you are terrific to work with. -- john howard sanden. you are terrific to work with. [applause] it is wonderful to know that these portraits will be on view at the white house and walking down the hall from my mother in law and that george's portrait will hang very close to his dad's. it is meaningful to me as a citizen. this is my family's home for eight years. it was our home but not our house. this house belongs to the people whose portraits will never hang there, the ordinary people whose lives inspired us and his expectations guided us during the years we lived here. in this room are many of the people who stood by us as we face the tragedy of september 11 and to work with us in the years after. thank you to each and everyone of you for your service to our country. [applause] i hope others will see what i see, a woman he was honored and humbled to live in the white house during a time of great challenge and to will never forget the countless american faces who make up the true portrait of that time. thanks so much. thank you, michele. [applause] >> i do not think

-- add john howard.debate, strong arguments on both sides, not over issues, it is the debate as to whether of a portrait actually looks like the president and first lady. -- as to whether the portrait actually looks like theit is my distinct pleasure to united states. [applause] >> thank you. thank you so much. thank you. please, everybody, have a seat. good afternoon everybody. thank you for that introduction. to the president and barbara, to all of the members of the bush family, it is a great privilege to have you here today. to president and mrs. bush, welcome back to the house that you called home for eight years. the white house is many things at once. it is a working office, it is a living museum, it is and in democracy. -- is an enduring symbol of our democracy. a few of us are blessed with the honor of living here. i think it is fair to say that every president is aware that we are temporary residence. we are renters. we are charged with the upkeep until our lease runs out. we also leave a piece

[applause] i want to thank john howard for agreeing to use his considerable talents to paint my likenessu have done a fine job with a challenging subjects. in the portrait there is a painting called "a charge to keep" that hung in the oval office for the eight years of my presidency. i asked john to include it b ecause it reminds me of the wonderful people with whom i was privileged to serve. these men and women, many of whom who are here worked hard and served with honor. we had a charge to keep. it is my privilege to introduce the great as first lady ever, sorry mom. [laughter] would you agree to a tie? a woman who brought such grace and dignity and love in this

to those great presidential portrait artists whose works include gilbert stuart, we now add john howardday's event that may prompt a great debate. at a great debate, strong arguments on both sides, not over issues, it is the debate as to whether the portrait actually looks like the president and first lady. [laughter] we will soon find that out. it is my distinct pleasure to introduce the president of the united states. [applause] >> thank you. thank you so much. thank you. please, everybody, have a seat. good afternoon everybody. thank you for that introduction. to the president and barbara, to all of the members of the bush family, it is a great privilege to have you here today. to president and mrs. bush, welcome back to the house that you called home for eight years. the white house is many things at once. it is a working office, it is a living museum, it is an enduring symbol of our democracy. a few of us are blessed with the honor of living here. i think it is fair to say that every president is aware that we are temporary residence. we are renters. we are charged with the upkeep

you are terrific to work with. -- john howard sanden. i like it so much more than that bobble-head doll. you are terrific to work with. it is wonderful to know that these portraits will be on view at the white house and walking down the hall from my mother in law and that george's portrait will hang very close to his dad's. it is meaningful to me as a citizen. this is my family's home for eight years. it was our home but not our house. this house belongs to the people whose portraits will never hang there, the ordinary people whose lives inspired us and his -- and whose expectations guided us during the years we lived here. in this room are many of the people who stood by us as we face the tragedy of september 11 and to work with us in the years after. thank you to each and everyone of you for your service to our country. [applause] i hope others will see what i see, a woman he was honored and -- a woman who was honored and humbled to live in the white house during a time of great challenge and to will never forget the countless american

. >> the portraits, by the way, were done by the renowned artist john howard sanden. they'll hang in the entrance hall of the white house, president bush to the right of president clinton. that's our broadcast for this thursday night. thanks for being with us. i'm matt lauer in for brian tonight, and i'll see you tomorrow morning on "today." good night. >>> good evening, everyone. >>> it's out for the world to see. the controversial video of eliana lopez and her bruised arm released publicly today. a powerful 45 seconds that many say gives new insight into lopez's relationship with her husband, the suspended san francisco sheriff. jodi hernandez joins us in san francisco this evening with more on that short clip of video that might say a lot.

campaign as war as it was the date happened john howard was just twenty one years old when he was killed in a turkey square the bullet that shattered his heart to a park his family even his mother and able to carry on i don't know when i talk about him alone i don't like to see that he's dead i see him in my dreams i'm waiting all the time for him to come home to me i beg god to bring him back. in the last eighteen months egypt since have gone through one evolution three elections and countless mass protests the scars left by the unprecedented chaos and bloodshed and political battles run deep i saw people becoming more depressed more anxious using more drugs and alcohol those kinds of things seem to have changed because of the current events and the fear over what was happening next and it's not only those who are directly involved who have been affected in the only survey of its kind dina spoke to ordinary egyptians to see how they're coping she found that sixty percent of egyptians are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder of those forty seven percent have witnessed violence i

unveiling of the official portraits of one member of that club and his first lady, the work of artist john howard norah o'donnell was there. ( applause ) >> reporter: it was one of those rare occasions in washington where politics gives way to tradition. >> we may have our differences politically, but the presidency transcends those differences. >> reporter: those differences disappeared today in the east room of the white house as three of the five living presidents gathered to honor president george w. bush. >> george, i will always remember the gathering you hosted for all of living former presidents before i took office. your kind words of encouragement, plus you also left me a really good tv sports package. ( laughter ) >> reporter: the unveiling of the portraits was a proud moment for the bush family. president george h.w. bush, who turns 88 next month, arrived in a wheelchair. it was a chance for the 43rd president to honor the 41st. >> i am honored to be hanging near a man who gave me the greatest gift possible, unconditional love. and that would be number 41. ( applause ) >> reporter: pr

. >> american artist john howard painted the portraits. >> quite funny. >> very much so. >>> a major alert for drivers over the weekend. and it will impact the beltway. we have what you need to know coming up next after the break. >> and a focus on safety on the roads. we'll talk with a captain with the montgomery county police about the push for new legislation. stay with us. 9:08.    q frfrom the wildflower valleys of yellowstone to the serene waters of glacier bay, air wick has partnered with the national park foundation so you can experience the spirit of these national treasures in your home. the national park collection. something in the air wick. >>> the may jobs report came out and it is a huge disappointment. employers added only 69,000 jobs this month, and unemployment rose to 8.2%. that's last month. before the report came out, experts estimated employers would add somewhere around 150,000 jobs. obviously that did not happen. this is actually the worst jobs report we've seen all year. we'll have more analysis of those numbers a little bit later. >>

. >> american artist john howard sanden painted the portraits. >>> why a breastfeeding portrait goneing up so much controversy tonight. when mitt romney says "planned parenenthood we're gonna get rid of that." romney is saying he'll deny women the birth control and cancer screenings they depend on. when romney says "do i believe the supreme court should overturn roe v. wade? yes." he's saying he'll deny women the right to make their own medical decisions and when his campaign can't say whether he'd support equal pay protections. "and we'll get back to you on that." romney's putting your paycheck at risk. planned parenthood action fund is responsible for the content of this advertising because mitt romney is out of touch and wrong for women. >>> first it was a time magazine cover, now new controversial breastfeeding photos involving military moms nursing in uniform. warning, these photos may make some ofdown comfortable. this picture of two air -- some of you uncomfortable. this photo of two soldiers feeding at an air base has gone viral. >> it's sad that anyone in our culture could s

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. >> golf course employee john howard is opening the restrooms by the fourth hole when a coworker dragsmy cart, my cart. i looked up. he was going like this. my cart, he stole my cart. i looked over and the guy was right there taking off in the cart. so i ran and jumped in mine and went after him. >> howard pursues the thief as he heads toward a tunnel that will take him under a roadway and onto another section of course. it's a high speed golf cart pursuit. well, as high speed as it gets for golf carts. overhead, the chopper swings around to get a better angle on the continuing action. >> got around to where we could see the cart. but it was empty. now we started looking. >> howard is looking too. >> i parked my cart behind his and got out, grabbed a ball marker fixer to go after him. i couldn't see him. he was hiding. >> the thief's taking a little rest under a nearby bush. >> then once he saw me still coming after him, he jumped up and ran up the hill. >> howard is trailing the suspect who seems to be running out of steam as he heads toward a fence separating the course from a busy r

numbers of screenwriters whose names you'll know, john howard lawson is the one i'll mention and who we're later going to be blacklisted as hellman herself would be were party members. as for a while was her, the director of the first four of her plays, herman shumlan. so it shouldn't surprise us that hellman sort of rotated into that politics, and she joined the party in 1939, she quit the party in 1941 by all, everything that we can learn. and, but she remained what we sometimes call a fellow traveler. that is, she did not repudiate either the soviet union, but more important for her, she would not repudiate her commitment to what she saw as social justice. she was no longer a party member, she just liked and would not even when she was in the party be disciplined by the party or follow party dictates in any sense either ideologically or in terms of what she did. but still she believed in the idealism, the utopianism that the left wing represented. the result of that was that all that was fine as long as the u.s. was allied with the soviet union this world war ii. when world war ii

you are terrific to work with. -- john howard sanden. i like a lot better than that bobblehead doll. thank you, john. you are terrific to work with. it is wonderful to know that these portraits will be on view at the white house and walking down the hall from my mother in law and that george's portrait will hang very close to his dad's. it is meaningful to me as a citizen. this is my family's home for eight years. it was our home but not our house. this house belongs to the people whose portraits will never hang there, the ordinary people whose lives inspired us and his expectations guided us during the years we lived here. in this room are many of the people who stood by us as we face the tragedy of september 11 and to work with us in the years after. thank you to each and everyone of you for your service to our country. [applause] i hope others will see what i see, a woman he was honored and humbled to live in the white house during a time of great challenge and to will never forget the countless american faces who make up the true por

of the state environmental workers are going to be at that event which is being held at the john eager howard elementary school. 30 underemployed people will be taking part in a job training program to complete a green infrastructure project at that school. >>> it is 4:58 and news around the world this morning, u.s. officials say syria's troops remain loyal to the military regime despite some recent high- profile deflections. they maintain loyalty by giving out pay checks, even as food and fuel for the rest of the country. they also say the opposition has lurned gueilla-like tactics. >>> two fires in israel, the fire department there says that the fires have essentially closed down the main highway between tel aviv and jerusalem. extremely high temperatures and dry conditions are contributing to the problem. >>> a child is dead and a man seriously burned after an explosion destroyed a house in northwest england. people say one person was believed to be trapped in the rubble and another has yet to be accounted for. five other homes were damaged yesterday and 100 homes were forced to be evacuat

but the partisanship, john reported that howard baker, who was the senator, who was the minority co-chair of the committee, had a bad channel to the white house, and had had conversations with john and other people there, and so this was quite astounding, the notion that we were running a committee and yet there was this back channel to the white house that there was -- had republicans terms, and baker stopped having meetings because he knew that john had now reported this to the majority staff. we weren't telling the minority staff what was going on because of the fear of them undercutting john or doing something to cover up further, and the question was, we were having exec titive sessions where there was some exchange between the minority and the majority and that information was getting back to the white house. so they assumed that it was somebody close to baker and his chief of staff -- his committee director, staff director, was a fellow named fred thompson later to become a senator and now a spokesman for reverse mortgages on late-night tv, but thompson was too busy, and we couldn'

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so there was john mercer langston, who was the first dean of the howard university law school and later was the first african-american elected to congress from virginia. but he was family. frederick douglas was someone -- >> not bad dinner company. >> frederick douglas was a frequent guest. susan b. anthony and o.s.b. wahl and his wife amanda wahl were not just civil rights activists, but they were really suffrage activists for the vote for women. so in 1870 this was a time when susan b. anthony was arrested for trying to vote in the congressional election. amanda wahl also was marching to the registrar of voters and demanded to be registered to vote. so susan b. anthony was there, and i think the wahls were embarrassed by one of the o.s.b. wahl's sisters who was an opponent of suffrage for women because she thought it was unfeminine. but o.s.b. wahl, amanda wahl, john mercer langston's wife, carrie wahl langston, they were suffrage activists. >> i read this. when we see these dinner gatherings and just the luminaries of the people that were there, we see a galaxy of activists and peopl

howard fineman and john heilemann, national affairs editor for "new york magazine."ou wouldn't want to be sitting home somewhere right now. the importance of this. let's go up side, down side. >> had he lost, i think his re-electns chances were close to nil. he's a change agent. this is the thing he staked his first term on. had it been thrown out by the supreme court, it would have been terrible. now, the flip side and to quote churchill, there's nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. >> yes. >> so, wow. it's a huge -- >> except i don't like to use ballistic language. >> it's a huge jolt of electricity and energy. >> to come over and get embroidered for our progressive viewers, one team wins 98-97, but it's the whole ball game. >> even though no republicans in congress ever supported this, he now has the bipartisan of at least one figure, chief justice john roberts.ç can't go bigger than john roberts. >> shortly after the court's decision was released and so chuck said this today. the better the decision the faster the president's response. so

wolf, george cannon later who was associated much more with russia, howard case smith who is a very famous anchorman. even the young john f. kennedy flips through the pages of hitlerland with a short visit. of course, his main entries into his diaries have to do with this "young bundle of fun" he picked up at the border. but the -- and this is a term, you know, that's also incredibly pro-american. yes, the u.s. had entered the war against germany at the end of world war i, but very late in the game. and the main attribute of americans as far as most germans was concerned was they were not the french. they were seen as vindictive victors and who were demanding reparations. while americans were sympathetic to them economically in terms of trying to get them back on their feet and just culturally. and nowhere in europe was americanization what we now often call globalization more eminent than in germany where everything from mass production to hollywood productions to even the first traffic lights were seen as creeping anti-americanism and largely welcomed. so you had all of this going on, which this american community ver

his also a partner at the partner of limbaugh and howard and specializes in entertainment law. john from louisville, ky. caller: when bill clinton was then, we had peace and we had prosperity. then we had eight years of bush appeared the country and to complete hell. while disappointing a lot of people in his cabinet, say people with bush. everybody knows you have to cut entitlements. do you ever hear the republicans talk about raising taxes or subsidies for oil companies? and this crap about goldman sacks, both companies are in bed with -- geithner -- these middle-class people who think the government is out to get them. they control both parties. it is absurd. what romney, five sons going to the military? of course not. that is for the middle-class boys were black, white, and hispanic. anybody who thinks differently is an idiot. host: i think we have a volunteer force for now. guest: the allegation that bush did all this is getting a little long. the liberal policy of affordable housing is the primary cause lead in the financial crisis. obama had his fingerprints all over that per

howard k smith. he becomes a famous anchor man. and even the young john f kennedy flits through the pages of hitler land, with a short visit, most of his entries in his diaries have to do with his young bundle of fun he picked up at the border. this is a germany that is incredibly pro-american. yes, germany had, the u.s. had entered the war against germany but late in the game. the main characteristic about the americans had was that they were not the french. while americans were sympathetic, often to them economically in terms of trying to get them back on their feet and just culturally. and nowhere in europe was americanizati americanizati americanizati americanization more evident than in germy. so, you had all of this going on, which made a -- this american community big and a track i have to what they saw, and you had the extremists, and one of them was this local agitator in munich called hitler. i asked myself who were the first americans to meet hitler and what did they think of him? and it turns out the first journalist to spend time with hitler

hillary clinton and joe lieberman and howard dean and, you know, president gore, john edwards. lots of good stuff coming our way. help us decorate. seem you tomorrow night, everybody. wewelcome to the young turks. today, attorney general eric holder throws down against congressman isa. >> i am offering to sit down by myself and offering to sit down with the speaker, the chairman, with you whoever, to try to work our way through this in an attempt to avoid a constitutional crisis. >> it's a good thing he didn't look backwards to find out the crimes of bush. the republicans are looking backwards on holder to hold him accountable. interesting. yes see that coming. we will discusses that first. and then they told us there is nothing we can do but hand the money to the banks. we've got to do it. but it turns out there is a different example: >> the government privateized iceland's three largest banks. result was one of the purest experiments in financial de deregulation ever conducted. >> what did iceland do right and what did it do wrong? there is so much to learn from that. you wo

howard k sth. who later on becomes a famous anchn. and even the young john f kennedy flits through the pages of "hitlerland" with a short visit. of course, his main entries into the diaries haveo do with this "young bundle of fu he pick upt. this is a germany that is incredibly pro-american. yes, germany had, the u.s. had entered the war against germany but late in the game. the main characteristic about the americans had was that they were not the french. while americans were sympathetic, ofteno economically in terms of trying to getm and just cultuy. and nowhere in europe was americanization what we now often call globalization more evident than in germany. everything from mass productions to hollywood productions to even the first traffic lights and plots were seen as creeping anti-americanism and largely welcomed. so you had all of this going on, which made this american community very, very big and very attractive to what they saw. and at the same time, though, you had the extremists. and one extremist was this local agitator in munich called adolf hitl

john will perform. more than 1000 vessels sailed down the thames yesterday in hon nor of the queen's 60 year reign. >>> coming up, howard has the forecast. >> reporter: j.c., it has been a rather pleasant day, gusts of over 30 miles per hour. maybe a sure, we'll share that in a moment. but i want to take a look at the allergy update. the grass, pollen, tree pollen, moderate weeds are low. 7-day forecast, coming up when 9news now returns >>> when you deal with life's stresses, where do you turn for expert advice on your mental health? well the women's center is a local nonprofit center, offering a wide range of counseling service that most can afford. and so today, i salute the women's center in fairfax on hero central. >> i was having a couple of difficulties. one at a previous job. just juan, just didn't seem like the right fit, it wasn't working. >> reporter: 15 years ago, laurie shuster visited the women's center because she needed career counseling. >> i needed to talk to somebody about some strategies that i could use that were maybe different than ones i had already tried. >> reporter: shuster said she also needed

. >> in reading materials, you watch john b mac arthur and howard pugh.nd you go through and you talk about how a lot of people made a lot of money. in these trusts and they were conservative. >> right, the foundations were created by american entrepreneurs. creative people. their children turn out to be leftist. and in some cases it is just a staff with the trust. george pugh was a conservative gentleman and his staff took over the foundation and veered it to the left . same thing with the mccarty foundation. it is to the greater good and probably rolling over in their grave. >> yeah. i think congress ought to look at the foundation and say maybe one generation maybe two, but these are permanent institutions. you have 100,000 billion in working with the government and grass roots leftest organization and they are there forever. we are not accountable to anybody. >> right, we often hear about george soros and his out fit and then the ford foundation and you think that. you don't know what it is. but you say -- it is to the left? >> 10 billion dollar found

i'm wearing a john roberts t-shirt under all this. >> i woke up this morning to howard dean on "morningw that, but i woke up to him this morning on "morning joe" doing what howard dean does best which is spin. and he put on this incredibly impressive performance, we all love howard dean as the network. this is amazing agility, take a look. >> romney claims victory but obama gets victory, this is the most unpopu i don't think it should ever have been there in the first place. there's a lot of things that people like, so i believe that even though the obama folks have put up a huge fuss about the individual mandate, romney is going to say the president's initiative got ruined and all this kind of stuff. but the truth is people now have a lot to like in this bill. >> when it comes right down, huge bin for obama. by that logic, it was upheld, it was a huge loss? >> democrats were moping and saying what are we going to do to get over this. and republicans were excited that we're going to win this thing finally, this is going to move us toward victory in november. this is a huge momentum gain

howard county have 130,000 customers combined in the dark. >> now, your insta-weather-plus forecast with meteorologist john collins. >> last night as the storm is blowing itself out, out over the much of it is dispersed. it is still circulating, but we cannot see the rain. the clouds are not as tight. there is no indication that the parts closer to the del mar the peninsula, the further west elements, are beginning to charge up and there are new thunderstorm activities in developing. that might blow up over the ocean. it might be a problem over the ocean to the west, in ohio, just coming into pennsylvania, a new storm complex. it is not as well-organized, but it is the same type of storm. there is more further west. it could happen again. it would be rare to get it twice in a row, but something just flew in front of the camera. it is a hot dog or something. 80 degrees at b.w.i. marshall. the northwest wind is at 6 miles an hour. he's the sunshine. the humidity is still high. at the airport, 103 the temperature. the record is 105 from back in 1934. the inner harbor hit 106. not even one-tenth of an inch of rain at the inner harbor, the we hav

john was about 33 this time. 34. >> when the break-in occurs? >> 33. >> you're 30 years old. you've been working on howard baker's come campaign in 1972. in february of '73 he calls you and what does he ask you to do? >> well, he asked me to consider becoming council on the watergate committee. told about the formation of the you are back committee. he was going to be the ranking member. and as the ranking republican he had to right to use council for the republicans. as a republican, it's wonderful to be back at another water watergate celebration. our boys left a mess, didn't didn't they? >> what was the state of play? when you're asked to be minority council and the white house thought you were quite young, 30. what's the state of play? is this some kind of -- >> how do you and the senator view this? is this a real investigation? are you concerned it's an attempt to get the president? how partisan is it at that point? >> most of my concerns were practical ones. i had on the campaign trail with senator baker and was trying to get my law practice re-established. i had an assistant united states attorney

drowning oh in 2006 of a 5-year-old in a pool executive john loeopo -- leopold is introducing conner's law. they will hear hold a meeting in july. >>> howard investigating what appears to be a meth lab in a motel room. officers came and detected a strong odor and found chemicals in room. four men are under arrest this morning. >>> city police are investigating the triple shooting in southeast baltimore. one of those shot was in critical condition. the other two are expected to survive. anyone with information contact baltimore city police. >>> police are searching for who shot and restaurant owner. michael sullivan was shot and killed yesterday morning. police are looking at the possibility it was a robbery but have not determined the motive. >>> the sister of the woman accused of murder for hire of her husband getting life in prison. susanne data was accused of providing the gun for the murder. carla porter is accused of arranging that murder of her husband and will go on trial next march. >>> get ready to place your bets. tomorrow maryland's newest casino will open its doors. the state of md -- maryland giving m md live -- maryland live

my superiors bob haldaman and john ehrlichman was the fact that there had been a break-in by daniel -- into daniel elsberg's psychiatrist office by gordon liddy and howard hunt for the white house. some of the same men who were used in that break-in were now in the d.c. jail after watergate having participated in both. this is what brought the white house's concern. the cover-up might have been cut loose at the re-election committee level had there not been a link back to the white house. that's what's concerning everybody. nobody knows if it's so-called national security. nobody really knows all of the details of it. we do, of course, today. we didn't early on. so finding out what nixon knew and how he deals with the facts he is being told and also figuring out why he is not being told things and being manufactured of other things has been a fascinating process. i'm very early in it. i have to get this bed of basic information completed first where i listen to what my transcribers had prepared because i hear things nobody else hears on those tapes. i was telling scott last night, for example, one of my favorites is one day in october of 1972 i was over

howard dean, flip-flops are bad for your presidential health. we showed the earlier john kerry and john mccain. i don't see how president obama is going to get through this. >> president obama is going to get through this fine. most people know the private economy has done better than the public economy. then you have mitt romney saying he wants to fire firefighters and ambulance drivers and stuff like that. look, the bottom line is this. it comes down to what you believe. people believe by a ten-point margin barack obama is working better than mitt romney could at fixing the economy. they believe by about a 2-1 margin that barack obama cares about ordinary people and mitt romney doesn't. it will be hard to over come that for romney. >> sean spicer, with all my respect for howard dean i don't know anyone that believes obama has better approval on the economy. isn't the republican national committee going to show the flip-flop? first president obama says the private sector is doing great and then says, oops, the economy isn't great. the flip-flops are dangerous to your pre

john thune, thanks. it's always great to see you. howard, i'm critical of many of my republican party who set their hair on fire, scare like young children and puppy dogs. john thune, though, it would be harder for you to attack john thune if he were vice president select. i mean he's very midwest, very south dakota, a great guy, right? >> all we want is people who will talk reasonably and compromise some place where we can get something done. >> and not read the op-ed pages. >> "the wall street journal" is an extremist publication. we don't need to read that. >> to you! oh, my lord, howard dean, thank you so much for being with us. chuck todd, great seeing you. >> all right, brother. >> see you on "the daily run down." what do you have at 9:00? >> let's see, is there a decision today at 10:00? a couple other senators, blumenthal, blunt, talk more polls. your power hour politics after three hours of power hours of you, brother. >> he has absolutely no idea -- >> in fact, those guys aren't even on the show. >> those two senators he could thi

john larson of connecticut. she earned a bachelor's degree in political science from southern connecticut state university and a masters degree in religious studies with a concentration in religion, ethics and public policy from howard university school of divinity. she is also an instructor at the calvary bible institute where she teaches a course on faith and politics. next we have cindy smalls. cindy smalls is the national voter protection manager for the aflcio working in the political department overseeing the 2012 my vote, my right to voter protection campaign. prior to coming to the aflcio cindy worked for seiu from 2007 to 2012 and in various capacities as the mid-atlantic area political director, senior legislative advocate and coordinating manager overseeing seiu's retiree problem and as a field director for the south carolina democratic party and provided technical assistance to candidates for city council, mayor and school board and has a ba from the university of south carolina. marcus mason is a partner at the madison group. he is responsible for managing the firm's transportation, energy, tax and homeland security portfolio. in addition, he focuses on crisis management, complex integrated campaigns an

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