willie brown, welcome back to the show.erica turning into a paternalistic entitlement society? >> no, not at all. that's just rhetoric geared up for the fall election f he's trying his best to get something going beyond the current discussion. >> herman cain, i want to get your take on this. willie brown doesn't agree, but obama always talks about government programs this, government programs that, and when you look at the statistics, about half the households in america now get assistance from the federal government. a who you will list, so is there something behind this? >> yes, mr. brown, wewearing ha absolutely agree on this. we are not only becoming this perpetual nanny state, the government is encouraging people to come to the government trough, encouraging people, if you make $49,000 or less, come on down. running commercials by the agricultural department telling people you might eququalify tr d stamps. absolutely not cht this is where we're going and i agree with mr. christie 100%. >> mayor brown, when you look at

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anyone who showed up, willie brown would anoint, without asking interest. and today, i announce supervisor newsom is chair of the task force i have formed. it was a difficult day. paul and i were among the many never part of this. paul started talking about this green thing. i immediately jumped up, enthusiastic about it. i was the one with the ev from saturn. i thought it was the best idea i had heard. we created a new commission out of that task force that eventually went into the mta, and now at risk and is responsible for it. paul was responsible for that. he advanced this initiative and codified his passion. we have been celebrating his tenacity, resolve, constancy, and faith in this project. paul, i want to thank you for your vision and not giving up on this. i know you have taken a lot of heat from your colleagues, others who were outraged. i want to just say, hat's off to you and the elected family of san francisco. finally, to mayor lee. my department meetings were never found. i have to acknowledge that. i would never acknowledge that as mayor. ed

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yes, willie brown, the fire chief, all these issues, and can he get the same treatment? what is with this man that everybody is going berserk about it. the other issue is an election. who is supporting honewho and te election? all these issues in our mind, please be fair and take it into consideration. thank you. [applause] >> i am here in support of his family. i worked very hard to get this man elected as sheriff. for you guys to try to reverse that, because this is a witch hunt. the mayor's guy did not win. he needs to admit this guy did not win and let the people in the jails who are going to suffer the most from not being where he was supposed to be, so i hope you relate take this into consideration and to dobecause o be honest, and you were put in here to be fair, and it should not matter who put you here. it is about fairness. [applause] >> my name is francisco, and i have known mr. ross mirkarimi for a long, long time. i have heard nothing about ethics in all of the deliberations and all of the questioning. the attorneys here, as is -- as if this is a perry mason

yes, willie brown, the fire chief, all these issues, and can he get the same treatment? what is with this man that everybody is going berserk about it. the other issue is an election. who is supporting honewho and te election? all these issues in our mind, please be fair and take it into consideration. thank you. [applause] >> i am here in support of his family. i worked very hard to get this man elected as sheriff. for you guys to try to reverse that, because this is a witch hunt. the mayor's guy did not win. he needs to admit this guy did not win and let the people in the jails who are going to suffer the most from not being where he was supposed to be, so i hope you relate take this into consideration and to dobecause e

i would like to know when the willie brown model will be installed on polk street, north of broadway?>> the question, could you repeat the question? >> i would like to know when the willie brown model of newspaper racks are going to be installed on polk street, north of california? >> what is it? >> fancy new newspaper racks, the green ones. >> i think mayor lee and i share the desire of many neighborhoods to get more of these racks. i would like to turn it over to mohammed nuru from dpw over whether you know the timing for this section of polk street? >> thank you, good evening. as you know, we just finished installing all the racks in the downtown area. that was an agreement. gradually, we are working out agreements with the various neighborhoods. i cannot give a definite time, but i would say in the next three months or so we should have those up. [applause] >> is john here? i will give you the question. why are you putting through only 10 lateral police officers and 50 entry-level officers this fiscal year? 50 lateral officers better on the list would be more cost- effective. this

, you would not know he served four mayor's and he had very powerful friends like former mayor willie brownco's often fractured board of supervisors could not agree on at the mayor, then they agreed on the compromise -- ed lee. the board approved him ten to one, and they do not approve of anything ten to one. who is he? his mother was a seamstress. his father died when he was 10. he was so poor, he and his siblings would scrounged around in the basement for something to give each other for christmas. in one box, there would be an old shoe. in another one, a shoelace. he won a scholarship to bottling college in bowdoin college in maine. he returned to the bay area to attend ucla berkeley law school, before working for the city government, first as an investigator in the whistle- blowers department, and a few decades after california passed laws forbidding agents from -- asians from owning land, he became the first chinese- american mayor. now his mustache has its own twitter feed. i feel badly for the audience, because they can only hear the mustache. it is truly awesome up close. his predec

of course, we have former mayor willie brown joining us.have former supervisor sophie maxwell here as well. we have charlotte, a protocol officer. we have all the members of our board of supervisors, our current board. we have naomi's . harlon, kelly, the kids are here. naomi's mom is here bang today. thank you for being here as well. mrs. lee is here. [laughter] >> yeah. >> of all, today has been a very active day of the just wonderful announcements, of decisions being made that really reflected the values of the city. i have another one that reflects the value of this city, someone that i have spent privileged to work with for so many years, one began her career as a special assistant, worked her way up as the purchaser, director of purchasing. before that, one of the most difficult task, kind of reminds me of my dpw day is, she had a difficult task of being the director of the taxicab administration. [laughter] so she has earned some strides there. going on to director of purchasing and becoming deputy city administrator. most recently,

of course, the mayor then was willie brown, and he said, what are you going to do with this? and of course the first thing you do if you read it, and you read it with the understanding that there is probably a lot of information there that will be very hard and goals and programs that will be very hard to implement at the department of public works, which had historically been a very male- dominated agency. but we made a commitment to the mayor, we made a commitment to the commission that we would study that report and to implement every single one of those as that applied at every level of the department. i was willing to do that because around in may were a lot of other powerful women, who said it would not be that hard. all you had to do is pay attention to it, and all you had to do was not take no for an answer and all you had to do was look forward, not backward. and with those varied little pieces of advice, which took on that task and we found at the local managers. we found that many women who were trying to even get to the blue-collar work, the work on the streets, h

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then we will be joined by former san francisco mayor willie brown about the push for the buffett ruleairness doctorine. we are going to continue this coverage of alec. another shoe dropped today which was mcdonald's. >> excellent. >> getting hammered and losing corporate supporters by the bus load. >> very few people talk as fast or as smooth as willie brown. >> he is like silk. like silk. >> absolutely. >> all of that and more at the top of the hour. thanks, eliot. >> i will definitelyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy the newest voice in cable news is on the new news network. >>jennifer granholm joins current tv. this former two term governor is politically direct. i know this stuff and i love it and i try to bring that to the show. >> still to come a new report that iran plans to shut down access to the internet. is it possible? but first here is my view. governor christie auditioned for a place on the national ticket with mitt romney. he summed up his views of what people in this country are all about. take a license. it will shock you. >> we are turning into a pattern allistic entit

right now no willie brown, former mayor of san francisco. mr.brown, i have a great respect for your keen intelligence. this looks like it'll be trial, for not first degree murder but perhaps manslaughter. we will hear at 6:00, exactly what it is. so much of race, culture and attitude, every american citizen involved in watching this case, going before a jury. what are the chances we get through justice here. >> well it'll be very difficult chris. the fact that over the last 45 days, america has been focused on this happening in florida. there have been all kinds of words, uttered, by everybody from every perch, literally, including yesterday, the united states attorney general saying, very clearly, that if there was evidence of any violation of the law, violation of anybody's civil rights, there would be federal prosecution. and so.ç the attitudes are probably already out there. i don't exactly know how anyone at this stage of the game would think that there could be totally objective people who have never heard anything about this case. on the

the last time i attended a meeting of the task force was willie brown, and each and every one of somthem, and this time i have refrained from coming to your meetings, but people have come and reported. i want to ask you unquestioned. i want to ask a question about demographics. economic analysis, real business spen, infrastructure, housing, schools, safety commo, and i cod give you a list of 40 or 50. those are the things that need to go into redistricting to address quality of life. i was once in district 10, and suddenly i was in district 9, so you taskforce members should have a vision. do not follow politics. that is what i am saying. >> thanks for listening to us. thanks for your work. i have been working with the people in the community, and i wanted to speak about of mclaren park. it is a wonderful place. i am so glad to hear the supervisor: places it as a high priority. i feel like i can trust her to do a good job content comes to dealing with mclaren park, but nobody lives there, and i feel quite comfortable with the fact mcpherson -- that supervisor c oen into a good job that f

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as far as misconduct is concerned, willie brown was a mayor and a grandfather of the age of 68, when he had a child still legitimately out of wedlock would not even a slap on the rivers. every newsom had an affair with a married woman. not a slap on the wrist. i was a victim of abuse in my first marriage when my husband punched me while i had an infant child. pinging someone on the armed does not mean a thing, because if you look at me, i had a bruise, so that is not evidence of misconduct. as far as i am concerned, this is ridiculous, and you measure it sensibly that this is not an issue of misconduct. it should not be judged prematurely by the media, so they are crucifying him before he gets a chance to defend its self -- himself. this is not justice. this is a very serious matter. you should dismiss this completely, because it is out of bounds. thank you. [applause] >> i am the director of the association, and there is a gross disparity in so-called and justice. . they dismiss 18 cases without even having a hearing to return to the jury called those a sleeping watch dog, then when

do you really think turkey is going to listen to a bunch of insignificant in willie brown's words pantywaist lectured them about their history? last year, kim kardashian, america's most famous armenian american, appeared on a magazine cover. if she, who is more intelligent in generally held public esteem than yourselves, and let bygones be bygones, why can you not give armenia a rest this year? thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i did not have any intent to speak this afternoon because i was hoping to meet the three or four ladies that i met about a month ago where we expressed our opinions about ross mirkarimi. they are not here this afternoon, but i'm sure they will extract the information via television or whatever. i just wanted to say a couple of things. on april 23, which is next week monday, at 5:30 in room 400, here in city hall, will be the ethics commission meeting. i will be speaking before the commission next week monday, and i hope that they will join me in delivering the messages. i do not have their phone numbers, so hopefully, they will ge

. >> the raiders without a pick till the third round, number 95, willie brown. >> raidernation with the95th pick in the 2012 nfl draft the oakland raiders select tony, guard, utah, go raiders. >> all right. tony is an offensive lineman. 6'5", tackle who will move to guard and finish this kid from stanford, collected by indianapolis, he will rejoin his buddy andrew luck. >> all right. good night everybody.

i remember when mayor willie brown was the mayor. over 1000 and a strip of assistance were hired, and i want to know how the director accommodative this blatant corruption. the unions, you can come every year in advance, shout, scream, what ever. the time has come for a ballot measure and to hold our representatives to the fire. this city has always been known, i am talking 40 or 60 years ago to give opportunities to people so that they can contribute and be better citizens. it is a shame, people say that they are going to represent when they do nothing whatsoever to help poor people. you want to go to some of the demonstrations, but in reality, over 30,000 families have left san francisco, something is wrong with our city. the time has come to walk the walk. there are too many people in management making over $200,000 in this city a year. the think about that. supervisor chu: next speaker, please. >> sent francisco has a long and nefarious history with casual labour. the maritime employees used in the curious shape up where workers

the first year i did this breakfast, it was willie brown in your seat, jerry brown in your seat, and we had questions about the difficulty of buildings for the stadium in order to retain teams. it feels like groundhog day. how many years on, we are still there. you seem to be in the hot seat. you have three professional sports teams, all of whom could go elsewhere. i know you just approved a $3 million grant from a redevelopment fund to look at the coliseum. is there a reasonable amount of money within oakland's ability to spend that would guarantee these teams remain here? or do you have to be open to the possibility one or more of them could leave? >> our goal is to keep all three of them. that is one thing i do not want to share with ed, is my sports teams. we will clearly be dealing, i think, with some announcements of around coliseum city. i think we have to wait to see how redevelopment shakes out, to look at some of the other options. i am feeling generally optimistic. the family joke is if i was not so optimistic i would not be mayor. i am optimistic about the teams. we are i

i know mayor willie brown, gavin newsom, and a supervisor like wiener are all pro-business. finally, supervisor wiener looks up. supervisor wi: sir, do not addrs the supervisors directly. >> i am upset with you. this is ridiculous. when are you going to do something about this? the oldest building, and the oldest renters, and you do nothing, speaking of building new buildings so you can make have your client developers. it is interesting and impressive, but let's get real. do something about this. some time. supervisor kim: thank you. [cheers and applause] supervisor wiener: supervisor kim, apparently the last speaker is unaware that i am sponsoring legislation that is barring student housing. >> hello, i am -- and i work with the collaborative that is made up of seniors and people disabilities, many of whom have lived in san francisco for decades. many of them are living on social security, trying to make do with $800 per month or less, so when we talk about affordable housing, we are talking about people at very low or extremely low-income, and i hear from people every day

do you really think turkey is going to listen to a bunch of insignificant in willie brown's words pantywaist lectured them about their history? last year, kim kardashian, america's most famous armenian american, appeared on a magazine cover. if she, who is more intelligent in generally held public esteem than yourselves, and let bygones be bygones, why can you not give armenia a rest this year? thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i did not have any intent to speak this afternoon because i was hoping to meet the three or four ladies that i met about a month ago where we expressed our opinions