With every tool at our disposal. If a republican colleagues care about a free and for election this november, they should as well. I yield the floor. Theres been a lot of focus lately on the drama here in washington. For weeks now as leading democrats blocked more pandemic relief over unrelated liberal demands, the press has covered their stonewalling like any ordinary political sound off. Who talked to whom . Who said what and which meeting . What new metaphor it Speaker Pelosi is today to explain she was blocking progress . But it does the patient a disservice like the last several weeks were just another routine political standoff. It does struggling families and laidoff workers and stressed out School Principals and professionals a disservice to act like this is just been more washington gridlock. The New York Times proclaimed a few days ago that Speaker Pelosi is playing hardball on coronavirus relief. Well, thats one way to put it. You can say is playing hardball to refuse any ou
Maximizing Police Presence from the charter and add it to the posting. Can we hear from the next speaker . Hi, im a resident of district 5. Im calling in like everyone else to support the amendment to remove the minimum staffing requirements for the sfpd. I also support removal of any language requiring maxization of Police Presence in our community. I just wanted to say that im also extremely disturbed by the idea that sfpd management would come up with a proposal ive been calling into the Police Commission meeting for the last couple of weeks and im disgusted and ashamed of the amount of political posturing with no accountability or responsibility. Id like to remind all of my Community Members who are sfpd is one of the racist and Brutal Police forces in the nation and has been investigated by the department of justices at the federal and state level. They have just been netanyahu. Fire department hi, im calling to support inaudible on the stands that the language should be taken off
Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, my name is alex and im a member of the dsa and resident of the district 10. However the 1,000 walking into the charter was at 94 Ballot Initiatives and the San Francisco Republican Party and the violence crimes is down to low levels nation wide, state wide and San Francisco where last year we had a 58 year low in homicides. The charter language is outdat outdated. And in the ballot guides, public defender jeff brown warned the staffing number will quote takeaway general fund money for Critical Services like health, Drug Prevention and youth facilities and that has come true. Thank you president yee for introducing this amendment eliminating that next speaker, please. Hello h. Is sean cochran from district one in San Francisco. Im calling in support of the Charter Amendment to eliminate language that sets us minimum staffing requirements for San Francisco Police Department. This is a minimum step towards defunding and dei
Its fullness in eternity, we bring our petitions to you using some of his final words. Bless the members of this peoples house and those in authority on all levels of society with wisdom and courage to address the unholy oppression that awaits so many of our brothers and sisters of color. May there be a new creative way of establishing Something Like Community Policing that peace and security might be enjoyed where we live. O lord, do we dare to consider the power of nonviolence in our homes, our communities, our nation, and perhaps in leadership for our world. Might we truly be called, if not challenged, to beat our swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks so that nations shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall we learn war anymore. And as we are reminded, the greatest expression of nonviolent challenge to injustice is the vote. Bless all efforts to secure access to the ballot for all american citizens. Help us, o lord, to answer the highest calling of our he
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