Years. You want to make sure you have an opportunity to register as a democrat. No matter who you are supporting, we will be ready for you on caucus night. A clipboardng if you are registered as a democrat, it makes everything go so much better. If you could register on your way out, we will be very excited to without further ado, i wanted to do a quick introduction of someone who we are excited to welcome back to grade. He has actually been here three times. I dont know how many of you were here the first time. It was a group of 20 students ao are interested in seeing young mare who president obama said may have been the new r whor a young mayo president obama said may be the new leader of the democratic party. Sayingo concerned about buttigieg the right way, i didnt say all the other things i wanted to say about him. Whos inspiring as somebody has been a democrat for 25 years, when i became a democrat, i never would have imagined people in the Lgbt Community would have almost full ri
Because we are going to have to handle all of you when you come in. So the second show of hands i want to see is how many of you are registered to vote as a democrat . Ok, thats a good sign. We have new democrats every four years here. We want to make sure you have an opportunity to register as a democrat. It just makes it so much easier no matter who youre supporting that well be ready for you on caucus night. We have three of the campus democrats, copresident s out here tonight. Olver, ali, they were holding clipboards. Heres al irving in the front. And nat all the way in the back. If you are registered as a democrat, it just makes everything go so much better. If you can register on the way out, well sob excited to see you back, many of you on february 3. Without further ado, i wanted to do a quick introduce of someone who were very excited to welcome back to i nell. Hes been here three grinnell. Hes been here three times. It was a group of 20 students who were interested in meeting
Minutes. [applause] good afternoon, how are you all doing. Also you will thank you so much for being here. It is so much warmer in here than it is outside. [laughter] thanks for keeping it warm. So im really excited that you are all here this afternoon and i just wanted to offer you some words of welcome but also to let you know a little bit about why i am here as an organizer and what you can do to help become the president of the United States. [applause] loop. Growing up i moved around a lot. We moved every three years or so to an estate. His Incredible Opportunity throughout my life and also meant that i didnt have a sense of belonging in one place and i was always feeling like an outsider. And even though ive now found my community, for a lot of different places including his campaign, i never really lost that understanding what it feels like to be an outsider. So when i heard pete speak for the first time, i saw a leader was reaching out and inviting people in a conversation and
Steyer, and kamala harris. Please welcome to the stage mayor pete to judge pete to judge pete buttigieg. Mayor buttigieg thank you. Mayor buttigieg thank you. Mayor buttigieg thank you, iowa. Mayor buttigieg thank you so much. [cheers and applause] mayor buttigieg thank you. [cheers and applause] mayor buttigieg thank you, iowa. Thank you, Iowa Democratic party. Thank you, fellow democrats. [cheers and applause] mayor buttigieg the first time i came to this state was as a volunteer, to knock on doors for a president ial candidate, a young man with a funny name. [cheers and applause] mayor pete and we knew the stakes were high then. The stakes are colossal now. [applause] mayor pete this country cannot afford four more years of donald trump. We will not recognize it if he gets reelected. [applause] mayor pete we know what is at stake. And we know that hes going to do everything he can to hold onto power. But if you nominate me, his workook isnt going to this time around. [cheers and app
My weight today . Good evening and welcome to the 2019 liberty and justice celebration hosted by the Iowa Democratic party. For our floor guests, dinner is now served. Betty ering] thank you. Iowaank you to the entire Democratic Party team. It is an honor to be at your liberty and justice dinner. It is even a bigger honor to be in a room full of committed democrats. Including two mentors of mine, this gentleman, mr. Chairman, senator, mentor, tom, can you please stand up one more time . [crowd cheering] tom thank you. Forcan we please give it up your former governor, my former cabinet colleague and a life log mentor. Lifelong mentor, thank you governor. [crowd cheering] again, a big shout out to your congressional delegation, thank you so much, abby, and cindy storming to victory because you guys knocked on doors. They lead with their values, thank you. Thank you to my friend, thank you for my or service congressman. Thank you for everything you have done and best of luck. You do not k