Political Quotes

“I thought I would lead off simply by reading the names of the people who lost their lives in this fire. Steven Rucker, Galen Blacklidge, Christy-Anne Seiler Davis, Edward Downs, Nancy Morphew, Mary Peace, Asleigh Roach, Stephen Shacklett, James Shohara, Solange Shohara, Randy Shohara, Robin Sloan, Jennifer Sloan, Ralph Westy, Charles Cunningham, James McDermith, Chad Williams, Gene Knowles. And there are some other names which have not yet been released, and we will recount them when they are released. Mr. Speaker, this was a time of enormous disaster and tragedy for our colleagues and for our neighbors and friends who lived in our communities who have lost so much, some who have lost their lives. It is also a time of great heroism. And I was reminded as the stories came in of the firefighters and the valiant stands that they were making as they were trying to keep these fires from advancing into our neighborhoods.”