she got involved in politics a long time ago because she wanted to improve her community here on the west side to make sure that folks had basic things like streets and drainage and so she got active back then in the young democrats. then she ran when she was 23 years old with this slate called the committee for development. their slogan was, give government back to the people. back then, as ya ll remember, they didn t have single member districts. so very few women and people of color ever got elected. all of that slate of the committee for body of betterment lost. in april of 1971. but on election night, one of the local reporters asked her how she felt. she said she felt good about what they had done. and that they d be back.
big thank you to my mom. i bet there are a lot of you all who may have come here to see here instead of me. you know, my mom grew up on this west side of san antonio and she got involved in politics a long time ago because she wanted to improve her community here on the west side to make sure that folks had basic things like streets and drainage and so she got active back then in the young democrats and she ran, when she was 23 years old, with this slate called the committee for barrio betterment. and their slogan was, give government back to the people. back then, as you all remember, they didn t have single member districts so very few women and people of color ever got
sense since the shooting two months ago. reporter: it s a little too on the nose. members left the house wednesday night and are home for the long weekend. they re not hear addressing the concerns. i can t help but think this is a part of the power of television. you have a situation where not just here in the capitol but in many of the member districts and every state, you re seeing these kind of walkouts. i think that s part of the effort here by these students. to make them unescapable. you may not be in your office when they show up, but you ll see it on television. your neighbors will see it. the people you run into at the grocery store will see it. by doing it on a national scale, these students are able to keep this front and center for members of congress whether congress wants to deal with it or not. right. garrett haake on the move. hopefully we ll get your camera working again and come back to you throughout the morning. this isn t just happening in washington on the rig
house. i cannot and i will not give up my family time. i may not be on the road as often as previous speakers, but i pledge to tri and make up for it with more time communicating our vision, our message. what i told members is if you can agree to these requests, and if i can truly be a unifying figure, then i will gladly serve. how realistic is that, angela? it is not realistic. one of the primary roles of the speaker of the house is to go into member districts and help them fund-raise. i don t know how he expects them to do that and he s demonstrating already how hypocritical he is. paul ryan has a record of not supporting paid family leave, but yet he wants the country to get behind him there or the key protesters in politics, the freedom caucus, who already have demonstrated that they re going to draw a hard-line in the sand with him already tonight as well. so this is going to be really interesting for him to go in
jeb bush has flip-flopped on this issue going back a number of years and reversed himself in the last few years, so they re trying to carve out an intelligent place, but there is no intelligent place for the republican field. you have a super voter in the republican primary that s very conservative. you have the billionaire class involved funding those republican candidates. single member districts, they have nowhere to go. they are on the wrong side of history. after 2016 they are totally on the wrong side of the electoral college because of hispanics. great to have you with us tonight. we have more news out of the sunshine state today. media outlets in florida are suing governor rick scott. they re accusing scott of violating the state s sunshine law. they claim that scott s transition team deleted mass e-mails preceding his taking