considering. since that time, i was placed on the lafco board, and there have been a number of studies conducted by cory cook and others to sort of evaluate it, and that is information i did not have at the time that i sponsored the charter amendment. that being said, i went back and forth as recently as a week ago, and i seriously considered pulling my name because the number of, you know, there was a lot of people who were very concerned with its removal for a number of reasons, so i feel like in many ways i had made some commitment to consider pulling my name from the legislation, but in retrospect, i feel that, well, i put my name on the legislation initially, so it seems it would be in bad faith to pull my name at this point, and also my intention initially for placing my name on it was so that we could preserve right choice voting on some level and that the voters would have the opportunity to reconsider it in many ways. my reason for wanting to limit it to the mayor s
legislation on the ballot was a way of saying this is something that the voters really should be considering. since that time, i was placed on the lafco board, and there have been a number of studies conducted by cory cook and others to sort of evaluate it, and that is information i did not have at the time that i sponsored the charter amendment. that being said, i went back and forth as recently as a week ago, and i seriously considered pulling my name because the number of, you know, there was a lot of people who were very concerned with its removal for a number of reasons, so i feel like in many ways i had made some commitment to consider pulling my name from the legislation, but in retrospect, i feel that, well, i put my name on the legislation initially, so it seems it would be in bad faith to pull my name at this point, and also my intention initially for placing my name on it was so that we could preserve right choice voting on some level and that the voters would have
president chiu: madam clerk, we have our meeting minutes from may 15 and may 22. can i have a motion to approve the minutes? a motion to approve the minutes by supervisor avalos. seconded by supervisor elsbernd. without objection, the minutes are approved. madam clerk, do we have any communications? clerk calvillo: we have no communications. president chiu: can we go to the agenda? colleagues, would anyone like to sever these items? an roll call vote. clerk calvillo: supervisor elsbernd, supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, supervisor mar, supervisor cohen, supervisor wiener, supervisor avalos, supervisor campos, president chiu, supervisor chu, supervisor olague. president chiu: item 37. clerk calvillo: item 37 appropriates all estimated receipts and expenditures for departments of the city and county of san francisco as of may 31, 2012, for the fiscal years of 2013 and 2014. president chiu: colleagues, and a discussion? can we do this same house, same call? these ordinances a
are. we are doing it on a policy basis only. in terms of the september primary, the way this is structured i think will work well. it automatically sends the top two to the november runoff, and unless someone gets a supermajority, so it avoids a situation where someone avoids sneaking squeaking in, they have to have a percentage in order to avoid a runoff entirely, and in terms of the department of elections having the ability to handle this additional election, frankly, we did this for many years when we had run off, so i think the department is quite capable of handling an additional election, so for those reasons and others, i will be supporting this charter amendment today. supervisor farrell: : k ? supervisor kim? supervisor kim: i am glad we are talking about this, such a frank discussion. i did not supported before because when we look at the data, it is a limited amount of data. when we look at the data for the runoff, what we find is that in every election for of
job s report. the unemployment rate went to 8.2%. 69,000 job was added in may. the fewest in a year and far below expectations. it s starting to look like 2011 all over again. that is basically you know you go up, you go down and you end up where you started which is not helping a lot of people. they also point to the deepening debt crisis in europe as affecting wall street. unemployment in the 17 nation that use the euro were at a record high 11% in april and spain s rate was almost 25%. the economy stands head and shoulders above other issues in this race. any slow down it seen as a opportunity for romney. a new poll of registered voters across the country shows the president leading romney 49-46% and romney is narrowing the gap. just a month ago the same poll showed a nine point margin. california s primary is in four days and eric is live in san francisco where he has learned the president is planning another trip back to the bay area. reporter: his last visit w