An hour with Donna Brazile

today's take your presents was originally broadcast march twenty ninth two thousand nine if you watched any of the two thousand eight presidential election coverage on television you heard and solve lots of donna brazile i'm kate mcintyre and they can keep your prisons than ever is now a strategist who worked on every democratic presidential campaign from nineteen seventy six three two thousand and in two thousand she was the campaign manager for al gore becoming the first african american woman to have a major presidential campaign since then she's been a frequent contributor and commentator on cnn and abc and wrote the bestselling autobiography cooking with her youth during the path in american politics today donna brazil talks about women in politics are we there yet if the two thousand and nine at the university of

him it's amazing i'm back in kansas i knew i would come back and whenever i made this journey i am always reminded of my first trip here back in the fall of nineteen eighty two so you might be too young to know what that period of time was liable for many of us who were on the journey for freedom and democracy it was the year that we were going around this country to try to lobby to make money became different financial holiday is to them by president biden may become the campus where a little of five hundred signatures and as you can imagine several months throughout this country millions of americans signed on to their petition and we were able to get the legislation that just a few weeks ago i received a call from president obama's staff alike say that president obama

and i ran a story out because it is a story of my own youth and what i did when i was at that tender age of twenty two twenty three stevie wonder was going to receive an honor the first world war and the president want him but a few people a hundred and fifty people was a western it all probably heard that way it's a nice cocktail might at the white house yeah like i say i wait till i wear and i also have fresh round wins and you know some of the other problem is that the american people's i am not everybody was stevie wonder was one of the first one of the first true champions of freedom and opportunity work for the national level and alter other demon stevie would go or i say let the da had knowledge he was twenty one i say yes he did it given up my video from college campus a college campus but we get their holiday stevie wonder was honored by haven't

such wonderful musicians as tony bennett well you know i am in the i read out raul paul simon all pay tribute to his wonderful music in his wonderful magic so i just wanna say everybody is here from the nineteen eighty two campaign when i came to campus think it was on a petition because we have a holiday inn god knows we have in the field that the king's dream but we're a long way from where we were back in nineteen ninety two this is an amazing a moment follow ups what a wonderful period of history that we now witness and yes its heart outside times a very hard and in fact when we were flying out today the pilot kept telling us that we had a head when a one hundred and twenty mile aus route many say are no more flight time is about two hours in five minutes but the day is going to exist renounce and so i sat back and i said he say i know pilots as opposed to one that's when we're up in the air other dangers that we're about the face

is really up to us though the muslim passengers to decide how we're going to accept that morning for myself i just looked down operate in sm on a kansas adult he gets there because mr moore good good to think as is common the washington dc thank you for sending you governor thank you steve major responsibility will of what seemed thousand americans losing their health insurance each and every day to be in charge of the task force and to be at the table as we began to hear reform our health care system i know governor sebelius is up to the challenge and i just told that they carry up in go ahead and get it through the conformation process so that she can began to put in place a plan that will ensure that every american have access to quality affordable health care in this country i do believe that she is able to hammer this

responsibility of course you all might've heard that lately everybody in washington i mean you know washington and we'll have a state without any ice they said is we are not alone represented that was tom hall last week by some gun accuses one as they bring in more weapons as assault weapons and to washington dc but meanwhile of course people in washington dc a complaint in a president obama's working to are therefore they have to work longer last week he just came out with a budget plan now he has an energy plan it has a health care summit can you just go down so we could take a bright as i know most dealers at georgetown doubts brian draper for them as the cause of the spring break for the last eight years i'm just happy to have a president we showed up to work every day and act like he enjoys what he's donning is among the naysayers the unrest

i don't an aggressive battle back into the bleach is watch does give some top honors as a circle of fire as well at times and i'll do this by themselves get out the way when the other side is in the process of you know and apologize and you know them as the rise but that that but i didn't want to respond because i knew the president didn't have time to respond to wrestle a lot regarding his latest self directed the beta presidency so i'm a celebrity cities busy right now inherit a huge net a recession deficits but please let him get back to work they want just continued to you know and it's a good deal it's out there might be an imam hit know rice if he was to become the leading republican plot in one in twenty twelve well in the words about former president reagan are but tonight i'm here to celebrate

what is for me and so many in this round our own season of hope in our season to change women's history month is a very special month for me because if i was black history month and from maine and for many others especially at this moment this is a moment to celebrate all of the wonderful guy three we have made because hadn't not of course been for women who voted in record numbers we would not have had our first black president and so i recognize for this is a moment to say thank you but this is also a month to re discovered our shared history to celebrate the achievement of women and to rededicate ourselves to fulfilling our mission of equality fall and dylan so we must canada generation women who fought to open the door to women who did a great big less elan especially those who created eighteen million cracks in it last year we celebrate women thank you now as a

superdelegate at all my friends and i'm i was glad that the potential bomb on the market and they're going to go and rebecca nevada for john mccain but it was wonderful and when i you know the diversity of poor young boy and said yes well we celebrate women from all walks of life women who dare to dream of a country where we could all serve and so many women who steely shoulders we stand on women current many who took us has this moment because they were willing to sacrifice media them were able to speak up loma was acceptable for women to even have a place in the wrong woman a ballot who did not ask for permission but decided to take a stand for final in the case of rosa parks to just take her seat so one day we could all stand up this is truly a mom moment to rejoice and to rediscover the steps taken to get us here and to roll up our sleeves as we

prepare for the path ahead how long struggle for equality is not all we still want people pay for comparable war and i'm glad that president obama set some time in his business gets old to make sure that the first law the first lot of the sun was the lilly ledbetter act that was so i mean i yes i was there ah jury will not be complete my friends until a majority of americans until a majority of our citizens are represented in all aspects of life it is time that we hire a history that we've moved all in take advantage of his new season the possibilities new season and hold a season of change i'm so glad that every day tibet turned on the news i see women in high invisible positions

yesterday at the one head to head against mary matalin i was able yeah i was barrington and kabul and by moving about your idea to a couple other saturday he made up in the ditch how solid marriage debate about it unless there's debate and a budget a poem is sad as they always do when your cable called merlin anderson is you glue they have a few moments for america more land as it absolutely what's my top of this as secretary of state hillary clinton harshly joy while senator clinton heads as secretary clinton had just announced in turkey that president obama will be visiting that country in a few months and of course he just left the middle east he's already been to the far east as i said that she's done a remarkable job in helping to restore america's image abroad and rebuild our lives and one of them is that that i went to another room to get it amounted to do this time was seen in international so was a top and they said well we want to talk about

congress in the budget and headed up to talk about nancy pelosi and the steps that she has taken to reduce the number of earmarks no it's not the quadruple the number of earmarks that we saw during the bush years is down forty three percent is not perfect is seven million dollars out of a four hundred and ten billion dollars on the most omnibus bill would get the speaker has taken extraordinary steps to try to reign in your congressional balance and i wanted to talk about her leadership if she helps to guide our president at a very critical moment it was wonderful i went home while for asylum to my catholic church where i'm not a boy about to be a priest but i still go up as close as i can just let him know that marijuana maybe lettuce season but i still have that dream one day that captures all the others doors all of us mary week while the men were all them out or are

her own martha what sitting there watching and waiting they had no fear yet when you read by yaupon think that women had to small world but every time by what the chain seven he called on a woman so i know the bible i can't wait for this town that we hired history not just in politics but in academia the lot signs business agriculture everywhere so that we can yell remake the world at this critical moment often what we lack as women is not the ability to win idol the ability to be successful we often lack ambition sometime we treat that as a dirty word i tell my students at georgetown as in you know i have ambition watches dropout is poison go take my those courses where you get to sit there and be taught to ahmad push you i wanna move you and it you're not willing to run for public office a wellness are at the highest level them please don't waste my time i

need you to serve i need you to run high need you to prepare to become president and yes some long lived long enough to make sure it happens but we like ambition even when we remove barriers and there'd been many barriers that have to remove over my lifetime in your lifetime women somehow mother still a waiting for permission to take this seat of the proverbial table i'll tell you at the witness in a record breaking historic political year a political season i know that it's our turn and that we must prepare ourselves to take our position it at the table even if we have to bring in folding chairs it is time paris time there we begin to visualize the current war we hope to live there and to use this moment this season of change to re charge our batteries and began in earnest all final push towards full equality and this great country we have the puzzle

yes we now know after this past election that we also have the tools to that not only help elect the first black president the tools that we could also use to let our nation's first female president to change must thought what us and it must operate where we are and where we live for me it's been four years and often think about the last forty years of my life or it's been a very interesting one less yeah travel forty eight states two more states it would become miss usa without the bikini only ways that there was a plant as a montana audible out that a visit with a zealot a demand that wrapped around him said yeah but i'm still out there and still had that passion the passing of an ideal which is why the playground

the past and an ideal who didn't mind going door to door and encouraging her friends and neighbors in yes so my brothers and sisters to help pass out those leaflets to make sure that we won that election but now we must look up and see what else we want and as always stories janice historic mara what do women want although where the majority of voters the majority of citizens to this question is often asked because some still believe that a woman's place is back at home and some people believe that we should not run until a man decides to quit op center late way out turn as the two hundred and thirty three years is not long enough as speaker pelosi state a recently women want what memoir an equal opportunity to succeed a safe and prosperous america better access to affordable health care and the best possible education for our children

she say women want the freedom to make the most of our lives alm choices so we too can shape the future of our own age nation having been a speaker put this out we should all say that's what we want less take this statement and began to move forward with as a presumption that what women want to be simpler reduced to what's available at the time as if we must accept the limitations of the barriers and not believing the opportunities it's time that we changed that all way of thinking last week senate clinton keeps a senate plan secretary clinton i just as a present one and that i would have always been fusion secretary clinton but i'm proud that we have a lot and i know we will have that other day common outside when i was sitting on the polling and by the way this is a diversion from

my speech but i have to say since i was on the polling my first ticket is a dnc member was a section fifty i didn't comply he could go way way down that mall six accepted a massive thinking that i had at the final call me and as it began section thirteen not that they don't know one of my kids you see forty years in politics he you have a lot of is to get political were some yum i noticed there were political birth is that i have over three hundred children different that is adam boyes koppelman got two mummies job was i was a bold male and female candidate the one a month it's common is it that i get you something i say really how big is it all it's be like a case in my internal is that little at all your money to come yes some oddly dressed up and the best rants

mr bickers not the person i went over to the vault so yum i know the with apologies if you one those big donors to the obama campaign obama for president they get to go to the ball and he gave me a special uncle mike it was in charge of all crazy it was this ad before and some people have not shown up and we assumed that they were not common you make those assumptions ran so low baby just the mommy's day i might walk baby what did i do for you again yeah that's right you were that you directed and the blaze tv in that way that was a dead end job and out at all have this is what i do all the time i tell cases as a dead end job is you quit but what our campaign

abdullah thousand cities all across america apples and kids out i'm at dow's were on the campaign you know like benevolent bad to mad double think it had an advantage to begin with but brandon was in charge and he was a big fundraiser he gave me some tickets i got home and as it too all i use a good sign why mommy his section five million in that section five i had an extraordinary number of tickets to some of the standing areas and while they were not the best seats in the house it was deal with than what are called you know a half a block radius of the capitol a not to both tickets across the rover has a train tracks to a neighborhood in washington dc that often gone notice unless there's a crime i wonder may share some little boy or some little girl who grew up just like me in a poor family the

poorhouse on the poorer section of town happened today to witness history and so i took those to get across that bridge because i want to make sure they had a chance to see the rock obama being sworn in a really was a glorious moment and by given well it's it gets even to reverend jesse jackson last count i head not the best scene but because reverend jackson's won a few well i'm back in the nineteen eighties to hire young black pearson young women and young hispanics an openly gay or lesbian in arab americans jewish american raven hyderabad i was a rainbow coalition he's just a come out ok you just can't and we also relate a lot of my bail jumping for applied many of us and that's how that was my road to success as a reverend jackson was able get my section five seat and later that night senator dianne feinstein said so one of my house and he said adam wolf

yeah you know everything we get here say well you know i know i can get a mammal house law does going where for cnn abc and just get closer to say we really want you to sit down i say oh you know little or no i don't want to work that day and so i was able to get a seat right down the platform so as the dignitaries will come out they were past may now away that top song but i'm eighty one little small mistake isn't i must beat barroom combat must be i'm not in my sister lisa oh yeah yeah laughter say osceola that did it at least to meet again until you get the picture i'm by lisa because liza was the civil law me a hundred fifty dollars back when i was twenty one fresh out of pot of college no money lisa say he isn't under fidel's go a family she just what mr lopez garrido author the bucks so

this is also the symbol after katrina who have the hardest time stadium of formaldehyde trailers giving them about the government with the two small kids this is a kid who i knew as a girl growing up was this resilience and one of my favorites of the loans although i love them all but she is one of my favorite because she's a comic you david knapp announcer get back up and she'll come back they knocked her house down as she's rebuilt another one and she's not at all one of the destroyed and put some knelt there that's got a system as he's also an assistant with your with three cameras from the dallas bowl the iowa my bed digital camera trying to be professional look professional hello mr president liza oh

yeah sen craig i come on the president bill clinton and i was so declined to say she's it tsunamis are used michael stevenson of the best when i did it all ends with tarps one bad ballot general says that that's it my friends i tell us tour because what we're seeing now and we had the best see me the president was there and we were right there behind we headed back i was so close up that we love but to his blanket because i knew you might need it later

the mother likely to work in an unlikely seem a little bit more heavy but i envisioned sitting there one day that i would be back on that platform to witness our nation's first female president it felt like that as to sit there and see the faces the sea of humanity to see all the people gathered in the fact that the president invited not just leading members of the civil rights fight but also leading members of the women's community it was a brilliant day a beautiful day and the sea bishop tutu elie wiesel the sea all of the wonderful champions for freedom and justice it was an amazing day and i know that they will calm sen clinton turned bad when she was walking off the stage before he became secretary and she looked at my sister's she said because we so was the only member of my family who

openly voted for hillary clinton and back and always in that was a big fight because my day with matt even cook for anyone if they were not going to vote and so the fat police it would show up and say i'm for hillary people all that upset when her so hillary hillary pairs lisa bye she said and so the way a president obama put you in his cabinet i know he will do the right thing now you make sure that okay well for now we have a president who will champion our cause and he's already got knocked or destroyed a mansion the lilly ledbetter but also he's revoke the mexico city policy the global black death row and this administration believes that it is important to promote safe and effective voluntary family planning programs information he also the sun the stagecoach and he also sad the state

children's health insurance program which will provide coverage for seven million children plus an additional four million children in need oh this is important here we have a president who's willing to give us a proper seat at the table not just window dressing that a token seats and a president who would champion i issues that he needs our help you need us to now only be his advisors but also his partner as he began to turn this country around so it's time that we step up an answer the call to serve and the failed a gap of leadership that exist till in this country when it comes to women in public office it doesn't matter where you were away you worship changes never gonna be easier for women the pap always be hard because old traditions are hard to die culture wise media buys its institutional sexism they all can strain us the whole those back and to walk in and leaves a stuck in the lobby when it comes to push and fall way

to the top i do believe that we can break the old patterns of the press and that we can break the glass ceiling but we have to be willing to break with our old patterns some that we find within ourselves that limits our ability to see the opera circumstances and so my friends we have to be ready to leave we have to move out of the so called tinderbox we no longer make coffee for men we can raise money yes we can run to weaken health reform our nation's health care law we must accept the fact that we're up how awful that we are powerful it would misuse our talents announced deals to help us than a new era we must continue to build coalitions that will empower women at all levels at

all that and all that asked to succeed not as middle class the women who consider themselves wealthy a well off but also poor women deserve to have a seat at the table and they deserve to have a voice in the political process it's time that we increase our visibility is because visibility is often body elevate and as we saw in last year's presidential race the bison hare in the media there's lots of bison the media revealed how women candidates must conduct themselves we have a lot of work to do we must confide media bias because it will end our ability to move forward as and a layout was on tv last year when there was a conversation about him as i was the only woman on the panel and we went from heaven a conversation about well and that then senator clinton was

emotional that's a several male candidates include mitt romney tear up crime i've seen a lot of men cry with some nominal one women show emotion there's something wrong with us that we are not tough enough that we're not capable and one of my male colleagues wondered aloud on national tv this was not a hat mike moment he was actually speak into the microphone and you wonder if he had to be a mess i turned around and i looked at my friend call an essay called i'm a woman i know the immense that was the plan you mention the people often say well you know about her to her clothes and they want to allow why

anyone would spend that much money on clothes as it happened you know this that's what you want like to talk about if the cato the black hair i am one our husbands you like to talk about world so i'm so glad she's all dressed now just respect the fact that someone else pay the bill will go about her business and give her speeches we spent two weeks talk about surveillance close and i can say it the dnc what i mean so you know the democrats won't work that well either but we have a record number are women now certainly one hundred eleven time as people it and we finally rout we have a speaker we have a woman who chairs the rules committee in the house we are women a subcommittee chair is all throughout the congress speaker pelosi has done her job she's put women in very important leadership positions in all when the senate in addition to have a woman a leadership we also have a

female to ever very important committee energy in an environment barbara boxer yet even what seventeen women in the united states senate seventy seven including the delegates and i'm voting delegates in the house we still represent less than twenty percent of the united states congress and we're still across the world ranked at about fifty seven or fifty eight in terms of female leadership as you all know now the government has decided to move the washington dc we only have a female governors were so we can do better than last year's last year's campaign by both secretary clinton and governor beyond the vice president on the gop ticket should encourage more women to run more women to take the lead to be able to help with important business of law in our country we have come a long way

but we still have to get to the next destination by working together for each other up and yes encouraging other women to run i was someone struck right after the campaign or many stats door in the election season nine three percent american people say they had no problem with a woman as president of the united states or soon after the election that number strike to sixty nine percent sixty nine percent because now people even have and second they're having a second guess as to whether that makes sense to have women in leadership roles we can do better but we have to help educate other voters because water problems we still have is that we have to convince women that it's ok to run and to support other women who were seeking public office here in kansas you have some work to do you know there's mississippi south carolina a

while to women currently hold statewide office only one woman in the united states house and a full list a legislature embargo correct me if i'm wrong only thirteen women state senators out afford a thirty five women in the house out of a hundred and twenty five that's about twenty nine percent thirteen in terms of ranking and others of other state legislatures across the country you can do better you have to demand more than token seats you must demand that somebody would be willing to take on the political system in a time to take on some of the incumbents especially those were not done their job sorry to come on or against them and help change the system he won away a fire if you want a way to move all and let somebody else who's read it run prepare themselves for a lifetime of public service and that same poll that i talked about in terms of the perception of the american people is really still a woman as president majority the country believes that we're not

ever going to have a female president unless he is tough enough to handle the challenges yes for example either women often held that by men but even a greater percentage of women believe that our biggest challenge is to get other women to back women candidates according to oh no it was an impulse to someone the light women considered it more challenging for female candidates to be taken seriously by voters as well as the media and his fidelity is the public does not believe women should stay away from public service so this is a time that it's right it's right for us to begin to look at public service as a career in politics as a noble profession this is a time that we can begin to re shape our country as we began to deal would set some really tough issues like healthcare climate change we can make it happen but no one is going to give us permission

up put it on a silver platter if you believe that you're ready then you must make it happen ah long struggle will never be over unless we get more people on the battlefield to protect what we have gained defend what we have achieved and work even harder to crack at the glass ceiling it's our bar for it to serve to stand and to make a difference yes to stir the pot every now and then i know that women can help remake this world and help bring about lasting peace we can help remake our budget and endo soaring deficits weak him a remake the whirling profile schools and yes we can bring it into poverty and injustice if only we are given a chance to serve we can remake this world ensure that more money is spent on things that we need and that aung wasteful things

that we dont cannot afford and let me say this at a time when president obama it's called on the us to help to help journalist era of responsibility we should raise our hands no matter if it's three am and three pm we should answer the call the struggle that we had face and get into academia the determination of a generation to ensure that we had access to the ballot box to commit many women so many women especially those who are willing to break wide open the gates of freedom we owe it to them to continue our long march and to make sure that we prepare ourselves for new era it's time that we are in history and it's used to serve and choose to leave and find our passions by servants so that we can give a new generation is

chance to have a seat at the table so the barriers will not go away unless we push similar bears will require us to bring a hammer into the room because they will have to be broken the old fashioned way but if we're willing to make change alaskan quality of our lives we will reach for the toolbox and we will open the doors for other women to follow personally i'm grateful for all the women in my life for my mother who taught me to play by the rules and god knows yet many roles to my grandmother's who taught me to believe in myself and to keep the faith for monarch who instilled in me at an early age the knowledge that i could do anything if i tried hard enough and to my five siblings my mays and sisters one of the women who inspired me each and every day of my life because i know they have my back to countless others who nurtured me who hired me who

helped me climb the proverbial latta those women like shirley chisholm and bella abzug glorious time eleanor holmes norton coretta scott tank walcott that i shouldn't serve the other reason that i can see the hope that during this moment we will inspire a new generation to serve in the take their seat at the table at saying clothes and avoid taking questions and any comments and perhaps any recipes you might wish to share with me we have to learn how to believe in one another to support one another ever happen say i had as a young adult i even as an older adult to have a seat at the table always insisted that another woman would come into the wrong on over get when al gore came to me and said i want to be that my campaign manager said sir if i have the

responsibility to hire as well as a responsibility to put people in states i'll take on the responsibility of being a campaign manager put it this is a token an aggressive position you might wanna find someone else because i've never ever ever feel the table where could not help we i think guy that al gore gave me an opportunity to not only serve but there also how question a new generation a winning campaign managers and women who played a very important role this past election cycle and both help when hillary clinton's campaign as well as brock obama's campaign i'll look falwell to see a new generation of women leaders weathers in politics the heart's in academia but i'll leave you were what my mother would tell us who were kids get out and put it on this base go out speed yeah

man and never ever surrender my mother was my dad and force because he was the one who taught me to stir as she taught may as she taught all my other siblings that we could make a difference and that we would one day get to see the harvest of our work so for it's been wonderful to be a part of this season a change because as a young girl growing up in a deep south the segregated deep south i never thought i would see this day but is beautiful and joyful as does day hanley is i know our love flawed to see in a day well we are able to let it was sworn in our first female president that they will happen my hair might be a low grade at the mosque there will be just decide to sit on that platform and to bear witness to another

he was the political strategist donna brazil fifi on my way to my listeners being a native and woolens myself and writing at the university of kansas what is the future of opinion about the current governor of louisiana and how his policies towards the old women at an end the poor and i just wanted it you're your european about that old when you think about his policies well first of all the region now has a bright future he's thirty seven years five years all he didn't help himself with his sour response to president obama's address to the nation i thought that our governor should have started by saying thank you thanks to you the american people or the one hundred and twenty one thousand of our residents are now returning home

thank you because of your generosity i'll levees have been restored not fully rebuilt but because of your hard earned tax dollars we now have among the major levees that were broken repaired and thank you because of your wonderful resources eighty five about one hundred and twenty eight schools that were destroyed are now open for business and yes as i said in my column a couple weeks ago and because my governor would i think you are but it is thanks to you and this is hard sell charity hospital will one day reopen charities way our boy was a hospital bill right after the great depression by huey long some people thought he was crazy but he was our governor he cared deeply about poor people is resigning

huey long's commitment to bore people we have hospitals when schools we have roads and so i'm grateful that you are the taxpayers of this wonderful country you have dug deep enough to help us in our recovery the governor sounded like amanda didn't need a damn thing which other movie and let me say this on behalf of the people always enter we thank you because the devastation of hurricane katrina ugly twin sister rita her cousin who's the anti other cousin i wish i had done a lot of damage a way that's asking you to dig deep in your pockets because we just want to go back home and help the mahdi ground although we like that two week revival it presented the petroleum the natural resources of this country or the one presented a good city of the midwest go to rob ford down to the south yes our agricultural products our seafood industry some of the best in the country and we

were taught to pay you back that opened up those facilities and concerned about what to the economy but out that it was too busy focusing on twenty twelve to understand that people in his state my home state your home state florida night to people losing their jobs each day since the recession one hundred and thirty seven thousand americans have lost their jobs in the state what we see and so he was too busy focusing on the theater that you can focus on the people in the money right now you know we all know the government cannot solve all our problems i was uncle sam could solve all the problems he's not paper husband we've never met then he gets more my mother than anybody else i play with him the pat me on my you know what you take my body but before it imploded and it wasn't that much paper husband but we know that government is not the solution but when the country is in such dire straits really a global

recession we need to invest in education we need to invest in health care and i know that while the president understands that it will take more than just an infusion of government money to get this economy right again she's like he's all blends a campaign everyone he was the best and the brightest ideas to come not just from democrats but republicans and some republicans are coming to the table not all republicans some republicans are gonna sit there and say hey look i got a wheat rust before i see anything which is on the lesson today we had the governor are both florida and california joined with president obama's and why we need this dam was that it didn't share this wonderful state lawmaker will tell you how the money will be spent here you can go to daddy daddy daddy that recovery that we need this money and i'm glad that we have a president who believes in education health and environment as well as making sure that our troops

come home safe we responsibly from a rack then somebody didn't tell he hurt himself military want you heard and so it's one thing to talk about politics and big government small diamond you know did a democrat versus republican conservative versus liberals but you know but i have an album tell a story that has no basis and that's when he mentioned harry lee and to train my friends and i'm sure those of you with families in the gulf especially people oh you know and love who had to sit and wait for days before our government came to their rescue they waited but my father seventy five years of age he's never never have a leftist italy santa and the only time he's

ever left home was to go and serve his country korea my father was one of thousands of americans who have to wait for someone to rescue them my great uncle world war two veteran was on his roof for three days before he was rescued you and i had a heart attack and never made it back home know what many people all know is that there was nobody there to help them because our government made the decision that they would not see anyone and they were afraid and president bush's stated this and so we i don't think we should have a politicized what happened that was a crisis there was a painful price says if you're not painful it was i think at all the details chapter and verizon lee tae bo once simple i'm number two or are good sealant had a brain tumor she survived it was a

malignant but she went back to carry the same hospital we were all born and it's about more than just the tumor some of you might know that back in the day if you don't have health care they just about everything they could find a century hall as a seal always be but at your girl she's all that i am as i toss yellow who was in the system and to celebrate dahl maurice and i will come and get you that was two days before the strong a week later when rap holiday the federal i'm an emergency management office otherwise known as the poison his inaction a tall mae that people in assisted living facilities and nursing homes and senior citizen on the mental hospitals monologue they were not a priority i thought i would lose my mind as i you know i did i got up and we will go back and look at the whole week i was not obscene and carvel was on

tv tom ross was on tv and i was allocated for my family default now may be rescued when i heard this official tell me that people in mental hospitals assisted living facilities senior citizen homes were not a probably isn't going to get to people on a super bomb and so far i went on national tv game a game out there dressed sales pitch on the national tv and she was rescued by the lilies and a bomb in a while i think this rich twelve feet a water for people i'm so when the government talks about gliding good people as a sensitive subject that's a very touchy subject and i wish the government had not politicize that painful moment in our lives but that's politics and we all know about it i wasted people always yeah

like i was people the golf the very best the other best people i know if i think about dumbo the way they can from scratch they not i'm a boudin sausage dr gelb well what peyton what roles once again in a lawmaker says call today you know you know as soon as that answer used it but it's a wonderful place and sarah hope your family is recovering well as it is a wonderful place and i hope you're going to visit one day it's a wonderful place a wonderful time to go for final question to you know mrs vega out the words a magazine accuses legislative a workaholic lawmakers become adults using the numbers and they may hang out with lobbies on tuesday nightmares night and then they come on the yellow pears if i'm so tie yes ma'am no pressure then once it's nice to see you again last time we

saw zeller was on them all young the twentieth and it was a beautiful delightful freezing day you have much less of a cow you had much there's the fire had taken i had a silver ticket which meant i was standing way way back i had it but i had the ticket listening and i've really appreciated your message tonight about bringing hammers to the table being prepared to not always follow the rules were done the silver ticket turned it over and there are all these rules on the back you don't bring this then you don't bring that and can't have water it can never again have this mess so i brought was my binoculars as an undersea obama and one c u ft found there i was all by myself from kansas but there's six am and my sister lives in dc and soon have a ticket and so here's a story about lee says he's going to kill me so there was all by myself and i was meeting all the bonus over

section and there was this group of people who didn't get on a bus overnight from north carolina a church congregation first baptist church in a small town in north carolina and they adopted me as i had no water had no fruit and no nothing had been there since six am and of course they have water they have fruit they had a real battle and said yeah right and newspapers we spread they gave me a part of newspapers that sit on the ground they adopted me from six am always through the inauguration which was actually fabulous we all hard at them after the swearing in and then when it was all over we all it that each other we said we will never wear frozen we said we will never do this was great we're really happy we did it we will never do this again and then we all took me and then we said unless it's a woman and that's when certain amount was two for those countries that we really appreciate

everything you've done things that made right before the election one of my students at the university of maryland back in ninety nine is an advantage in an on a college campus and say ninety ninety four and one of my kid is a big big big big time lawyers say late auster and he wrote me he said do you know back in nineteen ninety four you gave us this assignment to one day put together a scenario of how we would elect america's first black president and i said oh i forgot that well just recently won a must do as a band at georgetown says two thousand and two i teach women gender studies at on african americans and politics at university maryland one of my students in the nsa which the mayday because snl want you to put together a campaign strategy of elected the first female president and i tell you my friends for those of you who says who watched politics

we have the recipe have ingredients we all we must do is jared cobbs i'm ready that day will come and it will come before you know it so prepare yourselves to come to washington dc and where you're three cameras from the dallas dog but let's listen to conduct was still democratic strategist syndicated columnist frequent contributor to cnn and abc an art of cooking with breeze stirring the pot in american politics brazil was the campaign manager for al gore in two thousand when she became the first african american woman to head a major presidential campaign

brazil's march ninth two thousand nine at woodruff auditorium in the kansas union she delivered the two thousand nine family tailor and maryland stocks dead women's leadership lecture administered by the hall center for the humanities at the university of kansas this lecture was reported by k u media services i'm kate mcintyre k pr presents is a production of kansas public radio at the university of kansas join at eight o'clock next sunday night for another k pr presence from presidents two pilots ambassadors to activists take your presents features a wide variety of speakers and lectures and kate mcintyre i hope you'll join me for kbr present every sunday evening at eight o'clock on kansas public radio is