up, you know, it was mentioned i was a working class kid. my mom was a nurse, my father worked for nielsen television ratings. back then they actually had to install devices on the cable box to get the ratings so that s what he did, and you know, his father had been a steel worker in pittsburgh, and i was just always taught. you get nothing handed to you, you have to go out and earn your keep, and so i started working minimum wage jobs as a teenager and worked all the way through for many years to try to earn an education. my first full-time job was, i think i was 18, i was an assistant for an electrician and electrical company, and i actually learned something about government on that one because i showed up to work the first day and like 6:00 a.m., for a teenager is a big deal to do that, you show up, i m all decked out in what i thought was like good electrical garb, and they looked at me and they started looking to see, you
line. beto did a great job of turning out the turnout but it wasn t enough. now you ve got to win the crossover voters. he seems like the type of guy that could do it. i think this is more realistic than some efforts we ve seen from democrats in red states. i mean, beto only lost by two points in 2018. there were a lot of former bush people watching the district sort of the precincts around houston and dallas come in and thought that beto might do it. so to tim s point, to his many brilliant points, we ll deal with ted cruz in a minute. i want to talk about allred. i want to show you more of his ad. my boys are fifth generation texans. they ll learn that this state is full of generous people who look out for each other. where if you work hard and play by the rules, you can get ahead. that s how a working class kid raised by a single mom can make it to the nfl, law school, and even congress.
you got it, alex alex. and thank you for coming to florida and coming to new colors, because though new college is a small college, it is mighty, and students, alumni, faculty, a fighting back, and really serving as the canary in a coal mine, because what happens at new college can happen at any one of our state universities. and if desantis were to become president of this country,, it will happen to colleges and universities across florida. what i stressed today at the rally at new college and what i ve stressed to students across state universities and colleges is that every culture war is a class war. and what desantis is really doing is degrading public education so that those of us, like myself, who grew up as a working class kid of immigrants my mom passed away when i was 13 years old if it was not for public education, i would not be here right now. so, by degrading public education you are creating a generation of young people who won t have efficacy, who won t have fr
great royalist. you re, as you ve said, you re a working class kid who reached the top of the art world and you became, i think, quite familiar with the royals. you met, ithink, prince charles several times. yeah. i guess what i m getting to is whether you ve become a bit of an insider. you began by perhaps being seen as something of a rebel, launching a movement in the late 50s and 60s in the art world in britain, and you ve ended up being a bit of an establishment figure. yes. 0k. i think to be part of an establishment is probably good. it s used. it s used as an insult, to be establishment. i don t think it is an insult. you know, if there is an establishment and you work within it, it s good to be a member of it. let me ask you about the critics, cos every artist, i guess, has to deal
which is this very modest little picture which we can pick up on, that i think is the biggest selling record ever. i think. i m not sure about that. the pictures that surround us here are fascinating, not least because of the eclectic subject matter. and you. ..did many portraits in your time. one which intrigues me and which is directly facing us there, is of queen elizabeth. yeah. now, you didn t do a sitting with herfor that. i ve done three of the queen now and none of them have been official. i know you are a very great royalist. you re, as you ve said, you re a working class kid who reached the top of the art world and you became, i think, quite familiar with the royals. you met, ithink, prince charles several times. i guess what i m getting to is whether you ve become a bit of an insider.