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Kristen McDonald Rivet: “We have the chance to take control of the Michigan Senate…”

Featuring: Kristen McDonald Rivet, Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives, Michigan, District 8

Had walked away from politics in my twenties, found myself in my fifties, and had a very, very good friend of mine come up and talk to me and say, Kristen, We have the chance to take control of the Michigan Senate for the first time in 40 years. The key to that is the district you live in, and we think you're the only one who can win it. (18:52–18:59)

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Asserts that there was a chance to take control of the Michigan Senate for the first time in 40 years.

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“Michigan now has a declining population, an aging population, and a lot of our jobs are low wage.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 04:22-04:28
“60% of our jobs right now in Michigan pay less than $50,000 a year.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 04:28-04:33
“We have rising prescription drug costs, we have housing costs, childcare, all of these things create this pressure in Michigan where…”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 04:36-04:47
“We have a million kids living in a household where their basic needs are a question every day.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 05:54-06:02
“For a couple of years before I went in the state senate, I was championing and putting together a coalition externally on the working…”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 06:05-06:15
“The working families tax credit, which, based on the EITC, but was actual dollars, up to $3,500 in people's pockets that have household…”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 06:12-06:26
“Even after Oxford, we could not get a legislative hearing [on gun violence prevention legislation].”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 06:48-06:53
“Suddenly, January 2023, we have a democratic trifecta.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 06:53-07:00
“We got that to the governor's desk within three months.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 07:06-07:10
“Half a billion dollars worth of tax cuts for working families.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 07:09-07:13
“We were one of the first states in the country to roll back right to work.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 07:14-07:19
“We restored prevailing wage.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 07:18-07:21
“I sponsored legislation that will bring tens of thousands of kids out of poverty.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 07:42-07:47
“My first public act was a gun violence prevention.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 08:02-08:07
“We actually were able to move [common sense pieces of legislation on gun violence prevention].”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 08:24-08:27
“My first piece of legislation had to do with safe storage of firearms.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 08:37-08:41
“If you have a firearm and you do not properly store it and a child gets ahold of it and hurts themselves or someone else, you're criminally…”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 08:46-08:55
“We were able to pass that and get that to the governor's desk last year as well.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 08:56-09:00
“We've had these really big legislative wins that have our tangible dollars in people's pockets.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 10:51-11:00
“I've spent, you know, 30 years working in public policy related to kids issues, working in education, in particularly the early education…”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 14:47-14:57
“I left politics in the mid nineties to try to just do something else and went to go work for head start.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 17:04-17:11
“I was their state advocate, their state lobbyist for head start.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 17:12-17:17
“It's requirement that half of the board, the decision makers, have to be parents, active parents.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 17:25-17:33
“I spent about a decade working in philanthropy in the city of Detroit.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 17:55-18:00
“The key to that is the district you live in, and we think you're the only one who can win it.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 19:00-19:05
“Mine was the seat that flipped the Senate.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 19:40-19:43
“My democratic base in my Senate seat is 48%.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 19:43-19:48
“In my campaign knocked on 75,000 doors.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 19:55-19:59
“We raised about a million dollars in my state senate campaign, but our average contribution was around $30.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 19:58-20:04
“In my state senate, there had been years and years and years since there had been a competitive senate seat there.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 21:48-21:53
“We did that on 75,000 doors.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 24:04-24:08
“At the end of the day, 48% democratic base. I won with over 53% of the vote.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 24:19-24:24
“Many of our families can no longer take vacations. They simply can't afford them.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 24:48-24:53
“A lot of the people that I talk to that used to be Democrats and are voting for Donald Trump now feel they are ignored by the Democratic…”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 27:28-27:42
“The people that are voting for Donald Trump are in some way not informed or not educated enough to understand that is not the case.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 28:00-28:10
“We're seeing a rising senior poverty rate.”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 28:20-28:24
“These are people who have worked their entire lives, and suddenly they are picking up jobs at Walmart or McDonald's in order to supplement…”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 28:23-28:33
“We have so many households that have Fox News on twenty four seven and they hear repetitive over and over and over again conspiracy…”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 28:57-29:08
“I do think that there are folks who are asking me this question of, you know, why do you want to go work in what is arguably one of the most…”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 30:02-30:13
“Aren't you just like me, tired of a political system that is not only dysfunctional and weaponizing fear, turning it into hate, but is also…”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 30:24-30:40
“We are starving, I think for political leaders who are willing to put forward a hopeful vision and are going to talk in a way in our…”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 30:41-31:06
“I believe that our political leaders, our public servants have a responsibility to unite us and inspire us about what's possible in our…”
Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism | Uploaded April 18, 2024 | 31:53-32:10