working on the midterms. i had decided to go home. one of the reasons that i left my position last year is because i wanted to go back to my hometown of kansas city and to work on smaller elections where i felt they could make a difference in this trump world. and i spend fair enough, good for you. thank you. i spent about a month or two knocking on doors in missouri and for charisse davis in kansas. and we were successful in one of those. i wasn t here and i normally am, and putting out mailings and in this situation i prioritized a national issue. getting back to some of the legal issues that you ll be required to contend with often, what does it mean for a party to have a burden of proof on an issue? i guess it depends on the situation and i would need to look at the materials before the meeting. i can t i can t speak to generalities without seeing what s before us in the case that would be before us. just as a learning moment, there is a standard of burden o
additionally, during my years with mark lenno, i was a staffer for him for nine years working on his legislation in the district for tenants rights. and so can you get more specific? i can think of at least eight laws that we ve recently by recent, i mean in last five years or so that have passed specifically, you know, amending the rent ordinance in san francisco on behalf of the tenants. do you have a position on any of those laws? do you name any of them? last year was one allowing for tenants to have counsel which was very important piece of legislation. and i wholly supported that at the ballot. when i was with mark, some of the legislation that he was doing was trying to repeal the ellis act, amend, and, you know, that was difficult by moving forward with what we could do. and my role in the district office was translating the difficult technical issues related to that to the general public as well as relaying constituents thoughts and concerns to sacramento
i wanted to go back to my hometown of kansas city and to work on smaller elections where i felt they could make a difference in this trump world. and i spend fair enough, good for you. thank you. i spent about a month or two knocking on doors in missouri and for charisse davis in kansas. and we were successful in one of those. i wasn t here and i normally am, and putting out mailings and in this situation i prioritized a national issue. getting back to some of the legal issues that you ll be required to contend with often, what does it mean for a party to have a burden of proof on an issue? i guess it depends on the situation and i would need to look at the materials before the meeting. i can t i can t speak to generalities without seeing what s before us in the case that would be before us. just as a learning moment, there is a standard of burden of proof for a landlord and it s preponderance of the evidence, meaning that there s more evidence than the other si
work on smaller elections where i felt they could make a difference in this trump world. and i spend fair enough, good for you. thank you. i spent about a month or two knocking on doors in missouri and for charisse davis in kansas. and we were successful in one of those. i wasn t here and i normally am, and putting out mailings and in this situation i prioritized a national issue. getting back to some of the legal issues that you ll be required to contend with often, what does it mean for a party to have a burden of proof on an issue? i guess it depends on the situation and i would need to look at the materials before the meeting. i can t i can t speak to generalities without seeing what s before us in the case that would be before us. just as a learning moment, there is a standard of burden of proof for a landlord and it s preponderance of the evidence, meaning that there s more evidence than the other side has, one way or another. the onus is on the landlord
offers programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. keep watching for more here on c-span2 and watch any of our past programs online a book tv.org. .. hello and welcome to grapevine, harlem renaissance, 19th annual book library festival. i am benedict carton, with african-american studies, we appreciate your attendance today. the festival runs through saturday, october 14th. for all the most up-to-date information on this festival and all the other programs throughout the year, visit ballstothebooks. all one word. this is funded through donations was one way to help us through this kind of programming is friends of fall for the book. to learn more visit please visit their website again. we ask that you please remember to silence your cell phones and thank you for filling out a survey and improve the festival of the future. thank you to our main sponsor in african-american studies so we are pleased to have here marylouise patterson and jeffrey stewart, two writers who