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Speaker 1: So today we have a in depth interview with a

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Speaker 3: Nuri Martinez, Gilcidio, Kevin de Leone and president of the

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Speaker 3: And for those living outside of Los Angeles or even

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Speaker 1: And prior to council Member Kevin de Leon being in office,

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Speaker 1: Huado candidate for Council District fourteen. If elected, she would

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Speaker 3: Of La Isabelle Hrado is a tenant's rights attorney, an

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Speaker 3: lookout what our radio Isabel Hurado. Please introduce yourself for

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Speaker 4: Hi am Isabelle Herado.

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Speaker 5: I'm running for La City Council District fourteen here in

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Speaker 5: Or the day that he announced his coworkers that my

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Speaker 5: It was, you know, there was a shootout the other

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Speaker 3: It's an LA story through and through, like from beginning

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, take notes, take notes, that's fantastic,

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Speaker 1: that's amazing, And I really love your background in tenant's

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Speaker 3: It's such an important issue here in LA I mean,

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Speaker 3: I mean, Highland Park has experienced so much gentrification, so

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Speaker 5: I never thought I was gonna run for office, right.

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Speaker 5: I'm a big a worker bee. I like to be

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Speaker 4: I swear we could do better, right, And.

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Speaker 5: We needed people that are from our communities that have

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Speaker 5: we've seen what that does, like with other council members,

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Speaker 4: Go with it, then it's just not our time.

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Speaker 5: And fortunately, and surprisingly it really did catch out because

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Speaker 1: Let's give some context for the listeners. There was a

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Speaker 1: hope you're enjoying this interview. Stay tuned.

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Speaker 2: We're back and we hope you enjoyed the rest of

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Speaker 1: Walk us through that tell us more about primary to now.

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Speaker 5: Oh man, okay, yes, so originally there were like thirteen

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Speaker 4: And then it was a field of eight.

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Speaker 5: We ran against an assembly member Miguel Santiago, assembly Member

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Speaker 4: Some of them outspent us almost four to one.

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Speaker 3: Your story as far as running for city council is

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Speaker 3: not that different from Aisis Hernandez, who also was a

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Speaker 3: And I'm curious, why do you think that people are

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Speaker 3: gravitating towards you and your campaign? Of course, the door

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Speaker 2: Big part of it.

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Speaker 3: But what about your platform is really drawing in the voters?

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Speaker 4: Do you think?

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think people in these districts that are

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Speaker 5: I grew up on the other end. But we've seen

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Speaker 5: all the same age here. We've seen all those changes.

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Speaker 5: Especially you've been here, you've seen it and you can't

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Speaker 5: see is happening, and instead we're continually being sold out,

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Speaker 5: that's the bare minimum. You can't even ask for that,

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Speaker 5: and they're just like someone who shows up. And it's

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Speaker 5: like all of these things that people ask for are

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Speaker 5: Being on top, I was like meeting people and listening

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Speaker 5: the whole thing that I think when you're in it

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Speaker 4: And they're like, yah, basa, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, m h yeah, let's talk about that. Let's zoom

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Speaker 1: also so important. Can you break that down for us?

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Speaker 5: Yes, sure, yes, City of La it's huge. Either are

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Speaker 4: So the city is huge.

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Speaker 5: It's vast, and each council district has about a quarter

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Speaker 5: million people probably more, and like a lot less of

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Speaker 5: them vote. But your city council members have a lot

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Speaker 5: of importance in your life. When you complain about something,

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Speaker 5: chances are you're the person responsible for that. Fixing that

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Speaker 5: problem is your council member. So there are a couple

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Speaker 5: is they got to provide you city services, and that's basic.

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Speaker 5: That's like the trash pickup, having trash receptacles on the street,

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Speaker 5: making sure the street is actually clean, the lights are on.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 5: The second thing is they get to decide what to

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Speaker 5: decide citywide policy, whether it has to do with rent control,

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Speaker 5: you know, these long term ordinances on how we build

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 5: And then the last thing that council members do is

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Speaker 4: The bully pulpit.

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Speaker 5: We are considered one of the most the largest progressive

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Speaker 4: We do here is what other folks copy.

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Speaker 5: So like, our rent stabilization ordinance is like one of

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Speaker 5: that when we make improvements, and with electing progressives like

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Speaker 5: able to pass the most progressive renter packet tenant protections,

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Speaker 3: Absolutely. I mean in your and in your campaigning and

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Speaker 3: in talking to people, how much educating do you think

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Speaker 3: It's an election year, so people are paying attention to

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean all time. Right, Like even my

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Speaker 5: cousin was like, I was like, who'd you vote for?

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Speaker 4: Mayor? He's like Gavin Newsom.

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Speaker 5: I was like, wrong, spot, yeah exactly.

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Speaker 4: I was like, Brad, No, that's wrong.

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Speaker 5: So, I mean it's a whole mish mash of what's

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Speaker 4: I mean, people have felt so jaded.

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Speaker 5: And you know, things are really hard and they feel

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Speaker 5: And now with the onset of a new Democratic presidential nominee,

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Speaker 5: which will just have an effect for down ballot races

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Speaker 5: like local. But yeah, people don't realize most things they

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the president is not going to be the person

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Speaker 1: In essence, you can't just call the White House. Now,

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Speaker 1: you can call your city council office and shop to

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and field deputies like it. And I feel like

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Speaker 3: a lot of Angelina's a don't know who their city

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Speaker 1: Right, yes, yeah, And question, do you think that the

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Speaker 1: or like how do you think it functions with fifteen

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Speaker 5: I mean, right now, you know, I think that I'm

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Speaker 5: for the increase of a representation in city council, right.

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Speaker 5: I do think a quarter million people is not is

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Speaker 5: a lot for one office to handle, right, and it

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Speaker 5: could only improve service delivery for the constituents and makes

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Speaker 5: it faster to answer the phone. You of like a

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Speaker 5: smaller group of people to contain, But I do think

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Speaker 5: we have to do a thoughtful expansion because the last

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Speaker 5: thing we want is for like, you know, one hundred

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Speaker 5: people or you know, seventy people on council and then

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Speaker 5: we're just like logjammed because and when we just want

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Speaker 5: idea scares me a little bit, but I definitely think

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Speaker 5: increased representation on council with more seats is needed.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: We have a quote from you that you're running for

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Speaker 3: city council because it's time for Los Angeles to prioritize seniors,

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Speaker 3: children and hardworking Angelino's. Can you tell us more about

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Speaker 3: this mission statement? And I am really I'm curious about

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Speaker 3: your thoughts specifically on seniors. Yeah, you know, there's not that.

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Speaker 3: There's not that many resources out there, I think for seniors,

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Speaker 3: especially when we think about like folks like their ability

438
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Speaker 3: to retire and having savings or having a pension, or

439
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Speaker 3: they're being like retirement homes that are accessible and affordable,

440
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Speaker 3: or at home care, things like that. I have an

441
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Speaker 3: elderly grandmother. We just celebrated her ninetieth birthday.

442
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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.

443
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Speaker 3: Yeah, amazing, and we have such a strong support system

444
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Speaker 3: for her. She has so many people who are there

445
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Speaker 3: for her all the time. But there are a lot

446
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Speaker 3: of seniors who are alone who don't have that. So

447
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Speaker 3: I'm so curious about your your thoughts on seniors in

448
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Speaker 3: LA specifically.

449
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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: No, I was raised by two of my grandma's on

451
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Speaker 5: my mom's side, to call them Lola's, and my Lola

452
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,080
Speaker 5: actually passed away in my house, like at eighty eight

453
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Speaker 5: years old, right, and my mom passed away there too,

454
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Speaker 5: So you know, Highland Park, I'm locked in. But yeah,

455
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 5: she had so much support, right, And one of the

456
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Speaker 5: most sympathetic groups of people that I represented when I

457
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 5: was in eviction defense attorney were seniors who were just

458
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,959
Speaker 5: falling into homelessness because they have no safety net, they

459
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 5: don't have the extended family. And those are the folks

460
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 5: that I ended up befriending because I was like, do

461
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 5: you need help moving? Like, you know, their list of

462
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 5: their network has shrunk significantly, they don't have that, and

463
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 5: thinking about how can we.

464
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Speaker 4: Meet their needs? And one of them is really housing.

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Speaker 5: Right, they'd be like, well, I want to go into

466
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Speaker 5: Section eight senior housing.

467
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:21,680
Speaker 4: We're like, okay, we'll try to figure that out.

468
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Speaker 5: And it's like, well, for Section eight, the list was

469
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,120
Speaker 5: closed for so long and the wait list was thirteen

470
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Speaker 5: years or fifteen years, right, And it was just like, well,

471
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Speaker 5: my client is what she's like sixty two or something,

472
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Speaker 5: And it's like, well, for some of these seniors, they

473
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,199
Speaker 5: would have had to apply for senior housing when they

474
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 5: weren't even a senior, so they wouldn't even.

475
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Speaker 4: Qualify, right.

476
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Speaker 5: And when you get off that list, it'll maybe be

477
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Speaker 5: in a different location where you know, you you make

478
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 5: your family, like you create your chosen family, right, who

479
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 5: will take you to church or you know, take you

480
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 5: to the doctor. But now the place you applied for

481
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,439
Speaker 5: thirteen years ago is like in a different part of

482
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Speaker 5: the neighborhood, and it's almost like a constructive eviction of like,

483
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Speaker 5: if people.

484
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Speaker 4: Don't have their network of support near the.

485
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Speaker 5: Place that they live, the chances of them surviving in

486
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,199
Speaker 5: that new place is really really tough. And so I

487
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 5: think renter protections and how is it building, like more

488
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 5: affordable housing is definitely needed. But also and I think

489
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 5: that's working with the state legislature too, because even I

490
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,320
Speaker 5: have one friend whose mom needs to go into like

491
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 5: assisted living, and if you who's like a former you know,

492
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 5: had a good job, and it's like five thousand dollars

493
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 5: a month for them to stay there, right, and that's

494
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 5: not cheap. I mean that in part was why my

495
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,680
Speaker 5: grandma stayed at our house because we had so many

496
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:52,879
Speaker 5: people helping. But still it's like it is so unaffordable

497
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Speaker 5: to be an old person in this nation, but here

498
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Speaker 5: in La Right. But all the things we work towards

499
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,360
Speaker 5: on this campaign, whether it's rent or protection to keep

500
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 5: them house, transportation, improving the sidewalks so that they don't

501
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:11,360
Speaker 5: trip and fall, you know, and making sure our recreation

502
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 5: of parks are accessible to them, right, whether it's having

503
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 5: more chess tables, you know, but like shade, right, like

504
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 5: so much of our parks are so beautiful but unusable

505
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 5: because ninety percent of the year it's a hot, hot

506
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 5: heat out there, right, But if we had more tree

507
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 5: canopy and programming, then that would be great.

508
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Speaker 4: Yeah.

509
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Speaker 3: Absolutely. I remember once I was it was after homecoming

510
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 3: at USC. Actually, you know, it's impossible to get out

511
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 3: of there, so me and my mom like walked and

512
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 3: we took the bus back to my grandma's house. And

513
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 3: it was dark, it was late at night, and there

514
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 3: was this little, little, little old lady waiting at the

515
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 3: bus stop and she got onto the bus by herself.

516
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 3: And I remember my mom saying like, oh that like that, like, yeah,

517
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 3: poor old woman. And I said, but you know what,

518
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 3: isn't it great that there's a running bus with lights

519
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 3: and air conditioning and that she can get around? Yeah,

520
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 3: you know, and so on that note, I'm also curious about,

521
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,680
Speaker 3: like your thoughts even on like public transportation. People talk

522
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 3: a lot of shit about LA and getting around and

523
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 3: the traffic and public transpot but there's a lot of

524
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,400
Speaker 3: work being done, right, you know, And so even things

525
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 3: like that and just getting around in this city.

526
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean from nineteen eighty nine till today, the

527
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 5: public transit system has much improved, right, and I think

528
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 5: we're getting more federal moneies to increase connectivity with all

529
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 5: our public transit options on rail, and we've have some

530
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 5: huge improvements. A lot of our public transit does go

531
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Speaker 5: through CD fourteen. We got new stations there. If you've

532
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 5: seen the beautiful like little Tokyo Station Broadway, like, it's

533
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 5: just all of these when the Regional Connector, it's just

534
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 5: all so beautiful. When that was unveiled, and I'm a

535
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 5: big advocate for public transit. I my mom had epilepsy

536
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 5: and so she had a seizure and her license actually

537
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 5: got taken away. So she had to take the bus

538
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 5: every single day to downtown for a while. And that

539
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 5: was when I learned, like, you know, that was just her,

540
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 5: that was her daily existence. So I was like, oh, yeah,

541
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 5: bus is an option. And I did not want to

542
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 5: learn how to drive. I only learned to drive when

543
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 5: I was pregnant because I had to. But I was

544
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 5: just taking the bus everywhere, and at one point my

545
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 5: car broke down and I had to take the bus

546
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 5: all the way to UCLA, which was like a mess

547
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 5: because it's during finals. But I was able to do

548
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 5: it right. But there are definitely, you know, some gaps

549
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 5: in what our public transit has to offer, especially for

550
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 5: thinking about this no car Olympics. You know, I'm just

551
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 5: all like, m Okay, we got a lot.

552
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 4: Of work to do, right, Yeah.

553
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: I mean you're obviously campaigning, we're hoping you're elected, thank you.

554
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 1: So just if you could like imagine project right you're elected,

555
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty eight Olympics, Like, how do you foresee

556
00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 1: Los Angeles actually hosting the Olympics when there's like hiring freeze,

557
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: there's different bureaucratic things in place, So you know, I

558
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: think that Angelina's have questions, Like there's an excitement about

559
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: the Olympics coming here, but there's also worry right about

560
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:17,719
Speaker 1: what that's going to do to gentrification, what it's going

561
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: to look like for a non housed population that's very

562
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: big here in Los Angeles. So how do you see

563
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 1: that actually playing out? If you can just imagine it like.

564
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Speaker 5: In the best circumstances, you know, that's how I you know,

565
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 5: like to be hopeful and imagine it. You know, I'm

566
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 5: just thinking, like, this is a huge opportunity for us

567
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 5: to make investments in our city. With urgency and with

568
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 5: additional funds and using a critical eye making sure the

569
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 5: city is accountable and how we spend that and at

570
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 5: the end of the day, spending in the moneys that

571
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 5: we get should be used to like attack our pressing

572
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 5: issues that are already in our city. Homelessness, affordable housing,

573
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 5: you know, public transit. All of those things are what

574
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,719
Speaker 5: we need to do in order to be ready. Like

575
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 5: I think part of that equation and our broken city

576
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 5: budget has to do like how are we bringing money

577
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 5: into the city to make sure we can pay for

578
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 5: our city services. I think it's sixteen take sixteen years

579
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 5: for a tree to get trimmed right now if it's

580
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 5: on public city property.

581
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: Wow?

582
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, And seven years for a sidewalk to be repaired

583
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 5: short if it's a handicapped but it's like maybe four.

584
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 5: Like it's just like we're not And then like our

585
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 5: street lights all downtown are out. I don't know if

586
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 5: you've seen the sixteenth Bridge that night. Less than one

587
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 5: percent of our city budget goes to street lighting though. Wow,

588
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 5: So it's like, how are we gonna do any of this?

589
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 5: We're attracting people to a city that has no lights.

590
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Speaker 4: That's fabulous.

591
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 5: So to put it very interesting, this is just like

592
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 5: so bringing them we got to figure out. So for me,

593
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 5: it's like bringing back downtown and revitalizing it because there's

594
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 5: so many sports sites that are around that, and investing

595
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 5: back into it so it's a lively place to be,

596
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 5: and testing out our transportation public transit pilot programs down

597
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 5: there so that it can be like a walkable space.

598
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 4: Right.

599
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So putting that into context for those that don't know,

600
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,280
Speaker 1: are n'tfamiliar with how it works. But the city council work.

601
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: They vote on the budget, right, so this like what

602
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: you're saying is, oh, public lighting, it uses less than

603
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: one percent of the city budget. Well, the city council

604
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 1: is actually voting for that, and it's the budget proposed

605
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 1: by the mayor. Yeah, right, So those are all the

606
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: different piece moving pieces. So it's not just let's fix

607
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: the lights. It's okay, let's get people in there that

608
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: are going to vote for the budgets, right, that are

609
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Speaker 1: going to give us the changes that we want in

610
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Speaker 1: the city exactly exactly.

611
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Speaker 5: And you know, we have folks that are challenging the

612
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 5: budget and not just like giving it the rubber stamp

613
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 5: of approval because Why is it taken so long for

614
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 5: these things? These are our primary jobs as council members.

615
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 5: Is like, that's like it's a customer service thing, right,

616
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 5: But we don't have enough funds or so they say

617
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 5: to do the basic things that we were supposed to do, right,

618
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Speaker 5: And I think, you know, trying to refocus our energies

619
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Speaker 5: on that. And we're trying to build a progressive block

620
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 5: on council with Nitya Ugo and Unicis and when we

621
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 5: have more people then we can really you know, stop

622
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 5: tinkering with change and actually push for the get the

623
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Speaker 5: radical wins and changes that we desperately.

624
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Speaker 4: Want and need. You know.

625
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I hadn't considered, right, like lighting

626
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 3: being such a big issue with in relation to budgets

627
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 3: in the city council, but it really is. And I

628
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 3: live downtown and it is very dark downtown, and so

629
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Speaker 3: when people talk about down downtown being scary or like

630
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 3: a ghost town or zombie land, like, that's part of it. Yeah,

631
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 3: there's not enough lighting. So if the city Council historically

632
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 3: is really not spending enough on lighting, what do you

633
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 3: think they're spending too much on.

634
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 5: I think they're spending too much on a lot of things.

635
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 5: You know that that I think, you know, we have

636
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 5: to pay out all these like civil lawsuits. We're paying

637
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 5: out too much for helicopters, right. I think we have

638
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 5: eighteen helicopters in the city and their budget is more

639
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 5: than the budget for our Children, Families and Youth department.

640
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 4: Wow.

641
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 5: And so a budget is a reflection of your priorities, right,

642
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 5: and so we want to make sure that our budget

643
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 5: reflects our values. And for me, the values that folks

644
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 5: are saying at the doors is that we want we

645
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 5: want our city services. We want the lighting, we want

646
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 5: the programming at the park so we feel safe. We

647
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 5: want public bathroom so that folks don't just have to

648
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 5: go out on the street. Right, if they had a

649
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 5: place to go, then they wouldn't be out there.

650
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, they'd have enough.

651
00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 5: You know, why is there so much trash on this

652
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 5: street because the city's not providing enough trash bins. You know,

653
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 5: in skid Row there was a fight to get twelve

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Speaker 5: trash bins there. It took years for them to get

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Speaker 5: a public restroom.

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Speaker 4: It's just like all of.

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Speaker 5: These things of like, well, if you don't give people

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Speaker 5: their city services, then sure it's going to be out there,

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Speaker 5: and so I think it's just making sure that we

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Speaker 5: have folks with the right values and willing to prioritize

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Speaker 5: that and stand up to it when the big decisions

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Speaker 5: come is important.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's such these are like very basic humane resources. Hey,

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Speaker 3: and putting it in perspective, a lot of other countries

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Speaker 3: have public restrooms. Here you have to go into a business,

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Speaker 3: buy something and then maybe they'll let you use the restroom.

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Speaker 3: In Mexico City they have public restrooms. In London they

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Speaker 3: have urinals, yeah, like out in the main squares, you know.

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Speaker 3: And so we just we don't have these things that

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Speaker 3: most other places have caught on, like their necessities to

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Speaker 3: keep a society functioning and clean.

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Speaker 4: Yeah and clean. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: We are in the midst of a public health crisis

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Speaker 5: as well, right, and so making sure a city is

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Speaker 5: clean is super important, clean and safe, but having public

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Speaker 5: restrooms is part of that. I think the number of

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Speaker 5: public restrooms in the city of la It was like

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Speaker 5: in the single digits, and you're like, we have fifteen

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Speaker 5: council districts and each of them have a quarter million people,

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Speaker 5: so that's like over a millions and millions of people

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Speaker 5: and only like maybe nine bathrooms right right, the math

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Speaker 5: eighte math and on that one. So if elected, you

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Speaker 5: would be the first woman to represent CD fourteen. How well, One,

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Speaker 5: that's incredible if that happens.

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Speaker 1: But two, like, how do you think given your background,

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Speaker 1: given your values, and you know, if elected, being the

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Speaker 1: first woman would help the residents the constituents of c

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Speaker 1: D fourteen.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it is an incredible honor, you know, if I

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Speaker 5: would be the first, you know, if that were to happen,

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Speaker 5: I'd be so honored by that. But I just think

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Speaker 5: like the most informative experiences for me have just been

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Speaker 5: raised by, like, you know, the tribe of women that

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Speaker 5: have just supported me right all through growing up, whether

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Speaker 5: it was my grandma's or my aunties. I remember when

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Speaker 5: I was pregnant and I was like, I don't know

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Speaker 5: what to do, and my auntie that was a single mom,

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Speaker 5: was just like, you can do this. We got you,

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Speaker 5: and like, you know, you've you have to be It's

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Speaker 5: like all the tough stuff like having to be resilient

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Speaker 5: and be resourceful and figure out how to make a

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Speaker 5: dollar into one hundred out of nowhere have like made

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Speaker 5: me resilient for this role like a guy like my opponent.

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Speaker 5: I've met him like a million times already. So if

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Speaker 5: we're gonna be somewhere, he's gonna tell me something. I

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Speaker 5: have no problem standing.

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Speaker 4: Up to that full right, But.

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Speaker 5: So I don't know, I feel like being raised by

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Speaker 5: a tribe of women that are strong and bold and

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Speaker 5: resilient also taught me how to work with others, how

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Speaker 5: to listen, how it's not just about your individual success,

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Speaker 5: it's about the collective success, and how to be a

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Speaker 5: team player at the end of the day, Like counsel

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Speaker 5: is a team sport. You need there are fifteen and

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Speaker 5: you need eight votes for what you want to get through.

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Speaker 5: And it's like, okay, well I got to do that,

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Speaker 5: but I got to do it for a quarter million people,

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Speaker 5: but have to juggle that by getting seven yeses as well,

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Speaker 5: and like, how can we do that? And so for me,

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Speaker 5: you know, I've always seen myself as like a convener

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Speaker 5: and a mediator and a person that can bring unlikely

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Speaker 5: parties to gather and build coalitions.

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Speaker 4: To make things work.

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Speaker 5: You know, I always say that, Like, you know, for me,

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Speaker 5: it's like, yeah, my family is a first place that

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Speaker 5: I learned to organize and maybe we all don't. You know,

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Speaker 5: we don't talk every day, all of us, but I

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Speaker 5: definitely bring people together for Christmas dinner and we break

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Speaker 5: bread with one another. Right, and then we can have

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Speaker 5: those hard conversations and hopefully emerge from them and get

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Speaker 5: something get something done for the betterment of the group.

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Speaker 3: Right fabulous quick like takeaways and like action steps for

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Speaker 3: our listeners.

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Speaker 4: Right. Yes.

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Speaker 3: In addition to voting for their city council person in

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Speaker 3: this election, how else can folks continue to get involved

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Speaker 3: and stay in touch with their city council, including like

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Speaker 3: the value of public comment. You can literally show up

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Speaker 3: to a city council meeting, yes, and address the entire

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Speaker 3: city council in person directly.

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Speaker 4: Yes, you can.

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Speaker 5: You can either show up in person or you can

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Speaker 5: call in. You can check out the agendas for city

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Speaker 5: council meetings ahead of time and see what issues are before.

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Speaker 4: Your council members.

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Speaker 5: In order to show up, you go to city Hall

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Speaker 5: and you go to the kiosk and fill something out,

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Speaker 5: or you can call in and some depending on what

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Speaker 5: the agenda item is, that's what you sign up for.

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Speaker 5: They also have other committees, so city council also has

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Speaker 5: committees that are focused on certain topics like recreation and parks, personnel,

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Speaker 5: housing and hopelessness, and planning and land use management which

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Speaker 5: is about what things are built in your neighborhood, which

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Speaker 5: is a really really fun one for all the nerds

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Speaker 5: out there. But you can also go there and go

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Speaker 5: have public comment there. The other thing which you both

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Speaker 5: mentioned is that city council offices have things called field deputies,

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Speaker 5: which are basically your neighborhood government contact, right that's your

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Speaker 5: point of contact for like, if you have an issue

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Speaker 5: with DWP, like your bill is over like they've overbilled you,

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Speaker 5: you can actually talk to them about it and have

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Speaker 5: them contact the department. Their job is to interface with

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Speaker 5: the public and with the departments to make sure that

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Speaker 5: they work and respond to you and meet you in

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Speaker 5: the communities or even if you want to host an event,

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Speaker 5: they can help you out with that. So those are

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Speaker 5: the various touch points for how people can reach their

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Speaker 5: council members right now.

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Speaker 1: Amazing. And if folks want to contribute to your campaign

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Speaker 1: or volunteer, how can they do that?

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Speaker 5: You know, you can check out our website Isabelherado dot la.

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Speaker 5: You know, donations are welcome. This is a people powered campaign.

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Speaker 5: Our money goes to the people that work for us

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Speaker 5: right we do. Most all of our money doesn't go

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Speaker 5: to like fancy mealers. It goes to door knockers who

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Speaker 5: have one on one conversations. And we knocked on eighty

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Speaker 5: thousand doors in the primary. We're trying to do one

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Speaker 5: hundred for November because we want to prioritize meeting meeting

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Speaker 5: folks where they're at right. And then we have various

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Speaker 5: volunteer opportunities postcarding, on door knocking, We're going to have

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Speaker 5: phone and text banking very very soon. But you know,

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Speaker 5: if you have any other talents, definitely come visit our

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Speaker 5: website bit dot lea slash, CD fourteen volunteer. The last

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Speaker 5: thing is you can find us on socials isabel Herado, La, Instagram, TikTok,

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Speaker 5: I don't know what else exists, Facebook, X.

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Speaker 3: All of the things awesome. Isabelle. Thank you so much

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Speaker 3: for joining us today. It's been really cool learning about

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Speaker 3: you as an individual but also as a candidate and

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Speaker 3: hearing more about your campaign. I know this is going

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Speaker 3: to be super informative for a lot of our listeners

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Speaker 3: out there who do live in La awesome, So thank

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Speaker 3: you once again, thank.

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