Announcer president ial candidates have been speaking at the iowa state fair for the last couple of days. Here is kristen gillibrands remarks. It is about 30 minutes. Senator gillibrand hello, everybody. I want to introduce the director of fun, henry gillibrand. This is the driver of the rv, jonathan gillibrand. Hi, everyone. Senator gillibrand they have made the trip amazing. We have loved it. Henry loves your state fair, so thank you. Henry won that, no joke, it was a little frisbee thing. I dont know. Anyway, it is such a pleasure to be here. I cant tell you how exciting it is. I got my start in politics in a community not unlike this. My grandmother, she was a woman who loves politics. She started working at age 18 as a secretary in our state legislature. 75 years ago, she looked around, all the legislators were men, all the support staff were women. So she wanted to have a voice. She did not know how, she knew her voice was important, but she figured out the voice of all the women
Jonathan gillibrand. Hi, everyone. Senator gillibrand henry loves your state fair, so thank you. Henry won that, no joke, it was a little frisbee thing, anyway, it is such a pleasure to be here. I cant tell you how exciting it is. I got my start in politics in a community not unlike this. My grandmother was a woman who my grandmother was a woman who loved politics, started working at age 18 as a secretary in our state legislature. 75 years ago, she looked around, all the legislators were men, all the staff were women, so she wanted to have a voice. She did not know how, she knew her voice was important, but she figured the voice of all the women was even more important. So she learned to work on campaigns she learned to organize, she taught women had to go door to door, how to stuff envelopes, how to make phone calls, and my first memory on a campaign was when i was henrys age, it was a hot august day, the women were wearing dresses not unlike mine, sleeveless, cotton dresses to keep c
Henry won that, no joke, it was a little frisbee thing, anyway, it is such a pleasure to be here. I cant tell you how exciting it is. I got my start in politics in a community not unlike this. My grandmother was a woman who my grandmother was a woman who loved politics, started working at age 18 as a secretary in our state legislature. 75 years ago, she looked around, all the legislators were men, all the staff were women, so she wanted to have a voice. She did not know how, she knew her voice was important, but she figured the voice of all the women was even more important. So she learned to work on campaigns she learned to organize, she taught women had to go door to door, how to stuff envelopes, how to make phone calls, and my first memory on a campaign was when i was henrys age, it was a hot august day, the women were wearing dresses not unlike mine, sleeveless, cotton dresses to keep cool, and there were stuffing envelopes. And i am thinking, i am mesmerized by their arms, their j
Weve seen on environmental issues. Weve seen it on climate issues. There are always some executive powers that can be used meaningfully. What we need is something much bigger than that. The solution is political. I dont believe that this current circumstance is going to last that much longer. We have gotten so used to a far right Republican Party that is not willing to move on these issues and a divided congress. Thats not our whole history. It does not have to be that way. I think the American People are moving right now. I think you see a whole lot more movement in an aggressive direction. You look at the Public Opinion solidly ins moved favor of background checks and waiting. And an assault weapons ban and waiting periods and an assault weapons ban. Its only time before that leads to change. We have to work on the ground. We are hoping for instant gratification, but whats really going to change america is a whole lot of grassroots organizing, like the sparkling students those parkla
Kristen from spokane, washington on the democrats line. Go ahead, please. I watched miss williamsons speech. She is spot on on things. What i would like to see in a i would is not debates, want to see all the leaders, all the president ial people that are going to move on in the debates. Lets sit down and have a consortium and see and do a bullet point. What is our most important thing . Vote him outis to at the ballot box. Steve the next debate is scheduled for houston, texas, airing on abc. Jared from waterford new york waterford, new york, republican line, have you been watching much of the fair . Yes. I would like to say Marianne Williamson is a wingnut. I hope democrats nominate her so trump can win in 2020. I want to talk about one of the most important issues to me, gun rights. All guns should be legal. Democratsublicans and fight for the Second Amendment. And to all the republicans supporting red flag laws and universal background checks, you will lose more seats in congress in