from spartanburg. i was hoping to have a better introduction with you today, but that didn't work out. so ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to your mayor. london breed. thank you. thank you. thank you . well first of all, i gotta say , um, you know there. i don't know what your nephew who sang the song. i'm sorry. i don't know his name. but michael when michael was singing, um, what's what's interesting is something was going on inside of me at that moment, and i didn't understand what was going on. and then when peter told the story about what helen said. i really felt that connection and it was like i didn't get it at the time, but i got it when he said what he said. and it just demonstrates to you. this is more than just a space or project. this is a spiritual reawakening. of a proportional magnitude. that is different than most other projects that occur in the city and county of san francisco because of the community. that's been impacted by many of the challenges that not only of existed.

a few years ago, i got a call from the spartanburg county library system and they had picked my novel glory land for the reads program. and so they invited me to spartanburg, south carolina, and they took me to my great grandfather's home that i had never been to, that i had no idea where it was, where my father was raised. and i found out that my great grandfather ran a school for the blind in the late 1800s outside of spartanburg, south carolina. and, of course, south carolina was the first state to secede from the union. i had no idea of this history. and then i realized that most is forgotten. most history is lost. and that's profound and of itself that, most of us right here and everyone that we know that in terms of the historic record will be lost. and that is the reason why i've spent so much time and effort and sweat equity bringing this history of buffalo soldiers and yosemite back because they built the first trails at the top of mount whitney, the highest mount the united states. they built the usable wagon road into sequoias, giant forest, the most famous grove of giant s

after that i went to a small college in spartanburg. is your mother, maggie and brother paul?es, sir. >> when you moved to hampton, do you remember how old you were when you first moved there? >> 3 or 4. >> and did you live in hampton in the house within the city limits? >> yes, sir. >> and you did that for with your mom and dad and brother for how long? >> for around 20 years. >> and what schools did you go to coming up through in hampton county? >> i went to ben hazel primary school. hampton elementary school, north district middle school, white hampton high school. >> and as you were growing up, what were your interests, buster? >> sports, playing sports, doing things outdoors, hunting, fishing. >> was your father involved in those interests with you? >> yes, sir. >> was your mother also? >> yes, sir. >> in what way? >> my father coached every little league team i played on up until i started playing for the schools in which had a coach. >> what about paul? what were his interests growing up? >> outdoors mostly. hunting, fishing, playing around in the woods. >> did he also

to evangelical voters who are most concentrated in the up state of south carolina, greenville, spartanburg i think if you look at where he's visited, a lot of it has been up there as well. you know, there are a lot of different lanes in the republican primary today. i think that, you know, what we've seen is an increased focus on if you want to call it culture war, you know, type issues. and i think that that's where, you know, nicky haley is skating a very thin line. you saw that in her speech a little bit, you know, where she talks about the first woman, the first minority to be elected the first governor of south carolina, the youngest governor, but it step back and say this is not about identity politics. it's a fine line of touting your accomplishments and touting the fact that you were the first person to be able to do these things without alienating republican primary voters who don't want to hear about race, gender, income inequality. >> it's going to be a fascinating one. >>> americans are spending a lot more than expected. we've got a cnbc expert coming in to talk about what it m

you being from spartanburg, i spent most of my time in the marine corps in the south, voted for presidentr. my question to you would be two questions, one is if you could explain to us abraham lincoln's take on slavery maybe goes back to his childhood as a child labor working for his father, john i believe, on the farm, and being sympathetic to the slaves from his own childhood experiences, looking at them and not seeing much difference. on the river just south of him in indiana. also, if you could explain as he becomes a lawyer, many americans think lawyers are one way or another. he took many cases for individual farmers against big riverboat companies, for presenting the small people. for the gentleman from tennessee, abraham lincoln had much anguish for all soldiers lives, whether they were from the north or the south. guest: what a wonderful call. people who have not been to springfield, it is a wonderful place to visit. they do a great job with the presidential museum, there is a great place not far from springfield to the northwest, frontier village where lincoln spent about six ye

you being from spartanburg, i spent most of my time in the marine corps in the south, voted for presidentr. my question to you would be two questions, one is if you could explain to us abraham lincoln's take on slavery maybe goes back to his childhood as a child labor working for his father, john i believe, on the farm, and being sympathetic to the slaves from his own childhood experiences, looking at them and not seeing much difference. on the river just south of him in indiana. also, if you could explain as he becomes a lawyer, many americans think lawyers are one way or another. he took many cases for individual farmers against big riverboat companies, for presenting the small people. for the gentleman from tennessee, abraham lincoln had much anguish for all soldiers lives, whether they were from the north or the south. guest: what a wonderful call. people who have not been to springfield, it is a wonderful place to visit. they do a great job with the presidential museum, there is a great place not far from springfield to the northwest, frontier village where lincoln spent about six ye

i represent spartanburg. we have major challenges in affordable housing. the city has grown so much, there's been so much and some people moving into the district. ransom gone through the roof. the same problems are happening all over the country. we have it twice as bad. we have very poor public transportation. llit has become a major issue in my district. like all of you, i agree that market forces are not going to solve the problem. the government has to do something and the question becomes what. is it to have somehow incentivize the developers to invest in affordable units? is it requiring them as some cities have done? is it creating a fund that will subsidize across the board using a general fund tax dollars? is it the restricting land to force developers to do it. there are all these different tools in the tool box. the question is how? my view on this is that it's a problem when different units are subsidizing others. if this is important to, us it is important to us, it should be general fun dollars. it should be money that the entire citizenry p