to vote for, but there is no guarantee the people before us today will be here at a couple weeks beforlater. i do believe the mayor is tying up his loose ends before he leaves, and one of them is ensuring the commissioners are appointed by someone who has been elected by the people. i think that is a distinction we should be making here, that the interim mayor will not be elected by the people, and that they will be an interim period quite frankly, in this particular context, mayor newsom is finishing up his job before he moves on to another one. i do not think there is anything inappropriate about it. frankly, it does put the concerns of the city and county of san francisco once ahead ahead of politics, and that is an important thing we're doing here today. truthfully, i think these appointments should go forward and we should continue doing the job we were elected to do as well. [applause] supervisor campos: i do not want to belabor the point, but since we are talking about the people, yes, mayor newsom was collected by the people of san francisco, but he was also elected by the people of