Congratulations to the class of 2016. Today is your day of celebration and youve earned it. The voices crying for peace and light, because your choices will make all the difference to you and to all of us. Dont be afraid to take on cases or a new job or a new issue that really stretches your boundary. You spend your summer abroad real ships rather than internships, and the specter of living in your parents basement after this Graduation Day is not likely to be of greatest conce concern. Watch commencement the streets to the class of 2016 in their entirety from colleges and universities around the country by business leaders, politicians and white house officials. On cspan. Antenna on cspan2 take a live to a forum on Community Organizing and civic mobilization. 17 citizen groups will be speaking today and will be hearing opening and Closing Remarks from ralph nader, author, activist and former president ial candidate, this is being hosted by the center for the study of responsive law at
Itself issues. Texas a quand m, university of texas at austin, the university of houston, other institutions, these arell public universities. And these individuals, these students, pay tuition to go to these public universities. And in response, theyre issued identification vehicles. Identification cards. But the state of texas has seen fit to say, thats not valid in order to vote. And i think that one example, and weve heard several others, basically exposes the fact that the movement to impose voter identification requirements is a fraud itself. Its a sham. The whole argument behind it is that were trying to protect the integrity of the Voting System. Heres the problem. Youre protecting the integrity of the Voting System by imposing a solution in search of a problem. Because none of these individuals in any of these states has been able to produce a scintilla of evidence of fraud. In fact, there are studies that have shown that there have been over a billion instances of americans e
Paying taxes on almost all of it. , for corporations instance, hedge funds, use a gimmick in a loophole in the law called. Interest, which allows the big ays at the hedge funds to pay lower tax rate than people who work for them. It is a loophole in the law. We showed literally tens of thousands of americans were hiding their income and their. Ssets overseas illegally a lot of them in swiss banks. We went after a lot of swiss banks aiding and abetting american taxpayers to avoid paying taxes. After we showed that, the irs your back on in, pay taxes, we believe you amnesty, but we will argue interest. Over 55,000 americans who had hidden Bank Accounts came in. We collected about 6 billion. There are a lot of gimmicks used to avoid paying taxes. But tax havens, the Cayman Islands for instance, have been soaking up huge amounts of our money that really is needed in america for the things we need to do, whether it is infrastructure, education, reducing our deficits, defense, you name it. H
Currently a massachusetts resident. Massachusetts or new york. Derek, and alicia dearn i believe of california. Can you talk about what happened . I am happy to. Historically, you have had to get signatures to replace the nomination. It has traditionally been our practice to suspend the rules to count president ial tokens turned in by a president ial candidate as Vice President ial tokens for nominations for anyone who had run for president. In motion was made to suspend the rules in that manner so the only candidates who will be eligible to be nominated for the office of Vice President are those able to submit Vice President ial tokens by the deadline of 1 16 p. M. [inaudible] nicholas at present, that is the case. Those tokens are being turned in but still being tabulated. Someone may cross the 30 token threshold in the interim. In the back. What is the question . Vice president ial tokens . Vice president ial is what we are talking about. I do not know how many were outstanding or h
Committee vicechair katy tang and jane kim and norman yee and welcome supervisor avalos and thank you our clerk for the committee. I think well be rotating clerks, as well as Charles Kremenak and sfgovtv thank you for this meeting. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be completed as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. We also have oc staff for translation. Okay. Thank you very much. We have translators. Yes. announcement being made . So thanks everyone. Welcome to Public Comment at the board of supervisors. Madam clerk, would you call items 1 and 2. Item no. 1 is the proposed budget and appropriation ordinance appropriating all estimated receipts and all estimates expenditures for departments of the city and county of San Francisco as of may 31, 2016, for the fiscal years ending june 30, 2017 and june 30th, 2018 and item no. 2 is a proposed the proposed annual salary ordinance, enumerating positions in annual budget and appropriation ordinance formalit