i would like to ask any of my colleagues who are the co- sponsors of the eric assada day are-- if you say y words as well. i celebrate every day knowing eric, knowing the great work he has done to improve the lives of not just the mission district of people throughout the world. he really committed his life to not just social justice in our neighborhood but throughout the world. i wanted to say that you would have been happy with pablo sandoval's run streak. i would like to celebrate the work he has done and say that the sun immoral that is happening from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. -- the memorial that is happening, it has a spirit of eric assada. i hope people join is from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on sunday. i wanted to congratulate the family for nurturing such an incredible person for all of our communities and movements. if you would like to come up and make remarks or colleagues as well. colleagues, before they come up. supervisor campos: the interesting thing about my journey and his journey is at some point, we were political competitors, running for the same political office. and on

there will never be another eric assada. if there was one thing that defined him, it was this constant drive to make the world a better place, and i think that is something that he demonstrated throughout his life and especially in the last few months of his life. the fact is that even as eric was going through what he was going through, i would still get the calls, what are the issue was. we as elected officials, we need that perspective, we need that voice of someone who can shed light on the very important issues that come our way. because it is easy sometimes for those issues to get lost here in city hall. i could always trust that there could tell me -- eric could tell me in a simple way what was right and what was wrong. that is something i am going to mess and that is something that i feel very honored that i had the opportunity to get to know him that way. i also know that the kind of person he was, that kind of person he remains in our hearts, it is not something that happened because of who eric was, it is also the