Allegations of corruption, and indictments and guilty pleas swirling around city Hall Contracting the city family is plugging along with another enormous bond for this november, much of it which will go to d. P. W. The ethics budget is not an expense. Its an investment that pays dividends and in cost savings and honest government. Thank you very much. If you are joining by the webex Browser Extension, if you wish to raise your hand for this Public Comment and other Public Comments, you may do so by clicking on the raise hand icon. Its located in the participants panel on the lowerright corner. To access that panel, you can click on the navigation bar located in the video screen by clicking on the participants icon. I do not see any additional callers concerning Public Comment. Im going to close Public Comment first, i want to say in response to the Public Comment, to the first specificker who had substantive points of information concerning City Contracting i do hope that the whistlebl
Anytime that im looking at the labor request for the commission is that the commission exercises the power sparingly, and useds a balancing approach where you balance the need for the labor on the one hand with any danger of unfair advantage or undue influence on the other hand. And in cases where you find that the need for the labor outweighs the danger of impropriety, thats when the waiver is proper. Otherwise, the balance of equities is not there and the waiver is probably inappropriate. So in this particular instance, i do recommend a waiver to be granted along the lines of what was requested and what is requested is that mr. Eske be allowed as he sits on the Arts Commission to continue to engage in compensated advocacy, limited to a specific list of city commissions but not all city commissions and City Employees, but the set of commissions that he interacts with now. And to that i would add that he only be allowed to engage in compensated advocacy for clients of his architecture
Bipartisan policy center. Thank you for joining us with the release of the new book it is called white house and tevi troy is the author for commentary on the book. Let me start by introducing our guest and we are looking forward to having some of you ask questions as well. And then to be a person of action to be a scholar tevi troy hands work in many places to several departments and the department of labor but also at the white house also an accomplished author who has written in addition to this piece on the white house with intellectuals as well as the use of social media presence. I hope you will listen but also think about buying the book fight house. We have fourth of july and then to learn more about the white house. A person a scholarly refute someone his work most recently in the white house and the state department of the advisory and other roles and the director of politics and strategy at Carnegie Mellon university. There she has studied the presently written books on reag
Going to be along in just a little bit with more on this developing story while on the subject of apologies heres an interesting story we need to bring you the New York Times is acknowledging that the people of bolivia all but had their election stolen from them the times now writes that socalled Election Fraud fraud in bolivia that was used as an excuse or a pretense to remove a democratically elected president that fraud accusation they say it was a lie. Think about what i just said so evo morales was elected. Fairly it seems and democratically within less than 48 hours after he was elected the European Union the organization of american states and the United States state department declared his Election Fraudulent which fomented a coup causing the elected president to leave the country only to be replaced by a new president one that is more to the liking of washington and the oas and the e. U. So shouldnt surprise anyone that this type of foreign election meddling took place shouldn
Of the most decorated officers in america says it was a mistake adding i should not have been there corresponding ferran from zack will be along in just a little bit with more on this developing story well by the way while on the subject of apologies the New York Times is acknowledging today that the people of bolivia had their election stolen from them the times now writes that socalled Election Fraud in bolivia that was used as an excuse to remove a democratically elected president was a law. Think about what i just said evo morales was elected fairly and democratically within less than 48 hours after he was elected the European Union the organization of american states and the United States state department declared his Election Fraudulent which fomented a coup causing the elected elected president to have to leave the country only to be replaced by a new president more to the liking of washington and european leaders and the oas. Shouldnt surprise anyone that this type of foreign e