I want to thank red river theater for this terrific venue he, the want to thank gibson for turning out. You may have noticed when you walk in that he has books in the lobby. Joe will stick around the sun some afterwards. Ill be will take advantage of that. Also want to thank joe for coming a little bit off the main circuit but publishers but you want to come to concord. Of course she also can this the old friends. That is one of the things that happens when you work as a reporter. You need a lot of people, and this difference for a long time. So, of want to say just in the introduction of think probably in you read a little bit about this and the moderate, but by way of introduction talk a little bit about my experience with her. That bomb that at some point during that time to decide the issue wanted to leave them on. And nice up from the st. Petersburg time. Of thing anyway strobe light show did. She had a great loyalty. Such a wonderful time as a reporter. We were accused reporters
[inaudible conversations] i want to start by thinking of a couple of people like the Concord Monitor for sponsoring this event a and red river theater in the venue to hold this is and i want to sink michael for making notice when you walked in and in joe will stick around so i hope you take advantage of that also to joe to talk about the main circuit of course, also coming tusis said you have read about this in the monitor but to talk about my experience with joe when i was at the monitor. And at some point during that time she decided she wanted to leave she got a nice offer from the st. Petersburg times but i have not struggled as much with that decision because she had such great loyalty because she had a wonderful time as a reporter and we were used to reporters moving onto larger papers but joe talked about this two or three times from the st. Petersburg times. In thin to a three years later after she won all kinds of awards for investigative reporting for the seat petersburg time
Gamechanging kind of potential to have someone like ted championing this cause, and it had the potential it turn it from what had been at best a partisan fight into a debate about civil rights. And so they then set out to find the plaintiffs. And ted actually had wanted a different kind of he had a specific set of criteria. He wanted a bookstore owner. He wanted a cop. And i forget what the other two they wanted six altogether because they figured what if the opposition turned up something in somebodys background. They just wanted to have more, and he didnt want any children. He thought that that was a complicating kind of factor, which is, of course, really ironic because if any of you have followed this, when Justice Kennedy when these cases finally got to the Supreme Court, it was the kids that Justice Kennedy was very focused on, like what about the 40,000 children of gay couples in california . Dont they have arent they part of this story . Arent they part of this argument . Why s