1 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to willk F Daily with 2 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:19,119 Speaker 1: Meet Your Girl Daniel Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:23,280 Speaker 1: what a fucking week. Let me start with the fact 4 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is absolute trash, but we are going 5 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: to get into that on Friday, but let me just 6 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 1: preview that not only is Donald Trump found libel for 7 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 1: sexual abuse, for defamation, but in a recent interview with MSNBC, 8 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: his former running mate Mike Penn said, well, you know, 9 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:50,200 Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff going on, and I don't 10 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: think that the American people really care about this. Are 11 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: you fucking dumb? Do you think that Americans, particularly women, 12 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: don't care about the fact that the Republican Party is 13 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: a coven for misogynists, is a coven for sexual abusers. 14 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: From the state, local, and federal level, there have been 15 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: accusations for a number of people. A person in Tennessee 16 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 1: and the Tennessee Legislature just resigned because he was fucking 17 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 1: an intern. So you think that the party that wants 18 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: to couch themselves as somehow about family values, We know 19 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: that there are there's no family and there are no values. 20 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: All these people want is fucking power so that they 21 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: can impose their will, their religion, their bullshit, their lives 22 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:42,679 Speaker 1: on the rest of us. Donald Trump is a man 23 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: that they bowed down to. They they would give blood 24 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: for this man so long as he says that he 25 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: will make the people around them who they don't like 26 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: lives harder, so long as he will release cruel policy. 27 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: Because if you ask these very same people, you know 28 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: there'll be a whole heap of them that will be 29 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: at that bullshit CNN town hall which I did not watch, 30 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: am not watching. But by the time you listen to this, 31 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 1: we will know what has happened. Four hundred people call 32 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: themselves Republicans in the widest fucking state of New Hampshire 33 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: to give softball questions to Donald Trump. The question that 34 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: I would ask. Ask these people how their lives have 35 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 1: been made better by the Republican Party. Tell me exactly 36 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:33,919 Speaker 1: how your specific life. Don't talk to me about all 37 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: day banned abortion. Tell me exactly how your life and 38 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 1: the lives of your family members are better because of 39 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: Republican policies. I'll wait, tell me how, over four years 40 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: of Donald Trump's corrupt, fucking ass presidency that your life improved. 41 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 1: Because unless you are a multi millionaire and a billionaire. 42 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 1: The answer is the same way that couldn't answer the 43 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:03,960 Speaker 1: fucking question around what does it mean to be woke. 44 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: What they care about and what they know for certain 45 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 1: is that Donald Trump is a misogynist, white supremacist, and 46 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:14,799 Speaker 1: that is what they like in a candidate. That's what 47 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,520 Speaker 1: they like in a party. They want to go back 48 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: to a time when it was okay for men to 49 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,360 Speaker 1: grab women however, whenever and wherever that they wanted, and 50 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: those women didn't have any recourse. They want to go 51 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: back to a time when black people were forced off 52 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: of sidewalks because white people were walking down the street. 53 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: They want to go back to a time where gay 54 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: people are forced into the closet or jailed. That's their 55 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: idea of making America great again. So miss me with 56 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: the bullshit with these fucking fake ass journalists who can't 57 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: take questions. You know, the other day, bravo to Joe 58 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 1: Biden who flipped it on reporters at the White House 59 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: when he asked them, you tell me what Republicans said 60 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: was in their plan? Did you ask them? He's like, 61 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be funny, I'm not trying to 62 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 1: even be a wise guy. But did you ask? And 63 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:22,160 Speaker 1: I realized that when questions are posed back to these reporters, 64 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: they don't have fucking answers because they don't ask the 65 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: very politicians that they are throwing in Democrats' faith. They 66 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:34,799 Speaker 1: don't ask Kevin McCarthy. So you say that it's fine 67 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 1: for George Santos to remain in Congress because you need 68 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 1: the votes, and that he's innocent until proven guilty. So 69 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on Donald Trump being held liable 70 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:51,039 Speaker 1: for sexual abuse and defamation? Should he, then, by your 71 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: line of thinking, be able to still run for president? 72 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: And will you back him? Because a jury of his 73 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: peers found him liable and would have found him fucking guilty, 74 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:06,600 Speaker 1: and he would have been jailed if the statutory of 75 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: limitations was unlimited, But by grace of new legislation in 76 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: New York, Egen Carroll was able to file a civil suit. 77 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,279 Speaker 1: You know, folks, I just keep thinking about the fact 78 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: that this country, I really, honestly, you know, all credit 79 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 1: is always given to the forefathers of this nation for 80 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: concocting this project called democracy. And I got to say, 81 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:42,720 Speaker 1: there are a lot of fucking holes that they left unfilled, 82 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: because why is it that you can be indicted, that 83 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: you can be how liable for sexual violence, that you 84 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 1: can be charged with crimes and still run for president 85 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: and still be a member of Congress is fucking beyond me. 86 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 1: It's as if the forefathers either they thought that to 87 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: be a politician was to be above reproach, you know, 88 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:20,479 Speaker 1: the same way that again, no real laws right except 89 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: for ethics, no real laws put in place for grifting 90 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:28,479 Speaker 1: as Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas is able to be 91 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 1: a kept fucking man by Harlan Crowe. No oope, no 92 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: violations around that, no laws on the books ensuring that 93 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: there's actual accountability and responsibility for the people who are 94 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: making decisions about the rest of us. You see, if 95 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,480 Speaker 1: they were only making decisions for them, go with God, 96 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 1: I could give a fuck. But you see, their perspectives 97 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:02,599 Speaker 1: are being colored in order to side with people who 98 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: are able to give them the most money. So then 99 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: your decisions that you're making and how you are making them, oh, 100 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 1: they matter. The Republican Party has shown their entire ass 101 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 1: as has CNN, and the question is much in the 102 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 1: same way that people took over this State House in Tennessee. 103 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: They're taken over the state house in Ohio. I believe 104 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: that the people of this good country right because I 105 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 1: still believe that there are more more. I want to 106 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: believe this people. I want to I want to believe 107 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 1: that there are more good people, right, sane people, logic 108 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 1: driven people in this country than there are Trump supporters. 109 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: The Trump supporters are just the whiniest and everyone gives 110 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: them a fucking microphone. But I believe that what we 111 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 1: are seeing, which is not being covered by mainstream media, 112 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: what we are seeing with these protests taking over state houses, 113 00:07:56,080 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 1: is that the American people have had enough. They don't 114 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: want to be dictated to. They want to be able 115 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 1: to choose their representatives and remove their representatives when their 116 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: vision for the future no longer aligne. We are once 117 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: again in an outrageous place, and I, you know, I 118 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: keep having this conversation. I asked Glenn the very same 119 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 1: question earlier this week. You know, does America come out 120 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 1: of this right? Do we get to the other side? 121 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: Do we restore our integrity, our global standing? I don't 122 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: think so, and neither do a lot of people that 123 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 1: I talk to. I think that this is it. So 124 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 1: it has those of us who believe in democracy as 125 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 1: imperfect as it is, who believe in justice as rare 126 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: as it is, to continue pushing. But the question is 127 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: until what point? Which brings me to something I've talked 128 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 1: about on this show and I continue to talk about 129 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 1: every time I go on TV. We need a national strike. 130 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 1: We need to shut this fucking country down. If we 131 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 1: are to restore this nation's integrity and integrity in our institutions, 132 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 1: then everything must be grinded to a halt until action 133 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:35,079 Speaker 1: is taken. One person, Joe Manchin, right now put out 134 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:39,319 Speaker 1: a statement. He is the head of the Natural Resources 135 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 1: and Energy Committee in the Senate. He's not passing any 136 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:46,679 Speaker 1: more EPA names because guess what they are, radical, says 137 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:49,959 Speaker 1: the man for Big Coal, because he doesn't care about 138 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 1: how many of his constituents have died of black lung. 139 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,959 Speaker 1: He doesn't give a fuck. So long as he can 140 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: continue making money off of polluting the environment, he will. 141 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 1: So now he's gonna hold the rest of the country's 142 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 1: safety hostage. Tell me the difference between Joe Manchin, Kirsten Cinema, 143 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 1: and the Republican Party. There isn't one, folks. We have 144 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 1: got to recognize that our time, this democracy, this clock 145 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: is running out, and the question is are there really 146 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: enough good people to do what's right that, dear friends, 147 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 1: I honestly do not know, but it's a question that 148 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to dig into and ask of 149 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,679 Speaker 1: our guests every single week that we make it to 150 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:56,840 Speaker 1: the end of Coming up next, my conversation with Helen Gimm, 151 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:03,080 Speaker 1: who is the Democratic front runner in the primary for 152 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 1: mayor in Philadelphia. That primary takes place on Tuesday, so 153 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 1: if you are in the Philadelphia area, this is an 154 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: important conversation for you, and even if you are not, 155 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 1: what does it mean to be a progressive urban mayor 156 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:25,319 Speaker 1: at a time when this country and quote unquote blue 157 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: centers are on the fritz? Folks. I am very excited 158 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 1: to welcome to wok F Daily mayoral candidate for Philadelphia 159 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 1: and the Democratic front runner, Helen Gimm, who is a 160 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:54,079 Speaker 1: urban twenty first century style mayoral candidate, and Helen one, 161 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:59,960 Speaker 1: congrats on your positioning on the conversations that are bubbles 162 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 1: up around you. I know that the primary is on Tuesday, 163 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: but you should feel really good about about where you are, 164 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:12,199 Speaker 1: so talk to me, talk to us about what does 165 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:16,560 Speaker 1: it mean to be a progressive urban mayor given the 166 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 1: climate you know that the entirety of the country is 167 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 1: in right now. 168 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,439 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, I come out of more 169 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 2: than twenty years of organizing with communities on the ground 170 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 2: who never felt like politics was a place where we 171 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 2: were going to start with our change. Our politics never 172 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 2: started with politicians. They always started with us, and that 173 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 2: was largely because the politics of any given moment are monstrous. 174 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 2: They tear families apart from one another, you know, they 175 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 2: disinvest in neighborhoods and communities. We've allowed some of our 176 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 2: most essential institutions to completely fall apart, whether that's public 177 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 2: transit or schools, or the issue of public safety. And 178 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 2: now more than ever, I think what you are seeing 179 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 2: from a new wave of candidates who are coming in 180 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 2: are not people who just hold a set of ideologies, 181 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 2: but people who are born out of movements, who have 182 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 2: spent a lot of time in them, not just kind 183 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 2: of you know, like hanging around on the edges, but 184 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 2: have actually driven large scale movements for change. When we 185 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:24,560 Speaker 2: get into office, we actually deliver. That's the biggest thing 186 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 2: about what needs to happen with the big cities. And 187 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 2: a progressive movement right now. We have to actually deliver 188 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 2: the things that we're talking about. It's not enough to 189 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 2: talk about it. It's not enough to disparage the status 190 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,320 Speaker 2: quo austerity politics of the past. We actually have to 191 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 2: prove that we can deliver safe drinking water to every 192 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 2: child and every family you know, in every neighborhood. We 193 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 2: actually have to deliver an economic justice mission that gives 194 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 2: jobs to people in communities and neighborhoods and doesn't simply 195 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:02,839 Speaker 2: recycle them into like the low wage, high turn work 196 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 2: of other places. And we have to deliver housing. I mean, 197 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 2: this is the mission right now. This is why cities 198 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:10,720 Speaker 2: are on the move and they're tired of the status 199 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 2: quo politics that haven't that have failed to deliver. But 200 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 2: we have to be able to deliver that, and that's 201 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:18,559 Speaker 2: born by people who've actually done the work. 202 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that I saw on 203 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 1: your campaign website, you know, one of the first items 204 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: and issues is gun violence. And I want to talk 205 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: to you about that because you know, it used to 206 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: be the myth is that it was the cities that 207 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 1: were riddled with gun violence, as we've seen with so 208 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 1: many mass shootings too many to even count this year, 209 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: that it isn't just cities, right, and you in your 210 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 1: campaign have talked about the importance of getting these guns 211 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 1: off the street. So talk to us about your platform 212 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 1: for gun safety. 213 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 2: Yes, so safety is real in all the work that 214 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 2: we do in community organizing. My work got started with 215 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 2: victims of crime who were ignored, marginalized, or sidelined. We've 216 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 2: gone into situations where schools were falling apart because you know, 217 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 2: people didn't take the safety of everyday lives. And I 218 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 2: think that's what needs to resonate right now. We see 219 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 2: a lot of mass shootings and horrifying things happen in 220 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 2: other communities, but when they're happening in black and brown 221 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 2: and immigrant communities, they're seen as just a course of life, 222 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 2: and that is absolutely not the case. And that's why 223 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 2: it is so important for us to restore the mission 224 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 2: of safety back to the progressive movement, a mission that 225 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 2: has taken on and fought, you know, ridiculous prohibitions on 226 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 2: common sense gun control, but has also talked about the 227 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 2: need for investments if we believe that violence is rooted 228 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:57,120 Speaker 2: in disinvestment. And you know, Philadelphia often called the poorest 229 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 2: large city in the country. Almost one out of four 230 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 2: our residents live in poverty, thirty seven percent, thirty seven 231 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 2: percent of our children's party. And I don't believe any 232 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 2: of that is by accident. Whether intended or not. Those 233 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 2: policies have been deliberate, they have been purposeful, and they 234 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 2: have been devastating. And thus everything we do has to 235 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 2: be equally purposeful, equally determined to reverse those trends and 236 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 2: to ensure that people live healthier, safer, and more enriched lives. 237 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 2: And so our platform absolutely goes in on taking illegal 238 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 2: guns off the street. It absolutely talks about, you know, 239 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 2: different levels of law enforcement coming together. That's what people 240 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 2: have been struggling with and doing. But I'm also very 241 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 2: clear I'm here to deliver crisis response because that's one 242 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 2: of the things that our communities talk about. We want 243 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 2: to promote more detectives, not just hire police officers. We 244 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:58,520 Speaker 2: do it twenty to forty at a time. We've got 245 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 2: a thousand off, we have a thousand positions vacant in 246 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 2: our police department. Absolutely, people feel like there's not enough police. 247 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 2: But it would take me forever to promise that I 248 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:11,400 Speaker 2: could deliver police officers so what I'll do in the interim. 249 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:14,159 Speaker 2: We're going to promote more detectives to reduce caseloads and 250 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 2: actually solve crimes, which is the most lawless thing about Philadelphia. 251 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 2: People are gaining away with it. Second, we're deploying more 252 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 2: first responders, mental health first responders to take off the 253 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:27,159 Speaker 2: hands of our nine to one one calls in our 254 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 2: police departments, the homelessness, addiction, domestic situations, certain domestic situations, 255 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 2: and mental health episodes that are not well dealt with 256 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 2: by the police department, and allow our police officers to 257 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 2: focus more on the violent crimes that individuals want. And 258 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 2: then we're deploying more group violence interrupters. We had thirty 259 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,639 Speaker 2: six hundred kids drop out of school in September of 260 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:52,879 Speaker 2: this year. Since September, four thousand kids dropped out of 261 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,359 Speaker 2: school last year. They are not going to the police, 262 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:57,199 Speaker 2: they are not calling a nine to one one. I 263 00:17:57,320 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 2: have got to reach them, and so we need individuals 264 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 2: on the ground in communities doing the group violence interventions 265 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 2: interruptions that we have seen make a difference, but it 266 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 2: is not always in the form of a police officer. 267 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 2: We can get crisis response, we can get first responders 268 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,199 Speaker 2: out onto the streets. If we understand that we have 269 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 2: to handle crime differently from just ramping, you know, making 270 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 2: false claims that we're going to be able to restore 271 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 2: a thousand police officers when we're in a state of 272 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 2: emergency right now. 273 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:30,439 Speaker 1: You know, you bring up the fact that young people 274 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 1: are leaving school, are dropping out of school, and you know, 275 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: one of the major issues right now is, you know, 276 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 1: emotional instability in our youth. You know, we're taxing them 277 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: with way too much with you know, school shootings, with 278 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:57,960 Speaker 1: anti LGBTQ rhetoric, with disrupting curriculum. So when you look 279 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 1: at the youth of Philadela and you see those numbers, 280 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 1: what do you think for your city is the cause? 281 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 1: And how do you plan to address that level of anxiety, 282 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:15,119 Speaker 1: instability and what many have said is post traumatic stress 283 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 1: disorder that young people are dealing with right now. 284 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:21,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, for more than twenty five years, I've talked about 285 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:25,359 Speaker 2: a city and state that disinvests in Philadelphia's youth, in 286 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 2: their families and in their neighborhoods. Look, if we are 287 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,159 Speaker 2: you know, our school system, it's one of the areas 288 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 2: where I spent most of my life trying to uplift 289 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 2: a school system that should be delivering for two hundred 290 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 2: thousand children and families in the city of Philadelphia, and 291 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,840 Speaker 2: time and time again, we've been kind of stymied and 292 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 2: deliberately blocked. I fought for fair funding lawsuits that have 293 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 2: won their constitutional grounding through state courts, but it's still 294 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 2: up to us to fight for this. Thirty years ago, 295 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 2: I was a teacher in the public schools, teaching thirty 296 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 2: eight kids and a one hundred year old building without 297 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 2: air conditioning on the fifth floor. And I knew then 298 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 2: that our kids deserve so much better. But I also 299 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 2: know this, you get the city you fight for. No 300 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 2: one's coming in to hand this to us. So we 301 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:14,520 Speaker 2: got to go out, and for the last twenty years, 302 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 2: I've tried to build a movement to fight on behalf 303 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 2: of kids. I've made it very clear from the moment 304 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 2: you walk in to a public school in Philadelphia, where 305 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 2: the average age of a building is seventy years old, 306 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:28,359 Speaker 2: you can build the disinvestment. You can feel it when 307 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:31,400 Speaker 2: we start suspending kids as young as five years old. 308 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 2: You can feel it when we deny kids. A nurse, 309 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 2: a librarian, and a counselor, but we guarantee them a 310 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,640 Speaker 2: surveillance camera, a metal detector at the front door, and 311 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 2: a school police officer. We've got more police officers than 312 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,440 Speaker 2: we have counselors in our schools. And that's why when 313 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:51,120 Speaker 2: I came into office, I did a number of things. One, 314 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 2: I helped end a seventeen year state takeover of our 315 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 2: public school systems that had depressed and closed down more 316 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 2: than thirty public schools that had disinvested around these things, 317 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:03,920 Speaker 2: and with the same people in charge, we put back 318 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 2: nurses and counselors. We built out a social worker program, 319 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:11,920 Speaker 2: we made we made investments in pre K I started, 320 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 2: you know, arts and music, and I am here to 321 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 2: run for mayor to finish that job. I don't think 322 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:22,120 Speaker 2: that a city can rise when it tells so many 323 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 2: young people and their families that they are not worthwhile. 324 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:27,920 Speaker 2: And if you can tell that to a five year 325 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 2: old child in a neighborhood, you will tell it to 326 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 2: their parents, you will tell it to the communities around them, 327 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,360 Speaker 2: you will disinvest overall. And that's what I think we're 328 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 2: feeling in Philadelphia. And in the meantime, we've been chasing 329 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 2: all manner of things to make up for our lack 330 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:47,200 Speaker 2: of investment in families, in neighborhoods, in communities, and in 331 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,560 Speaker 2: the stabilizing things that make people healthy and hop We've 332 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:54,160 Speaker 2: done massive corporate tax breaks. We've given away the stores 333 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 2: to like, you know whatever, if a billionaire sports owner 334 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 2: will hand them the keys to the city and an 335 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 2: open checkbook. We flirted with casinos. We are surrounded by 336 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 2: more casinos than almost any other city in the state 337 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 2: of Pennsylvania, and it has brought us nothing because those 338 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:16,120 Speaker 2: things are extractive. They do not invest, and most of all, 339 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 2: they don't build. They extract capital out of communities. I 340 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,200 Speaker 2: am here to put that capital back into people, and 341 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,359 Speaker 2: I want to show what it looks like by having 342 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 2: strong schools that are invested, open year round, after school 343 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 2: programs seven day a week, libraries, parks that are lit 344 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:38,159 Speaker 2: up and brightened, programmed library you know, recreation centers that 345 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 2: are open in the evenings, and summer camps that are running. 346 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,439 Speaker 2: The fact that this is called radical is outrageous. The 347 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 2: most by the most radical thing about me is that 348 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,400 Speaker 2: I actually delivered these things. That is a radical thing, 349 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,680 Speaker 2: because when we reorient the budgets, when we actually prove 350 00:22:57,800 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 2: that the things that hold us back were just us 351 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:04,160 Speaker 2: and not you know, all these external forces. We show 352 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 2: how small the ideas always were. We unlocked opportunity in 353 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 2: capital and we watch people rise. And I think there 354 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:13,920 Speaker 2: are plenty of people who are scared about that. I've 355 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:18,119 Speaker 2: got a billionaire right wing zeal putting in, you know, 356 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 2: a million plus dollars into negative advertising against me to 357 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 2: hold that back. But I know that the thing that 358 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:29,880 Speaker 2: they're afraid of are the people that are working and 359 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:33,160 Speaker 2: laboring for years to change the city and put its 360 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 2: resources back into communities. 361 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, you knows. As a former educator, I know that 362 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 1: one of the places that is consistently defunded but we 363 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 1: don't use that language, is education and has been, and 364 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,200 Speaker 1: that if you were to actually invest in young people, 365 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:52,359 Speaker 1: invest in instead of putting in, as you said, police 366 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,440 Speaker 1: officers in schools and putting counselors and put in nurses, 367 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: put in therapists, and create schools as community hubs, which 368 00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:03,640 Speaker 1: is what they are with wrap around services for families 369 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:08,120 Speaker 1: as well, then cities that have been targeted by the 370 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,720 Speaker 1: by Republicans and the extreme right would actually thrive. And 371 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 1: that's what they don't want. Are black and brown people thriving. 372 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,120 Speaker 1: One of the biggest issues and I'm in New York 373 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, and one of the biggest issues that we're 374 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 1: facing in this city, as in a lot of cities, 375 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 1: including yours, is the rising housing costs. Housing costs have 376 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 1: got out of control, rent has gotten out of control. 377 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: Just recently, you know, we had a horrific situation here 378 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:45,679 Speaker 1: with a homeless man, Jordan Neely, who was murdered, whose 379 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: killer is still out free, and people are protesting and 380 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,680 Speaker 1: saying that we should have done something, you know, for 381 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 1: a person that is experiencing a mental health crisis that 382 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:59,880 Speaker 1: has been pleading and asking for help, but we don't. Right, 383 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,680 Speaker 1: So what do you say with regard and how would 384 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:11,480 Speaker 1: your administration be dealing with the rising housing costs and 385 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 1: how that is also connected to the homelessness crisis that 386 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 1: we're seeing across major cities. How would you deal with that? 387 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, obviously housing and home life is the key 388 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:29,440 Speaker 2: to stability, and the disruption that you see around it 389 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,639 Speaker 2: is shocking. One of the things I was most proud 390 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,480 Speaker 2: of in my time on city Council was that in 391 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 2: less than five years, we took the fourth highs evicting 392 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 2: city in the country, and we slashed evictions by almost 393 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 2: two thirds. During the pandemic started to creep up again. 394 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 2: But you know, like what we were able to show 395 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,680 Speaker 2: is that when a city actually leans in on really 396 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:57,120 Speaker 2: aggressive policies to create alternatives to an eviction that could 397 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,879 Speaker 2: otherwise keep somebody house, we can deliver. The program that 398 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 2: I delivered not only showed that significant reduction, it drew 399 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 2: down almost a quarter of a billion dollars in investments 400 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 2: from state and federal actors. It's the law that I 401 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 2: built now is passed in one hundred and eighty cities 402 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,399 Speaker 2: across thirty six states, and was part of the Biden 403 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 2: Bill of Rights. The reason why I bring that up 404 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:25,680 Speaker 2: is that nothing outside of us is actually going to stop. 405 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:30,440 Speaker 2: We know what markets do, right they market response. There 406 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 2: is nothing at the federal government. You know. I think 407 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 2: that there's a lot that could be done. Let me 408 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,920 Speaker 2: be clear, but I cannot afford to wait for a 409 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:43,400 Speaker 2: federal government or a regressive state legislature to act when 410 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 2: we know what the crisis looks like. That's why I 411 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:50,359 Speaker 2: think America's cities have to lead on an affordable housing vision. 412 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 2: We can't actually fund it. I think that's the difference. 413 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:54,919 Speaker 2: And a lot of people don't want to do things 414 00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:58,920 Speaker 2: that they can't fund. But my belief is you can't 415 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 2: fund something that doesn't and if you don't have a 416 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 2: clear idea of what you want, you become victim to 417 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 2: a pastiche of different federal programs, different little state things, 418 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,160 Speaker 2: and we start piece mealing stuff and it doesn't meet 419 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 2: the need. Right now, what I have is an all 420 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,159 Speaker 2: out mission to keep our people house. I've got eighty 421 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 2: five hundred vacant lots that are city owned. I have 422 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 2: to have a plan for that. I have, you know, 423 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 2: municipal courts where we see evictions after all the work 424 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,119 Speaker 2: that we've done kind of ticking up. I've got to 425 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 2: have a plan for that. And I believe that when 426 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 2: we keep people housed, when we link housing to stronger education, 427 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:47,719 Speaker 2: to healthier individuals. Our eviction work was reviewed by the 428 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 2: by Pen Medicine, by the Hospital of the University of 429 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:55,720 Speaker 2: Pennsylvania and prove that housing saves lives during COVID And 430 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 2: we've already made the link with the Children's Hospital of 431 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 2: Philadelphia that mediating on housing actually helps people live healthier lives. 432 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 2: So I'm here to deliver on a housing in the 433 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,199 Speaker 2: midst of a housing crisis. I'm here to deliver on 434 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:15,360 Speaker 2: a housing plan that not only addresses affordability, but can 435 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,400 Speaker 2: also tackle climate and health. And what I mean by 436 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 2: that is people black and brown folks living residents living 437 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 2: in some of the poorest sections of the city have 438 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 2: the highest utility bills, are the live in the most 439 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:33,400 Speaker 2: substandard housing. So if we are leaning in on home 440 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 2: repairs or prioritizations on affordability, not everything has to be 441 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 2: built new right now, because that's not the most efficient 442 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 2: way to do things. But if we are doing a 443 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 2: real emphasis on home repairs, rent stabilizations, other types of things, 444 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,720 Speaker 2: then let us make sure that those communities are first 445 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 2: in line for solar energy and the lowest utility bills. 446 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 2: Let's make sure that they are first in line for 447 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 2: lead remediation and the healthiest homes. Make sure that we 448 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 2: do the you know, the vacant lot usage, so that 449 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 2: we're building up tree canopies and making those places as 450 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,800 Speaker 2: restorative as a community as we are focused on the 451 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 2: individual house itself. These are the things that cities can 452 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 2: do more importantly when we do it at scale. The 453 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 2: most important thing we can do is send a message 454 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,160 Speaker 2: out to the market. We're not letting just the market 455 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,960 Speaker 2: decide all of these things. There is a big investment 456 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 2: effort right now on maintaining affordability whole homes repair. I 457 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:37,200 Speaker 2: can provide seed money, including loans and revolving loans, types 458 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 2: of things we can start, you know, with rent assistance 459 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 2: that is able to keep people house. I need to 460 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 2: command our private markets to see this as a place 461 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 2: of investment, like a kind of venture capital, but this 462 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 2: time not a venture capital for the wealthiest. This time 463 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 2: a venture capital that actually invests in communities and watches 464 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:02,959 Speaker 2: the economic wealth of a region go up. That is 465 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 2: a task like I think we've seen it done in 466 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:09,280 Speaker 2: different areas. It tends to be done by like economics 467 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 2: sectors and that kind of thing. But a strong signal 468 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 2: goes out to the investment community. You want to be here, 469 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 2: and I want to send that signal because I know 470 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 2: that this is not just going to be done simply 471 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 2: by municipal funds alone. I need to excite a different 472 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 2: kind of economy here that invests back. And I need 473 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 2: to do yeah with big banks, you know, new lending institutions, 474 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 2: but a real eye towards equity, affordability, and how people live. 475 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you that I am very excited 476 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:43,719 Speaker 1: about your candidacy. I'm very excited for folks who are 477 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 1: listening to this who aren't in UH, who are in Philadelphia. 478 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 1: The primary is on Tuesday, so get out there and vote. 479 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 1: And Helen, I hope to have you back on when 480 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 1: you are mayor. 481 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Danielle, and I'm so glad to 482 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 2: be on the Woka of Daily, So thank. 483 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 1: You for having me, thank you for joining. That is 484 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,720 Speaker 1: it for me today, dear friends on woke a app 485 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 1: as always power to the people and to all the people. Power, 486 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.