Ok. All right. [laughter] [applause] [cheering] [applause] good afternoon everybody. Hello. Behalf of the center of Civic Engagement hearing new england college, it is my pleasure to introduce you to president ial candidate and United States senator, Amy Klobuchar. [applause] amy is the first woman to be elected to the United States ,enate in minnesotas history and she has a wellknown reputation of getting things done while she is there. A recent study has actually ranked her the most effective democratic senator in the last United States congress. [applause] committed to improving the lives of families in the heartland, ensuring that kids that grow up in Rural America can stay in Rural America. And without spreading lies or spreading the blame, amy is focused on getting things done and making sure that families lives are improved every day. When she first came to congress her number one ask was to be on the Senate Agricultural committee. She understands that this country has to suppor
The hon. London breed it is trans Awareness Month in San Francisco. Just have a seat and ignore the reserved seats signs because everybody for the reserved seats signs are probably behind me. Happy trans Awareness Week in San Francisco. We need to do it bigger. Lets do a month, and this is where we are, celebrating so many amazing things, so many amazing accomplishments. But we also know, sadly, that our Trans Community all over the country is under attack. Just recently, sadly, we shouldnt be surprised, but the president has rolled out some new discriminatory plan against our Trans Community, trying to take away millions of dollars of federal funds from our cities throughout the country. And we are of course, in San Francisco style, going to continue to fight back time and time again against the discrimination that continues to attract attack our Trans Community here in this city. [applause] the hon. London breed we understand, more than anyplace else, despite the differences that we
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Thank you for your tire less work as well. We want to thank web core builders. Wsp on the air train station. We are proud to be here. 30 years in the making. Thank you all for being here. Lets hear from our mayor. I am so proud. Here is mayor london breed. [applause. ] you do the work, i cut the ribbon. First of all, let me just say i am excited to be here today. I remember when i was on the board of supervisors and we approved the believe of this new hotel the building of this new hotel. We worked with mayor ed lee. He was here during the groundbreaking and would have been so proud of this major accomplishment. What is so exciting today is that no only do we celebrate opening the hotel. It is a new milestone in the future of sfo and what it will deliver for millions who come through those gates on a regular basesis. The fact this is so close to the airport, connections through air tran and how people will come here to stay here in order to get to the airport on time in the mornings, i
One culture is represented by the people on this stage who are scholars associated with the Miller Center at the university of virginia and to study the presidency who study the presidency, and expressed in written word. The other culture in this room is pat oliphant. [applause] please greet pat oliphant. Even more so by the work of pat, which you will see displayed on this screen. The culture he represents is not sort of broad gauge and long but highly specific. Prospective over the course of more than 60 years as a cartoonist producing more than 10,000 individual cartoons five days a week for the denver post for several years, for the washington star for several years, and then he became the first 20thcentury cartoonist to work independently. That is how popular his work was. It was syndicated through newspapers across the country out of his studio. So a specific, daily comment on events as they were occurring. Far from being balanced, they were opinionated. That was part of their vi