Community benefit we need. This gets us to a place we have 51 Renewable Generation in the city. That is amazing. We should look at that and wow how they doing that and still competitive with pg e rates . And i think its different from the enabling legislation for the contract its hard to wrap our heads around t i was happy to hear ms. Miller to come up with solutions and look at other things and this is a Larger Program and looking at others to come up with a solution is a great idea but i would like to hear more things like that from lafco. I think its the role of the agency to serve as the positive, to move the paths between complicated and sometimes opposite opinions and i know its challenging and we need to rely on puc for experts on the program but there is value what were paying local power to do and i think its a way to get beyond the arguments this is just doubling the rates. This say program for people that can afford to pay the premium cost. The work is innovative and i am st
Of the public would like to comment on this item please come forward. Good afternoon again commissioners. Eric brooks. My clock started at two minutes and 15 secondses. Can i get that adjusted . Thank you. So eric brooks San Francisco breen party and local Grassroots Organization our city. I wanted to speak to the issue that counsel miller raised yes as to how were going to do the build out there have been consider contentions shall we say in recent meetings and hammering that out and getting that right, and i wont go into details about all of that, but the main thing i would like to impress on the lafco commissioners is that theres been a new development in this dialogue that looks to be pretty problematic, and that is you know two years ago we the advocates and the lafco staff and other staff began work on earnest work for a build out and that model depends large numbers for the most part small local renewable instalations, efficiency installations. Most importantly behind the meter
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Out the winner in the deal, russia or the u. S. . And the ports on the west coast shocking our economy with a big black eye. Now the president is getting involved. Our panel and i look ahead on sunday morning futures. Well, the Iraqi Military put to the test, holding off isis militants at the al assad air base, where some 300 u. S. Marines have been training those iraqi soldiers. Meanwhile, here in the u. S. Congress is debating the aumf, that is the authorization for military force allowing president ial war powers to go after isis. Congressman peter king is part of the committee on Homeland Security, where he trains the subcommittee on counterterrorism and intelligence. Good to have you on the program, welcome back. Maria, good to be with you, thank you. First, lets talk about this authorization for military work that the president is looking for. How will you vote, what are you hearing from your colleagues in congress . Maria, i would have to vote against the authorization the way i
Reporter sources tell cnn that rnc chairman Reince Priebus denied he was considering shifting funds from trumps president ial bid to down ballot races, but he did speak to trump about his tone. This after trump spent an entire day repeating a false claim that president obama literally is the founder of isis. I meant hes the founder of isis. I do. He was the most valuable player. I give him the most valuable player award. Reporter back in february during a cnn town hall, trump placed the blame for the rise of isis squarely on the iraq war. The war in iraq started the whole destabilization of the middle east. It started isis. It started libya. It started syria. In all fairness, bush made the decision. Reporter the republican candidate also making waves this morning for saying he would allow american terror suspects to be tried at the military tribunal in guantanamo bay. Well, i know that they want to try them in our regular court systems, and i dont like that at all. I would say they cou