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which will be filed is a print out of the Rutan & Tucker websit�e showing that Thai Phan is a membier of <br />the firmi's "Builders and Land Developers Teaim" page. Also attached is a copy of her Statement of <br />Economic Interests form. While it is arguable whether a lawyer may list ONLY their �l�aw firm as a source <br />of income oMOOO aind thuls shield their actual clients from disclosure to the -kublic, it is si;m�! ]Zi not <br />believable that Thai Phan derives iincome from representing buildersancl developers in the community. <br />This soluirce of income is a total bar to her participation on matters such, as the HOO amendment and, <br />while she may argue that it is a broadly applied ordinance in the City, the facts are that a Verm diagram <br />showing the entities subject to the HOO, and Rutain and Tucker's Builder and Developer clients would be <br />l�argely the same group of People. <br />S -rz 7a IINK1,1i <br />investigation into the matter, and c) notwithstanding Councilwoman Thai Phan's employment as a <br />municiporney, she is apparently unaware of how conflicts of interest work in practice (or more <br />interested in pohtical grandstanding than following the rules). <br />Mayor Sairimienito <br />At hour 6, minute 56, Mayor Sairmiento, an attorney himself, dismisses legal conflicts of interest as <br />"'baggage,"' Sarmiienito goes on to say that he did research on the organizaition who drafted the letter <br />and staited that they are latino market rate dopeirs, He dismisses the petitioners as "biased <br />themselves." This may be the low point of the discussion on the matter because there is aibsol�utely n <br />I <br />case law or code that suggests that a legal conflict of interest may not be asserted by people within a <br />, u 11 <br />City who have interests. Commissioner Ramos' conflict on interest is a quiestion of fact. To imp ;n t <br />