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maybe we wouldn't have been in this position, when we first learned about this stuff some years ago. And impeachment would have been a simple surgical slice, and then we could have gone on. But instead, this thing lingers on and drags on and we're stuck with this situation which is dragging us down. So I urge you to allow people to vote on the opportunity to have each Commission member on an oversight committee appointed by Council members — only the four oversight committees — and to allow for all officers of the County, not just the elected officers, all officers to be impeached. And I urge you to reject the idea of making the impeachment process more difficult. The idea of an impeachment is to quickly get something to court because an impeachment is like a quo warranto. It goes ahead of anything else on the docket as quickly as it can, so that the judge makes a decision.. Now, the judge is still deciding by law whether someone has committed an impeachable offense. It's not the 100 people signing. It's only the judge making the decision. The purpose of the impeachment is to allow for a quick resolution to something that might otherwise drag on, as we're seeing in this case. So those are the things that I would urge you, most urgently. And, of course, from my friend, Mr. Pierson, — I don't think he showed up. He was going to. RAY: He's here. PRANKE: Oh. If he's signed up, I'm sure he'll talk to you about having 'telling a lie' to be a violation of the Code of Ethics. Thank you very much. • RAY: Okay, questions? SANTANGELO: Del, you said you're opposing non-partisan? PRANKE: I am. SANTANGELO: In ten words or Tess, why? • PRANKE: Well, I'm going to let other people talk about it, but non-partisan elections, I believe, don't allow for third and fourth party candidates the opportunity to actually gain a foothold into the election process. But the other thing is how do we stop the money coming from parties? How are you going to say the Democratic Party, or the Republican Party, the Green Party, cannot solicit money for somebody that they want, if that person avows himself as a Green, or such a thing? How do the citizens know that? SANTANGELO: Well, Del, the thing I would counter with that that I struggle with this, every darn time we've had somebody sit up here and talk about the Mayor, they want to talk about a minority vote getter serving, and this solves that problem. And time and time again, on Council races and the Mayoral races, we've said this guy, or this girl, did not make it, and yet they have the seat. PRANKE: We oftentimes elect a plurality President. You know. In the past, 3