sure this club not only comes to the neighborhood but serves the young people i want to thank derrick brownho has been working with our office and some of the housing developments to make sure that kids who don't feel safe walking to the boys and girls club because we still have challenges in this community he's going to be picking up and making sure they have a way to get here so they know this club belongs to every this single kid in the community one of the things rob didn't mention they've mentioned to me now the ability to serve the kids in the tenderloin so i'm looking forward to bridging gap and bringing folks from the tenderloin and our kids need a club and place to feel safe and secure and they have that in the don fisher clubhouse i wish i was is a kid gay again to have a good time and maybe ever now and then i'm smeek over here i'm looking forward by last but not least i want to thank the committee that raised all the money as someone that used to run a nonprofit i remember the work that went into raising a thousand dollars it was a time consuming progress i say work you all rais

thank you >> good afternoon, supervisors commissioners i'm available to answer any questions is derrick brown i'm - i with the community housing as a volunteer community organizer and training i'm going to speak brief bely about the data it is important for san franciscans and my mom in phil and i'll is briefly please pass the housing balance without amended san francisco is a great city to live in thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is fang i'm a lead organizers with jobs for justice we're a coalition of 28 organizations our organizations represent nurses and teachers and seniors, the disabled youth, immigrant retail workers many, many kind ofs of people at our recently planning retreat we get together and we talk about economic justice but which we explicit talk about the wal-mart second street strike or the worker bill of rights but housing over and over again, we talked about housing for each of the organizations that is a tape issue on a person level i've lived in the city over 10 years and recently moved to the east bay i can't return to the city i'm not alone and in oak

my name is derrick brown. i'm in support of the housing and i want to also talk about opening up city college in tender loin and how important it is especially for those who speak another language. i want to also thank supervisors kim, campos, lee and hope that others support this free education in san francisco and better jobs. thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors, my name is james tracy, i'm the director of community organizing and partnership. getting eddie back up is high on our agenda for the exact reasons that mr. brown mentioned. we can't talk about self-sufficiency. we can't talk about bridging the divide. and we cannot talk about immigrant justice in our neighborhoods without these resources coming back. we urge the unanimous show of support for this resolution and we urge all of you to join with us to turn up the heat on city college to make sure they commit to respecting the central city by agreeing to a realistic schedule to bring back city college

lee: i also ask unanimous consent to grant floor privileges to a member of my staff, derrick brown until the end of the day. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lee: madam president i ask unanimous consent to enter into a colloquy with the senior senator from illinois and the junior senator from new jersey and the senator from arizona. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lee: we rise today to speak in favor of the smarter sentencing act a bipartisan piece of legislation that would make targeted reforms to mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders. i was proud to join my distinguished colleague from illinois senator durbin, in introducing this legislation. he and i want to thank our cosponsors senators jeff flake cory booker, ted cruz, pat leahy, rand paul, sheldon whitehouse johnny isakson and chris coons. i also want to thank the lead sponsors of the house version of the smarter sentencing act congressman raoul lab ambassador and bobby scott. it is not often that we see a political coalition like this one on capitol hill. it reflects the importance of

the one time croce made a basketball decision, he banned larry brown from bringing back derrick coleman because derrick coleman had refused to go to children's hospital on a team trip, and croce said -- i think rightly -- "you can't win a championship with guys who don't go to children's hospital." and i think -- i think chip subscribes to that kind of -- he got rid of desean jackson last year, gets rid of shady. i happen to be fans of both guys 'cause of their amazing talent. but they weren't his guys, in terms of their off-field commitments. >> do we think he gets mariota? >> that's the sanguine way of looking at it. and, you know, yep, character, but it's almost like a vladimir putin-esque kind of move because the man wants what the man wants, and if he doesn't like you, you're gone. and that to me is -- that's not what dick vermeil did. i mean, it seemed like he gave people a chance, an opportunity, and shady mccoy was not desean. >> if he wins the big ones everything will be forgiven. >> very quickly, if he wants what he wants, does he want mariota? >> who wouldn't? >> okay. all ri

brown. joining us is derrick parks, the attorney for michael brown's family.ow. let's start with the finding on darren wilson. not only did they say they're not going to charge him, but attorney general eric holder saying it was self-defense. what happened with michael brown. very different than a lot of the speculation going into it. your take? >> without question you have to listen to the other words that the attorney general said yesterday in his press conference when he said that he couldn't meet the federal environment, the conduct when some of the things that happened when michael brown and officer darren wilson on the street that day in ferguson was of issue, and however -- >> the attorney general did say it was self-defense. what's the issue? >> i'll give you an example. one of the issues that the family took issue with the doj was the fact that whether or not michael was shot from the back or not, which was an issue. now they obviously determined that most of the shots came from the front. however they had to agree with us with the fact that three of