mr. ed lee. [applause] mayor lee: good evening. thank you for that introduction. welcome to the third tech awards in san francisco, the city of innovation. i want to welcome you here. i understand there are 20 awards, $100,000 each. i think there will be 21 awards. i slept in one nomination that you might recognize. i want to thank the hosts here, techcrunch. a little over a year ago, they invited me to their media center and announced me as the first non-politician office holder. i want to thank the founders and the founders fund, our partner, and new enterprise associates. thank you for being the host of this great event. i am also very excited to hear all the nominees. so many of them are part of san francisco bay companies. i am proud to see their names pop up. they are all great companies. every week, i do not know if you know this, but part of my schedule every week is i get to visit a new technology company and find out what is behind the name i do not understand. i was trying to understand that. look out. of course, i had a chance to google square and all

mr. ed lee, mayor, to put specific attention to resolve the problems of homelessness. do not want to see more homeless familiesi do not want e homeless families, and i do not want to see more homeless families on the waiting list to get into a shelter. i would like to ask him to apologize to their families for what happened last week, because what he is saying is not a crisis in san francisco, it is a crisis. thank you. i am waiting for an answer. [applause] >> next speaker, please. >please, i want to go through the testimony, and with so much clapping generally not allowed in to keep it to a minimum. thank you. >> gracias. >> thank you for everything. >> [speaking spanish] >> first, we have a lot of feelings. we feel a lot of pain that with all of this trouble. obviously for the kids, because when they asked when windier -- when we're going to have our own place to play, we cannot find an answer to that question. [>> [speaking spanish] >> what are we supposed to say? we need to lie? i do not think that is the good way to teach your children, but sometimes i like to my

the only tone changes with ed lee right now is the tone of skin color around the city here and the way his attitude is towards things. i have known mr. ed lee for over 27 years. i kind of parallel my reputation 20 years involved with this thing here, and i have seen a deterioration of public access to city government. so i am going to ask for a hearing on community reform. basically, how we can connect a disconnected city government back to the government taking care of our neighborhoods. i understand that the mayor's office, the neighborhood has dismantled. well, we need something else to replace that. committed to reform committee or something, to find out what city government is doing for our city communities. the other thing is, i think that the mayor's 10-year plan, as the gentle man said, the kennedy do not know what the hell is going on. they have no idea. there needs to be some hearings with the city and county on what this neighborhood services is doing. i go back to neighborhood services because in my community, there is a disconnect on neighborhood services. dcyf, oewd, and part bang and rec. the reason is, there's no com

mrs. lee and mayor ed lee right there. i was hoping that mr.would step up to the mic and sing for us. i do know that tonight he will be sing the song again at the venetian room at the fairmont hotel trying to recapture a bit of magic he first captured 50 years ago. a great day for the city. happy valentine's day from city hall as wele is great tony bennett and -- as we celebrate tony bennett and "i left my heart in san francisco." liam mayclem, back to you. >> thank you, nice job. >>> valentine's day not just for humans. >> seaworld animals are feeling the love too, these picks on seaworld's -- pictures posted on seaworld's website. the valentine's wish for animal lovers sealed with a kiss. >>> love is everywhere. >> for all animals. >> everybody. everything today. >> and you delivered the weather pretty well. >> well, i'm feeling it guys >> i was feeling it just watching tony bennett being inside city hall like that. must be great. >> amazing. 50 years ago. >> exactly. >> tony is going to sing probably at 12:31. [ laughter ] >> i know. we just

mr. mayor, at the inauguration of our new mayor, ed lee. >> he is here. >> the first chinese-american mayor of san francisco. this is quite a remarkable thing. we're very proud of him. i was just with him, so he's probably taking the longer route into this room. but at that time, and you will tell him i said this, that day summed up all san franciscans. he spoke of taking challenges, embracing risks and embrace to all those gathered today. when you come to washington, you bring with you the hopes, the aspirations and the priorities of the american people. when you speak, congress and the president listens. because mayors confront our country's challenges at the ground level. as was mentioned, my father and my brother were mayors. ha there is no buffer between a mayor and his or her con stastate. pay the bills and put food on the table. every day you see impacts made on the lives of working families. mayors recognize that investments in our cities and education and job training and clean energy, intrastructure, community development are investments in our community. and you know what's best

mr. ginsberg, and the audiovisual presentation was great. i noticed there was a cameo appearance of the newly elected mayor ed lee in there.lso heard he mentioned community would not always be involved in our parks. that comment hit me because, coming to san francisco for the past 35 years, the equestrian community has always been a part of san francisco, historically and culturally. ironically, they have been aborted out of san francisco. kind of the way it does politics, if it is something that is not 100% politically correct, they just abort it. the politics of abortion. that is what we are experiencing here in san francisco. basically, we have run out of time listening to you folks dillydally around. 2012, we are going to impact the recreation and parks commission. we are going to impact your lives, just as you have impacted hours. we are going to reconnect you to nature and to what is important, which is this moment. not living in some historical fantasy about we want to change things 50 years after the fact. not going to happen. thank you very much for your time. have a great day. >> thank you. >> is there anyone els

the president greeted by san francisco mayor ed lee, lieutenant governor newsom, and california's attorney general kamela harris, mr. obama had a round table zwux a small group of people. the price tag per person? 35,000. yes. he is here to raise money. later he'll attend a dinner in a private home with 70 other people and there will be a fund raising performance at the messonic auditorium behind me with 2500 people. price tag there is about $100 per person. i can tell you the heart warming moment of the trip has to be when the president walked towards that woman, 44-year-old jody fisher wearing a purple knitted cap. fisher is battling an inoperable recurring cancer. meeting the president was on her bucket list. she's from the san luis obispo area. the local media found out about it and guess what? so did the white house. she got a call to come meet the president at sfo. >> he knew my name. that was exciting. he shook my hand and said he was sending well wishes. and we told him what a great job he was doing. and so, yeah. he's very kind. >> and fisher was there with her skmus two kids, also on her bucket list, appe

mr. mayor. i would like to invite supervisor cohen up to speak, please. thank you. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, once upon a time ago, about six, seven years ago, i met a man named ed leee was a quiet little bureaucrat. he was an administrator -- actually, no, before that, he was the director of d.p.w. and then an administrator. he just did what he was told to do and worked very hard at doing it and was very diligent and now over the last nine months, i've had the opportunity to watch him blossom into a mayor and to listen to his speak, he's so mayoral. i mean, there was a time he would start his opening remarks would be two or three minutes and that would be it. and now i have to follow him on the program, of course, i yield to him. but i have to follow him and he takes every last one of my talking points. every last one of them. so when he wasn't mayoral, when he was a bureaucrat, it was much easier to speak after him. nowadays, it's really a tough act to follow so i just want to say publicly, thank the mayor for his leadership and his continued strong leadership he has been demonstrating from day one that he took office in representing this part of san francisco. th

mr. ed lee. [applause] mayor lee: good evening. thank you for that introduction. welcome to the third tech awards in san francisco, the city of innovation. i want to welcome you here. i understand there are 20 awards, $100,000 each. i think there will be 21 awards. i slept in one nomination that you might recognize. i want to thank the hosts here, techcrunch. a little over a year ago, they invited me to their media center and announced me as the first non-politician office holder. i want to thank the founders and the founders fund, our partner, and new enterprise associates. thank you for being the host of this great event. i am also very excited to hear all the nominees. so many of them are part of