Heidel stre zb. Okay. This is the meeting of the San Francisco Port Commission on september 8, 2020. The meeting was called to order at 3 15. [roll call] clerk madam president , all members of the commission are present. Item number 2 is the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] clerk clrk item number 3 is the approval of minutes for the august 25, 2020 special meeting. So moved. Second. President brandon all in favor, roll call vote. [roll call] president brandon motion passes unanimously. The motion of august 25, 2020 [inaudible]. Clerk item number 4 is announcements. Please be vised that a member of the public has up to three advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Court Commission adopts a shorter period on any tight. Please note that during the Public Comment period, the moderator will instruct dialin participants to such a tonetone phone to register their desire for Public Comment. Audio p
Hi my name is Maria Teresa Kumar im so happy to be here with Zerlina Maxwell and im honored to discuss your book the end of white politics. This book challenges what we expect is a status quo for the Democratic Party and as we are trying to read into the tea leaves of 2020 it couldnt have come at a better time. This is a critique that is challenged in america right now but we also understand that it is imperative that people take your book too hard and look at it as an opportunity to change the game come this election. With that i would love to recognize the wonderful work you have done as a doctor and an activist and as a political operative yourself. You believe its going to come of the book video friedan provided the political politics. Welcome. Guest thank you so much. Im so happy to see you and i know all of this are and to see they are safe and healthy because this is a scary times im so happy to be here. Host i want to get started and i will begin with the work you are doing thi
Recognize the wonderful work you have done as an author and activist and as a political operative yourself. I do believe it will get the book that you have written and provided us with insight that is oftentimes not part of the political politics but welcome. Guest thank you so much. I am so happy to see you. I know all of us arent quarantined so its nice to see peoples faces and to see they are safe and healthy because it is scary times. Happy to be here. Host i wanted to get started and all the work youre doing is so relevant and i thank you have the bona fide and work part of the hilary quinn to campaign and you have your own progressive show and those of us both got to know each other because we both provide analysis on an msnbc and yet if the campaigns and the Mainstream Media we forget the narratives that are propelling this action we are seen in the streets and hopefully will translate to the voting booth. Lets talk about what that means. I know in your book you touch on identit
Place to keep my stuff dry and to sleep safely. And washing up at the gas station, i could make myself presentable, such that it was possible for me to connive a landlord into renting me an apartment even though i was unemployed. That in turn allowed me to have temp work. If my car had been towed during those weeks of living in my car, i probably wouldnt be here today. So i really want to thank the board for your deep discussion on this, staff for your hard staff work, and especially for the public who have been so direct in your storytelling and simply have shown up to fight for a more just San Francisco. The next couple of weeks are going to be really hard. This is only through compassion with the public, and particularly the public who have the hardest choices and clarity around your values that you are going to be able to make the tough calls to deal with the tradeoffs necessary to approve a budget that is balanced, that delivers the service that San Francisco needs, and that deliv
Thank you so much for your ongoing support and work. These events are done with love, and it takes resources to make them happen, so thank you so much. So speaking of resources, we have a huge champion for our community and our lgbt community. Our district 8 supervisor, and the only out lgbt member on the board. Please welcome supervisor raphael mandelman. [applause] supervisor mandelman thank you claire. And as others have said, thank you so much for the extraordinary work that you and your office do. And thank you, tom horn. The mayor was whispering to me before we started that tom horn always comes through. Thank you. [applause] supervisor mandelman i guess ill begin where senator wiener finished, in that harvey milk knew how important queer representation is, how important it was for people to come out, and for people to be elected and serve. I think i had said at other events i look forward to the day when i am speaking after a trans elected supervisor. We need to do that, and it