Oh, my gosh. Thank you. Thank you for that. Thank you for being here. Thanks so much. Take a good seat. This is only 3 1 2 hours long. President perkins, speaker her areman, and members of the 65th legislature, thank you for your welcome. To the people of wyoming here and those watching at home, good morning. And i also want to welcome secretary of state ed buchanan, treasurer kurt meyer, and superintendent bay low. [ applause ] together we have addressed many tough issues this year, always crafting sensible, Workable Solutions to even the most challenging of those facing our state. Communities large and small. And i thank you for your work. We are honored this morning with the presence of Supreme Court chief justice and justices bloomgarden and gray. Thank you for your wise consideration of perplexing issues and your appropriate allocation of the law. [ applause ] and im really pleased to have lee spoonhunter, chairman of the northern arap ahoe Business Council today. Travel condition
Address from wyoming governor mark gordon. Hes a first term governor who was elected in 2018 after serving six years as the state tressurer. From the state capital in cheyenne, this is just under an hour. [ applause ] thank you. Its amazing to be here. Thank you so much. [ applause ] oh, my gosh. Thank you. Thank you for that prayer. Thank you for being here. Thanks so much. Take a good seat. This is only three and a half hours. [ laughter ] oh, thank you. President perkins, speaker parchmen and members. Legislature, thank you for your welcome. To the people of wyoming here and those watching at home, good morning. And i also want to welcome secretary of state ed buchanan, auditor christie resines, treasureur kurt meyer and superintendent daily. [ applause ] together we have addressed many tough issues this year, all with workable solutions, even the most challenging of some of the votes facing our faith, communities large and small, and i thank you for your work. We are honored this m
And that seems to be the word that i am getting. And to focus on how we get the hispanic vote it is disingenuous but to be nonpartisan with the atmosphere but back to mr. Trump a and he is not a republican but it is somewhat concerning but there is actually a falling out there. Like most rubio looking in the background who was there and it is predominantly is the anglosaxon protestant per everyones right you will see an asianamerican or hispanic or africanamerican but this is the concern in texas. Everybody talks about the hispanic population with the asian constituency as well so with the firsttime voters than to the growth of the hispanic population is somewhat meaningless. If we cannot generate and excite and engage people it doesnt matter how fast in the particular segment is growing if we dont exercise the right to vote but the message that came across the College Campuses was trust they dont trust elected officials. There is a reason for that and it is ironic if you pull congress
The real challenge is how do you balance this environment and not lose that edge or lose that equipment. And the air force mission is very unique. Within 72 hours the Air National Guard unit can deploy and they have to be ready to deploy. This is my good friend here from the interNational Guard. We have these tankers on alert right now that if something happens over the United States there are pilots and jets. And that mission of the air force is unique. It takes more get up and going. The air force does a great thing and we have a great partnership. On the army message and transmission, depending on what skills that you need, if you need support personnel in my branch, for example, if you need engineers. Most of our engineers have some civilian backgrounds. The wyoming guard came in and i think that we had 23 combinations and pulling people off the side of the mountain and went back later, which you probably didnt see on the news, after four states rolled in with National Guard and th
Objectivity. Welcome the like to cspan and public radio audiences. Follow the action on twitter npclunch. Introduce our to head table. I would ask each to stand briefly as your name is announced. From your right, kevin, a Committee Member for the vietnam war commemoration. Marcus, a documentary film maker. Washingtonppe, a correspondent for ganett. Secretary of the the air force and a member of the National Press club. Thomas burr, senior washington correspondent for the Salt Lake City tribune and the chairman of board of the National Press club. Jim michaels, military reporter for usa today. Bill ingram, director of the Army National guard. The podium. R donna, a reporter for usa today. The organizer of todays lunch on the Speakers Committee and the 2009 president of the National Press club. Skipping over the speaker momentarily, rachel oswald, a at National Journal news wire. Brigadier general james whitham. Mary french of army magazine. Chief Master Sergeant mitch enlisted advisor t