Prevuznak chided Namey for being so pas- si ona teaboutthejob tha t histem - per coul d flar e. Bothmen prai sedNamey’ s ded- ication to the district. T o his right was Berna rd Pre- vuzn ak, who wasappointe d inter - im supe rinte nden t unti l the boar d picks a replaceme nt for Namey. To his left sat Leo Solomon, who se rved as sup erint ende nt for 17 year s bef oreNamey. ” Namey sat at the head of the confere nce table for what likely will be hi s last time a fter 42 ye ars in the district, 16 as superintend- ent. “I ’mgoi ngto gi veeac h ofyoua chance to say what you don’t like about me,” Namey said during a modest farewell party in the ad- ministratio n building confer ence roomThursday morning.“Youget 4 seconds. WILK ES-BA RRE – Brac ket ed by his predecessor and the man whotakes his placeuntil a perma - nent repl acem ent is appoi nted, Wi lke s-Bar re Are a Scho ol Dist rict Supe rinte nden t Jef f Name y of- fer ed 50 dist rict admin istr ator s andcentral officestaff work ersone lastcrack at thei r reti ringboss. Then he pivote d into personal details of family life, recounting his youth as a Mormon, the son of parents devoted to one another, then a married man with five rambunc- tious sons. “I accept your nomi- nation for president,” he said, to a roar of approval. The hall erupted in cheers when he reached the stage and wave d to his shouting, chanting supporters be- fore beginning to speak. Often viewed as a dis- tant politician, he made a press-the-flesh entrance into the hall, walking slowly down one of the convention aisles and shaking hands with doz- ens of delegates. “Now is the time to restore the promise of America,” Romney de- clared to a nation strug- gling with 8.3 percent unemployment and the slowest economic recov- ery in decades. Mitt Romney launched his fall campaign for the White House Thursday night with a rousing, remarka - bly personal speech to the Republican National convention and a prime- time TV audience, pro- claiming that America needs “jobs, lots of jobs” and promising to create 12 million of them in perilous economic times.
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