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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, all, very much. N begin, im going to ask you for a favor. Of silence, but for a moment of celebration, for extraordinary life of governor brendan burns. Hats what he would have wanted. He wouldnt have wanted silence. E would have wanted celebration, so lets all rise and celebrate governor burns. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] ago yesterday i then8yearold br ck and then5yearold brigitte from school. On the front lawn on the way to the nnounced assembled media that i was a candidate for governor of new jersey. I said many things, but looking back on it the most mportant statement was this if you are looking for the same ld stuff, youve got the wrong person. Little did i know just how right later. Be nine years nine years is a lifetime ago in a culture of e, dvrs that skip commercials, instagram, book, snapchat and the short Attention Spans that come from these communicating. ....
First, we appointed former United States ascender to lead to the effort and he has incredible skill and produced phenomenal results. [applause]. Think about this. Tax appeals were weighing down the city. 303 million is owed just to the casinos in tax rebates. Set the senator using the authority we gave him, negotiated that number down by more than 50 , just over 138 million and in 2017 we announced glad you are all seated for this one 1140 11. 4 decrease in property taxes in Atlantic City which means average property tax reduction of 621. This was the result of budgetcutting measures that reduced city spending by 66 million over the 2015 budget and with a jeff in charge the budget will stay level in 2018 as well. He also reached a settlement with the police union, a settlement leading to now there will be 12 hour shifts in Atla ....
Professor blum we have a very large christian population. We do not consider ourselves at christian nation, a muslim nation, or a jewish nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values. Closer to home, and this is my concluding point, obama endorsed religion pluralism in 2010, wwhen he proposed to build a mosque to blacks from the new world trade center. This is america, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable. So, diverse or not, american pluralism has, in fact, triumph in the age of obama. So, despite all the clamoring from the religious right, of movement to bring america back to a stable time when christians were the sole arbiter of american life, american religious pluralism is now the de facto mode of american self awareness. That come in a small part, explains the animosity and angercoming from conservative christians today. Thank you very much. [applause] i think we have time for a few questions. Yes . Great. One ....
And a good portion of his skull had been loan off. He was still alive bleeding profusely. A corpsman came with me and shook his head and john knew he was dying and he said to me, please be careful. The hill is mined. His last words were please be careful, colonel. There are times we go to the world war ii memorial and i will find johns name and it will put my hand on it and talk to john. He was so brave and uncaring for himself in caring for me. I wore his blood in my utility uniform for three days until i got that is how i got to know john. The other one story which i will always remember, when i was stationed in georgia, columbus and georgia was a segregated city. No blacks need apply. Colin powell could not get into some of the restaurants to mysteriously. There were students going through the command course and i took all the casualty calls so one day i got a casualty i noticed the address and a new where was, it was in the poorest of the poor black sections. The day was getting la ....