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library. you do not pay attention. the other, when he speaks the troops -- the truth -- you have buffoons that despise him, much as you do on certain occasions. i am here to remind you that you are here to represent the constituents of san francisco. and the pathetic thing is, there are a number of you who do not even live in our districts, and get purport to represent, that is illegal. the city attorney knows it. the secretary of state knows it, anybody that knows something about the law knows it. but you are cowards. ross mirkarimi was here, i used to praise him for the words he used, for the cliches he used to mop for this, that, and the other thing. but now when you see the
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deliberations that someone is punished and punished by not following the laws, they're kept quiet because most of you like to sit on the fence and see which side is green and then jump on that side of the fans. pathetic. the leaders now the way and go away. you have to take a stand. that is if you have a vision, if you have fortitude, if you believe in justice. thank you very much. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. if i could remind members of the public, we do have a role that individuals should not express their support or opposition to statements out of respect to the speakers. thank you. >> my name is eugene gordon, jr.. listening to bureaucracy of the board of supervisors in the two state chamber meeting is twice
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-- reminding me that [unintelligible] reflects the citizens rights and constitutional refusal. so many people is horrifying revolutionary 1776 for this. the constitution of recognition, introduction, indoctrination for original to amendments which is constitution, reviews depth of words, troubled protests, and the their lifetimes as witnessed an evolutionary growth in racism, chauvinism, capital currency, divide, capitalism and imperialism, surrounding planet earth's sovereign nations with military bases defending its interests, identifying democratic -- facist -- fascist packaging.
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the federal right to vote was given to states reference males with landed property, women's rights in 1920. -- all were denied. a social culture that prevents imposition. revolutionary heroes, president george washington and president thomas jefferson, were african negro slave owners who were memorialized by the federal union and state government. example, the treasury department. the $1 bill for the -- with a portrait of the racist chauvinist george washington. -- royalty and trees, v -- treaties, versus supranatural -- supranatural -- president chiu: thank you, next
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speaker. >> ui am going to continue because it is already an tape. the other no. 2 k.c. was going to refer in my equitable justice was the misconduct in office of nadia lockyear. she is featured in a sex tape with her drug-addicted lover. she had a violent clash with steven in a new york hotel. she suffered head and neck injuries. stephen was sentenced to prison. nadia visited him three times posing as his lawyer. this was the same man who caused the injuries and threatened to go public with a sex tape. she claimed she was his attorney. they have a son, agh. today, nadia was not suspended.
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-- they have a son, age eight. -- this is contrast to the case of ross mirkarimi who was not sitting as the elected share for the incident for which he has been accused. i implore all of you to look at equitable justice. made a piece of the lord be with you. i am going to be back when it comes before you for a vote. -- may the peace of the lord be with you. i am leaving. i am trying to be disrespectful. thank you. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon, president chiu and supervisors. ♪ how deep is your ocean, how deep is your ocean ♪
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♪ really need to learn ♪ ♪ and has been 100 years since the titanic sank. ♪ ♪ i dug up this hubcap once. you can't see this in this light. i collect that car. ♪ won't you bring the budget back fast, we need more money, can we come and get it ♪ ♪ we need such help right now ♪ you give us much more and we need so much more. ♪ won't you bring it to us like
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a store, city, can we come and get it ♪ ♪ you better hurry, because we need it fast ♪ [bell] ♪ should have been gone, knowing how the city made me feel ♪ ♪ after all, you had good city meanings -- meetings ♪ ♪ oh, city, geary, geary, kaiser geary went down to jurgen jones ♪ ♪ singing at the city hall ♪ president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon, ladies and
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gentlemen, members of the board of supervisors. i would like to call attention to the fact that over the years, i have been listening to the rhetoric coming from the chamber. it does not seem to hold a lot of water, the fact that your main issue is diversity and preserving the rights of individuals. it is so easy to get elected on the board of supervisors, take a public position somewhere, and act like you're doing the right thing for the public. but the fact of the matter is, if you were doing the right thing for the public, we would not be add de 4320 something -- at 4320 something days.
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that stable was closed september, 2001, around the time of the terrorist attacks in new york. and the city has done nothing to rectify that tragic situation, neither the ethics committee, any of those boards. basically, it is ethical by their standards to completely ignore the public and deny them their rights. [bell] another situation. mr. mirkarimi was trying to save his wife from any contact with mayor gavin newsom at the time because he did not want any unlawful, and civil conduct. so he grabbed his wife. what is the big deal? i do not see any big deal with that. he should not be prosecuted. thank you. [bell]
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>> thank you, those of you who are left. i am a green cat driver for 27 years in san francisco. -- cabdriver for 27 years in san francisco. i have heard you speak about civil rights, justice, discrimination, etc.. there is a situation that all this come into play and where the board of supervisors comes into play regarding the cab industry. the board turned the cab industry over to the san francisco mta a couple of years ago and since then, although we in the cab industry, we 5000 cabdrivers' of the city have worked as cooperatively as we could with the mta, this relationship has been a disaster, and we're going to have to ask you, supervisors, to step back and help us out. but the mta has done with the
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10,000 -- what the mta has done with the workers in its control is to drive -- draw a line down the middle and say 5000 you get sick pay, health care, paychecks, and retirement plans, and the other 5000 of you, san francisco's cabdrivers, you get none of that. you have no paycheck, no vacation, no sick pay, no health care. and no retirement plan. and now they are trying to get $20 million a year from the cab industry, from we 5000 cattle drivers in order to pay for the -- we 5000 cab drivers to pay. we need a ballot measure and i am sure there will be other speaking about this. this is a cry from -- for help from the cab industry. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. i have lived in san francisco
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for 60 years. i would like to think the "ch -- thank the chronicle for printing articles about whistle-blowers. there is a trial coming up so let's add a few more thousand dollars. the article basically says the truth that the ethics commission is a zero commission. we will see what zero commission does with the sheriff. thirdly, i would like to ask for the record, where is the justice when we have a fire chief that had active police involvement on a domestic violence case? where is the justice there compared to the sheriff? can we please have a hearing in
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front of the audit and oversight committee, or is that committee of three attorneys too afraid, the word is afraid and i will say one more time, afraid of doing anything about it? also, i would like to point out the fact, the fact that the people and residents of san francisco are your bosses. you ought to be sitting in your chair listening to us, we pay your salary. dr. member that. if you forget, i will keep coming up here and reminding you that we are the boss, you are the employees, and is back to the old hippie days, power to the people and if you do not like it, you have to sit there like obedient children and listen to me tell you time after time after time, we are the boss, you are the employees, and i would like to see mayor ed lee take the same advice is you do.
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thank you. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> president chiu and board. i am emile laurence. i have been a resident of the city and county of san francisco for 44 years. the first issue is the counter terrorism that you just vote on is the most absolute nonsense i have ever heard coming out of this room. >> excuse me. president chiu: you are not allowed to provide comment on an item that was voted on. you are allowed to talk about the general area the item was on. if you could limit your comments
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to that. >> we will debate that later. you have no right to cut me off on public access based on the brown act. you had better read it. secondly, i want to talk about the taxi commission, the way it was in 2010. before it was taken over and hijacked by the mta. at the present time, a taxi drivers in the city are being squeezed to pay for mta's problems. the pension liabilities, the ability not to pay their own bills, the ability not to pay their own checks. parking meters are going out in the neighborhoods where they never were in order to pay for their bills. they are squeezing the taxi commission which is how the taxi drivers, by doubling and tripling their fees are -- almost on an annual basis. it has got to stop. i think what this board can do is take the taxi commission back
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out of the mta and and independent body and unravel the feud between gavin newsom and mr. peskin and honorable the politics that caused that. as the man said earlier, note taxi driver in the city and county, unlike you sitting on this board, has pension, medical, grievance, has dental, day off with pay, zero, and you had better start looking at that. thank you for your time. president chiu: public comment is an opportunity to address the board on the items of interest to the public. i want to make that clear.
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next speaker, please. >> my name is mary walker and i am here to be on record as being able to hear the voice of the rife -- wife of sheriff mirkarimi. it is so fair that laws have turned around -- and fear that laws have turned around and victimize the victims. something is quite wrong where she is not allowed to speak or be able to make a choice. we have conservatives were trying to stop us as women to not able to have choice -- traces made which they think are considered violent when we choose to either have an abortion or not have one. the victims' rights against violence against women turns around and takes the rights of the woman who is the victim or the man who is the victim, not
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to have a say in what is done with their case without looking at it as an individual case. they're making blanket judgments without looking at each individual case of being different from the other. it is very, very painful to see this family being referred to in the newspaper by a columnist saying, tot-lot. she did not know what the law was about. that is pretty cold. there is a child involved who is going to read what we did to this family in the newspaper and he is not going to appreciate what he learned. he loves his parents. he wants his parents to -- together and so does his wife and it appears, so does the husband. in has been horrible house so many people had their opinions and not allow this woman to have her voice heard at all. it is frightening, really. they are taking away their voice -- our voice.
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women's rights, victims, they're using tea party methods to steer politicians and to doing what they want. thank you. -- into doing what they want. thank you. >> thank you. folks should not be expressing their support for public comment her with applause or their opposition to anything city -- stated. thank you. next speaker, please. >> the afternoon to the president and members of the board of supervisors. also to mayor and laid -- ed lee and our wonderful police chief. i am here as a mother and grandmother. as a neighbor, a concerned citizen. with thousands of tourist visits, [unintelligible] a couple of years ago whose case was solved within six months.
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i stand here in place of those who cannot be here who have lost their sons and daughters because of violence. to the families who lost their loved ones out there. i stand here for them. i stand here for the fine young african-american male who lost his life last night in district 5 where we know sheriff ross mirkarimi would have been there doing his true civil duty to that family. we lost a young man last night, his name was lawrence, he was 21. >> stop reading. the president is not even listening to you. >> we also lost another victim in district 10 and another one in another area. recently, we have also loss s --
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lost seven families in oakland all by senseless gun violence. we stand here as parents of unsolved homicides. we're feeling the pain we wish, no one at all. our hearts are saddened by what took place in oakland as well as in omi. and has been 17 years for me -- it has been 17 years for me. since i lost my son to gun violence. his case remains unsolved. there was fatalities going on with foreclosures of people's homes. we ask that you leaders join us, all of us activists and concerned citizens on tomorrow as we will march on third and carol streets to evans to talk
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about the foreclosures. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. thank you very much. think you very much. ma'am, your time is over. -- thank you very much. >> i ahave been a cab driver for 22 years, i am a medallion holder. we would like to draw your attention to an extreme case of conflict of interest that the municipal transportation agency is entering into, is already in. by making itself both the administrator and the chief recipient of the medallions sales program. this is something that is completely contrary to what
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everyday folks believe government is for. it is a no-brainer in terms of ordinary conversation, everybody understands the mta should not be both selling the medallions and administering the program. we would like to believe in the industry, those of us who do not have a financial interest, would like to believe that this is something that was not in your plan when those three or four lines of text in proposition a were in our opinion overestimated. the program has been one in which the sunshine task force has had to be brought to alert, when the tax at -- taxi advisory council voted to set aside every other consideration there were discussing and talk about only whether the medallion sales program should be put forward.
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and so the paradigm at the taxi advisory council has been to sell medallions and this has been used by the mta to -- as a definition for its own monetary profit. also, i would like to point out that the mta, another way of saying this is the mta cannot properly put itself forward as the replacement of the medallion holders, to run the taxi industry and be the beneficiary of the taiex industry. i cannot think it is overstepping the -- [inaudible] to say that -- president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> if you have pen and pencil, i will give you some of the items of a lot. in this case, abusing their
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power. what is the fourth amendment of the united states constitution. on -- one is the fourth amendment. the other is the revolution they put themselves and [unintelligible] they are abusing, i explained each of those. when it comes to our resolution, -- a resolution -- [unintelligible] it must be in effect until a new resolution and a new rule substitutes that. they're breaking and have a case in the court at this time. the other one, the california constitution. it says if a government body wants money, millions and millions, there is a name for
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it. it is a tax. they have to go to the public and get two-thirds of the boats. they cannot charge the people under their domain, 20 or 30 million time after time. and also, the fourth amendment, the justices said you cannot violate it when it comes to criminals. their argument is that when you have the public behind your seat, you are giving freedom. and of privacy. we're not the only business. every single business deals with public. the therefore the medium -- fourth amendment freedom as well -- they lose their fourth amendment freedom as well? [bell]
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>> i am mr. troutt. yesterday's yesterday was palm sunday. quite a few things were filled on that amazing day when cheeses road in on the donkey -- jesus rode in on the donkey. we read and get all sorts of amazing prophecies about this particular day that said this was the day that the lord had made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. zacharias says they would shout as they rejoiced and were glad in it and jesus emphasized this point when he brought up some 118 after giving a parable and said that the stone which the builders rejected have become the chief cornerstone. in other words, himself.
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in dannell, chapter 9, the angel gabriel said we were to know and understand that from the going forth from the command to restore and build jerusalem, after the 70-year exile, there would be 487 years to where he would be cut off. on palm sunday we were within a week where he would be murdered for our sins and this was now one week into the 487th year. this is why he said when the pharisees' which were among the multitude, that allowed multitude that praised him said, master, rebuked by disciples and if he said if these were too old -- hold their peace, the stones would cry out. you cannot stop the word of god from being fulfilled. god has said sunday he will raise the dead. the lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout. with a voice of the archangel and the trumpet of god. it has not happened yet but it
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will and it will happen soon. i have mentioned before -- i do not have time. [bell] >> good afternoon. i am a cab driver here with national veterans' camp. i am here to talk about what i believe is an untenable situation within the cab industry that has the sf mta, the regulatory agency of the industry set up to make rules and make regulations that the sf mta can then profit directly from. that is just not what regulatory agency should be doing. they should be regulating and industry for the good of the city. if we go to the workers for safety of the industry, for the long-term