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more robust and open government this, of course, elizabeth folks h that have expertise and i'm an innovator creating to finding solution from communication to clean energy and solutions that everybody there are a lot of people using in their everyday lives i am undergo to bring if i h my services to truly change people lives i want to t ask fewer 0 rotate to really roll up my sleeves for fairness in a way now as your supervisor 3 main points the first modernize our transit insures the injuries are reduced and a green transportation system and improve frapgs transportation
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for all vehicles i have a number of proposals bottom line i intend to cut congestion by 60 percent and create a from him city government it provides part assess compel mobile and online service and increase the efficiency by spending money in a great amount of funding for services that are at the core for fairness in agreement with with the core value and third public-private partners that creates a character in our neighborhood while differing services i want to sole the aspect of of our significant problems of affordability and transportation and education great services b will help us the 12:00 will be more equal and project opportunity for all of
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the the residents regardless of why that he come from what is needed is innovations my history and violation this is why i'm a if his place collision from the green party and san francisco latino democratic club and the new avenues and central city dpgsz and others 0 throughout the city please visit carr by 2014 c ar b.a. l l o 2014 i'll appreciate our vote this november♪ >> hi, folks, i'm george davis. i am the candidate for supervisor district 8, castro upper market, noe valley, glenn
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park, duboce triangle, castro. so, i'm best known especially internationally ~. in fact, i have people say you should be running in london or new york, not in san francisco. as an advocate for body freedom and civil liberties, since the passage of the nudity ban running for office, this is with the full knowledge of the mayor's office and the san francisco police department. i have been arrested twice, cited once, and threatened with arrest two other times while making campaign speeches. these are the same speeches on body freedom that i have made for years in this city. august of this year i went to new york city with the full knowledge of the new york police department and the new york mayor's office, i made the same type of body freedom speech in the center of times
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square, and was picked up by associated press. it went all over the country and it seems to be dropped as an issue in this city, you know, which used to be recognized as a center for progressive liberal cutting edge thought and we have a question of whether it's going away. i'm here to fight it. if you want to join in, you fight. this is not a classical issue for running for supervisor so i'm going to go back to the classical issues which are he economic security and neighborhood control of property development in this city. we're seeing some trends away from this. you should know that i have the endorsement of the san francisco tenants union, 62% of the household in this district are renters. and of the homeowners and condo
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owners, most of them are former renters and are very tensetive to tenants rights. i'm for passing of proposition g on this ballot which puts a real estate property tax on people flipping properties within five years to curb ellis act evictions. and ellis act evictions do dishouse a lot of the longer-term residents of the city, especially seniors. and also the extension of rent control to properties built after 1979. and to make this a more equitable place for long-term residents and make it secure for them. also i'm for the neighborhood control of planning.
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for example, a couple years ago we had the 8 washington project which would have blocked off the high raise much of telegraph hill. this is a project that was opposed by the telegraph hill dweller, the supervisor of the neighborhood, the neighborhood residents. this is -- this is something we're seeing more and more of. we're seeing the wilshire boulevardization of the upper market district in our own neighborhood and these are issues that are really not being done with neighborhood impact. there's been some trending away from environmental reviews which we definitely need to have more input from the neighborhoods on these projects. i don't really believe in long speeches, so, for those that are looking for further details in my campaign, including a
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unsensored video, not safe for work, how many political candidates can say that, video on san francisco before and after the nudity ban, and a video on my speech in new york city. you can go to my campaign site, george davis.-- supervisor.george davis.wood press.com. again, for more details go to supervisor george davis.wood press.com. thank you. ♪ ♪ >> hello, my name is michael patrellis and i am a candidate for district 8 supervisor and i'm asking for your vote on election day this fall. district 8 has been hard hit by ellis act evictions and the district has lost many
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long-time residents a along with a great diversity. my life partner, mike merigan and i have been representers since 1996. we fear that the tech boom jeopardizes our housing security and the housing security of too many of our friends and neighbors. as a candidate for district 8, i support the following platforms. let's expand rent control to all housing built after 1978. let's require developers to rent at least 30% of units in new buildings at below market rate that are truly affordable to low and moderate income folks. i want to increase funding for community land trusts to create and maintain affordable housing. at city hall we must establish a monthly question time by
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ordinary citizens of our board of supervisors and we must require them to provide answers to us. we must strengthen public records access at all city agencies and the sunshine ordinance task force must be given more power. i want to require ali electricitied official and the head of city departments to post their calendars, name of whom they met with, ~ and topics discussed at their meetings along with expense reports all on their city funded websites. we need to better know how our elected officials spend their workdays and with whom they meet with. we also have to reclaim public plazas and all of our public spaces including the sidewalks from corporations and their advertising and also from private business associations
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so that all citizens have equal access to public space. i want to have every nonprofit that receives city funds on an annual basis audited, especially the hiv and aids groups. i think we must set individual performance goals for each nonprofit. we also have to end the tax exemptions for the profitable tech companies that are raking in millions and millions of dollars. they must pay their fair share. i also want to charge google and all the tech companies that have buses on our streets at least $5,000 for each bus that daily uses our city infrastructure. we also must reduce the number of muni stops they may use. i'd like to develop social programs for lgbt seniors to
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keep them engaged in civic functions. now is also the time to reopen gay bath houses and restore sexual privacy. we also need public bath houses in the day times for homeless people to take a shower, maintain good hygiene, wash their clothes, and also rest. i want to allow voters on election day to cast ballots for none of the above in every election. please remember, a vote for me is a protest against td gentrification evictions that tech and real estate developers greed. together, let's reclaim district 8 and san francisco for all people, not just the wealthy. again, please vote for me this election. act up, fight back, love life. thank you. ♪
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♪ >> >> hi, i'm scott wiener and for the last four years i've had the honor of representing district 8 at the board of supervisors. district 8 includes the castro, noe valley, glenn park, diamond heights, parts of the mission and a number of other a maying neighborhoods. when i ran for office and was elected in 2010, i promised the voters that i would focus on the issues that really matter to our city and the issues that are going to determine the future of our city. i've worked very hard every day to do that since i took office, working with members of our community to move our neighborhoods forward, to move our city forward. i have worked very hard and focused like a laser on housing in san francisco and
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particularly our housing affordability crisis. housing is too expensive in our city. we have toomey vixes. we have to make sure that ware meeting the housing need of our residents. ~ too many evictions i have been a strong advocate of investing in affordable housing. i was one who put together and persuaded voters to pass trust fund which would generate $1.5 billion for affordable housing in san francisco. i have been the leader in trying to approach housing in san francisco differently than we have in the past because what we've been doing for decades in san francisco hasn't worked. we haven't produced enough housing and we have created a situation where the average rent is over $3,000 a month. i authored legislation to allow people in the castro area to add in-law units into their buildings because in-law units are the most affordable type of nonsubsidized housing. i authored legislation to provide developer with incentive to build required affordable housing on-site as
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part of mixed income developments and to build more than the required minimum. i authored legislation to allow for smaller studios so that we're building both large units as well as small units and everything in between. i have worked very hard to put more flexibility into our housing policy so that we can meet the need of our residents. i've also been a leader in transportation in san francisco. i have been the leading voice in city hall to make sure that we stop neglecting muni and our other transportation systems and that we invest in those systems, that we make sure they're reliable, that we're maintaining the systems and that we're growing the capacity of transmore thaition in san francisco to meet the needs of our growing city. ~ transportation i have fought very, very hard to protect public transportation funding and to stop the raids on those funding which has been a key cause of the decline of muni and our transit system in general. i have also fought very hard to
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make sure that we rebuild our police department which is severely under staffed due to years of not having police academy classes in san francisco. i have fought to make sure that we are funding police academy classes, that we are regrowing our department. and as we regrow our department, we will be able to have more beat officer walking our streets, keeping our communities safe. we'll be able to have more traffic enforcement so that we have safer street. i will continue to make sure that public safety is a top priority. i have also worked very hard to represent the needs of our lgbt community, district 8 has the largest lgbt community in san francisco. and i have worked with our community to make sure the needs of lgbt people are being met. i authored legislation to move forward l, policies that will help grow our lgbt senior population, and we continue to work hard to meet the need of
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our lgbt seniors. i obtained funding to build more housing in upper market for lgbt youth, particularly at-risk youth to make sure that kids have a chance to succeed. and i also every year work hard to protect hiv services and when we received cuts from the federal government for hiv services, i helped lead the way to make sure we backfill every penny of those cuts in our local budget. finally, i have worked hard with the community to make sure we improve our public spaces in san francisco. we worked hard together to move dolores park into a long overdue renovation. we've renovated glen canyon and other parks in our district. i authored the legislation to save the noe valley farmer market by acquiring that site and i obtained the funding to double the width of the castro street sidewalk. it has been a deep honor to represent district 8 at the
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board of supervisors. i have worked hard every day to justify the public's trust that i have been given and i ask for your support to continue this work. thank you. ♪ ♪ >> my name is john alti. i am running for district 8 supervisor in san francisco. for the last 35 years of community services, working on tough issues that face the city. we he need a leader in district 8 that will be accountable, reasonable, and committed in solving the issues. my priorities in office are housing for everyone, improving public health, honoring diversity, fighting for oppressed, public safety. san francisco needs world class transportation system, keeping families and public education. it is a fundamental right of
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san francisco that all of its residents have an affordable place to live, safe streets, reliable public transportation, and opportunities to enjoy the environmental regardless of their age, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, or socioeconomic status. we need to fix muni now. stop pedestrians death, continue to change, transportation needs for bicyclists and transit first city. work to improve access to affordable health care for all. we all have seen firsthand the toll crime takes on the victims, neighbors, merchants, and our community. bring smart policing by having the police walk the neighborhood beats, using technology and innovation to deter crime. we need to change city greenhouse gas emissions,
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generate green electricity, promote urban gardens, plant trees, conself water, zero waste by 2020. i am an experienced grassroots independent candidate that will bring real solutions to city hall. i seek your vote this november and want to hear your concerns. ♪ ♪
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(clapping.) the airport it where i know to mind visions of traffic romance and excitement and gourmet can you limousine we're at san francisco inspirational airport to discover the award-winning concession that conspiracies us around the world. sfo serves are more 40 million travelers a year and a lot of the them are hungry there's many restaurant and nearly all are restaurant and cafe that's right even the airport is a diane designation. so tell me a little bit the food program at sfo and what makes this so special
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>> well, we have a we have food and beverage program at sfo we trivia important the sustainable organic produce and our objective to be a nonterminal and bring in the best food of san francisco for our passengers. >> i like this it's is (inaudible) i thank my parents for bringing me here. >> this the definitely better than the la airport one thousand times better than. >> i have a double knees burger with bacon. >> i realize i'm on a diet but i'm hoping this will be good. >> it total is san francisco experience because there's so many people and nationalities in
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this town to come to the airport especially everyone what have what they wanted. >> are repioneering or is this a model. >> we're definitely pioneers and in airport commemoration at least nationally if not intvrl we have many folks asking our our process and how we select our great operators. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the food option in san francisco airport are phenomenal that's if it a lot of the airports >> yeah. >> you don't have the choice.
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>> some airports are all about food this is not many and this particular airport are amazing especially at the tirnl indicating and corey is my favorite i come one or two hours before my flight this is the life. >> we definitely try to use as many local grirnts as we can we use the goat cheese and we also use local vendors we use greenly produce they summarize the local soured products and the last one had 97 percent open that. >> wow. >> have you taken up anything unique or odd here. >> i've picked up a few things
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in napa valley i love checking chocolates there's a lot of types of chocolate and caramel corn. >> now this is a given right there. >> i'm curious about the customer externals and how people are richmond to this collection of cities you've put together not only of san francisco food in san francisco but food across the bay area. >> this type of market with the local savors the high-end products is great. >> i know people can't believe they're in an airport i really joy people picking up things for their friends and family and wait i don't have to be shopping now we want people take the opportunity at our location.
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>> how long has this been operating in san francisco and the late 18 hours it is one of the best places to get it coffee. >> we have intrrnl consumers that know of this original outlet here and come here for the coffee. >> so let's talk sandwiches. >> uh-huh. >> can you tell me how you came about naming our sandwiches from the katrero hills or 27 years i thought okay neighborhood and how do you keep it fresh you can
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answer that mia anyway you want. >> our broadened is we're going not irving preserves or packaged goods we take the time to incubate our jogger art if scratch people appreciate our work here. >> so you feel like out of captured the airport atmosphere. >> this is its own the city the airline crews and the bag handlers and the frequent travels travelers and we've established relationships it feels good. >> when i get lunch or come to eat the food i feel like i'm not
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city. i was kind of under the assumption you want to be done with our gifts you are down one time not true >> we have a lot of regulars we didn't think we'd find that here at the airport. >> people come in at least one a week for that the food and service and the atmosphere. >> the food is great in san francisco it's a coffee and i took an e calorie home every couple of weeks. >> i'm impressed i might come here on my own without a trip, you know, we have kids we could get a babysitter and have diner at the airport. >> this is a little bit of things for everybody there's
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plenty of restaurant to grab something and go otherwise in you want to sit you can enjoy the experience of local food. >> tell me about the future food. >> we're hoping to bring newer concepts out in san francisco and what our passengers want. >> i look forward to see what your cooking up (laughter) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> today we've shown you the only restaurant in san francisco from the comfortableing old stand but you don't have to be hungry sfo has changed what it
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