. >> vice chair kopp: what? >> i want to say for my own part i well recognize what is on their plate and this is a critical task. >> vice chair kopp: why critical? >> because they have been out of date for years. >> vice chair kopp: so what. show me an effect. show me a complaint that hasn't been perfected. >> well it's not necessarily about ethics complaints it's more about compliance and making sure candidates understand the lay of the land. what i clearly understand from the commission, you do want to devote attention to the proposed contribution limit. so to give pat a little more bandwidth i will commit with speaking with commissioner renne and others he brought into this effort to start the assessment of the legal issues which i think is clear to everybody in this room, prior to the next meeting. but not necessarily make any change to the policy plan at this time. that would just be a suggestion on my part to keep these balls moving as fast as we can. >> vice chair kopp: it's up to those who vote. any ques

kopp. >> vice chair kopp: on that point, miss schmidt, mr. bush makes the comment in an e-mail dated october 17, 2018, one model is the state system that retains the address of some individuals in a confidential file to thwart those who would harass them. options include having a third party sign a sworn affidavit that the person is a san francisco resident. and that's ae whwhat you're refg to. >> yes. >> vice chair kopp: okay. then i would ask the staff to investigate, consider, and have that part of the report next month. >> chair chiu: mr. ford, br you d -- before you do that, could you clarify what the process is at the commission about the addresses of donors to candidates, if that is kept and whether it's made public? >> absolutely. so right now, when contributors provide their home address for purports of demonstrating that they're residents, the candidates provide that on a qualifying request or matching request, but when that is posted to our site, the addresses are redacted. just

>> commissioner kopp: may i be recognized? >> commissioner chiu: commissioner kopp? >> commissioner kopp: i will not vote for the pending motion. i note this part of the staff report, page two, respondent has a history of engaging in political activity in san francisco dating back to at least 2012, when, for example, he formed a candidate controlled committee for his candidacy for the san francisco board of supervisors and filed statements with the san francisco ethics commission. in 2013 and 2014, respondent worked as a contact lobbyist in san francisco and filed lobbyist reports with the commission. in 2014, he then contracted to provide campaign management services for some committee in support of some proposition. the staff report notes that he was required to register as a campaign consultant. he did not do so in 2014 with respect to that, and with respect to quarterly reports. that was repeated the next year with some other campaign on a ballot measure called campaign -- or share better sf. again, the same repetition. the staff report on page four acknowledges,

commissioner kopp? >> vice chair kopp: okay. there's a lot of time and effort in this report, all of which leads mr. marstellar to reinforce my 40-year notion that public financing is unfair to taxpayers and doesn't do what it was cracked up to do, namely, limit the amount of spending in the face of a u.s. supreme court case which in 1974 held that a spending limit in a political campaign is unconstitutional, is violative of the first amendment. and as i may have observed at a prior meeting last year, dan walders, the columnist who knows more about politics in the cities, counties, and state of california than any other human being observed that no study has ever shown that public financing reduces campaign spending. i have a question, first, of a fact, which is what do we spend on public financing in an average election year? how many millions? >> i don't have that figure offhand. >> miss pelham probably has it. i know. >> well, there's a cap. the fund is capped at 7.5 million. >> vice chair kopp: what do we have in our account

civil code procedure. >> vice chair kopp: all right. go ahead. >> judge kahn did rule that the commission should consider her request to be timely and to review it. and i believe we are in the last few steps of completing that review and one of my colleagues joshua whitehood who has been investigating this will present an update either today or monday. >> vice chair kopp: wait a minute. your client lost. don't you come back to your client and ask your client whether the client wants to appeal? >> my colleague josh white has been handling litigation has been in constant contact or almost constant contact with ethics commission staff. if the commission wants to have a briefing we could have that discussion at a later time but we do want to provide an update as soon as we can. >> vice chair kopp: when can we? the election is november 5th. >> commissioner ambrose: i received an email immediately before the meeting. the decision just came down a few days ago. we will get an email describing why the judge ruled that way? >> exactly. these pre

. >> commissioner kopp: thank you, mr. marstellar. >> commissioner chiu: any other public comment? okay. item number ten, discussion and possible action regarding status of complaints received or initiated by the ethics commission, possible closed session. >> commissioner kopp: madam chair woman, i'd request a closed session on the confidential report from the executive director. >> commissioner chiu: is there a second? >> commissioner renne: i'll second it. >> commissioner chiu: okay. public comment on this item? no, no public comment. okay. we'll take a five-minute break, and then, when we come back, we'll go into closed session we'll go into closed session we are back in open session. following agenda item number 10, i'd like to move to keep the -- to maintain the confidentiality of the discussions held in the closed session regarding the status of complaints received or initiated by the ethic's commission. can i get a second. >> second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> agenda item number 11. discussion and action on items f

apparent targets of these devices the new jersey senate to cory booker for maintenance chief james kopp a do they fit the pattern we've seen so far. well james clapper was director of national intelligence under obama and has been a very outspoken trump critic especially in regards to russia and the allegations of russian meddling in the u.s. elections as trump is trying to push his view that this is all just a witch hunt and that there's nothing to this russian meddling story clapper has been on the other side of that and we can see why clapper would have drawn the president's ire new jersey senator cory booker has been a leading progressive voice in the past several years we saw him be a very strong force of opposition against the nomination of brett kavanaugh to the supreme court and he is also considered a front runner for a twenty twenty democratic presidential nomination so again another high profile democratic figure very much consistent with the other people who've been targeted in recent days. very quickly if you can has this story sort of changed american politics given that w

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. >> charlie marstellar for the record, i was hoping we'd see commissioner kopp. is he coming? >> clerk: i wasn't heard anything. >> he was celebrating his 90th, so i was hoping

at -- later in the afternoon, but i will turn the gavel over to my esteemed colleague, vice chair koppl chair the remaining meeting. with that, i'll go to item 2, public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. >> is it on?

at -- later in the afternoon, but i will turn the gavel over to my esteemed colleague, vice chair kopp, and he will chair the remaining meeting. with that,

we do have a time line highlighting developments during the closure on our website, abc7news kopp. >>> bitter disappointment for a group of newly appointed master somoliers. they were stripped of their titles. the decision was announced in a letter by the organization that administers the exam saying it learned of a breech by a master sommolier. only 274 people worldwide have passed the exam since it was first offered in 1969 and master sommelier david is here with me. you help people study to get their certifications. what does this scandal mean? >> it's absolutely devastating for everyone in the industry, existing masters, people who are in the process and especially the people who had their exam basically disqualified. >> so what is the thought here that the procter gave them the answers to some things? >> i really don't know. i am not on the board o directors and don't speak for the court, but basically it was only the tasting exam was impacted. the board is coming to a plan for a fair resolution to the people to be able to taste again. >> we should talk about the test itself. whe