Seat as soon as possible. I want to get things started on this lovely morning here at the six conference. Lets give a round of applause for six because im so happy to be here. So happy to see you all here and remind me of my time the very first six conference at the rate that this organization is grown and our growth is due only to you and your participation. Your commitment to the movement and commitment to moving a progressive ideas and your commitment to a progressive vision. To give yourself a round of applause. We all know that after last years election, a lot of people were left wondering which way to go. A lot of us didnt know which way was up. A lot of us felt that everything had been lost. And a lot of people wrote off the Progressive Movement. A lot of people thought there was no way we could ever come back. If you look around this country and see some of these special state legislative elections. People are on our side and the people are on our side because the ideas are on
Good morning. I want everybody to get acs soon as possible and get started here up to six conference, the Fourth Annual six conference. Of applause. Round i am so happy to be here. So happy to see you all here. , theeminded of my time conference, and to see the rate that this organization has grown. Our growth is only due to u. N. Your commitment to moving the to you and your commitment to moving the progressive agenda. Give yourself a round of applause. Ater last years election, lot of people wrote off the progressives, that there was no way we could come back. If you look around the country and you see the state special elections, the people are on our side. Again, the ideas are on our side. The energy is with us. If we keep this moving, going forward, we will see a progressive resurgence like never before. [applause] as a former legislator has participated in every conference and a member of the six step, it is amazing to see the support growth from 13 to 30 staff members. People wo
Defending progressive policies. Hello. All right, thats enough about you. Okay, i am thrilled to introduce the next panel. Before i do so, id like to take one minute to pick up on something that we touched on recently today, the tragic events in las vegas last week. And i would like to turn the mike over to our fellow, your fellow legislator and my good friend, representative chris taylor from wisconsin, who has a quick announcement in that regard. Hello, everybody. I just wanted to build on, and i talked to our nevada folks about this as well, the issue, the gun epidemic and the most recent tragedy, and share a tactic that were using in wisconsin that im happy to share with you. A lot of you may have done this already. We have obviously introduced a lot of gun safety bills, including a bump stock ban, but we also formulated a letter that were circulating to the entire Wisconsin Legislature directed at our federal representatives and president trump, calling on them to take action imme
Do you want to raise taxes on the rich with a fourth bracket . I was thinking about it was i want to make sure the middle class gets taken care of. We have a zero break the and people arent including that. That would make it a fifth bracket. I call it our competition, which is the competition of the past. And we may not have that. But i would rather do thats than have anything to hurt the middle class. Charles w last november. Literally the democrats have been writing their talking points for months. A fax break for the rich, a tax break for the rich. If you lower the Corporate Taxes and get rid of the death tax, then overall still the ones in the top fax bracket will have scene overall tax cut and the economy will be doing much better. If you can get this entire package back, its goopped overall. Its one of those things where trump is trying to win the messaging battle, and in this case hes winning a messaging battle with democrats when you will get zero votes from them, when we know
[ laughter ] thats right. A protester posing as a journalist threw russian flags at President Trump as he arrived at the capitol today and shouted trump is treason. Then she went back to her book tour. [ laughter and applause ] Arizona Republican senator, jeff flake, announced today that he will not seek reelection in 2018, saying he will no longer be complicit or silent in the face of President Trumps behavior. Take a look. We must stop pretending that the degradation of our politics and the conduct of some in our executive branch are normal. They are not normal. Reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior. It is dangerous to a democracy. Seth this calls for a late night slow clap. [ laughter ] seth all right jeff flake way to eventually go [ laughter ] it took kind of sort of guts to stand up only 11 months after the election and tell america not to elect donald trump. You said, hey, i dont care if this hurts my 18 approval rating. And, yeah, maybe i voted to confirm Jeff Sessions