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Speaker 1: and so I hope he does as you or ask somebody,

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Speaker 1: because what we cannot do is get people excited about

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Speaker 1: voting and then come back and say, oh, never mind.

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Speaker 1: You know, if we gotta do something else, because now

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Speaker 1: he admits when he drafted it, he he said after

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Speaker 1: they met their all their sentencing requirements, he that he's

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Speaker 1: the drafter. So he admits that it was to be

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Speaker 1: restored upon completion of your sentence. The problem that people

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Speaker 1: got was the sentence also includes fine and not just

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Speaker 1: your being confined into a jail. You know, sentences more

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Speaker 1: than just time. It's also a community service when you

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Speaker 1: get our probation and find and and I think that's

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Speaker 1: but you know, you know, it's it's hard product In

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Speaker 1: the commercial that don't sound sexy, Oh you gotta you know,

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Speaker 1: it was giving their rights back and let my people vote.

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Speaker 1: They use slogans, which is fine, but there were some

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Speaker 1: there were some other ands and commas that we that.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately now it looked like it was some trickery going yeah,

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Speaker 1: well it's not fine because what's the point. And if

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Speaker 1: we're getting people all excited. I went through this with

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Speaker 1: somebody last week, like, I love if if you got

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Speaker 1: a hot video out there is something that's getting people engaged,

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Speaker 1: that's great, but the information the video actually needs to

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Speaker 1: be accurate because if not, because if not, we're starting

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Speaker 1: all over again. And it and it further depresses the vote.

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Speaker 1: We're not talking. We already have to deal with voter suppression.

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Speaker 1: So one of the tactics that they're doing is voter suppression.

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Speaker 1: But the voter depression part is the part that we're

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Speaker 1: in charge of, because now we don't want to people

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Speaker 1: to lose trust in us. That's correct, that's correct. And

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Speaker 1: so now they're saying, well, forget it. If I I

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Speaker 1: did all of this, I went and voted, I said

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Speaker 1: I want to rights back. I did all of this,

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Speaker 1: and it still didn't work. That's the voter depression part

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Speaker 1: that we're in control of the messaging. We're in control

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Speaker 1: how information gets out, and and it's important to have

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Speaker 1: those commas and ads and so forth in order to

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Speaker 1: have a conversation around if you still a restitution, it's

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Speaker 1: still apply to you. You gotta pay, you gotta pay

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Speaker 1: your victims back, right right, you gotta have those conversations

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Speaker 1: and and that didn't happen. But as I think that's

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Speaker 1: it's still opportunities. There are still more work to do,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's overall criminal justice reform. I don't know

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Speaker 1: the latest update on Bloomberg. When I know he dropped

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Speaker 1: some money to pay for some fees. And now the

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Speaker 1: Republicans that said, no, sorry, you can't. You can't do that.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know what the court will say about that.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing that prohibits me if I want to help

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Speaker 1: my friend out, help pay her five Is it only

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Speaker 1: because it's Bloomberg money? You know, it's always the person

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Speaker 1: who's receiving it is okay with it. You know, once again,

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, we're trying to figure out twenty

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Speaker 1: seconds before the shot clock. We're trying to figure out strategy.

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Speaker 1: Democrats gotta get this ship together. Dry Clarks don't took

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Speaker 1: the whatever. We don't took some money. You know, if

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Speaker 1: they gave us some cases, we took the money we

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Speaker 1: applied to those cases and we don't don't. So and

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Speaker 1: before I let you go, I want to talk a

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Speaker 1: little bit about why these judicial racist matter. You know,

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Speaker 1: when we see Attorney General Daniel Cameron and people not

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Speaker 1: realizing that's an elected the seat. And on top of

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Speaker 1: that that, people they see Kentucky and the automatic think Republican,

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Speaker 1: which is not the case. That is a Democrat rand

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Speaker 1: state as a Democrat governor. No Republican held that seat

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Speaker 1: since nineteen forty four. Timmy Moore Russell is also an

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Speaker 1: attorney as well, And I want you to talk about

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Speaker 1: the importance of the judicial that really is to the

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Speaker 1: heart of this episode. What does the courts have to

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Speaker 1: do with it and how the Trump administration has changed

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Speaker 1: our judicial makeup? What does that matter to the person

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Speaker 1: on the street that has to go to court and

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Speaker 1: you know, whether it's filing a lawsuit or whether whether

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Speaker 1: it's a criminal charge. How does it really matter? Since

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Speaker 1: Democrats are failing on talking about how it affects you

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Speaker 1: on the ground, talk a little bit about why the

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Speaker 1: judicial system matters in this coming up election. So judicial

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Speaker 1: system matters this election and all elections because judges can

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Speaker 1: literally sit on the bench for twenty thirty years. And

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Speaker 1: diversity in our judiciary is extremely important because you want

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Speaker 1: people who come with different experiences to understand the person

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Speaker 1: they're about to convict. Right, And so we're talking about

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Speaker 1: people who make decisions about whether you convict a fourteen

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Speaker 1: year because he stole some bubble go right, We're talking

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Speaker 1: about the case where the judge sent the little girl

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Speaker 1: to jail because she didn't do a homework. I mean

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Speaker 1: these are decisions that could change the fabric of a

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Speaker 1: young person's life. Right, so we're talking about the person

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Speaker 1: who's gonna make decisions about divorce and who gets custody

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Speaker 1: and who how much to support is paid. If you

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Speaker 1: have a judge who's biased or have implicit biased towards

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Speaker 1: a certain type of people, they're gonna rule in a

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Speaker 1: certain way because I don't care anyone says. They bring

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Speaker 1: their experience, They bring their history, their exposure into the

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Speaker 1: corporal and whether we like it or not, we pre

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Speaker 1: judge people. We we we already come in with a

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Speaker 1: certain position or thought about looking at that person across

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Speaker 1: from us, and that's how we're going to approach it.

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Speaker 1: And you know, and so having a judge have a

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Speaker 1: different background and bring a different experience, we have some

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Speaker 1: level of mercy and grace now as they rule. Now

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Speaker 1: they preside because they have they can understand the background

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Speaker 1: of a person when they explain why they did certain things.

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Speaker 1: And so what is Elections have consequences because when you

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Speaker 1: have to realize who's appointing. So in Florida, you can

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Speaker 1: get elected or you can get appointed to become a

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Speaker 1: state judge in Florida. But if you look at right now,

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Speaker 1: our governor, he has had we had one person be

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Speaker 1: elected to the Federal court. Get point to the federal courts.

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Speaker 1: So he's already made two appointments to the Florida Supreme Court.

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Speaker 1: And they can run every six years until they hit seventy.

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Speaker 1: That's a long time. And he's recent. He's very strategic.

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Speaker 1: He's been appointing forty year old so you do the

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Speaker 1: mad they can sit on the bench for thirty plus years.

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Speaker 1: And what's gonna happen in Florida is Florida's been getting

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Speaker 1: some promotions, right, So you start in the circuit state

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Speaker 1: courts and you get to the district court, those people

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Speaker 1: are getting promoted. If you look and see who's been

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Speaker 1: getting deported to the left, they come out of Florida.

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Speaker 1: So what they're doing is they're building their bench, right,

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Speaker 1: they're building their bench within the court system. Because the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court to the Federal Supreme Court are gonna rule

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Speaker 1: on various things from firm reaction, you know, to abortion

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Speaker 1: to the election. We know Flor's gonna have a fight

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Speaker 1: come decemble January. Who you think Sintala has is gonna

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Speaker 1: decide the decision of the election. That's what happened with

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Speaker 1: Gore versus Bush, you know. And so you want to

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Speaker 1: you want to have a diverse court. You want to

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Speaker 1: see so we have we have to stop building our

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Speaker 1: bench on the county and the circuit, and then we

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Speaker 1: have to also pay attention to the district courts in

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Speaker 1: the full Supreme Court when they have to be retained

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Speaker 1: every six years. Right right now, we have a couple

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Speaker 1: on our ballot that we should we retain them. We

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Speaker 1: have to pay attention to how they rule, their temperament,

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Speaker 1: how they treat people. You know, we actually had a

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Speaker 1: race here, um and in our circuit where lawyers was

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Speaker 1: coming out the woodworks trying to unsee a sitting judge

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Speaker 1: of because how he treated people, you know. And so

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Speaker 1: it's even your decorum and how you treat lawyers and

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Speaker 1: people in your court room. Do you treat them with

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Speaker 1: respect or lack of respect? All of those things played

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Speaker 1: paid play a huge partner in the bitch because the

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Speaker 1: bench justice is supposed to be blind, but it's not.

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Speaker 1: But it's not because we're human, right And when you

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Speaker 1: appoint um a bit that they all looked the same,

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Speaker 1: they all had the same background the same education, the

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Speaker 1: same experience you that's when you get what you get.

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Speaker 1: This was so powerful. This is why I wanted you

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Speaker 1: on here. If you don't vote for ship else, everybody

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Speaker 1: who's listening, pay attention to those judicial seats because it's

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Speaker 1: not just a matter of abortion and not abortion, I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about people in the hood right now that got

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Speaker 1: cases that they have to go before. When we're talking

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Speaker 1: about small case misdemeanors. Whatever your local judge matters. And

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad you point on that because I think

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Speaker 1: we do think some people think, well, a judge can't

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Speaker 1: go outside the law. You know, it's only gonna allow

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Speaker 1: you to do so many different things. But you pointed

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Speaker 1: out that, no, it does matter how they look at it,

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Speaker 1: how they perceive, and how they perceive the person's background.

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Speaker 1: You know, you have maxim you have maximum sentencing guidelines,

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Speaker 1: but you have a range. Yeah, So if you have

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Speaker 1: a hard nosed judge, everybody is guilty. He don't get

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Speaker 1: a max. He gonna throw the book at you. Versus

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Speaker 1: a judge who has compassion and mercy may maybe look

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Speaker 1: at some some you know, the circumstances that led you

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Speaker 1: to that. They may give you the minimal you know

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Speaker 1: you have minimumum maximum ranges. When it comes to sentencing.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to get twenty years, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: five the ten, and so the type of judge can

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Speaker 1: determine I'm gonna get us for us a second chance.

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Speaker 1: I'm on, I'm giving five and put them on pro

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Speaker 1: date probation, or I'm gonna send this six t year

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Speaker 1: old to community service. And I'm not gonna put them

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Speaker 1: away right now because once we start out already at

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Speaker 1: six team, their destined to continue because we don't we

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Speaker 1: know the study, we know the statistics, you know the

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Speaker 1: history right or you've talked about we just talk about

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Speaker 1: fives and things. If you have a judge that cares,

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Speaker 1: we do a lot of events from Central Florida called

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Speaker 1: you know, with the organization called he Got Up, Well,

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Speaker 1: does this judge allow you to convert your fire to

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Speaker 1: community service because he cared because you know you can't

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Speaker 1: afford it. That would makes a difference. Do you think

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Speaker 1: Democrats are doing enough to to educate people don't understand

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Speaker 1: on the issues that really matter, Like we get it,

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Speaker 1: get Trump out, get Trump out. We got it. If

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Speaker 1: we we don't have nothing else from this election. We

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Speaker 1: know that, but imagine if people really understood what you

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Speaker 1: just said. Do you think that the federal level Democrats operatives,

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Speaker 1: if you will people to run the campaigns, and even

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Speaker 1: on the state level, do you think they're doing enough

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Speaker 1: to speak to the issue is that really matter? You

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Speaker 1: mentioned at the beginning of the show that you really

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Speaker 1: talk about issues that matter to everybody across all all

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Speaker 1: spectrums in your seat. But do you think that they

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Speaker 1: do enough voter education or do you think it's more

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Speaker 1: get to the post, get to the post, get to

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Speaker 1: the post, demanding a voter show up for them, but

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Speaker 1: them not really showing up for the voter. So I

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Speaker 1: don't think they do enough on education. And I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna give credit where credits do? I remember? I went

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Speaker 1: to the Biou classes years ago and the legislay, the

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Speaker 1: Black Caucus, and Louisiana has this breakfast during the Baliou

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Speaker 1: Classic and al Shockton was the speaker years ago. I

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Speaker 1: wasn't an elected official. He made this coming. He said,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Democratic Party treat us like the side check,

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Speaker 1: like like a mistress. You know, they they they they'll

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Speaker 1: they'll come see us sometime. They won't take us home

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Speaker 1: to Mama, they won't put a ring on, they won't

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Speaker 1: marry us. And I always kind of that that resonated

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Speaker 1: with me because it was like, I'm gonna just give

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Speaker 1: you just enough. I'm not gonna spend the time necessary

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Speaker 1: to date you, to spend time with you throughout the

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Speaker 1: four years, and not just talk to you when it's

646
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Speaker 1: time to get your vote. Right. So I want to

647
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Speaker 1: be too graphic, but you know the side really call

648
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Speaker 1: you admitting we want something and then leave you on

649
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Speaker 1: the website, leaveing on the West spot. I don't get

650
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Speaker 1: graphics nowhere. I got your back, they got don't thank

651
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Speaker 1: you to Sunday dinner with with with mother with mother

652
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Speaker 1: joys at the first Sunday service, right. And So I

653
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: don't think enough is done to educate us after the election.

654
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Speaker 1: And I don't think we're as strategic when we break

655
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Speaker 1: down the campaigns that we focus on, and I think

656
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: we kind of play this whole to judiciary. We can't

657
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 1: talk politics, but there's other things we can talk about

658
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: when it comes to the judiciary. And so I don't

659
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Speaker 1: and I don't think we do enough when it comes

660
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Speaker 1: to those candidates. It ends up you have to find

661
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: out individually who's doing what and what's seed and you know,

662
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: if that person has enough money to talk about their

663
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 1: campaign without saying how they would judge or rule. Right,

664
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Speaker 1: So I think we kind of we I think in

665
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 1: Florida we play their hands off on the judicial role

666
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 1: because it's so it's not political, but but it's then

667
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,719
Speaker 1: it's about the person and their position and how they

668
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Speaker 1: see the human side of those when they preside. So

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Speaker 1: I think there's more that could be done. Um, after

670
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: the election is over, right after you've got vote, not

671
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Speaker 1: come spence. So you gotta date me, you gotta court me,

672
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: you gotta spend some time with me, not just come

673
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: see me when you need me. And I don't think

674
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: enough of that is done between election cycles, right, So,

675
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: like after November Jay d one should be what are

676
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: we doing to get ready for? Absolutely, And that's what

677
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: I've been pushing with everybody that I know. November three

678
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: sounds good, but what about November four? Remember fourth, they

679
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: can take a break. They gonna get a little massage,

680
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 1: you know, have a little glass of wine, you know,

681
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: and jail your Thanksgiving and your Christmas. But use that

682
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: little break to strategize, come with a plan, and January one,

683
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: after you celebrate the new year, you should be preparing

684
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 1: for twenty two. That's for Florida. We got all our

685
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: state wide cabinet races up. If you're not happy what

686
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 1: they saying, this, what's the plan? Who's running? Who? Who?

687
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: Who are we preparing to start working the state now

688
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: in twenty one not twenty two. Twenty one, you know,

689
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: and the other races, the other constitutional cabinet seats that

690
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: you know, all the places apart. Because when you talk

691
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: about elections have ansequences, let's talk about what happened in Florida.

692
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: We had a As soon as the unemployment situation happened,

693
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: our system crash. But who do you think. We're in

694
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Speaker 1: the state department. They are pointed by the governor and

695
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: let yourself consequences, because that's a point. Every state agency had,

696
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: the health department heads. All these heads are appointed by

697
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: your those folks you elected in the governing the president's office.

698
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: And so people just think, okay, well now y'all, what

699
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 1: why you can't get you undeployment checked? Okay that because

700
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: elections have consequences, that's right, Well, candidates, you can take

701
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: a break, but those of us on the mic, on

702
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: the media, the job starts today after the election. We

703
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: don't have time for you to be waiting on Thanksgiving.

704
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: We already five years behind. We gotta match the gas

705
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: and keep it moving because if we don't build off

706
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: this momentum and how everybody's gonna feel the day after

707
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: which we know, it's gonna be a hot mess. So

708
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 1: let's just call it what it is. Trump is not

709
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: going to just let this go lightly. Republicans play like gangsters,

710
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: that's the bottom line. They're listened into tupocket. We overlistened

711
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 1: in the R and B baby Face two totally different,

712
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: you know, the way we move, So we have to

713
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Speaker 1: really really get your teaching. There's something as I'm working

714
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: on that i'm excited about that hopefully will come forward,

715
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: you know, with organizing us and organizing us stronger as

716
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Speaker 1: a union, and certainly shout out a shout out to

717
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: our Black Party. I've been having an opportunity to have

718
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:12,760
Speaker 1: a lot of conversations with them and how they're moving forward.

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Speaker 1: So I want to thank you, madam for joining me today.

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Speaker 1: I know this type of content, it's not always you know,

721
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,320
Speaker 1: the popular thing that people want to hear. But it

722
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: is so necessary to talk about the course, to talk

723
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: about the judicial system, to talk about how to fext

724
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 1: you on your daily life, plus to honor you and

725
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,320
Speaker 1: all of the wonderful things that you have done. I

726
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 1: am so proud of you, mother, freeing mentor a k

727
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Speaker 1: A leader in the community ground pound. From the moment

728
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 1: you've taken seat, you have worked every single election. You

729
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: have had every opposition against you, and you have been

730
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: able to not only just survive and thrive, and more importantly,

731
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Speaker 1: you have kept your campaign promises. And let me tell

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Speaker 1: you test before you get us concluded, I want you

733
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Speaker 1: to go check out my page. You'd be proud of me. Yes,

734
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Speaker 1: because I don't have I was a part of pose

735
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: this cycle, and so I'll push this a thing called voting.

736
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Speaker 1: His queen in Central Florida. So I'm not waiting for

737
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: the party to come give me some directors. So we

738
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Speaker 1: have it. I pulled together my Latina elected officials, my Patty,

739
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: she had Linda Steward, women of color, the first ladies.

740
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Speaker 1: We're trying to do this huge early voting initiative here

741
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: on October it's twenty four. I want you to share

742
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: it when you see our post. The flies we are.

743
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,839
Speaker 1: We first launched the Queen's last week. It's called Vote

744
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: Cast the Vote Crown to Queen. You know, we know who,

745
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: we know who runs the world, and we know who

746
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: truly gets out that vote. I mean, we're not waiting

747
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 1: to not have anything, you know. And it's gonna be

748
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:34,839
Speaker 1: an early voting site. So Commissioner Hell is on board

749
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 1: as well. So we're trying to do our thing in

750
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 1: central Florida and trying to get everybody together because this

751
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 1: election is what it's gonna take. And I was like you,

752
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: since I don't have my own election, I can get

753
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 1: some good trouble. Use that strategizing to help, you know,

754
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: And I'm not helping any campaign. I want to make

755
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,800
Speaker 1: you the people vote. We have some amendments on the

756
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 1: ballot that needs to be we got to pay attention

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00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: to as well in Florida. And so you know, when

758
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 1: you see me post, I'm a tag you so you

759
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: can see what we're trying to do here, just to

760
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: really just trying to get like you said, our people

761
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,240
Speaker 1: will energy. We got they gotta they want to feel

762
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: like something's happening. We are as black people we like

763
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: to feel people of color like to feel our brown

764
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 1: black sisters want to feel like something's going on, and

765
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: so we this is what we're trying to do that weekend.

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00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: To truly, it's called the Central for the vote Fest

767
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: because so to the Post is that Sunday, and we're

768
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Speaker 1: voting His queen is that Saturday. So we're trying to

769
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: make it a big deal to get that vote out. Yeah,

770
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: please let me know anything I can do, because that's

771
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: really what it comes down to. Like I always say,

772
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: we all we got we can't wait on the state

773
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:33,720
Speaker 1: level of federal level. We gotta push the line ourselves.

774
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 1: And that's what all of us, I think, have been

775
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 1: doing in our own way. I wish there was more

776
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: of a strategic effort from the top, but we can't

777
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: allow that to to allow us to stop so that rhyme,

778
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 1: you know, but this community know us. They need to

779
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 1: hear from us anyway. You know, I've never been a

780
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,320
Speaker 1: proponent of bringing a visitor and tell us how to

781
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,320
Speaker 1: go vote, right, that's another thing that y'all do. We

782
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: can get to that. We can have a whole show

783
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: on that. Y'all love bringing in outside and selfist it

784
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,319
Speaker 1: on ship about Orlando. But I'll leave that right there.

785
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 1: I won't get too messy on that. But you they

786
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:03,800
Speaker 1: really do they to have people to understand the community.

787
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 1: So no, yeah, thank you. Is there anything else that

788
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 1: you that we should know about in addition to that? Oh?

789
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: That That's what I'm really been pushing as well as UM.

790
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: We have an organized phone banking campaign with the Divine Nine.

791
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 1: Actually they started they were training last week. We kick

792
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,800
Speaker 1: off today, UM, and so we're just trying to do

793
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,280
Speaker 1: some some you know, because I recognize that the pandemic

794
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: is serious for people, and so UM, you know you do.

795
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 1: You don't want knock on the doors, but you can

796
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 1: pick up the phone and call people. We are trying

797
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,839
Speaker 1: to meet those volunteers where they're comfortable. And I'm trying

798
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 1: to be risk because I called this one gentleman. He said, man,

799
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: may coming to your event. You're got to the corolla

800
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,359
Speaker 1: out there. It's long as you gonna vote? What's your playing? Baby?

801
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:40,840
Speaker 1: What's you how are you gonna vote? You go? You know?

802
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 1: He could you earn the voting site? You know, make

803
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: you take a pin when you're gonna goot early? Because

804
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: they they don't have pens anymore, you know, so just

805
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 1: trying to get people tips. So we're doing the whole

806
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: phone banking campaign strategy with the Divine Nine organizations as

807
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: the Black Fraternities, as the Royalties. We're not a cult

808
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: and some people thought we were. You know that we

809
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 1: actually legitimate organizations for a hundred plus years. But the

810
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 1: local Orange County chapters are working together to get out

811
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Speaker 1: and we all have assignment precincts and they're gonna work

812
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: their precincts and making sure those precincts get out on

813
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 1: an increase their voting participation. Well, it makes a difference.

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00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: You know, I don't have a problem with the virtual

815
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: stuff if they're investing resources and people that actually can

816
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 1: call people that they know me getting random text I

817
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 1: just got a text. I get Texas two or three

818
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,320
Speaker 1: times a day from Florida. I haven't voted in Florida

819
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: since two thousand fourteen. So the bottom line is you're

820
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 1: they're not reaching the right folks. You're spending resources these

821
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Speaker 1: text messages for those who don't know they cost, there's

822
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Speaker 1: a cost involved with each text message that they send

823
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Speaker 1: out these mass texas. So you're only gonna capture so

824
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 1: many people. So at some point the resources had to

825
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 1: be spent in the community. And I just asked them

826
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Speaker 1: to get free spots at our at our barbershops and

827
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Speaker 1: are daycassing. Can we put a spot here for free?

828
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Speaker 1: No invest in these communities so that if there is

829
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Speaker 1: gonna be phone banking, they need to be calling their cousins,

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Speaker 1: their mama's that whoever. The people that they actually know

831
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Speaker 1: in the community said, hey, this isctivity. Are you getting out,

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00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,320
Speaker 1: you know, going to the post and that's what we

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00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 1: don't see on the local estate level. Yeah. No, we

834
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Speaker 1: were like, I need you train to know how to

835
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Speaker 1: work the system, how to make your phone calls, you

836
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Speaker 1: want to use your phone, and tell you how to

837
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Speaker 1: create a Google account, you know. But this is for

838
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Speaker 1: people athlete. So the thing is take care of your

839
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,840
Speaker 1: your circle first. Once you're taking care of your circle,

840
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 1: you know, mama, name, grandma, name, shawing them, then we

841
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 1: want you to start working on this precinct. And we

842
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: gave each pre chapter of the precinct they they normally adopt.

843
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 1: And I want you to say, I'm called on Happen

844
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Speaker 1: delt to Sigma Data. This is Tasha, and you know

845
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: we work your precincts. Every year I've seen you come vote.

846
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: We want to make sure it's your whole household voting.

847
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 1: So that's what we're trying to do. And we each

848
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: organization is going to get care because that's the precinct

849
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 1: they've been adopting for years. So you gotta make it.

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00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: You gotta make it ownership for them, right, yeah, making

851
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 1: them care not just something absolutely well. I hope Democrats

852
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 1: are listening. It's not like we haven't been telling this repeatedly.

853
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: That's where the frustration is. They've been told this repeatedly.

854
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 1: So I said, I suggest they take heed and if not, hey,

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Speaker 1: we'll keep doing we can do on the state and

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Where can people find you, Madam Clerk so

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