Peter and for your insights. And thank you all for attending. And please join us for many more events today. Iall right. Good afternoon and my name, susan poser. Im the president of hofstra university, and i welcome you once again to hofstra and this very interesting president ial conference this plenary executive policymaking in the Obama Administration will focus on evaluating the nature and success the obama team and its policy ideas from different perspectives from a former cabinet member, from journalists as. We continue our assessment of the presidency of barack obama. I will provide very introductions of our panelists who are joining us this conversation today. They dont really begin to scratch the surface of their bios, as you might imagine. The honorable jacob lue, who served as a 76th secretary of the treasury, as white house chief of staff as the director of the office of managed mint and budget, actually a position that he had previously held in the second term of the Clint
Architecture we have in asia that be the optimistic view. Well, thank you and thanks for bringing that really full circle there, because i think it helps us to cover tons of issues. There are so more things we could talk about. We could do three more of these panels and still not them. But thank so much, elizabeth, peter and for your insights. And thank you all for attending. And please join us for many more events today. Iall right. Good afternoon and my name, susan poser. Im the president of hofstra university, and i welcome you once again to hofstra and this very interesting president ial conference this plenary executive policymaking in the Obama Administration will focus on evaluating the nature and success the obama team and its policy ideas from different perspectives from a former cabinet member, from journalists as. We continue our assessment of the presidency of barack obama. I will provide very introductions of our panelists who are joining us this conversation today. They d
The front pages, first of all. Now theres one story dominating the headlines , you the headlines, as you can imagine morning. Weve imagine this morning. Weve covered on breakfast. This is covered it on breakfast. This is in the telegraph and its in the sunday telegraph and its brand accused of rape and sexual abuse. Brand accused of rape and sexual abuse. Its actually an original abuse. Its actually an original sunday times story. So on the front, accused is Russell Brand, the sex predator who hid in plain sight. The observer has plain sight. The observer has a picture of brand on the front, but they go with a different story. Labour wants new eu links in a reset of foreign policy. Ill be discussing that with pat mcfadden on the front of the mail on sunday. Again, the brand story brand is accused of rape and grooming a girl of 16 again, sunday express puts a picture of brand on the front, but they go with millions. Ditch crisis hit nhs and go private. Sun on nhs and go private. Sun on
And it has to do with supervisor cohen excuse me, supervisor kim who is going to address us and present a substitute draft of her proposed Campaign Finance legislation and is requestingn of her proposed Campaign Finance legislation and is requesting that we meet to advance her proposals in this regard. Supervisor kim, nice to have you with us. Please proceed. Thank you, chair keane, and thank you to the Ethics Commission. I will do my best to be brief because i likely know that you have a long meeting ahead of you. So i wanted to come and present an ordinance that i first have introduced in july of this year and have recently introduced the second this month, but first, i just want to take a moment to thank the Ethics Commission staff, both the director and also your Public Policy team, kyle and patrick, for really spending almost the entire year working with us on this ordinance, since january. My interest in helping to strengthen our disclosure and transparency requirements is really
Resiliency, and i must say the land use had the greatest dialogue, and we came back together as a working group not long ago, a month or two ago, and it appeared that, from my perspective that the we needed to elevate the conversation across the three sub committees and try to bring it out of the silo and try to integrate all of the work that weve been doing, and so weve been very vocal as tryit tryin continue that conversation. Were in phase two or part two or whatever part two, and its going to go into part three which is a long Public Outreach and Engagement Process that will then evolve into what the document will ultimately get published as. Not only does it need to be aspirationial, but it needs to be holistic, and thats what weve been trying to interject into this whole process, and the waterfront and the port is a whole cultural legacy of our city, and the individual pieces of it that are identified as historic elements are just a piece, just smaller elements of that, and weve