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BALOG: Someone like Mr. Lim in certain fields deal with the government and
<br />aspects of a Charter, so that's -, if you're recommending two guys and you're saying you know
<br />they're shoulders above the other people. who applied, and it seems to be like it was, well, this
<br />person has just a slight edge, that's what I want to know, what is the slight edge, or how do you
<br />define -?
<br />BESS: Well, I don't know that I mentioned slight edge, but I -, but in terms of
<br />your question about Charter Commission experience, Chris was the attorney for the last Charter
<br />Commission, and from what we have been able to gather, not only out of Chris, but other
<br />individuals, he did an outstanding job, an outstanding, professional job, and that's -. After the
<br />interview, we said, wow. This -, we don't have to -. He has a feel for the whole process that I'm
<br />not saying that Steve could not get that kind of feel, but he doesn't have hands-on a I've been
<br />through the process, this is the way we could short-cut things. I've researched a number of the
<br />issues that you will be dealing with; I don't have to research them again, or all I'm doing is
<br />updating research. That's what I'm talking about.
<br />RAY: Kevin, go ahead. You have more?
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<br />SANTANGELO: You're just in time.
<br />BESS: But I got to tell you, Kevin -.
<br />BALOG: I just was -. I guess my other -, my only other comment would be -, is that
<br />I'm a person -. I just believe -. I'm not saying I'm -, how I'll vote, but sometimes it's good to
<br />have continuity and have the same person do the same thing, and other times, without being able
<br />to know what the committee learned through the interviews, that's why I'm depending on you.
<br />It's good to have someone else to look at something a hair different or be able to present
<br />something different. That doesn't mean that they -, I guess shorten my time or lengthen it,
<br />because the process is going to be the -, to me, the process, what it takes, but who will look at
<br />something and give a difference of opinion that you may or may not have had in that specific area
<br />ten years ago. So that's the only reason why, you know, I didn't do the interviews, so I got to
<br />feel comfortable to ask -.
<br />BESS: Right.
<br />BALOG: The questions.
<br />BESS: Right.
<br />BALOG: And depend on your answers back. Because I looked, too, and I was
<br />thinking, hey, right on, Chris Yuen, but when you said you had the other two, it makes -, then it
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