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Donna Brazile

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  1. “And so, Bill Bradley, Gore was afraid that Bradley was going to catch up and he wanted to get the campaign outside the Beltway. He wanted to get it out of the quote-unquote Clinton Gore, I mean the DC orbit, and he chose me to be his campaign manager. I'll never forget I called my dad that day. I thought it was, you know. And he said, guess what? Algorithm just appointed me as campaign manager. And my dad said, well, it's just a job.”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “That's right. That's right. And so I came out of 98 pretty after New Gendrich stepped down and then my former congressman, Bob Livingston, came in and stepped down. And Gore called me that March of nineteen 1999 and said, I need you to be my deputy. I guess at that point in my career being 38, being deputy was not such a bad position. I said, I knew Craig Smith, the campaign manager. But by September of that year, the campaign was hemorrhaging money. We had a big bloated budget. The vice president felt that he wanted someone else in that position who would focus on grassroots. He was afraid that Bill Bradley, who was running against the establishment, it sounds familiar, right? The establishment candidates running against it.”

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  3. “And I said, Oh my God, this is going to be a bad one because the president's being impeached, the resources were drying up, and they're like, you know how to do it. And I went over to work with the DCCC and the DSCC, and we came within five seats of winning back the House. And people forget how we ran that race. We went underneath all of the national noise, and we went into what I call the down battle.”

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  4. “The former congressman from New York, and he said to Eleanor, he said, we need Don over at the DCC. Because every two years I went over for $1,500 a month.”

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  5. “It was a big scale in Washington, DC. And that year, I didn't want to work. I said, this is going to be a messy one. And Charlie Ringo came to the office one day.”

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  6. “Well, the 98th season was, in'96 I helped with the re-elect. I actually ran the tri-state area in Virginia, Maryland, and DC, and I travel across the country to battleground states as a surrogate. In 1998, few people remembered as Bill Clinton was under impeachment. It was a big scale.”

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  7. “He was 39 years old. Yeah. And so we became friends. And I was friends with Tippa. And so I was close to the Gores. And so when he called me to help out, I helped out. So I didn't have a formal role other than that of being a senior advisor. I wasn't on the payroll for them. I was on the payroll of the DNC at the time when I took my leave of apps. I used to tell people I'll take a leave of absence and I need $1,500 a month Do you know I said that back in nineteen ninety two and that was my going price for the last few years? $1,500 a month. I said, if you can't live off of $1,500 a month, which I call two shifts at some minimum wage job, then you can't survive.”

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  8. “We were from the south, but there was something about when I turned Gore down, because Gore had requested that I work for him, but I still kept a relationship with him. I don't know. I just.”

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  9. “Yeah, we like the trenches. We are trench fighters. And Lori Moscovici, now you're making me call up all my friends. And so I think I did like five or six states for the Clintons, for Bill Clinton in 1992. But I was close to Al Gore.”

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  10. “And I said, I'm putting curtains up as soon as my curtains go up. I will go around the country. You tell me wherever you need me to go. And there are few of us in politics I can think about Theresa Valmaine. I mentioned Julie Gibson, Michael Hooley. We're the kind of people you call in when you have a crisis and you need folks to go and fix it.”

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  11. “During the Clinton years, the one thing I enjoyed working with Eleanor and then Gephardt is that every two years they allowed me to take a leave of absence. I used to call it my fix. I had to go out and get a fix. And because I love politics and I love to recruit young people to run and I like to train people and I like to go out and be with the people. I don't like to sit in a campaign headquarters. And so in 92, I'll never forget this Tully. He called me. He was down in Little Rock. He said, I need you to come down a little rock. And I said, you know what? I'm putting curtains up. That was a metaphor that I was finally buying the house. I needed to stabilize my life. I had lived out of a suitcase and”

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  12. “But you knew how to raise issues that didn't turn off suburban voters, which in our case wouldn't have any suburban voters. But you knew how to bring people from, say, Award 8 in Washington, D.C. together with Award 3, which is predominantly white, Ward 8, predominantly black. When they saw your ads, David, they didn't think black or white. They thought DC, DC. So I want to applaud you for that. And Eleanor is still serving. So 22 terms later, Eleanor's told, she's still serving.”

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  13. “I wanted the best for my mentor and your friend. Yes, thank you. And, you know, David, you know, and this is a great story because I searched around. I knew a lot of people, as you well know. And I searched around for someone who understood the nuances of city politics, black politics, gender equality. I mean, you had a mix of everything. Well, I was lucky.”

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  14. “Mr. I remember when Terry was at the DCC raising money and did that alligator wrestling. So, I mean, Terry and I go back also. It's funny in this business with 40 plus years of service, you really know everybody, both Republicans and Democrats who've been on the battlefield for as long as we can.”

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  15. “An absence of resources and also when Gor and Gephardt went after it for Supert in many of those southern states, Dukakis emerged, Dukakis and Jackson emerged much stronger, but we essentially killed each other killed each other off. That's our political way of saying that we ran out of money. I'll never forget I was on an airplane with Terry McCullough who was our finance director back then and I was talking to Paul Bagala who was already on the ground and we're like, we got to go and tell Dick there's no way to continue. And we went down to South Carolina to say it's time for us to fold our tent. One month later, I was up in Boston working to help Michael DuCakis.”

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  16. “Issue that really drove Right, and I'll never forget that's what that was the big question that Gephardt asked me about trade. And I'm like, how, I mean, I never had anyone, you know, like I said, seek out my advice and my opinion.”

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  17. “With Missouri, but we knew that we had the western counties and our targets were really everything north of Des Moines. And we were in a really good campaign in our Steve Julie Gibson, it was we had an aggressive campaign. We also had the issue of”

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  18. “You know what? We maintain contact throughout that campaign when the campaign was over with. We continue to talk to one another. And when I became a campaign manager for Al Gore in 2000, Reverend Jackson called me every day to check on me to see what I needed. He wanted to make sure I was doing okay. I have the greatest admiration for Reverend Jackson for not only giving a kid like myself an opportunity to serve, but just the friendship that we've had over the years. I talked to him last week, a couple of weeks ago I was at the funeral of his mother-in-law. I feel like I will always be one of Reverend Jackson's. So it turns out.”

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  19. “And I was like, Oh, Reverend, that's horrible. I want to be stay rooted with the civil rights community. I want to continue to work with civil rights advocates, which I did. But Reverend told me I would become a branch without a tree.”

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  20. “He's like, who, and I'll never forget, and you know, Reverend Jackson told me, and I wrote this in my first book, Cooking with Grease, Reverend told me that I would become a branch without a tree.”

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  21. “Oh my god, I drove all the way up to Memphis. He was in Memphis. He was having a big retreat. And I called Ron Walters, who was like his right hand, Professor Ron Walters. And I said, I need to come and have a one on one conversation with Reverend. I'm 27 years old. And I went into his room and I said, Reverend, I have to tell you, I have some news. And he was immediately went to the states he wanted me to run, the things he wanted me to do. And I said, I will not be witcher campaign this year. I'm going to work for Dick Gephardt. And he said, who? I said, Dick Gephardt, you know, the congressman from Missouri.”

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  22. “And I went home and I'm like, wow, this is my opportunity. I'm twenty-seven years old. And I'll get the opportunity to be the deputy field director, deputy campaign manager, and I can start hiring people like myself to go out and work in the various states. My heart is decision, David, was to tell Reverend Jackson.”

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  23. “Yeah, this is a person who can help me with all of the other candidates wanted me to come on board to either serve as their director of black outreach or Southern outreach, which also meant blackoutreach. That was just a glorified way of saying black outreach. It's like, we'll put you in charge of the South. Really? But Dick Gephardt said, I would like you to be my deputy campaign manager, number two on the Bill Carrick.”

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  24. “Democrat No, he was on that trajectory to become an elite of the party. And what I liked about Gephardt, I met with all of them. And Dick Gephardt was the first candidate, and I was 27 at the time who, when talking with him, because I would interview the candidates. And when talking with him, Dick Gephardt asked me a series of questions. And I was struck by the fact that he wanted my views on trade policy. He wanted my views on economic policy, on defense policy. He was the first candidate that didn't ask me about organizing in the black community or doing outreach to women. I want you to know my views on public policy issues. And I was impressed that Didpart wanted to know my personal views. We had an enjoyable conversation.”

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  25. “Especially in states like Louisiana and New York and other places. But as you well know, we also have a handful of governors who are thinking about 2020. I think.”

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  26. “I think along with Mayor Garcetti, Mayor DeBlasio, I think we're going to see a fair, a good number of Democratic mayors running for president in 2014.”

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  27. “Well, I try to stay away from giving candidates advice or potential candidates advice, but if he calls me, I will make myself available to talk to him. But I would make myself available to talk to anyone. What do you think?”

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  28. “I ran because Mary and Mitch are like part of my family. I ran her campaign and when I got a call from Dick Gephardt, I heard from Paul Simon, Michael DuCakis, Joe Biden, and Dick Gephardt. I met with all of them, and I decided upon Dick Gephardt.”

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  29. “Civil rights, he was one of the first white lawyers to handle civil rights cases down in the South. And he was good friends with Norm Francis, who just retired as president of Xavier University. Everyone knew that Moonland drew. He cared about the folks in the Ninth Ward, and of course he cared about downtown New Orleans. And here I was living out in Kenner, which is about twenty miles to the west, and every day I could call. From my home in Canada all the way downtown to be his intern. What a great opportunity.”

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  30. “And also, you know, and I'll see the mayor or the secretary depends on what day it is. I call him Mayor Andrew or Secretary.”

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  31. “I had this dry, this passion to serve, a passion to give back, and more importantly, and you recall this, David, because of, you know, you grew up around the same era, people were actively engaged in their democracy. And for young people back during those days, there was no greater calling than to hear from a politician or political leader that they wanted someone of my age to help them. And I was, you know, I was impressed by these people.”

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  32. “In between those campaigns, I worked on the midterms in 1986. We made up some ground in the House and the Senate, but not enough. I mean, we still held a house, but we made up ground in the Senate. And then by 1988, I was down in Louisiana running Maryland Drew's first statewide campaign. She wanted, she ran for state treasurer, Anne Riches of Texas, had convinced him to run statewide, and I went home to run her campaign.”

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  33. “She was a great politician. And I think the Mondell campaign, the effort was to try to bring home some of those so-called Reagan Democrats, if you recall those years when... The Democrats would lose to Republicans and we lost a substantial number of white male voters and others.”

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  34. “Democratic Party from Tip O'Neill, the speaker to Jerry Ferraro to Belabza. Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan. I mean, think about it. Back in those days, they were giants. I mean, everyone wanted to get to meet. Wonderful charismatic leaders. Jerry was this woman from Queens. I mean, she was smart, dynamic. She understood how the house worked. And I wasn't surprised that Mondell chose her. Remember, that was a year that Mondale interviewed several women, including Diane Feinstein and Barbara Makulski, Lindy Boggs, who was my hometown congresswoman. But Jerry stood out because she was such a great leader and she understood politics.”

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  35. “In between the nineteen eighty two midterm and the eighty four cycle I served as an intern on Capitol Hill for Agillis Long who was the president.”

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  36. “That's right. Mondell Ferraro campaign. I worked with a wonderful woman by the name of Gina Glance. Gina was another mentor. She was the field director of And Gina signed me to stay in the headquarters and to help out with mobilization across the country. In fact, I also serve as an advanced person for Geraldine Ferraro, and I went around the country helping her with her events as well. So I got a chance to learn not just about politics, message, mobilization, but also as an advanced person. I became very good at logistics.”

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  37. “was a shift in thinking in terms of how to increase black voter mobilization but also black electoral participation through running for office.”

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  38. “It was both. It had elements of a political campaign in the sense that we had to get on the ballot. We had to identify and recruit delegates. But at the same time, it was like an old civil rights revival going across the country, getting people in Fayetteville, getting people in Jackson, getting people who had been on the front lines of the civil rights movement to come out and serve as not just surrogates for the campaign, but also to help Reverend Jackson raise awareness on the right to vote. Back in the early 1980s, black voter registration was about 40, 40, 40, 40 to 45 percent. It's now increased to almost sixty-five to 70 percent of African Americans are registered to vote. And I think as a result of Reverend Jackson's campaign, more and more African Americans decided that they wanted to run for office. And what we saw post-”

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  39. “Involved in the civil rights movement. I would go to the church. We would record radio spots down the basement of the church. And then we would just reach out to the people that were affiliated with that church, go to their homes, and then we would hold community meetings. And one by one, you know, because back then the rules were the Democratic Party had the so-called winnet-all systems, similar to what the Republicans continue to have. And we look for places where we could win and take all of the delegates as opposed to where we can just cherry pick and get a few delegates. So Reverend put me in charge of that operation along with the field operation. And I got to understand a little bit more about politics. And when the election, when Reverend dropped out of the race at the convention, I also had to go at the convention and get signatures to get Reverend Jackson an opportunity to speak on the platform and speak at the convention.”

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  40. “When you're working for, I mean, nowadays, you know two weeks in advance where the candidate is gone. We knew the morning of. We went where the votes were. Revan taught us how to increase the number of African Americans running for office, running for delegates, as well as voter registration. Our campaign really was about citizen mobilization. And the reason why I love that campaign is because I would often go into states like Virginia, Georgia, Alabama. Of course, I did Louisiana, and I would find the preachers that”

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  41. “That's right. It was a great campaign because we didn't have a playbook. We basically got up every morning, looked in the New York Times and the Washington Post, and we found out where Reverend was going. And then we had to.”

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  42. “And one by one, CT Vivian Dr. Abernaathy Dr. Benjamin Hooks, I got to know, and then of course Reverend Jesse Jackson, Stevie Wonder was behind the quote unquote, the major campaigns, the big marches, and Teresa Cropper, who's based here in Chicago, a lawyer, she called upon me. She was the coordinator. She called upon me to organize more campuses. So by 1983, I became a quote unquote, I became a famous organizer because I had worked on the King Holiday effort, and then I went directly to work for the Jesse Jackson Historic First campaign.”

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  43. “I was recruited by Mrs. K. Because as a student organizer, I work for the United States Student Association and I had organized students on over 200 college campuses to produce 7 million petitions. And as a result of our organizing, I became the, I started off as a youth coordinator. Everyone hired me to be a youth coordinator because I was young. And then I ended up being the National Mobilization Director for the King Holiday Effort.”

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  44. “Paul was my major. The legend in the world was one of the finest strategists and organizers. In the country, Paul Tully hired me. I was an intern at the DNC, and by nineteen eighty four, after finishing the campaign To mate Dr. King's birthday holiday, I worked on that. Harold Washington”

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  45. “I was a youth coordinator for the Carter Mondell campaign, and by 1982, when I was up in Washington, D.C., I worked with someone you probably knew very well, Paul Tully.”

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  46. “Well, I started off by being a grassroots organizer. I went door to door. I did voter registration. I also signed people up to work at the precincts. I also handed out leaflets in the 1976 race with Jimmy Carter. By 1978, I was working for the State Attorney General candidate. And by 1980, I was at LSU, and I was the youth coordinator. I finally turned 18”

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  47. “Nine years old, so I've been at it for a long, long time. I recently counted up eleven presidential campaigns, seven of which I was a paid staffer. twenty one offseason election midterm elections in addition to those that are held in Virginia right after presidential and Louisiana which is also an unusual unusual election cycle so I've been at it now for almost 50 years”

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  48. “us to love one another, and whoever did his family tonight or her family, well, she said his family would be suffering as well. So that night I prayed, and a year later I was going door to door to encourage people, encourage my friends to get their parents to register and vote. So I've been at it now since.”

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  49. “My parents were working poor. My dad was a janitor at a local high school. My mom a me downtown in New Orleans. We were raised to pay it forward, to give back and pay it forward. And so on the night that Dr. King was assassinated, I'll never forget that as long as I live, I was eight years old, and my grandmother called us all in her room in the art of our birth, Cheryl, Sheila, Donna, Tet, Lisa, Dimitri, Kevin Ziola. And my grandmother wanted us to pray, and she said we had to pray because doctor King had been murdered, and she wanted us to pray for his family, pray for misses King and the children, but also to pray for whoever killed him. And I thought that was odd. And I raised my hand. I used to always raise my hand. And I said, Grandma, why do we have to pray for the murderer? And she said, because God teaches.”

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  50. “While I'm the third of nine children of Catholic family, my family, if you walked in my house back in the middle of the sixties, you would have seen a picture of John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and of course Jesus. If you walked in there today, you would see those same figures, but Barack Obama as well.”

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