. -- unexperienced drivers and a low level of service.e changing from "shall" to "may" is just an abomination. i do not know how i could look at bill, who i have known for 25 years, and who has changed his entire life to get a medallion, just to have it taken away like that. it is a shame. [applause] >> [reading names] >> good afternoon, commissioners. i always look at this as a celebration. a lot of people that had medallions that were not able to sell them or get any money for them -- now they are able to. if you take this whole deal about a lot of people who are speaking up here are medallion holders -- when you look at the situation, medallions, when you have them, you just do not get them for free. you pay taxes on them all the time. when you purchase something, you get to have a right off on the interest that to purchase something, so i do not really see the difference in someone that is getting one for free or someone that is going to buy one because they are able to get to have that right off -- write- off. when you buy something,

that makes them probably the most unexperienced or untested two running mates to come into presidentialics in modern history. i can't think of a president -- where you have a presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate, neither of whom have national foreign policy experience. i think it's a mistake on his part not to use this opportunity to acknowledge the president to try to depot lit size this issue. when he made the speech in the republican convention in tampa that was a mistake to omit any reference to iraq or afghanistan. >> let me bring in mark murray here. you're one of the best in the business. you look at this through all prisms. they weren't supposed to campaign today. they were supposed to take the day off, the negative advertising pulled down. you've been listening to this speech from governor romney now. you had a headline throwing the kitchen sink. what was the thought process with this speech here? there are a number of things certainly that are political or perhaps peen politicizing this day that governor romney has said, and that is an interesting tactic, mar