How much you want them to ensure that we can continue to get Library Services and please, when we put out a call that we need your support, please do so. We dont have money for pacs, we dont have a lot of money, we are not wealthy people. So we depend on what you call grassroots and that is normal people picking up the phone or emailing their member of congress or their senator or their governor and saying we want you to support libraries. The mayor, the governor, the United States Congress Needs to know that and respect that and make sure that that happens going forward. And that a takes hundreds and thousands of calls from people like you. I couldnt have said it better. What a great point. We have, i think, time for maybe a question or two. Does anybody in the audience have a question . If not, i will go on. Its not a question, but i wanted to thank you very much for your comment about dr. Carla hayden, and i loved your response to that. Well, thank you. Does anybody else have a ques
Okay. Good afternoon. Im bradley graham, im the coowner of politics prose along with my wife, lissa muscatine, and on behalf of everybody here at the gaithersburg book festival, thank you, thank you so much for coming. This is, of course, the seventh annual festival here in 2008ers burg gaithersburg. This is the fifth Consecutive Year that politics prose has been here as the official bookseller, and we really want to commend the gaithersburg staff and all the festival sponsors and volunteers for working so hard, especially hard this year given the weather, to make today possible. And thank you all, really, for coming out. Youre all a very hearty, hearty bunch. A few quick administrative notes. Now would be a good time to turn off your cell phones or anything else that might go beep. Second, if youre tweeting today, please use hashtag gbf. And, third, we really want your feedback. So, please, at the end fill out a survey. Theyre available at the back of the tent or on the gbf web site.
So anybody watching doesnt ever end up at the water fountain the next day and sail my gosh, i dont know they thought that or somebody had that perspective or that point. That would change. So so to me that his role. T but what it does for me as it makes me bring my a game every time. I have to be prepared. If youre going up against bill riley, you want, you want to avoid be in the pinhead, big time. You will make sure you know what youre talking about have confidence in it before you engage in that conversation. So how does that affect the writing of the book . Pe it opens my eyes to the idea that i want to be sure that im considering, you heard craig a moment ago saint what it you include some of this on the womens issue. Again in my my mind, it does not match up with someone like a betty betty for dan in terms of prompting the way in which we have seen in america. Have yes bill oreilly to promote your book . Thats hard. But but bill wrote a blurb for the book and not only that, he ha
Protest continue across the globe for egypt to release the three al jazeera journalists sentenced to between seven and 10 years in prison. We will speak with al jazeeras sue turton who was intense sentenced in absentia to 10 years imprisoned her in the same trial. And we will hear from Margaret Warner on how one of the jailed journalists saved her life. Mohamed fahmy held onto the back railing and said, drive, drive. He said, just drive through them. I will get you out of here. That is what happened. For the next five or six minutes, he directed me down the side street and the side street and the side street him and we finally managed to get to a safe place. He absolutely saved our lives. Then as the 45th anniversary of the stonewall uprising approaches, the state of new york is sued over its refusal to expand medicaid coverage for transgender people seeking hormone therapy and other forms of care. We are here to say that right now new york state as a regulation that should specificall
Protest continue across the globe for egypt to release the three al jazeera journalists sentenced to between seven and 10 years in prison. We will speak with al jazeeras sue turton who was intense sentenced in absentia to 10 years imprisoned her in the same trial. And we will hear from Margaret Warner on how one of the jailed journalists saved her life. Mohamed fahmy held onto the back railing and said, drive, drive. He said, just drive through them. I will get you out of here. That is what happened. For the next five or six minutes, he directed me down the side street and the side street and the side street him and we finally managed to get to a safe place. He absolutely saved our lives. Then as the 45th anniversary of the stonewall uprising approaches, the state of new york is sued over its refusal to expand medicaid coverage for transgender people seeking hormone therapy and other forms of care. We are here to say that right now new york state as a regulation that should specificall