and i will always have this from doing u.s.o. tours and seeing soldiers with their arms around each other crying an singing, i don't do it for the money. i've got bills that i can't pay. and at the end of the show the general came up and he gave this beautiful frame with an american flag that had flown over the base. and he gave it tovery member of our troop. and when he gave it to me, he said, al keep telling those don't ask/don't tell jokes. i think you may have some fans up there, and he pointed at those women. and later, those women came up to me and said we're gay. and they're -- i mean, i think everybody knew it. and this is 2006. this is when it was really hard for the military to recruit people. and so they gave waivers out at that time. and they gave waivers for -- moral waivers, and they gave waivers for people who didn't do as well in school or didn't graduate school. and i swear, if you ask every man and woman on that base, who would you rather have standing to your right, standing to your left, that gay man or that g

working a project business plan to propose full utilization of that building by organizations such as u.s.o., v.a., veterans job training resources to bring it into the underutilized sources of that building and have a one stop shopping center where any veteran can go there and fully utilize its intended role to serve veterans. that would help and i believe the commission with its resources, member of the commission who are members of veterans organizations can marshal the support of those organizations to get publicity, get atngs from the mayor's office, and other agencies that can send traffic there. >> i look forward to working with you on that. that sounds great. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you very much. open it up to public comment. we have a number of speaker cards. commissioner wallace levin, john caldera, steven, and if there is any other member of the public who would like to speak, please come up. thank you very much. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm wallace levin. immediate past president of the commission. long time member of the commission. i have had the honor during

. >> and i'll also have this from doing u.s.o. tours seeing soldiers with their arms around each other and crying. >> reporter: in those u.s.o. tours, franken used humor to protest don't ask don't tell. the same goes politics makes strange bed foal lows, that's al franken in the '90s on the same television show with christine o'donnell. o'donnell appeared on fox news tuesday night saying she would talk issues and try to avoid more controversy. >> i'm not going to do anymore national media because this is my focus, delaware is any focus. >> reporter: that she says, is advice given to her by sarah palin, who released a new video tribute to the tea party and notably, palin never used the word republican. >> this party that we call the tea party is the future of politics and i am proud to get to be here "today." >> reporter: and former president bill clinton is giving advice to democrats as well telling them not to get caught up in all of the tea party attention and to recognize the anger that those sorts of candidates are tapping int