His parents own a medical device , andny in Santa Barbara after graduating from ucla, he works for, Smith Ed Whitfield to for one year before moving back now he istrict and making a second run for congress. He ran in 2014 but did not make it out of the primary. An expensive race. How much will be spent by the candidates and outside money . At 5. 5 now, it is million, one point finally dollars in outside spending. I expect that to go up. I do not know how much it will go up by, but i expect because Santa Barbara is cheap compared to los angeles and the bay area, that easily you can see another 1 million coming in outside money before election day is over and but campaigns are now are sitting on about 200,000 and 500,000 for carbinol, so it will get more expensive before election day. Money spent on advertising. Here is some of the ads now on the air. We will begin with carbajal and follow it with justin for me. Agree onongress cannot a budget, they shut down the government and keep their salaries. Carbajal sees things differently, when the Great Recession hit and hundreds of workers were furloughed, he stood with them and gave a part of his salary as county supervisor. To makebody was trying ends meet. I thought it was important if we ask our employees to sacrifice, we do the same. I believe that is what leadership is about. I am carbajal and i approve this message. Washeir generation rancher born and raised right here on the central coast. At Santa Barbara high, and was an unstoppable running back. Building a small Family Business he would never take no for an answer. Justin went to washington to realize the place really needs fresh ideas. Someone unstoppable. Choose fresh. Choose fareed. Just two of the many ads now on the air, californias 24th Congressional District that includes Santa Barbara. Justin for read is the republican candidate and joining or the phone this hobby Javier Panzar and a different generational approach between the in the republican candidate and the older, more seasoned democratic nominee. You really couldnt get two more different candidates. He was in kentucky for one year, and Salud Carbajal has been in politics for many years and is known for his fundraising apparatus. He raises a lot of money, not only for this race but the one he was running for county supervisor, and he has really got the backing of most of the powerful democrats in california, nancy pelosi, lois capps, lois capps daughter, who is thought to want to run for her mothers seat, she is backing him, and he has been hit with a lot of attacks from fareed for being a career politician, one way to put the, whereas Justin Fareed does not have a career politics, say comes at it from the angle of i am young, a new kind of republican, and really kind of runs against the dysfunction in congress. Lets talk about the demographics of this Congressional District. North of los angeles, Santa Barbara and san luis obispo, the two largest cities in california 24, who does a favor . It is an interesting district because for a long time, because of gerrymandering, known as the ribbon of shame, the district kind of cut a thin slice from l. A. Ouis scobee spoke to and not goes further inland, so you start off on the coast with liberal cities like Santa Barbara and then you go inland and get to more of the Old Country Club crowd, say get more farmers, ranchers, a significant agricultural the cap economy, which is a larger city been Santa Barbara, and that is producing more republicans, and able maldon auto maldonado was the republican, so it is interesting in that sense, but democrats to have manage among registered voters, they had six point lead over republicans, and it being a president ial year, that alone should favor salute carbajal. The house race becoming one of the most expensive. s work iszar Available Online at l. A. Times. Com. Thank you for being with us. Thanks for having me. Another key race this election cycle, missouri senator blunt versus jason kander, the real politics average has blunt leading, but they listed as a tossup. Mr. Kander released an ad this week on his record in voting for gun control and the misery state legislature. Lets take a look. [video clip] i am jason kander and senator blunt has attacked me on guns. In the army, i learned how to use and respect my rifle. Inc. Afghanistan, i volunteered to be annexed or gun of unarmored suvs and in the state legislature, i support Second Amendment rights and i also believe in background checks so that terrorists cannot get their hands on one of these. I approve this message because i senator bluntsee do this. It points to the 1. 5 million the nra has put the roy blunt and the National Rifle association has spent nearly 1 million to ensure jason kander does not win or any congressional race outside of ohio. Overr, the ira has spent 11 million and roughly 6. 5 lane dollars has been dispersed in support of donald trump and the rest has gone toward congressional contest. They had invested most heavily in the ohio state race between portman and his democratic challenger ted strickland. The nra has spent about julian dollars in support of mr. Portman. President barack obama and Hillary Clinton spoke last night at the annual Congressional Black Caucus dinner in washington. They were joined by representatives marcia and charles wrangle. This is about one hour. Thank you. I would be using the teleprompter, that i do not know how. [applause] this is a very, very emotional time for me. You do not spend your entire life in Public Service, four years in the army, u. S. Attorneys office, state legislature and 46 years in the party in which i loved serving with the Congressional Black Caucus. [applause] probably is with the president right now, i owe though thebecause problems of people happened over 50 years of marriage, she never and the why not me family and steve and alicia during the years that my passion was for justice, equity and helping those that needed a voice. [applause] and for those who ask, what are , she is at myr grandkids. But the second thing i like to 1971, there were. 3 others by the 435 a lot of people like to think it took a lot of courage for 13 people to stand up but not against joe those, but against president nixon who refuse to meet the recognized as, but that number grew from 13 to 23 to 33 and today it is 46 and tomorrow it looks like it will be close to 50. [applause] with all of our accomplishments. It is not that we were super congresspeople, but we were independent and you that people us. You, who said that for wentould stand up when we to africa, or the we went to cuba, as long as you knew there were people on the list there were there, clearly because we were sons and daughters of slaves, he stood by us, elected us, and allow this to truly believe that we were the conscious of the congress for any injustice that we are. And now that i am leaving the congress, i see even the biggest battles that we ever faced as a people and breaking out of slavery and the civil war, fighting in korea, marching with dr. Martin luther king, and even fighting the republicans, those things that have been able to. Vercome today, my brothers and sisters, i see the greatest battle that we will ever face. Once again, even though you are caucus 48, 50 will be there and be your voices, the question will be in november, where would you be . In november, where will you be . [applause] that power,know by about dr. King and you may not have been able to march, but the biggest threat to where we are today is going to be in november, and those who are critical of donald trump that come from the city, i say that he is our contribution to make this republic better because his hatred and his bigotry have pulled the rug often the sheet off of the Republican Party so we all can see it for what it is. [applause] people who really, truly believe onlythe constitution was for european people, people who never thought that the sons and daughters of slaves could be president , people who look at people of color, no matter what color it is, whenever who never say i am a conservative republican, and our brother donald has pulled the sheets off of all of them, that the country and world can see who it is. Guess who is supposed to expect to save this republic . We are. Depending on us they are depending on us to save their public. Once again, we will. We thank the Congressional Black Caucus for giving us the wind under our wings to come up to here, and as she said, this to 46is now being passed of the United States congress we a cadre again people and have to be there to support them. I feel so comfortable in knowing that the struggle continues in the can bet your life that retirement is not goodbye. Thank you so much for all that you have done. [applause] the next phoenix award is the Congressional Black Caucus chairs award, the Foundation Chairs award is presented to an individual whose work and the congressmans stand as of the can of light for the Africanamerican Community and the african diaz for us. Tonight, we honor mr. Robert f. Smith with the Congressional Black CaucusFoundation Chair award. In lieu of a video presentation, shared reflections will be on mr. Smith. Good evening, again. I am delighted to stand before you to honor a man who has pursued uncharted paths and never turn of his professional and personal journey. , ands been an engineer invented, and entrepreneur, banker, businessmen, investor, and most important way, a leader, mentor and philanthropist. He is perhaps the most successful investor of this generation, and im lucky to call him a friend. Smith is aerick founder, chairman and ceo of these to equity partners. Under his leadership, he manages over 26 billion in Equity Capital and overseas portfolio of 35 companies with 42,000 employees, and if that were not enough, for the second year in a sta was named the worlds number one performing private equity firm in the world. [applause] what is equally extraordinary is that to this day, vista, under leadership, has never lost money under buyout investments. He trained as an engineer at cornell university, and following his mba, he worked at kraft general foods, where he earned to patents and then joined goldman sachs. In 2000, he stuck out to start his own private equity fund, vista equity partners. Everyone thought he was crazy. He had no private equity experience, and the idea of focusing on Enterprise Software exclusively, robert said that to become what would be the equivalent of the sixthlargest Software Company in the world. [applause] roberts leadership and philanthropy also breaks new barriers. The Smithsonian National museum of African American history culture is opening next week. [applause] what some of you may not know is the museum is announcing on monday a gift of 20 million from robert smith, [applause] that is the largest personal donations to the museum. Profits philanthropy is always more than writing a check. His support will enable the digitization of our most precious Cultural Assets and also establish the roberts frederick smiths explore your family center, which will ensure that our museum remains a living museum, capture not only the lives of the famous, but also the lives of every africanamerican family, so that museum will be enriched with all of our stories, no matter who we are. [applause] roberts, no matter how successful he has become, he has never forgotten where he came from. In fact, what has been most inspiring is his humility. Cbcf, weustom for the their video, highlighting careers and the comp, so two days ago, we sent it over to robert and robert did not want to play it. He did not want to tell the story of the business accomplishments, including being named the richest africanamerican on the planet. [applause] wherever he goes, he carries his what ismusic and meaningful to robert and all of us, when earlier this summer, he was named chairman of the board of carnegie hall. [applause] throughout his life, robert has engaged in numerous charitable activities that are focused on africanamericans and women. 5000 innercity kids at his ranch over summer and fostered college aged kids with no home or place to go during winter break. More recently, he has played a leading role in foundations, unitedas provided the Negro College fund with the largest ever investment in Stem Education for African Americans. [applause] that contribution will offer thousands upon thousands of an africanamericans the opportunity and the skills to prepare for jobs of tomorrow. The Foundation Also recently made a grants worth 27 my in dollars to the susan g. Komen organization to ensure that where someone lives does not determine whether they live. [applause] giving new hope and new life, this 12 City Initiative will fight the statistics that are mothers, wives, and, sisters and daughters are 40 more likely than white women to die from the disease. Rather than share a list of roberts awards, recognitions and accomplishments, i could share one more story that i think will help you understand the kind of man he is and why we are recognizing him this evening. When robert hurt that 43 of the other girls in nigeria, who had been kidnapped by boko haram, had escaped, he was stunned to of the papere c24 and decided to do something about it. Robert contacted the president of the American University of nigeria and quietly went about funding their education, committing to provide the same Financial Support for every girl who would escape in the future and seek an education. [applause] robert has done all of this without fanfare and without expectation. This is exactly the kind of leadership we need today. Robert smith brings great passion, generosity, humility, and dedication to improve the lives of all of us in the world in the world around us. I am thrilled to present the chairmans award of the Congressional Black Caucus foundation to Robert Frederick smith. Inase, stand and join me giving him a well deserved round of applause. Ladies and gentlemen, please, welcome robert f. Smith. Also joining, board members, congresswoman and board device chair, Sheila Jackson lee, tonya and lonnie johnson. Thank you for that very warm introduction. And secretary clinton, it is an honor to be here to accept this award. When i told my mother, who is from washington, d. C. , about receiving this wonderful award, she, as most mothers do, who else will be there . I told her and she said, huh, and i said president obama will speak to it she said, well, do not take too much time because people really want to hear what he has to say. [laughter] with that, im going to ambitiously take you back to the. Ime of my birth in a few short minutes, i will tell you a little bit about who i am, what we do and why i am here. I grew up in denver, for generation colorado native. In 1963, my mother, i was nine months old, my mother took my brother and i to washington, d. C. , answering the call of dr. She, and im assuming thought that the closer we were, the more it might sink in, and she knew that her boys were too young to remember all that was said that day, but she believed that the history that we witnessed that day were dollars be part of the men who would be would become winded. Decades later, i had the privilege to take my grandfather on another journey on the opposite side of the National Mall to celebrate president obamas inauguration. [applause] as you all remember was a cold day and as my grandfather and i shivered together, he kept the two of us warm by telling these stories about his time as a young man living in washington, d. C. , and in the lounge, where it he checked hats and coats and poured coffee and tea for senators and their guest. He told me that he managed to take a sneak out the window on the day of president roosevelts swearing in and he said, you know, grandson, out of all those people, i did not see a single black face in that white sea of sea of people. It was not lost on either of us that my grandfather could return to the capital after all those years, not as a coat checker, but as a personal best personal guest for the essentials of our first africanamerican president. [applause] as we all know, there is an obvious sentiment to the fight, Bc Foundation dinner, we will show it president obama, and this is in the evening to celebrate, but lets not choose to make this night about the past and what we have already accomplished and even though the president s term is coming to an end, the distinguished members of congress tonight are not going anywhere, and they will continue to be more steps to climb up the mountaintop and the path has become steeper and more slick and thrown to the backsliding, and we must support each other more resolutely as we ascend together. Frankly, i am here tonight because of what you in this room. Ad done for me and for us your voices, john lewis, elijah cummings, charles wrangle and so many others, past and present, have been our hope and reminder of the dignity and potential of