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I am one of the coowners of politics and prose. Along with my coowner and husband and our fabulous staff we welcome you to the event at our Nations Capital and on the campus of George Washington university. I mentioned our location because we are an institution named for the first president and assembled on the blocks from the nerve center of the white house and congress. So what better venue for a conversation with tonights guest speaker . Kamala harris spends her days on capitol hill and you are not alone if you think in a couple of years she could be taking up residence at the other end of pennsylvania avenue. [cheers and applause] since her election to the United States senate in 2016 she has emerged as one of the most exciting and refreshing voices of the Democratic Party a california native starting her career. I know im from the bay area as a prosecutor in the bay area and defeated a longtime incumbent to become District Attorney for San Francisco then hardfought race of attorne
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So, hello, everyone, and welcome to fields farm on such a snowy sunday. But were here to welcome to all of you and welcome to senator harris for coming. We really appreciate this. Im nancy and i am the democratic chair. As you know, i ran for office and failed and then ran for school board but im going to keep it up because i never g got i know about discrimination. When i was in eighth grade, we moved fr ed from iowa and th kress cal, iowa. Its wellknown for basketball. We did the petitions and we had 1,000 signatures and guess what the school board said. No girls basketball. So we had no girls sports until after title 9. I have a sister whos eight years younger than i am. Shes in the Wisconsin University Athletic Hall of fame. And that was because of discrimination, i didnt have that opportunity. I also was a farmers wife and i went to sign up our farm with usda and guess what. Usda said no, you cant sign it up. Doesnt make any difference if your name is on the mortgage. It doesnt ma
Good morning. Is great to be with you. Lets just get started. I only have 20 minutes. I could go on for hours. But ive got sweaty minutes. Herod is spirit i think we all know this is an inflection moment in the history of our country. This is a moment in time that is requiring us each as individuals and collectively to look at the mirror and ask a question. That question being who are we . And i think we all know part of the answer to that question is we are better than this. So this is a moment in time that is requiring us to fight for the best of who we are. And fight we will. And this is not a new fight for us. We as americans have always been in the business of fighting for the best of who we are. And fighting for our ideals. And i will tell you, i am a daughter of fighters. My parents met when they were active in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. My sister and i, maya, we joke we grew up surrounded by a bunch of adults who spent fulltime marching and shouting. About this thi