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Speaker 2: From futuro media, It's Latino Usa. I'm Maria no Josa today.

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Speaker 2: A conversation with California's first Latino Senator, Alex Badiya. Alex

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Speaker 2: Badilla might not have become a politician had it not

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Speaker 2: Badiya is making history. On January twentieth, Vice President Kamala

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Speaker 2: Badilla was born and raised in the working class, largely

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

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

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Speaker 4: Senator Kamala D. Harris of California.

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Speaker 2: Today, in our extended conversation with Alex Badiya, we look

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 2: So where are you right now?

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Speaker 5: Actually?

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Speaker 5: Where are you sure?

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Speaker 1: I am sitting at my desk in the heart Senate

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Speaker 2: After what we've just lived through on January sixth, I

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Speaker 1: I was not sworn in until January twentieth, so, like

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Speaker 5: No, We're not going to let them win.

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Speaker 1: My experience in my family's journey is just representative of

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Speaker 2: Well, Senator, I'm actually going to ask you if you

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Speaker 1: I remember Proposition by eighty seven, you know, pretty damn well,

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Speaker 2: They keep coming, two million illegal immigrants in California.

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Speaker 4: The federal government won't stop them at the border, yet

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Speaker 1: For people who were in California at the time, they

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Speaker 2: You should know that my own mother and sister in

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Speaker 1: And that moment changed me and many others of my generation,

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Speaker 2: All right, So it's nineteen ninety nine. You became the

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Speaker 5: History, and the first Latino, the first Latino.

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Speaker 2: But you know there were people like Antonio Vierragosa, Gilselllo.

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Speaker 1: Still yeah, no, And when I first ran for city council,

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Speaker 2: We're going to fast forward to twenty fourteen, and that's

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Speaker 2: So during this time, actually the state of California adds

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Speaker 6: Vote registration as a process, far too often in our

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Speaker 5: And to vote. Well.

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Speaker 1: Again, it kind of goes back to those observations during

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Speaker 5: A lot of people who are eligible were just not registered.

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Speaker 1: So when I was sworn in a Secretary of State,

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Speaker 1: Oregon beat us to the punch. California was the second

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Speaker 2: Coming up on Latino USA. We asked Senator Bavilla about

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Speaker 2: In two thousand and nine, Gavin Newsom was the mayor

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Speaker 1: That's a big question. Is probably multiple reasons for why

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Speaker 1: So maybe the decade of the nineties, it's what mobilized us.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people don't realize thirty percent of Latinos

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Speaker 2: As a senator, you did sponsor this bill that is

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Speaker 2: Given that you have spent so much time in your

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Speaker 5: It's enraging.

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Speaker 1: The Latino community today would not be where we are

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Speaker 2: Speaking of twenty twenty one, I'm really I'm having a moment.

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Speaker 1: There's definitely the list that my wife and I have

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Speaker 2: So would you say that on most days you're feeling

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Speaker 2: Well, Senator Alex Badia, you do have a lot of

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for speaking with me on Latino USA.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Thank you. Continued to stay safe, everybody.

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Speaker 2: On April twentieth, Alex Badia announced his intention to seek

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Speaker 2: a full term as Senator. If he's successful, Badiya would

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Speaker 2: US Senate. This episode was produced by Julia Rocha with

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Speaker 2: help from Maries Kinca and Oscarteleon. It was edited by

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Speaker 2: Andrea Lopez Gruslo. The Latino USA team includes Niel Macis,

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Speaker 2: editor is Louis Luna. Our theme music was composed by

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Speaker 2: Sane Robinos. If you like the music you heard on

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Speaker 2: this episode, stop by Latinousa dot org and check out

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Speaker 2: our weekly Spotify playlist. I'm your host and executive producer

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Speaker 2: Maria Novosa. Join us again on our next episode, and

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Speaker 2: in the meantime, I'll see you on all of our

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Speaker 5: Bye.

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Speaker 2: one thousand dollars. I'm Maria nor Josa. Next time on

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Speaker 2: Latino USA, we meet some of the Latinos and Latinas

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Speaker 2: working on the most recent and historic mission to Mars.

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Speaker 5: The moment we landed it was super emotional because after

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Speaker 5: so many years, our baby was finally on the surface

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Speaker 5: of Mars.

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Speaker 2: That's next time on Latino USA,