to every single person here, please do not take your eye off the ball, the importance of our legislative seats, whether you are talking about voting rights or a woman s right to reproductive health care, the right to form a union and collectively bargain, it starts at the state level. [applause] for those of you who as we move into 2018 and look at how you can make a difference, if there aren t enough people running for the statehouse or the state senate, sign up and run, you need you. and it is also, the importance of state service and what we do that makes me so glad amelia won her award, thank you, thank you, thank you. and i also just want to congratulate and say a special word about my friend joe foster. somewhere almost 15 years ago i was knocking on doors in new hampshire the night before the 2002 election and my phone rang and it was joe on the other end of the phone and joe was
new hampshire democrats, please welcome to the stage chairman ray fosly. we have a message for christopher sununu. 2018 is coming. yesterday, we launched a project to keep sununu accountable for his out of touch policies that are favoring his family, his friends, and corporate special interests. instead of average staters. we re tired of his phony double speak and his aw schucks act, so we re calling him out. our focus is five key issues. where his policies are hurting new hampshire. education, the economy, health care, the environment, and ethics. and we can t hold him accountable alone. we need your help. so follow @sununureality, on twitter. like sununu reality check on facebook. go to our website, www.sununurealitycheck.com to learn more about sununu s record and share it to hold him accountable. folks, chris sununu won by 2% in 2016. so let s get to work and make sure he loses by far more than 2% in 2018. so is everyone clear? everyone clear what our focus is? for the
new hampshire democrats, please welcome to the stage, chairman ray buckley. we have a message for christopher sun knew knew. 2018 is coming. yesterday we launched a project to keep sun knew knew accountable for his out of touch policies that are favoring his families, and his friends and corporate interests. we re tired of his double speak, and his policies are hurting new hampshire, education, the economy, health care, the environment and ethics. and we can t hold them accountable alone. we need your help. so follow @sununureality on twitter. like sununu reality.com to hold them accountable. chris sununu won by 2% in 2016. so let s get to work and make sure he loses by far more than 2% in 2018. so is everyone clear? everyone clear what our focus is? for the next 11 months. good afternoon democrats. we re joined by congressman delaney, tim ryan, and vice chair grace mann, congresswoman and our extraordinary senator maggie hassen. so tonight s dinner is a chance to pause and
some payback to them other families for the loan they have taken out. we need to make sure you can get done in fouregree years. there are great programs around the country. one i admire is a program called tennessee promise, where every student who participates, gets done, the first two years, and community college , free of tuition. it requires mentors and personal responsibility and that is the kind of approach we need. we need more kids graduating with a grease of purpose so they can live an independent life. thank you. [indiscernible] [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] we are thrilled and excited to be here. i want to thank c-span for covering this national book festival. i hope the camera shows behind me how huge the crowd is. we are proud of that. about thing to remember exceptional presidents is th
palast goes to michigan after a judge shuts down a recount of the presidential vote in the state. and thiss trumpville is their hero, the man who shut down the recount. your republican attorney general of michigan. he issued an order saying no one would be allowed to look at the ballots and over half the precincts, 59%, and the detroit area. the very place that most of the vote had gone missing. amy: and we will look at john kelly who has been tapped by trump to have the department of homeland security as commander of southern command, he oversaw u.s. military prison at guantanamo. all of that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. it is official. donald trump has chosen the ceo of the world s largest oil company and a man with no political experience for the top cabinet position. this morning, trump tweeted i have chosen one of the truly great business leaders of the world, rex tillerson, chairman and c