america has been accepting more and more people as full human beings with protected rights against discrimination. and that is something that we should be that progress is something we should be incredibly proud of and that we should want to continue at every step. you mentioned your mother, a teacher, and he was a formative figure in your life. she taught felons to read in a brooklyn detention center. and she also used to wash your mouth out with soap. what is the most important thing you learned from your mom? look, i m sure everybody loves their mom. i mean, everybody loved my mom including me. and what i loved about her the most was she was as brave as a lion. and she loved the underdog. so she never when i asked her when she went to teach in
democratic presidential town hall with tom steyer. we are live from the grinnell college in iowa. dave, what is your question? thank you. thank you, mr. steyer, for coming to town. in your commercials you credit your mom and dad for developing a desire for public service. can you describe when that manifested itself in you? in those commercials i talk about the fact that my mom was a teacher. she tots she was from minnesota but she moved to new york and taught in the new york public schools and then taught in remedial reading in the brooklyn house of detention. and my dad was from a family he was the first person, first generation in his family to go to college, and he became a lawyer. and then he quit the law to go into the navy in world war ii,