attorney, and pleading someone guilty without him even being in the room -- he looked at the charges commo, and he said, very serious. how does the have the reflection of himself as a good judge? everyone in his community thinks he is a good judge and what happened to hank bauer is a grossness justice, but at the same times, he gave a $25,000 bail to a man who was riding his bike on the sidewalk without a bell, and that is a crime in troy, new york. clearly, there are lots of little kids in the suburbs riding their bikes on the sidewalk without a bell, but this guy was a homeless guy, so they arrested him. they brought him before the court. hank gave him a $25,000 bail. he did not have $25,000, so he sat in jail for eight days, and he came back and pleaded guilty. this is really the regular person that is symbolic of ordinary justice. there is a woman who has five kids. she is a nurse. one beautiful spring day she is sitting on the stoop, and she is reading of friends hair, and the police say, do believe -- she is braiding of friends hair, and the police say, and you realize there is a no

conservats like state parks because they represent california's heritage and history andç sort of commoand culture. a lot of liberals like state parks because of the wildlife benefits, because of the open space, the watershed values. and i think it really stunned a lot of political watchers that this lost so badly. i mean, this wasn't even close. it lost 58 to 42. and the environmental groups like the nature conservancy, audubon society who funded this spent 100 times more money than the no side. they spent $7 million to $74,000. and it's very clear that voters in this election, liberal and conservative, were not in any mood to spend any more money on anything. i suppose in hindsight when you look at the 12.6 unemployment, the worst economy since the great depression, that makes sense. and finally, when you look at sacramento politicians' approval ratings right now. they're in the 20% range. and so even though the text for this measure said that the money couldn't be spent on anything but parks, i don't think people believed that. >> the question is now what's next? voters weren't in th

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. >> we will leave this "washington journal" to go live to the british house of commo. >> including theew growth review on today and a program of reforms and following yesterday's announcement by european finance ministers, i would like to take the first opportunity to update the house about the irish situation and the u.k.'s involvement. copies of their reformer or made available earlier today. mr. speaker, we should take a moment to recognize the significance of this and a practical demonstration of this government's commitment to transparency and independent forecasting. today it is the first time the house will engaged, a and it was available to members to read two hours before the statement. this is also the forecast, i did new independent chair with other members of the budget responsibility committee, stephen nickell, and gramm parker whose apartments were approved by a select committee members by both sides of this house. as result, i am sure the country can have full confidence in the independence of these forecasts. the economic report published today includes 150 pages of inf