worked directly with willie brown to achieve presentations. in our first meeting, you came in and said, do what is right for the building and i will take care of the money and the politics. and you certainly held true to your word. the building is beautiful because we made sure that we did the right thing. [applause] >> how about the pink suede jacket? [laughter] [applause] >> it is a great honor for me to be part of what is always an incredible san francisco's celebration. tomorrow, in particular, will be a great day. i do not know yet. but it will be charged to the reconstruction of the building. [laughter] it is my great honor and pleasure to let you know that when we finish, in just a few minutes, all of the dialogue behind us, champagne bottles, very important people who are up here, i suppose you might say gives birth in life to the incredible thing triangle which is on the side of this particular hill that has been put here by some incredible volunteers. before that, we have got to hear from a couple of people. we're going to start with

with that, i like to invite former mayor willie brown and also the supervisors, please join us on the stage and be part of the witness and of the signing of the proclamation for this year imposed a celebration of the asian pacific heritage month. and supervisor cohen, come on up as well. [applause] >> with that, it is official, asian pacific heritage month is on. thank you, mayor li and everyone that came out to help with the signing of the proclamation. they are the cumulative efforts of the asian pacific heritage celebration committee. please welcome the founder and chairman of the heritage celebration committee. you did not get to rest at all, come on back. >> thank you for being here. thank you for joining us. i know it is a little tough right now, but when you have a chance, look around you and look at the people sitting around you. you can see the diversity of our city. it is very diverse with over 50 ethnic groups, and how we can see the vibrant fabric of our communities, and i will take this opportunity again for thinking the whole of our members and elected officials bringing

personality of me added with willie brown comes close. if i may present to you, on behalf of the city, our great certificate of honor and a gracious personal thanks for your contribution. [applause] >> it is very kind of you. >> thank you. mayor lee: the bechtels generously gave their contribution, and together with that gift, it is only appropriate that the war memorial trustees also decided to recognize charlotte and george by renaming this carriage drive in their honor. charlotte and george, for your dedication to both veterans and the arts, embody the war memorial's founding purpose as a cultural center and a lasting dedication to the men and women of san francisco who served our country. it is my pleasure to join the

of course, we have former mayor willie brown joining us. we have former supervisor sophie maxwell here as well. we have charlotte, a protocol officer. we have all the members of our board of supervisors, our current board. we have naomi's . harlon, kelly, the kids are here. naomi's mom is here bang today. thank you for being here as well. mrs. lee is here. [laughter] >> yeah. >> of all, today has been a very active day of the just wonderful announcements, of decisions being made that really reflected the values of the city. i have another one that reflects the value of this city, someone that i have spent privileged to work with for so many years, one began her career as a special assistant, worked her way up as the purchaser, director of purchasing. before that, one of the most difficult task, kind of reminds me of my dpw day is, she had a difficult task of being the director of the taxicab administration. [laughter] so she has earned some strides there. going on to director of purchasing and becoming deputy city administrator. most recent

willie brown in 1974 was the first person to change the law so we could become citizens and not criminals. all of that will go away if we do not stand and fight for the liberty, liberation, and freedom and we have. our enemies will fight just to the death, so our work is not done. it is like a rainbow. you cannot see the beginning. you cannot see the end. >> happy pride. then it is a real pleasure and an honor of being here. gwe will be targeting many communications. the messages peace and safety for everyone. happy pride. thank you. >> we would like to call to the podium the chief. [applause] >> thank you very much. i know it is a little bit of a sad time. he brought the video to me, and then it happened. anti-bullying. it is only right she was honored on the floor by senator leno, and sunday will be the last parade, and she will leave a legacy and it will carry on. >> i would like to bring to the podium two special folks who will be working hard this weekend making this happen. >> some of you guys already started celebrating. i also want to thank the mayor's office and everyone who made

>> you can, if he does not mind. -- we still call you mayor. >> thank you, mayor willie brown. it is an honor to be with you on this occasion. it is very appropriate to name a facility after george and charlotte. san francisco is home for many important people, but none made as great a contribution to our country as george shultz. charlotte has given great service to our city and our state. i believe all year extend a great thanks to them for their great services to our country, to california, and to san francisco. i would like to complement our city for recognizing at them in this manner -- i would like to compliment our city for recognizing the - manner. thank you very much. [applause] that of mayor -- >> mayor lee, the time has come. join me and proceed to do the dedication of horseshoe drive, which has been dedicated by the opera house board in honor of george and charlotte schulz. mayor lee: it is my pleasure joining all of you to announce this dedication on behalf of our city, on behalf of the war memorial, dedicating this carriageway to be charlotte and george shultz way

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that's where we turn to former mayor willie brown and police chief fred sir. what is stop and frisk? >> it was a brand new program in n.y. city that was later shown by the aclu and others to indicate racial profiling. they stopped 700,000 people and 87 percent were >> did it work? >> it would depend on who you are talking to. most people would suggest that better technology and deployment when they were arguing that it was racial profiling, they were saying it also reduces crime >> racial profiling is one of office topics the >> there is no question and when you have numbers like the chief referred to, and 80 percent of the people turn out to be african american or hispanic, he eats it that generates people on the street saying it is pure unadulterated racial profiling >> we don't do random detention. all of them are based on reasonable suspicion as allowed by the constitution and with respect to people's civil-rights and then all of the passages are for officer safety >> we're talking about statistically if an overwhelming majority of one race is stop it is c

gavin newsom and former mayor willie brown, both of them no strangers to foot and mouth disease. what did you think about mitt romney performance in london? >> which part? thinking he is not the leader, the mi meeting was not supposed to be mentioned, the idea that security is not where it should be, insulting, the prime minister says he did not need to do our olympics in the middle of nowhere. as bad as it gets so we're getting to enjoy the next parts, poland and israel, are still to come >> mitt romney says now he will not even watch his wife's horse performed. what you think of that? >> i assume dead he might be on his way home if he didn't. >> if you know you have a deal with your wife is involved in an olympic sport and the horse itself cost $1 million, you know it will not necessarily resonate with joe six-pack. why would you go to london anyway? >> you understand, you really should not conceal it. if it is there you should celebrate it and explain it >> when there is no money left. >> it was the first time the president and so this is remarkable. they said you want to go d

i also want to call up and willie brown for this certificate of honor for your lifetime worth of achievements. goo[applause] >> you deserve it. >> i spend about an -- i arrived early. it is on characteristic for me to get any place early, but i got here early because someone lied to me, and i went to visit with the mayor. he never said one word about this kind of honor, and i am thankful, and for those of you who have never touched me, i am right up there. [applause] >> we got one more duty. you and i are going to present. we have done this every week. did you have done this four times more than i have, and that is to declare this to be lgbt and gay pride month in san francisco during good -- in san francisco. where is brandon? come on up. you have the two mayors presenting you this proclamation, as mayors do. [applause] congratulations on all your great work this month. >> thank you all for being here, so the mayor has talked about what a great celebration this is this week, and i have to say this is one of buckner biggest events, and s me do one of the biggest events, and we have a couple o

brown started it with his legislation way back when. gilbert baker, you decorated many of our homes with your rainbow flags. and again, this of, welcome. we are like family to each other. i said, this is not about tolerance. it is about respect, taking pride. that is what this weekend is about. [applause] as was mentioned so well, the history of this, it was a symbol of discrimination. it is now a source of pride. i want to take a moment to say to the bishop that i had the occasion to meet with the speaker of the parliament of uganda. a woman. she came to my office and we had a foreign policy cooperation. we give them aid. we talk about that. i think she was coming to talk about that. but i was coming to the meeting to talk about the legislation in you gotta. -- in uganda. i told her that was such a deal breaker for us that a country would even consider this legislation. she said that this is not what you think it is. it is just about protecting children. that is what she said. but i made it clear that that may be the public face they w

ben jealous is the president and ceo of the organization and willie brown was the mayor of san francisco. gentlemen, mitt romney was received with polite but tepid applause this morning until he vowed to get rid of obamacare at which point the crowd shouted him down with boos. >> i'm going to eliminate every non-essential expensive program i can find. that includes obama care and i'm going to work to reform and save -- [ booing ] >> does he deserve some credit? he came in and here is a guy constantly under attack for being a flip-flopper but the -- the speech he delivered was pure mitt romney today. does he win points for that? >> you know, he had a choice. hay could come there and really seek to talk to the people in the room and the communities they represent. or he could come there and try to send a signal somewhere else. and when -- it seems like for the first part of the speech he was actually trying to speak to the people in the room. but then when he used the phrase repeal obama care, not repeal the aca or, you know, repeal the health care bill, but repeal obama care -- >> very de

the former assembly speaker willie brown was one of our major donors and what makes it so unique is that all of our grants go to help women here in the bay area and several friends board members have been personally affected by breast cancer when of the morning host and the voice of the giants had a terrible scare when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. >>> as a member of friends of faith and was armed with knowledge and information and resources that i may of the west may had not been privy to. i'm very proud to be part of friends of faith and keep it going strong it's so wonderful to continue to pay tribute to her and her brave battle and she and with grace and dignity. >>> one of got angels that was here for us to set an example a note always remember and love her spirit her spirit of joy and life and the living and goodness even as she was about to leave this world. i will always remember that. >>> this august 25th the friends of faith group holds the eighth annual friends the fifth breast cancer challenge in here to talk about it is our own beloved news anchor barbara roge

brown is no longer mayor, he is in power. i'm calling on you all to get in touch with me. take action appeared together, we can get rid of criminal elements in your city, state, and in this country. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> my concern is going to seem petty compared to the previous speaker's. i'm speaking as an individual right now. i want to speak about etiquette and courtesy. when the 3:00 special item, item 38 for 41, began today, many of you got up, went out of the room. some of you were reading e-mail. some of you were having side conversations. you were not showing the members of the public the same courtesy that i know you demand of each other. shame on you. shame on you. you could have called, mr. president, for a 10-minute recess so that people could take care of their bodily functions, could have gotten coffee, could have had a side conversations. i would humbly suggest and you know you are going to have a public hearing, a long public hearing, after you have conducted business for many

next time i see mayor willie brown, i will remind him it was fema. [laughter] we will have to name a doorway in addition to the staircase. thank you, everyone, for coming to san francisco. it is a pleasure to receive new and open up our house and to have you discuss, plan, and create relationships perhaps you do not have today among the federal and local police -- agencies working together on recovery. our city has been working hard. we have seen the future. the future is that if we're not prepared, it will not be our future. i got a glimpse of that some years ago when staff and i went down to new orleans. we have begun to realize the devastation was the result of things that could have been done there are national lessons to be learned from any major disaster across our country, what we could have done better. when i visited there those years ago, we stood at the night éovardç -- at the ninthç ward. in addition to taking pictures, we just stood there for a couple of moments. we asked ourselves, is this something we can accept? can we do somethi

the former mayor willie brown gave me a good job of director of public works, picking up everyone's trash, engaging in conversations with everyone about what was wrong with our streets and making them right. it was in that toughest job i ever had that i found probably lifelong friends, people who care enough about the city that picking up somebody else's trash is nothing when you can work together and drew about how better the city can become. i want to recognize john because he is one of those few people who i can properly engage in the trash talk and still talk about the city in a positive way. thank you, john, for your wonderful service. [applause] when i came a year ago, san francisco. the unemployment rate was 9.5%. we heard a presentation about how we made that change. at the time we faced the $380 million budget deficit and we were struggling. how to meet the increasing cost of our pension and health care obligations. you remember that discussion about our pension? have we come along way. it is still mentioned -- still prevalent. a year later our city, board of supervisors, the may

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he became the director of the human rights commission under willie brown. he became the director of public works. 2005 city administrator, and then the fateful day in january 2011 when the board of supervisors could not decide on anybody and decided that family was not going to be a threat to their future political aspirations. [laughter] he got more than six votes, six more than anyone else. and he became the interim mayor. he did an amazing job. he is outspoken, both feet on the ground, a person you can trust, a person who is very honest, and based upon his experience, knows how to get the job done. i believe he is the best player ever that san francisco has had. we are so lucky to have him up there. he has balanced the budget, reform pensions, created jobs, and mayor, it has been a pleasure to work with you. i look forward to working with you further. they san francisco transplant coming down here to work on yet another newspaper, the business journal, doing a great job of it, and james mcgregor. we welcome you here as a moderator. we know you have a lot