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Speaker 1: Native Lamppod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership with

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Speaker 1: Reason Choice Media. Welcome Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome home. Y'all,

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Speaker 1: this is Angela Rai. It is my solo pod for

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Speaker 1: Native Lampod. I'm thrilled to be here with you all

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Speaker 1: today for two very good reasons. The first is it

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Speaker 1: is Lolo Smith's birthday. She of course, is one of

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Speaker 1: our producers for Native Lampod. She keeps the show together,

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Speaker 1: she keeps the trains moving. Got lots of opinions, so

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Speaker 1: make sure you expressing an opinion to Lolo today for

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Speaker 1: how grateful you are for everything she does to keep

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Speaker 1: the show going, for what she offers to the community,

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Speaker 1: for loving on black folks the culture. Real heart, Lolo,

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Speaker 1: We're so grateful for you. I thank God for you,

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Speaker 1: Glad to call you my little sister, and most of all,

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Speaker 1: glad to tell you that you are one of my

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Speaker 1: best teachers. So we love you, sis. Happy birthday. I

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Speaker 1: hope you get to celebrate all across the world, which

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Speaker 1: she is currently doing. I'm not going to tell y'all

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Speaker 1: where she's at for security reasons. I wouldn't have to

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Speaker 1: come there want to have to fight, y'all. So we're

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Speaker 1: going to just go ahead and keep that on the low.

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Speaker 1: But Lolo is celebrating globally for this Thanksgiving holiday. Now

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Speaker 1: that said, my second favorite reason for being here today,

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Speaker 1: if I had to rank them at all, is I

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Speaker 1: get to celebrate this young man who has inspired me

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Speaker 1: at a time where we are being tested and tried

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Speaker 1: on every single side in this country. We are being

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Speaker 1: told that young people who look like me don't care

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Speaker 1: about politics, that it's whatever, it's a you know, it's

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Speaker 1: a mess, that things are just too far and they

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Speaker 1: would rather not engage. You even heard Pharrell recently say

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Speaker 1: that it's a trick bag and either both sides to

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Speaker 1: have to choose a side, right. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: misquote the man. I think that he offered a very clarifying,

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Speaker 1: poignant perspective in Michael Harriet's Contraband camp right up, which

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Speaker 1: was brillian And by the way, if you have not

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Speaker 1: subscribed to Michael Harriet's Contraband camp on substack, make sure

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Speaker 1: you do that he had a great conversation with Pharrell

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Speaker 1: and talks about this. But young people were not necessarily

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Speaker 1: influenced by Pharrell. That's some old head stuff. There are

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Speaker 1: other influences that exist. There are ways that they consume

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Speaker 1: information now that some of us who had dial up Internet,

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Speaker 1: for example, weren't exposed to. But on TikTok and other platforms,

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Speaker 1: they're being exposed to lots of things, and they're being

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Speaker 1: told true that they have the power in their hands.

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Speaker 1: Very true. But there is a protests happening in Tanzania

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Speaker 1: that is mostly led by folks who would be deemed

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Speaker 1: a TikTok generation, right, folks who want to ensure that

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Speaker 1: they always maintain people power. That is what democracy is about.

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Speaker 1: When I quote my sister Jana Nelson, that is what

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Speaker 1: she says, that democracy is all about people power. And

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Speaker 1: so what we know is that the power of the

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Speaker 1: people doesn't begin when we are old. The power that

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Speaker 1: people always begins in the hearts, the mind, in the

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Speaker 1: courage of our young folks. And one of those courageous

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Speaker 1: young folks is joining Native Lampid today. His name is

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Speaker 1: Cameron Drew. Cameron Drew is the newly elected Surrey County

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Speaker 1: Supervisor on the Board of Supervisors. He is a Virginia

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Speaker 1: Peninsula Community College student, and he is killing the game,

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Speaker 1: and I'm thrilled to bring him to this podcast right

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Speaker 1: now so we can have a conversation. How are you doing, Cameron,

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Speaker 1: I'm good.

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Speaker 2: Here are you enjoying?

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Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm a log off on my lives so

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Speaker 1: they know they got to check you out here on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: So I just wanted to say, first of all, thank

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Speaker 1: you for doing this, especially on a day where you're

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Speaker 1: being sworn in. Tell me how you're feeling.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm really excited it's sworn in, and i want

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Speaker 3: to say thank you for having me today. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I just sworn in today, not too not too long

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Speaker 3: after this we conclude today, but I'm and to get

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Speaker 3: in there and actually get the work done.

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Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, So tell me how you're going to balance

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Speaker 1: the workload with the school load. Tell me how that's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's proper time management, you know.

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Speaker 3: I have been in the leaders of different organizations, one

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Speaker 2: I'm just learning how to properly manage my time.

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Speaker 3: And just ensuring that hey, I'm getting the school work done,

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Speaker 3: I know that it's gonna be some challenging times. To me,

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Speaker 3: And I know that I'm gonna do some good work

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Speaker 3: have to manage my time very, very wisely.

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Speaker 2: I know I can do that.

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Speaker 1: I know you can too. I'm curious to know what

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Speaker 1: inspired you to run where you? Have you always liked politics?

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Speaker 1: Are you? Do you like politics now? Are you like

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Speaker 1: I ran because I hate politics? I love to know

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So I've always had a heart for helping others.

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Speaker 3: I was very fortunate to have a very supportive family,

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Speaker 3: many mentors and role models in my life that have

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Speaker 3: give back to others as well.

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Speaker 2: I also own I own a.

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Speaker 3: Business Motivational Clothing and Canna business Press Productions, and I

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Speaker 3: also own a philothropic arm to that producer Future Foundation

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Speaker 3: where we give back to the youth and give them workshops,

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Speaker 3: speaking engagements, scholarship, all those sorts of things. And from

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Speaker 3: then to now getting into government, I've just loved to

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Speaker 3: see how governmental bodies work I've had worked with state senators.

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Speaker 3: I recently worked with Kimberly Pope Adams who won her

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Speaker 3: campaign as well, and they taught me. Both of them

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Speaker 3: taught me so much about governmental function, to government the bodies,

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Speaker 3: and that really inflated my my urging power and wanting

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Speaker 3: to help others within politics. I know outside of that,

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Speaker 3: I can reach people by I know, and within politics

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Speaker 3: that's actually creating the laws, to creating the systems that

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Speaker 3: it and helping others and just seem being so supportive

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love what you're saying, because oftentimes we have

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Speaker 1: conversations about elected officials, but very rarely are we talking

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Speaker 1: that your desire you're urging to run was really built

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I love that. I love that. That's the most important. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think like people truly forget when they get into

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Speaker 3: around this time. We have a lot of self serving

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Speaker 3: public officials, and I urged my constituents. Part of my

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Speaker 3: it all. Because you elected me, I'm doing the work

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Speaker 3: hold me accountable if I'm not doing what I promise

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Speaker 3: you to say, Hey, Kim, you need to get back

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Speaker 3: on the track man, because you are not doing what

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Speaker 3: you promise, You're not helping our lives at all. So

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Speaker 3: I think that politicians hopefully can learn that we need

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Speaker 3: to start doing the work for the people and not

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Speaker 1: What do you plan on doing when you finish school?

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Speaker 3: So I continue to plan on engaging in politics, but

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Speaker 3: also continue with my business and foundation. As far as

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Speaker 3: like next steps, I'm still just taking it day by day,

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Speaker 3: just keeping doing the work, ensuring that I'm doing the

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Speaker 3: work because I know my steps are already ordered by

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Speaker 1: Your steps are most definitely ordered, Cameron. I want to

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Speaker 1: ask you about your platform. So you ran on one

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Speaker 1: of the platforms at least was about lowering taxes. Yes,

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Speaker 1: which I think historically I know you know too from

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Speaker 1: get to in a little bit, is you know that

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Speaker 1: that's normally a conservative platform item, like lowering taxes. But

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Speaker 1: in this day and age, one thing that we've seen

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Speaker 1: Donnie who just won in New York, his platform was

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Speaker 1: all about affordability. And I hear you, you know, you saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: if we lower this particular tax rate, this brings people in,

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Speaker 1: It makes the cost of living more affordable. I don't

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Speaker 1: know when we got to the place where taxes or

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Speaker 1: affordability was a partisan issue, but you saw Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: run on that in twenty twenty four, and you saw

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Speaker 1: I'm curious to know where you feel like you fit

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Speaker 3: Well, I believe that I fit in the political spectrum

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Speaker 3: as someone who is just there for the people. I

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Speaker 3: understand parties are all about politics is two sides as

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Speaker 3: we have seen it we continue to see. But I'm

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Speaker 3: just solely focused on doing the work for the people

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Speaker 3: and just specifically on the text purpose. I think that's

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Speaker 2: That lord the tax rate is.

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Speaker 3: I mean it is high, and especially in my county

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Speaker 3: is high, and that is solely because we don't have

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Speaker 3: ensure that, hey, we're growing opportunities, we come to opportunities

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Speaker 3: for the youth, like growing businesses, which leads to job

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Speaker 3: I mean, I understand that there are it's a two

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Speaker 1: When you consider uh your opponent, for example, I'd like

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Speaker 1: to know what are the largest distinctions that you drew

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Speaker 3: I think one of the largest distinctions were was that

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Speaker 3: he was his age differences of course, because we both

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Speaker 3: think differently.

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Speaker 1: We wait camera to be clear on that. I just

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Speaker 1: want to say for our audience, Cameron is nineteen and

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Speaker 1: his opponent was forty four. For the record, I'm forty six,

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Speaker 1: but I want to hear him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So not to think that was the biggest issue,

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Speaker 3: because I mean, like I said, we think differently, and

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Speaker 3: I think that there was when you have a county

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Speaker 3: that with the median age population of fifty point seven,

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Speaker 3: that's a lot to me that says that, oh, why

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Speaker 3: are we not retaining the youth population?

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Speaker 2: And partly that's because that we weren't represented.

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Speaker 3: There weren't people who always advocated for us. And I

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Speaker 3: And there were a lot of similarities between us, and

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Speaker 3: the biggest difference was the age and that we had.

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Speaker 3: The citizens really had to make a decision if they

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