leroy here? you handsome boy. commissioner, just want to say my history with mr. kane goes back to the time when i was a very young girl, back to the 1970's, and mr. king was one of my grandfathers best friends. it was always leroy and walter johnson. i cannot tell you how excited i am to be able to support your re-nomination to the redevelopment commission. you are a san franciscan through and through. i love you dearly, and i am very excited to see you here this morning and to be able to cast my vote in support of you. supervisor mar: thank you for those comments. i just wanted to also acknowledge the important points that were made. my expectation also of commissioners is that if we disagree on issues, we will struggle through them as colleagues with respect, and i will review that september 21 meeting and take a look, but my expectation is that through the decades of struggle, that commissioner king has led and in part of different movements, he is a product of our movement. i know if we disagree on different issues, we will continue to struggle through them as organizers, as advocates, as leaders. my expectation also is that people on commissions

lee roy king is a hero, a leader, and he has been one for decades -- the lawyer -- leroy king. without him on the redevelopment agency, we would lose an encyclopedia, and his leadership, and with him, every two weeks when we have our meetings, i look to him for that leadership and that encyclopedic knowledge, which really makes our job much easier and much more effective, so with that, i support mr. king's reappointment. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker please. >> rev. arnold townsend, representing san francisco naacp today. let me be cautious because if i talk too much and too fast about mr. king, i will get emotional. there is an overwhelming amount of things that we could say, but let me just -- one story i remember him telling me -- i do not know if you all know it or not, but there was a time when people look like the three of us were not even welcome in the supervisors' chambers until mr. king and some other longshoreman kick in some doors, and i mean that literally. the supervisor chamber doors, because of those kinds of policies. he is a hero, a men

. >> item 37, a motion confirming the reappointment of liro king -- leroy king to the san francisco redevelopment agency. >> this motion passes. >> the roll call for introductions. >> i am urging senators boxer and feinstein to support a young man and his efforts to remain in the u.s. by introducing a private bill. he is a 20-year-old city college student in san francisco. i would like to thank my colleagues supervisor's chiu, campos, and avalos. he thought that he was an average person until immigration and customs enforcement arrived at his home. he was informed that he was ordered removed by an immigration judge. he was 14 years old when he was deported from the west. he had no idea that he was quite documented. immigrants are part of a fabric of our community in san francisco. we need to speak out when their rights are violated. we denounce his deportation and urge senators feinstein and boxer to put forward a private bill on his behalf. he came to the u.s. when he was 12th. for all intents and purposes, he grew up and is part of our society. he aspires to be a nurse. there are many who are t