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Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, I have had a fucking enough right. I

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing that I want to say about the

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Speaker 1: right the fuck now, fuck you, The reason why we

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Speaker 1: right now of what the Supreme Court has fucking done

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Speaker 1: so yesterday they decide that oh, in New York City,

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Speaker 1: Where were they during Buffalo? Where where are they during Parkland?

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Speaker 1: Where were they during Newtown? Right? And the list fucking

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Speaker 1: the moment that you all have been too tepid to

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Speaker 1: We have the fucking White House, we have Congress, and

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Speaker 1: been fighting for the American people to see. Obama left

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Speaker 1: as majority already leader in the Senate, decide who gets

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Speaker 1: You're telling us now that they are continuing to crime

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Speaker 1: Do know, but Else's Supreme Court overturned this week your

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Speaker 1: My god, wake the fuck up. That was not a

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Speaker 1: They just dropped a bomb on our democracy. They dropped

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Speaker 1: You're gune, you got Wrongda Scantists. That is climbing up

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Speaker 1: can and yes we can and hope and change and

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Speaker 1: eight years of believing that it was possible to actually

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Speaker 1: bend the arc towards justice. How do you stay inspired? Right?

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Speaker 1: Because you have been in politics, Mayor Parker for a

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Speaker 1: long time in a you know, in a in a

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Speaker 1: tough in a tough in a tough state, right in Texas, right, um,

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Speaker 1: and and and so you are no, you are no

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Speaker 1: stranger to the roller coaster. But but this time feels different.

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Speaker 1: So how are you staying inspired? Engaged? And if you're not,

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Speaker 1: that's fine too. But I just I want to understand

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Speaker 1: how people are keeping their wits about them. I've actually

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Speaker 1: been asked by a number of younger people recently. I'm

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Speaker 1: sixty six years old. I attended my first LGBT organizing

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Speaker 1: event in nineteen seventy five. Yes, I was in office

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Speaker 1: for eighteen years in Houston, but I started out as

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Speaker 1: an activist in the seventies as a college student. And

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Speaker 1: the thing that sustains me is that we have made

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Speaker 1: so much more progress than I ever imagined would be

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Speaker 1: possible in my lifetime. And even though we are stepping

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Speaker 1: backwards in a lot of ways, I have every faith

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Speaker 1: that we're not going to go back that far because

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Speaker 1: the world has changed, the world has shifted, and young people,

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Speaker 1: if they would engage, and that's the frustrating part, if

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Speaker 1: they would engage, have a completely different attitude on a

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Speaker 1: range of social issues and see the world differently than

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Speaker 1: I did and my parents did, and then a couple

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Speaker 1: of generations in between us. That I have faith in

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Speaker 1: what is possible. I think on a range of issues

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Speaker 1: that I care deeply about, on social issues that I

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Speaker 1: care deeply about, that we're going to eventually get there.

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Speaker 1: That you know, the the quote that you gave the

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Speaker 1: ark of the moral universe is long, but admin storage justice.

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Speaker 1: People use that as if it's somehow magical, If we're

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Speaker 1: just if we pray or have hope and or patient,

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Speaker 1: we'll get there. That's not how it works. The arch

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Speaker 1: of the moral universe binds because we put our hands

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Speaker 1: on it and move it into place. And if we

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Speaker 1: take our hands off, if we take our eyes off

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Speaker 1: the prize, we can go backwards. But we're not going

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Speaker 1: to go back to the nineteen fifties. We're not going

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Speaker 1: to go back to the nineteen forties. And that's what

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Speaker 1: sustains me. Incremental progress. We're gonna hold whatever we can

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Speaker 1: and then gird up and move forward again. I am

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Speaker 1: tired of doing this. So today it feels a lot.

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Speaker 1: Today feels a lot like you know, four times in

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Speaker 1: my adult life in Houston, my neighbors have voted to

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Speaker 1: tell me that as a lesbian, I have fewer civil

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Speaker 1: rights than they do. We had a statewide marriage amendment,

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Speaker 1: and then we've had three votes on LGBT rights in

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Speaker 1: the city of Houston, the last one coming in my

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Speaker 1: last year as mayor. Voters you'd already elected me to

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Speaker 1: office nine times consecutively citywide voted that I shouldn't have

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Speaker 1: non discrimination protection. So you know, I guess I think

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Speaker 1: the long view in this that and I'll take hope

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Speaker 1: in the in the things that I know have changed

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Speaker 1: and won't go back, but it is it is hard.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that I am most concerned about,

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Speaker 1: and and you know, my timeline is different, but one

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Speaker 1: of the things I'm most concerned about is that the opposition,

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Speaker 1: the Republican opposition, seems actually to be violent. And you know,

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Speaker 1: when I got into politics again, you're talking about, oh,

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Speaker 1: it was ideological differences, right, And I use quotations because

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Speaker 1: I still believe that they use ideology to mask racism, misogyny,

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Speaker 1: and all versions of hatred LGBT, you know, Q phobias

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Speaker 1: and all of these things. And they say that it's

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Speaker 1: their conservativism that has them believed this way, right, that

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Speaker 1: people are less than However, what we are seeing, you know,

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Speaker 1: as we're watching these insurrection hearings, the J six committees hearings,

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Speaker 1: we are and the listening to the rhetoric of people

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Speaker 1: like a Marjorie Taylor Green and a Laura Boubert who

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Speaker 1: have become the voices and the faces of the House

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Speaker 1: of Representatives and the Republican Party just in general. These

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Speaker 1: are not people that see their colleagues as just their

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Speaker 1: ideological opponents. They see them as their actual opponents, meaning

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Speaker 1: they see them as the enemy, right, and they and

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Speaker 1: they and they rallied a crowd of people to go

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Speaker 1: in and attack who they perceive to be the enemy. So,

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Speaker 1: for people who believe and are invested in our democracy

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Speaker 1: by way of running for office, how do you tell, like,

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Speaker 1: how do you convince folks to run for office and

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Speaker 1: that it's safe to do so? And then what do

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Speaker 1: you what are your feelings about the democratic establishments, understanding

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Speaker 1: of who their opponents really are and the lengths that

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Speaker 1: they're willing to go to to win. So, first, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to say that in a lot of ways, it

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Speaker 1: is not safe to run for office, and it is

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00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: always less safe for women. Always the rhetoric directed at women,

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00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: the threats directed at women are more personal and more

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Speaker 1: visceral than those directed at men. However, there've always men

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Speaker 1: folks who are willing to stand up. One of the

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Speaker 1: reasons that I'm not a big believer in in recruiting

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Speaker 1: people to run for office. I much believe that people

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Speaker 1: need to be willing to raise their hand and say

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Speaker 1: pick me, I'm ready to do this because we have to.

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Speaker 1: And even though it is and when I say it's unsafe,

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Speaker 1: it's unsafe. It can be unsafe emotionally, it can be

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Speaker 1: you know, psychologically and sometimes physically. But there are struggling

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Speaker 1: democracies around the globe where and even in our neighbor

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Speaker 1: in Mexico, our neighbor in Mexico, in certain parts of

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Speaker 1: Mexico where anyone who is a public official is a

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Speaker 1: target for assassination. We're not there, but it is a

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Speaker 1: fraught time. And you know, Donald Trump didn't create this problem.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump enabled it. He helped exposed it, expose it

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Speaker 1: because he normalized it in a lot of ways. But

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Speaker 1: and then, as ugly as it is in some ways,

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Speaker 1: I'm grateful that we now see that they're you know,

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Speaker 1: thirty percent of America is this roiling mass of anger

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Speaker 1: and fear and disdain for the rest of the country,

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Speaker 1: and we have to We're gonna have to come to

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Speaker 1: groups with that and address it. Now the work I

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Speaker 1: do with Victory, I've chosen to do this because I

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Speaker 1: believe that ye a march is a moment in time,

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00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: a protest is important and it can make things happen.

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Speaker 1: But somebody has to be in the room to sign

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00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: that piece of legislation, to direct the final action, and

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Speaker 1: I want to be able to put people in the room.

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Speaker 1: And it's going to end on people saying I'm going

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Speaker 1: to conquer my fears. I'm gonna do whatever it needs,

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Speaker 1: whatever I need to do to win this race so

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Speaker 1: that the Marjorie Taylor Greens and the Lauren Boberts aren't

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Speaker 1: the face of democracy in America because they are so

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Speaker 1: anti democratic and it's they come from a place of

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Speaker 1: of Hey, now again, I have been doing this for

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Speaker 1: a long time, and I would not have survived nearly

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Speaker 1: fifty years of activism by doing it. I mean, I

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00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 1: get frustrated and I get angry, but I don't come

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Speaker 1: from a place of anger. I you know, I guess

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Speaker 1: it sounds a little a little trite, but you know,

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Speaker 1: I have faith. I know what is possible in human beings,

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Speaker 1: and I'm going to keep trying to to with with

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Speaker 1: people of good faith, trying to make a difference, and

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Speaker 1: even and even if I don't succeed, I'm I can't

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Speaker 1: accept that doing nothing is an option. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: do I talk to a lot of people who are

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Speaker 1: who are frustrated and oh I'm just gonna give up

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00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: and voting doesn't matter and maybe not every time, right,

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Speaker 1: who we get an abomination like Donald Trump? But right,

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00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 1: we can't not try, we can't not strive, and the

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00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 1: world and the world has changed, just not as much

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Speaker 1: as we want and not as permanently as we had thought.

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Speaker 1: You know, I so apologies because I too have I

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Speaker 1: do have an animal in at this time. UM. You know,

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Speaker 1: one of the things that is really troubling me right

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Speaker 1: at this time is that we have you know, we're

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Speaker 1: speaking today as folks, you're listening to this. The decision

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Speaker 1: to overturn Ruby Wade has come down, and that followed

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Speaker 1: the decision for or the Supreme Court also to UH

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Speaker 1: to gut uh New York City, New York State's ability

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Speaker 1: to hold onto one hundred and eleven year old law

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Speaker 1: that would disallow concealing carry in this state, UM, which

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Speaker 1: signals a lot, right. And I want to ask you,

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Speaker 1: you know, as a former mayor of a city, what

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Speaker 1: what implications that decision, the New York decision UM has

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Speaker 1: on our safety in cities, right, um, which are inherently

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Speaker 1: uh in a lot of ways blue right UM, and

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00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:45,359
Speaker 1: and and inherently democratic. And also where where every other

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Speaker 1: part of every state receives its economic viability. So what

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Speaker 1: does it mean now, right that this decision has come

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Speaker 1: to pass. You are right that virtually every major city

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Speaker 1: in America has a democratic majority, and most of them

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Speaker 1: have democratic mayors, and they are the economic engines of

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Speaker 1: their state. But Texas has had an open carry bill

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Speaker 1: for a while now. The legislature has been moving rapidly

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Speaker 1: in that direction. For a long time. We had a

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Speaker 1: reasonable and I think correct, concealed carry law which required

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Speaker 1: people to get a permit. It wasn't oneris to get

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Speaker 1: a permit, but you did have to spend time in

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Speaker 1: class proving that you knew how to handle a gun,

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Speaker 1: and then you knew the gun laws in the state

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Speaker 1: of Texas. But the last session they passed something called

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Speaker 1: so called constitutional carry, which anybody essentially what the Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court has now done to the entire country. There's no

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00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: there's not going to be an immediate practical effect, but

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00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:58,840
Speaker 1: over time, what you have is more and more people

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Speaker 1: normalizing the carrying of guns and less and less knowledge

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Speaker 1: about how to safely do that. So now we've had

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Speaker 1: this so called again constitutional carry for long enough that, um,

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Speaker 1: we've had a rash of child shootings where they have

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Speaker 1: an find an unsecured gun and start playing with it.

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Speaker 1: Or we've had a rash of road rage incidents in

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Speaker 1: Houston where you know, people are frustrated shooting somebody barreling

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Speaker 1: down the freeway, which isn't just a danger to the

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Speaker 1: poson they're shooting at, but to everybody else on the road.

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Speaker 1: And that's it. It's like a barrier breaks that. We

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Speaker 1: already have a serious problem of gun violence across America,

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Speaker 1: particularly young men shooting other young men, and violent gang

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Speaker 1: violence where you have known essentially known as sales, are

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Speaker 1: silence known to each other. Um, what this adds is

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Speaker 1: that is a layer of an additional unsafe layer. It's

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Speaker 1: people who never thought about having what to do. I

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Speaker 1: my children are now in the ground, My youngest is

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Speaker 1: twenty seven, but I have grandchildren now. And you know

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Speaker 1: when you think about, oh, my kids are gonna go

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Speaker 1: on kids or grandkids gonna go on a playdate. And

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Speaker 1: you know you used to think about, well, is there

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Speaker 1: going to be a parent at home? And and you know,

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Speaker 1: what do I have to what do I have to

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00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 1: worry about? Now you have to worry about is there

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00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: are going to be an unsecured firearm somewhere and and really,

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Speaker 1: you know, parents are going to have to to step

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Speaker 1: up and step in. Now. We are also having the

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Speaker 1: conversation right now because of the horrific shooting in Uvalde

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Speaker 1: about arming teachers in the weeks since that shooting, where

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Speaker 1: we find out that three different police agencies on the

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Speaker 1: scene failed to act and allow those children to be killed. Yep,

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00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 1: so you have armed, trained police officers huddled outside. But oh,

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Speaker 1: let's get a give a teacher who really has no

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Speaker 1: place to secure that weapon and no time for something

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00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: else to do, and not no requirement for training. Now

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Speaker 1: to have a gun in the in the classroom, that's

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Speaker 1: going to make us safer. That's just that's just an

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00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: absurd argument that you know, the Second Amendment is a

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Speaker 1: well regulated militia being necessary. To my mind, the well

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Speaker 1: regulated militia I was perfectly comfortable with. Yes, go learn

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Speaker 1: how to shoot a gun, handle a gun, prove that

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Speaker 1: you know how I can accept that. But this open

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Speaker 1: you know, complete open carry is insane. And at a

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Speaker 1: time when you have this rising tension, and we've already

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Speaker 1: talked about that that this is not you know, the

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Speaker 1: principal opposition is that you have. As we saw with

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Speaker 1: the January sixth, the rhetoric is so extreme on the right.

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Speaker 1: The people who look like like you and me, we're

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Speaker 1: we're in the enemy, yep. And if you are the

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Speaker 1: enemy and not an opponent, then it's a small step too.

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Speaker 1: I can do violence against you, yep. And I have

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Speaker 1: the means in my hand, are on my waistband. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I just you know, I guess there's not a lot.

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Speaker 1: There's not a lot that mayors can do, even if

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Speaker 1: the states do that. Now, you know, we cities do.

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Speaker 1: We do gun buy back programs, we do violence reduction programs,

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Speaker 1: We give away gun locks, um, so the responsible gun

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Speaker 1: owners can can secure their firearms. But when I was mayor,

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Speaker 1: we at the request of the Houston Zoo. Of all things,

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Speaker 1: the Houston Zoo belongs to the city of Houston, but

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Speaker 1: as a zoo, it's filled with kids all the time,

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Speaker 1: and particularly school field trips during the during the school year,

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Speaker 1: and they wanted to be able to ban guns at

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Speaker 1: the zoo, and so we banned guns at the zoo

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Speaker 1: in the state of Texas promptly overrode my ability to

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Speaker 1: do that because of course somebody and know the I

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Speaker 1: guess the chaperone of a school busful of kids at

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Speaker 1: the zoo ought to have a gun. I just, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it is just I feel like we are in crazy town.

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Speaker 1: You say that it'll take the rest of your life

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Speaker 1: to fight I this is generations upon generations that we

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Speaker 1: are for the first time, I'm going to be looking

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Speaker 1: at my god daughter and nieces and nephews and realizing

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Speaker 1: that the world that they are coming into is a

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Speaker 1: world that is completely unsafe for them, with queer parents,

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Speaker 1: for them who are black, for them, with uteruses like

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Speaker 1: it is just, it is a filed idea that we

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Speaker 1: are creating a generation that is going to be far

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Speaker 1: worse than the previous generations. And so, you know, my

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Speaker 1: last question to you is about the LGBTQ community as

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Speaker 1: a whole. In your opinion, you know, the radical right

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Speaker 1: has placed a target on the backs of transuth of

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Speaker 1: trans people, of the LGBTQ community as a whole. You

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Speaker 1: have this decision that came down and I'll and I'll

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Speaker 1: read you this that i'd saw right before I came

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Speaker 1: on that Clarence Thomas just filed a concurring opinion to

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Speaker 1: the dobb's decision, calling for the Court to consider overturning

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Speaker 1: gay marriage, overturning birth control right, and overturning Lawrence v.

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Speaker 1: Tribe and so Lawrence, I'm sorry, Lawrence v. Texas, Lawrence Texas.

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Speaker 1: So I read this. They are saying the loud part,

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Speaker 1: there's no quiet part. They're on bullhorns. They have organized,

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Speaker 1: they have strategized, and Victories are saying this for a

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Speaker 1: long time. Victory Fund, Victory Fund, and Victory Institute. We're

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Speaker 1: thirty one year old organization. We have been a pro

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Speaker 1: choice organization, even though that we're focused on. We don't

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Speaker 1: do lobbying or anything, but we're a pro choice organization.

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Speaker 1: In the beginning, when we were founded, it was every

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Speaker 1: candidate we endorsed, they have to be LGBT and they

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Speaker 1: had to believe in or right to privacy because we

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Speaker 1: could clearly see the links at the time ROW was

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Speaker 1: in place, and so we said you had to believe

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Speaker 1: in you had to be pro choice and believe in

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Speaker 1: or right to privacy because we were working to overturn

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Speaker 1: sodomy statutes, which is which happened in Lawrence v. Texas,

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Speaker 1: and we were working to make sure that we had

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Speaker 1: um equal marriage in the over Fell decision, and so

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Speaker 1: we knew that they were inextricably linked. Now everyone can

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Speaker 1: see in the minds of the right that this was

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Speaker 1: this is a it is a these these are calculated

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Speaker 1: and planned to have a Domino's fall. We have to

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Speaker 1: wake up, as the title of your your guess, we

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Speaker 1: have to wake up and recognize that this is not

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Speaker 1: an accident. This is a planned strategy, and that the

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Speaker 1: LGBTQ community, people of color, immigrants, whatever the target of

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Speaker 1: the week is, it is a target of convenience in

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Speaker 1: a larger plan too. They truly, I believe again that

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Speaker 1: thirty percent of America that wants to return to a

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Speaker 1: time that will never come back, but they can sure

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Speaker 1: drag us through the mud to try to get there.

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Speaker 1: It is. It is an ugly mix of white supremacy

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Speaker 1: and economic angst and just the need to raise yourself

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Speaker 1: up only because because the only way you can do

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Speaker 1: that is by belittling somebody else. And uh, it's it's

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Speaker 1: fueling what's going on here but there? And when you

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Speaker 1: what is it reminded me lately is the all the

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Speaker 1: story about you know, riding the back of the tiger,

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Speaker 1: and and um, you ride the back of the tiger,

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Speaker 1: and and people fear you, and you can you can

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Speaker 1: do amazing things when you have the tiger underneath you.

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Speaker 1: But when when at some point either the tiger gets

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Speaker 1: tiger carrying you or you want to dismount the tiger,

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Speaker 1: you realize that there's no way you can get off

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Speaker 1: without the tiger eating you. And that is what has happened,

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Speaker 1: I think, to the right, because they have provoked this

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Speaker 1: mob mentality and uh, you know, going to the halls

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Speaker 1: of Congress talking about hanging Mike Pence, who was the

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Speaker 1: epitome of the conservative mindset and has been a loyal

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Speaker 1: soldier in the Conservative cause for decades. That's what happens.

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Speaker 1: The mob runs am up. We have to we have

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Speaker 1: to stand against it. I mean, and I have faith,

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Speaker 1: and I have a hope, and I and and maybe

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Speaker 1: it's because I know how much worse it was when

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Speaker 1: I started out, and I don't think it will go

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Speaker 1: back there. But let's close it with talking about young people.

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Speaker 1: And when when the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance went down

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Speaker 1: in flame as my last years, as may actually the

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Speaker 1: day we elected my successor as mayor of Houston. That

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Speaker 1: uh equal rights ordinance was on the was on the ballot.

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Speaker 1: The average age of voter was sixty eight years old. Wow.

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Speaker 1: This was a regular municipal election in November with a

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Speaker 1: ALD initiative to provide non discrimination protections not just to

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Speaker 1: the LGBTQ community but to everyone in Houston. Houston remains

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Speaker 1: the only major city in America doesn't have any local

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Speaker 1: non discrimination protections. It went down because of the age

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Speaker 1: of the voter. If the age of the voter had

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Speaker 1: been fifty, I think the outcome would have been different

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Speaker 1: if if anybody under forty he had bothered to show

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Speaker 1: up in that municipal election. There's no doubt in my

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Speaker 1: mind that the outcome would have been different. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what it takes. Maybe this road decision will wake

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Speaker 1: up millennials and jet xers to what we Baby boomers

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Speaker 1: have been facing for a very long time and working

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Speaker 1: for and thought we had handed them a better world.

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Speaker 1: Now we can all see that, Yeah, we did hand

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Speaker 1: them a better world, but it's not safe. It could

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Speaker 1: go backwards and we can all see it. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I think that this is the first time in our

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Speaker 1: lives that folks are seeing things go backwards. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: I entered I entered politics at a time of progression,

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Speaker 1: at a time of expansion, where we thought that we

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Speaker 1: had already done the hard, bloody, violent work, and then

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Speaker 1: we were in a place of conversation about expansion. You

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Speaker 1: didn't have to go to the Edmund Pettis Bridge. Now

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Speaker 1: you may have to go to the Edmund Pettis Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Mayornie Parker, thank you so much for making the time

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Speaker 1: to join woke A. Thank you for the work that

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Speaker 1: you're doing to get as many as many LGBTQ candidates

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Speaker 1: at the state, local and national level to run. Folks.

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Speaker 1: If you are interested, please do check out Victory Fund.

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Speaker 1: Trump became president, since the insurrection, by the way, which

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Speaker 1: nobody has really been indicted for, because Merritt Garland is

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