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The Conversation UK
January 17, 2018
His 2012 speech to the Democratic convention, backing Barack Obama's reelection bid, was enthusiastically received both inside and outside the hall; Politico wrote that he “stated the case for the 44th president's reelection in language that was crisper and more compelling than the case Obama so far hasÃÂ ...
Santa Clarita Valley Signal
January 17, 2018
The party endorsement is set to be announced at the end of February at the state Democratic convention in San Diego. Caforio and Hill have been angling for endorsements for months. Caforio has the backing of union groups, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Saugus Union School District President ChristopherÃÂ ...
The Daily News of Newburyport
January 17, 2018
I have just finished reading Khizr Khan's autobiographical book describing the life of one particular immigrant that led him to speak before the Democratic Convention in 2016. He and his wife, Ghazala, were the Gold Star parents whom Donald Trump felt compelled to demonize after their moment in theÃÂ ...
CBS News
January 17, 2018
"I had come back from the Democratic convention in Chicago, where he had sent me, and, after witnessing the riot in Grant Park, advised Nixon on what to say on his first foray of the fall campaign, back to that same city: 'I would use the demonstrators, the worst of them…as a foil for RN's argument. I wouldÃÂ ...
MassLive.com
January 17, 2018
As a young 37-year-old mayor of Minneapolis, he delivered the historic keynote speech at the 1948 Democratic convention nominating President Harry Truman. In that memorable address Humphrey intoned: "My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172ÃÂ ...
Wicked Local Randolph
January 17, 2018
The Randolph Democratic Town Committee will hold its Town Caucus at noon Feb. 3 at Randolph Town Hall. The caucus will elect delegates to the Massachusetts Democratic Convention on June 1 and 2 in Worcester. All registered Democrats are eligible to run for delegate seats, and those not registeredÃÂ ...
Haaretz
January 16, 2018
I listened again to the speeches she gave at the Democratic Convention and, less than a month before the election, in New Hampshire, with a devastating dissection of Donald Trump. The speeches are astonishing. She galvanizes with wisdom and love. I realized that in 2016, many of the most searing ofÃÂ ...
Salon
January 8, 2018
... woman by her first name is acceptable) was reaching for the same kind of galvanizing cultural-political effect as Barack Obama's keynote address to the 2004 Democratic convention. My co-worker wasn't saying she thought that was entirely awesome and she was all-in for #Oprah2020. What I took away,ÃÂ ...
The Examiner News
January 4, 2018
As George Latimer took the oath of office to become Westchester County Executive, Jan. 1, the field of Democrats vying for the nomination to run for the 37th District state senate seat he left vacant lessened this week as Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano said he has dropped out of the race. According toÃÂ ...
San Antonio Express-News
January 2, 2018
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro addresses the Texas Democratic convention, Friday, June 17, 2016, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay). Photo: Eric Gay, STF / Associated Press. Image 2 of 2. Julian Castro, former San Antonio Mayor and former Secretary of Housing and UrbanÃÂ ...
KVUE
November 30, 2017
... was the only Hispanic female sheriff in the country. Since then, she's gotten some national attention and even spoke at the National Democratic Convention. But the spokeswoman for the Dallas County Sheriff's Office said reports that the sheriff is resigning are "jumping the gun." The department tweeted:.
STLtoday.com
November 30, 2017
“This nation is strong because of its unity, because of its graciousness, because of accepting all equally. Therefore, this divisiveness is a sign of defeat,” he said. Khan had been invited to speak at the Democratic convention to counter comments about immigrants and Muslims that Trump had made on the ...
Fair Observer
November 29, 2017
This is the source of the confusion of both the hipsters and their critics, but also of political and community leaders, including former President Barack Obama, who made his way to the White House on the basis of the inspiring sentiments he expressed in his speech at the 2004 Democratic convention.
Telegraph.co.uk
November 28, 2017
The tousled hair, the photogenic wife, adorable child and preppy appearance all look rather familiar in a black and white photo which oozes the Camelot era. Meet Joe Kennedy III, grandson of Bobby Kennedy, the current US representative for Massachusetts' fourth congressional district and possibly, just ...
PanAm Post
November 23, 2017
Case in point: the Nevada State Democratic Convention which featured violent confrontation between Clinton and Sanders supporters over ...
Oskaloosa Herald
November 21, 2017
“In 1960, he played the Republican convention, but he couldn't play the Democratic convention because they had it in the Cow Palace in San ...
New York Times
November 20, 2017
“When Barack Obama spoke at the Democratic convention in 2004, a whole lot of people said, 'This guy is going to be president one day.
U.S. News & World Report
November 20, 2017
A Pennsylvania government audit says bonuses paid out by organizers of last year's Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia didn't ...
PoliticsPA
November 19, 2017
Former U.S. Assistant Attorney Conor Lamb won the PA-18 Democratic convention to be recommended for the special election March 13th.
The Hechinger Report
November 2, 2017
A civil rights activist who famously stormed Mississippi's all-white delegation at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City during 1964's Freedom Summer, Hamer also organized voter registration drives in the Magnolia state, educating black people about their constitutional rights. The Hechinger Report ...
CNN
November 2, 2017
The leak of hacked emails from top officials at the DNC on the eve of the Democratic convention in July 2016 seemed to confirm some of those ...
Press Herald
October 30, 2017
Sen. Nate Libby, D-Lewiston, said Monday it will mean more than 1,000 delegates and others will descend on the city for two nights and three ...
WVXU
October 28, 2017
I've done a lot of traveling in my years as a reporter, from one end of this country to the other. Lots of airports; lots of airport hassles; lots of long ...
Escondido Grapevine (blog)
October 26, 2017
There were no fireworks at the seventh biennial San Diego County Democratic Convention on Saturday, Oct. 21 at Escondido's California ...
San Diego Free Press
October 22, 2017
There were no fireworks at the seventh biennial San Diego County Democratic Convention on Saturday at Escondido's California Center for the ...
Watertown Public Opinion
October 21, 2017
Two South Dakotans who led the nation through difficult events reassured listeners in Brookings Thursday night that while we are in political ...
The Atlantic
October 21, 2017
From the moment he stepped onto the stage at the 2004 Democratic convention, Obama has infused his speeches with a kind of defiant ...
Florida Today
October 21, 2017
... she didn't get involved with the party administration until she became a Sanders delegate to the National Democratic Convention last year.
The News Tribune
October 21, 2017
Local Democrats successfully lobbied to hold the Texas's 2018 Democratic Convention in the Fort Worth Convention Center next June ...
CNN
October 19, 2017
(CNN) The father of a slain US serviceman told CNN he believes critics of President Donald Trump's reported comments to a soldier's widow ...
Politico
August 25, 2017
On this day in 1968, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley opened the four-day Democratic National Convention at International Amphitheater in what would prove to be the most violent such gathering in U.S. history. From its inception, the delegates were primed to nominate Vice President Hubert Humphrey for ...
Texas Tribune
December 31, 1999
Texas Democrats don't have a full slate of statewide candidates — and certainly nobody famous — at the top of their 2018 ballots. Maybe that doesn't matter. by Ross Ramsey Nov. 27, 2017 12 AM. 11. Mike Collier, then-Democratic nominee for Texas comptroller, at the state Democratic convention in Dallas on June 27, ...
Concord Monitor
December 31, 1999
... Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, N.J., where I saw President Lyndon Johnson receive the Democratic Party nomination for president.
Lonoke News
October 3, 2017
The state Democratic convention, however, was deadlocked. Round after round of voting dragged on inconclusively as delegates struggled toÃÂ ...
Cape Cod Times
October 3, 2017
Just days before her death, Goldstein, 98, attended the Massachusetts Democratic Convention. If alive today, Goldstein would be horrified by aÃÂ ...
TribTalk
October 3, 2017
Signs at the Texas State Democratic convention in San Antonio on June 17, 2016. Photo by Marjorie Kamys Cotera. Texas Democrats continueÃÂ ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
October 1, 2017
... would make sense that she could gain some traction among Democratic convention delegates, particularly among their deeply divided field.”.
The Atlantic
September 28, 2017
In his 1980 concession speech at the Democratic Convention, Senator Ted Kennedy, fighting to keep the liberal tradition alive, said to hisÃÂ ...
The Daily Cardinal
September 28, 2017
Wachs came in a distant second to Vinehout in WisPolitics.com's straw poll at the 2017 state Democratic convention, earning 13 percent of theÃÂ ...
TIME
September 28, 2017
"Reluctant to play the role of docile service wife, she seconded McGovern's nomination at the Democratic convention and is now an activeÃÂ ...
CNN
September 26, 2017
He even spread conspiracy theories about the leaked DNC emails, which were published by WikiLeaks during the Democratic convention lastÃÂ ...
Seacoastonline.com
September 16, 2017
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- New Hampshire Democrats are hearing from Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and Jason Kander,ÃÂ ...
Rare.us
September 11, 2017
The 1968 Democratic Convention became infamous after police clashed with protesters and violently bloody images made their way aroundÃÂ ...
Wisconsin Gazette
September 5, 2017
Actor/producer Kal Penn, a volunteer for the Obama campaign and a former White House associate director of public engagement, courted theÃÂ ...
Wisconsin Gazette
September 5, 2017
“Americans Coming Together” is the theme for the Sept. 5 program of the Democratic National Convention, which begins at 5 p.m. at the TimesÃÂ ...
LA Observed
August 25, 2017
In June he spoke to a Democratic convention in Wisconsin, and in July he gave a talk to Democrats living in Berlin. Back home, KPCC hasÃÂ ...
The Luminary
August 25, 2017
Samuel McReynolds and John Artley represented Muncy borough at the Democratic convention. S.E. Sprout is manufacturing five differentÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
August 25, 2017
Aggressive tactics by the Los Angeles Police Department during the 2000 Democratic Convention and a 2007 May Day immigration rallyÃÂ ...
New York Times
August 24, 2017
Former Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona with her husband, Mark Kelly, at the Democratic National Convention in July 2016.
Politico
August 24, 2017
The former Housing and Urban Development secretary and 2012 Democratic convention speaker recently launched a PAC and is spendingÃÂ ...
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