1 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: Good morning, peep Sen. Welcome to wok F Daily with 2 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording or rather prerecording from 3 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: my home bunker, folks. I am always very excited when 4 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: I have the opportunity to welcome candidates for office on 5 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: woke F. Christy Smith is running for the US House 6 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: of Representatives in California's twenty seventh congressional district, and she 7 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 1: joins us today to one share a bit about herself 8 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: and her campaign and why she's running, but also to 9 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: engage in a conversation about how good people who want 10 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: to be of service, who want to lift up their 11 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: commune unities, who have a desire to and a vision 12 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: to shape the future, are being pushed out of engaging 13 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 1: in politics. Not just because of money, because we know 14 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 1: that money is a major factor and who has the 15 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: ability to run for office and it shouldn't be, but 16 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 1: also Christy and I will talk about the fact that 17 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 1: the rise in political violence is even pushing those good 18 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: people that would volunteer for candidates, that would volunteer at 19 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 1: the polls to sit this one out and maybe the 20 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: next one and the next one after that. And this 21 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: is what the far right wants. This is what the 22 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 1: Republican Party wants. They want people to be scared out 23 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: of their minds. They want everybody to be living in fear, 24 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: uncertain of what hit will be coming next, placing neighbor 25 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:07,559 Speaker 1: against neighbor, community against community, desperate to scroungeohn to whatever 26 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: little piece of the pie that we're able to get 27 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: our hands on. Because they operate from a place of 28 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: scarcity rather than the knowing place of abundance. We can't 29 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: both talk about America being the wealthiest country in the 30 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: world and then say that we don't have enough. No, 31 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:25,239 Speaker 1: we should just tell the truth. We have more than enough. 32 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 1: We're just deciding who is deserving and who isn't. And 33 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 1: so when good people like Christy Smith want to take 34 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 1: up that baton and say that I have a message 35 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 1: to share that I want to be of service, we 36 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: need to support them in any which way that we can, 37 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: whether it is with our talent, our time, or our treasure. 38 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: Wonderful if you have all three, Okay, if you just 39 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 1: got one. But folks, this democracy ain't going to save itself. 40 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: That's the thing that I really want to drive home 41 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: as we are making we just have a handful of 42 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 1: weeks left until midterm elections. Democracy ain't gonna save itself. 43 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 1: The constitution cannot protect itself. It is up to we 44 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: the people to decide how we are going to move, 45 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 1: how we are going to engage, and whether or not 46 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: we plan on showing the fuck up, because I'll tell 47 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: you what the far right is hoping on is that 48 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: we won't show up. And I'll tell you what else 49 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:31,079 Speaker 1: is that they hope that if we do show up, 50 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: that they'll have their little militia boys and their white 51 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: supremacist clans out there at the polls like this is 52 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty, fully in their military cosplay, fucking garb to 53 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: scare the ship out of regular, well meaning, hard working 54 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: Americans that just want to exercise their voice in their 55 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 1: own goddamn democracy. So Christy Smith will share with us 56 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: today her vision for her future district and her constituents 57 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: and why she decided to get into this race and run. 58 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: She'll also really share a terrifying story about what happened 59 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:21,600 Speaker 1: to some of her campaign workers. Two women in an office, 60 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 1: not even late at night, just a regular evening, and 61 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 1: what they came face to face with. We are living 62 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: in dangerous time, perilous times. Folks, all of us have 63 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: a responsibility to take our heads out of the sand 64 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 1: and roll up our sleeves and figure out what we're 65 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:44,599 Speaker 1: made of and what we're willing to work for and 66 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 1: what we're willing to fight for. Because let me tell 67 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 1: you something, the right is ready to fight for their 68 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: fucking lie. They're ready to come claim their power. And 69 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 1: once they get power, dear friends, they ain't giving it up. 70 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: I've said and I'll say it again. This midterm elections 71 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 1: is going to be our last free and fair election. 72 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: Don't be troubling yourself about who's running for president in 73 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four if you have no plans to vote 74 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. We got a lot of work 75 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: ahead of us and a lot of danger that is 76 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: coming our way because they bring in this fight to 77 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:22,160 Speaker 1: our doorsteps. Whether we choose to wake the fuck up 78 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: or not, they're common a knock in, and the question 79 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:31,799 Speaker 1: is are we going to be ready? So coming up next, friends, 80 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: my conversation with candidate for Congress Christie Smith. 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Folks, 96 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: I am very happy to welcome to will Gate APPI 97 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: daily for the first time, Christy Smith, who is a 98 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 1: candidate for the House of Representatives out of California's twenty 99 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 1: seventh district running as a Democrat. And you know, Christy, 100 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 1: I want to give you as you know. As as 101 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 1: often candidates are given an opportunity to introduce yourself to 102 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:09,039 Speaker 1: the woke af audience, particularly those folks that are that 103 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: are going to be able to vote inside of your district, 104 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 1: and tell us a little bit about yourself and why 105 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: you're running right now. Oh thanks, I appreciate it. I 106 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: think that's probably a top of mind question for a 107 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: lot of us in the field right now in a 108 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 1: cycle like this where a lot in the political world 109 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: seems to be kind of on fire. But I wouldn't 110 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: have gotten into this race this cycle if I didn't 111 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: have a really hard infirm why. And my why is 112 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: the fact that I'm a mom. I'm the mother of 113 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: two young adult women, but as someone who's been in 114 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: education in my community, kind of a mom figure to 115 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: a lot of folks here. And you know, the next 116 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 1: generation of Americans will be the most diverse in her history, 117 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: with the greatest number of challenges ahead of them, and 118 00:07:57,720 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: right now, given the state of things, we are not 119 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: given them a toolkit to be successful. We are at 120 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: risk of not leaving them a functioning democracy. We are 121 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: not opening channels of communication that help us move forward 122 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: in a really diverse society. And what that means and 123 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: how we're going to build community, build equity, build opportunity 124 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 1: under those circumstances and keep the country moving forward after 125 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: some of us retired to the sidelines in public service work. 126 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: So I am in it to build that better future 127 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: and then to hand off the reins to the next generation. 128 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: I see gen Z as kind of the answer to 129 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 1: many of our problems with the way that they're thinking 130 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: about the role of government and the challenges that have 131 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: to be tackled and addressed. But I want to be 132 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 1: in this fight right now to help get us there. Christie, 133 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 1: you know you are a woman in this country who, 134 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 1: like the majority of the population, now finds themselves under attack. 135 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: We in the summer as the Supreme Court closed out 136 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: it's session, reversed a damn near fifty year precedent in 137 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 1: terms of Rov. Wade. Can you talk to us about 138 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 1: the importance of women and young women and young girls 139 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 1: who are a voting age to get out to the 140 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: polls and what you are hearing from, you know, from 141 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: folks on the ground about how this reversal of Roe v. 142 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: Wade is affecting them and potentially their decisions to show 143 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: up in November. Sure, it's so important and it's such 144 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: a generational conversation, I think we're realizing, like our conversations 145 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 1: around civil rights, these are issues that we have to 146 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: pass on to each generation and sadly in some cases 147 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:54,080 Speaker 1: relitigate them. So it's incredibly personal for me. I mean, 148 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 1: I'm the daughter of a mother who had friends who 149 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:01,679 Speaker 1: was in pre row circumstances to be sent to their 150 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 1: aunt's house for whatever amount of time to deliver an 151 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 1: unexpected child, or unfortunately, to have to access abortion services 152 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: from a provider in unsafe circumstances. And so for me personally, 153 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 1: as someone who survived a miscarriage and too high risk 154 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:20,960 Speaker 1: pregnancies and literally had to make this decision myself. You know, 155 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 1: if my miscarriage had been criminalized at the time that 156 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: I had it in the state of Virginia, if I 157 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:27,679 Speaker 1: had the law enforcement had come in the emergency room 158 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 1: and started asking me questions about my cycle or you know, 159 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 1: what caused the miscarriage, my life would have had a 160 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,320 Speaker 1: very different trajectory. That could be true for hundreds of 161 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 1: thousands of women across this country on simply on the 162 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 1: issue of miscarriage alone, not to mention high risk pregnancies 163 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 1: like I underwent, where I had the clampsy is so 164 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 1: severe my daughter had to be delivered to save my life, 165 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 1: to keep me from having a stroke or cardiac arrest. 166 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:53,959 Speaker 1: So if my doctors at that point had had to 167 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 1: call their lawyers or make a decision based on what 168 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: state law was at that time, I may not even 169 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 1: be here running from converse right now. So, yeah, I 170 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 1: am a woman who has spent my entire lifetime with 171 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: the privileges and protections of ROW and now my daughters aren't. 172 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 1: So it's critically important. But you know, you raise another 173 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: important point about where we are in this moment for women. 174 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: You can't extract what's happening in the MAGA movement issues 175 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 1: of marginalized communities right. Our LGBTQ communities are communities of 176 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: color and women as a group who are being singled 177 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 1: out by that movement right and really particularly around the 178 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: issue of reproductive rights and freedoms. Sadly, last week I 179 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 1: had two female staffers working alone in the office and 180 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,319 Speaker 1: the evening it wasn't late in the evening, about seven o'clock, 181 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: and a group of drunk men came in and started 182 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:50,679 Speaker 1: really berating them, harassing them about my politics, about the campaign. 183 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 1: Couldn't be forced out of the office for about forty minutes, 184 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 1: and through the duration of all of that, neither of 185 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 1: these women felt safe enough to turn their backs to 186 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 1: grab their phone because of conversation Asian kept escalating. And 187 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 1: I couldn't help but think if those have been two 188 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 1: men working in the office alone, would that ever even 189 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 1: have happened? Right? And so this mentality, this this power shift, 190 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:15,959 Speaker 1: in this really important moment, put so many people on 191 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,080 Speaker 1: their guard, and women in particular have a lot to lose, 192 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 1: you know, God, that's that story is kind of sitting 193 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 1: with me, um. You know, because good people who believe 194 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: in democracy and believe in candidates like yourself volunteer their 195 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: time to be active participants in our democracy and now 196 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 1: or being faced with situations like you just you know, 197 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 1: gave gave voice to that will deter people from wanting, 198 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 1: particularly women, you know, particularly people of color, who are 199 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 1: often targets of violence, right to want to, um, to 200 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:04,199 Speaker 1: be a service, right to to help. And so you know, Christie, 201 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: I guess, how how have you been able I guess 202 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: to to use that story and and and talk about 203 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,440 Speaker 1: the climate that you are running in, talk about this 204 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: climate of escalated political violence, and violence against women, and 205 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: violence against black people and people of color. You know, 206 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:30,200 Speaker 1: how have you been messaging that that that kind of 207 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 1: sense of urgency in where we are? Yeah? You know, 208 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: so like people just know right, I've had a couple 209 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 1: of town halls and people you don't even have to 210 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: describe the circumstances or even individual events. People know how 211 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 1: divided we are. And so I preface this conversation with 212 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: how are we going to knit our communities back together? 213 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 1: And without fail, every public appearance that I've made where 214 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 1: I start to talk about this issue and I say, 215 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: you know, people are at a point where they want 216 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: to talk to their neighbor again at the mailbox without cutporian, 217 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 1: what kind of flag they're flying outside their health or 218 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: what their political signage is on their car in their yard. 219 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: It's the biggest applause line of every public appearance I've done. 220 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 1: So I know that within our communities, within our small towns, 221 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:16,560 Speaker 1: people are ready to make that shift back. 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You know people, Hi, God your state right. 238 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: California has been dealing with a lot as it pertains 239 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 1: to climate change, much in the same way that Florida 240 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: has been in the headlines now because of Hurricane Ian 241 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: and the aftermath of that devastation. California all throughout the 242 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: summer the spring of this year had been in the 243 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 1: news because of the long time drought. Because of these 244 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 1: unpredictable fire seasons that are burning much hotter and farther, 245 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 1: losing acreage in ways that hasn't happened before. What is 246 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 1: how do are you talking to your potential constituents about 247 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 1: climate change? And how do you think that Democrats in 248 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: general should be messaging on this issue. It's an excellent question, 249 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 1: but I will tell you, in my district and districts 250 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: across California, it's a bipartisan issue. When people aren't able 251 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 1: to get their homeowners fire insurance renewed, when people are 252 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 1: cutting back on water consumption, changing out you know what 253 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 1: kind of landscaping they have at their house, worried about 254 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 1: whether there's going to continue to be housing growth even 255 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: because of the water shortage. People are experiencing climate in 256 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 1: real time right just unfortunately, as Florida just did with 257 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: Hurricane Ian, and people understand that there are significant multi 258 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 1: billion dollar costs associated with the damage that's being done 259 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 1: by the changes in our climate. It doesn't require convincing 260 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:06,959 Speaker 1: anymore now. I think what people have wanted to hear 261 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 1: in the community is who's the candidate who actually has 262 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 1: solutions and who's going to step into that policy space 263 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 1: to deliver on the issue. But if people here know it, 264 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:17,679 Speaker 1: they feel it day in day out. How do you 265 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:21,120 Speaker 1: think then that for those you know, because you'll be 266 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: entering in god willing, uh, you know, entering into Congress 267 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: with a really rapid group of Republicans who continue even 268 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 1: as they are wading through waters, even as they are 269 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:47,879 Speaker 1: you know, picking up after these fire these these fire seasons, 270 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:53,199 Speaker 1: who don't believe in climate change? Right? Who are who 271 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 1: are telling people no, this is this is normal? So 272 00:17:56,320 --> 00:18:01,159 Speaker 1: how you know, how do you first see being able 273 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:05,120 Speaker 1: to combat that rhetoric which is going to be ever 274 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 1: present upon your arrival. Yeah, I think very much like 275 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,879 Speaker 1: what has happened here in California, the more people directly 276 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:19,640 Speaker 1: experience the impacts of climate the more likely they are 277 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:23,160 Speaker 1: to buy into the need to address it immediately as 278 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 1: a bipartisan issue. Right man, The Republicans definitely crossover in 279 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:29,639 Speaker 1: my district. I can't imagine that all of these people 280 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: whose lives have now been devastated in Florida don't demand 281 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:38,640 Speaker 1: of their leadership that something be done, especially if they 282 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:41,119 Speaker 1: refuse investment in aid. And the fact that there were 283 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 1: some elected representatives who were voting against relief packages to 284 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 1: go in to rescue people, to clean up to rebuild, 285 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 1: to try to redesign to be a little bit more 286 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:55,640 Speaker 1: climate resilient along the Florida coasts. It is kind of insane, 287 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: and it will get harder and harder for the other 288 00:18:57,560 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 1: side to justify continuing taking contributions from people who want 289 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 1: the climate crisis to continue, those in the fossil fuel 290 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: industry versus people who have actually had their entire lives 291 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 1: destroyed by climate reality. Right, that will come to a 292 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:14,240 Speaker 1: head when people can no longer access their insurance to 293 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:16,920 Speaker 1: rebuild their lives. Then it's a life or death choice 294 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:21,000 Speaker 1: for people, and then the choice is clear. Unfortunately, I 295 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:27,920 Speaker 1: want to switch gears to talking about the pandemic and 296 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: that we are still in because there are four hundred 297 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: people dying a day still in the United States, which 298 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:42,680 Speaker 1: roughly turns out to three thousand people a week. How 299 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 1: are you talking about this the current way in which 300 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,440 Speaker 1: we are continuing to deal with the effects of COVID nineteen, 301 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: but also preparation for the next virus, which many doctors 302 00:19:56,520 --> 00:20:01,680 Speaker 1: and scientists tell us will come as in part because 303 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: of climate change, in part because of what is floating 304 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:09,439 Speaker 1: around in our atmosphere, what is being released via the 305 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 1: melting of the glaciers. Bacteria that's being released that hasn't 306 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:16,400 Speaker 1: been in the air for a billion years. So how 307 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,800 Speaker 1: are you talking with your you know, with your constituents 308 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 1: about you know, about these pandemics and about public health 309 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: in general. Sure, I mean sadly, what COVID has laid 310 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 1: bare is the significant fissures in the delivery of health 311 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:39,400 Speaker 1: across the United States. You know, as it was spreading 312 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,159 Speaker 1: like wildfire in the early days prior to the vaccine, 313 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 1: and we were hearing these horror stories about counties across 314 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,199 Speaker 1: the country that didn't have an intensive care bed, that 315 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 1: didn't have a ventilator, communities where people wouldn't have had 316 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,719 Speaker 1: easy access even to go get the vaccine once it 317 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 1: was available. What it points out to me is a 318 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 1: need to really do a significant investment in shoring up 319 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:03,440 Speaker 1: the structure where people can reach care across the country, 320 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:08,040 Speaker 1: and whether that begins by telehealth in our more rural 321 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:11,359 Speaker 1: and remote areas at least that is something. But doing 322 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:14,400 Speaker 1: a nationwide study and survey on where are these care 323 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 1: deserts and how do we change that? And then the 324 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,479 Speaker 1: hospitals that communities rely on, do they have everything that 325 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 1: they need? It is not cheap to build and maintain 326 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: a hospital these days, but we know now we need them, 327 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,439 Speaker 1: and we need them equipped and ready to go in 328 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: the case of a moment like this. And then further 329 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:34,399 Speaker 1: to just you know, shore up the faith and the 330 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,960 Speaker 1: credibility of our public health institutions and really make sure 331 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:42,200 Speaker 1: we are completely transparent about the development of pharmaceuticals, about 332 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: the development of vaccines, and the health and the safety 333 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,359 Speaker 1: versus the potential risks. I think, you know, trying to 334 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,719 Speaker 1: have that the front and center and present in media 335 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 1: that folks trust becomes increasingly important. But then again back 336 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 1: to that concept of rebuilding community and knitting us back 337 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: together and recognizing that, especially in the midst of a 338 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 1: public health crisis, we have to sometimes take steps to 339 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:11,680 Speaker 1: protect ourselves, but more importantly the people around us who 340 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: are a valuable part of our community, whose lives. I 341 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 1: gotta tell you, I love the imagery of knitting the 342 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:21,199 Speaker 1: community back together, of knitting community back together, because you know, 343 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:25,639 Speaker 1: I like the idea of their being patches right and 344 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: like and wanting to be a part of you know, 345 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,639 Speaker 1: a part of this, a part of this quilt, a 346 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:34,120 Speaker 1: part of of community, and the idea is that most 347 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 1: people do they want you know, they they they want 348 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: to know who who lives next to them and across 349 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 1: the street, and who is going to school with their 350 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 1: kids and you know, um and and and who is 351 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,920 Speaker 1: packing up your groceries and and all of these things. 352 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:52,359 Speaker 1: And so I love your term because it provides such 353 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: you know, comforting imagery um and and you know, to 354 00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:59,880 Speaker 1: the point around around COVID, I think that a lot 355 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:05,359 Speaker 1: of what did happen was the purposeful fracturing of community, 356 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 1: of this idea that like, we're in it together. And 357 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 1: so you know, how do you Christie, like as as 358 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: this candidate for Congress, rebuild this idea right that we 359 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 1: are all in this together, that we're not going to 360 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: make it with this kind of individualistic you know, each 361 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,200 Speaker 1: person got to pull themselves up from the boots drops 362 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 1: when we know some don't have boots, some don't have laces, 363 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,639 Speaker 1: you know, and and some need more care than others. 364 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,359 Speaker 1: And so you know, your what is your core message 365 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: of community that you're sharing with the voters? Well, I 366 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 1: really appreciate this question because this resonates with me. This 367 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: is where I have spent my life's work in building 368 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,439 Speaker 1: partnerships and elevating those who are out there on the 369 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 1: front lines doing the really important nonprofit work and supporting 370 00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 1: the most vulnerable areas and people in our communities. And 371 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 1: so for me, it's two things. One it's showing up. 372 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 1: It's being present. It's being present to serve the meals 373 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,920 Speaker 1: to our unhoused neighbors with the Dolores Quartok Foundation. It's 374 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 1: showing up as I did last weekend for the young 375 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: activist mom who had founded a nonprofit for mental health 376 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,120 Speaker 1: help and support in the community because her own son 377 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 1: had taken his life. And it's about as I'm meeting 378 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: these people in these groups, making sure that I connect 379 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 1: them to one another as they need each other, as 380 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 1: they might be able to benefit from each other's experiences 381 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 1: or the work that they do. And then for people 382 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 1: interested and wanting to be involved in public service, what 383 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 1: I always say to young people is bloom where you're planted. 384 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,120 Speaker 1: If there is some aspect of this kind of work 385 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 1: in the community that really lights you up and makes 386 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: you want to get up every day, then start there 387 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,880 Speaker 1: and the opportunities for further leadership will present themselves as 388 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 1: you are doing this work. But find that one thing. 389 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: You know, we don't all have to show up for 390 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 1: everything every day. But if each one of us finds 391 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,439 Speaker 1: that one piece of work, schools, a community garden, whatever 392 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: it is, show up, be present. And that's part of 393 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,439 Speaker 1: that active process. Though. And I appreciate that you like 394 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 1: knitting because it's deliberate, right, it's action driven to bring 395 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,640 Speaker 1: our communities back together. It doesn't take a whole lot 396 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 1: of lift, but it just takes everybody doing their one 397 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 1: little part that really inspires them. Yeah, I truly do 398 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: love it. My last question for you is what I 399 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,359 Speaker 1: say every day and what I will continue to say 400 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 1: until election day. This is this midterm is the most 401 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,719 Speaker 1: consequential election of our time. It is not the twenty 402 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: twenty four presidential It is right now. This midterm election 403 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 1: will shape who America is moving forward. It will be America, 404 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 1: but possibly only in name only, and not the values, 405 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: the traditions and the understanding of trying to perfect our union. 406 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: So for those people, Christie, who are currently you know, 407 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: they are frustrated, they are angry, they are tired of 408 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 1: the system. They are tired of voting for politicians who 409 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:17,200 Speaker 1: don't care about them, who turn around and you know, 410 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 1: vote with their best interests, which is usually to align 411 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 1: their pockets and not the best interests of their constituents. 412 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 1: What message do you have to voters as we make 413 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 1: this final sprint to midterm elections. Yeah, I would say 414 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 1: a couple of things. First of all, if your vote 415 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 1: didn't matter, there wouldn't be people spending millions and millions 416 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 1: of dollars trying to either discourage you from using it 417 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 1: or try to encourage you to use it in their favor. 418 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 1: Your vote matters, and that's why people spend all of 419 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,160 Speaker 1: this money to get at it. If you are an 420 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,359 Speaker 1: eighteen to thirty year old voter, you need to know 421 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,120 Speaker 1: this that in my district and districts like mine across 422 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:02,760 Speaker 1: this country, that vote demographic, the young voter, determines the 423 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 1: outcome of the race. Your power in this moment is 424 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,640 Speaker 1: your vote. Use it make this country look like the 425 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,639 Speaker 1: future you want to see. And if you are a 426 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 1: voter who already has a family, if you have children, 427 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,800 Speaker 1: if you have grandchildren, look at those kids and make 428 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 1: your vote based on what you want the future to 429 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: look like for them. And we have said it over 430 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 1: and over again for the last several cycles. This is 431 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: the single most important election of our lifetimes. This time, 432 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 1: it really is because we are on that slope of 433 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 1: taking away people's fundamental freedoms, the power to vote, the righteousness, 434 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,400 Speaker 1: and the support for our liberal democratic institutions that has 435 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,359 Speaker 1: withstood the test of time and continued to evolve. We 436 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,160 Speaker 1: need to keep moving forward, and now is the time 437 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:49,959 Speaker 1: to just make that valued statement with your vote. Christy Smith, 438 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: candidate for California's twenty seventh congressional district, Thank you so 439 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,359 Speaker 1: much for making the time to join will Gate F 440 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:01,480 Speaker 1: but more importantly, thank you for being willing to throw 441 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:07,119 Speaker 1: your hat in the ring to represent constituents at a 442 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,640 Speaker 1: time when our politics have turned so toxic, when good 443 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 1: people are being you know, deterred from wanting to run 444 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,160 Speaker 1: in the first place. So I really want to thank 445 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 1: you and appreciate you and wish you all of the 446 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 1: luck and folks that are in California, that are in 447 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 1: District twenty seven, give your vote, Give your vote to 448 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:33,639 Speaker 1: Christie and like minded Democrats who need it. Thank you, 449 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you so much. That is it for 450 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:48,040 Speaker 1: me today, Dear friends on woke a f as always 451 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 1: power to the people and to all the people. Power 452 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,480 Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.