agenda for jobs, received an economics refrain, featuring a panel including ron conway, his a-rod lacey common on the editor and chief not -- sarah lacey, george hugh, and katie jacob stanton, vice president for twitter the road -- now twitter. we will end the program with the mayor's vision of economic growth for 2012 and beyond. 2011 was a year of substantial accomplishment, despite the slow pace of recovery in california, the economic opportunities have helped make sense of cisco a bright spot in california to advancing tax incentives to supporting economy-boosting infrastructure, and the chamber is helping to ensure job creation and steady economic growth in san francisco. the chamber is particularly proud to advance an ongoing pro-business policy agenda in partnership with a coalition of business, labour, and non-profit organizations, and i am pleased that our labour colleagues to join us this morning. geared with our labor colleagues just waved for the audience eminent -- would our labor colleagues just waved for the audience? they are out there. our theme this morning is prosperi

lacey. go ahead. >> mine wasn't so much a specific question as just i was curious more on your thoughts with the -- when you brought up education earlier and you spoke about timid and industrious animals-type thing. i thought about, i heard about education in some other nations that we're trying to compete with, with our education system and perhaps trying to emulate them even though those systems seem to be along the same lines of promoting -- >> please read that -- [ inaudible ] we'll have a couple of chapters on that. please continue, mr. lacey. >> so just to get more of your thoughts on that. along with -- once again, we were talking about de tocqueville and he was talking about these aren't these bonds necessarily but where these bonds come from. i would say that in america, schools provide a lot of those bonds. like a lot of people associate their alma mater more than hardly any other organization. just to get more of your thoughts on education. >> okay. well, the education. a couple t

cagney and lacey of rolling stone. that's not fair. eric baits and ari berman who wrote about that for the same magazine. that levelled the playing field with the cagney and lacey reference, but an excellent piece of writing for which you should be happy. i want to read this op ed by leonard pits that ran on sunday. he said the trend lines are clearly against the republican party and rather than than to work the appeal, they chose to narrow the other party's base with dress addressing the problem that does not exist. this is a blatant use of the machine of government with the voter indimtation and suppression. >> that's what they have done. they saw what barack obama did in 2008 and his coalition of young voters and hispanics and african-americans and we need to depress the turn outs. if you look at all the voting restrictions, that's the common theme. making it harder for those groups of people to vote. >> we have some full screens we can show you in terms of the 2600 noncitizens. it's completely disproportionate. hispanics are 58% an

we have introduced legislation on the lacey act. that's the thing about gibson guitar.id upon me that i discovered that we were actually be regulated under foreign laws. you can be convicted of these foreign regulations and be spending time in prison under the lacey act. people have been imprisoned for raising the elevation of their own land because people say they are a great polluter because they are putting clean dirt on thailand, basically. there are a lot a lot of these crimes through overregulation that we are interested in and we will keep going after them. >> i would like to add to that. rj and i have worked together for years. he was telling the same thing last night. we were at an the event. i was not as impressed as i probably should have been, yeah, yeah, yeah the epa. i've heard it all before. and then i thought well, it was just us in a small town house and not the same as a u.s. senator talking about it in bringing it up. >> the book is "ron paul's revolution." thank you rand paul and brian dogherty. there are books for sale in every bookstore in america,

corby says half the time robert lacey was not even in class. >> we would just be by ourselves.the morning, and then he would come back out at lunch time. >> they say was not much lending going on at all. >> will hold time i was there reworking on the same chapter. chapter 5 in math. >> is this acceptable to the school district? >> it is not acceptable but we need to draw a distinction between what is unseemly and what is illegal. >> for the corbett's it has all been very frustrating. >> it is such a fraud, the have been doing this for so long. >> kelly took her daughter out of sync enter after two months but is still worried for the kids left behind. >> they need to be shut down, kids need to be taken away from the pastor. >> the oakland unified school district tells us tonight that they talked about the issues raised in the story with the state department of education. but when he spoke to state authorities, they referred us right back to oakland. and by the way, either the pastor's wife nor his son have teaching credentials. but those credentials are not necessary. >> all rou

lacey wrote the definitive spoke not on the web 2.0 movement and released her latest book last month. it is a great boat. formerly, lacy was a staff writer for business week, a senior editor of tech crunch, and now she is the founder, ceo, and editor in chief. please foreign-made and welcoming to the stage our moderator, and sara lee lacy, and her panel of tech visionaries. welcome. goo[applause] >> i was just telling the mayor, and i first moved here when i was a 22-year-old aspiring writer, and the first time i saw san francisco, i decided i was never leaving, and i did not leave. this morning i woke up in the 100-year-old victorian my husband and i own where we have been urban pioneers, trying to pull that part of the mission into the light. my nanny was late. my husband was rushing to the terminal rather than taking a high-speed train. it was very obvious to me why it is so hard to live in san francisco, but there is one reason i can never leave the city. it is because i write about startups and technology, and although i spent 40 weeks traveling the world, san francisco is still

>>> really its according to the programmatic guidelines credit card says half the time robert lacey was in deepening class. >>> which is be by ourselves. from the morning and then he would come back their lunch time. in fact is the there wasn't much learning, not at all. the all time as there were can the same chapter chapter 5 tarmac is this is acceptable to the school district? >>> is not acceptable to think we need to draw a distinction between what is an unseemly and what is illegal for the core of its it's all been very frustrating. >>> they've been doing this for so long. call it corporate to occur daughter out of seen in director two months but she still worried for the kids left behind. >>> the need to be shutdown. and the kids need to be taken away from the past year. the school district tells us that they talked about those zero and we talked to said authorities there press back to oakland to and by the way now the pastor's wife nor son have teaching credentials but we're told those credentials are also not necessary when he cbs five. >>> campaign 2012 turnout is expected to b

robert lacey jr. showed up to speak in front of a hostile crowd. we heard this information was 20 products night's however we're not ready to respond. but i would like to say we are able to respond to every question then arises about the money that comes to st. andrews. >>> buddy didn't answer any questions. even after we followed him and his bother outside the meeting. >>> this is the first time this book and you don't have anything say it all? they continued to refuse and dodge are cameras of it as they tried to make their getaway but they cannot hide from this investigation that the district is launching. the quakes did we still have the courage and that the superintendent goes beyond his rhetoric which is able to investigate investigate the correct funding and we must post criminal charges. so after we left the debate continues behind closed doors because the board says there are liability issues that are concerned how to terminate the funding of schools in fact his first represent his class size of the questioning for is who has the authority

andrews pastor and his son, robert lacey senior and junior. we discovered there was much more than pocket change involved. the district has been awarding federal funds for the school up to $50,000 annually for the past 12 years. documents that we obtained show that they got the money by inflating enrollment numbers, claiming that they have 195 students and our investigation found that they had fewer than 20. for two years that have refused to speak to us. but tonight the unexpected ... on its gas from the audience, robert casey jr. showed up to speak in front of a hostile crowd. >> when we heard that misinformation would be brought up tonight, however we were not ready to respond. but i would like to say that we are able to respond to every question, that are rose about the money that comes to st. andrews. >> but he did not answer any questions, even after we followed him and his father outside of the meeting. >> this is the first annual spoken and you have nothing to say? >> they continue to refuse and dodge the cameras as they try to make th

declaring dry lands as wetlands and then taking with no compensation and preventing the use of the laceyact to prevent a gibson guitar company from bringing in the woods from foreign countries. and i wonder if you would comment on that? >> it is top secret, and i'm not allowed to tell you. no, we are -- i am actually collecting a lot of these stories together in a book. i was hoping that david would invite me back we have thus to present. we have introduced legislation of the lacy act. the gibson guitar. it did appall me that i discovered that we were actually forced to be regulated under foreign laws. basically all fishing regulations for the entire world. you can be convicted of honduran, brazilian and spend time in a u.s. prison over these things. so we have gone after things like that. people have been in prison for putting dirt on their own land, basically raising the elevation of their on land because people say they are polluter because they're going to mean there on dry land. so there are a lot of these crimes and over criminalization to regulation. we are very interested and wil

s, drinking rum and cokes and i got this from a co-owner of the bar, neighbor of mine, bill lacey, vietnamz for a number of years and leading a platoon there and bill was with his brother and another fellow rick stewart, owned p.w.'s restaurant right there on the same street as the palm here in washington. and he told me the story years ago, but he didn't want me to write it until a couple months ago. i said look, the 40th anniversary of watergate is coming up, let me write the story and he finally agreed to let me write the story about how the cop that was assigned to that squad car 80, assigned to that patrol area which included the watergate hotel, was getting drunk at a bar at about 2:00 in the morning. he couldn't respond. so he called the dispatcher back and said look, i can't -- look i'm low on gas is what he said and so then they called the backups who were the three undercover cops, they show up at the watergate plain clothes in 1972 ford sedan, and the spotter across the street doesn't think anything of it. these three undercover cops basically saunter into the watergate and make