Ladies and gentlemen, the George Washington High School Marching band. [applause] please welcome kayla smith. [applause] good morning, everyone. Hows everybody doing today . Thank you. Thank you for joining us today for this historical occasion. My name is kayla smith, and i will be your mistress of ceremonies for the evening. Growing up in San Francisco d5, hayes valley, to be exact, since the age of four, i have been privileged to receive mentorship from my community. I went from running departments at project level to now earning my internship at nbc this upcoming summer. [applause] ive always been ambitious, but i was lucky to have women in my life that looked like me and achieved great things, and one of those great women that i looked up to the most, our current mayor, my godmother, london breed. She wasnt changed much, by the way. To this day, she is still the same wise, inspiring, and supportive person that she was when i was a child. I know all too well the impact that mayor b
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
Privatization scheme. So no matter how progressive we consider ourselves in San Francisco, we need to look at chile as an example in terms of whatnot to do, including the issue of our pensions, which have become privatized, and which are trying to they are trying to do that to us as well as working as well, privatize our pension systems whereas the [off mic] thank you. Next speaker. Thank you. Next speaker. Right behind you. Thank you. Hello. Members of the board, supervisors, i am aurelius walker, pastor of True Hope Church in bayview point. A pastor for 15 years and San Francisco leaders demand San Francisco create a Reparation Fund with hotel and marijuana taxes. The city must make amend for the past injustice with support for education, housing and economical opportunity. Martin luther king said the arc of a moral universe is long but it bends toward love, compassion, mercy and justice. We go forever and justice lives, creating crashes that will drive the power structure to change.
of james, mccord. he is one of five persons surprised and arrested yesterday inside the headquarters of the democratic national committee in washington. mccord is a former cia employee. now he runs his own private security service. and guess what else he is? a consultant to president richard nixon s re-election campaign committee. nixon s watergate scandal began 50 years ago today. like trump, his presidency ended in crime and chaos, but there were major differences in the methods the two presidents used to cling to power. also tonight, the unholy alliance between ginni thomas and the people plotting to overturn the presidential election. a member of congress who is now calling for her husband, justice clarence thomas, to resign joins me. we begin tonight with june 17, 1972, the day five bungling burglars broke not offices of the democratic national committee located in the watergate complex in washington, d.c. two years later president nixon resigned. the 50th anniversar