Too, that were imagining a Massive Mission to effect this great transition. Massive missions always require a mastery of politics. There is simply no other way to marshal the requisite resources. We could more fully master politics, we could more fully ensure a certain transition if more of us showed up to serve in elected office. Now, you may agree that the world is run by those who show up, but youre not the least bit inclined to show up to serve in the irrational world of politics. Well, you know, i found that politics is not all that irrational. I served as a montana representative. Its a world defined by a bunch of knuckleheads, but theyre not irrational. [laughter] more importantly, i have come to believe that at its core, our political system favors folks like us. It favors people that believe that facts and knowledge and scholarship and determination matter. Why do i believe this in this age of hyperpartisanship . Because of the way in. Way in which our country was founded. Dur
Talked about threats at the white house at the Washington Post was reporting on watergate. December 20 third, 1972, about 9 00 p. M. , i reached John Mitchell by phone, about a story we were running. He said he had controlled a secret fund for undercover operations such as watergate. Mitchell was quite upset responding several times as i read him the story. He then proceeded to threaten an important private part of Katharine Grahams anatomy which he said would get caught in a big fat ringer if the post printed the story. He said we are going to do a story on all of you. He hung up the phone. I called ben at home. Woodward and i did much did not much observe the chain of command. Ben interrogated me. Had mitchell been drinking . I could not tell. Did i properly identify myself . Yes. Did i have good notes . Yes. Ok, ben said, put all of mitchells comments in the paper but leave out ms. Grahams tell the desk its ok, he said. A top official of the knicks on Nixon Campaign called me a few
Renewable energy a foundation of a new energy future. Not succeed in any efforts to make the world a more prosperous or just place, for all creatures, great small, unless we more fully master politics. Winning more debates, by elections. E of1990, following 27 years imprisonment, Nelson Mandela ended11 words that apartheid. He said, we cant win a war but we can win an election. He became south africas first black president with that ended the policy of apartheid. Similarly, we can win more elections. And which winning enough elections, we can ensure the the wondrousof earth. Ty of life on and that is, of course, a critically important part of the great transition before us. Thank you very much. [applause] more now from the American Renewable Energy summit with a group of scientists discussing Climate Change and the of category 4ber hurricanes. From aspen, colorado, this is 45 minutes. Good morning. Hope youre ready for some climate science, and i know because those were two great prese
Mission housing in terms of where its going to put its energy towards maintenance or were actually looking at Mission Housing playing a larger role in the Development Process and, if so, what are the projects that you see moving forward . Well, certainly as far as maintenance goes, like i said, we do have approximately 32 buildings. And so first and foremost the 1700 units and the 3,000 tenants that we serve, we need to make sure those units are efficient and quality Affordable Housing. And so we are embarking on that project but also we are an Affordable Housing developer. So at the moment we are working on our proposal for 1950 mission street, a new 100 percent Affordable Housing development that is near the 16th street bart station. Were also researching sites down near 24th street in the Lower Mission to purchase and develop what are relatively smaller sites but nonetheless are just as important in these days of gentrification and displacement in the mission. And so what i see as M
19, 2016 or the tenure of the nominating supervisor, whichever is shorter in duration. There is one seat and one applicant. Thank you, since we have one applicant for the seat we can call up miss magy up and give us a presentation. Hello, supervisors, my name is ilyse magy and i am interested in seat 9 on the bicycle advisory commit ee. I work as an artist and organizor and focus on pedestrian advocacy and alternative transportation in both my professional and personal life. I currently work as an organizer with sf advocacy riders, we work to improve Public Transportation in San Francisco. I also volunteer with walk sf, creating projects to bring forth project vision zero. I have lived in San Francisco since 2008. I first moved here looking for a city that had a robust Public Transportation system, since i came from metro detroit, where we really dont be have one, so for a year i relid on muni because i was terrified of even riding a bike in a parking lot, but slowly i realized biking