for the record my name is emil lawrence. i've spoken before this commission, many other commissions [speaker not understood] to other commissions many times in the past. for the record, i think also that what do we have to do to get dennis herrera to investigate luis herrera? are they relatives? is that what's stopping you? what's in your power to get to you do that when the corruption is on the surface? i'm not going to spend much time on this issue at this moment, but i think you should look at that. your job is to basically observe and also listen to citizens of the county. and when you see corruption, to get somebody to investigate it. very briefly for the rest of my time, i'm going to ask this commission, this board of supervisors to have a moment of silence for mr. paul courier who ran for mayor, had the guts to run for mayor, spent 5,000 with no political machine, who died of a heart attack earlier this year. if we have more citizens of the county and city doing likewise, we wouldn't have many of the problems that we

for the record, my name is emil lawrence.'ve been a resident of the city and county of san francisco for 44-1/2 years. the reason for my talk today is very briefly this. the they wrote in the chronicle yesterday or the day before that the 49ers' biggest nightmare was the seattle sea hawks, but they're wrong. the biggest nightmare was the board of supervisors here in san francisco. they are officially leaving, which now leaves a hole and a gap in city revenues. and now you have a stadium that's most likely going to be ripped down. the problem with that is this. prior to coming here today, the second biggest nightmare in this city are citations for no god dam reason at all. $58 and i can't even understand why i was given it. i get 40 to 50 of these a year. as a san francisco resident and taxi driver. i don't have privileges like you do to park in separate spaces where we don't get fined, but we get fined inadvertently for no reason at all. and i bring this to your attention because i'm tired of going down to one south van ness