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do, which would be an educational component, rather than engaging in arguments or getting into discussion back and forth; just to correct misconceptions of fact. MS. POINDEXTER: I think that would be really difficult because then the other challenge is having the media involved also. You are still coming up against a brick wall because they are going to have their own perception and put it out there. CHR. SIRACUSA: They do anyway. MS. POINDEXTER: Yeah, so what I am saying is that it's just going to be out there anyway, and we can't deal with all of that. But, I think what Mike said earlier, and you confirmed, is that we can go out to our community meetings to help clarify what our role is as - -- MR. UDOVIC: I don't think there is anything stopping you from doing that. MS. POINDEXTER: So I think that the Commission, knowing that when you come in for Commission orientation, that what can we do to make the process go smoother. The papers are going to write what they want, so it's going to be our duty to get out to our community to say what is really happening and if there is some negative things coming out in the paper and trying to persuade somebody's perception to believe that. I think it is our duty as Commissioners to get out into our community, and our community meetings to let them know, I mean - -- CHR. SIRACUSA: It's not only in the newspaper; it's on blogs too. MS. POINDEXTER: Yeah, it's on blogs. MR. UDOVIC: Excuse me. By and large, in all honesty, until we had this last little bit of things, everybody complimented you on the wonderful job you did; so I don't know if their perception was that anything was wrong anywhere. They were really confused. My sense of this was that they were really pleased with the work that Commission did. MS. POINDEXTER: And there were just a few who wanted to stir up something for their own benefit. So, we had to deal with that, unfortunately. MR. MELROSE: Let me get back to the point. We have a motion about the Bill or about Mike's recommendations. I am on Mike's comment, which is trying to put an additional thought into the motion, so that is where I am coming from. CHR. SIRACUSA: Okay. Mike Udovic, the constraint - -and I think you were the one to bring it to us and remind us of it - -was about, I'm not sure it was the lack of our ability to have a conversation or to intervene, or the lack of advisability that we enter into that process. Is there a legal basis for that constraint on our interaction with people at the mic, or is it a matter of kind of practical history that says that when you do this you go long, you could end up off track, etc.? 9