Thats really about democracy. Its about Good Government and how can anyone really be against democratic elections. So, colleagues, i hope we can all come on board with this as it move to rules committee and gets placed on the ballot. And we can give san franciscans the type of democracy that he he we all believe is worthy of this great city of ours. The rest ill submit. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor avalos. Supervisor campos. Thank you, madam clerk. I want to speak about two item. The first one i do want to add my voice in supporting the Charter Amendment that has been introduced by supervisor avalos. In the last few months ive had a number of constituents and residents of the eastern half of San Francisco who have asked me questions about, you know, what happens when there are vacancies, including vacancies on those board of supervisors and consistent with the statements that i have made, i believe that it makes sense that when there is such a vacancy on this board or any other off
Assessor until february 2013. And there are no there are virtually no other examples of this lack of public process in filling vacancies in many place around the country. The colorado governor makes [speaker not understood] to fill a vacancy [speaker not understood]. The mayor of philadelphia make appointment of vacancies in their city, but there is no other executive office where they have this ability. This will bring us in line with processes for filling vacancies in our state and federal legislative bodies. Example, appointees that happened over the years. There have been 23 appointees to the board of supervisors since 1960. Since 1960s. Since we moved on from that administration there have been 15 appointees to the board of supervisors. There is only one case of an appointed District Supervisor losing in the subsequent district election. At one point willie brown had appointed six members of the board, many of whom he described as his sure votes on the board of supervisors. Gavin