obviously in some alexian's there is higher turnout, and some elections there is not, specifically with the runoff between gavin newsom and the mayor here in stamford cisco. for me, more importantly, i do have a number of fundamental issues with rank choice of a boardivoting. the simple majority has the responsibility of -- has the ability to produce results. last year we had people running around asking for people to get there second and third votes. to me, that is not leadership. i want my city leaders, people coming to voters in saying this is my vision for this office. this is why i would ask for you to vote for me as opposed to running around asking people for their second and third votes. second of all, we talked a lot about this the last time around, the notion of voter confusion. poll after poll, voters will say they're confused by this. to me, i think there is no reason why we should have a voting system in san francisco where voters are confused. i think there is a lot of anecdotal evidence for that. there is also a ton of empirical evidence in the form of over boats and san f

i think it is a special election, and people do not show up to special alexian's very much. also, the main it campaign will be in san the negative. so that is just what is going to happen, and we all know that. it is also agreed to be very expensive. i was a fund-raiser for an election that when to run off, and there was almost a divorce. it is really hard on the people. it is really hard on the candidates to have the extra elections. we do not need it. let's keep what we have, make it better with the education. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. eric brooks representing the san francisco green party. just to pick up where the last speaker left off, this rink chosank choice voting measure, speaking in strong opposition. boaters are already hard-pressed enough to get the work done in gooand go out and spent another campaign. this is needed to protect social services and social justice and environmental justice. it is crucial for us to be able to vote for people. it was crucial for me in the first time to actually be able to bring people i care about in an election. th

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strongly support ranked- choice voting and support the common sense proposal to fine tune it may laurel alexians -- mayoral elections. ranked-choice voting has made it possible for asian-americans to elect representatives of their choice, a precious right guaranteed by the u.s. and california voting rights act, but the u.s. and california constitutions. asian-american communities though it was often fragmented between several candidates, which made it difficult for asian-american candidate to qualify for the runoff. after the city adopted ranked- choice voting, representation in city government has more than doubled. by enabling residents to vote in a single november election, ranked-choice voting has maximized voter participation. for this reason, we staunchly oppose any effort to move the city elections to september. we strongly urge you to place the proposal on the ballot. i have been following the recent discussion in the news media. i've also heard that some progress as do not like ranked- choice voting. i am a progressive and i know that ranked-choice voting was not designed to guarantee p

the only alexian that did not have a high turnout was in 2011, where mayor newsom at that time did not have the type of incumbent competitiveness that we have seen both in 2003 as well as in 1999, so my proposal, colleagues, would be to focus just on the mayor's race, have to be a rank choice vote up to the first run off and then shipped the election to the november time frame. supervisor farrell: president chiu, are you making a motion to amend? president chiu: i am. supervisor: supervisor farrell? supervisor farrell: just to be clear to people in this drama, one of the many issues about rank choice of voting, and the primary for me, is the notion of confusion. this amendment exacerbates that confusion. eisenreich -- i understand the comments about going to a mayoral race. it is not something i would ideally like to see, but i think it is worth talking about. this amendment to have the right choice of voting in the runoff to be exacerbated, and i think it could be the worst thing we can do today. so while i appreciate it, i will be voting against it and hope my colleagues to the same.

alexians eberly impacted at the democratic side of the house armed services committee. you rose to the ranking post as a result of that. you're now looking at losing some very senior members. i wanted to ask you how that changes the dynamic for democrats? has the committee become more liberal in its approach to defense? just give me your read on what it means to have so many new faces on the democratic side. >> our committee has always had a very bipartisan tradition of taking our mission seriously to reward for national security, the defense of our country, and support the troops. obviously, the last election hurt us in terms of experience. we lost over 100 years of experience between members who either retired, and in one case or running for governor. filling that gap as a challenge. we have a lot of members coming of doing a great job. they take their role seriously. we're slowly rebuilding. norm said he was not running again. he is a ranking member. i told him he could not do it too was, basically. he said it time marches on. you have to build the next generation an

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what about midterm elections, the fate of the party, the incumbent party in the congressional alexian's matane. will we see is a very large correlation in which the assessment of history tracks largely in most instances with the assessment of the voters. in other words, he'll a president to is rejected by the voters, and seldom does history the bunch of presidents who was hailed based on my indices by the voters. so the question posed by obama was, can he set himself above the electorate to such an extent that he gets tossed out by the electorate and still get high praise from the historians. what i wrote was that it is almost no chance. it just does not work their way. generally speaking. but there are some interesting and intriguing exceptions. so having written that piece i thought, well, i would like to explore these perceptions. perhaps this might be possible through this matrix of the historians burdick to, the voters' verdict, comparing to look at the presidency in terms of how presidents succeed and fail and have the presidency works, how we ss presidents through history. and i

a strong candidate, urges for the general election and will support our candidate in the general alexian>> what can you learn from the members when a more liberal member survives or a blue dog democrat loses his or her seat to a fellow democrat. what do you learn from that as a party? >> it depends so much on the particular district. it is hard to find a general pattern in these races. you have a number of them -- obviously in california you have howard berman and brad sherman. it took these races -- you have dennis kucinich and marcy captor in ohio. those are not in either case a blue dog democrat against a progressive candidate. you don't see wild swings within the ideologies in those particular districts. you find that more comparing one congressional district to another one, sometimes in different states are different parts of the states. so i guess to answer the question, it is hard to draw any lesson from any particular or a number of these battles. the focus will of course be turning to november, the general election, and in the general election, of course, there will be a major c

smith served five years in the federal alexian commission. he is our guest this morning to talk about campaign spending in 2012 and the senate's effort this week to pass legislation called the disclose act. let's start with this story in usa today. campaign fundraising right now at $1 billion and counting. it suggests that it could hit $3 billion. what do those numbers say to you? guest: it is not a lot of money. we need to be informed about candidates. higher spending dozen factories -- increase voter knowledge of who the candidates are and where they stand. as much as people take those 32nd at, the data shows that higher spending does increase voter knowledge and awareness. senate's's move to the effort this week to pass legislation called the disclose act. you have been a critic of that. why? >> there are a number problems with the act. it is not really necessary. people here this reports of secret money and the reality is every super pak has to disclose all of its donors. campaigns disclose their donors. we have more disclosure them we ha