The Democratic Partys made changes to its rules and how it chooses Convention Delegates to the dnc Unity Reform Commission met in washington d. C. To consider changes that include reducing the number of superdelegates that can vote on the president ial nomination. Dnc chair tom perez gave the opening march the opening march of this meeting right, good morning everyone. Thank you all for being here. I serve as the chair and im joined by my friend larry cohen who is vice chair the commission and i hereby call the final meeting of the Reform Commission to order. I would like to first as the members and those with us to join for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I now ask you to call the roll. Thank you madam chair. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] we are missing a few Commission Members but we certainly have a quorum and i wo
Joined by my friend larry cohen who is vice chair the commission and i hereby call the final meeting of the Reform Commission to order. I would like to first as the members and those with us to join for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I now ask you to call the roll. Thank you madam chair. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] we are missing a few Commission Members but we certainly have a quorum and i would like to start today by acknowledged in chairman perez who is here and we are very thankful for his participation. [applause] and more than that for his leadership of the Democrat National party so we are really glad to be here. Good morning everyone. Thank you. I want to start off by saying thank you for your hard work. This was a very important exercise it was laborintensive and came to it with an open mind and with a rem
Back at our desk to discuss the Trump Administrations president ial Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. She serves as president of civil rights under law and before we get started we remind viewers what the Lawyers Committee is, how youre funded and how you got started . The Lawyers Committee for civil rights was founded in 1963 at the behest of john f. Kennedy who issued a call to action for private lawyers across the country to do more. To engage in the fight for civil rights in our country. Yesterday of course we marks 100th birthday. We are a National Civil rights organization, a 501 c 3 nonprofit. We work on issues such as Voting Rights, criminal justice, education and Health Issues across the country. We had litigation and our goal is to move our country closer to equality and to combat discrimination, as we wrestle with so many equations today. You joined us to talk about the president ial advisory position on Election Integrity established may 11, Vice President princes
Guest sure. The Laurie Berkner band for civil rights was founded in 1963 at the behest of john f kennedy. To do more, to engage in the fight for civil rights in our country. Yesterday, we marked his 100th birthday. We are a National Civil rights organization, nonprofit. We work on issues such as voting right, criminal justice, education and fair housing issues, all across the country. We mount litigation and our goal is to move our country closer to equally and combat the discrimination that we wrestle ith in so many places today. The may 11, mike pence and day of that launch, you released a statement condemning that commission. Why . Guest you know this commission, i think is a distraction from the real issues that we face fourth democracy today. We assume recent data that shows that about 61 of eligible americans voted in the 2016 election. And the reason why our voter turnout numbers are as low as they are is because we are still wrestling with Voter Suppression and ongoing voting d
On Community Investment and infrasfruckture. The Successor Agency commission to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency for tuesday march 21, 2017. Welcome to members of the public. Madam scaert please call the first item. Roll call. Commissioner pimentel. Present. Bustos, here. Singh, here. Mondejar, here. Rozauls, here. All membererize present. The next is announcements. The next meeting will be held april 4, 2017 at 1 p. M. City hall. Prohibition of sound producing electroning devices during the meeting. The richcking and use of cell phone pager and similar sound producing e devices are prohibited. May order the removal of the person responsible for use of cell phone pager or similar sound producing electronic device. C, announcement of time allotment for Public Comment. Please be advising a member has up to 3 minute to make comments on each agenda item unless the xhickz adopt as shorter peerd. Members who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card. The next item is 3 act