a my name is edward wright, and i'm a legislative aide to supervisor gordon mar, and i'm here to speak on his behalf. >> vice chair kopp: i'm sorry. on whose behalf? >> supervisor gordon mar. as he announced at the last meeting, he's been working on reform to the current election finance system. the supervisor does have concerns with some of the proposals in front of the commission today. in particular, the proposal to completely lift the individual expenditure ceilings after they've been raised initially and the proposal to move away from tracking contributions towards campaigns towards tracking expenditures. he also wants to let the commission know that we do have a set of alternate proposals that we have prepared. i e-mailed them to the commission before this meeting, and we are happy to consider them as amendments should any of these move forward to the board of supervisors or introduce them as freestanding legislation should they not. >> vice chair kopp: i have a question. >> chair chiu: yes, commissioner, i have questions, as well. unfortunately, the ordinance that you send over

i want to thank the legislative aids and edward wright who worked in supervisor mar's office who's been struggling over this language nonstop. they're incredible, they are extraordinary. i want to say that it's not everything that we all wanted. while i think that this is an incredible show of unity and an incredible result that we came to -- that we can proud of. i would ask the chair and the clerk to add me as a cosponsor to the appropriation today with the amendments and thanks again. i will end by saying this, all these human needs that we have, healthcare, food, housing, energy, education, there's only one in this country that we have a right to. we only have a right to education k through 12. we have to constantly protect that right. it is constantly under attack. at the same time, we've got to fight hard to create a right to the other basic human needs that we have. a right to housing, right to food, right to healthcare, a right to energy and heat in our homes so we don't die of freezing cold weather. let's not forget that the charter school movement, with the defunding of public

edward wright, daisy quan, mitch eppinger. joyce lam, dominic chan, in county four to name a few. [applause] >> yeah,. thanks to the hundreds of my friends and supporters. they volunteered on my campaign. they did all the hard work, with doorknocking, phone call and, and everything else that is needed for a successful campaign thanks to the many groups and organizations and leaders here in the city. many of whom i am joining on the board. they actively supported me. during my campaign, we had a slogan that connected to my star wars nerdiness. district four awakens. i feel like we ran a great campaign, and we lived up to that theme. we really ran the strongest grassroots people powered campaign ever in district four, and we, i think through our work together collectively, we started to chart a new direction for our neighborhood that will have a big impact on the whole city. thank you everybody that was part of our campaign. of course, thank you for the district four voters. and in electing me to be the representative. i will work hard and commit to representing your interests first

wright, bbc news. now on bbc news sport today with marc edwards. hello.p on this programme... it's a record equalling gold for marcel hirscher in what could be his last world championships. ramos sees red as real lose ground in la liga's title race with a home defeat to girona. the sweet taste of victory,gael monfils winds his first tournament in over a year with victory in rotterdam. hello and thanks for joining us on sport today. could this be the perfect ending to a stellar career? the austrian marcel hirscher said this year's world championships might be his last. in which case, he's gone out with a bang. he won the final event of this year's games in sweden by taking gold in the men's slalom — and that was a record—equalling seventh world title. nick parrot reports... if you want to see a master