We need each other and you see the nextgeneration playing this out every day in terms of their choices, where they live, coming back to cities. The third emerging trends is this an oftentimes is emanating from cities and counties. In this case a senior Governors Office and its a new way of leadership. Its that new wave has been embraced by men and women who are solving problems in cities across american its not about ideology. Its about solving problems. Its not about bureaucracy. Its about doing the things that work. Its not about a chain of command, its about ever widening circles of collaboration, inviting more people to be a part of solving our problems together. Thats not only the New Hampshire way, thats the maryland way and thats the american way. We are the greatest problemsolving people ever brought forward on the face of our planet. So you have 38 days to govern until election day. Are you ready . Lets all join hands and contact the voting, shall we . The good news is that means we are 38 days away from reelecting governor Maggie Hassan. [applause] we are 38 days away from electing and reelecting congresswoman carol sheaporter. [applause] and 38 days away from another term for United States senator jean shaheen. [applause] it is true and you have heard it all across the country and you have demonstrated here in the great state of New Hampshire, when women succeed america succeeds, right senator . We succeed when New Hampshire resident, underline the word resident, when New Hampshire resident and New Hampshire senator jean shaheen shows a man from massachusetts what it means when they call it the granite state. [applause] and we succeed when our cando congresswoman carol sheaporte sheaporter trounces her donothing opponent. And we succeed by electing governor Maggie Hassan to continue her leadership. I have really enjoyed watching your governor work. She brings people together to get things done. A bipartisan budget, expansion of medicaid. Securing new transportation funding so New Hampshire has modern transportation infrastructure and under governor hassans leadership the people of New Hampshire have driven down on employment to its lowest level since 2008. [applause] i want to ask you all something in seriousness. I can understand why all of these outofstate men are attracted to the women of New Hampshire but dont you think they should be running for office in their own home state . [applause] let me ask you something. Democrats of New Hampshire do you think women should earn equal pay for equal work . Do you think we are ready to move America Forward again . Well look, i think it was dr. Martin luther king who said its important to preach to the choir, otherwise they might stop singing. [laughter] at the risk of preaching to the choir tonight i wanted to share with you and talk with you about the story of us, about the story of us. Baltimore and portsmouth, maryland and New Hampshire and america. Back in 1999 when i was elected mayor of baltimore my city had become the most violent and the most addicted and the most abandoned city in america. There was a big difference than in those days between the baltimore we carried in our hearts and the baltimore we saw on our streets and in our headlines. Our biggest enemy was and drug dealers for crackcocaine. It was the lack of belief, a culture of failure, countless excuses for why it was but couldnt do anything about anything and why none of us if we were smart should even try. We set out to make our city work again and we saw trash in our street so we picked it up. We saw a open air drug markets and we began relentlessly to close them down. We saw a neighbor suffering from addiction so we actually expanded drug treatment and got more of our people and to recovery. After a year of steady hardearned lifesaving progress, we then turned a bright light directly on the heart of the despair that had gripped her city for far too long. And they launched a campaign that we called one important and powerful word, simply believe. The first avenue that we ran private dollars encouraging local affiliates to encourage simultaneously the same night, the first set was a fourminute commercial and as the viewers you walk with the young 10 year old africanamerican boy through his life in our city and it begins with him warming his hands in the fire with a homeless man dodging drug dealers in their suburban buyers, stepping around hypodermic needles avoiding prostitutes. Ultimately in the dark of night wondering where his little sister has gone because she had left to go by candy at the corner store and he finds her. He finds her in the center of a crowd of griefstricken neighbors and First Responders. Another young victim killed in a driveby shooting. Her tightly braided hair, her lifeless eyes wide open lying in a pool of blood. The narrators said the people of baltimore are in a fight. The fight for their future. Its a fight that we have been losing, one life at a time. There are people who say its over, give up, we have lost. For the strong, for the brave, this fight is not over. What will it take to make us stand together and say enough . And then comes this stark white on black words, believe, believe in yourself, believe enough. Baltimore, believe. Now were three very difficult and painful weeks, weeks where we were not receiving many kudos from our booster Business Community, we ran those ads. Why did we run in . Because we have to be honest about our presence in order to change your future. We then ran ads calling on people to take action, mentor a child and to save a life call 1800believe. Join the police department. Believe in yourself and believe enough. If someone you love and drug treatment. It works and is widely available. Call 1800believe and do you know what . It did work. The people of baltimore rallied and of course as you might suspect it wasnt about the signs are the bumper stickers. It was about something deeper. The belief that there is no such thing inner cities as a spare america and over the next 10 years thanks to a lot of courageous First Responders many of whom gave their lives in the line of duty baltimore shes the biggest reduction of crime of any major city in america. [applause] why do i share that story with you this evening . Because belief is important. The leaf drives action and today like baltimore in 1999 we as americans are going through a time of disbelief, its time with more excuses than action, more ideology than cooperation, more fear and anger them progress and we seem to have lost havent weighed that shared conviction that we once had that we can actually come together to solve problems and make things better for her children and theirs. Theres a big difference today between the america that we carry in our hearts and the america that we see in our headlines. The america in our hearts is that land where those who work hard and play by the rules are able to get ahead. The america and our headlines is too often a place where wall street profits are higher than ever but that is the rich become richer but the paychecks of hardworking are becoming smaller and smaller. The america in our hearts remains that nation that created by choice the greatest middle class in the history of the world. This land of opportunity that is thought the world over but the america in our headlines as a nation were too many kids are being shortchanged by an inadequate education. Too many kids can afford to go to college and those that do often come out and take months and months or longer to find a job. All of this reminds me the story of the prizefighter who is getting beaten down in the ring by his opponent and finally his trainer has the opportunity to sit them down in the corner. He looks them in the int says to him you know the problem isnt what the other guy is doing to you. Its what you are not doing for yourself. [applause] in other words whether we think we can or we think we cant we are probably right. I dont know about you but i have had enough cynicism and i have had enough of the apathy and giving in to and Small Solutions and low expectations of one another. Tonight lets room for who we are. America is the greatest job generating opportunity expanding nation ever created in the history of the free world and we still are. [applause] for 235 years we have been the country that thrilled the world and let the world over and over again and we did it in large part by making one another stronger here at home. Dont you think its time that we did it again . [applause] the patriots, think about it. The patriots who made our country great. They didnt pray for their president to fail. They prayed for their president to succeed. [applause] and our founders didnt belittle science. They revered learning. They aspired to it and they didnt appeal to americas fears. They inspired american courage and they would never, ever a band of the war on poverty in order to declare war on women, a war on workers, a war on immigrants and a war of the sick or a war on hungry children. [applause] now of course even i know that it would be best for our country if our republican brothers and sisters, and they are our brothers and sisters, would return to the table of democracy to offer ideas to help us solve our problems. Our eagle flies better when both the left in the right ring are working but as democrats and as americans we have a responsibility right now and its a urgent and is today and its about jobs. Its about a stronger middle class and its about giving our children a Better Future by the choices we make now. The truth is after Hoover America needed roosevelt. After eisenhower were we needed kennedy. After reagan we needed clinton and after eight miserable years of george w. Bush america needed barack obama. [applause] no president inherited bigger deficit, more wars, bigger job losses or as large a deficit as president obama but thanks to his leadership, america is moving forward again. I think we are now at 54 months in a row of positive job creation. We still have more to do but 54 months in a row of positive job creation. [applause] that is 142,000 jobs. Urgent work remains to be done because there are still too many of her neighbors on them play. Those that handle the politics of fear have no intention of letting out votes and we are out there battling every day. Its a battle for the country we carry in our heart. Unlike th the republicans a bisn or stay partier publicans funded by their wealthy economic friends like the koch brothers, they see america as a small place, dont they . A tiny place. Limited capacity unlimited potential unlimited opportunity. Its sad. They actually see our country, our place is a place that only can afford serving the interests of the privileged few. So to those that prescribe this feature of last poor country i think all of us need to ask them the very serious and honest question, how much less do you believe would be good for our country . How much less education will make our children smarter . How many fewer College Graduates will make our economy more competitive . How many hungry American Children can we no longer afford to feed . Think for a second about your parents and grandparents. Picture their faces. They understood the essential truth of our american dream, that the stronger we make our country the more she gets back to us and the more she gives back to her children and grandchildren. We are not going to solve our problems by doing less. We must do more and we have to do it together. In maryland that is what we have done. More not less to create new jobs and new economies and industries to build a modern economy with the human purpose and we have done more and invested more to improve our childrens education more to rebuild their infrastructure, more to make College Opportunity more affordable for all and like you we believe the stronger middle class is actually the cause of economic growth. So we increased the earned income tax credit. We became the first date in the to pass a living wage law. [applause] and we increased the minimum wage to 10. 10 an hour. [applause] now why do we take these actions . Because it was the right thing to do . Well yes but it was also the smart thing to do in order to grow our economy. When workers earn more money businesses have more customers and our whole economy grows. Prosperity doesnt trickle down from the top. Never has, it never will. A stalk of corn does not grow from the castle down. A thriving economy and a growing economy is built from the middle out in the middle up in the stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth, not some sort of luxury byproduct. It is the center and the cause of all economic growth. [applause] but of course fortunate democrats that test is always results, rightclick does it work . Maryland is now creating jobs at one of the fastest rate in the region over the last four years. We have not only achieve the highest Median Income in the nation but we are also rated one of the top states for upward economic mobility at a time when many other states are wrestling in their country is wrestling with that issue. Just recently the u. S. Chamber of commerce which is hardly a mouthpiece for the Maryland Democratic party named as the number one state in america for innovation and entrepreneurship for the third year in a row. Progress is also about creating a more just, more inclusive and secure future for our children. So with the belief in dignity of work we expanded them protected collective bargaining rights. [applause] we dont attack and belittle teachers. We actually support them and value the work they have been doing. We were not of people that advocated turning away helpless refugee children seeking refuge from more and extreme poverty in central america. We are a good and a generous people. [applause] and with the belief in the dignity of every childs potential weak pass the d. R. E. A. M. Act in maryland and a belief in the dignity of every human being we passed Marriage Equality in maryland. [applause] [inaudible conversations] its madeleine, im sorry. Its married. The youngest is kerry. Thank you. You are very welcome. They told me i would need a lobster tide. I will get you one. Good luck to you. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. I didnt bring a guitar. I wondered what you think of fiscal policy and improving our budget in the longterm . We need to grow our economy. You will never retire the deficit unless youre making better investments that can make the economy grow and the president if you look at some of the trends of some of the reductions over the last few years, president obama average spending increases have been very small compared to any other president in modern times. What we are not doing are the things we have we have to do. Even in the reagan years the amount of Discretionary Investment in infrastructure and the research at nih and other things. We need to restore that balance. If we can do that and get real growth in wages moving in the right direction a lot of the bad math that appears so scary when you put it out on the horizon starts to come into balance. We wouldnt have been able, i guess another way to say it on a smaller scale in baltimore we would make a lot of cuts. We had to do a lot of difficult things but the most important thing we have to do is to stop shrinking and losing people because by making the city safer we finally started to grow the city of baltimore. In a sense i mean there are other nip and tuck things you can do. Immigration reform would actually help some of those longerterm bad trends. Its been a while since we first met. How about that . I was sitting across the table from you during the election in baltimore. Tell me your name. Carl gable. Carl gable, good to see you. I havent seen you for like 20 years. Are you living up here . I moved here 20 years ago. Its good to see you carl gable. Thank you. Thanks a lot. Its great seeing you again. Hes doing great. I wanted to introduce you to my mother, kitty. I want to see you in the white house. Pictures are free. Come on, billy. Perfect, thank you. Its a pleasure to meet you. Is he your only son . I have three sons. What does everybody do . Two firemen and one and not back. Turned out great. Can we get another picture . Absolutely. Did you press the right button . Thank you. My brother lives in fort washington. Hi. Whats your name . They called out your name. You have a nice tribe. They are great. They are really good. Thats the book that you got. Thank you. Thank you so much. I was sent to baltimore maryland to be trained and i have never ever experienced how you were describing it, i will never forget. Before they were discredited, you brought that up to the surface. It was the most unreal life experience. It was the beginning on the war on poverty so i got sent from there into west virginia. They were amazing. Baltimore is a place for potential. Decent hardworking people. Thank you very much. Thank you. You are a consistently decent person. You had just finished a new went to the lunchroom for a pizza and you are sitting there stuffing the pizza down and i came over and said can i get your picture . You put your pizza down and you got up. Then i was down on one knee. I was down on one knee and he came over and helped me get up. [laughter] another sign of old age. Dont forget my books. Absolutely. Hes got three chapters. There we go. Thank you very much. Good to see you again. How are you . Hi jesse, how are you . Terrific. How are you . Thanks very much for what you are doing to help us. We sent a few people to the campaign and jennifer is from maryland. She is working for governor hassan. A nice young woman. We saw her at a fundraiser. Correct told me to send more people. We have about 200 young people send in resumes sorer leadership was able to deploy them to a number of states. Full of hope and idealism and energy. Good luck to you. You have a part of this area portsmouth . My district starts literally just south of portsmouth in a castle just south of here all the way down to massachusetts. Maggie represented a part of the southern part and margaret have the northern part. Good luck to you. Thanks for letting him run. Its not easy to be a spouse. She has made the thirdhighest number