aguilar. >> i just want to comment on something that mr. paul said. my family has been in the restaurant business since i was born. we have two restaurants in the embarcaderos and one of in sacramento. my parents opened the restaurant with blood, sweat, and tears. they are now retired, living a nice life. i have been running the restaurant for seven years. i am 31 years old and i think i am doing a good job. i am also on yelp, facebook, twitter, you name it. as times change, restaurants change. i do not think my dad ever thought, i'm going to open a restaurant and let this truck parked in front of it to steal my business. it does not work that way. who could start of a business with $500? it is the way the customers are treated. that is why they come back and it is why we have been open for so long. it would be sad for our restaurant to close and for all of these people to have their dreams crush over a truck. thank you. >> mr. paul, you have six minutes of rebuttal. >> thank you. president goh, was indicated i should have additional time if i should

it is technically legal that they can do that, as mr. paul pointed out, but i think a quick fix in the lot to redefine the rental of less than 30 days, even if the rental is greater than 30 days, that is less than 30 days, it is a violation of the apartment conversion law. but nonetheless, we should not be rewarding golden gateway for these illegal conversions. we should not be setting the stage for golden gateway to become another parker said fight, and we certainly do not need more luxury housing for the very, very wealthy. thank you. president chiu: thank you. our next speaker is john, and if he is not here, we will go to another. supervisor mar: i think he will be the last speaker, and then we would jump to item two and then continue. >> good evening, supervisors. my name is frederick. i would be categorized as an expert on sales on the north waterfront. i have had the privilege to represent 72% of every condominium sold north of washington, all of the way up to the waterfront, $1 million, and i have also had clients to purchased at other

caller: hello, mr. paul. wanted to ask about how your father feels about social security, medicare, and the norm -- and minimum wage. and being unconstitutional. and how you think is health -- health care is a privilege and why you want to get rid of the epa and do you regulate the polluters in this country and just trust them not to pollute? thank you. guest: the social security and entitlement question -- that was the previous caller's question we did not get to come on sort -- surplus. social security did run a surplus for maybe four years. -- 40 years. last year was the first time it started paying out to recipients more bark -- then it brings in. people need to understand and listen to this. the problems we have and social security is no one in particular spot. the republicans' fault, democrats' fault. the problem with social security and medicare is there are not very many young people and there are many old people. when social security started there were 50 workers for one retiree. now there are three

mr. paul: madam president, i ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment and call up amendment number 1490. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. lieberman: reserving the right to object. mr. lieberman: i have no objection. to the filing of the amendment. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from kentucky, mr. paul, proposes amendment numbered 1490 to amendment numbered 1470. mr. paul: i ask unanimous consent the reading of the amendment be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. paul: this amendment will address some of the situations that are concerning the american people. i think the ability to serve in the senate is a great honor. the ability to serve in the house of representatives is a great honor. but i am somewhat sickened and somewhat saddened by people who use their office, who leave office and become lobbyists, who leave office and call themselves historians and leave office and peddl

mrs. bachmann is not in good shape. that leaves our pal ron paulho is polling well in iowa and who could win the caucus tomorrow. but even if the congressman does do well, he will not, will not be the republic nominee because his positions on many issues are simply out landish. here is what you need to know about ron paul. he has spent 23 years in congress. and only one of his proposed bills has been signed into law. 23 years, one law. and over that time period, mr. paul has sponsored 620 pieces of legislation. again, only one was passed. the sale of the old u.s. customs house to the galveston historical foundation. not exactly a front page event. now, those who support ron paul are generally angry with the federal government. they want a total overhaul. you know what? i don't blame them. the federal government is a disaster. but the 15 trillion-dollar debt the feds are putting all of us in danger. but ron paul with his soft approach to iran, his gold standard madness and other extreme positions is not going to be nominated by the republic party si

mrs. bachmann is not in good shape. that leaves our pal ron paulho is polling well in iowa and who could win the caucus tomorrow. but even if the congressman does do well, he will not, will not be the republic nominee because his positions on many issues are simply out landish. here is what you need to know about ron paul. he has spent 23 years in congress. and only one of his proposed bills has been signed into law. 23 years, one law. and over that time period, mr. paul has sponsored 620 pieces of legislation. again, only one was passed. the sale of the old u.s. customs house to the galveston historical foundation. not exactly a front page event. now, those who support ron paul are generally angry with the federal government. they want a total overhaul. you know what? i don't blame them. the federal government is a disaster. but the 15 trillion-dollar debt the feds are putting all of us in danger. but ron paul with his soft approach to iran, his gold standard madness and other extreme positions is not going to be nominated by the republic party si

uphold the decision and require us, there would be a prenotification requirements, which is what is mr. paul is concerned about specifically. commissioner garcia: and i think it is our content to strike the two. director: public comment, is there anyone in the public wishes to speak on this item? ok, directors, it is yours. president goh: ok, we need a motion, pursuant to the agreements made by the parties. commissioner peterson: a stipulation. president goh: does somebody want to make a motion? commissioner garcia: you just made a motion. president

uphold the decision and require us, there would be a prenotification requirements, which is what is mr. paul is concerned about specifically. commissioner garcia: and i think it is our content to strike the two. director: public comment, is there anyone in the public wishes to speak on this item? ok, directors, it is yours. president goh: ok, we need a motion, pursuant to the agreements made by the parties. commissioner peterson: a stipulation. president goh: does somebody want to make a motion? commissioner garcia: you just made a motion. president goh: i did not. secretary pacheco: on that motion, [reading roll] thank you. the vote is 3-0. the permit is upheld with those two locations struck and on that basis. thank you. director: thank you. president goh, there is no further business this evening. president goh: we are adjourned. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. i am the secretary to the police commission. on behalf of the commission, i would like to welcome everyone to the san francisco police department's 2011 medal of valor ceremony. please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >>>

mr. paul's foreign policy and military ideas are out of step. don't count out ron paul. he will go on.e presidential campaigns in years past. south carolina generally picks the front runner and nominee. there is a possibility that the campaign will go on much longer than the returns reporting later this evening. >> karl cameron. and and so i guess it is too late now, congressman. >> i tell you, top three candidates that we have today are fantastic candidates and no doubt ron paul brings a unique part with young voters. we have to look at the military newt probably will carry the day. last week of debate and particularly the abc release of the ex-wife, the timing of it worked in newt's advantage. >> it really did if that is the case. right in it surprised some that are chosely conservative that it did and if it does. what do you make of that. what rallies a service base is an anti-media response. we rally around when the media is trying to pick. they are trying to pick the candidate they want. and once i heard the first economy from cnn

i have to disagree with mr. paul who stated that boma was at the table. when this was passed unanimously, they were not involved. this was to bring vitality to underserved areas of the city where there are not restaurants, cafes, sandwich shops. we have a plethora of them downtown. we are not underserved in any sense of the word. if you look at the list of firms that have been applied for, over 50% of them are downtown locations. why? that is where the customers are. we had these constraints around the city of not being allowed, not allowing mobile food trucks to operate in hospitals or near hospitals and schools. that needs to be changed. we need to make some modifications to look at density. how many are too many? right now, we are saturated downtown with mobile food permits. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. i am the owner of the gaylord restaurant in the financial district. my restaurant is within a short distance from the subjected location. i have operated this restaurant for about 30 years and i ha

the tech craze, the things mr. paul was speaking about. and yet, in the application here and the way it has come through dpw, i agree with vice president garcia that we could not approve it tonight. because there must be current compliance and there is not. i think we do not have a choice in that regard. in this particular area, maybe the hearing officer could have looked at mitigation measures around the area being fully by elisa, density considerations, ms. dick asked the question how many is too many? maybe there are too many here. the economy has a lot to do with it. we have heard from one appellant owner that all of the money is made in 1.5 hours. i believe that. it makes sense in this economy. if we were in a fleshy economy, maybe it would be different. maybe there would be enough to go around. i agree with my fellow commissioners that those issues are worth considering. maybe by ceqa, maybe by the dpw hearing officer. the system is set up so that person has some discretion. i believe that person should exercise that discretion. we a

an option to purchase the club from the current owner, so the protestations you heard today from mr. paul and even from our esteemed former city attorney about the condition of the club or things going on in the golden gateway center with respect to the dwelling units there, they have nothing to do with the project sponsor of this project, and i think it is important that we make that known. i want to thank the board for having this -- president chiu: i am sorry. i need to understand this. there will be a profit, and one is responsible to the green fencing, and in addition to what the opposition is trying to support. >> there is an option to purchase the property, so in any situation like that, a purchase and sell agreement, the current owner would be paid to sell their property, so that is certainly a benefit to them. in addition, they will get back at the end of the day a condominium interest and a fitness club. if this gets approved in the wisdom of this board and others, there will be a condominium created as part of the purchase price, so there is actual cash that gets paid. there is

president chiu: our next speaker, mr. paul. >> thank you. others have spoken about the need. we talked about this. what you may not know is that they are destroying this. they own the golden gateway. they own 80% of the site we are talking about. they are the only ones that are getting the height increases being asked for, so they are a major partner. they are partners. you talk about the green fence, they have kept it that way to make the argument that the only way to do this is to do the project. the 1200 unit golden gateway to short-term vacation and sweet. how do i know that? there is the hotelization of the middle class rental housing. the picture on the front of very much looks like something else, and if you go to the executive suites or a number of the sites for short-term rentals on the web, these are advertisements. hundreds and hundreds of units are being lost, so getting 29 units a lot of this does not make up for what we will lose year after year after year. why reward this kind of behavior? the same property owner is not paying their fair share of property taxes

also of note, mr. paul talking about maybe dropping out of nato, making an austrian economics joke and attacking the federal reserve. if you're wondering whether he would broaden his base tonight, ron paul did not go there. what you're looking at right now is newt gingrich headquarters in iowa. let's pause to hear from mr. gingrich. [ applause ] >> wow like an introduction? would you like an intro dukz? >> sure. >> good evening.duction? >> sure. >> good evening. we all know that the 2012 election is about jobs and the economy. we know that americans demand a candidate with ideas and solutions to rebuild the america we love. [ cheers and applause ] there is only one reaganite conservative in this election and we just punched his ticket for new hampshire. [ cheers and applause ] >> well -- >> all: newt, newt, newt, newt, newt, newt, newt. >> well, thank you, linda and i want to thank linda meyers, the majority leader in the house and greg ganske who all summer held this together when really it could have fall

sir, allow me both of you, this is from the paul candidacy who says "we have a lot of admiration for mrlch and appreciate his we we respect for dr. paul's supporter and the countless young people our campaign has energized to get involved in the process, and the only point he misses is that dr. paul has a paths to the nomination through down stream nomination focusing on the caucus and convention process and we plan to work for victory both in tampa and in november." so it sounds like he is thanking but says don't write me off just yet. >> and that is a valid comment he has made and i wish him well in his ideas but i would bet the few cents i have that the end of the game dealing with him is going to be very important issue for whoever the nominee is. >> what if it does look like it will be newt gingrich or mitt romney and ron paul threatens to go third party do you still support the man? >>guest: well, ron paul has, look, maybe -- i believe ron paul is not able to tell a lie about this because he says so many things that weirdly honest all the time. he doesn't have that political led i

that, anderson, seems to be one of the key problems that has been plaguing certainly mr. paul from the beginning, because time and again, people talked about electability. the notion that they want to win the white house and if it means picking somebody who can win, even if ideal logically it doesn't fit exactly, they will do that to make sure they win the white house. that's one of the real goals here. >> what about reaction to santorum? >> reporter: it's interesting. the reaction to rick santorum was similar to the reaction that we had to ron paul, in that there's a lot of flat lining going on, even when he said things that should have gotten a better ride. this is one of his best responses. look at what happens here. >> this race and this campaign is not going to be about tearing everybody down. it's not going to be about negative ads. it's not going to be about anything other than painting a bold vision or our country. one that believes in the working class values that my grandfather taught to me. [ applause ] >> reporter: you were speaking a little while ago about the des

mr. paul: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized. mr. paul: madam chairman, we're here today to try to prevent the national debt from going up another $1.2 trillion. but in a way it's a formality because most everybody knows the national debt is going up $1.2 trillion. and this is sad because this process is a really very mixed effort to try to curtail spending. and this power to the president to ask for a debt increase and then we have to get 2/3 of the congress to prevent this from going up, this is a creature of congress. it's also a creature of a mental status here in the congress of overspending on just everything. and it would be nice if we could blame everything on the current administration or even the past administration but this crisis has been building for a very long time and it's very bipartisan. there's been way too much cooperation in this congress becaus

mr. paulk the gentleman for yielding. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized. mr. paul: madam chairman, we're here today to try to prevent the national debt from going up another $1.2 trillion. but in a way it's a formality because most everybody knows the national debt is going up $1.2 trillion. and this is sad because this process is a really very mixed effort ttry to curtail spending. and this power to the president to ask for a debt increase and then we have to get 2/3 of the congress to prevent this from going up, this is a creature of congress. it's also a creature of a mental status here in the congress of overspending on just everything. and it would be nice if we could blame everything on the current administration or even the past administration but this crisis has been building for a very long time and it's veryipartisan. there's been way too much cooperation in th congress because those who li

that, anderson, seems to be one of the key problems that has been plaguing certainly mr. paulul from the beginning, because time and again, people talked about electability. the notion that they want to win the white house and if it means picking somebody who can win, even if idealogically it doesn't fit exactly, they will do that to make sure they win the white house. that's one of the real goals here. >> what about reaction to santorum? >> reporter: it's interesting. the reaction to rick santorum was similar to the reaction that we had to ron paul, in that there's a lot of flat lining going on, even when he said things that should have gotten a better ride. this is one of his best responses. look at what happens here. >> this race and this campaign is not going to be about tearing everybody down. it's not going to be about negative ads. it's not going to be about anything other than painting a bold vision or our country. one that believes in the working class values that my grandfather taught to me. [ applause ] >> reporter: you were speaking a little while ago about the des

good morning, mr. paul. >> guest: morning. >> caller: you are the best congressman we have, and i'm an independent, and i follow your father from last time running, and he's the best we can get. that's what america needs right now. and people listening, don't be in obama's army, just go ahead and vote for ron paul. [laughter] ron paul. >> host: do you have a specific question for our guest, ma'am? >> caller: yeah, he's going to win. >> host: next call is wisconsin, wayne on our republican line. and wayne's left us. senator paul, i want to read you a little bit from the new hampshire union leader, and this is the publisher there, joe mcquaid, on your father. and he says this, ron paul is a dangerous man. his domestic libertarian views are quite attractive to some voters fed up with politics as usual, it is paul's positions on issues of national security that are truly dangerous. >> guest: i think that misunderstands my father. his position on national defense is that under the constitution one of the primary