>>> i first met sean elsburnd when i was -- somewhere in 2004 also ironically the same asylum time i met carmen chu. but we began to quoth watch sean's career unfollowed as the board board laze horizon [spelling?] and so, just how it man nested and this is a guy that started off as a legislative aid, to a supervisor to the supervisor the district seven. become to board liaison and then get approved to board supervisor and ran in his own right and it's been remarkable to stand by the shrines and watch you. personally when i first ran -- when i first got the idea to run for office, sean elsburnd was not the first, actually i think fee i don't evenna may have been one of the first thank i have reached out to talk to and he brought me into his office and it was around september of 2009 and i said, sean i'm thinking about running for supervisor and he said mal lea are you sure? and then he showed me his bar of scotch. and is this not public information -- i'm sorry -- my apologizes and he sat me down for a couple of hours and walked neither through the ins and outs of what to did and he sa

but the most important thing about sean else person for me is that i do i believe that sean elsburnd has helped to headache me a better supervisor. really sometimes tend to be on the opposing side of issues and as someone who has a different perspective and is i know that when you come into this chamber and you are going to take about a given issue that you better be ready, be prepared and better have read all of the materials it and that you better be on top of your gram because you know that sean elsburnd will be. you know that he will have read all of the documents he will have read every single piece of information on a given issue and that he is someone who's going to make a strong case as is possible. and, that makes you strive to be the best you can be. and that is something that i really appreciated about you sean and i really appreciated you for that because it helped me be better when i came in here and i preebt appreciate the fact that i can come in here and have are a disagreement but have a good working relationship and we may not be on the same page but i always respect

always -- i quickly learned after coming on to the board that i was going to dread the day that sean elsburnd was no longer a colleague and you thought i was going to start with something isn't that correcty. i'm starting with something nice. and this is a very you know a very saturday i know for me and a lot of people and i think we all know being in a position and particularly when you are running from scratch, when you start trying to generate support and something that is hard at the beginning and people are not sure what is going on and it's hard for them to get people to say yes and i still -- sean was the very first person who endorsed me when i ran for a full two years before the election i still remember sitting down and ordering coughity and he said absolutely of course, and sean you have stuck with me through a very hard campaign and coming on the board even though you are younger than i am you have you have been a mentor to me on the board we don't always agree on thing but you have always been there everyday i needed help, advise and there have been times when we disagreed and i

you were my i'm not sure if you ever my vice chair and i thought if i can survive this year with sean elsburnd and his approval we can accomplish a lot and i did survive that year and it was not until john fourth when we almost came to blow around the discussion a around the marital appointment and i did i exaggerate but one of the thing that i felt that you did really well here apart from or including your ortory is that you were always -- it was really important that we be consistent about who we are and highway we represent ourselves and discuss policy and what we want to do legislativey that was something that i feel you helped me whether you intentionally did it or not you worked really hard at being consistent and so when you told me on january fourth that i was not being consistent i i had to walk across and let you know that i truly was. but, i just -- it's very complicated for me to be up here and talk about my feelings about you because they are very complicated. i see you coming from a similar background as me growing up catholic i'm not so catholic anymore but there is something th