Welcome to squawk alley. John forte is on assignment today. Lets get to the top story, the campaign trail. One week away from the president ial election. National polls are tightening as new reports question Donald Trumps financial past and putin and russia. And Hillary Clinton is in hot water with those new emails. John . Less than seven days to the election. Were getting close. Take a look at how close the race is getting in the polls. Average of National Polls by the New York Times, realclear politics and huffington post. Real clear 2. 5, New York Times down to 4. Huffington post 5. 6. Whats that mean for the electoral map . He has to take that lead that mitt romney had and build it up to 270. Battleground states all across the country. Theres a difference between some of those battleground states. Let me start with four. Now trump has a very good chance of winning. Florida, ohio. Weve also got nevada and iowa. All of those are states where donald trump has a good shot. However you
And members of the board and members of the public could i want to start out by recognizing some of our employees and a couple other quick items for you. First i like to ask don ellison to come forward and recognize a long Time Training spreadable of ours whos decided to retire after mere 39 years of service. Good afternoon. Director nolan and fellow directors good its my honor today to recognize a gentleman that was for this agency for over 39 years. That is paul peterson. He was a superintendent of operator training along with him is a manager of operator training kim anderson. They were together for six years and operator training but much longer within the agency. All began his career as an operator in march 1977. In 1983, he was promoted to transit supervisor in Central Control and then later to operations. In january 20,000 2000 he was superintendent of operator training. Paul petersons 39 years and four months in operator training is marked by core value of supporting people and
Or Unfinished Business by Board Members. Members of the board are we good . Item 7, directors report good after chairman nolan and members of the board and members of the public could i want to start out by recognizing some of our employees and a couple other quick items for you. First i like to ask don ellison to come forward and recognize a long Time Training spreadable of ours whos decided to retire after mere 39 years of service. Good afternoon. Director nolan and fellow directors good its my honor today to recognize a gentleman that was for this agency for over 39 years. That is paul peterson. He was a superintendent of operator training along with him is a manager of operator training kim anderson. They were together for six years and operator training but much longer within the agency. All began his career as an operator in march 1977. In 1983, he was promoted to transit supervisor in Central Control and then later to operations. In january 20,000 2000 he was superintendent of o
Ins this measure would still be within your purview. Thank you. Thank you. Thats c3 6799 c3 69911. Im david, im a member of represent us and i would like to very much thank you guy, thank the commission for taking into consideration this action to try and bring some conference back to government, we formed our group about a year back, this is our first full reign trying to see how Government Works and how we can make our mark on it and attempt tog make sure that every person in the city of San Francisco has an equal voice and no one is given preferential treatment because of the amount of money they can contribute, in what way and what manner and what rules they circumvent is important to us, weve been working to make sure that peoples perception of government which is currently rock bottom both in the city and the state and nationally in terms of corruption and in terms of undue influence of money, we seek to curtail that, and we are very glad that you are helping us in trying to pass
Children brian and christian. Brian im his own works were with sf mta in the Maintenance Department good christian words with the Sheriffs Department of san diego. In his retirement paul plans to focus on his familytthe grandkids [laughing]his family and his two 1956 patterns with these risk conditioning. As a member of the packard club car shows on pauls future. I want to take this time to congratulate him wrapping up a great career at this sfmta a and kim apperson will speak a few words about all. Mr. Anderson. Thanks very much. Appreciate the opportunity. Paul has been more than just being a great employee. He has been the person you can look up to. I mean youve got that many years on your belt in this business, youre bound to pretty much have an answer for just about everything that comes along. There isnt anything he has not seen we certainly still take advantage of this today. Just because a zero tired we still outlined to his home. So we still call him. But for me personally, it