Printersrowfest. It is my pleasure to announce the moderator. I cannot think of a more appropriate discussion in 2014 and an Election Year too a conversation with you and the authors of the book fixing illinois politics and policy in the prairie state there is a book coming out i believe on tuesday by Hilary Clinton called hard choices and that might have been a more appropriate title. On my far right is j. Thomas johnson. Tom was appointed president of the Tax Federation of illinois in 2006 and became president in january of last year. He was on the illinois revenue board and was the chairman of the gaming board as well. Tom johnson. [ applause ] to my direct right is james nowlan. Jim was a senior aid to three governors. He is president of stark county communication and they publish Community Newspapers in central illinois. He is vice chair of the Illinois Ethics Commission that oversees the ethics and ethics training of 120,000 state of illinois employees. He was elected to the hous
Please keep the spirit of lit fest going all year long with a subscription. This year we are also introducing a new digital bookstore. Please take one of our promo cards for information about the app and axis the special book deals. Before they can todays program please file ensure cell phones. You return your camera flash off. We will allow you to take pictures. You can post those pictures online using hashtag printers row. Gives me great pleasure to introduce to you guys are moderate todays conversation, eric banks. Mr. Banks. Thank you. Thank you very much. Welcome everybody. Its good to see you here this morning and its my pleasure to welcome today Monique Brinson demery, the author of the amazing book, finding the dragon lady the mystery of vietnams madame nhu, which has recently been published by Public Affairs books. She holds a masters degree from harvard university, and when she made contact with madame nhu who was the unofficial first lady of the south east government in 2005
To all wealthy authors who publish. I should mention the same breath where publishing james webb, who is a terrific United States senator and his focus right now. So i dont want to favor one author over another. When we acquired that book, Jonathan Karp knocked down here and now sits there was anything we could do for the ebook specifically to brainstorm some ideas and talked about when the right time to act on those ideas might be. We been thinking about also as a Digital Product from the very beginning. Of my rule is the National Media and the communications team. What is an effective Media Campaign . Verdugo . Depends on what the book is and it depends on what the potential for a book is. There is what i like to think of as topdown campaigns, campaigns like Hillary Clinton, which begin with National Media and breakout from there. A few big hit generate a number of things that sort of create themselves. My role at the clinton title has been to work on the marketing side of that, whic
Turn partly sunny. Windchills staying in the 20s. Check out this. This is a picture from brian white out of lusby. 3 inches of snow down there. Had unconfirmed reports of even four inches toward Point Lookout in the lusby area as well from the system thats coming through right now. Light snow has ended in sperryville. 2 inches out that wai. Light snows on and off here in town with more light to moderate bands still going on down south from fredricksburg east toward Southern Maryland. Monika samtani, a nice looking morning for many. Theyre happy to see the snow. Its a pretty snow. When you head out the door, youll think finally i see some snow. The only thing is that your neighborhood streets and your side streets will be slippery until they get treated. For the most part, the major thoroughfares have been treated. I saw the salt and sand trucks out and even some plows even though its just a light dusting. Youre also going to see slower than normal traffic which is how it should be earl
$2 trillion in death. 128$128 trillion unfunded liabilities. 46 million americans on food stamps for 40 months or longer. that is a challenge for everybody. how do you fix that? the fact you have all these people on social welfare programs who are not working, not paying taxes and many cases receiving benefits has a huge impact on the national debt and our annual deficit. growth is very very important. i m going to cut taxes in half. we re going to have a flat rate across the board. cut taxes in half for everybody? i m working on the number we re work ing with the tax federation right now. we ll be cutting taxes dramatically. it will be a flat rate. a flat rate on individuals, a flat rate same rate on