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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wokep Daily with me

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Speaker 1: your girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,

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Speaker 1: we are getting into the last weeks of the presidential

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Speaker 1: election and I am filled with so many emotions, as

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Speaker 1: I'm sure all of you are, and there is just

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Speaker 1: so much at stake. There is so much at stake,

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Speaker 1: and I know that you all already know. This today's episode,

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Speaker 1: I am bringing on Natasha Sutherland, who is a senior

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Speaker 1: advisor to the Yes on Four campaign, and we've had

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Speaker 1: folks from Yes on four join us on wok F

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Speaker 1: Daily before and their entire mission is to return abortion

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Speaker 1: access and rights to the people of Florida. They have

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Speaker 1: secured over a million signatures to have this ballot measure

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Speaker 1: appear on election day in Florida, despite all of the

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Speaker 1: underhanded tactics that Ron DeSantis has tried to use in

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Speaker 1: order to disqualify this amendment from being on the ballot,

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Speaker 1: and the people of Florida having their voices heard. In

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Speaker 1: this conversation, Natasha talks about, you know how currently while

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Speaker 1: Florida is dealing with the impact of Hurricane Helene, how

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Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis has diverted taxpayer dollars that could be going

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Speaker 1: towards AID in order to fight against abortion access. It's wild, folks,

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Speaker 1: it's wild that this man is in office and people

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Speaker 1: voted for him. He's a disgrace to the state of Florida,

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Speaker 1: and I pray that the people come to their senses soon.

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Speaker 1: But this is an important conversation because there is still

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Speaker 1: so much work to do. As I said, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I've been saying since the beginning, we need to

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Speaker 1: run through the tape on this. We can leave no

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Speaker 1: conversation left unsaid. We can leave no rock left unturned,

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Speaker 1: no money, nothing on the table. I want us to

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Speaker 1: wake up after the election with no regrets, knowing that

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Speaker 1: we've done everything that we can do in order to

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Speaker 1: restore democracy in all fifty states of this country. So

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Speaker 1: coming up next, my conversation with Natasha Sutherland on Yes

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Speaker 1: On four Folks. I am very happy to be joined

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Speaker 1: on WOKF Daily with Natasha Sutherland, who is a senior

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Speaker 1: advisor to the Yes On For campaign. We have had

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Speaker 1: folks from Yes On For join us before on this show,

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Speaker 1: but now coming to us after Hurricane Helene has hit Florida.

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Speaker 1: Natasha I just want to give you an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: kind of talk to us about the state of where

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Speaker 1: you are in Florida right now and how how how

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Speaker 1: Yes On four is kind of involved in what is

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Speaker 1: happening as repair efforts and clean up efforts are happening

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Speaker 2: Yeah, first of all, Danielle, thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: having us back on your program. It's it's always an

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Speaker 2: honor to have a wonderful opportunity to talk to your

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Speaker 2: to your listeners. You know, I was very fortunate, I

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Speaker 2: am very fortunate to live here in Tallahassee where we

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Speaker 2: had kind of a near miss with with the hurricane.

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Speaker 2: But all of the folks to the east of us,

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Speaker 2: you know, have faced a lot of significant damage, particularly

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Speaker 2: those that have been hit the hardest with direct hit,

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Speaker 2: but also folks in other areas of the state that

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Speaker 2: didn't even see a direct hit from the hurricane, Like

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Speaker 2: our campaign, you know, because we're we're all over the state,

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Speaker 2: so instead of just out canvassing like normally, we we

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Speaker 2: really support, you know, recovery efforts locally. I'm thinking about

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Speaker 2: one of our coalition partners, you know, Voices of Southwest Florida,

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Speaker 2: that immediately they pivoted to to serving meals, you know,

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Speaker 2: everything we can to be a part of those efforts

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Speaker 1: Can you talk to us about what Ron DeSantis isn't

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Speaker 2: No, not really. I mean, you know, we can even

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Speaker 2: And so that's number one. Number two. He also you know,

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Speaker 2: So just sort of ignoring the root cause of the problem.

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Speaker 2: But now, you know, he's you know, he's out there,

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Speaker 2: He's just all over the place, right, But then recently,

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Speaker 2: you know, actually, yesterday one of the local Florida reporters

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Speaker 2: and as he was handing out plates of food, he

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Speaker 2: other words, saying, I'm going to hand you this plate

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Speaker 2: of food. Your your destitute, You don't have a place

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Speaker 2: I mean. And then in the meantime, you know, there's

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Speaker 2: the weaponization of our state agencies, right, so you know,

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Speaker 2: redirecting millions and you know, at least thirteen to fifteen

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Speaker 2: mind you, as I was here in Tallahassee watching the

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Speaker 2: the Department of Children and Families. These are agencies that Floridians,

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Speaker 1: Is just unbelievable, so believable, right, Like it just it

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Speaker 1: just is so on brand for Ron DeSantis to like

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Speaker 1: everything with him is a quid pro quo, right, Like

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Speaker 1: I mean, it just echoes of the of the transactional

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Speaker 1: four years. You all have done the work of getting

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Speaker 1: how many signatures did you need in order to get

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Speaker 1: this amendment on the ballot, But.

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Speaker 2: We surpassed the minimum requirement and we actually were able

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Speaker 2: to solidify nearly a million verified petition signatures to qualify

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Speaker 1: So you need and how many did you actually need?

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Speaker 1: And DeSantis tried to take you all to court again,

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Speaker 1: right to say that the signatures that were verified well

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Speaker 2: Right, that's absolutely right. And it's interesting because the deadline

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Speaker 2: for all of that, for the approvals process that has

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Speaker 2: suing us for a job that his own government did.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: It's not our job, you know, to go through and

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Speaker 2: verify every single seaure. That's why the government exists, right

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Speaker 2: to go through that process, an year long process to

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Speaker 2: and make sure that everything was above board and could qualify.

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Speaker 2: And then the Supreme Court, which is packed with the

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Speaker 2: has you know, legal precedent with you know, the definitions,

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Speaker 2: And so now he's desperate, and he's handing out plates

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Speaker 2: so what's happening. He's you know, using state tax pay

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Speaker 1: You know, for those million people that that you know,

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Speaker 1: What is the overall sentiment of folks in Florida that

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Speaker 1: have these Republican representatives that do the state an extraordinary disservice.

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Speaker 1: But what was once like a toss up right for

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Speaker 1: And so you know, what is the sentiment from people

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Speaker 2: Well, first I would say that, you know, labeling Florida's

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Speaker 2: completely read isn't correct. You know, back in twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 2: to you know, a goobernatorial candidate that was the most

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Speaker 2: think that what people need to understand nationally is that

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Speaker 2: Florida is a very diverse state in a lot of

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Speaker 2: different ways. Politically, a lot of folks are now independent,

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Speaker 2: you know, we have folks, you know, racially, a lot

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Speaker 2: of differences there. We have three you know, primary languages

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Speaker 2: we still have you know, a redistricting case that that's

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Speaker 2: Black representation in Congress in half in the state of Florida.

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Speaker 2: So there are just a lot of different things that

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Speaker 2: is probably one of them most well funded in the country. Right,

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Speaker 2: It and Goliath.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: It's not really an apples to apples comparison between the

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Speaker 2: So you know, it's really interesting to see because you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just you know, I commend all of

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Speaker 2: Has been beyond exhausting. It has been probably one of

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 1: You know, well, Natasha, I just you know, I send

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Speaker 1: But thank you so much for everything that you've continued

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so folks can go to our website, Floridians Protecting

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Speaker 2: on all of the social platforms. Yes for Florida is

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Speaker 2: for all. I really appreciate the time.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you, Thank you so much, Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Folks.

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Speaker 1: And just a reminder again that I have launched a

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Speaker 1: That is it for me today, Here, dear friends, As always,

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Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power,

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Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.