[applause] >> and charlie thompson, there you go, our attorney, who we spent many sleepless nights, right charlie, working with will thatcher. will, where are you? will finally agreed to sell the land in the corner lot to us. so without any of you, we are not here today. and i want to say since january of this year, eric tau, terry re reagan, and brian baker, jessie herzog, i'm very excited for you to help us, and we're going to work together until the end of the project. thank you. so mayor breed, can i introduce you? we're so excited to see what you're working on, creating housing for different income level residents, and your work on sort of a tough love projects here in the city. and your work that you're doing in identifying the director of the housing delivery that's going to stream line the application process and the housing process. and we're confident that the city will be a better city for all of us. thank you. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: i am so excited to be here today, and i think mayor lee wanted us all to know that he was paying close attention to everything that

charlie, i had like to have your view on how this year's kansas elections are going to go? i'm particularly looking at kansas 4 with estes against thompson and any other races you care to comment on. sure appreciate that. thank you. >> sure, i was just in wichita earlier this year. >> you travel quite a bit. >> i do. i do. it's -- the governor's race is -- you know, normally republicans have no problems, and we're seeing in places like kansas and places like oklahoma, closer gubernatorial races than you would expect. and i think some of it is you had in some of the reddest republican states taxes cut a lot and spending cut a lot and education becoming a big issue, and teachers demonstrations and all of that, and there's been something of a backlash there. so we've got -- the kansas governor's race is very close. secretary of state is, you know, maybe a couple points ahead, but it is closer than it ought to be. you were saying -- >> 4? >> 4 is solid republican. the two races that we're watching most closely, there's the open seat, the jenkins open seat in kansas's second district and then kevin yoder, republican incumbent in the third dis

charlie price wrote the whole thing and actually wrote a letter to his publisher after the book came out and said thanks for sending me my book i look forward to reading it. but with governor thompson i would write a chapter and we would go over it. [applause] how are you? i just told them how hard i worked in all the stuff i did. >> i told everybody he is the best writer anybody could everst have. he can put lipstick on and he hundred pound cow and make it lookpow good. that is what he did in this regard. i want to tell you i apologize i'm late but i went to this as governor and secretary i didn't get a chance to go to many of my daughter and son's basketball and football games because i was always busy so today i went to see my grandson play in his last grade school football game so i'm late and i apologize but i was doing grandfather duties. [applause] so i hope you understand maybe we violated a few traffic signals but i got here. so thank you. i apologize and connor i didn't know that. >> is my cousin. >> so to start i think they would love to hear how a kid from illinois would get into politics i know his father was county board and had meetings on fridays at the store? . >>

charlie price wrote the whole thing. sarasin wrote a letter to his publisher at the book came out and he said thanks for sending my my book, i look forward to reading it. [laughter] with governor thompsone a chapter and we would go over it à [applause] >> how are you? where am i right here? >> yet right there. >> i just told them how hard i worked and all the stuff i did. >> i told everybody that dog is the best writer anybody could ever have. he can put lipstick on an 800 pound sow and make it look good. that's what he did in this regard. i think him for it. i want to tell you that, i apologize, doug knows this when i was governor and secretary i didn't get a chance to go into many of my son and daughter's basketball and football games. because as always busy. today i went to portage to see my grandson playing in his last grad Ãbgrade school football game. i'm late and i would apologize that i was doing grandfather duties.[applause] i hope you will understand. we might have violated if you traffic signals coming here. i got here. these are my relatives, did you know that? >> i did not know that. >> connor, you know connor? >> yes. >> is my cousin. >> i think to start i think folks, go