 of April 23rd. I'm going to my church and member of the community to the broad-based organizations and we are glad so agenda. So if you have on a t-shirt or a campaign material you're pleased with the issues that our bank is superintendent of Rescura, I am pastor of the mini church of God in Christ. I'm your host and one of your court chairs for this evening. I hear by all of you this evening the perfect name of Jesus Christ, asking you God to give us all of our sins and the bonds of deeds, anything God could enter us from hearing from you in this place. I'm going to be thanking you by thank you God for these people that gathered in your house God to do your business. So we pray God if you could just move in this place still, candidates, ways of the man knowledge God be grateful and you would encourage each of us tonight to remain engaged and do the work of our Lord and give His praise to the Lord in the name of Jesus and in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Thank you pastor Christ. Our focus statement tonight tonight is not a campaign rally for any one person or personality. This is a get out vote rally with a more just city. We are focusing on where candidates stand on our concrete proposals that will enable our city government to be more ethical and even-handed to all of our citizens. Proverbs 29 and 18 says, where there is no vision the people perish. Prophetic habitat was also told by the Lord to write the vision and make it plan. The prophet was very much concerned about the social injustice of his day and was told by the Lord to write down the vision he had given him for his people making sure that what he wrote would be planned enough for all to read and understand. The prophet was also told that even though the vision would take some time that it would surely come to pass we are here tonight to share the things the vision we have for our city. Our vision includes the rehabilitation of owner Runky Prime Housing that will significantly improve the East, West and South sectors of San Antonio. We are focusing tonight on a living wage for our hard-working citizens of San Antonio so that all may share and join prosperity. We are focusing on the influence that is welcoming to all residents regardless of their immigration status. We are focusing on the influence that every single person in this room has in their family on their job and their church on their college campus and even with the person sitting right next to them to convey the significance of how important their vote will be in this election. Sometimes we remind ourselves and each candidate that elections belong to the people. However this is only true if we practice the essential right of voting. I'd like to vote and give this up from the election that you will not be determined by who contributed the most money to campaign but simply by the people who will show love to vote. We commit to ourselves and each other to let San Antonio voters know where the candidates stand on our issues agenda. Tonight we commit to get out the vote to turn our vision into a reality to create the city that we desire. A well-known author and leadership expert John Maxwell wrote that people tend to buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. This is why it is so important for each of these leaders who are buying from public office to be here tonight to answer yes or no to our questions and respond to the vision that we as citizens have for San Antonio. I read a quote today that said you should never say maybe when you want to really say no. Before we ask these questions any of these questions there is a question we must ask ourselves. Are we going to show love to vote? I want you to take a moment and ask some people around you are you going to show love to vote? This is what tonight's session and vision for this upcoming election is well into focus. We're going to turn off the vote. I'm the minister at the first Unitarian Universalist Church located across the road in San Antonio in Fort Ann and Pitech Vice Junior of St. John Baptist Church where we are located. We're here tonight to team up with different faith thoughts to do the work. So we have a team of 10 who will phone bank and use social media to get 500 voters who will vote this agenda on June 10. There are approximately 220 leaders that just pledge to get out 9,330 votes in guest delegations. We have the Our Lady of Aloha, Texas. Are you here? St. Francis. And also true vision three of the guest delegations. We have Dr. Daly who is the Chair of the Community Churches of Social Action. Thank you very much. We want to stop this. It's a good joy to be here after getting past the election. Now it's time to get to work. It's not about getting paid promises. It's about making sure that we're following through on our commitments. Let me just say this. It's beautiful to see this on the east side. We keep saying all of the time it's not about the people of power in the community. This is the agenda. It's very simple. We need to recognize under attack that the vulnerable are under attack that your elected leaders need to step up under attack of the federal government under attack of the state and I hope that our first piece of action is making sure that we're sending a strong statement to the state. We're going to fight out the legislature and we'll also fight out the court who are the voiceless in our community. So that's what we're committed to doing in the state council. So thank you guys for your work. I hope you guys get out there and vote to make sure we're here. District 7, Pat, and it's over the next two years. Yes or no? One question. We're the two actions. We're the issues are. We're the issues are. Thank you very much for all those of you went out to vote in the last general election and for those of you who supported me let me tell you I only won the general election by 92 or 93 votes about the commitments you made and the efforts you're going to make that were just up on this projector. Please remember to address how you will implement and I'm going to follow the lead set forward by my future colleague, Constance and to be working on these issues not only in our city council working groups and alliances with leaders in other cities because as one city we're not going to be able to fight the state alone the legislature alone we need collaboration with the other cities as well to send that message. In the next few days what I will be doing is recruiting and looking for the best the most committed and the most capable staff members that are committed to your issues and to our agenda as well because we're giving to the candidates in advance and we're printed on the back of your agenda. If a candidate gives a non-committal response we must take that as a no we are asking them to commit to consensuals in general we are not asking them to commit to thinking about it a council candidates will be given one minute 90 seconds 90 seconds to speak to the candidates will be given three minutes again this is the chalk up will be the time keeper when you see the yellow card you will have 10 seconds to finish your remarks the red cards means you stop talking. Yes, it's really more of the same we want to continue to work with COPS measure we want to implement a lot of great programs that we've been talking about as my colleagues have mentioned before councilman elect reaching out bringing alliances together we want to bring much more voices to the table we want to make sure that more people know that we all need to get together to fight fearful tactics that are being brought down by the state by the federal government and we will not stand for that we want to make statements that we're a proud city a proud inclusive community a compassionate community that is going to make sure that we are proud and we will have policies in place that will help to address all these concerns that we are facing here today and fear and non-conference and what my campaign shares with all the people in this room as well as the 14 labor unions and democratic clubs that are endorsing we're going to go out and organize not just in district one, but in all other districts we need to build power for working people in this city right now we have this city hall that the lobbyist companies treat the way that money changers in Jesus' time treat the temple in Jerusalem we need to call a stop to that I believe like you do in what the letter St. James says if that is the faith without works is dead we can go out do the organizing build the coalition we need around the streets of the city council we're going to create change as councilman Sondana said to build power for the people and councilman Alan Warren would you please come forward councilman Warren you attended the April 23rd accountability session do you still support Consmetro's agenda yes do you commit to working with Cons over the next two years yes if you liked it in the first 100 days of your term let me ask this question will you support our city joining the soup against SB4 as soon as possible yes if you liked it in the first 100 days of your term what are you going to do to implement Consmetro's agenda you have 90 seconds well again I've been to city councilman since December 16th of 2014 so it won't be the first 100 days but it'll be the next 100 days of my term and what I'm going to do to work with Consmetro is to allow for more housing rehabilitation we've done 7 routes on the east side of San Antonio and Denver Heights 3 routes and before living with things in their homes these senior citizens, disabled people in our community are living in these conditions that they should not live in our city the greatest city in the country and we need to make sure that this doesn't happen to the brothers so we're going to use some of the money from the public finance corporation in order to do more routes there's more need than just Denver Heights there's need in every neighborhood in every part of the community and we're going to work to make that happen to ask you that question do you support the city joining the surrogate SP4 yes in a guilty session in that time you did support the Consmetro agenda do you still support it I mean do you also commit to working with us over the next 2 years I've seen so many people and they've heard their stories telling me they've been there for 50 years and they can't afford to fix their homes thinking about Mrs. Torres who invited me to her home to see the fuller route as the rain came here into a bucket I want to bring people like Mrs. Torres to City Hall I want to, if I would like to as their representative, I'm going to bring them in we're going to hear their stories it's very difficult for the other side to say no to Mrs. Torres because she's been there a long time which is proud of her views and I want to support her, I don't want to run her out so that's number 1 I'm going to bring the community to City Hall also with the ID and the legal defense fund I happen to be an attorney and this is where my heart is I want to make sure that you take care of those things because people shouldn't be afraid to go to work when they're undocumented and get pulled over I understand there's a gentleman I know that everybody's got because he's so afraid of getting pulled over but anyway, I'm sorry I wouldn't work as hard as we can to increase the paychecks of hardworking people all over the city not just district six, but I want to bring economic development to district six better-paid jobs we need better-paid jobs in district six transportation out there is so bad in the out there we're not here I want to acknowledge that candidate he also attended the April 23rd accountability session and he did agree to all of the consmetrals agenda Councilman Ron Niebuhr you attended the April 23rd accountability session do you still support consmetrals agenda? yes we commit to working with cons over the next two years probably yes we're going to do to implement consmetrals agenda we have three minutes ladies and gentlemen for being here there's nothing more important happening in our city next month than June 10 election it will decide the future of this city and it will answer the question that so many people outside of this community are asking which is what kind of city is San Antonio? there are clear choices on your ballot for this election and I'm here to tell you that we're going to work very hard during this campaign to bring new leadership to the mayor's office leadership that makes sure that you know no matter what part of town you live on no matter what you do when you got here what's your immigration status or your LGBTQ status is you will be treated with respect and with fairness and dignity that every San Antonio deserves we will get started get started on an aggressive agenda because I'm so thrilled with some of the things that have been happening already in this election to make sure that you know that you have San Antonio's back and San Antonio City Hall will have your back we will get to work on building a compassionate and comprehensive housing policy to make sure that everyone has the dignity of a fair chance at being in place and no one gets forced out of their homes just because San Antonio is doing the very basic that you deserve that we have a high standard not only for our city employees but also for every San Antonio family that shouldn't have to be under-employed working two and three and four jobs just to make ends meet we will work to make San Antonio a living waste city put it to simple things that you would expect from a modern city like public transportation and parts of town that need it we will bring that back to make sure that fairness is part of your city agenda we will work for an economic development so that we bring great new jobs to San Antonio but that local families that are building local jobs to San Antonio get a fair chance at the pie also and we will and we will certainly make sure that bottom line this city is built on a foundation of ethics and integrity and trust we will reform the ethics code to make sure that every San Antonio knows that when there is oversight that means there is accountability and that goes for every single public official paid or unpaid in your city all my mission just as I have when I go home at night after a long day to talk to my son and my wife that when he grows up we will have a city that no longer has to beg people to vote because they know their voice matters and when they go to a ballot box they will ensure that they are building a bright future that all of us deserve thank you so very much thank you for our city joining a suit against SP4 as soon as possible yes Mr. Walker she decided on April 23rd accountability session she did meet with House Metro leaders she would not commit to any part of the House Metro agenda she would not she would not commit to increasing honor on funding she would not commit to raising wages or increasing project quest funding she would not commit to a municipal ID agenda so I want you to take that into account Councilman Lori did a pre-hab money and so did Havana mentioned that as well to bring it up to work on the ID Councilman was running for mayor and to work on increasing wages so we have a living wage city it is an important a military and economic we need public who share in our vision and who work with us brought our vision for creating a more just we can't use up our vision imagine going toward the city where everyone is treated in favor where justice is their primary concern picture that in San Antonio casting a ballot means that over the next and anything else prosperity affordable and dignified housing and welcoming the strangers Councilman Joe's leaders please come to the conference room for an evaluation the next Councilman Joe's leaders meeting will be on June 19 and 7 p.m accept the loan to build a house thank you