he was born with a silver foot in his mouth. >> in texas, even liberal icon, ann richards, would notty. on august 23rd, 1994, the day before he was to be executed, ruben cantu received the reply. clemency denied. >> a san antonio man continues to claim innocence just hours before he is set to die by lethal injection. >> on the day of his scheduled execution, local stations aired an interview with ruben where he again declared his innocence. >> by law standards, my case i barely legally sufficient to hold up a capital murder conviction because of the eyewitness. yet his testimony, just looking at his testimony, you don't know where he is coming from. but at the death house at huntsville, where all texas executions take place, preparations for ruben's execution proceeded. >> the execution was at midnight in those days. >> reverend carroll picket was chaplain at the huntsville prison for 16 years. >> ruben had been visiting with his family most of that day. >> you have different rooms and in each room they have phones. so all of us be on the phone with ruben. he was in a single cell acr

folks like aubrey jordan, and anne richards, and president lyndon johnson. and we also have some great young democrats. i spent a lot of time today at folks at a roundtable and at a couple other events. and what i learned is that you all take your politics is seriously as we take our barbecue, which is very seriously. [laughter] sec. castro: now, you all have a great crowd here tonight, and we are in manchester. but i know that we are also thinking about the challenges that we have in washington dc. if you are like me, you go on twitter or facebook or turn on cable news and you recognize that we have quite a mess in washington dc. that despite the great work of your representatives, carol porter, and so many democrats that are fighting the good fight, we have an administration that is leading our nation in the wrong direction. i don't know about you, but it makes me miss president barack obama. [applause] sec. castro: i miss having a president we can be proud of. i miss when we had a president who called all americans as worthy of great representation. i mis

richards? >> one quick one. i know i asked anne ma riz rogers to do a kind of what-if on sba-27 and how it applis to san francisco. but after looking at some of the comment on social media, i think understanding it on the accountability act and the other things really is -- really gets to the matter because it may be in and of itself sba-27 does one thing, but when you combine it with all these other bills that hem the city in, it could be a whole different day after, if it does pass. but if you could do that in your analysis. >> yes. we are nearly complete with a memo that does talk about not only a-27 but the kind of cascades effects that would happen with the state density bonus. that is the draft memo that we have. we could add housing accountability perhaps and get that to you business next week's packet. >> thank you very much. >> seeing no other comments, commissioners, that will place us -- excuse me k. i must have an old agenda. >> item eight, right? >> yes. item eight, the action item list. >> i think that's me. [laughter

ann please silence your devices and when speaking before the commission f you care to, do state your name for the record. i'd like to take roll at this time. [roll call] and we expect commissioner richards to arrive shortly. first on your agenda is consideration of items proposed for continue wants. item one, 2016-007850env, 88 broadway and 735 davis street, an appeal of the preliminary negative declaration is proposed for continuance to march 8, 2018. item two, 2017-004489cua at 701 valencia street, request for a conditional use authorization. and item number three, 2017-006817drm, 1190 bryant street and it is proposed to be continued indefinitely. item four, case 2016-010348cua, 1233 policiening street is conditional use authorization, items 5a and b for case numbers 2015-014876cua at 749 and 27th street, conditional use and authorization variance are proposed to march 22, 2018. item six, case number 2015-015846drm at 520 28th sfraoet, the staff initiated discretionary review has been withdrawn. and we've received a proposal to continue items 20a and b for case numbers, conditional use and rear yard modification. the project sponsor was requesting two weeks. the supervisor's office wa