From the transcript

And so really glad that you could be here to kind of get us, get us kicked off. And I'm going to go through some of our housekeeping items as we get started before we dive in and welcome Bill Hill today to speak with us as one of the candidates running for the US House this year. First, I just wanted to say that all candidates receive received invites multiple times. I, I've been pretty diligent about making sure that the candidates all received the emails at the same time and then periodically checked back in with everybody just to make sure that everyone was aware and that they had the opportunity to join us. Jim McDermott had also, had also confirmed for today, but unfortunately he is not feeling well and so he is unavailable to attend.