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Speaker 1: season six of look At Radio's next Door. Look At

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Speaker 1: I'm Mala. Thanks for tuning into last time on local Radio,

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Speaker 1: we give you our most annoying episode yet. Tune into

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Speaker 1: of look at Our Radio. We're bringing you a special

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Speaker 1: edition of Latinas in Politics featuring candidate for State Assembly

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth algante As your podcasted us next Door. We want

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Speaker 1: to give our listeners freshly squeezed interviews with Latinas running

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Speaker 1: So before we get into that interview, we want to

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Speaker 1: share a little bit about Elizabeth Algantad. She's an organizer, advocate,

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Speaker 1: and leader who is focused on delivering for our communities.

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Speaker 1: Elected to the Kutahy City Council in Elizabeth became the

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Speaker 1: youngest and the first Latina to serve as mayor. After

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Speaker 1: seeing a gap in representation for young women in Cutahy,

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth filled Elizabeth filed to run for city council. In November,

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth was elected to cut a Hay City Council and

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Speaker 1: consequently named vice mayor, making her the city's first Latina

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Speaker 1: vice mayor. We're gonna hear about her, her background, why

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Speaker 1: she's the best person for the job. To be honest,

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Algantat is running for State Assembly for the district,

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Speaker 1: which includes Downy, Norwalk, Bell Bell Garden, Santa Fe Springs,

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Speaker 1: We know that a ton of our listeners live in

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Speaker 1: this area, myself included, actually, so we're really excited to

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Speaker 1: share this interview and we hope you enjoy. Let us

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Speaker 1: So I have the incredible honor of bringing on today's guest,

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Alganzad. Welcome to look at to please introduce yourself

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Speaker 1: to our listeners. Absolutely, thank you for having me. So

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Speaker 1: my name is Elizabeth Altona. I currently serve as a

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Speaker 1: City of Katags mayor now for the second time. UM

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Speaker 1: And I was introduced myself as an advocate and organizer

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Speaker 1: Incredible and so just to you know, get us started

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Speaker 1: and diving into your background. You were the when you

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Speaker 1: And so that's really what prompted me to run. I

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Speaker 1: It's obviously a big step running from Kardah City Council

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Speaker 1: for laying all that out. You know, we've noticed that

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Speaker 1: But Frankly, for me, one of those pieces was Bernie Sanders.

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Speaker 1: Thank you? UM? Yeah, So I just wanted to paint

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Alcantada, First State Assembly, thank you once again for

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Speaker 1: at Liz from Sella. Thank you for having me