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IdeaRaiser with Mark Udall (Idea Raiser)

Join Mark Udall and special guests State Treasurer Cary Kennedy and John McConnell (Earth Day Founder) at an IdeaRaiser.

Friday, May 9 at 6:30 PM
Host: Russ Green
Contact Phone: 303-393-1816
Location:
East High School (Denver, CO)
1545 Detroit St
Denver, CO 80206

What is an IdeaRaiser?

IdeaRaisers are conversations that bring people together to talk about their experiences and ideas for how to make Colorado and our country better. They provide an opportunity for people to have direct input to federal candidates and to drive policy. It is a great way for people to participate in the democratic process.

You have the power. This is a great way to be part of the process.

Democrats are not pefect...and no Democrat would ever say they were. But Democrats are the political force that, more than any other, has moved this nation forward since the 1930's. Economic fairness, education, civil rights, the dignity of the working many, populism, progressivism, these have all been DEMOCRATIC values since the 1930's. And largely remain Democratic values despite intraparty infighting, political ups and downs, and despite all the attempts of Greens and Republicans to paint our party differently.

I am often embarassed by the Democratic Party, my Party. But I am far more often proud of my Party, the Democratic Party, not only for what it stands for, but for what it accomplishes and the great leaders it produces. Many Democratic leaders have been flawed, LBJ and Truman in particular. But even the most flawed of Democratic leaders, LBJ, gave America great civil rights legislation, the Great Society, Medicare, Medicaid, and the War on Poverty.

Where Democrats too often fail is not, as the Greens and Republicans would have it, in lacking ideas. The Democratic Party has been, for 70 years now, the primary source of new ideas for American politics even while Republicans simply try to restore pre-1930's ideas over and over again no matter how often they fail. Where Democrats too often fail is in having a lack of good leadership from within. But when that leadership emerges, great ideas and great policies often result.