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Marty Walsh

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  1. “There's absolutely no shame in it. And when somebody who has addiction or mental illness, once they start to go for help, they realize it's making that first step. It's putting that handout, reaching out for help. That's the hardest decision you'll ever have to make. After you make that first step of reaching out for help, it's easy after that. And when the help is there for you, you realize that you should have done it maybe beforehand. And I think that if anyone's listening today and you're struggling out there, whether it's alcoholism or addiction or whatever addiction you might have or it's a mental illness or depression or whatever it might be, reach out, ask somebody for help because I guarantee you it'll get better. I've never heard anyone come back to me and say, I've reached out for help and it's gotten worse. It doesn't get worse. It'll get better before. It'll get better.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Yeah, I mean, I had no desire to drink. I mean, it was not something that was in the top of my head, but you go there to kind of get your head back on and listen to somebody tell their story and realizing that you're not the situation you're in could be far worse than it is. Prayer also helps. I mean, saying a prayer, you know, asking for guidance and spirituality during difficult times. And I think that, you know, in a day at a time, I mean, getting through a day at a time as that process went on every day, got a little clearer, a little more understanding. And also I got a chance to understand what the job was. And, you know, I had a chief of staff that had never been chief of staff for mayor before. So we're learning this together with other folks”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Weapons that are entering into our schools, killing our kids, or entering into a hotels and killing people that are there to see a concert in Las Vegas or living in the streets of Boston, a young person who should be getting ready for the summer when he can't get ready for the summer because he's gunned down because of senseless violence.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “The NRA lobby, we talked earlier on this conversation about labor and what labor has to do. And labor used to advocate or they advocate on behalf of working class people for their wages and for their benefits and for all of the working conditions and safety. That's what they were found to do in the early 1900s. That's what they were found to do. They stopped the sweatshops and child labor laws came into effect and labor was strong and labor had a good lobby. Let's fast forward. Labor doesn't have the same type of cloud it used to have on Capitol Hill, but the NRA is threatening lawmakers that lawmakers will vote with the NRA before they vote with their own constituents. The system is broken. There's something wrong there. There's far too much power. And maybe it's money. Maybe it's power. I'm not sure what it is, but there's far too much power. We're not looking to go to rural America and take your rifles away. We're not looking to go and take guns away that you go hunting with or even protect your home with. What we're looking to do is stop assault.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “If I buy a car, I have to register my car so people know it's mine and I have to get insurance to drive that automobile. But yet somebody can buy a gun and then disregard the gun. That gun will end up on the streets of Chicago, Boston, or what have you, and there's no repercussions for that.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Because one's too many one homicide's too many. And when you get a kid that's coming out of school and shot next to a school, 17 year old boy, and he's laying on the sidewalk, and then you have to go to the mother and father's house and explain to them, you know, what happened that your son was shot. This happened to me last year. We're at a young guy, young man shot outside of a school. I mean, I can tell you many stories. I got a call one night for a 16-year-old kid who got called out of his house by two guys. He went out in his bicycle. He got ambushed, got shot in the corner of the street. He's 16 years old. And I was there at the scene seeing his bike there. And he was taken away because he didn't die instantly. They brought him to the hospital, but he died in the hospital. It just happens too much. And I think that, you know, when you think about the amount of violence that we have in our society because of guns, it's scary. Again, I'm not about taking guns. You don't have to take people's guns away. But think about the America.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “I mean, we had 54 homicides last year in the city of Boston, and the majority of those were by gun, and not all were teenagers, but some were teenagers. And you have to go and sit with the parents, and you have to talk to them about why it is that they lost their loved one. And they're looking for answers and they don't have answers. And I think that we have to do something more in this country. In Boston, as I said, we've done these what's called regional gun summits. We've had mayors and police chiefs from around New England talk. We've had four of them now conversations about this. And we're sitting down trying to figure out ways of better sharing information. We have the toughest, again, the toughest gun laws. So our numbers are down, but still, as mayor now, of very too many young people.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Newtown was not the one we thought something was going to happen. It hasn't happened. So I don't know what's going to happen.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “He came out with oh, we don't want to change the law. There's something wrong here. There's something wrong here. And I think that the young people are onto something in this country. I think if they continue to talk out about this issue and talk out about these are the future gun owners in America, I think we need something more here. Certainly, it's not happening. We've had this year alone, when Vegas happened, we finally thought something would happen. Then we have Parkland, Florida”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “Was all over the present for signing this. This just would give gun deals the opportunity to do a background check. And after three days, if they didn't have it done, you'd still be able to purchase your gun. What people I'm talking about, the day that the president came down, this president, Trump came down with the executive order on immigrants. He also reversed President Obama's background check bill, which was three days. I mean, we're not looking, and as a mayor of Boston, I support people's rights to bear arms. I support their right to be able to own. But what I'm asking for is some accountability here. We have people in America that can go in and buy a gun that have mental illness or an 18-year-old that can go in and buy an assault rifle and do this type of damage. There's something wrong and also get the ammunition to go along with the assault rifle. And I'm not sure when we're going to win as a country we're going to realize this. I think that we've had two congress people shot in the last 10 years. Gabby Gifford and Scalise. And the minute that the Republican shot,”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “In Boston, I mean, Massachusetts has the toughest gun laws in the country. As a legislator, I vote a couple times. We don't have assault weapons. They banned the assault weapon ban. We were the first state to outlaw the bump stock, which that really doesn't say much because that wasn't an issue until what happened in Vegas. And bump stock wasn't, no one knew what it meant. Unless you were a gun owner, no one knew what it was. And so what we've done in Boston, we've had these regional conferences around gun violence. The thing that The thing that bothers me is the federal government again is not involved in this space. President Obama, I was at the White House the day that he signed an executive order with national background checks for three days. It means it for three days. And I was in a room full of people that lost loved ones in whether it was Sandy Hook or Columbine or other places in America that we know of we read about in the paper. It was a very powerful day. And the National Rifle Association and the lobby.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “What happened to Pacum, Florida was horrible. The man from Pacland, Florida was actually born in Boston, so I felt my heart went out to her into the whole city. It was awful. But every day we have a massacre in America Streets. We have roughly 40 people killed every day in America with gun violence. And it's an issue that is just, it's one that can be worked on. I don't know if you could say prevented. I don't think we never can prevent it, but certainly can be reduced, cut down. And I think that, again, it's...”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “So it's smaller boat. But again, I'm not sure I'm hoping that Congress will come up with some resolution. And, you know, the Democrats got criticized for shutting the government down, which that was kind of ironic that the Republicans shut it down at least half a dozen times in the last 10 years and no one gave them credit. No one gave them creditism for shutting the government down. But that's neither here nor there.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Knock on the door. They're not in. They're not going to be let in. I mean, we're not going to do that. I don't know if they'll do that. I think the fear is that I don't know if the federal government completely funded the federal government, U.S. Border Protection Agency as well. I mean, I know the budget he just did. I don't think he added new offices in there. So he's talking about a very skeleton crew that he has over there right now to go around the country and pick up 11 million people and send them back. I mean, that's something that couldn't happen.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “Yeah, you know, and I hope it hasn't happened. I mean, I just think that the Congress has a responsibility to act and do their job. And I think that, you know, they came up with an agreement that they would come up with a resolution so they could keep the country open, keep the budget moving forward. And somebody's reneging on the deal. I don't know who's reneging, but they're reneging on the deal. So I just think it's sad. So my job as mayor in that particular. Let”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “Going to continue to talk about supportive of our immigrant population, our immigrant community. I was criticized for saying I would open city hall up as a sanctuary. I wasn't kidding with that. I was dead serious when I said that.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “Beginning to be, we have 20 in Massachusetts, 23,000 docker recipients in our state. Many of those are in the city of Boston. It's scary because these kids were brought here by the parents. I think the scariness is the uncertainty of what's going to happen. No one knows what's going to happen here. I think the fact that it's sad that Congress, I listened to the, I watched the television and I read the papers that Congress can't sit down and do the job they're elected to do. I think it's a sad statement. We have a lot of people in fear across America and we have kids in fear in Boston.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “I don't know him enough to say, he doesn't understand him. I think he knows everything he does. I think he's smarter than people realize led on. And I think that he does it purposely. I think he's playing to his base, which I think is sad in itself that we have 35, 40% of the people in America that feel the way he does. And it just shows you how divided we are as a country. And I think what we need in this country somewhere down the road, hopefully in the next two and a half years is a uniter. And how do you get to that common ground? Because right now we're pretty divided. I mean, when I saw the presidential election two years ago, he won and he won by obviously getting, winning enough states to get the electoral college. But some of those states he won't sure, what do people really fill in those states? What do they really think in those states? I think the next presidential election will tell a lot about who we are as America.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “Necessarily, I don't think in Boston, but it just shows you his ignorance and not willing to, you know, he's the leader of the greatest country in the world and not understanding his words and what implications they have. It's sad. I mean, it doesn't help relations in America. Does he not understand them?”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  20. “Was. I mean, it was all based on race. And I remember being a kid walking to school. I went to St. Margaret's Grammar School, and I remember walking up. There's a school. At the top of the street called the William E. Russell, and the kids were brought there on school buses with police cars, police motorcycles, pulling it. There was no incident there because they were grammar school. But just thinking about how crazy this is. And then seeing it, I was young at the time, but seeing it play out kind of on TV and never seeing, I mean, we never really dealt with that in Boston, meaning we never dealt with the repercussions of the busing era in our city. I think a lot of people kind of moved out or just ignored it or didn't deal with it. And these issues still have dramatic effects on relations across America. But I'm just, so when the”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  21. “Speakers or microphones there that's on them, not on us, but just the fact that we did it this conversation was happening was scary because here we are in Boston. We saw what happened the week before in Charlottesville. We saw that people one person got killed by the car, two people crashed in a helicopter, two police officials, and we're trying to make sure that we get out of this thing without any problems, without people being hurt. And I'm proud of the city of Boston. I'm proud of the people that came there that day. We, the women's march earlier in the year, which is a very positive march. But this was a little different. And right after Boston's experience with this, it pretty much stopped around the country.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  22. “Yeah, they were neo Nazis. And we did the police department in Boston did what I think was an incredible job of keeping people safe that day. And we got some criticism afterwards for not allowing certain reporters into the pen area where these folks were. But they didn't amplify what they were saying, meaning there was no implications, there was no...”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  23. “After I got elected, President Obama at the time wasn't getting a law through Congress, I don't believe. And he decided to make a decision to really work through mayors. So one of my first meetings at the White House, it was all new mayors. I was there. Eric, I said he was there. Bill de Blasio was there. And the president talked about getting his message through us out to America. And that was a great learning experience for me as a mayor because, first of all, you made the connections in the White House that in some cases the Congress or the Senate, you just go directly to the cabinet people. But also understanding the importance of the issues and learning the thought process of the White House, getting those issues out to America, and actually how relevant every single issue is to your local city and town. That's another...”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  24. “You can do that as mayor. But in some mayors got concerned about Trump's announcement because they didn't know where their constituencies were. So you really have to be close to the people because you have to figure out you can't take positions every day against what your constituents want. So I think that as a mayor, you are on the ground. You are on the ground floor. So my first three months, I would go home every night thinking to myself, what did I do? How do I get through this thing a day at a time? Literally, I was thinking that way. And then March, I realized I got this. And it's still challenging, there's challenging days and moments and periods, but I think there are a lot of comparisons to the president and the mayor's race.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  25. “But even then you have time to think about where you're going to land on it as mayor. It's like, okay, what's your position on this? Something breaks today, you know, immigration when Trump did the executive order on immigration. I literally walked to my office. It was three o'clock. I saw what he had done. I'm looking at it. I got somewhat disgusted by his approach. I called the press conference for 3.30. At 3.30, I have every person standing behind me in the Eagle Room, which is next to the mayor's office. That's an immigrant that works for the administration or first generation. We couldn't fit off in the room. And I was condemning Trump's stand on immigration. You can do that as mayor.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  26. “I think it prepares you. I mean, I think that, you know, my first day in office as mayor, there was a big ballot question during the May's race on casinos, whether or not they're going to be allowed in a certain part of the city of Boston. The people voted down. And there's another casino. For the casino. At the time, I had no idea what they were talking about. And I'm thinking, why didn't this come out in the transition? And I literally have to try and make a decision that day. And it's the first day in office. And I'm thinking like, oh my God, if it's like, and every day I feel like that. And as a legislator, you have time to process it. You have time to say, okay, whether it's death penalty or gay marriage or taxes.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  27. “Oh, yeah, I mentioned this in one of the articles, one of the papers in Boston wrote an article. So the first three months, I went home every single night going, what did I do to myself? I couldn't talk to anyone. Everyone had campaigned for me. Everyone around me was part of the campaign. Everyone around me was invested. So I didn't have anyone to kind of turn to and say, what are you doing this particular situation? And around the middle of March, the first year, I realized that I got this. And I don't know what something just clicked. And I think it was just, I went from being a legislator of 40,000 people to a mayor of 640,000 people. I went from being in the press once in a while to request every single day a camera showing up everywhere. I had to make these decisions. People coming in and ask me my position on this and learning that as mayor, you know, something comes that breaks news. And now I have to have an opinion of it. I can't take time to process.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  28. “How it calls. Great. And also in Massachusetts, I met him when he was in government in Massachusetts. So I brought him on, I brought on a CFO that was a dirty something. I brought in a communications director, a 30-something. I mean, I surrounded myself with all young people, and we tried new things. We tried different ideas.”

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  29. “I think first going in, you know, excited that I won the race, thinking about how do you follow a 20-year incumbent. And very early on, realizing that people didn't know any other way of governing except for Meyer Minilo's style, which they welcomed a new idea because they weren't used to a new idea. And I think that that made it easier to go in and do what I wanted to do. I also surrounded myself with young people. I mean, my chief of staff was 27 years old, Dan Coe, who's running for Congress now. You know, he was at the Huffington Post, and I knew his dad, and I literally met him once and talked to him. And I bring him in.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  30. “No, I wasn't the rain. I was there the next night. But so he kind of went on to win the presidency. And then you have this president. And so I think when you look at the last four presidents, there's really no design plan on none of them really follow other than Clinton and Bush being governors. They're very different people. And the pathway to the presidency was very different for all of them. So I don't think that being a Washington person. Plus, I don't know if there is such a thing as an insider in Washington anymore, but it seems like everyone's kind of up in armstown.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  31. “I don't know. I think it's about timing and it's about where the country is at that particular moment. I think you look back on the past three presidential, four presidential elections. Bill Clinton was a governor of a very small town, small state and won. George Bush was the son of... Former president and active and governor as well of a bigger state in one President Obama other than I remember.”

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  32. “Be great candidates. I think they're strong. They run great cities and they raise issues. Now our issues are environmental justice. We're talking about the Pirates Climate Accord. Eric Astadi led that lead. We all signed on. Mitch Landry is the head of the conference of mayors. And so I think that there's a lot of good people that could be good candidates.”

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  33. “Yeah, and this is my own sake. There's a couple people thinking of it. And Mitchell Andrews' name's been floated out there from New Orleans. Eric Assetti from LA has been float out there. Would they be playing?”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  34. “I think that could happen. I really do. And I think that could happen for a number of reasons. I think in the last dozen years or so, mayors have really kind of risen up to be the people that are the doers. And I think that I had this conversation with Arri a little bit. We're talking about, you know, when people elect a president, it's generally somebody from the United States Senate or it's somebody from a governor. And they talk about the governor has strengths because they have the experience of being executive. And I think that mayors now have that same experience and would challenge particularly today with the issues of immigration as front and center. Healthcare is front and center. Job training is front and center. All the issues that is dealt on a national level. We deal with it every single day in cities across America. So I would not be surprised to see a serious mayoral candidate in the next presidential election and in the next couple elections to see a mayor elected president.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  35. “Job like that. No, there really isn't. I mean, when you're the mayor, you're on the ground floor. You can have, say, whatever happens in the scene, the course of the day, you mean your job is to keep the city moving forward, but you're also involved in every aspect of life. And being a mayor of Boston or Chicago, in a lot of ways, you're the center point of the state, whether or New York City or New Orleans or wherever it might be, when you think about when people talk about what's going on in Massachusetts, it's often what's happening in Boston. They equate Boston with Massachusetts. And so I think that that's partly what Mayor Daly was coming from. And also, it's also a tough jump. Run from me for whatever reason to run from mayor to governor, I think, especially from a big city. How about”

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  36. “Doesn't matter when they start talking about moving locations, you want to make sure that your city is on that list so that you can continue to grow your city and continue to be relevant in the world.”

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  37. “Grown up in Boston or growing up in a political, any political, I guess you can say any city in America, that's pretty political. That's the job. I mean, people aspire to that job. And I think that some people aspire to be president of the United States of America. And at that point, I aspire to be mayor of Boston. I just thought it was a great job. And as I got older and understood what the job did more, I continue to think it's a great job. You can help, you know, so many people. You can do so much for your city. And now being a mayor under this environment is even more important, I think, because you're in competition with other cities around America. You're in competition with other cities around the world to keep your city relevant and to keep your city competitive. And it's almost like sports that you have to continue to keep your city in the spotlight so that you continue to make gains in your city because it's a competitive place. I mean, when a company, whether it's Amazon or GE or what have you, what it's...”

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  38. “In the last 10 years in America and in Boston. And the tech industry. And how do you stay relevant in that? It comes back to education”

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  39. “That was our first new high school built in 30 years. So we're looking at how do we prepare our young people for the jobs of the future. And this is not the first time that an evolution like this has happened in our country. We've gone through different periods and cycles in our country where technologies come in and taken workers off the line, off the manufacturing line. To go back to labor, I don't think that labor doesn't have to represent every person either. I mean, it's not like not everybody needs a union or not everyone wants a union. It's their choice. And I think that, but I think that the answer to that is going to be, is it true education? You have to continue to evolve. And as we evolve as a country, there'll always be another industry coming up under the Clinton administration. And now under the under the Obama administration that's continued forward, you have this incredible technology that's going on in life sciences that's happening.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  40. “Think it's education. It goes back to re-educating people in the fields of the future. I think that colleges do a pretty good job of that of staying ahead of the game and trying to make sure that the young people that they're educating are prepared for the workforce of the day, of that day. And I think that we have to constantly evolve. And I think that for a mayor of Boston, we're starting to look at STEM a lot more than we had in the past. We're going to open the first news. Science and technology. Yeah, science, technology, and engineering and math. We're opening the first new high school in Boston.”

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  41. “Yeah, and that's going to be a whole situation. I'm not sure exactly what the next step is. I know we're preparing for it last time, or the Labor movement was, but I know they're still, they filed a brief I signed on to a brief the other day from Massachusetts, so we'll see what happens. But I think it's unfortunate. I mean, I look at when you look at right to work states and some of the unemployment numbers that are there and so high they are and paying workers literally half, if less than half, of what other workers make across America, that's not how you raise a family. You can't raise a family on declining revenue. Meanwhile, companies are making record profits. I mean, again, I'm not looking to take away from companies, and this sounds like the typical Democratic response, but both can exist together.”

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  42. “It's probably against that. It's going to happen. And I think that the unions are going to have to go back to organizing and unions are going to have to start to organize their members. And in organizing their members, it's like a political campaign and explain to individuals why it's important to be part of a bigger body of people. And I think that that's what they have to do.”

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  43. “Anymore, it's not nine to five anymore. I mean, the job site used to be nine to five. It's on a nine to five world anymore. It's a 24-7 world. And I think that if labor wants to be relevant, they have to continue to push and change with the times. And the not-all industry, but some industry. I think that you see it in different areas. I've seen it in my time. The United States Supreme Court has a vote coming up.”

    2018-02-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 219 - Mayor Marty Walsh · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  44. “On the board of a charter school as well. I was a founding board member of a charter school. So I think there's an opportunity for labor to rethink what their role in society is. And I think that that's where labor has to go. I'm concerned about the decline in numbers and I'm concerned about that that's happening every single day. And I think that I don't see a rosy future right now in the labor movement. I think we have to do some different things to bring us back.”

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  45. “That's not the case. And I think that a couple things delay movement. I think the labor movement in some cases is not all, but in some, we've lost our desire on organizing. I think that in some cases it's all a nothing and you can't do that in labor. I think that labor has to look at what business has done and adapted and changed to the times. I think some of the labor movement has to do that. I think the fact that we're out there in some big fights, but again, get elected officials help get them elected and then elected officials forget the fact that Labor helped them. I think that reminder has to be put there. I think more Labor union members need to run for office. I think that we're part of a community. I mean, I was the president of Labor's Local 223 in Boston. I ran for Mera Boston. I was the head of the building trades in Boston. I ran for Boston. I won. I stepped down from those two posts after I won. But on the other side, I was...”

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  46. “Cancer treatment that you absolutely. We had healthcare back at the time. I'm the mayor of Boston today because the men and women of the building trades and other unions went out there and held signs and got dirty for me, meaning that they were out there campaigning for me and doing my thing and they were proud of that fact. And I think I showed that I'll come back to your point in a second. I think I've shown very clearly that it's okay to be a labor person as a mayor of a major city and see incredible economic gain in a city. Boston is in that position where I think a lot of business people in the beginning might have been concerned about myself being”

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  47. “Well, I think that at least for me speaking, I think when you look at the decline in the middle class and the decline of labor movement, they run parallel to each other. And I think that there's been a big drop there. I think the fact that labor has lost its... I know the right word. I don't say clout, but lots of its appeal. I think it's sad in some ways. Labor has put a lot of people through college. Labor has paid for a lot of mortgages. Labor has done incredible amounts for our country as a society. I think a couple things. Number one is being.”

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  48. “How fast that's James? It's not a big outcry around the world. And I said to my colleagues at the time back in 2004 that we're going to vote against it. I said, you know, be careful with your vote here. You know, this is history. And somewhere down the road, you don't want your grandchildren to be asking you, where were you on the side of history? And you're saying I was on the wrong side of history. And that convinced a lot of people to vote for marriage equality in Massachusetts.”

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  49. “Different parishes, or my senior citizens are talking, and some people gave me a lot of grief for the vote, but I think there was, at that point, a lot of family members had somebody who was gay. And my response was to them at the time was, don't you want everything for all of your kids? So if you have two son and a daughter and one's gay, one's not, don't you want the same for each one? You should love them the same. And that's kind of where that vote went. Massachusetts, I'm proud of the vote. The only thing I'm not happy about, I think we should have gotten there through the legislature as far as gay marriage legalization, not through the courts. And I think we should have identified that as a legislative body before that. But the courts came down, made the ruling. And then other states followed in line with us. And then the U.S. Supreme Court made the law of the land. And, you know, you don't hear pushback. There's not big.”

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  50. “It was controversial. I mean, a lot of people weren't sure exactly. What happened was the U.S. Massachusetts Supreme Court created that marriage equality as the law of Massachusetts. And there was a move to define a marriage between a man and a woman. And that's really what the vote was. It was a constitutional convention. We had two successive constitutional conventions. So it got really personal. And the eyes of the world was on Massachusetts really. And we were out explaining. I was out talking to my constituents at the time, whether it was in, you know,”

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