Infered and once they are more nfered they become more involved. They were going door to door and people didnt want to vote. They lost their homes. They lost their jobs. Some of their friends were deported so we had to pull them out and is a its important for you to vote. We did get them out to vote. But it was pulling teeth to get people out to vote. So proposition 30 in california, the reason we are now in the state of california because we passed proposition 30. We passed a law that millionaires have to pay 3 more n state taxes. So we were able to bring in over 6 billion into the state of california. Most of that went to education. How did we get that . Go door to the door to get people to vote for that. And the people we went to to get at margin of victory it were voters that dont always vote. The immigrants who have just recently become citizens and people who didnt vote before. It can happen but it takes an awful lot of work to make it appen. On the 50th anniversary of the civil
Islamic state of iraq in the levant, and on page 15 it says we reject the lie that america and its allies are at war with islam. I would disagree with the first statement, i dont think were leading, but i would agree with the second statement, that we are not at war with all of islam. We are at war with radical islam and islamic extremism. Yet nowhere in the strategy does that term appear. In fact, the only two times the word islam appears are in the two instances i just mentioned. Yet Climate Change appears 19 times. I would ask do you think the National Security strategy has enough specificity to adequately inform the documents of the National Defense strategy and the National Military strategy to actually have a positive impact on executing a strategy for degrading and ultimately defeating isil . And secondly dr. Lynch, i would ask in your statement about the momentum of isil being halted. Just within the last 24 hours, theyre knocking on the door of the al Assad Air Base where we h
Condolences to the families of would two hostages one american dr. Warren weinstein and an italian, giovanni lo porto, who were tragically killed in a u. S. Counterterrorism operation. Warren and giovanni were aid workers in pakistan, devoted to improving the lives of the pakistani people. After warren was abducted by al qaeda in 2011. I directed my National Security team to do Everything Possible to find him and to bring him home safely to his family. And dedicated professionals across our government worked tirelessly to do so. We also worked closely with our italian allies on behalf of giovanni who was kidnapped in 2012. Since 9 11 our course terrorism efforts have prevent terrorist attacks and saved innocent lives, both here in america and around the world. And that determination to protect innocent life only makes the loss of these two men especially painful for all of us. Based on information and intelligence we have obtained we believe that a u. S. Counterterrorism operation targ
Its great to see everyone it. We had quite a night last night some real terrific programs. I wish you couldve been here. It was some real super stuff. Tracy did a great job telling us about the fall of petersburg and the battle of five forks. We have five speakers on tap this morning. Lets start off with chris talking about the battle of Sailors Creek. I will talk about appomattox courthouse. This afternoon, we have elizabeth talking about the legacies of appomattox and mark bradley talking about what was going on in North Carolina in 1865. As you know, this is a free civil war seminar. We are supported by the Eastern National bookstore. We have our authors and speakers books at here. We have William Thompsons books. Could you stand up and raise your hand . He has several books on the civil war. Specifically focusing on the events here in this area on april 7. I asked our speakers to gather at the table, even if they are speaking later in the day to the left out there. They will sign c
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