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Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on Z Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: Well, as I'm sure most of you who listen to

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Speaker 2: affects part of our listener base, but also what affects

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Speaker 2: one community might very well be coming up on an

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Speaker 2: to Medford, Massachusetts and the home actually of the WBZ

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Speaker 2: iHeart Studios. Our studios are physically in Medford. We're no

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Speaker 2: longer in soldiers Field Road. For those of you who

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Speaker 2: have known about WBZ for a long time, and there's

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Speaker 2: a there's a battle for the future of Medford. Medford

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Speaker 2: is a great community, a lot of neighborhoods, a lot

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Speaker 2: of families who have been there for generation. I have

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Speaker 2: many friends in Medford, But like things in a lot

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Speaker 2: of cities, there are people who move in and they

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Speaker 2: want to change our community and with us. Tonight is

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Speaker 2: a longtime resident of Medford. She's running for city council

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Speaker 2: in Medford. Her name is Melanie Trengalli. I've spoken with

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Speaker 2: Melanie a couple of times over the last year and

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Speaker 2: asked her to keep in touch with me. Melanie. For

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Speaker 2: those who aren't familiar with Medford, why don't you give

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Speaker 2: us a little bit of a description of the community

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Speaker 2: that you love so much.

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Speaker 3: Sure, Hi, I'm Medford of the community about fifty eight

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Speaker 3: fifty eight to sixty thousand residents. We have a number

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Speaker 3: of different neighborhoods, from single family neighborhoods to two family

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Speaker 3: South Medford which is very which was founded by Italians,

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Speaker 3: heavily two families. We have West Medford that borders Winchester

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Speaker 3: that is a lot of single families, the Lawns of

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Speaker 2: Also also if I'm not mistaken, in West Medford, Uh,

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Speaker 2: there was really a thriving middle class black community. Hopefully

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Speaker 2: it is still there. You know, people, doctors, lawyers, and

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Speaker 2: college professors. I over the years have interviewed many individuals,

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Speaker 2: not on issues dealing with Medford, but I'm dealing with

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Speaker 2: academic or economic issues, and they often if they lived

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Speaker 2: So it's a it's a pretty vibrant what I'm trying

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Speaker 2: to get at, And it's a pretty vibrant community. It's

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Speaker 2: it's not a Wellesley as it were, which is I

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Speaker 2: don't know, a community with a two acre lots for

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Speaker 2: the most part, it's it's but it's a great community

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Speaker 2: issue in this upcoming election. You have a group I

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Speaker 2: guess who ran two years ago as sort of a

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Speaker 2: itself for at least most of the members who were

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Speaker 2: elected title themselves as members of something called Our Revolution.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's correct.

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Speaker 2: So what is their goal? What is their purpose?

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Speaker 3: Our Revolution is a platform that was started by is

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Speaker 3: a spin off of the Bernie Sanders. It's actually there

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Speaker 3: is a national platform. The platform here Our Revolution is local.

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Speaker 3: It's a very progressive organization with very progressive policies, and

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Speaker 3: there are running on changing the zoning in Medford now,

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Speaker 3: mostly changing the zoning to get rid of our single

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Speaker 3: family zone. Single family neighborhoods and to change a lot

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Speaker 2: Why would why are these people who are longtime residents

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Speaker 2: the you know, the character of the community. What what

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of things that I think everybody would

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're very different from Medford, and it is very divisive.

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Speaker 3: There are many people that I've been talking to on

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Speaker 3: The people don't want to lose their neighborhoods. They don't

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Speaker 3: working to really protect that, me and the other people

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Speaker 3: a lot of afordability in building housing for affordability, but

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Speaker 3: we have housing that is being built in Medford. There's

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, here's what I'd like to do. I think

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Speaker 2: you've sort of put this out fairly clearly. If there's

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Speaker 2: anyone who's listening and who's a member of our revolution

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Speaker 2: and wants make the case for changing the character of Medford,

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Speaker 2: changing the neighborhoods. They're welcome to call. At the same

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Speaker 2: time if there are people who support your effort. The

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Speaker 2: election is on Tuesday.

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Speaker 4: Correct, that's correct.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Your mayor is running unopposed. So people who are

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Speaker 2: that is currently being advocated by the incumbent city councilors,

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Speaker 2: or they're going to want some change and bring more

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Speaker 2: I guess traditional members of the community. I don't know

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Speaker 2: if that's a fair way to describe you and your

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Speaker 2: group and aren't, but it's kind of an interesting it's

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Speaker 2: an interesting fight, and that's why I want to talk

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Speaker 2: a break and UH, let's open up phone lines six

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Speaker 2: two five thirty. UH. There's also two phone lines that

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Speaker 2: I'd love to talk about this for an hour and

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Speaker 2: get a sense of what people in Medford are thinking.

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Speaker 2: I have a lot of listeners in Medford. UH. If

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Speaker 2: you agree with Melanie. Feel free to uh, Melanie, you're

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Speaker 2: you're somebody who has has had a career in marketing

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Speaker 2: and now you're you find yourself running for elective office

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Speaker 2: as somebody who's involved in marketing has doesn't effect. You're

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Speaker 4: Right, that's correct.

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Speaker 3: I am marketing myself and my ideas. I chose to run.

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Speaker 3: I did run two years ago, and I came in.

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Speaker 3: I came in I think eighth or ninth, and I

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Speaker 3: chose to run again, specifically for the zoning reasons. I

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Speaker 3: live in a single family zone. I used to, and

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Speaker 3: there's nothing wrong with two families. My first home was

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Speaker 3: a slightly larger yard, a little bit more room, and

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Speaker 3: house next door to me is a double lot, and

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Speaker 3: if this zoning were to go through, they could actually

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Speaker 3: put up about ten to fifteen units. And I didn't

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Speaker 3: move here for that.

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Speaker 2: When you say ten to fifteen news, I mean ten

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Speaker 3: It could so it's about.

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Speaker 2: A combination, maybe a combination of combination.

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Speaker 3: It's about a fourteen thousand square foot lot, and some

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Speaker 3: of the recommendations they're making is allowing up to three

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Speaker 2: Well, let me just say this. An acre is about

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Speaker 2: forty thousand square feet. So if you're going to put

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Speaker 2: three houses on a lot, that's a third of an acre,

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Speaker 2: thirteen thou being a third of boy, it's going to

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Speaker 2: be pretty tight quarters, that's for sure. Melanie. Let's take

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Speaker 2: Coming right back with my guest, Melanie Tringali. You're running

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Speaker 2: at large. There are no district councilors in Medford. It's

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Speaker 2: an at large election, and I'm going to follow this

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Speaker 2: people tonight from Medford or elsewhere. You've had a similar

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Speaker 2: situation from another community, you can weigh in as well.

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Speaker 2: And if someone is out there representing our revolution and

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Speaker 2: they want to jump on, that's fine too. We're coming

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Speaker 2: back on night Side. Six. The only line right now

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Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray. I'm w BZ,

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Speaker 1: Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: Melanie, we got full lines. Let's go and see what

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Speaker 2: people in Medford have to think, and we're going to

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Speaker 2: take them as they come in. All set, you.

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Speaker 5: Ready, yep?

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Speaker 2: Ok here we go. All right, come on, Melanie, you're ready,

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Speaker 2: Let's go. Okay, dope, be nervous. Let's go to Patrick

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Speaker 2: in Medford. Hey, Patrick, welcome your first this hour on

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Speaker 2: Nightside the Redhead Sir.

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Speaker 6: Hey Dan, good to be here. This is Patrick Clerkin.

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Speaker 6: I'm actually another one of the candidates for city council

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Speaker 6: here in Medford, another one of the independent candidates.

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Speaker 2: All right, how long have you been in Medford?

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Speaker 6: I've been here for eight years now, so I'm on

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Speaker 6: thirty two. I actually grew up in North Reading, so

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Speaker 6: I'm a north Shore guy.

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Speaker 2: But now I know that the positions of city councilor

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Speaker 2: are well probably a full time job, but they don't

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Speaker 2: pay like a full time job. What do you do

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So basically, if I wasn't running a campaign, I

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Speaker 6: would be doing mechanical engineering contract work, but they've done

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Speaker 6: a lot of handyman work recently because that's more flexible.

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Speaker 6: That was actually kind of my entry point into a

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Speaker 6: lot of the local civic stuff is you develop a

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Speaker 6: word of mouth network when you do handyman work and

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Speaker 6: you meet a lot of your neighbors and they tell

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Speaker 6: you their frustrations with local politics.

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Speaker 2: Good for you, Good for you. Well, you're on with Melani.

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Speaker 2: Feel free to comment, say whatever you like, ask a question.

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Speaker 2: The floor is yours.

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Speaker 3: Well, Hey, Patrick, how are you going?

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Speaker 2: Let let let's get Patrick going here first, Melanie hold on,

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Speaker 2: go ahead, Patrick.

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Speaker 6: Well, I was just going to say, I think Melanie

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Speaker 6: did a really good job of laying the groundwork of

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Speaker 6: what's going on here. We're at a pretty pivotal moment

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Speaker 6: where this rezoning issue in the city is sort of

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Speaker 6: the centerpiece of a lot of the issues that are

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Speaker 6: happening here, and there's just a lot of imbalance within

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Speaker 6: the city, and the zoning issue demonstrates the imbalance between

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Speaker 6: Melanie referenced, this our revolution group, I think that they

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Speaker 6: I don't think. I know that they have a strong

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Speaker 6: emphasis on the overall needs of the city and trying

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Speaker 6: to push those pretty aggressively. And the problem with that

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Speaker 2: Helps, you know, I'm assuming Patrick. I want to ask Melanie, Melanie,

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Speaker 2: Well, that's why people have moved there, Patrick, Patrick, do

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Speaker 2: you do you have a website that you'd like to

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Speaker 6: I'm working on it, spreading the word.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Dan, Thanks so much, Patrick, appreciate it. Let me

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Speaker 2: keep rolling here. Let me get one more in Melanie

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Speaker 2: go to William in Medford. William you were next on

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Speaker 7: Hi Dan, Yeah, we spoke in the end of July.

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Speaker 7: Actually I was on with Melanie. Okay, and congratulations to Melodie. Melanie.

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Speaker 7: We had a you know, we had our plary election.

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Speaker 2: When you say three of the independent candidates, I mean

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean we like to you know, we don't

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Speaker 2: Who are the three UH members.

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Speaker 7: George George Carpelli is the is the one non our incumbent,

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Speaker 2: Well, those folks can call in tonight as the as

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Speaker 2: the the folks from our Revolution kind of absurdly, kind

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Speaker 2: of appropriately William Best of what is what is your website?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 7: I don't have a website. I'm just I'm just a

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you're not running, Okay, fine, if you're not running.

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Speaker 7: Not running, Nope, just one of the people that are

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Speaker 2: Good well, thank you very much for your participation. Again,

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Speaker 2: Supporters are just as important as candidates. Every candidate needs

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Speaker 2: Will you appreciate your time and thanks for listening to Nightside.

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Speaker 7: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: All right, we're going to come right back. Jill and

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Speaker 2: Medford will be up next. The only line open is

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Speaker 2: on Nightside right after the news.

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Speaker 1: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: My guest is Melanie Trindallie. She is on running for

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Speaker 2: city council in Medford. We are more than happy to

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Speaker 2: have you direct your questions to Melanie. She knows a

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Speaker 2: lot more about Medford than I do. Let me go

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Speaker 2: to Jill in Medford. Jillia next on Nightside, Melanie Trindalli's

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Speaker 10: Go right ahead, Jill, Well, this is a topic I've

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Speaker 10: been thinking about. I lived in Medford when my twenties

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Speaker 10: because it wasn't really clear. My neighbors didn't seem to

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Speaker 10: You could build two triple deckers on either side of

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Speaker 2: You're going to change your vote in November.

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Speaker 10: Well, I already voted, and I took a list of

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Speaker 2: Well, Jill, I hope you'll continue to listen to Night

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Speaker 2: like to help communities again. The name our Revolution is

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Speaker 10: Well, you know, I voted for them because they said

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Speaker 4: That.

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Speaker 10: I think that's reasonable. But I thought they were talking

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Speaker 2: Well, the measure that I know our families and they

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Speaker 2: But again it's like these candidates come around, We're going

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Speaker 10: Well, you know that I live across my house is

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Speaker 10: the street is a Paul Revere Revolution meetinghouse. So this

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Speaker 2: Well, Jill, what you need to do is let your

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Speaker 10: Yes, that's a great idea.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. I mean, you vote if they tricked you or

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Speaker 2: your call very much. Say hi to Say hi to

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Speaker 2: one of the candidates, Melanie Tringalli. I hope you voted

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Speaker 10: Yes, Melanie. I actually got a signed from her because

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Speaker 2: All right like that. Thanks, you appreciate your time. Thank

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Speaker 9: Thank you got to keep rolling here.

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Speaker 2: Let me go to I got full lines A one

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Speaker 2: Robert in Medford. Robert, You're next on Night Side with

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Speaker 2: Melanie Tringalli.

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Speaker 11: Go right ahead, Robert, Hey, thanks for thanks for having me.

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Speaker 11: My wife Emily and I moved to Medford last year

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Speaker 11: where we're in her mid thirties. I'm a homeowner. I

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Speaker 11: actually am doing canvassing for all the independent candidates. I've

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Speaker 11: been doing door knocking for Melanie along with the six

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Speaker 11: other independent candidates. And zoning's really on my mind. And

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Speaker 11: you know, one thing I just love to share is,

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Speaker 11: you know, we have a lot of opportunities in Medford

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Speaker 11: right now to unite on increasing our commercial base. From

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Speaker 11: what I understand from people who live in Medford, you know,

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Speaker 11: we used to have a higher percentage of our tax

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Speaker 11: base in the commercial industry, commercial industrial industry. That's gone

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Speaker 11: down over time. And we just had three tax overrides,

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Speaker 11: you know, last year. And I live right near Route

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Speaker 11: thirty eight, which is just basically like kind of like

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Speaker 11: a commercial wasteland.

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Speaker 7: There's a lot.

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Speaker 2: Familiar with, yes, sir, you've described it accurately, yep.

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Speaker 11: And you know, I just I really think the city

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Speaker 11: should be focusing on the commercial areas first. Like Melanie said,

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Speaker 11: there's already housing being built in Medford. You know, I

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Speaker 11: don't think the increased density that's been proposed by our revolution,

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Speaker 11: you know, is sustainable in the in the way they're

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Speaker 11: putting it out to be.

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Speaker 2: Right now, Well, thank you so much, Robert for your call.

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Speaker 2: And it's great that you're in your mid thirties. I

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Speaker 2: don't know I've ever had you as a as a

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Speaker 2: caller to my program, but I hope you become a

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Speaker 2: regular caller and a regular listener because you're you're the

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Speaker 2: sort of person who actually gives me hope for the future.

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Speaker 2: All four callings so far have been extraordinarily articulate and

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Speaker 2: focused on their points. You obviously are committed citizens in Medford,

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Speaker 2: and that's why I'm doing this hour tonight.

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Speaker 11: Have a great night, Robert, thank you, thanks for having

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Speaker 11: me very well.

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Speaker 2: Quick break here, my guest is Melanie Tringhali. If you'd

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Speaker 2: like to ask Melanie a question about her campaign or

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Speaker 2: about any of the issues, she knows it a lot

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Speaker 2: better than I do. The only line open is six one,

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Speaker 2: seven nine already that'll get you through. Coming right back

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Speaker 2: on Nightside.

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Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm Boston's news Radio.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about the future of Medford, Massachusetts, and our

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Speaker 2: guest is Melanie TRANGOLLI, we have full lines. I'd love

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Speaker 2: to get everybody in who's on the line, So I'm

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Speaker 2: going to ask everybody just to tighten it up a

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Speaker 2: little bit. Let me go right to Nick and Midford.

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Speaker 2: He's been waiting the longest. Nick, You're next on Nightside

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Speaker 2: with Melany tring Golly, go right ahead, Nick.

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Speaker 4: Dan, thanks for having me. More than my name is

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Speaker 4: My name is Nick. I'm one of the other city

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Speaker 4: council candidates running in this election.

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Speaker 2: What your what's your last name? Nick?

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Speaker 4: Gileo? G I you r l E oh all right?

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Speaker 2: And what what has made you a candidate? What what

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Speaker 2: has made you decide to run for this office.

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Speaker 4: So a lot of different things, but especially the zoning.

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Speaker 4: And I'm very happy to hear you doing this segment tonight.

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Speaker 4: One of the points I wanted to raise is just

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Speaker 4: the impact of this zoning that we don't understand due

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Speaker 4: to a lack of studies that have been done. Typically

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Speaker 4: studies are done before any major zoning changes are implemented,

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Speaker 4: looking at, you know, the economic impact. There's also impact

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Speaker 4: on essential city services like fire ems, whether or not

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Speaker 4: our schools can handle the increase in residence. Were really

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Speaker 4: we haven't had any of this done, and it's really

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Speaker 4: remarkable that they want to make these massive changes without

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Speaker 4: having studies done on what that impact would be.

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Speaker 2: Well, again, a lot of folks on the left like

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Speaker 2: to talk about autocracy, orism, authoritism, autocracy, and they practice

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Speaker 2: it when they get some power. So glad you're running.

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Speaker 2: How old are you are you? How this your first

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Speaker 2: foray into politics?

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Speaker 4: Yes it is. I'm under thirty, believe.

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Speaker 2: It or not. That's okay. Believe you're in your twenties. Okay,

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Speaker 2: good for you, Good for you. Who knows, maybe you'll

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Speaker 2: be mayor someday. You never know who you could be,

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Speaker 2: maybe you become a US senator. I mean, you just

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Speaker 2: never know. What do you do for a living?

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Speaker 4: Start small? Starwood City Council?

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Speaker 2: I get it. Well, that's the way to do it.

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Speaker 2: What do you do for a living?

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Speaker 4: If I could ask, I'm an attorney.

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Speaker 2: You're an attorney, all right? I am as well. Well,

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Speaker 2: look thanks for calling in. And what's your website so

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Speaker 2: we can help you get in touch with people can

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Speaker 2: get in touch with you.

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Speaker 4: Sure it's Nick G for Medford dot Com.

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Speaker 2: That's a good that's smart man. Nick G forro Medford

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Speaker 2: dot com. Nick, appreciate it very much. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, You're welcome.

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Speaker 2: Let's keep rolling here, going to go to Trish in Medford. Hi, Trish,

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Speaker 2: welcome back.

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Speaker 4: How are you Hi?

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Speaker 9: How are you Dan? Thanks so much for having me so.

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Speaker 9: One of my big concerns here is along the lines

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Speaker 9: with Nick, is they haven't done the correct amount of studies.

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Speaker 9: And recently in Summerville, I'm sure you'll recall within I

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Speaker 9: would say the past month they had a huge fire

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Speaker 9: that starts it in a home and it spread to

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Speaker 9: two other houses, and I spoke to one of the

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Speaker 9: fire department men there and he said that that was

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Speaker 9: due specifically to the radical rezoning changes that have taken

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Speaker 9: place in Summerville, because they've minimized the easement between the

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Speaker 9: homes to like five to eight feet, and so that

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Speaker 9: is the exact same thing that they're trying to put

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Speaker 9: in here. And then just the other night, and Melanie

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Speaker 9: may remember who it was, one of the Hour Revolution

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Speaker 9: got up and said they're smart enough not to say

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Speaker 9: defund the police and the firemen, but they do say

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Speaker 9: let's have more first responders, less less police, and we

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Speaker 9: need more social workers as first responders. That's code for

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Speaker 9: defund the police.

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Speaker 2: That type of thing. Next time someone is breaking in

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Speaker 2: your house with a gut or a knife, you need

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Speaker 2: a social working You certainly don't need a police officer,

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Speaker 2: right right.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's just crazy, They're all that's crazy. And our

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Speaker 9: current president of the city Council has been endorsed for

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Speaker 9: this election by the Democratic Socialists of America. So, I

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Speaker 9: mean it's coming out clear.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're connecting some dots tonight, Trisha, are you running

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Speaker 2: or are you a supporter at this point?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 9: I am a supporter at this point. And so you know,

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Speaker 9: we just have to take over the whole city council.

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Speaker 9: I mean, all seven seats need to slip, period.

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Speaker 4: Otherwise, you know.

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Speaker 9: I mean we've already tried, they've already tried to put

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Speaker 9: a method one dispensary down our throats.

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Speaker 2: And that's all. It's all part of the package. It's

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Speaker 2: all part of the package. It's as simple as that.

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Speaker 2: And if you want to destroy Medford as it has

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Speaker 2: existed now for a long time, you know, our revolution

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Speaker 2: sounds like a perfect way to destroy the tradition and

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Speaker 2: the history.

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Speaker 9: Their new goal, their new goal is no cars, in

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Speaker 9: Medford in ten years.

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Speaker 2: Perfect. That's perfect.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean now we're going to single roads.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not for bikes, that's that's that's not going

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Speaker 2: to hurt like jobs of auto workers at all. By

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Speaker 2: the way, that's unbelievable.

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Speaker 9: And they just spent one of our current counselors just

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Speaker 9: spent seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars redoing the rotary

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Speaker 9: and now we find out that it's potentially isn't even

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Speaker 9: wasn't even done appropriately so that you can't even get

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Speaker 9: an eight a large truck, let alone a fire engine

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Speaker 9: around the rotary because the curvature isn't the correct.

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Speaker 2: Oh god, you know you know that sign that people

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Speaker 2: have on their desk, it's just playing ahead and the

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Speaker 2: last three letters are running off the side. That's what

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Speaker 2: we're talking about. Trish, I got three more. I'm going

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Speaker 2: to try to get to love your calls. Thanks so much.

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Speaker 2: Keep listening to night Side, Thank you so much. We're

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Speaker 2: going to go next to Paul in Medford. Paul, you

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Speaker 2: were next to Nightside.

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Speaker 5: Welcome, Hi Din, Hi Paul, Trish, Melanie, how are you.

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Speaker 2: Melanie's on the line.

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Speaker 5: Get right ahead, Hi, Paul, I'm all show a candidate

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Speaker 5: with Melanie and again.

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Speaker 2: Is your last name? Is your last name? The you're

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Speaker 2: the son of? From the state representative Paul Donado.

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Speaker 5: I am, yes, I am say how.

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Speaker 2: Do your dad? I know your dad very well, and

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Speaker 2: I hope, I hope you he is supporting you, and

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Speaker 2: I hope he's supporting the others as well.

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Speaker 5: He is, he is definitely supporting us.

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Speaker 12: What made me, I've been, as you know, our lifetime

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Speaker 12: method resident born here. What made me jump into the

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Speaker 12: race is the radical rezoning. It's just I'm against residential rezoning.

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Speaker 12: I don't want to see someone just put you know,

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Speaker 12: solar panels on their house and they build a skyscraper

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Speaker 12: on either side, and then the person that just put

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Speaker 12: solar panels doesn't get solar anymore because of the radical rezoning.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I am Paul. I got to tell you this. Uh.

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Speaker 2: I know Medford. I've had friends in Medford for decades.

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Speaker 2: I know that city as well as any other non resident,

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Speaker 2: any non resident, and I think that the push here

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Speaker 2: is to turn Medford into an adjunct to Somerville and Cambridge.

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Speaker 2: And Somerville and Cambridge are wonderful communities, but Medford is

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Speaker 2: also a wonderful community, and it's great to have diversity

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Speaker 2: amongst different communities in that part of the Greater Boston area.

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Speaker 5: So best time trying to take away into diversity.

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Speaker 8: That's the problem.

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Speaker 2: Keep me posted, Paul, okay, and say hey Dad for me.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I will thank you very much.

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Speaker 5: Great job, Melanie, thank you, Thanks Dan.

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Speaker 6: All right, very welcome.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I got two more. I'm going to try to

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Speaker 2: get it both in, starting with Nate in Medford. Nate,

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Speaker 2: you're next on nightside. Melanie Trengali is listening.

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Speaker 8: Go right ahead, Nate, Hi, Dan, my name's Nate Meret.

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Speaker 8: I'm also another city council candidate running with Melanie and

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Speaker 8: Paul and Nick.

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Speaker 2: And what's your What is your website? So we've got

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Speaker 2: to be fair to everybody. What's your website?

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Speaker 8: Yes, sir, I don't have a website. I'm on Facebook, Nate,

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Speaker 8: my last name Merrit Emas and Mike E. R Rit.

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Speaker 8: And then you can look up city council for Medford.

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Speaker 2: And you want to merit people's votes. I get that.

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Speaker 2: That's a good campaign slogan.

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Speaker 6: Two r's two teas though, Yes, that's okay, I understand it.

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Speaker 2: But that's it's, you know, trying to help you out here.

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Speaker 2: Pal stay with me.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, they'll remember your name.

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Speaker 2: They'll remember your name if you merit their vote.

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Speaker 8: The park Way in Connecticut, the merit park Way that

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Speaker 8: goes down through Connecticut to New York.

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Speaker 5: That one.

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Speaker 2: Keep it local, Nade, keep it local. Well, good, best

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Speaker 2: of luck. Do you have a question or comment from Melanie?

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Speaker 2: She's doing a great job.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, she's a great job. And I really appreciate

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Speaker 8: your time bringing up a topic, especially with zoning. I

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Speaker 8: moved here in twenty fourteen, bought my house. I have

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Speaker 8: a now I have a wife and two small children.

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Speaker 8: I'm in my mid forties and we chose Medford because

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Speaker 8: it was a chance to own and I like my

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Speaker 8: neighborhood the way it is, and I'm actually on the

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Speaker 8: east side of the city and it's a mix of

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Speaker 8: single and two family homes right, And I'm concerned, just

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Speaker 8: like other parents are, you know, how do we afford

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Speaker 8: what we have? And I've got a big heart, but

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Speaker 8: I also understand the costs between daycare and owning a

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Speaker 8: home renting a home. And I want to see you

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Speaker 8: an opportunity for other young parents that I know, be

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Speaker 8: able to buy a place with a patrograss sounds great.

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Speaker 2: Look. I hope you merit people's votes, Nate merrit and

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Speaker 2: I got to get one more in here before I

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Speaker 2: have wrapped the hour. Thanks, thank you, thank you much.

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Speaker 2: Let me go to Jan and Medford. Jen, you are

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Speaker 2: right under the wire here. You haven't waited very long,

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Speaker 2: but I got about a minute for you.

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Speaker 13: Go right ahead, Hi Dan, thank you, Hi Melanie. I

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Speaker 13: am a resident of West Medford, been here for about

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Speaker 13: forty years. My husband's been here for over sixty years.

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Speaker 13: And this radical rezoning has really really caused an uproar

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Speaker 13: in the city. I don't you know, this all our spur.

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Speaker 2: Our revolution, and they mean it exactly.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, they talk about density and affordability, but anything that's

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Speaker 13: being built is not going to be affordable. And they also,

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Speaker 13: you know, they keep saying, oh, you know, don't worry

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Speaker 13: about it. Just because we you know, we're proposing this zoning,

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Speaker 13: it doesn't mean it's going to happen.

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Speaker 2: What I would say, Jen, we're flat out of time.

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Speaker 2: I want to say good night to Melanie and thank her,

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Speaker 2: but I also want to thank you for calling, and

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Speaker 2: I hope you alert your neighbors. Be the equivalent of

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Speaker 2: paul Revere. Become a Pauline Revere.

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Speaker 3: Trust me or that we have we have, we go,

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Speaker 3: we go to door.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Jen, thank you so much. Thank you, Melanie. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for being back in touch with me. I've enjoyed tonight.

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Speaker 2: It's been great to hear from all of the candidates

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Speaker 2: and your supporters. Please keep me in touch next week.

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Speaker 2: This election is next Tuesday. There's open voting. Now, how

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Speaker 2: can people vote if they're not going to vote on Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: how can they get to the polls tomorrow? Over the weekend.

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Speaker 3: We do have early voting at city Hall in city chambers.

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Speaker 3: They're open pretty much every day between now and I

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Speaker 3: think Saturday, Friday or Saturday. I have to double check

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Speaker 3: on that. And then obviously there's voting on Tuesday from

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Speaker 3: seven to eight at any one of the awards or

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Speaker 3: precincts for the city. And thank you for having us.

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Speaker 3: I really appreciate it. Dan, remember the independent candidates. If

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Speaker 3: you want to save your neighborhoods and protect your neighborhoods

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Speaker 3: in the City of Measured, yeah.

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Speaker 2: You want to maintain the character of a great city.

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Speaker 2: It's as simple as that. And keep us posted. Thanks Melanie,

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Speaker 2: I appreciate your time. Tonight we will talk again.

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Speaker 8: Thanks, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Dan, have a good luck.

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Speaker 2: Pleasure. Thanks, good night. All right, we're done for the night.

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Speaker 2: We're going to go back and we're going to talk

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