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I want to thank every person who's standing behind me, each of you represents part of the incredible diversity that is San Francisco
and I look forward to working with all of you when we march into Room 200.
I also want to thank my elected colleageues who have supported me. Supervisors Eric Mar, Jane Kim, Malia Cohen...
I also want to take a moment to thank Supervisor Scott *** who yesterday asked his supporters to give me a good look.
I also want to thank 6 of my endorsers who have served as President of our San Francisco school board.
Folks we've come to the end of a long campaign, we've had almost four dozen debates,
weve filled out 87 candidate questionnaires, we've talked to thousands of San Franciscans
in kitchens living rooms, in work places, in bars, at MUNI stops, on the phones
We are coming together. We've also campaigned for 25 hours straight.
I want to thank John Baldo for running with me at Bay to Breakers.
I even celebrated Halloween in the Castro as Han Solo with 12 Jedi Knights and our trusty campaign mascot Chiubacca.
It has been fun, it has been challenging, it's been exhilarating and it has been exhausting.
But at this point we have less than 100 hours to get our message out
over the past couple of months we've heard a lot of back and forth. Frankly a lot of grandstanding,
a lot of attacks and counter attacks.
I don't know about you, but I think voters are tired of that and so am I.
I've been proud, with the community leaders behind me and with thousands of supporters, to work on a campaign that has been positive.
We have not been tearing folks down.
We've been laying our positive vision for where we want San Francisco to go.
After serving as a civil rights attorney, a criminal prosecutor, a founder of a small business and a neighborhood activist with many of the folks standing behind me
I ran for office in 2008 because I thought that we needed to move San Francisco City Hall beyond a politics of personality and ideology.
and after just three years as President of your Board of Supervisors, Im proud we have done just that.
As the San Francisco Chronicle noted in their sole endorsement of me, more than any caniddate in this race,
I have had to make the toughest decisions facing San Francisco and city government in the past few years under very intense pressure from all sides
doing what I think is in the best interests of San Francisco.
Im proud of my record of results
of helping to balance budget deficits that have combined 1.4 billion dollars over the past 3 years
of passing tough ethics legislation,
of helping to move forward building tens of thosuands of units of housing in San Francisco.
I have a vision for our future
for how we're going to bring back the thousands of jobs that have left San Francisco over the last few years
the thousands of families that have left our city since the last census.
I want to make sure that we are building a government
that keeps our streets safe and clean, and make our buses run on time. We don't have that government yet.
We have a 6.8 billion dollar, 26,000 employee, 50 plus department corporation known as the City and County of San Francisco
and it has not been getting it done for San Francisco.
If you want the status quo, if you want more of the same, I'm not your candidate.
If you want a candidate that's going to be knee-jerk to ideology, I'm not your man.
If you want someone who's going to be lockstep to the left or to the right, you should consider someone else.
But I need to tell you something, after 8 months
after 14,000 folks that signed our petition to nominate me to be your next mayor of San Francisco,
if you want someone who's gonna step in on Day 1 and get results,
if you want someone who is ready to challenge the status quo,
if you want someone who's ready to shake things up at City Hall,
I ask you to vote - to make me be your next mayor of San Francisco.
If i have the honor of being your next mayor, you can be sure that I'm not going be beholden to anyone, except to you,
the voters of the City and County of San Francisco.
Let me tell you, if we can get it done with this team, we are going to change the game.
With that, we've got 4 days to win this, let's go get it done. Thank you very much.
