Having their convention in ohio and brooklyn lost probably because jayz and beyonce wanted to keep the riffraff out of the 718. Picture this, late july, city of brotherly love, good idea or bad idea . My view has always been that the convention should have been in brooklyn, four one million reasons. This is not a bad idea. Philadelphia has done these things before. Philadelphia, pennsylvania, not much of a swing state, but it will provide a lot of support. There are four reasons to pick your Convention Season city. They are logistics, logistics logistics, and fundraising. Im not sure philadelphia will raise the money easily, but they will raise it in the end. Brooklyn always made me skeptical. The arena what do you call that arena . The Berkeley Center barclays center, there is too much around it. Philadelphia, they basically turned the city the perimeter was totally controlled. They can do that again. Its a different arena, same location. You can walk from the hotel. The argument on t
Because jayz and beyonce wanted to keep the riffraff out of the 718. Picture this, late july, city of brotherly love, good idea or bad idea . My view has always been that the convention should have been in brooklyn, four one million reasons. This is not a bad idea. Philadelphia has done these things before. Philadelphia, pennsylvania, not much of a swing state, but it will provide a lot of support. There are four reasons to pick your Convention Season city. They are logistics, logistics, logistics, and fundraising. Im not sure philadelphia will raise the money easily, but they will raise it in the end. Brooklyn always made me skeptical. The arena what do you call that arena . The barclay center, there is too much around it. Philadelphia, they basically turned the city the perimeter was totally controlled. They can do that again. Its a different arena, same location. You can walk from the hotel. The argument on the other side, and i think this is totally fine, but there have been conven
Rich and poor. Do you know that in the year 2000, there were 111 billionaires in the world . There are now over 2500 billionaires in the world. 15 years, what does that tell you about policies of the 1 for the 1 and by the 1 right . So i would argue that the way we grow food for a Global Market is a way of like putting a huge pipe into our Water Systems and sucking the water up and taking it away. Remember when you grow food, when you use water to grow food you are consuming that water. That water does not get returned to the watershed. So what do we need . I call for a new water ethic. And a new water as they would say that water is not just a resource. As i said for our pleasure and profit inconvenience, but it is the essential element that gives us life. And it is to be respected and revered, and we need to come up with a new relationship with water. We also and if i were queen of the world and could make every leader in the world do as i say and save the worlds water, all policy, a
A little bit about governor martin omalley. His father was the National Leader of the democratic party. He came here in 1983 to work on gary harts campaign is one of his staff organizers and had a chance to work on that Great Campaign in which he finished second. After graduating from law school he settled in baltimore. He ran for the city council and got elected. The mayor spot became open, and there was a crowded field running for that, and he was successful doing elected mayor. It was suffering through some really tough times regarding high crime rates and a struggling economy as a. Baltimore was able to turn around, and became a city that was recognized nationally for some fine achievements. He took on a republican incumbent and beat him in 2006 for governor. He was rewarded with a bad economy in he had to deal with. He enacted some innovative policies. He was reelected in 2010, and a bad year for democrats by a landslide. After he left office, he looked to these as these most succ
On the next washington journal, a look at states tightening rules for food stamps. Then, a convention of states cofounder, on Grassroots Efforts to amend the constitution via article five. And advice for people filing federal taxes ahead of wednesdays deadline. We will look for your call and take commons on facebook, starting live at 7 a. M. Eastern on cspan. On newsmakers this weekend American Medical Association president dr. Wah. He talks about the socalled doc fix, the senate will take it up next week. He also discusses the Affordable Health care act in its second year. Newsmakers, sunday at 10 a. M. And 6 p. M. Eastern. On cspan. Here are some of our featured programs this weekend. On cspan2s book weekend Grover Norquist says that americans are tired of the irs and the tax system. Sunday night at 8 00, author susan butler on president Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin allies during world war ii and their partnership beyond. Saturday night on cspan3, home lectures in history. Th