my name is dwayne jones and i'm ecstatic to be before you today, to support commissioner borden. she has been on several high-profile commissions before and we believe she has done an amazing job and look forward to her continuing that effort and her kind of being open as jim said earlier, to just hearing everybody out. being very clear on what the pros and cons are, particularly as it pertains to transportation. we all know how important an issue that is, particularly for the often disconnected folks in the southeast side of town. she has championed many of those efforts to make sure that inclusion and rapid transportation to get them to work, downtown, has been at the forefront of her work as i know even as a planning commissioner. so i appreciate the moments and i appreciate you all putting her forth for her appointment at the mta. thank you. >> thank you, mr. jones. any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. i am personally impressed with gwyneth. she to me has exhibited a lot of professionalism in the current commission position and the

again, dwayne jones. i just want to echo many of the comments of the folks before me have said. i want to add to that that i have heard some concern about commissioner johnson's ability to kind of engage communities. the southeast sector is not always the easiest district and/or community to work in and it's one place that we find that one who is serious about doing community work can actually get some real stripes and i can attest that commissioner johnson has earned her stripes in the southeast working both for the cac on several non-profit boards. she is relentless in her pursuit for what is right for the people not only in that district, but citywide. we have always been impressed with how wickedly smart she is and a willingness to learn that which she does not know. we're excited for this appointment and urge your support. thank you. >> good afternoon honorable board members. i'm mr. moses and i sincerely agree with every word that was spoken. i want to tell you what i know about her. christine has been in our neighborhood for many, many years and as she told you, she didn'

the ruling overturns earnest dwayne's death sentence. jones was convicted of rape and murder sued the state after sentenced to death 19 years ago. the federal judge's ruling is something death penalty opponents have been waiting for. they say the system has been broken for sometime matt cherry is with death penalty focus, a group puts a spot on executions. >> we have 747 people alive on death row, but there have been in executions for the past eight years, and in fact, since the death penalty was reinstituted in the 1970s, there have only been 13 executions in california. >> reporter: the state temporary stopped executing prisoners in 2006 when another federal judge ruled that flaws in the lethal injection protocol created an undue risk for failed and painful executions. the last time california's death penalty was struck down was in 197 2 when the supreme court ruled it violeted the state constitution but voters overturned that ruling later that year on a ballot initiative. the people of this state have spoken time and time again on this issu

his name is ernest dwayne jones. he's convicted of raining and murdering his girlfriend's mother. he has been here for 19 years on death row. and that's what judge carney found cruel and unusual. he said it was a random and arbitrary application of the death penalty. in the past 37 years, 900 people have been sentenced to death in california. and of those 900, only 13 have been executed. that, said judge carney is evidence of a system that is so dysfunctional that executions have become depen didn't on arbitrary and random factors rather than the nature of the crime and the date of the sentencing. a death opponent organization in san francisco -- >> it is cruel and unusual in the same sense that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual. >> reporter: mark klaas is fuming. he says what is needed is to fix the system by limiting appeals and streamlining the process. we asked voters on san francisco's market street how they would vote. >> i would vote to have it. >> i don't think so. >> reporter: you would vote against it? >> i think i would. >> death penalty. >> reporter: you'd