annie sims, elliott cats, and ian hadel. >> i'm elliott cats. i don't know what happened to the other person. 35 years ago, i founded an organization here in san francisco that currently produces the ethnic dance festival with the hotel tax fund. in those days, i was fighting for the cultures of the minorities. there was a very strong effort to keep the ethnic minorities down by hotel tax fund giving all their money to the, in quotes, white cultures. that has been balanced out. now i see a similar kind of situation happening with the way the banks are treating the minorities, taking advantage of them and so forth. last week, i sat here and i saw people literally crying with tears in their eyes, people with hiv, people with the catholic charities of america, pleading, don't cut back their budgets, their lives depending on it. i'm here to basically say that you have an obligation for -- not to turn your backs on people in need. and if there is an opportunity here to have additional funds, you should not just simply say oh, we don't want to be both

annie sims, elliott cats, and ian hadel. >> i'm elliott cats. i don't know what happened to the other person. 35 years ago, i founded an organization here in san francisco that currently produces the ethnic dance festival with the hotel tax fund. in those days, i was fighting for the cultures of the minorities. there was a very strong effort to keep the ethnic minorities down by hotel tax fund giving all their money to the, in quotes, white cultures