hummingbird in a plastic bag, a cd of the gay men's chorus of springfield singing "happy birthday, milhouseiving mini-cars at my next birthday! to the petting zoo! that would cost a fortune! who do you think i am, a professional bowler? it's worth it to see my son

milhouse: it's working! it's definitely working!

to prevent it, connecticut federalist james milhouse came up to what -- came up with what he believed to be a brilliant solution. he exploded in a letter to john marshall. as hillhouse reasons, presidential elections were the only national political contest virtually guaranteed to take -- tear the nation apart. congressional elections are local, presidential ones are national. fill house came up with what he believed to the problem of partisanship and presidential election. he decided basically presidents should not be elected by the market people. -- american people. instead there should be a box in the senate with a lot of white balls and one blackball. each senator would pick a ball, whoever got the black would be the president. [laughter] problem solved. when i first stumbled upon that come i thought it was a joke. it was not. i searched and found marshall's response, they actually debated this. light, interesting idea. it really does give you a sense about how these national political contests, particularly the run for president was really causing extreme partisanship of a kind o

externally on things like consultants, on teachers, signs, buses, bart tickets, sending stuff to the milhouse, postage to get things out. what will cause. leaflets and most importantly, lots of food for attendees sitting through another five-hour board of supervisors meeting. a corporation that reports $30,000 in postage is definitely up to something very big. that's what the goal is. you see the contract lobbyists have a lot of contacts with the supervisors then you look at that expenditure and you can tell they're spending a lot of money and time on something. it is much simpler to do it this way. i hope that you adopt that. thank you very much >> thank you. >> good evening. i was a floor person pro tem of the 2013-14 civil grand jury. entity ethics reporting. i got some comments here. i'm just a focus on this question of the reporting threshold and the assertion of language of a single matter constituting the threshold. because this has the effect of amending the language that was passed by the voters. and whether $2500 is the right threshold or not, and that's subject to amendment by you

externally on things like consultants, on teachers, signs, buses, bart tickets, sending stuff to the milhouse, postage to get things out. what will cause. leaflets and most importantly, lots of food for attendees sitting through another five-hour board of supervisors meeting. a corporation that reports $30,000 in postage is definitely up to something very big. that's what the goal is. you see the contract lobbyists have a lot of contacts with the supervisors then you look at that expenditure and you can tell they're spending a lot of money and time on something. it is much simpler to do it this way. i hope that you adopt that. thank you very much >> thank you. >> good evening. i was a floor person pro tem of the 2013-14 civil grand jury. entity ethics reporting. i got some comments here. i'm just a focus on this question of the reporting threshold and the assertion of language of a single matter constituting the threshold. because this has the effect of amending the language that was passed by the voters. and whether $2500 is the right threshold or not, and that's subject to amendment by you

externally on things like consultants, on teachers, signs, buses, bart tickets, sending stuff to the milhouse, postage to get things out. what will cause. leaflets and most importantly, lots of food for attendees sitting through another five-hour board of supervisors meeting. a corporation that reports $30,000 in postage is definitely up to something very big. that's what the goal is. you see the contract lobbyists have a lot of contacts with the supervisors then you look at that expenditure and you can tell they're spending a lot of money and time on something. it is much simpler to do it this way. i hope that you adopt that. thank you very much >> thank you. >> good evening. i was a floor person pro tem of the 2013-14 civil grand jury. entity ethics reporting. i got some comments here. i'm just a focus on this question of the reporting threshold and the assertion of language of a single matter constituting the threshold. because this has the effect of amending the language that was passed by the voters. and whether $2500 is the right threshold or not, and that's subject to amendment by you

externally on things like consultants, on teachers, signs, buses, bart tickets, sending stuff to the milhouse, postage to get things out. what will cause. leaflets and most importantly, lots of food for attendees sitting through another five-hour board of supervisors meeting. a corporation that reports $30,000 in postage is definitely up to something very big. that's what the goal is. you see the contract lobbyists have a lot of contacts with the supervisors then you look at that expenditure and you can tell they're spending a lot of money and time on something. it is much simpler to do it this way. i hope that you adopt that. thank you very much >> thank you. >> good evening. i was a floor person pro tem of the 2013-14 civil grand jury. entity ethics reporting. i got some comments here. i'm just a focus on this question of the reporting threshold and the assertion of language of a single matter constituting the threshold. because this has the effect of amending the language that was passed by the voters. and whether $2500 is the right threshold or not, and that's subject to amendment by you