Michael Bennet vs. Phil Weiser for Colorado Governor and Standing up for All of [17:00-22:06]

begin to fit across the table from people with whom we disagree and chart a path forward for our kids and for our grandkids before this is too late. We like to ask all of our guests not just about the what but about the why why they do what they do what is it that drives and for me it's it's my family and in my faith so what is Michael Bennett's why. I would say governor is my family too my dad it was a public servant who told me top and like yours was not a politician but he was a public servant who taught me the public service was noble my mom was an immigrant to this country she had been born and worse up Poland in 1938 the year before Hitler rolled into Poland and her entire family was killed except for her and her parents and in hand and they got to this country and they rebuilt their shattered lives in the only country in the world where I think that was possible on the one hand on the other hand I feel an intense moral obligation to my own three daughters that Susan and I have raised in Colorado and the kids that I work for in the Denver public schools and the kids all over rural Colorado whose parents want exactly the same thing as the parents in Denver want for their kids but are divided by a politics that just not advancing the needs of our state or I would say the needs of our country that's what drives me every day you know we can't give up governor that isn't that that that dishonors the the the work the people that have been in even tougher situations than the one we're in right now it dishonors their work it dishonors their hope and I think you know hopefully when we're doing these jobs the best way they can be done maybe we begin to honor that work a little bit we also like to ask our guests what their secret superpower is something that they are really good at that no one knows I you know what I would say about that nobody's ever asked me that and I think maybe my dyslexia governor which I've always viewed as a strength I think I see the world in a little bit of a different way than maybe others and and and maybe that's because early on it was harder for me to to be able to to to just read stuff in the classroom and I've had to teach myself over the years to be able to do that and also think about things I think a little bit differently what do you like to do if you get a day or a weekend off that's that that is really easy climbing Colorado's 14ers we have the most beautiful mountains in in America and you know they're not a long drive for Denver and often when I'm traveling the state for one reason or another we have the chance just to get off the road and take a hike that frankly people fly all over the world to have the chance to be able to do I get to do it right in our backyard there's that's an amazing that's an amazing thing I'd never take for granted okay let's let's say you are a year in to a term as governor what do you want people looking back on that year saying about you I want people to say that we have built a substantial political coalition across the state that's engaged rural Colorado and urban Colorado around the question of whether or not our kids are going to be able to live here and then we have spent year one getting getting ready to be a place where no working person has to spend more than 30% of their income and housing that we have a plan to be able to bring down the cost of child care they were on our way to ensuring that the kids that are graduating from our high schools are graduating into a middle class job you know I don't see this governor as a one year project I see it as a as a as the rest of our lifetime's frankly working on all this we have a lot to do to get us out of the reactionary period that we're in out of the gilded age that we're in an into a world where the American dream you know the pump is primed again for the American dreams so that when the economy grows it grows for everybody not just the people at the very top I'd like Colorado to be able to set an example for the rest of the country that can that we can learn from and that we can draw inspiration tell our listeners how to follow your campaign come to michael benett dot com and you can follow my campaign we'd love to have you as I said earlier this is one of the elections next year that's really going to matter in in the nation and we'd love to have your support and your and your good wishes michael Bennett U.S. Senator candidate for governor of Colorado who on his free time