i go to my member of the supervisors but that's mr. chu he doesn't not like to talk to his constituents. now let me point out one thing. after you have retaliated against the former members of the task forces lead by weaning those are your members of the sunshine members of the task forced. and i all sit there looking at each other. i was originally going to yell out one of you sit your fat asss in your seats. you leave the room you have private conversations and you'd have the sheriff take us out and arrest us. what a bunch of hypocrites >> thank you. next speaker. >> ladies and gentlemen of the audience and for the record i've been a city and county resident for 44 years. i'm also a holder of a malin over the past 2 to 3 years the city has been raping taxi drivers and putting finances on us in order to enhance their revenue to increase the coffers to the sfmta. they're putting taxi drivers in hock when the sfmta takes a hundred thousand off the top. i'm a taxi driver and their forcing me to turn my medallion over to the city when they we

mr. chu, start by giving us a little bit of your upbringing and your religious history. >> guest: sure. i'm the grandson of a baptist preacher, i'm the nephew of two other baptist preachers, and my family has always been te southly evangelical. we didn't always go to baptist church, but i grew up steeped in evangelical culture first in california, then when i went to high school at a christian school in miami, florida. what was your family's reaction when you came out as gay? >> guest: i think it's safe to say they weren't excited about it. my mother cried and cried and cried. it was an extremely difficult period in our relationship. i don't think all of my relatives know yet. it's a funny thing in a chinese family, the way information is passed around. so you have these layers of culture. you have the chinese layer, you have the christian layer, and between the two i think there's sufficient shame that my parents haven't exactly broadcast it to everyone. >> host: well, mr. chu, you've writte

mr. mayor. and wanting chu for being here today. i have the honor of representing this valley at the board of supervisors. i want to start with a shout out to t to the noah valley leadership who have done so much to improve this commercial door demeanor. and this park and two of the earlier park i always tell people if you're considering putting in a park go to see our cities parks it's exactly what we need. i know we're going to make this corridor better as we get money from prop b. so, i have the good future of having two of the very best cd vs in my district. and when you are a member of the board of supervisors and you're responsible for helping our neighborhoods safer it's a huge benefit to have the cv ds you have people in the neighborhood cleaning it helping to keep it safe and who notice things that might be going wrong before it gets to a breaking point you've got people always there. i'm lucky to have those individuals helping me. it's important in this day and age we know that public budget isn't was it used to be. the de

mr. chu thank you for being on the c-span bus and spending time with us. that's going to wrap up day one of our coverage of 2013 national book festival in washington d.c.. we will be back tomorrow at noon eastern time. the entire day will be live tomorrow. it's a two-day festival so we will be back again tomorrow. the full schedule for tomorrow is available at our web site booktv.org or you can get schedule updates throughout facebook page or our twitter feed facebook.com/booktv so if you like us on facebook to get the schedule updates or at booktv is our twitter handle. everything you have seen today will re-air at midnight tonight. thanks for being with us and we will see you tomorrow. dinesh d'souza author of "the virtue of prosperity" finding values in an age of techno-affluence. he explores what he believes is a spiritual and social crisis initiated by new technologies and the new economy. this is about an hour. c-span: dinesh d'souza, author of the "the virtue of prosperity," buried in your book is a moment where you're playing chess with a bum in sa

breed present and chu precedent and supervisor cowen, cowen present and supervisor farrell, farrell present and kim, kim present and mary present and tanking tank present and yee absent mr. president, you have a quorum. ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the allegiance. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. madam clerk, do we have any communications there are none >> items 1 through 6 those items are countered routine unless a member objects it be severed. >> roll call vote. >> supervisor farrell. >> i can farrell i. kim i. supervisor mar >> marie arrest supervisor tang. >> supervisor wiener. weaning i arrest supervisor yee. yee absent and avalos i and supervisor breed >> oh, i. >> and supervisor campos, campos i. there are 10 i's >> next 7. >> it's an ordinance amendment the tax regulation code that refer to the are former tax board that xiert on january 21st, 2013. >> colleagues same house, same call. >> this is the next item that levies the property taxed for the city and county of san francisco the community college district and the bay area quality district in a pass through rate for the p