gray and triplett get out there. and sterling neblitt who's the one who advanced the money, he gets on his horse and he's riding straight to harrisburg. they said get your signature on that contract, get the government to endorse this land that we just picked out on galveston island. so he is riding as hard as he can, straight toward harrisburg, and he is going to run smack into the front of an advanced part of the mexican army. and as he's riding down the road to harrisburg there's a point where the road touches the bend in the bayou. and he sees this puff of smoke from the steamboat coming by and he flags these guys down. they pull over to the bank and picked him up. he says i got on board the boat and the president and the cabinet were on board. now, but the account doesn't say what happened to the horse. either he set it loose or they got the horse on the boat with him. but it doesn't say what happened to the horse. so then he comes out, god, i've been looking for you guys. he goes, i need you to sign this. and b

and these are triplett's words. granted they're standing in the middle of san jacinto after a battle. and he says, "i was now prepared to proceed to new orleans and the president came to me to say that great excitement had been created in consequence of him issuing the grant for a section of land on galveston island and he wished to see if on some terms it could not be annulled." not good. "i replied i'd assign half of it to dr. neblitt," who'd gone to the united states," but the president seemed uneasy and said he would only want to temporarily suspend things and then things would get calm and he'd reissue it." he said i'll tell the cabinet, i'll reissue it under the table, don't worry about it. and he said are you sure? he said yeah, i promise. triplett had a weak moment. he saw the president of the mexican republic in chains. he saw all the dead. they had accomplished their military objective. and he says, okay, i'll do it. bottom line, never trust the government. the texas government later sold that same tract o

. >> the associate superintendent, kevin triplett. >> good evening, commissioners.onight, we are presenting a revision to the 1996 board of education health policy. the revisions made to the existing policy reflect the most recent california standards and guidelines specified in helping people in 2020. additionally, staff has needed to provide more direction and support to our schools to achieve greater consistency and stability from school to school, which will lead to increases in student achievement and overall safety. we would like to share some of the most recent data from the california help the kids survey and the youth risk behavior survey, which you have been provided with copies in the executive summary and the public can accept -- can access at our website. i would like to turn it over to ken coates, who will lead this brief presentation on our data. hi, director camps directorkim. -- director kim. >> i would like to introduce you to my director who will give you an overview of the youth risk behavior survey, also known as ybs. while we're getting our sli

we just heard from the mayor of sanford, mayor jeff triplett, who was urging calm, urging the people to let the justice system take its course, urging patience. he also said this is just a beginning because the filing of charges raises a lot of questions for the police department here, the police department that accepted zimmerman's claim of self defense at the scene and chose not to arrest him. the police chief has stepped aside, they're trying to find a new one, a process that could take a couple more weeks, but the mayor is trying to bring stability back to the city. he said there would no longer be a threat of economic boycotts which is one thing that the activists and marchers had threatened to escalate here if there was not justice for trayvon martin's family. now we go forward, but the beginning of a long process. a trial that could be months if not longer, away. still a federal investigation of what went on, still investigations of the police department, how they handled the matter, so a long way yet for sanford, florida, as this case continues. brian. >> ron allen in sanford

. >> joining me now is the mayor of sanford, florida, jeff triplett and defense attorney who has workedgela corey when he was an assistant state attorney and has also faced her as a defense attorney. mayor tripplett, i want you to listen to something that attorney parks, one of the martin attorneys said about you and about your courage. let's listen to that. >> so many courageous -- i have to say, when i saw the mayor of sanford release those tapes and what he must have been going through. mayor tripplett, wherever he is, it's hard when many people who have made very courageous moves to make this right even after the wrong day ought to be commended. >> mayor, tell us about your decision is in releasing some of the evidence that the police had in this case. >> well, you know, when we went through the steps, we made the phone calls and asked, you know, why we wouldn't release these tapes to put a little bit of ease into the parents' mind, whether it did or didn't, just to give them information about what transpired and it was a tough decision. it was a tough call but we thought it was the

. >> may juror triplett where would we be tonight if trayvon martin had taken what the police told themimply decided, we can't fight the police, we can't fight city hall and if they had not gone out and south legal counsel and brought public attention to this, including some of the demonstrations that you've seen in your city? >> i want to think that we'd be in the same position or the investigation process was ongoing. you know, the police department continued with the investigation, that it would have been presented in the exact way. would it have been this quick? i don't know the answer to that. but i know she made a statement that i respect that she had full cooperation of the sanford police department and she respected what they did and took that and used it. >> mitch stone and sanford mayor jeff triplett, thank you both for joining me tonight. >> thank you, lawrence. >>> coming up, more on the state of florida versus george zimmerman. letters and packages a year. that's about 34 million pounds of mail every day. ever wonder what this costs you as a taxpayer? millions? tens of mill

and triplett this generation is going to pay the brunt of the loans are making a comeback in three. elections should be about choosing outstanding citizens who will do their civic duty in new delhi on sunday or get to choose from and that fraudsters and whether suspects out a fifth of candidate simply have a criminal past it's pretty shrewd in our expense. show pinney's has been a counselor representing one of the wards in india's capital city for five years he's up for reelection this year and says he wants nothing more than to serve his community. and politics is want social work i'm in it to serve the public because that gives me satisfaction i know their needs but alongside these lofty aspirations are some murky allegations denise has been charged with attempted murder intimidation assaulting a public servant and armed rioting he says he's not guilty of the charges but he's not the only candidate in this year's municipal elections facing serious allegations according to the association for democratic reform about fifteen to twenty per cent of candidates from both major political

the unit never talks to the media but sanford mayor jeff triplett says they've helped develop a nine-point action plan to deal with protesters and potential unrest. >> we were amateurs. we'd never seen anything like this before and you always look out to someone, look for someone that has seen it and been there for help. and i think, you know, they played a significant role in helping us. >> reporter: as sanford braces for zimmerman's release, many people here have worries, including george zimmerman, worries for his safety and his lawyer said today, worries he also potentially faces a life sentence. anthony. >> mason: mark strassmann, thanks. turning to the presidential campaign, primaries are scheduled in five northeastern states next tuesday with mitt romney now the near-certain g.o.p. nominee attention is focusing on the race in november, which just released campaign finance reports suggest will be the most expensive in u.s. history. mitt romney's campaign has spent $77 million to win the republican presidential nomination, but that's not all. restore our future, the super-pac, support

reports that gangs of armed rites of promises are roaming the streets and america sanford florida jeff triplett warned of the town has become a kindling box his phrase for george zimmerman isn't the only one who needs to be blamed for this tragedy and also need to pin the blame on those who pushed for these shoot first laws in florida that are today giving george zimmerman cover here here is the bigger picture of. florida and twenty other states have put together these stand your ground and shoot first laws and basically what they're doing is the turning america into a battleground and it's a battleground where the rules of deadly force are even looser than in iraq and afghanistan as vote vets dot org points out american and coalition forces in those countries like afghanistan and iraq must have very specific things that they must do before they can shoot somebody even if that somebody that they're thinking about shooting they're pretty sure is that enemy intent on killing them it's called the shout shows shove shoot and here it is from the rules of engagement you must shout a verbal warning to

nobody wants an end to this national firestorm more than this man sanford florida's mayor jeff triplett. thanks for being with me. i appreciate it. before we get into more details, i'm curious, how is your city doing? would you say it's in healing mode or as divided and angry as ever? >> there's a lot of the big portion trying to get to healing mode. there is trepidation as to what is going to transpire, how things are going to come down. i think the citizens of sanford are ready to truly begin the process and are relying on us to see what that process is going to be and how we are going to get there. >> just to give our viewers a little bit of background here, you moved to florida with your family for a better life, especially for your 11-year-old. you are working for a bank. you decide to take this on as a part-time job. why did you want to do it? >> for a better community. i plan on living here the rest of my life. this is my town, my city. i love it here. i want my boys when they get done with college or whatever they decide to do, i want them to live here. it's time to make some de

entire city's been dissected as everyone's trying to make sense of the shooting, we bring in jeff triplette, he's the mayor of sanford, florida, nice to see you, sir, thank you for joining us. you had three protests in sanford and across the country there are eight protests, it's a city of 50,000 or so plus people. do you worry about the image of your city? >> absolutely, that's one of our big issues right now, that this doesn't -- as i've said before, that this doesn't define who we are. this isn't -- this isn't the type of place we are. it's a friendly neighborhood. you know, we're 53,000 people. you know, we've got a lot of diversity in our city and we just have to work down the path to make sure that what some of the media's portraying of our city is just not true. >> what kinds of things do you think are not true? >> i mean, there's no -- you know, we've got a great police department. we've got some great men and women in the police department. you know, our community relations are good. if you walk down our historic downtown riverfront or our downtown neighborhoods or go shopping in a

>> reporter: well, the deciding vote came down to mayor jeff triplett and he decided that he wants toee how the investigations that are going on into the police department and how this department handled the investigation into the killing of trayvon martin before he makes a decision. so that means that the police chief is still not going to be on the job, but he's still going to be on the payroll, at least a couple more months, until those investigations are complete. >> and very briefly here, the problem had a lot of problems with other cases before this one but those were under a different chief, right? of this the guy that was reforming things. >> reporter: right. what this case did, the trayvon martin case, what that did was bring up all of this long-term problems that the black community here has had with the police department. a perception that there are two standards of justice here. one separate standard for the black residents of this city. so that brought up a lot of deep-seeded animosity that's been around here for a long time. that's what the city is trying to address righ

and his name is mayor triplette.what he had to say. >> i'm not ready to have him come back and run the police department. i'm not. i don't know if i'm ready for this either. and that's the question that i'm going through right now. >> you know, it was interesting listening to these conversations in that city commission meeting. people seemed very tortured and torn about what to do. can you describe for me what the city of sanford is like right now? >> well, it's a little cold today. it's unusual for florida. in terms of the city commission meeting, it was also cold. you had a lot of people at the meeting. you had a lot of police supporters and you have those who say that chief lee should not come back. that's why tensions got pretty hot last night. >> and where do you stand on all this? when we spoke originally about this the first time around and i asked you, are you in a position, if you wanted to, you could fire the chief of police. and i believe you said yes, that is within your powers. where do you stand on what