i am stephen williams. i represent nancy and her partner, who have lived at 109 for 24 years. air project -- where property is directly south of the site. the project is in the vernal height special use district. the special use the district is 20 years old, and is made of of older buildings on smaller lots. the purpose of the special use district is to encourage development with the established neighborhood character. govett is not being met with this -- that is not being met with this project. anyway you want to look at it, this proposed rear yard i addition does not fit. it throws out the entire rule book and proposes a project that is out of scale and out of character with the surroundings. i submitted this many months ago. the province started -- the project started to close the existing space. two weeks later, they got another over-the-counter permit to construct new bathrooms and bedrooms on the ground floor and to remodel the kitchen on the ground floor. to save the work -- to say the work exceeded the scope is to put it mildly. the building was completely demolished.

stephen f. austin, william h. wharton, and branch t. archer, to a fund-raising mission to new orleans. they left the day after christmas of 1835, arrived there in january of 1836. and they had a meeting at the city hotel, which was in the french quarter because new orleans was the largest fund-raising center for the south. and at this meeting it was chaired by a man named william christie. christie was an old veteran of the war of 1812. he was a long-time friend of sam houston's. and he was there as sympathetic a man they could ever find to chair this meeting. so the commissioners, austin, archer, and wharton, had this meet examining they tried to raise funds, and they had it in the ballroom of the hotel. and it probably wasn't much bigger than this room. and they had real estate speculators here. there were financiers there. some of these were just lodgers from the hotel who'd been following the texas cause and wandered in on the meetings. and austin and archer took turns railing against the mexican government. we have no representation in satulio. they have suspended the constitution

stephen scott wells says what's scandalous about it? it doesn't matter to anybody but the bible thumpers. glenda neil says it's an embarrassment but remarkably stupid. williamnt's schedule and their hotel rooms and the fact this went down over $47 is a huge embarrassment for president obama and his entire regime. betty ann frederick says it's a disgrace to the secret service but men will be pigs whenever the occasion arises. men are so stupid. >> and horn. >> i resemble that remark. >> and stupid. >> this is the bill press show. ♪ >> good morning. it is wednesday, april 18th. so good to see you this morning. thank you for joining us and welcome to the full-court press, your new morning show on current tv. good to have you with us this morning as we tackle the big issues of the day here in our nation's capitol around the country and around the globe and involve your in the conversation and take your call at 866-55-press. we will be talking more about ted nugent. you probably heard, he went in front of the nra, compared president obama and members of his administration to coyotes and says our job is to shoot them. what i want to know is: isn't that a direct a