RESOLUTION
   
   

THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
COUNTY OF SAN MATEO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA

RESOLUTION COMMENDING AND THANKING

Hon. Jackie Speier

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WHEREAS, Jackie Speier’s public life started in the late-1970s as an aide accompanying the late-US Rep. Leo J. Ryan on a fact-finding trip to the People’s Temple site in the South American country of Guyana; and

   

WHEREAS, during that fateful trip, unknown gunmen assassinated the congressman in November 1978 on a jungle airstrip and left Jackie for dead after shooting her five times; and

   

WHEREAS, Jackie carries two bullets inside her to this day, but refers to the horrific experience as a great life-gift of urgency, a catalyst to living every day to the fullest and never putting anything off; and

   

WHEREAS, from her first term in 1981 as a San Mateo County supervisor through five terms in the state Assembly through two terms in the state Senate, Jackie has fought to help the helpless, protect the defenseless and speak for the voiceless; and

   

WHEREAS, from consumer rights, to senior issues to children’s health and welfare to women’s concerns, Jackie has consistently championed fairness and equality by authoring more than 300 pieces of legislation signed by Democratic as well as Republican governors; and

   

WHEREAS, Jackie’s decades of steadfast advocacy on behalf of the people of San Mateo County will be missed tremendously, but the loss is tempered by the knowledge that regardless of title or office, Jackie will always and forever be one for the Peninsula, of the Peninsula and by the Peninsula.

   

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors of San Mateo County commends and thanks the Hon. Jackie Speier for a quarter-century of selfless dedication to the people of the County of San Mateo and the State of California. The Board hereby extends to Jackie its gratitude and sincere wishes for many more years of continued excellence.

 

Dated: FEBRUARY 4, 2006

 
 

SUPERVISORS:

  
   

JERRY HILL, PRESIDENT

     
   

MARK CHURCH

   


RICHARD S. GORDON

     
   


ROSE JACOBS GIBSON

     
   


ADRIENNE J. TISSIER

    
     

Attest:

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Deputy Clerk of the Board of Supervisors