i have supervised an art gallery on sixth street. i am concerned about the safety of the businesses opening up there. but i am most interested in education, how people come here, how they can get a foot in the door. i recently attended a 50th anniversary for one organization who worked with a brilliant engineers, thinking outside the box, and they were willing to hire. that is my interest in art education. i feel is a segue into medicine, engineering, and it is important for people. also, how i am those are my qua. supervisor campos: thank you. samer danfoura. >> [inaudible] supervisor campos: do you know how late? let's move to elahe enssani. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you for this opportunity to come here to speak before you. my name is elahe enssani. i am a professor at san francisco university. i am also a founder of a technology firm. i am also on the board for women in science, technology, and engineering, with the purpose of educating women to get into the industry of science. above all, i am an immigrant, which is the

i do not have time. nly have time to serve you sat -- so that when i am eulogized, you can say that that black women work with all her might for all races and i helped unite the races. thank you. >> i am just a woman who wants to do the right thing for her community. i always have. i have been working in my community for all my life, and i have lived my entire life in district 10. i am an elected official who serves a large constituency base, yet i want to cut that down to come back to the community i was raised in because i know i can make a difference. my issue is i'm not going to make you any promises. i'm going to bring results. i have done it on the bar board of directors in a major way. there is a budget surplus that no one else can talk about. there was a killing last year was one of our police officers -- one of our police officers killed a young man, and the reforms i put in place garnered me the endorsement of oscar grant's family. in my opinion, that was huge. that speaks volumes to what i can

to have a new policy. i look at this from the perspective of a first sergeant running a platoon. and if you have no new policy, the first question they will ask is, when i have a problem, what am i supposed to do? >> if they say yes and the study is done, then you are willing? >> i will read every word of that study. it may be rare in washington to read everything, but the united states military is one of the largest and most complicated institutions on the planet, operating in all 24 time zones. it's fundamental mission is the defense of the united states. if we will change a policy, from the deck of a ship, the first question you asked is what is the new policy? you have to have the new policy ready. >> how long have you been in the military? >> 21 years. >> do you know any gay people? >> i doot. >> according to the chicago tribune, one in four people in the military said that they would have no problem serving with gay men a women at they do it -- and that they do know someone. not a problem. >> i think w

i have a fairly specific and brief issue. i want to know how come the san francisco police department is not ticketing bicycle riders for riding at night with no lights. that is a constant and increasing problem that, frankly, for a city that is dying for revenue i should think is a plum ripe for picking. you should understand that i love my bike. i do not come here with a chip on my shoulder about bicycles. i love my bike. but this thing is a constant search for anybody driving a car at night. in some cases, people have a red light, but they do not have different light. when you are making a left turn are turning into a driveway, you stand the risk of plowing into them. the amazing thing is that you see hordes of bike riders every night -- every night writing past the mission police station. -- every night riding past the mission police station. nothing is being done. nobody blinks. i was standing on the corner and saw two cups dried passed on their bikes. -- coups drive past ops drive pr bikes. they were black bikes. there w

i have comments for each of you here. i hope that some of you will contact us because we have people identified as murders in our city and we cannot get the chief of police to assign anyone to interview a sillier asking for your help. that is your job, and understand. >> good evening, commissioners. thank you for the opportunity to address you. i pray that you will be healed. as has been stated, mr. lee rice, i do not slander, i asked questions. is anyone opposed to transferring the functions to the san francisco shared apartment? does anyone oppose the immediate arrest? do you know how much a commission receives in payment if anything? $80? i recently met a young woman out who is assaulted by police officers. there are several police officers who are involved in incident -- i have not heard anything about officer kimberly reynolds. the d.a. charge a victim who is shot in a crime. there is a game show going on in the san francisco city. i know that everyone would like to have a safe community in which to live. thank you fo

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i have been a resident at the golden gate way for over 30 years. hree documents that have been given to you. i'm not sure everybody in the room has seen them yet. they are the brand hawley lot letter, dated september 27. the sue c. hester letter, dated september 27. and the neighbors to preserve the waterfront at present golden gateway letter of today. i read these documents, and i assume you have as well. >> have not received them. >> ok, well, i really hope you read them. these documents are very comprehensive, and the statements in there are extremely compelling. based on the information presented, i do not believe any reasonable person can endorse the eight washington project today without having thoroughly reviewed these projects. to do so would be a disservice to those of us who live in the neighborhood and to the city of san francisco. thank you. commissioner fong: thank you. >> hello and thank you. my company offers design, research, sales, and marketing support to research developers. i am here to address the fact that there is a misconcept

what i have learned is i don't have a spiritual token, i don't have a spiritual icon that i would address and introduce you to, but i know that something -- something -- is in my life that i don't really understand. and i am not sure i will ever understand spirituality, but i understand the profound change in my life. and that acceptance and that desire for something bigger than me to basically -- it takes control of my life so i am spot being so bossy. -- so i stop being so bossy. tavis: i'm wondering if adults to buy these books for their children are still raising their children with a basic sense of the difference between what is right and what is wrong, or have we again gone so far off course that we don't understand any more or accept that there is a distinction between what is right and acceptable in society and what is wrong and unacceptable. >> well, it is a parent's job to determine what is right and wrong, according to their values, and in part that to their children. and we have sadly gone off course with the profound inundation of media and technology and a creepy crawler vin

i definitely have practiced and i firmly believe that all clubs play a role in our part of the neighborhood. a have to be responsible, good citizens, participate with neighborhood organizations, and follow through on their word. i believe i have done that in my past, so i will leave it at that. i would also like to say i think there are a lot of great candidates. supervisor mar: i think there was a shooting at kokomo recently, and i think it was more rented out four and a fat -- for an event. what would you bring to the entertainment commission to deal with holding clubs accountable for violence or promoters as well, to counter the violence? >> personally, i think my perspective has been controversial because as an outside promoter as a youth, i feel that clubs do not have a right to just hand over their permitting, their liquor license to an outside promoter who is not to be held accountable. i think outside promoters have to be held accountable. having said that, having done a lot of youth activist work in my 20's, i firmly believe this city has a right to provide a places of entertainmen

i have known him for the last 15 years. i know him to be a fair minded and gentle person.has served in many civic duties, and he is also very active in the chinatown community. i know that he would be a good choice for this post. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, a supervisor. i am a retired engineer that chose to come back to san francisco to live, and i want to make this a better city. i am uniquely qualified to talk about steven lee because in high school, he was my best friend, even though as adults, we kind of separated. now, as an adult with children, i do want to make this the best city for all of us to enjoy, and i think steven lee will be very active in pursuing that goal, so thank you very much. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. supervisor alioto-pier, thank you when you appoint me for the graffiti advisory board. thank you. thank you when you appoint me -- i never met you before, and you of whitney two terms on this advisory board. i am president of the united cemetery in mission, and i suppo

i would like to review them. if you have input i would welcome it. you do not have to document all this so we can understand as we go. the first -- i think this was commissioner mazzucco or commissioner chan's idea. we would assign a commissioner to follow the case. the lieutenant was left to corral the lawyers. this can take six or nine months to pick a hearing officer date. one of the proposed revisions is to assign at the outset one of us to monitor that case. i will go to the other proposed changes. in the event that in a timely manner a hearing officer is not picked, the commissioner presiding would make sure this came back to the reassignment. that is the first change. it is on page 2 of the current rules. the second proposed change would change the selection procedure for the hearing officer. if you look at the current rules, it is rather blocky and it takes a potentially long time to pick that hearing officer. it is often used in civil cases with arbitration where there is a list, people strike names, and another list comes and days and weeks

we have rebuilds of public housing. i think the public dollars from redevelopment need to go towards economic development. we have the requirement to fund a historic survey in the bay view project area. we can use the knowledge to create an historic district. we can create a lot of character in the bayview town center. we can do other things in the commercial quarters. there are two approaches to affordability. raising income is one we need to focus more attention on. >> mr. jackson? >> when we talk about housing, jobs, and careers, we do not go the step deeper we need to. what types of housing question if there is no clamoring for an abundance of market rate housing. this committee has a deficit in the affordable housing. -- this community has a deficit in affordable housing. we did not sign up to have the regional housing crisis of on our backs. we need a strategy to solve the foreclosure issues happening in our communities. we support is sustainable for affordable housing and affordable housing construction. we also ne

i have not decided to what i would support. -- i have not decided who i would support.i am not going to answer this question in a straightforward way. [laughter] everybody in the audience does have the opportunity to vote for three candidates and probably should. i tell this to my friends. you can look me in the eye with your tony kelly t-shirt and tell me you will vote for me. we need to understand that we have three choices. i have not made my decision about who i will push the button 4. >> mr. smith. after hearing that, i have not made my decision either. [laughter] there are a lot of great candidates appear. i have worked with many of them. i do not know what i will do. we believe that to the voters. -- we will leave that to the voters. you will have to ask who will be best suited to serve the community and the district, and on the board of supervisors. that is what it comes down to. i do not know if it is steve>so. i am just kidding. that will be the important thing. there are many qualified folks appear. i know many of them. i have worked with many of them. i do n

i do not have a single negative thing to say about that. >> i guess we are both fortunate to have talented women as are running mates, but i think my opponent's running mate, with all due respect, stood beside mr. kasich and boasted that as a cpa she had actually encourage people to leave ohio and go to florida or some other state to avoid paying a higher taxes. >> thank you, governor. you're watching the ohio gubernatorial debate. we are glad you're watching wherever you are watching around the state of ohio. time flies when you are having fun. we do not have time for a full round of questioning. our two candidates, one who will be elected 26 days from now to lead this state for the next four years, fed each been given two minutes to reach out to you, the voters of ohio, to tell you why they are the person to lead this state. gov. strickland, he will lead us all for two minutes. >> i want to thank the people of this great state for giving me the privilege of serving in the governor's operas for the last four years. before that i served in the congress. before i went to congress, i went to

i could have never done this on my own. every day, i could not go to the bathroom and my kitchen without dragging my oxygen tank down the hall. i feel much better about myself not -- now that i do not get harassed and abused every day. it also got me a vaporizer since i have problems breathing. every night, i also get a meal. i probably would not be if it were not for them. after i have paid my rent and bills, i have $35 in need to live on, and there is no way i can afford my medicine. medicare will pay for all kinds of narcotics, which i could get hooked on, and i depend on the generosity of the collective. without this collected, i would not have a quality of life. please do not take it away -- without this collective, and i would not have a quality of life. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am a member of the marijuana oversight of finance committee and activities director of axis of love. i am not an attorney, but i can beat the law. medical act of 2005 describes in medical cannabis dispensary as a cooperative or collect

i have the trait as well. [laughter]. >> as you are thinking about that, i would like to ask you to give us one more. there are 2 completely surprising and interesting substories woven through this narrative of your brother, 1, your fabulous aunt character in mexico getting frosty into mexico and running around with frita caller and your discovery of apples? >> this is astonishing, are we talking about the family past apple? >> both and the way thing danagers come together, yeah. >> kind of astonishing, again working on the idea that everything is passed down in families is it or is it not or is it coincidence. my father had a difficult relationship with his father from mexico. we knew our family had this chain of nurseries from mexico. i never understood because my father would change tg subject when his name came up. our grandfather was an orchardist at the turn of the century. >> which you hadn't even known. >> i didn't know it until i discovered this at the archive when i was trying to page through all of t

i have done that in the past. i want to look at who will be the person who they can trust, who will be an independent fighter for them. i will put people back to work and make sure the next generation has confidence in the brilliance of america. >> i think people should look at this campaign and ask themselves who they want representing themselves. i have experience looking out for people as a platoon leader in the army, as leading soldiers overseas and a legislator. i know what it means to stand up for people. i will do that if they send me to washington. pat and i have been invited to a town hall. i want to ask pat if he will show up at that town hall. >> we will have to leave it there. thank you both. my guests have been bryan lentz, pat meehan, and james schneller on the ballot in the november 2 election. thanks for joining us. join us next sunday october 10. >> our 2010 campaign coverage continues tomorrow night with governor candidate debates in ohio, nevada and georgia. president obama appears at a political

when i have the opportunity to vote, i 73, i have. my opponent voted this year and would have allowed for. if we are serious about it. we'll have to partner with the government to make that. >> i have always been a supporter of i 73 and always will be. >> when companies come to south carolina, they look for three things i did not support the toling of i 73. my opponent is exactly right. we differ on this. i will go to our tell gags i do not support toling. >> how will the state provide funding for i 73 if we are not going to increase the gas tax and not going to support toling, the state will have to provide some funds to it. >> senator, i don't believe in taxes like you do. >> you bring to bring federal money. i am trying to answer the question. this is not just about $100 billion. we can't earmark that to death and wait every year to get another hundred million. this is where delegation has to decide we have to have it. but we are not going to become a part of the huge national bill. that taxes everybody for everything. we have to b

i like to have cocktails but i do not have a drinking problem regardless of what state i wake up in. i don't need drugs to open up my imagination. i am not a poet. i can tolerate half an hour of spoken word poetry. what my cats are up to. i always carry my business cards. i am not a poet, i only write to masture bait my mind. i am trying to convince myself that poetry it save lives. it's the dust of art. and i am going to close with to poet. americano. i look at myself in the mirror. trying to figure out what makes me an american. i see chickens. practicing religions without a roof. i see my own blood. proud american blue genes labels. i see them sits outside with the eyes of an alley cat. i see myself trying to be more like james dean. i see carlos san tanna. more than sporadic latino explosions. as american as bruce spring teen and elvis presley. i see taco bell. i see purple, red, blue, green, orange. i see cheetah revera on broadway. as american as the lee's, the kennedys. none sound american to me. i am not a shamed. jose can you see. i pledge allegiance to this country. land of

the question i have is, do you still have those contracts? have those clients canceled? there is no income? >> i gave it to the beat. i don't collect it anymore. i could write zero dollars. commissioner dejesus: when you say you don't collect it anymore, did those contractors cancel? y told the new beat -- >> i told the new beat owner to collect it. commissioner dejesus: the new beat owner lives in a town i don't recognize. how far is that from san francisco? >> hi, commissioners, my name is ray castillo. i came back from iraq recently. i served three tours in iraq. i'm a retired police officer from san francisco city college. commissioner dejesus: i did see that, and i was impressed with that. where do you live? >> i live in a town called series, and i moved down there because i was attacked by some criminals, and i said this is a great place to raise my children. commissioner dejesus: how far is that? >> approximately two hours. commissioner dejesus: and you are going to cover beats in san francisco? >> yes. i am currently taking classes at city college. i have a 3.8 av

to clarify what you have reviewed. course i would have to ask about this. i am not an engineer. my firm turned this stuff over to jack merely. you have mentioned that you have reviewed the computer modeling. calculations, you received those. >> maybe i can let jack talked in response to these questions. what level of voluntary up rates will be done? >> i cannot answer that question directly but my understanding was that they did millions of dollars. >> it was so extensive that we cannot belief that they're doing so little. >> i would have to have someone who is involved. >> can you occupy the buildings after a maximum seismic event? >> i don't know. court is my firm was responsible for the seismic strengthening of the structure. essentially, this is collapse prevention. there was particular risk associated with the ground for that we tried to abate. >> you referenced reviewing computer model and in one portion you say something about rerunning the computer model there and this has demonstrated several weaknesses. in another portion, and you make a request for that. >> my understa

i have also enjoyed the camaraderie i share with my colleagues. we have wonderful colleagues who are smart, intelligent, and the awful, and i think we have a great balance on our commission. in general what i have contributed is i am a consensus- oriented and fair. i try to make sure that when we are hearing a matter that the due diligence happens in advance. i definitely stood up one project sponsors or the city had made a mistake, to support making sure we have additional time so that people in the community can be informed about things that matter. i have also been very much a consensus-oriented person working with my other colleagues, whether they be appointed by the board or the mayor jose appointed. i think it is important we look out for the best interests of the city and not a particular agenda to get accomplished. what we have work to do is figure out the best way to make the best things happen in san francisco. some of the things i would like to do in the next four years of my term is to drill down on the policy matters we hope we get to

i said no. you have been. what you did, i am not going to do. you have asked me. were you doing in china raising money for this cause? >> i took a three week walk on the china wall to raise money. tavis: you walked on the wall? >> went to five different provinces. i met celebrities and cancer survivors who came with me. we did the work in different sections. it was the most incredible experience i have ever done. it was difficult. it was challenging. we went from the gobi desert, the biting wind, to incredible heat, to snow, to what rain. it is a beautiful country and the wall is like this. trying to get your feet on it is amazing. tavis: i will take your word for it. i will not be walking on the wall for three hours, much less three weeks, but i am glad you did. you said you did not feel like it, but 40 years in the music business? >> it is a surprise isn't it? tavis: do you recall why and how you got into this? >> i recall how and why. i could not do much else. i could not focus in school, so thank goodness i could sing. i went to a talent contest when i was ver

and then other os have asked well, am i firing the landscaping firm that now it turns out may have had these illegal immigrants in the answer again is, no. not in this environment, not at any time am i going to be responsible for anyone losing a job. and that's their responsibility. >> bill: yeah, but i would tell them, lou. with your profile. >> i did. >> bill: illegal alien hiring and this and that i would say look, you guys, you have got one more chance. i want all legal workers working on my properties. and if it happens again you are fired. i think you give them another chance. >> you captured the gist of that conversation, bill. >> bill: great minds think alike, dobbs. >> you bet. >> bill: you know, this magazine, "the nation" you know what this is all about. >> it's left wing. >> bill: way left wing. >> it's left wing rag. >> bill: i wouldn't call it a rag but it's far left. the woman you have got to give her props comes on your radio program and actually tells you the truth that you and your group never knowlying hired why the hell did you do this story in the first place. >> t

i personally have not been there. i appreciate hearing from the people that came to talk about that and the impact of this project on the public view. i would be inclined to grant the jurisdiction request. president peterson: i want to think the parties for returning and supplementing the documents to provide more clarity to all of us involved in this decision. i recognize how frustrating some of the notice requirements in this matter are. commissioner garcia said we are not a policy-making body, but it does seem as we go forward and we make decisions about ruth? -- about roof dekcs and other additions to our city that we think about broader notice requirements. the decision before us is the one regarding the cfc and whether this permit was fundamentally flawed. the issue that jumped out to me is the orientation of the kitchen, but i do not think that is what was material to the neighbors. i think it is really the entirety of the roof deck. i understand their concerns, but it seems it is within the law, and i am inclin

i don't have a clue. i don't have a clue. i'm looking for the answers myself. marie? o into my job that i had forgotten what was important in life. i hadn't been to church in ten years. it hadn't prayed. i had a wonderful husband. stepson, children, my own children. i didn't know what this country stood for anymore. i didn't know what i stood for. and now, i'm starting to find myself. that's such peace. family is coming together so beautifully. it's really remarkable. >> glenn: who has, who has learned something about themselves that has surprised them? nobody learned anything about -- this is robert geiger, an automechanic, took the 40-day and 40-night challenge. what did you learn about yourself, robert? >> i learned i wasn't a terrible person. >> glenn: weren't what? >> a terrible person. i took the challenge mostly for my life. i treated her horribly for years. i've been carrying around anger and i shut myself down and i've been blaming her for everything. i've seen our marriage slipping away. it woke up one day and my heart was breaking. i haven't even told her th

i have stood up for jobs when they have been at stake. stood up for jobs at general motors when they wanted to shut down that dealership. did i stood up for jobs as stanley works when it was threatening with a hostile takeover. -- i stood up for jobs at stanley works when it was threatening with a hostile takeover. we need stronger intervention by government to make sure we used the made in america policy and by america policies to keep jobs here, rather than buying products that are manufactured overseas as w.w.e. has done. >> government, government. government does not create jobs. it is very simple how you create jobs. an entrepreneur craig saicreate. >> i am not going to be an entrepreneur as a senator. [applause] i will do my best to assist entrepreneurs and exactly the way i just described, which may not have been the answer my opponent wanted, but the kind of answer that government needs to provide in tough times when our economy is struggling to revive, rather than talking about cutting board looking at cutting the minimum wage. t

i have one idea to reduce obesity. i want swimming trials. the majority of lakes and ponds -- let me have a moment. the majority of surfaces of lakes and ponds are devoted to motorboats, canoes. and fishermen. swimmers do not have equal rights to surface water. we need swimming trials -- trails. >> emily patent? >> i have doctors and my family, so i know that insurance and law did not belong in the healing practices. they make them appear. we also need to look at poverty as a health issue. we need to remove the stress of poverty. i am proposing a vermont unit of exchange. also, if we have organic farming, and organic food on every table, we will reduce our problems with health. mandated contributions to private insurance corporations, in my mind, are illegal and criminal. we also need to fund natural healing and we also need to take responsibility for our bodies and knowing ourselves. we cannot keep externalizing it to the doctor in the white coat. >> i want to follow up, brian dubie said this is a billion dollar program he issues that figure

regina think i have known you probably longer than chris has. but me just say, this is a remarkable group of people. we always have remarkable groups of people, but very thoughtful, articulate, experienced. if the entire entertainment commission looks much like what we saw today during testimony, we would be a very lucky city in deed. i want to thank mr. o'connor for his service. the work on the small business commission has been truly significant, and i think that experience would play well in a commission like this. the testimony of mr. hahn i thought was really -- i thought that stood alone, and so did mr. thomas and ms. weissman. the work on the civil grand jury, you have probably worked in learned on many things that most people do not know, which would benefit the commission. but i will be supporting mr. benetti today, for a number of different reasons. aside from the fact that he is truly qualified for this position, his resume is fabulous. but i think mr. benetti and i share a perspective most people do not share. when you sit at the boar