interim mayor. i think the mayor that we need is a person who s going to help those among us with the least, the absolute least. who s going to make sure the budget doesn t jeopardize the poor or make them bear the brunt of the cuts. who s going to look for solutions for homelessness, not further criminalization. who s going to see the connections between our struggles, whether they be immigrant rights, economic justice, queer rights, health care for all, whatever. this person will see the connections among all of our struggles. i want to say there are people in this room who i think would be very qualified and very good at that job. i have no doubt. recently, i ve had the pleasure to work with david campos on an lgbt shelter. there was a hearing last march which david convened about the tremendous need in this city for an lgbt shelter and i was extremely impressed with his ability to bring together the activists and the city people and get us all to work together in order to
to our culture. to this nation which is the greatest nation in the world. thank you. i m a district aid voter and not worry about which one of you becomes mayor or what color you are. i have two issues about this mayoral succession. first, gay genocide. in case you haven t noticed, there is a mounting global consensus for gay genocide. expressed in a u.n. general assembly resolution on november 15, which removed lgbt people from the list of populations in need of special protection or rather equal protection from extra judicial, arbitrary, and summary execution. most of the declarations of policy and resolutions and so forth that you pass here have no teeth and are meaningless. but this is harvey milk s town. this is a town where let s face it, it is politically indefensible, the political cost is too high, to oppose lgbt rights. if you speak to this, the world is going to hear. i want a mayor who will do that. second, i want to mayor who will change the terms of the conver