my name is daniel landrieu, and i am at 43-year resident of the fillmore western addition -- my name iel landry. i am here to clearly support candidate erris edgerly. i have worked with him for years. he is a direct connect. remember when newsom was here, we kept talking about disconnect. and we need someone who is a direct connect to the community, that they will be advising to the supervisors and other parts of government, and so i think, you know, clearly, the word in this committee is community advisory -- is the clear word we need to look at. one of the things that is troubling to me by my years in the western addition, a lot of times, people work in the community, but they do not work with the community. our people may have addresses in the community, nonprofits, whatever, but still, that connect is not there. i think erris -- and there are other fascinating candidates today, so i do not want to knock anyone else, but i think he brings exactly what we're looking for because you have big projects in our area like the fillmore center where you had a group come in who wanted to pla