When emilys list first started there were only two women in the u. S. Senate. Now there are 26 of us. You allowed so many more women to hold elected office and that made our nation better. They have the power to make a difference. I want to say thank you to Ellen Malcolm for getting this Party Started and im so appreciative ofyour vision. Thank you for starting an organization that brings women together and making this a better place. To stephanie, i am so grateful for your amazing leadership. You have the ability to see what is possible. Thank you for your courage. We will make sure more women are at the table then ever before. Especially more women of color arerunning for office than when it. Id like to see women like me become elected officials in the us in every corner of this country you helped elect new democratic prochoice women to the congress of the United States. So much has been accomplished in these 35years and so much more needs to be done. In 35 years i want to see women
I was Getting Started myself. Was the year around my First Campaign and i won. Now, there are 26 women in the United States senate. Youve allowed so many more n electedrun, wi office. Woman rr champions. They have the power to make a difference. I want to say thank you for getting this started. I am so appreciative of your vision. Thank you for starting an organization that brings women together. For making this country a better place. Stephanie, i am so grateful for your amazing leadership. You always have the ability to see what is possible. Thank you for your courage. We will make sure more women are at the table than ever before. Especially more women then color women of color are running for office and winning. When i see women who look like me become elected officials all over the United States of america in every corner of this country, you helped elect new, democratic, prochoice women to the United States congress. So much has been accomplished in these 35 years and so much mor
Reached into the American Home. The farewells were everywhere. The farms, the tracks, the lavish apartments. The uptown flats. The shrugged estates. The modest houses of the suburban streets. Everywhere, the men were borrowed or taken for keeps. The youngest, the cleanest, the best. He each men went into battle his own way doing his own job. More than half of them cell combat service. A small percentage of these not nearly as many as you may have imagined war in the front lines and within shell range of the enemy. It. For anyone in this latter group, a very special experience. He was at any moment, expendable. For him, the baseball parks were full of late, exciting rallies. For him, the beach parties were not as pleasant as they had been a few summers before. For him, the rivers ran white. The boating was not so good. For him, the flight decks were not as wide as the fields of texas. For the rest, there were 1000 nonmilitary jobs, each dependent on the other, each vital to the winning
Having me. Acy is in real peril. If we what led to it was the fear that our democracy is in peril. If we continue to engage in politics the way we have the last 10 years in this country, i think my generation is going to be the first generation to leave less opportunity and not more to the people coming after us. That is about as unamerican an idea we could be facing. Familyr reaction . My wife was for it. We had a checkered career in business. Running the democratic rePublic Schools, its own challenge. She was up for another challenge. My daughters had different reactions. We have three daughters. The girl who was then 14 said, you should absolutely run. Reaction right out of the shoe. It made me glad that she was so proud of my Public Service. The longer we talked, she sought as an opportunity for me to be out of the house during her 15th year of life. Be burning the place down from i know right now. My 20yearold daughter, her reaction was, if you run and tell the truth and you lose,
Be burning the place down from i know right now. My 20yearold daughter, her reaction was, if you run and tell the truth and you lose, no one can follow you for that. I said to her, its good that you say that. Theres no other reason for me to run. I dont think theres any other way for me to win. I was glad to send her the editorial from the des moines registry, the largest newspaper in iowa, that had a headline from the Editorial Board that said, Michael Bennet pounds truth into this campaign. Thats at least a small token of what her charge was when i decided to run. Theres also an editorial from gary hart. Said that you have vision. What is your vision . . That democracy is vitally important to humanity and that we have inherited an imperfect over 230 years. As americans over that time, we have worked to make this country more democratic, more fair, more free. It is our obligation to provide the same to the next generation. The next generation of americans doesnt believe that is what w