proud to report that after eight years of hard work and teambuilding massachusetts emerged from recession number one in the nation in student achievement, number one in the nation in healthcare coverage, 98 percent of massachusetts residents have health insurance. No otherstate in america can yet claim that. Number one inamerica investment services,in entrepreneurial activity, and energy efficiency. We shape our own future. By thinking about the state we have in our neighbors dreams and struggles and doing what we could to bear our generational responsibility. We didnt achieve those results by accident or with a moderate agenda but by setting Ambitious Goals<\/a> and asking our neighbors to turn to each other instead of on each other. I am a proud democrat and i am proud to be with democrats , but i have to tell you sometimes democrats get on my last nerve. We are for a long time anyway the first one to believe the Republican Party<\/a> and a whole lot of us, a whole lot of you thankfully have broken that fever. But if we want to make change that lasts, we have to talk to everybody. The folks in this room and the folks out. Your friends,your neighbors , your coworkers that youre about to havethanksgiving with and most of all , we need to be willing to talk to people who dont alreadyagree with us. Why . Because we have to a policy that says you donthave to agree with us on everything before we Work Together<\/a> on anything. And thats what it means i think to build a National Community<\/a> and that National Community<\/a> is what it will take to bear our generational responsibility so i am going to campaign hard. Im going to roll out an opportunity agenda, a reform agenda and a democracy agenda over the course of the next couple of weeks im also going to be listening, listening in the way Louise Pasteur<\/a> lease used to describe it by listening to anything without losing my temper or my selfconfidence and sometimes i find you learn things that surprise you and ill leave you with this. In 2014, we had a crisis at our southern border the likes of which the one were dealing with today. Thousands of unaccompanied children, some as young as two or three years old coming across the border fleeing violence in their home country to central america. And the federal authorities were overwhelmed and the Obama Administration<\/a> asked a few governors if we would shelter those childrenwhile they were being processed by the refugee laws. To me, that was a pretty straightforward decision. For both patriotic reasons and frankly for reasons of faith. This country has given refuge to Vulnerable Children<\/a> for centuries, for centuries. One time we didnt, when we turned jewish children back and its been a blight on our National Character<\/a> and reputation ever since. Its important to remember america is great when we are good. My faith tradition also teaches me that you welcome the stranger. That we treat each other the way weourselves would like to be treated. But even so, i knew i would be called everything but a child of god when i announced what our decision would be that we would offer welcome. Well, you can imagine i was called everything but a child of god on social mediaand hate radio. So the saturday after i made that decision public, i had an unusually sort of easy schedule and a beautiful spring morning and my wife of 35 years diane gave me a list ofthings to get from the home depot. And apparently its true that you cannot be elected to office high enough not to be sent with a list from your wife of 35 years. I knew where everything was right from the local home depot and i thought i would slip out and grab things without telling the troopers, who usually did not like when i did that but i had on a tshirt and a pair of jeans and flipflops and a baseball cap and dark glasses and i jumped in the trunk and drove over to the home depot and i was outed by the manager in the very first file and he said governor, welcome to the home depot, how can i helpyou . Im standing in the checkout lane and there was a man in the checkout lane who was very angry and he told me so area he was loud, not threatening but angry and he said governor, i could not disagree with your decision more because my own wife came here legally. He said thats exactly how it should be and i think you should know im wrong and i thank him for his feedback. It wouldnt have done to engage and then about how being a refugee is in fact legal. I just thanked him and letit go. I had six other encounters in the home depot that day on the same subject. And in every one of those , someone whispered governor, youre doing theright thing. Governor, thanks for looking out for those children. The call from the office were two and 3 to 1 in favor of sheltering those children. And it struck me we have learned to shout our anger and to whisper our kindness and its completely upside down. We need to learn again to shout our kindness, to shout our sense of justice and if we do that, we will rebuild the character of this country which you all know is at stake today. And so i offer that as i part because i have learned over time and just as from that example i offer you that every boy scouts. Not just the ones who are shouting the ones who havent said a word area not just the folks whoagree with us already. Not just the pundits and the pollsters who tell us who is important , but everyone everywhere. And thats why i want to be clear with you. Love you as i do as a democrat i am not running to be president of the democrats. Im running to be president of the United States<\/a> and when i ask you to caucus for me understand im asking you to caucus for you. Thank you very much for having me. The u. S. Senate is in recess for their weekly party lunches. Lawmakers will be back at 2 15 eastern to vote on two judicial nominationsfor the court of appeals for the 11th circuit. 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