Oh mess every day in every state across the country our political system is bankrolled by an army of fundraisers pulling in millions of dollars a race sometimes it looks like you might imagine knocking on doors, calling every name in the phonebook, and emails, so many emails. But for all those little fish drawing 100 to their local race, its the whales, those Campaign Fundraisers really need powerful and rich individuals and companies. And when they donate 20 5,000, 1 million, they want a favor or ten it should be obvious that thats corrupt, but with a wink and nod, political deals to the bribery line every single day. And we may never have noticed that certain illinois the governor hadnt flung back the curtain within unrepentant ego, a political corruption, crime spree in a set of unprecedented Audio Recordings that shined a bright light on the inner workings of american political power. Ladies and gentlemen meet Rod Blagojevichs it was Early Morning because i used to get up every mor
I am going to start as rick asked us to do because of got a lot to cover. Rick beat me to the punch but i too was at this conference that rick hosted it really seems like a book and i was on a panel with neil just coming out hear from d. C. Where maybe there was something going on is little worrisome. I note the three days we were here and took the plane back it seemed like the beginning of covid issue continued and got a lot worse. But here we are following this where things are better on that front but we have had an electionin the meantime were sel elections especially one that really does raise a question of threats. Im not going to do a long introduction of the very shortest to give you a sense of who people are vincent is a secretary state of michigan elected in 2018 and again in 2022. And then we have two Election Officials from some of our largest jurisdictions local jurisdictions in america. Neil kelly has just retired from 17 years of service in Orange County. You are a count
Law. Yes please be seated. Okay. We are all here. I am going to start as rick asked us to do because of got a lot to cover. Rick beat me to the punch but i too was at this conference that rick hosted it really seems like a book and i was on a panel with neil just coming out hear from d. C. Where maybe there was something going on is little worrisome. I note the three days we were here and took the plane back it seemed like the beginning of covid issue continued and got a lot worse. But here we are following this where things are better on that front but we have had an electionin the meantime were sel elections especially one that really does raise a question of threats. Im not going to do a long introduction of the very shortest to give you a sense of who people are vincent is a secretary state of michigan elected in 2018 and again in 2022. And then we have two Election Officials from some of our largest jurisdictions local jurisdictions in america. Neil kelly has just retired from 17
Front row seat to democracy. Coming up, and a discussion about transparency and security in elections ahead of the 2024 president ial ballot. This was hosted by the ucla school of law. Seated. Okay. We are all here. I am going to start as rick asked us to do because of got a lot to cover. Rick beat me to the punch but i too was at this conference that rick hosted it really seems like a book and i was on a panel with neil just coming out hear from d. C. Where maybe there was something going on is little worrisome. I note the three days we were here and took the plane back it seemed like the beginning of covid issue continued and got a lot worse. But here we are following this where things are better on that front but we have had an electionin the meantime were sel elections especially one that really does raise a question of threats. Im not going to do a long introduction of the very shortest to give you a sense of who people are vincent is a secretary state of michigan elected in 2018
decision. just a few days ago cbs news ran a pole asking americans about this very issue. 70% responded that colleges should not be allowed to use race in college admissions. a new york times poll recently found 60% of democrats also oppose race as a factor in admissions. americans across the country have rejected affirmative action at the ballot box too, even in blue state california. in the 2020 election democratic leaders in the state put affirmative action on the ballot. the pro- affirmative action activist, the governor, u.s. senators and the golden state warriors pushed voters to support the initiative. they out bid opponents of affirmative action by 19-1. in the end, nearly 60% of californians voted to kill affirmative action. it didn t work. no matter how hard the democratic party tries, no matter how much money they spend, the american people have rejected the view that we should be judged on our skin color. so if anyone is trying to hold on to the past like the demo