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To: snarkpup

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (EDT)

Call to Order
U.S. Representative and Convention Chair Marcia Fudge

Invocation
Dr. Ima Sherman Jackson

Presentation of Colors
Colonel Charles Young
American Legion Post 682

Pledge of Allegiance
Mallory Weggemann

National Anthem
Timmy Kelly

Remarks
Former U.S. Senator Tom Harkin
(Senator Harkin will speak on the 26th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a law he wrote and helped pass.)

Remarks
Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes

5:00 – 7:00 PM (EDT)

Nominating Speeches and Roll Call Vote

Remarks
Governor Terry McAuliffe

7:00 – 10:00 PM (EDT)

Remarks
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Women of the House

Remarks introducing Video Message
Former State Senator Jason Carter

Video Message from President Jimmy Carter

Remarks
U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer

Host for the evening: Actress Elizabeth Banks

FIGHTS OF HER LIFE: KIDS AND FAMILIES

Remarks
Thaddeus Desmond
Thaddeus is a child advocate social worker in Philadelphia

Remarks
Dynah Haubert
Dynah is a lawyer who works for a disability rights organization

Remarks
Kate Burdick
Kate is a staff attorney at the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia

Remarks
Anton Moore
Anton founded and runs a non-profit community group that strives to bring awareness and educate youth on gun violence

Remarks
Dustin Parsons
Dustin is a 5th grade teacher in Arkansas

Remarks
Daniele Mellott
Daniele and Mark Mellott’s adoption of their son was made possible through the 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act that Hillary championed as First Lady.

Remarks
Jelani Freeman
Jelani grew up in foster care and is a former intern in Hillary Clinton’s Senate office. Since receiving his law degree, he has worked to bring opportunity to kids at risk.

Remarks
Democratic National Committee Vice Chair of Voter Registration and Participation Donna Brazile

Remarks
Eagle Academy Principal and Students
As a senator, Hillary Clinton supported the creation of the Eagle Academy to educate at-risk youth in New York City.

FIGHTS OF HER LIFE: SOCIAL JUSTICE

Remarks
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder

Remarks
Pittsburgh Chief of Police Cameron McLay

Remarks
Actor Tony Goldwyn

Remarks
Mothers of the Movement
Sybrina Fulton, Geneva Reed-Veal, Lucy McBath, Gwen Carr, Cleopatra Pendelton, Maria Hamilton, Lezley McSpadden, and Wanda Johnson

Performance
Andra Day

FIGHTS OF HER LIFE: WOMEN AND FAMILIES

Remarks
President of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund Cecile Richards

Remarks
Actresses America Fererra and Lena Dunham

Remarks
Mayor of Columbia (SC) Steve Benjamin

Remarks
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer

FIGHTS OF HER LIFE: STANDING UP FOR 9/11 FIRST RESPONDERS & SURVIVORS
Introduction by Actress Debra Messing

Remarks
Joe Sweeney
Joe was a detective with the NYPD on September 11, 2001. When the towers were hit, he rushed down to the World Trade Center and began digging through the rubble for survivors.

Remarks
Lauren Manning
Lauren spent more than 6 months in the hospital after 9/11 recovering from severe burns. As senator, Hillary Clinton helped Lauren get the care she needed.

Remarks
U.S. Representative Joseph Crowley

FIGHTS OF HER LIFE: HEALTH CARE

Introduction of Speaker
Actress Erika Alexander

Remarks
Ryan Moore
Ryan has spondyloepiphyseal Dysplasia dwarfism and has known Hillary Clinton since 1994 when they met during the fight for health care reform. Ryan has stayed in contact with Hillary ever since.

Remarks
Former Governor of Vermont Howard Dean

FIGHTS OF HER LIFE: SECRETARY OF STATE

Remarks
U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar

Remarks
Ima Matul
Sex Trafficking Survivor & Advocate

Remarks
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright

10:00 – 11:00 PM (EDT)

Remarks
President Bill Clinton

Introduction of Film
Actress Meryl Streep

Performance
Alicia Keys


4 posted on 07/26/2016 10:11:45 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

If Hillary has been such a fighter for people, why haven’t their conditions improved?


6 posted on 07/26/2016 10:15:47 AM PDT by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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To: COUNTrecount
Remarks Former Governor of Vermont Howard Dean

"Yeeeeaaaaaaaaah!"


11 posted on 07/26/2016 10:24:19 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: COUNTrecount

“Mothers of the Movement”

Are those the mothers of the Black thugs?


13 posted on 07/26/2016 10:27:43 AM PDT by Parley Baer (")
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To: COUNTrecount
Somebody seems a tad sensitive over the lack of flag issue at the DNC...

Invocation

Presentation of Colors

National Anthem

15 posted on 07/26/2016 10:28:26 AM PDT by C210N
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To: COUNTrecount

Fighting for families gets us Lena (sister molester) Dunham who has a show full of sex scenes on HBO and Planned Parenthood, the largest killer of unborn babies in America.


20 posted on 07/26/2016 10:41:22 AM PDT by Pinkbell (Liberal tolerance only extends to people they agree with.)
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To: COUNTrecount

That whole “pledge of allegiance” thing is going to be pretty awkward.


24 posted on 07/26/2016 10:54:10 AM PDT by thoughtomator ("... and if a million more agree, there ain't no Great Society")
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To: COUNTrecount

Sherman A. Jackson, also known as Abdul Hakim Jackson is an American scholar.


28 posted on 07/26/2016 11:07:11 AM PDT by cdga5for4
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To: COUNTrecount
Woah, I thought Madeleine Albright was dead. I wonder how much damage behind the scenes this fan of North Korea has brought us lo these many years.
34 posted on 07/26/2016 11:54:27 AM PDT by corlorde
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