From. For the next hour we will breakdown the statewide and local races that matter to you starting with the race to see who will fill governor jerry browns she is. Brown has turned out of office of the race is wide open and this is a crowded field all vying to become the two top contenders to be named in the june primary. Cristina rendon sat down with the kids to learn their stances on the issues. Reporter we are starting to see a little mudslinging. Each candidate claims they are about getting things done while the others are about rhetoric. Those candidates are busy courting voters. In last weeks Gubernatorial Debate at ucla, immigration took center stage. In San Francisco is not a sanctuary state, kate stanley would be alive. How dare you blame the sanctuary policy. Nativeborn people commit crimes to much greater degree than the undocumented. Reporter the answers drawing cheers and boos from the mostly latino crowd. The border wall, security of the border wall, these are things tha
That also includes voter rights. It also includes that. So just because you are a dream activist doesnt mean you can be advocating for brothers in mr. Zukin about because we are voting for that. My vote counts five times for four dreamers they can though. We have to build coalitions and everyone is making a difference and talking about that and i think its right that the candidate level. [applause] it is really repetition. There is no magic to this. We have to continue to tell this story ever a single year even if we are not just them saying it and over, we have to make sure it is the great equalizer. That is real. And so, in doing that, my good friend Christine Pelosi said in some of her training if you dont respect me, dont expect me. And for a lot of communities of color or a lot of poorer communities, they dont feel like folks whove been elected to office care about them or their issues. That is the bottom line. In order to get people into the process we have to energize and remind
Words of tribute, the last words of service are he is the part of decency and public service. This morning, bob michel, who served as leader of the house of representatives of the Republican Party passed away at age 93. His replacement as republican leader in the house marked the end of an era of civility. Congress has never been the same. As the son of an immigrant, decorated veteran of world war ii, person who was first a staffer, then elected to congress and rose to leadership, is a testament to his talent and commitment to america. I have known bob michel for 35 years. We have congressional districts downstate, when i was elected in 1982, in the reagan off your election it was a tough republicans. Bob michel barely survived. Attorney stevens of peoria had 48 , lane evans was elected to congress and i was as well. For 14 years we were neighboring congressman. Bob michel campaigned for my opponents. I went to his district to campaign for his opponents. You would think creating a nega
I can only work with look with envy at my calling across the aisle. You can pretty well guess, obviously the occasions that i lose, i would be a winner if i was in the majority. I went on more than the issues. If you got to be in the majority, would you do things differently . Rep. Michel we have talked about how we would reform the house of representatives. There is no question we proliferated this place with committees, subcommunities and all that. The problem is that in an attempt to give everyone a piece of the action so they can make your show or somebody elses or get some visibility, we have gotten to the point where there are so many people in positions of some authority, but then there is a saying that when we dont from them for the Opposition Party persons name, you just say mr. Chairman or chairman, and youve got it because everyone is a chairman of something. The problem with the Committee Structure is that more committees there are, the more staff areas, the more staff ther