mr. blackwell. someone you say hasn't been a republican and doesn't know what he's talking about, according do you. he has a new comment about abortion that seems to make him sound pro-choice. that's the man who is kicked the butts of about 14 other candidates from the republican party, including numerous sitting governors and all sorts of other folks? >> i think the reason that ted cruz and donald trump have emerged as the front runners is because folks are frustrated with the inabilities of republican majorities in the house and the senate to deliver on their campaign promises and the agenda and platform that they embrace in 2012 and 2014. it created an opening. clear and simple. >> a.j., i want to ask you about the polling numbers. the headline today in the l.a. times is donald trump is on track to be the least popular politician in 30 years. he's hugely under water with women and with white men and millennials. should it not concern you, trump supporters and the republican party, to inherit a no

mr. blackwell. mr. blackwell: morton blackwell from virginia.ellow members of the committee, this is a very complex matter. there are few, if any, people in this room who are completely conversant with both robert's rules of order and the rule os they have u.s. house of representatives. i worked on the senate staff and i can tell you the number of people in the senate, senators and staff included, who fully understood the rules of the united states senate were about 10 or 12 people. very complex. and i think we should not make a change without considerable discussion. there are questions that need to be asked, for example, if we adopted robert's rules of order, robert's rules provides that any delegate can stand up and make a point of order. and it also provides that that point of order must be dealt with by the chair before further business can be conducted. do we want to have a convention where 2,500 people are all empowered to raise a point of order, one after another? exceptions, i think, would have to be made to the applications of robert's

mr. blackwell. mr. blackwell: morton blackwell from virginia. fellow members of the committee, this is a very complex matter. there are few, if any, people in this room who are completely conversant with both robert's rules of order and the rule os they have u.s. house of representatives. i worked on the senate staff and i can tell you the number of people in the senate, senators and staff included, who fully understood the rules of the united states senate were about 10 or 12 people. very complex. and i think we should not make a change without considerable discussion. there are questions that need to be asked, for example, if we adopted robert's rules of order, robert's rules provides that any delegate can stand up and make a point of order. and it also provides that that point of order must be dealt with by the chair before further business can be conducted. do we want to have a convention where 2,500 people are all empowered to raise a point of order, one after another? exceptions, i think, would have to be made to the applications of robert

mr. blackwell. mr. blackwell: morton blackwell from virginia.llow members of the committee, this is a very complex matter. around there are few, if any, people in this room who are completely conversant with both order and the of rule os they have u.s. house of representatives. i worked on the senate staff and i can tell you the number of people in the senate, senators and staff included, who fully understood the rules of the united states senate were about 10 or 12 people. very complex. and i think we should not make a change without considerable discussion. there are questions that need to be asked, for example, if we adopted robert's rules of order, robert's rules provides that any dell fwat can stand up and make a point of order. and it also provides that that point of order must be dealt with by the chair before further business can be conducted. do we want cough a convention where 2,500 people are all empowered to raise a point of order, one after another? exceptions, i think, would have to be made to the applications of robert's rules of

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technology and fred blackwell the cfo of the san francisco foundation and reverend a brilliant community leader from the alliance and jeremy the ceo of the greenbelt alliance and the future mr haney is the second presentation in discussing the discussion that computed empty seats that supervisor avalos and supervisor wiener work with on the mtc and jan the senior partner are the management partners to merge the bay area and the mtc and i wanted to say on the spring essential shares stories with many of the 101 cities around the regional and the 9 counties but a critical merge decisions between the mta and abag right now a lot of the work that abag has been doing on transportation housing and creating living wage jobs especially looking at the development without displacements or transit oriented that is - i appreciate abag i mentioned the move of the regional bodies towards the extra bay area met center will be in june an old world war ii assembly tank plant one of the most sustainable building at 375 harrison and you know it is a testament to sb 375 the landmark legislation but be the hub the living wage jobs and developments without displacements going on not only in san