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office is very critical to that. its an extremely diverse community. we have over 120 different businesses in our -- in our eight-block business district and have a significant amount of multilingual challenges which is the office has been great in helping us with. and through our work, we were able to -- when we started the effort with the holiday lights, more than half the people kind of initially said that they didnt necessarily want to be involved. and this was despite multilingual...

>> thank you very much. its a better than a great honor to be honored for something that you love doing. i opened a small business just a few years ago right before the economy collapsed. its been an incredible challenge ever since and the financial rewards have been questionable to say the least but owning my own store has allowed me to live and work differently in my own commine community and allowed me the time and the choice to be able to put what little resources i have where i wo...

so whether your issue is choice, education, the environment, universal childcare, or marriage equality, know that through emerge california, i am helping to cultivate the future generation of women leaders to push forward and to work on progressive policy in all of these areas and many more. i absolutely love my job because it allows me to encourage and inspire women to step into leadership and step up as a player in the world of politics. and so in that respect, emerge california is n...

[applause] >> continuing in reverse alphabetical order. i would like to acknowledge our supervisor from district four, supervisor khu. supervisor chu: if i can invite kimberly ellis up. supervisor cohen, of course wishs that she could be here today to properly honor you but unfortunately, thess in d.c. so it is my honor to read her statement. kimberly was an original founder of emerge america in 2002 which is a parent organization of emerge california. emerge california is a political ...

emerge california, though is not just about getting more women elected for the sake of getting them elected. emerge california is really about changing the dialogue and conversations that were having in america. its about changing the tenor and the tone of politics in this country. and its also about changing our priorities to focus on whats most important. so whether your issue is choice, education, the environment, universal childcare, or marriage equality, know that through emerge c...

she makes -- also russian hills. tina moyland whos president of russian hill neighbors and shes guiding that group very successfully. moving down to north beach, telegraph hill, my friend june austinburg who has taught me so much through her writings about the waterfront. shes written more about the waterfront in the last half century than anyone i know. another friend former president of the dwellers, she said you must come back to the board. kicking and screaming i did and became vic...