Grassroots Leadership in Action: How Candidate For the Baldwin Park City Council Laura Franklin Plans to Empower Baldwin Park

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Coming up on this episode of the
Healthy, Wealthy and Wise podcast.

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What would you say the top two or
three issues in your community that,

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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

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

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William T.

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Choctaw, MD, JD.

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The content of these podcasts
are designed to equip.

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Listeners with timely and actionable
information that may help provide

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the basis for living a 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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I dunno, techno the camp,
you know, the campaign.

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In my opinion, the pan
campaign is going well,

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right?

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Especially for a first timer.

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Sure.

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

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

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Wow.

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Shaking.

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And

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third 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.

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They're alive.

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That's for sure.

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They're wishing me well.

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

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uh, in 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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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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Yes, for sure.

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

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be or is it different or what, what are
you, 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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is,

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it is people, the 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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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, you know, you you're
running for city council.

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And so, remind me 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

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

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But why you?

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

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

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Okay.

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What made me want to run is realizing
representation wasn't there.

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Right.

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Okay.

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And it does matter, you know,
representation matters because our city

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ballpark is considered the hub of the
San Gabriel Valley and the leadership

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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.

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Um, a lot hasn't been done
because it's just me, so I've

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also gotten a lot of pushback.

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But the way to be part of decision
making is to be at the table.

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And that's where I need to be, at the
city council table, at that level.

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Not only, you know, just the African
Americans to see we can get there,

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but help the community at large.

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Exactly.

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And, and you're exactly right, 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 or what, what have you, um,

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yeah, what, what lessons have you
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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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, raise

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some grandbabies, maybe buy a house.

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But it's, uh, so many things
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 is being spent because

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our tax numbers are not working for us
the way the community would like it to

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work, but you've got five folks who make
the decision for the whole community.

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Exactly.

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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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Exactly.

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Every Thursday and 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 part

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of the silent generation who raised
silent generation parents who now

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have grandkids who are vocal, there's,
there's a, there's a miscommunication

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between 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, 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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so,

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so 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, uh, 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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Group text messages and this is from my
personal phone and I'm letting them know

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

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know, 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

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my phone number, whatever.

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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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Okay.

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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, I you know, I I could not
do this without Um, I have this I've

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got students from cal poly I have
great 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, Oh, I got to go back in, but that's
because again, this is the grassroots way.

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

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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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Yes.

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But 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

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when you're not familiar with a
particular neighborhood or family or

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whatever's going on with them, it is.

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

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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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you

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know, in a neighborhood and I'm
knocking on doors and I'm talking and

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they 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 said, yeah, but sometimes, you know,
you just got to get out there and do it.

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Sure.

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

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I, I know with my brief experience with,
um, um, um, local city politics, it,

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it really did make me a better person.

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I, 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 them.

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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, well, you are

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experiencing that right now, but
let's just say for whatever reason,

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if, if it doesn't end the way you
wanted for this election, um, what,

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what, what are the things that you
would do differently if you were to

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do this again or do something similar,
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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Uh huh.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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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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You know, it

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was hard for me, the financial help.

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It's easy to get people, Hey,
let's go out 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

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a social media person so that I
wouldn't have to be three and three,

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cover three sections of my campaign.

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Have you had coffee clutches?

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That sound familiar?

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A coffee clash is 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 basically do the work.

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You just sort of come in sort
of like, Uh, you know, 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
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the most effective ways for me, because
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I'm not an extrovert or more introverted.

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Um, but, um, it's a way of
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invite people on this street.

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You know, so then they become sort of
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and with people who are running for
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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
and they can do it all at the same time.

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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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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
part of it, a part of the process.

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whether they're the candidate or not.

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Um, and, um, and, and particularly,
many times people like to be

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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
politically in the community.

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That is a really great idea.

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Um, I guess I had something small like
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it's similar to a meet and greet.

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wasn't, it

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

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I mean, I had people come out that I had
never met, so that was the point as well.

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