They are just adding names to this. If there was a way for you or other community leaders, to add to this growing item, because of you know the people, they want to know them also, and nine times out of 10, there is not a there and maybe youppening would be able to influence it by bringing together a group. Getting activeat power often means getting types of power oftentimes mean is that there are a lot of people who have power. In order for new people to have it, other people have to relinquish them and that will take all of us to really come to terms with what that means and i hope that we are all of to the challenge. Just to the comment on the erosion of democracy, i wanted to share that. The elections we see Strong Political participation. President ial elections it is somewhere in the mid 40s. To me that says when we see that we have people who represent us and take on issues relevant to our daily lives than we come out. I think there is a lot that we can do and i think this is a
Or rural, you want to live a make sure your children have a great future. Decentdont get up for they get up for good and for great. Thats really what it is. The Democratic Party is recognizing that. Ohio has 88 counties. In speaking that, starting with the issues we have in common four guns in urban areas it is a whole different discussion. Rural brothers and sisters. It is starting at those places where behalf that commonality about economic fairness, Economic Justice, where your children have a future. Because of the makeup of ohio, that forces us to do that. We cant really separate the two. We are trying very hard to bring that together a little more into leaf that into the narrative and weave that into the narrative. Wen with our party chairs, have found world leadership who will take that message back. We have the urban leadership and bringing those forces together, because we are the same in the struggle for good and for great. Say,erez i just wanted to as someone who is from rur
Candidate to speak at the iowa state fair. The Des Moines Register political soapbox. They heard from Mike Huckabee earlier. Jim webb here. And later today, democratic candidate Martin Omalley of maryland. Opening up the phone lines to get your thoughts. We expect to hear more from jim webb as he makes his way out of the soapbox area. The numbers are on the screen. He started off his comments talking about his vietnam war. Webb not only served in his vietnam war experience. Jim webb not only served in the vietnam war, but also as the u. S. Navy secretary in the reagan administration. He wrote about his experiences in the beirut war. He is a former senator from virginia serving one term for the commonwealth. He married he is married with six children and enter the race this summer on july 2. We get underway here on cspan with our road to the white house coverage today, this weekend, and into all next week with the iowa state fair. We expect to hear more from jim webb in a bit. Carol,act
The real question will be whether they want to date him or marry him as a president . That fork in the road is coming. That is the big question here too. The party wrestles with his this every four years and ends up coming back to the establishment candidate. It may not be the case this year. Tim it is only august and a lot can happen in 60 days, much less six months. This could look very different by thanksgiving. There will be 15 other developments in this race that we currently dont know that would change the dynamics. It could favor trump, a good it could disfavor trump. What is true now wont be true here. Host that is all the time we have. Thank you for being a guest this week. Tim happy to do it. Host newsmakers is back after our conversation with governor tim pawlenty, the ceo of the Financial Services roundtable and himself a president ial hopeful in the 2012 race. Michael, i want to start with politics. You talked with the governor about the influence of his industry on the ca
Johnson come our Senior Vice President for labor immigration and Employee Benefits. And jd foster, or Senior Vice President for Economic Policy and chief economist. They will each speak for about 15 minutes and then we will open it up forq a. You can ask your questions then. Without further a jew, i will pass it over to jd foster. Thank you all for coming, its a pleasure to have you with us today. Its nice to be with my colleague randy johnson. The four we begin, and want to acknowledge the people in houston and those suffering from hurricane harvey. I wish them on behalf of the the safety and swift as possible recovery from what they are dealing with. Year ofomy is in its 19 expansion which is fairly notable. That makes of the third longest in the modern era. By next spring, we help we will have tie for second. Curiously, despite the length of the recovery and expansion, we seem to be now possibly heading. Nto aperiod of acceleration normally as the expansion goes along, the expansion