. >> my name is valerie lee. first of all, we love this city and we love this neighborhood, which is why we plan to buy this building. i recall the first day i was there, as we tried to just look at the building, we actually got yelled at by mr. marquez over there. i believe he lives next door as the husband to the otherves the we do respect the neighborhood. we love this neighborhood and we love the character of it. we had inherited a lot of problems, as i'm learning. lots of notices of violation from previous owners. what i have learned is that this building has been in this condition through three or four owners in three to four or five years. perhaps with a the passionate neighbors that have detained the other owners from doing anything that is to change the appeal of the exterior as well as the interior. we wish to do better for the neighborhood. we want to make our neighbors happy. the issues they brought up i believe we will address all of them through the modeling and the building department. i hear, i be

>> my name is darren lee, valerie's husband that i represent several of the partners we have on this building. we would like to address all the concerns from all the neighbors in regard to the plans that are not depicted as accurate. the senior building inspector joe duffy and i walked through. everything was -- worked in conjunction to plan at the scope of work. he has seen this building and the plans. we're trying to comply with everything that is required. on this application for the ground floor conversion into a habitable space we would like the commission to approve that. all the other project descriptions, we plan to bring everything up to code. what ever outstanding issues there are, i am sure the building department, we will work in conjunction with the building department to bring everything up to code. there was an issue with the deck on the east property line. that was adjacent to her property. if we can, we would like to address that as well. we have removed the stairs. that portion of the work was never constructed by me or my partners. that was existing as we previousl

lee summitt missouri, valerie. caller: your callers cannot see the forest for the trees. this is not about appointing someone, this is about a new federal bureaucracy barack obama and the democrats are creating -- a bigger federal bureaucracy. everybody in this country -- if you have a consumer protection problem, you call the attorney general of your state. do you really think if you have a problem you go to some bureaucrat in the federal government in washington, d.c., or what ever, and get your problem solved? this is absurd. the republicans are just trying to keep the federal government under control. host: that was valerie in missouri. here is "usa today" and how they played the story. in "the washington post" this morning is the story. consolidating the missions and downside ambitions of the armed forces -- that is just part of the article in "the washington post" this morning. phil is a democrat from los angeles. talking about the consumer financial protection marrow appointment yesterday. caller: i encourage people to go ahead and look at some of the historical ra