Transcripts For CSPAN DNC Chair Candidates Discuss The Futur

Transcripts For CSPAN DNC Chair Candidates Discuss The Future Of The Democratic Party 20170102

Communicators, Carnegie Mellon university professor, the streaming,f the book sharing, stealing, discusses the impact of data on the book, movie, music, and television industries. He talked about how Companies Like netflix, amazon, and google accumulate large amounts of data on Consumer Preferences and use it to transform industries. Detailed user information and having the skills and putting to use the data, you would think that provides them an advantage. Watch the communicators tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan two. The new Congress Starts tuesday. Watch all of the openingday events and activities on cspan. We are live from the u. S. Capitol starting at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. You will meet you representatives in here from returning members. The house gavels in at noon. Openingday business includes the election of the house speaker, his address to the whole house, and later debate and a vote on rules for the new congress. One rule in part to cure is getting attention. A proposal to find members who live stream video from the house floor. Its in response to last summers democratics city and that was streamed by several democrats. , our live coverage of the Senate Starts at new eastern and includes the swearingin of senators. Openingday continues on cspan3 with live coverage of the swearingin of members of congress. Vice President Joe Biden presides over the swearingin of individual senators, and it 3 00, Speaker Paul Ryan swears in members of the house. We will have a full replay of openingday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan and cspan2. Up next, candidates for Democratic National Committee Chair outline their plans on how to transform the party after the 2016 election. Where heard about increasing outreach, focusing on all states and not just battleground states. This is about two hours 20 minutes. Hello, roberta. I am going to ask for everyone to take their seats at this time so we can get started with this forum. I am the chair of the colorado Democratic Party. [applause] thank you. I also serve as the secretary of state democratic chairs who is the host this afternoon. First, it is really an honor to have each of you here in my home state. I am proud to say that colorado, along with our neighbor to the south and neighbors in west nevada, we are in a place where republicans broke their ways. A majority of colorado voters chose Hillary Clinton to lead our nation, reelected Michael Bennet in colorado and the expanded the democratic majority. We expanded the democratic majority in the state house of representatives unfortunately that was of the case in many places around the country as we know, and there is no reason we should sugarcoat that today. Republicans have not been this wellpositioned since the 1920s. In january 20, donald trump will be sworn in as the next president of the United States. Republicans hold more than 30 governors seats and many more state legislatures. Map, much of the nation looks incredibly red. Turnout was down and we lost our core of workingclass white voters who gave up a large part of our Coalition Since roosevelt. We have to do something, democrats. This party, the Democratic Party is the party of optimism, right . We believe we are greater standing together, greater than we are on our own and that is when the country succeeds. When everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same rules. But that message either did not give through in november or it was not believable this last november. Wide swaths of the American People did not vote with us and we find ourselves at a crossroads. At our next meeting in february we will elect the new Democratic National Committee Chair, and that is why we are all here today. We have four candidates in three of them are here with us today. Governor dean regrets he is on he is not able to join us, but he will be addressing us by video. Before we get started, i would like to run through some very important guidelines. First and foremost, this is a forum, not a debate. While we may disagree on our candidate of choice, i would like for us all to agree right now that we would not be disagreeable this afternoon. [applause] you should have been handed a credential when you checked in and this will be required for you to stay in this room, so please wear them around her neck at all times. Audience members who remove their credentials will be asked to leave. We are also going to ask, and this is going to be neighborly, that no disruptions are going to be permitted from the audience. Disruptive people will be escorted out. There will not be signs permitted, signs will be promptly removed. Seating guidelines will be enforced. As you know, there is a rope in the middle of the room. Everyone on this side of the extension, should be a member of the Democratic National committee or a member of the state association of chairs. Our guests are welcome but are seated on the other side of the road extension. Are the rope extension. Are there any questions about those guidelines . Seeing no questions, first, the candidates will have 10 minutes for their speech and then you will have a reasonable amount of time we will provide for our candidates to answer questions. The first introduction i would like to make to have me joined on my left, ray buckley, chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party. Congressman Keith Ellison who represents and asokas fifth Congressional District. Jamie harrison, chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party. And i would ask for you all to please stand and join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Please be seated. Now that we are all comfortably settled into our chairs, the first remarks are going to be by video from governor dean in the remaining order was picked as the candidates backstage in a random order. Mr. Dean hi, im howard dean. I appreciate being able to do this by video and apologize i was not able to get to denver. The dnc needs to be rebuilt on the ground up. We need to do something that i call the 50 50 strategy. Getting back to a 50 state strategy and focus on the groups that vote for us bigger than any other group, the first generation. First mobile generation. Global generation. The recent that has an attached 50 is because it is the people that vote for us for 50 years. When you vote for someone three times in a row, which they have for barack obama twice and Hillary Clinton, it is likely you are going to vote that way for the rest of your life. You have to focus on young people, have to get them out in big numbers, much bigger numbers than before. Democrats have nothing to be ashamed of. Hillary got almost 2 million more votes than donald trump did, but we lost. Some of it was water voter suppression, particularly in wisconsin and North Carolina, but we did not get the votes. The real loss was even worse. The real loss is there are more republican governors in this country than we have ever had in history of the United States. We lost more seats in the state legislatures. That means of this party has to work at the ground level. We have to organize. This is not an ideological contest. We have to organize a mechanical contrast. We have to stand for something. That is important. Being on the ground and trusting state parties and giving them the resources they need with the same strength we had before. You hire them, we will train them and make sure they are adequately paid. We need to be at the database. We are prepared to do that with the same people that brought the database in 2005 when i first became chairman of this party. We can do this again, but there are important things we must not do. One of them, we cannot allow this to be a proxy fight between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. This party needs to start again and we need to be together. The second thing we cannot do is have a chairman that is parttime. We have to all Work Together and we have to focus fully on this task. I know this job better than anyone else in this room and it requires 80 hours a week, flying 250,000 miles a year and will have to raise 60 million a year. This is a fulltime job. Here is my promise to you. I am not going to be a candidate for the Democratic National Committee Chairmanship. I think it is divisive. I have other priorities, a grandchild now but i am dedicated fully to using as much time as i can to support whoever the chairman is. I ask all of those candidates, and there are some very good ones to work fully together and to take this job is a fulltime job. I would support whoever wins. I think it is going to be a great year for democrats, but only if we do those things that i laid out before and i laid out in 2005. On record as chair was extraordinary. When i came in, it was a beautiful building, a 6 million surplus thanks to terry mcauliffe, we do not have the house, the senate and we did not have the presidency. When our team left in 2009, we had a Great Technology platform, the house, the senate and the presidency. I think that can be done again. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you to governor dean and it now jamie harrison. Mr. Harrison wow. To have to start after that. Can you hear me . No . You can hear me now, ok, great. Wow. That is some news. My colleagues and friends, i want to thank you, but first of all i want to thank governor howard dean. [applause] mr. Harrison i want to thank him for the 50 state strategy. I worked in the house of representatives at the time he proposed that and i remember being in the room when senator schumer and rahm emanuel basically said, hell no. We want the money for the the trick will see dccc. I remember my boss at the time who stood up and said, i support the 50 state strategy. In the end, howard dean was right because we picked up seats in places like kansas and i can tell you nancy, it was not on Rahm Emanuels list what we won. I have modeled my tenure in South Carolina after governor dean and we have a 46 county strategy. I just want to thank him for all that he has done for this party and for setting out a blueprint for us. I want to thank you. I want to thank you for the millions of phone calls, for the millions of doors you knocked on. I want to thank you for pouring your hearts out to make this country a better place for all americans. This past election was like a punch in the gut. It hurts. That election still hurts. The morning after the election, my twoyearold son, came into the bed with me and he looked at me and his mom and said, mommy, daddy is sad. I leaned over to him and i said, buddy, yes, daddy is a little sad this morning. He leaned over and he kissed me and he kissed his mom. You know, it was at that moment i requested was not about Hillary Clinton winning or donald trump winning. I was sad and hurting because of the consequences of this election. The consequences for my son, the consequences for my mom, the consequences for my grandmother, the consequences for all the people we love. What i have always learned is elections have consequences. Over the past two years in various venues, the American People have been yelling and screaming that we have not been listening. They had been trying to tell us something. We saw it in the resurgence of Police Related shootings in africanamerican communities where africanamericans young and old took to the streets and said, black lives matter. We saw it with the Lgbtq Community and its allies fighting in the courtrooms with its loudest voice, who we love matters. Immigrants who came to this country looking for opportunity and many escaping poverty and prosecution saying, give us a chance. Supporters of Bernie Sanders saying, our voices matter, do not take us for granted. And yes, even white middleclass working voters saying, do not forget us because we are special, too. The silver reality of the situation we are in right now, despite all of the amazing achievements that we have had under president barack obama, we have rebuilt the american economy, fought for equal rights and equal treatment for all, provided health care to 20 million americans, and despite being on the right side of so many issues, Many Americans feel we have not been listening to them. As if they matter because they do not see us anymore in their community. They do not see us helping them tackle the pocketbook issues over the past eight years. You have heard it, i have heard it, many of them said, the same problems i had eight years ago under george bush on the same problems im faced with today. So, folks, the Democratic Party has to transform. We have to transform from simply being a political organization, looking for votes every two and four years and we must become a community organization, working in our neighborhoods with grassroots activists, addressing the day to day issues faced by middle and working class voters. But sadly we have not been able to do this for almost a decade. We have not invested in the frontline of our party. Do you know who that is . All of you. It is the folks working in the state party. We should have predicted what happened because we have seen the signs. When 33 of 50 governorships are controlled by republicans with 69 of 99 state legislative houses controlled by republicans, when you have lost over 900 legislators seats in the course of eight years, weve ignored the signs. These statistics tell me that for the past years we have built a beautiful house, neighbors house, a pretty house and paid no attention to the foundation. The foundations have dried up like grapes in the vine of the california sun. Let me ask you a few questions. How many of you are defending the u. S. Democratic senate race or have a governors race in 2017 . As we see a show of hands. Keep your hands up. How many of you have less than a 150,000 on hand . How in the world can we think our state party can run effective campaigns when it can barely keep the lights on in their party. When they have to lay off their staff. My friends, things have to change in our party and that is why i decided to join this race to be democratic chair of the National Committee. John f. Kennedy stated, it is time for a new generation of leadership to cope with new problems and opportunities, for there is a new world to be won. Let me lay out my vision for the Democratic Party. We do not have the presidency and we need a fulltime chair, someone who can dedicate 100 of their time and energy to the job. In order to rebuild the party, we need to invest in state parties and territories and the democrats abroad. I propose increasing the state partnership to 12,000 a month. Minimum to fund all of these organizations. We also have to empower regional caucuses, doing joint fundraising and providing them with the economic support system so they can some work local candidates. We need regional staff in the regions as well. We need to build a bench. We have been doing this in South Carolina. We lost a political fellowship where we are training 250 young people to be the next generation of candidates, county chairs, the next generation of political operatives. Young people need a place at the table. We need a creative vice chair create a vice chair position for this young people under the age of 35. We have allowed republicans to catch up with us in technology. We need to foster a wave of political technological innovation. In my first month as chair, for the first time, i will call together a strategy retreat and call together the groups of the dccc and dmo because they have never sat down at the same table to strategize about message and direction. We have to fight to save our democracy. We have to fight against political gerrymandering. We have to fight against of water suppression and we have to do it in a nonelection year. We need to do a 24 7, my friends. We have to get big money out of politics and cultivate small dollar donors and our actions our words that if we say diversity is our greatest asset, then we need to demonstrate that by the vendors that work with the Democratic Party and the story that shawn king wrote about the diversity in the senate was deplorable. Arsenic and Congressional Staff need to reflect the diversity of our party. But finally we need to get back to the grassroots for it we going to the community, addressing the issues from things from School Supplies drives to resume building, to homeownership workshops. That is how we do constituent service. With that, i am so pleased and honored to have thrown my hat in the ring. I will talk about my background so that you guys get a sense of who i am a little bit later. I want to thank you for all of the support i have received. Thank you. I appreciate it. [applause] rep. Ellison hey, democrats. How are you doing . I want to thank jamie for the work you have been doing over the years and ray

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