Democratic hardy but for the country. I had been a democrat and my College Years and surely thereafter and i became more conservative over time before becoming republican during breitbart and so forth but even then i had an empathy for a kind of utopian thinking that the left does but im not a utopian myself but i do think that Many Democrats might disagree on policy issues in an ideological issues are coming from a very good place. They want to make a world better and what struck me about the direction the Democratic Party is taking, that party in such an extreme direction better risks falling over the cliff and essentially pulling the rest of the country with it one of the most important things to change my mind about politics was my experience for seven years in south africa seeing that leftwing government mismanaged the country after apartheid and i came back to the United States with the lessons of that experience very prominent in my mind and it really guided my thinking about am
Secretary of state and now the director at standard university. Condoleezza rice. Doctor Condoleezza Rice im so lucky to talk to you for the next 35 or 40 minutes on behalf of the ragan institute. Im really honored to be part of todays conversation and to have this chance to speak with doctor Condoleezza Rice. On a personal note, we are living in such a stressful time. How are you doing and how are you holding up and where are you right now. Condoleezza rice im in california. Im doing just fine. Like most knowledge workers freedom able to work from home although i did hear a very funny line in the day. Not sure whether im working at home or living inc. But im trying to during this time, when im actually. Productive freedom able to do almost everything remotely. Im trying to keep up my exercise routine and practicing the piano so i can manage that. So ive been director of the hoover institution. [inaudible]. The time off the road, allowed me to make a. Smooth transition. So all in all,
Phone lines to be open to see if there is a Public Comment . Chair borden yep and is there you have chair borden how many . You have zero questions remaining. With that, well close Public Comment. Directors, do i have a motion . Secretary boomer, please call roll . Chair borden aye. Director brinkman aye. Vice chair eaken aye. Director heminger aye. Director lai aye. Madame chair, the minutes are approved. Item 5, communications. Madame chair. Chair borden as many of you have learned, our heart was broken this weekend with the untimely passing of one of our own. Antonio, a muni operator with the Transportation Agency for 19 years, was known for being deeply committed to his job and well known by the people on his buses and in many communities. He was born and raised in the Richmond District and leaves behind wife jennifer, three children and grandchildren. Well have this meeting adjourned in his memory, but im devastated. I want to thank his family to loaning him to us. He did die in s
Of mind blowing. Check out these numbers, the six biggest tech stocks losing more than 1 trillion in value in three days apple, microsoft, amazon, microsoft, tesla and facebook. This is kind of unbelievable on the way up, we kind of get i wont say we get used to it. Complacent. We dont quite notice it as much after the split, was apple up 40 or something remember when we were arguing about tesla at 500 a share . Look where it went eastbound the s p was up almost 60 since march. You get these crazy moves to the upside we should have been able to watch this after all these years and how quickly the corrections can come to get that move and have a correction in three days maybe we need to even revise the terms for how we talk about it given what the nasdaq has done, that perspective it is nothing it is not that shocking if you are a longterm investor, this is no big deal. If you were looking at this. Those six stocks losing a trillion in value, they are still up several trillions you are
Organization, what is it and how are you funded and supported . A demanded justice is Progressive Organization that return in 2018 to try to symmetry between those on the left and the right when it comes to tuning into the importance of the federal judiciary. Havelicans for decades successfully messaged to their voters the importance of the judiciary and how it really is the ultimate arbiter of all the issues that we care about. On the left, weve been less successful and that was very pointed in 2016 when Hillary Clinton was campaigning as there was a Supreme Court vacancy hanging in the balance after the death of anson scalia and even the progressive had opportunity by winning the election in the ideological balance of the court, you really didnt see that issue register at a Grassroots Level among democratic voters. 2016,t, at exit polls in you saw that voters said the Supreme Court was a top issue with them by about 15 points supported donald trump. Becoming president , donald trump