Meeting in San Francisco. Half. An hour and a thomas good morning, everyone. I think it is about time to start now. My name is thomas tacoma i am a , doctoral student. I am the chair of this mornings panel, the Electoral College, time to reevaluate . Thank you for coming out at 8 00 a. M. On saturday. Thank you also to the Claremont Institute for sponsoring our panel discussion. Our speakers today are david frisk, resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton institute, adam carrington, assistant professor of politics at hillsdale college, and michael uhlmann, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute. We will have 20 minutes for each speaker to deliver his remarks. Then we will open up to questions and general discussion. And one note, if you do have a question please bring it to the , microphone in the center so you can be on camera. I think we are being recorded by cspan this morning. And without any further ado, david first. David thanks to all of you for coming out this early morning
Institute for sponsoring our panel discussion. Our speakers today are david frisk, resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton institute, adam carrington, assistant professor of politics at hillsdale college, and michael uhlmann, a senior fellow at the claremont institute. We will have 20 minutes for each speaker to deliver his remarks. Then we will open up to questions and general discussion. And one note, if you do have a question, please bring it to the microphone in the center so you can be on camera. I think we are being recorded by cspan this morning. And without any further ado, david first. David thanks to all of you for coming out this early morning. I will be defending the Electoral College. And equally important, when we are talking about a major change, discussing the dangers of any really a common to almost any plans for alternatives. There always has to be an alternative. It seems to me that there are certain advantages to the Electoral College, which have been stated by it
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Coalition for criminal justice. My function behind this is to educate the American People and make them go to the legislators have called for change because at the end of the day, but the Heritage Foundation and all of these advocacy groups allowed for fighting for change in fighting for the reform. If you dont fight to change the laws you will be having this 30 years from now doing the exact same thing. The law has to change and the more the public knows about what goes on in the system and the reality, the more they will fight for change because i promise you the American Public and the legislators who saw what i saw and witnessed what i witnessed there would be in there and outrage and chain. Now the mission is to get them to see. Hispanic did you get any different perspective after you got to know jack abram off and also did you have any speculation or theory about the arrest that led to the death of a man in baltimore and the Six Police Officers that have been accused, do you have