next, we have betty packard, and then we have adele fasick. >> my name is betty packard. this is a reappointment. i started on this committee in 1997 and there are days in every committee session when i wonder why i continue. i have chaired the session for the last eight years. i will say the committee we have at the current time is the best committee i have ever served under. i am a retired national editor, and journalist, 50 years in journalism. i think probably at this point i am qualified. i will suggest to the members of the committee, and supervisor elsbernd and i have talked many times, that when you have an issue before the committee it is nice to have you come and represent your particular issue. sometimes the aids cannot give it the full explanation and it leaves us in a conundrum trying to figure out what in the world it really says. despite what the "san francisco chronicle "says, the ballot simplification rights the boater -- voter handbook and explanation, not the city attorney's office. he is laughing. it helps when you come and help us bring it down to whe