i think the mayor should go first so sisters and brothers san franciscans the mayor ed lee. [speaking foreign language] >> what a presentation from our golden dragon and all of our wonderful young people. i want to have a special welcome to our valley christian and our students from beijing. yeah, they came all the way over here to celebrate this wonderful event and gosh this is all about family. it's all about extended family. i want to welcome everyone here to the year of the ram celebrations. this is a kickoff. we're kicking it off. we're cleaning our area. i want to thank julie christensen for being here and supervisor mar for being here and dpw and muhammad is here and our police department our fire department, all of the agencies working together with our community based agencies to celebrate. keep everyone safe and enjoyable. we're going to hear a lot of fire crackers and you heard norman already and he is warming up and a big parade and just the warm up today but we're excited with this community flower fair. i want to give a great thank you to our chinese chamber of

sxhurlts mentioned our first mayor and irish mayors coming together with on the other hand farrell i'm people that make san francisco what it is i have the great pleasure of introducing mop o someone that is an important part of the government but symptom i consider a friend and been with the irish services tin i since 1992 and spent omen how many in the home other was and pointed out as a consul general to the western united states phillip grant (clapping) >> the microphones keep getting higher i have a grant and may not think irish but the irish are a little bit part of those modern time and mayor ed lee and commissioners and 3 conceives i've seeing it is wonderful to see so much many of you that warms my heart to see it an amazing honor to stand here last year was the first time opportunity i had i was new and didn't know too many of you now too many of you know who i am this is the way it should be and to use this opportunity to thank the mayor for the purposes of this week st. patrick's day and all of that we got a special deposition and their lending you the lordship for the dura

, mayor ed lee please welcome him (clapping.) thank you. >> well, you you know if mohammed had recommended all the chinese i taught him he would have said josephson we say joe son in chinatown san francisco so i'm glad mohammed thank you. the department of public works for working with the chinatown merchants and working with the chinese-american association of explicit customers the chinese chamber of commerce and all the agencies from chinese development association to the nonprofits to the leader are here and a who have come together at 24 wonderful time of the year pieces and benny were driving up washington street gosh for this day all the graft is done you you know on the corner of washington hopeful that lasts more than one day this is a time when everyone in the chinese community begins to clean up their house and get rid of the old things to get new things the year of the ram means will steadyness and success and collaboration but will be solid direction i want to present that he kind of leadership i know our new supervi

mayor.n fact, it's so cold in new york, that... >> this morning three men living in brooklyn are accused of conspiring with i.s.i.s. authorities say two of the men plotted to join the i.s.i.s. fight in syria . >> larry: that's right. it's so cold, they joined i.s.i.s. just to warm up. so not for ideological reasons, but for meteorological reasons. by the way, worst reason to join i.s.i.s. ever. anyway, back to new york, the greatest city in the world. (cheers and applause) >> larry: absolutely true. you know what they say about new york -- if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. or as the saying has been shortened to nowadays -- you can't make it here. seriously, man, try austin ." as long as you keep it weird. in new york, income inequality has gotten so out of hand that 46% of new yorkers live near the poverty line. a record high 59,000 people are currently homeless, and the top 5% earns 88 times the lowest 20%. so the income gap between rich and poor isn't so much a gap as it i

abhors the most san francisco has quite a champion in the mayor's office with mayor ed lee and thank you to you ma'am supervisor and our tenant advocates and big thanks to our regional coordinator (clapping) >> and all our hud staff and want to recognize jimmy bryan our acting secretary and jennifer jones from the ti h thank you for your great work that led this this moment? an important moment in the about two things first of all, it is about getting things done as the mayor said we recognize that getting things done in the context of public housing has been harder and heard over the years we've developed about a 26 employed backlog in terms of capital repairs for public housing stock we need to get more and more resource full to stretch our dollars weeping we've down done there this rad since 2012 invests there rad that allows the communities to leverage long term section 8 financing have acted for $5 million in investment the second part of why we're here goes to the impact that is macon people's lives we're here to enhance the quality of life to public housing residents in san fr

willie brown but mayor ed lee another mayor that needs to abstraction bridging the gap between technology into the neighborhood so who is filling the nature of the community and making sure they're making systemic and institutional investment in our neighborhood ladies and gentlemen, mayor ed lee. (clapping.) >> thank you for that introduction sxhoemg i'm only gag going to sthufls a couple of things i was talking to woesh that feels good to open this up i asked him did you get a chance to do this i remember remember you you were responsible for opening up the tenderloin when you recognize how important you can realize this is similarly as important let me say this to those the school board and the superintendent and all the elected officials but patrolling to principle hobnobbing so that i'm existed at this time for our city to have to be able to have continued viewing confuses with virtually every area of success and education is at the center of everything to be a world-class city is such an inviting conversation that last night sitting around the table with 15 ceo's of companies and ta

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mayor edwin lee (clapping.)hank you olsen for the introduction a hearty chinese new year the first day of chinese new year we have a lot to celebrate we have malia cohen in the crowd thank you four district 10 and london breed who's story continues to be so inspiring everyday she's not in my area but in my ear and reremind each other of the sprernz to making promises to helping others get out of poverty not just in public utilities but housing i know the secretary is going to say some things i'll truly inspired by the support as determined as o citizen says i'm about this topic i'm lucky to have people surrounding me with the same interests and passion to help people get out the poverty part of that it is to have an answer is people call the deplanning housing someone's fault i told you we've isolated the residents not to be the residents but never again that reference is going to happy that we are providing proud to see the residents of our public utilities are resident of san francisco what do you mean that me

john geary irish and you know what our mayor is still making history everyday and our mayor was in cork the st. patrick's day prayed in cork (clapping.) i don't know how many people have a river named after them in ireland but the lee river so this is our mayor ed on the other hand lee. >> (laughter). >> o insuring thank you for being the best protocol over in the city of san francisco yes (clapping.) well, everyone thank you and welcome to ore woemz the san francisco budget & finance committee our own city hall a warm welcome to you that raised the irish flag proudly (clapping.) i want to just give a personal thanks to our consul general from ireland 39 six phillip grant thank you for all you do to strengthen the economic of people ties between our city and, of course, the country of ireland we join the united irish society in kicking off the city's st. patrick's day celebration it is the one hundred and 64 mini anniversary of our celebration what a wonderful, wonderful time thank you, again to liam frost the united irish society thank you for being here (clapping) and thank you for yo

for more on the possible unseating of the mayor who some have nicknamed mayor one percent, we go to chicagore we are joined by his challenger jesus "chuy" garcia. we contacted emanuel's campaign and invited him to join us, but they did not respond. if garcia is elected, he will become chicago's first-ever latino mayor. the run-off election will take place on april 7. welcome to democracy now! why are you running for mayor? >> good morning. great to be with you, amy. i'm running for mayor because chicago needs to go in a different direction. for the past four years, we've seen mayor emanuel arrive in town with a boatload of money and pose his policies on the people of the city of chicago. they favored a select few in chicago. through the amassing of large sums of money, he thought he could get reelected, while leaving behind chicago neighborhoods, making chicago the city that leads the nation in the number of school closings -- almost 50 -- in making chicago one of the most violent cities in the country. we have experienced 10,000 shootings in the past four years. people feel left behind. th

i want to thank the people behind me from public works to public defender to default probation to mayor's office on disability public works has spent i talk about nurses in the contract you are have to give you kudos mohammed you guys did a great amount of work (clapping.) so what was this before it if you were here literally three or four months ago you'll find an 2k57bd school site thank goodness the school site was smart to be able to work with the city on this this was an band school site for many years i know that supervisor campos knows it first hand often he and i often on different schedules peered through the events why not have something positive ranch this place those were used in the classrooms broken into no type of wirings in the place i word why nothing worked and optimistic as neighbors moved in and around they word what feels the focus of this place but we have a focus a long term focus this is the place for one hundred and 25 bringing unit of low income housing this will be built here hopefully within less than 8 months (clapping.) all of the process going through and al

we wouldn'ter here without the mayor putting out the call i want to say thank you for asking people to step up for the city and homelessness i want to mention peter the principle of marshall elementary school and many myths leaders and community organizations are here i'd like to acknowledge the members who were the first faces i saw when we opened the gate all the women that are here to support us and wanting to see the families helped with that we couldn't have done it without you without the san francisco enter faith council and michael is here (clapping) 25 years ago a mayor of san francisco appealed to faith leaders to partner in addressing our city's growing choonl he asked these faith leader if they'll on their hearts and doors and kitchens to offer dignity and sheltered and food to those in a variety of circumstances couldn't helpism with that came the birlt of the interfaith council who's core missions to help the winter shelter and more relevance to support the critical and collective work of the faith collective based services that provides the safety net for the vulnerable

they feel the mayor's policies left them out. christopher putzel who chronicled the fight to combat deadly gun violence returned to chicago to file this report. >> closing 50 schools and not having a plan for children. remember, children are our future. children are the most innocent people in the world. that was an attack to me on children. >> jeanette taylor has lived her life on chicago's south side. a place where mayor's school reforms do not sit well. in 2013, the mayor's administration closed dozens of schools, the largest mass school closure history. most of the schools shut down were in latino and black neighbourhoods, some of the poorest communities. >> the school is a foundation. it used to be what the black church boasts to the community. now it's the only stable institution they have left. they are corrupt, they are in chaos. >> the mayor, facing debt shut down, underused and underperforming schools. what he said were failing schools. in the process, taylor said emanuel failed her community. >> what happens to a neigh

anticipate the current mayor of our grey great city mayor ed lee and all assembled here in letting meay has been long in coming mayors that preceded diane had the responsibility mayors that preceded almost everyone else we can think of over the los last 82 years but mayor ed lee was indeed blessed he had george and charlotte and wishes to speak and an incredible of collection of people that have already been named who really wanted to see this to happen and the fact that the recognition that should have been long sense for san francisco been consistent that the signing the united nations documents so many years ago here on behalf of the veterans (plane flying over) president is a friend of mine i asked exactly the time i thought he had forgotten when he did it for you veterans are indeed important we have to acknowledge it and in san francisco has been on the threshold of completing accident acknowledgment for a long time ends result is about what you're about to see but before this occasion there's been time and time again, when soil from the places where the veterans have gossiping

from my community, mayor applegarth serves as the mayor. he's been there since 2006.y're celebrating their 150th birthday. it is a high energy, high growth community. its population has exploded, and he will tell you about that. it was listed by cnn as one of the top places to live in the united states. it also has a rich transit history. in 1913 it at the salt lake and utah railway and urban life that went right through its community there. sotomayor applegarth has been on city -- sotomayor applegarth has been a city council, these an educator. in law degree. excuse me a doctorate from byu. he is a congressional committee spent his entire career in the educational system. he does have a children and 30 grandchildren. he is a leader in our community. he is a virtual every transportation community. our relationship as a transit opposition and the npo the best i know in the country and kudos to mayor applegarth and thinks it is there. so without i'm going to ask the mayors to talk old about their cities and what they're doing so they can paint the picture for you of wha

can we get a picture of the mayor. >> come on (laughter) okay. so the next person i'm going to introduce is someone a friend of mine but someone who really takes care of the this district she's got quite a few a amount of real estate she's reb8 for that our baechdz and some of our parks and all the sunset area making sure that the grass gets water and the trash gets picked up and all the graffiti is removed and the district gets it's share of what san francisco gets please welcome sxhaurng. >> hello boys and girls are h how are you guys you look lovely in your hats i tried to give one to the mayor to give to president obama we saw some of our classrooms and i travel here almost everyday so i will make sure that if the doggie diner head falls down every this i'll report it to mohammed so we want to make sure we celebrate con in san francisco it is the only way designated as san francisco please remember this moment and come to visit to make sure he's okay and since it's valentine's day coming up i hope he has a boyfriend or girl to celebrate do yo

you tried to restore market street as ever mayor did. >> yes. i think the collection of us did reasonably well until 5th street and now it is up 6th street and going all the way to van ness avenue and doing one hell have a job i walk it now in peace (clapping.) what we're supposed to do i believe yourself that wondering why we're up here. >> i believe they 23gd we're going to get the mike one way or another but charlotte you'll have what's been done and when i was out at the palace of fine arts hanging out with tale of two cities and the other people i was frankly amazed people thought donna was half the original. >> you really restored her and she was so authentic she know about what actually occurred it was like she was telling the story of let's say one the events you actually put on over the last thirty years of your involvement that with the city it was incredible in which the way it was laid and she impressed the bar. >> she brought it back and when they come came to all avenue united states talking about up until the time up the lights in

then he quit the white house to run for the mayor of chicago. he won easily about twice as many votes as his opponent four years later. >> before he was a big shot mayor. john: the president campaigned for him again. incumbent mayors usually get half the vote, then they don't have to face a run. but last month he did not get half the vote and now he faces an election where he's running against this man. >> we are going to win. john: garcia likes to be called chuy garcia. he was little known and so how do you get to the point where you could unseat an incumbent mayor and a friend of the president two a president who is very popular in chicago to mike flannery covers chicago politics far fox affiliate. this is a surprise. >> not necessarily. it was clear that the mayor was going to have trouble not least because he has made some very powerful enemies in the constellation of chicago politics the big public employee unions and the biggest of all, the most power of all is the chicago teachers union very upset that the mayor closed 50 schools and the

first of all the honorable mayor of san francisco. please welcome our mayor.applause] >> thank you very much. happy luna new year everyone. [applause] it's my pleasure again to join our senator leno, our supervisors kim and scott wiener and the entire committee that has worked so hard to put on this wonderful, wonderful festival for our entire city. i just love this time of the year. the year of the ram this year is going to be about artistry, about coming together supporting each other. i want to say thank you very much to the festival volunteer community and the vietnamese community and economic development center. they have been wonderful in putting this on and now that we're revitalizing market street there is a connection of the improvements of the area and connected up with market street and this is a wonderful celebration that we have it here at the center of our united nations plaza. i want to congratulate all of the store front owners here the small businesses here for working together with us. we have been putting a lot of emphasis on our market stre

good morning mayor ed lee and commissioner christensen and director mohammed and department and ladies and gentlemen on behalf of the merchant doing business on stockton street i want to thank the mayor ed lee for supporting this special event 14 device before the chinese new year allowing the merchant to use the parking area to display their merchandise this program bring more chinese live in the bay area to come to chinatown to prepare and welcome the chinese new year the last 20-year former commissioner benny yee and i have been working with the last mayor to promote china to this event with no leukemia until this mayor who understands the chinese concerns and want to have the small business in chinatown the first two year was a pilot program but today is a are permanent program in chinatown thank you, mayor ed lee thank you (clapping.) because of the chinatown subway construction that was on stockton on the corner of jackson and washington was the repair i'm pleased to report to you all the slits have been repaired last week and thank you, mayor ed lee and director (clapping.) on b

mayor giles is the 40th mayor of mesa. he started his mayoralship in 2014 but he's had a long history with governance being on the city council, and in many, many organizations, boards and committees. he has a poly sci degree from byu, brigham young university, so he's a cougar. he has a law degree from arizona state, and has managed and practiced and manages a law office of his own. and born and raised in mesa. he's a marathoner. he's a triathlete. he has finished two full iron mans. and this year, he finished his 20th marathon and his fourth boston marathon. so i think, and i hope, we can keep up with him. lastly and not least the mayor of riverton city, utah. from my community, mayor applegarth serves as the mayor, he's been there since 2006. this year they're celebrating their 150th birthday. it is a high energy, high growth community. the population has exploded. he'll tell you about that. it was listed by cnn as one of the top places to live in the united states. it also has a rich transit history in 1913 and has the

they are looking for a mayor, who will come around.hey are looking for a mayor whole sit at a table and listen to people. >> emanuel has been called unapproachable and out of touch, an image addressed in the latest campaign adds. >> they say your greatest strength it your greatest weakness. i'm living prove of that. i can rub people the wrong way or talk when i should listen. i own that. >> the major can put on all the sweaters he want. it's not his still. his policies hurt people. >> marcin matkowski reached out to the mayor but no no response. we sat with andrea a member of the schoolboard, and a big supporter. >> were you surprised when mayor emanuel was forced into an election with chewie in. >> i was a little surprised, to be honest with you. i think - look the school issue is emotional. the teacher's union is well organised. and i think people - you know i think people were trying to send him a message that we are not convinced that you care about us. >> like all schoolboard members. zach was appointed by mayor emanuel and was on

as we say farewell to the horses we welcome the ram and then mayor ed lee also former mayor willie brownew year also will say it in chinese. >> thank you doris. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and everyone in mandarin. >> all right. right. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> >> first of all, everybody welcome to the kickoff of our wonderful chinese new year the year of the ram i'm so happy to joined by former mayor willie brown give willie a hand (clapping.) supervisor christensen is here thank you julie for being here and sxhaifshg thank you for being here did i miss any other supervisors or rams here gosh what a wonderful kickoff this just gets more eloquent every year i want to say thank you to the san francisco chinese chamber of commerce for their leadership we're going to have a wonderful two weeks of celebration actual very much to the asian presiding officer's you saw their display along with the chinatown youth center the youth fair with their we have displays you'll be seeing repeated and more eloquent during the parade how about those the rams for the chinatown community chi

(clapping.) >> and mayor ed lee, of course, and marily and others from the mayor's office who made today happy. (clapping.) and we have saving lives in san francisco we've heard the mayor the city has joined i'm joined by our city agencies let's hear if for our city agencies. >> i'm happy happy to reporting we have housing authority and at domestic violence brochure out to the city employees we've trained people in our housing authority and have a new officers involved domestic violence policy at the police department. (clapping.) in human trafficking supervisor tang has lead the way to go after our logically massage mroorldz we have eric mar and trained 88 did that want public health inspections how to look for signs of human trafficking (clapping) so, now it's my great pleasure to introduce a dear friend and colleague teresa parks head of the human rights commission teresa is truly a revolutionary woman as a transgender advocate and director of human rights commission has participated with us in the department to fight human trafficking which again your mayor has made a exempting commi

mayor giles is the 40th mayor of mesa. he started his mayoralship in 2014 but he's had a long history with governance being on the city council, and in many, many organizations, boards and committees. he has a policy sky degree from byu, brigham young university so he's a cougar. he has a law degree from arizona state, and has managed and practiced and manages a law office of his own. and born and raised in mesa. he's a marathoner. he's a triathlete. he has finished two full ironman. and this year, he finished his 20th marathon and his fourth boston marathon. so i think, and i hope, we can keep up with him. lastly and not least the mayor of riverton city, utah. from my community, mayor applegarth served as the mayor, he's been there since 2006. this year they're celebrating their 150th birthday. it is a high energy, high growth community. the population has exploded. he'll tell you about that. it was listed by cnn as one of the top places to live in the united states. it also has a rich transit history in 1913 and has the

mayor lee and laura to come up here. laura has spent 25 years understanding the world fair, she started when she was ten and it's been a lifelong process. she would like to make a presentation and afterwards we will all exit and i give you a truly amazing scholar and phenomenal woman deeply dedicated and passionate advocate and this book that was brought into world is one of the shining stars to this centennial. >> thank you so much, cynthia. mayor lee, may i beg your presence on back of the historical society and myself i would like to present you with a copy of my book. mayor edwin m. lee: thank you very much. [ applause ] >> thank you, i hope you enjoy it. thank you. >> all right. mayor lee, you have to come up one more time. this is an official badge. c'mon up. thank you for the honor of making me the liaison for the centennial. i'm thrilled. i would like to present you with this original badge from the 1915 exposition, the opening day. can i pin it on you? mayor edwin m. lee: sure. >> this is what would have been wo