Sen. Bennet ok. Come on in. Sen. Bennet thank you. Open for business. He has the language of the constitution. Do you . It is a requirement. Sen. Bennet im just proofreading our good work. You wanted to be michael, not mike . Sen. Bennet that is fine. Had i known i was going into politics, i would have been mike. You can have mike. Sen. Bennet thats ok. Where do you want . Right here . Right here. Thank you very much. What this is this is a notice we sent out to the voters that gets publicly posted in every community in the state as a remembrance of the filing, we ask the candidate to put their Campaign Slogan or something they wish to say. Sen. Bennet sure. Thank you. You can we are going to go back. We will come back. Sen. Bennet we will take questions and come back. I would say, i am delighted to be here to file my paperwork. We are excited about this. The secretary of state and i were talking about the example of colorado a colorado senator who was able to find attraction in New Ha
Be burning the place down from i know right now. My 20yearold daughter, her reaction was, if you run and tell the truth and you lose, no one can follow you for that. I said to her, its good that you say that. Theres no other reason for me to run. I dont think theres any other way for me to win. I was glad to send her the editorial from the des moines registry, the largest newspaper in iowa, that had a headline from the Editorial Board that said, Michael Bennet pounds truth into this campaign. Thats at least a small token of what her charge was when i decided to run. Theres also an editorial from gary hart. Said that you have vision. What is your vision . . That democracy is vitally important to humanity and that we have inherited an imperfect over 230 years. As americans over that time, we have worked to make this country more democratic, more fair, more free. It is our obligation to provide the same to the next generation. The next generation of americans doesnt believe that is what w
Running the Denver Public schools was its own challenge. She was up for another challenge. My daughters had different reactions. We have three daughters. The girl who was then 14 said, you should absolutely run. That was her reaction right out of the chute. It made me glad that she was so proud of my Public Service. The longer we talked, she sought as an opportunity for me to be out of the house during her 15th year of life. She could be burning the place down from i know right now. My 20yearold daughter, her reaction was, if you run and tell the truth and you lose, no one can follow you for that. I said to her, its good that you say that. Can follow you for that. I said to her, its good that you say that. Theres no other reason for me to run. I dont think theres any other way for me to win. I was glad to send her the editorial from the des moines registry, the largest newspaper in iowa, that had a headline from the Editorial Board that said, Michael Bennet pounds truth into this campa
Please welcome to the stage Michael Bennett. Hello, iowa. You are a Patient Group of people. I didnt know how patient. And i want to thank you for allowing all of us to impose on you. I want to particularly thank you for the kindness that youve shown me and my family as weve travelled the state of iowa. I want to thank my friend, tom harken, my chairman who is right here, tom, thank you for your leadership. And thank you for your friendship. Ive been in the senate, as tom knows, for ten years. Its hard for me to believe its been a decade. Weve done two committees together. Tonight i want to talk to you not as a senator but as the only superintendent of schools who has ever run for president of the United States. I worked with kids in the Denver Public schools before i went to the senate. Its a School District thats got about a billion dollar budget. For reference, thats about three times the size of a certain municipality in the state of indiana. Im just saying. It has 95,000 children
Please welcome to thestage Michael Bennett. Hello, iowa. You are a Patient Group of people. I didnt know how patient. And i want to thank you for allowing all of us to impose on you. I want to particularly thank you for the kindness youve shown me and my family as we travel the state of iowa. And i want to thank my friend tom parton, my chairman was right here. Tom, thank you for your leadership and thank youfor your friendship. Ive been in the senate as condos for 10 years. Its hard for me to believe that its been a decade. We served on two committees together. But tonight i want to talk to you not as a senator but as the only superintendent of schools who has ever run for president of the United States. I worked for the kids in the Denver Public schools before i went to the senate. Its a School District got about 1 billion budget. For reference, thats about three times the size of a certain municipality in the state of indiana. Im just saying. It has 95,000 children in it. Most of wh