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Them, the only thing that i heard you say that im disgraceful that this president is a disgrace but please remember we are going to leave this program to take your life to a discussion on elections and civic engagement. This is live coverage on cspan2. Before i get to anything else, i want to tell everyone out there that you can submit your questions and comments two ways, one is through my email and it is events at brookings. Edu, were in edu or on twitter with the universal voting. When it com...

Chair m chair mar good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, march 5 meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee. Im supervisor gordon mar, the chair of this committee, and im joined by supervisor matt haney, and supervisor aaron peskin will be joining us shortly, as well as supervi sandra lee fewer. Thank you to this committees clerk, john carroll, and id like to thank sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please silence your cell...

Ordered. Were here today to examine the state of Voting Rights and Election Administration in america. The right to vote is sacred. As members of congress, we take our responsibility to protect access to the ballot very seriously. This subcommittee and our committee as a whole is charged with overseeing the administration of federal elections. This country has a long history of failing to ensure equal and unencumbered access to the ballot for all her citizens. While states and localities have a ...

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Be joined by Vice Committee member and, supervisor katie tang and i would like to thank sfgtv for covering this meeting as well as the clerk of the committee, do you have any announcements . Silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the filed should be submitted to the clerk, today will appear on the december, 13th, board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. . Ethank you, and colleagues, and everybody f...

And housing to create, and to preview this and the five year, plan that you and his team have been working on and to give this committee, and our board, and about the draft plan, and further input in that plan, and i want to see the department, and creating and hopefully a new five year plan will guide us in that direction, and we would like to ask you at this point in time, our new director to come up and has a presentation for us and just by starting off and by saying, thank you, for taking on...

She is just, fabulous to serve on this commission as well. Thank you for all of your work. Thank you. And thank you, commissioner loftus and we are going to set aside a date where we are going to honor commissioner kingsley and i am not sure whether or not her regular resignation has gone through. There is an announcement that turman and i put together. And basically it is meant to explain to the public, what the commission can or cannot comment on regarding this. And as you are well aware that ...

This is American People incredible person. A map with a dream. A man with a vision. A man with an intelligent. To make a plan to get the job done. A man with a heart who knew that people needed not help cooperation, cooperation to have their ideas to have a better life and community. Kathy knows that george was a teacher to many of us one of the things i loved that made him different all that he was doing and all the grandness of it he had this thing about people who had been in prison. It was e...

Inform introduction except we love her and shes been here our congresswoman the leader of the Democratic House of representatives nancy pelosi clapping. thank you. Good morning everyone. This will be the time i would say im honored to be here with you will have you with the members of the official first name of San Francisco. But thats not why im here today, this is personal. This is about george davis its personal for so many of us here and, of course, im proud to be here with supervisor cowen ...

We do have let see commissioners from the oc ii the director of the Public Housing and c l and we have Community Partners such as a mr. Walton and ed williams and dr. Honey cut and dwayne jones and then we have Department Heads mohammed the man of the hour for me he made this happen and Barbara Smith the head of the Housing Authority and ann is here clapping so were going to have supervisor cowen come up because oh, another supervisor in front. Were so proud to have her in our district and she s...