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Speaker 1: This is Latino USA, the Radio Journal of News and

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Speaker 1: Kurturre Latino US. Latin Latino USA. I'm Maria Inojosa. We

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Speaker 1: bring you stories that are underreported but that mattered to you,

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Speaker 1: I'm Maria ino jossa Ola Latino USA. Listener, comstas, here's

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Speaker 1: an episode the Los Atchivos.

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Speaker 2: It was a physical, palpable observation of people power and

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Speaker 2: so for me and a lot of people in my generation,

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Speaker 2: you at that moment, I had no choice. I had

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Speaker 2: to engage. I had to get involved.

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Speaker 1: From Fudura Media and RX It's Latino USA. I'm Maria

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Speaker 1: Today a conversation with California's first Latino senator, Alex Badiya.

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Speaker 1: You know, anti immigrant hate can sometimes be productive. In

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Speaker 1: this case, Alex Badilla might not have become a politician

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Speaker 1: had it not been for anti immigrant hate in the

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Speaker 1: state where he was born and where he was raised

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Speaker 1: by Mexican immigrant parents. But Badiya took that hatred and

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Speaker 1: transformed it into action, and in the process made history.

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Speaker 1: On January twentieth, twenty twenty one, Vice President Kamala Harris

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Speaker 1: swore Alex Badilla in to fill the vacancy she left

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Speaker 1: in the Senate, and on that day, Badiya became the

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Speaker 1: first Latino senator ever to represent the state of California,

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Speaker 1: which is home to over thirty percent of all the

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Speaker 1: Latinos and Latinas who live in the United States. Alex

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Speaker 1: Badiyat was born and raised in the working class, largely

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Speaker 1: immigrant community of Pacoima, California, which is not far from

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles. His mother was a housekeeper and his dad

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Speaker 1: was a short bordered cook, both Mexican immigrants who arrived

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Speaker 1: in the US in the nineteen sixties. After attending Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles public schools, Alex Badiat earned a scholarship to attend MIT,

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Speaker 1: where he studied to become an engineer. His future seemed clear,

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Speaker 1: but in nineteen ninety four, the year he graduated from college,

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Speaker 1: his life would take a different turn.

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Speaker 3: California's Proposition one eighty seven attempts to solve the state's

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Speaker 3: illegal immigration problem by denying services like education and non

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Speaker 4: Proposition one eighty seven the very controversial one in California, which.

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Speaker 5: Would virtually cut off all public services except the emergency

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Speaker 1: Proposition one eighty seven, a measure that sought to prohibit

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Speaker 1: in California, was on the ballot. By the YEP, along

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Speaker 1: with thousands of other young Latinos and Latinas in California

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Speaker 1: rose up in protest. It was a moment which would

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Speaker 1: to run for public office. Only four years later, in

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, by the v was elected to the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles City Council and then became its youngest and

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Speaker 1: first Latino president. In two thousand and six, he won

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Speaker 1: a seat in the state Senate, where he served for

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Speaker 1: two terms until twenty fourteen. While in California's Senate, his

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Speaker 1: higher education. In twenty fourteen, Badiya was elected Secretary of State,

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Speaker 1: a role he kept until December of twenty twenty, when

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Speaker 1: Governor Gavin Newsom appointed him to fill Kamala Harris's seat

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Speaker 1: in the Senate.

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Speaker 4: The chair lays before the Senate two certificates of election

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Speaker 4: to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of former

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Speaker 4: Senator Kamala D. Harris of California.

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Speaker 1: Today, in our extended conversation with Alex Badiya, we look

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Speaker 1: at why, among other things, it's taken so long for

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Speaker 1: Latino to represent California in the Senate. Senator Alex Badiya,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Latino, USA.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: So where are you right now?

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Speaker 2: Actually?

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Speaker 1: Can you just kind of tell me describe to me

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Speaker 1: what you see around you?

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Speaker 2: Where are you sure? I am sitting at my desk

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Speaker 1: After what we've just lived through on January sixth, I

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Speaker 2: Do I feel safe? The answer is yes. I was

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Speaker 2: I saw the events unfolding in real time on television

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Speaker 2: the end of the day, my dad, there's two options.

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Speaker 2: We either say, oh that's too much, I give up,

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Speaker 2: not going to let them win. My experience in my

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Speaker 2: family's journey is just representative of so many others, millions

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Speaker 1: Well, Senator, I'm actually going to ask you if you

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Speaker 1: wouldn't mind, if you can go back to the young

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Speaker 2: I remember proposition by eighty seven, you know, pretty damn well,

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Speaker 2: and here's the stage for it. You know, growing up

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Speaker 2: what seem like every single day as a cook, watching

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Speaker 2: good education. That was the key to a better future,

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Speaker 2: you know, attending what many people would consider not the

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Speaker 2: And then I get home because I graduated from college

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Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety four. So I get home that summer,

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Speaker 2: trying to figure out my career path that fall, and

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Speaker 2: what do I see on television? I see ads featuring

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Speaker 2: and it's the fault of families like yours, and it's

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Speaker 1: Two million illegal immigrants in California.

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Speaker 6: The federal government won't stop them at the border, yet

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Speaker 6: requires us to pay billions to take care of them.

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Speaker 2: For people who were in California at the time, they

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Speaker 2: tell you one of the moment that the light bulb

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Speaker 2: against Prop One eighty seven. It was a physical, palpable

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Speaker 2: that moment I had no choice. I had to engage,

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Speaker 2: decades on career now in public service, registering voters, getting

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Speaker 1: You should know that my own mother and sister in

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Speaker 1: Chicago choose to become American citizens because of what was

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Speaker 2: And that moment changed me and so many others of

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Speaker 2: you have to commit completely becoming citizens. And my parents

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Speaker 2: the vote and they could vote. And I knew the

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Speaker 2: And so we weren't realizing our political power at that time.

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Speaker 2: And I knew that engaging in the political process, we

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Speaker 1: All right, so it's nineteen ninety nine. You became the

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Speaker 2: History, and the first Latino, the first Latino.

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Speaker 1: But you know there were people like Antonio vier Ragosa, Gilsevillo.

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Speaker 1: wondering if you can take us to that, that moment

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Speaker 1: of hope that was also coupled with your rage.

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Speaker 2: Still yeah, no. And when I first ran for city council,

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Speaker 2: Get their blessing. Then I went to go see my Paderno,

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Speaker 2: one of my dad's brothers, is my Patarino, to get

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Speaker 2: So for nine months I'm out there knocking on doors.

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Speaker 2: I went to see him the next morning. Nino Nino ganamos,

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Speaker 2: would I could complete it. So he was all for

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Speaker 2: acknowledging my first election to the city council. But he

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Speaker 2: doesn't help improve anybody's lives. It's what you do with

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Speaker 2: the opportunity. So for all the things you ran on,

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Speaker 2: And so I felt the responsibility to make sure that

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Speaker 2: to more significant leadership.

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Speaker 1: We're going to fast forward to twenty fourteen, and that's

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Speaker 1: when you're sworn in as California's first Latino Secretary of state.

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Speaker 1: So during this time, actually the state of California adds

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Speaker 1: more than four million voters. And this is a result

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Speaker 1: of legislation that you backed that registers Californians to vote

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Speaker 1: when they get their driver's license.

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Speaker 2: Vote registration as a process, far too often in our

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Speaker 2: the burden is on the citizen to register and to vote. Well, again,

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Speaker 2: it kind of goes back to those observations during that

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Speaker 1: Coming up on Latino USA. We asked Senator Pavilla about

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Speaker 1: not yes. Hey, we're back and we're going to continue

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine what the mom would be thinking now?

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Speaker 6: As I ask you if you want to be the

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Speaker 2: You, sirius, this is the official, this is the ass brother,

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Speaker 7: Ken tell you how many pancakes my dad clipped or

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Speaker 2: Thing you want. You got to say yes though, muh,

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Speaker 1: In two thousand and nine, Gavin Newsom was the mayor

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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, look, I appreciate the question. I agree we

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Speaker 2: in all levels of leadership. In California's population, nearly forty

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Speaker 2: It's making sure that those relationships are built and then

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Speaker 1: Considering the power of Latino and Latina voters in the

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Speaker 2: Now, that's a big question. Is probably multiple reasons for

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Speaker 2: In many ways, you go back to the one eighty

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Speaker 2: So maybe the decade of the nineties, it's what mobilized us.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people don't realize thirty percent of Latinos

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Speaker 2: We stand up, We speak up in the context also

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Speaker 2: We cannot in good conscience praise them as essential workers

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Speaker 1: As a senator, you did sponsor this bill that is

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Speaker 1: But you know, the criticism is that in your eight

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think it's a pretty straightforward answer. Immigration

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Speaker 1: Given that you have spent so much time in your

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Speaker 5: Georgia's Republican Governor, Brian camp has signed a sweeping elections

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Speaker 2: It's enraging the Latino community today. Would not be where

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Speaker 1: Sisyphus is pretty high and it's.

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Speaker 2: Going to be a well, no, it's a look. I

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Speaker 2: issues are so important and to times a lot of

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Speaker 2: times the work is not easy, but you have to

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Speaker 2: know that's what we're here to do, to fight each

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Speaker 2: and every day.

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Speaker 1: Well, Senator Alex Badia, you do have a lot of

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Speaker 1: work to do, so we'll let you get back to it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for speaking with me on Latino USA.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you. Continued to stay safe everybody.

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Speaker 1: On April twentieth, Alex Badia announced his intention to seek

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Speaker 1: a full term as Senator. If he's successful, Badiya would

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Speaker 1: become the first Latino elected to represent California in the

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Speaker 1: US Senate. This episode was produced by Julia Rocha with

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Speaker 1: help from Maries Kinka and Oscar de Leon. It was

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Speaker 1: edited by Andrea Lopez Cruzado. It was mixed by Julia Caruso.

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Speaker 1: The Latino USA team includes Victoria Strada, Renaldo Leanos Junior,

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Speaker 1: Gioriman Marquez, Marta Martinez, Mike Sargent, Your Saudi and Nancy Trujillo.

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Speaker 1: Ernileei Ramirez is our co executive producer. Our director of

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Speaker 1: Engineering is Stephanie Lebau. Additional engineering support by Gabriel Lebiez

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Speaker 1: and JJ Carubin. Our marketing manager is Luis Luna. Our

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Speaker 1: theme music was composed by Saniel Rubinos. I'm your host

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Speaker 1: and executive producer Marieo Rosa. Join us again on our

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Speaker 1: next episode. In the meantime, I'll see you on social

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Speaker 1: media and as always, not te bayes astralla proxima chaou.

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Speaker 6: Latino USA is made possible in part by the John D.

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Speaker 6: And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Ford Foundation, working with

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Speaker 6: visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide, and

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Speaker 6: funding for Latino USA is. Coverage of a culture of

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Speaker 6: Health is made possible in part by a grant from

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Speaker 6: the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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Speaker 1: Dude, I had this lady, I don't know what event

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Speaker 1: I was doing, and she was like, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: can you just say note y? Yes? And I'm like, damn,

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Speaker 1: I need to start charging. You know, if you want

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Speaker 1: a personal note y, yes, We'll charge one thousand dollars