Me no doubt that if given discretiona discretionary power, you would [ indiscernible ] from anything the commission intended. I think for the investigation unit, the two driving principles have always been the public trust and transparency. So as long as it is guided by those two, whatever actions you take are then the public will understand. And at the same time, when you look at the enforcement efforts, its largely serving to deter future ill activities. Sometimes when people look at these cases that have gone on for five, six, ten years and with nothing happening, it doesnt give the public much trust. So i think that it is really important to look at the cases you take. And the second thing is there are other cases that come to you that may not fit into the clearly defined areas that we would like to support. Maybe those are innocent cases that may expose some deficiencies that we should look at so that we can look at policies to close the loopholes. So they may not fit into the rea
Me no doubt that if given discretiona discretionary power, you would [ indiscernible ] from anything the commission intended. I think for the investigation unit, the two driving principles have always been the public trust and transparency. So as long as it is guided by those two, whatever actions you take are then the public will understand. And at the same time, when you look at the enforcement efforts, its largely serving to deter future ill activities. Sometimes when people look at these cases that have gone on for five, six, ten years and with nothing happening, it doesnt give the public much trust. So i think that it is really important to look at the cases you take. And the second thing is there are other cases that come to you that may not fit into the clearly defined areas that we would like to support. Maybe those are innocent cases that may expose some deficiencies that we should look at so that we can look at policies to close the loopholes. So they may not fit into the rea
Certain matters beyond the limits of that policy, but we would like to see that more explicit in a revision. Thank you. I agree with what my fellow commissioners have said. I think that during the time im here the staffs work has given me no doubt that if given discretiona discretionary power, you would [ indiscernible ] from anything the commission intended. I think for the investigation unit, the two driving principles have always been the public trust and transparency. So as long as it is guided by those two, whatever actions you take are then the public will understand. And at the same time, when you look at the enforcement efforts, its largely serving to deter future ill activities. Sometimes when people look at these cases that have gone on for five, six, ten years and with nothing happening, it doesnt give the public much trust. So i think that it is really important to look at the cases you take. And the second thing is there are other cases that come to you that may not fit in
About whether either of those options make sense or i can continue with other remarks. It seems to me that there i mean, maybe theres a crossing of the two. For example, i think your idea about getting rid of lack of jurisdiction cases immediately makes great sense. Theres no point in dwelling on something lack of jurisdiction it seems to me is fairly bright line. You either have it or you dont. It really doesnt call for a great deal of discretion. So getting rid of those, it seems to me, highly efficient is a way of clearing out cases. Your numbers are showing that. And then perhaps after you do that, then you take whats left and i dont know if theres a diminimus amount that provides response to the request of justice to say that given youve got three investigators and youve got this many complaints, is it in the interest of justice to spend to take one of your investigators and spend time on a matter that might result in a 100 fine . And maybe it doesnt. I dont know if thats an appro
Is going after what voters know. And as was said, the Supreme Court within the bounds of Citizens United said transparency and disclosure, fine. I have a few examples. This was a district 6 mailer, and the video at the bottom of an internet mailer ad, paid for by a committee, clean and sunset. Major funding by progress San Francisco. And the district 6 version said paid for by san franciscans for change, major funding by progress San Francisco. I think all of us in this room know who are behind that committee, but most regular people would have no reason to know. Two big things. Number one, it will require the dollar amount of the donors to be listed, so that voters get more than a name and an actual piece of data that they can use to say to ask if they wish, whos really behind this and whats their agenda. And more importantly, it pierces the shell of fake name committees like that by requiring that progress San Francisco in this example, the top two donors to that committee would also