. >> senator kuntz. >> thank you, chairman durbin. thank you for calling this hearing for your long and passionate and vigilant advocacy for civil rights and for your real leadership in this area for this legislation and for this hearing. in my own role prior to becoming a senator as county executive, i worked hard in the supervision of about a 380-sworn officer department to ensure that we had effective and strong outreach. not just traditional subject to harassment and communities like the african-american and latino communities but also post-9/11 making sure there was better training and outreach in relationship with our muslim community, given some incidents that occurred with our lgbt community making sure we stayed as a policing organization engaged. and accountable. and i just wanted to start, officer gale and chief davis, by thanking you for your leadership in the policing community and for your service to the public. i appreciate your starting by just helping me understand what's the impact on a police force? that practices r

thank you very much. >> thanks, senator kuntz. following up on your question, i think one of the obstacles, mr. romero can probably back this up, is when you're dealing with the question of whether or not race or ethnicity or profiling is the sole cause for the stop, you run into a real obstacle. our staff did a little research. turns out this isn't the first time that congress has talked about this. arguing the discrimination should only be prohibited if based solely on race and ethnicity has an unfortunate congressional lineage. segregationists attempted to gut the civil rights act of 1964 by offering an amendment that would limited the act's reach of discrimination based solely on race. senator clifford case of new jersey argued in opposition saying this amendment would place upon persons attempting to prove a violation of a section no matter how clear the violation was an obstacle so great as to make the title completely worthless. and senator warren of washington said limiting the civil rights act on discrimination based sole

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chris kuntz, but she only got 30,000 votes. now, what kind of a system is it that -- because we have in every statement form that if you ran in a party primary and lost, you cannot have your name on the ballot in november. so we have a system where 30,000 people could deny the chance for choosing among all the other possible candidates. so one of the things i'm trying to do is bring democracy to our democracy. you know, because, looking at all of you, you know, i never met most of you, but i bit i know one thing about all of you. when you go to buy a phone, you want choice. when you go to buy soap, you want choice. when you go to buy shoes, you want choice. the only place that we don't allow choice is when it comes to electing the people that will make our laws saying womener we'll go to war. when you go to the ballot in november, you have a or b. and maybe that's five republicans that ought to be considered. maybe there's three democrats. maybe there's a green. maybe you're a libertarian, and we don't allow that to happen, bec

kuntz working at his pinnacle, some of the deepest themes of human existence, nature of evil, grip of from? >> i was interested in it even as a kid, i think, because i was reading ray bradbury and people like that, as soon as i was old enough to read, and i was drawn to it. i don't know why. i think we follow what our own freewill tells us to do and that's where i've been drawn, into fiction like that. >> your writing process i think is very interesting. i heard you sometimes just do a page a day and then rewrite that page over and over and over? >> i -- always think -- always sure the career's going down the drain any minute, and so when i write each page, i never think it's good. so i rhee rewrite it 20, 30 times. then get over it, feel all right. that's fine. move on to the next page and start the battle all over again. >> you told me before we began this interview that even if you couldn't sell the books, you would continue to write them. >> well, i began writing and not selling, and i'm used to that. after the success, it's great to have the success, but you do this, when you're