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like a brick and mortar business might. >> my name is terry said. i have a retail business in san francisco for 22 years. i have a 5 04 -- 504 loan. it took me three years to get. we need more capital. i tried to get a line of credit from wells capital. i was decline. where does someone like myself go? i have a loan, i need additional funding. >> did you try through the sba? >> i already have an sba loan. i went to wells fargo for a line of credit and they would not give me one. >> i can speak to you about it. when we look at funds that are needed, the biggest thing we look at our ca...

to cover the cost of the parade. thank you for being here and the supporting the cesar chavez holiday event. with me is our and see, joaquin forest. >> good morning, everyone. the morning, everyone. [applause] thank you for being here this morning. thank you for celebrating the life and legacy of cesar chavez. it was an honor to be here last year and hear my father speak as a keynote speaker. it was because of cesar chavez that both my father and myself decided to commit ourselves to a life of public service because of a man who sacrificed so, so much for working people across this s...

people prove that things can be done, it just raises the bar for what is possible for everyone else. >> it kind of went cooled plan and this is what we planned for. in some respects, people have kind of commented to me, oh, my god, you were a part of history and how many couples did we mary? how many families did we start? how many dreams did we make come true? the whole part of being part of history is something that we are here and we are charged with this responsibility to carry out. >> i am director an organizer for the cesar chavez holiday committee. this is the cesar chavez bre...

And it's totally wide open. you see here with all these candidates, with a lack of activity in the early presidential race, a lot of expectations being set. would mitt romney address the controversial health care plan in massachusetts to this crowd of conservative activists. would mitch daniels address the claim there should be a truce on social issues. by and large, all of these candidates -- really, there were no big mistakes. no one blew it out of the park. just again, reflects how wide open the early presidential race is at this point, fred. >> i wonder, peter, no one really blew it out of...

>> it was really -- i want to thank the public school system where i grew up at middletown, ohio. they provided free therapists for me every year through grade school. and also just some wonderful people in my community. my own family, folks in the community. i had a speech mentor, fred ross, a local lawyer, who grew up with a stutter himself and never had any therapy. he was my coach and a speech contest i was in in the ninth grade i stuttered all the way through. a year later i reentered it. under his coaching, he said come on, you can do this and i walked away with the second prize trophy. ...