i'm valerie brown with the lower hate neighborhood organization. we are here today at the neighborhood empowerment network to talk about safety on your streets. this actual workshop is what we call a 30,000 feet aerial view of what we do. the lower haight motd we created a few models for safety and some are complex and a lot of information. we are going to give you just a little bit of this today. we will talk about how to connect with the different city agencies, your supervisors, your captain at our station. the city attorney's office and beat officers or street officers. one of the things that i would like toit introduce the panel. captain from northern station. regina from the legislative aid of ross mirkarimi one of our supervisors. from the da's office. the president of our merchant's association of the lower haight. ron, a beat officer and antoine another beat officer. the city attorney was at our morning session this morning and had to leave. regina and i work with the city attorneys office and will talk about that today in the lower haight

host: next call here on "washington journal," carrie budoff brown is our guest from politico. valerie in winslow, new jersey. caller: good morning, how are you today. i have a couple of brief comments on the election. i hope to find and sobering. number one, the tea party gained its momentum and came to be -- there acronym is "tax enough already." since obama took office, between tax cut and stimulus, taxes on the american people are lower now and have been for over a year than they have been in four decades, yet they are complaining about being taxed too much. it is oxymoron like. these are the same people that when they are interviewed on the street and they complained that obama is a socialist, a marxist, and a fascist, they ask them what he has done that is socialist, and they cannot explain it. but, you know, the people on tv put these ideas and these statements in their heads, and then they run around like mindless little automatons, pirating these words as if it means something, but they have not given it a thought. they probably have not had an original thought since st. swith