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Petersburg, FL - Last week, Equality Florida worked with Senior officials in the Biden Administration to convene calls with Florida LGBTQ leaders, parents, and transgender youth to discuss the dangerous and unprecedented attacks on transgender youth in Tallahassee. And on Election Day, in another definitive victory, we reclaimed them once again.Equality Florida and Biden Administration Meet with Florida Parents and Transgender YouthĮquality Florida partners with Biden Administration to convene LGBTQ leaders, parents, and transgender youth to discuss the impact of nationally-coordinated attacks on transgender youth Those aren’t Democratic values or Republican values, but American values. That we all have a stake in each other’s success. More troops were coming home.Īt that make-or-break moment for the middle class, America decided that we are greater together than we are on our own that this country succeeds when everybody gets a fair shot, everybody does their fair share, and everybody plays by the same set of rules. New energy was beginning to power our future. Thanks to the hard work and sacrifice of so many, things were slowly, steadily beginning to improve. Their platform was simple: we’re better off when everybody is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules.Īnd yet, the Americans we met while organizing and campaigning across the country were showing us otherwise. Their cynical argument was that President Obama was to blame for the economy – even as they wanted to go back to the same policies that wrecked the economy in the first place. Vote after vote to repeal Obamacare and take away families’ health insurance. Vote after vote to block President Obama’s steps to right the economy, create jobs, and put more money in workers’ pockets. And then it was time to campaign again.įor four years, even during the worst economic crisis in generations, Republicans tried to block America’s progress at every turn. And Osama bin Laden was no longer a threat to America.Īs Vice President Biden put it: GM was alive, and bin Laden was dead. For the first time in nine years, there were no Americans fighting in Iraq. The auto industry was booming, helping American manufacturing grow for the first time since the 1990s. And we appointed two extraordinary women to the Supreme Court.īy the end of the first term, an economy that had been bleeding hundreds of thousands of jobs each month was creating hundreds of thousands of jobs each month. We reformed Wall Street, reduced the deficit, and repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” because who you love shouldn’t determine whether or not you can defend the country you love. We did it by the beginning of his second year, ultimately covering another 20 million Americans. Candidate Obama promised to sign health reform into law before the end of his first term. And a new First Family took the stage on an electric night in Chicago’s Grant Park, where the President-Elect addressed “the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics,” a crowd 250,000 strong, and billions of people around the world.Ĭandidate Obama promised to lead on climate change, and double clean energy like wind and solar in four years. On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama won a resounding victory, in the process changing the electoral map and validating what he said four years earlier about so-called red states and blue states. All of us made lifelong friends.Īfter one of the hardest-fought campaigns in memory, we secured the Democratic Nomination.
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Some of us lived out of worn-out suitcases for months at a time. We came from everywhere, spending two years of our lives in states we barely knew, to test Barack Obama’s proposition that Americans are more alike than we are different – that for all our outward differences, we share the same values and pledge allegiance to the same flag.Īfter an improbable victory in Iowa, our campaign went on to New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina – ultimately through all fifty states, building a coast-to-coast movement for change.