Speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the january 28thf supervisors agenda. Item number one is a hearing to considering appointing one member term ending 2023, to the Oversight Committee. One seat, one applicant. Chairwoman hi. Is atori laou here . A beautiful name, did i pronounce it correctly . Yes. Chairwoman is good. Come on up. Do you have any presentation or thoughts you want to share with us. I would like to introduce myself and share with you why i would like to join the committee, if that is okay with you. Chairwoman that would be fantastic. Ive been living in San Francisco for 21 years, and i work both for software and Investment Management companies. And im very fa familiar with expenditure ough aud dids auditd oversights. I attended the meeting of the ashbox since last september, and i visited the re reservoir in december, and the southeast Water Treatment in november. And in august, i visited the hedgegy water s
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David i dont consider myself a journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . When you went to cornell, your grades were obviously good. You applied to law school at harvard. You got into Harvard Law School. Was the class half women and half men . [laughter] jus. Ginsburg in those ancient days, i went to law school from 1956 and 1959. In my entering class at Harvard Law School, there were over 500 in the class, nine of us were women. A big jump from martys class, he was a year ahead of me. There were five women. Today, Harvard Law School, it is about 50 women. [applause] david in your Harvard Law School class, you did extremely well and got onto the harvard law review and you were near the top of your class, maybe first or tied for first in your class. When your husband needed to move to new
Schools which was its own challenge and she was up for another challenge. My daughters had different reactions. We have three daughters. The girl who was then 14 said you absolutely should run. That was her reaction right out of the shoots. It made me glad she was so proud. The longer we talked the more i realized she saw it as an opportunity for me to be out of the house during her 15th year of life. She could be burning the place down for all i know right now. My 20yearold, her reaction was dad, if you run and tell the truth and you lose, no one can fault you for it. You say thatgood because there is no other reason for me to run and i dont think there is any other way for me to win. I was glad to send her the other day the editorial of the Des Moines Register which is the largest newspaper in iowa. They had a newspaper that said Michael Bennet pounds truth into this campaign which was at least a small token of what her charge was when i decided to run. Host there is also the thing f
Run for president . Sen. Bennet thank you for having me. What led to it was the fears that our democracy is in peril. If we continue to engage in politics the way we have the last 10 years in this country, i think my generation is going to be the first generation to leave less opportunity and not more to the people after us. Unamerican ans idea we could be facing. You talked to your family you were thinking about this, what was your what was their reaction . Sen. Bennet my wife has had a checkered career in business and in the Denver Public schools, which is its own challenge. My daughters all had very different reactions. We have three daughters. Then 14 said,as you absolutely should run. That made me glad that she was so proud of my public service. The longer we talked, the more i realized she just saw as an opportunity for me to be out of the house during her 15th year of life. She could be burning the place down for all i know. My 20yearold daughter, her reaction was, if you run an