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
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
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 many of my lifes endeavors volunteering in the majors office as a teenager, and serving on the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency commission sxh the Fire Commission and just recently getting my masters in public administration. I will tackle the tough problems head on. I will find Real Solutions to the lack of Affordable Housing and redesign our Job Training Program to give the right skills to the Unemployed Peopl
Cantonese. Most candidates bank on political endorsements, and a large war chest. I believe in working directly with grassroots population, to help[u it is the most important job of your supervisor. Since atu i am an educator, i h at city college of San Francisco, it is the nature of an educator to bring outxyx best quality in people, if one asks me, what would you do first, should you getgg id say working closely with different 7uv city departments, members of the community fate of central subway, which is most a controversial rightsst. More over, we take for granted that district 3, one of generators of this city. Itsu tourism. I just cant thinkp neighborhood so easily accessible to other areas of interest to visitors of ourne beautiful city. Fishermans wharf, square. Unfortunately the construction of central subway may impact the survival of merchants within this fragile corridor. When comes to 0f 6, for her sincerity and dedication to make life better for district 3,n and for this
Challenges and address homelessness and build Affordable Housing and build the schools and keep us safe. I am running for supervisor to keep San Francisco real. Our city is a social, economic and political cross roads. In so many ways, the everyday people that keep this city 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