First time i came was long before i got into this. It was probably sometime early april, may 2018 and had a great lunch with senator korn box, others and everybody said if youre ever going to learn anything about iowa , you have to meet this woman named jan bauer and i was a little nervous but shes been teaching me all the way along so i appreciate both your warm welcome, all your names and your endorsement for sure. About this time of year you get people from all over the country and they visit you and try to make some attenuated connections iowa so im not going to tell you that my great great grandparents settled in henry county in 1850. They did. Im not going to tell you my mom was born in on somewhat, yes she was because thats not why we gather, right . We gatherfor the sake of our country. For the sake of our country and in this world for the sake ofwhat were going to pass on to that next generation we gather to make sure donald trump is a one term president. It is not the only re
Longer until there is a legitimacy crisis, so we need to think about some big ideas to get us out of this moment. When did the twoparty system starts to break down, who is to blame . I have a different interpretation of when we actually had the twoparty system. People would say weve always had a twoparty system and thats true, but i would say that we only had a genuine twoparty system s since about 2010 and thats when its kind of gone haywire. We had two parties that they were overlapping and there was a bit of incoherence and where the party stood. Really since 2010, we have two parties with no overlap and that is when we had a twoparty systehave a twopartysystem andl institutions are not designed to work thissdesi way. The framers were very concerned about having the two parties and our system requires an incredible amount of compromise and negotiation, fluid coalitions and the twoparty system as it now operates doesnt allow for that. In 2010, the two parties were overlapping in what
Between the sheriff and the others, im almost in trouble for following this. People talk about the polk county steak fry, to hell with that, its the story county democrats the next night that are that much greater. And the last time i was in nevada was probably a month and a half ago. The councilman gave me a tour around even a little bit before that. The first time i came was long before i got into this, it was sometime early april, may 2018. And had a great lunch with senatthe senator and they said if youre going to learn anything about iowa, you have to meet this woman named jan bower. I appreciate your warm welcome and your endorsement for sure. Look, about this time of year, you get people from around the country and they visit you and try to make some connection to iowa. Not going to tell you that my great, great grandparents settled in henry county in 1850, they did. Not going to tell you that my mom was born in ottumwa, yes, she was, because thats not why we gather. We gather f
Evening, its very encouraging and exciting for us here at the museum to have folks come in for our events. We really appreciate it. And i know that the staff of the raven bookstore appreciates it as well. So now ill introduce tonights guest speaker. James e. Sherow is a professor in the department of history at kansas state university. He specializes in researching and teaching environmental history, kansas history, and the history of the american west. Professor sherow has written six books and numerous articles, including Railroad Empire across the heartland, rephotographing Alexander Gardners westward journey, which is a familiar resource for the staff and volunteers at the watkins. I know we have that book on our shelves and weve used it. And the grasslands of the United States. Tonight, professor sherow will discuss his latest work, and copies will be available for purchase and signing thanks to our partners at the raven bookstore right here in lawrence, kansas. So without further
[applause] [crowd chanting usa] this is my 13th during myennsylvania administration which is more than any other president to this point in the term and i love pennsylvania, went to school in pennsylvania. Philadelphia. We love this state and i love the union and the workers and when i built buildings in new york i build them exclusively with unions. People do not understand. Last really great election, our election of 2016, we did great with the union workers, great. We did not do good with the leadership. The leadership said we have always gone democrat. Lets go that way. That did not work out too well for some of them. As gretchen said, this would never have happened without me and us, this would never have happened. I am with you. Remember that and remember that pennsylvania, pennsylvania has the best numbers they have ever had in the history of the state. That is for a very good reason and you know what that reason is, hello, here i am. And i am truly honored to be here with the A