in his state. after trump s fcc repealed net neutrality nationwide, bullock was the first governor in the country to sign an executive order requiring net neutrality in his state. he was the first governor to do that, but then other governors followed. so there is this democrat who keeps finding concrete ways to make progress in what is nevertheless this really, really red state. that democratic governor is as of yesterday now running for president. he is the only democratic candidate running who has won a state that trump won in 2016, but he has won statewide in that state three times, including on the night when trump took his state by 20 nights that night, the election night 2016, 20 to 30% of the voters in the state who voted for trump nevertheless that same night on that same ticket crossed over and voted for democratic governor steve bullock as well. now, is that what democrats are looking for in a presidential candidate this year? i don t know. democrats have every choice
candidate running who has won a state that trump won in 2016, but he has won statewide in that state three times, including on the night when trump took his state by 20 nights that night, the election night 2016, 20 to 30% of the voters in the state who voted for trump nevertheless that same night on that same ticket crossed over and voted for democratic governor steve bullock as well. now, is that what democrats are looking for in a presidential candidate this year? i don t know. democrats have every choice imaginable and some that are unimaginable. at this point it s easier to list the democrats not running than the ones who are. but this is what it would look like for them to run steve bullock. day one of the republican congress after the trump election, as soon as the republican congress came in to start the new congress at the beginning of 2017, day one they passed a rules package that would make it easier to give away public lands.
$5.15. that meant if you were working nine to five, five days a week, monday to friday, you never took a day off, you never took a sick day, a vacation, you worked five days a week for 52 straight weeks every single week of the year, cumulatively you would make for the year $10,712 as your annual salary, before taxes. in that state that year, 2006, they decided they would put a measure on the ballot to raise that state s minimum wage, raise it from $5.15 an hour to $6.15 an hour, and then importantly, they would tie the minimum wage to prices so when prices went up the minimum wage would automatically keep pace. it would tick up every year. $6.15 an hour still sucks, but that ballot measure that year would mean a dollar an hour raise right away for the lowest paid people in that state, and
not easy for a democrat to win statewide in a red state in a presidential election year. again, that was 2008. john mccain was at the top of the ticket. the republican party carried that state in the presidential race over barack obama, but steve bullock won his race for attorney general that year, even as the state went red for the presidency. then four years later in 2012, steve bullock ran for governor. again, not easy for a democrat to win statewide in a red state. again in a presidential election year. this time the republican nominee was mitt romney, and mitt romney that year carried montana, won montana over barack obama by solid double-digits. nevertheless, that same year, that same night in 2012, democrat steve bullock won the governorship, even as the state went red for the presidency again that same night. then four years later, 2016, he ran for reelection as governor. again, not easy for a democrat to win statewide in a red state,
night. tonight the state s republican governor signed it into law. this is the strictest abortion ban to pass the legislature. it s not just happening in alabama. it is happening all over the country in all the states where republicans have full control. this is what republicans are doing with their control of state government. including alabama. we ve got radical restrictive abortion bans passing at least one chamber of the state legislature. so far in already half, already 11 of the 22 states under republican control, plus one more in montana where republicans control the legislature, but there the democratic governor, that democratic governor who vetoed one of these anti-abortion bills in his state last week, he is going to be here in just a moment talk about his presidential bid. the gudmaker institute tracks abortion. they say they have never seen anything like what we are seeing this year in 2019. quote, the extreme nature of this year s bills is unprecedented. but that s what re