bring up a new amendment. what i believe supervisor kim is proposing -- i am not sure it is the answer. but i do think it needs to be vetted with a lot of the designers of our public financing program, with whom i worked to find an amendment to harmonize with the board of supervisors was going to do with the mayor's program back in 2007. there has been a process i feel comfortable with. i do appreciate your bringing this forward, supervisor farrell, to answer the challenges from the supreme court decision, but i will be voting against the amendment, looking for a new version. supervisor kim's is probably a start, and we will be able to assess a new path for the future. supervisor kim: i want to respond to some of the new comments that were made. this was a novel part of the