Deployed 117 lawyers to ensure open, fair and honest elections in ten targeted states and an additional 35 for recount. In addition, are in a leaders have trained over 800 lawyers and pull watchers. Members participated at some level, either paid or volunteering to ensure honest elections throughout the country. I want to take the opportunity to recognize all those who volunteered and helped elect donald trump and other republicans. We hope to see you in michigan august 4 and fifth. We dont know if its detroit or grand rapids yet. And offer your assistance in the virginia elections this year. I will turn it over to john to kick off our next panel. Thank you elliott. I am john ryder. Im cochairman of the rn l. A. Im in private practice in memphis and i reject him stealing all my blue suede shoe lines. Thats my role to say thank you, thank you very much, but i do thank you very much elliott, and i want to thank Kimberly Reed our chairman and thank you to david who is the chairman of this
Deployed 117 lawyers to ensure open, fair and honest elections in ten targeted states and an additional 35 for recount. In addition, are in a leaders have trained over 800 lawyers and pull watchers. Members participated at some level, either paid or volunteering to ensure honest elections throughout the country. I want to take the opportunity to recognize all those who volunteered and helped elect donald trump and other republicans. We hope to see you in michigan august 4 and fifth. We dont know if its detroit or grand rapids yet. And offer your assistance in the virginia elections this year. I will turn it over to john to kick off our next panel. Thank you elliott. I am john ryder. Im cochairman of the rn l. A. Im in private practice in memphis and i reject him stealing all my blue suede shoe lines. Thats my role to say thank you, thank you very much, but i do thank you very much elliott, and i want to thank Kimberly Reed our chairman and thank you to david who is the chairman of this
Maybe it is not on. Good afternoon, everybody. Voice is loud, so if the microphone is not on, im just going to go ahead and speak up. Welcome back, everybody. Panel. You enjoyed that as you can see, we have shrunk things down a bit. We dont need quite as many thise seated up here for next panel. It is going to be a good one. This one works, either. There we go. It is my pleasure to introduce ron hicks, the Vice President for communication and partner. And aa pittsburghian great guy. Im going to let him introduce our panel here about loving regulations, ethics rules, and it is good that none of those have been in the news recently. Good afternoon. I want to congratulate david for pronouncing the name of my firm correctly. Everyone always butchers it. I am from pittsburgh, pennsylvania. Not only was this conference pertinent with regard to what is going on today, but there is a more significant event tomorrow night and that is when the pens will beat the caps. Just so you know, i have al
No, a modest of course. It was keeping the party polite. A modest increase in the minimum wage is an intervention in a reasonable part of a sensible strategy to restore this and equitably shared prosperity. It is just part of what we can do, and it will have some impact in making the prosperity, the equitable share dollars. We used to have. A show of hands how many things have won the debate today please somebody raise your hand. Sherry of fairness. I see two, three. Okay. How many believe mary won the debate today . Mary won the debate. No, how many of you changed your mind during the course of the last 50 minutes . One there, too,. Thank you for participating in this debate. Please welcome back. [applause] thank you for the panel. A wonderful program, as we knew we would be. We appreciate it very much. We have a couple of minutes for folks to wonder on and from other things, and then are going to have a fascinating conversation with p. J. Orourke and john allison moderated by alexand
An idea whose time has come looks at the political battles involved in passing the Civil Rights Act, 50 years ago this summer and regarded as one of the most significant legislative achievements of the moment. Todd burnham spent years at the white house as Diplomatic Correspondent Dan Los Angeles bureau chief, now National Editor of vanity fair. And david ship hells waking from the dream tracks the history of the Movement Since the death of dr. King. David chappell is professor of modern American History, taught in arkansas, russia and upstate new york. Washington d. C. And policy work, in addition to waking from the dream he has written inside is of the Civil Rights Movement and prophetic religion in the death of jim crow. He has written numerous articles and essays so our format today i will start by asking a few questions for panelists to discuss and then we will switch to audience questions. Please go to the microphone in the middle. It 3 15 we will move to the activity building fo