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Speaker 1: Breakfast at Barney's is time for Big Facts. DJ Scream

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Speaker 1: is here, Big Big Baby JD. We got a special

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Speaker 1: America scene read what's going on? Are you feeling the

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Speaker 1: first feeling home? Here? You frequent breakfast at barney Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think anybody that wants good food in

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Speaker 1: the morning and even at eight o'clock, seven days a week,

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Speaker 1: they come to Breakfast and Barneys. I'm so proud of

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Speaker 1: these guys what they built in the middle of a pandemic.

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Speaker 1: This shows you how black people are. I mean, in

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Speaker 1: the middle of a pandemic. They build a business that

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Speaker 1: And when I met Pinky car right after she started,

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Speaker 1: that kind of energy. I think that this is uh

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Speaker 1: is the next big thing in the city. They look

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Speaker 1: at it spread and I'm telling y'all, I don't know

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Speaker 1: how the camera situation was just working, But this is

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Speaker 1: a twenty four layer of red velvet cake. It will

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Speaker 1: And then the pancakes have this special mix in them

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Speaker 1: that gives you a cake field, so it's actually a

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Speaker 1: do that. My daughter loves that. She can't believe that

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Speaker 1: she can eat gold, so every time that's a new

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Speaker 1: experience for her. And then the soul rolls down that

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Speaker 1: they don't have, Yeah they do. They got yard Bird,

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Speaker 1: potatoes a magic Yeah. And I appreciate big facts. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, putting breakfast at Barney's on the map. Now.

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Speaker 1: I actually got one for my birthday. Yeah, I had

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Speaker 1: June tenth, it's thirty days ago that they shoot ten

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Speaker 1: of money. As those people they spent to be there,

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Speaker 1: they eat whatever they want. Made history. Yeah, So we

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Speaker 1: raised um, we had the biggest single fundraiser in the

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Speaker 1: raised a million dollars faster than any candidate who's ever

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Speaker 1: raised ten thousand, fifty one million, fifty five thousand and

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Speaker 1: doing a little bit of research and when you were

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Speaker 1: raising about two point four million. No, we raised twenty

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Speaker 1: put it. But endowments really build olden institutions so that

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Speaker 1: So he's got nine thousand employees, it's got various departments.

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Speaker 1: really enjoying myself. I mean, one of my best friends

428
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Speaker 1: in the world is a guy named Tommy Duncan. I

429
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Speaker 1: mean he sold the his company for nine figures so

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00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 1: nine yeah, nine, like a hundred million in a lot

431
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,359
Speaker 1: of money. The best friend in the world. One of

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Speaker 1: my other best friends guy you all know, Ryan Glover

433
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Speaker 1: shout five. So my dudes was like, man, let's we're

434
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 1: going out of pocket and get this ship. Let's get ahead. So,

435
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, like when when I walked in here,

436
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 1: Tommy is on a yacht in Florence, Italy right now

437
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 1: at the original Gucci Gucci store sending me pictures from

438
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 1: he bought out the whole Gucci store. I mean, he

439
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 1: closed the Gucci store for his wife. And I'm sitting

440
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:52,640
Speaker 1: here breakfast and bonnet. You know, question, she's doing real

441
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:59,160
Speaker 1: research here. You know, it's cool for the black men,

442
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: but what about what we don't do? So we're got

443
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: more opportunity than that than anybody's ever had. The good

444
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 1: thing is right, So to finish your question and then problem.

445
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 1: So the bottom line is so it was rough. But

446
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 1: the assessment that I did when I decided to run

447
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:23,440
Speaker 1: on June tenth was I love this city and I'm

448
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 1: gonna live here, and this is where my family is

449
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 1: gonna be raised, and we're in a we're in a

450
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: unique moment where of the city. If an election were

451
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: held today, seventy three percent of them will walk right.

452
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 1: The relationship between the state and the city is the

453
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 1: worst that it's ever been. Crime uh is six is

454
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: up sixty points, and I think I am the person

455
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 1: to calm those things down and stabilize Atlanta and then

456
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:57,679
Speaker 1: probably move on. That's however, and then and then you

457
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,199
Speaker 1: and then you know, financially, I'm good, so I can

458
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: do it. You said, the relationship between the state and

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00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: the city of the worst has ever been So how

460
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,160
Speaker 1: how would how would you personally deal with Governor Kimp

461
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: because that's a big part of getting everything back down

462
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: in the way that I deal with Governor Deal. Governor Deal,

463
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 1: and I had the best relationship between the mayor governor

464
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:21,160
Speaker 1: in the history of Georgia. Exclutly nobody, exclutly nobody. So

465
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 1: we built the modern motion picture and television industry from

466
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 1: a four hundred million dollar sector, all of these cameras

467
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 1: and lights. When we started as a four hundred million

468
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 1: dollar business, when I walked out the doors, nine point

469
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: five being dollar business, employed thirty seven thousand people. So

470
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 1: many people are getting bred and doing well and being

471
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: able to have a creative career outside of the record

472
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 1: business and the record sector. We have reimagined people who

473
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: who made their career in the record sector now in television, podcast,

474
00:28:56,080 --> 00:29:00,040
Speaker 1: all these different creative industries, um all three more on

475
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: movies right Felm were w who was mayor Black Panther

476
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: filmed were here in Atlanta while who was married? Tyler

477
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: Perry Studios done with who right Fast seven Fast eight,

478
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 1: done Weird while I was married. So you know when

479
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 1: that when a person makes a motion, a blockbuster movie,

480
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 1: they're making a career decision and you're spending three hundred million,

481
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 1: four hundred million on the movie. So people would look

482
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: at it the line and be like, I'm gonna do it?

483
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 1: What that dude is? And so as a result, look

484
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: at our technology sector. Technology sector is exploded, right, And

485
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 1: so my senses is that we have a really strong economy,

486
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 1: but our national brand is being damaged by crime. And

487
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: I think that I'm the right person to reduce crime

488
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: um without here looking like a crazy looking like a

489
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: crazy person, right, So I'm the person to negotiate calmness.

490
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: And people know that I don't play. I don't play,

491
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 1: and so all I'm really saying is cut out the foolishness.

492
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: And nobody has really been saying cut out the foolishness.

493
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna have you all walking around saying just

494
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: bring it down. I'm not crazy, and you're affecting everybody's money,

495
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 1: everybody's biggest facts. When you're in the club, right, nobody else.

496
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: I know all the club owners. I'm gonna meet with

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00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 1: every single one of them. I'm gonna meet with all

498
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: of the gas station owners, and I'm gonna tell him

499
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 1: what does it take for black for a black woman

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00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: to be able to get some gas and not have

501
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 1: her head on the smooth? You got black women putting

502
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: up their cars. They bust there behind to become successful enough.

503
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: Woman bought a Porsche pan of Mirra. She didn't have

504
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: to go buy for it. Focus because she's shaking when

505
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: she's getting gas for the car that she dreamed about getting.

506
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: Hannah's kind of pulls up with no wind and leaves

507
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 1: all the windows down. She did with doing up the car.

508
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: I mean, just think of psychologically, you have a car,

509
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 1: you I'm gonna leave it open. That's how bad. And

510
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: that's where men toub of women are. Every man that

511
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: I know in Atlanta right now checks on his woman

512
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: regarding the gas situation. Men been pumping more gas than

513
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: I ever seen him pump, which is cool. Impositive, but

514
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: you don't want to be mandatory. But they still gotta

515
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: be a well too. Though they do, but I mean,

516
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: right now, when you're getting together in Atlanta socially, the

517
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: conversation opens up with what happened to you? Man? Just

518
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: hating windows? Broke man, God tried to steal the car,

519
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: got pulled upside me on the freeway, point of the

520
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: gun at me, told me to pull over. I mean,

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00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: this stuff is not we do not. This is not Atlanta,

522
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: and it is because these folks believe that they could

523
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 1: get away with it. And everybody who's listening to this

524
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: podcast knows that if I'm fortunate enough to be mayor

525
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: that that is not going to be the case. And

526
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: if something happens to you, the second maddest person is

527
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: gonna be me, which is what people want, because if

528
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: you're gonna do something about it, you going to jail. Right,

529
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: So somebody pulls up and tells you to get out

530
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: your car and leave the keys running, they go ice

531
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: cube on you. Right. All you can do is thank

532
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: God that you didn't get killed and say take it.

533
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 1: But the person who you call is who And if

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00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: I don't feel passionately about the violation when I ran

535
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: from heyor before, when I ran before, we had a

536
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: crime spike and I'll never forget. I'll tell you when

537
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: I won the race. I was in a town hall

538
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: woman and this told this lady stood up and she

539
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: said she was a black woman. She said they knew

540
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 1: that I was a single female. They kicked in the

541
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: door to my house. They looked at me while they

542
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: took the TV off my wall. So think of the

543
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: cowardice of a dude. This says, I'm not gonna rib

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00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: a house where I have a real situation. I'm gonna

545
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: rib a single woman's house. You know what. I looked

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00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: to him. I said, let me tell you something. If

547
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: I'm mayor, I'm gonna get your TV back. You understand me.

548
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look for your TV people. I want my

549
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: TV back. Right, if somebody snatched my chain, I don't

550
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: want about No, I don't want the insurance. I want

551
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: my chain back. I want my chain. I want you

552
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: to go get my chain. It's the same thing with

553
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: a television if if the person is responsible, you know,

554
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: and I meet with dudes, meet with street dudes and

555
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 1: tell them, you know, to keep it, keep it in

556
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: the lines right, because it only it might appear that

557
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 1: with equal but we're not right. The police department is

558
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 1: a paramilitary force, right, so you might have shooters, but

559
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: your shooters shooting, run my shoes is shooting, and go

560
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 1: home and go to sleep. So like another that's what

561
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,439
Speaker 1: that's that's the talk we need, dude, Yeah, to get

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00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: the city back right. Yeah. And then like another thing

563
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 1: that I know this is like a really a really

564
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: big thing for people. Um is the whole like gentrification things.

565
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 1: So what are your plans on I guess preventing the

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00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 1: illicit gentrification, especially like well, like my family is like

567
00:34:56,440 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 1: from the Simpson Road one City neighborhood, but like got

568
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: like the Pittsburgh area, like all of the areas where

569
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 1: everything is booming. So what how do you plan on

570
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: preventing the illicit gentrification and also taking care of like

571
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: the elderly people, the people that are on fixed income

572
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,399
Speaker 1: and preventing them from being priced out of those neighborhoods. Well,

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00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: the first thing I'm gonna do is go on big

574
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: facts and tell people don't sell, because the mayor to

575
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: be going everywhere and open up everywhere every comment we

576
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: don't sell. And if somebody is talking to you about

577
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: buying your property because of the property tax situation, called

578
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: me because the last I checked, I left the city

579
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: with two hundred million in cash. So I left the

580
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 1: biggest cash reserve in the history of Atlanta, in the

581
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: history of cash reserves Atlanta has never had. When I

582
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 1: walked out of the door. For all that talk, I'll

583
00:35:54,360 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 1: tell you what money wasn't missing. Then it was all there.

584
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 1: Take a couple of so so I mean I was

585
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: I was bankro friends, So I believe. I believe that

586
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: we started what's called an anti displacement initiative before I

587
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 1: walked out. It means you raise private money. So if

588
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:33,280
Speaker 1: I moved next to somebody and I modernized my house,

589
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,879
Speaker 1: I push up the property values of the person next door.

590
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 1: When the taxes go up, you take that money and

591
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: you pay the increase the difference. And then you need

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00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 1: a grant program as well. Because I moved into the neighborhood.

593
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:53,360
Speaker 1: Your house shouldn't look junkie. It's just dignity. Grant me,

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00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 1: let me pay mind, fix debt, fix my window. So

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00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 1: we need a grant and then you too. But the

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00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 1: good thing about me and what different differentiates me from

597
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: other people. Everything they say is a hypothetical. I did

598
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 1: it when I was there. I raised private money. I

599
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: paid people's property taxes through this UH fund called the

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00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: West Side Future Fund, I named it, and that's what

601
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 1: it was for to pay people's property. So when because

602
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 1: what was going on was these people were walking up

603
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: on the were they were looking for tax LANs, knocking

604
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: on people's doors. People didn't have seven eight ten grand.

605
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 1: The family didn't have seven eighteen grand, and they would say,

606
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 1: I'll buy you a property for the tax lane, and

607
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 1: maybe I'll put five on that, or maybe i'll put that,

608
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,319
Speaker 1: or I helped you move into an apartment. And so

609
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: my position is going to be the city has a

610
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,800
Speaker 1: massive bound of real estate. I want to do deals,

611
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 1: use the city dirt to help build affordable house and fast.

612
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: The way that you dropped the price on real estate

613
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: deals is give him the dirt. So you give him

614
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: the dirt, you subtract that out of the overall project costs,

615
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 1: and you get to to build affordable housing faster. I'm

616
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,280
Speaker 1: also going to find out what happened to the thirty

617
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 1: million dollar Choice Neighborhood grant that I wont that I

618
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 1: can't see. I ain't seen it. I have not seen it,

619
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: but I know I want it. So who knows, but

620
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:38,479
Speaker 1: I'm looking for it. So biggest real estate on see

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00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: the Atlanta, j invest Atlanta and the belt Line. All

622
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 1: of those assets need to be put out so you

623
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: can build affordable house and fast. One of the focuses

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00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: that that I think the mayor has rightly focused on,

625
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 1: and I think she's done a really a good job

626
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 1: in focus in the city on the affordable house. And

627
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,320
Speaker 1: the other thing we've got to do is the city

628
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: has an awful lot of affordable units that working people

629
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: don't live in. So when you see these high rises

630
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 1: being built, when they if it involves municipal financing, we'll

631
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: say there's a ten percent set aside units for working people. Well,

632
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 1: if you go back and check, you'll see that they

633
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 1: didn't least those ten percent to working people. They gotta

634
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: they have a person paying regular rent and many of

635
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: those ten percent units no no, So if you are rich,

636
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: that one of them tem percent units was for you.

637
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: They don't advertise when you walk up to the building

638
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: and then they just start putting regular they should have been.

639
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: So if it's a market three thousand dollar month units,

640
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: it should have been sixteen fifty for somebody. Because what

641
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Speaker 1: you're trying to do is you're trying to change somebody's life.

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Speaker 1: If you've got a mom who's living in the building

643
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Speaker 1: with an averager in its three thousand, and she's paying

644
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Speaker 1: for her and her family around what they're around, and

645
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: they're mixed into the overall building and it changes their

646
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Speaker 1: life out. So I'm going to go through every unit

647
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Speaker 1: and every deal, and I am going to audit to

648
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Speaker 1: see who's living in these units and if then and

649
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 1: going on exactly, I'm gonna look around and I'm gonna go,

650
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Speaker 1: how are we doing where people? So if you look

651
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Speaker 1: at Pot City Market, pot City Market is a deal

652
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,799
Speaker 1: that was done where you supposed to have a set

653
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Speaker 1: amount affordable house. Right, you need to go and say,

654
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: let me see all of the people in Pot City

655
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Speaker 1: Market in the flats. They're beautiful, who are affordable, medium

656
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Speaker 1: and lowane. Come show up to me that knows the

657
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 1: people need it exactly. My point is, you have all

658
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 1: these buildings, all these transactions, and it's just like you

659
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: know how we're doing right and what we do to

660
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 1: think about having been man like I did these deals,

661
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not a boys stander. I know what

662
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 1: was promised. I know what should have been done, and

663
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: like that's the need and if we moved the needle there,

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Speaker 1: I think Atlanta is just gonna be I mean just

665
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Speaker 1: just We're just gonna be on fire zone, the zone

666
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: and the zone and ship they try to make illegal

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Speaker 1: for the airbnb you know what I'm talking about. I

668
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,840
Speaker 1: don't know. You don't have to briefly on that. You know,

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Speaker 1: how people rent properties, and they're trying to make it

670
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,399
Speaker 1: too where because they've had I guess several issues with

671
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:43,920
Speaker 1: like airbnbs and parties and you know, the parties at

672
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 1: the airbnbs, like resulting in violence and stuff like that.

673
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Speaker 1: So I saw on the news. I'm not quite sure

674
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: of the exact specifics, but they're trying to basically pretty

675
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: much outlaw Airbnb's in the city and make it to

676
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: where if you're advertising that you have a property that

677
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: you're putting up for rent on Airbnb, then you're gonna

678
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Speaker 1: be served with a citation because they're gonna be quote

679
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 1: unquote illegal like short term rental. Yeah, I think I'm

680
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 1: gonna have to get deeper on that. I don't have

681
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: an answer to that, right. So that's one where I

682
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:19,879
Speaker 1: just haven't caught up with that one yet. Okay, what's

683
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Speaker 1: your tastes on full marijuana legalization in Atlanta or Georgia

684
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Speaker 1: and what would you do if and winning Like the Marito,

685
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 1: I think the marijuana scheme in Atlanta should be like

686
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 1: the marijuana scheme in the city of San Francisco. I

687
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 1: think we need to start with the medicinal marijuana, and

688
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: then I think we need to see how we do

689
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Speaker 1: handle medicinal I don't believe that we should start with

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00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:49,319
Speaker 1: wide open marijuana sales all the way across the board,

691
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: straight out of the gate, so no recreational straight out

692
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,879
Speaker 1: of the gate, out of the gate, but I think

693
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Speaker 1: that we need to let everybody know that there's a

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00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: there so that the community and entrepreneurs can be a

695
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:03,879
Speaker 1: prayer prepared to adjust. I also believe in using the

696
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Speaker 1: city's ability to either ban it or cooperate with it

697
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,320
Speaker 1: to make sure that black entrepreneurs are at the table

698
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 1: in a railway and not left by the wayside. So

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Speaker 1: whatever the state pass is regarding the marijuana licenses that

700
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 1: they're reviewing right now, in my mind, the city should

701
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: have a vote on what is going to happen with

702
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 1: how that business sets up and operates in the city,

703
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 1: and we have to have a goal consistent with what

704
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: we do at Hartstel Jackson Airport, with black and women participation, period,

705
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Speaker 1: full stop. What about those incarcerated though that might have

706
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: got heart sentences for marijuana art, their sentences should be

707
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: reduced consistent with the modern state of the law, no

708
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: question about it. But that issue, along with this entrepreneurship issue, um,

709
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Speaker 1: is the one that's not getting enough attention. I mean

710
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 1: because right now black people on the people who are

711
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: benefiting off the legalization of marijuana, while black men sit

712
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Speaker 1: in jail and rock because they sold marijuana. And so Um,

713
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Speaker 1: there is a lot of writing of the ship that

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Speaker 1: has to be done around marijuana, and I think that

715
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Speaker 1: I'm the right person to do it. Now, what would

716
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 1: you say, like when everybody we know Cassine Read is

717
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 1: now running from there. There's a lot of love and

718
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 1: I'm sure you felt the love, and when the love

719
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Speaker 1: comes to hate. So you talked about the a j

720
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Speaker 1: C And the nay sayers and the people and accusations

721
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 1: and everything. What would you say to the people that's

722
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,800
Speaker 1: on the fence that are not Casine Read supporters to

723
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Speaker 1: get them to support you? What I would say is

724
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 1: that all of us live full lives with mistakes and

725
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: terrific things that we've done. And what I would ask

726
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 1: is that they view the entirety of my life and

727
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: the entirety of my service. So you can certainly talk

728
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:59,919
Speaker 1: about the warts, the people who went to jail during

729
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,360
Speaker 1: my administration. You can certainly talk to me about whatever

730
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 1: words you want to talk about. But as long as

731
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:10,320
Speaker 1: it's viewed as a whole picture, it's the best economy

732
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:13,399
Speaker 1: the city had had in the generation. Crime was at

733
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Speaker 1: forty year Old's team. Crime was reduced. Every single recreation

734
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: center in the city of Atlanta um was open, Every

735
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: pool was open. Recreation center stayed open until seven o'clock

736
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:28,799
Speaker 1: at night, seven days a week. We started providing hot

737
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:32,399
Speaker 1: meals to up to two thousand young people per day,

738
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Speaker 1: double a plus credit from Standard and Forest Moodes in

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Speaker 1: Fitch seventeen, Regional US headquarters move into the city. Largest

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Speaker 1: population influx Atlanta is really half a million twenty year

741
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: at least with delta, if you view it all I mean, yeah,

742
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: so it's the same way you have to do it

743
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: with Jordan's As long as we're talking about all of it,

744
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: you talk about all of you. So when I come

745
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: in and do an interview with you all, I'm ready

746
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 1: to talk about whatever we talk about, and and and

747
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:11,759
Speaker 1: to voters, you're not imagining that you were better off

748
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:23,839
Speaker 1: four years ago. You know what's crazy about He didn't

749
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 1: send in and ask what questions We're gonna people that

750
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: ask for no prep or what y'all can't talk whatever

751
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:34,359
Speaker 1: when I come to sit down somewhere, whatever you want

752
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 1: to do. I tell people all the time, ask me anything,

753
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,799
Speaker 1: as long as you can hand to handle the answer. Right.

754
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 1: So my thing is, I think people care more about

755
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 1: being able to pump gas than what the a j

756
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:49,359
Speaker 1: C Says about me. I think people care more about

757
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 1: the fact that they're walking through metal detectors and having

758
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 1: to swap their bags out to walk to the car

759
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: because you went to Gucci and you can't walk out

760
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,839
Speaker 1: with a Gucci bad You gotta white You gotta white

761
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: bag that thing, right, which means when you give it

762
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:04,400
Speaker 1: as a president, you got to put it back in

763
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: the Gucci band. What's what's happening in the line and

764
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 1: now it's people are forced to be think about who

765
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 1: their Mary is. When I was married, you might have

766
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: heard the A j C saying some story about me,

767
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 1: but it was a passive thing. I man, look at them,

768
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 1: look at that, look at that. But it wasn't about

769
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty seven murders. People are being forced

770
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 1: to think about who they're mary is because their direct

771
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: lives being affected to make you think about I have

772
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: to park my car and leave my car a lot

773
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:43,879
Speaker 1: with the windows down. What that's my norm. That's my norm.

774
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: So the point I'm making is is and and if

775
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:51,439
Speaker 1: folks look at all that and don't want me, there's

776
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 1: four or five other people that I'm getting ready to

777
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 1: beat anyway, So you have options gonna beat every single one.

778
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:01,000
Speaker 1: So you say, basically, don't look. You can see look

779
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 1: at what I've done for this city. Yeah yeah, so

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00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: I understand. So I was not playing on a run

781
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 1: from there, So I mean, I'm not I'm not. I

782
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 1: was not plotting on this job. I was on Frank

783
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:19,400
Speaker 1: Ski Show. Franksie and I had real conversations. My daughter

784
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 1: was being dropped off of my former wife's house by

785
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:26,760
Speaker 1: her grandma. Car was robbed in five minutes that happened. Damn.

786
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:30,360
Speaker 1: My mom goes to the Chick fil a at Colony Square.

787
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 1: She gets the number one in the morning. She seventy

788
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 1: nine years old. She's retired. That that Chick fil A

789
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: was robbed in broad daylight, and it wasn't a quick robbery.

790
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 1: It was a long robbery that happened. One of my

791
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: closest friends in the world attempted carjacking. She videotapes the

792
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:51,479
Speaker 1: carjack is getting away, nobody comes, I mean video tapes

793
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 1: the vehicle. But her point is, I'm telling you how

794
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: I got for anybody, But why are you written that's

795
00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 1: how I got here? Frank Ski said, are you playing

796
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 1: and run from here? I said, absolutely not. But there's

797
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: no term limit on being a citizen. Had a big platform.

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00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 1: What I have almost four Twitter followers, forty some thous

799
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 1: on Instagram, fifty on Facebook. I'm a person if my

800
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: daughter is getting dropped off at my former wife's house, right,

801
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:22,839
Speaker 1: I get to be when your daughters in the city,

802
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 1: you get to you should be a father. I'm on

803
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: the radio telling you that there are things that are

804
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:33,440
Speaker 1: happened in the city of Atlanta that nobody is talking about.

805
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:38,319
Speaker 1: And when I was mayor, they've been talking about it, right,

806
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 1: So so I mean, just check this out of the

807
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: people say I want to leave. Seventy three them say

808
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,399
Speaker 1: if the election was tomorrow, I would leave immediately. If

809
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 1: that happens. Financially, Atlanta, it's like Birmingham never thought about it. Like, actually,

810
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 1: if you remove the take Buckhead out of Atlanta and

811
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,919
Speaker 1: the financial wherewithal that comes from all that property tax

812
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:10,200
Speaker 1: in salestox revenue and the money that supports our schools, financially,

813
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:15,319
Speaker 1: we're closer to Birmingham. They got. So my point is, bank,

814
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: nobody would come and take thirty percent of your money

815
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Speaker 1: without it being a full meeting strain. Nobody said a word.

816
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: M Nobody, nobody said a word. People start saying, well,

817
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:36,800
Speaker 1: that can happen. Anybody who has been alive on earth

818
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:43,360
Speaker 1: knows that wealth and influence makes things that could not

819
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 1: happen happen. They check it out. November twenty second is

820
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,839
Speaker 1: the is the is the year that Governor Kent will

821
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 1: be running for re election and Stacey Ablems will be

822
00:50:56,239 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 1: the different Democratic nominee in a cage death match to

823
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:03,879
Speaker 1: be governor. So at the exact same time, you're gonna

824
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 1: have a referendum about the city of Bucket. H Yeah,

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00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 1: come on now, So I'm a citizen who served this

826
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 1: this city for two terms, and I got to talk.

827
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: That's what I did on Frank ski Show. So I

828
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 1: say all of that to say, folks can measure at

829
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:28,319
Speaker 1: all to talk to me about all of it. Talk

830
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 1: to me about all of it, and and find I

831
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:32,759
Speaker 1: want to say this, you're getting hard surgery next week.

832
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: You want somebody to perform heart surgery. You wouldn't want

833
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:39,239
Speaker 1: people who want to go to medical school. These other

834
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 1: people they want to go to medical school. There but

835
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Speaker 1: a mouse in school that that medical students. I think

836
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: I could do it. I think I could do it.

837
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:53,840
Speaker 1: I think what I never run. I ran seventeen billion

838
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 1: dollars in money. The budget of the city is two

839
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:59,399
Speaker 1: point two billion a year. I built the police force

840
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 1: to the biggest has ever been in history, right, and

841
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:06,720
Speaker 1: I did the things that Black Lives Matter talked about

842
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:10,480
Speaker 1: before George Floyd was murdered. So you don't get to

843
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: come at me with that talk. But when Atlanta needs

844
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 1: is calm, steady, tested leadership and somebody that people could

845
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:22,800
Speaker 1: pull up on and have a real conversation. True, everybody

846
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:25,279
Speaker 1: knows me, they know my phone number, they know how

847
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:27,680
Speaker 1: to get to me. They know how to have a

848
00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:31,359
Speaker 1: conversation with me. That's what this city needs right now.

849
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Speaker 1: It is a beautiful tapestry on the outside, that is,

850
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 1: we've together by a whole lot of knitting. On the

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00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 1: other side that doesn't look so pretty. That's how Atlanta

852
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:45,760
Speaker 1: is made a bunch of meetings that people never see,

853
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: conversations that people never have because so that something doesn't

854
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:56,360
Speaker 1: erupt and blow up the painting or the tapestry. Yeah,

855
00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:59,440
Speaker 1: and what's been going on is we've all been watching

856
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 1: it completely explode. That's what we've been watching it. That's

857
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:08,440
Speaker 1: guys pull pulls out, has a shootout in front of Cheetah,

858
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:13,360
Speaker 1: multiple up, not I mean not one, multiple duck down,

859
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:18,319
Speaker 1: return fire, duck down. What these are behaviors that none

860
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 1: of us I've been here the whole time, have seen.

861
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:24,279
Speaker 1: And where is the outrage when the three year old

862
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 1: girl gets shot? Where's them? Where's the outrage? And more

863
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 1: than the outrage, where is the I'm going to stop it.

864
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:38,400
Speaker 1: I Am going to stop it, and if somebody doesn't,

865
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 1: I'm going to find them. When I was married Atlanta,

866
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:45,239
Speaker 1: I used I raised awards so high that my chief

867
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 1: told me to stop. He said you. You put so

868
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 1: much award money on the street it makes people just

869
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:52,959
Speaker 1: co commit a crime and turn themselves in. You can't

870
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 1: do that. But I mean, I'm not a police chief,

871
00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:00,040
Speaker 1: you know, but I know how to put some on

872
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 1: on somebody's head. You robbed a woman at a gas station,

873
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 1: and you're out of cold, right. We had the car

874
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: tacking problem, and that's out of cold. Yeah. M And

875
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:17,359
Speaker 1: so you know, I know it's probably a little too

876
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 1: much passionate for the podcast, but this is what I want.

877
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 1: One get a get a voicemail at though it's what

878
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:30,719
Speaker 1: you call nine one one, and they'd be like, is

879
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:32,839
Speaker 1: it serious? Hold on, I don't I don't know about

880
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not gonna speak negatively about anything.

881
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 1: But let me tell you something. I don't know. They

882
00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:41,439
Speaker 1: didn't have that when I was married. When you didn't

883
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:44,839
Speaker 1: give voicemail, not only did you not have voicemail, you'd

884
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 1: have been able to call me. So the point I'm

885
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:49,880
Speaker 1: making is is this, let me tell you something. If

886
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:53,399
Speaker 1: I'm fortunate enough to win, we're gonna have a hundred days.

887
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 1: We're gonna cut the system out. You gotta warrant any

888
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 1: negative interaction with the city. We're gonna have a hundred

889
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 1: days where we have volunteer lawyers, municipal lawyers, like an

890
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 1: amnesty programs, just amnesty, come in and work it out.

891
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 1: And when the city's gonna pay for it, I'm gonna

892
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:16,200
Speaker 1: use some of that two hundred million dollars in research.

893
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 1: So you know, if you got a situation, it is

894
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 1: your time to come and clear up parking ticket, moving violation,

895
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:26,239
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I've had a one. It's terrible when

896
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 1: you have one, you know what I mean. I mean,

897
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:30,880
Speaker 1: you know you can't take you later out. I mean,

898
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:36,359
Speaker 1: it's all kind of she got a drive, she don't

899
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 1: know why she drive like tweaking. You gotta make it

900
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 1: be cool and turn it into jay Z and Beyonce situation.

901
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:53,879
Speaker 1: Here's what But you need a hundred days gonna clear

902
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 1: that up. City is gonna pay full. I don't even

903
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 1: want the money because it's gonna show our hearts. Right,

904
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:03,080
Speaker 1: you got a situation, it's cleared up, whatever it is.

905
00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 1: I don't want to do anything to you. We're gonna click,

906
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:07,719
Speaker 1: We're gonna clear to that because what we're trying to

907
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:11,759
Speaker 1: do is reset the relationship. Yeah, and people like you

908
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:14,160
Speaker 1: are gonna have to help me reset. So I'm gonna

909
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 1: be out a hundred days telling everybody you got a

910
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 1: situation coming coming. But on a hundred and first day,

911
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:29,960
Speaker 1: a hundred days, right, and that's three months, three whole,

912
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go everywhere. I'm gonna pay for it. Got

913
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:40,799
Speaker 1: you don't even don't even worry about their mounts. You're

914
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 1: gonna eat that city, will eat that, right, That's what

915
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:47,320
Speaker 1: the two hundred million was for. But on that hundred

916
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 1: the first day, Atlanta is going back to Atlanta. That's hard.

917
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:52,239
Speaker 1: How much how much of a problems do you think?

918
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:55,759
Speaker 1: It's so many people coming from other places? And what

919
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:57,759
Speaker 1: will you say to all of these people coming from

920
00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:00,080
Speaker 1: other places because they're continuing to pour in that and

921
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:04,080
Speaker 1: stuff it. Um. I think that we're going to impose

922
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:07,280
Speaker 1: our our will on them. I mean, I think something

923
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:11,840
Speaker 1: happened during COVID, and I think that our community. The

924
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 1: my bottom line thing is we just need to restore

925
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 1: our sensive community. That's what people want. People want to

926
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 1: they want their lives back. And I know that COVID,

927
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:24,440
Speaker 1: what COVID was a global crisis, but at some point

928
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 1: that has to stop being an excuse and somebody has

929
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:31,440
Speaker 1: to say that that's what Atlanta needs right now. And

930
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 1: for all of my awards, people always thought that I

931
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 1: did a better job than they liked me. I was

932
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 1: always the case. So when when we would poll and

933
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 1: they would look at my data, my job performance was

934
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 1: always ten to fifteen points higher than my lickability always

935
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 1: and and that was following me. I ratherly you think

936
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 1: that I was doing a good job. I don't. I don't.

937
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to hang with you. I don't have

938
00:57:55,760 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 1: no open county colill up every minute of it that

939
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:04,919
Speaker 1: got me. I got real friends. I mean, it's stuff

940
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 1: that I've been through. I got real friends. They want,

941
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 1: they're happy to see me. I'm not looking to and

942
00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 1: so that's that's where we are right now. So I mean,

943
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 1: I think to your point about the criticism, I think

944
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:20,960
Speaker 1: I'm the right person for right now. If it were

945
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 1: not for this situation, I wouldn't be viable. But I mean,

946
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:27,560
Speaker 1: come on, man, like five and fifty thousand and one night,

947
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 1: come on, man, I mean, y'all saw people know that

948
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 1: our city is broken. You're saying they basically quit quit

949
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 1: wasting them all. No, man, leave your dream. Do that

950
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:46,200
Speaker 1: do that, but live your dream. But there's been five

951
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 1: mayoral elections in the city of Atlanta as I count,

952
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:53,720
Speaker 1: and every single I won. Everyone or Shirley frank has

953
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:57,240
Speaker 1: managing for campaign her first campaign, Shirley Franklin has managing

954
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,400
Speaker 1: for a second campaign. I ran the third time, I

955
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 1: won the fourth time, and I endorsed Mayor Bottoms and

956
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:05,400
Speaker 1: worked hard to make her mad at a fifth time.

957
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 1: This is number six. So everybody on the opposite side

958
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:12,840
Speaker 1: of me or doing something that I've done six times,

959
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:17,560
Speaker 1: they've never done it, never won. No council president in

960
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:22,360
Speaker 1: Atlanta has ever been elected mayor never happened, right, And

961
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:24,360
Speaker 1: these other people, I don't know their names or what

962
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 1: they do. I wish it well. So let me ask

963
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:35,960
Speaker 1: you this. I don't know you, I don't know, No,

964
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:37,560
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what they do. But

965
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:40,200
Speaker 1: let me say this. They've been out here talking a

966
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 1: whole lot, and then we dropped that million, fifty five

967
00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 1: thousand on another day. Shut up, you know what I mean.

968
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 1: It got real quiet when we dropped that. They transferring money,

969
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:53,360
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, got cousins and all this stuff.

970
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:55,320
Speaker 1: One later wrote herself a check for half of me,

971
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:56,919
Speaker 1: and I'm like, that's all well and good. You better

972
00:59:56,960 --> 01:00:01,920
Speaker 1: be prepared to spend it. You better be prepared to

973
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 1: spending Yeah. So with the y'all got being all count

974
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 1: you don't have a busy week, I'm not doing And

975
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:24,080
Speaker 1: if I commnication, she didn't faint it the ground. I

976
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:28,920
Speaker 1: just laying on the ground about mental health though, that

977
01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:30,640
Speaker 1: we need to figure out this mental health. A lot

978
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 1: of people, a lot of people fucked up. Yeah, yeah,

979
01:00:34,040 --> 01:00:36,439
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do about that? I think we gotta

980
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 1: have a bigger partnership with Fulon County and we gotta

981
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:42,960
Speaker 1: use um. We've got to shift to more of a

982
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 1: telehealth model that makes telehealth available for people to need counseling.

983
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:49,360
Speaker 1: You need to be able to get on your telephone

984
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:55,360
Speaker 1: and talk to a psychologist or a counselor. Because you know,

985
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:58,280
Speaker 1: a big impediment to us getting both health care and

986
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:00,960
Speaker 1: mental health care is we don't like to walk into

987
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:05,280
Speaker 1: that hospital. We don't like to make that appointment and

988
01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:09,440
Speaker 1: keep that appointment. But my senses and my learning is

989
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 1: you can take out your telephone and go into a

990
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 1: quiet corner in your house, You're more likely to actually

991
01:01:16,240 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 1: keep and make an appointment with someone to help you

992
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:23,680
Speaker 1: stay in tact, and then that professional can determine whether

993
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:26,280
Speaker 1: you need help. The other the other part one of

994
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:28,240
Speaker 1: the other things that we that we're gonna do if

995
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:31,360
Speaker 1: I'm fortunate enough to win, because we're gonna track when

996
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:36,320
Speaker 1: we cut people's ward off and send a care team

997
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 1: if your water gets cut off and you don't turn

998
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:42,600
Speaker 1: it back on something that's going on in your house. Yeah,

999
01:01:42,960 --> 01:01:47,240
Speaker 1: and it is a good differentiator to know that we

1000
01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:50,640
Speaker 1: need to surge resources because that person is soon gonna

1001
01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:59,480
Speaker 1: be homeless. And once they're homeless, then there grady, it's

1002
01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:03,320
Speaker 1: like it's no. Then they're in the emergency room, then

1003
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:06,880
Speaker 1: they're a patient. This fifteen thousand dollars. So all of

1004
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:10,760
Speaker 1: these things occur, and the city has this ability because

1005
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:14,000
Speaker 1: we know when you're when you stop paying your water them.

1006
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:17,240
Speaker 1: So there are a number of things that I want

1007
01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:19,120
Speaker 1: to do. I think that I think that every time

1008
01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:21,240
Speaker 1: a baby is born in the City of Atlanta to

1009
01:02:21,320 --> 01:02:24,920
Speaker 1: somebody under who makes sixty thou dollars less, we need

1010
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 1: to set aside a bond for that baby so when

1011
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:33,160
Speaker 1: they turn eighteen, they get a real check. Yes, they're

1012
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 1: doing that in San Francisco right now. And so when

1013
01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:38,320
Speaker 1: that baby is that baby is born in the Atlanta

1014
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 1: city limits, we put a bond. I haven't determined what

1015
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:45,840
Speaker 1: amount because I need to know what kind of growth.

1016
01:02:46,520 --> 01:02:48,800
Speaker 1: You're gonna need to write a person a real check.

1017
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:51,920
Speaker 1: And then when they that young girl a board turns

1018
01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:55,080
Speaker 1: eighteen and they're getting ready to be adults, I'd like

1019
01:02:55,160 --> 01:03:02,600
Speaker 1: them to leave with fifty thousand dollars. Get out. Hey, man,

1020
01:03:02,680 --> 01:03:08,640
Speaker 1: I ain't seen it. I mean we had a big ceremony. Secretaryhood,

1021
01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:12,000
Speaker 1: would you do like a backlog for like those of

1022
01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:21,480
Speaker 1: us that were born like Ian in San Francisco. So

1023
01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:24,280
Speaker 1: there's this incredible leader in San Francisco. Her name is

1024
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:27,400
Speaker 1: London Breathe. But they've done it in San Francisco. So

1025
01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 1: this is not any pine in the sky. You can't

1026
01:03:30,760 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 1: do that. You can totally know. Yeah, five thousand babies,

1027
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:38,600
Speaker 1: you can totally buy my bond, and you can tell

1028
01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:42,720
Speaker 1: it'll mature on the eighteenth birthday and they'll all be

1029
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:44,880
Speaker 1: there and they can come get it. I'm gonna call

1030
01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:50,480
Speaker 1: it all that, bob. But look, I got a two

1031
01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:54,840
Speaker 1: part questions. So first part of my two part questions,

1032
01:03:55,120 --> 01:04:01,800
Speaker 1: I took a nap before the first part of the

1033
01:04:01,840 --> 01:04:06,600
Speaker 1: two part question is, UM, once you are elected, since

1034
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:10,320
Speaker 1: we're going to speak it into existence, yes, yes, how

1035
01:04:10,360 --> 01:04:15,680
Speaker 1: do you plan on improving the relationship between the city

1036
01:04:15,720 --> 01:04:19,280
Speaker 1: of Atlanta and the a U Center. And then the

1037
01:04:19,320 --> 01:04:23,240
Speaker 1: second part of the question is with Atlanta being like

1038
01:04:23,720 --> 01:04:30,600
Speaker 1: the city within the city limits primarily like an urban town. UM,

1039
01:04:30,720 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 1: what do you feel is the importance of embracing the

1040
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:39,200
Speaker 1: hip hop community as far as turning the tide with

1041
01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:41,840
Speaker 1: everything that's going on in the city now, I mean,

1042
01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:45,480
Speaker 1: like like embracing the hip hop community and using them

1043
01:04:45,520 --> 01:04:48,400
Speaker 1: to also help aid you like turn the tide with

1044
01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:52,520
Speaker 1: the urban part of the city of Atlanta. So the

1045
01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:55,920
Speaker 1: first part of your question, I'm gonna with the Atlanta

1046
01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:59,400
Speaker 1: University Center, I'm going to directly engage. When I was

1047
01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:03,240
Speaker 1: married before or UM, we had a terrific relationship. When

1048
01:05:03,240 --> 01:05:08,120
Speaker 1: they needed additional security, cameras, additional funding. UM for security,

1049
01:05:08,160 --> 01:05:11,440
Speaker 1: I was always there. I had one on one relationship

1050
01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:15,360
Speaker 1: with all of the presidents. UM. The Mercedes ben Stadium

1051
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:19,160
Speaker 1: is there because of my affinity for the a U Center.

1052
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:22,880
Speaker 1: So Mercedes Benz was supposed to be next to Georgia

1053
01:05:22,920 --> 01:05:27,520
Speaker 1: Czech where the electrical facility is. And so what I

1054
01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:29,640
Speaker 1: knew is is if you put at one point five

1055
01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:33,720
Speaker 1: billion dollar asset, then everything around that asset, including the

1056
01:05:33,720 --> 01:05:37,200
Speaker 1: Atlanta University would be more valuable and would be strengthened.

1057
01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:40,320
Speaker 1: So all of the real estate that they on over there. Um,

1058
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:43,720
Speaker 1: if you look at the mL King Corridor, I wanted

1059
01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:47,600
Speaker 1: a grant for President Obama to modernize and improve that corridor.

1060
01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:50,360
Speaker 1: So and then plus I mean, I'm a Howard man,

1061
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:57,560
Speaker 1: so I deeply appreciated so it's never it was never

1062
01:05:57,600 --> 01:06:01,040
Speaker 1: a hard call. So what I imagine is gonna happen

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Speaker 1: is You're gonna have real fluidity between my office and

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta University Center, and it's really going to be

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Speaker 1: driven by what they want rather than what I want.

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Speaker 1: And so I think that it's gonna be consistent with

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Speaker 1: it was before. But here's the difference. The difference is

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Speaker 1: more money is getting ready to be spent than in

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Speaker 1: the history of the United States of America. Right, So

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Speaker 1: the Republican deal on infrastructure is one point to trillion. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so the low deal, so Bernie Satin is wont six trillion,

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Speaker 1: which means that that money is gonna be pushed down

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Speaker 1: through cities, which is why we're gonna have the best

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Speaker 1: economy that we've ever had. Well, President Obama when the company,

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Speaker 1: when the country was on at risk of great depression,

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Speaker 1: got seven hundred and eighty four billion in the American

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Speaker 1: Recovery and Reinvestment at so one deal that they're working

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Speaker 1: on right, Right, because the president is not black, there's

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Speaker 1: one point to train. Yeah, you're gonna get a bank

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Speaker 1: ro Yeah. When President Obama was president, the biggest deal

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Speaker 1: that could be done, and we were getting ready to

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Speaker 1: go into great depression with seven eighty four billion. So

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to tell you why I think so

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Speaker 1: in terms of resources, and the one thing that I

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Speaker 1: proved that I was able to do was to secure

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Speaker 1: federal funding. Right. So when I was mayored, we won

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Speaker 1: four Tiger grants, right, which is a competitive accomplishment where

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Speaker 1: you have to get in. I want the Choice Neighborhoods

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Speaker 1: Grant thirty million, forty two millions, Atlanta belt Line eighty

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Speaker 1: two millions. I came back from d C with bags compeatedly. Yes.

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Speaker 1: So when I'm making is there so got that chick?

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Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know of the and so

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Speaker 1: my senses is that that's gonna benefit the Atlanta Universities.

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Speaker 1: And and if you drive over there. I made a

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01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:15,480
Speaker 1: speech where I said our mL king should be different

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Speaker 1: than every other mL king in the country. Thought I

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Speaker 1: was just But if you drive over there right now

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Speaker 1: and go to busy Bee, it's a huge difference. And

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Speaker 1: everywhere we lay that infrastructure, what happens if you look

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Speaker 1: at Edgewood, everybody talked to all this trash to me

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Speaker 1: about the Atlanta street Car. Edgewood is full of black entrepreneurs.

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Speaker 1: And it only because of that street car. When we

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Speaker 1: when that street car went down the street and all

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Speaker 1: that sidewalk and light beautification went in, people started doing

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Speaker 1: what money and so the federal government paid for that.

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Speaker 1: And when I expanded to the Atlanta outline, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be the hottest thing out car to take the street

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Speaker 1: car to the Atlanta belt line. Which way way to

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01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:12,799
Speaker 1: go though, it's gonna go east. So if you imagine

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Speaker 1: it on Edgewood, just imagine it stopping near Crock Street.

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Speaker 1: That's the piece that it needs to work. Because if

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Speaker 1: me and you're hanging out and you're on a date

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Speaker 1: and you're in the city, you know what I can

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Speaker 1: just hop on the street cars gonna end up in

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Speaker 1: the belt line, and then I can just hop on

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Speaker 1: the belt line. It's gonna take me back into the city.

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Speaker 1: It becomes increasingly viable. So that's how I feel about

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta University Center. And what's your second question? And

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Speaker 1: the second question was with the with the city, with

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Speaker 1: the everything within the city limits being so like urbanized

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Speaker 1: for lack of a better way to put it, um,

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Speaker 1: what do you think is the importance of embracing the

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Speaker 1: hip hop community once you are elected to help you

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Speaker 1: kind of turn in the tide of the urban inner city. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, I think that we're all

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Speaker 1: bigger than hip hop and we're a star machine, right,

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Speaker 1: So I don't I don't think it's I think I

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Speaker 1: think that it's different than embracing it. I live it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, my relationships with the entertainment community is authentic.

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Speaker 1: I started my career as an entertainment lloyd. Folks know

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Speaker 1: that when I represented people they were out of court

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01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:28,479
Speaker 1: before the juror said all rise. That's what they used

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Speaker 1: to say when I was with it. So that's just authentic.

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01:10:33,520 --> 01:10:37,960
Speaker 1: And so it doesn't even have to be manufactured. I

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01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:42,680
Speaker 1: do believe that we need to create some incentive structure

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Speaker 1: for our music business, and we need to support it

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Speaker 1: in the way that we supported our film and TV business.

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Speaker 1: And then I'm going to expand it because I also

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Speaker 1: want to create a regime um for television commercials. And

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01:10:59,360 --> 01:11:02,800
Speaker 1: so my my approach is gonna be to embrace it

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01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:08,000
Speaker 1: and to have creative meetings. So I think that we're

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01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:11,599
Speaker 1: going to have a creative meeting of anybody that has

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01:11:11,640 --> 01:11:14,280
Speaker 1: anything that they want to talk about, not once a month,

1144
01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:17,200
Speaker 1: but once every other month. Maybe we'll do it at

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01:11:17,200 --> 01:11:21,439
Speaker 1: Breakfast and Barney's. But things get done in Atlanta by

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01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:23,880
Speaker 1: people being in the room and being able to say

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01:11:23,880 --> 01:11:28,559
Speaker 1: what's on their minds around the unfederal fashion with somebody

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01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:32,360
Speaker 1: that could actually do something about what they're saying. And

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Speaker 1: so that's why I think. I mean, if you, I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you look at the million, fifty five thousand that

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01:11:39,240 --> 01:11:43,320
Speaker 1: we raised, so much of it was from entertainers. I

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01:11:43,360 --> 01:11:45,880
Speaker 1: mean I mean that, I mean we left a hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty thousand outside. We left a hundred and fifty

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01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:52,880
Speaker 1: thousand outside. I mean I mean that that event was

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01:11:52,920 --> 01:11:54,640
Speaker 1: supposed to be a hundred and fifty people. That was

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01:11:54,640 --> 01:12:01,080
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty, So, um, what's to come? Yes,

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Speaker 1: My point is it's real. It's not you're not twisting

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01:12:04,479 --> 01:12:07,320
Speaker 1: nobody's on. I mean, it's like, then that's my guy,

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01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:10,400
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna come out for him. Yeah, So that's

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01:12:10,479 --> 01:12:14,280
Speaker 1: that's what I that's what I think. I can't wait, though,

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Speaker 1: I'm excited back, Yeah, because you know, I don't like

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01:12:19,520 --> 01:12:23,960
Speaker 1: to lose. So it's um. You know, I'm a competitive person,

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01:12:24,080 --> 01:12:27,080
Speaker 1: so I'm in it. Um. And once I'm in it,

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01:12:27,920 --> 01:12:30,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna finish and uh. And then we're gonna have

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01:12:31,720 --> 01:12:34,800
Speaker 1: an inauguration and we're gonna have a Mariage ball that

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01:12:34,840 --> 01:12:37,760
Speaker 1: people are gonna fly in from all across America, that

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01:12:38,200 --> 01:12:40,680
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the best night in the city, and

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01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:42,639
Speaker 1: then we're gonna get to work. You think it's gonna

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01:12:42,640 --> 01:12:44,400
Speaker 1: be a challenge for voters with the new laws he's

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01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:47,680
Speaker 1: got here, Yes, and the laws had to say that

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01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:54,160
Speaker 1: Georgia past, We're terrible. But everybody's got time to overcome them.

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01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:56,800
Speaker 1: So we know what they are. We know exactly what

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01:12:56,840 --> 01:13:00,519
Speaker 1: they're designed to do. They're designed to refer pressed the

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01:13:00,600 --> 01:13:04,440
Speaker 1: vote of black people. But we have enough time to adjust,

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01:13:05,160 --> 01:13:07,760
Speaker 1: and we always show up. I always I find that

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01:13:07,800 --> 01:13:12,000
Speaker 1: when people attack us as savagely as we were attacked

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Speaker 1: by the most recent voting laws that are invariably backfires,

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01:13:16,320 --> 01:13:19,120
Speaker 1: and black people show up with you know, hot hot

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01:13:19,160 --> 01:13:22,880
Speaker 1: wings in sauce and the chick. We just you know,

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01:13:22,880 --> 01:13:26,200
Speaker 1: we're going to vote that day, and so we're gonna

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Speaker 1: bring our own food. So you say I can't I

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01:13:28,320 --> 01:13:31,240
Speaker 1: bring my own water, you know. So I think that

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01:13:31,360 --> 01:13:34,360
Speaker 1: the effect of that is going to actually backfire. If

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Speaker 1: I never voted before, and I was in the booth,

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Speaker 1: and I've seen and I'm about to get the voting,

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01:13:37,920 --> 01:13:40,680
Speaker 1: I've seen reading what you want me to think of

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Speaker 1: safest city in forty years, say, let's verified by the

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Speaker 1: j C that despises me still had that in four decades.

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Speaker 1: We had never been safer. And right now that is

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Speaker 1: the issue. It is the issue. There's nothing within thirty

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Speaker 1: points of people feeling that their security and safety is

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Speaker 1: at risk, and their family safety is at risk, and

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Speaker 1: their kids safety is at risk, and that significant other

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Speaker 1: safety is at risk. And I was elected when there

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Speaker 1: was a surge and violent crime before, and I did

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Speaker 1: everything I said. I was gonna do. I hired nine

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Speaker 1: hundred police officers, I built the force to two thousand

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Speaker 1: and We did it, and we did it in a

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Speaker 1: way that was consistent with who we who we are

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Speaker 1: America scene read. We appreciate you so much having this conversation.

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Speaker 1: Break much love and success to you. You know you're

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Speaker 1: I'm running on crime. The lords been in forty years.

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