Meet and Greet for Senator Leland Yee for Mayor 2011

Meet and Greet – Come meet with Senator Leland Yee and Organizers to speak about concerns you have for the next Mayor of San Francisco! Leland Yee would like to hear from you, so come join us on Monday September 12^th.

6:30 – 9:00 p.m.

At:

Shine

1337 Mission St
(between 9th St & 10th St)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Neighborhood: SOMA

After serving four years in the California State Assembly, Leland Yee was elected to the State Senate in November 2006 with the largest winning percentage for any Democratic candidate with a Republican challenger.  In 2010, Senator Yee was re-elected, receiving the most votes of any Democratic legislator in the State and garnering the largest winning percentage of any candidate on the ballot in San Francisco.  Representing District 8, which includes San Francisco and San Mateo County, Yee is the first Chinese American ever elected to the California State Senate.

During his tenure in the Legislature, Senator Yee has fought for children, mental health services, working families, seniors, education, open government, consumer protection, civil rights, and the environment.  He has consistently voted against budget cuts to education, social services, and health care.

Yee has been named “Legislator of the Year” by 17 different organizations including the California School Employees Association, California Psychiatric Association, California Partnership to End Domestic Violence, San Francisco Women’s Political Committee, California Faculty Association, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.  In addition, he was named “Person of the Year” by GamePolitics.com.
For his legislative and community efforts, Senator Yee has also been honored with dozens of awards from such organizations as the National Education Association, California Newspaper Publishers Association, San Francisco Collaborative Against Human Trafficking, Equality California, Coalition for San Francisco Neighborhoods, California Women for Agriculture, California Animal Association, A. Philip Randolph Institute, First Amendment Coalition, and Environment California.  In addition, Californians Aware dubbed Yee “Senator Sunshine” for his open government work and the California Labor Federation named him a “Labor Warrior” for protecting working families.