Person i read it to was my just turned 8yearold granddaughter, and she said, its getting long, cokie. [laughter] she got her mom up the next morning saying, i have to read you cokies book. These are my favorite. She likes the spies. [inaudible] im told were done. Im really sorry. You know what . That means you have to go back to school. Oh. I know. [laughter] you did a great job. Thank, and were going to wing it a little bit, keep it easy, and well just take it where it goes a lot of people ask, where, you know, why did how did the book come about. Why did you write the book . I have to say that the book actually started in a way ive been working on the book almost four years now. While i was working on american sniper which i wrote with chris kyle, another great, great american. One night chris and i were hanging around in his den, and we were looking at pictures, but the picture came up of some guys who were about to go out own a field mission, and theres one in a slightly different
Methodologies and a shes not somebody i ever saw of being afraid of asking the tough questions being the minority and she said, you know, sometimes as meetings broke up at midnight and donates because the parking garages was going to close. I remember those nights sitting there in the long and pro transacted meetings. To sum up the depth of her experience and the major initiatives shes been involved in i urge you to reelect her any other comments please come up. Seeing none, none Public Comment is closed colleagues is there a name youd like to forward for this appointment. Supervisor campos. I defer to the members of the committee but i just wanted to make a quick point. I first of all, thank both applicants mr. Frank thank you for you interest this is one of the most important appointments we make. And i think its one of those bodies that makes very important decisions that impact the daily lives of people in our city and neighborhoods. I had the honor and pleasure of working with jos
Is. To take controversial situations to turn them into a referendum of race in america whether o. J. Simpson or rodney king or something not even in fused with race like George Zimmerman and the fbi has been searching he is a racist and cannot find anything. And hit was turned into a race case a tragic circumstance even more tragic because he ended up dead. Host you said the Associated Press that seemed racial in nature is the media part of this . Absolutely at least what portrays himself as objective i dont have a problem with those who dont portray themselves as objective at least they are honest but there are those who say they are objective then use the objectivity so for example, cnn tried to make it all that he made into a racial call but they made it sound like he was a racist he tracked Trayvon Martin down and that was not true the ap region reported he was white when he was really hispanic that was to build up a controversy. And also pushes for verdes certain political line. T
Youre not alone out there thank you for your services if i may add one point. I just think for the record the gentleman talked about the occupied movement and the Police Department. My experience is our Police Department did a pretty good job in its interaction with that. I want to be clear about that i dont know if you were thinking about oakland are other jurisdictions i think it would be a disservice to leave it at that. And by the way, jose has bill reilly i didnt speaking for her and she should be proud of that thank you supervisor for your comments around how the police handled that situation last year. And i thought coming from a different board and having been involved with some of the decision i thought they did a good job. Theres been a motion and second to forward the jose to the fulfill board with recommendations and seeing theres no objection this motion is move forward. Congratulations jose and mr. Frank sorry youre not be able to do it this time but like my colleagues i
The next 30, 40 years, so maybe that helps. This is a very complex issue. It has to be resolved. There has to be a happy medium there. Whether or not it is because these ceos are boring abroad for certain things or not, that is up for debate. Im certainly not one who will take a position on that because i dont know enough about it to make that call. There are a lot of very smart people out there, who we should respect, they are very good at what they do and they are still debating about what the Proper Solutions to this is. All right now, this is why were seeing such a huge amount of debate going on in d. C. And in board rooms across the country. Washington, d. C. Host there have been reports that secretary geithner will play a role in these talks. Guest the Economic Team is in place right now. This is obviously a very Critical Role for the administration and for the American People as a whole. With tim geithner, a lot of people have said he is one of the reasons why things are as shak