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let one the volunteers and ask anything you want on the card don't use profanity we have two incredible supervisors who have done a lot for san francisco supervisor campos and supervisor chiu the candidates will answer questions and also questions by the legacy of women's voters they have agreed to ask their supporters to be respect fell and maintain quiet if you have your phones just turn the ringer off please not to interfere with the miff and tonight's forum will view a chance to hear from your candidates this really nice the candidates get 30 seconds to a minute 0 they're to get 22 half a minutes especially on tv
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our stories are 25 seconds to they're going get to stand ladies and gentlemen, welcome give a warm welcome to david chiu and david campos (clapping). >> stack hands and come out fighting verbally, of course. >> all right. okay so we have a total time i was wrong total time of 2 and a half minutes between the both of i i mislead you sorry if you haven't been a legacy of voter women we have a timekeepers ladies raise our
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cards so what was when necessary hold the yellow card you have 15 seconds to finish when the red that means stop so show the audience okay, here we go first question and the first person to begin is supervisor campos what lyric active priority do i have that might be you think popular until you champion it supervisor campos. >> well, i think one of the things we're facing in san francisco is this be affordability countries the number one issue facing the city and county of san francisco we are the wealthy it city in the country and have the fastest growing inearthquake what i've championed things to help stay in san francisco i'll talk about
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my relocation assistance law that was passed where the super majority of board to increase the ellis act evictions folks before my law the most people could get as 2 thousand dollarful plus dollars now to give families a fight chance the big developments landlord communicated has sued me and the city we'll know we're we'll prevail to keep folks living in san francisco. >> all right. thank you (clapping.) supervisor chiu so first of all, i want to thank the league and everybody for being here staying on the same subject of housing affordability both david and i have permit tied it irrational affidavit has
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been working on in year affordable housing i've been fighter for veterans and seniors and foster 4th of july for years one of the things i've fought for not popular it was regulated e rejected the idea of legal liz he tens of thoughts of in-law units where our 1r50ush8 san franciscans live and after 20 years we final get this done as someone endorsed by the tenant association and fighting delivering for tenants as opposed to talk about it is important who is going to represent us in sacramento we choose someone to build consensus to get things down for the be vulnerable folks in our community. >> thank you looking at the san francisco 1ku6g9 would things do you want to see statewide and changes in san francisco david
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chiu. >> as the first kid born in my family we know that how important public education is making sure that every forgotten has a chance to succeed i think the number one issue in schools california is ranked 49 out of 50 states what we spend on each kid we've seen since is 1970s when both we were grouping the education from property tax has been slashed by 60 percent because of the promotion 13 it is something that needs to be reformed along along with other revenue sources to make sure your kwidz kids have the funding but hopefully small business someday will have universal school and skoorp and higher institutions will be more
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assessable to constitutes all over san francisco (clapping.) supervisor campos. >> notwithstanding the agreement we're going to hear david are attacking me i'll talk about our public schools i know my public utilities i was the general council for the suggesting as an attorney worked to make sure we had the best quality education in san francisco i'm not just talking we've done something about it in the admission specifically we brought in thirty miles to address the key issue northbound our school system the growing achievement gap the african-american and under choofas are being left behind i'm going to. >> my record to do something at
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the sate level that's why the teachers are sporting me in this campaign. >> supervisor chiu. >> you want me to read the question no i think i start with the question i'm i have a followup question my foul question there are a lot of censures about undocumented children hey how to pay for it and whether it's right for san francisco. >> as the son of immigrants who years later when i first came to san francisco i recommended undocumented folks we know a san franciscans that a surveyed shooird value of protecting our cabinets in fact the first lawsuit was to protect the rights of undocumented children in the classroom to be able to be educated this was prop 87
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from the 1990 i championed that to make sure regardless of our background or undocumented you have access to city government and championed the rights of undocumented parent to vote in school elections and thank you to david we rolled out the first if the country to provide undocumented children who need representation in the court like north american to receive pro bono assistance i'll continue to fight. >> supervisor campos. >> i do thank david for supporting the efforts i've led to protect the rights of undocumented students this is a personable issue i came to this country as a child undocumented
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but you look at the issues of unoccupied minors in terms of leadership the $100,000 that david is talking about is money that was in the budget i budget it was not targeted for unaccompanied minors the same thing itself real solution to this country's was the solution i presented 2. one million it funded legal representation and because of that leadership city's utilization new york and california are following suit and it's one thing to talk about something but but to actually do it the record speaks for itself that's why their supporting my campaign. >> public transportation how did each of you get here and
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what's the position on charging for citizens. >> i drove today, i have a number of meetings for me public transportation is making sure there's a accountability in the system you've worked on public transportation for the last 6 years to make the system important reliable for citizens on the other hand, and i believe one of the things not just throw money at metropolitan but change that i'm proud of instead of focusing on increasing services we've worked to make assessable muni is to individuals my program allowed the middle-income and low income children to ride muni for free we did that in response to the countries of families leaving san francisco we've seen an improvement in the families that stay in san francisco again, it's one thing to talk and act
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we've acted and i'm proud of that (clapping.) so i'm the candidate sitting here doesn't have a car i got to places by my bikes i got a ride here today, we have a system i think our muni system is broken it's dysfunctional we need to do better and david has in recent years served on the transit agency and accident head of our transportations authority at a time transportation st. is broken i've sported david on this constant that youngest low income kids under the yes, ma'am age of 18 ought to ride muni for free david couldn't figure out how to get this funded i talked to google we were able to get
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close to $7 million to deliver on this idea again one candidates is about talk i've been trying to deliver since (clapping.) staying on the subject of public transportation pedestrian safety is a huge issue pay bicycle safety so since i've started with supervisor campos supervisor chiu. >> that is as i said a personal issue that someone doesn't have a car i'm on my bike or walking just yesterday i was in the heart of chinatown we had yet another strictly fatality a senior and we have to do a better job of coming together and part of why i'm passionate about wanting to go to sacramento the state of california has cut dollars to public transit we have to fully
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fund. >> muni system to make sure our insistence and cyclists s are not biking and walking in the dangerous intersections i've championed nor funding and hope you'll support proposition organization and b i worked on to get more funding as we move forward to make sure our seniors and children and everyone is safe on our streets (clapping.) supervisor campos. >> you know you can't rewrite history facts matter anyone that works with you will see supervisor chiu claims free muni for youth but let's be clear we have actually both had a record in terms of bringing transportation funding to san francisco and as the
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representatives for san francisco in the metropolitan transportation commission in the bay area inch figure out to bring go transportation funding million dollars million dollars to san francisco again, it is one thing to talk and one thing to actually do something but the point the reason why the sierra club and the legal conservation leader are explorer me, i'm the only candidate with the endorsements i'm the best advocate for transportation in the state of california if you true transportation vote for supervisor campos and (clapping.) one more question supervisor campos since i started with supervisor chiu what about high speed rail what are euyour thoughts. >> i do support high speed rail
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we actually have worked in specifically pushed at the mta to make sure we have the downtown extension a reality in san francisco we need to make sure the system doesn't end another figured out and king by going to downtown i'm proud i was one of the people at the m t c to push to organize itself to actually benefit from the million dollars that the state a allocating to high speed rail what happens the bulk of money goes to central and southern california the kind of work tells me when i'm in sacramento i mean, i'll be able to deliver for san francisco and our entire region (clapping.) part of the reason i'm supported by the 09 san francisco
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representative phenomenon n this race our my colleague supervisor wiener knows who's been effective here in in san francisco i've carried the legislation to move forward the subway first major underground north-south right david i'm a champion of high speed rail the real challenge who can work with others to get things done i've passed over one hundred and 5 ordinances david has paced a third and the navigating only one of us sitting in front of if you say the person who is creating jobs or building housing or balancing budget the who's going to go to sacramento to bring back the resources to san francisco and one i've proven time after time in san
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francisco (clapping.) thank you gentlemen, i have a lot of questions about education california is phasing education how will you improve the education for the students. >> at the end of the day and this is something david and david have spoken about college education funding has been severely slashed by the state of california we've seen a thirty persecute we need someone that will develop consensus to bring the revenues i'm the one candidate who worked to put forth a business tax that is bringing hundreds of thousands of dollars to san francisco to spend it on folks we need someone to go to san francisco with the body ten times the size of san francisco to develop the consensus i think it's important for someone to fight for proper
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13 and california is the only oil prourg state that will bring in blindfolds for hire education and affordable housing as well as transit. >> (clapping) >> supervisor campos i believe that education is the civil rights issue of the day the california teachers association and the faculty not only sf state. >> city colleges all the educators in california are supporting me because of my commitment to education the reason their supported me they know i will make education my top priority it's shameful we're 49 in california it's also shameful our california state
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system is there funded we have 20 thousand young people eligible to enroll in the indicating state system because the state didn't say have the money but as we talk about the education we talk about we need criminal justice reform and move away from prisons to use the money to fund our schools (clapping.) all right. well on that note let's talk about the states prisoner local realignment policy and it's prelims what should we do about the prison system supervisor chiu. >> i think you started the last one. >> okay. go ahead sorry. >> i think that san francisco has happened with realignment in the way it san francisco has handled that issue is a model for the rest of the country the fact is we have demonstrated we
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can have public safety in a jurisdiction and have fewer people in prison that's why i've been leading the fight to see if we actually need a new jail in san francisco i'd rather use the money to fund our public utilities that that spend money liquor store at the state level to make sure we push forward alternatives to incarceration a neighborhood is not necessarily satisfactory because you send people away as a former police commissioner the police officers will tell you this revolving door in incarceration is not working it's not about being soft or tough but smart on crime. >> the woman in the state who
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coincide the word crime she's encoder me, i'm some place as a former criminal prosecutor and a sifts attorney is smart about the criminal just i want to thank david for supports proposition 47 would insure that non-violent and non-first felons get knocked down to misdemeanors we have to make sure we have a criminal justice system that is dealing with violent offends but particular young men which color is dealt with fairly and not investing in jails but schools i'm proud possible introduced into the record by supervisor malia cohen because we worked together to make sure that our local first policy proposed by
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mayor ed lee was not continued we need to bring our community together to respond to crime and the folks in this communities are supporting me in this race. >> the hot issue is domestic violence especially many the sports world what are your thoughts when someone is accused of domestic violence and not charged and remains in their position whether in sports or public office. >> i certainly think that the 49ers made a mistake when they allowed a player to continue to play i know that david agrees with that the bigger issue is how do we as protected officials stand up for victims of domestic violence this is where we we had
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one in our city that rims the top law enforcement officer in our city for hundreds of counted beaters we didn't send the right signal when supervisor campos decided to keep him in office someone that's supporting david how we view us but who we stand with and in contrast david stood with him. >> i stand with patty filling constitutional with the california o for women it's outrageous and david are trying to political cities where the accident gentleman who wrote a check for you when the state was
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trying to take away protections from victims of domestic violence it's a pretext your using to score political points that doesn't help women he talks about me and in the same vein enforced another person i say ron connecticut way go up to this member of the board and hug him he had no problem with the member of the board to me he's going to spend million dollars on domestic violence we don't need to further, the issue we want real conversations not political points it's not the right thing to do for women or anyone (clapping.) all right. i want to find out how, how much longer 5 minutes do we have time for more
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questions and the candidates will be able to provide closing statement we've had interesting discussions but i want to switch gears renewable energy what can the city do to be better about reaching the governor's green house gases goals? supervisor campos >> well, i think the most important pieces of legislation that the city has seen to address that issue is the legislation i introduced and passed tape recorders community aggregation pass with a super majority and thank you, david for supporting that if we're committed to fight and have hang to make sure we challenge pg&e's monopoly one hundred percent renewable energy unfortunately,
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the lay was passed pg&e is fighting again that we have a model for making clean energy a part of daily life in san francisco and we should give the rate pairs of san francisco the choice to actually decide whether clean power sf is their choice or pg&e i've proven the result we need that kind of leadership in sacramento (clapping) >> i was happy to support david campos in the fight unfortunately, it's an example of his failed leadership this is not been implemented and in specific and we pass a law and nothing has happened unfortunately, it's one thing to talk about things but i'm leaking the result at the end of the day i've passed the first in
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the country pieces of legislation to phase out toxic chemicals and making sure i'm bringing drinking out of a refillable water bottle and i took on the yellow page phenomenon book a $16 billion industry we moved for the policy and daiftsdz is taking thousands of contributions from at&t i'm proud to be enforced for the fights i've done in the environment (clapping.) i've been asked to remind our candidates not to make personal attacks as we go forward i know you guys are friends too i think we have time for one more question education is a big, big deal for everybody how about
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restoring the money and do you support proposition 13. >> so the answer to both is yes proposition thirty was absolutely critical for us to insure that for at least the next few years some level of fund in our public education it is going to take time to build consensus around taxes it's difficult i've thrilled when we remofrmd or formed we went from double digit employment to the creation of 70 thousand jobs as well as $300 million of additional revenues to go to our kids and families as we move forward i'm proud to be the capacity candidate of the parents action committee on the issue of proposition 13 i sport support it is it is a difficult
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subject someone that brings people together and not just talking about it that's my record. >> supervisor campos. >> the people who know the importance of education the teachers, the paraprofessionals the educators are behind me i know first hand how porn are important education is i wouldn't be here without but public utilities system but when it comes to education who is going to be be able to hold corporations accountable in sacramento there will be no prop 13 reform that there's a difference between supervisor chiu and me supervisor chiu is working on a piece of election that's he levying on the table $25 million in back takes owed to the city by a major
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corporation and responsible for giving tens of thoughts of million dollars in tax breaks to twitter who is going to go to sacramento synonym that keeps giving them tax break aftertax break or saying someone who has to play by the rules like everyone else. >> (clapping) >> please not make personal attacks final question our top priority for the first year. >> well, i think the issue of affordability and housing it is has to be the 25u7 priority for anyone that repeals san francisco the first thing i will introduce the ellis act measure reform measure that was supported by all the
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