mr. waldman, kindly collector things and come with me, please.re were seven or other eight people sending twitter messages about it at the time this was happening. [laughter] i want to thank everyone out there who made note of the fact that so many people were on twitter at the moment i was being kicked off. not my day. bad luck for me, that day, but that is ok. i am here as a guest of americans for the arts. i have been coming down here since 1990. the origin of this work for me was with the creative coalition that was formed by the former head of hbo, michael fukes. he wanted to bring together a bunch of entertainment industry professionals to kind of focus their work and advocacy and public policy, comping the space, he hit them office space and a budget, a modest budget of staff from hbo. they went out and raise money. the name of the game back then was for us to learn more about how to effectively advocate our issue, be it in albany or here in washington. this that when i look at the photograph of ron silver, this is a photograph of us toget