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keep Bob Graham working for Florida. I believe that political campaigns have got a lot of things that they're trying to accomplish. Obviously, you want to get more votes than your opponent, but campaign ought to be fun. It ought to be a time in which people celebrate the opportunity that we have in this country to participate directly in our democracy.

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We're going to try to continue to do things like we're doing tonight, uh, which are part of that celebration. It's a celebration of family. I'm pleased, very pleased, that all the daughter is going to be active in the campaign. It's going to give them an insight, appreciation.

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It's going to give them a chance to meet you and for you to know them. That's really special. What really what really has touched me is I'm down in the campaign office here in Tallahassee, working volunteer, and they put me on a lot of the direct mail that's come in and just the little notes that people right back on the slips that they send money and $3.75.

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They tell you how much he has meant to them, and it just sends chills up my spine because I think that's my father. And that's someone that I can be proud of. And look at all these people out there that are just feel the same way they want to volunteer.

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They want to do anything that they can to make him the next U. S. Senator. Every night, Dad asked me, Have you read any more notes lately? What's coming in? And I'm just so proud to be able to tell him, because I can tell him right away.

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When I come home, I want to find him and say, Well, we did this today, Dad and this happened in the campaign today and he's like he said, Sissy, it's those people that are going to send me to the U. S. Senate those people that can only send maybe $3 And he said, Those are the people that make my job is a politician worthwhile?

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And and that's what I've learned. So Parsons, I've been working the camera. I think it's amazing to Well, I think we can all relate to this the really the amount you know, how nice it is and how amazing it is. In a sense, the people that respond to Dad.

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He loves it. I mean, you'll be staying there and he'll if someone walks by, he'll be like, Hi, stick his hand out And he wants to, you know, And he wants to talk and he wants to meet people, and he wants to know things about him.

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And you know what? They what they like and what they don't like. We're all going to work as hard as we can descend into the U. S. Senator, and that's all, you know, all working hard. I'm gonna tell you something that's not very unbiased. But I think the best thing that ever happened to me was marrying Adele.

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I think that the greatest strength of a campaign are the people who support you, the friends who stand beside you. And we are so fortunate to have the greatest friends, people who believed in us since many years we were running for the house. The Senate governor who remained are close friends and then our new friends who have known Bob for the governorship and want to help us.

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That is our greatest strength. That's what's gonna get us elected. The people out there who are willing to go door to door to pick up the phone, to send postcards, to say, Hey, I know Bob Graham and I know what he stands for and that's going to make the difference in this campaign.

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There'll be other good governors in Florida, but there'll never be a governor who will enjoy the work that he has had here in Florida. And I think that his feeling of joy is reflected in all of these friends that we have throughout Florida because they really like him and care about our family.

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So tonight I say, thank you, because you're gonna make the difference. I want to be United States senator from Florida because Florida is a state that has some very special needs that the nation must understand and respond to. And we've got a lot to share out of our special experience with the nation.

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No state knows more about questions of the fact that our borders are open, that we are being invaded every day, buy legal drugs and illegal refugees. It's going to require the use of the national military. But it's a problem that we in Florida feel with a special urgency.

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There's no other state that is dealing with issues of the elderly as we are in Florida, we understand the importance of community based programs that help keep people well, as opposed to reliance on institutions after people are sick. We understand in Florida the necessity of being competitive internationally.

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That's the way we've operated. We are a state which has grown up with, is familiar with, is comfortable and is prepared to compete in the world marketplace. We are a state which has made such a commitment to improving education because we understand that the future is in our investment in our Children and in our communities through quality education.

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Today, those are the messages that we've learned in Florida that we need to carry to Washington that we need Washington to understand. We need a strong, energetic voice to get Washington to respond. We need action. That's the challenge. That's the joy of being a Floridian in 1986.

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That's why I'm running for the United States Senate