1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 2: Breakfast Club Morning, Everybody's DJ Envy, Jess hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. 3 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 2: We are the Breakfast Club long the roster filling in 4 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 2: for Jess. We got a special guest in the building, 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 2: Governor Baraka Hey is running for governor. Ladies and gentlemen, 6 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 2: Ross Baraka, welcome. 7 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 1: Brother, thank you, thank you, glad to be here. How 8 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:25,119 Speaker 1: you feeling good? Man? Good cold? But I'm good cold. 9 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 2: So you're gonna put your hat in this race? And 10 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 2: what makes you want to run for governor? 11 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 1: I already did. I think it's time, man, I mean, 12 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 1: we have a very short window. I don't think we 13 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 1: get an opportunity to do this anymore. There's a crowded feel. 14 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,480 Speaker 1: It's an opportunity for African American kid from the city 15 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:43,279 Speaker 1: of Nework to make New Jersey live up to its 16 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: democratic values, to build a broad based coalition to really 17 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,520 Speaker 1: respond to the issues we deal with in the city 18 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 1: every day that I think are state wide issues. This 19 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: was a housing, unemployment, safety, uh, the affordability of the 20 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 1: state being too expensive for most folks in New Jersey. 21 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: We deal with those things every problem. New Jersey. We 22 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: got it twice in Newark. But whatever we grappling with 23 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: the state is doing it. And if we're mitigating those 24 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: problems in Newark, we can certainly do it in the state. 25 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: And if the state is better, Newark is better. 26 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 3: So what are some things you'll be able to do, 27 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 3: is governor that you aren't right now capable of doing? 28 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: A myth help build more affordable housing across the state 29 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 1: of New Jersey, which makes it easier for folks like 30 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: folks in Newark who are trying to get in housing. 31 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: So we started twenty percent affordability and all development in 32 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 1: the city. The state followed suit and did the same thing. 33 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 1: So now there's not one hundred people on the waiting list, 34 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: it's five thousand people on the waiting list because New 35 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,400 Speaker 1: Jersey is in it. And now we can't discriminate against 36 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: where you come from across the state, which means we 37 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 1: need more affordable housing in a state we need workforce housing. 38 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 1: We can do that right. We can help reduce the violence, 39 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 1: not just in Newark, but also Camden and Trenton, right 40 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: in Jersey City and places like that. To begin to 41 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: create an environment in the city or in the state 42 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: that is conducive to business, conducive to growth, helping families 43 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 1: grow and be safe. We can do that, we can 44 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 1: bring more business to the state of New Jersey. We've 45 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 1: brought them to Newark, so we could bring them to 46 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: the state. You know, I think we uniquely qualified. Most 47 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: of these other folks that are running have never done, 48 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 1: have no receipts of doing anything except for being in 49 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. To them, I mean that gives them 50 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 1: the privilege. The party picks them and puts them in 51 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: front of people and say this is who you're supposed 52 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,800 Speaker 1: to vote for. I'm tired of that. You know, we 53 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 1: got to mix it up. 54 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, I love Newark, Man, and you know you've done 55 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 3: some amazing things in Newark, Man, Baraka. 56 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 4: One thing I want to talk about is Newark. 57 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 3: They experienced a sixty percent decrease in violent crime, right 58 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 3: and a lot of times, you know they say that 59 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 3: in cities, but you don't see it in Newark compared 60 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 3: to where Newark was, you know, a decade ago. You 61 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:44,799 Speaker 3: can see that Newark is. You know, it's a lot 62 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 3: safer than it was. Not saying it's perfect, but it's 63 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:48,799 Speaker 3: a lot safer than it was. How did you do that? 64 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: Well? We created an ecosystem Officer Violence Prevention, trum Recovery, 65 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 1: Brick City Peace Collective, and that's as we brought in 66 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: community based organizations to partner with the police. We the 67 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: police started doing really intelligence based policing, but we bought 68 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 1: ruckers on to kind of identify with crime, what's happening that, 69 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: with violence was happening that. For example, they told us 70 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: all the bodega's in the city where violence happened in 71 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: one hundred feet of and gave us some data point 72 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: that said if we turned the lights on this area, 73 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 1: it will reduced violent crime about thirty four percent if 74 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: we put lights on in this area. So we did 75 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: those things right. We put community people in those communities 76 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: to deal with high risk interventions, deal with folks that 77 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: were trying to retaliate kids that are getting out of jail, 78 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: meeting them immediately like yo, this, we need you to 79 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: get involved in this and do this, give them opportunity, 80 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: and we have a I want to thank like New Direction, 81 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: you know one hood organizations like that that work with 82 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: us in the city that do very very dangerous work 83 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: in these communities, trying to reduce the temperature, like they say, 84 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: reduce the temperature. 85 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 2: I wanted to ask, you know, when it came to Newark, 86 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 2: how did you get your out? I want to say, 87 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 2: governing style? And the reason I ask is, We've met 88 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 2: a lot of Mays, We've seen a lot of Mays 89 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 2: and a lot of different cities, but I've never seen 90 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 2: a mayor do with some of the things that you do, 91 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 2: Like you go out there and touch to people, right, 92 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 2: you use everything that you have to bring people in. 93 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 4: Why do you do that so much? 94 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 2: I mean, Charlemagne has been part of the stuff that 95 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 2: you've done in Newark. I've been down there a million 96 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 2: and one times. I've seen you bring celebrities to come 97 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 2: down there and not just speak, but to actually help. 98 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 2: Why have you done it that way? And why don't 99 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 2: you think other mayors follow your way of doing it 100 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:24,279 Speaker 2: because obviously it's successful. 101 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: Well, I think I do it this way because it's 102 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 1: how I was raised. I'm from Newark for real, Like, 103 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:34,679 Speaker 1: this is my community, and you know, I know these people. 104 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,040 Speaker 1: I know these neighborhoods, these streets, the people on them, 105 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: good and bad, and I know we need them to 106 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: help solve these problems. And people that are closer to 107 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: the problem are closer to the solutions in my mind. 108 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: And you know, I don't feel like I'm special because 109 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 1: I'm the mayor of the City of Newark. I feel 110 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: like this God gave me opportunity to do more with 111 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: the resources that I have, and and I owe it 112 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 1: to a whole lot of people. When I was a kid, 113 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: at fifteen, sixteen years old, I could easily been in trouble. 114 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: I had good friends who make sure I wasn't trouble 115 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 1: when beef came. They walked me home, you know what 116 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 1: I mean. Kids that made sure I was in the 117 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:06,919 Speaker 1: house when things went on, and they talked about it 118 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 1: the next morning. So I feel obligated to take care 119 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 1: of them now that they took care of me. When 120 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: I was a kid, you know, I was on my 121 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 1: way to college. My best friend was on his way 122 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:17,040 Speaker 1: to Anadelle or the youth correctional facility. So I feel 123 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: like it's my job and duty to take care of 124 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:22,160 Speaker 1: folks in my neighborhood. And that's just basically how we 125 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: govern and how I operate in the city. 126 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,119 Speaker 5: Yep, there's a lot of gentrification happening in Newark right 127 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 5: and I've only been in the area for about like 128 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:32,679 Speaker 5: a year and I'm like, wow, it's a lot that's changed. 129 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 5: You're really from Newark, Like you said, how do you 130 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 5: balance working with people that are in the community and 131 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 5: then also bringing in these new partners who might not 132 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 5: have that same feeling or commitment to the city and 133 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 5: the people that are like what you said, because you 134 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 5: kind of need the outsiders at the same time, Well, 135 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 5: they don't. 136 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: Have no choice. I'm the mayor, we in charge. We're 137 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:54,040 Speaker 1: a city of ann you know. So if we didn't 138 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:55,599 Speaker 1: do that, twenty five percent of the people in the 139 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:59,040 Speaker 1: city pay taxes. They homeowners. So if we didn't have business, 140 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:01,159 Speaker 1: if we didn't have the growing up in the city, 141 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: we wouldn't be able to hire the people we hire 142 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 1: would have the infrastructure we need. We need more people 143 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: to pay taxes, so you have to create opportunities. So 144 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: that's why we take Section eight vouchers and turn them 145 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: into mortgages so people could be homeowners so they could 146 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 1: pay taxes. Twenty percent of every building that goes up 147 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: in the city has to have twenty percent affordability in it. 148 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: You have to put affordable housing in every development. Hell, 149 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 1: you got to plant trees, you invest in community through 150 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:30,479 Speaker 1: community based community benefits agreements. We force developers to do 151 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: very specific things in the city because we don't want 152 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:35,160 Speaker 1: them to leave folks behind. We change the led service lines. 153 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: We made the folks who did that hire community based organizations, 154 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: people that work in the city, and bring on black 155 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 1: and brown businesses to help them. 156 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 4: Did you break down the higher buy Live initiatives? 157 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, so we all of the corporations in the city, 158 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: we call them anchor institutions. We told them that. Actually 159 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: Prudential did the study for us. Showed us that all 160 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: of the business only spend three percent some of their 161 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:02,840 Speaker 1: dollars in the city of Newark. If they lifted it 162 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 1: to ten percent, they would add fifty to sixty million 163 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,039 Speaker 1: dollars to the economy. So based on that, we began 164 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 1: to bring people together and said, we need you to 165 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: lift the level of your procurement, your spend in the city. 166 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: We want you to hire Newark. Because deliberately we had 167 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: a goal of twenty and twenty people to hire, they 168 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: actually hired three thousand, and we wanted you to encourage 169 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: your employees to actually live in the city of Newark. 170 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: It went so far that Audible was paying the first 171 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: month's rent for folks who decided to live in the 172 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: city of Newark. I mean it got that you know, 173 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: deep with the corporations because they saw the success of 174 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: it and how the city was changing, so they leaned 175 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: into it. You know, Beth Israel leaned in, Rutgers Newark, 176 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: the university leaned in. They probably hired more people than 177 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: anybody in mid level, the high level staff than anybody 178 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 1: in the city. So we think that that model works, 179 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: not just in the city, that could be a statewide 180 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 1: model as well. 181 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 3: The thing I love about Nework too is like the 182 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 3: political infrastructure is so black, and you know, the city 183 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 3: is just a beautiful black city. 184 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 4: It makes you want to invest it. 185 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 3: How important is it when people like Queen Latifa want 186 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 3: to build affordable housing? They are a shock wants to 187 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 3: build you know, affordable housing. Now, how important is that? 188 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: That's very dope. Shack is on his building number three, Wow, 189 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: and his buildings are going up very quickly. You know, 190 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 1: I'm excited about it makes other people excited about it. 191 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: It makes more importantly, it makes people black and brown 192 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: folks that are you know, small to missiles developers feel 193 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: like I got a shot. So when you bring them together. 194 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 1: We feel like because a lot of people don't want 195 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: to take the risk, or they don't want to go 196 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:36,680 Speaker 1: through all the bureaucracy or the patience that it takes 197 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:38,679 Speaker 1: to get knocked down to get back up, because it's 198 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: not a simple and easy thing. I make people understand 199 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: this is hard what we asking you to do. It's 200 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 1: not easy, but it makes people feel like it's possible, 201 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: it's plausible. Let's get let's do this. So when all 202 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: of you guys, when other folks come in and invest 203 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:52,199 Speaker 1: in the city. That's why I bring people around them 204 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: so they can see folks that look like them, have 205 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: similar backgrounds in them, that they did it, that you 206 00:08:57,520 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: can do it as well. 207 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 2: I was gonna ask congestion pricing. 208 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 1: What's your take on congestion pricing? 209 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 4: Does it help? 210 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: Does it hurt? How does it affect? Especially in New Jersey, 211 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:09,559 Speaker 1: bunch of rich bureaucrats fighting with each other about things 212 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: that work in people have no knowledge of the reality 213 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: is I think the objective is right that obviously the 214 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: environment and congestion is a problem. I think going at 215 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:23,680 Speaker 1: it this way is an issue, and that's usually what 216 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,959 Speaker 1: the problem is. In the state House and governments because 217 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 1: most of these people making these decisions make decisions based 218 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 1: on a small frame of reference, make on a small circle, 219 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 1: and they're not bringing people in, regular working folks in 220 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: to weigh in and on what they're trying to do. 221 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 1: You're not bringing the fire guy in who lives in 222 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 1: the outer boroughs, who gotta work in Manhattan every single day, 223 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: that's gonna have to pay that. You're not you know, 224 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 1: working class people in New Jersey you have to drive 225 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: here to go to work, who don't make a whole 226 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: lot of money that you're at. You're hitting them over 227 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 1: the head again and again and again. You're driving people 228 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,439 Speaker 1: away from the party, dripping away from government. They're becoming 229 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 1: more cynical because they think that these guys are making 230 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 1: decisions that are hurting them. They don't care about all 231 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 1: of the big issues you're talking about because you're hurting 232 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: my pockets. I don't got no money as it is, 233 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:10,200 Speaker 1: ain't gonna take more of my money. This doesn't make sense, 234 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:12,679 Speaker 1: so we have to figure it out. Now they say, oh, 235 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:16,559 Speaker 1: we need to reverse congestion. That yeah, I think it's ridiculous, right. 236 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: I think these are just political people throwing volleys at 237 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:21,439 Speaker 1: each other in the newspaper, trying to get video and 238 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 1: in airtime, you know, trying to get earned media about 239 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 1: this stuff. The reality is none of that it's going 240 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 1: to fix the problem. Like if you want to deal 241 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 1: with congestion, you want to deal with the issues people have, 242 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:32,559 Speaker 1: and you need to get on the ground and talk 243 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 1: to folks about how to really solve this problem. You know. 244 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,559 Speaker 1: And if you're raising money for MTA off the backs 245 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: of working class people, I think that's wrong and we 246 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: need to figure out how to do that in a 247 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 1: better way, right doesn't hurt working class folks. 248 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:47,200 Speaker 4: I want you to expand on that. 249 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 3: That's a problem that I feel like just Democrats have 250 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 3: is with their messaging. 251 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:52,319 Speaker 4: But you say you got something that you say. 252 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 3: You say politicians can't make policy for people they can't see. 253 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 3: They can't solve problems they don't know exist. And I 254 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 3: say that all the time in regard to the politicians 255 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 3: because they talk about people they never talk too. 256 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 4: So how can politicians do a better job of it? 257 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 1: They got to get out of there, go to the barbershop, 258 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: the beauty parlor, the thrift store, the lounge, the bar. 259 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:13,960 Speaker 1: They got to talk to folks where they at. You know, 260 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: right now people are picking people for people, and you know, 261 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 1: surrogates are running out convincing people to vote for you, 262 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: and you're not going in front of people talking and 263 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: having conversations with them. And that's the real problem, Like 264 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:27,079 Speaker 1: you don't know these people, Like you don't know the 265 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:29,679 Speaker 1: parent that has an eight year old, seven year old 266 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: and a four year old, gotta go to work, leave 267 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: them home at the house, try to get the neighbors 268 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,439 Speaker 1: to check on them because she can't afford childcare. Right, 269 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:37,319 Speaker 1: and then you know, the child finds a gun and 270 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: shoots himself, and everybody talking bad about her, but not 271 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 1: about the economy that's the richest in the world that 272 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 1: does not allow folks to find childcare that they can afford. 273 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:47,679 Speaker 1: So now she has to make a decision, right, Or 274 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: the fact that I can't pay my rent because I'm 275 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 1: buying Christmas gifts and I wait for my income tax 276 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: to come in, so suck a level up on my rent, 277 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 1: but I want to buy Christmas gifts. I don't know 278 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 1: these people. I don't have conversations with these people. So 279 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:02,200 Speaker 1: the policies I'm I'm not going to address them. For example, 280 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 1: New Jersey fighting over a policy for five hundred for 281 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: seniors that make five hundred thousand dollars, you know, to 282 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: give them tax breaks. You know, my grandmother is in 283 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: a nursing home, trying to figure out how to pay 284 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 1: the nursing home, how to pay medicine right, how to 285 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,679 Speaker 1: do all the very specific things. She don't got a 286 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:20,560 Speaker 1: home here in a home in the Hamptons, and a 287 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 1: home in Florida. But we don't see these people, so 288 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 1: you can't make policy for them. So those people get 289 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: pissed out. And the problem is those are the majority 290 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: of the people that's. 291 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 5: Right, and for you, somebody that is with the people right, 292 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 5: even when something like the congestive pricing happens with the 293 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 5: tolls and stuff, when people are talking to you, how 294 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 5: do you what are you instantly trying to do to 295 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 5: help them? Because a lot of people I know that 296 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 5: are in Jersey or like well, especially us that aren't 297 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 5: from there, and we moved there thinking it was better 298 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:45,679 Speaker 5: for us to commute. We like, dang, we might as 299 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:47,320 Speaker 5: well move into New York now. But then that goes 300 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 5: against what you're trying to do with bringing people to 301 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 5: Jersey and getting these companies to invest in that, Like, 302 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 5: how do you start to solve that problem before us 303 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:55,440 Speaker 5: leaving Jersey becomes a problem. 304 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I think what the governor is trying 305 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 1: to do is he's still been in court trying to 306 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 1: raise the issue of it so it can be reversed. 307 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: I mean, he went as far as wrote a letter 308 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: to Donald Trump. I don't know how far this is 309 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 1: going to go, but ultimately we have to keep it 310 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:12,680 Speaker 1: on people's mind that can continue to have the discussion 311 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 1: about it to see if we can repeal it in 312 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 1: some way. We can't just allow it to sit like that. Order, 313 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 1: MTA or somebody else has to figure out how to 314 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 1: compensate people or give them an opportunity to reduce the 315 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: what it's going to cost, the burden to go back 316 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 1: and forth to the city who were forced to go there, 317 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:33,560 Speaker 1: not just going there because they trying to go shopping. 318 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 4: Did you go to the inauguration? 319 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: No? 320 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 4: You did not go. No. We actually put out a 321 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 4: statement talking about Trump's first day. 322 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:44,319 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't have went there. Yeah. I mean 323 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: it was crazy. I mean, all all the things he did, 324 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:48,440 Speaker 1: I mean he said he was going to do so, 325 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 1: I mean it's crazy. He attacked birthrights, citizenship, got rid 326 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 1: of diversity, equity and inclusion, fired everybody, got rid Office 327 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 1: of Violence Prevention. I went to the website. It's gone. 328 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:00,120 Speaker 1: You know, just all of the things that we need 329 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 1: to continue to do what we're doing in the state 330 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 1: of New Jersey and Newark. He just attacked and got 331 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:08,319 Speaker 1: rid of partnered all of those people, straight out white supremacist, 332 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 1: dangerous folks. Uh that that he let loose. I don't 333 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: know why anybody, they right mind thought it that he 334 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 1: wouldn't do any of these things. Uh, but but he 335 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 1: did it right. And Uh, you know, people tell you 336 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 1: who they are, like they said, believe them. 337 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 3: How do you navigate that as a as a as 338 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 3: a politician like you because you know, like they say 339 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 3: that you have to be cordial with them, which I 340 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 3: completely don't understand because it confuses me as a voter, 341 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 3: Like if I hear you say somebody is a threat 342 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 3: to democracy, you call somebody a fascist, you liking them 343 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 3: to Hitler, But then as soon as the election is over, 344 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 3: you know, you at the funeral smiling with him, or 345 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 3: you're walking them back to the White House having tea 346 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 3: with him. 347 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 4: How would you navigate that. 348 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the problem that Democrats have. They you know, 349 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 1: they can't out Republican Republicans. And that's that's the reality one. 350 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's one thing about being respectful to people. 351 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: It's another thing about standing on your beliefs and your values. 352 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 1: You don't have to celebrate with these people. If somebody 353 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: come in the room, you be cordial to them. You 354 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 1: don't have to celebrate with them. You don't have to 355 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 1: rejoice with them. You don't have to pretend that there's 356 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: somebody that they're not right. You can't uphold us something 357 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 1: for the sake of the system that you know is wrong. Right, 358 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 1: you know, you shouldn't be in the room. You can't 359 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: go there and play with them, and you know, make 360 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 1: everybody think that this is okay, because it's not okay. Right, 361 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: And I believe that that we were right. I think 362 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: Kamala was right and the stuff that she was saying 363 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: was right, that the things that she was standing on 364 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 1: was right, and all those people were wrong, and we 365 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: have to stand with that. I think people like power, 366 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 1: so they want to stand close to power. The proximity 367 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 1: the power is what it is. They feel like they're 368 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 1: gonna be safe if they're next to power, because he's 369 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: going to destroy everybody but me. I think it's really 370 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 1: a coward move. And what it does is what you 371 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 1: say confuses everybody and makes them believe we really all 372 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 1: on the same side. We just try pretending so we 373 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: get elected. 374 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 2: I wanted to ask, you know, we talked about congestion prices. 375 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 2: They say property tax is one of the highest in 376 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 2: the country as far as New Jersey is concerned. How 377 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 2: do we keep people in Jersey and people well not 378 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 2: wanting to leave Jersey. 379 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 4: How do we do that? 380 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: Well, we have to load the costs. Right. People tell 381 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: you they're going to load taxes. Most of the time 382 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 1: they lie in right, because the only people taxes get lowered, 383 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 1: like the super wealthy. Right. So you know, regular working 384 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:15,840 Speaker 1: class and middle class families, because what's happening and like 385 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 1: what happens in this country, we take from poor people, 386 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 1: give to rich folks, and the middle class pay the bill. Right. 387 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 1: So if the bills, if health care costs are growing 388 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 1: and we don't get under control, you're paying for that. Right. 389 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 1: If housing costs keep growing, don't get under control, you're 390 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 1: paying for that. You can't if you go to a restaurant. 391 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 1: The bill is the bill, right, unless you take something 392 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 1: off the bill, that's what the bill is. So I'm 393 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 1: a lower taxes. The government pays for itself through taxes. 394 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 1: We ain't selling cars off the back of the city hall, right. 395 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: So at the end of the day, taxes is our revenue. 396 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: So if we can't get health care, hospitals in check, 397 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 1: insurance companies in check. If we don't get all these 398 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: insurance companies in check, then the bill is going to 399 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 1: continue to grow. Healthcare costs grow fifteen twenty people saying 400 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 1: arbitrarily every year you're paying for that because all of 401 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 1: the workers that we hire, we how to pay their healthcare. Right. 402 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:09,399 Speaker 1: And as those costs increase, your costs increase. Right. And 403 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 1: if you live in if you don't build housing. So 404 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:14,919 Speaker 1: if you're not building housing, you're not adding people to 405 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:17,840 Speaker 1: help you pay the bill. Right. So when you get 406 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 1: this ideal, we don't want to build any housing. We 407 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 1: don't nobody to come to our neighborhood. What you're essentially 408 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 1: saying is you want the cost to continue to go up. 409 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: New Jersey has more cities than California. Right, it was 410 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 1: eight times larger than New Jersey. So because we have 411 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 1: all of these cities, we're paying individual costs for all 412 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:36,199 Speaker 1: the things we need, and our school system costs are 413 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:38,679 Speaker 1: higher because we have less kids with the same infrastructure. Right, 414 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 1: because nobody's moving to our neighborhoods. Right, And until we 415 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 1: build housing, put people in our community and lower costs, 416 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 1: our tax is going to continue to go up. 417 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 4: Why do you think people are leaving New Jersey Because 418 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:49,400 Speaker 4: I saw something. 419 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 3: I said this, For seven consecutive year, more residents moved 420 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:53,960 Speaker 3: out of New Jersey than any other state. 421 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:58,640 Speaker 1: Well, we actually had a reversal of that this year, 422 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 1: so j have seen more people move to it than 423 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: most states in the country, so one of the fastest growing. 424 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 1: So people are now coming back into the state because 425 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 1: I would imagine because you know, it's getting expensive everywhere, right, 426 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 1: is expensive everywhere, and housing is an issue all over 427 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 1: the country, and New Jersey is a little bit more 428 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:24,440 Speaker 1: liberal than other places, so folks want to come there 429 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:26,400 Speaker 1: and not be targeted. 430 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 3: I think Jersey is going to be I don't want 431 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:32,120 Speaker 3: to say the new Hollywood, but when you got lions 432 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:34,400 Speaker 3: Gate building what they're building in Newark, when you got 433 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 3: Netflix building what they're building in Mamouth County. I think 434 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,399 Speaker 3: there's going to be a lot of people fluctuating New Jersey. 435 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 5: Is that why, you guys? Because I'm looking here in 436 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 5: the Newark land bank came in twenty nineteen. Yeah, And 437 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:47,879 Speaker 5: for as long as I've known in Delaware we had 438 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 5: a land bank. My grandmother has got a lot of 439 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 5: property in land and stuff, and I'm like, twenty nineteen, 440 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:54,919 Speaker 5: that's so recent. Why did it take so long? And 441 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 5: is that why it happened? Because there's so much coming 442 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 5: you want to make sure people can get land. 443 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:00,479 Speaker 1: We the only city in the entire state that has 444 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 1: the land bank. Wow. We fought for it on the 445 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 1: state side and then we passed it and locally we 446 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:08,160 Speaker 1: did it so we can turn property over the people 447 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 1: in the city who lived there. Yeah. 448 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 5: I thought that was like a law, like there had 449 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:11,920 Speaker 5: to be a landbank. 450 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: No, Wow, that's no. We want to be able to 451 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: get it into people's hands, and that's been working. That's 452 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: how people have been getting property really through the land bank, 453 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:21,399 Speaker 1: because through the city you got to go through all 454 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,639 Speaker 1: this bureaucracy, all the other kind of you know, you 455 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: got to go before the council. The land bank. I 456 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 1: can sell you the property for five dollars, right. That's 457 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 1: how we're able to do the the Section eight mortgages. 458 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,200 Speaker 1: We take people's vouchers and we turn it into a mortgage. 459 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 1: With the Bank of America and the Land Bank, they 460 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:39,240 Speaker 1: pull a product together. Were working with the New York Giants. 461 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,200 Speaker 1: New York Giants are fully furnishing people's homes. So you 462 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:44,879 Speaker 1: got people moving into houses that used to live in 463 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 1: the projects, paying the same amount of money that they 464 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,119 Speaker 1: were paying in backs to the terrorist projects. Now they 465 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: are at their own home. 466 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 5: Can you explain what the land bank is just for 467 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 5: people who might not know what that is. 468 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: Well, like, if I was a private dude with a 469 00:19:57,560 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 1: whole bunch of money, right, I could buy up all 470 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 1: of the property and bank it and sit on it. 471 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:05,440 Speaker 1: And you know what usually happens is our weight until 472 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: prices go up, and then I want to sell the property, 473 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:08,639 Speaker 1: I sit on it. That's why you go to a 474 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:09,920 Speaker 1: lot of cities and you see a lot of vacant 475 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 1: property and you're trying to figure out, oh, why they 476 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 1: don't do anything with it because the city doesn't own it. 477 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,399 Speaker 1: Some private person took it and they holding on to it. 478 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 1: So they can make money. So the city does that. 479 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 1: Now the city gets all of the property and we 480 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 1: bank it like so we hold onto it. We parcel 481 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,399 Speaker 1: it together. And so we give the first right of 482 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 1: refusal to community development organizations to local folks so they 483 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: can develop it, so they can build it, to keep 484 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: wealth in the community, to create more diversity in ownership 485 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 1: in a property, and keep prices low at the same time, 486 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: so we can manage what happens with our property in 487 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 1: the city through the land bank. 488 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,159 Speaker 3: How important is that because you know, you want to 489 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:50,720 Speaker 3: keep even Lauren brought up gentrification, but you want to 490 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,679 Speaker 3: keep new work full of people from the right. So 491 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 3: when stuff like the studio gets built, the line against 492 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,120 Speaker 3: studio and you see you know, places like Audible coming up, 493 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:01,360 Speaker 3: you still want to keep the residents of Newark in there. 494 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 4: So how do you make sure that happen. 495 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:03,960 Speaker 1: Well, that's why you got it. That's why we have 496 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:05,959 Speaker 1: those meetings that we have men's meetings, we have other 497 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 1: meetings because I'm trying to make people go get the property. 498 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 1: We set this thing up, now go get it, Like, 499 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 1: let's figure out how you can get property. So I mean, 500 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:18,120 Speaker 1: you got people you know who own buildings was put 501 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 1: the store there's a grand open and an old boy 502 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:23,119 Speaker 1: had a store, a sandwich shop. Now he has a 503 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 1: sandwich shop on top of residents that he owns now 504 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,040 Speaker 1: in the building that he owns Right. Got my man 505 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,640 Speaker 1: Chino who just came home, you know a few years ago, 506 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 1: who now is not only developed his own property, now 507 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 1: he's involved in a part of a development, a larger 508 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: piece of property in the city. And then telling developers, 509 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 1: big developers that you have to partner with missiles and 510 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 1: small developers from the city gives them an end right, 511 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,359 Speaker 1: So you don't you don't need me anymore. You know 512 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:53,239 Speaker 1: that these folks need you. So you show up with 513 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 1: your expertise and your skills and your ability and say, look, 514 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 1: this is what I can offer you. Plus I'm from Newark. 515 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 2: So you know, I do have to ask to the 516 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:07,159 Speaker 2: couple of months ago drones, what were the what were they? 517 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 4: I wish I do you know something I wish I 518 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:13,640 Speaker 4: do because they just went away too. They just been gone. 519 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 4: I haven't seen them since. 520 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: They did just go away. But they were saying it 521 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 1: was just people putting up their individual drones. Like once 522 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 1: it started the size of big glass hysteria. Actually, I 523 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:27,439 Speaker 1: know a company that that trains uh, you know, folks 524 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,440 Speaker 1: on big drones like that too, like Alpha. It's called 525 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: Alpha Drones, you know. But they they removed graffiti, They 526 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 1: do all kinds of stuff with those drones. So I've 527 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 1: seen big drones like that before. But you know, I'm 528 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: glad I didn't get involved in that that that discussion 529 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 1: that was going on though, because now that sounds really 530 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:45,199 Speaker 1: crazy that people are arguing about it does. 531 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 2: But I don't think them drones would pulled up at Newark. 532 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 2: I think if it would have been and shot them 533 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 2: drones down to me. 534 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 4: A beautiful place. You know, you got them down though. 535 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 3: Another thing I love that you you've done in Newark 536 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 3: is the homelessness program, because you've helped to cut Newark's 537 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 3: homelessness in half. 538 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,200 Speaker 4: What have y'all gotten right that a lot of people 539 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:06,200 Speaker 4: around the country haven't. 540 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 1: Well, we have street teams, and our street teams we 541 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 1: just expanded it to twenty four hours a day because 542 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 1: they do so good, you know, and the state just 543 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: witnessed the uptick twenty four percent this year, I mean 544 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: the end of last year, and we got a little 545 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:21,960 Speaker 1: uptick too. But because we had reduced at fifty seven 546 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 1: percent were still down. You know, our street teams go 547 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: out there through Path Home, We talk to folks, we 548 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:31,400 Speaker 1: get them off the street, and we're being more creative 549 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 1: about like we created you know, housing out of containers, right, 550 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: we took the containers ship and containers and we build 551 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 1: housing out of shipping containers, which which was successful to us. 552 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: We just went to the housing authority took two hundred 553 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,439 Speaker 1: of their units that they weren't using, that was abandoned, 554 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 1: and we're investing in fixing those up so we could 555 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 1: use them as transitional homes for folks that are off 556 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,160 Speaker 1: the street. So we have flexes to put people when 557 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 1: we pull them off off the corners. And we're just 558 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 1: very very very deliberate and intentional through our street team 559 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 1: about that, about that work. 560 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 3: Talk about the path home. In this you be speeding 561 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,400 Speaker 3: through stuff they ever rocket because you do. Actually you're 562 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 3: one of the elected officials. I can actually say yo, 563 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 3: that guy out there, he does doesn't work and you 564 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:14,400 Speaker 3: can see it reflected in the city. 565 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:15,160 Speaker 4: What is the path home? 566 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 1: Path home is like you know, we say housing first, 567 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 1: so we talk to people on the street until they 568 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,199 Speaker 1: comfortable coming with us to go places. So they know 569 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 1: our street team know most of the homeless people in 570 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,479 Speaker 1: Newark by name, where they live at so well and 571 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: so on what street they on, what corner they end, 572 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,880 Speaker 1: what tent day under, so they continue to talk to them, right, 573 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,120 Speaker 1: And then we have a cell phone thing text path 574 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 1: home eight five five one path home to that and 575 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,680 Speaker 1: the guys that go out there and engage these folks 576 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 1: right and make sure and it's just not regular people. 577 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 1: You know. You have a drug counselor's there, you have 578 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 1: a psychiatrist there, you have social workers there, you have 579 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:57,920 Speaker 1: regular street team folks there. So it's a whole team 580 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 1: of people that go out and break bring mobile units 581 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,200 Speaker 1: to the folks where they are and begin to try 582 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,639 Speaker 1: to convince them and pull them into housing, right. And 583 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,679 Speaker 1: sometimes they don't come right away. But the first you know, 584 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:10,399 Speaker 1: we keep going, keep going, keep going. It was the 585 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,439 Speaker 1: lady told the story that it took the folks three 586 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 1: or four times to talk to her before she said 587 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,399 Speaker 1: I'm going, you know, but but she finally went, and 588 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,479 Speaker 1: she gave a testimony how it turned her change her 589 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 1: life around because they kept being persistent about, hey, we 590 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,440 Speaker 1: come in here, we go again, you know some food. 591 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 1: We're just not giving you food. We try to give 592 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:31,919 Speaker 1: you help, support, get you off the street. A lot 593 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: of people come and give out food and it makes 594 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,440 Speaker 1: them feel good for that moment. But the person need 595 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: more than food, right They need a house, They need treatment, 596 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,200 Speaker 1: they need counseling. So we try to bring all of 597 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: that to the folks and bring them into housing when 598 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:46,960 Speaker 1: we can. All we have to do is keep building 599 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 1: housing so people could come in to have a place 600 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: to go because it's no place for us to put them. 601 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:56,200 Speaker 1: Then these street teams don't make it. They become useless. 602 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,200 Speaker 2: Now, when you become governor, because you know we're gonna 603 00:25:58,200 --> 00:25:59,600 Speaker 2: put that in the air. What's the first thing you 604 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:01,480 Speaker 2: want to do for the people in New Jersey? What's 605 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 2: your first attack? 606 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 1: I think we need to get the budget in order first. 607 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 1: I think is out of control and we need to 608 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,439 Speaker 1: one cut spending, cut costs, make the wealthy paid their 609 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 1: fairs share. That's number one. We need to invest in 610 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,880 Speaker 1: the economy by building housing next to transit all over 611 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,200 Speaker 1: the state. We need to put thousands of people to work, 612 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 1: turn it into a public works project, the same way 613 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 1: we did the less service lines. Put thousands of people 614 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 1: to work in the economy. Get the building trades to 615 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 1: give us a price for affordable housing and tell them 616 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 1: they can make up on the volume what they're going 617 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,639 Speaker 1: to miss out on what we reduce in the price. 618 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 1: Build ten fifteen thousand units up front. Right, we need 619 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,159 Speaker 1: to take our procurement dollars and invest in black and 620 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 1: brown communities immediately, to South Asian communities, women businesses. The 621 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,080 Speaker 1: state of New Jersey spends less than one percent of 622 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 1: his dollars in those communities. Now, we got to turn 623 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,120 Speaker 1: that around because to me, that is why the economy 624 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,879 Speaker 1: doesn't grow. I mean, you know, you can't have an 625 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 1: exclusive economy and expect it to grow. There's a whole 626 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 1: bunch of communities that need to be gauged in the 627 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 1: economy that we're leaving out. The Latino populational business community 628 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: represent twenty percent of the workforce in New Jersey. That's 629 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,680 Speaker 1: on their own merit, that's without any investment, without any 630 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 1: support from the state. We got to put money in 631 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 1: those communities and watch those communities grow. Hire people. If 632 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 1: you hire more people, we have to pay them less 633 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,359 Speaker 1: unimportant employment. We get them opportunity to get homes, they 634 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 1: can pay taxes, and then you will be crying less 635 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: about the taxes you pay because they'll be helping you 636 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:31,360 Speaker 1: pay them right invest in those communities asap. And that's 637 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,160 Speaker 1: what we do in the first one hundred days. 638 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,119 Speaker 2: And I wanted to know when Newer Acquas should say 639 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,440 Speaker 2: Jersey lost the professional team, how bad did that affect 640 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,880 Speaker 2: the industry of the market or the finances during that time? 641 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 2: How bad was that And is there any talks of 642 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:46,880 Speaker 2: getting another professional team money chance? 643 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 1: Well, I think it's impossible because you know New York 644 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,400 Speaker 1: the teams. You got to get permission from the Yankees 645 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,639 Speaker 1: and the Mets to put another team. From the Giants 646 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 1: and the Jets, you gotta get permission from them to 647 00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 1: bring another team in this market. First of all, if 648 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:01,560 Speaker 1: they don't allow you to do it, it ain't gonna 649 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 1: happen unless one of the move to New Jersey. The 650 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 1: good thing about Prudential Arena, the Potential Arena is one 651 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 1: of the top three most selling arenas in the nation. 652 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:15,360 Speaker 1: So you know, after the Nets left, they really up 653 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 1: their game. So and I think it's like that because 654 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 1: of diversity, because you could go there, go to a 655 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 1: K pop show, right, you could go see Romeo Santos. 656 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,479 Speaker 1: You know, they have everything there. And because of that, 657 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:31,679 Speaker 1: it's always crowded. Eighteen thousand people on the street almost 658 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 1: every day of the week. I mean, it's crazy over there. 659 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 1: They making a lot of money and they bringing a 660 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,760 Speaker 1: lot of attention to the city of Newark while people 661 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,520 Speaker 1: keep putting business there because it's always crowded. 662 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 3: How will Lionsgate impact Newark and how will Netflix impact 663 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 3: just Jersey as a whole, like both of. 664 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 1: Them, Well, lions Gates will help a community, a neighborhood 665 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,719 Speaker 1: that's been distressed for a very very long time. And 666 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 1: when they come there, you know the path the airport 667 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,760 Speaker 1: is already building a stop there by there so people 668 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 1: could get on the train to get to the airport. 669 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: So that that's gonna be awesome. And because those studios 670 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 1: are there, obviously they're they're gonna be retail that's gonna 671 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:10,239 Speaker 1: pop up there because people have to eat, they need 672 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 1: to do these things, they want to get the hair, 673 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 1: they don't do whatever, So they're gonna obviously the retail 674 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: is going to grow there, and it's gonna do something 675 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 1: about the housing market as well, because the housing Authority 676 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 1: is already talking about investing in the housing in that community. 677 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: So I see a shot in the arm happening for 678 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 1: the economy in that area, and obviously the state that 679 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 1: region is gonna benefit from it. Once you put the 680 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 1: train stop there, you know, people could get on the 681 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 1: air tran from there. It's gonna create incredible opportunity for 682 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,640 Speaker 1: that neighborhood and for the Elizabeth and all of the 683 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 1: cities that are attached to it. 684 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 3: In that reason, what about the cannabis industry, because you know, 685 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 3: we opened up a Pashtoria in Newark, myself and Rae Coon, 686 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:47,600 Speaker 3: the chef and car sellers. 687 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 4: What about the cannabis industry. 688 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 1: I think it's a I mean, we got to do 689 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 1: better in New Jersey. Let me say that. You know, 690 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 1: I just think the bureaucracy is too much and the 691 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 1: cost of cannabis of putting it together in New Jersey 692 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 1: is hired in place like Pennsylvania and other places like that, 693 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 1: that we have to work out those price lower that stuff, 694 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:09,080 Speaker 1: make it competitive in our state and cut a lot 695 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 1: of the red tape so more these things can happen 696 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,800 Speaker 1: faster than it's happening now, and lean into to making 697 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 1: sure that black and brown and underrepresented community. So with 698 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 1: victimized have a bigger portion of what's happening here that 699 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 1: we have to do this deliberately, like New Jersey is 700 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 1: they want to do the right thing, that is afraid 701 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:25,560 Speaker 1: to do it out loud, you know what I mean. 702 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,360 Speaker 1: So you got a whole bunch of people. If you say, oh, 703 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 1: black people are suffering, they'll raise their hand. I agree 704 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 1: with that. They say, oh, we should do something about it. 705 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 1: Their hands don't go out, you know. So that's really 706 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,240 Speaker 1: what the difference is. So we have to lean into like, look, 707 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,360 Speaker 1: this we notice is the problem. You agree with it. 708 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 1: We need to fix it right. We can't charge this 709 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 1: amount of money. There has to be carve outs for 710 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,160 Speaker 1: certain people in certain communities, and we have to grow 711 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 1: it faster than what's happening. I just think it's taking 712 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:51,560 Speaker 1: too long. 713 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 3: Well, come see us, Come see us at hash story 714 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:55,719 Speaker 3: of seven nine nine Broad Street in Newark. I need 715 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 3: you to have the chief of police just do a 716 00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 3: little sweep in front of the store. 717 00:30:58,880 --> 00:30:59,040 Speaker 1: Though. 718 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, a lot of entrepreneurs be out there, you 719 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. 720 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:03,960 Speaker 1: We had a discussion about. 721 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,959 Speaker 4: That out there. 722 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 3: You know, it's very like our customers pull up and 723 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 3: they be trying to get their own sales. 724 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 4: Drop a diamond, move down the block, deal with. 725 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:17,640 Speaker 5: The people that be outside his story. He can drop 726 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 5: tell four bags all so that he can increase their revenue. 727 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 5: Maybe you should talk to those brothers and see what 728 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 5: they're trying to do and how hah story you can 729 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:23,600 Speaker 5: talk to them. 730 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 4: They try to get me. 731 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:28,200 Speaker 3: We we own the dixpense, give me nothing. 732 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 4: When is the election? 733 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 2: When can people make sure they toate to what they 734 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,320 Speaker 2: need to make sure they support you in your site 735 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,200 Speaker 2: and everything and absolutely rask. 736 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,800 Speaker 1: For governor dot com that's us. June tenth is the 737 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 1: primary UH in New Jersey. 738 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:42,120 Speaker 4: UH. 739 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 1: The general election is in November, first Tuesday in November, 740 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,920 Speaker 1: but the primary is June tenth. You can donate, you 741 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 1: can get on the website, volunteer, ask questions, do whatever 742 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 1: it is that you need to do it feel comfortable doing. 743 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 5: Absolutely, you're not worried about the trickle down from this 744 00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,960 Speaker 5: new administration because a lot of stuff you're trying to do. 745 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 5: Of course they ain't really the biggest proponents of it. 746 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 5: You know, you're not worried about that at all. 747 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,320 Speaker 1: I mean, I think that we got to govern the 748 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 1: way we govern. We gotta do what we do. Like 749 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,920 Speaker 1: that's it, Like we can't like do what we need 750 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 1: to do thinking about them, Like we have to do 751 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,160 Speaker 1: what we need to do, thinking about the people in 752 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 1: New Jersey. If they come up come over to New Jersey, 753 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:19,880 Speaker 1: they got to deal with us, then we my no 754 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,560 Speaker 1: own business. But if they come over here with some nonsense, 755 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,240 Speaker 1: then we got to take your business. Other than that, 756 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,080 Speaker 1: we're gonna do what's right for the people of the state. 757 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 3: Is the federal government gonna make what you want to 758 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:30,760 Speaker 3: do in Jersey easier or harder? 759 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 1: Probably harder. Probably in some instance it's probably hard. I mean, 760 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,240 Speaker 1: but this guy ran saying he wanted to make the 761 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 1: economy easier. He wanted to lower prices, costs. He want 762 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,320 Speaker 1: to do all of these things. Put people to work. 763 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:44,920 Speaker 1: We want to put people to work. We want a 764 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,000 Speaker 1: lower cost. That's what we want. All the other crazy 765 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 1: foolishness that he's talking about is what he really wants. 766 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,160 Speaker 1: He's not He haysn't started doing that right, and I 767 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:53,520 Speaker 1: don't think it's ever good. Just like he said he 768 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: wanted to invest in the infrastructure. The last time he 769 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,120 Speaker 1: was the president. That never happened, right, All the other 770 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:00,960 Speaker 1: stuff happened, but not that, So I think that's a ploy. 771 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:05,800 Speaker 1: But we're gonna lean in on creating jobs, creating small business, 772 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:09,479 Speaker 1: incubating folks, giving people a housing, reducing the costs. Were 773 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 1: leaning in on that. And we're gonna protect the immigrants 774 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 1: and migrants in our community. We're gonna protect the LGBTQ 775 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,040 Speaker 1: community in our neighborhood. We're gonna protect the people who 776 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,600 Speaker 1: from Newark that we know, those our uncles, our nephews, 777 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 1: our cousins, our neighbors, the people we you know, we 778 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,520 Speaker 1: hang out with. We're gonna protect them. I mean, we 779 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,680 Speaker 1: ain't gonna run away from them because now that Trump 780 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 1: is the president of the United States, what kind of 781 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:30,480 Speaker 1: people would we be in, Like, we leave our folks 782 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,520 Speaker 1: behind because the bully done showed up. Now you're scared, right, 783 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 1: It is what it is. These are our family members 784 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: and we gotta make sure they're good. 785 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 3: How insulting is it to be called a DEI mayor 786 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:41,920 Speaker 3: as a blackness. 787 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:43,960 Speaker 1: Well, I'm not insulted by it, you know what I mean? 788 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 1: I mean, I think diversity and equity and inclusion is 789 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 1: the right thing I think what they're trying to say 790 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 1: is that you're not qualify and what they and they 791 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:52,800 Speaker 1: say that by everything, So what they're really saying is 792 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,240 Speaker 1: that we not qualify for anything. Now you can't be 793 00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:57,720 Speaker 1: anythingcause you're not qualified for anything. That's what they're really saying. 794 00:33:57,760 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 1: I don't think that we should run from the idea 795 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 1: of being of supporting diversity, equity inclusion. In fact, the 796 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 1: economy needs diversity equity inclusion. It's just not enough white 797 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,719 Speaker 1: men to support the economy of this country just doesn't exist. 798 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,040 Speaker 1: So there are a whole bunch of people that keep 799 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,040 Speaker 1: saying we have a labor shortage because they're talking about 800 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,600 Speaker 1: the traditional folks who have these jobs that are aging out, 801 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:21,680 Speaker 1: and because they're not going into the black community, the 802 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:25,040 Speaker 1: brown community, the South Asian community, women. Then, yeah, people 803 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,799 Speaker 1: aging out. There's a whole bunch of folks that are 804 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:33,000 Speaker 1: a part of this country. You know, American families are different, man. 805 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,280 Speaker 1: You know, we eat plantinos and you know black beans 806 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,319 Speaker 1: and rice and college greens and cornbread and you know, 807 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,759 Speaker 1: black rice and conch American families are different. It's not 808 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,799 Speaker 1: the same concept of what American family is. It's all 809 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,239 Speaker 1: kind of people that are Americans these days, and we 810 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,040 Speaker 1: just got to own up to it and invite these 811 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:51,480 Speaker 1: people to participate in the economy. 812 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,440 Speaker 3: My last question, because you know, I just wanted to 813 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,480 Speaker 3: cover some great things that you've done in new that 814 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,400 Speaker 3: I know you would implement. Of view government, the shaping 815 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,920 Speaker 3: the education future, innure, what did you do to help that? 816 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 1: Well, you know, the state wasn't control our schools for 817 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:09,080 Speaker 1: twenty years. You know when I was a vice principal, 818 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,880 Speaker 1: principal teacher, most of that time was under well all 819 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,839 Speaker 1: of it was under state control. We took the state 820 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,120 Speaker 1: the schools back from the state when Chris Christy was 821 00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,319 Speaker 1: the governor, by the way, and got the schools back 822 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:24,360 Speaker 1: under the city's control. Since then, you know, we have 823 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:28,719 Speaker 1: been trying to help with childhood literacy, maternity, help with 824 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:33,720 Speaker 1: maternity care, and giving women access to opportunity for child 825 00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:35,640 Speaker 1: care and literacy because we want kids to start school 826 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,040 Speaker 1: ready to learn. That's really what we've been focusing on. 827 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,200 Speaker 1: I mean, the school system is not under our control, 828 00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,080 Speaker 1: but we're doing we can to support what we think 829 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,000 Speaker 1: will help kids get a better education by preparing them 830 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,280 Speaker 1: for school before they start. 831 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,719 Speaker 2: All right, Well, we appreciate you for joining us. Definitely 832 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,239 Speaker 2: make sure you go out support Mayor ros Baraka. He 833 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,000 Speaker 2: will be the next governor of the Jersey. We're gonna 834 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:56,319 Speaker 2: put that in the air and thank you so much. 835 00:35:56,320 --> 00:36:01,000 Speaker 2: Brother rask for governor the number four or governor. 836 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,000 Speaker 1: All right, it's Rosparaka. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, 837 00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,400 Speaker 1: wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club. 838 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:11,680 Speaker 1: M hm.