supervisor farrell: supervisor elsberend and i propose this and that we have had great discussions in the rules committee and i want to commend my colleagues to support a day different and the opposing charter amendment. -- support a different and may be opposing charter amended. want to tell you i feel so strongly about this. first of all, i believe in the principle of majority vote. that is how we have been elected and how this country started elections centuries ago and i believe it's something we should continue in san francisco. second, the concept of choice -- as many folks expressed last year during the mayoral campaign, in spite of the great outcome, many people felt combined with our public financing system the way it is and i know there are a lot of amendments in place and i think are great, we do not have a real choice when we end up voting someone -- voting for mayor last year. we had a huge field and people were not able to express their opinions. to have a real choice but to people 04 at the end of the day is such an important thing. perhaps the main thing for my point o

supervisor farrell: supervisor elsberend and i propose this and that we have had great discussions in the rules committee and i want to commend my colleagues to support a day different and the opposing charter amendment. --