Suffering, including during this, yet another christmas season. Please work harder. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is lisa. Im a proud district 5 resident. And im here on behalf of my friends and neighbors and as a board member of the Bay Area Housing Advocacy Coalition to thank supervisor brown for her Wonderful Service for district 5. She has always led with her heart and with her head as a pragmatic progressive. We are so thankful for everything shes done for our district, for district 5 and advocating for the people who are most vulnerable in securing Affordable Housing for those who need it and honestly, every weekend and weeknight, just picking up the trash and cleaning up graffiti, talking with everybody and really making connections with everybody in our district. We are so appreciative. And we will really miss supervisor vallie brown. Thank you for your service. Thank you. Next speaker. My, im kathy. Im coming to talk about city colleg
Im a long time resident of district 5, i to california in 1947, and i watched all the things that have happened over the years. Met anyone who cared so much to pick up the garbage, to pick up the people, try to find places for people to live, try to help all of us to develop new relationships and understanding here in our district. And i would like, again, to thank you so very much for what you have done. I want to say, im with you all on the city college. But i came here to talk about the Reparations Initiative. And i also came here to not necessarily talk about racism and those type of things, but to talk about acknowledgement and being overlooked. Most of the time when black people are hired, you know, except for franklin, most of the time when black people are its about us struggling against something and fighting some oppression, but you never acknowledge this, and i understand the city, you never acknowledge this for our contribution. We actually contributed to the fabric of this
Neighborhood commercial districts would not be part of the vacancy tax if it is passed by the voters, and the merchants of bernal and the portola who responded to quickly to confirm that they indeed do support this action, and the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor ronen. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor stefani . Thank you. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you. I have three items that we will be introducing today. For the first, along with my cosponsors, supervisor mar and supervisor haney, im introducing a supplemental budget appropriation ordinance to help restore the 300 classes proposed to be cut for the spring 2020 semester. I know firsthand how important city college is [applause] [gavel]. Supervisor walton i know firsthand how important city college is to San Francisco. Every year, thousands of district 10 residents and san franciscans across the city rely on city college and its various programs for jobs and skills trai
Programs youll see today. You can check your Program Guide or visit our website booktv. Org who a full schedule. And joining harris is the author of this book information wars. We lost the global battle against this information and what we can do about it. Information about the u. S. To the world track is yes. In olden days during the cold war we used to say telling americas story to the world. And how did you do your job, its funny, took me a while to figure out the parameters of the job what are the things i came to the conclusion was the way we tell our story is will be to our store to ourselves with american media, newspapers, magazines, tv. Rather than produce content ourselves i used to do during the cold war i thought lets show people how they cover ourselves. That was one part of it. The other part was the more strictly Public Affairs things where people are standing in front and you have to have the government line. Its safe use of your stance on issues, heres our policy, make
Said one turkey representative, sir, this is the butterball hotline. [ laughter and applause the white house today attacked the ambassador to ukraine for his testimony in the impeachment inquiry, calling him a radical unelected bureaucrat. First of all, youre calling this guy radical [ laughter ] he looks like he irons his socks. [ laughter ] the most radical thing hes probably ever done is drive a different way to work. [ laughter ] also, you cant call someone a radical bureaucrat. Its like calling someone a punk rock orthodontist. [ laughter ] gop senator john cornyn today said he will not Pay Attention to attempts by House Democrats to impeach President Trump, because he is, quote, doing important things. Okay, but doing important things is definitely what you say when youre not doing important things [ laughter ] dont come in the bathroom. Im doing important things in here [ cheers and applause youll ruin the importance two associates of Rudy Giuliani appeared in court today in con