i do want to jump to no. 10, and publicly recognize mallika alem, our campaign finance assistant, who worked at our front desk and was a really wonderful person with very warm and welcoming. she has left to take another position with the city. so i wanted to recognize her for all of the good work and she will be missed. she is a very nice person. and then finally, with out reach and education as chair renne has stated, chair renne primarily, but also me, we have been attending various endorsement meetings. then we also did send out -- we have been trying to take into account the comments about our interested persons list. so we have been accumulating emails and we sent out the first of what we hope is a series of emails to political clubs, unions, non-profits, pacs, that sort of thing. basically soliciting and asking folks to sign up for the "interest persons" list. or to follow us on twitter as steven pointed out. we have over 1400 followers on twitter, which is where a lot of folks get their information these days. we sent out about 65 or 66 invitations, and we had six responses. so