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2008 Martin Luther King Day Labor Breakfast in San Francisco
The Village Project Youth Choir singing for the 23rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Labor and Community Breakfast this morning at the San Francisco Hilton
There weren't as many stars this year, but the turnout for the event was huge nevertheless. More, after the jump.
Some of last year's guests couldn't make it. But at least one speaker from 2007, Senator Carole Migden, managed to come back this year for a short stemwinder.
Jackie Speier with The Architect Alex Tourk in the background.
The exciting guest speaker for 2008 was Jackie Speier, (probably) your next representative in the U.S. Congress. Her competition? Well, according to Pravda(!) it's Robert Barrows, the owner of a Burlingame public relations firm and inventor of the “Video Enhanced Gravemarker”, and Yul Kwon, a resident of San Mateo, California, a former legislative aide to Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman and the winner of Survivor: Cook Islands.
Local Yul Kwon, former Steve Westly for Governor worker and Homeland Security bill drafter, was one of People magazine's Sexiest Men for 2006. But he'll need more than that on his resume to challenge the formidable Jackie. Everything is going her way, so far.