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nowp. >> ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats, our program is about to begin.

>> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our

master of ceremonies, renel brooks-moon. [applause] >> thank you so much. good morning, everyone, and welcome. we want to thank you all for being here on this most historic day as we witness history in our beautiful city of san francisco. [applause] i am renel brooks-moon, public address announcer for your three-time world champion san francisco giants. [applause] thank you. also a long-time friend and proud supporter of our new mayor, london n. breed. [applause] it is truly my great honor to serve as your m.c. this morning

and i want to start by thanking the high school all-stars for their performance. [applause] talented young people. thank you so much. a great way to get our festivities started this morning. by now you're all familiar with mayor breed's inspiring story. raised in the western addition by her loving grandmother, hearing gunshots in the background as she tried to study for her high school exams, overcoming numerous tragedies. in the words of dr. mya angelou, "and still she did rise." [applause] no matter what adversity she faced or how many setbacks she endured she never, ever lost focus on her dream. her amazing story should serve as a reminder to us all, especially to our young people here today that if you believe in yourself you can truly

accomplish anything and she is, indeed, an inspiration to us all. is she not? [applause] and now we are honored to be joined by the kung fu sport association lion dancers who will now welcome mayor-elect breed with a very special performance. (♪) (♪) (♪)

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(♪) (♪) [applause] >> mayor-elect breed, please have a seat. [applause] and give it up once again for the yau kung moon kung fu sport association lion dancers and that, san francisco, is how you make an entrance. [applause] and now for the invocation it is my great pleasure to introduce to you rabbi beth singer of the congregation emanu-el and the

reverend dr. amos c. brown of third baptist church. [applause] >> this is a historic day in san francisco! [applause] i, rabbi beth singer of congregation emanu-el stand side-by-side with reverend amos brown of third baptist church. [applause] our presence here together on

this occasion is, of course, symbolic. you know that we are here to deliver a prayer, but reverend brown and i, we are a prayer, a prayer that is praised along with all of our interfaith partners for women and men of all skin colors, all religions, no religions, all sexual identities, all genders, all political affiliations, all nationalities and ethnicities to see the beauty in our differences. [applause] we are a prayer to unite for the good and today we pray and invoke this sacred presence as we witness the historic

swearing-in of the smart, gracious, and politically savvy, get-the-job done, mayor london breed. [cheers and applause]. we call upon you creator of the universe with a prayer and a thank you. we thank you for the gifts of all life, for enabling each of us to reach this moment in time. it has been a tough year for love, generosity and goodness. each time that we thought that it was as bad as it could be, it got worse. more division, more injustice, more hate. we prayed, god, please send us some kind of hope. can you just send us a sign and you did! [cheers and applause].

the young girl who grew up in public housing and is now going to be our mayor. she is the answer to our prayers. [applause] in a city which is increasingly inhospitable to our african american citizens, our populous voted in london breed as our top choice among many excellent choices to lead our city. thank you, god, for miracles. [applause] now we the people of san francisco ask you to fill us with strength and purpose as we partner with mayor breed to do the hard work to address the fundamental problems that plague this and so many other cities throughout our country. we are your partners and we are

mayor breed's partners in repairing the world. together with mayor breed we commit to housing our homeless. we commit to bringing about racial justice. we commit to increasing positive relationships between our police officers and community members and we commit to caring for each person, especially the most vulnerable amongst us. we know that the task is great, but we the workers are willing. if we manage to come together to elect this excellent mayor we can come together now to be her full partners as we invest in our city by the bay. in the jewish tradition we say, thank you, god, for giving us life. and for answering our prayer with mayor london breed, for sustaining us and for bringing

us and our mayor to this moment in time. [applause] >> and, my friends, this moment in time is more than a symbolic moment. it is a moment of great substance. for i must remind you, or inform you, that we are here as brother and sister. [applause] and as tennison said, i am part of all that i have met.

and we are who we are today standing here together as brother and sister because there were some meetings in yesterye yesteryears. after all, the congregation that rabbi beth singer is a senior rabbi along with her husband, rabbi jonathan singer, was founded in 1850 during the gold rush days. and the historic third baptist church was founded on august 1, the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the british west indies. third baptist i was founded in

1852. but we didn't just exist in this city. we were neighbors. emnanu-el was located at third and powell. and third baptist is located at 815 powell street. we have continued this brotherly and sisterly relationship across the religious, cultural and racial lines. and we stand here today to say that this day does take on substance. god has smiled on us, the sun is shining. [applause] because we have lived out what our teacher told us to do when we went to school in elementary days -- come to school and bring

your show-and-tell assignment with you. we are showing and telling the world how america needs to act. [applause] how america needs to live. how the world needs to be. our brotherhood and a sisterhood. [applause] and as we show-and-tell, i trust from the bottom of my heart that number 45 will be viewing this ceremony from brussels and be able to see how we should act and love each other and not take our children away from their parents. [applause]

we are showing and telling that we have elected the right number 45. [applause] a number 45 who is a five-star sister. [applause] she is a quintessential embodiment of character, competency, chemistry with that winning smile. compassion. she's going to do something about homelessness and just talk about it. and, most of all, she has the courage to respectfully stand her ground. if she's right she's not intimidated by no mortal

creature, but she wants to please her maker who made her and ask for her to do justice. love mercy and walk calmly with our god. and if we show-and-tell, i assure you that the day will come when all of us will be able to say, i'm black and i'm proud. [applause] i'm brown and i'm sound. [applause] and i'm yellow and i'm mellow. [applause] i'm red but i ain't dead. [applause] i'm white and i'm all right. and i am gay but i'm godly. and i'm straight but i'm sensible. i'm a woman but i'm wise. and i'm an immigrant but i'm industrious. we show-and-tell it in san francisco! [applause]

>> lord have mercy. >> a round of applause please once again. reverend brown, rabbi singer, for that powerful message. and i do believe that the most magnificent invocation that i have ever witnessed. and now, everyone, if you would all please rise as the san francisco police safety color guard comes forward for the presentation of the colors. please remain standing for the singing of our national anthem, to be performed by the c-note.

.(♪) (singing). (♪) ♪ loud as a roar (♪)

♪ say can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ what so proudly snow we hailed ♪ ♪ at the twilight's last gleaming ♪ ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪ ♪ through the perilous fight ♪ o' er the ramparts we watched ♪ were so gallantly streaming ♪ and the rocket's red glare ♪ and the bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ gave proof ♪ through the night ♪ that our flag ♪ was still there ♪ oh, say ♪ does that ♪ star-spangled banner ♪ yet wave ♪ o'er the land ♪ of the free

♪ and the home of the brave (♪) [applause]

[applause] >> the san francisco public safety color guard, everyone. and one more time please for the c-notes. [applause] that was incredible. i heard somebody out there say they look like the jacksons. i heard you. all right. now moving on... we're going to commemorate this historic occasion with a musical selection now from the world premiere of "unbreakable," a musical chronology with 100 years of lgbtq history, to commemorate the san francisco gay men's chorus 40th anniversary and the world premiere was here at the north theatre last month. please welcome performing "survivors" the fabulous san francisco gay men's chorus!

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♪ challenges ♪ everybody gets their share ♪ obstacles ♪ everybody has their share (♪) ♪ everybody deals with pain ♪ everybody faces grief ♪ every could complain ♪ oh, oh, oh, oh, ♪ we are survivors ♪ we are the ones who stand together ♪ ♪ we are survivors ♪ hand in hand in hand in hand ♪ promises ♪ oh, promises ♪ everybody breaks a few ♪ everybody breaks a few ♪ everybody takes a view ♪ everybody takes a view ♪ every votes and tries

♪ everybod everybody loves and ♪ ♪ everybody wants surprise ♪ oh, oh, oh, oh, ♪ we are survivors ♪ we are the ones who stand together ♪ ♪ we are survivors ♪ hand in hand in hand in hand ♪ every night we try to say ♪ we remember and repeat where we stood ♪ ♪ when the world was relaxed ♪ we remember and we did what we could ♪ ♪ we are good ♪ we are good ♪ we are good ♪ we are survivors ♪ we are the ones who stand together ♪ ♪ we are survivors

♪ hand in hand in hand in hand ♪ we are survivors ♪ we are the ones who stand together ♪ ♪ we are survivors ♪ hand in hand in hand in hand ♪ we stand ♪ we stand ♪ we stand (♪) [applause] >> fantastic. the san francisco gay men's chorus. we are survivors. hand in hand we stand. thank you so much, gentlemen.

beautiful performance. thank you. and now i would like to honor some of our most distinguished guests with us today, the mayor of new orleans, latoya cantrell. [applause] and oakland mayor libby shaves. the mayor of san jose, sam licardo. and the mayor of columbia, south carolina, steve benjamin. mayor of sacramento, darrell steinberg. london's staunchest supporters, the president of the board of supervisors, maliya cohen. and supervisor safai.

supervisor katie tang. and recorder carmen chu. sheriff hennnesee. and assembly member david chu. also with us today united states attorney general alex g. see. and assemblyman tony furman. and state ko. patroller betty yee. and assem plea member bill thing. and the san francisco board of supervisors, katherine stephan stephanie. jane kim. norman yee. jeff sheehy. aaron peskin. supervisor-elect rafael

mandelman. and sandra lee fewer. also with us local elected officials, treasurer josé sineros. and city attorney dennis oh, rarea. and public defender jeff adache. and district attorney george cascgon. and also with us today mayors from throughout the bay area and members of abag and the united states conference of mayors. members of the bar board of directors. members of the san francisco board of education and the city college board of trustees. members of the san francisco consular corps. and also san francisco's department heads and commissioners. thank you all for being here with us today.

now our congressional delegation wanted so much to be here today, mayor-elect breed, but they had to remain in washington where they are extremely busy. goodness knows, but they did send along their very best wishes to you on video. let's take a look... >> good morning, san francisco. i'm sorry that i can't be with you this morning to celebrate, but senate business keeps me in washington. but i wanted to offer my wholehearted congratulations to london. it wasn't so long ago, london, that you and the benjamin franklin middle school band performed for me here at city hall when i was mayor. today, after far too long as the only woman mayor of san francisco, i am so proudly welcome you into the club. i have every confidence that you're going to be the right leader at the right time for our city. and i know that you have the passion, determination and grit

to address our city's problems and to take us to new heights. my best wishes to you today as you celebrate and i look forward to seeing you very soon. thank you, and great good luck. >> hello, san francisco. what an historic and a happy day. london, my dear friend, congratulations on becoming the 45th mayor of the city and county of san francisco. you are a true daughter of san francisco, and it has been extraordinary to watch your rise as a leader and a public servant from your earliest days in the western addition to the work that you did leading the african american art and culture complex, to your election to the board of supervisors, to your election as the president of the board of supervisors, and now to your election as mayor of san francisco. and the first black woman in history to be elected to this

position. you have always represented the best of who we are as a city, county, state and country. and i know that your grandmother was one of your greatest inspirations and she raised you not only to take responsibility for your own life but also for the people in our community. and that is what you have done for years and you have done it with a clear purpose to create a brighter future for our generation and the next generation. congratulations, london. congratulations. >> congratulations, mayor london breed. and take this in, because you have thousands of san franciscoians with you right now celebrating this historic event. i knew that you were a winner when we had coffee in south san francisco years ago when you were running for the board of supervisors. you have all it takes to go all the way. and i supported your candidacy

as strongly as i did because i saw you as a healer and a leader. and we are so fortunate that you have won and that you will help to bring our city together in ways that we've never seen before and have it to be that shining light that we all adore. so congratulations, mayor london breed, and, congratulations to the city of san francisco and its voters who elected you. >> congratulations to mayor london breed, on your historic election to become the first african american woman elected as mayor of san francisco. in these difficult and uncertain times we need leaders with conviction and fortitude, leaders with the strength and the foresight to make visionary, sometimes difficult, decisions. leaders who know what is right and can bring people together.

mayor breed, you are one of those leaders. i am sorry that i could not be there with you to celebrate this momentous occasion but please know that i am excited and very happy to congratulate you and i look forward to working with you. london, i know that you will be an amazing mayor. again, congratulations. >> messages from london's mentors and heroes, senator diane finestein and congresswoman jackie spear and congresswoman barbara lee who really went to bat for you, london. we thank them, don't we? [applause] and speaking of going to bat and speaking of being at the plate, we do have another very special guest i must acknowledge and introduce to you. he is the greatest baseball

player to have ever played the game, hall of famer, and number 24, willie mays is here! [applause] all right, san francisco, it is now time for the moment that we have all been waiting for. are you ready? [applause] it is time to swear-in our newest mayor. and it is my honor now to welcome to the stage san francisco's 42nd mayor and the current lieutenant-governor the great state of california, the honorable gavin newsom. [applause]

lieutenant-governor newsom will now administer the oath of office to mayor-elect london breed. >> raise your right hand and repeat after me... i, london n. breed do solemnly swear. >> do solemnly swear. >> they will support and defend... >> i will support and defend... >> the constitution of the united states! >> the constitution of the united states. >> and the constitution of the state of california. >> and the constitution of the state of california. >> against all enemies. >> against all enemies. >> foreign and domestic. >> foreign and domestic. >> that i bear true faith and allegiance to the same. >> that i bear truth faith and allegiance to the same. >> that i take this obligation freely. >> i take this obligation freely. >> without any purpose of evasion. >> or purpose of evasion. >> that i will well and faithfully discharge. >> i will well and faithfully discharge.

>> duties upon which i'm about to enter. >> the duties which i'm about to enter. >> and during such time i hold the position. >> and during such time as i hold the position. >> as mayor of the city and county of san francisco. >> as mayor of the city and county of san francisco. [cheers and applause]. >> thank you so much, lieutenant-governor. and now, ladies and gentlemen, i am thrilled to present to you the 45th mayor of the city and county of san francisco, the honorable london n. breed. [cheers and applause]. >> mayor breed: thank you.

[applause] thank you all so much for being here today. and i want to say thank you to the residents of the city and county of san francisco for entrusting me with this incredible honor. i want to thank my colleagues from the board of supervisors for being here and also i want to acknowledge my predecessors who are here today. mayors frank jordan and mayors agnes, and mayor willie brown who is head of the inaugural committee. mayor mark ferrell. and i also would like to thank the wives of george masconi and mayor ed lee. thank you so much, and anita lee, for being here today. it means a lot to me. [applause] and i want to take a moment to remember why we're here, that

gracious, that amazing public servant, mayor ed lee. can we please take a moment of silence to honor him. [moment of silence] thank you. i know that we are also joined by so many mayors from all around the country and the united states and here in california. thank you for being here. our state delegation, i know that assemblyman david chu is here and so many amazing people as well as the members of my family. thank you all for being here. [applause] my mother, priscilla, is here. my sisters, hattie and camellia. my brother, paul, is here and my niece evan. and my aunt linda and my uncle chuck are here. and my grandmother's sister,

aunt lavinia is here. and a special shout out to my niece lapricia who has been a rock throughout this campaign. [applause] i grew up just a few blocks from here as many of you know, but a world away. a young african american girl in public housing. my grandmother as you know raised me and my brothers and her daughter, my aunt mickey, in public housing on $900 a month. the world seemed destined for me for drugs or motherhood and teenaged motherhood, jail, or even a violent death because of the gun violence that had ravaged our community. but my community, this city, had other plans for me. i woke up in a public housing unit. i took a public bus to a public

school every day. i had incredible teachers and counsellors who looked out for me and believed in me. and i walked home with some of my friends from the neighborhood and we looked out for each oth other. my grandmother, miss camellia brown, at the end of the day she watched over me just like she's watching over all of us here today. miss brown was hard working and as tough as nails. you didn't live in her house if you didn't go to school. you know, she looked out for so many people, people in the neighborhood who she would sometimes feed and i'd wonder, momma, we don't have much, why are you giving away what we have? she said because that could be us, that could be you, and that's what we do for each other, we look out for each other. when i was a freshman in high

school i got a job through the booker t. washington community center. it was through the mayor's youth employment training program. i was 14 years old and i was hired as a receptionist to work at a place called the family school on bilmore street. it helped teenaged moms who dropped out of school to get their g.e.d. and get a job. i remember one day i saw the executive director reverend calvin jones jr. writing a check to pay for his student loans and i said, what are you doing, you're still paying for school? he said, yes. i can pay this for the rest of my life but they can never take away my education. i could get a job anywhere doing anything i want. i stand at this podium today because a community believed in me. because our city services looked out for me. i stand at this podium because

people like miss brown and reverend calvin jones jr. taught me that service to others is the most important success of all. [applause] and i am here in the hope that together we can build a san francisco where the next generation of young people can go from public housing to the mayor's office. here in the city of saint francis we support one another, we look out for one another, we defend one another, because service to others is our highest calling. and i am prepared for our many city challenges to emerge and i know that together we can accomplish anything. i know that our challenges sometimes can get in the way of

real progress. we have a booming economy. we have an amazing city where there is incredible wealth. and at the same time it's creating a lot of challenges for our most disadvantaged residents. we have people who come from all over the world, who come to create, who are innovative, who look at san francisco and think, that's the place i want to be. and we have failed. we have failed in building more housing to accommodate the increase in the number of job opportunities that have poured into san francisco. pushing residents who have been here all their lives out of the city that they call home. [applause] our streets are filled with people who, unfortunately, need

our help. who are struggling and who are, frankly, dying right in front of our eyes. and these and many other folks often sometimes are neglected. they need us here in this building to make better decisions. they need us to stand up and make the hard decisions to make the change to get us on to the right track. we are not a tale of two cities. we are one san francisco. and as your mayor i will do everything that i can to unite us and to bring us together for the purposes of doing exactly what we need to get on the right track. [applause] and let me tell you a little bit about how i plan to do just that. i plan to reform our mental health system because we know that people struggling in our streets with mental illness and

addictions, that they are experiencing challenges and it is not okay to just leave them out there to die because they have rights. [applause] our conservativeship laws must change. it's important that we provide a guardian for people struggling with mental illness, someone who can help to make decisions for them when they are not capable of making decisions for themselves. i know that it's a challenging thing to do but i am committed to doing just that. and we know that too many people are struggling with addiction. and it's not going to go away because we don't want to see it. i want to get people off the streets who are shooting up. i want to get the needles off the streets. this is why i'm proposing safe injection sites. but more importantly i want to make sure that we have treatment on-demand. i want to deal with this crises

in a different way. i want to make sure that we build more housing and that we build more housing faster. [applause] the politics of "no" has plagued our city for far too long. not on my block, not in my backyard. we have made mistakes in the past by not moving housing production forward all over this city. and i plan to change the politics of "no" to the politics of "yes." yes, we will build mor more hou. [applause] we also know that public safety is a real challenge all over our city. and, yes, i am committed to making sure that we have more police officers in our communities and walking the beat. but i'm also committed to the police reform so that we develop better relationships between our communities and our police

department. [applause] the only way that we're going to be a better city, a safer city, is if we work together. and, yes, there must be consequences for crime, but at the same time we have to make sure that in this city that there are opportunities so that people don't feel as though they have to commit crimes in the first place. [applause] we know that san francisco is unaffordable on so many levels. and i am definitely committed to rolling up my sleeves and working together to get us to a better place. i have been a renter all my life. and some of you remember when they tore down plaza east and we were pushed out at a time when my grandmother was struggling, we were trying to care for her, and it was very difficult.

so many of my friends have left this city. and so part of what i want to do is to change san francisco. i want to make us a better, more affordable city. i don't want to see what happened to me and my friends in this city to continue to happen to the next generation of san franciscoians growing up here. [applause] so we have work to do. we have to reform our education system. we have to make sure that there are job training and opportunities for all young people in this city. this is a personal commitment i have because of my grandmother, because of so many people who looked out and took care of me and made me into the person that i am today. i am committed to making sure that all kids in high school have an opportunity for a paid internship, for job training. so that they are a part of the future of this city. [applause]

we are going to tell the president that here in san francisco that we don't put children in cages. we put them in the classroom. [applause] so, san francisco, we have work to do. i am excited about this opportunity and i know that we have had challenges of the past and what we can't do -- we can't let the politics of progressive and moderate and all of those things that have torn our city apart to get in the way of our ability to deliver for the people of san francisco. [applause] people who are struggling are depending on us.

the next generation of san franciscoians, they're depending on us to be grown-ups, to make the right decision, to do what is necessary, to make san francisco a better, cleaner place. yes, we have to deal with many of these challenges. we have to address the affordability crisis. we have to make our transportation system better. we have to improve our parks. we have to make sure that we continue to lead the way on climate change and repair our seawall. we have to do all of these things. we have to support our small businesses. we have to keep our communities safe. we have to continue to move san francisco forward, but doing everything that we can not to leave one san franciscoian behind. growing up in poverty in this

city you look at things through a different lens. you look at things and you see the challenges and you think what you see is normal. well, it's time to change what is normal in san francisco. it is time to change what has happened in the past so that we can move our city together forward. and i know that there are so many people in this city, people who feel that they don't matter. people who feel that nobody is listening. people who feel neglected. people who feel unheard and don't feel represented in this city. and i want them to know that i see them, and i will be their mayor too. [applause] i want them to know that when i hear the stories from the residents in public housing and

hunter's point about the toilets that don't flush, about the gunshots on a regular basis and their concern, i want them to know that i hear them. i lived it. and i will be your mayor too. when i think about our immigrant families, people who are living all over this city in the mission and chinatown and other places, wondering if the federal government is going to separate their family. i want them to know that i will fight for them and i will be their mayor too. [applause] for the small business owner who is struggling and feels that they're being squeezed out by big development on one side and city government fees on another, i want them to know that i will be their mayor too. [applause]