you obviously have a big victory that you just celebrated. already at the state legislator tonight i recognize to be able to talk to us this evening, i just have to ask you given the landmark nature of your win, you re the first native-american democratic woman to serve in this legislator. what and your priorities as you ve taken the seat? first of all i want to learn the processes of how the process works in the legislator. i m a freshman legislator. i also want to continue the good work of many others that have gone before me. definitely looking at health care, access for all people, making sure that our education system is well funded and that our communities are safe especially for our women and children. ruth buffalo, the first
situation of the university of missouri, looking at the resignation of the president and the chancellor now, if you feel like you have learned things about the way to demonstrate leadership in the face of low-level intolerance that s otherwise passed over, otherwise seen as the normal way of doing business. one of the things i say in the book and one of the things i m fearful of is i confess i m not sure i handle td right when i was a young woman and i faced some fairly blatant sexism in the missouri legislature in the early 80s but i really believed that if i would have publicly confronted it it would have minimized my effectiveness as a legislator. so i kind of internalized all that and said i m going to show them. i used it as fuel. i m going to i m better at this than you are. i m going to work harder an this than you do. i m going to go farther than you. and the speaker of the house, which i talk about in there, who is the one who told me when i asked him if he could help me
that if i would have publicly confronted it it would have minimized my effectiveness as a legislator. so i kind of internalized all that and said i m going to show them. i used it as fuel. i m going to i m better at this than you are. i m going to work harder an this than you do. i m going to go farther than you. and the speaker of the house, which i talk about in there, who is the one who told me when i asked him if he could help me get my bill out of committee as a freshman legislator in 1983, he said did you bring your knee pads? i ended up in the united states senate and he ended up in prison. sought pl so the plan to try to go farther kind of worked. i m not sure that was the right way to do it. i think young women today i hope have more information and more confidence to do a better job of confronting and these young people are a great example. this was a bold thing for this young man to do. and then he was a leader and got others to follow him and he impacted real change tha
i m fearful of is i confess. i m not sure i handle td right when i was a young woman and i faced some fairly blatant sexism in the missouri legislature in the early 80s, but i really believed that if i would have publicly confronted it it would have minimized my effectiveness as a legislator. so i kind of internalized all that and said, i m going to show them. i used it as fuel. i m going to i m better at this than you are. i m going to work harder at this than you do. i m going to go farther than you. and the speaker of the house, which i talk about in there, who is the one who told me when i asked him if he could help me get my bill out of committee as a freshman legislator in 1983, he said, did you bring your knee pads? i ended up in the united states senate and he ended up in prison. so the plan to try to go farther kind of worked. i m not sure that was the right way to do it. i think young women today, i hope, have more information and more confidence to do a better job of conf
about the federal mandate to shave down incandescent light bulbs for energy efficient bulbs. clayton: here to talk about it, nice to see you this morning. good to see you. clayton: why did you decide to put forth this legislation? well, i m a freshman legislator, this is my first term. when we went it austin for orientation, they put us in a hotel and had compact fluorescent light bulbs in it. and every morning i turned it on and didn t know if it was on or wasn t. and i realized we haven t a choice soon and gave this legislation to give texans what kind of light bulb they wanted. and grn rick perry, some say is going to run for president, signed this legislation. the and here is what the other side says, and bob kiev in