Book festival but while i loved reading i never thought i would write a book can certainly not one about myself. It is a sense of urgency to go to the oldest people to get the stories before it is too late to have a father and a daughter who both came together the daughter said i am taking you to the coffee shop now and you will tell me this story that 30 30 000000 people read the Health Insurance to say that a moral arc spins slowly there are things wrong with the Health Care Bill but which johnson would have said once you pass it is easy to fix it. The true calling is to bring back the dead i try to do that might be eisenhowers of the warburg also those lights generals request ted roosevelt, jr. I dont think i can afford another 10 years on Franklin Pierce so i am bringing all mind back in the same time absolutely what i care about the ku. Cspan will have questions brother, rod blagojevich. This is 45 minutes from the city club in chicago. [applause] [applause] date you. The queue th
This is a privilege to speak with you today and an honor. A quick look back on why i wrote fundraiser a. My wife is not here, and she is still spooked on what happened to us and decided to stay home. She encouraged me to write a memoior so anyone who wanted to know what happened would have something to read. I was doing research for a few in institutions and every time i went to speak at any of these places i was asked if i was going to write a book and that was encouraging. And finally, my attorney told me immediately after the trial, rob you need to write a book about your experience. It it a very rare thing to survive a federal prosecution where 9596 percent of the time a defendant is either found guilty or pleads guilty. You have a perspective, have been through the process, and it might be a perspective from the courtroom people might be curious to learn about. With mikes encouragement and julies and others here i am telling you about a book i started writing in august of 2011. Wh
Goliath. It is a david and goliath battle that identify been fortunate enough now to be out on the other side and talk a little bit about. That was the reality i stepped into on december 9 2008, when at 6 21 in the morning the doorbell would not stop ringing where i was staying. I was fund raising for my brother. Id committed to doing it at least for four months. The doorbell continued to ring. I thought it was just someone playing pranks. Got dressed very quickly, went downstairs and saw two men flashing fbi badges and subpoenas requesting entrance many to friends of blagojevich. You can imagine that was a shocking occurrence for me, and it forever changed my life and took me in a direction i never expected. Later that morning the thenu. S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald in a press Conference Announcing that my brother had been arrested said that lincoln would roll over in his grave if he knew that rod was attempting to sell Barack Obamas senate seat to highest bidder. As i was listening
Its discretion. Okay, just my concern is that we object to the cost for a certain period of time. Yes. And there is a time line that is just if these, do not mesh together that we somehow are taking care of. And that is my concern, because we dont know what is going to happen and there are a couple of things that could change this and in relation to that, what is the actual extension fee . That you mentioned that, and i dont know what the actual extension fee is . Is that it is involved. There is 100 k. It is 100,000 extension fee. Per what period of time . 100,000 for six months. Yeah. Could we, take a look for that information and get back to you . That is not changing in this staff report kl is why we dont have a ready answer to that but we can get an answer to you before the end of the meeting. My last question. About measures considered forced. I dont think that the staff can answer that question, that will be a question that you know, in terms of the City Attorney and i am sure t
The project to make more than an 18 percent return to get their 45 percent split and that he have no financial incentive to wait or land bank in this deal. And i think that we, and that is why we have approved that the structure of the deal is so that we are both, and rewarded by moving quickly through the process. Does that answer your questions . Okay. A leading question as we sometimes say. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. I dont have any questions. So, call the question. All in favor . Aye. Aye. Opposed . Abstaining . Resolution, 10. , i am sorry, 143. Okay. Item 8 b, informational presentation on flaming lotus girls temporary public art installation of pier 14 plaza between the agricultural building on pier 14 on the embarcadero adjacent to mission street. I am a planner with the port of San Francisco and i am here today to present a temporary public art piece for the pier 14 plaza and we will up load a map for you and creaters of the art piece and so as depicted in the graphic that you