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April 20, 2006 /
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, speaking at the FirstMile.US spring conference in San Diego last month, said politicians should "get out of the way" of progress, that even members of his own Democratic party are trying to put up walls and barriers to the global economy, but said "There’s no walls and barriers that can compete with what’s going on."
What’s going on, he said, is rapid change. The president of Estonia, said Newsom, visited recently, "And he starts telling me how people are paying for parking and their property taxes with their cell phones — in Estonia!"
By Wayne Hanson
Full Story: http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php/99243
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