mr. herrera has to say about the same issue. this court has characterized the rath of way rights granted to telephone companies as a limited right. the right of telephone corporations to construct telephone lines in the public rights of way is not absolute. that's from page 18 of his brief. mr. herrera's entire brief is filled with discussions of article 25 and 27, and he says on page 35, that the two are equivalent to each other. i suggest to you that you really don't want to be on the wrong side of what the california supreme court hands down having the information -- having a record with the information that was given to you and the california supreme court going in the way that the city attorney, mr. herrera, is urging them to go. so what i would propose is that you do something like this. either put this on hold, this request -- my request for rehearing until you hear from the california supreme court. if we lose, then we're completely out. if the city loses, we're not going to -- you're never going to see us again. it is t

mr. herrera, the electronic frontier foundation and aclu of northern california jointly submit this letter." they go on to talk about having opposed this in the past and we oppose the use because of the significant privacy and free speech concerns. they talk about the previous opposition and extensive research findings about privacy risk and go on to say, we're unaware of any significant chances that would am e-- ameliorate these concerns. so we're extremely surprised that the library is revisiting this issue, particularly in the current political climate. it's signed lee chen. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please? >> good after innooafternoon. i'm john fitch. this is a call for the city attorney to resign. i'm calling on the state attorney general to open an investigation to see if possible illegalities have taken place collusion, conspiring, of the broken link chain that took place. city attorney dennis herrera made some remarks to the acting mayor's position. it led us to believe that the chain link would not be broken. it turned out to be a con game an

mr. herrera did file that suit. i think it is important, an important message to send forward.[please stand by] [please stand by] >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. glad to see many members of the italian-american community here today. thank you for engaging with this process. i want to publicly apologize to you if i've offended you. in no way, did i have any intention to injury anyone. that said, this conversation started in october and many people we've been in touch with and have been working with. as i announced last week when this passed at the board of supervisors, my colleague, suspects safai and supervisor yee said they wanted to work on the issue. we're going to have a formal declaration and there was a snow ordinance that day. it was unofficially celebrated, but we're in the process of making it official. supervisor safai will take the lead moving forward. there's a whole host of italian-americans. so i wanted to bring this to everyone's attention. the order nantz is -- ordinance is very simple and we'll be teed up and ready to celebrate this fall. i will ask t

mr. ratcliffe o the committee on ethics. the clerk: ms. herrera beutler of washington and mr. thomas j. rooney of florida. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? >> i ask unanimous consent that when the house adjourn today it adjourn to meet at 4:30 p.m. on friday, february 2, 2018 and further, when the house adjourn that day it jdjourn to meet on monday, february 15, when it shall convene at noon for morning hour debate and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection? hearing none, so ordered. after consultation among the speaker an minority and majority leaders, the chair announces when the two houses meet tonight in joint session to hear an a dress of the novet united states only those -- only the doors immediately opposite the speaker and to his left and right will be open. no one will be allowed on the floor of the house will be allow those opposed, no floor of the house. the rule regarding the privethrofpblge floor must be strictly enforced. children of the members will not be permit odd then efloor. the