. >> my name is susan brian. i am a resident of the tenderloin. i am a member of the alliance for district 6. i was a board member of north of market planning coalition. i also was in a committee, a task force in the late 90's and. we raised funds to start the first such vote cleaning program, which has now been taken over by the cbd. i attended many of their first meetings, and dropped in on them occasionally. unfortunately, the slots for residents from when i was observing them. the other thing is that, like i say, they did not have planning as part of their original agenda. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good evening, commissioners. i guess i and the reason that these meetings have been going on, because i am the landlord of this particular building. i come to you as the fourth generation san consistent and the second generation to own this building. i wanted to put a face with the name landlord to the problems we have been discussing. i have to say i agree with what i have heard in this commission hearings. i do not want drugs on the streets o

. >> smith: bradley's mother, susan, had come here from her native britain after she married brian. had two children-- first, a daughter, casey, and 11 yes lar, bdleyborn in 1987. susan was often on her own with the children isolated in rural oklahoma. was it a struggle for susan with you absent, you know, taking care of the kids? >> it was difficult, you know, being isolated. she never learned how to drive. she lived four miles, you know, outside of town. so i basically had to, you know, stock her up with food and supplies and stuff for the three-week period that i'd be gone. and that wasind a strain for her, because she was basically stranded. >> smith: at school, bradley kept to himself and didn't have many friends. he was small for his age and not very athletic, but he did well in class. after school, he'd spend much of his time alone with his computer. he was really into computers. >> yes. he would create his own web sites. his first web site, i think he did when he was, like, ten years old. he taught himself powerpoint, and at the yearly science fairs, he won, i think, three ye

susan on the line from pennsylvania. democrat calller. caller: i have a few things to mention. one would be when i was listening to rep brianthe other lady from pennsylvania had said, he talks about using code words like savings and medicare, which i find very interesting. he also mentioned giving lots of amounts of money to states. let me give you a flavor of our state here in pennsylvania. we have republican governor, the republicans stole our state house and state senate. in the budget this year he has proposed cutting funding to our state pennsylvania universities, which are highly rated consistently, by over 30%. right now they are in committee working with -- working on a bill that will cut certified school nurses out of our schools, risking school safety of our students. if you give a block grants, do you think it will come back to the schools? i doubt it. host: let's get a perspective from arizona now. caller: i wanted to bring light on the enormousness of our economy and see what the gentleman has to say regarding that. it looks like a big tragedy. we are going into this big fiscal dilemma, but is it true that our