i will ask. i have got the hook. i will move on [laughter] -- i will move on. [laughter] how're you doing? are you awake? ok. this is exciting for us. for me, anyway. we started the entertainment commission in 2003. the police were issuing permits forever and ever before that. basically, we had one permit for everyone. that was the same permit that 1015 and the singing waiter had to get. that is not right. if it is expensive, it takes a long time. it is not the right thing for everyone. we were finally able to create, with the help of the small business commission and a bunch of other people at city hall, a new permit. it is called a limited live performance permit. you can see that we did not use the word entertainment. that was on purpose. it is for live performance only. what that also means, and not everyone is happy about this, at the moment the legislation does not cover dj's. i do not want to debate that now. we can debate that later. it is a big difference between what a place of entertainment costs right now. this live performance activity has to be co

will there be any evidence presented? >> inistration not see at all a president asserting that he has the right to kill an american citizen without due process? he will not even and explain why he thinks he has that right? that is troublesome to some people. >> i was not aware of any of those things you said actually happening. i will not address the circumstances of anwar al- awlaki's death. it is an important fact that this terrorist who was actively plotting to attack americans and american interests is dead. from any angle, i will not discuss the circumstances of his death. >> you know that the aclu tried to get permission to represent anwar al-awlaki? they need to get permission from the treasury department said they could challenge him being on this targeted killing list. the obama administration refused to let them represent him. he could not even have the aclu -- aclu representing him. >> you can direct those questions to the treasury or just as but i don't have anything. >> what would barack obama, constitutional prof

will you stand up to them with boldness, to? >> i absolutely will. been married for 35 years. i have raised five biological kids and 23 foster children. raise 28 kids, i can stand down a dictator. the united states is not respected and around the world. it is not because a rock obama is a man or because i am a woman. it is because the politics of the united states has. barack obama has put forward a persona of weakness. one of the greatest areas of weakness is when he took a lead of between -- he puts in daylight between the united states of israel. that was a bad decision the president made, and i believe he helped create a climate of hostility in the middle east region unlike anything we have seen in the last 40 years, so i am upset about what the president has done and the level of hostilities. i guarantee i will not lead from behind. i will not step one to go out of the united states and apologize for the united states of america. that will never happen, because the united states is the greatest source of good the world has ever seen. this is ano

i will tell you i am, what i have done and what i will do as district attorney. i was born and raised in san francisco, attended public school, graduated lincoln high school, city college of san francisco, san francisco state and i became masters of communications there. i received my doctors of jurisprudence in 1974. i put myself through school by selling see to torres at san francisco is fisherman's wharf. i became a juryman -- german printing press man. i was hired as a assistant district attorney and during the next 20 years, successfully prosecuted cases in san francisco. i tried every case from from driving to petty theft, child molestation, sexual assault and homicide. for the last 14 years as assistant d.a., i tried homicide cases exclusively. i successfully prosecuted some of the most dangerous and violent criminals in san francisco's recent history. i was a trailblazer in the successful prosecution of domestic violence and hate crimes. my experience was both real and intense. i was and am passionate about the job. for more than 15 years, i've been a prom

i will. i will shut down the department of education. i will shut down the epa. i will shut down the department of energy. all shut down the department of interior. i will shut down the dertment of commerce. we have to decide once and for all big federal government gets practically nothing right. shut it down, sending back to the states. we can do this. the country will be better for it and it will lead to a pro- growth economy. that is my entire life. i am a former federal tax litigation attorney. my husband and i run a profitable business. i believe turning a profit is a very good thing. i stand for profit and believe in profit. the first thing we have to do is what you would do in your home and what you would do in your business. if you are in financial trouble, you either freeze your credit card in the freezer or cut it up. in the case of the united states, you take the credit card away. they have to cut back on spending. then you cut taxes to some of the lowest in the industrialized world. i will abolish the united states federal tax code and have a flatter,

that is the leadership i will deliver as your mayor. it the view that it's as city attorney, police commission president, clinton administration appointee and business owner, my record of effective, independent leadership is unmatched. i have a plan to create jobs, fix muni, protect planners, after schools, protect the homeless, and fix our neighborhoods, but it will take strong leadership with the vision to see our full potential and a proven track record to accomplishment. i have never been afraid to stand up to powerful interests to protect regular san franciscans. i will be the mayor san francisco needs with no strings attached. i am dennis herrera, and i hope i can earn your vote for mayor of san francisco. that election day is november 8, 2011. that is the last day to vote in person and the deadline for receipt of vote by mail ballots. >> i am ed le,

but when i come back -- i will be told that this cannot even be considered. and i realize you go on all the time and i used to spend my christmases down here for hearings or at the board of supervisors when we were fighting the high rises. by christmas tree was the city hall christmas tree and this is an issue for people who will be out of town. this is so important. >> i am elizabeth from jones street, the only painted lady on the hill. and all three of us are concerned about what is happening with masonic. we want to examine all the issues involved and all of the paperwork and we truly feel that a continuance to january 12, -- this could be beneficial to the knob hill association and the people who are trying to put together their information. thank you very much. >> and is there any additional public comment? just come up. -- i am michael barrett of the knob hill association. i have lived here for 30 years. i don't understand why this is getting another continuance. this has been going on for three and a half years. i know that some of the people from the n

i will create a program that will provide 1000 micro loans to support small businesses. this will create 7800 jobs and help revitalize our neighborhoods. i will also address the lack of affordable housing for lower and income san francisco families. i will be a mayor who supports public education. i will restore summer school which has been cut two years in a row and will make sure every high-school or who wants a summer job or internship get one. most importantly, i will address and solve our fiscal crisis. i'm the only candidate to take on a difficult issue of pension reform. i put proposition d on the ballot to protect basic services and rick shut -- read -- repayment the system. this is money they can be reinvested in jobs, protecting services and education. san francisco need a strong, independent leader in these challenging times. i will be a leader that's honest and my decision making and will always insure that the interest of the people come first. i will defend the public from special interest and eliminate inefficiencies, cronyism, and waste we all know exist

i will not call those three names up. thank you. his christian here? if not, we have heard from simon already. now we have jose >> hello, supervisors. i am going to tell you a little bit of my background. i was born in mexico. in a family of seven children. me being the third oldest. my mother passed away and my father left us. i went to high school, and was working part-time in there. we supported the family by ourselves since we were 15 years old. a friend of mine said that there was a job available for me in santa barbara. i said i'd better do this. and i moved to the united states in 1987. i did not speak any english. i worked hard for a year and a half, and -- specific names. i tried to get better jobs, in restaurants. 80 years after this i got the opportunity to work for this task force. so i had no idea what this was. people know that in spanish. i decided i would take a risk and that i would do this. i was first and -- after a while, the company went out of business and i lost my place. and i became homeless after that. and now, i did not work f

i will also implement a new independent crime lab, headed by scientists, not law enforcement. the new crime lab will be independent from other criminal justice agencies, will be dedicated to forensic science and will be available to all members of the san francisco criminal justice system. the district attorney is the chief law-enforcement officer in the city and must have a clearly defined mission. we must demand the criminal justice system to maintain our safety and security. we must demand of a system to effectively deter crime and accurately identify and punish offenders. we must also demand it treat victims and their families with compassion and provide justice and safety for all san franciscans. i have the well-being of all people in my heart and truly believe in justice. i humbly ask for your support and would be deeply honored to have your vote. >> election day is november 8th, 2011. that is the last day to vote in person and the last four receipt of a vote by mail ballots. of a vote by mail ballots. for more information, go to our >> voting. we often feel it as a funda

supervisor kim: i will be introducing legislation as an alternative to this proposal. i was going to speak about it at roll call, but i do have legislation that i will be introducing today. president chiu: any further discussion? supervisor mirkarimi. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you, mr. president. i was absent at the tail end of the discussion because we had a for alarm fire in the district. i apologize that i wasn't here for the complete betting through the chair. i would ask the general cons ole a couple questions. >> good afternoon, special counsel. supervisor mirkarimi: i understand the aim of what supervisor supervisor farrell -- what supervisor farrell and elsbernd are doing. i am one of the early sponsors of public financing for the mayoral campaigns. it is a time that we design that legislation, we did so based on a certain level, a trigger level of expenditure in matching donations. if we were to reassess what that level would look like, the 1.475, theoretically adjust the level higher up, what would you suggest as part of that process? is that an automatic di

i will be voting in favor of this legislation. i did have a move out of committee without recommendation hoping to get more information that would back the legal record for it. i am not totally satisfied with that but i do want to believe, i do want to support legislation that is fully in favor of a woman's right to choose and as the overriding concern for me today why i will be supporting this legislation and i want to thank the sponsor for bringing it forward and thank all of you colleagues who are supporting it as well. supervisor kim: i also want to thank supervisor cohen and i am a co-sponsor as well. even if we do not have documentation of women who are misled by potential false advertising, it's an important measure of prevention. i certainly appreciate concern from colleagues about unnecessary legislation. i, myself, do not want to spend our legislative process these on problems that do not exist. i think this is an important enough issue for many of our women in san francisco, and if we are able to prevent women from being

i tell you i will never do that. i you the authority of the district attorney's office as a very awesome, and i will be judicious about the way i use it and have done so already. we must be sure we use our authority ethically and legally. we do not investigate and prosecute cases because we can. we investigate and prosecute cases because we should. and a public corruption will be an absolute top priority in my administration. we now have a public that does not believe that public corruption is taken seriously in this town and once again, the road to trust that is so central to making us all safer. we need to put public corruption front and center, and we need to do fair and thorough investigation is of serious allegations of public corruption. whenever we may find, wherever those may lead, we need to have fair and thorough investigation, and i think it is clear from the press reports and from what we all know about what happened with the d a's office, that there have not been fair and thorough investigations because y

i will be supporting the measure. i think it is important also to say that a lot of the work, the fund is being developed, -- funds being developed, were made because workers made the work to make that happen. they are contributing to the success of the businesses that i think they should be able to share in the ability to have health care with everyone else in the city of san francisco that has it. i want to make sure we honor the workers and what they are able to produce. and to make sure they have that access that has been somewhat denied in with what is available to them to spend on health care. supervisor wiener: i want to respond to one thing the supervisor campos said about the purported health care charges that people pay in some restaurants. when you have a restaurant that is charging a charge and labeling it as going to help the san francisco or for employee health care and it is not going there, that is not defensible. i certainly do not defend that. if there is valid legislation, i am all for that because r

i will tell you one thing i will not do. i will not sue the state of arizona for trying to protect their own people. that will not happen, either. we need to make sure that our ice agents know that we enforce the laws on the book. the laws are good. that is not the problem. we need to stop with the magnets for illegal aliens. no more taxpayers finance the benefits for illegal aliens. that has to stop. and our official language of the federal government must be in english. we are english speaking language. we need to be in a english. we dealt with this problem before. it was in the mid-1960s when things changed. i will deal with this issue. >> welcome to new hampshire. one way to cut medical costs would be to do something with tort reform. i wonder what your thoughts would be. >> i agree with you. we need to have medical malpractice reform and to have a cap on suits. and on judgments. it has been out of control. and that has led to a defensive medicine. there are whole communities that cannot get obstetricians' because it doe

i will second at the request. my reason is that this is very complicated and more than i think the officers understand. i have not seen the package yet, of course, but i understand that the environmental review of any kind will not happen because this is exempt. the last time around, there was some documentation i could look at and eventually there will be a rationale in writing but it is hard for the officers to understand what i am talking about. i was able to look at the rationale and then to go researched the guidelines. it was obvious that could not apply by the time it went to the conditional use. the judge found that this was true. the judge says that this needs to go back for environmental review. . this is exempt from the statute. this is something that needs legal analysis and people have to have time to do this. i will mention on the environmental side of things that there was a traffic study that was done. -- >> you need to keep your comments to the continuance. >> the reason the continuance is needed i

that is the leadership i will deliver as your mayor. it the view that it's as city attorney, police commission president, clinton administration appointee and business owner, my record of effective, independent leadership is unmatched. i have a plan to create jobs, fix muni, protect planners, after schools, protect the homeless, and fix our neighborhoods, but it will take strong leadershipth

i will talk more about that. i mentioned the draft plan was published in november 2009. the draft eir will be out at the end of the month. we anticipate the final adoption and hearings at the planning commission will commence probably at the end of february, given our current schedule. as i mentioned, the transit center district plan builds on the foundations established in the downtown plan in the 1980's, the premise that the downtown should remain combat and walkable, that market street is sort of center -- should remain compact and walkable. really, that the core of downtown is right around the transit center. as such, the plan proposes to modify the development allowances in terms of heights and densities in this area. to further reflect this, i should mention that the downtown plan did assert and establish that the area did immediately establish that the transit center at the time was zoned for the highest heights and greatest in city's downtown, the highest heights being around 550 feet immediately adjacent to the transit center. this plan seeks to enhance the divis

they will be acted upon by single roll call vote. i must member should object, it will be removed and considered separately. president chiu: roll-call vote on items 2 through 6? >> [roll-call] there are 11 ayes. these items are adopted in the motions approved. item seven. >> item 7 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to prohibit a limited service pregnancy centers for making false or misleading statements about the services of center offers or performance. supervisor cohen: first, i want is a thank you very much for those of you who have come on board to serve as a co-sponsor for this legislation. i worked very hard on it and would like to acknowledge their many -- the many community members who worked on this of with me and offer the many -- also, the many women, it's a difficult topic to get women to give voice to, so i wanted to acknowledge and thank them for giving voice to an issue that is sometimes often taboo. i want to remind you the purpose and intent of this ordinance is to protect consumers of pregnancy-related

i will conclude i see the floor. >> thank you, tim. simon. >> well, now you know all about how computing. [laughter] let me give you a slightly different angle. i think of the cloud as being roughly categorized into two worlds. there is the clout as envisaged and manifested within the enterprise, which includes the city of santa francisco. large organizations of people who have i.t. needs. then there is another kind of clout, which is the cloud that is in your pockets, which is most of what jim spoke to. everyone of us walked into our job every day with a cloud in our pocket, okay? that is the apps that sit on your smart device. you are driving cloud adoption far faster than enterprise i.t. can adopt anything. actually, most enterprise i.t. shops since 2003, if you are lucky. we are delighted with this experience, delighted to innovate upon, and that is where you see all this amazing innovation on top of new form factor devices like tablets and smartphones, and yet, the real world, which is the world in which we live -- absolutely suck

i will not say we do. ill respect his efforts to try to address if it is a consumer fraud issue. that is language that addresses the issue you have been raising. this will cost thousands of jobs. it is not disputed that we are 30,000 jobs short where we were two years ago. don't do something that will hurt the economy when it could be solved without hurting the economy. supervisor campos: can i ask you a quick question? i appreciate comments. one thing that is reported as their companies -- is there are companies that are actually accounting and marketing their services as a way of employers exploiting this loophole to make money. this is what "the wall street journal" reports. there's actually a brochure of this company has circulated that said the funds are not needed and the employer wins because the funds to stay with them, not the city. do you think that is right? do you think what that company is doing, specifically marketing itself to restaurants, to these businesses, for the purpose of using this lo

i will do it at the federal level. i do believe the state and locals should deal with their own and the federal government should stay out. secure our borders using whatever means are necessary. build a fence. become energy independent within eight years, hopefully sooner than that. faithfully and forcefully of hold, follow, and in force the united states constitution with all of my might. [applause] thank you for this great effort that you are doing. did you want to say any more. >> i want to thank you again for coming to new hampshire and campaigning and bringing all of these media folks with you. we have a state with no sales tax. be sure and load up before you leave. [laughter] [applause] >> we better go back and double down on our order of maple syrup. thank you so much. god has blessed this nation so richly. we cannot take it for granted. sometimes i think we grow up with so much that we take for granted. i have been on the front lines. i have seen what is happening. i had never seen anything like it before. i tho

i realize it will require me to be here for awhile. i want to do that and i will do that. the reason i want to do it is because i really believe that so much of the media that covers politics is really covering it for inside the beltway. there are millions of people out there who want to be interested in politics and they feel badly that they are not but it is not acceptable and it is boring and too complicated and they cannot find an entry level. i want to make tmzdc a personality-based site. not because it will be the most important material but it will introduce people to politics on a level they can relate to. it will be on a personal level. we did a er this within hsock in a funny sort of way. -- we did this with aaron schock in a funny sort of way. we interviewed him. we were going to make him at the brody jenner of washington, d .c. i think the cameraman is --colin here? your the cameraman who did that. his press secretary called me up and said how dare you. i said you will call me up in a few days and apologize. we got this video on cnn and fox news and nbc station

i will not say no. as soon as we had it and it is not cost prohibitive, there is nothing that you could rule out right now. >> [inaudible] >> we met with the answer to it -- entertainment commission. much has been made of the potential conflict of interest. officers not being able to work directly for places with a liquor license. i have discussed that would command staff. as far as i am concerned, we have been and will continue to hold the club's accountable for what happens outside. it seems fair that if you want to hire officers, like in the bayview, often the neighborhood or the area may have hired officers for out front, boosting patrol, violence reduction. whenever. i would support that. absent the city telling me in black and white that that is not something we can do, i do not think it is a good fight -- bad idea. >> [inaudible] >> pie in the sky, that is already supposed to happen. traditionally the beat cops work the business corridors. most businesses, absent the entertainment industry, they

have your staff e-mail me and i will get you that information. i do know that approximately as of the middle of this month $1 billion in the aggregate has been paid to the seafood industry but i can get you more information. >> i am sure the e-mail has gone out but the specific request we want to know within the seafood industry how is it broken down by region and if you give it at the state level but if possible even at the local level. >> i will try to get that to you. >> the complaints we are getting from some shrimpers that have processing facilities and some brought more people in advance of the macondo well explosion and had severe layoffs, still dealing with severe problems from the industry not coming back. you met with a few individually and they have not been an answer. can you tell me what the holdup is with shrimp processors? may be just southeast louisiana. other colleagues might experience along the gulf coast too. >> we have processed and paid plenty. i can get you the numbers as you requested. from processors and harvesters and the

it will take our concerted effort. but i am convinced that if we come into pursuing the promise of this participation age and unleashing and harnessing the economic potential of women, we will see a new and better future. that is why i am honored to be here representing the people of the united states, bearing witness to what begins right here in san francisco, on september 16, 2011. this is the beginning of a very promising future for us all. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. [cheers and applause] [applause] >> thank you, all. i think we're going right into the high level ministerial meeting. is that right, ambassador? and i have got two of my most esteemed colleagues here, the foreign minister from indonesia and the foreign minister from australia. and we're going to have a discussion about a lot of these issues and what we all can do. are we going to begin right away? ok, so we're going to have everybody on the panel come join us. we will welcome audience participation and involvement as well, because we want

i will be long gone. but when the interest is paid off, i am very low reluctant to borrow a lot more money to do wonderful things if those things could be done by people making charitable contributions or other countries that are wealthy -- look at china. how many trillions of dollars does it take for china to step up and find these things? let's work globally with the nations that are lending money like china, and others, let's work with them as well as with the borrowers to say to find a way to deal with these extremely important human rights issues and issues that relate to the saving of american -- a saving of human life. that would be a priority for me, but how much we spend and borrow in order to do that, that is something i will work on as we put our entire budget together. thank you. >> always impressed with your experience in private enterprise and capitalism. maybe one of your weaker carriers might be far and policy. if you are elected president, how will you conduct your foreign-policy or you do

moreover, what the -- i will reserve that argument. i have not had an opportunity to -- i know that the department came out with a response to some of these issues we raised today. i have not had an opportunity to review it thoroughly. but i understand that the argument is the city is not committed to the project. and i'd just do not sent see how a $4.4 million loan over a period of 55 years is anything less than a commitment to the project. i would also point out that the notice of exemption, while the department may believe there is evidence that this is a case that does not require a- declaration, i would like to point out that that flies in the face that this is a the mitigated neg dec. it is the notice of exemption that is referred to as the -- it has no practical implication or it does not shed any light on the necessity of the mitigated neg dec. unless the supervisors have any questions, i will move on to highlight the arguments in the conditional use. first, the commission improperly authorized the conditional use before the boa