my name is terrence blake. i also work for the hospitality house. and i grew up in san francisco, majority the t.l., along with porsha. i too have spent a lot of time in rehabilitation myself. when i got out of prison. so how i see it, i see people with the committee that you are putting together, if i see people that i can identify with, i would listen to them more. when i look like him, he's another guy that came up here and talked. porsha, i mean, they will have an impact on the community, because people are seeing them, especially porsha. so i just want to come up here and represent porsha and lou because he's a long term offender like me. porsha has been out there at one point like me, in the streets, and that's what the drug dealers and people that use drugs could identify with, people that look like them. people that have been out there on the block with them and stopped. people that have been in prison with their brothers, uncles, sisters. see, that's the people that we are. so unfortunately i wasn't able to -- i didn't have the time to comm