commissioner ambrose? >> commissioner ambrose: i had two others i talked about that didn't get picked up. you had said we can change the requirements for requesting informal advice to just make it clear that all we need to know is how to get to somebody. so we need their email address or their mailing address or their telephone number so i would like to recommend we make that change so how do we answer that question. i would also, as you had pointed out, i wanted to make the change to say that after a commission adopts an opinion that the executive director will send it to the district attorney and the city attorney within three days and there's no need for any extensions. so if you can include that in your litany, then we are ready to go. thank you. >> vice chair kopp: all right. so ordered. >> i missed one other amendment, my apologies. rescinding opinions. and this is taking to one of ms. maio's recommendations and account. we can strike concurred in by both city attorney and district attorney as she po

>> commissioner chiu: commissioner ambrose? >> commissioner ambrose: concerning the respondent's ability to pay, that is something that officials asked us to take into consideration, and that was your evaluation of their -- the individual's tax returns and income, it was the basis for a penalty of $4,500, that the proposed penalty, correct? >> yeah. the regulations, i believe in section 12, with respect to hearing on the merits set out the penalty factors, and the penalty factors acknowledged that we could contemplate a respondent's inability to pay. when the executive director exercises her discretion to settle a matter instead of bringing it all the way through litigation, those same penalty factors can be applied in the settlement context, as well, and so that's why we have done them pursuant to the regulations and that's why the executive director or staff through her have conducted that analysis. i suppose if you wish to conduct a hearing on the merits and you, independently, were to make a penalty determination, in theory

. >> commissioner ambrose: is that true also of contributors? >> yes, exactly. >> chair chiu: thank you. any other public comment? there being none, so for agenda item number four on the -- the public financing review, mr. ford has provided seven regulatory recommendations and four legislative recommendations, and i'd like to make a motion to approve those and direct staff to go -- go forward and draft the regulations and the ordinance as stated on page 17 here. >> vice chair kopp: before you call for a vote, i request, beside the point just made about somehow protecting residential addresses as appropriate, a couple of other suggestions from mr. bush, and that is the second one, which is to provide publicly a current list of people who are prohibited from making contributions to candidates. and thirdly, that the announced of the -- what do you call it -- press releases of increased ceilings for candidates include the source of such funding which causes the increase, particularly for independent expenditure committees. and i would ask for that,

. >> chair chiu: any other -- commissioner ambrose? >> commissioner ambrose: thank you. one quick question, going back to public financing and the criteria that -- for satisfying the documentation for residency, you reference an address verification system. that's a new acronym for me. can you tell me what that is? >> so the address verification system, a-v-s for short, is an electronic system that credit card companies use to run a really quick fraud detection check. basically what they do -- so think of when you use your credit card on-line. you enter your name, and you enter your billing address, and then, you type in your credit card information, and you click submit. what this system does is it checks the address that you just provided on that website where you're making a purchase against the address that you provided to your bank for that credit card or debit card, and it confirms that they match. it's intended to detect situations where someone has taken your card, your address isn't printed on your card, so in theory, they don't know your address, and they're tr

. >> commissioner ambrose: i'm available either of those dates. >> vice chair kopp: i want to ask you something under the rubric of this item. what is this mandason. >> ms. bassin filed asking the ethics commission to consider her request to qualify for public financing. >> vice chair kopp: request for what? >> qualifying request for public financing. she did file in superior court. judge kahn did rule in her favor. 1085-writ. 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 ha

ambrose burnside had been planning for orders to make this assault, when and if they came. and he had four divisions in his army. ofee of them were comprised white soldiers, and these men had been badly damaged during the first petersburg offensive, not to mention the overland campaign. they had taken tremendous casualties. the soldiers were if not demoralized, there were very reluctant to attack confederate earthworks anymore. more souse of that, than competence in his fourth division, burnside would turn to his fourth division, commanded comprised ofraro, two brigades of african american troops. these colored troops had seen no combat. most of them were free men from the north, not runaway slaves, and they were very eager to prove their worth, just as their black comrades had in the 18th tax on june the 15, 1864 at petersburg. divisions were very reluctant and his black division was very eager. so burnside turned to farah a man who had a pedigree is a dancing master in brooklyn. because of his mannerisms as , he got a lot fop of derision amongst his colleagues in the army

every time i walked out of my grandfather ambrose finnigan's home, one of the few irish catholics ton education at the turn-of-the-century back in pennsylvania, when it was no irish need apply. he became a newspaper guy, and every time i walked out of his house he would yell, joe we, keep the faith. and my grandmother would yell, no, joey, spread it. go spread the faith. [applause] ♪ >> with the midterm elections just days away, watch the competition for the control of congress on c-span. see for yourself. .he candidates make c-span your primary source for campaign 2018. a 17 days until the election, c-span's campaign coverage continues monday with two rallies. former president barack obama in las vegas participating in the nevada democratic party get out the vote rally. that is live at 4 p.m. eastern and then it have an 30 p.m., president trump will beget a rally in houston to support texas senator ted cruz in his reelection did. watch both rallies on c-span. your primary source for campaign 2018. ♪ >> c-span's "washington journal" live every day with news and policy issues that imp

every time i walked out of my grandfather ambrose finnigan's few irishof the catholics to get an educationturn-of-the-century back in pennsylvania, when it was no irish need apply. guy, and a newspaper every time i walked out of his house he would yell, joe we, keep the faith. and my grandmother would yell, no, joey, spread it. those spread the faith. [applause] spread the faith. [applause] ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ >> today a debate for a u.s. senate seat in washington state the between incumbent democratic senator maureen cantwell and incumbent -- and challenger republican susan hutchinson, a journalist. then, the race for the u.s. senate seat in ohio because incumbent senator sharad brown and republican congressman james renacci. you can watch both here on c-span. with 17 days before the election, make c-span your primary source for campaign 2018. >> watch the competition for control of congress on c-span. see for you

ambrose burnside. he wasted little time drying up plans for an unconventional winter campaign along the river. almost predictably, almost as if to mock the federal war efforts. his plans came to grief on december 13, 1862. the costly battle at fredericksburg. for john west haley, fredericksburg was a true baptism by fire. that day, of course, 13,000 union soldiers were added to the casualties. they saw blue coated division after blue coated division advancing across the wide open plains that extended the heights where the confederates were parked where they planted artillery batteries. this day, john west haley wrote , this day has been a most exciting and eventful one. his ears, he said, were saluted with the cries of the wounded. a whole lifetime has been crowded into a single day. yet, it was a mere taste of what was to come. the folly of -- the virginia crossroads where robert e. lee and stonewall jackson literally outflanked another new union commander, joseph hooker. the horrors of gettysburg wer

tennessee, complete the liberation of that area, which they managed, which an expedition does assisting ambrose burnside around the knoxville area. so grant has managed to do many things lincoln wanted done through the war, and managed to do it with the resources on hand, without lecturing the commander-in-chief, the president of the united states, about military matters. this looks pretty good to lincoln. and then, this is something that is underappreciated, that winter as grant, and this is appropriate, by the way, because grant as commander-in-chief of all forces in the west has a key role for what happens in 1864. k,ncoln, through halloc begins to solicit general grant's ideas of what the strategy should be. where should they go, watch it happen? grand sends back all these things. we should operate from north carolina. we should send a massive expedition through mobile, into the underbelly of the confederacy. those aren't received for a well in washington -- very well in washington, but here is where grant is different. unlike people, george mcclellan, when lincoln would say something and o

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