ms. campbell was a controversial nominee. during her campaign for governor, she was quoted discussing christian conservatives, she said, quote, i hate to call them christians because i am a christian. and i hate to call them religious, because they're not. so i'll call them the radical right. end of quote. ms. campbell had a very liberal record and spent most of her career as a politician. a lot of people didn't want me to return her blue slip, so why did i return her blue slip? and in the process, i was criticized extensively by the conservative base of my state of iowa. but i did that because a blue slip isn't supposed to allow the unilateral veto of a nominee. a senator can't use a blue slip to block a nominee simply because he or she doesn't like the nominee's politics or ideology. a senator can't use a blue slip to block a nominee because it's not the person's -- it's not the person the senator would have picked. the president gets to nominate judges. the white house should consult home state senators. and it's important

ms. campbell. >> good morning, supervisor peskin, president breed. >> if i may interrupt you, i got a text message from the staff that s.f.govtv is down, so i don't know if anybody is seeing this or not. >> we'll repeat what you said, the reason that the audit was begun was the high turnover of the department heads for the department of technology. we conducted the audit and completed it in june during a period when there was no permanent department head. but i do want to say also that even as we started the audit, there have been some long perceived problems in the problem of technology. already beginning to be discussed and corrected. and i think in terms of issues of staffing, in terms of customer service, and even in terms of contracting, at least, there have been people brought in to really look at those problems and so i think that part of what we are looking at is a department that was beginning to go through some changes. i also would like to say that we did meet with linda after she started in her new position and we look forward to continuing to work with her. nick menard is the