WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Luther "Uncle Luke" Campbell Discusses His U.S. Congressional Run. 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.760 Every day we click up the Breakfast Club. You're finish 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:11.039 for y'all? Done morning, everybody's the j n V. 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:13.960 Just hilarious, charlamage the guy we are the breakfast Club, 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:15.840 Law and the Roses here as well. We got a 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:19.000 special guest in the buildings. Indeed, y'all might know him 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.400 is Uncle Loop. But ladies and gentlemen, Luther Campbell is here. 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:23.639 He's running for Senate, running for Congress. 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:24.079 Good morning. 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:25.480 I wish I was, I wish I could vote for 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:26.360 I wish I was in Florida. 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:30.280 And oh man, that's a beautiful thing. So that's official endorsement. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:32.040 I appreciate it. 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.680 Endorsement, Yes, endorsement, endorsement. Okay, that's great. 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:38.599 Why would you not want somebody who's from the community, 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:40.920 born and raised there, has invested so much in it. 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:43.360 We've seen you do so much for your community, just 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:44.760 as a as an artist. 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:46.360 And as a man. So why wouldn't I want that 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:47.920 as an elected official? 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:51.239 From the gift bags to the teaching the kids in 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.680 football and so many different things. Why wouldn't we want 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:56.040 somebody from the community to run the community. 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:58.640 Yeah, I mean it's common sense. 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.120 I mean that's what I'm running on the fact that 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.240 that did all those things in the community more so. 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:07.640 And mind me, but I live in Broward, you know, 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.840 Browed for the last fifteen years, and that's what I'm 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:11.280 running on. 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:13.960 I'm running on my record, the things that I've done. 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:17.080 You know, built parks, you know, twenty six million dollar parts, 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:21.319 another sixteen million dollars, being one of the one of 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.600 the founders of Southern hip hop, you know, small business. 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.840 You know, I'm more proud of the people who work 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.800 behind the scenior. Other than discovering the pit bulls and 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.600 trick daddies and getting them boys off the street, you 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.920 know when they were going the wrong direction. You know, 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.000 I'm more proud of the guys behind the scene, like 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:44.119 Jeff Sanchez working for the NBA and Big Teach owning 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:46.800 a you know, a house of mac chain and all 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.160 those things like that, and those type of things that 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.720 you know, I want to bring, you know to my district, 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:57.480 bring you know, federal funding there unlike anybody else have 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.559 ever did before, you know, and do some good things 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:01.440 for brow County. 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:03.800 Now, I was looking at Googly running for Congress of 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.320 what it would cost. Now there's no direct cost, but 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:10.320 it says, running for Congress is very, very expensive. Now, 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:12.200 how has that been for you? Because I'm sure whoever 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:16.359 you're going against is probably sponsored and raising money like crazy, 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:17.360 So how has that been for you? 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:22.520 Yeah, Debbie Wasserman Shoots came into the race from another district. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.800 You know, she came in the race with three million 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.680 dollars and fifteen million dollars in pack money. You know, 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:33.800 my other you know, her money combined to all the 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.200 other opponents that are in, all the other people in 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.480 the race, you know, triples the amount of money that 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:41.000 we all have. 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.280 You know, I got into the race. 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.880 I originally looked down my list of contacts in my 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:50.280 phone and I said, well, I got these guys, these guys, 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.799 these guys, and I really only need by a million 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.560 or two with this one, this one and doing this 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.919 fundraiser with Ludacris, I'm doing the fundraiser with Ross, I'm 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.680 doing the fundraiser with and I thought I was gonna 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:03.200 be able to raise millions of dollars. 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:07.040 And I didn't. I didn't because most people came to 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:08.160 the fundraiser for a. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.600 Photo while you know, and I have a good time, 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:13.080 and a lot of people didn't really understand a lot 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:16.120 of people don't understand, you know, how important it is 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.480 to UH to put money into campaigns. I guess the 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:24.880 only person who understands Chili with Donald Trump when she made. 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:25.160 It, you know. 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:32.280 That, Yeah, I did, you know, But when I look 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.160 at where we're at right now today, she was smart 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:38.360 enough to put money on what candidate that she liked, 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:42.280 whether we liked that candidate or not. But why the 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.040 rest of the hip hop, why the rest of this culture, 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:49.120 you know, didn't jump on a race like my race. 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:53.640 You know, I've called up comedians and talked to their husband, 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.280 Black comedians and say, hey, look, I need to do 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:01.080 a fundraiser with you, and they said, oh, politics. But 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:03.440 at the end of the day of representing the body 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:08.440 of people that are purchasing your tickets, which don't make 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.520 any sense to me. And so, you know, when I 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.760 look at this race, I say, are we hypocritical? And 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:17.159 then I think about it from the standpoint of is 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.040 the culture ready to move into politics? 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:20.880 You know? 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:21.320 Uh? 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:21.920 And I know. 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:27.000 Everybody, whether it was Black Caucuss, White caucus, you name it, 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:31.040 they're always looking at those fundraisers to see how how 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.600 they generate funds for a race like that to say yes, 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:40.320 you know, you know the cultures us representing all of 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.520 our life is now, you know, moving into a place 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.799 where we are really serious about politics. 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:48.800 I think we're starting to have those conversations now. I 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.040 think it's we're a lot of late, were a lot 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.560 of late coming to the table with having those conversations. 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:55.479 You know, a lot of people, you know, their first 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:56.719 thing is why am I gonna give this person? 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:57.200 He got money? 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.000 But I don't think they A lot of people don't 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.680 necessarily know that you need money for advertisement, you need 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:04.839 money for travel, you need money for all the things. 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:06.920 So for people that's listening right now, it says, hey, 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:08.039 we want to support uncle Luke. 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:09.920 Right where can they donate? 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:10.120 Now? 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.120 We'll do it throughout this interview, but where can they 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:12.680 do it right now? 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.479 They go to my website ww dot Luthercampbell for Congress 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:20.440 dot com and make a campaign contribution. I mean, you know, 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:24.400 either I tell people, hey, five dollars go a long way. 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.200 Most of the parties look at the five dollars because 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.520 the five dollars are real people that's really really supporting 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.640 the campaign. So we look at that. I mean, you 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.480 know this with this particular campaign. It's very very important. 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:40.599 I mean, the world is watching this race, you know, 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:44.039 because we have a situation where we screamed and holler 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.640 at the Republicans when they Jerryman died the map in 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:52.039 Louisiana and Tennessee and Alabama and took black representation away. 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:54.520 Now the Democrats. 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.800 Are doing it, you know, with w Watson Schultz, and 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:59.640 nobody said nothing from the black caucas you know, which 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.560 I find and to be very hypocritical. But I do 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:07.320 understand because it's elite that they support, you know, and uh, 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.680 and I don't think they would want a guy like 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:11.960 myself coming up there to burn it down, because that 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.520 is in fact what I'm gonna go, do you know. 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.560 I'm going there to represent the people, real people, real 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.680 people who are in dealing with real struggles in their life. 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.920 Do you want people to vote for your ideas or 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.440 for the legend of Uncle Luke, because those aren't necessarily 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:26.920 the same thing. 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.599 I want them to vote for my ideas. I want 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.279 them to vote on on my track record, you know, 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.640 the things that I've done. You know, I be laughing 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.120 all the time when I hear Jay Z record when 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.680 he say Jay maybe I made me. This one made 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.120 means And then I look at my track record, how 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:46.800 many guys that I created and made millionaires, whether it's 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:51.360 through my youth program, liber City Optimists are just doing 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.800 the work in the community, bringing you know, stability and 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:58.359 you know, just building and you know, bringing Adidas to 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.600 the table to you know, broke a fifty million dollar 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.000 deal for the entire school district for sports, you know, 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.200 and those type of things. So you know, I don't 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.320 I don't want people to look at me as an artist. 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:11.240 But then at the same time, you can't look at 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.040 me as an entrepreneur because the people in my race, 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:15.760 nobody has. 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:17.160 Held the job. They all came. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.880 And you know, well, my main opponent never held a job. 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:24.880 She went straight from University of Florida into politics and 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:30.280 never had a never owned a small business. And so 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.560 I look at it to say I owned. 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:33.120 A small business. 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:37.320 I did I do to this day philanthropical work, you know, 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.480 in my community, and that's the most important part of it. 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.840 And you know, people run because they have money, but 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.360 I really think that you should. When they do the 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:51.520 qualification box, it needs to say how much work you've 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.920 done in the community and how many things you've done, 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.520 and when I could sit there all day and talk 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.080 about all the stuff that I did that most people 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.360 don't know, uh, and how deep I've always been in 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.480 the politics because I do understand that, you know, our 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.640 tax paying dollars, you know, going to the slush fund. 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.240 They try to use, you know, Uncle Luke the rapper 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:12.760 against you. Have you seen that a lot? 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:16.160 Not really that? And and I was I thought they were. 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:17.559 I was laying dead. 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:18.040 You know. 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:32.520 They came when they was in the club to them. 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:28.200 Because like with the with everything you did with the 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.160 Supreme Court, and NA says, they want to be like 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.640 you've kind of been fighting for people and their voices, so. 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.560 You kind of I mean, you have the reason that 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:34.880 we have. 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.000 Oh yeah, so that wouldn't work out for them if 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:39.640 they tried. 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:40.440 It wouldn't work out. 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:44.240 And you're right, I mean in this climate today, you know, 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.000 going to Washington, you got to be a fighter. And 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.480 so that was one of the reasons why I say, Okay, 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.720 the time is down to run for Congress because of 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.000 what the climate that you have. You got to be 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.560 a fighter, you know, and fight for free speech, going 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.720 all the way to Supreme Court and winning. When I 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:03.760 had our Gore and his wife Tipic Gored coming after us, 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.439 and you know, and having uh, you name it, dan 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.920 Quell mentioned our name and fighting Nick Navarro and fighting 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.760 out the Governor Martinez and making songs about him. 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:15.840 You know that was something serious. 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.440 Those are real fights, and and uh, I'm not I'm 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.280 not scared of anybody, you know what I'm saying. 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:22.320 I'm not scared of Trump. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.680 You know, we all probably went to a party other 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.960 than going to when he was a Democrat. You know, 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.960 Marco Rubio a good friend of mine, you know, so 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.360 I know I can go have some conversations with those 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:37.280 people about some of the things. 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.520 That that our district need and the country need. 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.199 Want to go back to It's funny that you say, 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.920 you know, you reached out to certain you know, comedians 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.599 and people, and the first thing needed was get shook, like, 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:49.800 oh my god, no, you're going into politics. When I 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.800 saw a quote that you said, politics don't only happen 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:57.560 in Washington, d C. It happens every day at your 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.800 kitchen table, and a lot of time people don't even 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.959 realize that, yeah, you are into politics. But when I 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.960 first got this job, I thought I didn't know anything 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:07.400 about it. 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.400 But you know more than you think you know? 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.360 You know, can you expound doing like the politics being 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:16.280 every day at the kitchen table because some people don't 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:17.200 even realize. 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:17.840 Yeah, most people don't. 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:22.720 Most people don't realize it because for some reason, you know, 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:26.880 in our community, there's no we just missed the Civics class, 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:29.920 you know what I'm saying. Uh, And I when I 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.200 start talking to people, I have to have those conversations, 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:35.040 like even the artists that support the campaign, I have 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:40.520 to explain to them, you know, why fundraiser these different things. 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.800 And then going back to your original question, we are 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:45.640 all in it. You know when we sit down at 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.079 the kitchen table and we complain about the high cost 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.120 of living, the high cost of insurance, and in Florida, 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:54.640 you know, you got insurance that's jacked up on top 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.360 of everything else that's jacked up, and so people are 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:00.240 trying to figure out how to how to bayle. That's 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.840 the budget at the kitchen table, and it all falls 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.960 back on politics. You don't un necessary things that you need. 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.720 So people don't know that they're in it, but they 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.560 do know that they're in it. And one good thing 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:16.160 about these people in my district. They're well aware of 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:20.000 the issue. They're well aware of this woman, Debbie washermon 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:23.080 Shoes coming and trying to take away a seat, and 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:27.280 everybody has denounced her on every corner. I mean, because 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.880 I mean when you look at people talk about Memphis 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.920 right in the crime rate at Memphis, you know, and 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:33.800 not knowing. 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:34.640 How it got there. 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.480 You had Gerald Ford Senior, you know, the congressman, then 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.880 Gerald Ford Jr. Congressman, and then you had a guy 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.800 named Steve Cohen, then ran in a crowded race of 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.960 black people, like this crowded race of black people here 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:53.760 and one. And at that period of time when the 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:56.520 Ford family were the congressman, they only had one hundred 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:00.640 and sixty debts, and now that Steve is that they 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:02.120 have three hundred. 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.880 And eighty five debts a year. You know what I'm saying. 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.520 So these are the things that happen when you have 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.360 a representative coming to your district that is not from 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:15.520 the district and don't have any idea of how people 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.040 function on a regular basis. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:18.439 I want to go back to what you were saying 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.880 about the community qualifying you, right, what's something you've learned 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.680 coaching kids and serving you know, your community that these 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.280 career politicians simply can't understand. 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:32.880 What they can't understand is taking a budget, taking this 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.160 budget and applying the budget to. 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:36.920 The people in the community, you know what I'm saying. 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:42.240 So I mean, you know, coaching, you know, you know 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:46.040 when I get on a bus for eighteen years, you know, 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:47.880 when my career don down, I said'm'n go back to 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.440 my youth program and start coaching and get on the bus, 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:52.679 you know, because I need to take these kids out 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:53.199 of the community. 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:54.640 Because what happened with me. 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.600 You know, when I was running hard in the city, 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:00.720 my mom sent me the d see to stay with 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.800 my brother for a year, and that just opened my 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.760 mind up. Just taking these kids out of the community, 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.160 put them on the bus, taking them to college, on 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.240 the college tour around the country. 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.120 Oh, you know, just like, Okay, these kids do look 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.319 like you, you know, and so they don't understand that 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:17.800 part of it. 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:21.040 They don't understand, you know, the real touching of people 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.480 and being able to, like I say, to get a 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.640 trick daddy off the street, come straight from prison and 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:31.320 live with me and pit Bull who's out there hustling 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.880 and selling everything you can imagine, you know, and bringing 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.280 those people and just putting the hug around them and say, man, 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.800 you're special. You God gave you a gift. Use this 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.439 gift to your ability. And they don't understand that part. 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.959 And then they don't understand vision, I mean simple vision 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:51.400 of Okay, we're gonna you know, like my plan is 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:55.120 like they never expanded the port in sixty years. In 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:58.079 the budget, there's five being house expand the port that 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.560 brings in more jobs. They don't underst the common folk 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:05.640 don't understand that that. You know, when you build affordable housing, 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.640 what happens we build afordabs. We tell the people in 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:10.920 the projects, we're gonna move you over here and we're 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.199 gonna build these new houses for you. And then when 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.120 you come back, you got to jump through all kind 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.800 of hoops, but you can't qualify to get back in 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:21.240 there because they built it for them. And you know, 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.600 and that's why, you know, that's why I kind of 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.200 went hard last week on Alonzo morning. 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.760 Yeah, because because you know, you can't be a part. 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:36.200 You can't roll around with Trump hood housing guy. What 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.120 the brother name got to bring freeze when he was 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.880 there in his first administration. And you go into these 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.160 government projects and you're going. 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:44.760 Now, you're. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.560 You can't run around our projects were being carson and 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:53.120 then then turn around try to run around with with W. 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.120 Watson shoe Sou's trying to take black representation away from 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.120 a district that has held black representation. 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.200 So many years. So they don't they don't understand it. 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.800 I mean, what was it about it that pissed you off? 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:04.240 Some back? 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:06.720 I know he endorsed w but he not even from 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:07.560 the district, right. 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:11.080 No, not even from the district. Don't even hang out 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:11.680 in Broadwood. 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.760 But but we know that some there are some people 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.160 you know that are in there, that are in in. 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:22.560 Our town, and they're there. They're there to take advantage. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.520 They're they're they're part of the uh you know, they're 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:30.240 the black face uh in the white organization that is 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.520 trying to take over you know, these housing projects. They're 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:35.720 to develop us. And you know that's why my campaign, 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.280 I ain't take no money. I ain't take no APEG money. 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.000 I ain't taking no developers money because I already know 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:45.560 I ain't take no no alligated Alcatraz developers money. 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:47.760 You know a lot of these people came to me, 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:51.200 I say, no, I mean we we all come from 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:51.480 the street. 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.680 If you if you take something, you know, from somebody, 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.480 then you got to pay them back, you know. 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:58.720 And I ain't. I ain't about to sell out of 0:15:58.720 --> 0:15:59.280 our community. 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:02.200 And that's why everything saying about what I'm doing bringing 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:06.120 jobs instability to the district is built by us for us. 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.040 Explain that a little you mentioned it a little bit, 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.880 but for people that don't understand, they redrew the district 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.200 so she could actually. 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:14.720 Run in your area. 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.120 So explain that to people that have no idea what 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.040 that means, because she's not from your your area as 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:20.520 well from your district as well either. 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:20.840 Yeah. 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:25.400 So basically what happened with every jerry manner of the 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.840 map with all these red states. When they jerry manded 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:35.720 the map in Alabama, Tennessee, and Louisiana taking black representation away. 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.440 They did it in Florida with Ron DeSantis. 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:42.200 So he jerrymandered the map, took black representation, not necessarily, 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:46.600 he did not necessarily take black representation away. He merged 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.880 Dewid wasserman Shows district with. 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.560 With Jerry Moscow's district. 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.880 Right, and so she had she had a choice to 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.680 either run in our district or run against him, which 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:00.920 she should have for us. See all, she could have 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:04.400 ran in twenty two where Joe Biden won twenty two 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.880 by five percent Donald Trump wonted by ten percent, which 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:11.760 she could have flipped a seat, you know, to help 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.080 us win the House. But she did not elect to 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:16.840 do that. You know, she elected to run in this 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:20.840 crowded field of black of folks in Congresional District twenty 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.520 which is where I'm running at with fifty four percent 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.359 African Americans. The seat has been held by alste Hasten 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:31.080 and others for over thirty years. And uh and she's 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.960 you know, bringing her her her little. 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:34.520 Show over there. 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.160 Easy win to go against that, exactly exactly. 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:40.920 And so and I always tell people this player has 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:44.200 always this played it ran before it ran, when Steve 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.600 Cohen did it in Memphis. And you see what happened 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.600 to Memphis, you know. And uh, it's hard, you know, 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:52.280 it just it sickens me, you know, to. 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.160 Be honest with you. When I go to farms and talk, 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:56.159 I mean I go hard. I don't even play with her. 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:56.480 You know. 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:58.680 If I go into an event and she's at the event, 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:01.879 you know, I go home because you've never been in 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:05.399 this community. You represented billionaires in your district, You represent 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.119 a billionaires, so you're gonna come into. 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:09.880 This district because it's a big. 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:13.440 Feel of African Americans, and you figure that you need 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.840 the white vote. But I tell her, I went in 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:20.119 you know, white communities, and say, look this, the world 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:21.119 is watching this election. 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:23.960 If you vote the way that they think you're gonna. 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:27.000 Vote, black men, and the alarm and Rader's leaving the 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.000 Democratic Party for this simple reason. Right here, I said, 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.120 I represent the culture, you know, and I'm trying to 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:37.000 save the party by putting myself in this position to 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:39.159 run for a seat that only paying one hundred and 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.880 seventy thousand dollars, you know, which I can get on 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.479 the weekend, a couple of weekends. But at the end 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:46.760 of the day, you got to make the sacrifice. And so, 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.080 you know, I just find it appalling that she does that. 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:53.480 And I find it real syncing that the Black Congressional 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.879 caucuss just sit there and did not denounce her and 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:02.280 did not even did not uh support anybody in our race. 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:06.000