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Children Running Values Voting

Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.

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Responsibility, Voting, Civics

Christine Pelosi (2012). “Campaign Boot Camp 2.0: Basic Training for Candidates, Staffers, Volunteers, and Nonprofits”, p.125, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.

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Believe, Fighting, Equality For All

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Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.

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Leadership, Halloween, Hate

"Halloween Is No Excuse for Hate: Blackface Has No Place" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.

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The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.

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Husband, Pregnancy, Good Luck

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We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.

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Decision, Should, Congress

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When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.

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Winning, Common Sense, Vote

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The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.

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Lying, Democracy, Minimum Wage

"When Corporate Speech Jeopardizes Equality We Can’t Just “Shut It Off” — Women Must Pursue Citizens United Reform" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2012.

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The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan.

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Usa, President, Spurs

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When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for ALL - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.

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Apology, Color, Talking

"Careful, 'Having It All' Women, Your Privilege Is Showing" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.

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Children, Lying, Sleep

"Deadly Priorities: Why Did PG&E Spend Millions on Politics, Instead of Pipelines?" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2010.

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Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate filibustered - the DREAM Act in 2010? Washington promised a path to citizenship, not just a roadblock to deportation.

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Dream, House, Deportation

"Feminists Must Advance Immigrants’ Rights as Women’s Rights" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.

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Children, Responsibility, Voting

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America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America's diverse mosaic.

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Math, America, Males

"President Obama and Democrats Won Embracing Demography as Destiny" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don't know where some pitches will land. Your ace could get injured. Your golden glover could err. Your team could sit through a rain delay. Your manager could get ejected. Your bench must be broad and deep enough to overcome.

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Baseball, Team, Rain

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Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, 'We should have boot camps.'

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Running, Opportunity, Should Have

"Christine Pelosi's boot camp trains future politicians to avoid the campaign minefield" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. February 3, 2008.

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Once you run and once you win with an unabashed progressive feminist standard, then it becomes easier for everybody else who's running.

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Running, Winning, Feminist

"Christine Pelosi on the ‘Barbara Boxer Standard’ of Feminist Leadership". Interview with Emily Crockett, rewire.news. January 9, 2015.

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Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women’s movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.

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Running, Hard Work, Color

"Feminists Must Advance Immigrants’ Rights as Women’s Rights" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.

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Retirement, Hard Work, Promise

"The Roadmap for Republicans Is a Roadmap to Ruin for Social Security" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2010.

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I worked as a prosecutor watching Catholic priests charged with sex abuse and saw firsthand how the 'circle the wagons' mentality revictimized the innocent, coddled the guilty, and made matters worse for everyone.

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Sex, Circles, Catholic

"Penn State Knew and Looked the Other Way" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2012.

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When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

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San Francisco, Advice, Trying

"Christine Pelosi's boot camp trains future politicians to avoid the campaign minefield" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. February 3, 2008.

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Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has.

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Mom, Growing Up, Home

"Mother’s Day Momily" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2014.

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If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle?

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Morning, Thug, Safety

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'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

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Men, Sexist, Gender

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Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.

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Oil, Presidential, Shelter

"Ryan Roadmap STILL a Roadmap to Ruin for Social Security" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2012.

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After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.

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Effort, President, Allies

"Solidarity Gives Rise to the Equality Generation" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2013.

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