The son of rosie castro a prominent activist. He and his brother joaquin now representing san antonio were going off to stanford and harvard together. Secretary castro was elected to the council at age 26 the youngest in that citys history and became mayor at 35 and the youngest mayor of a top city in the United States. At 2012 gave the keynote at the Democratic National convention, the same speech that put barack obama on the national map eight years earlier and in 2014 president obama asked him to serve as secretary of housing and urban development, a department with a 48 billion dollar budget and 8,000 employees that worked to expand housing opportunities for americans. As a candidate for president , Julian Castro focused on the needs of the most vulnerable, a leader in the field on policy and take bold positions, including the role of iowa and New Hampshire in our voting process. Last night he made news by being the first candidate to say out loud that iowa and New Hampshire should
The states first in the nation caucus. Mr. Castro advocated changing the primary and caucus system to better represent the broader electorate. Secretary castro was born on the west side of san antonio, the son of rosie castro, a prominent activist. He and his brother joaquin, now in congress representing san antonio, were in School Together before they went to harvard together. Secretary castro was elected to the council at age 26 the youngest in that citys history and became mayor at 35 and the youngest mayor of a top 50 city in the United States. At 2012, he gave the keynote at the Democratic National convention, the same speech that put barack obama on the national map eight years earlier, and in 2014, president obama asked him to serve as secretary of housing and urban development, a department with a 48 billion budget and 8,000 employees that worked to expand housing opportunities for americans. As a candidate for president , Julian Castro focused on the needs of the most vulnerab
Conversations that other people are not having, and i feel like this is one of those. I would like to give you an little overview. If you have cell phones, please take photos, but dont make the flash happen. We are filming tonight, as you can see, and that is distracting. We will have the book for sale. We have them for sale currently. If you want to, i emplore you to look through it and have alan sign it as well. We have a wonderful server who will be here all night, so please take care of her as she will take care of you. I will now turn it on over to alan for the talk of ghosts of Sheridan Circle for the talk. [applause] dr. Mcpherson thank you very much, olivia. Thank you to busboys and poets for hosting this. I want to thank my publisher for putting this together, the few institutions, also, who made this happen in washington. Im so happy to be presenting this in washington, which is , you know, literally the scene of this crime. The institute for policy studies is very important
Please welcome to thestage Michael Bennett. Hello, iowa. You are a Patient Group of people. I didnt know how patient. And i want to thank you for allowing all of us to impose on you. I want to particularly thank you for the kindness youve shown me and my family as we travel the state of iowa. And i want to thank my friend tom parton, my chairman was right here. Tom, thank you for your leadership and thank youfor your friendship. Ive been in the senate as condos for 10 years. Its hard for me to believe that its been a decade. We served on two committees together. But tonight i want to talk to you not as a senator but as the only superintendent of schools who has ever run for president of the United States. I worked for the kids in the Denver Public schools before i went to the senate. Its a School District got about 1 billion budget. For reference, thats about three times the size of a certain municipality in the state of indiana. Im just saying. It has 95,000 children in it. Most of wh
Economy. Why get in the way of growth . O far, michigan has lost 6,200 factory jobs and we are not the only state with this type of industry as its lifeblood that is showing signs of the slowdown. States like ohio which has also shed 2,400 manufacturing jobs. Pennsylvania has 9,100 fewer manufacturing workers. I hear from these individuals, these small firms. And they are wondering what it reignite take to investment in our work force and investment in them. A trade war that we have now agricultural subsidies than we have on the entire u. S. Auto rescue. The auto rescue was not a manmade crisis. It was part of a larger economic conundrum. A set of economic policies that set us on a trajectory of near implosion. Of implosion of our financial, banking, insurance, housing, and the lifeblood of our industrial base. And good, bipartisan policymaking, which i was part of, came together to save the auto industry. 200,000 michigan jobs. Millions more across the country. Hummingindustry that is