next speaker we'll have brian smith followed by ralph lee. richard lewis perry. robin anderson. and nick berg. >> hi, thank you board, i am brian smith, the owner of blackberry bicycles on 6th and we opened a little over a year ago. we have been very successful and i don't think we could have done it without the foundation laid by the cm cbd over the last years. it's really critical for my now nine employees and thousands of customers to feel safe and comfortable coming to the neighborhood and coming into my bicycle shop and getting on an expensive bike and riding it around the neighborhood. i really strongly support the renewal of the cm. cbd and i think that the people such as myself who have invested in the neighborhood and the people who live in the neighborhood and the thousands of people moving to this neighborhood, and investing in the future in this neighborhood, will be way worse off if the cm. cbd is not allowed to renew and continue the work that they have already done. thank you very much. >> thank you very much, ralph lee, next speaker. >> good morning supervisors.

ralph reed. his remarks are about ten minutes. >> well, it just keeps getting better and better, doesn't it? i think so far it's been rand paul, mike leeio, mike huckabee, jeb bush, paul ryan, michelle bachmann, who have i left out? ted cruz, thank you. and we're all -- rick santorum. and we're only halfway -- we're not even halfway through the weekend. [applause] i want to thank you for being here. i want to thank all of them for being here. this conference team as you know is road to majority. and when we say road to majority, i want to be clear about something, we don't mean a republican majority. we don't mean a democratic majority. what we mean is a profamily, pro life, pro marriage, tax- cutting, fiscally responsible, balancing majority in the house, in the senate and eventually in the white house. that is what we need. [applause] and, we don't want to be greedy. but the minimum of 35 governorships with majorities in both houses of both legislatures. [applause] now, can you get excited about that vision? because that's what we mean when we say road to majority. now, on election night, 2012, it was beginning to look like that majo