so senator portantino, thank you, thank you.n the audience and i'm going to go through these signs and that's my whole speech is going through these signs. the first one -- where is he fat? not that one, the other one. the other one. yeah, the other one is a good sign, isn't it? now, you know, in politics people talk about what we can and can't do and this and that and the other and they get you talking, talking, talking. but sometimes common sense has to reign. look, you see all of these blue states, those are the ones that already do it. they already do it. so don't let somebody tell you that we can't do this or this or that and look at all of those states that already do this. we call ourselves californians like to think of ourselves as being ahead of the curve. the curve ain't looking too good right now. and there's some legitimate debates that have to happen, and i was talking with somebody a couple days ago and we want to make sure that the kids are not overidentified as going to special ed. this was a concern. and then i