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546 - Why Did The "Charlie Kirk" Street Sign Push A 35-year Resident Into Politics? - Loan Nguyen · The Vietnamese with Kenneth Nguyen

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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the Vietnamese podcast today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I, uh, my guess is La Nguyen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: La Nguyen is running for District 4 here in Westminster and Little Saigon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, thank you, Ken.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, hello, everyone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, Lone reached out and asked to come on the podcast.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I want to start the podcast by saying, all politicians in Little Psychon, if you would like to talk about and discuss, do it, Londed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Long reached out and here we are today and I really appreciate it and ironically I've had Tracy and Hugh in your world come on and you and it's all three Democrats and I don't know where the Republicans and the conservatives are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, so he was on last week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, glad he won.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It hasn't been released yet, but we're really very soon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I love you too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I wonder what a gentleman was up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're all the same tribe.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's not what I really want.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want us to mix it up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to hear the other side.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But you know what?
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have three back to back, and we're going to start with three back to back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You Tracy, Hugh, and here we are.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So tell me what made you decide to run.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it started with the, um, Charlie could street sign.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I say no Charlie could street sign, which I've covered and have been, uh, controversial online, uh, you know, that that's just, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, so I, uh, I started attending, um, the city council meetings
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[SPEAKER_00]: I noticed that not only voted for the Charlie Cook sign, he was not there when the resident came to speak their mind against the sign.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he was not there for a few meetings after that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But what we are, why does Charlie Cook sign bother you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, it's better me because, uh, okay, if it was, maybe, in a, treat that you don't know, you know in a remote location, but it's,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, if you don't know, Charlie could sign is, it now attached to all American ways sign.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the all-American way sign was named because years ago, actually in 1996,
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[SPEAKER_00]: a city of Westminster receive a and a recognition recognition and award as our American city.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's how the street in the fund of the Civic Center was named.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So to put anything with that sign, let alone someone that's, oh, on Macon Way, I'm sorry, on Macon City was award because Westminster is a diversity.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So to put a name that,
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[SPEAKER_01]: did not like a line without you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's why it's bothering me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what made you run for.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's along with seeing Nam Gua, not King, not listening to the people of the city.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we can make a decision to run.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because you're a civilian.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we call you a civilian or a lay person outside of politics.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What empowers you to make that decision to do something like this, to run in Westminster?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I, well, I've always been wanting to help, you know, in the community.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and I did that with when my kids in school, I helped in school and I was a treasure and when I was in college I helped teach the enemies on the weekend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I always want to get involved and seeing that
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[SPEAKER_00]: city council didn't care much about representing the district.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to, I want to step up and do, you know, for the city.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I also have the, the skill as, for 20 years, I was,
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[SPEAKER_00]: financial controller.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I know how to manage, but get what the city really need right now, someone who knows numbers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And just be civilized because I don't know, you know, what's been said?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the politics down here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's terrible.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but it's terrible everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you seem like a
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[SPEAKER_01]: Are you ready, are you ready, able to deal with this world?
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're all crazy, isn't it?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because I just know that it's a real crazy place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's why I count the voters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is the year that we need to make changes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need, like a revolution, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Civility.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, civility.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: we don't need people to know how to yell.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I was criticized at being too nice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But you need nice people up there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You need people that listen to the people, the residents.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't need people just to point being good and say, I want this, but not listen to the people of the city.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know who inspires me when I see you when I think about you is a president Carter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: President Carter was a very nice person and he got things done and I think he got respect from Americans, very gentle, you know, peanut farmer, you know, and you have that vibe of being such a, you know, you seem like a really nice person.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's dirty here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's dirty here, isn't it?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wait, so is there?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think as it should be, it should be dirty, and it should be, we should be able to fight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe not to the extreme that we do, but I honestly think that politics is dirty and Chicago is dirty everywhere in the US.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's dirty, and that's human beings.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think the outcome, the beauty of American society, is that we can fight, but we can still keep it, or we should still keep things civil.
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[SPEAKER_00]: exactly.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so you're ready for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you, you, you, you should be able to, um, to convince people of your belief or how, how you, because as a manager, I, um, that's what's my
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[SPEAKER_00]: These are the numbers we need to do this through this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then, you know, you get in for it and not that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But you have to be able to convince other people that what you believe in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think the problem is that,
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[SPEAKER_01]: when you believe in the right thing and you're convincing people to do the right thing, that's not really the issue, sometimes in politics.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The issue, sometimes in politics is like, as I imagine it is these guys who are being bought, who money is coming into the city, money and opportunities coming in and they have to make these decisions to really bow down to the interest of money that's coming in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And somebody who has pure intentions, perhaps like you might not be the person that these big corporations or these businesses that want to put up a hotel or do all these things, how do you battle against that?
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[SPEAKER_01]: How do you fight against that kind of stuff?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I say, that's why in this election, you need to choose people that don't do that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's that simple.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Is that simple?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the voters have the power to change the city.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they need to do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We all need to do that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I agree with that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We do need to change it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And maybe it is as simple as voting somebody like you in to make these simple decisions and not be, but it's hard to keep a special interest money out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, if you have the right people in the sea that care about the city, instead of their own pocket, then you, then you, it's shit, it should work.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It should work and you, you did to serve the people not to enrich yourself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know, it sounds easy, but you need, that's why we need a majority of people, majority of people like that, like me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Were any of your family members or anybody close to you in politics at one point in your life?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't think of anything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: your dad, your mom, your uncles and aunts, nobody ever was in politics that you could look at and go, that's somebody I learned from as a child or inspired me, nobody.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, my dad was in the Navy in Vietnam before 73.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he passed away in 73.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's not in politics, but he was very, I say, he inspired me to be independent, learn more and be independent in life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And let me see, no one else in politics though, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: How long ago, before November 3rd, did you prepare for this?
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[SPEAKER_01]: We need you make a decision, and you said, I'm gonna fly it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna fly it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It'll be, it'll be almost a year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So last November 3rd, last November.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can remember exactly when the Charlie could sign.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so that was when.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So right at that moment, you made a decision.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna do it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Can you walk me through?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because a lot of young people listen to our podcast, I think this is inspiring to see somebody who's never in politics have no connection to politics or any political person.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Make a decision based on something that happened.
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[SPEAKER_01]: in their city.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So can you walk me through what you did once that Charlie Kirk's sign triggered you to move and respond?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What happens up into that point, up into this point?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you're talking about my camping.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, all of it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like your decision, how do you raise money?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we're a few weeks away from this November third thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: where did the money come from?
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[SPEAKER_01]: How did you make this, how did you activate people to do this?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so I, as I mentioned, I've been at the city council like almost any meeting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I only miss, I think, two meetings because I had fire and get engagement.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I spoke out when I saw something that's unfair to the people with city, and in the
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know the people that are telling it, that's regularly attending the state council meeting, they contribute to a campaign.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I had a small fundraising event and some people contribute to my event.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't name them, but one of the person that was on your show, it contribute.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Are you allowed to put your own money into the race?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, that's what I had to do, otherwise it's not enough.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Can you share how much you have to put in?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Currently, I put in 15,000.
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[SPEAKER_01]: 15,000.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then overall, how much do you need to work?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it's public record.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And how much do you have to raise to get comfortable and confident?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So far, I think we're okay with the money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because we're going to spend, I can't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't review my strategy right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But you know, you spend, if you need more you, okay, that's a financial controller or someone who, who, who work, when I was, I work in when I was in college.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I, I supported myself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I know how to manage budget.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's, you know, you look at whatever you have.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, got it, got it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you're just really scrappy and just very careful on how you spend it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't do like wine bottles or anything like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And at this point, what, I mean,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And what are the signs that you're doing well?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The signs when my team go meet people, and if they know me personally, they say, yes, I go forward.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if they find out about my,
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[SPEAKER_00]: what I want to do for the city.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if they know about my the route route about my opponents, then yes, yeah, I've been in, I live in the city for 35 years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No one can say that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No other candidates can say that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Can say they lived here for 35 years now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So what are you going to bring once you win?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What will you do?
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[SPEAKER_00]: One thing I am passionate about is I want to bring a use center into Westminton.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It won't be right away because we need money for building in and we need land to build.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But we can caught nose with school so that the kids have someplace to go up to school.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right now, City of Westminster do have places for youth, but not in my district.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's why I wanted to do it for you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What do you think that's important?
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[SPEAKER_01]: How do you know that doing that is an important thing?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's important because, um, for the kids future.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But how do you know that that's like something that's going to move the needle on your campaign?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's happening well, because we have more older folks in the city.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I also have something for the older, the seniors in our city.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's that I want to work on its current stabilization for the people that live in mobile homes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They had fixed income.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And some of the mobile homes ran the land.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The land keep going up and up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's what one of the things I'm going to do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And for the US, if you care about the future of the community,
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need to focus on use, we need to put money on education, I can't do much because that's more about education.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But we need more money on use because that's the future.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it's also if you raise the kids' rights and you take care of them,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You'll be, I say, be less homelessness in the future.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I just think of it from a numbers perspective.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If I was like running a campaign for myself and I was managing sort of my dollars and allocating funds to figure out
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[SPEAKER_01]: Where is the biggest sector that I'm going to get a return to my investment on my money put down?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would start thinking about if there's more older folks than I'm going to cater to them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that doesn't sound like something that you are, that's not how you operate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't think, I think that's a cool thing because sometimes people like me are just looking for where the dollars can be returned on the investment, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that's a wonderful thing that you're thinking about the youth, even though the youth,
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[SPEAKER_01]: is not, they can't vote, and their parents probably aren't even thinking about this stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, they should, because the future of the kids.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, I agree with you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I have kids.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I would probably be one of those people that care about that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But the rent civilization, the eviction of these,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, you see, may it's long and it's a make-wester to shine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I, I care about the cleanliness of the city in cleanliness and safety.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so we, we want to make the, you know, cleanliness.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Cleanliness.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But what's wrong with the management today?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What's wrong with the city people that are in office right now?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oof.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Where should I start?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Is that bad?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You heard the Rosanna Theater.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Can you tell me about it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have time, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Producer Nam?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Twenty minutes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You mentioned that's money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The money is dangerous.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's what's happening.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because the Rosanna...
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[SPEAKER_00]: There was a management team that managed a road theater for 20 years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Part of the city was once there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: OK. OK. And they developed some kids.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They grew up in the roadside of theater.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The kids that into performance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway,
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[SPEAKER_00]: The city, the council decided to change management without a good reason.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then they had people that come for organization come in so that the city staff can rate them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And at this meeting,
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[SPEAKER_00]: is city council chose the one, the organization that's almost to the last point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mm.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they're saying, therefore, organization and the two organizations that got the last point, they pick up the enemies to organization.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you have a problem with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have problem with that, not because they're Vietnamese, but they have no theater management, or those who said, yeah, some theater management.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the organization just had their, just had their permit 13 days ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 13 days before the date of the decision.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's something something something on the on the back end is very fishy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, very fishy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, fishy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: See, most people don't care about these things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're not paying attention to it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know?
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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't, but but it's significant because that smells like corruption.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what you're saying.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, a legit corruption.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then the news one
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this organization, like a Vietnamese library, they said the Vietnamese foundation, something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's a library, Vietnamese library.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I support the art.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I support culture, Vietnamese culture.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't support taking a city property for it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But what Vietnamese, I'm just playing double as I have to get.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We are Vietnamese.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And these Vietnamese team at Westminster is fighting to put Vietnamese library inside Westminster's property.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Westminster owns the property, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As a Vietnamese person, I'm asking you, what's wrong with that?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want us to win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Vietnamese people in city office, as we say, Vietnamese, above all, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What's wrong with Vietnamese people fighting from Vietnamese people and Vietnamese causes when we're the majority here in the city?
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[SPEAKER_00]: If it was then properly, I wouldn't have no problem with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But this is how it started.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The group wrote a letter to Chi Chioli, the mayor,
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[SPEAKER_00]: And said that we can't afford rent anymore, we need help.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's how it started.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If it had wanted to do the process, the city would say, OK, we have a property that we're opening up for non-profit
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[SPEAKER_00]: can put a coach's sender in that, you know, for everyone in the city to enjoy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then I'm okay with that, because then, you know, other organizations have had their chance of submitting the fleet too, not just someone who,
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[SPEAKER_00]: you know go to the back door.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that that really shows how
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[SPEAKER_01]: exact you are I mean and fair because even though we're Vietnamese and even though this is for Vietnamese library we shouldn't be doing things that are like skipping due diligence and the process due process thinking that we can just short cut and there's other people in our community there's other people in the Vietnamese community there's Latinos or white people black people Thanks, Adam.
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[SPEAKER_01]: that don't get to really benefit from this Vietnamese library.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I think that's a really fair thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Where can people know more about you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hmm.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have a watch side.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What's the watch side?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, it votes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Vote.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ron Win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ron Win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Vote.
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[SPEAKER_01]: L-O-A-N-N-G-U-Y-E-N.com.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Very simple.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Vote on Win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I, uh, I also have Vietnamese.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's also
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[SPEAKER_01]: I look forward to November 4th.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait to see what the results are.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And, and live is what I say.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is why I have you on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When or lose, you've already won to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When or lose, you've already won.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And here's why, at your stage in life, we talked about it, we joke about our gray hair.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're taking a chance and a gamble to make your community better.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For me is,
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[SPEAKER_01]: enough to salute you and to really applaud the journey that you've taken, and I think that's wonderful.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And let me repeat again, conservatives, right-wing, I would love to sit and have a conversation with you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Lone reached out to me and here we are.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that's how easy this is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think every election, I would love to sit with all the candidates here in Little Psychon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much for coming on today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Canada.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Is there any closing remarks that you would like
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, in the beginning, you mentioned, uh, I'm a Democrat, but you know, when you underdise, you're in, um, making decision for the city, you make a decision that, best for the city, you don't, you, you can't make decision based on your political
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you're denouncing it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, you can tell I'm a fair person.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and that's all the matters.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And at the city level, I don't think party Democrat, party politics matter much, do they?
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can't affect abortion.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can't affect capital punishment or you know, freedom to bear arms.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, but you can put a conservative side for it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Totally and that's how that's what landed you here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, long.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I hope to hear from you Whether you went or lose.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I really do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think you're a good force a force for a good work in in the city of Westminster Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for a good chat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for listening to the Vietnamese with Kenneth Wynne.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Special thanks to Brittany Tran, to Jane Wynne, Catherine Wynne, Tina Fam, Sydney Jamie, and Crystal Tran.
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