[laughter] >>> so, i've known juliet ellis over 10 years. i was a very young community organizer working in the east bay when juliet really took me under her wing and taught me what it meant to be honest, what it meant to have integrity and what it meant to lead with values. she is a person of strong values, strong convictions, and she understands her history. it's not a history of a bureaucrat. it's not a history of somebody who was born to be in the position of power that she has found herself. she comes from -- her perspective is one of an advocate and an activist like myself and like the communities that she represented for so many years. and that makes her a target, a double target because she is a woman of conviction and she is a woman of color of conviction and this is absolutely, as [speaker not understood], said, a witch hunt of outrageous proportions. like i said, a circus is what comes to mind. so, you know, this commission i believe is charged with upholding the integrity of our common good here in san francisco and that you would

juliet ellis ~. every time i turn around, and i have asked the director and if he he was still here, to keep her out of my community because i don't need her there. she has not did anything for bayview hunters point. and even the funds that's supposed to be coming to bayview hunters point, over $2 billion, we haven't seen a dime. money is being diverted to other areas. if people want to do something for the community, why don't you come into the community and fight for the people in the community? because we are the ones that are being -- getting sick and dying every day out there because of the sewage plant and because of the shipyard. so, let's don't get carried away about who is going to have a job because she's supposed to be black. it ain't about what color you are. it's about whether you're doing the job you're supposed to be doing. thank you very much. >>> you know, i thought i could wait until this agenda item came and i no longer can because it's so hard to be in a room full of hypocracy. i

and in that space i am proud to stand alongside juliet ellis. integrity, as has been mentioned already tonight, integrity does not mean to make no mistakes. you only grow through making mistakes and learning from them. juliet ellis represents someone who has been willing to take so many risks to make the world better for others. how do you know someone playing a game full out like basketball? because they miss a couple of shots. because they're going full out. they're going beyond their capacity to win the game. juliet ellis is someone who has time and time and time again gone beyond the capacity to make a win for those who would otherwise not even be represented in the game. i can speak on integrity because i gave my word in december of 1997 that i would not touch the ground again until i had done everything i could to save that tree. i went through the worst winter in recorded history of california. i went through people literally trying to kill me. i went through defamation in the newspapers just like juliet has and i stayed because i was rai

juliet ellis is a very, very elegant person. [speaker not understood] to me. and once in this hallway and a bunch over there, i warned her many, many months ago to change her ways, change her ways and be humble. she did not. commissioners, today is a very, very sad day in the history of this commission that was charged to do right, to discern and to adjudicate based on morals, ethics and standards. you failed miserably. thank you very much. >>> good evening again. dr. espinola jackson. i would like to say, after listening to your deliberations, i went to the commission, puc commission. in fact, they will be in the very room tomorrow and i will be definitely on them. i said to that commission that i would like for them to have a staff to cease and desist in what was going on in bayview hunters point dealing with the sewer plant. and the commissioner called me back to the podium and said, ms. jackson, we don't have anything to do with the staff. we only deal with the director. i said, okay. but he said, i will be your [speaker not understood] between this commis