Mikie Sherrill
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607 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 29 Jan
Mikie Sherrill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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With some of these housing prices, and you've got to start by building. And when we look at the fact that in New Jersey, we're about 150,000 home units short of where we need to be to continue to move the workforce into the state and continue to innovate and move the jobs forward. That's a huge issue, especially... When you compare it to places like Florida that have an overabundance of homes.
And so, you know, here's the thing. I mean, maybe you make a calculation. You know, am I worried about my rights and freedoms in Florida? Sure. But do I really want to afford a home with a backyard and a swimming pool versus, you know, small two bedroom apartment with my three kids? You know, maybe that's a trade you take for obvious reasons. Right.
That is not the moniker I'm going for, but... The DeSantis of the left.
I think it's so key. I think it's both combating the excesses of the Trump administration, combating the bad economic decisions of the Trump administration, because people forget, with the chaos that he engenders, how really economically... tough it can be on families.
So whether you're talking about in my state, the state and local tax deduction cap, or if you're talking about the failure to fund the Gateway Tunnel project as our transit system kept imploding, or you're talking about some of the attacks on the healthcare system so we couldn't move forward and driving down costs there, he was really impacting families.
And now he is, you know, with some of the discussion that he's had on tariffs and the discussions that he's had on how he is going to lead, that could very easily cost families thousands and thousands of dollars. If he's going to deport everyone, as he suggests, beyond some of the real fears that families have about their loved ones, you're also talking about how are we going to run our economy?
That's why, you know, I've always been a fan of comprehensive immigration reform, making sure we have security at the border, processing at the border, but also pathways to citizenships for people who are working in our economy. So these things are going to be huge hits on everyday people. So a strong governor is going to need to punch back.
And a strong governor is going to need to stand in the breach there and say, no, to me, it's not just about pushing back. That is not enough to say, oh, I'm going to be a strong defender of our values in the state and of running the state economy in the wake of the chaos coming out of Washington. That's not visionary. That's not visionary. future focus.
You know, that might be something that people say, well, great, for four years, maybe things won't get worse here. But how are things going to get better?
Yeah, I think Democrats have to have a vision. And I think it's through the Democratic governors. And I actually think that could be very good for our party. I think we have a really strong bench. I think we have people that have created successful administrations and have done things that are very popular with people and have really impacted change. I think we have to come together.
What is that vision of the Democratic governors of this country? And how do we execute it together?
It's such an incredible slap in the face to every woman who has served. You know, I've spoken to friends of mine I graduated from the Naval Academy with. I've spoken to Marine Corps veterans and aviators and
I've spoken to women who work closely with the Lioness squads, who were the squads that helped clear homes and got valuable intelligence information from the women in the homes that they were clearing. I mean, I've spoken to so many people, and I think until... this nomination, there was this sense that things were on such strong ground.
I mean, we've had, you know, from my class, the first female commanding officer of an aircraft carrier. We now have the first female superintendent, the first female chief of naval operations. And all of that tracks back to when I graduated from the academy 30 years ago, and the combat restrictions on ships and aircraft were lifted.
Because you can't fully participate in the military as somebody who's going to be competitive if you don't go into combat, if you don't go on a combatant ship, if you don't go into combat aircraft, if you aren't on the ground in combat. And by the way, this idea that somehow... combat is like trench warfare and here's the combat line for the men and the women are back there as the nurses.
I mean, that is so antiquated. The way we fight today is so different from that. And combat is sort of these combatant roles are enmeshed in so many different ways in so many different positions. So, you know, we go from when I was at the Naval Academy to the chief of naval operations, who was a submariner.
When someone stood up at a brigade meeting and stood up and said, when are you going to let women on submarines? And he derisively said, not in my lifetime, to a standing ovation to actually the USS New Jersey being the first fast attack purpose-built sub to have women on board. You know, that felt to me like, wow, such a momentous thing. And yes, I am very proud it's named the USS New Jersey.
So that's such movement and progress. And when you see everything, you know, I was speaking to somebody who was telling me at the Naval Academy, some of the women there are so physically fit and in such great shape and such leaders that some of the men there say, oh, I'm going to go work out with her because she's going to help me get in shape. Like, I want to be in sick shape. So she's a beast.
I'm going to go do that kind of thing. And so, you know, we're seeing such great leadership, such great opportunities, such such exciting stuff going on in our force. And that is how we have a ready force.
And to see somebody who just sees women in the role of, as I guess he said at one of his jobs, which he was, of course, let go from party girls or not party girls who, you know, has a credible assault allegations who had to be carried out of a group team meeting, uh,
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