. >> chair chiu: miyeah. >> did you have anything to add on the history? >> i think it was just that one time. i think the benefit outweighs the unlikely possibility that it would happen again. >> commissioner ambrose: okay. thank you. i appreciate your comments. >> chair chiu: so mr. gollinger, just follow up on everyone's comments, could you take a look at the rules that are currently in place under the public financing rules that someone becomes a zombie candidates, and if there are insufficient mechanisms to be able to have them return those funds, to take mr. gollinger's suggestion, that if you drop out, you return funds dollar for dollar to the program? >> yeah, this's something we can take a look at. i'm not sure what's there now, but i think that's something -- i'm sorry? [inaudible] >> i'm being told that they would become surplus funds. yeah, so i think that's a concern, but i think as mr. gollinger pointed out, that's a concern in every race, not just if we changed the rules here. >> chair chiu: commissioner -- >> commissioner ambrose: i just ha