host: gainesville florida. this is christopher, independent, good morning. caller: good morning. host: go ahead, christopher. question or comment? caller: my comment is this. everybody is misinterpreting dr. martin luther king's speech. i feel, why has this country been losing their common sense to where african-americans, indians, different people from other nations, why is it that we have to have congress or the senate to pass the bill to give african-americans the right to vote? why can't we just be able to vote like any other american citizens in this country? host: mr. overton? guest: the 15th amendment which was passed by strict party line voting, not bipartisan, gave back -- gave black people the right to vote. before that, black people did not have the right to vote. the 15th amendment did that. after that, many state legislatures and county officials enacted rules that were race neutral. they would say hey, we have a literacy test you have to pass in order to vote. they might say, we will exempt you from that literacy tests if your grandfather could vote. of course, afri

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the public works director in gainesville florida represents public works throughout the united states recognizing when we talk about interoperability issues and sustaining the response if you want to keep the roads open how are we going to be able to communicate in that dialogue. we strive to maintain a diverse group as far as again federal, state, local people brought together and responders are brought together not just big cities. there's a lot of small areas brought together because one of the things we find at the end of the day so many of these are a number of scaling. you don't have to go too far outside for the west coast before you get into some very rural areas. again, the funding and support the federal government has gotten were put forth on helping us facilitate his relationships is amazing as far as bringing us together and letting us work our problems out. hopefully that answers the question. this is important and every one of the congressional districts and we want to make sure we are working effectively and efficiently to deliver real solutions. >> i want to thank the

a dear friend of mine, the public works director in gainesville florida represents public works throughout united states, recognizing when we are talking about interoperability issues, sustaining the response, police, fire and ems and 911 are doing, bringing in experts talking about if you want to keep water on the fire and the roads open, how are we going to be able to communicate to us continuing the dialogue box they strive to maintain a diverse group as far as federal, state and local people brought together, responders are brought together, not just big cities, because a lot of smaller rural areas brought together because one of the things we find at the end of the day is even though some of us are bigger or smaller, so many of these issues are the same, it's just a matter of scaling. the western united states, 50% are almost 50% is almost federal so you don'tca have to go too fr outside of the big cities on the west coast before you get into very rural area. with fires every year, we are going there a lot so the funding and support the federal government has gotten more put forth hel

parties, so for example, a dear friend of mine, philip mann, the public works director in gainesville, florida, represents public works throughout the united states. recognizing that, you know, when we're talking about intraoperability issues, when we're talking about sustaining the response that police and fire and else and 9/11 are do -- 911 are doing, being able to bring in experts like director mann and talk about if you want to keep the water on the big fire, if you want to keep the roads open, how are we going to be able to, you know, how to communicate with us, and important to continue that dialogue. safe com really strives to maintain a really diverse group, as far as again, federal, state local people, are brought together, responders are brought together, not just big city, there's a lot of smaller more rural areas that are brought together, too, because one of the things that we find at the end of the day, is that even though some of us are bigger or smaller, so many of these issues are the same. it's just a matter of scaling. the western united states, 50% or almost 50% of the lan

for example, a dear friend of mine, philip man, he's the public works director of gainesville, florida. he represents the public works throughout the united states. he recognizes that, when we're talking about interoperability issues, when we're talking about sustaining the response that the police, fire, and ems are doing. being able to bring in experts like current or man in, talking about, if you want to keep the water on the big fire, if you want to keep the roads open, how are we going to be able to communicate? and we need to continue the dialogue. safe comma strives to maintain a diverse group as far as federal, state, local people are brought together. responders are brought together. not just big cities. there is a lot of smaller, more rural areas that are brought together, to. one of the things we find at the end of the day, is that even though some of us are bigger or smaller, so many of these issues are the same. it's just a matter of scaling. the western united states, 50% are federal out here. you don't have to go too far outside of the big cities on the west coast before

founded this business, our corporate headquarters are in san francisco, we had another office in gainesville, florida. we are fundraisering and phil philanthropic and also for government agencies and so one of the reasons i'm really interested in serving on the cgoboc committee is that i have so much experience developing proposals, putting together budgets for large capital projects and writing reports on those projects. but one thing -- my experience kind of stops there and i'm really interested in learning more about and getting more experience with what happens after these projects are funded. learning more about how the, you know, what the challenges are on the projects. who works on these projects and i think serving on the cgoboc is a really great way of learning about that. i also have pretty good written communication skills and i enjoy reading the cgoboc reports and i'd like to participate in those, in both, you know, interviewing those working on these projects and translating that into these simple report that is are easy for community members like me to digest. a couple of items of note,

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host: gainesville, florida. christopher is an independent. you are on with spencer overton.t is your question or comment? caller: my comment is this here. everyone is misinterpreting martin luther king's speech, which i feel is, why has this country been losing their common sense to where african-americans , american indians, people from other nations, why is it that we have to have congress, the senate to pass a bill to give african-americans the right to vote? why can't we just vote like any other american citizen in this country? guest: let me talk about that. the 15th amendment, which was passed by strict party line vote -- it was not bipartisan -- basically gave black folks the right to vote. in many places before that, black folks did not have the right to vote. after that, many state legislatures and county officials enacted rules that were race-neutral. for example, we would say, there is a c pass -- literacy test to pass before you vote. or they will say we will exempt you from the test if your grandfather could vote. of course, african-americans americans, their gr

in 1925 florida at gainesville retained rick olmsted to prepare plans to improve the quadrangle which is later named the plaza of the americas in 1931, 21 folks were planted on the quadrangle, one for each of the republics in the america at that time. concurrently the university created the center for latin american studies. this is what the quadrangle looks like today. something really interesting happened, a lot of interesting things happen in alabama in the 1920s. but for the purpose of our story in 1928 led by the governor alabama engaged in the olmsted brothers in a statewide planning of the segregated colleges, all of the universities at that time and colleges in alabama were involved except the university of alabama and that is a separate story. in the land-grant universities were included. the alabama polytechnic institute which is auburn now had been founded in 1856 as the east alabama male college, then renamed after the agricultural mechanical college of alabama in 1872 as the states first land-grant to school and again, in 1899 as alabama polytechnic local institute. the b