House Proceeding 09-22-08 on Sep 22nd, 2008 :: 2:12:33 to 2:32:33
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Speech By: Gary L. Ackerman

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Gary L. Ackerman: time and providing us with the h opportunity to say a few things about ou r close friend andnd ally, mike mcnulty. someone with whom we have worked with a long time. i say that myself becausebe

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Maurice D. Hinchey: mike and i have been working ve together first in the stat fe legislature in albanny since 1982. and when i think six yearsea later, 1988, he was elected to the congre ss of the united

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Speech By: Maurice D. Hinchey

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Maurice D. Hinchey: states. and i'm happy to say that i was very envious about the fnvact that he left albany and came to washington. it took me a few years to do it, but in 1993, i came down e here and i

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Maurice D. Hinchey: have been serving with him ever since, both of us here in this congress.s. he's an extraordinary man, m someone with a very remarkable history. he started out in public office because

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Maurice D. Hinchey: of his strong desire to serve other people as the town supervisor on green island. and at the anage of 22, he was elected to be the town wn supervisor . and whewhn he was elected at that age,

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Maurice D. Hinchey: he was the youngest town t supervisor elected in any town in the state of new york. w so, from the very beginning when he first became involved be in public life and working on behalf of

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Maurice D. Hinchey: the general public, he started off in a very remarkable way. after being town supervisor, he was elected mayor. r. and then he was elected to the state assembly in albany and served there

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Maurice D. Hinchey: in a very, very envious sort of way, a so remarkable kind of way, one that made us all pay attention to him. and he was a very, very strerong leader in albany, new york, in , the state

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Maurice D. Hinchey: assembly. . when he came down here to washington, he started off in someth ing else that was even more dramatic. d shortly after he was elected and came h ere, he became a member of the

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Maurice D. Hinchey: ways and means committee, one of the most os important and significant d committees here in this congress. and as a member of that committee, he has done an h extraord inary job. he is now the chairman

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Maurice D. Hinchey: of the subcommittee on social security. and he has done a very wonderful piece ofwo work, strengthening social security, protecting socialpr security, protecting it from people like e

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Maurice D. Hinchey: the president of the united states, who in 2005, wanted to an privatize social security. and if y think about the economic consequences that we're experiencing today as a relt of the huge declines

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Maurice D. Hinchey: in financial institutions, you can ut imagine wh the social security s ystem would look like lo if it hadn't bee n for people like mike mcnulty standing up in and defending social security and making

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Maurice D. Hinchey: sure itki didn't become privatized and remained d strong and went on to serve the t people of our country. one of the ways that mike has served here is to the acting speaker of this assembly,

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Maurice D. Hinchey: this th house of representatives. and he did so, i think probably bl more t han anyone else that i know of. o all the time that he spent t there. and doing that leadership position in such

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Maurice D. Hinchey: an exemplary way. and so , he is someone who has set an example for all eof u from the first time he was elected to be townte supervisor, then as mayor and member of the th state legislature

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Maurice D. Hinchey: stand then coming here to sercove in this house of representatives and to do it in a very remarkablerk way. he's also a person who has demonstrated what it's like to be a strong family man.

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Maurice D. Hinchey: he is marriedrr to nancy m. mc nulty and they have been th married for 37 years. mike and nancy have n four daughters, michelle,ug angela who is often called jody, nancy and maria. and five grandchildren,

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Maurice D. Hinchey: lola, madeleine and daniel patrick and kagen michelle m and morgan n jean legault. a wonderful family. . and i can only say how happy i am to have served with him both in albany and here in

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Maurice D. Hinchey: this he congress of the united states. he has been here for 20 years. and i must say that i'm sorry he's leaving, but i understand that he feels the e respon sibility to spend a little more time

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Maurice D. Hinchey: at home. and that is something, again, that i admire in him. again, for the leadership that p he is providing. so i must say, mr. speaker,r, that this gentlemen from the le state of new york,

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Maurice D. Hinchey: has set a a wonderful example for anyone who wishes to serve the people of their communities, hetheir state and their country by tthhe example that he has set in all of those areas. as

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Maurice D. Hinchey: michael, i thank you. i thank you for everything that ng you've done. on i thank you for your friendship, your leadership and for the examples that you have set for all of us toal hopefully

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Maurice D. Hinchey: follow and be as good in our service as you have rvbeen in yours. thank you, michael, for everything that you've done. i yield back the time. mr. ackerman: we're indebted to congressman hinchey,

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Gary L. Ackerman: known to most of us as mo for his remarks about our good friend mike. and now representinges our downstate constituencies, the e gentlema n from new york, representing the 7th congressional

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Gary L. Ackerman: district, the chief deputy whip of the house, joe crowley, member of the committee. . mr. cro wley: it's late, it's 9: 30, and i would wan wt to thank all my colleagues fromag new york ew who

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Gary L. Ackerman: are here o n the floor right now. i would venture to say if s it was a little earlier, michael, we would have every new yorker ke here this eveningre. who knows before the evening's out we

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Joseph Crowley: may justt have that oavr close to it. but it's only a reflection of the evening and time of the evening we are doing the special order, michael, and nr,ot a reflection upon you because iau think

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Speech By: Joseph Crowley

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Joseph Crowley: the heartfeltrt apprecia tion of all your colleagues will be madeae known to you atto some point. we from the new york delegation want to take this opportunity to let you know what you -- let

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Joseph Crowley: you know how special are you to all of us. i have known mikeha mcnulty, although you may not have known this, for 24 years. in fact, mike was presentt in the chamber when ith was sworn

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Joseph Crowley: in as a freshman member of the new ew york state assembly. he was the re as backup to swe tar me in in case dick connor didn't show or stann dean, who was then lieutenant governor. er but both

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Joseph Crowley: did make it. mike was there as well. i didn't kno w mike at the time. but mike is an institutional guy. being the local, oneth of the local legislators was there to make sure that theth legislature

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Joseph Crowley: performed in a ceremonialia way as well as it did inid terms an efficient way in terms of doiy ng the people's business. mike has a great appreciation for the history of theth new york

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Joseph Crowley: y state legislature and the house of repre sentatives as well. i've traveled the worldd with w mike mcnulty. my first trip with mike mcnult y, he may not remember this, was not to what

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Joseph Crowley: he may be thinking as ireland but it's i actual ly israel. some 22 years ago. 21, 22, years ago. what a great tripwh that was. both of ourur first exposure to the holy land and to israel and

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Joseph Crowley: to experience thatth together. not onlyt jerusalem but galilee and all thel important places from anom historical and religious as pect that i know he apprec iated tremendously. that brings

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Joseph Crowley: me to anotherer issue. that is international againnd is ireland. there are many peopleeo in the democr atic and republicanub caucus who take their rightful place in terms of their input in bringing

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Joseph Crowley: peace with ngjustice and continue with that vain to northern ireland, the whole ireland. mike mcnultycn takes second seat to no one on that issue. from h is days in the legislature and

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Joseph Crowley: his supportd of the mcbridee principles, p and mike mcnulty was there when mcbride came to the new york state legislature anatd addressed the new york stateyo assembly. was there when

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Joseph Crowley: the new york senate refused to even let him on the floor of theor senate. but mike through his moralhr situation -- suasion was willing to accommodate sean mcbride on the floor of the house

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Joseph Crowley: along with his colleagues. how historic that was. the champion of the mcbride de principles. mike mcnulty was in the new york state legislature one o lf the founding members of the rs irishh

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Joseph Crowley: legislative society. s i know he still is a frequent visitor to their meetings. i know how much it means to him. mike and i also had the chance to travel to ireland on two occasions. probably

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Joseph Crowley: the most speci mal occasion was with former president clintones in the year 2000 as he was ending his term as president. we were there for the thank you tour. the farewell tour. f what

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Joseph Crowley: a great opportunity that was for both of us to be in the our and sessor'sso home -- ancestor's homeland to seeom us appreciated by another coutentry for what we did to bring peacece and justice

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Joseph Crowley: to northoern ireland. mike has been no stranger to trials and tribblations himself. on a personal level. he's known physical difficulties. whenever w e see michaelha struggle, we all say

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Joseph Crowley: thank you god that i don't have that.t. and that mike has carried that t for not onlyot himself but for all of us and anynd person who has known a disability in this country. he's done it in

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Joseph Crowley: a guy anti-dignified way and ay something that iin wanted -- guy andan dignified way and something s that i wanted you to know. i love you forve it. he's also known the loss of a brother,

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Joseph Crowley: killed during the k vietnam war. but michael has taken every ounce ofe arranger andd -- anger and frustration and he's channeled it for the betterment of our country.of we can all take

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Joseph Crowley: a lesson, page out of mikeou mcnulty's life. if we could all do just a little bit of what mike mcnulty has done with the channeling ofg his own life experiences, we would all bewo a better nation

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Joseph Crowley: for it. i would just say lastly l about mike, and i know my other collea gues want to speak as s well. i had the great honor this year to serve as the third t member of the ways and means

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Joseph Crowley: committee.mm there's charlie rangel,an there's mike mcnulty, downstate and upstate, and now joe crowley. mike welcomed me to the committee. and there's a certain decorum that goes on the

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Joseph Crowley: g committee. certaiway of doingin things. it has its own sergeant at arms. it's only littl e way of life. knowing that mikeg mcnulty wasty on the committee was a great comfort to me. not

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Joseph Crowley: that i'm afraid of new be ginnings, it was a little challenging at first. i don't serve on thee subcommittee that mike serves as chair on. but michael knows that i have sat in on a number of

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Joseph Crowley: his hearings this year and last year. and got to see michael in m action as he asked piercing questions of people who came before there committee. mike mcnulty was always w prepared..

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Joseph Crowley: never did mike -- mike mcnultyul was not caught offguard too often. of mike mcnulty was alwulays prepared when it came to his committee work, bute also whenhe it came to votes on the floor.

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Joseph Crowley: mike was always thoughtful ug about everposition he took. he wasn't someone you just come up to and say, mike, i need your vote. ot let me tell you whyme i'm not voting that way. let me

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Joseph Crowley: tell you why i'm supporting you. su that's the kin d of legislator mike mcnulty m was. from green island, new york. i know mike's dad and his family are incrediblyre proud of the career t hat

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Joseph Crowley: mike mcnulty ul has had serving both in the house of representatives, the state assembly, and as mayor of green island. that mike's career is not over. it's a new beginning for mike. maybe it's

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Joseph Crowley: going back to his hometown. maybe it's going back to the he capital region that he served s so well all these years. . mike has many, many, more years of contributions to monake both to

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Joseph Crowley: the state of new york and to our country.nt mike, i love you. you are a great man.at and you will always be my friend. so thank you for your years of service. mr. ackerman: thank you, joe. oe

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Joseph Crowley: now, from the 24th congressional distringct of the empire state, who is constituents are contiguous a to mike's. also a mike, mike arcuri. mr. aur kurri: thank you -- mr. arc uri: thank you.

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Gary L. Ackerman: i'm here tonight to honor mike mcnulty. i think i'm probably thero only one that ise remembers mike way back. i was a college student at the university of albany when a mike was

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Gary L. Ackerman: representing the village of green island as mayor. i can rememberca listening to the o news not only about mike but his entire family ths at served the albany area for so many years with disartinction.

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Michael Arcuri: i can't even tell you how great an honor it was when iwa finally in was able t o meet him and then to serve with him here. i wa nt to talk about my experience with mikee mcnulty differently.

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Speech By: Michael Arcuri

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Michael Arcuri: tl i'm one of them three new members of the new york t delegation. being a new memberw obviously you looked for people toe get advice.vi mike being the dean of the upstate delegation i naturally

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Michael Arcuri: turned to him.hi so many times iim would sit down next to h and t ask him questions and i can'td tell you how many times he would turn to me and say, well, mike, i think you mi ght want

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Michael Arcuri: to handle it this way or thi nk about it this t way. there was one time in particular when we were dealing with an issue that was diff icult and we were -- i was a little bit concerned aboutit

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Michael Arcuri: it. mike sat down and sai sd, mike, really, you will see that it wi ll work out. just think it through and handle it.le i don't think two days passed when exactly theen advice hee gave me

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Michael Arcuri: went examectly the way he said it would go and the issue workedut. rk it wasn't just the fact that mike is alw ays there to t give the freshman members like my self advice, but it's not only

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Michael Arcuri: the q uality of the advice that he gives but the wayve that he gives the advice. in a patient wayie and understanding way. never forgetting what it'stt like to be new. never forgenetting

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Michael Arcuri: what it's like to be not complootly familiar with the procedure. just havin g the patience of a brotherbr, older brother sitroting down and e xplaining things. t that means a m lot, mike, it

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Michael Arcuri: has meant a lot to me and i know it's meant a lot's of the other freshmen. hm what you have done for h this institution, for the state of new york is incredible. and it's an honor to h not only

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Michael Arcuri: have been able to knowee you but to have been able to serve with you for years. so congratulations and goodio luck to mike mcnulty, the consummate gentleman from new york. thank you. mr. ackerman:

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Michael Arcuri: thank you, mike. mr. speaker, i'd just look to advise our colleagues just put mike mcnulty on the alert because he nevere gets caught offg uard that when we all arehe going to finish we are going

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Gary L. Ackerman: to ask him to honor us by saying a few words if he would. now from the distinguished the gentlewoman from the 18th congressional district, chairman of the subcommittee on state foreign operations

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Gary L. Ackerman: and related programs of the committee of appropriations and homeland security, nita lowey. mrs. lowey: i want to thank you, my good friend from new york, for organizing this spec ial order.

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Nita M. Lowey: i think frankly it would have been more appropriate iorf we had organized it in thed chinese c restau rant down the street. because i know that there have been many special hour ms where

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Speech By: Nita M. Lowey

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Nita M. Lowey: ga ry --r. ackerman and mr. mcnulty and those of uy s that were lucky to join you reallyea had wonderful evenings together talking about thebo congress, talking about life in general, an d families.

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Nita M. Lowey: ie i want to rise today, mr. speaker, i want to rise too recognize e accomplishments of my good friendri representative michael mcnulty. i didn't know you y for all the 39 years of dedicated public

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Nita M. Lowey: service. but since you h ave beenee here we e have worked closelyse together t and i consider you a really good friend. mike's exemplaryla commitment hasha earned the admiration of constituents and colleagues

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Nita M. Lowey: alike. mike and i had a very special relationship. i do remember when it came time to get committeesee and in those days mikeik mcnulty and i were w fortunat e to be asked to be on both ways

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Nita M. Lowey: and means and appropriations. and the gentleman that mike was knew that appropriations wasti my first choice and mike was generous enough and perhaps wise enough to choose the outstanding ways

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Nita M. Lowey: and mtaeans committe e. but i do remember those discussions and i remember how gracious and elegant you were. i also remember r mike mcnulty, the time when i was exploring running for the

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Nita M. Lowey: senateat . and hi traveledhi a a bit around new york and i met quite a few people and noo matter what, no matter who was the opposition, every time i come to the floor mike said, i'm i

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Nita M. Lowey: with you.u. i'm with you. mike is the kindke of friend who is when he's with you, he'se' with you. you can always count on mike mcnulty. i also remember and pderhaps i won't discuss it d on

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Nita M. Lowey: the floor today that mike mcnulty and my sband havesb had a very special relationship. we have had some good s times together and mike wouldld always say so where's steve? we have some business

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Nita M. Lowey: te o do toda y. and i'll remember those times and i do hope we get to share ma more. mike, i also remember what a special experience it waser for us both to get blessed by the pope. and i rememberd

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Nita M. Lowey: veryer clearly mike mcnulty and others who have had that experience beforebe said, fill your pockets. fill your pocketsfi with rosary beads. boy, i filled myd pocketsts so i still ha ve drawers of

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Nita M. Lowey: themm left, mike, mcnulty. so ifso there's anyonere special that needs a little bit of blessing from our special trip with t he pope, iop would be very happy to share it with yo su.

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Nita M. Lowey: . now when i look back at michael's background, a graduate of the holy cross in n worcester, mass., he became the youngest supervisorge. afte r eight short years as sh supervisor, you were elected mayor