If youre awake clap three times. Surprising. Want to get everybody to get a seat as soon as possible. Want to get things starred on this lovely morning here at the Fourth Annual conference. Look for a round of applause for six. So happy to see you all here. And reminded of my time the very first six conference and the at the rate this organization has grown. Our growth is due only to you and your pregnancy. Your commitment to the movement, to moving a progressive agenda, your commitment to progressive ideas and commitment to progressive vision. So give yourselves a round of applause. We all know that after last years election, a lot of people were left wondering which way to go. A lot of us didnt know which way was up. A lot of us felt that everything had been lost. And a lot of people wrote off the Progressive Movement. A lot of people thought there was no way we could come back. If you look around this country and see some of the special state legislative elections people are on our
Good morning. I want everybody to get acs soon as possible and get started here up to six conference, the Fourth Annual six conference. Of applause. Round i am so happy to be here. So happy to see you all here. , theeminded of my time conference, and to see the rate that this organization has grown. Our growth is only due to u. N. Your commitment to moving the to you and your commitment to moving the progressive agenda. Give yourself a round of applause. Ater last years election, lot of people wrote off the progressives, that there was no way we could come back. If you look around the country and you see the state special elections, the people are on our side. Again, the ideas are on our side. The energy is with us. If we keep this moving, going forward, we will see a progressive resurgence like never before. [applause] as a former legislator has participated in every conference and a member of the six step, it is amazing to see the support growth from 13 to 30 staff members. People wo
Stage devoted to the 1820s and 1860s. Among many of his accomplishments, too many that i could go to tonight. High seeked and difference and desires of americans. Hes working with cureuating new exhibits and portraying americas workers 1750, 2015. Speaking directly to his talk tonight, david has his fourth scene on view now, it is calling dark field of the republican. Alexander garner photograph 1857 to 1872. Which in multitude severals lincoln paragraph. This i mage was the you my remember last year walt wittman was a theme of our lincoln event. I may mention that along the way, with his work of the National Gallery of david ward is a poet and an editor and a literally critic. His poetries was published in 2011 called internal difference. David earned his bachelors degree from the university of rochester and Yale University and england. Please join me in welcoming david ward. [ applause ] thank you, brian, thank you all, i am delighted to be here. We ai want to congratsulatioe portrai
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United states . We have some great champions of Small Business on this stage. I want to work with them and with others to clear out the brush, to get the credit flowing again to get more people with those good ideas a chance to be able to start and grow a business. My dad was a Small Businessman, and i deeply respect that entrepreneurial spirit. Were also going to have to tackle the tax code with all of its inefficiencies and all of it unfairness. I know what a big undertake can that is, but right now, its really stacked in favor of the wealthy. All of the loopholes, the deductions, whatever it is that enables somebody to escape paying their fair share, the wealthy pay too little and the middle class pays too much and i have said, i think the middle class deserves a raise, not a tax increase, and i will not raise taxes on middle class families because they have to get back to where they were before they fell into that ditch of the great recession. [cheering] but you know, if youre thin