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Speaker 1: good and the bad, Because what do I say, If
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Speaker 1: see who's out there standing for you. And right now
Speaker 1: I have a very special guest joining us today. His
Speaker 1: name is Pastor Eddie Anderson, affectionately known as Pastor Eddie.
Speaker 1: He's the reverend over at McCarthy Memorial Christian Church in
Speaker 1: West Adams and is a regional organizer for LA Voice.
Speaker 1: He is a co founder of Clergy for Black Lives
Speaker 1: and serves as CEO for Partnership for Growth LA. A
Speaker 1: man of many hats, Pastor Eddie lives in the Midworshire
Speaker 1: area of CD ten with his wife Claire, and is
Speaker 1: running for La City Council CD ten. So, without further ado,
Speaker 1: Family Health is welcome. Pastor Eddie, Hey, good to be
Speaker 1: with you.
Speaker 3: Don so glad to be here on today.
Speaker 4: And I'm gonna say it again, I love listen to
Speaker 4: you to speak like it's like comfy warm.
Speaker 3: I'm glad to be here in this space.
Speaker 1: Yes, I always tell people I was like, I want
Speaker 1: to make a lot of money off this voice one
Speaker 1: day watch you know, so I love it. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining in, Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: a firm of my voice, and thank you so much
Speaker 1: for using your voice to be the change that we seek.
Speaker 1: So you're here to talk to us about you are
Speaker 1: running for La City Council. City to Pastor Eddie. Give
Speaker 1: us a little background who you are and why are
Speaker 1: you running?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I am a local pastor, but you know
Speaker 4: it's black history. Most Let me go all the way
Speaker 4: back and say I come from Geechee folks on the
Speaker 4: coastal parts of Georgia.
Speaker 3: My grandfather was.
Speaker 4: A farmer and a pastor.
Speaker 3: My grandmother was a homemaker of the grandmother of the janitor.
Speaker 3: Not to shape me.
Speaker 4: My big mama was a compontologist doing hair and he
Speaker 4: gives you a worshi to the vote in her buick.
Speaker 4: So that's who shaped me right, and my parents always
Speaker 4: put it into me service. And so for the last
Speaker 4: decade I've been in the pastor of a cardio work
Speaker 4: which in church in West Adams. It's around for the
Speaker 4: ninety two years, got well known because it did civil
Speaker 4: rights work right, you know, Freing Summer A sixty eight
Speaker 4: integrating housing covenants and taking out housing kind of bussing
Speaker 4: in Los Angeles. Wilshire Boulevard was the railroad tracks in
Speaker 4: Los Angeles and the pastor here, And when I beg
Speaker 4: in the pastor here, the question was why is the
Speaker 4: church not active in the movement? Why are we not
Speaker 4: stetting up for black lives, all black lives? Why are
Speaker 4: we not showing up in many ways? And there was
Speaker 4: a long history of it. My mentor, Reverend James lost
Speaker 4: And tells me the stories of when people were active
Speaker 4: in this streets.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: And so we've started working, right, And so we're over
Speaker 4: a decade between the Church, Black Lives Matter work through
Speaker 4: LA Voice. We've been changing the built environment. Right. I
Speaker 4: always tell people, being a pastor means nothing if you
Speaker 4: can't deal with people, can people you know, big bills
Speaker 4: and rant and page old care, Right, that's what this
Speaker 4: is about. And so in twenty twenty, everyone was in
Speaker 4: the streets. You know, when I was in streets too.
Speaker 4: We have been protests with BLM. And then I also
Speaker 4: got the call to serve as commissioner for CD ten.
Speaker 4: And during that time period in Martia kind of case
Speaker 4: and the real losers and all of that, I believe
Speaker 4: were the citizens because our voice was muffled, it was
Speaker 4: taken away. It was silence. It was not doing democracy
Speaker 4: uh in la uh. And we called a meeting with
Speaker 4: the city council president at the time. He said, Yo,
Speaker 4: let's let's get the people together and let's hear what
Speaker 4: they want, who they want or the qualities that they
Speaker 4: want and a leader.
Speaker 3: And the response was not were good? Were good? We
Speaker 3: need to do that. We got to figure it out.
Speaker 3: Said how you got to figure it out?
Speaker 4: None of the community people have offered their voice quote
Speaker 4: on what says you can't certain people let you know
Speaker 4: the people. You can know the people unless you love
Speaker 4: the people. Uh.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, well, how are we serving people if
Speaker 3: y'all don't even come and talk to people?
Speaker 4: What? Right?
Speaker 1: That's what y'all got to catch the word right now?
Speaker 1: That's all that.
Speaker 3: Got so h I said, Nah, they're staying right. Like
Speaker 3: we did not go.
Speaker 4: Protests in these streets, change laws for over a decade.
Speaker 4: I personally didn't go to jail four times in this movement,
Speaker 4: been locked up from labor movements from you know, to
Speaker 4: stop the stops all of that.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: For folks that to be like, nah, your voice don't
Speaker 3: really matter. And so.
Speaker 4: I started listening to deeper community and seeing what's going on.
Speaker 4: I did one hundred one to one, and community members said,
Speaker 4: why don't you run past her? Like you you're an organizer,
Speaker 4: you you know how to do this. And I had
Speaker 4: a thing long ahod and pray about it a little bit,
Speaker 4: and I said, okay. I talked to mentors, I talked
Speaker 4: to my wife, talked to friends as well, said listen,
Speaker 4: this is the thing about serving, and if the people
Speaker 4: need service, we're not getting the skills that we need.
Speaker 3: And this is just another way of service for me.
Speaker 4: This is another way of serving the community, emptying out
Speaker 4: who I am, the skills. I have to actually make
Speaker 4: sure that people voices are included in the city ten
Speaker 4: in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Not only skills, but it's in your bloodline. You come
Speaker 1: a family from a family of organizers, a family that's
Speaker 1: been in the church, a family that cares about the community.
Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, like I was, I mentioned earlier, my
Speaker 4: big mama, she.
Speaker 3: In the fifties.
Speaker 4: Okay, this is before we get to the rights Bill
Speaker 4: sixty four would virtually people to vote and driving them
Speaker 4: around and turn her house into a polding place.
Speaker 3: This isn't a deep South where you can get killed
Speaker 3: for that.
Speaker 4: At the same time, on the other side of town,
Speaker 4: my father's side of the family, my grandfather was leading
Speaker 4: the NACVP and getting people rested to vote and helping
Speaker 4: feed in the neighborhood and community, and so it was
Speaker 4: I couldn't escape it, right, this is just well, this
Speaker 4: is what you do, take care of the neighborhood.
Speaker 3: Like literally, the first story I heard of our service was.
Speaker 4: My father telling me when you was a kid that
Speaker 4: they almost lost their house because his dad would make
Speaker 4: sure everyone neighborhood had food from their farm and everyone's
Speaker 4: bills to get paid, and that he will not back down.
Speaker 4: At the time were racist white folks at the time
Speaker 4: who did it on black people to get their stuff,
Speaker 4: and they would threatening them, and his dad looks like,
Speaker 4: we'll lose it all to make sure.
Speaker 3: People are good, right.
Speaker 4: The neighborhood is good, right, And that's what it means.
Speaker 4: That's how I grew up knowing what service means to me.
Speaker 4: The leadership to me always equal impact. If you're not
Speaker 4: changing material conditions on the ground to what are we doing?
Speaker 4: And so you do the work. And whether you get
Speaker 4: you know, a paster in the back or not, it's
Speaker 4: not about that. It's about are you changing their lives
Speaker 4: and someone have food on their table, our bills being paid,
Speaker 4: are life staying on? Are their jobs in the community.
Speaker 4: That's the work, right and you have to do it
Speaker 4: every single day and you have to, you know, stay
Speaker 4: grounded and don't be compromised. The best lesson I learned
Speaker 4: was don't be boss or bought and I always serve
Speaker 4: the people.
Speaker 1: Don't be bossed or bought and always serve the people.
Speaker 1: And from what you said, it makes sense. You said, hey,
Speaker 1: your parishioners came up and said, Pastor Eddie, you're already
Speaker 1: doing the work. Why don't you be the voice. I
Speaker 1: thought it was interesting you said, you've been serving as
Speaker 1: the pastor for the past ten years.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't even see a wrinkle. I don't see a
Speaker 1: great hair age, ain't none but a number of a
Speaker 1: pastor Eddie. How old are you?
Speaker 3: Well, my brother is just this week, so I'm thirty four,
Speaker 3: but later body. Thank you.
Speaker 1: So you have been leader of the church for the
Speaker 1: past ten years, starting when you were tender age of
Speaker 1: twenty four. How do you feel you coming in this perspective,
Speaker 1: in this legendary district, just Los Angeles. What do you
Speaker 1: feel as far as your viewpoint, as far as the
Speaker 1: age in which you can bring to the table.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think.
Speaker 4: One with my age just means that I grew up
Speaker 4: a millennial, right, And so I grew up in That's
Speaker 4: why my campaign later says everything you want as possible. Yes,
Speaker 4: and then it's a at the core because I grew
Speaker 4: up in a way in the world where yeah, there's
Speaker 4: barriers and people.
Speaker 3: My age has always been a burrier some people.
Speaker 4: But I've always been inspired because I knew that doctor
Speaker 4: King was my age and he was doing this work.
Speaker 4: That John Lewis was my age, doing this work was
Speaker 4: my age.
Speaker 3: Right. Ella Baker was the a little bit older than
Speaker 3: me doing this work. Right.
Speaker 4: That the way that we democratize America has always been
Speaker 4: on the back of young people.
Speaker 1: Right, because the future they can see what's possible. They
Speaker 1: are are willing to turn what others have said impossible
Speaker 1: to I'm possible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I am, I'm possible.
Speaker 4: We are here, and I think it also allows me
Speaker 4: to build coalition.
Speaker 3: Right, I I value your dream. I value your hopes.
Speaker 4: I drove value your pain, and I believe that out
Speaker 4: of all of that we make progress. Right, I mean
Speaker 4: we change systems. We're not changing systems for now. I'm
Speaker 4: not working for me. I'm working for my niece and
Speaker 4: nephew who don't even live here. But are you know,
Speaker 4: five or six years old?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: And what the world they will have? What is the
Speaker 4: what is the future? What is the future? We used
Speaker 4: to ask the question in blm.
Speaker 3: Uh what is the black future?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: And then just a question what is the future for
Speaker 4: Los Angeles? Like what is what is the world you
Speaker 4: will hope to live in? And then what are we
Speaker 4: doing to make that happen?
Speaker 1: And what can I do that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: For me, the world that I see is a world
Speaker 4: where there is healthy food in our communities and we
Speaker 4: don't have the food deserts. We can get on the
Speaker 4: bus and it's free and his Wi Fi up on
Speaker 4: that bus because sometimes we don't have internet at our homes.
Speaker 3: The world I see to see where.
Speaker 4: Young people go to school and they also know, hey, look,
Speaker 4: I see you take takes cares of us. I'm get
Speaker 4: a job in the summer, get some training, and I'm
Speaker 4: going to be able to have a career, maybe in
Speaker 4: the city and maybe in the arts, but I'm going
Speaker 4: to learn the skills because.
Speaker 3: People are investing in me.
Speaker 4: It's a community where people's been here sixty seventy years.
Speaker 4: Get to talk to people who just moved to the city.
Speaker 4: That's what I got, and I got here. My members said,
Speaker 4: I moved here in fifty nineteen fifty three, nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 4: They went to Tuskegee. They went to these places a
Speaker 4: HBCUs and it was like yep, young brothers, like sit down,
Speaker 4: and they sat down and broke bread and said, listen,
Speaker 4: this is the story of la.
Speaker 3: Through my eyes. When what are you going to do
Speaker 3: for the future? Right?
Speaker 4: That's the kind of village we need to repair in
Speaker 4: our community and what's possible.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: And that's why I think city council is so important
Speaker 4: because more than any other office, a city council office
Speaker 4: deals with the day to day. Is that your day
Speaker 4: to day? It deals with is your trash getting picked up?
Speaker 4: Is your is your business other businesses on your blog?
Speaker 3: It deals with can you go to.
Speaker 4: A library and how do you make sure that library
Speaker 4: stays open? It deals with what kind of conversations are
Speaker 4: we having in the post square. It is convening the
Speaker 4: spaces and then doing the work to make it possible.
Speaker 4: That's what a city councilor person is for. If they're
Speaker 4: they're convening in doing the work, they're righting the policy
Speaker 4: that actually benefits you, uh, and it affects you more
Speaker 4: than you know. And so when I knock on people's
Speaker 4: doors like I'm not participating, and I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, sister, brother, your trash that picked up, you're participating.
Speaker 3: If you paid your light built today, you're participating. The
Speaker 3: question is how are you informing those who are participating
Speaker 3: on your behalf? And that's the question, right, We got
Speaker 3: to we gotta do that hard work. And that's why
Speaker 3: I decided that's why city council is important to me,
Speaker 3: because we do the work. Right.
Speaker 4: What good is the protests If you still got to
Speaker 4: convince the person around who you're representing you that your
Speaker 4: protest was violent, how good is it? Right?
Speaker 3: And if you go into the street and say we want.
Speaker 4: A people's budget, we want participatory budgeting, but then you
Speaker 4: got to convince the people that is good. But the
Speaker 4: neighborhood already said okay, were down with it like that's
Speaker 4: the problem for me. And so that's why City Council
Speaker 4: is important, and that's why we got to break up
Speaker 4: status quo.
Speaker 1: I believe and I love that. Honestly. I think that's
Speaker 1: something that's a highlight of you sharing that you can
Speaker 1: relate to those of the younger generation because oftentimes I
Speaker 1: feel as those who represent the voice or coming to speak,
Speaker 1: there's such a gap and sometimes this disparity causes some
Speaker 1: sort of miscommunication. And we know that any successful relationship
Speaker 1: requires communication. Just like you're saying, the people spoke. In
Speaker 1: order to know what the people needed, you had to
Speaker 1: get out there in the community and speak and communicate
Speaker 1: with the people. So I want to applaud you and
Speaker 1: to affirm you on your vision, your execution and just
Speaker 1: being bold and going out with it.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I had a chance to check out your website, Anderson
Speaker 1: for La and anybody that's following the campaign are discussing
Speaker 1: about the pillars in what you stayed upon. So things
Speaker 1: I saw on your website was about unemployment and drivers
Speaker 1: for poverty, the California Dream versus the California nightmare. I'd
Speaker 1: love to hear what you have to say about that.
Speaker 1: And then also being that CD ten has such a
Speaker 1: dysfunctional history, why did you decide to meddle in there
Speaker 1: and quote unquote clean it up?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So I mean you Yeah, let's talk about some
Speaker 3: of that.
Speaker 1: It was a lot, I know, unpack, unpacked.
Speaker 4: Let's start with California Dreams, Californian nightmare, and then go
Speaker 4: into why I decided to get you know, get in there.
Speaker 3: For most people, whether you grew up in califor in LA,
Speaker 3: or you moved here, there is this kinship of LA
Speaker 3: being a place where dreams are made right more than
Speaker 3: any other place in America. La is where dreams are
Speaker 3: made us where culture is not only uh created, but
Speaker 3: it's curated uh in many, in many, in many aspects.
Speaker 3: But what I find and when I was in the
Speaker 3: portraits campaign across California and nationally William Barber doing listening
Speaker 3: sessions up and down the state, I did up down stairs.
Speaker 3: We started at the bottom pastan Diego, went up past
Speaker 3: left tour like Humboldt, and we stopped.
Speaker 4: We will stop in small towns, big cities and just
Speaker 4: listen to people and convening these gatherings. A lot of
Speaker 4: people are flying around Los Angeles broken wings right.
Speaker 1: Los Angeles is Los Angels.
Speaker 4: Huh yeah, yeah, a lot of Los Angeles who are
Speaker 4: being crushed by unaffordability, being crushed by homelessness, being crushed
Speaker 4: by dreams, just not panning out the way they saw it.
Speaker 4: Want to hand out Uh yeah, the mental health Listen,
Speaker 4: if you are I came here and I tell people
Speaker 4: all the time, and I'm proud of it. Some people
Speaker 4: who are like, how are you going to solve the
Speaker 4: homelessness if you were homelessness, I said, yeah, let me
Speaker 4: tell you that story. Like I was home for three
Speaker 4: months couch surfing and I didn't want to identify homeless
Speaker 4: because you know whatever. But I was homeless for three
Speaker 4: months CouchSurfing and on the same period, uh, leaving the
Speaker 4: poor people campaign. At this point in my life, I
Speaker 4: had three degrees to my name, went to the best schools,
Speaker 4: could not afford a one better apartment in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: H I even went across the street and I knew
Speaker 4: the landlord and it was friends who let me sleep
Speaker 4: on the couch and was like you figured it out,
Speaker 4: and one throll was like, I'm go an leave my spot.
Speaker 4: We would go in it together, have to n let's
Speaker 4: let's figure it out. That's a nightmare for money people,
Speaker 4: and you lose your mind. I remember driving around anxious
Speaker 4: all the time, anxious, like do I get McDonald's the
Speaker 4: day it up a gasless car door.
Speaker 3: I save the money because I needed to put it first.
Speaker 4: Last month in right, imagine now that time's ten because
Speaker 4: you're sleeping on the street, right. And that's why when
Speaker 4: I tell people, we just all want to be whole,
Speaker 4: we all just want to be well. So after we
Speaker 4: got to leave with care right, we got to create
Speaker 4: systems that actually are coordinated between the county and the city.
Speaker 3: It actually worked together.
Speaker 4: Like I love what's going on in other parts of
Speaker 4: the city where the supervirus and count supervisors are partnering
Speaker 4: with the council people to build the interim house with
Speaker 4: mental health wrapped inside of it. It has a hit
Speaker 4: steady tenure. That's a problem for me, right. And so
Speaker 4: so while in that space, my nightmare turned it into
Speaker 4: a dream and started serving on the Commission for Black
Speaker 4: People's Spirits and Homelessness in Los Angeles County. Through loss
Speaker 4: of and work with people who are luminaries, your CEOs
Speaker 4: and all these other folks and they inbody me as
Speaker 4: the lonely pastor who do something about organizing to the table.
Speaker 4: But we created intercepts and now what you see with
Speaker 4: inside safe and now who you see leaving loss of
Speaker 4: people came from that committee, right.
Speaker 3: We started changing the narrative. And that's the power. Uh.
Speaker 4: And so why did I jump in to CD ten
Speaker 4: and muddle the waters.
Speaker 3: Because I know what's possible. I know we have to organize.
Speaker 4: I know when we organize together we can actually change systems.
Speaker 4: I know how to pass the policy and also keep
Speaker 4: people's pain at the forefront. That's why I jumped in
Speaker 4: the race. Because I'm tired of folks saying we don't
Speaker 4: have the money when we know where the money is.
Speaker 3: I'm tired of folks say you got to wait, when
Speaker 3: we say wait, We've already did the study. You just
Speaker 3: got to implement, right.
Speaker 4: You got to have enough courage to implement and say
Speaker 4: I stand with the people, right, And yeah, you want
Speaker 4: always agree with the people. And there's lots of opinions,
Speaker 4: and that's what we've been in coalition, right c D ten.
Speaker 4: Let's be real, it's the most diverse district in the
Speaker 4: entire city. All right, But building coalition means understanding what
Speaker 4: people come to the table with and what and then
Speaker 4: how do we put together a mosaic? How do we
Speaker 4: make sure that we're painting something that all of us
Speaker 4: can be proud of and that everybody can get their needs.
Speaker 4: There's enough resources, public private partnerships that we can create.
Speaker 4: I told share everybody's good in this neighborhood.
Speaker 1: And I love that you said, built this mosaic because
Speaker 1: it's all it is is a piece of everybody. And
Speaker 1: I think we talk about those who are standing forth
Speaker 1: to represent us, let there be a piece of you
Speaker 1: that you see in them. And of course, like you said,
Speaker 1: it's with that connection and with these coalitions, with these
Speaker 1: shared initiatives, with these thought processes, let's come together and
Speaker 1: make this beautiful picture that we call CD.
Speaker 3: Ten mm hm.
Speaker 4: Absolutely like let's not. Let's let's you know, when folks
Speaker 4: and people like, how is this possible? And I said,
Speaker 4: when when the Korean Federation needed to reach out and
Speaker 4: do work in South La, I said, let's work together.
Speaker 4: When they needed a senior center, and you know, talking
Speaker 4: about it, I was like, sure, use a fellowship all
Speaker 4: at the church.
Speaker 3: Let's figure out how to make it work.
Speaker 4: I know for Korean words, so we can still work
Speaker 4: together to figure out how to make that work. When
Speaker 4: our neighbors were like, we need food, and they all
Speaker 4: Latina and Latinos, latin X and whatever how they identify,
Speaker 4: and and we were like, cool, we'll teach you. And
Speaker 4: I found some folks who speak Spanish and let's let's
Speaker 4: make sure you're good.
Speaker 3: Right when Lemry Parks.
Speaker 4: Said we don't have a grocery store, I said, all right,
Speaker 4: let's figure it out.
Speaker 3: And so now we're building a grocery store.
Speaker 1: Right right, ready to step forth and say something, Yeah.
Speaker 3: To listen and then figure out how to make it happen.
Speaker 4: And this is this is my frustration, and this is
Speaker 4: why I believe it's possible, because we're doing it already.
Speaker 4: And folks say, well, if you become the counsel person,
Speaker 4: doesn't mean we lose you from community, And I said, no,
Speaker 4: that's the politics of the vision. But I believe in
Speaker 4: the politics of multiplication. Come on, you don't lose me.
Speaker 4: We just get to do it on a larger scale
Speaker 4: and make sure everybody's needs are met. We get to
Speaker 4: make a hundred different versions of what we're trying to
Speaker 4: do in a small little part of West Items all
Speaker 4: across the district.
Speaker 1: Think of it like some type of factory that's just
Speaker 1: pumping out the vision, pumping out the goodness, pumping out
Speaker 1: the future, pumping out the change that we all wish
Speaker 1: to see. And that's what Pastor Eddie says he's bringing
Speaker 1: to CD ten. So let's talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: You talked about the unhoused community while we addressed it.
Speaker 1: What needs to be done to eradicate it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So the hard truth is that the system is
Speaker 4: not coordinated. And the system is not coordinated, which means
Speaker 4: that I take the person who sleeps on the front
Speaker 4: of the church. We call at one agency, they say, oh,
Speaker 4: we can't help.
Speaker 5: You.
Speaker 4: Got to call this other agency. They do the test income,
Speaker 4: the intake, and they say, oh, you're not old enough
Speaker 4: to be housed. So we haven't been solving homelessness. We've
Speaker 4: been shoffing people around. And so the question is how
Speaker 4: do we resolve it. Well, in order to resolve it,
Speaker 4: first we got to coordinate the system. So the city
Speaker 4: council office got to be in contact with the Supervisor's office.
Speaker 4: Because this county provides the mental health, the city council
Speaker 4: can provide some interm housing or the land, right, and
Speaker 4: so then we got to work together. They make sure
Speaker 4: that the mental health meets where the land is as
Speaker 4: we build it together. And then we got to do
Speaker 4: case work like this is not like you just create
Speaker 4: a system that it works. You got to go out
Speaker 4: and do case studies and actually case manage folks and
Speaker 4: make sure that people make it through the process, don't
Speaker 4: fall through the correct because the paper.
Speaker 3: Were not signed correctly. They may be housed for six months,
Speaker 3: but then they find themselves back on to speak because
Speaker 3: they couldn't find a job and they couldn't get the
Speaker 3: assistance that they needed and they didn't know what was
Speaker 3: available to them. So that's part of it.
Speaker 4: But then it's also like we got to be innovative, right,
Speaker 4: so we got to have interm housing because everyone's not
Speaker 4: ready to go from the street the permanent support of housing.
Speaker 4: And that's hard for people to hear pay all of
Speaker 4: this podcast, but that's also just the truth, Like I
Speaker 4: take it for yourself.
Speaker 3: You know when you were take it out of homeless system.
Speaker 3: You were in college, right and you had a roommate.
Speaker 4: If you went to college and you had a roommate
Speaker 4: and you had an apartment to figure out how I'm
Speaker 4: more shopping myself, like my memory in there here to
Speaker 4: help me take out this trash out and do this myself. Right,
Speaker 4: So interim housing allows folks to realize like, all right,
Speaker 4: I'm not on the street no more. Right, I have
Speaker 4: a place that is my own. And we can do
Speaker 4: that with the motels. We could do that with the
Speaker 4: social housing that we build in our community. Uh.
Speaker 3: And so that's part of it.
Speaker 4: So building the entrum housing so folks can have a
Speaker 4: waywear path and then from there perm support of housing.
Speaker 4: But while they're into term housing getting their mental health services,
Speaker 4: you're getting them occupational service.
Speaker 3: Occupational services not meaning the.
Speaker 4: Sense you can get a job right away, but it
Speaker 4: means what are you good at and how do we
Speaker 4: give you the technical insistence to make them happen. And
Speaker 4: that's only possible with community, that's only possible with local businesses.
Speaker 4: That's only possible with nonprofits leaning in and the counsel
Speaker 4: office saying yeah, I'm gonna give you the resource to
Speaker 4: make sure that happens. That's how we start solving homelessness.
Speaker 4: So that by the time you get the perment support
Speaker 4: of housing.
Speaker 1: You're good, don Rack is what sounds like you're talking
Speaker 1: about how we got to build this bridge, and on
Speaker 1: this bridge we got you know, each of the ledge
Speaker 1: or each of the wood planks, but they all carry something,
Speaker 1: whether it's support here, there's food here, there's education, there's
Speaker 1: there's mental health services. There is support to carry you
Speaker 1: to the destination. I think what's so important too, is
Speaker 1: that this bridge not only is it so that you
Speaker 1: can walk across, but it serves as a connection. It
Speaker 1: shows that this is the destination versus Okay, this is
Speaker 1: the endpoint and somehow we have to figure out how
Speaker 1: to get there. I think that's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't want to hide you as a constant person.
Speaker 4: I'llness you well.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you this, since we were talking
Speaker 1: about the unhoused community, what are your thoughts right now
Speaker 1: and make it just be, you know, a thumbs up
Speaker 1: or thumbs down. What are your thoughts on what Mayor
Speaker 1: Karen Bass has done with the unhoused community thus far.
Speaker 3: I think you're doing a good job. Insight Safe is.
Speaker 4: Felicia Adams, that lots of there, It's a good program.
Speaker 4: The question is what comes next. Right, you have something
Speaker 4: inside say, it's not intent, it's that INTENDI for you
Speaker 4: to be there for six months to a year. Right,
Speaker 4: So when you come inside, what's an next step. That's
Speaker 4: why the inter support of housing steps comes real crucial. Right,
Speaker 4: that's our social housing and title the land. It becomes
Speaker 4: very very crucial. We don't see as much in CD tam.
Speaker 4: Let's just I mean, I don't see a lot of
Speaker 4: inside safe activity in our district.
Speaker 3: But the tools are being thought about. But the council
Speaker 3: office also got to lean in and write some ordinances
Speaker 3: and say like, how do we make this better in
Speaker 3: our district?
Speaker 4: Uh and so and hows. It takes time, so you
Speaker 4: got to figure out how what the interim steps are.
Speaker 1: Okay, another thing that you have listed as well, talking
Speaker 1: about the importance of reimagining public safety and investing in neighborhoods.
Speaker 1: I always like to ask people what does it look like?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: What does it mean? What does it look like?
Speaker 4: Very very thank you for that question. So it has
Speaker 4: multiple ways on which it looks.
Speaker 3: But in my vision of CD ten and talking to neighbors,
Speaker 3: what it looks like is you first started with.
Speaker 4: The budget and we're just gonna have to go there
Speaker 4: that we have to right size LAPD. What what do
Speaker 4: you mean, pastor right said LAPD. We gave LAPD a
Speaker 4: bion l contract race. We also gave them a raise
Speaker 4: and the regular budgeting cycle because we said one of
Speaker 4: them to.
Speaker 3: Hire more more officers.
Speaker 4: LAPD has not been hiring more offices in the last
Speaker 4: five years. It's not pragmatic to even say that's real.
Speaker 4: It's a fake number. It's imaginary at that point.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: So with all the extra money, what that meant was
Speaker 4: that twenty two departments in our city were underfunded. And
Speaker 4: these are things like street services, you know, the things
Speaker 4: that like making sure you're sidewalks.
Speaker 1: Them our every day activities.
Speaker 3: Or the lights are on.
Speaker 4: And I tell people that the lights being on on
Speaker 4: the street is public safety, that the sidewalk not being
Speaker 4: a tripping hazard is public safety because when you're walking
Speaker 4: down the street and you don't and the lights are on,
Speaker 4: you can feel more comfortable in your neighborhood. I tell
Speaker 4: folks that public safety also looks like the council officers
Speaker 4: working with violence interruptors so that people.
Speaker 3: Aren't doing community to drive vives in your neighborhood. It
Speaker 3: looks like that we take that money that they use
Speaker 3: for what I call the hoodbirds that fly over every neighborhood.
Speaker 3: It seems like in CD ten.
Speaker 4: At I didn't know it was that much crime happening.
Speaker 3: But it's not.
Speaker 4: Crime is down. Violent crime is down and across LA
Speaker 4: just in general. But yet we got the hood birds.
Speaker 4: And so we take that twelve thousand dollars they use
Speaker 4: the fly over our house every day and start reinvesting
Speaker 4: that into youth programming in our community. Right that it
Speaker 4: is possible because we're investing youth into these programming in
Speaker 4: our neighborhood right now.
Speaker 3: Right, that's what it looks like. It looks like. And
Speaker 3: here this is a real story. I had a brother
Speaker 3: who was a part of our work with development program
Speaker 3: and UH get mental health services life skills training them
Speaker 3: for it for a job. He came to my office
Speaker 3: one day he said, Pastor, I'm late for class because
Speaker 3: I was gonna rob somebody because I didn't have no
Speaker 3: gas in my car. But then I thought about you
Speaker 3: and how you wouldn't really want me to show up
Speaker 3: like that, so I had to take the bush.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's what public safety looks like. Somebody didn't get
Speaker 4: robbed that day, someone didn't get traumatized with a gun
Speaker 4: to their face, and that young brother did not end
Speaker 4: up in jail because we created a system of care, right,
Speaker 4: that's what looks like.
Speaker 3: And it looks like we write side of the LAPD budget.
Speaker 3: It looks like they're not doing all these other things
Speaker 3: that they said and in the la time that they're
Speaker 3: not cut out to do in the first place, so
Speaker 3: that if there is an actual violent crime, they show up.
Speaker 3: That's what it means. And people be like, you know
Speaker 3: a pastor, you know, aren't you supposed to be like
Speaker 3: an abolitionist and all this.
Speaker 4: Stuff, And I'm like, listen, I want to we keep
Speaker 4: us safe. But until we can figure out what happens
Speaker 4: if someone's shooting at me, I wonderful police to show up.
Speaker 4: It's okay, but we got to move into a system
Speaker 4: of care where there's other ways in which we think
Speaker 4: about care and our community. And so I want to
Speaker 4: be very clear of folks that public safety is, yes,
Speaker 4: making sure your voices are in power, but it's also
Speaker 4: making sure that your street services are delivered. It's making
Speaker 4: sure departments are cared for and are fully funded. It
Speaker 4: means that there are trauma centers and youth centers in
Speaker 4: your neighborhood, and that delight still work at night so.
Speaker 3: That you are are good. All of that is public safety.
Speaker 3: It means ambassador programs in the community as well.
Speaker 4: And people say, what is that. I'm like, you haven't
Speaker 4: been to the arts district.
Speaker 3: You see the people in the bicycles rolling around their neighborhood. People,
Speaker 3: where's that app us?
Speaker 1: You got a bike plane on Vennis right?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 3: I just I just said, this is how we do
Speaker 3: public safety.
Speaker 1: And I'm hearing the story about the young man in
Speaker 1: the situation where he is seeking higher levels of education
Speaker 1: but had to result on something that it can take
Speaker 1: them all the way back. And it makes me think
Speaker 1: about another point that you mentioned on your website and
Speaker 1: your campaign about the importance of ending poverty but also
Speaker 1: so not but but and supporting economic justice, Because if
Speaker 1: this young man wasn't in a situation where he couldn't
Speaker 1: he felt like he financially couldn't get there on his own,
Speaker 1: you know, that would have put him down to another
Speaker 1: negative path. So how do we infiltrate or how do
Speaker 1: we ensure that there's economic justice for us.
Speaker 3: All, Yeah, the city has tools. The city has tools.
Speaker 3: First thing I look at is we got to do
Speaker 3: an audit on who the city is hiring and going
Speaker 3: to keep it.
Speaker 4: It's already been questions. On twenty twenty, we did an
Speaker 4: anti racism motion and got councils people to vote on it,
Speaker 4: where the Civil Human Rights Department did an audit on
Speaker 4: who is the city hiring. The question was just simply
Speaker 4: because we have to take tests in order to get
Speaker 4: a city job. Are black folks, brown folks, api folks,
Speaker 4: folks have different language barriers?
Speaker 3: Are they getting hired?
Speaker 4: It's a city hall really looked like Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: I would offer that it doesn't. It's getting there. We're
Speaker 3: on that path, but we're not quite there yet. So
Speaker 3: with that, we can hire folks into the city. A
Speaker 3: city job is a way to the middle class. A
Speaker 3: city job or a job that gives you union benefits. Right,
Speaker 3: So that's that's part of it.
Speaker 4: So one, let's be let's hire folks, uh for in
Speaker 4: the city.
Speaker 3: That's that's step one around that.
Speaker 4: The other is, how do we make sure that we
Speaker 4: are not over uh taxing or burdening historically rooted businesses, right?
Speaker 4: Uh rk Park, mid City, mid Wiltshire, even Kye Town area. UH.
Speaker 3: Businesses that I talked to tell me that it's hard
Speaker 3: to keep up with the rent.
Speaker 1: I even had a small business shout out to Succording
Speaker 1: Taiwan of Milk Jow Cookies. She was a guest on
Speaker 1: the podcast. She had a shop on Wilshire and like
Speaker 1: a lot of other bakeries, had to close down simply
Speaker 1: because and I quote, the rent is too damn high.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And that's and when that leaves, not only does
Speaker 3: that take away community benefits and one free to shop
Speaker 3: at by local particulate jobs.
Speaker 1: And culture and community. Because these are your absolutely set
Speaker 1: own these stores that are looking after each other, that
Speaker 1: are voting for the same things that are important. Not
Speaker 1: just here to suck things out and then go live elsewhere.
Speaker 1: These are people in and of the community.
Speaker 4: And so that means for me, how do we create
Speaker 4: more legacy business programs? But the Economic Work for Development Department,
Speaker 4: how do you make sure that the LA Development Fund
Speaker 4: is using their ties credits in a skillful way to
Speaker 4: make sure that small businesses can stay here and can
Speaker 4: pay a living wage job. And you have that community. Uh,
Speaker 4: in our neighborhoods. That's that's what reimagine folk safety. That's
Speaker 4: what reinvesting in fighting poverty looks like. It looks like
Speaker 4: us actually making sure the Big Leap, which was a
Speaker 4: program that we did in La City, which is guaranteed
Speaker 4: basic income.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, the guarantee basic income. Like we didn't hear
Speaker 3: about it. It was in La Times.
Speaker 4: And listen, you know the National Jewish Women Councils also
Speaker 4: doing it on their own. But the big lead can
Speaker 4: be permanent. Guarante based income should be permanent as a floor,
Speaker 4: especially for single women and single mothers and folks who
Speaker 4: are trying to make it right. It can become permanent
Speaker 4: and for eighteen months give people guarante based income and
Speaker 4: then they begin to spend their money differently and their
Speaker 4: kids have a higher quality of life. Or the single
Speaker 4: woman who did everything right but still spend fifty five
Speaker 4: six percent for income or rent has a little breathe
Speaker 4: and room and take care of themselves a little bit differently.
Speaker 4: That too, is reimagining pulk safety. That too is fighting poverty.
Speaker 4: What does it look like when we protest industriets and
Speaker 4: then got the city to write a motion to take
Speaker 4: police out.
Speaker 3: Our traffic stocks. But it hasn't happened. It's been four years.
Speaker 3: And why is that important?
Speaker 4: Because if we take police out of traffic stops, it
Speaker 4: lowers the encounter of people who can put over driving
Speaker 4: my black driving on a brown, which can turn fatal.
Speaker 1: And then also let's take an account of the moneies
Speaker 1: that's spent for them the patrol to stop at faulty stops.
Speaker 1: Let alone, okay, don't get okay, I'm starting. Then we
Speaker 1: got the whole situation, like God forbid, if someone loses
Speaker 1: their life, the family comes up, you sue the police department.
Speaker 1: Not only is the officer out on pay leave, but
Speaker 1: the moneies that you are suing are the moneies that
Speaker 1: we've paid. And yet we still don't have change where
Speaker 1: we reside.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and so we can do slow infrastructure, which we
Speaker 4: did in coalition to put forward slow infrastructure in our streets.
Speaker 4: We can do voucher programs a lot of other cities.
Speaker 4: When the George word protests started, the lights on program
Speaker 4: where it basically the microgrant, where that if you had
Speaker 4: a track violation broken, like the city ain't give you
Speaker 4: no ticket, he gave you a voucher you're into a
Speaker 4: local mechanic and you gotta thinks right so that we
Speaker 4: don't have to do this again. Right, We have to
Speaker 4: have this interaction. These are right here for a circle.
Speaker 4: Program needs to be boastered in our city. It needs
Speaker 4: to get resourced correctly. Street medicine can be resourced in
Speaker 4: our city. All of these are things that we are doing,
Speaker 4: but not doing it at scale because we are marriage
Speaker 4: to status quo. And I'm not trying to say it
Speaker 4: all happened overnight. I'm a realist, I'm pragmatic. It takes
Speaker 4: time to getting things done. But we can keep the
Speaker 4: conversation going. We can resource those folks are doing that work.
Speaker 4: We can't keep showing the model over and over, improving
Speaker 4: the model until it becomes Until that becomes how we
Speaker 4: understand public safety in our community, how we fight poverty
Speaker 4: in our community, and make sure that we're good fighting
Speaker 4: poverty from medioximeth. Park space Like, I'm sorry, we're the
Speaker 4: fourth worst district rencounts the green space.
Speaker 3: You need park space to play talking it for your
Speaker 3: mental health? Do you need it for enjoyment as well?
Speaker 4: You want you're a constituent, Do you want your red
Speaker 4: that your neighbor. Uh to be Well, that's what I'm
Speaker 4: talking about. That's why it's possible in CD tech.
Speaker 1: And I love that. You know, just as one you
Speaker 1: keep highlighting community, we keep highlighting how I portant it
Speaker 1: is to communicate and also highlighting the fact that when
Speaker 1: we talk about those who are running for La City Council,
Speaker 1: we're talking about individuals that are affecting our every day life.
Speaker 1: You know, there's this quote, inch by inch, life's assent.
Speaker 1: Yard by yard life is hard. Oftentimes we pop up
Speaker 1: and we look at the November presidential elections and everything
Speaker 1: that's affecting us right in our backyard. Well, why isn't
Speaker 1: the president doing this? Because when it was time for
Speaker 1: the previous elections, for the individuals that are actually evoking
Speaker 1: that change, the question is where were you? But yeah,
Speaker 1: where are you right now? Are you actually seeing what's
Speaker 1: going on? So another thing, you know, I think it's
Speaker 1: so important we talk about politics. We always talk about
Speaker 1: this whole idea of church and state and the two.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's two separate beliefs, but how do they blend?
Speaker 1: And as you being a pastor and I myself being
Speaker 1: a member of the l g B t Q I
Speaker 1: a plus community. What does this look like? What type
Speaker 1: of programs? What do you see that how you can
Speaker 1: support the community in ways that have not been done before.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so a couple of one. You know, you ask
Speaker 4: the questions. I want to talk about a couple of things.
Speaker 4: The one I understand I will never legislate my belief
Speaker 4: I'm not an evangelical Christian. I'm a progressive christ Also
Speaker 4: understand that I believe everyone is made in the image
Speaker 4: of God. For me, the question is how are you whole?
Speaker 3: Are you well?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: And so what that also means for me is we
Speaker 4: have to make sure we have better uh lgbt Q
Speaker 4: centers in South la. It was only like one off
Speaker 4: game said, uh, what we're doing. We got to take
Speaker 4: care of our transits and brothers as well in our
Speaker 4: community because they are often for are the ones who
Speaker 4: find themselves first on the streets or being trafficked.
Speaker 3: We got to make sure that we.
Speaker 4: And we are looking at the district that we are
Speaker 4: also looking at how are we lessening the burden of
Speaker 4: entry and making sure that our our system is not
Speaker 4: it's not prejudice in that way. I was talking to
Speaker 4: UH people from stone Wall and they were like pastor
Speaker 4: every every ethnic group has like their own little caucus
Speaker 4: in the city. The workers do, but the LGBTQ folks
Speaker 4: stone And I said, that sounds like a lawsuit to me.
Speaker 4: Let me sign, where do I sign? And help move
Speaker 4: this right? Because every nobody should be treated differently because
Speaker 4: of who.
Speaker 3: You love, love and love love it.
Speaker 1: Who you love, not just who you want to be with,
Speaker 1: who you want to sleep with, but essentially who you love.
Speaker 4: Not hate love who you love you love right?
Speaker 5: Uh? And so I never uh she seems that as
Speaker 5: a way to move forward. And I think that folks
Speaker 5: who actually are out here a bashining folks for who
Speaker 5: they love.
Speaker 3: I have to ask you what you know? What God
Speaker 3: are you serving?
Speaker 1: And you know what I always ask, I'll always say,
Speaker 1: who do you think that you are? If you are
Speaker 1: not supposed to judge, and here you are judging somebody's lifestyle,
Speaker 1: how they're living. The question is if this almighty God
Speaker 1: that you serve, who do you think that you are?
Speaker 1: Are you stepping in as God now? Because your judgment
Speaker 1: is just unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I don't say even even one. But also, like,
Speaker 3: are we all made in the image of the Creator.
Speaker 1: Guys said far more than what you could ever imagine.
Speaker 3: So so if we are all made in the Creator,
Speaker 3: then isn't it that the plans that I have your
Speaker 3: life are for you to have a future and to prosper.
Speaker 3: Why would I do anything to harm your life? Why
Speaker 3: would I do anything to prevent you from living your
Speaker 3: best life? Right? And that's what it is about.
Speaker 4: City Council's a equity. How are we moving with equity?
Speaker 4: I don't have to agree with anything.
Speaker 3: And please understand that I think people are crazy.
Speaker 4: We're We're not a religious podcast. It's not feeling I
Speaker 4: go to the park. We will not go into that
Speaker 4: on today. I don't know who all on your audience,
Speaker 4: But I just don't understand why are we not leading
Speaker 4: with equity?
Speaker 3: Why treating people if you want to be treated.
Speaker 4: Why we're not really loving our neighbors.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you this.
Speaker 4: One story around let bt Q community is the story
Speaker 4: of being at my uncle's funeral. Never left me and
Speaker 4: and we be going here.
Speaker 3: Uh so, I don't know who's on.
Speaker 1: It's a real conversation with real people. Right now, let's go.
Speaker 3: I remember being come. My uncle was so fly right.
Speaker 3: My uncle so so fly.
Speaker 4: He was like always dressed, real nice, got a fast
Speaker 4: car with a motorcycle.
Speaker 3: So fly.
Speaker 4: I remember getting to call my mom was like uncle sick. Okay,
Speaker 4: I was a little kid. My mom's the phone called
Speaker 4: uncle sick. He got He got pneumonia. A week later
Speaker 4: he died.
Speaker 3: Mama said, oh, uncle sick. He had a pneumonia. His
Speaker 3: white blood cells weren't working right, you know where it's
Speaker 3: probably going. I said, okay, okay. A week we get
Speaker 3: to the funeral and my uncle's partner.
Speaker 4: Comes and he's wailing over the tasket and people, my family,
Speaker 4: people in the audience getting all uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: And I looked at that and I said, clearly he
Speaker 3: loved uncle. My uncle made sure Uncle was good.
Speaker 4: What is this thing that we got inside, especially in
Speaker 4: some by culture where we're like hmm, what's going on here?
Speaker 4: And I made it in that moment a commitment. I said, Uncle,
Speaker 4: I ain't never gonna let you die.
Speaker 3: Mates. We still can't say that in public to some people. Right,
Speaker 3: he died from AIDS.
Speaker 4: But I said, I will tell my dying day I'm
Speaker 4: sure you good, that your partner good, everybody else is good,
Speaker 4: because this is what God want in my life.
Speaker 3: This is what love looks like, This is what care
Speaker 3: looks like.
Speaker 4: If we can't affirm one another and just find things
Speaker 4: to tear people down.
Speaker 3: Listen, Mamma said, you get nothing good to say. Don't
Speaker 3: think none of that.
Speaker 4: Oh keep a movie so you don't understand and keep
Speaker 4: it going, but don't tear people down. Build an equable
Speaker 4: future through the bridge. Be it to change, show us
Speaker 4: some love. Legislate justly, don't legislate to harm people. Legislate
Speaker 4: to make people the best they can be. I got
Speaker 4: a degree in political science. That's what I thought governments
Speaker 4: won't be about in the first place, is about making
Speaker 4: sure we're good.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: And so that's when Bambi from Transplantina Coalition says, past
Speaker 4: Eddie show up.
Speaker 3: I pull up. That's why my phone with just don't
Speaker 3: watch say Eddie pulled up. I pulled up.
Speaker 4: That's on Travall writing their book and says Eddie, can
Speaker 4: you help pull up whatever support I'm there?
Speaker 3: Say less right, because what are we doing?
Speaker 4: When I went to Morehouse College, they try to make
Speaker 4: address code because some of our brothers a dress androgenists
Speaker 4: or they you know, they would vogue and you know,
Speaker 4: go to balls and stuff like that. At night people
Speaker 4: had issues. I said, what we're not doing that? We
Speaker 4: shut down to school in the chapel. We brought everybody
Speaker 4: to the chapel that listen, that's not what we're doing.
Speaker 4: That's not becoming I'm a morehouse.
Speaker 3: Man, right right. We're coming from a warhouse.
Speaker 4: That is justice, it's equity and making sure people are
Speaker 4: good and whole and just keep it real.
Speaker 3: Every queer person that I know, they work hard. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they do everything that everything everything that everybody else does,
Speaker 3: and they do it beautifully, but style and with flavor
Speaker 3: and whist wave.
Speaker 1: Got to talk that talk come on.
Speaker 3: So what we're doing? What we do it?
Speaker 1: That's the question. So the question becomes, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: Are you going to show up so that your voice
Speaker 1: can be heard. We have Pastor Eddie Anderson who's running
Speaker 1: for La City Council of CD ten, who's asking you
Speaker 1: to show up. Now you've heard his platform, you understand
Speaker 1: what's important and you understand why the bridge is so important.
Speaker 1: How this is a new movement. We're talking about social
Speaker 1: change from a young brother that actually is in the future,
Speaker 1: living in the future, can see the future. It has
Speaker 1: a vision for the future. Now the question is do
Speaker 1: you so, pastor Eddie? Where can people follow you on
Speaker 1: social media? How can they donate to your campaign? What's
Speaker 1: the website? Give us the information?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, follow the campaign is Anderson for la on ig.
Speaker 4: The website we actually twitch it up as in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty four dot com is easier for people to remember.
Speaker 4: Answer twenty twenty four dot com. My personal ig is
Speaker 4: Eddie L.
Speaker 3: Anderson.
Speaker 4: You want slow to do my everyday life, you can
Speaker 4: check that out as well, and you can donate there
Speaker 4: as well. If you're ANCD ten, this is grassroots and
Speaker 4: other people aren't saying they running grasses campaigns enough. This
Speaker 4: is I didn't use all my savings. This is grass roots. Okay,
Speaker 4: So if you live at CD ten, if you can
Speaker 4: put five on it, it's five on it. It will
Speaker 4: help us get We need to many more people so
Speaker 4: that we can matching funds and pay up pay down
Speaker 4: some of these bills.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: This is this is neighbor and neighbor out here, and
Speaker 4: so if you made that donation, I could do that
Speaker 4: as well as twent twenty four dot com or take
Speaker 4: the time, but both of form importantly be educative voter
Speaker 4: and vote.
Speaker 3: Be typically engaged.
Speaker 4: This is your future, this is your life. Don't let
Speaker 4: it tow it off to terminate. Live it, live it fully,
Speaker 4: liveing with on purpose and hopefull You can live with
Speaker 4: me and coalition.
Speaker 1: There you have. Are you ready for change? Are you
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