Who are freezing can admire your shorts and tshirts and silently curse you. Speaking of the tucson festival of books, we have bill minor here today, one of the visionaries. Give him a round of applause. Very much a volunteerdriven effort a group of people bill and many others who made a big impact on the community. If you want to be part of that, i hope you will consider becoming a friend of the festival. A tax deductible donation that impacts this event and were moting around the country. Let me introduce the panel. David maraniss author of many books, he was won several wards prince of tennessee about al gore books about sports in the 1960s, and other political books as well. So please welcome him. [applause] if you are political aware and not living under a rock you know about mark levitch and his book this town that caused a lot of stir and conversation. Number one New York Times best seller followed up with a collection of his fantastic articles over the years called sitcitizen ci
More comfortable living there then i would in other parts of the industrial parts of the United States for the simple reason so much care and attention has now gone into the making sure that the toms river environment is okay. And i want to pick up on one of the questioners who asked you whether or not companies pick communities that maybe economically disadvantaged. Was toms river like that when the company moved in . It was. Life was slow and there wasnt a lot of Economic Growth was a bit of the back water franklth was looking for an isolated place, where there was plenty of water, a rail spur, and this met all of the requirements. The two previous places where the company has been really more places than two but in cincinnati things were crowded they were on top of their neighbors and lots of conflict resulted. Toms river had advantages. You talked in your presentation about the Regulatory Environment that its too complex when it comes to the environment, and i aim correctly rephras
Andrei cherny formerly of the Democratic Party. [applause] dot everybody can say that in arizona and get applause. But the book readers are what we call the base. [laughter] dot thank you for that. Currently the ceo of aspiration. Com. Who are freezing can admire your shorts and tshirts and silently curse you. Speaking of the tucson festival of books, we have bill minor here today, one of the visionaries. Give him a round of applause. Very much a volunteerdriven effort a group of people bill and many others who made a big impact on the community. If you want to be part of that, i hope you will consider becoming a friend of the festival. A tax deductible donation that impacts this event and were moting around the country. Let me introduce the panel. David maraniss author of many books, he was won several wards prince of tennessee about al gore books about sports in the 1960s, and other political books as well. So please welcome him. [applause] if you are political aware and not living u
Democrats would be reeling on health care. If it werent for the problems with the health care website, republicans would be brooding about their historically low approval ratings. The Obama White House and democrats have a political problem when it comes to governing. The debacle that is healthcare. Gov right now, and republicans have a political problem because, well, they dont want to govern. That was dramatized by the shutdown. Both sides are using the other partys problems to mask their own. Every time republicans are asked about the shutdown and the split in their party, the response boils down to, what about the website . The rollout of obama care is nothing short of a debacle. Obama care is indeed a train wreck. The disaster the train wreck, the nightmare that is obama care. Unhads of thousands of americans who are finding out that theyre going to lose their coverage. The American People are now fearful employers scared to death. The millions of americans who are growing in thei
Contributions, an enormous number which is dwarfed by the number spent. We have the coke brothers who are today, as a family, worth 80 billion. Who have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on political campaigns and setting up think tapgs and, in fact, are doing that in this election, as well. According to the Washington Post and the center for responsive politics. The coke brothers. Where does the coke brothers get their money . They are a fossil fuel industry. They have invested 407 million in the 2012 political election. That money is clearly dwarfed by the amount of money coming in from the fossil fuel industry. I find it remarkable that some have expressed their deep concern for the lowincome and the elderly. I would remind the people of this country that these are the same folks whose compassion and love of lowincome people prevents them from working to raise the minimum raise so people can have a living wage. Allows them to make massive cuts in the Liheap Program which provide