gave the lift to, $1,000 to at quincy community college, came through this year at umass boston and told us, you gave me $1,000 before, and i gave it back to quincy college because they helped me. thank you for my second gift. and i said, thank you for your second graduation. that is pretty cool. i m guessing just about every college and university in the country has asked you to be their commencement speaker next year, right? after this year, they will. let s hope you choose wisely. i m a dorchester kid, you are co-owner of the boston celtics who have, after three games, made me quite miserable, played two games that have me kind of hopeful. how are you feeling for tomorrow night? can we get two in a row? i think you hit the nail on the head. hopeful is the right word. i m with you. and i believe we have a really gifted team. and if they play defense and they run the floor quickly, i like our chances. whoever figured out what to
i think first one, the quincy community college, was 2020/2021. and the kids were on the heels of the pandemic. so, seemed like they d been through so much adversity, that we should give them a reason to celebrate. secondly, quincy, roxbury, and umass boston, are percentage first generation college graduates, high percentage minority population. these are kids who have worked their tails off to get here and to work through, to work two jobs to get through. they needed a little celebration. i grew up a couple miles from the umass boston campus. it would be a big deal to get $1,000. you segway $500 for you, $500 for an organization or a person who needs help even more than you. let s start with the reaction. when people go through that line and you hand them those
very, very fortunate. and to be honest, many of the most joyous moments in our lives have been culminations of gifts and seeing the by-product. so, we hope that the graduates take the money, give it to an individual or an organization, and feel that joy. and i m telling you, it s intoxicating. and they ll want to keep that joy, and they ll want to do it more frequently. i believe i really believe if they put the money to good use, it will become a trait that carries on for the rest of their lives. as you know, you started doing this at this unprecedented time, where there s lite of of stress, the covid stress, and the can i find a job stress. in terms of the seed you re trying to plant, have you heard from any of the students, say, two years ago saying, thank you, you were so important to me then, this is what i m doing now. i ve heard ironically, quincy community college is a two-year school, becoming a four-year school by the way. but it was a two-year school when we did it
not very much anymore. pat quincy is anything other than iffy there. an open seat in massachusetts is a history of electing the governors in open seat races and connecticut rounds out the top five. with the governors, another story line is going to be the 2016 angle and the 2016 intrigue in here. the republican governor scott walker and martinez are early favorites and both will be in competitive races. one or both could lose. all the talk about walker for president or suzanna martinez on the ticket. what would happen if one loses there in the dust bin of political history. other people like jerry brown. he wins with more than 60% reelection has a record to run on in health. a health exchange that works pretty well. does he end up running?
it s not the only foreign front that gets lot of in washington s whacka mole health care whirl wind. an amazing eyewitness account from inside the dallas school book depository. a man who was there and may have bumped into lee harvey oswald himself. landing in arizona, chris christie takes the republican reign. we will talk to north carolina governor at the center of a voting rights fight in his state. good morning from washington. it s wednesday, november 20th. this is the daily rundown. the latest on the tragic situation in virginia and congressman tray radell. let s get to the first read of the morning. we will begin with the conflict in afghanistan. something that too often gets glossed over while we are focused on what s going on in the beltway. the president made ending the war one of the corner stones of his campaign. by 2014, this process will be complete and the afghan people will be responsible for their own security. i will not keep americans in harm s way a