CSEA Endorsement of Hillary Clinton, 2007 August 1

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I look to introduce to you the president of CSCA Danny Johnny Eughon and the first woman president of the United States
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As hard as it is, I guess it's just like a minute, then you can scream your brains out.
I don't know who the story is but I understand you never know you want money, you won't want to be here.
So those people have never met me. I'm the infamous Danny Dallue, president of CSC.
We have a number of kids here tonight and I'm not going to get in trouble but it would be remiss of me not to recognize the assembly speaker.
Our friend, Sheldon Soder.
Thank you!
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Thank you very much.
Thank you Chris, yours and me saying welcome.
We invited the Governor Joe Bruno, they said there's a fight going on, so we're going to have a fight.
It's a tough business for you guys but let me start very simply by saying this is a historic moment for CSCA.
This evening for CSCA really means a lot because here tonight we extend our support to someone who we believe is one of the greatest leaders in this state.
Thank you very much.
Hillary Clinton has proven time and time again that she talks the talk and walks the walk.
She's there with us whenever we need her. She's been there just not with her own opinions but with a vision and wisdom for what this country really needs.
Especially in the difficult world we all live in.
Hillary has demonstrated by her actions and her talk the timeless advocacy that she has for working men and women around the world.
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As president of the United States, she'll go a long way to improve the image of this country where it really needs an at-home annual of the people around the world.
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CSCA members have seen our walk around this state and listen.
Something that a lot of politicians have attended since say and not very often do.
She was there to listen to mothers in Batavia, people on the island, what about jobs, what about the future of our children, what about health care, what about those things that maybe aren't as sexy.
But she was there also when it came time to stand up for the men and women who are on services when their lives and their values are being at risk by a president who has a failed policy that isn't doing anything for anybody in the world.
Hillary is one of those people that whenever we've asked her to do something, she stood there with us.
It wasn't always in total agreement because let me put it this way, as I was reminded I married 38 years and she hasn't always agreed with me either.
But the truth of their matter is she's been someone who would work with us for the good of the people she represents.
And ladies and gentlemen on behalf of our 265,000 members, I am proud to say tonight that we not only endorse Hillary Clinton, create a work like hell to make sure she is the next president of the world.
Thank you.
It's great to be here with all of you and I am thrilled and so grateful for this endorsement.
It really means the world to me.
I want to thank Danny for his leadership, his advocacy, his energy and enthusiasm, and standing up for people who stand up for so many of your fellow citizens in New York.
People who take care of the young and the weak, the old and the sick, who keep everything running, make the state work.
I know who does that every single day and I am grateful to all of you.
And it means so much to me.
I want to thank also Mary Sullivan, Fran Turner, and all of you who are part of the leadership of CSCA.
And I am delighted that the speaker is here tonight.
Mr. Speaker, thank you.
Thank you for coming by and being with us.
I appreciate it.
Are you ready for change in America?
Are you ready to once again take on the challenge of universal health care so we get quality for you?
We want to take on the oil companies and have oil.
We are going to substitute for that for a while.
Home ground fuel from right here in New York, from one end of our state to the other whether it's wind or solar or biofuels.
So that we're no longer dependent on regimes that take the billions of dollars we send to the memory single year and use it against us.
Are you ready to finally have it?
Are you ready to finally have a president who actually say the words global warming?
Are you ready for an economy that works for everybody again?
Yes!
Are you ready to see America start creating millions of new jobs like we did back in the 1990s, 22 million, and let's give you a lot of applause.
Are you ready for a pre-Kindergarten program for every four year olds so that they can get a good start in life and health?
Are you ready for college to be more affordable again?
Are you ready to have a Department of Labor and Washington is actually pro-labor?
Are you ready to end the contracting out of Canada?
Are you ready to start bringing our troops home for the next year?
Are you ready to stop the no-make contracts for Halibur and all the other teams?
Are you ready to start bringing our troops home for the next year?
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Are you ready to lead on all of these and so many more issues that we all care about here in New York and that this proud union stands for?
Because I have seen the consequences of the six and a half years of the Bush Cheney administration.
I've seen hard-working Americans who just feel like their president doesn't even see them.
You know, you're working hard and you can't afford health care for yourself and your children.
It's like you're invisible to this president.
Maybe you're a single mom who is not only working but trying to get some education and can't find affordable childcare?
Well, you're invisible too.
Maybe you're a small business owner who can't afford to fill up at the gas tank and keep his business going but doesn't seem like anybody in Washington cares because it turns out he's invisible.
And I never thought I would see the day when our young men and women who wear the uniform of our country and serve with such courage and distinction would come home, injure, and needy and not get the care that they would need and that they too would be invisible to this president.
Well, I know that people like the ones I've mentioned and millions and millions of other Americans.
They're not invisible to you.
They're not invisible to your 265,000 members because you've seen them every single day.
And they will not be invisible to the next president in the United States.
I'm happy to be here.
I'm happy to be here.
When I started out running through the Senate, I remember very well meeting with Danny and Mary and the whole crew with headquarters here in Albany.
I cannot thank you enough for giving me the honor of representing you in New York.
And I believe that a lot of our values in this state that we really do try to take care of people.
You may not do it perfectly, but we try.
You know, we try to extend the Children's Health Insurance Program, which I helped to start when I was first living.
I'm trying now in the Congress to extend it to all the 9 million children who are still uninsured in America.
And President Bush has said he will veto that.
Now, that's a big difference in values.
Now, here we want to make sure that no child goes without health care.
And he wants to make sure no billionaires left without a tax term.
That is as stark a difference as I can imagine.
And we are now ready in America to turn the page.
I had somebody say to me the other day, I wish I could reboot the 21st century.
Because we have so many challenges here at home and around the world.
But you know, when I was growing up, and anybody who lives in the Empire State believes this too,
you know, we can do anything we set our minds to.
And I love to tell people the story about the era canal.
What an unbelievable risk that was taken.
You know, build a canal from New York City to Buffalo, open up the West.
I also particularly like the idea that it was called Clinton's Ditch.
I'm not pushing it.
It just goes to show you never bad against a Clinton.
And you know, we believed as Americans that we could set big goals, roll up our sleeves, work together, and achieve them.
This union is an example of that.
265,000 members.
People working together, making a better future.
Well, that's what I want to do as President for our country again.
I want to be the President who sets those big goals again.
There's no reason we can't have quality, affordable health care for everyone.
Energy, independence, and security.
Deal with global warming.
And I believe create millions of new, good paying jobs for people.
Begin to get back to a sense of equity in our economy.
So all the benefits are not just flowing upstream to a very small number of people.
Take our education system on and really do what we need to do to get every kid prepared for the future.
Reform our government.
How about the old fashioned idea that we start appointing people who are qualified for the position?
And around the world, we're going to take on some of these tough challenges, which have been made harder in the last six and a half years.
I have a three-point plan to begin to get us out of Iraq.
Starts with beginning to bring our troops home now.
Don't wait next month, next year.
Let's start now. Let's do it carefully.
Let's do it in an orderly and responsible way.
Because any of you who have served know that moving 160,000 people and a lot of equipment is not something you snap your fingers and decide to do one morning.
You've got a plan for it.
And then a bit of a back and forth with the Pentagon.
Because I said, well, why don't you tell us whether you plan to begin to bring our troops home and you know,
got a letter back from some undersecretary who have put my patriotism and said I had no right to ask any questions.
But we're going to get that worked out.
We're going to get to the answers we need to be able to take care of our troops.
Number two, we got to tell the Iraqi government that they have to solve the political problems.
There is no military solution in Iraq.
We've put our young men and women in harm's way and they completed successfully what we asked of them.
They got rid of Saddam Hussein.
They gave the Iraqi people a chance for elections, free and fair elections.
They got the Iraqi government, the space and time to make the top decisions that only they can make.
And we need to be very blunt.
If they don't start doing what they need to do politically, we are not going to give them aid.
They have to be able to step up and take care of their own country.
And thirdly, we've got to begin.
And it's handsome to call this regionally and internationally.
Because we've got to convince a lot of these countries in the region that a stable, secure Iraq is in their interest too.
On the very first day on President, if George Bush has not ended the war in Iraq, I will.
And I will be back in Iraq.
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I also began to rebuild our alliances and our partnerships.
We've had six and a half years of ripping them apart, creating alienation, driving people away from the United States, undermining our leadership.
We've got a lot of business to do.
Most importantly, we've got to go after Al Qaeda and the terrorists who attacked us in New York.
I do not understand what that is.
I am confident and optimistic we are up to doing all of this.
We just need both better leadership and we need to ask our people, all of us, to do what we can to make it happen.
There's no reason that Americans can't meet this challenge like previous generations have met their own challenges.
And I just want to end with this little story because it kind of sums up what I hope to be able to do as President.
My friend in our former Secretary of State, Ma'am Al-Abrah, was asked to go to Europe in 1995 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.
And some of you may know that she was born in the former Czechoslovakia and her family had to face the Nazis and then the Communists.
So they became refugees. That's how they ended up in the United States.
So she was thrilled to go back and she traveled around in particularly countries behind what we used to call the Iron Curtain.
And everywhere she went, she saw American flags. But when she looked more closely at these flags, she saw they had only 48 stars.
So she started asking people, where did these flags come from?
And everyone told her the same thing that when the American GIs liberated Europe, they passed out these flags.
Because remember back in 1945, Alaska and Hawaii weren't states yet. So we had only 48 states, therefore 48 stars.
And these people had saved these flags, passing them down from grandparent to parent to child, like a family treasure.
And some of them were in great jeopardy if the Soviet occupiers had found that they had American flags. They could have been really in trouble.
So Madeline asked them, why did you save these flags for 50 years? And everybody said the same thing because we love America.
And because we love America's values, and we've always told them that someday we'd be able to live in freedom like Americans.
I want to be the president, restore that feeling about our country around the world and equally importantly.
I want us to believe that about ourselves again. We are a good and great nation, and we can renew the promise of America.
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