Pirro meets and greets ABO.Arriving fashionably late, due to traffic caused by a nearby United Nations function, Westchester County District Attorney, Jeanine Pirro, addressed members of the Associated Builders and Owners of Greater New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Inc. (ABO ABO See: Accumulated Benefit Obligation ) at its September 15 luncheon at the Marriott Hotel East on Lexington Ave. in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Pirro, Hillary Clinton's opponent in the 2006 New York Senate race, shook hands with and introduced herself to everyone attending the lunch as she made her way to the podium. Once in front of the group, Pirro not only addressed general campaign issues such as the need to "protect jobs and the economy," tax cuts and homeland security money and tax assessments necessary for the state of New York, but she also touched upon subjects imperative to the real estate and building industries. "My mom and dad owned a few properties," Pirro said "I've seen what building owners, marketers and builders go through." Pirro went on to discuss the need for affordable housing in New York. Citing real estate and home building as some of "the most heavily regulated industries in the nation," she named tax cuts as the obvious solution to bring down prices. "Our mission is to build housing, affordable housing," Pirro said. "Our goal is to make affordable housing in New York City a reality." Pirro concluded that she wants to "help to build the American dream, which is to buy property." Having been involved in government for the last 30 years, Pirro is currently serving her third term as chief law enforcement officer of Westchester County. She has specialized in investigating and prosecuting hate and bias crimes, elder abuse, environmental crime, youth and gang violence, animal abuse, and child abuse, specifically pedophiles on the internet. Prior to Pirro's talk, as the group awaited her arrival, the ABO introduced those of their nine new members from the last 30-day-period that were attending the luncheon: Casey Systems, REMCO REMCO Rear Echelon Maintenance Combined Operation (USAF, Korean War era) Maintenance, Kaufman, Schneider and Bianco, Peace of Mind, and AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) An audio compression technology that is part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards. AAC, especially MPEG-4 AAC, provides greater compression and better sound quality than MP3, which also came out of the MPEG standard. Inc. Also, a representative from United Cerebral Palsy United Cerebral Palsy (UCP), sometimes known as United Cerebral Palsy Associations, is a network of affiliated groups in the United States which works to "advance the independence, productivity and full citizenship of people with disabilities" (from UCP's mission statement), (UCP (Universal Communication Platform AG, Lugano, Switzerland) A software company that specialized in mobile phone services, founded in 1999 by Christian Lutz and Marwan Saba. Its offerings included SMS voting and mobile marketing tools, photo messaging platforms and custom applications for ) was on hand to honor ABO for its donation of $100,000 that was presented to the organization three weeks earlier at an event celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act Americans with Disabilities Act, U.S. civil-rights law, enacted 1990, that forbids discrimination of various sorts against persons with physical or mental handicaps. . At the luncheon, ABO also presented Justine Cunningham of the Red Cross with a donation to victims of Hurricane Katrina. ABO had, at that point, raised $40,600. |
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