laws rules to enforce those laws now the st louis is the international campaign store actor with public citizenand joined me earlier to talk about why the tea party is such a threat to american industry. the the trans-pacific partnership is this. trade talks with specific rim nations and it's an example of how corporate money really does influence politics and policies in our country what we've seen with particularly with the discussion around china on one hand you hear president obama talking about the transpacific partnership as a way to contain china and that they're talking with other pacific rim nations so that they can contain china while on the other hand the actually the u.s. trade representative says they would actually love nothing more than for china to be a part of these negotiations so what you're actually saying is it's a way for corporate corporate america to try to get through the back door through so-called trade talks a way to get policies that they can get through a democratic process and if they need to scapegoat china as a way to try to convince congress and the public to d

resurgence of the new red scare melinda st louis is the international campaign's director with public citizenand she joins me now hi there so let's first talk about who is behind these ads and what they stand to gain from them well. i am here to talk about the transpacific partnership ok so that's ok you know who's behind is that one of the big points to talk about is the fact that the transpacific partnership that you see the u.s. teaming up with china with the transpacific partnership but then at the same time there's this rhetoric that we just saw with with mitt romney with barack obama so what's going on here well the the transpacific partnership is this the trade talks with pacific rim nations and it's an example of how corporate money really does influence politics and policies in our country what we've seen it with particularly with the discussion around china on one hand you hear president obama talking about the transpacific partnership as a way to contain china and that they're talking with other pacific rim nations so that they can contain china while on the other hand to actually

supreme court cases for the public citizen litigation group. if you want to know that, there are two simple websites. essential.org, essential.org. and the other one is citizen.org. you can see how poorly we got that domain name, citizen.org. get involved, friends, neighbors, coworkers involved. remember, with armor solutions supported by a majority of the people and we apply to the problems the justices on the ground. the democracy gap can be filled by us, small numbers of us. it's a lot easier than we think as long as we have the public sentiment, as abraham lincoln pointed out behind us. thank you very much. [applause] before we have questions -- yakima are going to have questions now. >> wait for the night. i will come around with the mic. [inaudible] one quick announcement, we are going to the book signing redrick this front table, so i'll ask you to make your way to the bookstore, purchased ralph nader spoke, get the book by david thompson, birgit back and do the same in this room. we'll ask you to along the metal side of the room to this

the economy, the safety of the citizens, public services.main important issues and that is why melissa, the opposition grew so much in this election. it is not only united but he was able to get 6 1/2 million votes, casted for him in a situation where not only money and the petrol state play a role, it is also the communication powerhouse the government has in his hand. let me just give you a number that sin credible. 47 hours of mandatory transmissions of presidential speeches that both private and public mode yaw had to comply with. in terms of coverage, i have the numbers here. 180 hours of media coverage for the president and his campaign. melissa: yeah. >> against 27 hours for caprillas. it is difficult. it is not equalibrium there that you have to fight against. melissa: i don't know, i was there for an opec meeting and saudis said, they would not be happy repeating this, when chavez is talking he goes on and on and on. he never stops. that what you just said. that really get you votes or does it bore the audience to death? do you thin

we're very proud of our public citizens who work so hard here. >> all right. thank you so much, congressman andrews. thank you for your time and be safe. >> thank you, reverend. you as well. >>> coming up, we'll go live to the jersey shore. >>> and why events like this remind us how important the federal government is. our continuing coverage of the hurricane sandy is coming up. stay with us. "politicsnation." as we speak, hurricane sandy is bearing down on more than 50 million americans along the east coast. it's events like this that reminds us how important the federal government is, how vital our nation's first responders are. this storm is highlighting a fundamental difference in our role of government. on the one side is president obama and governor romney. someone who actually made the case for shutting down fema. in passing the responsibility on to the states and some people say maybe we're learning a lesson. how do you deal with something like that? >> absolutely every time you have an occasion that takes something from the federal government and send

investigators suspect it came from a speciality pharmacy in new england and now the group public citizens calling on lawmakers to demand tougher oversight of those kinds of pharmacies. >> the system here failed either because of inlaws or regulations. >> at least 119 have gotten sick and as many as 13,000 in 23 states may have been exposed. 600 in california were treated with the shot but at least check none had gotten kick none of them were here in the bay area. >> yesterday here bill martin talked about very subtle changes in the weather and we can't tell to much difference from yesterday. >> yeah. just got that fall texture. there is that low pressure center off shore. its dropping rain. you can see it behind me. it'll probably stay off shore. the source, had this low kicked through like this we would have had scattered showers today. the forecast model has it kicking this way, south and east through the next 24 hours but there is a chance of showers down in this area tomorrow afternoon. ly show you that on the model coming up. these are the national weather service official highs for

he is with a group called public citizen. tyson, i am trying to figure, we hear governor brown saying he will ease the regulations he will allow a winter blend to come into the market, almost a month early, and that will drive prices down. if it works in one city, one state, why wouldn't it work nationally? >>guest: because the california gasoline market is totally unique from the rest of the united states. in fact, i am not sure that the action will make much of a difference because october 31 was the date when the refiners were going to be switching to the winter blend and most of them already were producing that winter blend in anticipation of that october 31st day. i don't really see the governor's action doing much. >> is the winter blend cheaper? >>guest: it is. there are unique requirements in order to keep the pollution level down. the summer blend is needed to achieve better air quality. >> why not go with the cheaper blend now? >>guest: that is what california is doing. >> why not nationally? why not just do it? i g

concurrently in terms of who's in the white house and what they have to disclose, public citizen and many other good government groups have called for overhauling of a few disclosure laws we do have. across the board disclosure is totally messed up in washington d.c. there is a big problem about having officials from the white house to congress, not really disclosing their real assets. >> you know, we know where romney stands on dodd frank. he want to the repeal it except for a few certain things. >> he won't tell us about those. >> the major parts of those little things, we don't know. it is a mystery as is so much with mitt romney. lee fong from the nation, thanks so much for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> coming up, it is back out to the campaign front. i'll tell you why women and new hampshire may control the future of the planet. i kind of already knew that about women but new hampshire a little bit of a surprise. this is "the (vo) john fugelsang sees what happens. >> you know, blaming this economy on barack obama is kinda like blaming your hangover on the guy making

a study by the watchdog group public citizen found that 43% of the members of congress who left officeen 1998 and mid 2005 went on to register as lobbyists. in 2007, thurber advised then senator obama, who championed sweeping lobby reform. >> big money and lobbyists were clearly drowning out the aspirations of the american people. >> reporter: lobbyist jake abrahm off had just gone to prison for cheating clients and bribing congress. lawmakers passed new reforms that required strict public disclosure of lobbying activities and limited the gifts and trips lobbyists can buy from members of congress. today thurber has some surprising words about president obama. >> president obama in his campaign in 2008 said he was going to change the way washington works. >> i will launch the most sweeping ethics reform in history to make the white house the people's house and send the washington lobbyists back to k street. ( applause ) >> he hasn't. he's failed. because if you want to get a piece of legislation like his health care piece through, you have to bring in big interests. he did. he brought i

. >> you're a public citizen that has no reason to say -- >> like obama's policies better. >> why?more environmental, i think. romneyten too close to the coal and oil industries. that's basically -- and i think obama is better on the environment. and better as far as -- i think he truly really wants to end the wars. i think the wars have our our country more than anything else and first of all the two wars over there have cost us $2 trillion and that's a good bit of the increase in our national debt. i don't think we need to have a military that's bigger than all the rest of the military budgets of the world put together, 15 times as much as the budget of china or russia. i think that's wrong and it's wasteful. and i think it's time that people started getting along with one another and treating each other with dignity, respect and friendliness the way you and i do with everybody. and try even make the world work and pull together rather than all this conflict. and the conflict even goes to the debates. i think congressmen and senators and certainly presidents deserve our respect a

for most of his career dean morrison worked for the public citizen litigation group which he co-founded with ralph nader in 1972 and directed for 25 years. his work involved law reform litigation in various areas including open government, opening up the legal profession, suing agencies that fail to comply with the law and forcing separation of powers to protect the rights of consumers and the rest of the -- unrepresented class members in class-action settlements. he has argued 20 cases including victories in virginia state board pharmacy virginia citizens consumer council making commercial feeds subject to the first amendment and striking down over 200 federal laws containing legislative veto as a violation of separation of powers. he previously taught at harvard, stanford, hawaii and american university law schools. he is a member of the american academy of appellate lawyers and was its president from 1999 to 2,000 and president of harvard law school, served as commission officer in the u.s. navy and was an assistant u.s. attorney in new york. please welcome alan morrison. [applause]

them to pursue careers outside of traditional law firms for most of his career he worked for the public citizen litigation groups and directed for over 25 years. his work involved long reform litigation and areas including open government, opening of the legal profession's agencies and the separation of powers protecting the rights of consumers and the class members and class action settlement. he's argued 20 cases in the supreme court including victories in virginia state board of pharmacy and virginia citizens consumer council making commercial speech subject to the first amendment and the two entered federal walls containing the legislative veto is previously taught at harvard, am i you, hawaii and american never city law schools and a member of the academy and is a graduate of yale university and harvard law school served as a commission officer in the u.s. navy and was an assistant u.s. attorney in new york. please welcome alan morrison. [applause] >> i also have the distinction of two things. i read and comment on stuart's book. i don't get a medal of honor for that. my name is and the ac

this project is going to reclaim this part of the city as a wonderful public asset for all citizens toenjoy. that is a 13-acre site. so imagine as part of this project over four acres of new public space that will be incorporated into the design. and appropriate for transit for a city like san francisco, this location is tremendously located for all public transportation, whether coming from the bay bridge, the red line there is bart. the purple line is muni. you see caltrain, as well as the location of the future transbay terminal. we don't have the transportation plan yet. peter albert and the city are conducting a major study not only our project, but the transit-friendly atmosphere. our preliminarily parking study shows within a 20 minute walk of the site there are 23,000 parking spaces to put that into perspective for you on a soldout warriors game in oakland the most cars that we park is 5,000. so that is the puzzle that we will solve through this process in making sure transportation works. now before choosing this site, we commissioned some significant research to learn how peo

minimum, i would consider supporting and allowing non-citizens to vote in either of those two. >> here i am different. i have two children in public school and i would love to see citizens and non-citizens engaged in the school, at the school level. i think that is great. and i think we should do everything possible to engage these people at the school level, get them involved in their school. i, you know, personally from the friends that have i, who are non-citizens, they haven't been clamoring to vote for the board of education and to me if you are a citizen you get to vote. if you are not a citizen, you don't get to vote. if it's easier to perhaps we need to look at how easy it is to become a citizen, but my experience is if you want parent to participate in their children's education, get them involved in their schools. i feel a little differently at the community college level, because at that time they are adults themselves, i'm assumingand that is more like the dream act and it's an interesting proposal. >> thank you. >> the next question is for miss breed, miss johnson and mr. resignato. >> a couple of years ago then mayor

this be sent to the full board and determination be made that it would serve the public convenience and necessity of citizens of san francisco to have this type 48 license issued. thank you. >> any public comment on this item? >> just one. i thank you guys for this meeting. thank for all the police department. they have done a great job. i have been cooperating the last eight years. some people sometimes criticize them but they are doing the right job. i think with your help i can be the last man standing on union square as a private enterprise and not a private enterprise not a cookie cutter chain, okay. thank you very much for your support. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm marsha garland. i'm here in support of this project. as you well know i have been a small business advocate for close to 30 years. i think it's really important to keep a remaining small business in the union square area. a lot of extensive outreach has been undertaken on mr. sirhed's behalf. i think it is a perfect fit for that neighborhood, especially given the many large hotels in the area that giv

citizens. the largest public works our city has season in many years going on now the private project that 1 rincon hill. huge project. we had 5 or 6 people work on that project thus far. the rebuilding of the academy of science in golden gate park. the rebuilding of our public hospital laguna honda this is on going work with the same contract ors that move successful apprentices from one project to another and keep them working for several years. the construction workers of the future to be the superintendents the construction owners. that's the perfect thing there. that's success.

mental and public health risk to citizens and communities is not no the toxics related risks include air pollution drinking water contamination and discharges to rivers and streams knowing the dangers communities across america are fighting back against the fractures one community in particular is in mora county new mexico joining me now to tell their story is kathleen dudley chair and board member of the new mexico coalition for community rights kathleen welcome well thank you tom my pleasure tell us about maura county's fight against big oil well we began five years ago when the land then came in to lease minerals and we've been fighting ever since we started educational forums we began we did a baseline water well testing prior to drilling we've tried to bring about the education to every single household member and as a result of that we've actually ended up having to elections both in two thousand and ten and two thousand and twelve to bring in two commissioners who are in support of community rights ordinance that will ban fracking and not let industry into our community so we

public that would like to speak on the executive director report, please come forward. >> good afternoon, supervisors. government transportation. what has it done for this city? in the last 10 years. as it really made any citizen's life better? san francisco was renowned for its public transportation for years which had traffic calming, which had character and culture. the public transportation system in this city is to die for. i was hit by a muni bus, rear ended coming back from a yoga class. now my arms are paralyzed. do you think the city and county of san francisco compensated me for that accident? no. they didn't. ripped me off. that's what they're doing to every citizen in this city with government transportation. can't get from one end of the city to the next without hitting a traffic jam. the drivers that drive these vehicles, way undertrained. shouldn't even be driving most of them. it's all a big compromise. if you can't see that, you're blind, numb or dead. san francisco's public transportation is a blight. hardly anybody in this city is happy with it. but you seem to think that you can throw it on us at the expense of our culture and wave life just because you think that we need it that way. nobody

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