Say welcome and thank you for being here today. For braving the rain and making it here anyway. Without further do, i would like to introduce the master of ceremony, she does not need any more introduction. Lets put our hands together and welcome the mayor of the city and county of San Francisco, mayor london breed. [cheers and applause] thank you. I am really, really excited to be here. Last year i was able to attend the grand opening of Natalie Graham commons and it was absolutely amazing. Some of you know the history of Natalie Grubb and the work that she did to help create the Tax Credit Program that allows for opportunity to invest in Affordable Housing like this one that we are standing in and her family was here. It was a great occasion. 120 families of low income are living in this property as we speak. And today, when we open this preschool, they will be prioritized for the slots in this location, which is absolutely exactly what we should be doing in San Francisco how incredi
With autism. I think its helpful when you know where can your child go. How im choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. How do speech therapy. How do you explain that to the rest of their class . I want that to be a normal experience. I was working on a certificate and kind of getting think Early Childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in San Francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i dont really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight persons perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and im like absolutely. So im now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. I love g
To see you all. What a wonderful, wonderful crowd. You know, let me begin by just saying, stating the obvious. Every four years, democracy begins in iowa. Its not hyperbole. Democracy begins in iowa. You are the ones that have the starting gun. Youre the ones that decide and have a Significant Impact on who is likely to be the nominee in the democratic party. And for that matter, republican party, when there is not an incumbent president. And it matters a lot, because of the values you all bring to the process are real. I want to talk a little bit today about values. You know, folks, im running for i decided jill and i decided we are going to were going to run this time for three basic reasons. Most important one was is, we have to literally, not figuratively, restore the soul of this country. Were in trouble. Were in trouble. [applause] mr. Biden the way our National Government is acting now is not who we are. It doesnt reflect who america is. The way the president speaks of his oppon
I told the senator, i said, i know you have eyes in the back of your head. My mother had them. Every damn thing i did, she caught me doing. [laughter] mr. Biden well, its so great to see you all. What a wonderful, wonderful crowd. You know, let me begin by just saying, stating the obvious. Every four years, democracy begins in iowa. Its not hyperbole. Democracy begins in iowa. You are the ones that have the starting gun. Youre the ones that decide and have a Significant Impact on who is likely to be the nominee in the democratic party. And for that matter, republican party, when there is not an incumbent president. And it matters a lot, because of the values you all bring to the process are real. I want to talk a little bit today about values. You know, folks, im running for i decided jill and i decided we are going to were going to run this time for three basic reasons. Most important one was is, we have to literally, not figuratively, restore the soul of this country. Were in trouble
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I told the senator, i said i know that eyes and the back of your head. My mother had them. Every damn thing i i did she caught me doing. [laughing] its so great to see it all. What a wonderful, wonderful crowd. Let me begin by just saying the obvious. Every four years democracy begins in iowa. Its not hyperbole. Democracy begins in iowa. You are the one who has the starting gun to do with one to decide and have Significant Impact on who is likely to be the nominee in the democratic party. For that matter, Republican Party when theres not an incumbent president. And it matters a lot. Because of the values you will bring to the process are real. I want to talk a little bit today about values. You know, folks, im running forward, i decided, jill and i decided we are going to run this time for three basic reasons. Most important one was is we have to literally notte figuratively restore the soul of this country. Were in trouble. Were in trouble. [applause]