Working for labor, and saw how city hall could be an effective tool for change and then considered running in 2007, 2008, and somehow, i made it. You were raised in los angeles, moved to the east coast. What made you want to come back and live in San Francisco . I love cities. I never felt like i lived in a city in los angeles, but when i lived in massachusetts, where i live, i was close to boston. I had such a great time in boston but i did not like massachusetts so much because it was cold, the culture was foreign to me. When i came to San Francisco, the first time i came, there was a rainbow over the bay and there was something calling me. I was 20 at the time. I knew that this was a place i needed to live. The history here, you can see it in terms of buildings, you know the history from, labor history, hit the history, history of what happened in 1978 with milk, mosconi. But i wanted to be a part of its. What got you involved in politics . I had been involved in politics for decade
It was a lot of workingclass folks. My father was a shore worker, my mother was an Office Worker at usc. My parents were divorced when i was 10 years old, and i moved to the east coast for six years before going back to california after high school. I went to school at uc santa barbara, graduated in 19988 1988. I have lived in the excelsior since 1999. I have had lots of different jobs, but my main job is doing social work force and a disco, i have been a community organizer, i worked at a Labor Organization supporting janitors working in our high rise buildings. I was a legislative aide before. Wr. I got to see how it all work from the outside, Community Organizations supporting young people, children, families, working for labor, and saw how city hall could be an effective tool for change and then considered running in 2007, 2008, and somehow, i made it. You were raised in los angeles, moved to the east coast. What made you want to come back and live in San Francisco . I love cities.
Back three fridays from now. Several fridays from now. Yes. And wonderful pleasure meeting you cochair, yesterday. Thank you very much. Next we have Susan Pfeifer. Thank you. Hope i can reach this and you can see me. You can get the next. Yes. Thats my disability, im vertically challenged. My name is susan. Is it a backup or feedback . Is the bridge line on . Is that better . No. Its not. Sorry about that. Thats okay. My name is Susan Pfeifer and secretary of the fbr democratic for seniors and people with disabilities. I was part of a group that did travel to the commission on disabilities in sacramento last week. The gentleman spoke about it and we spoke. I have concerns about the movement to allow municipalities to charge for the disabled for the placard and time limits. The other recommendations i think are reasonable but those two particularly charging i think is inappropriate as many people with disabilities are also low income and i dont think thats fair. So lets take that off th
You the section that you would like to talk on. If you can fill that part out, it gives a number or we have regular without on the agenda like right now. We have two more left. This is regular. And then well get into okay. Thats fine. My name is eugene perez from russia to new york to knob hill and i fell in love with a boyfriend in tenderloin. Now im in tenderloin. I will be here at the next meeting to share my hair raising experiences to talk about what its like to be still an attractive woman alone in the streets of San Francisco. As i understand our budget not doing so badly. Let me get my money right. We got our money right. Lets use it right. I will be back three fridays from now. Several fridays from now. Yes. And wonderful pleasure meeting you cochair, yesterday. Thank you very much. Next we have Susan Pfeifer. Thank you. Hope i can reach this and you can see me. You can get the next. Yes. Thats my disability, im vertically challenged. My name is susan. Is it a backup or feedba
Already. Enough and the vote counting on the action of syria begins this week. The road map starts with microsoft buying nokias hand business. A former executive there rejo rejoining the company and seen as a potential replacement for Steve Ballmer. And the Third Largest deal in corporate history, verizon paying 130 billion to buy out their venture. We will speak to the ceo in a few minutes. And a global data and continuing pause in syria have the markets poised to open sharply higher. After two years of striking a windows partnership with nokia, microsoft has agreed to acquire the handphone business. Also, stephen elop will be returning to microsoft, and this is what Steve Ballmer had to say about it earlier this morning on the New York Stock Exchange. We need to make shure that the microsoft acquisition goes flawlessly and not sustain the momentum, but accelerate. We know how the Work Together with the partnership, and we are glad to have stephen come back to microsoft, and much of t