Travis County Commissioners Court
September 30, 2008
Citizens Communication
Citizens communication is next. And several citizens have signed in. This item gives residents an opportunity to address the Commissioners court on any matter not on the agenda for up to three minutes. I do request that we honor the three minute time limit today. We have been lax with that in the past. Today we have several interested citizens, so in order for us to get through our long agenda, we will need to honor the policy. Gus pena is first. And he is followed by james kitchens and mr. Kitchens is followed by kenneth schnieder.
>> good morning, judge, gus pena, in regards to patricia young brown's presentation about the hospital district. I will tell you this much, it is very difficult, the eligibility process to go there and get seen by a physician at the hospital district. If you go to the people's community clinic, hang it up, because they are not seeing or taking new patients. Medication, if you need medication and you are uninsured you had better have some good friends to help you out. If you don't, you are not going to get your meds. Seton, I want to thank seton for providing the medication we needed when we went to the emergency room for this very catastrophic accident that we had on August the 30th. They were very great. People out there, if you have problems, seton, call the director of social workers, she will help you out some way, some how, but they will work with you. Number two, in regards to the budget, I am a former federal corrections officer, former i.r.s. Investigator, department of treasury. I request always for my fellow brothers and sisters corrections officers that we can increase the corrections officers positions every year and the funding. I haven't been able to scrutinize the budget because of problems that I have physically, but I want to thank you all for working hard to the budgetary process. Social service funding outstanding. I want to thank you all. I said this last time, two or three weeks ago. You all set the foundation for funding for social service agencies, the city did a good job about it. But y'all are the ones that set the pace, I want to thank you all very much for that, you have helped a lot of people out there. Commissioner Gomez, congratulations on being the chair for capital metro board. Remember, the people that are out there that still have problems with accessibility on the buses cannot afford the high increase. They should have been a lower increment of increase in the price of tickets. That's just not good. I want to thank the following people who helped out the pena family, judge charles baird, charlie baird 299th district court, a lot of criminal defense attorneys, jerry morris, john butler to name a few. A friends of mine here in the audience, but I don't want to embarrass him, with the city of Austin, bevery christian person that helped out the family in need. When you don't have money for meds, you need help, friends are there. Thank god for that. I want to thank, I should have done this first, thank god and jesus for allowing me to be here. Last item mentors and tutors for kids that need help with math. Algebra is killing -- hurting a lot of our students at aisd and everywhere else. Please, if you know any tutors that can help kids with algebra, geometry, trigonometry, please volunteer. I know limited algebra, I want be able to help out lucio too much. We will get him a computer. They also need laptops and computers. They are requiring computers for homework at aisd, many subject matters. Thank you very much. I stayed within the 37 minute limit, judge. I want to thank you all very much for the hard work that you all did on the budget and god bless you all. Thank you judge Biscoe, Commissioner Daugherty thank you for your help out there in the community and personally. God bless you all.
>> thank you.
>> james kitchens is next, Karen rennick please come forward.
>> good morning, judge, Commissioners thank you for allowing me to speak this morning. I had couple of thing to bring to light. We are having a town hall east meeting this afternoon, 6:30, in manor Texas, the address 10323 highway 290 east. Encourage all citizens in eastern Travis County to have any business that they would like to talk about to come to that community forum. Also, I would like to remind you, judge, and the commissions the Austin police department, Travis County sheriff's department has teamed up this year for national night out. A kickoff party October the 7th at 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., that will be at overton elementary at the new turner roberts recreation center. That's all that I have. Thank you for allowing me the time.
>> thank you.
>> we have a national night out proclamation in item no. 6.
>> yes, sir, thank you.
>> mr. Schnieder is next. And if we could get roberts to come forth.
>>
>> [indiscernible] been a lot of years, I appreciate everything judge Biscoe and dan smith done a really good job. We receive the water now. We have this here kind of a threat letter sounded like to us and everything. Financial statements. All of that kind of stuff that Williamson county want. That's my -- I'm in Williamson county. My Commissioner. I don't know what we're going to -- how we're going to do this and everything. The Commissioners need to get together and find out what's the problem for this travis and Williamson county. We done this here 10 years ago. Trying to get water and sewer and all of that kind of stuff. So many loop holes. Of course we can see the water in front of them now. A big old
>> [indiscernible] in front of the front door of my house. Now we have problems getting it through the house. I don't know if we could get it before and now they say they got to check all of this other stuff and everything. People died out there since then the past 10 years people died. Moved away, everything else, everything is going to be different. It's some kind of hold up looked like to me on this here. You both have the money. Williamson county said they are going to dedicate the money to us to get it in there. It don't cost that much to run a line from the house to the street, the meter is right there in the front yard. So I can't understand what the holdup is. I stayed away, like I said I will stay away, get something done. He kept his word, I tried to keep mine. We don't want to look at the water in 10 years and not be able to hook up to it. Is there anything new about this here?
>> what's new is that we're still working on it. The problem is that we need to run the lines from the street to the houses and that's on private property and nobody's money can be used. Orca's money can for the be used because Williamson county as a cdbg designated county at the time of the application. Travis County was not. We lucked up. We can use orca money to go from the streets to the homes, but on the Williamson county home because Williamson county was a cdbg county, the money cannot be used from orca. That form -- comes from h.u.d. And h.u.d. Is saying basically with that information, they will allow some of the self declaration because you have to be income eligible in order for the federal funds to be spent on you. We are still working on that, it is a snag. The problem is that we have not figured out a way to raise about $40,000 to run the lines from the street to the homes on the Williamson county side. So I haven't given up yet. We have two or three other options but Commissioner eckhardt and I did go to Williamson county, we met with the county judge. Commissioner berkman and Williamson county auditor, county attorney's office, cdbg staff and we talked h.u.d. Into simplifying the form it was using. There were issues with that form, ms. Brown and I chatted yesterday. It's sort of intrusive about financial information. Unfortunately when you want to use federal funds sometimes you have to give more information about --
>> what was wrong with the first one we made out?
>> well, it's dated for number one. Two is that form was used by other entities not h.u.d. Oorca is a state agency. The forms we used before were satisfactory to orca. But they said basically we can cover the Travis County side. We can cover the Travis County because Travis County was not a cdbg eligible county at the time of the application. Unfortunately, at the time of the application Williamson county was a cdbg designated county. So orca funds cannot be used in Williamson county.
>> there's a good news/bad news here. The bad news is that Williamson county folks portion of north ridge had have to fill out forms again. We are trying to work with Williamson to strip down that information to its essence, only what they actually so it's not a big pain in the behind to fill out.
>> will it change over the years? Is that what the problem is.
>> no
>> [multiple voices]
>> if you are going to have a full discussion, I would suggest that you --
>> citizens communication allows us to receive information from you. The information that we have to give is what we have just given. The only thing that's different is we are still working on it. If we can get around using that form but getting funding another way, my goal is for us to do that.
>> should have been grandfathered in. That's the reason they changed the law since four or five years ago, they changed the law in there somewhere. That's how come they want this here done instead of what they had before.
>> it is a source of funding issue, where is the money coming from, what requirements do you have to meet for them. Our lawyers told us that we are beyond citizens communication.
>> he told me that last time we went up to
>> [indiscernible] everything, she was going to put up the 150,000 or something like that.
>> well, that money is still available. That's the item that the lawyer referred to. We'll still need the $150,000 regardless of how we resolve this $40,000 issue. So if we use part of the 150, we have 110 left. If we figure out another way to use the 40,000, we still need to use Williamson county's 150.
>> we don't want to sit there another 10 years and look at the water like next door to us. This is next door right in the yard.
>> I have a new picture, new water picture ready for a -- new water pitcher ready. I plan to be out there with you on that great day.
>> thank you,.
>> thank you very much.
>> we have ms. Rennick, we have van roberts.
>> I don't think he's going to make it. Could we move to the next speaking --
>> richard bowden. Is he here.
>> yes.
>> if you take that seat next to ms. Schnieder
>> [sic] then we have jenny and jenny will have to complete the rest of this form. Is jenny here? All right.
>> [indiscernible]
>> we need your last name on here. If you don't want to give out that information -- I have been down here a few times but we really don't know you on a first name basis yet. Ms. Rennick?
>> yes. Good morning, judge. Commissioners court. Today we do have again a series of speakers from our group at rescue as well as our coalition texans for reelection -- for real elections. And I would like to say that our purpose today is going to try to address the concerns that -- that we hear from the officials such as yourselves all the way up the chain to the secretary of state. We think that it's important that we certainly recognize that there are serious concerns from your side of the issue. And also today we will be -- we will be talking about our concerns as well. But we do want to certainly make sure that we are addressing the concerns that we are hearing from -- from officials about the issue. The issue being that our group and large number of voters here in Travis County are very concerned about the fact that their votes may not be counted accurately and that the use of these machines that secretly count the votes certainly doesn't give them any confidence at all in the fact that we propose to use hand counted paper ballots so that everything is 100% transparent in that transaction. So I would like to first of all recognize that one of the -- one of the concerns that we constantly hear from officials is that -- is that somehow by going to paper ballots, people are going to consider this, say, a step backward. They are going to think that -- that why -- why are we not using these machines anymore? What's the problem. It's just going to be perceived as a very confusing message to the public. I would like to say that -- has not been our experience with all of the people that we have come in contact with. And with the groups that have signed on to our coalition. And the experience of groups in our parts of the country. But I'll keep it focused just here in Travis County. When we have brought up this issue or done public education activities such as parallel elections, exit polls, speaking events, you name it, it's incredible the response that we get. There is a -- there is a clear concern on the part of the voters that their votes aren't being counted accurately and that they do understand the simplicity and the transparency that comes with hand counted paper ballots. And so I -- I guess that I would like to offer to you today that from our experience in talking to large numbers of voters that
>> [buzzer sounding] that concern -- your concern really should not be as great as you imagine it to be. Thank you. I would just like to say and introduce we do have one of our coalition members here today. We had hoped to have more, but 9:00 in the morning is a little difficult to get people here today. But we do have one of our members instruments for peace, rich bowden.
>> roberts is not here? That's correct.
>> richard bowden.
>> hi.
>> okay, mr. Bowed den, you will be next. Abe bee deloshier, mr. Bowed den, ms. Clark and ms. Deloshier.
>> I'm a coalition member. I'm a musician here in town. I've been here for 30 some years as a musician, therefore know a lot of musicians here, a lot of other people. So in the last five years I've used my contacts and my friends, my peers to put on a variety of public events to publicize important and controversial issues that weren't getting the news coverage that I thought they deserved. It's very easy to do that. All that you have to do is start talking. You will find people who feel like you do. In my business we can make noise if we want. If we choose to use or pulpit, the stage, for a higher purpose than just playing music. But I'm a fiddle player. Microphones still make me nervous even after 30 some years because I don't sing much. But we -- talking to people about the election situations but with our voting machines, I understand your position is to not -- you're steering this car, you don't want to swerve here and there making crazy decisions that aren't founded on good facts and won't serve the public well. Your position is to, you're asking why shouldn't we trust these machines? But as the voters out here, us folks out here, are in the position of asking well if we can't tell how these votes are being counted and we can't even check the computer code, why should we trust these machines? It just like with money. We wouldn't just trust the bank to tell us how much money we have. We would want it physically counted. That's the only reason we trust computerized counting in banks is that there's a physical things, dollars. We counted those dollars before we handed it over to the bank. We can't too that with our votes. The people that I talked to just don't see any reason why we should trust machines that we can't look into, there's just no reason to. There's a huge pool of people willing to stand up and do things about stuff like this. A huge poll of volunteer energy out there if you want vote counters. If you're willing to pay them something that's a whole other matter. You can get crowds of people for free. This is a really important issue here. Our money is one thing, our votes are more important than our money. That's where all of the money, what's really controlling all of the money in this system is who gets elected. So I mean really we're -- we're asking why should we vote -- trust these machines? And yes, we are ready to do whatever we have to do to -- as citizens to go to a system that's completely transparent. Like in the good old days when you count your own dollars you know how much you have. When you count your own votes you know how many you have. That's what us citizens want as far as I can tell. Thank you.
>> thank you, ms. Clark, ms. Deloshier --
>> good morning, judge and county commissions, abe bee deloshier, my colleagues and I sent you a letter requesting an agenda item next Tuesday to discuss the issue of paper ballots. And so I hope that -- happens. I'll just leave that letter with that. I know everybody has received it. I have called to be sure that you have all gotten that. I'm going to speak to, I know the judge likes to hear something new and different. I am going to speak to personal experience. I have been very active in politics in the city of Austin in the 30 years that I have been here, working on various campaign causes, supporting candidates that I like, making donations to candidates that I like. Since the advent of the electronic voting machines I have withdrawn my interest in the political system. It's come to the point now where the way I describe it, I'm undecided about whether or not to even vote. This is what it's come down to. For me personally. As rich was saying, I prefer to mark my choices on a piece of paper, put that piece of paper in a locked metal box and at least have some semblance of surety that yes, indeed that -- paper ballot will likely be counted the way I have cast it. So not only am I a disgruntled voter, but I feel like I have been disenfranchised because after my 10 years of studying this information, since it first came on the scene here in Travis County, I've had concerns, been voicing my concerns. Here we are begin still voicing my concerns and it's become an absurdity to me. I have studied the issues, I go to the library and get my league of women voters voting guide, study the issues, know who I'm going to vote for. Take my notes and I am asked to push a button to cast a vote. I'm sorry pushing a button is not voting. Pushing a button to me is like playing a video game or carefully composing a strongly worded letter to my elected officials or something else. It's not voting. Pushing a button to me is not voting. I really need a piece of paper to -- to feel like my vote has a chance of being counted correctly. So this is what I have come to and I'm sorry to have to -- to go public with this. I've resisted for a long time saying this publicly, but I've come to the point where I don't trust the voting machines and come to the point where I don't feel like voting. Now if it so happens that we can have a paper ballot this election, I would be -- stand up with rich and his instruments for peace comrades and other volunteer citizens around the community and yes indeed
>> [buzzer sounding] show up and volunteer to count the votes, work the polls, what have you. So that's what I have to say. I also wanted to let you know, I invited y'all to the movies last week. I don't know if you all made it or not. Stealing america vote by vote. I have a d.v.d. Copy for each of you, a copy of the Travis County library for future commissions. Please study this and it will give you a better idea of what our concerns are. Thank you for your time.
>> thank you.
>> mr. Deloshier is next, followed by vicki carp.
>> thank you for reviewing our letter. I noticed, judge, you said that you were going to refer the letter to the attorney. I did a little research and found out it's already standard practice in Texas to have a hybrid election, meaning those paper and electronic voting. I talked to an assistant clerk in
>> [indiscernible] county this morning who told me he's got both 65% of the folks approximately in his county uses paper and the 35% uses the vre but the 65% damned sure doesn't like that damned machine he said.
>> [laughter] okay. County clerk, let's talk about the county clerk and the feasibility of doing this by November. It can be done. The county clerk has already printed the ballots files for absentee ballot. I think it's just a matter of ordering more paper. The ballot style is there. I don't think it would cost very much money and take more than a couple of days to prints more ballots so folks can have their vote counted by citizens and know that their vote was accurately recorded the way that they cast it. Is there a clear and present danger? Let's talk about that. I have here article after article, I stayed up last night about hart intercivic. We wonder are these people being extremists and tree huggers? What is this vote rescue group? Let's talk about what's really going on in Texas? Has this been going on for years? Yes. Ask steve smith two term supreme court justice in 2006, 100,000 overvotes with a hybrid election with the hart intercivic and es and s in tarrant county. When they looked at it the numbers were astounding. Things were not adding up. I met with steve smith. We all did, david rodgers, talked to them, educated them about the problems in electronic voting. Their numbers were way out there. I could send an hour talking about that election alone. It happened right here in Texas. It turns out when they finally ordered a recount, the secretary of state stopped the recount because hart intercivic machines had not recorded the audit logs of 102 of the machines in tom greene county. I had to memorize this stuff last night. Stay up half the night so I could talk in three minutes. So that election process got stopped because there were not proper -- the machine failed and the vendor quote, said, this is really interesting, this is from the vendor hart about tom greene county." my goodness, the system did not do what we told it to do said ovall vice-president with hart. We told it incorrectly. Meaning that he -- when they looked into why the machine wouldn't print out the audit logs properly, that it turns out they hadn't programed it correctly. Well, what else did john covell's assistants program into that machine? We will never know. Again, I could go over just the case for steve smith, he ran for supreme court on a third term, very popular and
>> [buzzer sounding] when you look the at numbers things do not add up at all. This is unacceptable. I say that the reality is this is going on, it's not a far-fetched idea that votes are being stolen and we need to have a solution by November. I think it can be done. We're willing to help get poll workers out there. I think the money is there to prints some extra ballots. The ballot style has been made available already been produced for absentee ballots. I do not see any reason, including the statutes in Texas, that have already proven we have hybrid elections that we don't see any reason why this cannot be achievable and we're willing to work with you to make it happen. I'm sorry to talk very fast and I would like to talk longer next week and we plead and ask that this court make this a reality and put this on the agenda so we can talk about it next week.
>> thank you.
>> it's important and it needs to happen. We have got to secure this election.
>> vicki carp is next, followed by ms. Dick, followed by ronnie reeferseed dijimri.
>> good morning, commissions and judge. Vicki carp with vote rescue back again. In thinking about one of the responses we've heard from this court, this is not the first time we've heard this because the election is around the corner. The idea that we're coming in at the last manuscript with this request to -- at the last minute with this request to completely throw out the voting system that's we have here in Travis County. I brought with me today some of the files and some of the information that we have been reading and information on some of the actions that we have been doing. So I'm going to give you a little tour through my home office files. Tell you going back in time how long we have been working on this, some of the information and actions that we have been doing. This is my first file when I first found out that electronic voting machines were stealing elections back in 2003, I started giving speeches to members of all political parties and citizens groups. Then we have got this file alone, some of the -- every piece of paper in here has to do can the problem with electronic voting system, I'm talking about all kinds, including hart, from 2003-2004. This is my no means a conclusive list. Just the ones that I pulled off the internet that were of particular interest to me. Post 2004 election, right after all of the problems that came up during the election that most people had no idea, some of the problems that came up in 2004. This was an action that we did at the capitol. Capitol 51 March, protesting the 2004 election because of all of the problems that nobody seemed to know or care about. This one is -- is from the press conference that we did in washington d.c. At the national press club. Two or three months before the 2004 election trying to warn people six ways to hack an election with electric mick voting systems. Two different types we demonstrated. Nobody did anything. Let's see. We have got
>> [indiscernible] here we held our own election assistance hearing in houston, Texas in 2005 because the carter baker commission was not addressing the real concerns of citizens such as myself. Anyway you get the idea. This -- these are some high impact articles from this year about three inches of paper. By no means -- no means is that conclusive. Then here's some special articles that Karen and I talk about on our radio show every Friday for two hours. Here's books about how the ohio election was stolen. Movies that we have given, many of you and other officials. I want to say that what we have found is that we go to the county, we have gone to dana many times. She tells us that she's heard -- her selection on voting machines is limited by whatever the state did she did the best she could. We have gone to the state, to anne mcgeehan. I said what is your response to the questions about the hart intercivic lawsuit that we came here and talked to about the court. She said well you will have to go to the court to find out. Later she said she responded to the county but she would not discuss with me what the answer was to those concerns.
>> [buzzer sounding] we keep getting shuffled around and that's why we have now our county Commissioners file. So we are councilling on you to help us with this. I just want to say a firm that there is still time to get rid of electronic voting and go to hand counted paper ballots before November 4. We can come up with the helpers to counts the votes, thank you.
>> [ applause ]
>> thank you, ms. Dick?
>> good morning, judge Biscoe and panel. I am here also today to talk about my personal
>> [indiscernible] what's going on with me. But first of all I would like to wish my third oldest daughter a happy birthday, ms. Phyllis a. Mckenzie, she's my second oldest daughter, third oldest child. She's the mother of my two grandchildren, ms. Arlene mckenzie who is a young track star at the university of Texas. And my granddaughter brittany, who is a great soccer player. And she's a wonderful wife to her husband, mr. Norse mckenzie, a police officer. That is a very, you know, in my opinion, you know, successful family there. I'm also want to thank all of the people who have prayed with me, who have supported me with prayer, in prayer, praying with me and for me for my son to come home, roosevelt hutchins, junior, to come home safely. And he did do that may 13th, 2008. He was released. And he has problems, though. Trying to adjust after 15 years of being locked away from, you know, from the society and everything he's trying to adjust and I'm thankful for the pushup program of mr. Beno to help him, you know, get into the programs and start getting involved. He was damaged, though. He had -- he got hurt, you remember I told you all about the six or seven guards who jumped him. And beat him in his face and now he's going blind in his, you know, he's having problems seeing. He is going blind in the eyesight. I'm hoping and praying that d -- what is it dars can help him, I have him registered over there as well. I also want to talk about what happened to me in my civil lawsuit. I have been trying to obtain copies of my civil judgment and lawsuit of November the 23rd, 2004, signed by the honorable judge patrick o. Keel. I would like to obtain my orders and my judgment, the last time I saw it was in the hands of -- of judge scott jenkins. He had the originals.
>> [buzzer sounding] and he is the one who -- who was telling me how he wasn't going to sign, he would not say judge keel, he said keel's orders to take and inforce the release of my judgment. I would like to thank you, judge Sam Biscoe for leading the way for trying to assist me in obtaining and just getting at least copies of my judgment in order. If I could just get copies of my judgment and orders I would like to have them enforced and executed. I have a student loan that I would like to pay off, other things that I would like to do. I'm ready to go shopping. Thank you.
>> thank you, ms. Dick.
>> [indiscernible] jennifer gale is the last person who signed in.
>> thank you, judge. Again my name is ronnie reeferseed. But with that out of the way, let me just point out that I'm here this week about this attempted surrender of our national sovereignty about the republicrats and
>> [indiscernible] in the white house. I would like to say hello to president chuck baldwin. I bet nobody has heard of him. He's the constitutional party nominee for president and he is also the supported candidate of ob/gyn dr. Ron paul. You are not going to hear that in our controlled media. So if you want to defy the pundits, our controlled media and the banksters who rule our world, we need to conserve our constitution, we need to vote baldwin. We need to defund, defund the criminals from taking taxpayer funded bailout scheme. $700 billion we're supposed to give to the banksters. We need to just say know. Our public servants need to obey the public. The express preference was 99 against to one. So it's not even a negotiable issue we are being told by the media we have to do this, we have to do that quickly before we have a chance to figure out what we're doing to ourselves. If we would just fold ob/gyn doctor Ron paul who like I said is already in total support of the constitutional party nominee, chuck baldwin for president. And this is because for one they both understand we need to return to the gold standard. We need to earn the example of global leadership with valid paper ballots and other things for example and defy the stooges, they are traitors, basically traitors. We need to stand up to the unified controlled media. Just think about that. Is there anybody out there in the media who is even talking about defying the -- the demand by the white house? No, they are all trying to figure out some way we have got to go along with it somehow. And frankly I wanted to also thank vote rescue, they have earned my full report -- support on paper ballots that are demanded for voter accuracy by voters, in defines, this is not confusion, for example when I ran for congress in the year 2000, my votes were way, way, way undercounted and the republican who supposedly defeated me he dropped out of the race. He dropped out of the race after spending all that money and time and effort just to get on the ballot and do -- after defeating me, he dropped out. That was his real issue, the programmable voting machines is again a response to the npr broadcast yesterday, I guess they had some guy say well he was going to vote for Ron paul but now he's going to vote for juan mcshame. I mean, what -- pro war. Pro bankster, dr. Paul has been trying to educate all of us about this economic situation. Literally decades. If you all would bother to look into Ron paul library.com, everything that he's been writing literally for decades --
>> thank you very much, thank you.
>> okay.
>> jennifer gale. Hi travis, presiding officer Sam Biscoe. Commissioner Daugherty, Commissioner Gomez, sarah eckhardt, precinct 2 and Ron Davis precinct 1. I liked your comments on the budget last week. Our autumn thoughts are a family driving more slowly for our children, fresh clean air, plenty of good sleep and bailouts. Change. We need to change the time of the Commissioners court meeting to 9:20 instead of 9:00 since you pretty much settled on that. The member of congress, our members of congress throughout the united states do not represent us. When they vote it's not about right or wrong or what we think. It's about win, win, win. But we won with that 631 budget last week for Travis County. Yesterday, our -- our wall street lost 778 points, which comes out to a trillion dollars of losses for people that have been gambling with the stock market. If we have the bailout it will mean 10%, allegedly 10% loss in value of the dollar. I don't want to lose that 10% value on the dollar because it's almost worthless as it is. A trillion dollars is something that's worthless, doesn't mean that much to me. Why is it the wealthest nation in the world is so far in debt? We learned last week we learned last week that the Commissioners court can balance a $631 million budget I'm proud of you. Incumbent votes in congress have voted for the bailouts which clearly means they represent the business community and not you and i. Now, where were our congress members when they created the instrument of adjustable rate mortgages that we know when it changes a person couldn't afford. Every tenants legal guide by port man and stuart is something if we have to go renting we should read first. People should be owning their property, not renting it and squandering their money. Ber tank in the daily texan talks about how students can support their candidates by putting signs in their window. Why do you think they don't vote? They are not part of the election process and our universities are making darned sure they are not a part of the election process. We should step in and say that they have to -- to follow the law first amendment. Electronic voting is easily inplated. We know that -- manipulated we know that. Let's change the paper ballots. This election governor palin and senator biden are speaking
>> [buzzer sounding] and I'm also asking that we intervene on the light rail, especially with the -- with it being built putting up in March instead of now. And -- and let them know we don't want to spend another $614 million. I'm also letting people know that I am announcing that I'm running for mayor of the city.
>> [buzzer sounding]
>> thank you.
>> and that we need to give our homeless a quarter every time we see them. If you have any quarters or make sure that you do, let's get those quarters to our homeless. We're -- our city is currently attacking them.
>> thank you.
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