Hello ladies and gentlemen of district five my name is london ried and i am asking for your vote for the district of supervisors. I grew up on the same street that all live on, ride our bikes, walk in the parks, shop and eat and take our kids to school. For the last ten years, i have been the executive director of the African American art complex, a 34,000 art space where the kids have program in the arts where local artists come together and different San Francisco communities form and strengthen our common bond. I grew up in plaza east Public Housing. It was a tough place back then, as a number of places in the district still are. The economic and family circumstances for everyone were pretty dire. I saw family and friends lost to the streets, to prison and death including two of my siblings, i saw terrible poverty, crime, drugs, hopelessness and violence and joblessness but that was not all that we had. Those people that i grew up have something else, a fighting experience resilienc
Watching laborers work for little or no compensation at a young age based on what i witnessed i developed a understanding of economic injustice. Growing up in the 60s my Life Experience has shaped my activism and my desire to promote meaningful change for my community. In 1982 i moved to the bay area and began taking classes at San Francisco state university. Eventually i finished at the California Institute of integral studys. I worked for a number of stockbrokerages in the financial district, and my professional career, and at night, i got more and more engaged in the local activist community advocating for various issues important to me including igbtq and tenant right issues. In 1982 my life was changed forever when my mother was involved in a serious car accident. For the next seven years, her care became my priority. Upon her death, i quit my job and became a Community Organizer at the commission agenda. There, i fought for the rights of low income tenants and immigrants who live
Special, the artists, the students, the young families, the seniors on fixed income, working people and every day people of all strides are having a harder and harder time surviving much less thriving in our city. One of the reasons is that our Economic Development policies are currently much too focused on the big business interest. We need to reorient our citys Development Policies to focus on the 80 percent of the economy which is our Small Businesses or mom and pop shops. San francisco needs to develop more Affordable Housing. The association of bay government says that they need 18,000 new units of housing and we are nowhere close to that. Prop c, something that i encourage you to vote for, but lets go back to the ballot in the years to come and pass an Affordable Housing bond something that San Francisco has not done in close to two decades. We need to improve our Public Schools in San Francisco if we are going to be a family and childfriendly city. Prop 13 has starved our school
Services it all went to other departments such as when the Police Closed down the streets for parades. We need to make sure that money is used for service and not distributed to some other department. I work with the community to improve public safety, through Community Policing and maybe some substations for our areas that we need them in for ourselves just the same way that twitter has. And now is the time to bring ethics and a strong advocate for the people back to city hall. I ask you to vote for me, hope johnson, this november and i thank you for your time. My name is kristine olague is i am the current incumbent for district five. This includes the fillmore, western addition, cathedral hill, japan town, lower pacific heights, lower and upper hate, nopa and coal valley and the neighbors. I am running to serve a full term on the board of supervisors, representing district five because i have long worked to make local government work better for the needs of the neighborhood resident
District still are. The economic and family circumstances for everyone were pretty dire. I saw family and friends lost to the streets, to prison and death including two of my siblings, i saw terrible poverty, crime, drugs, hopelessness and violence and joblessness but that was not all that we had. Those people that i grew up have something else, a fighting experience resilience, those people found it in themselves to help their neighbors family and friends however they could. We relied upon each other and out of the crisis we created a great community. This is the spirit of San Francisco. And that is why i am so thrilled to be able to speak to you today and now, because so many of you watching are my family, my friends, people who form the same communities that raised me up from difficult beginnings into the woman i am today. I can think of no more important calling than to use the skills and my energy to give back to all of you in any way that i can. That is what has led me through so