i am the director of organizing for the international longshore warehouse hunan region where ross union. i want to follow on the remarks made in support of certification and in support of the coup. one thing vathe eir does not deal with is social equity, and that is something we have to deal with, making sure these are jobs with good benefits and good working conditions, and i am sure that is an issue that is going to be played out as we go forward, but i am in support of the cup, and one benefit of these meetings is you get to meet people, and i had the occasion of meeting the event manager. we have agreed to get together over the next few weeks to discuss these issues of social equity, so i hope these will be positive and we can move ahead with a successful america's cup, so thank you for your time, and thank you for listening to these concerns. >> my name is john platt. thank you for the time and all the work that has gone into this. i work for a company called sports supply, and i am fortunate. i travel around all the marine businesses in the bay area, commercial and recreational ma

it was only labor unions were opposed to it. and here you have ross perot probably more right center than left center. deeply opposed to it for the reasons he said. i think the outsourcing of jobs more than anything else is what perot was focused on in the mid 1990's. >> carolyn barta, you told us about this story before but in 1995 ross perot started to organize the -- what became the reform party. can you tell us a little bit about that effort. and how the reform party took shape. >> well, the people who had worked on the perot campaign in 1992 wanted to remain involved. and for a while, even, were very active as, you know, shadowing their congressmen and sending letters and so forth. so the reform party was organized to try to create a vehicle that would be a stable political influence of third party. and then there was -- in the convention of 1996, perot and dick lamb who had been the governor of colorado indicated an interest in running on the reform party ticket. and perot re-emerged to lead the ticket. so that probably was the high point for th

union countries. your bloomberg index is down 1.5% as well, all companies in that index posting rosses. and this could be the biggest week for ipos in the u.s. since march. two tech companies are leading the way. there are hopes to raise $3.8 billion and today jive is expected to price shares between 8s skpdz $10. the software set to start trading as early as tomorrow. and is there reports indicating verizon may buy net flix. net flix shares spiked on news of the deal. and he says he believes they're serious about going after net flix and they think that buy easter, someone is going to own net flix that. will be interesting to watch. in san francisco, i'm emily chang with bloomberg west. dan? >> no dan today. he'll be here at 5:00. >> and spencer is here, though. and it's nice mixed bag of weather ted. >> that is a great way to describe it. there have some spotty rainfall, nuisance rainfall. and check out this view of the western sky for high definition east bay camera. gorgus sunset. taking a look at current temperature readings, it's cool around the bay area, readings into low 50s now

union. >>> derik crouse who was killed last week on the university of campus thursday will be buried today. police say 22-year-old ross truitt ashley shot crouse and took his own life. crouse and ashley didn't apparently know each other. ashley's motive remains a mystery. >>> the aau, the allegations against bobby dodd date back to the 1980s. two men told espn that dodd molested them when they were boys between the ages of 12 and 16 while they stayed at hotels tournament tournaments. >> he had a key. he always somehow had a key to whatever room i was in, because that was his m.o. was coming in in the middle of the night when you're asleep and trying to assault you. >> the aau, one of the biggest volunteer sports organizations in this country, has also launched an investigation. dodd is currently on medical leave in the aau and says he will not return to his job. >>> former penn state football coach joe paterno is hospitalized with a broken pelvis. he fell at his home on saturday and reinjuring the broken pelvis he suffered in august when he was hit by one of his players during practice. paterno was fired by penn state

only the labor unions who were opposed to it and here you have ross perot, probably more right- center them left-center, equally opposed to it. i think the outsourcing of jobs more than anything else is what ross perot was focused on in the mid-1990s. >> in 1995, ross perot started to organize what became of reform party. can you tell us a little bit about that effort and how the reform party took shape? >> the people who had worked on the campaign in 1992 wanted to remain involved. for a while, they were very active at shadowing their congressman, sending letters and so forth. the reform party was organized to try to create a vehicle that would be a stable political influence. in the convention of 1996, perot and dick lamm, who had been the governor of colorado, indicated an interest of running on the reform party ticket and ross perot reemerged to lead the ticket. that probably was the high point for the reform party. after that came jesse ventura, elected governor of minnesota in 1998, i believe. in 2000, pat buchanan was the nominee of the party and you can was a firebrand conserva

it was only labor unions were opposed to it. and here you have ross perot probably more right center than left center. deeply opposed to it for the reasons he said. i think the outsourcing of jobs more than anything else is what perot was focused on in the mid 1990's. >> carolyn barta, you told us about this story before but in 1995 ross perot started to organize the -- what became the reform party. can you tell us a little bit about that effort. and how the reform party took shape. >> well, the people who had worked on the perot campaign in 1992 wanted to remain involved. and for a while, even, were very active as, you know, shadowing their congressmen and sending letters and so forth. so the reform party was organized to try to create a vehicle that would be a stable political influence of third party. and then there was -- in the convention of 1996, perot and dick lamb who had been the governor of colorado indicated an interest in running on the reform party ticket. and perot re-emerged to lead the ticket. so that probably was the high point for th