Bradford Checks In From The DNC Day 3
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UPDATE 4:50 p.m.: California Governor Jerry Brown ripped into Donald Trump in his speech this afternoon to the Democratic National Convention.
“Trump says global warming is a hoax. I say Trump is a fraud! Trump says there's no drought in California. I say Trump lies.”
Brown focused his speech on climate change, which he’s made a centerpiece of his latest governorship. He praised Hillary Clinton as someone who “gets stuff done,” citing her work “paving the way” for the international climate agreement reached in Paris last year.
“What America needs today are not deniers, but leaders. Not division, but common purpose. Not bombast, but bold action. That's why we need Hillary.”
The four-term governor and three-time presidential candidate last addressed the Democratic National Convention in 1992, when he refused to endorse Bill Clinton after a bitter primary battle.
Here is the text of the speech:
Combating climate change, the existential threat of our time, will take heroic effort on the part of many people and many nations. Make no mistake, climate change is REAL.
The vast majority of world leaders and climate scientists, like those at NASA and the Department of Defense – indeed, almost anyone who chooses to think – believes in the science of climate change and sees the moral imperative to take action. But you wouldn't know it by listening to Donald Trump.
Last week at the Republican Convention, for 76 long and painful minutes, Trump conjured up a host of dark threats, but never once mentioned the words "climate change" or "global warming." What do you expect? Trump represents a party with officials that have banned state employees from even using these words in Florida, and who knows where else.
Trump says global warming is a hoax. I say Trump is a fraud. Trump says there's no drought in California. I say Trump lies. So, it's not surprising that Trump chose as his running mate a man who denies that there's such a thing as evolution.
Rarely in American history have two parties diverged so profoundly. Even the Know-Nothing, anti-immigrant party of the 1850s did not stray this far into sheer ignorance and dark fantasy as have the Republicans and their leader Donald Trump.
Our candidate, Hillary Clinton, couldn't be more different. While Trump talks, and talks, and talks, Hillary gets stuff done. She fights for us on big issues. As Secretary of State, she paved the way for the historic Paris Climate Agreement, an agreement which 200 nations, including China and India, enthusiastically embraced. And Mr. Trump, he says: The world be damned; I'm tearing it up.
Hillary is the one who launched the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, a group of nations taking action to reduce black carbon and other super climate pollutants, which cause severe lung and heart damage. And from her first day in office, President Hillary Clinton will do what's needed to combat climate change and lead the clean energy revolution.
We know something about this in California. We have solar, wind, zero-emission cars, energy efficiency, and yes, a price on carbon. We're proving that even with the toughest climate laws in the country, our economy is growing faster than almost any nation in the world.
Mr. Trump and those who live in climate denial say otherwise. They tell us we have to choose between saving the economy and saving the planet. Donald Trump and the climate deniers are dead wrong — dangerously wrong.
What America needs today are not deniers, but leaders. Not division, but common purpose. Not bombast, but bold action. That's why we need Hillary. And that's why the American people will choose her as the next President of the United States.
UPDATE 3:02 p.m.: California Gov. Jerry Brown will speak at the Democratic National Convention this evening.
The governor's speech is currently scheduled for approximately 4:45 p.m. Pacific time and largely focuses on climate change, which Brown has made a centerpiece of his latest governorship.
The four-term governor and three-time presidential candidate last addressed the Democratic National Convention in 1992, when he refused to endorse Bill Clinton after a bitter primary battle.
UPDATE 2:27 p.m.: Bernie Sanders supporters will continue to protest in Philadelphia through the end of the Democratic National Convention, and his California delegates will continue to be at the center of it. Their tone has nevertheless softened from the DNC's opening days.
About two dozen nurses wearing the bright red shirt of their union pose for pictures, while holding signs against the proposed Trans-Pacific trade pact and for single-payer health care.
The California Nurses Association was the first major group to endorse Bernie Sanders's presidential bid; many of them are now delegates; and they've helped make California one of the loudest protesters during the convention. Union president Deborah Berger says that will continue, despite the nomination.
"The objective is to make sure that the issues that Senator Bernie Sanders raised are dealt with," says Berger.
Even so, the overall level of disruption has softened from the shouting that interrupted early convention speeches and California delegation meetings.
"As of yesterday afternoon, when Bernie got up and did the right thing, it's been going smoothly," says Mike Dillon, a Clinton delegate from Long Beach. "Today I was actually able to sit at tables with Bernie people. Of course, I'm not wearing my Hillary regalia, so that probably helps a lot."
Party leaders have prioritized speeches intended to rope in Sanders supporters. While few of those delegates say it's convinced them to vote for Clinton, the volume of discontent does seem lower.
UPDATE 1:11 p.m.: It's not all partisan politics at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. There's also lobbying and advocacy.
Ozkur Yildiz is President of the West American Turkic Council in Los Angeles. He's talking to California lawmakers in the delegation hotel about human rights abuses in Turkey.
"Americans of Turkish heritage are trying to outreach their elected officials, using this opportunity to have this information circulated. And, especially, the California delegation being the largest is making this attempt very important," Yildiz says.
Yildiz is part of a group of about ten Turkish-American Californians at the convention.
While Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders delegates make up at least two-thirds of the delegation, the group also includes party leaders who don't vote, and guests--many of whom are using the opportunity to have a word with state and national leaders.
UPDATE 8 a.m.: Delegates had glowing praises for the speech given by former Pres. Bill Clinton on the second night of the Democratic National Convention.
But CapRadio's Ben Bradford says many of the Sanders delegates were not present during the speech. Instead, they participated in protests earlier in the evening and walked out of the convention.
Bradford says he spoke to Sanders delegates and some are adamant about not voting for Clinton while others are open to it. Bradford says party leaders seem to be making attempts to include the Sanders supporters in convention events.
"You look at the speaker lineup, we've seen last-minute additions who are Bernie Sanders supporters," Bradford says.
Ben Bradford's Recap of Day 2
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Daughter Dallas (left) is a Sanders delegate and mother Carolyn (right) is a Clinton delegate. They talked about their political differences on KPCC's Take Two. KPCC / Courtesy
Original Post: Democratic party leaders at the national convention in Philadelphia have tried to frame the protests of Bernie Sanders supporters as a family disagreement, rather than party disunity. This rings true for at least one Los Angeles family.
Carolyn Fowler is a long-time Democratic activist and a Los Angeles delegate for Hillary Clinton. Her daughter Dallas is also a delegate, but for Bernie Sanders.
Now at the convention, many Sanders supporters still refuse to endorse Clinton. These supporters include Dallas, who says tempers have occasionally gotten hot.
"It's healthy in the sense that it hasn't gotten physical," Dallas says. "We're surviving."
The two says there are still disagreements between them.
"She challenged me this morning, and publicly," says Carolyn.
But there's affection in their voices when they talk about those disagreements. They describe what their debates are like.
"They always disagree with you," says Carolyn. "They know more than we do, it's like we just got here."
Dallas says she's not the only one who can argue.
"Oh please, 'mom is always right,' says Dallas. "Are you kidding me?"
But is it possible that they could come to the same side?
"She can't wait to gloat on Thursday," says Dallas about her mother. "But I am looking forward to being courted by the Clinton campaign for my vote."
Carolyn says she's also looking forward to courting her daughter.
It's a sentiment the Clinton campaign hope it can cultivate between Democratic supporters who don't have blood ties.
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