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Speaker 1: Wait that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club. Morning.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's DJ Envy Angel Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We are

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Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club because our special guests joining us today,

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Speaker 1: Brother Gary Chambers Junior, Welcome back, Brother, Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate y'all having me running for US Senate in Louisiana. Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to have you on, man, just because Jesus Christ,

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Speaker 1: what the hell is happening? Man, It's why, it's why,

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Speaker 1: you know, I can't tell if it's twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: Court today, I think is comparative to the Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: justices the US Senate? They voting to prove these people

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Speaker 1: and they send them there. And these folks have worked

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Speaker 1: for fifty years to get to this point. And I

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Speaker 1: think that a lot of us thought it was a

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Speaker 1: game that our rites could be stripped away. But this

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Speaker 1: is step one. And to every black or brown person

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Speaker 1: in America, if white men will take the rights of

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Speaker 1: their own women and daughters from them, what's about you?

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Speaker 1: That's right? Let's talk about that big picture of you,

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Speaker 1: because today it is ro versus way. But like you said,

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Speaker 1: this is just the beginning. So so what are your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on just the Supreme Court overall and what it

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Speaker 1: is they could potentially do. I think I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: to the solution first. The solution is we have to

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Speaker 1: pack the court. Yea. There's a lot of folks who

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Speaker 1: are talking about not doing so, but that is the answer.

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Speaker 1: The Supreme Court was not always the numbers that it is.

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Speaker 1: Look in the history book and read the reality is

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Speaker 1: gay rights, voting rights, policing in America. There was just

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Speaker 1: a ruling on Miranda rights like the Supreme Court too,

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Speaker 1: there's a ruling about gun rights at the same time

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Speaker 1: that they are stripping away women's rights, they're expanding gun

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Speaker 1: well as mass shootings in this country. And so I

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Speaker 1: think that we are headed backwards. Even the congresswoman making

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Speaker 1: white life right and then saying that it wasn't That

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Speaker 1: wasn't what she was saying. Yeah, she knew what she

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Speaker 1: was and everybody shared when they heard white life too.

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Speaker 1: The mind thought and said what it was prepared to say.

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Speaker 1: Inside it came out. It just slipped out. And so

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Speaker 1: you know, you could walk it back all you want to,

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Speaker 1: but this is the reality we're dealing with. And when

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Speaker 1: you talk about packing the courts, who has the authority

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Speaker 1: to do that? Because Joe Biden, they're saying, is reluctant

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Speaker 1: the Senate and the President together. If the Senate decides

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Speaker 1: that they want to change legislation to expand the court,

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Speaker 1: the President has to approve that um and if Joe

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Speaker 1: the president. So what can people do? Because we talked

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Speaker 1: about they said, you know, everybody heard what happened over

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Speaker 1: So let me let me me quantify that. We vote

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Speaker 1: for the president, but when it comes to legislative seats,

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Speaker 1: we sit on our tail. The senator that I'm running against,

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Speaker 1: John Kennedy, and I sent these numbers to Charletmage an

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Speaker 1: other day. He was elected in twenty eighteen, Twenty six

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Speaker 1: He won with five hundred and thirty six thousand votes,

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Speaker 1: John Kennedy wouldn't be in the US Senate. That's another

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Speaker 1: number that we have that helps us to pass all

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Speaker 1: of these things. You can't just have fifty votes when

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Speaker 1: you got two US Senators who are voting against you

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Speaker 1: consistently in Kristen Cinema and Joe Manchin, and you need

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Speaker 1: to expand the Martins. The solution is Charles Booker in Kentucky.

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Speaker 1: The solution is Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin. It's me in Louisiana,

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Speaker 1: it is Big John in Pennsylvania. Right there are people

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Speaker 1: We only had three abortion clinics in the entire state,

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Speaker 1: in Louisiana, we don't have a single woman currently in

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Speaker 1: That's crazy, Okay. So when you when you process that,

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Speaker 1: So women in Louisiana have no reproductive rights at this point.

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Speaker 1: And who does that affect the most when it comes

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Speaker 1: It will affect them the most because if you have

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Speaker 1: fifty four hundred dollars for a procedure in my state,

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Speaker 1: And you're not gonna go by yourself. Somebody has to

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Speaker 1: and to men, Okay, you should be concerned. Okay, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of men who have unprotected sex in this country.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna go after contraceptives. They've already said this. Clarence

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Speaker 1: look at what we do as far as money on contraceptors,

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Speaker 1: we just don't know, especially as men, the emotional capacity

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Speaker 1: That it would be the same if I had a son. Right,

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Speaker 1: America has not afforded that. And the reality is Black

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Speaker 1: that's that's not a massive amount of time. My father

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Speaker 1: not that's not slavery. That's that's that impacts our lifetime.

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Speaker 1: And I am the first generation in my family born

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Speaker 1: that's that's the problem with God's like President Biden right,

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Speaker 1: But he's a s great white male. It's always worked

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Speaker 1: Frederick Douglas gave a speech about what is the fourth

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Speaker 1: Bratt read milk your energy bill. You're taking away people's rights,

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Speaker 1: to protect us from that abuse. In my eyes, there's

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Speaker 1: If you elect the president, but you don't elect the

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Speaker 1: Some of them are gonna be gone in ten fifteen years,

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Speaker 1: that if I'm giving you numbers saying that in the

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Speaker 1: Senate race, twenty six percent of black voters in New

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Speaker 1: did not want to vote for all. So that's a

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Speaker 1: part of the conversation. Democrat, a moderate white Democrat that

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Speaker 1: what will the party do? Because the country is on

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Speaker 1: why not call them out, like why not say, look, look,

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Speaker 1: vote to make change. Well, folks like myself do do

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Speaker 1: that consistently. We've run against them to try to put

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Speaker 1: have the resources. There are people challenging these people all

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Speaker 1: we say we try to make sure that responsible people

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Speaker 1: have guns. And so if there's a choice between my

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Speaker 1: and are you me and my family going home? And

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Speaker 1: I think that any American has the right to protect

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Speaker 1: and defend their family. But do I believe that people

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Speaker 1: need the ability to kill dozens of people in seconds? No,

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Speaker 1: So I was gonna ask you, so, what are your

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what my thoughts are on it, because

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Speaker 1: there are too many of them out here for us

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Speaker 1: to get rid of them. And I think that we

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Speaker 1: need to be realistic with ourselves about that. I think

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Speaker 1: that we need to have a process to owning any

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Speaker 1: type of weapon in this country. I think that that

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Speaker 1: is realistic legislation. I think that we can talk idealistic

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Speaker 1: policy and we can talk about what we can actually

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Speaker 1: get done. And what we can actually get done is

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Speaker 1: a process of making sure and even it's logic that

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Speaker 1: an eighteen year old should be able to get these guns, No,

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Speaker 1: they shouldn't. You can join the military if you're eighteen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but you get training when you join the military, right,

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Speaker 1: and so if you're gonna use a weapon in the

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Speaker 1: confines of a job, that you're trained to use it in. Cool.

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Speaker 1: But other than that, I don't think an eighteen ye

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Speaker 1: old should have a gun. These are sensible things. Or

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Speaker 1: do you think about the gun safety build that Biden

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Speaker 1: just signed it in the law? What do you think

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Speaker 1: about them? Like that napkin right there, it's a little

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Speaker 1: piece of paper. You know, it's not meaningful. It's to

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Speaker 1: say that they did something. I think the red flag

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Speaker 1: incentives are actually have the potential to be beneficial. But

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Speaker 1: if you ask any of the organizations that are really

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Speaker 1: doing gun rights legista policy work, they would tell you

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Speaker 1: that they would prefer much much more. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: agree with nothing that says. By a part of days,

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Speaker 1: if Bill Cassidy is on the thing, who's a senator

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Speaker 1: from the other senator from Louisiana. Ain't nothing in it

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Speaker 1: coming out there good for black folk, Okay, Ain't nothing

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Speaker 1: good in it coming out there that's sensible in this

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Speaker 1: country because he does not care, yeah, you know, and

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Speaker 1: so telling me that he's a part of it, He's

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Speaker 1: only gonna be a part of it if he thinks

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Speaker 1: that it's beneficial for the community that he represents. I

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Speaker 1: think it's safe to say that the Republican Party is

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Speaker 1: just the party of white supremacists. It's the clan, that's it.

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Speaker 1: It's the clans. Herschel Walker running in Georgia is just

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Speaker 1: a black, black faced clan member, that's it. If you

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Speaker 1: are a part of the Republican Party listening to the

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Speaker 1: things that they are saying right now. And here's the

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Speaker 1: other thing. The top ten states in America, seven out

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Speaker 1: of ten of them are ran by either Democratic governors

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Speaker 1: or Democratic legislatures. The top bottoms, the top lowest states

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Speaker 1: in America are either seven out of the ten of

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Speaker 1: them are Republican legislatures or Republican governors. So you don't

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Speaker 1: even have to ask my opinion. Republican policies are failing.

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Speaker 1: Look at the Deep South, Louisiana. Mississippi is almost completely

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Speaker 1: ran by Republicans in our state legislature as well as

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Speaker 1: the governorship. In Mississippi, we have a Democrat governor, but

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Speaker 1: we have a supermajority in the legislature and Republicans and

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Speaker 1: we rank fifty and forty nine. So if Republican policies

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Speaker 1: are successful, why aren't they working in Louisiana in Mississippi?

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Speaker 1: Why are we failing? Why are the number one through

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Speaker 1: three states in this country run by Democrats? Why are

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Speaker 1: the bottom three states run by Republicans? Now? How can

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Speaker 1: people support you if they don't know? How can they

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Speaker 1: support you if they don't live in Louisiana and they

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Speaker 1: just want to support you as as financially whatever they

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Speaker 1: can do, How can they support you? They can go

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Speaker 1: to Chambers for Louisiana dot Com to make a contribution.

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Speaker 1: We need contributions. The end of the quarters coming up.

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Speaker 1: We want to be as strong as possible as we

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Speaker 1: come to this end of the quarter, we need folks

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Speaker 1: to phone bank for us. Toward the end of this summer,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna start phone banking heavily. You can call from

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Speaker 1: anywhere in this country. You can make calls for us.

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Speaker 1: So you can sign up at Chambers for Louisiana dot

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Speaker 1: com to volunteer. There's a take action tab you can

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Speaker 1: click for that. There's a donate tab you can click

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Speaker 1: for the contributions, and then leaning on the Democratic Party

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Speaker 1: to step up for us, the national Party and the

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Speaker 1: state party in Louisiana. We're the only person with the

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Speaker 1: shot as sending John Kennedy home in this race. We

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Speaker 1: have proven that we can build a national conversation from

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Speaker 1: the worst rank state in this country, and we need

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Speaker 1: them to get off their ass and do something. What

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Speaker 1: do you say to people who say Gary Chambers does

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Speaker 1: not have a chance of victory, I'd say they lying,

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Speaker 1: And how do you know they? In my last race,

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Speaker 1: I missed it by fifteen hundred votes. Okay, if you

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Speaker 1: add up all the other people who ran in the

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Speaker 1: race that I said for six months, for the ninety

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Speaker 1: days we were in the special election, I said none

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Speaker 1: of them could win. The amount of votes of those

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Speaker 1: people was the amount of votes I needed to make

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Speaker 1: it too the runoff. Wow, and you did mention. The

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Speaker 1: Essence Festival is coming up this weekend, so are you

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Speaker 1: doing anything? We have an event Saturday at the Jazz Market.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna drop out flyer to they Teacher Campbell's actually

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Speaker 1: gonna be hosting a day party with us at Essence Festival.

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Speaker 1: It's Saturday, so that's gonna be a great thing. We

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Speaker 1: want to just connect with people, make sure folks are

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Speaker 1: registered to vote, and then just enjoy the culture of

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Speaker 1: our state, in our city. And we want you to

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Speaker 1: come to Louisiana. We want more of you to move

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Speaker 1: to the South Saturday with Saturday at the Jazz Market

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Speaker 1: in the Saturday. I love it, man, because you know,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I don't understand how when you see

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Speaker 1: people like that Joe mentions the cinemas, why Democrats aren't

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Speaker 1: speaking out against them, And I don't understand why they're

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Speaker 1: not supporting people like yourself, actual change agents. I think

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Speaker 1: we have the capacity in the culture to send them

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Speaker 1: all home. We just have to organize to make it happen.

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Speaker 1: We are the most powerful weapon in this country. We

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Speaker 1: show it consistently. Every business in this country is trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out how do they capitalize off of us.

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Speaker 1: We need to figure out how we mobilize that to

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Speaker 1: make the change we want to see happen. For all

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Speaker 1: of us. And when black people are good in this country,

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Speaker 1: everybody's gonna be good. That's right. Gary Chambers Junior, we

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Speaker 1: appreciate you for in us and we'll see this weekend

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Speaker 1: out in the New Orleans. Thank y'all. All right, it's

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Speaker 1: a breakfast club, Go Morning,