Thank you very much for being here. This is a terrific crowd and the crowd we just spent a few minutes with in the overflow room is here and excited as well. Senator warren and i are here, number one, two thank you because i must tell you as they look back historically at this time of our country they will look back right now to advance of activism and an activism that is here tonight thats in the overflow room, that spread across the country and in activism that stopped the repeal of the worst piece of legislation that ive ever seen in all my time of government. [cheers and applause] senator warren and i both represent the United States people represent the commonwealth of massachusetts. But also represent marshfield and this region and in the course of the evening we will be talking not just about National Issues and interNational Issues, but also issues that affect our region disproportionally at that toe piece of legislation, the repeal of the Affordable Care act in our district al
Them, and i will end with that because they make a difference, and i will end with that, and i brought something with me i want to show you. Thats the emergency plan that i as the first all hazards emergency plan that we wrote for this city. It was praised up and down the coast. You have a better one now, and could you reach that little book on top . Yeah. And in my Navy Training when you get in an airplane you dont get in and the key in. You put this on your lap and do all the check offs. Well, having been a chief executive i know their lips get tired when they read more than one page. Sorry, but you know, but anyway i put this book together, and i mainly for the mayor and his primary assistants, so when bad stuff happened in the middle of the night you could pull this off of your bureau and go to the first three or four things that you have to do in order to save lives and property, and i understand this has a grandfather. Okay, which is great. So thank you very, very much. It was a
You want someone else to do the report its fine. Very honorable mayor jordan said no, tell it like it is and i did and that report is available. Its available. Its a damming report but gave birth to this building and all the good things going on here. It allowed me to change the radios of the Police Department, the Fire Department, the paramedics and bring in 800 mega hurtz and not what oakland had but the simulcast radios and departments didnt want toking on the same but we put them on it and youre probably in the next genraition of those radios right now and by the way there was a man here who preceded the mayor. It was then called the chief Administrative Officer and rudy rothenberg and incredible Civil Servant and i worked with him on this building. In fact i drew this building. I had architecture work as a midship man and if i find it im going to give it to you. We also as a result of that we subsumed the department of Public Health ambulance into the Fire Department and should ha
Emergency plan that i as the first all hazards emergency plan that we wrote for this city. It was praised up and down the coast. You have a better one now, and could you reach that little book on top . Yeah. And in my Navy Training when you get in an airplane you dont get in and the key in. You put this on your lap and do all the check offs. Well, having been a chief executive i know their lips get tired when they read more than one page. Sorry, but you know, but anyway i put this book together, and i mainly for the mayor and his primary assistants, so when bad stuff happened in the middle of the night you could pull this off of your bureau and go to the first three or four things that you have to do in order to save lives and property, and i understand this has a grandfather. Okay, which is great. So thank you very, very much. It was a labor of love. I like doing things. I like doing things when people tell me i cant do them, and i like working with people who are different and boy di
Little book on top . Yeah. And in my Navy Training when you get in an airplane you dont get in and the key in. You put this on your lap and do all the check offs. Well, having been a chief executive i know their lips get tired when they read more than one page. Sorry, but you know, but anyway i put this book together, and i mainly for the mayor and his primary assistants, so when bad stuff happened in the middle of the night you could pull this off of your bureau and go to the first three or four things that you have to do in order to save lives and property, and i understand this has a grandfather. Okay, which is great. So thank you very, very much. It was a labor of love. I like doing things. I like doing things when people tell me i cant do them, and i like working with people who are different and boy did i ever get a load of that here, and it was wonderful, so thank you mr. Mayor. Youre very kind. Thank you all, and i wish you well, and again go giants. [applause] thank you so ver