President yee good afternoon and welcome to the october 20th, 2020 october 20th, 2020. Regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Would you please call the roll. Clerk [roll call] president yee supervisor fewer will be a few minutes late and she will joining shortly. You have a quorum. President yee pleasure righe right hand over your heart for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Give me a second. I would acknowledge the staff at sfgtv and matthew two records our meetings and make the transfers available to the public online and madam clerk, lets jump into item number one Second Special order. Is. Clerk ok, the first order of business is to welcome the mayor london breed into the proceedings to discuss the questions submitted from the supervisor representing district 6 to begin the mayor may address the b
Host we are back live with h wil haygood. We will put up the numbers. 2028488200 in the east and central time zones. 7488201 for the mount and pacific time zone. We will put up our email, facebook and twitter as well. Those are other ways you can contact us if the phone lines are busy. We have mentioned it in black and white. I will read a couple quotes from your book about sammy davis, jr. He loved white women and the site of one on his black sheets. His american dream. You go on to write nixon needed sammys aura. Guest sammy davis, jr. Was one of the more memorizing figures in the history of american entertainment. His mother left him behind, he was abandoned as a child and that haunted him forever. He went on the road with will and his father sammy davis, sr. He was a precious child. He was a prodigy. There is always a price to pay when you live in that world. Sammy was not seen as a handsome figure when he became a teenager in 15 to 17 and 18 he was up in canada when he was 19 and
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It is important, and addressed this is a clear, workable manner in what the bills call for. This is a lot of money, taxpayer money, and we can do much, much better. We can do much better. We have to open the door for smaller, Innovative Companies that may indeed be able to build out a much better system. They dont apply now because you need a team of lawyers to pull together a 1900 page response to an rsp and agencies have their own supplement that maybe up to a 1,000 pages. They cannot compete. I think this is an area that is ripe for reform. Taxpayers would benefit from it. And the product that comes from the executive branch, all of the agencies, it, is part of this. So it isnt just one part of the government. But we can learn a great deal, i think, from the private sector, coming up with a better, workable product hopefully for a better price. But also, as i said, save taxpayers a great deal of money which is an important area. And finally, we taped an interview on this program wit
Trump. Now, afternoon before the meetings speaker ryan is feeling pressure according to folks were talking to on the hill to support the billionaire who won primaries in both West Virginia and nebraska. Ryan met with several of his rank and file who are urging the speaker to, if i may, get on the trump train. Will speaker ryan heed their call . The speaker of the house today did disclose his prime goal for his oneonone with mr. Trump. To pretend were unified as a party after coming through a very bruising primary, which ended like a week ago, to pretend were unified without unifying we go into the fall at half strength. This election is too important to go into an election at half strength. That means we need a real unification of our party. And as republicans try to heal any divisions here, democrats went on the offensive. Their house leaders held a News Conference and declares there is no difference between what trump says and the gop believes. Our point is what is happened in this c