ve wawona good afternoon, everyone. Welcome back from the break. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the september 11, 2023 regular meeting of land use and Transportation Committee of the board of supervisors. I am supervisor melgar chair and joined by vygotskies chair supervisor dean preston and board supervisor president supervisor peskin. The Committee Clerk is brent jalipa. Thank you. You would like to acknowledge james at sfgovtv for staffing the meeting. Mr. Clerk . For those here make sure to silence Electronic Devices not to interrupt the chamber. Convening hybrid meetings allow in person and Public Comment and Remote Access and Public Comment. Public comment will be taken on each item. Those in person will speak first then those on the line. For those remote the comment call in number is streaming and when connected you will hear the meeting discussions but mou exclude in listening mode. When your item come up and Public Comment is called those in person line xup those
Red line delays next, allison and steve. Thank you very much. And the time everywhere but at surprise treingt is 7 00 and were starting with sunning victory in dopely red conservative Alabama Democrats picked the open seat in Alabama Senate race. Doug jones bet roy hoor in most wapd and controversial of the year. Annie yu live on capitol hill with the latest on how things played out last night, annie, good morning. And good morning, allison and steve. This is a big victory for the democrats and as you mentioned, alabama traditionally a red state and so moving forward, here on capitol hill, were talking about doug jones big win and give the gop just a 51 to 9 edge in u. S. Senate and victory was fueled by huge turnout and a strong turnout and heavily africanamerican counties and meanwhile Roy Moore Says its not over and vowing to keep fighting. Im truly overwhelmed. Im truly, truly overwhelmed. And struggled forwards after a win last night became clear. Alabama has been at a cross road.
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After the budget we will have the support of all the republicans because we have no support from the democrats or almost no support, because they really become obstructionists. And have no good policies, franco, theyre are not good politicians, but they are very good obstructionists. Thats what they do well. The number of nominees i have approved by the democrats are about half of what president obama had, and when you look at that, you look at judicial appointments and how slow thats going. I will have 145 ultimately, which is a tremendous number. We will have 17 court of appeals appointments. But they are not getting approved. They are being slow walked by Chuck Schumer in the group of really, itst disgraceful. Even people they know they are going to approve, they take it right out to the end and use every single minute. I think its a very disgraceful situation. Deadcare is everything but , the people are going to take it. Alaska had over a 200 percent increase, there were 116 , and