sime otherous, do something about this. >> >> good evening, commissioners. i'm david fairchild, the director of the party of san francisco. and i would like to generally just speak on what i think are some changing rules of the game here. i haven't come to a lot of these meetings. i don't know how much anger you typically hear from the public. but definitely as you heard, a lot of people are upset and i think that moving into the era we're in, people are increasingly dissatisfied with the current state of government at all levels in this country. and the profit in government at the expense of the public and the growing loss of civil liberties in this country, it all kind of ties in together. and on behalf of the libertarian party, members of the city u. i'm here to express my concern on these areas regarding reflection -- the ding reflection -- the selection of the police chief, i think i agree with the previous speakers, it should be as open and public as possible. i think also it would be worth trying to save the taxpayers some money here, you know. don't

it was a question that was asked by our colleagues on the other side of the aisle when we were in the majority, simes -- sometimes it may be a difficult question and we had to be judged according to our deeds and whether they matched our promises. but this rules process that is under way as we speak on the health care bill, there are three issues that have come up, number one, the fiscal issue. the congressional budget office has said that this legislation will increase the deficit by $230 billion and the congressional budget office is the neutral arbiter and we either go by the c.b.o. estimates or say we are going to play this game without a referee and going to make up whatever numbers for our political agenda. that is absolutely wrong. we can't afford to add $230 billion to the deficit. my colleagues on the republican side agree with us that we cannot do that. it's irresponsible to do it. and this legislation that repeals health care will add $230 billion to the deficit. secondly, this question about the open process. as the member from maryland saidf we're going to have an open process, there has