In 1999 he tried to buy my case. We didnt get there until 2003. My case was heard in my home county in alabama in january of 2003. After a week of testimony the jury came back with a verdict in my favor. I had two women who came forward, one of them still working at the plant and at the time she took a tremendous risk, and she paid a horrific price for doing this. But she had suffered a lot of discrimination as well. And she has never gotten anything for it. The other had sold her service and have been working 22 years. She went to work for honda as a supervisor. She took a personal day and came to court and testify on my behalf. The lawyer asked her why she never complained and she said i was a divorced mother supporting a blind and handicapped son and i live paycheck to paycheck and i couldnt afford to bring up my pay. Because you see, we were all told in management but if you discuss your pay, you will not work here. Evidently, no one ever did discuss their pay. And she said that i
Spoke at the Cato Institute of washington. This includes remarks by one paul sun, senator rand paul. Its an hour and 10 minutes. Good afternoon. Welcome to the Cato Institute. Im david boaz of the institute of her trying Something Different you are doing an event after work hours. Well see how that works out, but hopefully its good for people who have jobs and cant come to the events we do usually at noon. Required to have a very interesting discussion of ron pauls revolution. About 30 years ago there was a book published about the early years of the Libertarian Movement called it usually begins a timer and unless we found a cato, that most of our interns and students who came to her seminaries had first read the fountainhead. Not all of him, but more than anything else. I think you can say over the past six years, it usually begins with ron paul. As we get more people hitting their first taste of libertarian ideas and maybe then they move on to read ayn rand and cato policy studies, w
Take a look at the large crowd in Huntington Beach yesterday, theyre protesting the governors orders to close all beaches in orange county. So, as we look ahead to whats coming in may, we also look at key moments in march that led to us this point. Theres a new cdc report on the key factors that accelerated the spread of the virus in the early days here in the u. S. Some of them, international travel. A look of testing, asymptomatic spreaders. Theres optimistic news on the treatment of covid19. The fda giving authorization to extend the drug remdesivir. This is allowing them to treat hospitalized patients in some cases. Some governors are concerned about holding back on easing restrictions. Others are going ahead with it loosening rules in phases, its clear theres not one single lane or strategy that states are taking to reopen their communities. Cnns alison kosik is with us. Alison, i know youre looking at some of these different approaches. Is there anything that stands out to you .
Virus. This virus doesnt take the weekends off. This virus doesnt go home because of a beautiful sunny day around our coasts. This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good morning to atlanta. Beautiful shot there. Wherever youre watching in the world thanks so much for being with us. This is the first weekend of loosened coronavirus restrictions for more than half the country. More than 30 states are easing those restrictions. Dozens are planning to be partially reopened in about eight days by may 10th. Maybe theres a chance can you go to a mall again. It depends on the state youre in. Mall giant Simon Property group says they are reopening 49 malls across ten states. And california theres tension over a decision to add some restrictions. Listen here, this crowd in Huntington Beach yesterday protesting the governors order to close all beaches in Orange County. Lets look ahead. Were learning about key moments back in march that led us to this point where we are ri
Duty and the police chief was stepping down as chief. The chaos was capture on several videos. A warning, they are difficult to watch. The first video was taken by a bystander, it shows the two officers in a tense struggle with 27yearold Rayshard Brooks. The Georgia Bureau of investigations says brooks failed a field sobriety test and was resisting arest. Brooks manages to break free of the officers after grabbing one of their tasers. The next video taken by surveillance camera shows what happened next. Again, it is graphic. Brooks is seen running with the Police Chasing him. At one point he turns and appears to discharge the taser at the officers. Moments later, he is shot. He falls to the pavement and is pronounced dead at the hospital. Atlantas mayor said the officers were wrong to use deadly force. I do not believe that this was a justified use of deadly force, and have called for the immediate termination of the officer. Chief shields has officers to immediately step aside as poli