. >> alec's domination of arizona proved too much for state representative steve farley. >> i just wante for corporations to be involved in the process. corporations have the right to present their arguments, but they don't have the right to do it secretly. they don't have the right to lobby people and not register as lobbyists. they don't have the right to take people away on trips, convince them of it, send them back here, and then nobody has seen what's gone on and how that legislator had gotten that idea and where is it coming from. >> farley has introduced a bill to force legislators to disclose their alec ties, just as the law already requires them to do with any lobbyist. >> all i'm asking in the alec accountability act is to make sure that all of those expenses are reported as if they are lobbying expenses and all those gifts that legislators received are reported as if they're receiving the gifts from lobbyists so the public can find out and make up their own minds about who is influencing what. >> steve farley's bill has gone nowhere. alec, on the other hand, is still everywhe

allen farley. on behalf of supervisor elsbernd for the"j2x late mr. he hadward patrick mcgovern. on behalf of supervisor campos, supervisor mar, supervisor kim and avalos, for the late mr. howard l. wallace. >> president chiu: thank you, madam clerk. is there any more business in front of the body? >> clerk calvillo: that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> president chiu: i want to wish you and your families, members of the public and everyone watching on sf gov tv, thank you for your service and wishing everyone for a very, very happy thanksgiving. this meeting is adjourned. >> at the san francisco recreation and parks department we offer good quality day care of your child will love, including outdoor adventures, aquatics, and programs for children on the optimism -- autism >> roll call. >> commissioner bonita and lev are on their way. >> i will make an announcement for those in the audience that item 11, the outside music festival permit will not be on the agenda. we will put that off, make sure it is properly posted. with that let us proceed. >> just a remind

allen farley. on behalf of supervisor elsbernd for the"j2x late mr. he hadward patrick mcgovern.lf of supervisor campos, supervisor mar, supervisor kim and avalos, for the late mr. howard l. wallace. >> president chiu: thank you, madam clerk. is there any more business in front of the body? >> clerk calvillo: that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> president chiu: i want to wish you and your families, members of the public and everyone watching on sf gov tv, thank you for your service and wishing everyone for a very, very happy thanksgiving. this meeting is adjourned. >> good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority finance committee and i'm scott wiener the chair of the committee. to my right is commissioner sean elsbernd and to my left is commissioner david chiu and commissioner eric mar and commissioner carmen chu will be joining us. >> no announcements. >> item two. >> item two presents november 6, 2012 meeting action item. >> any comments or changes to the minute? seeing none, public comment on item two. seeing none. public co

to ask if i cd also be added on the in memoriamium for howard but also for farley.he had a wonderful memorial last night in the green money. listens of 91.7 fm and the staff and all the volunteers from that great radio station as well. thank you. >> clerk calvillo: thank you, supervisor mar. mr. president, seeing no other names on the roster that concludes roll call for introductions. >> president chiu: colleagues, why don't we recall supervisor olague's item which is item 16. madam clerk, did you call that item? >> clerk calvillo: yes, mr. president. it is now on the floor. >> president chiu: supervisor olague. >> supervisor olague: there were a few -- this is introduced a couple of times, and then we continued it because there were some issues that were outstanding, and so i'll just go ahead and mention how some of those were resolved. the first thing, the issue of defining when planning staff reports are required to include the dashboard has basically been settled. so the changes are on page 4, line 24. and it mentions they will outline staff reports to the plann

allen farley. on behalf of supervisor elsbernd for the"j2x late mr. he hadward patrick mcgovern.os, supervisor mar, supervisor kim and avalos, for the late mr. howard l. wallace. >> president chiu: thank you, madam clerk. is there any more business in front of the body? >> clerk calvillo: that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> president chiu: i want to wish you and your families, members of the public and everyone watching on sf gov tv, thank you for your service and wishing everyone for a very, very happy thanksgiving. this meeting is adjourned.

. >> lotus yee fong, glendina farley, [speaker not understood]. >> good afternoon. >>> hi, i'm lotus fong. and to use the convention & visitors slogan, mr. de la sandra should be happy. only in san francisco, there's two lotus fongs. so, i'm going to take this -- i only moved here 30 years ago. i remember johnny stein from muni. i personally knew three senior citizens who were killed at geary and laguna. so, i was at the meeting to get the limited stop, okay. what i see is the city's growing and gentrifying very fast. sometimes when you do things fast, you might be a little sorry afterwards. so, i'd like to support everyone else here who feels the sense of community in the city and also whenever i'm in chinatown, north beach, downtown, my husband and i, we stop and we help the tourists. we give them directions. you get off at powell between washington, you don't know where chinatown is. okay. so, in the interest of making the quality of life and transportation in san francisco better, it seems like we need to slow down, february 1st is not going to work, and rethink this thing. and i

allen farley. on behalf of supervisor elsbernd for the"j2x late mr. he hadward patrick mcgovern.rvisor campos, supervisor mar, supervisor kim and avalos, for the late mr. howard l. wallace. >> president chiu: thank you, madam clerk. is there any more business in front of the body? >> clerk calvillo: that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> president chiu: i want to wish you and your families, members of the public and everyone watching on sf gov tv, thank you for your service and wishing everyone for a very, very happy thanksgiving. this meeting is adjourned. >> we came to seven straight about 10 years ago. -- 7th street about 10 years ago. the environment is huge. it is stronger than willpower. surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and where a huge amount of them is a healthy environment. >> you are making it safer. push, push. that is better. when i start thinking, i see it actually -- sometimes, i do not see it, but when i do, it is usually from the inside out. it is like watching something being spawned. you go in, an

farley. goes over to distract us from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that sells us and facials the garbage he calls it breaking news i'm abby martin and we're going to break that. mr. we turn now to a war being fought right along our borders and that is the war on drugs mexico's attorney general is now saying that twenty five thousand people have gone missing in the last six years this image chaos and violence that has ensued in mexico as it struggles to fight drug cartels now some say that it's u.s. policies that fuel the war on drugs emboldening the drug mafias that profit that legal drug market but beyond policy is mexico's cartels are armed with massive arsenals take a look at some of the tools of their trade as you can see they have plenty of a k forty seven rifles machine guns and shotguns just to name a few rocket propelled grenade launchers you see here are some of the heaviest weapons the cartels use and they even have their own monster trucks

. >> ford ceo alan mulally along with jim farley. welcome.know what did you tell him, what was at risk here and what he had to do in order to take an old name and give it new life? >> well, clearly, neat to be here with jim because jim is known around the world for his experience on the luxury brands. to have jim lead the reinvention of lincoln is very exciting and, you know, all good companies have a tremendous luxury premium brand associated with them also. this is our chance to really bring -- >> a lot of money on the line. >> very important. as you can see from that new mkz we have a right product. >> what choices did you make, jim? >> we have to surprise people with the product. new mkz. a hybrid version, 45 miles per gallon. most fuel-efficient sedan in america. we have to innovate the experience. people expect to be treated differently especially after the great version. >> you talk about luxury is important. you mentioned fuel efficiency. where does that rate when people are buying cars that they look at fuel efficiency. >> fuel effic

beyond that, it reminds me of chris farley when chris farley looked you right in the eye, you had toe. and she has that. >> also in the movie are your two real-life daughters. and they're terrific. are you comfortable with the fact that you could have stars on your hands? >> i'm shutting it down. i didn't do it to launch anything. i wanted my movie to work. you know? scorsese calls them -- >> they're not available. >> marty -- i call him marty in my brain, any fantasy allows that. >> in real life, i'm terrified. >> i'd shut him right down. >> "this is 40" is terrific. it's in theaters right now. judd, thank you for being with us. >> great to be here. >>> we'll be right back with marcus samuelsson and tim love here to >>> ho, ho, ho. day after christmas. again, we hope yours was a good one. and while the stockings may not be emptied, obviously, the fridge full for weeks with leftovers. the easiest way to spice up the holiday meals. i know one way. tacos. >> who better to make them than marcus samuelsson and tim love, with creative ways. creative ways to turn your leftovers into delici

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. >> gretchen: this is jim farley. you know something about these cars. >> this is the first of four brand-new lincolns. it comes out this month. we have a hybrid that gets 45 miles per gallon. >> brian: it's like a convert ible! did you know this? >> steve: they'll be at the lincoln center. thanks for bringing it by here first. more in the after the show show. see you tomorrow, everybody. investigators searching for a motive after a murder-suicide that rocked the national football league. the kansas city chiefs reeling after police say linebacker jovan belcher killed his girlfriend then drove to arrowhead stadium and took his life in front of his coach and manager. martha: despite this tragedy. kansas city managed to play their scheduled game and as you would imagine it was a very emotional day for the players and the teams and the families and fans. after the game this is the scene. you can see the players alternating there. the teams gathering together as they huddled in prayer at mid field. >> we are grieving for a

a lot of -- how about chris farley? poor chris. >> yeah. jim blushy -- john belushi. >> that would be alcohol for everyone, i think, amendment. beers for -- >> college for everyone. >> yeah, college for everyone. no studying, but college. >> yes, but college with your college sweatshirt. >>> u.s. authorities are examining trading by one of sac capital advisers' most successful portfolio managers. kate kelly's been reporting on the story. reuters says that the latest manager in question is gabriel platkin. a probe into the $14 million investment in weight watchers last year. platkin is a specialist in consumer and retail stocks. he makes investment decisions for more than $1.2 billion worth of assets. and we do have a winner. getco buying knight capital for about $2 billion. it sweetened its offer for the market-making firm to beat out a rival. getco said to have clinched the deal after it increased the amount of cash in its cash and stock offer. the deal is 2/3 cash, and it values knight at $3.75 a share. stock as you see in the premarket,

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alan mulally along with the executive vice president of global marketing for ford and lincoln, jim farleyment about one of ford's classic brands and i told you this off camera. growing up, i mean, if you drove a lincoln in the town that i grew up in, man, that is what you aspird to. >> please, share some more. >> today the lincoln brand has never died, i don't think, in people's minds. it's still out there. but it has a 21st century update. tell us about it. >> that's why we're here today. it's exciting. we're launching the first of our vehicles for the invention of the lyincoln van called the mkz. we'll launch at the lincoln center and it captures everything about that history of innovation and elegant design. and i think you see a picture of it here. and the response we're getting is fantastic. we have jim here who leads lincoln worldwide and clearly knows the premium brand business. >> what's in this car that will make you want to drive it or buy it? >> we are so excited. the hybrid is something worth talking about. 45 miles per gallon, the most fuel efficient luxury sedan in america.

last but not least, we have david walker, founder and ceo of a comeback america initiative david farley the comptroller general of the united states she was also director of the head of the u.s. government accountability office for also, the to tenures. he is widely read and author numerous articles on the deficit coming and he has a new initiative out there now that i think makes tremendous sense it may do a lot to obscurity at this point when sometimes things do not get discussed. but david's new group is looking at the efficiencies, the inefficiencies, but duplications in the government to try to find areas where we can save money without cutting. and i think it is a very interesting initiative and it is one that you all should look into this and see about supporting. and i hope that he will mention it at least briefly in some of his comments today. with that introduction, i am going to turn to the panel and i'm going to sit down and we will start discussing some of these issues. >> [inaudible] what are we going to do if there is debt and deficits -- three or four minutes each to sum