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Day Two of the PDC Features Almonte, King and Ornstein
Rhode Island’s Auditor General Ernest A. Almonte, CGFM, CPA, opened his keynote presentation at AGA’s PDC Tuesday morning by holding up his business card, which is printed with the words “integrity, reliability, independence and accountability.” Those are the core values of his office, he told the crowd, and those words are printed on every business card of every employee as a constant reminder of his expectations. Almonte is President-Elect of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)—the first to come from government in the AICPA’s 120-year history. Almonte gave attendees an overview of challenges facing the accountability profession and offered suggestions to help solve them. Read more about Almonte's remarks. Bernice King on Character Bernice King began her remarks on Tuesday afternoon by letting PDC attendees know they haven’t been officially welcomed to Atlanta until a King welcomes them. The acclaimed orator, ordained minister and daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. covered the topic of “Our Character, Our Future and Masters of the Dream.” Just five years old at the time of her father’s death in 1968, Bernice King emerged onto the public stage at the age of 17 when she filled in for her mother, Coretta Scott King, at a speaking engagement at the United Nations. She is the only one of King’s four children to become an ordained minister. Read more about King's remarks. Norm Ornstein on the Election Norman Ornstein, political analyst and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, said that in 40 years of immersion in the Washington political scene, he’s never seen a year like this one. He made jokes about the two presidential nominees, referring to the recent HBO movie Recount, he said it took eight years to get a movie about the 2000 election made. The movies about this year, however, are already out. The primary skirmish between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is depicted in There Will Be Blood. And the McCain campaign is summed up in No Country for Old Men. In continuing the comical refrain, Ornstein said Clinton has said she is not actively pursuing the vice presidential nomination. No, Ornstein said, she’s passively aggressively pursuing it, adding that Republicans had moved their “Run Hillary Run” bumper stickers to their front bumpers. Read more about Ornstein's remarks. Read about David Walker's remarks. Read about Andrew Young's remarks. Make a note! David Walker will be our guest on the AGA Blog on Thursday, July 31. Visit the blog at http://aga.typepad.com/aga/
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