mark gleaton and david rodriguez, but any member of the public that would like to speak on this item come up and you each have two minutes thank you for being here and on this wet, thursday morning. mark gleason i am the secretary treasurer of teamsters and we represent about 1500 parking workers in san francisco. and i do want to first thank supervisor weiner and cohen for sponsoring this legislation and also other supervisor whose have recently given us their ear to shine a spot light on the aspect of this industry that i am sure that no one would endorse and it is frankly the underground economy that we know what that is. my colleague will be coming up in a moment and talking in more detail about what we have found out there. and i will say that i do appreciate and applaud the budget analysts report, and it shows great improvement in recent years, about collection of the taxes. and which would also demonstrate that, you know, the bad actors that we have been talking about are probably fewer and fewer as we go along, but unfortunately it is our view that there are still some parts

>> good morning supervisors my name is david rodriguez and i am a business representative for teamsters and one of my job duties is to visit some of the parking garages in san francisco to follow up with some of the members who have grievances or questions or concerns and while i am doing the routes, and literally across the street or sometimes next door which are non-union operators and i would say that more than half are spanish speaking which is my first language and so i will have a conversation with them and they will ask me, what are the benefits of these employees of the union under their contract, and i will let them know that it is better wages and job security, holiday and vacation and let them know and they seemed kind of shocked at this point, more of the majority that there is getting paid cash and i am not sure if it is under the table and some of them don't get paid over time and some of them are working ten or 12 hour days or shift and some of them are working six days a week and some of them and one of them is mentioned that they are paid in a personal check and by the

b >> so we are talking about how republicans win and david web is fox nows contributor and crystal wright and reve sammy rodriguez. and president of the national leadership conference and marsha blackburn of tennessee. >> we'll talk about diversity in the republican party and sometimes the criticism is that republicans are a middle age old white guys club and no one else can play or win. crystal let me get to the point with you. we had a situation recently where tim scott was called a ventrility dummy. and they found that offensive. is it possible for people of color to find a place? >> i am example of that and you know, it is no mystery why i decided to name my d're blog conservative black chick to she the republican party is inclusive. a little history lesson here. lincoln and the republicans broke away from the wigs, because the wigs wanted to expand states out west and become slave states. we were the party to elect first blacks to congress. but the congresswoman and i were talking about this before we all got together. and what we said, look at all of us on the panel with you. we are representative. >> and i

david webb, host of sirius xm patriot radio. crystal wright, editor of conservativeblackchick.com. sammy rodriguezchristian hispanic confrgz, and marsha blackburn of tennessee. all right, we're going to talk about diversity in the republican party because sometimes the criticism is republicans are a middle-aged, old, white guy's club. and nobody else can really play. nobody else can win. crystal, let me get right to the point with you. we had this situation recently where tim scott was called a ventriloquist dummy by the head of the south carolina naacp. i just found that outrageously offensive. is it possible for people of color to find a place in the conservative movement? and in the republican party? >> sure, there is. i'm an example of that. there's no reason -- you know, it's no mystery why i decided to name my blog conservativeblackchick, to pust through stereotypes that the republican party, the party of lincoln, is inclusive. that's why the party was created, after all. a little history lesson here. lincoln and the republicans broke away from the wigs because the wigs wanted to expand stat

david. live in germany. investng up, how do we in emerging markets? we will talk to rodriguez of black -- ♪ >> first.loomberg. >> time for today's company news. fourth-quarter thatngs that -- most of growth was from acquisitions. they are facing increased competition. shipments in china fell for the first quarter in more than two years. idc says it signals growth in marketgest smartphone may be marked it -- moderate. telekom says they planned to be the leader in central and eastern european markets by 2018. they say they will continue to eye ou -- by assets and upgrade networks. welcome back, i am anna edwards. >> and i am mark barton. indexerging markets dropeped to a low last week. we are joined by gerardo rodriguez, specialist at blackrock. question to start off with. should we buy emerging-market assets? >> it is always time to buy emerging-market assets. returns -- they will come from emerging markets. 80% of the population and 50% of the gdp. it only 20% of financial assets. you can only think of growth when you think of emerging markets. if you want to have growth and returns come a you must h