Asked who funds his own group, Waters said: "We have no funding whatsoever and are not seeking any, being simply three private citizens seeking to defend certain constitutional rights and protections".
The Financial Control Board, consisting of the governor, the mayor, the city and state comptrollers and three private citizens, is useful not only in assisting the mayor on difficult choices but also in reassuring the agencies that rate city and MAC bonds.
The final design will be approved by our bipartisan commission, which includes four members of the Senate, four members of the House of Representatives and four private citizens appointed by the president.
The commission includes 12 members of Congress and six private citizens, including the chairmen, former Senator Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming, a Republican, and Erskine B. Bowles, a Democrat and former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton.
Under Mr. Obama's executive order creating the panel of 12 members of Congress and six private citizens, 14 of the 18 commissioners must agree in order to send any package to Congress for a vote in December.
Other supporters of the plan include five of the six private citizens on the commission — the two chairmen along with the Honeywell International chief, David M. Cote, a Republican; a former business executive, Ann M. Fudge, a political independent; and Alice M. Rivlin, a Democrat who was a budget director to Congress and then to Mr. Clinton.
In 2010, seven of the team's members were convicted of having conducted illegal surveillance in 2008 of two private citizens — a businessman who had posted a video clip ridiculing Mr. Lee, and the wife of a legislator from the governing party — and of destroying computer files before prosecutors raided their office.
"Not only did his campaign publish a list of eight private citizens it regards as enemies — an actual old-school enemies list — it recently doubled down on the effort when some began to call these thuggish tactics into question," he said, referring to a campaign "truth team" document that went after eight affluent donors to Mitt Romney.
It was prompted by a newspaper advertisement placed by two private citizens, offering a reward for "information leading to the conviction on indictment of a person or persons for offenses relating to land rezoning in the Republic of Ireland," and a whistle-blower who responded with credible evidence.
The deficit report now goes to the full commission, where 14 of the 18 commissioners (12 members of Congress and six private citizens) must agree in order to send a final package of reforms to Congress for a December debate and vote.
Judge Vinson, who is handling a lawsuit brought by 26 states, two private citizens and a federation of small businesses, was the only judge to rule that the entire reform law was void and then strongly implied that the administration should immediately stop implementing it.
