pat fry, have a heart. maybe one that you advertise and care about those who are caring for your patients. thank you. >> good evening, commissioners, eric brooks, i'm here representing the san francisco green party and also the local grassroots organization in our city. first, i would like to point out that this process would not have taken 10 years had sutter health sat down with the entire community and negotiated in good faith to reach consensus on all of the things that we're raising as problems with this thing. i would like to also start out by speaking to all the trade union members that were in here, the building trades. no one is talking about building less than 635 beds and hopefully we're talking about building more. what we're talking about is where and how to build those beds, not whether or not you all are going to get jobs. you're going to get those jobs. we need to build this system right. the broad issue here, the issue that covers this whole thing is that this is not just the rebuilding a h

frying pan into the fryer. does that matter? in the election of 2000 either vice president gore took florida or he didn't. look, maybe 35,000 jewish voters in palm beach actually did vote for pat buchanan. i don't know. >> we're pretty sure they didn't. >> there's no question that gore won on a popular vote basis. but that doesn't matter because that's not the way they're counted. what i'd like to hear from you is to a certain extent you're empowering me as somebody whose vote doesn't count or the new ternlgs put it this way, writ large, is enabling me to influence someone in ohio or colorado or the ten states that really do matter, we're told, in this election. is that true? >> yeah, i think that that's not a necessarily new practice. i think that as long as we've had elections that have existed out of a single province will counties will call in to target counties and states into target states, that has been going on -- >> my question is will the new technology make that more scientific -- >> it will make it more efficient. >> more efficient, more targeted. the efficacy will improve significantly. >> for example, i have a college classmate who works in cincinnati. for all i