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A little bit about governor martin omalley. His father was the National Leader of the democratic party. He came here in 1983 to work on gary harts campaign is one of his staff organizers and had a chance to work on that Great Campaign in which he finished second. After graduating from law school he settled in baltimore. He ran for the city council and got elected. The mayor spot became open, and there was a crowded field running for that, and he was successful doing elected mayor. It was suffering through some really tough times regarding high crime rates and a struggling economy as a. Baltimo...

I never forgot that. It was terrific to see him yesterday. We are happy to be here in iowa. We are going to come back to iowa. Were going to go over the whole state, and were going to come back as many times as we can. Youll be seeing more of us. I would like to take a few minutes tonight to talk to you about three things that i care deeply about. What are the challenges that are facing us as a nation . Where do i see the need for us to really focus in the next several years . The first is restoring fairness, economic fairness. Social justice in our system. I talked about this when i ran for t...

Since the Citizens United case in 2012. I hear jeb bush saying he will raise 100 million in three months. There are the super pacs. He is not alone here, but this cannot continue. The only way we are going to be able to do anything about it is make sure our people by the numbers can outnumber the kind of money that is coming in here and that we get the policies that we believe into place. That is what we did when i ran for senate. We had 14,000 volunteers who came up to help us when we ran against and incumbent senator who just gotten the highest number of votes. We need to remember that the A...

No big deal. We are going to enforce equal pay laws. We would not say i have a religious objection to pay minimum wage. No big deal. The government can make up the salary difference. Let alone saying i refuse to fill out a form. The question about the Conscientious Objector was absolutely right. Notre dames lawyer todd is does that mean it would be a substantial burden on religious exercise . And he said yes. Even that would have to be considered a substantial burden. And that is all well and good. When someone else is losing an important benefit as a results come and that is when the has to b...

Africanamerican communities and way to reform policing in those places. This event was hosted by the center for American Progress and runs about 1. 5 hours. Good morning. My name is winnie and im the executive Vice President of external affairs here at the center for American Progress. Thank you for joining us for the important conversation about terminal Justice Reform. We are proud to be hosting it with the national network. The u. S. Is the worlds leader in incarceration with 2. 2 Million People currently in the nations jails and prisons. A 500 increase over the past 30 years. These trends ...