| 00:00:00 | ME TO BE ON A STAGE WITH MAYOR DALY, IT IS A HONOR TO BE ON THE STAGE WITH THE CONGRESSMAN, IT IS AN HONOR FOR ME TO MEET SPEAKER MADIGAN AND HIS DAUGHTER AND ALL OF YOU, BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF SIMILARITIES BETWEEN NEW YORK AND CHICAGO, ONE OF THOSE SIMILARITIES IS ABOUT, WE COULD DO A LOT OF JOKES ABOUT THAT, BUT I'M GOING TO KEEP IT, ON THE HIGH GROUND TODAY, BUT ONE OF THOSE SIMILARITIES IS ABOUT HOW WE ALL EMBODY DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES AND HOW OUR CITIES HAVE BEEN CITIES, WHERE WE UNDERSTOOD IN OUR GUT, THAT IF WE DO NOT WORK BETWEEN THE ELECTED OFFICIALS AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT, TO TRY TO LIFT ALL VOTES, TO TRY TO HELP THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN BEHIND OR WHO NEVER GOT AHEAD, THEN AMERICA WOULD NOT BE THAT GREAT AND YOUR MAYOR EMBODIES THAT AND YOUR CITY EMBODIES THAT AND YOU EMBODY THAT IN SUCH AN AMAZING WAY THAT I'VE ALWAYS ADMIRED THE WAY IN WHICH CHICAGO AND ILLINOIS HAS WORKED TOGETHER TO TRY AND MAKE AMERICA BETTER FOR ORDINARY AMERICANS. |
| 00:01:13 | I JUST REALLY WANTED TO FIRST SAY, THANK YOU, FOR DOING ALL OF THAT AND THANK YOU AS A DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR UNDERSTANDING AND EMBRACING WHAT THE LABOR MOVEMENT IS ABOUT AND WHAT OUR ROLE IS IN TERMS OF CREATING SOCIAL JUSTICE, ECONOMIC JUSTICE, AND YES, BETTER SCHOOLS, THANK YOU SO MUCH, ILLINOIS, FOR DOING THAT. |
| 00:01:36 | [APPLAUSE] >> I JUST, AND I'M GLAD THAT ED RAISED SHIRLEY CHISOLM, THIS IS AN AMAZING MOMENT IN TIME. |
| 00:01:46 | I WANT TO SAY A COUPLE OF THINGS ABOUT THE A. |
| 00:01:49 | F.T., BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN A PROUD PARTNER AND LEADER IN THE EFFORTS TO IMPROVE EDUCATION. |
| 00:01:55 | WE NOBODY ACCEPT INNOVATION AND REFORM, BUT WE'RE OFTEN IN MANY SCHOOLS AND MANY OF OUR DISTRICTS, WE'RE OFTEN THE DRIVING FORCE BETWEEN NEW MEASURES AND BOLD MEASURES TO IMPROVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, I OFTEN SAY IN NEW YORK, WHEN EVERYBODY ABANDONED THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, THE UNION WAS THERE AS THE BAND-AID AND THE GLUE TRYING TO FIGHT TO KEEP THEM TOGETHER AND ULTIMATELY |
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