A Seat at the Table: How Laura Franklin Plans to Represent Baldwin Park’s Voice

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Coming up on this episode of the
healthy, wealthy, and wise podcast.

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So, you know, you, you are running for
city council, and so remind me again,

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why, why did you decide to do this?

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I mean, it's not something that
the average person will wake up and

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says, you know, I think I'm gonna
run for city council in my city.

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But why, why you ? Well,

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you know, I, I asked myself that
as well when I first got started,

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but I didn't make the decision
till February of this year.

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Okay.

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But what made me want to run is

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welcome to the Healthy, wealthy
and Wise podcast with Dr.

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William t Choctaw, md.

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The content of these podcasts are
designed to equip listeners with timely

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and actionable information that may
help provide the basis for living a

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more healthy, wealthy, and wise life.

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This is a special election
edition featuring Laura Franklin,

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who's running for the Baldwin
Park, California City Council.

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Let's join their conversation
already in progress.

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So how's the campaign going?

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Okay.

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I said, there you go.

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So you put something that came up.

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Take that.

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The camp, you know, the campaign,
in my opinion, the campaign is going

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well, especially for a first timer.

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I've met a lot of folks through the
community, uh, shaking hands, just

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really getting to know people who've
been here for 40 years, generations.

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And then people who just moved here, maybe
during the pandemic for different reasons.

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And, um, it's they're alive.

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That's for sure.

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They're there.

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They're wishing me well.

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Um, and they are surprised to see an
African American woman, uh, running

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for such an office because again,
the percentage is low here, but they

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are glad and they all wish me luck.

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And I said, okay, I need you to
wish me luck and clear in that box.

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That's right.

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And vote.

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Exactly.

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Yes, for sure.

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So let me ask you, is, is, is the
campaign, is it what you thought it

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would be or is it different or what,
what, what, what, what have you learned?

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I'll put it that way
with the campaign so far.

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Well, you know, um, you
know, it is different.

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Grassroots is always the hardest.

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It is.

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People, people got to get
to know you, who you are.

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But I think what I've learned as
far as my community, um, most of the

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people want the same things, right?

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They want unity, they want diversity,
they want equity, they want inclusion.

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They want to purchase a home.

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They want to raise their kids here.

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But also I've learned that even in a
small town like this, uh, politics can be

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But at the same time,
there's a lot of love there.

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Like every, you know, everybody's going
to choose a side, but really once the

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lights go out and everything's turned
off, this community is still connected.

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They still will look,
look out for each other.

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They still help one another, and they
just want to live their best life,

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just like they wish that for you.

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So.

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So, you know, you, you're running
for city council and so remind me

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again, why did you decide to do this?

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I mean, it's not something that the
average person will wake up and say, you

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know, I think I'm going to run for city
council in my city, but why, why you?

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Well, you know, I, I asked myself that
as well when I first got started, but I

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didn't make the decision till February of
this year, but what made me want to run

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is realizing representation wasn't there.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Okay.

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And it does matter.

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You know, representation matters.

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It does.

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And again, because our city, Baldwin
Park is considered the hub of the

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San Gabriel Valley and the leadership
of the hub needs to reflect the hub.

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Excellent.

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I needed, and as the only housing
commissioner for almost three years, um, a

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lot hasn't been done because it's just me.

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So I've also gotten a lot of pushback,
but the way to be part of decision making

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is to be at the table and that's where
I need to be at the city council table

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at that level, not only, you know, just
the African Americans to see we can get

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there, but help the community at large.

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Exactly.

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And you're exactly right.

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You got to have a seat at the table.

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If you don't have a seat at the table
where the decisions are being made and

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the power is, is being implemented, uh,
then your input, uh, or your influence

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is, is minimized to some extent.

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Um, what, what lessons
have you learned so far?

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Or what, what have you, um,
yeah, what, what lessons have you

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learned so far in addition to that?

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Um, it's almost like being a comedian,
you know, you got to know your audience.

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Okay.

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Um, really know your community,
not, not just campaigning vote for

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me, but you really got to know your
community and really what they want.

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The local issues.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Local

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issues.

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You can't just say I'm running
because there's always going to be

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that one person that asks you the
question that you're not prepared for.

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So, but also, um, again, I've learned
that the second and third generations.

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They just want to leave a
legacy of something great.

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You know, it's not an, unfortunately,
um, you know, life happens and some

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of them have had to be part of that
sandwich generation, or they had to

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take care of a parent or vice for
it and kids and different things.

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And they, they just want to
live peaceably where they live.

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And again, love one another, take care
of each other, raise their families,

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raise some grandbabies, maybe buy a
house, but it's, uh, so many things

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happen that get in the way of that.

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Is that right?

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So would, would you say that's the biggest
issues, uh, biggest issue in your, uh,

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your community or what would you say the
top two or three issues in your community

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that, that your residents have told you?

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Um, they want to buy a home,
but it's too expensive.

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Okay.

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There, a lot of them don't
trust the former leaders and

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some of the current leaders.

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Okay.

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And, um,

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the way the money's being spent.

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Okay.

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They don't all necessarily agree on where
the money's being spent because our tax

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numbers are not working for us the way
the community would like it to work.

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But you've got five folks who make
the decision for the whole community.

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Exactly.

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And I have encouraged them to show
up at these city council meetings.

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Yes.

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You have three minutes.

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It's exactly in third Wednesday
to speak on how you feel.

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You can send emails, you can make
phone calls, you can show up.

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But because some of this generation,
the generations that live here are

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part of the silent generation who
raised silent generation parents who

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now have grandkids who are vocal.

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There's there's a, there's
a miscommunication between

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the top and the bottom.

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They're not going to go and say,
they're going to say it to me, but

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they're not going to say it publicly.

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So that's why we have to be, or
I have to be that voice for them.

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That makes perfect sense.

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Because I think that's, in essence, the
essence of leadership is that you find

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out what your, What your supporters
want and what their needs are, and you

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help them to articulate those needs, or
you articulate those needs with them.

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Yes.

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So, so

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that they can move forward.

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Excellent.

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Excellent.

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Um, well, so you've got a few
more days until election day.

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So is there, is there, is there anything
that you specifically are doing now

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that maybe you weren't doing before?

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Um, with this,

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you know, I'm, I'm still
going out in the community.

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I am also sending text messages.

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messages.

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And this is from my personal phone
and I'm letting them know that this

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is my actual phone, because even as
a housing commissioner, you know,

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we have business cards and it has
my actual phone number on there.

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So it's not that they, I'm afraid
someone's going to get my phone

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number, whatever, but, um, I'm still,
like I said, group text messages.

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I'm still posting flyers on.

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Parts of the community
that I know I didn't hit.

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Um, so that'll be, I'll be doing
that tomorrow and just kind of just

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driving through the neighborhood
and see what the need might be.

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You know, there may be something I missed.

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That's not part of the campaign.

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It just may be something as simple as a
senior citizen home just needs somebody

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to come visit, you know, something.

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Simple things like that.

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So do you have a team that's working
with you or how does that work?

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Oh, yes, you know, I

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I could not do this without Um, I have
this I've got students from cal poly

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I've got students from the community.

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I've got my church family.

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I've got guys Um, i've i've had
students Such a support system.

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And if, and if all they did was say,
I'm praying for you or luck, and I

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know they meant it in the right way.

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That is helpful to me because that just
lets me, you know, they're the wind

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behind my back that just pushes me forward
because there were some times when I was

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like, I got to put this in, but that's
because again, this is the grassroots

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way it is typically tiring, but at the
same time it is rewarding because again,

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I get to meet people that I haven't met
before and that I probably wouldn't have

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met them because my way my circle is.

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It forced me out of my, some
of my comfort zone as well.

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I mean, I love talking to people in the
community, but sometimes when you're not

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a familiar with a particular neighborhood
or family or whatever's going on with

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them, I kind of shy away just to, I'll
stand over to kind of see what's going

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on, but I've literally had to jump in
with both feet and just, just do it.

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And I've done it by myself.

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Some nights I'm out there by myself.

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In a neighborhood and I'm knocking
on doors and I'm talking and they

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appreciate it, but they say, you
know, you need to be safe and do it

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during the night, during the daytime.

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And I say, yeah, but sometimes, you know,
you just got to get out there and do it.

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So,

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sure, sure.

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Well, you know, I would
completely agree with you.

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I know with my brief experience with,
um, um, Um, local city politics.

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It, it really did make me a better person.

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I, uh, there are people who I
never would have interreacted with.

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Um, and, and I was grateful that
I had interreacted with him.

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And some of them to this day
are still my good friends.

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Um, so it, it really does, it
really does have an impact.

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Um, and I think, I think you
will, you will definitely, you

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are experiencing that right now.

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But let's just say, for whatever
reason, if it doesn't end the way you

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wanted for this election, um, what,
what, what are the things that you

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would do differently if you were to do
this again, or do something similar,

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maybe for a different office again?

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I, you know, I would probably.

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Reach out a little bit more because
it was hard to ask for campaign funds.

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Just the way I grew

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up,

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you know, that's always difficult.

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It

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was hard for me.

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The financial help.

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It's easy to get people, Hey,
let's go on to the neighborhood.

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But the financial portion was
hard for me to ask for help.

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Um, and I would probably plan that kind
of thing better and get me a social

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media person so that I wouldn't have
to be three and, you know, Three,

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cover three sections of my campaign.

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I have, have you had coffee
clutches that sound familiar?

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A coffee clutches where somebody in your
neighborhood invites you over to their

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house and they invite everybody on their
street to their house also to meet you.

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So, so they, they, they could do the work.

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You just sort of come in sort
of like, uh, you know, a Kamala

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Harris and Obama or somebody and
they're, they're all gathered there.

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Um, but, but I, and I, and I
mentioned that because I found that

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to be one of the most effective.

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effective ways for me, because I too,
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I'm not an extrovert or more
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way of, uh, allowing folks to number
one, invite people on their street.

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You know, so then they become sort of
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with people who are running for office.

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They're happy because they sort of
do the work and whatever, whatever.

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Um, and at the, at the same
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Not a collection plate, but there's like
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people can put in cash or put in checks
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And if they want to give you
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they can write it on them.

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But it's sort of like a wedding, almost.

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You know, they can write that down too.

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But, but that's, that was the way I found
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me, um, that, that had a multiple benefit.

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One, it obviously helped me
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of the work that I couldn't do.

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Uh, but, but, but folks love that.

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Um, you know, they like to be a
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whether they're the candidate or not.

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Um, and, um, and, and particularly
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the leaders on that street.

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You know, and it would just be for them.

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They can invite anybody, but specifically
the leader, their neighbors, rather

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their close neighbors said, well, you
know, come on over to our house at four

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o'clock cause we're going to have a city
council candidate come by and you can

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ask her any questions you want and, and
share with her any concerns you want.

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So it's, it's a good civic activity,
uh, but you, you allow them to also

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participate, uh, in the leadership
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Thank you.

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That is a really great idea.

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Um, I guess I had
something small like that.

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Like we'd have meet and greets.

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It's similar to meet and

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greet.

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wasn't a big crowd because again, I'm
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I did still have a lot of people come.

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I mean, I had people come
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So that was the point as well.

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