Keep us involved in its work. So that we that qualified as lgbt seniors were involved in the work for the first surveys through the focus groups thorough indicational meetings and review the documents. And we are very thankful for the work of the task force and its effort and for the supervisors. And in bringing that about and i personally am thrilled to hear that legislation is already in the works to enact the recommendations of the task force. My fellow sfop leaders stand ready to assist in making those recommendations a reality. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please . My name is larry saxon and i am a resident of the district five and i have been for the last 35 years and i would like to thank you very much for the opportunity of having served on the task force and go from the human perspective and the mind of all present that during the process of researching and compiling this comprehensive report, which by the way is the first of its kind, in the nation.
Significant. Is there is a relatively High Percentage as we know, of lgbt youth who have contemplated suicide. The number of seniors and i think that the report actually states in the last year, that have contemplated suicide, is almost equal to that number. And that is within the last year. And i think that what that demonstrates is a substantial and a tremendous sense of desperation and a lack of hope in this community and it is something that we need to look at immediately. Because for every month we dont look at these issues, we may lose more seniors and we may lose more individuals, who take their own lives. The other thing is come is cultural come pentcy and we have done a lot of work in the community in the various communities of various culture thes the Latino Community and the emensa community and others. And we find tremendous lack of cultural competency within each one of those cultures. On the lgbt issues, and i think that part of it is or was demonstrated by the only limit
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Ladies and gentlemen, for all the good people of america, today we enter a new era in american government. Today, one Political Party is listening to the concerns of the American People. And we are respon in with specific legislation. We are united here today. Over 150 current members of the house and over 200 candidates united in the belief that the peoples house must be wrested from the grip of special interests and handed back to you, the American People. Unhappily, americans today are cynical. They are tired of broken promises. Tired of being misled. Tired of spin from a white house that seems to govern on the principle that you can fool the people. Some of the time and tired of a congress that raises their taxes and wastes their money through the lens of cspan cameras. Americans are just dismayed by the sight of a revered institution corrupted by absolute power. A house of representative that now routinely stifles free and open debate cobbles together thousands of pages of bills b
The good people of america, today we enter a new era in american government. Today, one Political Party is listening to the concerns of the American People. And we are respon in with specific legislation. We are united here today. Over 150 current members of the house and over 200 candidates united in the belief that the peoples house must be wrested from the grip of special interests and handed back to you, the American People. Unhappily, americans today are cynical. They are tired of broken promises. Tired of being misled. Tired of spin from a white house that seems to govern on the principle that you can fool the people. Some of the time and tired of a congress that raises their taxes and wastes their money through the lens of cspan cameras. Americans are just dismayed by the sight of a revered institution corrupted by absolute power. A house of representative that now routinely stifles free and open debate cobbles together thousands of pages of bills behind closed doors and refuses