he is the charging official. if the charging official lies under oath, what does that say about this entire proceeding and you determined that we did not care. the definition is so broad, what can rise to level of official misconduct? what rises below it? >> we need to determine that. i agree that it is confusing. with respect to the sheriff, the sheriff and the mayor in -- are in different positions. testimony is relevant to whether or not official misconduct occurred. we're talking about vastly different types of testimony. the way to give to the sheriff's testimony and the effort to impeach is much more critical to what ever the mayor had to say. even if the mayor had the worst motives to bring this before the sheriff, if the conduct does rise to let all, official misconduct, i think we're obligated under the charter to find official misconduct occurred. if he had the purest of motives but the conduct does not rise to the level of official misconduct, it is irrelevant as to whether he thought you was doing the

official misconduct? >> [inaudible] >> you asked the same types of questions. i will overrule that. >> i would find that that would be a serious enough charged to fulfil official misconduct, certainly wrongful behavior. >> in the department head? >> that is correct. >> would you -- did you have any special concerns of any sort of the department heads in question who had pled guilty to a charge of domestic violence was the share of -- sheriff? >> i think there is added significance because it is one of the top to law enforcement positions in the city. -- top two law enforcement positions in the city. >> can you say more about how that is significant in your view? >> one of the more disturbing aspects of this is my knowledge that the sheriff is in charge of responsibilities with respect to domestic violence victims. it has historically been a very strong program in the city of san francisco. shared by several various departments to do their part to prevent and to respond to and to encourage witnesses to come forward in an effort to end domestic violence. the sheri

. >> she also purchased more than $100,000 worth of campaign material that were identical to the officialpaign materials. these materials were purchased from the same vendors as the official campaign materials that were delivered to the official campaign headquarters. >> reporter: how could candidate gray not know? mayor gray did not respond to a 9news request for an interview. >> it just didn't start in 2010. >> reporter: the scheme goes back to dwun 2001 and involved illegal help for campaigns to federal office as well. he won't say which ones, but they learned harris made contributions to the campaign of former prince george's county congressman albert wins, eleanor holmes norton, barack obama and hillary clinton. none is charged with knowing about the illegal help. they allege a huge coverup, document shreddingding city council chairman tuesday night. >> today's events are troubling and it speaks to corruption in elections far beyond what anybody realized. it's safe to say that the candidates who received these donations did not realize that they were coming from donors. and it's a ti

has been charged with killing the man. officialsave indicted the woman and a family aid for killing haywood. her husband was communist party chief. he was suspected from all party posts in april on suspicion in, involvement on party relations. >> the overall human rights situation in china continues to deteriorate. >> he was the rep sensitive during two days of talks. he cited democracy activist lu shao bo. posner says officials have called on the chinese to release those in detention or allow access to lawyers. >> chen jwan chang escaped house arrest in china and went to new york in may. he spoke with us about his fears and hopes. alec hurst reports. >> translator: for six or seven years, he was under surveillance by the authorities. i was not even allowed to call my family. >> two months have passed since chen arrived in the united states as a visiting scholar at new york university. he lives there on campus with his family. he told us that human rights in china are detee you're rariorai china. >> translator: things are really bad

the turner cares whether or not the official committed official misconduct. the charging authority is the mayor. the way to test the allegations that -- is with this hearing. it is with thitheir witnesses ad the charter does not care if the mayor's best friends are bitter enemies with the person charged and it does not matter whether or not deterred the official was dishonest -- charging official was dishonest in some way because of the test of the truth is that -- the test of the truth is this hearing. the reason that mariposa testimony was relevant is because it should -- showed his to rotation and of what official misconduct met under the charter. whether he did it truthfully or falsely, that is up for you to determine at this hearing. not bring in experts. i would be doing my kids to service and i did not tell you straight out i believe if we had this hearing, it would be quite apparent that the mayor did test, -- testified truthfully. we only have a war of media articles and the only people saying they mayor trusted on tressler are the people had no knowl

but the minutes regarding the official misconduct charges against mr. mirkarimi, i think we should -- welcome public comment on this matter. >> commissioners, i wanted to comment on the regular meeting minutes. in a minute of the march 26, 2012 meeting there is an example i feel they 150 word summarized discussed jet -- during general public, it is important trade and made public comment which was summarized on page 3 of this minutes as follows. he reviewed and accounting report issued march 1, 2012 by the friends of the library. right. i came here, waited for hours for a chance to make comment on item number five, and i only commented on the fact that i reviewed the county report. i did not say why i reviewed the report, i did not say anything about what i found in the review, i did not relate wife felt that review was relevant to the agenda item, what an idiot i am. i think most of the members of the public, if they were viewed the minutes and summer is done by the staff of not just this body but any public body, they would find nothing they said. it i

well, the reason why we have an ethics commission is because the supervisors and other public officials just treated, a chance to network with the criminals and we needed an outside independent group. in fact, why should they fire ms. gomez if you can't fire mr. st. croix. >> members of the ethics commission, ray hart, director of san francisco open government. know your rights under sunshine ordinance as printed on every agenda for city board meetings and commissions. you can submit a 150-word summary which is supposed to be included in the minutes. i have four orders of determination in cases number 10054, the overhead, against the library commission. a referral for enforcement, a denial by the ethics commission without hearing, and a letter to the city attorney telling him to quit advising people contrary what the sunshine task force said. case number 11054 against the city librarian where he was found in violation, a referral to the district attorney on the matter, a referral to the city attorney on the matter, and a referral to the ethics committee on the matter. case number 10 --

duties of the official. do you understand why i would think that? >> yes. there may be an access but it is not based on the official duties. >> if you could put option to out. -- two up. the other way of reading this, if one and two modify that first part -- modified and that first part of the paragraph that ends with including. under that reading, conduct that falls below standard of good faith and right action would have to relate to the duties of the office. the red is wha t i put n. that is something that would help me, briefing on which one of these is the right way to read this provision. >> i want to thank you for bringing that forward as clearly as it did. i have this struggling with the same question since i read the charter provision. i think that is free critical and would appreciate briefing on this one as well. >> to the praise follow -- and did the parties followed? >> if you are going to see you briefed it, you did not. not this. i went back and checked. i need to know why -- i assume that you

the decency, right action expected of all public officers. our contention is that official misconduct remains what it has always been in san francisco and at -- as it has been described in case law. >> under a different standard of the city charter though, right? >> well, not exactly. the original language of official misconduct remains and then this extra purposes is grafted onto it in the 1995 amendment. >> this was not in play in the time of the case. >> our position is that the extra parts should not be considered. you might not agree with me, but if we are right, and, if off the death flushed the line you might agree with me, but if we are rough -- you might not agree with me, but if we are right. >> so, this portion is excluded. ok. the next item is the testimony of the sheriff. before he comes up, can you give us a time estimate of how long you would examine him. >> in total, if it is hard to say without knowing how to first floors of the exam goes. if i don't think i will finish tonight. if i can say that much. >> ok, will the sheriff please come and sit in the chai

officials, right? >> that is generally true, yes. >> when the charter speaks of official misconduct, it does not expect-- it does not say, we expect a different -- a standard for the sheriff, a different one for the mayor, a separate one for the assessor. it just speaks in general terms about official misconduct for an elected official, right? >> objection, argumentative. >> requires a legal conclusion. >> legal conclusion is sustained. >> do believe there is a separate standard? >> objection, irrelevant. >> overruled. >> should be the same standard. >> ok. one of the things that is expected of elected officials is for them to be honest and forthright when dealing with their constituents, and with other elected officials. >> i am very sorry to interrupt you. that question will be pending. i instructed that we need to adjourn proceedings for now. we will resume when it is permissible. the meeting is adjourned. we will notify the parties and the press when we can resume. >> objection, foundation. >> overruled. >> there were declarations from the police department that indicated there was less than full c

>> this is the official convention pit. the dnc convention that shows lots of people. raising their hands in support of president obama which is going to happen in north carolina this year. >> what are the chances of president obama repeating? >> i feel good about it. >> no, i'm not. it's not a commonly-held view. >> it is. you have to be down on the ground like a mayor. >> for president obama wins north carolina, it will be because of what? >> it will be for several reasons. one, people get that the president walked in and we were losing 750,000 jobs on a monthly basis before he took office. to have the country go from that to 28 months of job growth in a row is a huge accomplishment. they also know that this president is focusing on building the country back up from the middle class out as opposed from the top down. people get that. >> for he wins north carolina, do you think the convention will have helped? >> it will have helped. >> it's a way to get volunteers involved? >> absolutely. let me tell you, north carolina has not hosted the convention. never. the last o