an issue that came up at town hall -- a meeting we had at desoto cab is that a lot of times, wanting to be helpful, you spend a lot of time on the front end and the back end. use secure the passenger in the back. the also have bags and things like that. you cannot initiate the button until you start to go. something we would like to see as a driver is consideration of that through the paratransit program. thank you for your time. >> i have a reservation about items 14 and 15. the board of appeals is an inefficient process right now. the rewriting of the legislation allows representation by lawyers. what really is happening is the persons who want an inefficient process is bucking these improvements. i strongly recommend you vote in favor of item 14. with regard to item 15, if the director of transportation imposes a moratorium on the color scheme this badge permits that would not be a permanent sort of thing. the moratorium would depend upon circumstances, and so forth. i strongly believe it should be impossible. there are various intuitively derived calendars by which people could g

. >> i am with desoto cap. i have a few topics i would like to talk about. i envy this board because i believe all the heavy lifting has been done interned -- in terms of moving towards an excellent medallion sales program. there will be a lot of revenue received by this agency and the city. it will of our working drivers who are lined up to buy these medallions. i am concerned that we do this correctly. i feel positive that it will be done well. i hope you do not miss handle that. empower the working driver, raise the revenue. my strong feeling about what ails this taxi industry stems from a shortage in the supply of taxis. i believe the exploitation of drivers, limousines acting as taxicabs, the illegal operators and brokers, all come from the fact we have a shortage of supply. there has been a consultant who has been hired to review this. has anybody heard from this guy? i have left him to messages and he is supposed to speak to the stakeholders. what is going on here? while we have been waiting for an environmental impact report, hundreds of taxis -- hun

i drove for desoto cab for 10 years prior to that. i drove in 1976 for the old, old yellow cab. this is frances mecchi and i've been driving her for about 11 or 12 years to her alzheimer's day program, which we call the memory club. every day when we drive through the presidio she'll say, "oh goody, you're taking me through the enchanted forest." [music] >> my name amr a.mahmoud. i am like 49 years old. i have been driving cab more than 13 year in general. then i drove a ramp more than 3 years. this is my fourth now. i have been enjoying doing the job. i like every moment of it. >> thank you amr. [music} >> hi, my name is peter and i'm a paratransit driver for medsam, and this is north and south of market where i pick up my group and drop them off at home. >> thank you , peter! [singing] you are my sunshine. very good driver. she says driver is very good. number 1. [music] larry mingo, mobility plus driver, san francisco paratransit. >> thank you, mingo. >> you're welcome. >> hi, mingo. >> thank you, mingo. >> thank you, mingo. thank you. [music] >> thank you, larry mingo. >> he

it allows businesses like yellow cab, desoto, green taxi to operate using medallions that are issued by the mta. as an attorney who represents small businesses and businesses in the immigrant community, i can say that this is bad policy that has not been justified in any way. yes, there are public safety reasons. for instance, limiting liquor licenses. this one is simply an anti- competition policy that i urge you to reconsider. it has created a black market in the existing color schemes. there are transfers taking place right now. people who want one of these color scheme permits are paying exorbitant amounts of money to get them. also, it is a disingenuous request from staff to be authorized to place this moratorium because staff has been denying new color schemes for at least the last year. according to testimony at the board of appeals, they have been denying it for the past two years. i can provide documentation to that effect. as a policy proposal, it is a very bad policy. at the very least, i ask you to put some sort of a sunset on this. not saying we are going to place some n

>> joining me now, defense attorney joey jackson and defense attorney and former prosecutor karen desoto is going to be fun. we're all parents. the school says the parents signed this form, and it outlined all the etiquette rules they have to go through. does the principal have authority to assign community service on not only the kids but on the parents? >> if the parents signed an agreement, they obviously have an argument. alex, come on. it's graduation. it's ridiculous. how much was it disrupted? was it two or three minutes? i would really love to see what their graduation statistics are. they should be happy these kids are actually graduating. >> you have a good point. we've seen the boisterous celebration story. you're going to a travel baseball game. you're going to get a lot of that going. but in graduation, it can slow down the ceremony. does the school have a point? >> listen, there is a supreme court case that talks about disruption of school activities. we studied it in law school. the bottom line is this. the regulations have to be reasonable. you have to evaluate it in cont

we'll bring in our prormer prosecutor karen desoto and defense attorney joey jackson. good morning to both of you. nice to see you. karen, we'll start with you. the prosecution saying he lied about the money, but the defense also saying it was an honest mistake. what do you say? >> well, i think it is a lot to do about nothing, actually. i think probably it would make more sense on the passport issue rather than on the money. because really a third party was handling the website, so how would they be able to know unless they got hourly updates. if it is 135,000 or 125,000, the judge believes he's deceived and can make the judge angry. you could land yourself back in jail. >> we'll talk about this deceit for a second. his wife was also involved, supposedly. could she be in trouble here? and let go ahead and bring you in here, joey. >> that depends. there's always a perjury charge that could be looming large, but the question is what did she know and when did she know it? karen raises the point as to whether or not this was deception or whether it was just a misunderstan

my next guest actually thinks so, and victoria defrancesco desoto is a professor at the university ofas and also a se senior at the the center for women and politics, and i love this, because you are like mama latinos here, and we have had the walmart moms and the soccer mom moms and what is making the difference? >> this is the year of the latina mom, and let me tell you that the focus of the latina mom is on the mobilization, and not the swing vote like the soccer mom or the walmart mom, but it is about seeing what these women do in their family. and latinos have bigger families and multigenerational households and these women are the nucleus and make it go around and if we can get them mobilized and get them to light a fire under the family, then we will see more turnout. >> anything that you heard from mitt romney today that makes you and other latina moms get fired up? >> well, the fact that he came. you know, he came. there was a lot of question whether or not he would come. he did address the question of immigration, but i do not think that it is that shot in the arm that latin