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Good afternoon, everybody. Oh, my gosh. You to full familiar faces, lots of beautiful new faces. Welcome, everybody. This is our monthly town hall so we are really excited and we are on track, we have not skipped a single month. Hall towntile hall per month and this is our nine out of nine town halls in addition to many local community events. Before we start, i want to acknowledge everyone here. Our staff that has worked so hard putting this together. Michelle, mabel, ariel, daniel, noreen. And marcus. He is live streaming. I am forgetting everything. We have Translation Services here today so we have our American Sign Language interpreter here. If you need it feel free to raise your hand. Our staff can make sure you get the Translation Services available. Hello, everyone. Evening. Are we at evening . Michelle will kick us off. We will dive right into it. Good evening. Today forfor coming our Community Town hall. Am Michelle Hernandez we want to thank you for coming today to discuss a
Ocasiocortez. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage congressman Bernie Sanders. [applause] thank you. Hello, new york. I am so pleased to be with you all. An extraordinary man that we all support, congressman Bernie Sanders. I see people from every single town. Yorkelting pot we call new. Hereof our ancestors came to america to find a better life. Escapeme from ireland to famine and poverty. Bernies family came to escape antisemitism and poverty. Create a things help better life for future generations here in america, and they could. Years, that last 40 promise has been eroded, and burning plans to change all that. Improving the quality of life for all americans and building a country based on fairness, ofpassion is at the core bernies message. [applause] you berniee to tell is back. And he is healthy and he is more than ready to continue his lifelong struggle to fight for the working people of america. You will be hearing from some Extraordinary People today, and nobody ha
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This is our monthly town hall so we are really excited and we are on track, we have not skipped a single month. Hall towntile hall per month and this is our nine out of nine town halls in addition to many local community events. Before we start, i want to acknowledge everyone here. Our staff that has worked so hard putting this together. Michelle, mabel, ariel, daniel, noreen. And marcus. He is live streaming. I am forgetting everything. We have Translation Services here today so we have our American Sign Language interpreter here. If you need it feel free to raise your hand. Our staff can make sure you get the Translation Services available. Hello, everyone. Evening. Are we at evening . Michelle will kick us off. We will dive right into it. Good evening. Today forfor coming our Community Town hall. Am Michelle Hernandez we want to thank you for coming today to discuss an important topic, which is antipoverty. The congresswoman recently packageut a legislative called they just society.