Speaker 1: Good morning, peep Sen. Welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording or rather prerecording from
Speaker 1: my home bunker, folks. I am always very excited when
Speaker 1: I have the opportunity to welcome candidates for office on
Speaker 1: woke F. Christy Smith is running for the US House
Speaker 1: of Representatives in California's twenty seventh congressional district, and she
Speaker 1: joins us today to one share a bit about herself
Speaker 1: and her campaign and why she's running, but also to
Speaker 1: engage in a conversation about how good people who want
Speaker 1: to be of service, who want to lift up their
Speaker 1: commune unities, who have a desire to and a vision
Speaker 1: to shape the future, are being pushed out of engaging
Speaker 1: in politics. Not just because of money, because we know
Speaker 1: that money is a major factor and who has the
Speaker 1: ability to run for office and it shouldn't be, but
Speaker 1: also Christy and I will talk about the fact that
Speaker 1: the rise in political violence is even pushing those good
Speaker 1: people that would volunteer for candidates, that would volunteer at
Speaker 1: the polls to sit this one out and maybe the
Speaker 1: next one and the next one after that. And this
Speaker 1: is what the far right wants. This is what the
Speaker 1: Republican Party wants. They want people to be scared out
Speaker 1: of their minds. They want everybody to be living in fear,
Speaker 1: uncertain of what hit will be coming next, placing neighbor
Speaker 1: against neighbor, community against community, desperate to scroungeohn to whatever
Speaker 1: little piece of the pie that we're able to get
Speaker 1: our hands on. Because they operate from a place of
Speaker 1: scarcity rather than the knowing place of abundance. We can't
Speaker 1: both talk about America being the wealthiest country in the
Speaker 1: world and then say that we don't have enough. No,
Speaker 1: we should just tell the truth. We have more than enough.
Speaker 1: We're just deciding who is deserving and who isn't. And
Speaker 1: so when good people like Christy Smith want to take
Speaker 1: up that baton and say that I have a message
Speaker 1: to share that I want to be of service, we
Speaker 1: need to support them in any which way that we can,
Speaker 1: whether it is with our talent, our time, or our treasure.
Speaker 1: Wonderful if you have all three, Okay, if you just
Speaker 1: got one. But folks, this democracy ain't going to save itself.
Speaker 1: That's the thing that I really want to drive home
Speaker 1: as we are making we just have a handful of
Speaker 1: weeks left until midterm elections. Democracy ain't gonna save itself.
Speaker 1: The constitution cannot protect itself. It is up to we
Speaker 1: the people to decide how we are going to move,
Speaker 1: how we are going to engage, and whether or not
Speaker 1: we plan on showing the fuck up, because I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what the far right is hoping on is that
Speaker 1: we won't show up. And I'll tell you what else
Speaker 1: is that they hope that if we do show up,
Speaker 1: that they'll have their little militia boys and their white
Speaker 1: supremacist clans out there at the polls like this is
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty, fully in their military cosplay, fucking garb to
Speaker 1: scare the ship out of regular, well meaning, hard working
Speaker 1: Americans that just want to exercise their voice in their
Speaker 1: own goddamn democracy. So Christy Smith will share with us
Speaker 1: today her vision for her future district and her constituents
Speaker 1: and why she decided to get into this race and run.
Speaker 1: She'll also really share a terrifying story about what happened
Speaker 1: to some of her campaign workers. Two women in an office,
Speaker 1: not even late at night, just a regular evening, and
Speaker 1: what they came face to face with. We are living
Speaker 1: in dangerous time, perilous times. Folks, all of us have
Speaker 1: a responsibility to take our heads out of the sand
Speaker 1: and roll up our sleeves and figure out what we're
Speaker 1: made of and what we're willing to work for and
Speaker 1: what we're willing to fight for. Because let me tell
Speaker 1: you something, the right is ready to fight for their
Speaker 1: fucking lie. They're ready to come claim their power. And
Speaker 1: once they get power, dear friends, they ain't giving it up.
Speaker 1: I've said and I'll say it again. This midterm elections
Speaker 1: is going to be our last free and fair election.
Speaker 1: Don't be troubling yourself about who's running for president in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four if you have no plans to vote
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. We got a lot of work
Speaker 1: ahead of us and a lot of danger that is
Speaker 1: coming our way because they bring in this fight to
Speaker 1: our doorsteps. Whether we choose to wake the fuck up
Speaker 1: or not, they're common a knock in, and the question
Speaker 1: is are we going to be ready? So coming up next, friends,
Speaker 1: my conversation with candidate for Congress Christie Smith. The Damage
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Speaker 1: I am very happy to welcome to will Gate APPI
Speaker 1: daily for the first time, Christy Smith, who is a
Speaker 1: candidate for the House of Representatives out of California's twenty
Speaker 1: seventh district running as a Democrat. And you know, Christy,
Speaker 1: I want to give you as you know. As as
Speaker 1: often candidates are given an opportunity to introduce yourself to
Speaker 1: the woke af audience, particularly those folks that are that
Speaker 1: are going to be able to vote inside of your district,
Speaker 1: and tell us a little bit about yourself and why
Speaker 1: you're running right now. Oh thanks, I appreciate it. I
Speaker 1: think that's probably a top of mind question for a
Speaker 1: lot of us in the field right now in a
Speaker 1: cycle like this where a lot in the political world
Speaker 1: seems to be kind of on fire. But I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have gotten into this race this cycle if I didn't
Speaker 1: have a really hard infirm why. And my why is
Speaker 1: the fact that I'm a mom. I'm the mother of
Speaker 1: two young adult women, but as someone who's been in
Speaker 1: education in my community, kind of a mom figure to
Speaker 1: a lot of folks here. And you know, the next
Speaker 1: generation of Americans will be the most diverse in her history,
Speaker 1: with the greatest number of challenges ahead of them, and
Speaker 1: right now, given the state of things, we are not
Speaker 1: given them a toolkit to be successful. We are at
Speaker 1: risk of not leaving them a functioning democracy. We are
Speaker 1: not opening channels of communication that help us move forward
Speaker 1: in a really diverse society. And what that means and
Speaker 1: how we're going to build community, build equity, build opportunity
Speaker 1: under those circumstances and keep the country moving forward after
Speaker 1: some of us retired to the sidelines in public service work.
Speaker 1: So I am in it to build that better future
Speaker 1: and then to hand off the reins to the next generation.
Speaker 1: I see gen Z as kind of the answer to
Speaker 1: many of our problems with the way that they're thinking
Speaker 1: about the role of government and the challenges that have
Speaker 1: to be tackled and addressed. But I want to be
Speaker 1: in this fight right now to help get us there. Christie,
Speaker 1: you know you are a woman in this country who,
Speaker 1: like the majority of the population, now finds themselves under attack.
Speaker 1: We in the summer as the Supreme Court closed out
Speaker 1: it's session, reversed a damn near fifty year precedent in
Speaker 1: terms of Rov. Wade. Can you talk to us about
Speaker 1: the importance of women and young women and young girls
Speaker 1: who are a voting age to get out to the
Speaker 1: polls and what you are hearing from, you know, from
Speaker 1: folks on the ground about how this reversal of Roe v.
Speaker 1: Wade is affecting them and potentially their decisions to show
Speaker 1: up in November. Sure, it's so important and it's such
Speaker 1: a generational conversation, I think we're realizing, like our conversations
Speaker 1: around civil rights, these are issues that we have to
Speaker 1: pass on to each generation and sadly in some cases
Speaker 1: relitigate them. So it's incredibly personal for me. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm the daughter of a mother who had friends who
Speaker 1: was in pre row circumstances to be sent to their
Speaker 1: aunt's house for whatever amount of time to deliver an
Speaker 1: unexpected child, or unfortunately, to have to access abortion services
Speaker 1: from a provider in unsafe circumstances. And so for me personally,
Speaker 1: as someone who survived a miscarriage and too high risk
Speaker 1: pregnancies and literally had to make this decision myself. You know,
Speaker 1: if my miscarriage had been criminalized at the time that
Speaker 1: I had it in the state of Virginia, if I
Speaker 1: had the law enforcement had come in the emergency room
Speaker 1: and started asking me questions about my cycle or you know,
Speaker 1: what caused the miscarriage, my life would have had a
Speaker 1: very different trajectory. That could be true for hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of women across this country on simply on the
Speaker 1: issue of miscarriage alone, not to mention high risk pregnancies
Speaker 1: like I underwent, where I had the clampsy is so
Speaker 1: severe my daughter had to be delivered to save my life,
Speaker 1: to keep me from having a stroke or cardiac arrest.
Speaker 1: So if my doctors at that point had had to
Speaker 1: call their lawyers or make a decision based on what
Speaker 1: state law was at that time, I may not even
Speaker 1: be here running from converse right now. So, yeah, I
Speaker 1: am a woman who has spent my entire lifetime with
Speaker 1: the privileges and protections of ROW and now my daughters aren't.
Speaker 1: So it's critically important. But you know, you raise another
Speaker 1: important point about where we are in this moment for women.
Speaker 1: You can't extract what's happening in the MAGA movement issues
Speaker 1: of marginalized communities right. Our LGBTQ communities are communities of
Speaker 1: color and women as a group who are being singled
Speaker 1: out by that movement right and really particularly around the
Speaker 1: issue of reproductive rights and freedoms. Sadly, last week I
Speaker 1: had two female staffers working alone in the office and
Speaker 1: the evening it wasn't late in the evening, about seven o'clock,
Speaker 1: and a group of drunk men came in and started
Speaker 1: really berating them, harassing them about my politics, about the campaign.
Speaker 1: Couldn't be forced out of the office for about forty minutes,
Speaker 1: and through the duration of all of that, neither of
Speaker 1: these women felt safe enough to turn their backs to
Speaker 1: grab their phone because of conversation Asian kept escalating. And
Speaker 1: I couldn't help but think if those have been two
Speaker 1: men working in the office alone, would that ever even
Speaker 1: have happened? Right? And so this mentality, this this power shift,
Speaker 1: in this really important moment, put so many people on
Speaker 1: their guard, and women in particular have a lot to lose,
Speaker 1: you know, God, that's that story is kind of sitting
Speaker 1: with me, um. You know, because good people who believe
Speaker 1: in democracy and believe in candidates like yourself volunteer their
Speaker 1: time to be active participants in our democracy and now
Speaker 1: or being faced with situations like you just you know,
Speaker 1: gave gave voice to that will deter people from wanting,
Speaker 1: particularly women, you know, particularly people of color, who are
Speaker 1: often targets of violence, right to want to, um, to
Speaker 1: be a service, right to to help. And so you know, Christie,
Speaker 1: I guess, how how have you been able I guess
Speaker 1: to to use that story and and and talk about
Speaker 1: the climate that you are running in, talk about this
Speaker 1: climate of escalated political violence, and violence against women, and
Speaker 1: violence against black people and people of color. You know,
Speaker 1: how have you been messaging that that that kind of
Speaker 1: sense of urgency in where we are? Yeah? You know,
Speaker 1: so like people just know right, I've had a couple
Speaker 1: of town halls and people you don't even have to
Speaker 1: describe the circumstances or even individual events. People know how
Speaker 1: divided we are. And so I preface this conversation with
Speaker 1: how are we going to knit our communities back together?
Speaker 1: And without fail, every public appearance that I've made where
Speaker 1: I start to talk about this issue and I say,
Speaker 1: you know, people are at a point where they want
Speaker 1: to talk to their neighbor again at the mailbox without cutporian,
Speaker 1: what kind of flag they're flying outside their health or
Speaker 1: what their political signage is on their car in their yard.
Speaker 1: It's the biggest applause line of every public appearance I've done.
Speaker 1: So I know that within our communities, within our small towns,
Speaker 1: people are ready to make that shift back. It's just
Speaker 1: providing that roadmap and open safe spaces for people to
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Speaker 1: a new episode. You know people, Hi, God your state right.
Speaker 1: California has been dealing with a lot as it pertains
Speaker 1: to climate change, much in the same way that Florida
Speaker 1: has been in the headlines now because of Hurricane Ian
Speaker 1: and the aftermath of that devastation. California all throughout the
Speaker 1: summer the spring of this year had been in the
Speaker 1: news because of the long time drought. Because of these
Speaker 1: unpredictable fire seasons that are burning much hotter and farther,
Speaker 1: losing acreage in ways that hasn't happened before. What is
Speaker 1: how do are you talking to your potential constituents about
Speaker 1: climate change? And how do you think that Democrats in
Speaker 1: general should be messaging on this issue. It's an excellent question,
Speaker 1: but I will tell you, in my district and districts
Speaker 1: across California, it's a bipartisan issue. When people aren't able
Speaker 1: to get their homeowners fire insurance renewed, when people are
Speaker 1: cutting back on water consumption, changing out you know what
Speaker 1: kind of landscaping they have at their house, worried about
Speaker 1: whether there's going to continue to be housing growth even
Speaker 1: because of the water shortage. People are experiencing climate in
Speaker 1: real time right just unfortunately, as Florida just did with
Speaker 1: Hurricane Ian, and people understand that there are significant multi
Speaker 1: billion dollar costs associated with the damage that's being done
Speaker 1: by the changes in our climate. It doesn't require convincing
Speaker 1: anymore now. I think what people have wanted to hear
Speaker 1: in the community is who's the candidate who actually has
Speaker 1: solutions and who's going to step into that policy space
Speaker 1: to deliver on the issue. But if people here know it,
Speaker 1: they feel it day in day out. How do you
Speaker 1: think then that for those you know, because you'll be
Speaker 1: entering in god willing, uh, you know, entering into Congress
Speaker 1: with a really rapid group of Republicans who continue even
Speaker 1: as they are wading through waters, even as they are
Speaker 1: you know, picking up after these fire these these fire seasons,
Speaker 1: who don't believe in climate change? Right? Who are who
Speaker 1: are telling people no, this is this is normal? So
Speaker 1: how you know, how do you first see being able
Speaker 1: to combat that rhetoric which is going to be ever
Speaker 1: present upon your arrival. Yeah, I think very much like
Speaker 1: what has happened here in California, the more people directly
Speaker 1: experience the impacts of climate the more likely they are
Speaker 1: to buy into the need to address it immediately as
Speaker 1: a bipartisan issue. Right man, The Republicans definitely crossover in
Speaker 1: my district. I can't imagine that all of these people
Speaker 1: whose lives have now been devastated in Florida don't demand
Speaker 1: of their leadership that something be done, especially if they
Speaker 1: refuse investment in aid. And the fact that there were
Speaker 1: some elected representatives who were voting against relief packages to
Speaker 1: go in to rescue people, to clean up to rebuild,
Speaker 1: to try to redesign to be a little bit more
Speaker 1: climate resilient along the Florida coasts. It is kind of insane,
Speaker 1: and it will get harder and harder for the other
Speaker 1: side to justify continuing taking contributions from people who want
Speaker 1: the climate crisis to continue, those in the fossil fuel
Speaker 1: industry versus people who have actually had their entire lives
Speaker 1: destroyed by climate reality. Right, that will come to a
Speaker 1: head when people can no longer access their insurance to
Speaker 1: rebuild their lives. Then it's a life or death choice
Speaker 1: for people, and then the choice is clear. Unfortunately, I
Speaker 1: want to switch gears to talking about the pandemic and
Speaker 1: that we are still in because there are four hundred
Speaker 1: people dying a day still in the United States, which
Speaker 1: roughly turns out to three thousand people a week. How
Speaker 1: are you talking about this the current way in which
Speaker 1: we are continuing to deal with the effects of COVID nineteen,
Speaker 1: but also preparation for the next virus, which many doctors
Speaker 1: and scientists tell us will come as in part because
Speaker 1: of climate change, in part because of what is floating
Speaker 1: around in our atmosphere, what is being released via the
Speaker 1: melting of the glaciers. Bacteria that's being released that hasn't
Speaker 1: been in the air for a billion years. So how
Speaker 1: are you talking with your you know, with your constituents
Speaker 1: about you know, about these pandemics and about public health
Speaker 1: in general. Sure, I mean sadly, what COVID has laid
Speaker 1: bare is the significant fissures in the delivery of health
Speaker 1: across the United States. You know, as it was spreading
Speaker 1: like wildfire in the early days prior to the vaccine,
Speaker 1: and we were hearing these horror stories about counties across
Speaker 1: the country that didn't have an intensive care bed, that
Speaker 1: didn't have a ventilator, communities where people wouldn't have had
Speaker 1: easy access even to go get the vaccine once it
Speaker 1: was available. What it points out to me is a
Speaker 1: need to really do a significant investment in shoring up
Speaker 1: the structure where people can reach care across the country,
Speaker 1: and whether that begins by telehealth in our more rural
Speaker 1: and remote areas at least that is something. But doing
Speaker 1: a nationwide study and survey on where are these care
Speaker 1: deserts and how do we change that? And then the
Speaker 1: hospitals that communities rely on, do they have everything that
Speaker 1: they need? It is not cheap to build and maintain
Speaker 1: a hospital these days, but we know now we need them,
Speaker 1: and we need them equipped and ready to go in
Speaker 1: the case of a moment like this. And then further
Speaker 1: to just you know, shore up the faith and the
Speaker 1: credibility of our public health institutions and really make sure
Speaker 1: we are completely transparent about the development of pharmaceuticals, about
Speaker 1: the development of vaccines, and the health and the safety
Speaker 1: versus the potential risks. I think, you know, trying to
Speaker 1: have that the front and center and present in media
Speaker 1: that folks trust becomes increasingly important. But then again back
Speaker 1: to that concept of rebuilding community and knitting us back
Speaker 1: together and recognizing that, especially in the midst of a
Speaker 1: public health crisis, we have to sometimes take steps to
Speaker 1: protect ourselves, but more importantly the people around us who
Speaker 1: are a valuable part of our community, whose lives. I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, I love the imagery of knitting the
Speaker 1: community back together, of knitting community back together, because you know,
Speaker 1: I like the idea of their being patches right and
Speaker 1: like and wanting to be a part of you know,
Speaker 1: a part of this, a part of this quilt, a
Speaker 1: part of of community, and the idea is that most
Speaker 1: people do they want you know, they they they want
Speaker 1: to know who who lives next to them and across
Speaker 1: the street, and who is going to school with their
Speaker 1: kids and you know, um and and and who is
Speaker 1: packing up your groceries and and all of these things.
Speaker 1: And so I love your term because it provides such
Speaker 1: you know, comforting imagery um and and you know, to
Speaker 1: the point around around COVID, I think that a lot
Speaker 1: of what did happen was the purposeful fracturing of community,
Speaker 1: of this idea that like, we're in it together. And
Speaker 1: so you know, how do you Christie, like as as
Speaker 1: this candidate for Congress, rebuild this idea right that we
Speaker 1: are all in this together, that we're not going to
Speaker 1: make it with this kind of individualistic you know, each
Speaker 1: person got to pull themselves up from the boots drops
Speaker 1: when we know some don't have boots, some don't have laces,
Speaker 1: you know, and and some need more care than others.
Speaker 1: And so you know, your what is your core message
Speaker 1: of community that you're sharing with the voters? Well, I
Speaker 1: really appreciate this question because this resonates with me. This
Speaker 1: is where I have spent my life's work in building
Speaker 1: partnerships and elevating those who are out there on the
Speaker 1: front lines doing the really important nonprofit work and supporting
Speaker 1: the most vulnerable areas and people in our communities. And
Speaker 1: so for me, it's two things. One it's showing up.
Speaker 1: It's being present. It's being present to serve the meals
Speaker 1: to our unhoused neighbors with the Dolores Quartok Foundation. It's
Speaker 1: showing up as I did last weekend for the young
Speaker 1: activist mom who had founded a nonprofit for mental health
Speaker 1: help and support in the community because her own son
Speaker 1: had taken his life. And it's about as I'm meeting
Speaker 1: these people in these groups, making sure that I connect
Speaker 1: them to one another as they need each other, as
Speaker 1: they might be able to benefit from each other's experiences
Speaker 1: or the work that they do. And then for people
Speaker 1: interested and wanting to be involved in public service, what
Speaker 1: I always say to young people is bloom where you're planted.
Speaker 1: If there is some aspect of this kind of work
Speaker 1: in the community that really lights you up and makes
Speaker 1: you want to get up every day, then start there
Speaker 1: and the opportunities for further leadership will present themselves as
Speaker 1: you are doing this work. But find that one thing.
Speaker 1: You know, we don't all have to show up for
Speaker 1: everything every day. But if each one of us finds
Speaker 1: that one piece of work, schools, a community garden, whatever
Speaker 1: it is, show up, be present. And that's part of
Speaker 1: that active process. Though. And I appreciate that you like
Speaker 1: knitting because it's deliberate, right, it's action driven to bring
Speaker 1: our communities back together. It doesn't take a whole lot
Speaker 1: of lift, but it just takes everybody doing their one
Speaker 1: little part that really inspires them. Yeah, I truly do
Speaker 1: love it. My last question for you is what I
Speaker 1: say every day and what I will continue to say
Speaker 1: until election day. This is this midterm is the most
Speaker 1: consequential election of our time. It is not the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four presidential It is right now. This midterm election
Speaker 1: will shape who America is moving forward. It will be America,
Speaker 1: but possibly only in name only, and not the values,
Speaker 1: the traditions and the understanding of trying to perfect our union.
Speaker 1: So for those people, Christie, who are currently you know,
Speaker 1: they are frustrated, they are angry, they are tired of
Speaker 1: the system. They are tired of voting for politicians who
Speaker 1: don't care about them, who turn around and you know,
Speaker 1: vote with their best interests, which is usually to align
Speaker 1: their pockets and not the best interests of their constituents.
Speaker 1: What message do you have to voters as we make
Speaker 1: this final sprint to midterm elections. Yeah, I would say
Speaker 1: a couple of things. First of all, if your vote
Speaker 1: didn't matter, there wouldn't be people spending millions and millions
Speaker 1: of dollars trying to either discourage you from using it
Speaker 1: or try to encourage you to use it in their favor.
Speaker 1: Your vote matters, and that's why people spend all of
Speaker 1: this money to get at it. If you are an
Speaker 1: eighteen to thirty year old voter, you need to know
Speaker 1: this that in my district and districts like mine across
Speaker 1: this country, that vote demographic, the young voter, determines the
Speaker 1: outcome of the race. Your power in this moment is
Speaker 1: your vote. Use it make this country look like the
Speaker 1: future you want to see. And if you are a
Speaker 1: voter who already has a family, if you have children,
Speaker 1: if you have grandchildren, look at those kids and make
Speaker 1: your vote based on what you want the future to
Speaker 1: look like for them. And we have said it over
Speaker 1: and over again for the last several cycles. This is
Speaker 1: the single most important election of our lifetimes. This time,
Speaker 1: it really is because we are on that slope of
Speaker 1: taking away people's fundamental freedoms, the power to vote, the righteousness,
Speaker 1: and the support for our liberal democratic institutions that has
Speaker 1: withstood the test of time and continued to evolve. We
Speaker 1: need to keep moving forward, and now is the time
Speaker 1: to just make that valued statement with your vote. Christy Smith,
Speaker 1: candidate for California's twenty seventh congressional district, Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for making the time to join will Gate F
Speaker 1: but more importantly, thank you for being willing to throw
Speaker 1: your hat in the ring to represent constituents at a
Speaker 1: time when our politics have turned so toxic, when good
Speaker 1: people are being you know, deterred from wanting to run
Speaker 1: in the first place. So I really want to thank
Speaker 1: you and appreciate you and wish you all of the
Speaker 1: luck and folks that are in California, that are in
Speaker 1: District twenty seven, give your vote, Give your vote to
Speaker 1: Christie and like minded Democrats who need it. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you so much. That is it for
Speaker 1: me today, Dear friends on woke a f as always
Speaker 1: power to the people and to all the people. Power
Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.