[laughter] i would like to thank john burton for being here. on a personal, official, a political note, john, my dear friend -- my dear friend, who was the chairman of my campaign 25 years ago -- that was really an experience. a winning one. i am so honored that john it took the time. he does not go that many places, right? the very idea that he is here in the middle of the afternoon and dressed for the day -- [laughs] i am going to be in big trouble. more on john in a moment. i want to thank phil ginsburg, thank you very much. for your leadership and for making this all possible. i know that megan is here. i used to bring her bacto the pk with my daughter all those years ago. and larry. please extend my thanks to the other members of the commission as well for this great honor. so here we are. 25 years later. i will talk about that, but this relationship of our family and the park goes back more than 40 years. but over the past 25 years, working with six mayors, now senator feinstein, agnos, jordon, willie brown who may be joining us, with may

[applause] we have members of our community -- john burton is here. i have a lot of people giving me some great advice of how the city can be run better. it can always be run better. no matter what i am doing, how hard i am working, there are always people who can help us. whether it is on a police commission, a veteran affairs, all the numerous departments, we can always do better. that is what i will be asking you to help us do. we have 24 appointment today. they span 16 appointed bodies. 12 of them are reappointment, and 12 of them are new appointments. i want to mention a few because they are exciting. they will end up with a lot of hours of your time. it is not to say that every commission here today is as important as the other. they are extremely important to the citizenry of our city. allen, you will help us. a lot of hours doing that. there are a lot of people looking forward to open space and improvements in their communities. he will be spending a lot of hours doing that. suzy and thomas, a police commission. public safety, it is selling po

. >> there is a san francisco restaurant owner wants john burton to apologize for comments made towards opponents of california's impending ban on foiegras accused of bullying chefs and others saying i like to sit down all 100 of them and have duck endused fat or better yet, dry oatmeal shoved into their mouths over and over again. in 2004, burton championed legislation to ban foie gras following i team reports exposing how birds were being force fed to make their livers larger than normal. >> there is some technology news, microsoft bing search engine announced revisions to bing that will tie it into social networking to include recommendations from friends and tweets. bing is hoping it will help loosen a sangel -- stangel hold on the internet search market. >> and sky rising tuition costs at california public universities are leading to unwanted results. the public policy institute released a report saying fewer graduates are enrolling in four year state universities past five years have seen declines in enrollment though the demand for higher education is up. and adds a number of rec

>> reporter: for the current california democratic party chairman, john burton, authored the bill in 2004. >> it was given a seven-year lead time. not once during the seven years, did anybody hear anything from the chefs. >> reporter: burton is frustrated by what he deems a last-ditch effort by supporters. recently, a group of 100 top chefs lobbied sacramento to better regulate the industry, instead of banning it. they claim legislators agreed to sponsor a new bill, until burton squashed it. >> told people from his own party, if they support this, he will take action against them. >> what was i going to do? shoot them? i mean, i told the legislators the facts. >> reporter: but the chefs are taking issue with something else burton said. something they perceive as a serious threat. "the san francisco chronicle" quoted him saying, i'd love to have 100 of them down sit and have duck and goose fat, better yet, have dry oatmeal, shoved down their throats over and over again. >> if i said over and over and over, so what? was that a threat? i would like -- i'm gonna. i'm gonna go get you. >>

sala's brother-in-law, john burton was pelosi's campaign chairman. and i asked if he had any idea if it would turn out as it has. >> i didn't. by i'll tell you who did. my sister-in-law on her death bed talked nancy into running. >> she could be speaker of the house again if democrats take the house. >> and this is last yeek, pressed her to say if she will run again if she's unable to come back as speaker and she told him what she told me this afternoon. >> that is less important in whether democrats win in november. >> classic pelosi, again. this is a politician who rarely, if ever deviates from mess yachblgt and this fits with where we're standing now. here on nancy pelosi drive. she has plenty of that. >> thank you. >> michael finney is looking once again into a story that he reported four years ago. a man convicted of bilking bay area homeowners is a wanted man, again. coming up. >> and some of the sensations of pop music make their debut. we'll have more coming up on abc 7 news. >> i'm spencer christian. there is a big cool down today. i'll show

. >> democratic side, state party chair john burton says romney should have made a different statement with his event. >> these people would show up and pay 50,000s fdz it was a ritz java house. that is just showing not just romney but the people around him in his supporters like we've got to squander. >> tonight, $50,000 a head to have dinner with mitt romney. $2500 you can stand out in the yard and for another $10,000 have your picture taken with the candidate. we don't know the final take but number that's are being charged tonight are similar to what president obama got during his trip throughout the bay area. we know he walked away with north of $3 million. mark matthews abc 7 news. >> thank you. >> and still head here tonight on abc 7 news at 6:00 a district campaigning for a tax increase. a ballot measure containing an unusual promise to voter autos predators targeting consumer was phony offers to get rich quick. i'm michael finney and will show you what to watch out for. 7 on your side coming up. >> later tonight uncommon medical technologies. serious injuries can be treated by

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the bain capital attacks, bill burton from the super pac priorities compared what bain did with one steel company in missouri to what johner had done. when i pressed him on it, he said he's not alleging anything that either broke rules or laws. but this attack is certainly zeroing in. >> they are extremely scornful of business at a time where we need businesses to strive and they are extremely scornful of the private industry and private capital industry when we need capital to flow. so i think what you're seeing right now is we're seeing it as an opportunity to talk on the issue arena of the economy which is central to what i think voters are going to use to decide whether or not they want to rehire president obama given the poor performance of the economy and lacking the job creation to put the economy back on track and have better employment numbers, i think it's clear when they see governor romney's record on this and their experience in the private sector as well as a successful governor as well as somebody pointing towards the future and giving everybody an agenda that that's going to put us in a big position. >> p

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