this legislation has the principal and altman objective in supporting the district, especially those that are locally owned and to encourage economic activity there, especially in the greater respect -- the greater geary corridor. this is the diversity of the businesses. it utilizes the legislative process, our powers to update controls or modernize emperor in a way that leads to greater opportunity for all of our small businesses. it also encourages other residences was strengthening businesses. i wanted to say that after hearings of the small business commission but also at the planning commission and also the land use committee, there have been a lot of great stories of small business owners, and i wanted to say that a coalition has signatures in support of our legislation and to promote small businesses in the city, but one of the key points was a story told by jonathan, one of the co- owners of per corner in my district. jonathan owns that store, and his statement at the land use committee is "i work seven days a week, sold back home, move back home, put myself in debt to pursue

the ultimate goal, altman benefit of the justice system is to have every case management system connected sooner rather than later. as good as the work has been within the d.a.'s office, public defender's office, public defender's office, police department, to upgrade their systems, and as great as it is that their age realize efficiencies within their departments, the ultimate benefit of justice is when everyone is exchanging information through the hub. right now, the sheriff's department is the only department connected with the hub. the advent of the jms system, we have automated our five core functions. booking, classification, housing, movement, and release. that has been a sea change of monumental proportions for us. some of the information that we could now share with other departments, particularly, the police department -- i point out another benefit of justice is certain economies of scale -- a bit of a diversion here. the police department and sheriff's department each would out to bid on their case management systems and it was quickly realized that the same vendors, the same

altman, it is thanking the parents of our kids -- ultimately, it is thanking the parents of our kids. the parent/teacher relationships are probably the most important thing we have in the city. as long as i keep the great communication levels on, talk to everybody, make sure the parents feel investing in their kid and making sure you are not distracted by things that will not keep you in school, those are the things that we invest in. i want to thank the students here, and i want to thank the board members that are here today, the parent/teacher advisers that are here. i want to thank the school administrators. you and i -- it is our jobs, but i think we enjoy success. we enjoy seeing this improvement. every week we have a chance to identify something else we can do for our district improvement, i will be there for you. thank you very much. [applause] >> good afternoon. i am deputy superintendent for instructional information and social justice. mr. mayer, thank you for your words -- mr. mayor, thank you for your words. in 2008, this community made a very bold statement, and the rippl

rick altman is with the tea party coalition and predicts the policy will bring in a flood of new illegalmmigrants in the country. >> this sends a green light to even on this planet, if they can get the united states and not be convicted of a crime, they get to stay. >> bay area immigration advocates aren't happy about the new policy either but for different reasons. many are deeply suspicious of the immigration officials under the obama administration allows them to check fingerprint of anyone arrested and immigrants advocate say it led to deportation of immigrants convicted of even minor offenses. >> despite skepticism, the policy change should help president obama's standing with the latino voters in the 2012 election. >>> another british prince is headed stateside. prince harry will be coming to california and arizona to take part in intense military training. the prince spokesman didn't give a date but said the stay should last up to three months. he is following in his brother william and sister-in-law kate's path to the united states. they were here this summer. harry's visit, brit

arthur garfield hayes, roger altman, maybe these were heroes of my time because they were founders of the aclu, and many others. one is lincoln stevens, and if you read the book carefully, you find jack was influenced by part by the wonderful autobiography, and so i came away today because this is not only bastille day comer this is the date that sacco and vanzetti were executed. so my but if it is what would have happened if darrow had been their lawyer and had not been rejected by the sacco and vanzetti defense team which thought he was too much of a chicago midwesterners for this new england elite crowd. the result might have been different. but at any rate, let us welcome jack farrell. [applause] >> it's really nice to be introduced by david pollack julie gave me great insight for the tip o'neill book. he was a wonderful help. i came early tonight so i could listen and make sure the bookstore was passing it to great hands, and i was assured by meeting them and talking to them that it is you really are a wonderful community of people and i think the great thing about politics and p

they saw it as a threat to the expansion and altman existence of slavery.hat is why i go and say that ultimately it is an issue about slavery. lincoln said -- his take on it, was that the south will agree to let the polish use their way, as long as we stop saying slavery is wrong. whenever someone is in fundamental error, they do not want to be challenged. the south bay and abolitionist press. they did not want to hear about it. they did not want to know. it is very easy for me to condemn, standing here, but if i lived in that time, my view would probably be different. lincoln had a humane and merciful view of this. the same was true of him. huge economic interests. slaves constituted the greatest source of wealth in this country. eliminating it was a huge and difficult deal. anyways, that is a way of saying that slavery was ultimately the issue, but i do not want to give too much on my high horse about it. there are people that disagree with me on that, i imagine. >> thank you. >> hello, i am from the university of cambridge. your question about the lawyer

the republicans practice to practice the epic -- epic of altman ends. we do not care, we will go with our convictions. obama has one but not the other and republicans have won but not the other and neither can present the full personality of a leader. >> we will turn now to some audience questions. why don't you folks get your questions whether it -- ready. more to come. while we start circulating the microphone, i want to do some version of a lightning round, which is, very quickly, what is the single best accomplishment of his administration so far? very quick, one thing. >> to focus the debate of this country on long-term issues like the deficit. >> passing a health care bill. 40 million people who did not have insurance before had it now. >> i would say the same thing -- the health care bill. >> ok. let's go to some of your questions and then we'll come back here. where is the microphone? why don't we start in the back where you were? please, stand up. thank you. >> i think bill was wrong when he said the severity of the economic crisis was not seve

in terms of operational responsibility, altman response ability for police operations rest in london with me. we received great support from a acpo and other chiefs. it's 30 forces we had. we don't wish to duck any of that responsibility. we need to understand all the factors and get the timelines. there has been lots of documentation. i would not what anybody here to think anything other than those decisions, success or failure, will be dressed differently by different people, but they were mine and my command's? >> commissioner, this has been alluded to. there were thousands of fires reported, unprecedented this. order as you've indicated the number of 999 calls was up 400%. can i take this opportunity to congratulate you personally and officers under your command for the work that has been done and is continuing to be done in the metropolitan police? the reality is that, although we saw some of the risks of the country, the behavioral things and nake criminality, we also saw some of the best from londonders. and from the fine work of our police, and fire, and medical services. i a

. >> altman, especially in these economic circumstances, it is harder to run as an incumbent then it is as someone with a blank slate. but to govern is to disillusion people that is just the way it goes. the case people have to make is "better meet then someone else." i will continue to fight the good fight. you have to stick with me. it may be the kind of campaign he runs will be the campaign of the president in the middle of a war where you have to stay the course. victory has not been achied. maybe this is abraham lincoln in884 -- 1864 where george bush in 1984 -- 2004. if you throw me out now, we will lose all the progress that we -- then we made that things will be worse. >> can we go over here? the gentleman ithe white shirt? yes. you? please stand up when you get the microphone. >> one of the major responsibilities of a president is the stewardship of foreign policy. how would you assess his handling of the palestinian- israeli negotiations? secondly, the arab spring? >> thank you but the question. who was to start with that? >> i think foreign policy has been his strgest poin

this is the altman measure of fiscal responsibility. i congratulate our leadership forgetting that commitment. we cannot get a vote on anything unless harry reid agrees to give us one. this is what it will be about. quite to consider them together. >> to you have a top line? >> >> i do not have it in my head. we said it for 12 and 13. it to be immediately available to you. we should have a normal appropriations process. normally come into a pass the budget. it has been over a hundred days since the past and the senate. you reconcile the differences. you got the top line. not being optimistic that we would get this. we have put into the measure the top line for fiscal year 12. cleisthenes have about the presence of the white house backs there were even further cuts in the joint committee. >> the joint committee will not go to the gridlock. it is designed to function. it tackles the problem so we have been unable to deal with. the trustees both are improv rigid in trouble. if not been able to do anything on the tax reform side. we decided

element of practicality and know when to be bold and when to be cautious and how he will get to his altman and. and match his means to this end, and that is what reagan did. there are times when he felt the correlation of forces was against him, and he had to take a knee and surrender. he did it on taxes in 1982. after his big tax cuts, there was a revolt in congress, a deficit in helping the rich and what not. house was against him, democrats, and the republican senate went south, and there was no alternative. liberals point of that and say reagan was in favor of increased taxes, which is just absurd. it was entirely a tactical maneuver and being forced to give in. same thing with the soviet union. they say that reagan negotiated with gorbachev. it's show that reagan was in favor of negotiating with your enemies. well, yes, sometimes, but he spent his entire first term not negotiating with the soviets because he wanted to build up arms so we have the upper hand and the soviets knew we had the upper hand, and he wanted to wait until there was someone worth talking to, which he finally had