mr. marstellar testified that the intent of this law, which he knows more about than anybody in the room -- was to qualify as many candidates as possible for public financing. in case anyone watching in this hearing room or on television doesn't understand, public financing is based upon money from taxpayers, and there is a philosophical debate about whether tax money should be used for candidates. i won't use the word politicians. and it's in that sense that these regulations and the time for actions, times for action were prepared by the ethics commission staff. and i'm glad they were prepared by the ethics commission staff; otherwise, somebody has the impression that you walk up to the pay master's window over at 25 vanness avenue at the ethics commission, you hand in a form, and you'll get a check for $50,000 or ongoing checks for 10,000 each, whatever the system is. i am persuaded that whether you call it exercise of an equitiable power of an administrative body or whether you call it estoppel or whether you call it detrimental reliance, that this commission should vacate the execut