ralph anderson & associates and [speaker not understood]. so, they have submitted packages and in their packages covered the range of things obviously the cost and so on. when we went through it and i kind of want to take this opportunity to thank ted yamasaki and his staff over there in human resources and also deputy director levin for support, and helping me through this process and getting -- giving me the road map i need, too, so we can make this presentation to you here today. and using their expertise and their opinions, we kind of came up with a formula on how to evaluate these. one of the things we did was we kind of broke it down to six points of each of these vendors and we asked these questions. question one, how did they demonstrate experience recruitment of similar positions or other higher level positions? evidence of recent successful requirements in the building inspection industry. you know, we asked that question in looking at their application. recruitment approach, how they approach. demonstration of challenges of recrui

jill stein, virgil goode and rocky anderson of the justice party. ralph nader moderated the debate. >> abc 7 is on your side tracking problems at the polls. share with us when you see problems from long lines to machine malfunctions. visit wjla.com/poll problems or poll problems on twitter or send an e-mail to poll problems at g-mail.com. be sure to stay with us and wjla.com for your election night coverage. we are teaming up with abc news for the presidential raise and we will have our reporters on the ground in boston and chicago, the local races of course as well. our coverage begins tuesday night at 7:00 p.m. hope you will join us. >> new york and new jersey bracing for another storm as they try to muddle through the aftermath of sandy. tempers and frustrations are high as drivers deal with long lines for gas. the power is starting to return but hundreds of thousands still without electricity. the new york governor says the state could face a massive housing problem as well. >> officials in fauquier county seeking information from residents about the

i introduced ross perot and got to hear his thoughts and john anderson before that in illinois. ralph and others so come forward to go to the battle. you are the don quixotes in a way and the windmills have a way of stopping and we have a way of saluting you just to get into the fray so i thank you for your efforts, all you have done. i want to salute cristina and what she does. [applause] >> thank you. >> how did free and equal start? >> it came from my dad. jim tobin ran for governor back in 1998. today is his birthday so happy birthday, dad. this is my legacy. we are in non-partisan organization igniting the grass roots and bring the power back to the people. [applause] >> christianne has closing remarks and i want to tag gary johnson, bill stein, and virgil goode, and rocky anderson. thank you to the audience as well. [applause] outlook turned over to christina tobin for the close. >> i want to thank larry king for being a dream come true. [applause] my executive producer and producer and the whole crew people, thank you to them and all of our supporters out there and the candidat

ralph nader. many people believe he was very much a factor in the result resn 2000. you go all the way back to 19 auto, john anderson. and throughout history-- we may not remember all their names but they have played a role in american politics. >> absolute. you can go back to 1968 and orge wallace and hismerican independent party. and the fact of the matter is, richard nixon, once elected, adopted-- i remember-- the nixon southern strategy. it was designed, as much as anything else, to coopt to bring the southern democrats, conservatives, into the republican party. if not formally, then in practical terms. and, indeed, the nixon landed slide in 1972 was built very largely around the success of that strategy. independents and third-party candidates do be when they have a cause. >> that's right. >> to arouse passion. enough passion to draw people away from their conventional political loyalties. and it's a curious thing. in some ways, you would have thought this year with the concern people are voicing about the deficit, about the course of the economy, you would have thought that there was a political climate that m