Good morning. You can applaud. [applause] i know you are applauding because you are here at the 2017 Miami Book Fair here in miami, florida. What a Beautiful Day it is here in miami this morning. That is why we live here and why it is such a wonderful destination. Welcome again to Miami Book Fair. We have a truly wonderful treat in store for you today. I hope many of you have had the opportunity all week to enjoy the outstanding presentations that have been taking place this year and hope you will continue through tomorrow evening when the 7 days closes. This fair just would not take place each and every year without the cooperation, collaboration, passion and volunteerism of many, many people in the community. Namely the students, faculty, staff of miamidade college. [applause] and really hundreds of high School Students, middle School Students and others in the community. We truly thank everyone for coming together and unifying behind this Miami Book Fair. I also want to thank the ci
We are going to get started. We do have a quorum. Thanks to everyone for taking a break and coming back with us. We are going to continue as we have spent the morning going through the next section, which is party reform. Party reform is a big section and obviously covers a lot of topics, so i would like to highlight the key areas. And then we are going to be voting and amending, amending and then voting each section. So instead of going through everything, we will go through section by section and make amendments and vote. The key elements that we will be focusing on this afternoon, are recommendations that are focused in the following areas, the first is making the party more competitive in all regions of the country, the second is supporting and growing state parties and increasing grassroots participation. The third is operating in a manner that is open and transparent. And ourth is strengthening inclusive participatory culture at the d. N. C. Fifth, building on the great diverse q
Topics. Id like to highlight the key areas were focused on. And then we are going to be voting and amending. Amending and then voting each section. So there will be instead of going through party reform, section by section, make amendments and then discuss and vote. The key elements on party reform that were going to be focusing on this afternoon are recommendations that are focused in the following areas. The first is making the party more competitive in all regions of the country. The second is supporting and growing state parties and inning creasing grassroots participation. The third is operating in a manner that is open and transparent. The fourth is strengthening an inclusive anticipatory culture at the dnc. The fifth, building on the great diversity of our party. The sixth, connecting our values and our actions and the 7th promoting and protecting the vote. So for each of those sections that i just highlighted, we will stay focused in those sections of Commission Members as we g
Very much. Thank you. Guest good morning, ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. Were about to start. Good morning, again. Im Madeline Harrison and its my pleasure to welcome you to miami book fair, the 2017 edition. And what a wonderful week it has been and its not even over. I hope youre enjoying all of the presentations, the enga engagement of the hustle and bustle of the book fair and the street fair in particular. And i would like to give a special with em to those fair goers who are from out of town. Can i see a show of hands for out of town visitors . Welcome to miami. [applaus [applause] as many of you know, this fair would not be possible without the collaboration of of hundreds of volunteers, corporate and community sponsors, such as ohl and many, many, many others and i might add, without the convening of miamidade college, which is a founder and true presenter of miami book fair. Lets give a round of applause to miamidade college. Were going to get started, you know,
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