much and they want to show us how we can be just like they were back home. unfortunately they left back home because they didn t like it back home. bernie sanders 1987 in that clip defending the honor, the way of life of small town vermont. but around that time bernie sanders also started to show some political ambitions beyond just being a small town mayor. around that time he ran for governor of vermont as a third-party candidate and he lost that race with only 14% of the vote. in 1988 he ran for vermont s open congressional seat. he narrowly lost that race as well to a republican named peter smith. but when that republican, peter smith, ran for re-election two years later, bernie sanders smoked him. beat him by 16 points. and bernie sanders from that point has never looked back. he held that house seat in vermont for the next 16 years. he was re-elected to the house seven times. he then ran for the u.s. senate in vermont and you know that he won. but do you know that he won by
her any advice, she ought to stay here. handling the chinese will be tricky enough but the conference itself is controversial. under attack from conservatives who say it is radical, anti-family. the conference is a little bit of sugar wrapped around a big bitter pill of failed western feminism. in the middle of a presidential election race in which her husband was the candidate to beat, everybody was talking about hillary clinton. specifically everybody was talking about hillary clinton s decision to attend the united nations conference on women. and two decades down the road, that doesn t sound like a controversial thing to do. at the time there really was a political uproar, that the first lady of the united states would dare to give a high-profile speech about women s rights anywhere, let alone beijing, china. we re gathered here today to ask the united states not to send a delegation to beijing, china, for the conference on women. father, we pray right now for the clintons.
much and they want to show us how we can be just like they were back home. unfortunately they left back home because they didn t like it back home. bernie sanders 1987 in that clip defending the honor, the way of life of small town vermont. but around that time bernie sanders also started to show some political ambitions beyond just being a small town mayor. around that time he ran for governor of vermont as a third-party candidate and he lost that race with only 14% of the vote. in 1988 he ran for vermont s open congressional seat. he narrowly lost that race as well to a republican named peter smith. but when that republican, peter smith, ran for re-election two years later, bernie sanders smoked him. beat him by 16 points. and bernie sanders from that point has never looked back. he held that house seat in vermont for the next 16 years. he was re-elected to the house seven times. he then ran for the u.s. senate in vermont and you know that he won.
maryland governor martin o malley. if lincoln chafee s path has been long and winding, martin o malley s has been straight as an arrow. in 1999 as the young telegenic mayor of baltimore, maryland, almost immediately he started getting future of the democratic party sort of attention. before he had even been on the job as mayor for a year. in baltimore, there s a bold, brash new beat. believe it or not this hunk with the bulging biceps, part rock star, part rebel, is also baltimore s new mayor. i, martin joseph o malley. hi, mayor. how are you? the 37-year-old lawyer is different. a white mayor in a city that is largely black. a politician who gets his hands dirty, climbing aboard and helping out on a city snow plow, pitching in on a garbage truck,
almost immediately he started getting future of the democratic party sort of attention. before he had even been on the job as mayor for a year. in baltimore, there s a bold, brash new beat. believe it or not this hunk with the bulging biceps, part rock star, part rebel, is also baltimore s new mayor. i, martin joseph o malley. hi, mayor. how are you? the 37-year-old lawyer is different. a white mayor in a city that is largely black. a politician who gets his hands dirty, climbing aboard and helping out on a city snow plow, pitching in on a garbage truck, sending a message that there s somebody, you know, who cares at the helm.