. >> my name is mia shackleford and a youth commissioner but like rachel today i'm speaking on behalf of myself. i've been riding munii pretty much for five years now, almost daily and like many other frequent muni users, i dealt with the packed buses and the buses packed with litter and graffiti. however, even though these problems come in many cases because of a loss of revenue, i would still trade that and more for the chance to have some sort of reduced, free or sliding scale of muni passes. and this is for a few reasons. the primary one is just the financial burden of monthly passes on families. i honestly don't think it make any sense or ethical for going to school to be mandatory but not necessarily to provide a way to go to school. like high schools often start at 7:30 in the morning. you can't expect someone to walk across the city to get to school and then find their parents if they don't go to school. it's simply crazy. the other thing is i honestly think that having so many citations issued because of people not paying the muni fast passes, just increases disrespect and fe

kelly shackleford is that true defender of liberty.rward to working with him and with you for the next few decades of defending our liberty. we live in a time of miracles. we're standing here right now with 3000 christian conservatives battling washington, d.c. i am told that the department of homeland security put out a terrorist alert. and you know what? they have reason to be worried. [cheers] --1776 [laughter] i see some of my friends from then right now. 56 men pledged their lives, fortunes to defend the in a local rights -- to defend the inalienable rights of each one of us. pager is standing for liberty change the world. in 1980, a great many of the men in this room have stood up to a far left president who believes in government control of the economy and refuses to defend american exceptional as a. and we were part of the reagan revolution. what i am here to tell you is we're seeing that all over again. all over this nation, we are seeing a great awakening. the american people are rising up and together we're going to retake o