BONUS: Marching orders for new legislators

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

As newly elected Democrats across the country enter their respective capitol buildings for the first time, Civic Ventures president Zach Silk and former Washington State legislator (and Civic Ventures senior VP) Jessyn Farrell offer advice for what they should prioritize – and it starts with economic policies that help the broad majority. Further reading: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/14/democrats-must-reclaim-the-center-by-moving-hard-left-219354

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0:00.0	Hey Troublemaker, I'm Tina Noel, lead producer of Pitch Fork Economics.
0:04.0	If you like what you hear from Nick and the crew at Civic Ventures,
0:07.0	you can become a part of the team with your own The Pitchforks or Coming T-shirt.
0:12.0	These shirts are special edition and only available for a limited time exclusively at represent.com forward slash Nick Hanauer.
0:21.0	We really appreciate your support and voice helping to call out the truth against economic
0:26.4	orthodoxy and trickle-down lies.
0:29.4	Again, to get your shirt now, head over to represent.com forward slash
0:33.1	nakanhauer and thanks for listening.
0:35.1	Hi I'm Annie Fadley and I'm here to welcome you to Quick Pitch, hosted by my boss
0:46.2	Zach Silk, the President of Civic Ventures. Here's Zach, in conversation with our colleague
0:50.7	Jess and Farrell. Hi there, I'm Jess and Farrell.
1:00.0	Hi there, I'm Jess and Farrell and I'm Senior Vice President at Civic Ventures and a former state legislator.
1:06.8	Hey I'm Zach Silk and I'm the President of Civic Ventures.
1:10.4	Well, we had an election in November of 2018, and as we know, Democrats performed
1:17.1	extraordinarily well.
1:19.0	They took back a number of House seats.
1:21.5	They have trifectas in a number of
1:23.7	states, they have trifectas in a number of states, which is to say that they control both
1:25.9	chambers of their state legislatures and the governor's mansion.
1:29.1	We won an attorney general's races and Secretary of State's races and of course we took
1:35.1	back the house by a record number with the most number of Democrats elected
1:40.1	since Watergate so it was a pretty good night overall in an excellent election season.
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