mainly they relate to support services, lexus nexus, messengers, legal support services, and the like. of course, there are times when we contract with outside counsel. some of that we paid directly out of our office. sometimes it comes out of other city department budgets. mostly it relates to legal support services and outside counsel. supervisor kim: it would be great to have a breakdown. they all sound alike were these services, but it would be helpful to get a sense of them, and we like to look a cost effectiveness. >> just so you know, it might be helpful -- last year, we went through the budget process -- over the last couple of years, i always a few myself and our office as somewhat different from a lot of other departments. we do not have a lot of capital and fiscal products. so we try to really make sure that we are consolidating how we deal effectively with outside vendors services. for example, we put our lexis nexus services and renegotiated our rent at fox plaza to make sure we were minimizing the potential impact on the greatest capital that we have, and that is the peo

the romney campaign will throw a punch and then quickly be lexus nexus that they did exactly the same thing. it's curious he's not keeping the focus on the km i. i'm wondering why they're going off on these tangents. in. >> in the poll -- the cnn poll, will the economy get get better if obama is elected, 47%. if romney is elected, 45%. i think that's down from 50% in may which says he's moving in the wrong direction on exactly the key metric. >> right. the problem is the romney campaign has been running on the economy for two years. the economy is bad, elect me. now they don't have a second act. they seem to be sort of even. they seem to be thinking one guy, the other guy. we don't think either of these guys control the economy. i don't think the economy is any more what the electorate is looking at. they're evaluating these two people. and mitt romney can't win that argument so he's doing this sort of backwards things where he's going back and running the primary again, which doesn't make sense. he's going back and trying to rewin the primary. >> that's what strikes me so strange abo