but guess what, those were both tom ammiano initiatives. tom ammiano is endorsing me. >> he tweets and he talks but we need people who actually come up with concrete plans. >> besides that each candidate was mostly singing to his party's platform. they debated healthcare, taxes, immigration, including the sanctuary state laws and what should be done with immigrants brought here i will really as children. >> our ability to -- i will always stand for values. >> we must enforce federal immigration law and as your next governor, we'll do that. immigration is a federal issue defined by the u.s. constitution. >> reporter: the under funded pension system was also on the table which all candidates agreed needed to be changed. high-speed rail the democrats were supporting it with conditions. the republicans vowed to stop it and the state's gas tax which could be repealed in november again. support for and against it was along party lines. yes, early on it was predicted that we would see a race between newsom and villaraigosa in november. but republi

known you for almost 20 years, and first at the board of supervisors, when i worked for supervisor ammiano, and i think you have a real passion and commitment to public policy. i know on the civil rights front, but you're also a policy wonk after my own heart. as supervisor, commissioner katz required all utilities to carrie warning when in the public right-of-way. i think it's that attention to detail that has made you such a great public servant both here at the board of supervisors and at the port commission. i know you really love the development work that we were doing. you're a passionate proponent of the pier 70 project. i think the final thing that i want to say is almost all of your remarks, you really went out of your way to say what great work staff were doing and acknowledging all the work that went into these presentations. it was all so good to hear that positive feedback, so can't thank you enough for your service. thank you. >> thank you. is there anybody else that would like to speak? >> commissioner katz, it's nice to be able to follow on brad's remarks because i think yo

but those were tom ammiano initiatives. and tom is endorsing me. >> we need people with concrete plans. >> reporter: this is probably the last time we'll see all six candidates on the stage together. lieutenant governor gavin newsom isn't likely to participate in any more primary debates after he skipped quite a few before. melissa caen, kpix 5. >>> a bay area water agency is supporting the two tunnel water system overhaul. governor brown's $17 billion delta tunnels project will be two 35-mile tunnels to take water from the sacramento river and give it to the south which will include silicon valley. the santa clara valley water district opposed that project initially but the board has pledged up to $650 million to help pay for it. construction will start in 2019 and will take 15 years to complete. >>> the warriors are headed back to the western conference finals. golden state closed out the pelicans at oracle arena last night thanks to strong performances from steph curry, kevin durant and draymond green. final score 113-10

arrivals, and at that time, in a moderately unlikely progressive coalition, the then supervisors tom ammiano and gavin newsom then collaborated on what was proposition e which creates the san francisco municipal transportation agency and gave it a level of autonomy, a level of funding, and made it quite independent from the board's budget process insofar as it required a super majority of the board to prejekt t prereject the budget and did not give us line item authority over that budget. when i was first elected and took office on january 8th of 2001, i don't think there's anybody around who remembers it. maybe jim lazarus does from his days as a deputy city attorney, we used to have at this committee, at the land use and transportation committee, a huge number of items related to increasing a yellow zone 20 feet, adding a stop sign, all of which in those days went to a separate entity, which was the -- what the heck was it called? the parking and traffic commission, which was a separate entity. and all of those items had to be approved by this board. the 1999 prop e experiment went on for