and if you don't want to be on television, you can shout your question out. >> donna cartwright, cwa retired. as i understand it, the rpa, one of the things that made it possible for the rpa to grow is richmond -- municipalities in california have nonpartisan elections so you don't have to get into it immediately but the democratic party or not. it sounds to me like you are at a juncture now because you are moving to the next level, the county level and people are running for state legislature. do you have any sense of what that will mean differently for you now? >> the municipal elections in california are officially nonpartisan in the sense that people are not listed on the ballot as democrat, republican, green, peace and freedom party, socialist alternative but the process of building a progressive movement over the last 10 or 12 years in the arena in richmond made the elections highly partisan as they have always been because nonpartisanship is a cloak and when you have candidates running with the benefit of hundreds of thousands of dollars in some election cycles and independent