commissioner weiner: we are adjourned. thank you very much.

supervisor weiner: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye.hiu: aye. >> there are 11 ayes. item 25, opposing assembly bill 1678, regarding restrictions on food trucks' parks and in the two schools. -- in proximity to schools. supervisor weiner: i want to thank all of you for the significant support that you have all expressed over time for the opposition to this bill. fortunately, the opposition that has been able to organize in san francisco has sent a loud and clear message, and the author of the legislation, assemblywoman bonnie from carmel, who is a thoughtful and responsible legislator, has significantly amended the bill in a number of ways, including grandfathering in the local regulations that exist as of next january, which would include hours, and statewide reducing the required distance of school trucks from 1,500 feet to 500 feet, and making it apply only to public schools, in addition to some other changes. although there are still some changes to be worked out, this is a pretty dramatic change to the legislation. as a result, i mo

i will defer to supervisor weiner. supervisor weiner: one moment, mr. president. supervisor kim: i did have one more comment to make. the question brought up by the member of the public and some of the candidates running for supervisor this year -- this does potentially change some of the dates around the election department putting things together, whether it is the signatures and the payment for filing -- the elections department director is going to speak with any of the supervisory candidates who have questions or suggestions for how this needs to get amended. this does not mean people have to gather signatures by the filing date. we can still keep a separate set of deadlines within the elections department. but they would like to get feedback from the supervisors here on that time line. supervisor weiner: i also wanted to thank supervisor kim for working extremely hard to try to craft a very complicated piece of legislation that addresses the constitutional issues and at the same time addresses some very practical issues and some flaws that were revealed in o

commissioner weiner: thank you. colleagues, questions or comments? seeing none, is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, do we have a motion? we can take that without objection. that will be the order. thank you very much. we have addressed item 10. we will go to item 11. >> introduction of new items. this is an information item. commissioner weiner: any introductions? any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there any general public comment? seeing none, general public comment is closed. next item? >> item 13, adjournment. commissioner weiner: we are adjourned. thank you very much. move some of those forward now. some of them have been completed. the settlement agreement is actually a land sale as well. there are a few others that we have been talking about, the mountain view project. some others that come apart in the mountain view crisis, which we are trying to revive. >> i'd like to put in another request. i would like the commission to be aware of the fair market value of these properti

supervisor weiner: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. >> there are 11 ayes. president chiu: the resolution is adopted. >> item 21, amending the administrative code to clarify the reporting responsibilities related to the centralized and publicly-accessible connection to city advisory bodies. agency formation commission. president chiu: can have a motion to excuse supervisor olague? without objection, she shall be excused. role call vote. >> on item 22 -- supervisor chu: aye. supervisor campos: aye. -- supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. >> kim absent. supervisor weiner: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. >> there are nine ayes. president chiu: we do not have any 3:30 special commendations today and item 23 did not get out of committee, so why don't we go now to roll call? >> supervisor chu? supervisor chu: a hearing request with regards to the current projected overtime costs for city departments. a request that the herd at the budget and fi

commissioner weiner: thank you. colleagues, questions or comments? seeing none, is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, do we have a motion? we can take that without objection. that will be the order. thank you very much. we have addressed item 10. we will go to item 11. >> introduction of new items. this is an information item. commissioner weiner: any introductions? any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there any general public comment? seeing none, general public comment is closed. next item? >> item 13, adjournment. commissioner weiner: we are adjourned. thank you very much. >> thank you. welcome to the small business commission, monday, march 12, 2012 meeting. the time is now 6:32 p.m. and the meeting is being called to order. at this time, please turn off all cell phones and pagers. please sign in at the front table if you'd like to be added to the mailing list. public comment will be taken on each item and speaker cards are available at the front table. at this time we'd like to t

a conversation with "mad men" creatormatthew weiner, coming up right -- creator matthew weiner, coming right up. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis please welcome -- tavis: please welcome matthew weiner. he has the most critically acclaimed drama on television, "mad men," which returns this sunday night with a special two- hour show. as i mentioned at the top, it has won an emmy in each of its four seasons. first, a scene from "mad men." [bell] >> i do not know if you have heard, but i fired joey. >> good for you. >> excuse me? >> now everybody in the office will know that you solve my problem, and you will feel important again. -- that is solved my problem. >> what is wrong with you? >> that is disgusting. >> i already handled it. it would have been out of my hair. you want to be a big shot. well, no matter how powerful we get

and weiner? >> these are germanic pronunciations that get mangled in english. if you come from vienna, it's weiner. but if your ancestors made wine in a vineyard somewhere in the austrian hungary empire like mine did it's weiner. >> why would your daughters take your wife's name rather than yours? >> that was my idea. the entire male line of her family has died out. i have two brothers. it's a good name. >> tim weiner, author of "enemies: a history of the f.b.i." thank you for joining us. >> it is a pleasure talking with you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> for a copy of this program call 1-877-662-7726. for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program visit us at q-and-a.org. and they are also available as podcasts. podcasts.

in september 2011, the sunshine taskforce found that supervisors weiner, chu, and cohen violated the the sunshine ordinance in revising the parkmerced con -- contract. days later, supervisor weiner ordered a survey of the cost of complying with the sunshine ordinance. he emphasized the sunshine taskforce must function effectively. but he defined "effectively" solely in terms of costs, without looking at the results or benefits, or even performance metrics. we have now reviewed 38 of the responses to this survey. "we found is a one-sided instrument designed to overstate the cost of the sunshine ordinance and the task force. the departments are on record in the cost of state act like the brown act and labeling them as city sunshine ordinance costs. virtually all departments are giving estimates of cost by what they remember, a sure way to inflate the numbers. even the cost of noncompliance with the ordinance that delays the city attorney fees, the hearings at a loss lawsuits, are all counted as compliance costs. there are other flaws in methodology we are reporting directly to harvey r

but no one's forgotten the five years matt weiner was out of work.is story existed only as a pilot script, acclaimed by other writers, but one produced until amc saved it. what was your reaction after elisabeth moss read for the role the first time? >> how do i tell this without looking less macho. no one had ever read any of the script out loud. and i went to the men's room. and i cried. >> reporter: he burst into tears. >> that's what i hear. that's what i hear because -- >> a good ad man. >> oh, my god, jon. it's so awful. we're never going to get this made. >> reporter: like the script he was reading for, the show's leading man was battered by years of rejection. all those years when, they just weren't casting guys like you. you must have thought, i'm just a guy of a time. >> it felt that way. i was a little older. i wasn't getting "dawson's creek." i didn't look 17 when i was 17. that's the way it was. i would get called in for their dad. >> reporter: did you ever think back to the months when you wondered if you would get to play this guy? >> y

weiner himself, congressman weiner himself.eitbart at that moment. >> i'm not doing this for nefarious purposes. i'd like an apology from him, for allowing for his political protectors, which this was his strategy. was to blame me. to blame me for hacking. oh, don't worry, breitbart's our regular whipping boy. we can accuse him of anything, and the press will not hold those journalists to account, no matter what they say. and so i'm here for some vindication. >> and that was after, of course, weiner had claim he had been hacked, when he had not been hacked. when he had himself e-mailed those pictures around and breitbart had gotten them. but breitbart was forced to either apologize or acknowledge his error, i think after shirley sherrod had been mischaracterized by breitbart. she was the former agriculture official, who was mischaracterized and lost her job over that. >> right. well, you mentioned to me the two emblemattic moments of breitbart's journalistic career, one a high point, the other a low point. the clip at the news

scott weiner, malia cohen who just came from china lot -- not long ago from a trip.ng here. to our family associations, our department heads, our other commissioners and friends, happy new year, and welcome to our official celebration here at city hall of our wonderful chinese lunar new year. we just came from the official lighting of our new lantern. i hope you will stay tonight long enough to view all of its beauty and the lightness of it. there are a lead the lights on there. there are recycle cd's on the dragon boat. it is 76 feet long. it is, of course, my entry into the america's cup. anyway, i want to thank everyone for being here, for helping us celebrate. as we have been saying, this is one of the most exciting, attractive holiday seasons for the whole of san francisco and all of our communities. we look forward, and i hope you join me, in not only the very big chinese new year's parade of will happen this saturday, but the whole weekend. there are community affairs. there is the coronation ball. we just finished the street for a couple of weeks ago. the pag

some of it just slips through. >> and weiner is putting out a fire before it even flares up.st the observations from a few critics who have already seen an advance copy of this sunday night's premiere, he is already removing a song, "the look of love" before it airs sunday because the song didn't exist within the time frame. >> "the new york times" has a great quote. to a large extent weiner and his staff members brought this festival of nitpickery on themselves through their own perfectionism. that's a great sentence. >> i think it's true. >> you must hate the nitpickers. >> i don't, because i want people to watch it with the idea with some safety that it's real. and i made the commitment dramatically to tie it to the calendar. >> oh, boy, you did. >> and i feel like it's an extra effort, but you know what, creatively it's a great thing because people asked me what did this look like and i say what did it look like? >> so you have prop manager who say would probably kill you if they had the choice. >> they love it because usually people are whatever you want. they come in an

. >> tim weiner. >> hoover stands alone. he's like the washington monument. he stands alone like a statue encased in grime. as one of the most powerful men who ever served in washington in the 20th century, 11 presidents, 48 years from woodrow wilson to richard nixon. there's no one like him. and a great deal of what we know, or what we think we know, about j. edgar hoover is myth and legend. >> tim weiner on "enemy: a history of the fbi." sunday night at 8:00 on cspan's q and a. >>> exchange commissions mary a and. >> she made that that she had late last month. >> good morning. happy to have all of you here director of the. imperfectly honored. as cohosts, for the next two days, our principle job is one of timekeeping. so to get us off to a good start, let's move right into the program. the conference covers two days, today and tomorrow, and we'll be presenting a number of panels from various sec divisions and offices to discuss issues, developments and we've invited commentators to give their views on each panel. . is that from both inside over outside of t

commissioner weiner: any questions, colleagues? is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion? commissioner campos: so move. >> second. commissioner weiner: can we take that without objection? that will be the order. item nine. >> good afternoon, commissioners. deputy director for policy and program authority. going to give you a quick to protect of the surface transportation bill reauthorization status and dates on the federal side. our legislative advocate will come up and give information on the bills we are presenting today. the senate is currently in session right now adjusting for actually participating in a vote-a-thon. the current extension expires on march 31 of 2012, said the countdown has really begun to see if there will be another continuing resolution that will get us through the end of the current federal fiscal year or that will give reauthorization before any election in the fall. the current structure of the house bill retains the basic funding levels. the bill might pass in the senate as currently be

. >> thyme weiner details their history and j. edgar hoover's fight against terrorists. >> hoover stands alone. he's like the washington monument. he stands alone like a statue encased as one of the most powerful men who ever served in washington, 20th century. there is no one like him. and a great deal of what with know or think we know about jay edgar hoover is myth and legend. >> tim weiner, sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. >>> the american-israel public affairs committee held the annual policy conference in washington last week. speakers included liz cheney and former u.s. representative, jane harmon. this runs about 35 minutes. >> thank you. good morning, everybody. my name is david, i'm the founding editor of the times of israel. [ applause ] . thank you. this morning we're going to take a tour and explore the many challenges that face the united states and israel. here with us is the former deputy of state, liz cheney. [ applause ] also joining us is middle east analyst from israel's channel 2 news, international fello

. >> let's hear from commissioner weiner. >> commissioner weiner: i will be supporting this product -- project, but i want to repeat something i said at the finance committee. when we talk about a project of this scale, transforming market street or high-speed rail or whatever the project is, i do believe that the mayor's office needs to play a coordinating role, otherwise there are a lot of departments involved that are all very talented people, with the best of motives and sometimes you not know who is in charge. without that clearinghouse role by the mayor's office, we may run into some confusion. when we have discussions about staffing at the mayor's office, we will have the capacity to play the role, with a lot of different projects. >> at that point, this is part of the involvement of the mayor's office? >> the mayor's office has been involved in the process. we're happy to have jillian attending the meetings. and there will be a force in moving the project forward. >> i am not trying to be difficult. just for me, but i have been getting for my office has been vague around marke

it's something that matthew weiner has. can really see people for who they are. who their character really is. and. >> maybe i'm wrong but that's how i feel about it. and i feel like every character has moments where they see other characters trauly. there were scenes after he wrote the letter to the tobacco company where i say it was childish. there are moments where they say the truth but i think if he was to sit and kind of mull about what don draper is he would have a much more fantastic idea of that person's life. >> in the instances where he comes over and confront os don about like the north american aviation thing. he knows don past-- he knows about don's past and he walks and opens the door, coming to have this conversation. and he sees faye who is a consultant walking out of the bed really and he has this look. i think he says something like i come here and there is another thing don't want to know about. >> another thing i don't want to know about. >> it's just a-- he is becoming an adult. of course don draper, what do i expect is going on in here, you

weiner eventually stepped down.itbart was also behind the controversial scandal of shirley sherrod. it was breitbart who posted portions of a speech she gave before the naacp. the online video was edited to appear as though sherrod was making racist statements. she was quickly fired, but when the entire story went public, it was clear she was making statement of racial allegations. sherrod said the news of mr. breitbart's death came as a surprise to me when i was informed tof it this morning. my prayers go out to his family as they cope through this very difficult time. >>> here is your chance to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. should employers be able to deny insurance coverage on moral or religious grounds? right now the senate is getting ready to vote on an amendment that would do just that. carol costello is here in the house in atl. >> the talk-back question. it's so nice to see you. >> the weather so much nicer here. >> let's talk about that administration. the senate is about to vote on the bl

edgar hoover is myth and legend. >> tim weiner, a history of the fbi. sunday night at 8:00. >>> next, a discussion on the ballistic missile plan and the defense from iran. on the panel and m.i.t. professor who disputes the missile intercepter test results. this is an hour and ten minutes. physics, we are her with the co-sponsors this fascinating seminar. this seminar is one of the series that we sponsor on the rubric of the harold smith seminar series which focuses on u.s. defense policies with emphasis on the controlling management of nuclear weapons. and this is the third year of the series. and we've had numerous distinguished experts come here to speak about the matter and the reason that they come is because of the person for whom the series is named. dr. harold smith, who i'm going to invite up here in a minute. and harold holds the appointment of visiting scholar with the governmental studies and also i believe distinguished resident scholar at golden school of public policy. at berkeley, he was professor here and chair of the department of nucle

this is breitbart talking about the anthony weiner texting scandal that he broke.ss conference before anthony weiner got up to talk about it himself. remember this moment? take a listen: >> 72 hours in palm springs with your family is excruciating when you are being challenged. andrew, why aren't you on vacation, why won't you get off the phone, because i'm being accused of being a hacker against a congressman. he said nothing, he allowed for that to go, he perpetuated that false, my lishous, mean -- then he went on cnn to attack me. martha: gosh, that was quite a moment because anthony weiner called that press conference because he wanted to make his first statement about that whole scandal and while we were waiting in the room for anthony weiner, andrew breitbart took the stage to defend himself and say he had not hacked into wein he were's website and his twitter account. boy, william la jeunesse joins me now from our los angeles bureau with a look back at andrew breitbart's fiery and passionate career. william. >> reporter: martha, andrew breitbart was smart, o