. >> i have one estion s is there a tv on the back patio? >> there is one and 99.9% of the time remains in a cover. it is only taken out for very special occasions. >> i just wanted to know if there was one. that's it. >> ok. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good evening, commissioners, my name is tom bernard. recent transplant of san francisco. this is all new to me. been here about 10 months. but in that time i've been

the estion is, did the handshakand verb agreement constitute an enforceable contract?well, generally of course, the statute of frauds requires that all transactions involving interest in land must be in writing to be legally enforceable. and that includes not only the sale of land, as in this case, but leases and other transactions involving interest in land, like mortgages. >> well, in the ordinary case it makes sense to expect that parties will put their contracts for interest in land in writing. these contracts are generally for a lot of money. there are tax considerations. the government has to know who has title to what property, and generally there's no rush. people have time to put their agreements in writing. but it seems that in this case to allow the seller to back out of the deal on the ground that there was no writing would be really to perpetrate a fraud and not to prevent one. >> i agree with you. and in fact the statute of frauds has an exception for the kind of activities the buyer has engaged in in this case. here the buyer has made a down payment on t

estion now is now what? now what do we do? now where do we go? i think what you're talking about with stem college and investments in the community colleges, are going to ramp america up to be competitive in the high-end manufacturing we're going to need. i appreciate what you're doing. we're here to support you. >> thank you. mr. mulvaney. >> if the staff could bring up the first slide. mr. zients iwas going to ask you about this originally. the president's promise he made during the -- >> my eyes are not good paper . >> you can, actually. it's simply a pledge he made when he ran for office and said today i'm pledging to cut the deficit by half during the first term. in response to a "washington post" criticism of this promise yesterday, i understand the administration's official position is now they had to break that promise because things were just -- turned out to be much worse than they thought they were. then i was going to ask you about this next promise regarding about not raising taxes on any families making less than $250,000 a year. bu

estion it was not very big. it is pretty clear. >> hi, how are you? >> how are you?r you guys. >> there you go. thank you. thank you. >> you have done a great thing. >> thank you. thank you. good to see you. you all look so pretty. how are you doing? thank you. >> how are you? >> you want to do a picture? go ahead. there we go. thank you. >> how are you? >> turnaround. -- turn around. thank you very much. thank you for being here. i appreciated. thank you very much. they you go. -- there you go. good job. i am glad i came to michigan. i just did that one. thank you. >> are you going to tennessee tomorrow? >> now, remarks from mitt romney who scored victories in arizona and michigan. ♪ ["born free"] [cheers] >> as usual, have a long list of thank yous and i will see if you are all going to behave and listen to this list without cheering in between. thank you to our honoring michigan chairman, gov. rick snyder, who you just saw. [cheers] lieutenant governor, brian kelly. and to our campaign cochairs, attorney general bill should be, senate majority leader roy randy ric