polk? polk has her summoned and they have a beautiful little byplay. then polk has a dinner for clay a few days later with whigs and democrats. >> what did you find with the details? >> the dreier diary. i mixed a couple of things. the book about the leadup to the civil war has this episode. he has it in a different setting. he has it at a dinner in which clay in his very elaborate manner he was always spoke in ortundity and elaborate manner. he lays a lovely compliment among mrs. polk. he says everywhere i go i hear nothing but good about how you're doing. not so much about this guy. they kind of laugh. ne vins has this at a dinner. but he has a more robust description of what was said. i combined that. my conclusion was this was in polk's diary. it happened that day. it must have happened in the parlor of the white house or he wouldn't have written it. but i took -- i could have taken polk's more clipped rendition of the language of clay or i could have taken alan's. i said i'd better take the better part. so i took the two together and a note many t

polk -- all polk's letters have been published in multiple volumes, all of which i have and polk kept a diary during his presidency. four volumes 500 pages each. i pretty much had to memorize that diary. he poured his heart into the dreierry. he told his dreierry what he was thinking and feeling. he was feeling beset by his political opponents a lot of the time. i was able to get a little bit of life into it. >> i want to come back to the diary and letters later. paint a picture of him physically as a person. >> not an imposing man. not an unattractive man. he was medium height about 5'8". he was relatively small compared to the giants of the time. thomas benton was big. anjou jackson was big. henry clay was lanky and tall. polk didn't have that. i describe him as small of stature and drab of temperment. he was a stand offish kind of a guy. didn't like people very much. he was somewhat self-righteous. upon first meeting people didn't really gravitate to him. what he had that led people to underestimate him looking at the other traits was an amazing ironclad will and a determination to

we are scheduling a meeting with polk street owner. getting together with broadway as a model. >> are they still using the same security? nobody has changed? >> i had a couple of questions. i will throw this at you. if you want to punt over to the officer, that is fine. the illegal club, they have entertainment and a full bar. they are going against places that pay for security. when we shut them down, what i would think that we should do is to confiscate all of the musical instruments as evidence and all of the liquor as evidence. if you come out and you say, knock it off, you are illegal, that is a tap on the wrist. if you confiscate all of the musical equipment and alcohol and all of the evidence that supports what they are doing, we go a long way in shutting down these activities in the city. >> you are correct. some units do do that. some do not. there has been talk about writing a clear and consistent protocol. by letter of the law, both alcohol and musical equipment like dj equipment can and has been confiscated in the past. it

but there's lower polk neighbors, middle polk neighbors and community leadership alliance, which are all located on the polk corridor, and none of us have been notified of this, so -- >> right. they admitted that it was an oversight. >> it sounds like a good project, but -- >> ok, we agree. that's why we have so many representatives that are looking out for the community. so maybe we could get a motion to approve it, with the caveat that they report back to staff in two months to give a listing of the outreach from the community and how that worked, and if there is a problem at that point, that staff can bring it back for our review. would that be something somebody would make a motion for? >> i'd like to move that this permit be granted with the condition that in two months we have solid proof that there was community outreach. >> ok. get a second? >> second. >> commissioner perez? >>way. >> commissioner hyde? >> aye. >> commissioner lee? >> aye. >> and president newlin? aye. >> ok, thanks very much. he'll be happy to get you the requisite information. regular calendar, item e, loui

you refer to illinois as the land of polk. >> yes. >> it is land of lincoln. if you are referring to james polk he was born in north carolina, but served as governor of tennessee. now is the time when you say you were referring to your former roommate seth polk blah, blah, blah. >> seth polk who went to university of illinois and was rower and had some hard times. but they called it the land of polk because he would be living on the streets. >> dana, you defended the romney campaign on the etch-a-sketch which makes sense. what did you make of gingrich saying, quote, if we are dumb enough to nominate him, we should accept that he will move back to the left? >> that's a little much, wasn't it? >> it will be fun to watch him eat those words in about three weeks. >> chris, you said it is not unfair to use this against -- wow, i never finished this thought. let me see if i can remember where i was going. i am going to read it and see where it ends up. chris, you said it is not unfair to use this against romney. never should have said the etch-a-sketch thing which i

i'm so hope that polk street is in it as well. it's my daily commute. i hope that in the next two years that i have the honor to be here as well to get some profit off this workshop as well. the third one with wiggle i think is a quite interesting one. we don't have a wiggle in the netherlands. we don't need a wiggle in the netherlands. but i -- i thought what an interesting word that is, wiggle. where does it come from? is it a san francisco-invented word? so i looked it up yesterday in the oxford dictionary. to my surprise i found the origin of the word "wiggle" is in dutch. sorry about that. it's to wiggle. to move to left to right. that's something we do in the netherlands. in politics as well. and even i find out that the name beggler, somebody who wiggles, is a common name in the netherlands and in the dutch translation of harry potter, the lady who writes all the booklets for the school in the harry potter school is madam wiggli. i thought it might be good to contact her to get some additional support for this workshop and then i find there's no

and from wisconsin seventy eighth district represented polk and welcome back thank you tom thanks for covering alec a lot i think i think this is a very very important story for our viewers who don't know what alec has can you just give us a quick quick and dirty explanation here sure it's a corporate dating service for special interests and conservative legislators it's really billed as a policy change but it's funded by corporations it's for corporations and they provide model legislation to conservative legislators they introduced it in states and they passed it and it has nothing to do with the public good but it has everything to do about corporate profits and you you actually went down to louisiana and sat through one of these alec meetings how'd you get him. well i doing as a legislator i can join for one hundred dollars for a corporation to join it's more like twenty five fifty or one hundred thousand dollars but i joined specifically to get a password to get model legislation to deal to find out what alec was up to and i really appreciated i was down there this summer you kno

family trust for an initial base rent of $25,597 per month; 2) a sublease of 575 polk. president chiu: same house, same call? this item is accepted. item #7. >> item #7. [reads item] president chiu: same house, same call. this item is adopted. item number eight? >> item #8. resolution approving the terminal 3, boarding area f newsstand lease, between paradies-sfo, llc, and the city and county of san francisco, acting by and through its airport commission. president chiu: same house call? the item is adopted. item #9. >> item #9. resolution authorizing any designee of the mayor from the mayor's office of housing to enter into a standard agreement and disbursement agreement with the california state department of housing and community development to accept and expend $4,700,000 of transit oriented development infrastructure grant program funds associated with the 1180-4th street affordable housing project; the execution of an agreement with the project sponsor for disbursement of grant funds; and the execution of any related documents necessary to participate in the trans

. >>> pole being street is -- polk street is becoming a hit for night life.10:00 tonight, live on polk right near the party zone. >> it's getting people to go home that's the problem. this is a changing neighborhood here. affordable rents, and 9 bars in two blocks make this the place to be. >> raise their glasses over a plate of oysters. but late tonight this will be cleared for dancing and a line will stretch out the door. more than 100 people backing in. -- packing in. and when the bars close, long time neighborhood activists say it's unbelievable. >> the loudest group are the girls. they scream when they see their friends. screaming and running out to the streets. >> we try and get them all home but everyone needs a has been and no one can function properly. >> taxi stands are one idea to disperse people faster. the bars stagger their closing times so last call doesn't hit all at once. >> this is an upgrade. >> for some residents, the noise is a welcome sound considering the poverty, prostitution and drugs polk street has struggled with. one bar defends it

i assume that most of you saw the cover article from -- about the polk street changes in the examiner this week. also, there was a channel 2 news segment about it. i got a lot of phone calls about it. i did not see it, but it prominently featured my name, posted by one of the bar owners who was trying to find one of the more subtle ways to intimidate people to treat people who heard about this call me and said -- to intimidate people. people who are about this called me and said i need to talk to the chief about this. he has found more subtle ways, i guess. i received this, which is a matter of concern to me, from somebody you would know. he said, would you and i have been doing has not translated into any relief for tenants. he is talking about since august. rather, he said, the situation has escalated. in addition, the building owner would be coming under -- would be coming under increasing threat of reprisal. this was to explain to me why nothing more can be done. i want to say to you that in spite of the fact that some people came down for the 1423. hearing -- 1423 poultry during,

polk street is attracting its share of young party-goers. when the bars close, neighborhood activists say the streets are just too chaotic. >> the loudest group are the girls. they're just screaming when they see their friends, they're just screaming if running out in the streets. >> people who have lived here for a while were disgruntled. i mean, you suppose that's their prerogative. but that's changed in my mind. >> for some residents the noise of a more vibrant neighborhood is a welcome sound considering the poverty of prostitution and drugs that polk street has long struggled with. >>> the beer and cocktails will still be flowing at a famous san francisco watering hole. the gold dust lounge was slated to close today when its lease expired. the building's landlord reportedly wants to put in a clothing retailer, but the bar will remain open due to ongoing lawsuit filed by gold dust owners. the bar has been 42nd over the years by celebrities, including chronicle columnist herb caen and singer tony bennett. supporters of -- are expected to r

and between union square and polk street, those are the high entertainment areas now. we are right in the middle. our residential area. rc-4, rc-3. rc-3 the highest residential in the city. these are working people. this area was built to houseworking people for downtown, financial district, city hall. it was after the earthquake in 1906, everything burned, so they built this masonry district to houseworkers here, and that's what is here. and we need our sleep. i mean, we have guests, too, that we love to find a place to park. this operation, it has a type 41. now, it's a bona fide eating place, and that's what it should remain. i mean, to going at 10:00 to entertainment is just another problem. we have the party buses coming in and parking in the financial district because they can't park in the neighborhoods anymore. and they are trompping across our neighborhood. they are coming in droves going over to polk street. i would like quickly to show you this. this is a rough diagram of the stabet. so you see there's a room back here. this -- i'm sorry, it goes this way. i

hands it over to state lawmakers to pass in their respective state legislatures so representative polk and went on the floor to say this about assembly bill one ten. i went down to new orleans to the l a convention last august i remember going to a workshop and hearing a little bit about a bill they did in florida and some other states part of their efforts to dismantle public education and there is a proposal to provide special needs scholarships. and lo and behold all this and i come back to wisconsin and look it's introduced get ready i know you have shocked look on your face bill to do just that the exact model legislation now joining me now is state representative mark polk and from wisconsin seventy eighth district represented talk and welcome back thank you tom thanks for covering alec a lot i think i think this is a very very important story for our viewers who don't know what alec is can you just give us a quick quick and dirty explanation here sure it's a corporate dating service for special interests and conservative legislators it's really billed as a policy think tank but

would be arrested or kicked out of polk county and the head of the story was asian that did this has been arrested twice for like lewd conduct. like for like pretending to be a lawyer you know as weird as christians who do all that weird behavior that seems very counter i think that they could preach i think that's absolute secular. why do you think you are really not laura's very very good revenge on either side trying to use oil instead of i thought it was me holy water. oil you know it's. a little thirteen every day exactly. this next story basically we just like to make and really awkward every time he comes on the show so we're going to talk about vagina and. fives through all the recent crazy legislation that we've been seeing brought up in states right that we've also seen come up in the federal government there is. going behind government jay-jay they want people to need a vagina and then send it to their representatives just. like that one of the right . thing or crochet of a giant her uterus printed message to enclose mail it to your mail senator congressional representativ

i think that there are more mature ways of going about it what's happening here on this highway in polk county florida take a look. we could show be destroyed that's thirty seven it's somewhere under this grand last year on the road. so this here the atheists are going to washington. i mean really the religious here decided to bless the piece of the highway and they have to go wash it off with i don't hold any water my take on this a little unlike yours i know i've said this before and i'll say it again it's just yet another case where everything weird happens in florida. south carolina's got a lot of really weird nearly. no doubt because you already know. carolina its very well this story. for another back to back to florida part of the atheist legitimizing this by the day care what i'm saying there are a lot of people right like me really going to take all your time to go wash the pool but i wonder if you're an atheist this doesn't matter there's no blessing it's there's no there's no difference between you know one of them so i would you you know so you're destroying some it's probab

annex or attempt to annex it he voted for a resolution declaring the war was unnecessary and accused polk the president of violating the constitution starting the with the mexican american war from what george washington's presidency in the seventeen eighties all the way to the one nine hundred seventy s. republicans were the anti-war party they opposed world war one they condemned president woodrow wilson for taking us and into it glenn beck still goes off on him about that they opposed our entering world war two here's some quotes from some republican members of congress representative fred bradley of michigan this is in the lead up to world war two before we had to close before pearl harbor he said think your vote over seriously tonight my colleagues because this may be your last chance to cast a vote for peace constitutionally declared wars are out of date word today is by presidential dictatorial to create out by the voice the people and represent of george the george dinero of michigan he said we're not at war and no nations ever suggested or insinuated that if we are to become the

this request was filed on behalf of the neighbors on polk street in question. we feel deprived of our rights and to be informed and what goes on in our neighborhoods, especially of matters that affect our health and aesthetics of the spaces. we are aware of the appeal. for the permits filed, -- of the appeal time frame for the permit fire, however with all due respect, how could an appeal be fired -- be filed when there was a no dedication during that timeframe. also, there was just as the mandate of wireless permits. that notification was intended to protect people like me and my neighbors from this kind of situation, but there are still no notification. the day after i wrote complained, the street sign had been manipulated -- the day after i complain that the streets and had been manipulated, someone came and fixed it appeared the day after i complained about the signage, they came and moved it. i know i am being heard by somebody. i love living in san francisco. i love the unique freedom that the city provides two individuals and the environment that support

so it is replicating of their but only so far intermittently what has happened down on polk street.usands of people from out of town come, and they combine hundreds. you cannot walk down the street. the noise is a wall of sound like a football game for hours on end. what are the costs to the city in policing? not that the police can do anything. they say they're so overwhelmed that i do not have the staff. the injured in the commission has been contacted over and over by the resident manager who reported this. [bell rings] and they have done nothing to enforce it. nobody is enforcing except the fire department sometimes. people are having to move. then the property owner has to give notice to the people who might move in. you know, it is damaging property values. restaurant customers cannot come to these areas anymore. retailers are damaged because these premises move in, not only did the drive up the rent, but they did not bring in customers during the day. and nobody wants to come to the area anymore. [bell rings] i will bring this another time. supervisor wiener: thank you very m

they are accused of beating a 23-year-old hayward man on january 29 in the middle of polk street.an was helping a woman who was being bothered. initially the victim was listed in critical condition. >> he is now released and does have nonlife-threatening injuries at this time. but it will be time before he fully recovers from his injuries. >> ktvu first told you about problems along polk street during the 10:00 news last friday. residents have complained of increased violence as area bars become more busy. >>> and guilty on a former star player. ktvu rita williams covered the trial and was there before the results as well. >> reporter: at the san mateo courthouse was a murder case of a repeat. >> once again, 12 more citizens, so 24 out of 24 citizens said this man is a first degree murderer. that is satisfying. >> reporter: this is that man jurors found guilty of first degree murder a second time today. mohammed ali was 23 in 1999, a recovering addict and drug counselor here at project 90 in san mateo. after a relapse, he choked his girlfriend. 20-year-old tracy balitnikoff, she h

. >>> a florida mother is suing a polk county hospital after a nurse accidentally snipped off her baby'sky finger. it happened while the 3-month- old was receiving routine treatment at the hospital. we have the details. >> reporter: selena was born with 10 perfect fingers and 10 perfect toes, every mom's hope. so it brings new mom veronica to tears when she thinks of what's happened since. >> it breaks my heart that she was born so perfect and they just -- she just cut off her finger of. >> reporter: selena spent two days at the heart of florida regional medical center in polk county in october, 2011. according to the lawsuit, with selena sitting in her mom's lap a nurse used scissors to remove selena's iv cutting the tape attached to it. >> she obviously wasn't looking where she was cutting, so she cut off her finger. there was blood squirting everywhere. it was all over her shirt, on my shirt, on my face of. >> reporter: and she said celine aves screaming. >> i looked at her -- selena was screaming. >> i looked at her hand. she didn't have her finger anymore. >> reporter: half of her p