Supervisor yee. Our next is by supervisor cohen and myself. Supervisor cohen do you want to make introductory comments. Supervisor malia cohen thank you very much. Please come to the podium. Thanks. So, happy mentor ship month, everyone. January is National Mentor ship month and we are taking a moment to recognize big brothers and big sisters in the area. Earlier today supervisor chiu ands i announced a partnership with big brothers and big sisters of the bay area to reduce, what is a travesty, a waiting list in San Francisco of 83 students waiting to be partnered up with a mentor. Our goal is to go from 83 to 0. No person can do this alone. The Partnership Brings together the government and the private sector together to satisfy this need. This lady that i brought up to the opposed the podium is kathy bella. Shes going to talk about the mentor ship program and shell talk about that. My Program Began in january at the library. Out of the 83 students that are on the list waiting for a b
Supervisor yee. Our next is by supervisor cohen and myself. Supervisor cohen do you want to make introductory comments. Supervisor malia cohen thank you very much. Please come to the podium. Thanks. So, happy mentor ship month, everyone. January is National Mentor ship month and we are taking a moment to recognize big brothers and big sisters in the area. Earlier today supervisor chiu ands i announced a partnership with big brothers and big sisters of the bay area to reduce, what is a travesty, a waiting list in San Francisco of 83 students waiting to be partnered up with a mentor. Our goal is to go from 83 to 0. No person can do this alone. The Partnership Brings together the government and the private sector together to satisfy this need. This lady that i brought up to the opposed the podium is kathy bella. Shes going to talk about the mentor ship program and shell talk about that. My Program Began in january at the library. Out of the 83 students that are on the list waiting for a b
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The strikes and the training that we are providing to this eerie and rebels is not a strategy over the long term thats going to succeed. There needs to be more. I would like to see, but i think the American Public deserves is a congress airing on this debate so that we know what we are going to be doing before we do it. Ever since the iraq he war started, we have much more coming out of the executive branch and congress has taken a backseat and i feel like there is less accountability as it relates to Foreign Policy. No matter what side you come down alternately on the vote, the American Public deserves to hear what we are doing and before we do it. This is not only a longterm investment militarily but when the troops come home we have to care for them and we need to look at this with a clear lens. When we first went to iraq we we had the lowest members of the veterans in congress ever and you have to wonder how he made all of these blunders. I think that we need a veterans perspective