Chair mar good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, february 20 meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. I am supervisor gordon mar, the chair of this committee, and im joined by Committee Member supervisor matt haney and supervisor raphael mandelman, who is substituting for supervisor peskin, who are unable to be here. Id like to thank john carroll, our clerk, and sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes, thank you, mr. Chair. Please make sure you silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Copies of documents and completed speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisors february 26 agenda. Chair mar thank you. Mr. Clerk, please call item 1. [agenda item read]. Chair mar this item was continued from the last g. A. O. Meeting on february 6 and is sponsored by supervisor matt haney. Supervisor haney, the floor is yours. Supervisor haney thank you
Auto racing, the legendary roger penske. Roger, i want to congratulate you on receiving the president ial medal of freedom. [applause] pres. Trump with us today is Vice President mike pence and many terrific members of my cabinet. Thank you all for being here. They are all fans of rogers. Catherine, you have been married to her how many years . Roger 46 years. Pres. Trump thats pretty amazing. You look at the conditioning, youre doing something right, both of you. It has been a beautiful marriage. Roger was born in ohio in 1937, the son of a successful businessman. Roger learned the value of hard work at a very young age. At the age of 14, he attended his first indianapolis 500. At 15, he bought his first car with money saved from his newspaper route. As a teenager, roger spent his free time taking apart engines and repairing the old wrecks. He obviously learned grade from the start. In 1955, he attended lehigh university, where he studied Business Administration and started racing in
[cheers and applause] hello folks how are you . [cheers and applause] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I have to tell you she writes about she is serious and means a great deal to me at that time she would endorse me. I mean that sincerely. It means a lot. And i have a great, great friend that we keep in touch with one another we lost one of our good friends who passed away but jim is somewhere in here. [applause] and your mayor i know that you know this to be involved in politics for a while but one of the things that is a great honor of repetition of running for president as you go all over the country and people dont realize that you end up in the process making friends for life. No matter if you win or lose her what happened to become friends for life. So the folks that i just name they are friends she also lost her husband and i lost my son but we cared what was happening to the other person. Not just to ourselves. And a lot of people in this room appointed personal privilege were
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Administration. Way im the Vice President of the institute for Constitutional Government here at heritage. Silence cell phones please john on september the 23rd, President Trump delivered an important speech on religious freedom at the united nations. He said our founders understood that no right is more fundamental to a peaceful, prosperous and Virtuous Society than the right to follow ones religious convictions. He added that too often people in positions of power preach diversity while silencing, shunning or censoring the faithful. True tolerance means respecting the right of all people to express their deeply held religious beliefs. How right he is. During the last administration, religious adherents felt besieged. While the Obama Administration was prepared to honor freedom of worship, freedom of religion was another matter. Obama Administration Officials preached that tolerating religious adherence was great. For a moment, they can find their way to houses of worship and did not