betty anne young community center, portsmouth square restroom. it's like a different class of people. they get everything they want. we get nothing. the elite, the fastist part -- >> i want to caution you that federal, state and local law prohibits discrimination against or harassment of city employees based on sex, race, and other categories listed below, so if you can be constructive in your community comments about the concerns that is helpful. >> >> but bringing race into it is not healthy for this dialogue. thank you. >>i am concerned for the past 11 years members in this city and county have voted and they have had a resolution that says that their parks system would be modernize in the quickest efficient manner possible. now, you have taken it upon yourself to ignore that resolution, and hey it's somewhere between a loss between the city and here. we don't understand that. that is discrimination at a federal level. that is discrimination way beyond anything anybody could ever say at this podium, so it's kind of ironic that you're sitting t

portsmouth square is overused. overcrowded. not because it is a great park but because people have nowhere else to go. there's a really high incidence of behavioral problems with kids that live in sros. there are over 500 families live in those single rooms. because of that we think it is very important for you to pass this resolution. we think this opens up the opportunity to identify other open space opportunities and expand open space within the community. i urge your yes vote. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> good morning. my name is ten chow speaking on behalf of china town community development center. i want to ask you to support the resolution before you. i remember five years ago i was on the task force for the general plan. china town, according to the element in the general plan has china town as high need neighborhood. that mean with list open space per capita in america we have a big population of families with children and senior population with 90%. that means what we have is what we have. a

and they figured, and portsmouth and plymouth, england, these ports are surrounded by british ships and british coastal batteries and that kind of thing. and in alexandria egypt kind of the same thing because there was a british port with the british origin big guns. there was only the french flotilla here, was a french naval base. and the british naval command, radioed of course in code to their fleet in gibraltar, and they said, this is what you have to do. you have to sail through the ninth of july 2 and 3rd, and show up at dawn. and give our terms to the fleet. and the terms were, or were going to be, you were our loyal allies in the fight against the germans up until just days ago. sail out of your port and join us in the fight against the germans. if you can't do that, give us your ships. we will sail them with british sailors and give them back to you when the war is over. if you can't do that, sail the french ships that you have here to the caribbean, to martinique, and the americans will assure their neutrality during the war. if you can't do that, we regret to have to ask you

. >> portsmouth. >> zainesville. >> hello cincinnati! (laughter) >> jon: hello normalton, middlesberg, averageville, each undecided independent votersburry. vagisil, compton, i don't-- sitting through the policy speeches, that's one thing. but it's the relating to you. the never ending incessant relating to you. >> our part of wisconsin is just like this part of ohio. >> this looks just like where i come from. toledo and janesville have a lot in kmon. >> janesville is not that different from zainesville. >> where i come from. >> it's so similar to right here in new philadelphia. >> one of my best friends is from ago ron. >> oh, really? -- . >> jon: one of my best friends is from akron. i would let my daughter go out with someone from akron. well, if that was true with you would know that they prefer to be called akro-americans. (laughter) but don't let me interrupt your forced fun. >> o-h. >> i-o. >> o-h. >> io. >> oh reason io reason god i love that that's so fun. >> jon: yeah, it's not that fun. you yell two letters at them, and then t

geordie king is a voter in the city of portsmouth. >> my name is geordie king. what are you going to do to help fishermen in new hampshire? shea-porter: and very happy with the recent decisions that have been made and i'm absolutely delighted that we now have a new person who is in charge and understands been a fisherman felt and what it's like, so we know we have to find the strategic balance between helping fishermen and making sure also their stock spare. i know it's been a very difficult relationship. it does seem to be improving and i would continue to work on that along with colleagues across the aisle as we did before. my understanding is congressman guinta has worked with them. it's one of the good things about new england is forever to talk to each other across the aisle and staffs find a way to help fishermen and other groups affect her through no fault of their own by changes in the environment or changes in fish stock or whatever. c&s works together makes a very happy and hopeful that there will be more solutions coming. >> moderator: mr. dent, one m

our national political correspondent jim acosta was there in portsmouth, new hampshire. >> reporter: mitt romney has kicked off his swing state blitz in this final weekend of the presidential campaign starting the day in new hampshire and then heading next to iowa and colorado. we're hearing the gop nominee touch on some themes that he's been bringing up quite a bit in the last couple of days, saying he is the candidate of what he calls real change. he's also going through his five-point economic plan to get the country back on track, talking about ideas like cutting the deficit, tapping into domestic energy resources and fixing the nation's public school system. but one thing that he has been trying to zero in on in this final stretch of the campaign, he's been going after the president's mantel, being a post-partisan president. in the words of mitt romney, the president has been what he calls the most partisan. here's what he had to say. >> yesterday, the president said something you might have heard by now that i think surprised a lot of people. he said voting is the best revenge.

having a chinatown resource fair to bring the community based organizations and city departments to portsmouth square so we will highlight this issue again so as much as we can get the word out to people, we will. i would be happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. are there questions? let me just ask about victim services for the district attorney's office. if somebody's lost a bunch of cash and some jewelry, how soon might they recover their stolen property if you have apprehended six people. you know how quickly somebody could recover their losses. >> that is difficult because it is hard to identify money. even just forsake of example someone loses 10,000 they can't necessarily identify those as theirs or the $50s as theirs if they are mixed together. one of the things we have stressed is for people to take a log or inventory of their property at home. even jewelry has been difficult. i think that is one of the problems with the cases as they are. >> thank you. supervisor avalos. >> thank you. thank you for your presentation. just thinking about outreach that might happen in my district

will my right honorable friend agree that the case for a deal for southampton and portsmouth is particularly compelling? >> i do think it is particularly compelling that we make sure southampton has a city deal. i understand there on the list. the news from of ford was very disappointing. it was a black spot in otherwise a very strong performance by the british automotive industry. i know the british secretarial working closely with the city council to do everything the british automotive industry -- and of the british business sector should be working closely with the southampton council to do everything we can to find people jobs. >> mr. miller. >> i would ask a very straightforward question that should have an honest answer -- in the forthcoming police and crime commission elections it is predicted that the turnout is going to be as low as 20%. does the prime minister think that has democratic legitimacy? >> i want the turn out to be as high as possible but i recognize in new elections for a new post it is always a challenge. it is even a challenge when you have dedicated labor mp's resig

and they figured -- and portsmouth and plymouth, england. this was going to be fairly easy because these ports are surrounded by british ships and british coastal batteries and that kind of thing. and in alexandria, egypt, kind of the same thing because there was a british port with british forts and big guns and british fleet around. in algeria it was a different thing entirely because it was a french naval base, and the admiralcy, which is the british naval command, radioed, of course in code, to their fleet in gibraltar, and they said this is what you have to do. you have to sail through the night of july 2nd and 3rd and show up at dawn. and give our terms to the french fleet. and the terms were or were going to be, um, you were our loyal ally in the fight against the germans up until just days ago. sail out of your port and join us in the fight against the germans. if you can't do that, give us your ships. we'll sail them with british sailors and give them back to you when the war is over. if you can't do that, sail the french ships that

will my right honorable friend agree with me that the case for a city deal for south hampton and portsmouth is particularly compelling? >> i do think it is particularly compelling that we make sure south hampton has a city deal. i understand they are on the list. obviously, the news from ford was very disappointing. it was black spot in otherwise a very, very strong performance by the british automotive industry, and i know the business secretary will be working very closely with the city council to do everything we can to help people find jobs. >> mr. andrew miller. >> mr. speaker, might i ask a very straightforward question that should command a straightforward answer? in the forthcoming police and crime commissioner elections, it's predicted that the turn is going to be as low as 20%. does the prime minister think that gives democratic legitimacy? >> i want the turnout to be as high as possible, but i recognize in new elections for a new post it is always a challenge. it's even a challenge when you've got dedicated labor mps resigning from this house to stand as police and crime commissi

capital for portsmouth nation to hit by face clashes between ongoing warring groups. they share at a terminations a fight to the death but this isn't syria it's lebanon the conflict has crept across the border leading to death and destruction here in tripoli we're standing here you can see the almost complete destruction of a home and this is literally the front line of the. neighborhood in tripoli right across the street out the window that's the bubbletop in a neighborhood where the largely sunni community has been has been clashing with the largely allawi community that is based here it's actually not very safe for us to stand here we've been told by the owner of this apartment that they're still taking casualties and that the fighting could really flare out but at any moment out of range of the snipers we speak to the homeowner and allawi militia man the misery has only hardened his resolve to fight against neighbors who he says pose a mortal threat. these people have one objective and that is to have an islamic emirate in the north and militia organizations like

what portsmouth was able to do was to develop very practical on the ground solutions to problems that would not have been possible if they weren't in fact sitting together and talking about these issues. what we do in this book is we suggest three basic principles for any slow democratic trust of so this might it applies to town meetings and it might apply to participatory budgeting for these processes need to be inclusive. they need to bring everyone to the table. they need to be deliberative so it's not just voting or an upper town type of situation progressed to the people discussing with the basic values are and how to get there, problem solving and third of all they have to be empowered. you can all those conversations and they can be great but he ended a end of the day you're not a temperature on government. so those are the three elements we have identified and there are many many different forms of processes that can fulfill all three. one of my favorite examples is looking at chicago community policing. they wouldn't necessarily think of themselves as slow democracy because t

now this was the scene outside portsmouth navy yard in portsmouth, new hampshire, and i had never seen anything like it. there's a ship change. i don't know how many thousands of people come through the gate and general hague was there with some of his campaign workers and it was like he was a positive magnet and they were a post any magnet and people were just veering away from him. he literally had to run from one side of the gallet to the other side -- gate to the other side, there were two openings, trying to find people to shake hands with and this was one of the moments where he had gone over to the other side and just called out to this worker and just stepped into shake his hand. >> what did you think of him? >> again, he's a very interesting man, very forceful, articulate, intelligent. obviously the voters didn't consider him presidential cal -- caliber. >> this picture of bruce babbitt. >> this is what candidates have to go through, and everybody is saying, oh, that's a bell helmet, bicycle riding, that's a cold weather face bask r mask. -- mask he has on. it was another phot

portsmouth is able to do was develop some proactive underground solution that would have been possible if they were in fact sitting together and talking about these issues. what we do in this book to suggest three basic vegetables for any slow democratic process. despite a part of candidates are participatory budgeting. but these processes need to be inclusive. they need to bring everyone to the table. they need to be delivered as so it's not just voting for an up or down type of situation. it has to be people discussing how to get problem-solving. dirt about what had had to be empowered because you cannot conversation, but at the end of the day, you're not allowed to impact your own government. so those are the elements we've identified. there are many, many different forms that can fulfill all three elements. one of my favorite examples is the cannot chicago community policing and they wouldn't necessarily think of themselves as a democracy, but if they were developing processes without that framework. in the early 90s, chicago had terrible relationships between the police department

. >> showing you now some pictures from portsmouth, new hampshire.there as she usually does getting ready in introducing her husband mitt romney. he is making his trek to many of the swing states, including new hampshire. that's going to be very interesting as we come down to the wire to hear what he has to say there in new hampshire today. >> in the minl days of the campaign, they just have the rallies at the airport to save time instead of driving to a location in town, have it right there on the tarmac, and you see the believe in america plane right behind the romneys. >> mitt romney is certainly going to be busy, the president as well. mitt romney is trying to hit eight states in his final push. that includes, of course, new hampshire and also pennsylvania which isn't one of the swing states, but he is certainly trying to -- to get it -- to get his campaign voice heard out there as well. let's check in with jim acosta. he's our national political correspondent. he's on the ground there. jim, give us your point of view from where you are. >> repor

one instructor in portsmouth says she has no idea how to offset toaid -- government aid the at her school district will not receive. the only way to deal with it would be attrition or layoffs. officials across the state are worried cuts could shrink programs for young children, programs that give extra support to schools with high income of students from lower income households. experts say sequestration would be an extra pit for divisions already struggling with education cuts and lower tax revenue. some of the issues were concerned about -- the story goes on to talk about the immediate impact and the time line of things a sequestration is not dealt with now. the cuts will have already taken effect -- some of these cuts could have immediate effect? guest: schools throughout america had been taking cuts for several years now, since 2008. there is now about to trim any more. what you are seeing is already cuts, lots of places do not have music, do not have art. we talk about how it is so important to have international baccalaureate or ap courses, and lots of places do not have them. class

example, talking about the examples of communities and action really convinced me, particularly portsmouth, new hampshire. they were the good middle of a bitter, bitter school redistricting fight in their community and the superrich elementary school busting out at the seams and to poor ones that releasing students and obviously the answer was to move to one to the two other ones. but they went through this whole process to create study circles of people from both communities could come together and talk to each other and realize what goals they had in common. at the end of the day they came out with a specific plan that involved moving a small number of students from the bursting school to the smaller one. school politics is some of the bitterness. people really but head-to-head. so for them to able to do that and to take these possibilities that weren't there in the national conversation. the national conversation you are either for or against. what they were able to do through study circles is to develop practical, on the ground solutions to problems that would not have been possible if

from the new hampshire sunday news, "mitt romney makes a final pitch in portsmouth."ext, sheila, joining us on the phone from newark, delaware. independent line, good morning. who is going to win and why? caller: i hope that obama does. he is for the people, not like mitt romney, who just lies and tells stories. i do not know what people want to believe anything that he says. he is for the rich. those two guys that give him all that money, they are going to be telling him what to do. i hope he does not get in. he takes his company's overseas and has closed so many companies down, i do not know what people do not see this. he is not for the people, he is for making money. host: thank you very much for the call from "the new york daily news." a crucial face-off, "mitt romney and the president." the election being viewed as too close to call. here are some of the final campaign appearances as we track the candidates. mitt romney, colorado. the president, virginia. 8:30 eastern time, englewood, colorado. [video clip] >> change cannot measured in speeches, it is measured i