i'm charles marsel for the record. i want to congratulate commissioner kopp for being here and thank the board for his appointment. i also am doing so on behalf of friends of ethics. the commission should have received by e-mail a copy of the final letter signed by friends of ethics and not by mr. bush, the one by mr. bush is in a document that was in process. this is the one you received signed by friends of ethics are the legal points we wanted to make on these several items on our agenda tonight. i said many times before this body and to the public that the law for public financing was clear. we have a proactive an concurrent enforcement mechanism so the use of public funds is in fact indemnified by the process set up which is you and me and friends of ethics and other individuals in the public sector who are interested in the integrity of public financing. that promise must be maintained. so 5 years is not acceptable. however, i think in this case, it's useful because we will see by an examination of the process ex