to congratulate all of the newly elected supervisors for your leadership. and i d like to first acknowledge all of the officials who are here today, starting first with our wonderful state senator, [applause] we have a representative of congresswoman jackie speier who is here. jonathan kest. the former president of the board of supervisors angela alioto. our city attorney dennis her rer. our assessor, phil tang. our treasurer jesus. our member of the board of education. [applause] our public defender. our police chief. our fire chief. i do believe the chief of staff to the mayor is here, steve connell. and representing our city administrator, representative edwin brown. [applause] so at this time, i d like to acknowledge our newly elected colleagues in the numerical order of their district. and give them an opportunity for some brief remarks and for some family introductions. i d like to start with our newest supervisor from district two, supervisor mark farrell. [applause]
us today, but he wanted to thank all of you for being here, and in particular, wants to congratulate all of the newly elected supervisors for your leadership. and i d like to first acknowledge all of the officials who are here today, starting first with our wonderful state senator, [applause] we have a representative of congresswoman jackie speier who is here. jonathan kest. the former president of the board of supervisors angela alioto. our city attorney dennis her rer. our assessor, phil tang. our treasurer jesus. our member of the board of education. [applause] our public defender. our police chief. our fire chief. i do believe the chief of staff to the mayor is here, steve connell. and representing our city administrator, representative edwin brown. [applause] so at this time, i d like to acknowledge our newly elected colleagues in the numerical order of their district. and give them an opportunity for some brief remarks and for some family introductions. i d like to st
unfortunately couldn t be with us today, but he wanted to thank all of you for being here, and in particular, wants to congratulate all of the newly elected supervisors for your leadership. and i d like to first acknowledge all of the officials who are here today, starting first with our wonderful state senator, [applause] we have a representative of congresswoman jackie speier who is here. jonathan kest. the former president of the board of supervisors angela alioto. our city attorney dennis her rer. our assessor, phil tang. our treasurer jesus. our member of the board of education. [applause] our public defender. our police chief. our fire chief. i do believe the chief of staff to the mayor is here, steve connell. and representing our city administrator, representative edwin brown. [applause] so at this time, i d like to acknowledge our newly elected colleagues in the numerical order of their district. and give them an opportunity for some brief remarks and for some famil
there shall be additional roll call votes until a nominee does receive a majority vote, at which time the roll call will cease. any nominee may withdraw his or her name or emotion may be seconded and approved by a majority to reopen nomination. any discussion? i see supervisor elsbernd. supervisor elsbernd: thank you, mr. president. first, let me thank supervisor chu for nominating me. thank you very much for your support. i truly am humbled by that and i do very much appreciate it. thank you for the three of you. this is the fourth time i ve participated in a presidential election. the two previous times i sat in this row here as an aid, and in observing and participating in those six elections, i learned a couple of things. first, when you ve got more than two candidates, the math just doesn t work. there just isn t a way to get to six. more importantly, i think the thing i learned, particularly in those elections when we had more than two candidates, is there can be a tend