hernandez over turn the ban on affirmative action on emissions and higher education imposed by proposition 209 in 1996. the value of diversity and higher education has been established by numerous studies and personal experience of students both minorities alike. for my own personal experience as someone who benefited from affirmative action right before proposition 209 was passed, i immediately saw the decline of minorities at uc davis and it was really devastating on the campus. it changes the culture of the campus. their traditional cultural events began to not only decline in attendance, but they became, they soon rapidly disappeared including black family day was something that the uc davis campus was known for for many

the proposition on the ballot in 1994 called proposition 187. the substance of the initiative was to discourage illegal immigration to california by denying illegals certain emergency benefits such as emergency treatment in hospitals and other types of public services for which the taxpayers in the state were paying for but illegals would make no contribution to. wilson was running a very tight race. i think it was against dianne feinstein who is running a very tight race and he decided he needed an issue that had populist appeal to help get reelected. so fully embraced proposition 187. he got elected and the republican majority came in to lead the state assembly, the last time that has happened and -- and hispanics took a bitter pill as a result of that and from that point forward public opinion polls showed support for republican candidates diminishing consistently and fairly rapidly. in 1984 when ronald reagan ran for president in california he got 45% of the hispanic vote but in the last election in california mitt romney got 20%. if mitt ro

ike made a donation of $1,000 to support prop 8, california's valid proposition to ban same-sex marriage. >> they called it the mozilla project. >> ike was there at mozilla's birth, to become the embodiment of cutting edge technology medal with the wide reach of the internet. in the end the web that ike loved so much may have contributed to his departure. gay marriage is legal in california where mozilla has its headquarters, still when ike's support of the proposition became public, there were boycotts of mozilla's powe webs. do the personal beliefs of a ceo need to match the public face of the company? ben dan ike himself said that for mozilla to succeed, employees needed to leave their politics at the door when they walked in. in a posting on the company's website executive chair woman mitchell baker, who helped found mozilla with ike, stood with the company's stated mission. we welcome contributions from everyone regardless of age, culture, ethnicity, gender, race, sexual orientation, gee graph location and religious views. mozilla supports equality for all. ike is not the first high

for my own personal experience as someone who benefited from affirmative action right before proposition 209 was passed, i immediately saw the decline of minorities at uc davis and it was really devastating on the campus. it changes the culture of the campus. their traditional cultural events began to not only decline in attendance, but they became, they soon rapidly disappeared including black family day was something that the uc davis campus was known for for many many years which attracted a number of fraternity and sorority organizations across the country. the passage of 209 led to a proportion at design through the uc system and after it's passage enrollment of latino and african americans students dropped 30 percent at ucla. in 2012 although 50 percent of california's graduates were under represented and 39 were eligible for the uc campuses only 31 percent were admitted to the freshman class which also made up less than 10 percent of the overall uc population. the greatest drop in racial diversity has been in the sciences. although california colleges and universities can give adm

gay and lesbian citizens far beyond what was the case in proposition 8. yet at the same time it is the home of thomas jefferson and patrick henry and so many people who have contributed so much to the principles of equality that we're all fighting for. so i think the symbolism of trying to go to the home state of jefferson and patrick henry and many, many others that were our founders and to try to implement the principles and to try to implement the principles that they articulated so eloquently more than 200 years ago in then face of this constitutional ban in the current virginia state constitution is not only important to the state and the south is an important region of the country but in addition the symbolism was something i think we are all drawn to. >> i just want to add one more thing. very seldom can i add anything to a david says that we are arguing this in richmond, virginia which is the home the commonwealth of virginia the home of the author of the declaration of independence. james madison's home the principle author and i think most peopl

>> what this means is that proposition 209 is pretty safe from any future legal action. no surprises there. but there is some interesting moments in court today. steven briar sided with the conservative and then, there is sonia sotomayor who read something she would never do. >> you legal segregation making it possible for schools to shut the doors of public universities >> that is how a small group described the decision on the most-recent case. with regard to michigan saying it's not right for a college or university to treat people differently on the basis of race or gender. voters had the right to make that decision. like california did in 1996 through proposition 209 justice anthony kennedy wrote it is demeaning to presume voters are not capable of deciding an issue on decent and rational grounds. >> this court is wary of up holding racial preferences >> the sixth decided if it was a surprise. steven briar, one of the most-liberal voices on the court. sonia sotomayor dissented. sotomayor said the court ought not to back and wish way rather than confront the racial i

. >> when you look at the map of the united states, now that proposition 2 has survived are there more states waiting in the wings to codify in law something they've already wanted to do? >> no, i don't think so. i've been very active on this issue for the last several years . certainly they weren't forbidden or deterred from doing something based on the outcome, pending outcome of the shooting case. >> this case has reached a dwell point that states can move on if they have, and states that have not. >> there are about 22 states that have citizen proposition where they are allowed. eight of those states are already dwelt with this issue, so they're reaching a point where there isn't a critical mass left over. >> looking at that same mass in you overlay restrictions, is it becoming clear what the template is if you are a senior administrator. what's in, what's out, what you can do and what you can't in this area. >> yeah, i think there are a lot of strategies that have been used that i hope people will continue to follow, but also build upon. so you mentioned some of them already. perc

the quality teacher in education act oversight committee is to insure that the proceeds from the proposition passed in june of 2008 which brought in the revenues of $35.4 million are expended for the purposes described in the proposition. also, for the 2008 board of education resolution, 8, 11-12 sp3, the committee should inform the public concerning the expenditures. the oversight committee meets every other month, and our meetings are generally comprised of reports from the program managers and presentations and the master teacher program and the reports from the budget department staff and other general matters, we currently have six members on the committee, four of whom will be trimming out this june and we are looking to appoint new people and we have open spots, and we thank everybody who has served for their service and has been a really high quality group of people to work with with a lot of knowledge in different areas and very insightful questions and i think has done a good job over seing in the way that they, that they should, according to the ballot language. representatives fr

. >> conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. >> now we are engaged in a great civil war. >> why do you think it's so important for people to go back and memorize the address? >> we have lost something, we have lost our educational mojo. we stopped asking people to memorize stuff. it was rote and bad ant not good. the effort of memorization, there was a sense of accomplishment. for the boys at the school it's like a talisman. history is a table upon which we can still have a social discourse. we have bill o'reilly and nancy pelosi and all the five living presidents contributing to this. do they see eye to eye on current events? no, of course not. but the gettysburg address is a place to begin, to restore the civil discourse, to appeal to the better angels of our nature, abraham lincoln himself would say. and to repair the things we've lost in our educational system and the things we share in common. that's what the gettysburg address is. >> and it's impossible t not to agree with everything lincoln said, the beauty of his words resonate. >

. >> also we're going to be taking a look at proposition 13. you remember that? it's the big tax bills in california, but we're going to look at what polls say about possibly changing it and why lawmakers are so resistant to it. >> all right. let's get right down to it. your easter forecast, right now let's take a live look outside in the transamerica building. blue skies on this sunday morning. great day for easter egg hunts. taking a look at the currents, we have the lows in the 40s. concord 51. coming up we're going to take a look at our seven-day forecast. partly cloudy with a little patchy fog, nothing to worry about. mostly sunny, warmer temps. if you plan on going surfing, i want you to use caution. there's a high surf advisory. >> all right. >> we're going to get to our seven-day forecast and let you know there is a hint of rain, actually a possibility of rain in the forecast but not today. >>> it was a scary situation for passengers aboard a united airlines flight bound for san francisco. the boeing 757 took off from new york's jfk yesterday morning with

the two-state solution based on the proposition that all or most of the violence emanating from the region coming to the united states whether 9/11 or any of their time of day is the efforts of the palestinian state. in 2010 president clinton said that the creation of a palestinian state would take half the impetus of the whole world, not just the region it would have more impact of anything else that could be done. here is the former president and condoleezza rice and hillary clinton felt the same way but day in and day out obama and john kerry thinks it is bipartisan they truly believe that the source of instability in depravity is due to the absence of the palestinian state and we will see nirvana the end of terrorism the end of dehired, the end of misogyny. everything will be fined they will dance it will be wonderful. [laughter] who is responsible for the two state paradigm? israel. the grubby choose who will then give up enough territory to satisfy the plo are responsible not only in the region but throughout the world with israel would stop allowing jews to go to jerusalem and stop

that the staff had gone out to variation organizations as well as comments and feedback from the proposition 218. >> when we look at the question of whether or not these rates are fair there's multiple objections some are quantitative and some qualitative and we try to balance them out as best as possible in making our recommendations to this body. as mentioned before there were extensive puc outreach we took an opportunity to not only hold public hearings but to review those comments we read through the comments as well as the letters that came in as a result of prop 218 mainly and incorporated those feedback not necessarily representative of all users of water and wastewater but nonetheless as best as possible to get that input incorporated into the recommendations and findings we made as a body. the raw data is actually available to this commission but we tried to summarize some of the comments largely around utilization and also the rate and the bill that many rate pay ers have to pay and taking into account that concern of the rate increases into how we evaluated the rate structure. >>

the two propositions is one to do a survey of the no. 3 in the evening from the period reduced from 7-11. to better understand their needs. we would like to do it with the guidance and input of the mta. the second proposition we would like to make is that when you implement the frequency of no. 2 and reduce no. 3 frequency that you do it in sequence. you first increase the no. 2 and then we see what sort of rider ship impact this has on the no. 2 and no. 3. then you radio us the frequency in the no. 3. the concern is that going to an every 30-minute frequency head way on the no. 3 in the evening between 7-11 may very well kill the rider ship. thank you. we support your work. >> good morning to the board. my name is jarrod paxton. i have lived here for 40 years and active in efforts to resist the reduction of services the 3 jackson over the past three iterations of this. i would encourage the board reject the further reduction of service in the 3 jackson and i would like to give you two specific reasons for that. you heard today about the overall service improvements in muni, but belie

in 2008, eich donated $1,000 to proposition 8's campaign. >> this was a big deal. a lot of people supported eich and said it's freedom of speech for him. the other half of the internet said, you know, uhm, that he, uhm, being anti-gay marriage was not suitable to lead mozilla. >> reporter: his contribution was publicly reported in 2012 and drew some negative attention then. but when he was promoted to ceo, the backlash grew exponentially. >> but when one of those people becomes their ceo, that stirred up the ire not only of mozilla employees but firefox partners, firefox developers. >> reporter: experts say this controversy, though big, is not going to be a career killer for the ceo. >> he is a big deal. this is not going to be the last that we see of brandan eich. it may or may not be the last of brendan eich at mozilla but it is for now. >> reporter: he wrote he is going to spend time with family for now and he has since shut done his twitter account. live in the newsroom, cate caugiran, kpix 5. >>> it's friday, guys. now what that means? >> what? -- you know wha

but such schools are difficult to start in california because of a vote in 1998 called proposition 227. it requires that non-english speaking students be taught only english in school. schools must apply for annual waivers to be able to offer an immersion program. some blame that law for the decline in multilingual education in the state. now a new effort is under way at the state capitol to ask voters to amend it, to allow classes taught in foreign languages if they want. immersion school parents want others to benefit in this global economy. >> there's a multiple way of talking about things, understanding things, experiencing the world. seeing it firsthand and i think that's a great gift that every child should have an opportunity to have. >> reporter: ron sponsored the 1998 initiative and thinks proposition 227 is working the way it's supposed to and doesn't want it changed. >> in the first four years after the passage of 227, the test scores of over a million imgrant students roughly doubled, while the test scores of those students who were kept in the bilingual program showed no i

>> if they can sustain a valuable -- a proposition, fantastic. choice, andve more at that point the best technology, the best marketing, the best customer care will win. i am happy to be in the marketplace. >> we have the supreme court case. i am sure you are confident, but what do you believe the odds are that the sprinkler will find aereo -- supreme court will find aereo is permissible? if not, what are the contingency plans? >> it would be inappropriate for us to speculate on the odds. the arguments have not happened yet, and deliberations have not gone in. positionlike me, in my , it is very dangerous to go one wayecause you or the other. the best thing you can do is prepare really well. we firmly believe in our merits, as you can tell. precedentished supports our position. there is policy that supports our position. there are massive implications if our position is not supported. on the other side, there are literally no implications because dvr has been in existence since 2008, the world has not changed -- and it, and 60 million people use

i think if they can sustain a product and a value proposition, fantastic. consumers can have more choice. and at that point, the west experience -- the best experience, the best technology, the best marketing, the best customer care will win. and i'm happy to be in that marketplace. >> sure. so we have the supreme court case. what the, of course, i'm sure that you're confident, but what do you believe the odds are that the supreme court will find that aereo's service is permissible, and if they don't, what would your contingency plans be? >> guest: i think it'd be very inappropriate for us to speculate on what the odds are. the argument hasn't happened yet, and it's still -- nothing's, i'm sure, considerations haven't gone in. i think, you know, somebody like me or somebody in my position it's very dangerous to speculate because you get wrapped around the axel one way or the other. the best thing you can do is prepare really well. we firmly believe in our merits, obviously, as you can tell. i think there is supportive law, there's established precedent that

as local citizens decided the fate of a proposition to jack up the minimum wage there to $15 an hour. for thousands of workers, the promise of a huge pay hike, 63% if they were making the state minimum of $9.19 an hour. plus, paid sick leave, which promised to be a benefit for the flying public as well. >> every employee that i work with comes to work sick because they have to put food on the table. >> imagine you're flying in the airplane. the worker who clean up the airplane before you fly, he was sick and he's cleaning the airplane, imagine you eating on that table, you know? >> reporter: but higher costs would boomerang against low- income workers, business spokesman maxford nelson insisted. >> the workers who retain their jobs might be better off, but an increased number of other workers lose their jobs entirely. >> reporter: a bitter, costly campaign ensued, a recount, and in the end the ayes had it by 77 votes. but on decision day, alaska airlines-- the main opponent of the $15 minimum wage proposition-- filed a lawsuit in county court, arguing that a city can't set ordinances

the technical company that maked the fire fox browser because he donated $1,000 six years ago to proposition 8 to ban xxii olympic games. some employees took to twitter to demand the resignation. some outlets buried the story but did not describe this as an outrage and now there is a backlash over what the company did. >> we have fox news contributor and associate of "social buzz." and the founder and editor of america blog, and the anchor of "hot list," at "the blaze." >> what you is the emotional tone of the debate? >> an earthquake. a last people on the right are saying the company has been intolerant. here is a tweet as an example from the right scoop: mozilla has proved they are the true bigot. i'm done with fire fox. i wrote a column after this happened and most of the tweaks said that people were taking fire fox off of their computer right away. however there are employees who did say, like kathy mcdaniel, a developer, proud of mozilla. humbled by colleagues. grateful for support. >> john, i will read something that get a lot of attention a blog by andrew sullivan on this story. >> ep

in 2008, eich donated $1,000 to proposition 8's campaign. >> this was a big deal. a lot of people supported eich and said that it's freedom of speech for him. others said that he --being anti-gay marriage was not suitable to lead mozilla. >> reporter: that was publicly reported in 2012 andrew some negative attention then when eich was mozilla's chief technology officer but when he was promoted to ceo, the backlash grew. >> but when one of those people becomes their ceo, that stirred up the ire not only of mozilla employees but firefox partners, firefox developers. >> reporter: eich was a long- time mozilla employee and well known tech quick in silicon valley. one of his big claims to fame creating javascript which powers website and apps. it won't be a career killer for the fallen ceo. >> he is a big deal. this is not going to be the last we see of brendan eich. it may or may not be the last of him at mozilla but it is for right now. remembers okcupid's reps are pleased that their boycott brought attention to the issue of same-sex marriage. live in the newsroom, ba

considering today is required to move forward with the project that the voters approved in 2008 through proposition j and the board adopted in 2010. the candle stick oint and hunters ship point is -- i'll draw your attention to a map. as i said, it was a complex network of streets which are visible and some which are paper and some are submerged. as you see from the dark outline, a good part of the area is submerged. in turn, this is a pattern of ownership of easements and others. it was approved for the complete remapping of the blocks and streets and right away for this community. this reflects streets around alice griffith, candle stick and the shipyard, it won't limit to properties in the area. in fact the new streets that will be built by the master developer, lanar will increase the homes and the surrounding community. the office of community infrastructure and the successor has found a proposed actions to be considered by the board to be consistent with the hunters point shipyard plan and the bay view hunters redevelopment plan. the planning department determined that the proposed vacation o

his offense -- a 2008 donation of $1,000 in support of california's proposition 8 to ban gay marriage. when ike's contribution was posted online last week, the progressive silicon valley community lashed out, accusing him of homophobia and bigotry. others suggested his resignation reflected the marketplace at work. >> it's just no longer in the free market palatable to hold these positions. there is not much of an interest in choosing products and services if we look at the national polling where the company has this type of bigotry in its past. >> but critics of the resignation say it shows the hypocrisy of the gay rights movement. >> they're constantly saying what they're seeking is tolerance, yet they are showing unbelievable intolerance for anyone who disagrees with them on issues. >> they call an apology from mozilla's chairwoman orwellian. she wrote, quote, our organizational culture reflects diversity and inclusiveness. under that interpretation, president obama may have been considered a bigot in 2008, too. >> in 2008, barack obama was against gay marriage, yet i haven't seen

. >> i think it is a dangerous proposition.ng to say that. >> but i actually think that it's a safer proposition than what people are probably doing when it's not allowed. >> are you saying because it's regulated? >> what about these legislationers who pass guns in texas where you can carry a gun into a bar? >> a lot of guys go there to meet women and someone else is meeting your woman and you get mad. the bar is a place where there are a lot of fights. this is different. this is a gun range. you go there to practice your target. you practice shooting your weapon. and you can also have a beer. >> i'm going to say how close this story came in my previous life. >> you mean this life? >> is that how you hurt your hand? >> no, no. >> it was angry husbands and guns in bars. anybody else have anything else to say about this topic also in the great state in oklahoma, do i have enough time for this. okay. good. the great state of oklahoma, the governor wants to pass a law that says you can't raise minimum wage in your own city if you w

these are people who are far more sort of staunch in their ideas than i am, but i dare say proposition 8 would not be overturned yet. i dare say that don't ask/don't tell appeal would not have gone through without as some people say shouting in the streets, protesting. the activists, the less part of this movement are a very important part of this movement. without them i don't think that jonathan or ari or i would be able to exist because we would be seen as leftest, well, maybe not jonathan. >> when we come back after a short break we'll talk about where it call goes from here. is this an experience that's going to be repeated? >> evey saturday, join us for exclusive, revealing, and suprizing talks with the most interesting people of our time. >> thinking differently is actualy punished... is public education actually failing america? >> education is the biggest investment we make in our futures. >> but what are we really teaching our kids? >> i think it's a catastrophe that so many school disticts have cut arts programs back... >> could his reforms lead to happier, more fufilled liv