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Audio Mar 31, 2026

Michael Bennet vs. Phil Weiser for Colorado Governor and Standing up for All of [15:12-16:58]

is going to come from the states just like it did a hundred years ago when we were in a gilded age much like the one we're in right now it was states and it was cities and it was communities coming together to say we are going to deal with this reactionary age by reinventing you know what the future of America is going to look like and we created the circumstances there that ultimately gave FDR the fuel he needed to be able to propel a progressive movement in this country that lasted for generation that's the moment I think we're in right now I think I'm the right person for this race because I've got a very very unusual set of experiences for this job I've spent time in the public sector a private sector restructuring billion dollar enterprises I ran one of the most complicated systems in Colorado the Denver public schools where we saw dramatic student achievement growth and dealt with the fiscal headwinds that we were facing and then three terms in the Senate where you know I've served at the national level and I've learned the governor will like this I've learned you know that our answers are not going to come from a permanent game of shirts and skins where we've perfected the ability of doing nothing and blaming the other side for the fact that we've done nothing think that bringing a perspective to Colorado that has that that that sort of interesting set of experiences I think at this moment where coloring and sudden the lines is not going to get us where we need to be either as a state or a country we're going to have to make some really tough choices and have some hard conversations and actually begin to
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