And lincoln forium chair. Welcome back to cspan, sir. Guest thank you for having me. Host you had a recent op ed talking about the topic of confederate monments and statues and a position now youre taking that with a little bit different. Whats your position now . Guest well, if i could go back briefly. A few years ago i had the honor of speaking at the getiesburg National Cemetery where the flag behind me is from the anniversary of the getiesburg address. I made a suggest sort of impor tuned people to consider contect liesing confederate monments. Making sure that there were alternative monments. And frankly Nothing Happened in the three subsequent years. Its not an easy thing to make occur. Its expensive, time consuming, requires consensus on text and methodology, and it didnt work. And since that time, other convullsive events have occurred most recently of course the killing of george floyd and the response has been directed at monments among other institutions that are deemed by m
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Yes, there is one final caller. I will unmute them now. Clerk thank you and welcome, caller. Caller hi. My name is tom angston and a Small Business owner in the sunset and i have lived here for 20 plus years. Im calling in support of the property at 1420 taraval. I drive by the taraval corridor often and i know that when i go by a building it screams to me what a gorgeous property that should be preserved. I think that putting in a multitenant building fits in with the properties that are around it. I understand the concerns of the other neighbors, but development is common in the city and we want to keep moving the city forward. As someone who is looking to invest in this community currently and conditions that were facing, i see the businesses close left and right in my neighborhood. And so if they want to push this city forward and invest and bring in jobs and construction and bring more housing into the city and modernize the city, im all for that. And im for supporting the local b
Whats your position now . Guest well, if i could go back briefly. A few years ago i had the honor of speaking at the getiesburg National Cemetery where the flag behind me is from the anniversary of the getiesburg address. I made a suggest sort of impor tuned people to consider contect liesing confederate monments. Making sure that there were alternative monments. And frankly Nothing Happened in the three subsequent years. Its not an easy thing to make occur. Its expensive, time consuming, requires consensus on text and methodology, and it didnt work. And since that time, other convullsive events have occurred most recently of course the killing of george floyd and the response has been directed at monments among other institutions that are deemed by many to be op pressive particularly confederate monments in the Public Square. And i did write an op ed recently during which i said that i think i was wrong. That weve had enough time, weve had a century for these statues of those who foug