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Trisha Calvarese: “AI is already changing jobs, because at the AFL CIO, I…”

Featuring: Trisha Calvarese, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Colorado, District 4

Episode 205 - Trisha Calvarese wants to represent Colorado’s CD4 in the US Congress

Published April 6, 2024 | Video Starts at 56:20

I want the smartest people. AI is going to change almost everything. Why would you be the right congressperson from Colorado to have power at this critical moment? It's AI is already changing jobs, because at the AFL CIO, I helped launch the AFL CIO tech Institute. which is like the labor movements think tank, they inked a deal. It's groundbreaking with Microsoft on bringing working people to the table and make sure that they have the … (56:20–56:33)

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Asserts that AI is changing jobs and that the AFL CIO tech Institute was launched to address this.

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Trisha Calvarese

“I am the democratic nominee running in cd four in the special election to fill the vacancy left by Representative Ken Buck.”
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“I've been working at the AFL CIO, and I'm a second generation member of the federal civil service.”
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“Thanks to my union having my back and thanks to Medicare, I was able to come home and my husband was able to join me to move back home to…”
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“He was, as a member of the civil service at the securities and Exchange Commission, going after white collar criminals for stock crimes.”
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“CD four is massive. It borders multiple states. It's 21 counties.”
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“The overwhelming population is centered in Douglas, is about half of it by population, and the overwhelming majority is unaffiliated.”
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“I'm the democratic nominee. I'm running against Lopez.”
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“We do think she's gonna win the primary, and then it's gonna be millennial woman versus against millennial woman.”
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“You're asking people to elect you to use tax dollars to pay for you to be a lawmaker, and you're celebrating the fact that you shirk the…”
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“I'm focusing on the needs of the voters in cd four.”
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“One in three people in America, especially in rural America, don't have access to [life-saving care].”
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“CD four doesn't have a traditional four year university.”
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“We need pathways to amazing family supporting jobs, ideally union jobs that don't necessarily require that four year degree.”
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“We want to outcompete the Chinese Communist Party in building the industries of the future here.”
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“The chips and science act... was a bipartisan bill that passed with bipartisan support.”
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“Places like cd four have not been included in that progress in the benefits of, say, like, the digital economy.”
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“I graduated into the worst economy since the Great Depression.”
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“I was his [Bernie Sanders'] very first press intern.”
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“I was speech writer, director of speech writing at the AFL CIO, took the current president, Elizabeth Shuler.”
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“AFL CIO is a federation of unions. It is the biggest labor federation in the world.”
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“We need to change labor laws to make it easier to organize and to create unions.”
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“We need to reform the laws to make it easier to organize [unions].”
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“The rise of artificial intelligence is affecting jobs in a new way, a new type of white collar jobs.”
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“We immediately need to give the Ukraine people everything that they need to defend their homeland from imperialist Vladimir Putin.”
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“If Vladimir Putin takes Ukraine, what comes next? He's not going to stop there. He will continue to another NATO country, to Poland.”
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“Putin has stopped and exporting fertilizer to South America, systematically starving them.”
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“We need to be out competing the CCP in technology and in industries of the future.”
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“Every time Lauren Boebert or Lopez or their caucus, this disruption caucus doesn't fund the government, that puts crop insurance at risk.”
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“They haven't passed [a farm bill]. The next one coming up, it's an omnibus bill. It's a trillion dollars.”
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“What happened is they took away Trump's supreme court, and he takes credit for it. Took away a constitutional right, took it away, moved us…”
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“Now they're saying they want to identify these embryos as people.”
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“For women who think they're safe in Colorado, watch out, because it could be everywhere.”
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“With this seat, we have an opportunity to get one seat closer to tipping the balance of the house and restoring our reproductive rights.”
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“Overwhelmingly, people do not want the government in their health care choices.”
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“I've worked in government as a federal civil servant. That is a nonpartisan role.”
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“We've seen inflation come down without the pain in the labor market that's typically associated with lowering those rates.”
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“President Biden's policies stopped [the economic tailspin during Covid].”
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“Billions of dollars are leaving other countries and they are being invested here in the United States of America.”
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“We gave up our manufacturing dominance decades ago.”
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“The labor movement, let me tell you, this is one of the most popular things in the country are unions.”
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“It's something like 80% [support for unions among young people].”
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“They inked a deal. It's groundbreaking with Microsoft on bringing working people to the table.”
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“Cause they have a plan to leapfrog us in critical technologies.”
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“While Lauren Boebert was in Washington, DC, voting against these bills, against these bipartisan agreements against progress.”
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“They passed rules that have just resulted in the absolute chaos that we're seeing, where they can just vacate a speaker.”
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“I sure do [see rule of law under threat]. Absolutely. By folks who are celebrating their own law breaking.”
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“I would love to applaud our secretary of state, Jenna Griswold, for taking on AI in our elections.”
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“We do need to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights act.”
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“Voters want to hear about the issues and what we're going to offer cd four if we're going to be a placeholder, if we're actually running to…”
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