Thought it was interesting today that the pittsburgh steelers just didn t come out of the locker room for the most part until after the national anthem was over. so they wouldn t be forced to pick sides and be team a or team b in this hyperpolarized vortex of all things trump. there s a great, you know, probably yearning among a lot of people to have some space in which trump and the politics of trump does not intrude into every waking moment of our lives and increasingly those moments are hard to come by and now sunday afternoon seems to have been infected as well. that s a good point. historically the arts and sports have been the great unifiers in this country, they have brought people together and now we re seeing that the world is more divisive as a result of trump speaking off the cuff and throwing red meat at his base and there is no safe space for people to get away from this type of rhetoric. it s important to point out that the language was used was a bridge too far for a n
When i did it because, i said, listen, this is a divisive symbol that is on the license plate, and as governor i took executive action. many individuals disagreed with my action at that time. so, this was the first step. and now what we ve seen after charlottesville and around the country, that those statues have very similar significance to what went on when i took the confederate flag off our license plates. they are symbols monuments should be unifiers. they are now symbols of hatred. and i have said, let s take them down. i do not have authority as governor. the local jurisdictions do, and the general assembly and let s take them down and move forward. earlier this year when asked if you want to be president, you said, i don t know. i might do you feel more motivated after charlottesville to run against president trump in 2020? i have been very vocal on the issues. i m very proud here in virginia. unemployment went from all the way from 5.4 to 3.7, hundreds of
Few points. they want to tlaefl playing field. this is going to be money that florida s never seen, isn t it? it will be unprecedented. florida will not only be the premier governor s race across the country, i think it will be the premier race period in the united states. we expect the republicans to throw between $100 and $125 million that we know of at us. we will probably raise half that, maybe $50 million, we don t need as much money as republicans do but it will be the most costly, negative, and horrifying to watch on tv in florida for the last couple of months. for the democratic candidate it s going to be miami-dade and broward. that s the bread basket. and palm beach county. and palm beach county. but there has to be big turnout. is there going to be the turnout that will be needed? i think the greatest unifiers we have in this particular race isn t president obama it s rick scott. democrats want him out; inspects want him out. and, frankly, he s not polling
What it takes to make good decisions, what it takes to bring people together, to build the kind of future that we all want for our children and grandchildren. i ve seen leaders who are divisive and i ve seen leaders who are unifiers. i ve seen leaders who are exclusive and i ve seen leaders who are inclusive. now, recently in washington, unfortunately, we have seen examples of the wrong kind of leadership. when politicians choose scorched earth over common ground, when they operate in what i call the evidence-free zone
I ve learned even more about what it takes to make good decisions, what it takes to bring people together, to build the kind of future that we all want for our children and grandchildren. i ve seen leaders who are divisive and i ve seen leaders who are unifiers. i ve seen leaders who are exclusive and i ve seen leaders who are inclusive. now, recently in washington, unfortunately, we have seen examples of the wrong kind of leadership. when politicians choose scorched earth over common ground. when they operate in what i call the evidence-free zone