at any rate, i think that before you leave today that you should send a communication to tom amiano and ask him to consider being the mayor, so that when you do get around to voting, that you have an answer from him, because we need someone that is like that, somewhat independent, that shows independence of the machine, that has the compassion and track record. if you look at the commissions that we have, we've got these commissions making important decisions, and you see unanimous votes, like on park and recreation. it's outrageous. this doesn't even reflect any kind of diversity of the city. it's all of the downtown interests and the people that the pacific heights mafia, you know, what they want, and the disinformation dalies and their relentless adak on the people's vote in san francisco. i know it's not the rank and file workers, it's their editors. but kick up some fuss, writers, come on. it's a disgrace that this city has no hearing about what's going on. it's always the same thing coming down from the top. we've got department heads. we've got like people in planning who are ter