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Over due, and i think im going to have some real positive changes for the mission. Shortly after i took Office Supervisor kim and i started tag teaming on one off exemptions to the mission alcohol special use district because while this isnt just my view that this special use district served an important purpose when it was first enacted 20 years ago in terms of combating alcohol blight in the mission. Over time in my view out lived its usefulness, and we saw a few years ago at the Bowling Alley that went on at 17th and south van ness that project was going to fall apart because they werent go...

Werent going to be able to serve beer so did did a one off exemption for movie theaters. When the roxy theater which is a treasure of Community Institution wanted to serve wine and beer to help survive such a unique San Francisco Mission Institution they were prohibited and we did another exemption for that and each time i gave the standard speech while its great to do the one off exemptions its not good policy and we need to fundamentally address of the problems that were caused and that valencia whole foods cant get a license but a large store can and a lounge has trouble becoming ada compli...

Supervisor. We are here with supervisor mar, who was elected in 2008 and is about halfway through his first term. We will get to know them and talk about the toughest issues they have been facing. Welcome, supervisor. Thank you for joining us. Lets start by talking about your background, where you grew up. I grew up in sacramento, california, in the south area. Went to public schools. Ended up in ucdavis. Made my way out to San Francisco when i was a college student, and i sat in the class is in San Francisco state as well, and i remember growing up at that time around clement street. We call ...

Advocates, all of our church going folks as well as people that are not going to go to church but might touch us on a Community Service basis point. We have to step it up in our Community Organizing and work even closer together to prevent and to provide alternatives before things happen to suggest dispute resolution and abilities to argue is fine. But fighting and using violence as the answer that is not an answer for anybody. [applause] so our San Francisco approach, one that has been derived from all of these very hard meetings that we have had to face each other down and said if we are not...

Populations should have a safety net. We should have human rights and equality and civil rights for people as well. I am very proud of being a progressive. What do you think are some of the biggest issues facing San Francisco . Right now, there are so many people out of work the local hiring and jobs and creation of new jobs, whether it is in a hightech economy with twitter and other types of work force issues moving forward and businesses moving forward to creation of construction that local residents have a good shot at jobs. The john avalos local hiring measure was important in making sure ...