Good morning, and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for today, tuesday, april 25th, 2017 i am the chair of the ta, aaron peskin. And mr. Clerk, could you call the roll . Breed . Present. Cohen . Present. Farrell . Absent. Fewer . Absent. Kim. Absent. Peskin. Present. Rohnen. Absent, safahir. Tang, present. Yee, is absent. We have a quorum, commissioner would like to make a motion to excuse commissioners farrell, ronen yee and fewer. Motion made by commissioner safahi, is there a second for that seconded by breed. Without objection this has been a big month, with the passage, that will provide, 52 million for the road transit and biking and walking facilities through a combination of gas, and diesel fuel, taxes and the vehicle fee increase, and truck weight restoration and we join with the cities and counties up and down the state for thanking the senator, and assembly man, phraser from the Transportation Committees in the legislature as well as Govern
He told writers and artists they should work towards promoting party ideology. He is serving 11 years in prison. He protested for human rights. He wrote a book of poetry he criticized the russian government. He still behind bars. Ask how the government might handle journalists who do not stick to the official light. They used these words. Probably just executing them. More than 70 other writers and journalists had been murdered for their words. They are just words. And ideas and films and songs in stories and research and internet posting and they have and advocating for them almost a century. In countries like russia, egypt, bangladesh, countries where words are not free and freethinkers are in danger. So when the president of the nights it calls journalists the enemy of the American People or says a News Organization is going to suffer the consequences when he puts arts and humidity on the chopping block in denies the meanings of words it reminds us of other words from other leaders
He told writers and artists they should work towards promoting party ideology. He is serving 11 years in prison. He protested for human rights. He wrote a book of poetry he criticized the russian government. He still behind bars. Ask how the government might handle journalists who do not stick to the official light. They used these words. Probably just executing them. More than 70 other writers and journalists had been murdered for their words. They are just words. And ideas and films and songs in stories and research and internet posting and they have and advocating for them almost a century. In countries like russia, egypt, bangladesh, countries where words are not free and freethinkers are in danger. So when the president of the nights it calls journalists the enemy of the American People or says a News Organization is going to suffer the consequences when he puts arts and humidity on the chopping block in denies the meanings of words it reminds us of other words from other leaders
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