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Speaker 1: Radio Radio Radio Commies a Myth and Bullshit, a radiophonic

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Speaker 1: novella local Radio hosted by Malamoo Loca Mortres. Let me

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Speaker 1: start Ala La Loca Mortis, Welcome to Season four of

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Speaker 1: Local Radio Rosas Wanted for Crimes against the Patriarchy. Look

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Speaker 1: At a Radio is a radiophonic novella archiving the brilliance

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Speaker 1: and legacies of women and fems of color. I'm Theosa

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Speaker 1: and I'm Mala, and we are Las Mammies of Myth

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Speaker 1: and Bullshit. Last local local radio radiophonic novela, which is

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Speaker 1: just a really extra way of saying a podcast. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back everyone, Welcome back seventy eight. It's a beautiful day.

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Speaker 1: We're so close to a hundred. I can't wait. We

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Speaker 1: should throw a party. I think that we should do

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Speaker 1: like an actual live show, like a taping kind of thing. Okay, yes,

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Speaker 1: I like this idea. I'm going to put that out there.

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Speaker 1: Keep your eyes and ears peeled to pay attention, because

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Speaker 1: we'll probably be announcing our centennial, a centennial extravaganza to celebrate. Yeah, girl,

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Speaker 1: damn we out here. I like that idea. That's cute.

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Speaker 1: Why not We'll do it do it? Yeah, any excuse

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Speaker 1: to throw a party. To be honest, we don't need

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Speaker 1: an excuse to throw a party, but it's nice to

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Speaker 1: have one. Absolutely as a reason to celebrate. Yes, speaking

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Speaker 1: of celebrating, Yes, speaking of celebrating, Yesterday, wash, Yesterday was

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Speaker 1: Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day. Yeah, by the time you'll listen,

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Speaker 1: it'll be a week from Valentine's Day. Um, but Valentine's Day.

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Speaker 1: It was cute. Yeah, it was cute. It was cute.

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Speaker 1: What did you do for Valentine's Day? Your couple, partner,

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Speaker 1: how did you celebrate? Okay, so we went to dinner

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Speaker 1: at this new Peruvian Japanese restaurant in downtown l A.

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Speaker 1: And I'll be honest, it with a little bit underwhelming.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not going to name the restaurant. Um, we

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Speaker 1: want your unfiltered like food critic like review. Well, okay,

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Speaker 1: so the thing with Fusion, like I love Fusions. I'm

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Speaker 1: like not like a purist because they're like Pruvians that

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Speaker 1: like it needs to be authentic, like whatever that means,

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Speaker 1: and like provings take their food very seriously. Like we've

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Speaker 1: been voted number one in Latin A Marian Killinary for

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Speaker 1: very serious. Um, and that has its pros and it

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Speaker 1: has its cons, right like cons Folks in Biddu like

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Speaker 1: if you're there, like you don't really see other restaurants

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Speaker 1: in Chile, there's restaurants that have there's different types of restaurant.

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Speaker 1: It's not just Chilean food, but it was just all

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Speaker 1: Prullian food. Exactly why would we need We're literally number one?

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Speaker 1: Why would we eat exactly exactly? Do actually appreciate the fusion?

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Speaker 1: So anyways, I went to this restaurant and it's um

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Speaker 1: Peruvian Japanese fusion, so that's like considered nick nicka food

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Speaker 1: and it was still underwhelming. Yeah that's upsetting. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. And that was for Valentine's Valentine's So of

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Speaker 1: course Hernando was like, well you picked the restaurant obviously,

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Speaker 1: of course obvious, Obviously it's my fault. And I'm like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, this is what this is what I

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Speaker 1: like about Valentine's Day for us at least, so like

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Speaker 1: we do date nights weekly, like, but we we tend

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Speaker 1: to like go to like our the spots that we love.

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Speaker 1: So I'm like, well it's Valentine's Day, let's go somewhere different,

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Speaker 1: that's fine. Um, for Valentine's Day, I watched All the Boys.

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Speaker 1: I love the four ps I Still Love You. So

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Speaker 1: we're not going to use spoilers right now because at

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Speaker 1: So if you haven't seen it, like, we won't spoil anything.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I'm going to generally talk about I'm

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Speaker 1: going to say that I'm team John agreed, Team John

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Speaker 1: all the way. Hell yeah, I'm team John Ambrose A

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Speaker 1: because I love his name, John Ambrose McCullin. It's a

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Speaker 1: nova name. I love it. It's perfect. And he's an

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Speaker 1: white dad, um Aiden from Sexon City Love. Whenever he's

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Speaker 1: Like he's long hair. He's just like a sweet, gentle

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Speaker 1: I think that she's hope. Like she's like, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: Her mother died right, she was raised by a white man.

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Speaker 1: You know, Like I appreciate Largine so she can do

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Speaker 1: no wrong. Team John Ambrose, That's all I gotta say.

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Speaker 1: hinge for meme content honestly, because there's it's like endless

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Speaker 1: he says, I don't care what your body looks like

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Speaker 1: like the image, the image of it is hysterical. That's

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Speaker 1: It's like what I can only look at so many

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Speaker 1: do so much of it. I'm unimpressed. I'm very unimpressed.

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Speaker 1: But I have made some good memes because of it,

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Speaker 1: so I guess it's worth it. We're on the apps

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Speaker 1: Do do do it? Oh my god, I would laugh

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Speaker 1: That could be yours. I could see like going wrong.

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Speaker 1: I'm very quickly on Hinge for the content, content creation.

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Speaker 1: I'm running by it, and I'll be like, but Mama said,

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Speaker 1: send a note home. I will send a fucking note home.

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Speaker 1: This is an assignment of podcast assignment, it's required. You

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Speaker 1: know what. I've actually never been on the apps, so

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Speaker 1: I there's a part of me that is curious. Obviously

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Speaker 1: And then within reason it makes sense. I guess it

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Speaker 1: on the app, we need it. What if he asked

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Speaker 1: me that, I'd be like funk. No, well that's different,

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Speaker 1: that's not the same at all. He doesn't have a

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Speaker 1: can be for women. That's an unfortunate reality. And it's

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Speaker 1: like the countries, if our home countries and the United States,

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Speaker 1: you know, they can worry about their own pr and

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Speaker 1: it's not you know, our fucking jobs to make our

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Speaker 1: home countries look good when they're sucking up and when

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Speaker 1: men in our communities are being total fucking genocidal maniacs

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Speaker 1: literally literally, you know, your your image in the public

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Speaker 1: Mexican men all fucking day as long as these stories

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Speaker 1: continue to come out. I do not care. I don't care.

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Speaker 1: I second that second that, you know. And it's like

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Speaker 1: really upsetting when it's like a white supremacist like Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump makes a statement like, oh, Mexico sending over rapists

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Speaker 1: and murderers, and while that is not the profile of

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Speaker 1: the vast majority of immigrants, migrants, undocumented folks, refugees, what

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Speaker 1: whatever word we're using, right, um, it's also not possible

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Speaker 1: for me to sit here and say and defend Mexican

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Speaker 1: men when you have you know, an ingrid you know,

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Speaker 1: and there's just like countless cases, it's hard for me

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Speaker 1: to defend Mexican men against those types of statements when

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Speaker 1: they are behaving in these ways and committing these mass

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Speaker 1: acts of violence against women. So some food for that,

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Speaker 1: some food for that, do better, alright, and so okay,

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Speaker 1: again there's no smooth transition, so we're just gonna you know,

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Speaker 1: pivot to our next topic. Um. So, for folks that

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Speaker 1: have seen or maybe you were there, we were at

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Speaker 1: UC Davis and we did a talk on sexual education,

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Speaker 1: sexuality myth busting, which titled oh my Sex while latin XT.

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Speaker 1: It was so fun. It was a lot of It

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Speaker 1: was a packed house. There were a lot of students there,

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Speaker 1: majority majority Latin X students. We met list like long

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Speaker 1: time listeners, we met new listeners. So it was just

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Speaker 1: an amazing experience. We love when we get to go

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Speaker 1: C Santa Barbara, So it's definitely it feels like very familiar. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and um, we want to thank the Multicultural Center, um,

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Speaker 1: the Women's Resource Center, there was like student retention center. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there were several different like you know bodies on campus

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Speaker 1: cal because it wasn't no NAPA, It wasn't just David's students.

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Speaker 1: There were alums, there were just community members, people from

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Speaker 1: j C's um. We hung out with Leslie of Viva Cosmetics.

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Speaker 1: different workshops. We've done from tech, from defense, local pistemologies,

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Speaker 1: but I stumble on my words a lot because bilingual

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Speaker 1: things like when we were in Sacramento, can you tell

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Speaker 1: them when that man talk to us? Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: this was so fucking funny. It like I cannot even

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Speaker 1: We saw the Capitol Building, which they just referred to

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Speaker 1: and he says out loud, he goes good looking women,

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Speaker 1: like period, good looking women. That's it, and then the

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Speaker 1: She what did you hear? Thought us on buenas done?

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Speaker 1: he just say though us it's down Buenas And he

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Speaker 1: but she heard it. All of my brain picked it

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Speaker 1: up in Spanish. Your brain, very confusing, your brain. Here's

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Speaker 1: street harassment in Spanish. So that was funny. So it's true,

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00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 1: it's trauma. Yeah, Okay, back to the Latinos in our lives. Anyway, anyway,

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Speaker 1: it was a funny story until now now it's set. Yeah, anyway,

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Speaker 1: all you look us. Let's hear y'all's questions. Oh yes,

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Speaker 1: sounds of my childhood. To be honest, same, I missed

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Speaker 1: this pit Bull, I know, I miss I missed the

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Speaker 1: pop now so pop. It really is very tragic, all right, Okay,

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Speaker 1: So our first question is how do you overcome fear

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Speaker 1: of putting yourself out there. I want to be a

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Speaker 1: writer who you just got to do it. You just

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Speaker 1: literally and that sounds super like trite, but you really

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Speaker 1: just have to do it. Do it. You have to

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Speaker 1: force yourself. You have to write. Like I think, when

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Speaker 1: we get afraid of writing, we stop writing. But then

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Speaker 1: that doesn't solve the writing part of it. So you

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Speaker 1: have you just have to write. Um and then I

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Speaker 1: think like, oh my computer died, Yeah, that's that's okay.

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Speaker 1: So I think a part of the fear of writing

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Speaker 1: is like rejection. Right if I pitch this, is it

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Speaker 1: going to get accepted? Am I gonna? Is it going

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Speaker 1: to find a home? And I think one really accessible

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Speaker 1: tool that I see people using is medium. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you just want to get into the practice of

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Speaker 1: consistently writing something, medium is a good is a good

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Speaker 1: place to start having a blog, you know, folks still blog.

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Speaker 1: You can just really just have your writing live there

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Speaker 1: and it can hold you accountable to be publishing consistently. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and there's no I think in the past what has

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Speaker 1: used to just okay, I'm going to carve out five

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Speaker 1: and sit down and write. And it's going to be

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Speaker 1: like opper writing. That does not work for me. My

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Speaker 1: notes app on my phone is popping. I am constantly writing.

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Speaker 1: But I had to figure out that like sitting down

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Speaker 1: not the way it's going to work. I'm like, suck it.

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Speaker 1: An idea pops into my head, a phrase, a thought

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Speaker 1: like even just I don't know, like a sentence. I

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Speaker 1: will write all of that ship down. You know, use

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Speaker 1: available to you. Yeah, or like you know, some folks

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Speaker 1: actually like to write on papers. So carry its tiny

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Speaker 1: little notebook that you can stick in all your bags,

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Speaker 1: having your car, have multiple like whatever. Yeah, so just

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Speaker 1: do it, literally, just do it. Do it. And I

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Speaker 1: would also say embrace the word vomit, like just write

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Speaker 1: it down. Just write it down, and you know, use

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Speaker 1: Google Drive. I love my Google Drive we use Google

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Speaker 1: Drive UM for local like for outlines and for notes

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Speaker 1: and for ideas and things like that. UM and I

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Speaker 1: have my own personal Google Drive, and I just have

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Speaker 1: make sense now or they don't fit in a sequence now,

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Speaker 1: like eventually, they can be edited that way. So you

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Speaker 1: have something in your brain, just get it down before

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Speaker 1: you forget it, before it leaves you. Absolutely, thank you

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Speaker 1: for that question. Absolutely, Okay, next question, what can I

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Speaker 1: do when my long term ex partner is constantly in

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Speaker 1: my dreams? I'm so sorry. First of all, yeah, that

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Speaker 1: sounds horrible. This sounds I'm just assuming that this is

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Speaker 1: about it in both ways. Yes, So if it's a

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Speaker 1: good thing, maybe you need to reach out. Maybe there's

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Speaker 1: unfinished business. However, if this was a toxic relationship, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like sleep paralysis, sounds like a nightmare, sounds

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Speaker 1: like an exorcism isn't needed. I don't know. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Friends like I once had a reading, tarot reading, and

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Speaker 1: this reading, the woman who was doing it for me

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Speaker 1: said that my ex had sticky energy, that he was

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Speaker 1: just watching and just on me, like spiritually, energetically, just

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Speaker 1: on me in a sticky way. And So if it's

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Speaker 1: if this is one of those situations right that you're

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Speaker 1: having trouble shaking someone, I think it just takes time,

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Speaker 1: and I think eventually your brain is going to stop

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Speaker 1: inducing these dreams in you. But you have to like

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Speaker 1: eject them from the rest of your life. Like if

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Speaker 1: you're seeing them on your feed, that's stimuli, right that

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Speaker 1: you're going to come up later, you're psyche up. You

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Speaker 1: scrub it clean, scrub bleach it. Yeah, I agree. I

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Speaker 1: second that. I second that. That's that's all. That's all

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Speaker 1: the advice that I have could luck to you. Bless

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Speaker 1: you child, Bless you child. It'll get better. You know

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Speaker 1: what's right for you, Like you know what you need

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Speaker 1: to do. If it's a positive thing, you know the

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Speaker 1: steps that you should take. If it's something like healing

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Speaker 1: from a toxic relationship, then you also know the steps

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Speaker 1: you need to take. You know, getting them out of

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Speaker 1: your life in whatever way is usually the best way.

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Speaker 1: relationships is just prolonging the breakups and having multiple breakups

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Speaker 1: we break up, and then we see each other again,

632
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: and then we break up again, and we have to

633
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: do the breakup all over again, right you know? And yeah,

634
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 1: I mean, if that's you, girl, you got you gotta

635
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: cut that ship loose and the energy you know that

636
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: is stuck there. It's not good and it can be

637
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: used in so many positive ways towards something else. Absolutely

638
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 1: kill it with fire. And yeah, all right, we have

639
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 1: strong we have strong feelings. Well, I'm I'm gonna like

640
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: no friends, no friendships with your ex type of person.

641
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: Likely we've said that before, it remains the same. Nope,

642
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: I can't. Not for me. I'm not capable, or I

643
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: just it just hasn't happened for me. I haven't wanted to. No. No, Now,

644
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,399
Speaker 1: if you are my ex, you're my ex as in

645
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: in the past, as in gone, as in never again,

646
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: as non existent. We're done, your purpose served in my

647
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 1: life and vice versa. Thank you. Now you know I

648
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 1: don't need to be in your life anymore. You don't

649
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 1: need to be in mine. Nope, so exactly, thank you. Next,

650
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: thank you, Next to quote Ms Grandy Ariana grandy alright,

651
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:36,479
Speaker 1: Next question, last question, A cute, little simple question. Thank

652
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,919
Speaker 1: you for keeping it light, for keeping it fun. What

653
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:43,439
Speaker 1: is your go to makeup look? Anything that Robert puts

654
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: on my face? Shout out to Robert or makeup. My

655
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: go to makeup look is anything Robert puts on my face.

656
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:51,720
Speaker 1: That's it. I'm not a I'm not a huge makeup

657
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: person myself. I will do on um, like a lip,

658
00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: I will do foundation and powder. I might do a

659
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 1: highlight sometimes. I might do eyeliner sometimes, but other than that,

660
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: I keep it pretty natural. Yeah, Mama doesn't really wear makeup. Me.

661
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: On the other hand, I have like many things that

662
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: I do, so my go to would be a liner,

663
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:22,240
Speaker 1: a wink liner with a mauave, lip brows obviously, UM,

664
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: a light contour and some highlighter, a light, a light

665
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: dusting a little bit. I don't need to I don't

666
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: need to use the you know, not when it's powder.

667
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: I'm during a blank the cream. I don't need a

668
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 1: cream contour cream counters like at night time when I'm

669
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,800
Speaker 1: gonna get out. But I'll do like a powder contour

670
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,360
Speaker 1: during the day, just a little some some a bronzer,

671
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 1: you know. Um. Lately, though, I've been really bored of

672
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: my makeup looks. Like super bored, but I also don't

673
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: want to do more, so it's like really confusing. But

674
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: what I've been doing now is wearing colored eyeliner. So

675
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,399
Speaker 1: like today I'm wearing a blue liner and I put

676
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: blue mess care on and that makes me feel better

677
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 1: because I'm like, Okay, this is different, but it's still

678
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: like in my usual realm of what I do. You know.

679
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 1: So yeah, I like to try to switch it up,

680
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: but you'll probably catch me in a wave lip of

681
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: the time. But the blue liner is very fierce. Today.

682
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: Our friend Mania gave this to me at our Mommy

683
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: Christmas and our gift exchange. Yeah, shoutout New York surviving

684
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: the cold grad school. Yes, we miss you, we love you. No,

685
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 1: but yes, low Key did that. She's a she navigated

686
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: the whole ship by herself first to her family. We

687
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,839
Speaker 1: love her. We're very proud of so proud, very proud

688
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:53,800
Speaker 1: of her. Yes, alright, y'all. So we are really excited

689
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: to launch a new segment, a recurring segment that we

690
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: will be having on the podcast called Latinos and Plitics

691
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: or Hitters in Politics, And today we are launching this

692
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: new segment with one of our favorite people in the

693
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 1: entire world. Homegirl community member. Yes, do you want to

694
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: read the vibe? Yeah? So for those of you who

695
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 1: are new to Yasmine and her work in her life,

696
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: Yasmine was born and raised in Whittier, California, raised by

697
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 1: two immigrant parents from Chile and Mexico. Yesmine has dedicated

698
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 1: the past six years to serving students in higher education.

699
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: As her role as a student affairs professional, Yasmine is

700
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: dedicated to addressing the issues everything ranging from homelessness to

701
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,720
Speaker 1: engaging community members, balancing the budget, and many many others.

702
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,959
Speaker 1: Yesmine wants to bring responsible, ethical leadership that includes karen

703
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 1: compassion in her decision making. And she's running for Whittier

704
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,720
Speaker 1: City Council. She's running for her council for District three.

705
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 1: She's in the thick of campaigning, canvassing. Election season is

706
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: we're in the cost of it. It's a couple of

707
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: weeks away. So we are going to be chat with

708
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 1: her today about her journey, what it's like running as

709
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: a woman of color, as a Latina in local elections,

710
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 1: and so much more so, without further ado, We're gonna

711
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: bring on Yasmine. Okay, look on what is so without

712
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:20,400
Speaker 1: further Ado. We are so excited to be in conversation

713
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: today with the amazing Yasmine Ferrada. She's running for District

714
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 1: three councilwoman, potential councilwoman for the City of Whittier. So, Yasmine,

715
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 1: welcome to look at that our radio. Thank you so

716
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: much for inviting me. We are really excited to be

717
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: chatting with you today. You have had an incredible journey

718
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: prior to campaigning. Now you're in the thick of it.

719
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 1: You're a couple of weeks away from elections, right, so

720
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: we just want you to take us on the journey

721
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 1: with you, you know, tell us about what this journey

722
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 1: has been like. What have you been up against, what

723
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: has it been like for you running absolutely UM so yes,

724
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:04,280
Speaker 1: like you said, elections technically start February twenty two, so

725
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: um we are right around UM election times. So I

726
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:13,360
Speaker 1: have been campaigning since August. I decided to run in July,

727
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,719
Speaker 1: so it feels like this UM campaign itself for this

728
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,800
Speaker 1: race has been UM super long. Most of my opponents

729
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 1: began real campaigning in January, so it just feels like

730
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: I've kind of been UM been running for almost two years.

731
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: It feels like a very long time. UM. But back

732
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 1: in July, UM, I started getting more involved in politics

733
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: when we actually elected my cousin Natalia Barajas to the

734
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: South Waier School Board. So seventy of the students in

735
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 1: the South Wigiear School UM district, we're failing in English

736
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 1: and math and UM they had board members that had

737
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,799
Speaker 1: been in office for thirty plus years, and you know,

738
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 1: at the detriment of the students. So we figured out

739
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: how to do this ourselves. We just googled how to

740
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 1: run a campaign. We started figuring out how other folks

741
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 1: have done it, and UM, we ran her campaign, door knocked,

742
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 1: and she got elected. So we started realizing that, like,

743
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: we just need the information to get this going, and

744
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,760
Speaker 1: like literally the possibilities were endless. So I started getting

745
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 1: involved in my own district to figure out who our

746
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,839
Speaker 1: leadership was because our leadership has kind of been disconnected

747
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 1: from our community. UM. And the person who's currently hold

748
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 1: office has been office for about twenty plus years, UM,

749
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,439
Speaker 1: longer than half of my life, and UM, we really

750
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: didn't know much about her, right and so that was

751
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,439
Speaker 1: troubling to me. So I researched a little bit more

752
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 1: and I realized, you know, they had um donated their

753
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 1: own money to Proposition eight back in the day. Um

754
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 1: so they're like anti l G B t Q. We

755
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: had with your pride um you know, on the cusp

756
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 1: of happening, and they were not super thrilled or supportive. Yeah,

757
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,920
Speaker 1: and like we just see the demographics of what you're

758
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 1: changing and so many possibilities of making the city amazing,

759
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 1: and the leadership you know, kind of stifles that. And

760
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 1: there's a lack of political will to really push Whittier forward. Um. So,

761
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 1: you know, in conversations with my family, I sat down,

762
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 1: I was like, look, I want to run for office.

763
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 1: What do you all think? And they were like do it,

764
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:15,320
Speaker 1: let's do this. Um. So we started, you know, researching

765
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: all this stuff because let me tell you, when it

766
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: comes to politics or running a campaign, there's a few

767
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 1: people who know how to do it really well, and

768
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:26,320
Speaker 1: they hold that information near and dear to them. Um

769
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,719
Speaker 1: it's knowledge is power, right, as the saying goes, So

770
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: they want to make sure that they only give all

771
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: of that knowledge and information to people that they deem

772
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:39,799
Speaker 1: as an electable candidate. So then the term like electability

773
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 1: comes up, right, and then the conversation of like what

774
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 1: is an electable candidate? And it's you know, very much

775
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 1: dripping in misogyny and patriarchy, you know, slight racisms like classism. Um,

776
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: these kind of issues come up. I was suddenly deemed

777
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 1: as like not worthy because of who I like, who

778
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:03,439
Speaker 1: my identity was a person. Yeah, when you say electability,

779
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 1: the first thing that I thought of was respectability, right,

780
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: and who was the most respectable quote candidate? And like

781
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:12,720
Speaker 1: what deems someone respectable to run? Right? And like similar?

782
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:16,439
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, was not the first woman

783
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,240
Speaker 1: of color to run, but considering what she was up against,

784
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: she was up against a machine, she had an incumbent,

785
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 1: she was not she didn't come from a political background.

786
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 1: And I think that that really set the wave for

787
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:30,240
Speaker 1: women to now, especially women of color, to be running

788
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: now in New York in your elections. Yeah, yeah, I

789
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 1: mean imposter syndrome runs deep in politics, right, and it

790
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: has been used as a very effective tool and leaving

791
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 1: folks out of this profits. So I think once we

792
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 1: started seeing women, um, you know, like the Squad and

793
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: other women being elected across the country, we started seeing

794
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 1: as like young women of color, that this was a possibility, Um,

795
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: that it can happen that you don't have to be

796
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 1: part of the establishment to make it and to and

797
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 1: to see it through. It just literally requires engaging your community,

798
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 1: which unfortunately has been the one thing that political establishments

799
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 1: don't do. UM. Yeah, because I think that it's more common,

800
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: at least in my experience, for folks to not know

801
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,760
Speaker 1: who their elected official is. When I was a community organizer,

802
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:17,359
Speaker 1: that was part of the thing one of the things

803
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 1: that I was doing with our residents was engaging with

804
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 1: them about their engaging with them about their civic responsibilities

805
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 1: or civic engagement even because like who is your elected

806
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:30,839
Speaker 1: official very basic and like how can you reach out

807
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:33,319
Speaker 1: to them when you need something in your neighborhood, you know,

808
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,240
Speaker 1: and those are things and I think it's really common

809
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: to not know who that person is. And that's for

810
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:39,839
Speaker 1: a lot of different reasons, and it touches upon what

811
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 1: you're saying, Yeah, And I think it's not on accident, right.

812
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: I think people are committed to withholding information and connection

813
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 1: to UM community because it allows them to continue doing

814
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 1: what they do right. UM. So, when I first decided

815
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: to run, there was another person who was running for

816
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 1: UM against our incumbent as well, he's you know, an

817
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:04,280
Speaker 1: older uh Latino man. So because we both have Latino surnames.

818
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 1: The conversation was, if both of us are on the ballot,

819
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: we're going to split the vote. Interesting and so what

820
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:14,360
Speaker 1: was his what was that conversation with him? Like? Yeah,

821
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 1: so I was like, well, let's sit down, all like

822
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:19,959
Speaker 1: bride eyed and bushy tailed. Right, I'm like, let's sit down.

823
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 1: I'll share my platform, you share yours, and we'll have

824
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,879
Speaker 1: a conversation. You is gonna be the one who goes

825
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 1: up and runs. So I, you know, I sit down

826
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: and we're having this conversation and they're like, ye, can

827
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 1: you raise money? Yes? Yeah, yeah, but are you gonna

828
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 1: do this? Yes? So can I share my platform with you? Sure?

829
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 1: So as in like mid platform, they're like, let's not

830
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 1: waste each other's time. I think that you should just

831
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:43,920
Speaker 1: let me run and I'll let you work for me.

832
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 1: I'll let you work for me. Generous you thank you

833
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:53,839
Speaker 1: so much? Right? It was it was at that moment too,

834
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 1: because then, you know, if I really would have felt

835
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:59,399
Speaker 1: that he was um the candidate that I felt comfortable with,

836
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 1: I probably you would have stepped down and assisted that

837
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:04,400
Speaker 1: because the point is to have a leader that we

838
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: know can one be the incumbent and to really bring change,

839
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,879
Speaker 1: an effective change to our community. So I didn't feel

840
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: that way. So on Monday I called him. I said,

841
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 1: thanks for the opportunity, but I'm going to be running anyway,

842
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: thank you, but no thing. Yes, so and so did

843
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:24,360
Speaker 1: he withdraw from the campaigners. He still running, still running,

844
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:29,319
Speaker 1: made on. So it was it was going to be

845
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: fine for him if you stopped running, But he had

846
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:36,799
Speaker 1: no intentions not to run himself and like share absolutely

847
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: or give somebody else the chance. He's going to be

848
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:42,319
Speaker 1: him or nobody? Right? Interesting? And is this like a

849
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: common attitude that you've encountered in this process with Well,

850
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: my question is with the Latinos, So with the men specifically, Yeah,

851
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 1: with the men in general, man, with whoever. Yeah, I mean, Unfortunately,

852
00:47:55,719 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: I think, Um, when you are withheld from political spaces

853
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 1: for so long, when you start to get invited into

854
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 1: these spaces, unfortunately folks adopt the practices that are already

855
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:09,839
Speaker 1: in the space, right um, and so they start kind

856
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:14,800
Speaker 1: of emulating what has previously oppressed. I'll Latinos from entering

857
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: into that, into that space absolutely, Like I think Mala

858
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:19,879
Speaker 1: and I talked about this, but like if you look

859
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: at the city of Belle and how they were embezzling,

860
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: like all their elected officials, and it's like Latinos get

861
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: a little bit of power, and this is what they do, right,

862
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 1: and it's like our investment in white supremacy and the institutions. Right,

863
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:33,239
Speaker 1: they were like, Okay, well we made it, so now

864
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:35,919
Speaker 1: we're going to do exactly what the white folks were doing,

865
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:40,359
Speaker 1: right bucket, Like we're not We're not getting anywhere doing that,

866
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 1: you know. Right, It's really interesting and Wittier for you know,

867
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:46,799
Speaker 1: this sort of election to be taking place, is a

868
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 1: really interesting city. And if you're not from southern California,

869
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: you've probably never heard of Whittier. I don't know anything

870
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:55,879
Speaker 1: about Whittier, right, Like it's one of those places like Pasadena,

871
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 1: but it has like a very rich history history because

872
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 1: they're also extremes in the community. Like Richard Nixon is

873
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:06,479
Speaker 1: from Whittier. Okay, so the light note you were born

874
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 1: in your Belinda, I'm not claiming Richard Nixon Wittier. Wittier

875
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:17,239
Speaker 1: claims him too. Yeah, so yeah, the establishment I do

876
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 1: not write. So he went to witter College in the

877
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 1: office and Whittier. Yes, we have every building almost named

878
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 1: after the Nixon Planza, there's a Nixon restaurant. UM. So

879
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 1: you have that side of Whittier, white affluent, very conservative.

880
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,279
Speaker 1: But that's not all there is to Wittier. Can you

881
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 1: talk about the Wittier that you know, and that the

882
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 1: Wittier you're you know, campaigning on behalf of Yeah, So

883
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 1: there is a demographic change right since probably the mid

884
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 1: to early nineties. UM, there was like a large influx

885
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 1: of you know, Latin X folks moving into Whittier UM

886
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,880
Speaker 1: and moving into the quote unquote more affluent areas of

887
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 1: Whittier UM. When our family moved to East Whittier, which

888
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 1: is where we live now, UM, we were receiving letters

889
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 1: in the mail like there goes the neighborhood, like that's

890
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: you know, you know, don't leave a mattress outside of

891
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 1: your lawn, even though we hadn't, right, they wanted to

892
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 1: make sure that was not allowed in that area. My friend,

893
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 1: I don't want to go off topic, but I just

894
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 1: want to say my family had a very similar experience,

895
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 1: and we moved into our neighborhood where the city was

896
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 1: coming to a knocking on our door constantly. We had

897
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 1: a neighbor that was constantly reporting us first miniscule things

898
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:32,399
Speaker 1: and that's very real, absolutely, and so it was very

899
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 1: telling of like who the demographic had been for so long. Um,

900
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 1: so we see that shift now. Um, you know, growing up,

901
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 1: most of my friends were Latin X. So all of

902
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 1: us that were that AIDS. You know, the baby boomers

903
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 1: had a lot of children and then they had children, right,

904
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:48,759
Speaker 1: so we're all coming up now as like a young

905
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: Latin X population Swimmenian agent Wittier right now at thirty five,

906
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 1: which is a lot younger than um what it may

907
00:50:55,120 --> 00:51:00,120
Speaker 1: have been. Yeah, and it's seventy latin X seven D

908
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: the city as a whole, so seventy. And there has

909
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:11,000
Speaker 1: never been an elected Latina Latina official. Yes, interesting, never

910
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:14,319
Speaker 1: been an elected Latina look at that, right, and then

911
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:18,359
Speaker 1: it's yeah, but have there been? There have been men

912
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:25,360
Speaker 1: Latinos that have been elected, just not women, just not women.

913
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: So we're seeing a pattern. Yeah, So I mean it's

914
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:32,799
Speaker 1: very different now as on door knocking. You know, there's

915
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:35,319
Speaker 1: folks that are excited about change, there's folks that have

916
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 1: never had an elected official knock on their door door.

917
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: Before there's folks that didn't know they could vote for

918
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 1: city council. They didn't know who their city council member was.

919
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 1: And regardless of whether I'm accounidate that's running or not,

920
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:49,800
Speaker 1: it was extremely troubling to me to kind of talk

921
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:54,319
Speaker 1: to people and here they're there their testimony that they

922
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:59,400
Speaker 1: have been literally historically disenfranchised from the political process. This

923
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 1: is the first time there will ever be UM that

924
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 1: there has ever been an election on a primary so

925
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 1: witty are usually did their own election UM, and so

926
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: we saw some issues with that in the past. UM.

927
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 1: You know, Lizetta Scobella ran for office UM in two

928
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 1: thousand eighteen for District four, and she lost by forty votes,

929
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 1: and then they did a recount because of the way

930
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 1: that they had actually made the ballots, so she technically

931
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:31,840
Speaker 1: lost by three votes. Oh my god, it's that tight. Yeah.

932
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 1: So now that it's you know, like it's done with

933
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:37,960
Speaker 1: the county, we're seeing like an exciting time that there's

934
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 1: a possibility that folks are going to go out to

935
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:42,759
Speaker 1: vote because it's the primary election, UM, and more people

936
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: are going to turn out, which is, you know, good

937
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:50,919
Speaker 1: for us and the incumbent seat that you're after right now, Like,

938
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 1: has that seat? Whoever has been holding that position? Is

939
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 1: a woman, right, a white woman? And how long has

940
00:52:57,600 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 1: she been in office for? So in that position technically,

941
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: um for about seventeen years and she's been running unopposed.

942
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 1: She's just been walking on year after year. She hasn't

943
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:11,839
Speaker 1: actually had to campaign. This is like her first time.

944
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:17,719
Speaker 1: So okay, So is this a West Coast AOC type situation,

945
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 1: like when you left everything and stack on the chairs.

946
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: But from your perspective, because I think it's easy for

947
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 1: us to be like, oh, you're like at AOC, but

948
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:28,280
Speaker 1: do you feel like it's a similar setup? I mean, yeah.

949
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:31,439
Speaker 1: The only thing is is that unfortunately, UM, a lot

950
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 1: of our our support was split in half because of

951
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 1: myself and the other and let you know of that

952
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 1: was running for or that is running against her. UM.

953
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 1: But it's definitely interesting. I mean, I think that we

954
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:46,320
Speaker 1: have already one in the sense that she is starting

955
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:49,400
Speaker 1: to compass she is starting to come through to a

956
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:53,440
Speaker 1: political UM to community events. UM, she's starting to change

957
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:58,440
Speaker 1: her position on homelessness, She's starting to change her position

958
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 1: on environmental sustainability. UM. There's a lot of things that

959
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:06,240
Speaker 1: had never happened before, and just having somebody run against

960
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 1: you is kind of pushing, which is unfortunate because this

961
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:14,160
Speaker 1: is literally what you should have been doing, right. Yeah,

962
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: so fascinating speaking about the issues. I wanted to hear

963
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 1: because you know, if you well, this is nationwide, but

964
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: we're in a homeless crisis, especially here in Los Angeles

965
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 1: right and and even in the city of Whittier. So

966
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 1: I wanted to hear your platform on how, if elected,

967
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:31,799
Speaker 1: how you would address homelessness because I know that that's

968
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:35,799
Speaker 1: like the question each person is getting, like across l

969
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 1: A County, folks that are campaigning and running for office.

970
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,760
Speaker 1: So I wanted to hear your platform. So are folks

971
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 1: that are listening if any of them are residents of

972
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 1: Whittier and are in District District three, they can hear

973
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:50,360
Speaker 1: it straight from you. Yeah. Absolutely, So homelessness, we know,

974
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:53,319
Speaker 1: is a crisis all over the county, like you said, um,

975
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:56,320
Speaker 1: and in Whittier, we saw a huge increase in encampment

976
00:54:57,160 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: across our city and so that is what really got

977
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:03,960
Speaker 1: the community alarmed. Um, some upset, some upset for the

978
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:06,279
Speaker 1: lack of response to it, but everyone has a very

979
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 1: emotional response to our homelessness crisis. UM. And so we

980
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 1: recently had a homelessness or housing forum. I was the

981
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 1: only candidate to show up. So we know that because

982
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:20,720
Speaker 1: of the poll, homelessness is the number one issue for

983
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 1: every community member, regardless of party line, regardless of stance

984
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,440
Speaker 1: on it, it's the most important issue. And UM, I

985
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:30,560
Speaker 1: was the only person out of District three to show up,

986
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 1: which was alarming to me. Including the latino that's running

987
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:37,720
Speaker 1: against you. Interesting, right, and so you know the first forum,

988
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: I'm standing next to folks. You know, they're calling them vagrants,

989
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:45,160
Speaker 1: they're calling them, um, just blight of the community. And

990
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 1: I took personal offense to that. So you know, we've

991
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:51,160
Speaker 1: been seeing incamin and Parnell Park. Parnell Park is the

992
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 1: park that's in District three. UM. And so Saturday mornings, UM,

993
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 1: me and folks from a couple of other organizations go

994
00:55:57,719 --> 00:56:01,319
Speaker 1: over there and take UM our your members living in

995
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:04,080
Speaker 1: the park, breakfast, burritos and coffee and we'll just sit

996
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 1: and chat with them, right, like, what is it that

997
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 1: you need in order to assist you? UM, they're community

998
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:15,239
Speaker 1: there with your community members. UM, they are moms, they're veterans.

999
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:18,000
Speaker 1: UM they're folks that have jobs. So I think the

1000
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 1: common misconception, right is that you know, folks are just

1001
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 1: drug addicted or have mental health issues and refuse service

1002
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 1: and just want to live there, right, um, which I

1003
00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:32,439
Speaker 1: think is important to acknowledge that mental health and drug

1004
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 1: addiction does not automatically mean that you're a homeless individual.

1005
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:39,919
Speaker 1: We have folks that struggle with drug addiction and um,

1006
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 1: you know, severe mental health issues, but are from a

1007
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: socio economic status that allows them to be housed while

1008
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:49,720
Speaker 1: they deal with those. So I think that's important to acknowledge. UM.

1009
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:52,240
Speaker 1: My plan would be the first thing is to ensure

1010
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:55,399
Speaker 1: that we have sufficient amount of beds for our community members. UM.

1011
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure if you've heard of the Boissey

1012
00:56:57,080 --> 00:57:00,800
Speaker 1: case that happened not too long ago, and what essentially

1013
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 1: did um was it deemed it unconstitutional for cities to

1014
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 1: arrest or ticket um homeless individuals living on the street

1015
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:11,759
Speaker 1: if their cities did not have a sufficient amount of

1016
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:14,400
Speaker 1: beds for them to be offered. That's really big and

1017
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 1: it was huge, and so essentially our Wittier Police department

1018
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 1: could not do any of those things if the City

1019
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 1: of Willier did not provide an adequate amount of beds.

1020
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:27,280
Speaker 1: We knew this back in two thousand eighteen, two seventeen,

1021
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 1: and to this day, we still do not have the

1022
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 1: adequate amount of beds. So when our community members are

1023
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:35,439
Speaker 1: constantly calling the Wittier Police Department, you know, because they're

1024
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:39,040
Speaker 1: unsettled or you know, they feel sure quote unquote unsafe,

1025
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 1: our Wittier Police Department cannot literally cannot do anything. UM.

1026
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 1: And so you know, one of the things that we

1027
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 1: have to do is ensure that we have a sufficient

1028
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 1: amount of beds. We have like four or five different

1029
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:54,960
Speaker 1: nonprofit organizations that are already doing the work to provide

1030
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:57,480
Speaker 1: the resources and Wittier UM, I think we need to

1031
00:57:57,480 --> 00:57:59,800
Speaker 1: work together, UM with folks that are already doing the

1032
00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:03,880
Speaker 1: work to streamline UM. We see a success in what

1033
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 1: is called a common entry system, so that we can

1034
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 1: U track folks, right, we can provide them the information,

1035
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:14,280
Speaker 1: provide them the services, and track it in a system.

1036
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 1: So then we are able to kind of like make

1037
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 1: sure that they're on the track in terms of services

1038
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 1: UM to become successful, right, or to become I mean

1039
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:27,440
Speaker 1: at least safe housed and UM, you know, not in

1040
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:31,000
Speaker 1: in crisis mode, right, a very bare minimum. We know

1041
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:34,200
Speaker 1: this disproportionately affects women and folks from the l g

1042
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:39,120
Speaker 1: B t Q plus community because shelters are oftentimes unsafe. UM.

1043
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:42,760
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of our trans brothers and

1044
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:44,600
Speaker 1: sisters that are living on the street don't feel safe

1045
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:49,280
Speaker 1: going into shelters because they're gendered, right and oftentimes, um,

1046
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:53,800
Speaker 1: the staff or or the system doesn't have that into account.

1047
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 1: Domestic violence shelters really only accepts his gender women, right.

1048
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:00,840
Speaker 1: And if a woman has a child who's over fourteen

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Speaker 1: or sixteen, not a child, yeah, if it's a boy, right,

1050
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:07,520
Speaker 1: and they can't take their boy children into shelterworthy. So

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00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 1: all these things that like push people into homeless right

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00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 1: right absolutely. Um. You know, there's a poll that showed

1053
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 1: likeent of local businesses would be willing to um to

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00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 1: employ folks experiencing homelessness, which is huge because they shared

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00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:25,720
Speaker 1: that one of the hardest things to do is go

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00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:27,480
Speaker 1: to a job interview because you know, what are you

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00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 1: gonna do? Take all your stuff with you? Um, And

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00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:33,600
Speaker 1: so it's difficult, right because you need to have interview clothes,

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00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 1: you need to have you know, all of the things

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00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:38,080
Speaker 1: that maybe we don't think about on a daily basis, UM,

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00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:41,440
Speaker 1: and so community, the community is responding with solutions, and

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00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 1: the community is responding with ways of how to assist

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00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 1: these folks. UM. And the current mayor that's running for

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00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:50,120
Speaker 1: reelection and the incumbent who am running against have been

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00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:55,200
Speaker 1: sending flyers for the past like three months, just criminalizing

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00:59:55,240 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 1: these folks, taking pictures without these people's consent and adding

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00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 1: them on flyers. Um. You know, just beware, they're taking

1068
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:06,760
Speaker 1: over your community. That's horrible and it's stirring a lot

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01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:11,000
Speaker 1: of fear. Absolutely, it's propaganda, that's yeah. I mean this

1070
01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:14,280
Speaker 1: is these are not new tactics. We've seen this happen before.

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01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:18,920
Speaker 1: And so there's like an upset individuals. We had a

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Speaker 1: shooting in Parnell Park. An individual drove up into the park,

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01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:25,360
Speaker 1: got out of his car and started shooting into the incambment,

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01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 1: shooting at the homeless community, which is not uncommon, right,

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01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:34,680
Speaker 1: Like attacks on the homeless person right directed at home

1076
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:38,320
Speaker 1: is kind of is pretty common. Their hate crimes, right,

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01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 1: I agree, And and you know the person who kind

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01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:47,160
Speaker 1: there's like vigilante groups that are you know, harassing, stealing

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01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:50,040
Speaker 1: and taking things from these people. And they all serve

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01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:54,120
Speaker 1: on the campaigns of my incumbent and the mayor. UM

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01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 1: and so that's very troubling. That's domestic terrorism, oh my god.

1082
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:04,520
Speaker 1: And so what in the world, right, and so you know,

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01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:07,880
Speaker 1: it's not a coincidence that these things people are attacking me.

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01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 1: But I mean, this is this is not what the

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01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:14,280
Speaker 1: city of what you're is, This is not what who

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01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 1: our community is. Um. I think as I'm talking to

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01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:20,880
Speaker 1: folks at the door, they're excited to be able to

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01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:24,360
Speaker 1: have conversations about what's happening because they also want input

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01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:28,320
Speaker 1: on what solutions can happen. And you know, surprisingly, most

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01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:31,520
Speaker 1: of our community member solutions have a layer of compassion

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01:01:32,040 --> 01:01:35,000
Speaker 1: and a layer of responsibility that they feel towards helping

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01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:37,760
Speaker 1: their community members out, which is opposite of what we're

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01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:41,560
Speaker 1: seeing from our leadership ironically. Yeah, I mean, the point

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01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:44,360
Speaker 1: of an elected official is that you're serving your constituents

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01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:47,440
Speaker 1: and that includes includes homeless folks, right, You're the homeless

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01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:51,640
Speaker 1: folks are a part of your constituency and also taking

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01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:54,120
Speaker 1: into account what your constituents want. It's not just Okay,

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01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:55,760
Speaker 1: I'm going to do this because I think that this

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01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:58,160
Speaker 1: is what's best for the community. I mean, the woman

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01:01:58,200 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 1: I'm running against was on Channel four and literally said

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01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 1: the solution is to turn the sprinklers on on them

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01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:06,600
Speaker 1: until they get so annoyed that they move along. And

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01:02:06,640 --> 01:02:10,600
Speaker 1: it's like, where do we logically believe that homeless people

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01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:13,720
Speaker 1: will go? And you just continue to push them further

1105
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 1: and further away. It's like this wish that they'll disappear,

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01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:22,200
Speaker 1: that they're not going to disappear. We have to engage

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Speaker 1: with them and actually provide solutions, and very bizarre. I

1108
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:29,680
Speaker 1: think what's missing of this of the conversation around homelessness

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01:02:29,720 --> 01:02:36,600
Speaker 1: the most is affordable housing. You know, the state of California.

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01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 1: So Governor Knewsom was like, you all need to have

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01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:42,600
Speaker 1: a certain amount of affordable housing. And so our mayor

1112
01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:47,120
Speaker 1: goes on, you know, rants and campaigns to criminal criminalize

1113
01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:49,960
Speaker 1: the state government and local governments, like you know, they're

1114
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:52,960
Speaker 1: coming and trying to invade our city. Um, but only

1115
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:55,600
Speaker 1: because he refuses to ensure that we have affordable housing

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Speaker 1: in Wittier. Um. So if the meeting age thirty five,

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01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:02,120
Speaker 1: I'm twenty nine, I would love to start you know,

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01:03:02,280 --> 01:03:06,800
Speaker 1: my life and um like settled down right, purchase my

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01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 1: own home in Whittier, and that is impossible. I like

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Speaker 1: a full time job, a decent paying job, right, and

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01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:15,760
Speaker 1: it's still impossible for me to be able to afford

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01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:18,480
Speaker 1: to live in Whittier on my own. And that's me

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01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:21,200
Speaker 1: being born and raised in Whittier and you know, not

1124
01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:24,520
Speaker 1: doing too bad for myself. So I mean that's something

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Speaker 1: that they've been committed to ensure that it doesn't happen

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Speaker 1: because of development money. It's insane. And I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's like Whittier is experiencing things that are happening in

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Speaker 1: other way shapes and forms throughout like southern California, the

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Speaker 1: Greater l A County, right, um. And I'm wondering how

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01:03:42,400 --> 01:03:46,360
Speaker 1: the community has received you. I'm hearing that there are

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01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:49,040
Speaker 1: folks who are happy and who are engaging, and who

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01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:51,200
Speaker 1: are happy that you're on the trail, um and in

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01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:56,600
Speaker 1: this process. But has that been true across the board? Um? No.

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01:03:57,160 --> 01:04:01,280
Speaker 1: I think that's with every you know, political candidate, right,

1135
01:04:01,320 --> 01:04:03,440
Speaker 1: there's gonna be folks who really love you and folks

1136
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:07,040
Speaker 1: who really don't like you. Um. But I think what's

1137
01:04:07,160 --> 01:04:09,720
Speaker 1: unique about my situation is that they don't not like

1138
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:12,200
Speaker 1: me because of my policy stance, Like they don't like

1139
01:04:12,320 --> 01:04:14,360
Speaker 1: me because of who I am or what I represent

1140
01:04:14,760 --> 01:04:16,440
Speaker 1: and who do they think you are? I was going

1141
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:18,640
Speaker 1: to say, what do you represent to that? Who are

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01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 1: you and what do you represent? Um? Things that I've

1143
01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:24,720
Speaker 1: heard have been like you're a brown beret who is

1144
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:32,760
Speaker 1: attempting to And I'm like, first, yes, I'm first of all,

1145
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:37,640
Speaker 1: let's talk about that a little bit um brown beret.

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01:04:37,760 --> 01:04:41,720
Speaker 1: That's such a throwback my point exactly exactly. I'm like,

1147
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:46,440
Speaker 1: I wonder who came up with that, right right? Um?

1148
01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:49,480
Speaker 1: That I am like a bleeding heart liberal that just

1149
01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:52,520
Speaker 1: wants to like make what you're a communist city, which

1150
01:04:52,560 --> 01:04:56,400
Speaker 1: we know is you know, literally impossible. Um and also

1151
01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:59,960
Speaker 1: out of my jurisdiction, you know, if I get elected.

1152
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:04,439
Speaker 1: Um what else? I've been called a chola, I've been

1153
01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:09,960
Speaker 1: called you know a lot of slurs against who I am,

1154
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:13,120
Speaker 1: like my sexuality as a woman, right um, where it's

1155
01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:17,240
Speaker 1: like slut or things of that nature. Right, come up?

1156
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:20,400
Speaker 1: Often are these things happening like verbally like in real life?

1157
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:23,440
Speaker 1: Are they online? I'm trying to understand, like how people

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01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:26,480
Speaker 1: say these things to you? Half of it or I

1159
01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:30,480
Speaker 1: would say, probably like of it is online? Okay, so

1160
01:05:30,680 --> 01:05:33,919
Speaker 1: the next door app Um, I don't know familiar what's

1161
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:36,720
Speaker 1: on next door that this is happening. Well it did, Yeah,

1162
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:38,480
Speaker 1: it was happening. I don't know if it still is.

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01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:40,560
Speaker 1: I try to stay off of next door just for

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01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:45,960
Speaker 1: my life. The neighborhood watch is on next door being

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01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:51,120
Speaker 1: dumb as hell. Wow. Yeah, And I mean, like it's

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01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:53,680
Speaker 1: just baffling to me because I don't I try not

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01:05:53,760 --> 01:05:57,360
Speaker 1: to take it personally, right, Um, but you're attacking things

1168
01:05:57,360 --> 01:05:59,920
Speaker 1: that have absolutely no like nothing to do with what

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01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:03,000
Speaker 1: I could potentially bring to leadership. But your current leadership

1170
01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:06,120
Speaker 1: has kind of literally done nothing, and you are committed

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01:06:06,160 --> 01:06:09,280
Speaker 1: to supporting them simply because of their actual identity, like

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01:06:09,320 --> 01:06:13,680
Speaker 1: their racial identity, right, which is kind of um, you know,

1173
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:17,280
Speaker 1: similar to at the federal level what we're seeing now. Um.

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Speaker 1: And I knew this going in, like I would have

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01:06:19,520 --> 01:06:22,160
Speaker 1: to work ten times harder than all of my opponents,

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Speaker 1: which is why I've been door knocking since August. And I,

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Speaker 1: you know, show up and research as much as I

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01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:29,240
Speaker 1: can before I show up to places, because showing up

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01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 1: and saying I don't know the answer to something is

1180
01:06:32,080 --> 01:06:36,360
Speaker 1: unacceptable to me, which is what's happened and you were

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01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:40,120
Speaker 1: door knocking this morning before you came to record today. Yeah,

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01:06:40,200 --> 01:06:43,840
Speaker 1: you're like you're very committed and it shows. Thank you absolutely,

1183
01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:47,120
Speaker 1: and you have like a team behind you, so who

1184
01:06:47,320 --> 01:06:50,880
Speaker 1: has been supporting you and joining you on your canvassing

1185
01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:54,400
Speaker 1: and that way, like if folks listening want to get involved, like,

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01:06:54,440 --> 01:06:58,200
Speaker 1: how can they lend a hand? Yeah? So our volunteers

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01:06:58,680 --> 01:07:01,440
Speaker 1: spanned from high school student into some of the calcate

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01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:05,960
Speaker 1: l A students I work with UM two colleagues, to friends, cousins, family,

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01:07:06,120 --> 01:07:08,840
Speaker 1: community members, UM that just reach out on Instagram and

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01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:12,480
Speaker 1: want to get involved. UM my team specifically, so my

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01:07:12,520 --> 01:07:15,040
Speaker 1: campaign manager, her name is Madison and White, and my

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01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:19,360
Speaker 1: field coordinator is Francis Gomez. And I was very intentional

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01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:23,400
Speaker 1: about hiring young women because I definitely believe that there

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01:07:23,480 --> 01:07:27,040
Speaker 1: is something to say about the commitment and the passion

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01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:30,720
Speaker 1: and you know, the honesty and transparency that young women bring.

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01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:33,960
Speaker 1: And that's you know, what I what I want my

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01:07:34,080 --> 01:07:36,960
Speaker 1: campaign to be about and what my election and what

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Speaker 1: I want that to mean too, is to ensure that

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Speaker 1: we're bringing other young women along. That's a beautiful thing.

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Speaker 1: Paying it forward. I wanted to ask you for folks,

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Speaker 1: that are listening, especially the young women that are listening

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01:07:51,520 --> 01:07:55,080
Speaker 1: that are interested in a future in politics. What advice

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01:07:55,120 --> 01:07:59,200
Speaker 1: can you give them? Oh? Um, I'm like, how much

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01:07:59,240 --> 01:08:03,040
Speaker 1: time do you I mean, I would definitely say, um,

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01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:07,200
Speaker 1: one is secure, Um, your platform? Why do you want

1206
01:08:07,200 --> 01:08:09,600
Speaker 1: to do this? Because that why is what you're going

1207
01:08:09,640 --> 01:08:12,240
Speaker 1: to be holding onto throughout the entire craziness that is

1208
01:08:12,240 --> 01:08:16,520
Speaker 1: a campaign cycle. Right, Um so hold onto your yum.

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01:08:16,600 --> 01:08:19,360
Speaker 1: Make sure you build a circle of people that you

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01:08:19,439 --> 01:08:24,200
Speaker 1: one hundred and trust around you. I can't stress that enough. Um.

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01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:26,599
Speaker 1: You know they say campaigns really show who your true

1212
01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:30,000
Speaker 1: friends are, and it does. Um So I would definitely

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01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:33,519
Speaker 1: say that. I would definitely reach out to other women

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Speaker 1: who have ran for office because in my experience, they

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01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:40,840
Speaker 1: have been the most supportive and willing to share information. Um. Yeah.

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01:08:40,960 --> 01:08:44,160
Speaker 1: I think it's important to to realize that you're gonna

1217
01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:46,559
Speaker 1: hear a lot of no, and you're gonna hear a

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01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:49,800
Speaker 1: lot of it's not your time, it's not meant for you. Um,

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01:08:50,240 --> 01:08:52,479
Speaker 1: you have you should wait a little bit longer. But

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01:08:52,560 --> 01:08:54,719
Speaker 1: the truth is is that if you're moved to serve

1221
01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:57,600
Speaker 1: your your community, and you're moved to make a difference,

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01:08:57,640 --> 01:09:00,519
Speaker 1: then Uh, there is no too early or too soon

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Speaker 1: to start doing that. Yeah, that's great, thank you. Yeah,

1224
01:09:05,160 --> 01:09:08,120
Speaker 1: And I think it's important right that it's public office

1225
01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:12,000
Speaker 1: is for the public. Shouldn't be for a tiny sliver

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01:09:12,120 --> 01:09:16,120
Speaker 1: of the population who meets certain like identity marker or

1227
01:09:16,120 --> 01:09:19,080
Speaker 1: like the legacy politicians that their families have. And we

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01:09:19,120 --> 01:09:21,240
Speaker 1: see that all across l A. The folks that have

1229
01:09:21,439 --> 01:09:23,840
Speaker 1: their parents have run they were mayors, and so now

1230
01:09:23,880 --> 01:09:29,080
Speaker 1: I'm the mayor. I'm a refer mayor literally literally for like,

1231
01:09:29,320 --> 01:09:33,760
Speaker 1: you know, council members, councilmen, council women, all across l A,

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01:09:33,840 --> 01:09:39,559
Speaker 1: like there are the legacy politicians. Yeah, and unfortunately that

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Speaker 1: crosses ethnic lines, right, that crosses um well, I don't

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01:09:44,160 --> 01:09:46,559
Speaker 1: even think that crosses specially economic lines, because I feel

1235
01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:50,240
Speaker 1: like that's pretty much the same. But I feel like,

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01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:53,560
Speaker 1: you know, oftentimes we want to hope that our communities

1237
01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:56,479
Speaker 1: stand behind us, but I think it's important to acknowledge

1238
01:09:56,520 --> 01:10:00,400
Speaker 1: that it's different for young women, young progressive women. Yeah,

1239
01:10:00,720 --> 01:10:03,960
Speaker 1: absolutely gonna jump behind you and really believe that they

1240
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:06,280
Speaker 1: made for other folks. All the things we talk about, right,

1241
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:10,519
Speaker 1: the within the community, the patriarchy, the machiese mall the

1242
01:10:10,600 --> 01:10:14,200
Speaker 1: violence against women, It all carries over and I you know,

1243
01:10:14,320 --> 01:10:18,000
Speaker 1: you're you're living it, you're seeing it. And I'm curious too.

1244
01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:24,920
Speaker 1: We hear a lot right about harassment, workplace harassment, sexual

1245
01:10:24,920 --> 01:10:29,120
Speaker 1: harassment in all industries and across the board, and like experiences.

1246
01:10:29,680 --> 01:10:32,760
Speaker 1: And I'm sure that you again who you are, You're young,

1247
01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:37,000
Speaker 1: you're Latina, this you're very pretty right, Like we've also

1248
01:10:37,080 --> 01:10:38,960
Speaker 1: kind of you know, we notice kind of from Afar

1249
01:10:39,040 --> 01:10:42,720
Speaker 1: that even your Instagram and your dress and everything, as

1250
01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:46,640
Speaker 1: you've been part of this process, you know that you've adjusted.

1251
01:10:47,160 --> 01:10:49,799
Speaker 1: Can you talk about like, I don't know that process

1252
01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:51,280
Speaker 1: and what goes through your head or how you make

1253
01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:54,400
Speaker 1: choices now in this specific world, because I feel like

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01:10:54,439 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 1: you have, uh, like there's hypercritical eyes on you, right,

1255
01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:02,599
Speaker 1: and so like, how has that impacted you? Um, well,

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01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:05,160
Speaker 1: it's been tough, I would say, Um, I think I've

1257
01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:08,479
Speaker 1: always kind of been an advocate for making sure that

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01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:12,519
Speaker 1: women feel safe to be their authentic selve um. So

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01:11:12,560 --> 01:11:16,160
Speaker 1: it was definitely a little bit of of a hurdle

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01:11:16,240 --> 01:11:19,840
Speaker 1: to adjust who I was in terms of what I wear, um,

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01:11:19,920 --> 01:11:23,160
Speaker 1: how I speak, right, everything is kind of being micromanaged.

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01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:25,519
Speaker 1: Why I don't wear pearls. That's a thing that people are.

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01:11:28,200 --> 01:11:31,080
Speaker 1: People are very upset that I don't wear pearls, um,

1264
01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:37,360
Speaker 1: because how dare I? I'm sucking dead. I'm like, I'm sorry,

1265
01:11:37,439 --> 01:11:42,639
Speaker 1: I can't. The priorities, the priorities, and I mean, that's

1266
01:11:42,680 --> 01:11:45,880
Speaker 1: just I have to start thinking about how somebody who

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01:11:45,960 --> 01:11:49,719
Speaker 1: literally has the opposite framework of myself, how they would

1268
01:11:49,800 --> 01:11:52,679
Speaker 1: view me. And so in the time where you're working

1269
01:11:52,720 --> 01:11:56,040
Speaker 1: so hard on like loving yourself unconditionally and ensuring that

1270
01:11:56,080 --> 01:11:59,680
Speaker 1: the framework is based on our own greatness, having to

1271
01:11:59,760 --> 01:12:03,479
Speaker 1: all so have the framework of you know, deficit right,

1272
01:12:03,520 --> 01:12:05,320
Speaker 1: like what is wrong with me? Or what is someone

1273
01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:06,840
Speaker 1: else going to think is wrong with me? At the

1274
01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:10,160
Speaker 1: same time, it's extremely exhausting. Um. But I think it's

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01:12:10,200 --> 01:12:12,639
Speaker 1: one of the things about being a young woman running

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01:12:12,640 --> 01:12:16,720
Speaker 1: for office. UM you oftentimes and I try to, you know,

1277
01:12:16,920 --> 01:12:21,920
Speaker 1: remain in terms of like physics, like aesthetically authentic to

1278
01:12:21,960 --> 01:12:24,720
Speaker 1: the most that I can, UM, But knowing that in

1279
01:12:24,800 --> 01:12:27,440
Speaker 1: order to get into spaces, in order to have conversations

1280
01:12:27,439 --> 01:12:31,479
Speaker 1: with people, you have to play that game. And so

1281
01:12:31,520 --> 01:12:33,920
Speaker 1: as long as I don't have to adjust on my

1282
01:12:34,040 --> 01:12:36,240
Speaker 1: policy stance, as long as I don't have to adjust

1283
01:12:36,400 --> 01:12:40,040
Speaker 1: on what my UM purpose for running is. Then I'm

1284
01:12:40,080 --> 01:12:43,200
Speaker 1: okay with like wearing a blazer everywhere I go or

1285
01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:46,559
Speaker 1: you know, not having too much makeup on. You know,

1286
01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:49,600
Speaker 1: there's like sacrifices that I'm willing to accept and sacrifices

1287
01:12:49,640 --> 01:12:51,639
Speaker 1: that I'm not and you know right that I'm not

1288
01:12:51,840 --> 01:12:56,080
Speaker 1: is like policy or who I accept donations from. UM.

1289
01:12:56,120 --> 01:12:58,559
Speaker 1: But in terms of harassment, I think that's also something

1290
01:12:58,600 --> 01:13:01,320
Speaker 1: that's super important. Going back to your question about what

1291
01:13:01,360 --> 01:13:03,519
Speaker 1: I would advise is never go anywhere alone. And I'm

1292
01:13:03,520 --> 01:13:06,200
Speaker 1: sure y'all say this already on your podcast, but be

1293
01:13:06,960 --> 01:13:10,439
Speaker 1: like hyper aware. UM. One of the other things that's

1294
01:13:10,439 --> 01:13:13,000
Speaker 1: an added layer for young women is that there is

1295
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:17,080
Speaker 1: still predators in the political system, right so justly their

1296
01:13:17,120 --> 01:13:21,600
Speaker 1: elected officials doesn't make them not you know, the boogeyman

1297
01:13:22,160 --> 01:13:24,720
Speaker 1: and so UM. You know, one thing that I had

1298
01:13:24,760 --> 01:13:26,920
Speaker 1: to learn pretty early on is I cannot go to

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01:13:27,080 --> 01:13:30,080
Speaker 1: a meeting after six pm if somebody from my staff

1300
01:13:30,160 --> 01:13:33,719
Speaker 1: is not with me because when I need a witness,

1301
01:13:33,840 --> 01:13:35,880
Speaker 1: if they're going to try to switch what I'm saying

1302
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:41,440
Speaker 1: and too, because it's unsafe. UM. Just period that it's

1303
01:13:41,479 --> 01:13:43,960
Speaker 1: the fact that it's unsafe for women to run to

1304
01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:49,040
Speaker 1: campaign to campaign is horrific, um, but not surprising, right,

1305
01:13:49,479 --> 01:13:52,599
Speaker 1: you know? And then it just adds like it adds

1306
01:13:52,640 --> 01:13:56,120
Speaker 1: so much perspective even thinking about AOC and we know

1307
01:13:56,200 --> 01:13:58,240
Speaker 1: that she did a lot of campaigning and door knocking

1308
01:13:58,240 --> 01:14:02,240
Speaker 1: and thinking about what safety brook cautions do women young women,

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01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:05,840
Speaker 1: especially across the board, across the country, What kinds of

1310
01:14:05,880 --> 01:14:08,760
Speaker 1: like crazy precautions are y'all taking so that you have

1311
01:14:08,800 --> 01:14:11,920
Speaker 1: a chance right at winning one of these seats. And

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01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:14,080
Speaker 1: it's like I worked forty hours a week, so when

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01:14:14,080 --> 01:14:16,280
Speaker 1: the time shift happened, I would get home at like

1314
01:14:16,400 --> 01:14:18,720
Speaker 1: six and it's already getting dark. So if I don't

1315
01:14:18,720 --> 01:14:22,439
Speaker 1: have like a light flashlight or pepper sprite or one

1316
01:14:22,439 --> 01:14:24,799
Speaker 1: other person to go with me, I can't door knock alone,

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01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:27,320
Speaker 1: where it might be a little different for um, for

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01:14:27,479 --> 01:14:31,240
Speaker 1: say a man, right um. But also I think it's

1319
01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:35,000
Speaker 1: also important to recognize that oftentimes folks that you would

1320
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:38,559
Speaker 1: trust in the political sphere change if you don't ask

1321
01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:42,120
Speaker 1: for permission, or if you if you're not asking the

1322
01:14:42,120 --> 01:14:46,040
Speaker 1: gate keepers for permission. And so what I've experienced was

1323
01:14:46,080 --> 01:14:48,759
Speaker 1: I didn't ask Apparently I didn't ask the correct people

1324
01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:53,920
Speaker 1: permission to run for office UM in a democracy, so

1325
01:14:53,920 --> 01:14:57,439
Speaker 1: so that piste a lot of people off. And so

1326
01:14:57,680 --> 01:15:00,200
Speaker 1: what happened was that they ensured they did every think

1327
01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:02,519
Speaker 1: they could to make sure that I drop out. So

1328
01:15:02,560 --> 01:15:05,400
Speaker 1: the first three months of me openly canvassing and openly

1329
01:15:05,479 --> 01:15:09,040
Speaker 1: campaigning was probably the toughest that I've ever endured because

1330
01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:11,640
Speaker 1: people that were the closest to me did everything they

1331
01:15:11,640 --> 01:15:13,559
Speaker 1: could to make sure that I dropped out soon enough

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01:15:13,600 --> 01:15:16,040
Speaker 1: for the other gentleman to have an easier time running

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01:15:16,040 --> 01:15:19,400
Speaker 1: for office. What kinds of tactics were they using to

1334
01:15:19,479 --> 01:15:21,320
Speaker 1: try and get you to drop out? Because it sounds

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01:15:21,360 --> 01:15:23,960
Speaker 1: like stuff was going on like you were, you were

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01:15:24,040 --> 01:15:28,520
Speaker 1: going through things. Are you comfortable sharing some of those experiences? Yeah,

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01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:33,200
Speaker 1: I mean the easier but also UM effective tactics were

1338
01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:36,080
Speaker 1: to ensure that I didn't receive the endorsements from really

1339
01:15:36,160 --> 01:15:38,439
Speaker 1: large scale endorsements that come with a lot of money

1340
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:42,040
Speaker 1: and canvassers UM, and that was either through bad mouthing

1341
01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:46,360
Speaker 1: or promoting the opposing candidate UM. And so that happened

1342
01:15:46,400 --> 01:15:50,920
Speaker 1: super early on UM within very strange and sneaky ways.

1343
01:15:51,040 --> 01:15:53,160
Speaker 1: And I'm not a career politician, so I had to

1344
01:15:53,200 --> 01:15:56,520
Speaker 1: like get with the program quickly. That people don't operate

1345
01:15:56,600 --> 01:15:58,479
Speaker 1: in the regular the way that they do in the

1346
01:15:58,520 --> 01:16:01,240
Speaker 1: regular world, right, every thing is like, well, what do

1347
01:16:01,320 --> 01:16:03,200
Speaker 1: they really mean or what do they really want? So

1348
01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:06,760
Speaker 1: I had to learn that very soon. Um. Also, I

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01:16:06,800 --> 01:16:10,439
Speaker 1: think sexual harassment is also another added tactic that they

1350
01:16:10,439 --> 01:16:13,800
Speaker 1: were attempting to do. Um, you know, things like you're

1351
01:16:13,840 --> 01:16:16,479
Speaker 1: not going to get endorsements that I know I could

1352
01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:19,200
Speaker 1: have got you. You're not going to get donations and

1353
01:16:19,479 --> 01:16:21,479
Speaker 1: that I know I could have got you. But if

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01:16:21,520 --> 01:16:24,800
Speaker 1: you do X y Z, I can give you money

1355
01:16:24,800 --> 01:16:27,479
Speaker 1: my endorsement, and we can have like conversations about how

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01:16:27,520 --> 01:16:31,120
Speaker 1: I can support you moving forward. So there were people

1357
01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:35,759
Speaker 1: who try to get you to do like certain things

1358
01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:40,840
Speaker 1: in exchange for money, endorsements, support like literal sexual favors up.

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01:16:41,439 --> 01:16:45,000
Speaker 1: That's crazy, yeah yeah, And this was early in the

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01:16:45,040 --> 01:16:47,920
Speaker 1: campaign process. This was very early in the campaign process.

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01:16:47,960 --> 01:16:49,960
Speaker 1: So it I mean, I would be lying if I

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01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:52,439
Speaker 1: didn't mention that. It took me two weeks to kind

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01:16:52,439 --> 01:16:56,720
Speaker 1: of like recalibrate after that, like wait a minute, like

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01:16:56,920 --> 01:17:00,719
Speaker 1: what like this is what we could deal with? Um,

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01:17:00,760 --> 01:17:04,360
Speaker 1: I don't think I was prepared for that. But well,

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01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:07,960
Speaker 1: also because a lot. I mean, violence prevails through silence, right,

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01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:10,200
Speaker 1: So if folks and the women in the past have run,

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01:17:10,439 --> 01:17:13,160
Speaker 1: I doubt they're talking about it publicly. Right. And this

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01:17:13,240 --> 01:17:15,360
Speaker 1: is not just in Wittier, but across the board, like

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01:17:15,400 --> 01:17:19,000
Speaker 1: the things that women that are campaigning are experiencing and

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01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:22,720
Speaker 1: that's not talked about. Right. Honestly, I can't stress that

1372
01:17:22,760 --> 01:17:26,520
Speaker 1: point enough because I even reached out to other elected officials,

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01:17:27,080 --> 01:17:29,719
Speaker 1: women who have been in office for years, like, hey,

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01:17:29,800 --> 01:17:31,599
Speaker 1: this happened to me, and I'm not sure if this

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01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:34,280
Speaker 1: is common or you know, this was an elected official

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01:17:34,360 --> 01:17:37,880
Speaker 1: who did this. So it's like, what happens? Where do

1377
01:17:37,920 --> 01:17:39,960
Speaker 1: I go from here? And it was very much like

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01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:42,800
Speaker 1: a sweetie, this is the way the game goes. I'm

1379
01:17:42,800 --> 01:17:45,400
Speaker 1: sorry you're experiencing that, Like it's not gonna last forever.

1380
01:17:47,320 --> 01:17:49,760
Speaker 1: So it's like, no, this is what happens. This is

1381
01:17:49,840 --> 01:17:53,599
Speaker 1: what men in office do when young women are trying

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01:17:53,640 --> 01:17:56,840
Speaker 1: to break in, Yeah, or not break in, but earned

1383
01:17:56,880 --> 01:18:01,040
Speaker 1: their spot, earn their place. Um, what are the options

1384
01:18:01,080 --> 01:18:04,960
Speaker 1: available to like a woman experiencing sexual harassment on the

1385
01:18:04,960 --> 01:18:10,479
Speaker 1: campaign trail? Like, what are your realistic options? That evening

1386
01:18:10,520 --> 01:18:12,519
Speaker 1: I sat down with the people closest to me, and

1387
01:18:12,560 --> 01:18:14,519
Speaker 1: it was like when I come out with the story

1388
01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:16,880
Speaker 1: and I named him and we have you know, a

1389
01:18:16,920 --> 01:18:22,240
Speaker 1: full disclosed situation, UM, when people are already calling me

1390
01:18:22,360 --> 01:18:25,720
Speaker 1: the slurs I mentioned earlier, UM, and are attacking me

1391
01:18:25,760 --> 01:18:29,960
Speaker 1: based on my looks. The chances of them UM hearing

1392
01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:33,080
Speaker 1: that and feeling sorry, or hearing that and being like, wow,

1393
01:18:33,120 --> 01:18:35,559
Speaker 1: she's really having you know, a lot, a lot, many

1394
01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:38,599
Speaker 1: more hurdles than I would have, UM, we're very slim

1395
01:18:38,640 --> 01:18:41,519
Speaker 1: to none, and if anything, probably would have been received

1396
01:18:41,560 --> 01:18:44,439
Speaker 1: as this was one of my tactics and hoping to

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01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:48,640
Speaker 1: gain some support or sympathy empathy UM for a vote,

1398
01:18:48,960 --> 01:18:51,400
Speaker 1: and I think I had to make the decision that

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01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:54,120
Speaker 1: UM mental health wise, I think it would have been

1400
01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:56,439
Speaker 1: a lot more harmful had I come out and been

1401
01:18:56,479 --> 01:18:59,479
Speaker 1: received that way, UM than if I just wait until

1402
01:18:59,479 --> 01:19:03,120
Speaker 1: this campaign is over and then you know, than it

1403
01:19:03,200 --> 01:19:06,519
Speaker 1: is what it is, and you know it's still it's

1404
01:19:06,520 --> 01:19:09,280
Speaker 1: still on the right, So it hasn't gone away. I

1405
01:19:09,280 --> 01:19:12,639
Speaker 1: haven't forgotten. Folks close to me know exactly what happened.

1406
01:19:12,640 --> 01:19:16,320
Speaker 1: There's documentation, so it doesn't go away. It's just I

1407
01:19:16,360 --> 01:19:19,519
Speaker 1: also have to think strategically of how this will affect

1408
01:19:19,560 --> 01:19:21,479
Speaker 1: my campaign because we don't live in a world right

1409
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:23,160
Speaker 1: that's going to be like, I'm so sorry that happened

1410
01:19:23,160 --> 01:19:26,599
Speaker 1: to you. How can I support absolutely? And I mean,

1411
01:19:26,760 --> 01:19:30,439
Speaker 1: it says so much about what we don't know as

1412
01:19:30,479 --> 01:19:33,600
Speaker 1: far as what women in office are experiencing and surviving

1413
01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:36,920
Speaker 1: and living through, because, like you've just shared, the option

1414
01:19:37,040 --> 01:19:40,160
Speaker 1: to go public with something like this or file a

1415
01:19:40,320 --> 01:19:45,479
Speaker 1: justified report is really not on the table because it's

1416
01:19:45,520 --> 01:19:48,559
Speaker 1: almost like a guarantee that your your your ship will

1417
01:19:48,600 --> 01:19:52,799
Speaker 1: be sunk and will be used against you it public record,

1418
01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:55,639
Speaker 1: and how it's you know when we talk about blaming

1419
01:19:55,640 --> 01:19:58,280
Speaker 1: the victim, right, but it's like, how dare you do

1420
01:19:58,360 --> 01:20:01,320
Speaker 1: this in the middle of a campaign? They know and

1421
01:20:01,400 --> 01:20:03,680
Speaker 1: men in office no exactly what you're doing. They know

1422
01:20:03,760 --> 01:20:06,240
Speaker 1: that you're between a rock and a hard place, like

1423
01:20:06,400 --> 01:20:08,839
Speaker 1: the mud and the dirt. They're completely and totally aware.

1424
01:20:09,240 --> 01:20:12,719
Speaker 1: And what's infuriating is that they get paid through public money,

1425
01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:16,839
Speaker 1: like we pay their salaries and vote them into office

1426
01:20:17,200 --> 01:20:20,240
Speaker 1: or let them walk on yr after year, and it's

1427
01:20:20,320 --> 01:20:25,800
Speaker 1: just infuriating. I'm furious for you, you know, I mean, yeah,

1428
01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:28,600
Speaker 1: thank you, but you know, this is somebody that we

1429
01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:31,320
Speaker 1: see often and that I still have to see often,

1430
01:20:31,760 --> 01:20:34,599
Speaker 1: and so also understanding that I don't think I've ever

1431
01:20:34,640 --> 01:20:37,960
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to process um as yes, mean but

1432
01:20:38,120 --> 01:20:43,200
Speaker 1: process as and so I'm like holding off on that,

1433
01:20:43,240 --> 01:20:46,639
Speaker 1: which I'm like therapy is gonna be real fun march forth.

1434
01:20:47,080 --> 01:20:52,439
Speaker 1: But yeah, like I am literally not allowed to process

1435
01:20:52,479 --> 01:20:54,960
Speaker 1: as yes right now, because there's one no time for it,

1436
01:20:55,040 --> 01:20:58,839
Speaker 1: and to um, it's not gonna matter because the decisions

1437
01:20:58,840 --> 01:21:03,040
Speaker 1: that are being made are for out of and the elections.

1438
01:21:03,320 --> 01:21:07,680
Speaker 1: There's just like a your compartmentalizing your identities and yourself

1439
01:21:07,760 --> 01:21:10,760
Speaker 1: for the campaign, which is something that your other opponents

1440
01:21:10,880 --> 01:21:13,240
Speaker 1: most likely are not having to do. No, because it

1441
01:21:13,280 --> 01:21:17,920
Speaker 1: also requires a level of self awareness where self work.

1442
01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:21,840
Speaker 1: Right going into this, like, I don't ever want to

1443
01:21:21,880 --> 01:21:24,519
Speaker 1: be the leader that that leads with my ego or

1444
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:28,080
Speaker 1: that leads coming from like a space that doesn't feel

1445
01:21:28,080 --> 01:21:29,720
Speaker 1: like I'm good enough, So I'm going to come in

1446
01:21:29,760 --> 01:21:33,720
Speaker 1: here and rule over people. Um. That is actually not

1447
01:21:33,880 --> 01:21:36,479
Speaker 1: common for people that want to work on themselves to

1448
01:21:36,640 --> 01:21:41,280
Speaker 1: be leaders um, And unfortunately that's why we are where

1449
01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:46,480
Speaker 1: we are. So the election is coming up soon, yes, Um,

1450
01:21:46,600 --> 01:21:51,040
Speaker 1: where can people sign up to help you? To camp

1451
01:21:51,400 --> 01:21:55,920
Speaker 1: and I'm like rally the trees, like people out there

1452
01:21:55,960 --> 01:21:58,360
Speaker 1: and on the ground, UM to help you out and

1453
01:21:58,400 --> 01:22:00,760
Speaker 1: get this seat and win this election. And what data

1454
01:22:00,800 --> 01:22:03,720
Speaker 1: is the election? So l A County has changed their

1455
01:22:03,800 --> 01:22:07,120
Speaker 1: voting process. So before it was one day or unless

1456
01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:09,800
Speaker 1: you had a vote by mail ballot. This time it

1457
01:22:09,800 --> 01:22:13,360
Speaker 1: starts February and it goes until March three, So there's

1458
01:22:13,400 --> 01:22:17,120
Speaker 1: about ten days, eleven days to go to a voting center. UM.

1459
01:22:17,360 --> 01:22:19,200
Speaker 1: If you live in l A County and you're registered

1460
01:22:19,240 --> 01:22:20,920
Speaker 1: for in l A County, you can go to any

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01:22:21,000 --> 01:22:23,400
Speaker 1: voting center in l A County. UM, so whatever is

1462
01:22:23,439 --> 01:22:27,400
Speaker 1: most convenient for you. UM. And that's how that's going

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Speaker 1: to go, which is very exciting to get out the vote,

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Speaker 1: which is normally three days is now going to be

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Speaker 1: like fifteen days. So that's gonna be super I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's exciting because more people are going to come out

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Speaker 1: to vote. UM. My website is Ferrata for the number

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Speaker 1: four Whittier dot com and that has UM. You know,

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Speaker 1: it allows you to make a contribution monetary contribution, to

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Speaker 1: sign up to volunteer, UM, get to know my platform

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Speaker 1: a little bit more. UM, and it has like all

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Speaker 1: of my social media on there as well. All right, y'all,

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Speaker 1: y'all better give her your any give her all of

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Speaker 1: your money behind her. Yes, no listeners and Wittier. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm one percent positive. I run into because I get

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Speaker 1: my nails in a Wittier and I run into listeners

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Speaker 1: at the nail slant. I know that y'all are out there,

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Speaker 1: so show up, show out, support, um, help change like

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Speaker 1: politics and Wittier in a real tangible way. Absolutely, and

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Speaker 1: like we're so as a as a whole as a society,

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Speaker 1: Like we're so invested in getting Trump out of office

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Speaker 1: and electing like our Democratic candidate, which is so important.

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Speaker 1: But also the local elections are just as important and

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Speaker 1: they really affect your day to day So even if

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Speaker 1: you're not in Wittier, wherever you're at, pay attention to

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Speaker 1: who's running, being an informed voter, it will affect your

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Speaker 1: day to day life whoever is elected into office. Aboutely well, yes, mean,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us today and um

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Speaker 1: talking on look at about your experience and your process

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Speaker 1: and your campaign. Is there any final words anything? I mean,

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Speaker 1: thank you all so much for an inviting me. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's so exciting to be on Look Radio. We love you, girl.

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Speaker 1: This is so exciting. We've been trying to make it

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Speaker 1: happen forever and we're here and we're hearing. This is

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Speaker 1: very exciting. Thank you all so much for inviting me.

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Speaker 1: This is a very exciting time, y'all. So, even if

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Speaker 1: you cannot get engaged in my campaign specifically, UM, like

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Speaker 1: Yosa said, make sure you are looking into folks that

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Speaker 1: are running around you. Um. Nothing affects our day to

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Speaker 1: day life more than local politics and local officials. Um.

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Speaker 1: And so they're the least um, they're the least races

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Speaker 1: with the least voter engagement because folks are not too

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Speaker 1: it's not very exciting, it's very parks and rec um.

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Speaker 1: But we have an opportunity to change that. So get

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Speaker 1: out there and vote and support your local candidate for Yes,

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Speaker 1: let's make it happen. She has a look at out

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Speaker 1: an endorsement. Okay, she truly does. Could they could never literally,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't pay us all right, y'all, Well, thank you

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Speaker 1: for tuning into another radio. You can tune in on

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Speaker 1: at Underscore Radio on all the platforms and we will

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Speaker 1: catch you next time. Remember to hit up the patreon

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, hit up the patreon oh yes. Also that

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Speaker 1: as that thank you to existing patreon yes, and thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening.