wind through a hearing of the ethics commission, two years before sunshine task force member sue clausen's case even had a hearing. you may or may not at the conclusion of the ethics commission hearing that found miss gomez had violated the sunshine ordinance, i went to congratulate her being the first person in city history to have been found violative by the ethics commission, in the first person in city history to being referred to the mayor for removal of office. when i approached her to congratulate her, she flipped her jacket at me trying to strike me. there does not need to be an actual strike to constitute an assault. she is salted meat in the hallway of city hall, and the mayor trying to run for elected office has no business doing so unless he is going to enforce referrals sent to him from the ethics commission. ed lee should not become mayor if he is going to willfully ignored the recommendation made from the ethics commission. thank you. supervisor campos: 6 speaker, please. >> my name is jeff ente. i was one of the complaints. i want to give you first-hand experience of what t

patrick clausen is director of research where he directs the iran security initiative.with that opinion? do you think those extremist groups are really the ones that are going to benefit from the arab spring? >> perhaps in the short term because, as he said, they're very well organized. but i very much doubt that'll be the long-term winners. the long-term winners are more likely to be more democratic groups because that's what the people in the arab countries want is a chance to have a voice about their government. jenna: why do you believe that? >> if we look at the countries that have had a change in leadership like in libya, for instance, we see that the current libyan leader is talking about making it easier for men to take a second wife. but we see an awful lot of libyans really kind of unhappy about that. or if we look attu news ya where the islamist party did well in the elections, we find a lot of people voted for them because they were the most organized force. and i don't think that's the long-term future of either tunisia or libya. jenna: as far as any of tho