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Speaker 3: So we have a very special guest today, the honorable

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Speaker 3: Stacy Abrams. So if you are not familiar with her,

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Speaker 3: I'm assuming that you don't own the television, or perhaps

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Speaker 3: to radio.

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Speaker 4: Yes, or you might not have taken part in last election.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, many people credit her with Joe Biden's victory

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Speaker 3: because she was very intricate and delivering Georgia, which is

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Speaker 3: that the first time ever that does happened, or the

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Speaker 3: first time in a lot.

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Speaker 5: Of years, first.

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Speaker 3: Time in forty years that Georgia went Democrat. But now

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Speaker 3: she has aspirations of her own. She ran last time

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Speaker 3: and lost by a very thing margin. So it's a

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Speaker 3: neck and neck battle right now to become the governor

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Speaker 3: and that will be the first time in a very

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Speaker 3: long time. Also, and I believe the first time ever

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Speaker 3: that a black woman would be the governor of George.

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure that's never happened before. So this is

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Speaker 3: a historical moment that we're in right now. From a

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Speaker 3: political side, this is a financial platform, So we have

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Speaker 3: questions about the finance and about you know, the business

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Speaker 3: we have a journalistic responsibility to talk to people that

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Speaker 3: in very high positions of power, and especially a state

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Speaker 3: like Georgia where Atlanta we just did invest fst over

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Speaker 3: thirteen thousand people. You actually gave a message that we

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Speaker 3: played on the big screen. Thank you for that. But

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Speaker 3: you know, Atlanta and Georgia is our second home and

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Speaker 3: one of our biggest markets, so it's vitally important that

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Speaker 3: thank you for joining us. Appreciate it, thank you for

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Speaker 3: having me.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, it's very rare that we have royalty here

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Speaker 5: with us, and so yes, again, we appreciate you. And

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Speaker 5: the My parents were talking to me about it after.

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Speaker 5: They were like, oh my god, she's backstage. Can we

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Speaker 5: see I'm like, mom, video, She's like, oh my god, please,

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Speaker 4: Thank you again, so my aunt.

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Speaker 3: So we'll get into this conversation. I guess we can

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Speaker 3: just do how we usually do. We all just ask questions.

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Speaker 3: So the first question that I have is, you know,

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Speaker 6: Well, the first business that I started wasn't technically considered

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Speaker 6: To hire you when what you're selling is your mind

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Speaker 6: all the time, and in particularly in Georgia because we

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Speaker 6: lost more banks than any other state during the Great Recession,

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Speaker 6: because we lost so many banks. Access to capital is

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Speaker 6: when you bring that to the governor's office. It's about

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Speaker 6: making sure we're creating programs that actually address these challenges.

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Speaker 6: How do we market our small businesses. We do a

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Speaker 6: great job of championing big companies, but how do we

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Speaker 5: I love that you keep talking about small businesses because

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Speaker 5: that's one of the reasons we love Georgia and we

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Speaker 4: And so you also brought up programs.

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Speaker 5: Can you talk to us about the Georgia Commercial Investment

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Speaker 4: Can you talk to us about that?

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Speaker 7: Sure?

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Speaker 6: So there are two pieces to what I want to do.

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Speaker 6: One is I want to expand the purchasing power of

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Speaker 6: the state. There was a report just yesterday on the

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Speaker 6: Locals and Station about the fact that in Georgia, just

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Speaker 6: this past year, more than seven billion dollars in contracts

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Speaker 6: suspicious of that number because it's different. It's different to

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Speaker 6: be a person of color than it is to be

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Speaker 6: a woman, and having been both my entire life, I

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Speaker 6: combine both of those, it's less than it's only seven

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Speaker 6: point seven percent of the contracting that we know of.

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Speaker 6: People of color are forty eight percent of the state.

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Speaker 6: To only have seven percent of the contracts is absurd,

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Speaker 6: and so one thing the governor can do without legislation

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Speaker 6: is use George's purchasing power to support small businesses by

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Speaker 6: directing the Department of Administrative Services to establish and monitor

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Speaker 6: actually purchasing intentionally from minority owned small businesses, and also

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Speaker 6: providing the technical assistance of those small businesses cantually secure

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Speaker 6: and fulfill those state contracts. But the other part of

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Speaker 6: that is what I call my Commercial Investment small Business

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Speaker 6: Capital Investment Fund, which is ten million dollars. That would

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Speaker 6: then allow those same small businesses to do if they

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Speaker 6: have to go and buy initial equipment to take the

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Speaker 6: loan to get that contract. Because if you get that contract,

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Speaker 6: fifty thousand dollars should not stop you from making five million.

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Speaker 6: But for a lot of small businesses, that's it's the

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Speaker 6: point of entry that's so expensive. In contrast, my current

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Speaker 6: the current governor is going to establish a study to

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Speaker 6: look at whether or not this is a problem. You

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Speaker 6: don't have to study Georgia to understand that it is

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Speaker 6: a problem when forty eight percent of your population only

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Speaker 6: gets seven percent of your business. And that's the conversation

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Speaker 6: that's happened every year for the last twenty years. Governor

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Speaker 6: after governor says well, we'll we'll talk about it, we'll

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Speaker 6: study it. They won't move legislation to solve it. Well,

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Speaker 6: as governor, you solve the problem because I don't need legislation.

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Speaker 6: I can do it directly. And there was something you

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Speaker 6: And so I'm bringing to this conversation not only the skills,

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Speaker 6: one hundred years, not ten, not twenty one hundred years

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Speaker 8: Tying and to that point, after your victory, let's speak

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Speaker 8: that into existence. What initiatives will be put in place

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Speaker 8: to help close that racial wealth gap? And because Atlanta

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Speaker 8: is such a mecca for African American and African American

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Speaker 8: entrepreneurs in the State of Georgia is amazing. What plans

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Speaker 8: and will help us close that gap.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely.

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Speaker 6: So the commercial Investment program is a big one because

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Speaker 6: the state spends billions of dollars on a range of things.

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Speaker 6: So it's not just construction contracts for dot it's who's

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Speaker 7: All of those.

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Speaker 6: Purchases are purchases that the state can direct, and so

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Speaker 6: the Georgia Commercial Investment Program is part of it. But

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Speaker 6: the other part is the supplier Diversity Initiative, and that

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Speaker 6: is I'm going to make certain that state agencies, all

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Speaker 6: have to actively seek out and support new suppliers that

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Speaker 6: are owned by groups that are underrepresented, and that includes

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Speaker 6: people of color, veterans, the disabled, women, but all of

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Speaker 6: those groups have to be given primacy. And because in

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Speaker 6: to make certain that major state contractors have to implement

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Speaker 6: you can't bite off a billion dollars, but you could

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Speaker 6: do about two hundred million right now, you're not permitted

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Speaker 6: And so those are three big opportunities. I'm talking billions

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Speaker 2: So let me ask you this for education.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, So let's think about it this way. When we

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Speaker 6: And so when we think about how our lives are lived,

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Speaker 6: It could have transformed the economies of thousands of Georgians.

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Speaker 6: We got that legislation through the city council, the mayor

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Speaker 6: But for business owners. Where the governor is so incredibly

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Speaker 6: Someone who does not believe in investing in communities of color,

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 5: So in order to have the right governor, you have

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Speaker 4: Lesson for Biden was getting people out.

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Speaker 5: But when you get people out in numbers, certain things

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Speaker 4: So my question to you is like, what do we

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Speaker 5: Right it feels like we have to press the reset

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Speaker 5: How are we telling the people the population of Georgia, like, hey,

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Speaker 6: Well, most of my entrepreneurship has focused on business oriented

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Speaker 6: I created the organization's Fair Count Your account made certain

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Speaker 7: Nobody should vote more than once. I don't want to

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Speaker 8: So what words of encouragement do you have for the

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Speaker 6: I have proven that it matters. In twenty eighteen, I

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Speaker 8: That's two concerts exactly.

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Speaker 7: That's two concerts. And there were enough people.

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Speaker 6: Now, there were a lot of people who tried to

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Speaker 6: You've never had anyone like me running for office. What

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Speaker 6: That's what I do when I don't have the job.

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Speaker 6: Imagine what I would do if I had the job.

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Speaker 6: So I'm not asking people to forget what they know.

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Speaker 6: I'm asking them to believe what they see. Yes, the

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Speaker 6: why I need folks to show up.

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Speaker 3: Let let me ask you this something that's very hot

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Speaker 3: in the news, Joe Biden's President Biden's plan to get

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Speaker 3: rid of student loans for ten thousand dollars if you

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Speaker 3: make under one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars a year,

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Speaker 3: and twenty thousand dollars for pelgrant recipients for the same

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Speaker 3: income threshold.

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Speaker 2: So it's kind of controversial.

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Speaker 3: Of course, some people are saying that, you know, they

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Speaker 3: don't want to pay for somebody else's college education, is

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Speaker 3: government handouts, different things of that nature. Some people are

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Speaker 3: saying that it's not enough money, is not fully really

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Speaker 3: going to impact Black America in a way that it

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Speaker 3: should because it's not enough. What is your thoughts on

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Speaker 3: a student loan crisis? And what is your thoughts on

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Speaker 3: what he proposed, and what is some ideas that you have.

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Speaker 6: So I begin with my faith values. I don't begrudge

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Speaker 6: another person's blessing that ten thousand dollars, that twenty thousand

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Speaker 6: dollars can be the difference between someone else's child being

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Speaker 6: able to get an education and rise out of poverty.

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Speaker 6: That can be the difference between someone being able to

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Speaker 6: take care of their family member who has cancer. I

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Speaker 6: want people to be able to have those blessings. And

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Speaker 6: I paid off my student loans. I paid them off

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Speaker 6: in January of twenty nineteen. I know the relief I felt,

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Speaker 6: but I also know the burden I carried for years

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Speaker 6: when I indeed had to make choices between paying my

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Speaker 6: student loans and taking care of my family. And so

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Speaker 6: I don't begrudge a person getting access to those resources. It,

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Speaker 6: of course, is not enough, because we have a broken

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Speaker 6: system in this country. When my parents were going through

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Speaker 6: because they were they grew up during Jim Crow, those.

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Speaker 9: Coach, the energy out there felt different. What changed for

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Speaker 9: the team today?

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Speaker 5: It was the new game day scratches from the California

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Speaker 9: Are you saying it was the off field play that

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Speaker 5: Hey, little play makes your day, and today it made

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Speaker 9: One more question played the new Los Angeles Chargers, San

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Speaker 9: Peasly responsibly, it must be eighteen years or older to

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Speaker 9: purchase plate or claim.

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Speaker 6: The ability to go to college was not the difference

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Speaker 6: between your future and not having the future. But it

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Speaker 6: also wasn't mortgaging your future. And so we have to

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Speaker 6: tackle the broken nature of student debt in the United States.

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Speaker 6: But this is an important start and it is more

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Speaker 6: than we had the day before, and that's critical to me.

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Speaker 6: But what we have to layer on top of it

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Speaker 6: is the fact that for many black and a lot

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Speaker 6: of black folks, that money's going to matter because we

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Speaker 6: are more likely to finish, to be in debt but

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Speaker 6: not have the degree to go with it. And so

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Speaker 6: while it is not enough, it is more than we have,

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Speaker 6: and it is substantial because we're also more likely to

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Speaker 6: qualify for the twenty thousand than the ten thousand, because

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Speaker 6: more of our people are in that bracket where we

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Speaker 6: were also relying on pelgrams. And I say week as

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Speaker 6: I was. But what I want to do for Georgia

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Speaker 6: is layer on top of that by making sure we're

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Speaker 6: not creating a deeper hole. And that's why I want

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Speaker 6: to restore free technical college in the state of Georgia

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Speaker 6: once the Hope Scholarship was created. Between the creation of

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Speaker 6: the Hope Scholarship and twenty eleven, technical college was free.

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Speaker 7: Because we had to save the Hope.

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Speaker 6: Scholarship from economic ruin, we had to decrease the award

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Speaker 6: for what was called the Hope grant, But we now

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Speaker 6: have a billion dollars sitting in an unrestricted, unreserved fund

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Speaker 6: that could be used right now to do exactly what

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Speaker 6: we used to do, and that helps a lot of

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Speaker 6: black and brown folks, especially a lot of black folks

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Speaker 6: throughout the state of Georgia. So I want to restore that.

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Speaker 6: Number Two, I want to create need based aid in Georgia.

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Speaker 6: Georgia is one of only two states in the country

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Speaker 6: that does not provide need based aid, the only one

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Speaker 6: in the South, which means if you want to see

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Speaker 6: your way to college, you better not have a C average.

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Speaker 6: That should not be the choice. And for black students

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Speaker 6: in Georgia, black students are the least likely to get

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Speaker 6: hope and the most likely to lose hope. But if

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Speaker 6: we had need based aid, we could fill in the

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Speaker 6: gap that when you tie that to what's happening on

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Speaker 6: the federal level, creates new opportunity. But the way to

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Speaker 6: pay for it is critical, and that is that I

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Speaker 6: want to use that unrestricted money that we already have.

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Speaker 6: But I also want to expand gaming in Georgia, sports

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Speaker 6: betting and casinos. That would generate three hundred and fifty

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Speaker 6: million dollars a year upwards in order to invest in

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Speaker 6: that education. And since it is our people who are

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Speaker 6: spending money in the lottery, but we are the least

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Speaker 6: likely to see the benefit, let's make certain that if

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Speaker 6: we're going to have gaming, that our people benefit from

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Speaker 6: that process. And that's my plan is the next cup.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm glad that we brought up education, and obviously

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Speaker 5: freeing technical schools and teaching people's skills are very important.

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Speaker 5: One of the things that are there and dear to

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Speaker 5: me and I'm glad you brought it up, was increasing

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Speaker 5: the pay for teachers. Yes, increasing the pay for teachers

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Speaker 5: the most important job in the world. Everybody was taught,

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Speaker 5: and everybody learned at some point throughout their life.

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Speaker 4: They definitely went to school.

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Speaker 5: So can you talk about that, because I know that

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Speaker 5: was one of the things that you've been talking about

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Speaker 5: throughout your campaign, increasing the pay for teachers but also

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Speaker 5: lowering the cost for healthcare for over five hundred thousand Georgians.

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Speaker 4: Can you talk about how we get to that point?

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Speaker 6: Absolutely so, in Georgia we pay teachers who are starting

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Speaker 6: out less than they make in Mississippi. Now, I grew

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Speaker 6: up in Mississippi, that doesn't make any sense that Mississippi

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Speaker 6: can afford to pay more, but Georgia can't. My opponent,

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Speaker 6: the current governor, has said that he gave them five

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Speaker 6: thousand dollars over four years, and that's enough. I will

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Speaker 6: tell you it's not enough, because in real dollar terms,

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Speaker 6: teachers today make less money than they made twenty years ago,

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Speaker 6: so the purchasing power of that do dollars less. I

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Speaker 6: want to write size their salaries by making sure that

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Speaker 6: the starting salary in Georgia by the end of my

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Speaker 6: term is fifty thousand dollars. And at the same time,

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Speaker 6: I want to increase pay for all educators by an

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Speaker 6: average of eleven thousand dollars. That means that we really

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Speaker 6: truly create a meaningful change in their wages that is sustainable.

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Speaker 6: I also want to make certain we're giving that same

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Speaker 6: We're giving similar pay raises, although it's got to be

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Speaker 6: done a little differently because they're paid by the school

602
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Speaker 6: district and not by the state. But we need to

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Speaker 6: increase pay for para professionals, for school bus drivers, for

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Speaker 6: cafeteria workers. You shouldn't work to educate our children and

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Speaker 6: still be in poverty. That doesn't make any sense, and

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Speaker 6: it is a solvable problem. At the same time, we

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Speaker 6: know the other biggest driver of economic need in economic

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Speaker 6: paucity in Georgia, and the best way to financial freedom

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Speaker 6: is having insurance. Right now, health insurance is being denied

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Speaker 6: to people who are making nine dollars an hour or less,

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Speaker 6: and when you are starting your own small business, you

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Speaker 6: probably can't afford health insurance for yourself, let alone for

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Speaker 6: your employees. Well, in Georgia, we are forfeiting three point

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Speaker 6: five billion dollars every year that we've already paid for,

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Speaker 6: but that the governor refuses to bring to the state

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Speaker 6: if we expand Medicaid, working people who make too much

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Speaker 6: money to qualify for regular Medicaid because for regular Medicaid

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Speaker 6: you got to be not only completely broke, but you

619
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Speaker 6: also have to have a dependent or be disabled, or

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Speaker 6: be a senior, or you have to be able to

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Speaker 6: buy into the affordable care I buy into obamacareing and

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Speaker 6: you have to make a not a lot, but a

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Speaker 6: lot more money than those making nine dollars an hour.

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Speaker 6: Do I want to get that population? Those are our

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Speaker 6: students who are finishing college, but they aren't on their parents' insurance,

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Speaker 6: and they need insurance. And if we ever thought that

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Speaker 6: you didn't need insurance if you were young, Let's think

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Speaker 6: about COVID, let's think about monkey pocks. But I also

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Speaker 6: want those folks who are starting their business, who want

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Speaker 6: to quit their job but can't afford to leave because

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Speaker 6: they can't afford to lose their health insurance, and so

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Speaker 6: their dreams die because they can't afford to go. If

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Speaker 6: we expand medicaid, we can do all of that, and

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Speaker 6: we can pay for both of these things. Medicaid is

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Speaker 6: two ninety seven two hundred ninety seven million a year,

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Speaker 6: and to overall do the salary increases is four hundred

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Speaker 6: million dollars. We have a five billion dollars surplus in Georgia.

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Speaker 6: Once we paid every bill, once we have put money

639
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Speaker 6: into our savings account fifteen percent, once we've accounted for

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Speaker 6: growth in population, we have five to six billion dollars

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Speaker 6: just sitting there. My opponent says that he wants to

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Speaker 6: do tax cuts. What he means is he wants to

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Speaker 6: give tax breaks to the wealthiest Georgians. Because the average

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Speaker 6: Georgian will see one hundred and ninety three dollars, the

645
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 6: wealthiest Georgans will see ten thousand dollars or more. I

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Speaker 6: want to instead pay our teachers, pay for health care,

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Speaker 6: save the Atlanta Medical Center, keep doctors in our state,

648
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Speaker 6: invest in small businesses, all of the things I'm talking about.

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Speaker 6: He wants to give the money to the wealthy. I

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Speaker 6: want to spend the money on the people. And we

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Speaker 6: can do every single thing I'm talking about without raising

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Speaker 6: a dime in taxes. And if you don't trust me,

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Speaker 6: go to my website. I'm a big old nerd. We

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Speaker 6: have a spreadsheet on my website that walks you through

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Speaker 6: how the math works. We can absolutely do this.

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Speaker 8: I remember in two thousand and seven, I was in

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Speaker 8: Midtown when the last big recession hit, driving to Norcross

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Speaker 8: and remembering how fearful I was about when the recession

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Speaker 8: was going to end. Tying to your last point, can

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Speaker 8: you talk to us about the dangers of the economy

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Speaker 8: in Georgia and how it would be impacted negatively if

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Speaker 8: you don't win as governor and some of the things

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Speaker 8: your opponent plans to do and plans to cut if

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Speaker 8: he wins.

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Speaker 7: So let's look back to what he did before.

666
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Speaker 6: Rafael Warnock, John Ossoff and our Democrats in Congress billions

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Speaker 6: of dollars to the state of Georgia. He slashed one

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Speaker 6: billion dollars from education. He cut the criminal justice reform programs,

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Speaker 6: the recidivism programs, the diversion programs. He cut resources for education,

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Speaker 6: for healthcare. His response to need is not to solve

671
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Speaker 6: the problem. It's to blame the victim. He wants to

672
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Speaker 6: pick your pockets instead of putting money in your pockets. Now,

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00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 6: he likes to talk broadly about who he benefits, but

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Speaker 6: if you look at the numbers, the people who were

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00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 6: falling are still falling. The people who are holding on

676
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 6: are holding on by their fingernails, and he refuses to

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Speaker 6: invest in their success. Let's look at housing. Georgia has

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Speaker 6: an affordable housing crisis. We're only the eighth largest state,

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Speaker 6: but we are number three in eviction filings and number

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Speaker 6: four in actual evictions. And this isn't just Atlanta, this

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Speaker 6: is across the state. I was down in Thomasville and

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Speaker 6: they wanted to talk about the eviction rate down there.

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Speaker 7: So this is a statewide issue.

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Speaker 6: Well, the governor's respond is to spend sixty two million

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Speaker 6: dollars on homelessness programs. He will not invest in actually

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Speaker 6: building the two hundred and seven thousand units of affordable

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Speaker 6: housing that we need. He will not work with our

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Speaker 6: local governments to let them right size rent and inclusionary zoning.

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Speaker 6: And so the current governor does not believe it's his

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Speaker 6: job to help Georgia. His job is to have the headlines,

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Speaker 6: not to read the fine print. My mission is the

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Speaker 6: fine print. And if we have a recession, if we

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Speaker 6: have taken that five billion dollars and just given it

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Speaker 6: to the wealthy, then everybody else is going to pay

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Speaker 6: for it, because that's what.

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Speaker 7: Happens every single time.

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Speaker 6: But if we keep that money, it's like making a

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Speaker 6: balloon payment on your mortgage. We can put in a

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Speaker 6: balloon payment for the state that helps build all of

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Speaker 6: these things I'm talking about. So if something does happen,

701
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 6: we've already built it into the budget. We're no longer

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Speaker 6: paying extraordinary interests. We're just paying principle. That's what this

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00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 6: could be used for. I want to do a balloon

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00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 6: payment for Georgia so that if we get hit by

705
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Speaker 6: a recession our natural resources, the money we're going to make,

706
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Speaker 6: no matter what, will be enough to cover everything I'm

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Speaker 6: talking about without raising taxes. But Also, we won't dip

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Speaker 6: so low because we're suddenly seeing catastrophic effects on the

709
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 6: poorest people because all of us pay the bill. Poverty

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Speaker 6: isn't free. All of us pay for it. And I'm

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Speaker 6: the only person with a plan to make sure we

712
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Speaker 6: do enough upfront that when it hits, we're ready for

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Speaker 6: it and we can all get through it.

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Speaker 2: Can you talk about the supplier diversity proposal.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So part of the supplier diversity initiative is that

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Speaker 6: the state spends billions of dollars every single year buying services.

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Speaker 6: Right now, you'll hear some folks who can get the

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Speaker 6: janitorial service, or they'll get hired to provide paper. I

719
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Speaker 6: want to make sure we're also hiring lawyers, that we're

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Speaker 6: hiring financiers, that we're hiring from every strata. But I

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Speaker 6: also want to make certain it's not just certain departments.

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Speaker 6: The Department of Aging has to buy something, let's make

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Speaker 6: sure they're buying from people who look like Georgia. When

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Speaker 6: the Department of Behavioral Health has to hire, let's make

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Speaker 6: certain when they are buying and purchasing, no matter which

726
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 6: agency it is, they need to be looking at the

727
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Speaker 6: diversity of their supply chain, especially dot dot is going

728
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 6: to get billions of dollars every year now because of

729
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Speaker 6: the bipartisan Infrastructure Plan that those billions of dollars right

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Speaker 6: now are going ninety percent to majority owned firms, not

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Speaker 6: to minority owned firms. These are billions of dollars that

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Speaker 6: we help bring here because we participated in these elections

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Speaker 6: and we are half of the state. The same thing

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Speaker 6: is true with the Infrastructure Reduction Act, the Inflation Reduction Act.

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Speaker 6: The Inflation Reduction Act is going to send billions to

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Speaker 6: the State of Georgia. But right now there's nothing to

737
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 6: say that businesses of color, that black businesses get any

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Speaker 6: of those contracts. And the response from the governors, he'll

739
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Speaker 6: look at it, well, they've been looking at this for

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Speaker 6: forty years. They've never managed to do anything. I say,

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Speaker 6: hire somebody who's actually proven shall do the work.

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Speaker 4: Ah Royalty Royalty, indeed, Stacy Abrams.

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Speaker 5: When in January, when you want to see, I'm interested

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Speaker 5: in knowing because I'm sure you haven't planned out what

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Speaker 5: are the first thirty days look like.

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Speaker 4: What initiatives are you putting in place right away?

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Speaker 5: What are some things that you're going to overturn that

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Speaker 5: you know are not going to work for the state anymore.

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Speaker 6: Number One, my first initiative is Medicaid expansion. Medicaid expansion

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Speaker 6: is the single largest economic development program in Georgia history.

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Speaker 6: If you think about Rivian, he's going to spend about

752
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 6: one point five billion dollars to build electric cars. And

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Speaker 6: that's good, and that's going to create thousands of jobs,

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Speaker 6: but it's going to be localized in Monroe County. It's

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00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 6: going to be localized to those who can get jobs

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Speaker 6: in that industry. If we expand Medicaid, we create sixty

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Speaker 6: four thousand jobs across the state. And here's the way

758
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 6: to think about it. The jobs are going where the

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00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 6: people who don't have insurance are. So it's going to

760
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Speaker 6: absolutely get to every part of the state, and it's

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Speaker 6: going to get to the communities in the state that

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00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,880
Speaker 6: have not had access, because those are the folks who

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00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:18,879
Speaker 6: suddenly are going to have the health insurance. They need

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Speaker 6: to get mental health care, to get physical health care.

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Speaker 6: And when those new doctors come in, they're gonna need

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Speaker 6: to go eat somewhere. So somebody who started their small restaurant,

767
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 6: they're going to suddenly have customers. We're going to need pharmacists.

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Speaker 6: We're gonna need construction. Medicaid expansion is number one. Number two,

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Speaker 6: I am going to repeal criminal carry. We know that

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Speaker 6: that law has made Georgia less safe, and particularly for

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Speaker 6: black men. I want you to all think about what

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Speaker 6: that law means. By removing that permit, that means if

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Speaker 6: you get pulled over, you don't get the presumption that

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Speaker 6: you have the right to carry that concealed weapon, and

775
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 6: you can't pull out your permit to show them that

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Speaker 6: it's yours. You are presumed guilty by and large if

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Speaker 6: that happens. That's the worry I have. But it's also

778
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 6: true that we've got stories right now of people wandering

779
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Speaker 6: down the street by our schools open carrying weapons. We

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Speaker 6: have removed the background checks that used to happen with

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Speaker 6: private sales and gun sales. That's with that constitutional carry,

782
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:20,280
Speaker 6: which is a lie. What criminal carry did was strip

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Speaker 6: away a background check that protected us from eleven thousand

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Speaker 6: people who shouldn't have had those weapons. Number Three, I'm

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Speaker 6: going to repeal the ban on abortion after six weeks.

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Speaker 6: And this should mattered to every person, whether you whether

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Speaker 6: you're a woman or not, because in the state of

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Speaker 6: Georgia women are now told you have to decide about

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Speaker 6: your pregnancy before you know you're pregnant. And this has

790
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Speaker 6: economic effects across the board, and in particular, Black women

791
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 6: are most likely to die from maternal mortality issues than

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Speaker 6: any other race, and it is worse in Georgia than

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Speaker 6: it is in any other state. And Brian Kemp is

794
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 6: refusing to act. In fact, he said he's going he

795
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 6: doesn't believe there's the exemptions for rape or incest. We

796
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 6: have to understand that when a woman is forced to

797
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 6: carry an unwanted pregnancy to term, the likelihood of her

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Speaker 6: going into poverty increases, I think by by forty percent.

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Speaker 6: The likelihood of her being on food stamps within four

800
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Speaker 6: years or within five years goes up dramatically. This has

801
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 6: real economic effect, but it also is costing us jobs.

802
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:29,839
Speaker 6: The gun law costs US fifty million dollars because music

803
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Speaker 6: Midtown is not here in george We I know Antoine

804
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 6: Fuqua pulled a movie out of Georgia with the when

805
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 6: the voting rights law came through.

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Speaker 7: Think about all.

807
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Speaker 6: Of the different films that won't come to Georgia because

808
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:44,919
Speaker 6: women are like, I'm not coming here because I don't

809
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 6: know what's going to happen to me on a year

810
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Speaker 6: long shoot. We are risking a four billion dollar industry.

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Speaker 6: And for people who say, well, no, we're all set.

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Speaker 6: We've got Perry Studios and we've got you know, the

813
00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 6: studio in Fayetteville, Let's remember Georgia got the film industry

814
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 6: by taking it from Michigan and from North Carolina when

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Speaker 6: they got Republicans. Y'all may not be old enough to

816
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,879
Speaker 6: remember Dawson's Creek, but I remember when everything we saw

817
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 6: on TV was filmed in North Carolina.

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Speaker 7: So what happened?

819
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Speaker 6: They got a Republican governor who started doing very hardcore

820
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:20,919
Speaker 6: right wing things, and the money and the business left.

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Speaker 6: If we don't think it can leave Georgia, we're not

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Speaker 6: paying attention.

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Speaker 8: I truly think you can be a lynch pin for

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Speaker 8: not only a change in Georgia but throughout the United

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Speaker 8: States of America. What are the three things we can

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Speaker 8: do in our audience can do to support you to

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Speaker 8: make sure that you win.

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Speaker 6: It's number one. Talk about this conversation. There's a notion

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Speaker 6: that there is an enthusiasm. It's not that there's no enthusiasm,

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Speaker 6: it's that people don't trust.

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Speaker 7: We've had a long.

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Speaker 6: Six years and people are just they're exhausted. But I

833
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,800
Speaker 6: need folks to understand the importance of what a governor

834
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Speaker 6: can do and how it can change the future of

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Speaker 6: our state. And so number one, and I need you

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Speaker 6: to talk to your friends, your family about this race

837
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Speaker 6: and about why this race matters. Number two, I need

838
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 6: you to make a plan to vote. Don't think, oh yeah,

839
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Speaker 6: I'm a vote, I'm going to vote, write it down.

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Speaker 6: Make a plan because life happens, and when life happens,

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00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,319
Speaker 6: I lose if y'all haven't made a plan. So make

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00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 6: a plan to vote. And then number three, go to

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00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 6: our website and sign up be a volunteer if we

844
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 6: can use all the help we can get, because part

845
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 6: of it is reaching the people who don't know that

846
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,280
Speaker 6: they should be listening to this amazing podcast, who don't

847
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 6: know that they have a chance to start their own business,

848
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 6: who don't understand what their real opportunities could look like

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Speaker 6: if there was a governor who saw them as opportunity

850
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 6: and not as a burden. My mission is for every

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Speaker 6: Georgian to thrive. And that's not a slogan, that's a

852
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 6: mission statement. Everything I have done in my life is

853
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 6: geared towards lifting our communities up. And so if you

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00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 6: will sign up to work with our campaign, if you're

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00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 6: an influencer, if you're a creative, if you are someone

856
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 6: who has four minutes off and you want to make

857
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 6: a few phone calls for us, or knock some doors

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Speaker 6: in your neighborhood, whatever it is, if you go to

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Speaker 6: Stacyabrams dot com slash volunteer, we can use you. We

860
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:10,800
Speaker 6: need your help because we can win this race. And

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Speaker 6: this is the last thing I'll say about it. You're

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Speaker 6: going to see a lot in the polls. The polls

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Speaker 6: are based on the last election. They look at the

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Speaker 6: model from what happened before. The way we win, the

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Speaker 6: way I've won three different races, Biden's race, Warnocks race,

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Speaker 6: Assos race is by thinking about what's possible. If business

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Speaker 6: owners only ever did what was already done, we'd never

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Speaker 6: have entrepreneurship. My mission is to think about what we

869
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Speaker 6: can create, and we can create an electorate that is

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Speaker 6: so electrified and so engaged that the numbers can't see

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Speaker 6: them until we show up.

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Speaker 7: And that's what I need you guys to help me do.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. It's been on a pleasure. When is the

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Speaker 2: election day?

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Speaker 6: The election is on November eighth, but early voting starts

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Speaker 6: on October sixth. Sorry, October seventeenth is the start of

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Speaker 6: early voting. Election day is November eighth. Make a plan

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Speaker 6: to vote, vote as early as you can, and let's

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Speaker 6: get this done.

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Speaker 4: Listen, little if little Baby is not available, you have

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Speaker 4: our number. We're there for you.

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna remind y all y'all said that for sure.

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Speaker 2: For sure.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you, keep up the great work, and yes,

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Speaker 3: feel free to come back whenever you will like.

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Speaker 7: Thank you so much, and thank you for what you

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Speaker 7: all do. It truly matters.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, I appreciation, Thank you.

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Speaker 7: Take care.

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Speaker 8: Wow, everyone, right now, write down a date in the

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Speaker 8: chat for when you're going to go vote.

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Speaker 4: Please write a date down.

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Speaker 8: That was an amazing conversation.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, very rare.

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Speaker 2: So yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think it's important to have those conversations and people

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Speaker 3: can make a decision for themselves. I personally want to

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Speaker 3: kind of stay a political because I think we have

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Speaker 3: we have a journalistic responsibility not to necessarily pick a candidate.

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Speaker 3: But I definitely like her, for sure, But I just

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Speaker 3: think it's our responsibility to deliver the information, and she's

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Speaker 3: she's a very important person, and she's she could potentially

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Speaker 3: be one of the most important people in the world,

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Speaker 3: world leader, I said, the governor. Governors have a lot

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Speaker 3: of power, but especially a state like Georgia, which is

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Speaker 3: has the largest airport in America, thriving economy, Atlanta, a

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Speaker 3: variety of different things. So if you're if you're the

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Speaker 3: governor of the state of Georgia, you're one of the

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Speaker 3: most powerful people in America. And if you're one of

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Speaker 3: the most powerful people in America, you're one of the

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Speaker 3: most powerful people in the world. So that's that's that's impressive.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, you know, I just strongly encourage everybody to

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Speaker 3: just be more politically active because it comes down to business.

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Speaker 3: And this is a business show, investing show, but it

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Speaker 3: all it's all related. So you know, you talk about politics,

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Speaker 3: especially on the local levels. So your governor, your town supervisor,

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Speaker 3: your mayor, your town work, all of that stuff is important.

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Speaker 3: So you should, you know, you should, you should participate

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Speaker 3: in the political process. I'm not going to tell you

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Speaker 3: who to vote for. I'm not going to tell you

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Speaker 3: which party to vote for, but I think that you

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Speaker 3: should be engaged, and I think that you should participate

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Speaker 3: because if you don't, there's still going to be elections.

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Speaker 3: Somebody's still gonna win, and they're still going to have

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Speaker 3: a say over you know, you and your family's life

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Speaker 3: on a certain level as far as you know different

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Speaker 3: policies and different things of that nature. So it's important

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Speaker 3: to be aware and to participate.

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Speaker 5: I think you said it right, politically active, but also

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Speaker 5: politically aware.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 5: So we know Stacy Averans is running for the governor

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Speaker 5: of Georgia, but there's plenty of people who don't live

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Speaker 5: in Georgia who have no idea who' running for governor

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Speaker 5: in their own state, or who's running for the local

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Speaker 5: official in their own city or town superprise in their

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Speaker 5: own town.

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Speaker 4: And so just being aware of these things can alleviate

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Speaker 4: a lot.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: Once you're aware, now you can educate yourself. Now you

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Speaker 4: can make a decision.

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Speaker 5: It's one of those things in teaching, it was like

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Speaker 5: I'm never going to especially in health, I would always

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Speaker 5: tell kids like, I'm never going to tell you what

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Speaker 5: to do it, but not to do I'm gonna give

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Speaker 5: you all the inter I know as much as possible,

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Speaker 5: and I'll let you make your own decision because that's

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Speaker 5: what's going to happen anyway, and you're going to make

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Speaker 5: your own decision.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, man, political awareness and activeness.

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Speaker 8: I think a lot of times people in business don't

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Speaker 8: think about the ramifications of the political landscape. But from

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Speaker 8: entrepreneurs and business owners, I want you to look at

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Speaker 8: this as if, like, honestly, dispersement of capital from governments

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Speaker 8: Silicon Valley. You have to know what's going on in

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Speaker 8: the political process. Even for me, when I moved to Texas,

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Speaker 8: there was like no state income tax and I was

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Speaker 8: adjustment because I can project future earnings.

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Speaker 4: So I think we need to.

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Speaker 8: Put a little bit more focus on that political process,

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Speaker 8: how money is disperson on what's happening in shout out

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Speaker 8: to Spike Lee zooming in on me, I don't know,

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Speaker 8: kind of way feature I don't know. I got to

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Speaker 8: figure out like this magic wand thing. But for the

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Speaker 8: close up, we have to figure out the process and

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Speaker 8: make it a part of our business metrics because sometimes

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Speaker 8: we may have to move to another state or be

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Speaker 8: aware what's coming in the pipeline. So it's incredibly important

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Speaker 8: for you to be aware of this political process. Even

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Speaker 8: though you may not think it has an effect on

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Speaker 8: your business, it definitely does.

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Speaker 3: My graduates from my school being forced bad drop bag,

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Speaker 6: Drop.

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