michael levin. >> mr. president and commissioners, i'm michael levin, life-long resident of the city. san francisco history buff. praoeshltzer of art. -- appreciater of art. when i first heard about this proposal my initial reaction is how can we remove part of such an historic piece of san francisco. one of the few links to pre-1906 san francisco tonight. the pre-1906 civic centre. a front piece for the first grand city hall that san francisco had. nothing else is left of that civic centre except a couple of buildings that were built along city hall avenue before it was abolished in 1912, which kind of gives you an idea of where the civic centre used to be. to me, the native american depicted in the early days grouping looks more intelligent than the friar and the other man benting over him. but that is my interpretation. not every person looking at it for the first time will have that san francisco. so i attended the arts commission meeting on october 2. and my proposal was simply to have a larger plaque

president and commissioners, my name is michael levin. i'm just here to ask about something that i'm very concerned about and that is the albert samuels clock on market street. i'm sure you're all aware how it is constantly attacked by vandals. the last time someone deliberately smashed three of the small clock faces at the base and managed to stop the mechanism so it has been totally stopped for a long time. and i know this has happened so many times and i've seen volunteers fixing it occasionally, putting in a lot of effort to do that. and it seems beyond hope that it's just going to be attacked again. i don't know why, it seems culture has changed. that clock has been around for over 100 years and it was never attacked like that for most of its existence and i've been here since i was born. and don't remember that happening. years ago. so i'm just wondering if there is anything you can do or anything you're trying to do to alleviate the situation somehow. [baby crying] >> thank you, mr. levin. does any other member of the public wish t

show i saw a tweet from reporter john levine who was at cpac and wrote about a comment about former republican national committee chairman and msnbc contributor michaelvine reported, cpac communications director ian walters at reagan dinner. quote, we elected michael steele as chairman because he was a black guy. that was the wrong thing to do. he followed up, comment was met with gas at my table. and joining me from cpac is michael steele. thank you for calling in on short notice. how did you hear about this comment? and what was your reaction? >> i was finishing up my radio program on sirius xm. and it came across my phone. someone came running up to the table and said, have you seen this, right in the middle of the conversation i was having with one of our guests. and i looked down at my phone, of course i had one of those moments where you just go, what the -- so yeah, a little shocked, a little disappointed. surprised that people still in the party feel this way and look at the contributions that anyone would make to the party through the principle of race. it's unfortunate, it's stupid, it's immature. and i'm waiting to speak to matt schlap abo