invaluable experience at all to congratulate the visitation valley greenway project, headed by fran martin. and i want to thank all the volunteers in our entire park system who dedicate more than 140,000 hours of time each year to better our parks and programs. from the fine arts museums to public works of art commission by the san francisco arts commission to the fun and creative programs our staff provides to the public on a daily basis, the relationship between the arts community and our city parks is profound. each year, the san francisco artist guild represents over 75 free outdoor park shows every year, including marina green, washington's are coming union square, and huntington park. this has been at long-planned, but it gives me great pleasure to invite carol and beverly from the san francisco art guild to talk about the relationship. >> hello, and thank you for your time today. great to be able to meet you all in person. i am carroll, the president of the board of san francisco artist guild. we are a 50-year-old organization that has been working in conjunction and collaboration w

congressman barney fran one of my favorites works appeared on martin bashir who said gingrich was a lobbyisthe said a lot worse. let's listen to barney frank. >> two "l" words, lobbyist and liar, newt gingrich was reprimanded by the house of representatives for lying and this is nonsense he was being paid 1 been the 6 million, maybe more, to talk about history, to talk about the transcontinental railroads. he was clearly there as a lobbyist. he kind of slipped and acknowledged that when he said to justify that large amount of money, after all, i'd been speaker of the house. you don't enhance your academic credentials by having been speaker. what you enhance is your value as a lobbyist. >> i was just thinking, if you work for freddie mac, you must be having a hard time. who should we hire, michael bosnian serb cross, david mccullough, what about our house historian on housing? clearly he's the lobbyist in chief. let me ask you this. >> yeah. >> here's a guy, and here's where it's really evil. i don't want to overstate that until we get to the bottom of this. here's a guy who made a lot of poi