." -- it has a non partisan sentiment on it. so get in. i have always felt that public service is a great privilege and a great opportunity, but no one serves more than the veterans served in the armed forces. particularly veterans who served in combat. so i think it is so necessary and so inappropriate to finally have this special memorial here in this place. in northern california area, there are more veterans than in 48 of the 50 states. so this is hallowed ground for veterans, right around here, and i think that adds to the appropriateness of this place. but look at the setting. city hall. symbolizes the idea of government by free people. government representing, giving us governance on the basis of that representation. that is the idea we go out and fight for. and the veterans building there. and then in this setting where if you listen closely, you can hear the wonderful, soaring music of the symphony. you can hear the arias and the opera and the grace and beauty of our ballet. in this wonderful performing arts, it gives us the soul

it is either 50% or the top two vote getters move on to the general election when it is a non-partisan seat like ours. when you look at the chart in front of you, if you had a 50% rule, how many of those people would have been the winning person, what percentage would have gotten in november? the highest is 1998, were you got almost 40% of the vote, but you would have gotten 50%. under the 65% rule, there is only one election since 1990 when you have a 65% winning margin. one of the other interesting tidbits, in 2008, we had a presidential primary in february, the regular primary in june. there is a little differential. as soon as you take the presidency of the election, it dramatically drops the number of people who are voting in the election and the primary. having that top ticket item to draw people out is what impacts how many people showed up more than the local offices. chairperson campos: a question on that? vice chairperson avalos: so you are inferring that 65% threshold is more arbitrary? >> it does not exist anywhere else that i could find, any other major city across the cou

. >> non-partisan, not endorsing candidates >> -- endorsing candidates, getting the right to vote and one they have their voice heard. >> the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage is taking place throughout the state. bancroft library is having an exhibit that highlights the women's suffrage movement, chronicling what happened in california, bringing women the right to vote. >> how long does this mean going on? >> the week of the 20th. people do not realize that women were allowed to vote as early as the 1920's. in the library collection we have a manuscript from the end of december, possibly longer. >> in commemoration of 100 years of voting in california. 100 years ago this year, we won the right to vote. around 1911, this is how it would have addressed. and here we are, dressed the same. [chanting] >> we have the right to vote. >> whether you are marching for a cause or voting in the next election, make your voice heard. thank you for watching.

the non-partisan congressional budget office says allowing the bush era tax cuts to expire combined with automatic spending cuts to take effect january 1st could throw the economy in a recession with the economy shrinking by 1.3%. this is the first time they have predicted a potential recession. the report argues if congress and president team up and stop the automatic cuts and tax increases, growth would rise to 4.4%. >>> four secret service employees decided to fight the dismissals over the prostitution scan dmal colombia. this morning's washington post reports the employees ousted from the agency foreign gauging in inappropriate conduct with prosecutes last month ahead of a presidential visit say they are being made scapegoats for the behavior that has been long tolerated by the service. the timing of the charge couldn't be worse for secret service director, mark sul i will van, who is scheduled to testify later today before a senate committee. >>> other stories making news early until america, in texas, a dog napping captured by pet store surveillance video. police say a man grabbed

specifics from governor romney, is the drop that romney is promising truly a bold prediction when the non-partisan says we'll be under anyway. >> the truth is thomas we had unemployment above 8% for the longest period in recorded history. we have governor romney out there presenting bold ideas. he -- >> is it a bold idea to make a prediction to say you'll predict to get the unemployment rate under 6% when the cbo says it will be 6% by 2016 and they predicted that in january? >> it hasn't been, been above 8%. president obama for three-and-a-half years has made promises or this would be a one-term proposition. his policies failed to make things better. we have governor romney, who has released another ad putting out specific ideas, ending the job killing regulations, doing away with big government, standing up to china on trade issues, these are bold ideas that will turn the economy around and put some of the 23 million americans back to bowork. he will repeal obama care that will go a long way for making the economy better and also ahavi approving the keystone pipelines. these are policies obama ha

so i would prefer to do what i have said all along, to run a non-political, non-partisan issue-orientedampaign focused on fiscal responsibility, government transformation and the need for political reforms. >> you have written politicians often spread myths. give me some examples of what those myths are. >> for one thing, we haven't had a budget in three years, and even when you have a budget the congress only controls about 37% of spending, and that percentage is declining year before year. another myth is -- is that we have real trust funds. trust funds are separate and distinct legal entities. in government the trust funds that you have you can't trust them. they are not funded. the government wants to hold them out as assets to the beneficiaries of the programs but they don't want to count them as benefits of the u.s. government. and another thing is cuts. and last in fairness for defense, the defense department anything they deem to be a requirement is not resource constrained. requirement translates to wish list in many cases. >> well so put it in the bigger context. french presid

this is--my cause is a bipartisan, non-partisan cause. >> but it didn't take long for the new non-partisanfortable with his partisan past. >> good to see you. how are you? >> good. >> how are you? >> good. >> senator john kerry, whose presidential campaign pickens helped destroy four years ago when he gave money for the infamous and widely criticized swift boat ads that attacked the senators service in vietnam and his later testimony before congress. >> you spent $3 million funding an advertising campaign that in some people's mind was representative of dirty politics, smear politics, character assassination-- all of that at this stage, do you have an reservation? do you have any-- >> none. >> none. >> none. >> you'd do it over tomorrow? >> i--i--what i knew then, i know that same thing now, and nothing has changed my mind. >> surprisingly, that hasn't stopped some of the country's leading democrats like senate majority leader harry reid from embracing him and his ideas. >> here is a man who was my mortal enemy. he's my pal now. >> t. boone pickens grew up as an only child in holdenville,

that was the number not devised by our side of the aisle but by the non-partisan cbo. medicaid, i know that it's tossed around, and many people don't really understand what medicaid, is but we're talking about 50 million people across america, many children, millions and millions of children who don't have access to a doctor's office or to see a nurse or to get their shots in any other way. we're talking about our older neighbors. many of our parents and grandparents who rely on skilled nursing. americans with dementia, parkinson's, cancer, heart disease that often don't have anywhere else to go. thank god for medicaid that allows their families to ensure that their parents and grandparents with those awful conditions in their later years in life can live their lives in dignity, and the families are not ripped out of the middle class because they are having to pay everything they own and to sell their house to keep their loved one in a nursing home. we're talking about millions of our neighbors across america with disabilities such as multiple sclerosis, mental illness

he's the general counsel for a non-partisan, non-profit government watchdog group in washington, d.c. >> i don't think most taxpayers think that that would be a justified spending stimulus noun conduct a sex study over fixing bridges and roads that, you know, are crumbling every day. >> $1.2 million. >> yes. >> does that make you wonder a little bit? i mean, stimulus money for a study like this. >> no, it doesn't because to my mind, we save money if we get better health outcomes. >> reporter: the money went to the university of california san francisco a good portion of the city will, quote, improve the accuracy of responses to questions, end quote. specifically, questions about a person's sexual behavior. >> playing devil's advocate now. do taxpayers need to spend $1.2 million to figure this out? >> it's not, you know -- the judgment wasn't one that i was asked. >> reporter: so what did you get for your money? how about 200 videotaped interviews. that's $6,000 an interview. >> i think the average person is going to look at $1.2 million to interview 200 people and say, wow. >> i under

we are a non-partisan public organization dedicated to make government more effective by focusing on people. and it's truly great to welcome you all here on behalf of the public employee roundtable and the partnership at public service recognition week. one week in the year when you have federal employees who hopefully are the subject of respect and accolades, people who otherwise all the rest of the 52 weeks, or 51 weeks are very much focused on trying to serve the american public. we want to take this week to make sure the minor public learns a little more about what their public servants are doing for them. we have an exceptional, truly exceptional panel here. i'm very excited myself to hear from. beginning with secretaries -- i'm going to get this right because i know there's supposed to be a special order here. but secretaries lahood, sebelius -- or sebelius, lahood, and napolitano and acting administrator gsa dan tangherlini. before we get there, however, i also want to make sure i recognize one of our colleagues here at the partnership who made all this possible and has done m

a style of non-partisan chip which is for the american media. excluded from cnn. [laughter] but i am told i am an extremist. but to refer to the president is the stealth socialists. to have that hat in hand asking which words i can apply to the self socialist. some things about my fund -- about my book the death of liberalism in has a have it of slipping away. the holy roman empire had lost on the potentate of europe that the empire was not wholly or roll man o' war and empire. there was a lot of colorful uniforms but nobody took notice. not even in the swords. the empire had a gaggle of principalities and nation states. now catholic europe may be mentioned in a remote geography class as catholic year. political domain of bishops and pope's for over a century it never really recovered from world war i. when churchill said i have not become the team's first minister in order to preside over liquidation of the british empire, that was well under way. hear america there are institutions and believes that long ago lost their clout. take the urban machine is still beli

they are very careful to appear non-partisan, to reach out to both sides.nd you see they've made some prominent republican hires. also we saw that mariah jordan from the bush white house is also assisting on the senate side in terms of outreach. it's definitely a bipartisan effort. >> and mariah jordan is the public policy manager at facebook. another former deputy chief of staff to president george w. bush, former counsel to senator richard burr. greg maher say former aide to house speaker boehner. and he is a public policy director as well. and finally, marnie levine. she is the former chief of staff to larry summers at the national economic council. worked at treasury department. so those are some of the people that facebook has hired in the recent past to work on their staffs. we're going to be talking about facebook. its ipo is coming up. and we want to get gautham nagesh's take on it. the numbers rupp on the screen. republicans 737-0002. and 628-0205 are the numbers for you to call. gautham nagesh, the fact that we are doing a segment on facebook are

for those that want to come leer and work, we need to have some very realistic non-partisan quotas set for folks for two-year visas who want to come from mexico, honduras, guatemala, el salvador. sending countries screen them nor life experience, the things that make them very employable. the migrant open as $2,500,s 3ds,000 security account wit internal revenue service. the old mantra used to be that employers are more afraid of the irs than they are of the i.n.s. now it's the dhs, but it's true. the irs can, one thing they can do really well is open can't at, assign a name and do debits and credits into that account. almost all of our large employers at least use completely computerized payroll services. so once you've come and signed on as an employee, you're in the new x, y, z visa program and 10% of your gross will continue to be deposited into that account. at the end of the 24 months or 30 months or whatever we're going to come up with, you transfer that money home, it goes into the lowest end of the economy in the sending country. no government officials are involved. you can d