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Pamela DeLancy on Veterans, Healthcare and Georgia’s 10th District—Episode 105 · The Town Square Podcast

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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the town square podcast where local advocates for a better community bring their different perspectives into the messy middle to have a conversation where aim is unity not uniformity see and we didn't even plan that so it wasn't cheesy and everything wasn't that it was organic that makes it real that's what makes it really that's what makes it really that's what makes it beautiful.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we are the middle of our candidate conversations series and it has been good so far.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I hope you guys are enjoying this kind of given you some information.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You letting you get to know the candidates in a long form podcast and kind of situation where it's more than just 30 seconds out of debate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Be put in the sound by, you know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Get to know these.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, today we're joining the studio by Candidate for US Congress in District 10, which encompasses now get this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like half a Newton County, but all of Jasper County, all of Morgan County, all of Walton County.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's got Athens, Clark County.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's got all it's got Athens, Clark County, Laco, Coney.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to make it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's got about another six or eight counties in it all the way up to the South Carolina line.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So this is an enormous district.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That is a lot of this district.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have to state the Georgia.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we got a big show today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: With a fantastic candidate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the Town Square podcast, Miss Pamela Delancy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for having me, and I'm excited to be here today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I look forward to speaking to the public and speaking with you on my platform.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're excited to have you if some of the pre recorded conversations are spirited, you know, is that listen?
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be a great episode.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's all I can say.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's just start off by getting to know you better.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I have gotten a- If we need to talk- I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Man, yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're all pro at it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we got stories we can't get to.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That'll catch me up, all right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But, uh, and this delay is that you grew up the oldest of six children.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you took on significant responsibility as a teenager.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just kind of give us like maybe that little bit of childhood that let us know kind of how that forms you into who you are today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you don't realize when you're growing up, the responsibilities that you have within the family will also set the stage of what you're going to be as an adult.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Never realized the leadership ability that I was learning as a young child, I would carry to my daughter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The oldest of six.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My mom, my parents divorced and I was 15, and so my mom was a licensed practical nurse, working in night shift.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, so that she can get off in the mornings to make sure she got everybody in school and then she would be home while she's sleeping in case anybody got sick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She could come and pick us up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But my response bill because my mom wasn't home seven o'clock.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got to be up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got everybody up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Breakfast books ready to go with mom come.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody's running the house for a book bag.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You are ready to go, she too done hard, you're coming outside.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you better be ready to go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I learned at a very age, I was very dependable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was held accountable and I took responsibility for my siblings because I felt it was my duty to do so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so when I got ready to graduate from high school, my mom wanted me to go to college.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I graduated with honors, definitely could have gone to college, but I didn't feel my mom could have fought for me to be gone from home and try to support me going to college.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So every crew that came to the high school, you know, like great story, you could join the army, you could get your college degree, and all these things, I thought, oh, this is a win win.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was 17.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I ran home with the paperwork.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mom, I need to design this because you can't join.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Unless you're parent side.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And my mom and first is like not only until
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[SPEAKER_00]: like mom, think about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna get a degree.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm still going to college.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just been an army and I have money to send home and I have a roof and I have food and I have health care so you don't have the worry about me and so it was the win win for the family.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so she went ahead and signed a pep because she knows what I really want to do and I told I would go to school and I did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's awesome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that developed me into the person I am today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I can imagine, I can absolutely imagine, you know, as interesting, you told a similar story, similar to my upbringing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My mother was a registered nurse for 45 years before she retired, same thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She worked in night shift for the same reasons.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it was pretty awesome.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I remember her stuff, you said I didn't become a nurse or anything in medical industry after her, but we had plenty of stories.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I would imagine you would as well, like what are some things that you learned from just watching your mom care for patients and for the family.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I learned is the number one is, you know, sometimes very thankless job.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I do do a lot of things and you don't get thanks for what you do, but you do it because isn't your heart to do so, you know, it's the right thing to do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so, given and provided for others, that comes naturally, I like people, I like being around people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I've cared for people, you know, one of the stores that I didn't share was how did I was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana and grew up in Houston, Texas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How do we get to Houston, Texas?
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[SPEAKER_00]: My brother's brother was born without a colon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we didn't know that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so it was in Louisiana.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the doctors just told my mom, and I was young, I was like, maybe five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they said, hey,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just take him home, don't feed him through for days and then he'll just die because we don't know what to do for him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And my mom was like, no, not in my son dies and my mom, my dad is poor as we were and we packed up and moved to Houston and my brother was admitted to a hospital.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Stayed there for a year, put a colossomy in him and so I've been doing health care for a long time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's what's into it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, because my parents we were poor when my parents both had to work and we have a sick child in the hospital.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Somebody has to always meet with that child.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People don't realize that and so when my parents as a five year old when my parents were gone to work and something my mom would cook and I would make sure that everybody got to eat in the bath as they switch shifts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then when my brother came home, I would also help with the change and of the colossal me back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I learned about what that was at a very young age.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you know, Karen being responsible, that's what I was been.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was that was pushing on me and I didn't take it as a job.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just what what I was supposed to be doing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't do it begrudially.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I did it because just my family needed.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That was ingrained in you as far as.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's that's awesome.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so you were saying that at at 17 you because you were 18 yet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you had to get to you your parents to sign the letter for you to be able to join the army.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that's I'm not going to tell your age.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But so you joined.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is a very long time, like you have seen all sorts of different things, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I went in the military as a list of soldiers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I went as a private PV2.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Remember, I told you to look along.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're going to an active duty, we didn't have online.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some tell you I owed you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We didn't have online college.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you actually had to go to school in the evening after you worked.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was going to university in Maryland when I was in Germany at night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: to take classes, but I knew it would take forever so I got out and then I went back to Houston Texas and went to college for a time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got out of the E4 and when I went to college at ROTC at the University of Houston, I thought, well, you know, I'm here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't plan to go back and arm it ever again, but I'm gonna get commission just in case, because I'm always a ABC, if A you don't work, you gotta have B, B fault, you gotta have C, you gotta follow on something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: early because I already had four years of service.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was commissioned before I even graduate from college.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was already second lieutenant when I went to nursing school and when I got to University of Texas, I graduated with my bachelor's degree in nursing and then I got the fine print letter that I forgot to look at when I graduated from ROTC seated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're started nurses in the army and we're going to need you to go back and go active duty.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't say, oh yeah, you signed up for it, but you know what, it was, it was one of the best things ever happened to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I never regretted anything that's happened to my career because I'm old enough now to look back over my life to see everything that happened, set me up for the next thing on the next level in my life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I have built a bond all of those opportunities.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's great.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's good stuff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's good stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm assuming rising through those ranks, I mean, for those years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And as a black woman, rising through the ranks, what was that like?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What were those challenges like?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh gosh, you know, are coming through the ranks as a black female.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a very difficult thing to do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's good and bad, like I told you, like sometimes you have a good assignment, sometimes you have a bad assignment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you have individuals, particularly problems you have with white males.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, in general, me and don't want to take all this for a woman, I don't care how I'm, and even though I worked and earned my rank, I have individuals that feel they should have that rank, even though they didn't work to earn it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was going to say that's a challenge no matter.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Black men, white men, yeah, everybody, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And exactly, even in corporate America, it's the same thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, when people say, oh, the military is so challenged, the corporate America is challenged.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's the same thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's not any different.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can tell when I was in a civilian hospital, as when a batch was green, nursing, there was a time when they was short, nursing assistance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was the only nurse on the floor with a bachelor's degree in nursing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they came to me and said, oh, well, get family bed in nursing assistance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I went back in the room and said, I'm a sit right here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You need the feed that we do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Independent nursing on our own as nurses are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You find somebody to do it, but I'm not going to be a nursing assistant.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a senior in what did you find somebody because if not you're going to need a nurse because I'm a go home Because I'm working I'm working a purion status whenever necessary so guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm doing your favor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're not going to do this So you know going I never let that deter me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't let hate deter me from accomplishing my mission
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[SPEAKER_00]: because just because that's not your goal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I keep my eye on my goal and my purpose.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you can't deter me from that from any type of hate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I always make sure that I'm always checking the box.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I always feel bad for young soldiers coming.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, this son-so is after me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're trying to get me put out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, you put yourself out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You would late yesterday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You late today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Come early.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, go above it being you know, that's not fair because they don't have to life and never been fair So we don't never will be get over it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you want to accomplish?
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what you have to stay focused on it's not going to be fair But that's not going to stop me from attending my goal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it gives you that toughness right like yes Skin gets a little thick, but also you just that focus.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got to say focus.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's not fair But hey, I got to go hold it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got to go hold it meet
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have a go and I always tell young soldiers people that why I'm getting out of the army Where if you get out who are you hurting are you hurting to preach people that are getting on your nerves Are you hurting yourself because they don't keep going?
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're gonna keep going nobody's gonna make me leave my job I'm leaving when I'm ready.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're not gonna let me I'm not gonna leave because you want me to leave Right because it military one good thing is eventually somebody's moving You know I'm over at a movie Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah, bad balls.
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[SPEAKER_00]: a lot of things brought that decision from me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I'm not a politician ever this never thought I would be running for political office Yes, but I hear more people say that by the way, which I think is exciting.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's another.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's for another day.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But as a return military officer
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[SPEAKER_00]: seeing the state that we're in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For us, we take an oath to the Constitution of United States of America.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We do not take an oath to a political administration.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We don't take the oath to the president.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Our allegiance is to the Constitution.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For me, the strongest three words ever written in the Constitution are we to people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's an inclusive statement that we don't exclude people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We include people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if I have four fathers wrote that years ago, when slavery was still existing, you telling me in 2026, we are not going to start ignored the Constitution.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The other thing that did for me looking at everything is the fact that when Senator Kelly was telling those young service members, don't forget, you cannot follow an unlawful order.
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[SPEAKER_00]: when they were I don't know streets when they were called up and then the president and the administration went after him he didn't do anything wrong he didn't say anything wrong and I'm sitting at thinking why don't we retire current I was thinking the same thing he's thinking so if I had said that you coming up to me I served 39 years and you're trying to take my retirement you're trying to take my freedom of speech no we have to stand up for democracy
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is not about a political affiliation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is about our constitution.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do we give up our right to freedom of speech?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You guys have a podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are you willing to give it up?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are you willing to have its censored so they can tell you what you should say?
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[SPEAKER_02]: No.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You want to be taken off the air?
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[SPEAKER_00]: No.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's exactly what's going to happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But if we do not stand off a democracy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so that was one of the reasons that, and another one is 2019 when I retired from the Army out the 39 years, two and a half years later, I was diagnosed with gallbladder cancer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I went through two surgeries, and I went through chemo therapy for six months.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I can tell you, look, you start looking
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I survived that gallbladder cancer is a very rare cancer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I had a colleague of mine that died from gallbladder cancer, the band diagnosed her in half months.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I remember my doctor telling me that, well, Mr. Lance, we don't think you have cancer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't, I don't know what you think, but I know what I've researched.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if I do, I know I need treatment quickly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But because he passed, I felt I advocated that I'm still here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that saved my life and so with that being said, I started feeling convicted to do something more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was just on my heart to run for office and so one day, I saw, um, um,
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[SPEAKER_00]: represent in my college on television and just out the, you know, the back of my hair was on TV and he was, he was talking about running against the awesaw for his seat, not that, wow, that's pretty bold.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought that was just pretty good, uh, sending the awesaw, but anyway, I heard him saying the, the kind of, you know, I wasn't really bad to anybody said, Houston, we going at DC, I know, though, why has Houston on a DC?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, who was Houston?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't, because I'm from Houston, Texas, so that's why I got my attention.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I heard the word he used to do so that's like I parked up my whole town.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah And then I started doing the research on and I said oh wow, and uh, and so now I thought about running for office I said we know what I think I I understand the arts against me
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I wanted to know there are qualified people out here that really believe in serving people and I am one of those people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I am willing to run and that's how I actually got in the race.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I felt that it was faith.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I felt that the law put it on my heart and when I came out here to run in the primary, I told people at the law put me out here during this primary.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to win, you know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they thought I was crazy like she doesn't know anybody.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She hasn't raised any money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I took a YouTube class on how to run a successful campaign.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know anything about him.
17:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I took a class.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The gentleman that teaches the class on the YouTube channel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He kind of reaches out to people that he's out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're really thinking about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He said, send me a resume.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He'll look at low search.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I looked at my bio.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he goes, wow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you're pretty good resume here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can win.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He said, well, let me tell you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You need to raise $50,000, so you know, I just put that to the side.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's
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[SPEAKER_00]: And when he told me, I thought, man, that's not good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I went and decided I was going to run in the way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just kept on going and then he said, oh, I could probably be your campaign manager.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I said, but I don't have any money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he goes, oh, that's okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just try to raise about $25,000 then.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, just win $25,000, and I'll get your discount rate up to be your manager of about four grand.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I see what what part of no money in four grand.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Me, I don't know when it was who thinks more grand in my discount was it your full price brother like great day.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that was, not was the interest in the scene at least.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, but, you know, I put it to the side.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, uh, one of my girlfriends came to me who's who I pray with a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And she said, you know what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I pan the law, I woke me up this morning and said, Pam speaks boldly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I said, what the world is that means?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just, I said, well, I guess one day we'll find out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And a couple of weeks later, it was just on my heart to run off again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I said, well, that must be what that means.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm supposed to run off this, and I did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you made it through the primary, and not just made it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You won the primary.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so now you're here on the ticket for November.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Fifty-seven percent win.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No one in the stats.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Twenty count is one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Eighteen of those twenty count is the looking God of all.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to say.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a big old area.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's say that again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Twenty counting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Twenty counting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Twenty counting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I won 18 of the 20 in the primary.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is a, and you said the odds are stacked against you because there's a lot of red in that statement.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They all are, but there's a lot of red in the area, of course you do have Athens Clark County which will definitely, you know, you just said you had several successful events there recently because that's a hotbed probably for liberal thought or at least democratic thought, but I wanted to just as you have been around and you said we were talking earlier, which is like it's 20 counties.
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[SPEAKER_01]: do you have long things to get from her house to the end of the district man three hours that's wild and then to get back to another three hours right why all six hour round trip half a day and you need anything yet this is right this is right this is right this is right this is done the island i knocked on the door and it's though maybe i just told that they were talking about the the uniqueness of the district two is there's because there's a lot of rural parts it's not like you can just pop in a neighborhood right and go to 50 houses right you got to go
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll drive away and hope you don't get shot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You give it to the door.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wait, what you've been all over District 10.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've been all over District 10.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I would just love to know, what are you hearing?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, what are you hearing from the people?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, when I, when I go out and I've been in the suburban, suburban areas, go out to the rural areas, and the, the, the, the comments are the same affordability.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People want to call to food to go down and gas prices.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not what they are today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm talking about like three weeks ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They were complaining.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So today I can only imagine with particular the farmers, you know, I was in the view by a newspaper in one of the rural towns and he said, well, Mr. Lansing, these was not that expensive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They get a discount.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was at a dinner with the Farm Bureau and I talked to some farmers, I think they go, man, that by product, we could use it, but it's not good for our equipment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And most times we have to replace it and when we follow our taxes, we can only claim the diesel if we pay the full price, not from using the buy product.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, that is a problem.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Affordable housing health care is a big issue, particularly in the rural communities.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't have a lot of don't have dental care, they don't have any dentists out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And now, in Lafonia, one of the areas that's in district 10, they have no maternal health care.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When you think about driving an hour in labor, impossible for the two of you to drink about that, I can't remember just one minute in labor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So an hour, hoping to get to care, and this imagined on the form, there's no emergency immediate care to drive an hour to get assistance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm an emergency room nurse by trade.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We call that the golden hour.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you miss that golden hour, every minute after that your life is in peril, you can possibly die from whatever sickness an ailment that you may have.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So there are concerns out there about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: from some of the forms are how do we preserve the form land for agriculture and also for livestock because you have all, you have the developers come in that want to put in housing and then you have the big data centers that want to come out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And there are true farmers out there that want to keep their land.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they're joining these conservation programs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: to keep the property, keep the land, inform it, even though they have, and that's the whole different story.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a long story.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, so that was out of most concerns.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some places I go to, they don't have a grocery store.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, if something, but save the few of them is the dollar general family dollar came in and kind of saved the day, but that's only maybe milk eggs and bread.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And a bunch of snacks and stuff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And a bunch of unhealthy snacks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you can get through the aisle.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That is the truth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Way just was another thing that came up to know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People not make any of us a sad thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A young lady came up to me in an area up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thing was around near me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But Hancock County is something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And she works as a nurse in the system.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And she says, you know what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ms.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Lens, if you can help us to make more money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And she goes, you know the janitor's make more money than we do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we provide a service.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I understand, you know, I don't have a problem with the gentleman just making money, but with the provide living wage, just so everybody can take care of their family.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody deserves a career that they can grow in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's not going to college, it was me, you know what I'm talking about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're not going to get a college degree, but there are careers out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that we need to be financed through these technical schools.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But we also make sure they're making money so that they can also support their own families.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We were talking this morning on our news show and my work in August about everything rising except wages.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Everything.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Everything.
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[SPEAKER_02]: U.S. inflation rate is elevated and so now they're going to be
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[SPEAKER_00]: everything goes up absolutely our pride arch our wages stay the same and at some point it becomes unlivable at least that's what people feel no it's not that they feel it's a fact it is unlivable you know wages haven't changed since 2009 2009 the federal minimum wage is $725 in Georgia in that infamous whistland decided we're going to be $2 less than the federal minimum wage the minimum wage in Georgia is $5 and
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[SPEAKER_00]: Look it up, I don't speak stuff I'd ever looked up, so please look it up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: $5.15 hasn't changed since 2009.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Imagine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then there was a bill to try to raise Georgia minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And there are individuals that were in the house included my opponent, who opposed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Raising that minimum wage and that was just a $15.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know $20 an hour won't even give you $50,000 a year Yes, so how do we but we have congressmen that are complaining that they haven't had a race as $2,000 9 you know how much they make they make a 174,000 plus perks
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, how making makes sense that you as a representative that people have voted for you to go to represent them, that you want to support your wage increase, because you say you can't afford to live, but you don't support your constituent raise, wage is going up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, who are you really going to Congress for?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just asking.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you're representing, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you're representing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're voting you to represent them and they're interests and you're not doing it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's time to send people to Washington that are going to put people first and politics second.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's your bulletin sticker.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'm telling you, that's good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that kind of eludes to what I was talking about earlier when I said that we are seeing even here locally in our conversations with candidates, and then you're seeing it in other places that more non-career politicians are starting to seek office, and without
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[SPEAKER_02]: trying to be too biased one way or the other.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's actually a good thing because I think we have our political discourse over the last decade or so has gotten too political to the point where it's
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[SPEAKER_02]: staunch extremes and, you know, I think it's just me talking.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's refreshing to see more people who are not career politicians trying to come into the field so that they can represent, you know, the constituents and what I'm sure you believe would be the right way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think you would want your representative to be
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[SPEAKER_01]: look like the people of the community being that same type demographic like if they're super gigantic wealthy then are you really can't you really relate to your people exactly that's what i'm trying to get at i think it's absolutely i don't think so i think they can yeah well i think that's why this chair has been so filled with people
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we're saying, I'm never thought being politics or something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's the water.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Something's in the water.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think it is a, it is a, I think what we're seeing is just kind of this clarion idea of something's got to change.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely, we just need it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is usual cannot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I stated that early, you know, I think people are ready for a change.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People are ready for someone that's going to be truly a voice for them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the most disheartening thing that I've heard when I'm out on on a campaign trail is that nothing ever changes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to vote because nothing ever changes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People come out here to get out of vote whenever here for them again, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And one of the things I, so people say, you're every so big, how do you do it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I go out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I drive those three hours because I am here to represent you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So what kind of represent would I be if I don't drive out here to see you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just like when I was running and I got a lot of pushback and, you know, nasirs like, when she can't make it, she's not racing enough money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I need votes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't need money.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Money helps.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't get me wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Money is needed, but at the end of the day, the people want to know and see who is represented in them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So when I have been out canvassing, and I go, oh, that's it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then go, well, who's represented?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I go, I'm your representative.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm your congresswoman.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I go, hey, can I put a sign in your unit like?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I have X, we can do put a sign in my yard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've never had a candidate X, we can do put a sign in my yard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or I've had people in the bank saying, I've never had it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've never met a candidate in person before.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm almost red, they're little stickers and they're little, I'm like, well, I'm not that candidate because I can't afford the pay for anybody.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm out in the bow.
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[SPEAKER_02]: got to be worth it, but she was at the 4th of July parade, okay, and she said a lot of people would come up to her and just kind of like lean ever go
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to move for you, but we're going to do it though, we're going to do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the climate and that's why the first, the first time someone did it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought I was hearing the things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, this guy just stand by me and whisper to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And how about a car?
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[SPEAKER_00]: a couple other times, like, oh, okay, I'm looking around and I'm looking at the environment in which we're in and people are very uncomfortable supporting outside of what people think they should be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's unfortunate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because in a democratic country, you should be able, that's why we have these ability to have differences.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We don't have to agree on everything, but we have to come together for a common cause and a common good and represent individuals.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You may be this person, I'm this way, we don't have to agree, but at the end of the day, who are we here to represent?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's come in the middle and make it better for everyone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The middle!
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[SPEAKER_02]: The mess is good sometimes because there's a lot of things to get situated in the middle That's right and and like I said I always go back to you know that political science teacher I had back in I was in college was 20
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's probably the only thing I remember about that class, but I remember him saying now he was a politician and I remember him saying The truth a lot of people think the truth isn't far right or far left He said but the truth of the matter is truth is often found in the middle and that has always stuck with me and it has Not even just how I lean politically, but even just in life and there's just there's new ones There's grayer.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We got to learn how to navigate the nuance
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, names of them is not messy family's messy Listen, man That's what life happens.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I tell my full-time past all time y'all should expect messiness to happen every now and then
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[SPEAKER_00]: But that's right, and then that's right, and we come to common ground.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, here's a big topic that I know is probably close to your heart being a veteran.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You've expressed concern about veterans losing some healthcare benefits.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So do you want to like push in on that a little bit and talk about some of that?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, one of the things about veterans and some people really don't understand when you talk about healthcare, everybody think that every veteran is entitled to help care at the VA and they're not retired, military persons are entitled to healthcare at the VA.
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[SPEAKER_00]: individuals that had a disability that they may have gotten what they want on active duty are intended to be seen for those issues.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But other than that, they're not entirely really to go to the VA. And everybody does not aware of that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They think every veteran is going to the VA in B.C.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and that's not really a true statement.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so when you think about when I'm out here talking to veterans, particularly Vietnam veterans, even some of our more recent veterans, I spoke to a place I was in Bo Gort, Georgia, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in Bo Gort, I live in
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know Bo-Gar.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You haven't been up in the Bo-Gar.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I went to Bo-Gar in there as a gentleman in his wife.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have a fruit stand, fruit and vegetable stand.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I stopped to talk with him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was a desistone veteran took him eight years to get his benefits.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why would we allow our veterans to have to recreate their careers?
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[SPEAKER_00]: We served this country in uniform.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We deserved to treat them accordingly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You wanted to put the race in hand to say they were willing to die for this country, but when they come back, oh, I don't know if you really served.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You need to go get this paperwork.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you'll tell them Vietnam vets was dense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When did they serve?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Many, many years ago, and you're telling a Vietnam veteran when you know most of those documents whenever even they've been destroyed, they got burned, nobody took a count, nobody was counting on them, but they had the DD2-14, but you still were done to prove that they got hurt in service.
35:41
[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
35:42
[SPEAKER_00]: Why are we making veterans work so hard when they've already dedicated their lives to this country?
35:55
[SPEAKER_00]: And I took me many years to try to convince him to apply for his disability because he was always turned down.
36:01
[SPEAKER_00]: So my uncle ended up in the 71 years old, doing Agent Orange, got cancer.
36:07
[SPEAKER_00]: We got his 100% disability the day before we buried him.
36:12
[SPEAKER_00]: And there is, I couldn't, I could not make it up.
36:15
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is one story of many stories.
36:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Why is any, and so what happens in that mean time?
36:22
[SPEAKER_00]: Once the veteran passes away, their family's not entitled to any money, so all those years that he didn't get any paid, the family doesn't get any paid.
36:31
[SPEAKER_01]: All those bills that racked up, all that.
36:33
[SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't matter, don't they don't get it?
36:36
[SPEAKER_00]: But these are the people that we put, we want to put them in uniform, represent our country, but we treat them like they didn't do anything for us when they come back.
36:46
[SPEAKER_00]: And I want to stand a fire with veterans.
36:48
[SPEAKER_00]: We have veterans that serve the comeback, they can't find a job, they're unemployed.
36:51
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
36:52
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
36:53
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why I am looking at creating something that's a more comprehensive framework that we create just like when Frederick FDR, when he created what did people got jobs and it went out and they built the bridges and stuff.
37:08
[SPEAKER_00]: We need to look at some type of conservation program like that again.
37:13
[SPEAKER_00]: For not only our veterans, but for our under-scale workers, so that they can get training and be guaranteed jobs, but jobs that are needed in their communities.
37:23
[SPEAKER_00]: These rural communities are gonna die if we don't get people employed to help support them.
37:29
[SPEAKER_00]: Our population is growing old.
37:32
[SPEAKER_00]: In 234, we have the most individuals over the age of 65 of in this country.
37:38
[SPEAKER_00]: Individuals 18 and under, when not outnumbered, the ones that are over 65.
37:43
[SPEAKER_00]: So now you're looking at an L.D.
37:44
[SPEAKER_00]: population, they're gonna need home health care.
37:47
[SPEAKER_00]: They're gonna need mental health care.
37:49
[SPEAKER_00]: Just like our veggies, mental health care.
37:51
[SPEAKER_00]: If they didn't, let's go back because I'm dropping the hair to my sister and I'm sorry.
37:56
[SPEAKER_02]: You're doing just fine.
37:57
[SPEAKER_00]: But the men who held care for our veterans, if they weren't diagnosed while they were on act of duty, and even though they may have a mental health issue, unless they're in a crisis, they're not getting mental health care.
38:10
[SPEAKER_00]: And to just give them crisis care is not enough because they may need medication, who's going to provide the medicine?
38:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Who's going to see them?
38:19
[SPEAKER_00]: Who's going to manage it?
38:20
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I said?
38:21
[SPEAKER_00]: All we provide crisis management.
38:23
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, but I'm still...
38:25
[SPEAKER_00]: And the crisis next week too, new help me here, but that didn't solve my mental health issue.
38:30
[SPEAKER_00]: Right, that doesn't prevent it.
38:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that doesn't prevent it.
38:32
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what, but we don't do preventative care, do we?
38:35
[SPEAKER_00]: We like chronic managed care, because corporations make money on people being sick.
38:40
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you better be quiet.
38:42
[SPEAKER_00]: They make money on people being sick.
38:44
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't push pills unless people are sick.
38:47
[SPEAKER_00]: We do a lot better.
38:48
[SPEAKER_00]: If we just did preventive care, we could stop some of this chronic long-term illnesses in our communities.
38:55
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're just not done a good job of it.
38:58
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what's interesting to hear this?
39:00
[SPEAKER_02]: And this is why I really do not, I'm not obviously we don't choose sides, but we give sides.
39:07
[SPEAKER_02]: But I will say this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I hope people do listen beyond just the D, the R, male, female, black, whatever, because here's what I know.
39:20
[SPEAKER_02]: I do a segment with my work at WJBF or ABC Affiliate in Augusta, and it's at Highlights Veterans.
39:28
[SPEAKER_02]: And so we do, you know, hold on camera interview and all of that.
39:33
[SPEAKER_02]: So far, I've done, I think, three or four, a couple of black men, one white man, one white lady, veering backgrounds,
39:48
[SPEAKER_02]: political probably voted wildly different from each other.
39:51
[SPEAKER_02]: And what I realized is that doesn't matter because they're all veterans.
39:56
[SPEAKER_02]: They're all needing the same.
39:57
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
40:00
[SPEAKER_02]: And they're celebrating each other when we're doing these things.
40:03
[SPEAKER_02]: And so that's why I say, when people hear these kinds of ideas, some veteran out there, some retired veteran, hopefully we'll hear some of these ideas and forget
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[SPEAKER_02]: democratic public in black and just be like is this effective and if it is let's push for it you know I just I'm hoping that people will begin to listen with those kinds of ears more we know especially we never focus I mean we have never really discussed our political affiliation that 39 years on military I couldn't tell you the person next me with their political affiliation
40:39
[SPEAKER_00]: because we have to work together for a mission, we have to accomplish the mission.
40:43
[SPEAKER_00]: And the mission is not determined about are you Republican or Democrat or independent?
40:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
40:49
[SPEAKER_00]: We are one voice and we move as one voice.
40:51
[SPEAKER_00]: We go all as of gender, race, or anything.
40:54
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's how do you have to get this country back on point.
40:58
[SPEAKER_00]: We need to move with one voice.
41:00
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter.
41:01
[SPEAKER_00]: We only food.
41:03
[SPEAKER_00]: We all need a place to live.
41:04
[SPEAKER_00]: We all need healthcare.
41:06
[SPEAKER_00]: Those are not partisan issues.
41:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Those are real people issues.
41:09
[SPEAKER_00]: And those are the issues that we need to be addressed it.
41:12
[SPEAKER_00]: And we want to be have the freedom of speech.
41:15
[SPEAKER_00]: We need to have the ability to vote for who we want to vote for.
41:19
[SPEAKER_00]: And when Republicans come to me, and I meet somebody, so I'm a Republican, I say, that is so wonderful.
41:25
[SPEAKER_02]: That's great.
41:25
[SPEAKER_00]: But you know what?
41:27
[SPEAKER_00]: You're only a Republican in Democratic country.
41:30
[SPEAKER_00]: And if that changes, there is no political parties.
41:33
[SPEAKER_00]: If we become a dictatorship, that's one ideology.
41:36
[SPEAKER_00]: And you either get in line or get out.
41:39
[SPEAKER_00]: That's just that simple.
41:41
[SPEAKER_00]: And what do you really want?
41:42
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you still want to have a voice as an independent thinker?
41:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Or you want someone that's done all the thinking for you?
41:49
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to stand for independent thinkers.
41:51
[SPEAKER_02]: I love it.
41:52
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm really good.
41:53
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, housing and food costs.
41:54
[SPEAKER_02]: We talking about that a little bit.
41:56
[SPEAKER_02]: The central to the economic platform, what can Congress realistically do to try and lower those costs for working families?
42:04
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that is a great question.
42:06
[SPEAKER_00]: That's one of the things I've really been looking at.
42:08
[SPEAKER_00]: And we sitting here with very much aware, Congress can't throw a magical wand and just lower prices all of a sudden, particularly with the different tariffs and things that's in place.
42:19
[SPEAKER_00]: But homegrown, we can promote what is being grown right here in our state.
42:23
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
42:24
[SPEAKER_00]: Why are we shipping food out the state to import it in the state?
42:28
[SPEAKER_00]: Why are we buying this?
42:29
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't make any sense.
42:31
[SPEAKER_00]: We have individuals here that we could utilize.
42:34
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's use the homegrown stuff that's already here in that will help Lord.
42:39
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, we have to look at these corporations.
42:42
[SPEAKER_00]: Why are we allowed them to just jack the price and ensure any time they feel like it?
42:47
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
42:47
[SPEAKER_00]: And if we're going to allow that to happen, then we need to waste the wages.
42:51
[SPEAKER_00]: So people can't afford to purchase food.
42:54
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I don't know if you wear it, but the snap program, you know, one of the things I hear from a lot of these are stock extremists like, where people just want to hand out, no, they don't.
43:05
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
43:06
[SPEAKER_00]: People don't want to hand out.
43:07
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
43:08
[SPEAKER_00]: But if you don't pay enough money to to function without a hand out, they're going to need food stamps.
43:13
[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to have some.
43:15
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you have to provide some type of support?
43:17
[SPEAKER_00]: If you keep people in poverty, how do you expect them to raise the budget when you won't help them get out of it?
43:24
[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't want them to use subsidies or assistance program, then pay them more money so they can pay the own way.
43:29
[SPEAKER_01]: It's one of the other.
43:30
[SPEAKER_01]: It's one of the other.
43:31
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't have both.
43:33
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, with the food stem situation, now they're saying, the states will have to pay 75% of that.
43:42
[SPEAKER_00]: The government's only going to pay 25%.
43:44
[SPEAKER_00]: So what do you think, Georgia falls in that?
43:46
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
43:47
[SPEAKER_01]: The rich states get richer and the poor states get poorer, right?
43:50
[SPEAKER_00]: but they don't have to, if people put people first, doesn't have to be that way.
43:56
[SPEAKER_00]: We can't.
43:57
[SPEAKER_00]: George is sitting on a surplus right now.
43:59
[SPEAKER_00]: We should not have any hunger people in this state.
44:00
[SPEAKER_01]: 15, the bill, the bill, the bill, the bill, the bill.
44:02
[SPEAKER_00]: We got very, very, very, very exact.
44:04
[SPEAKER_00]: So somebody said, oh, but that's for the rainy fun.
44:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I think it's pouring down on.
44:08
[SPEAKER_00]: It's raining inside this building.
44:10
[SPEAKER_01]: Has anybody know what it is?
44:12
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm speaking boldly.
44:14
[SPEAKER_02]: Some places are experiencing a monsoon, right?
44:17
[SPEAKER_00]: There it is.
44:19
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, because people don't realize Medicaid not being expanded.
44:23
[SPEAKER_00]: The SNAP program, now you're talking about kids in school, because Medicaid in that SNAP program go hand in hand.
44:31
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you take those two things away, and families are already stretches, then is they possibly, how are they gonna be to put food on their table?
44:39
[SPEAKER_00]: It's my husband and I on our house.
44:40
[SPEAKER_00]: We're empty nesters.
44:42
[SPEAKER_00]: I go to the store for the just bare minimum.
44:45
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm out of 100 bucks.
44:47
[SPEAKER_00]: I cannot imagine taking food in two or three kids
44:53
[SPEAKER_00]: They eat twice as much.
44:55
[SPEAKER_00]: Head of Grotespear?
44:57
[SPEAKER_00]: I know you have to feed them.
44:59
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to get the money from.
45:00
[SPEAKER_00]: And the money's going for gas.
45:02
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
45:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Rit just doubled.
45:04
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
45:05
[SPEAKER_00]: So what are they going to choose?
45:06
[SPEAKER_00]: I just read an article for I came in here in Alaska.
45:09
[SPEAKER_00]: They're deciding right now, are they going to choose food over heat?
45:14
[SPEAKER_00]: Because it'll fuel causes.
45:15
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, right.
45:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Alaska have a high fuel.
45:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it'll be when it gets in.
45:20
[SPEAKER_01]: It won't any day now.
45:21
[SPEAKER_01]: It might be snowing tomorrow, right?
45:23
[SPEAKER_01]: We know.
45:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
45:24
[SPEAKER_00]: So now I have to choose between whether they're going to eat.
45:26
[SPEAKER_00]: I heat their homes.
45:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah.
45:29
[SPEAKER_01]: Just this nine, we're recording this on nine, 16.
45:31
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know much for when it floats out.
45:32
[SPEAKER_01]: But nine, 16 and diesel almost hit $7.
45:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, so.
45:37
[SPEAKER_02]: And projected properly to hit $7 at some.
45:41
[SPEAKER_01]: And it too, a clock today, the feds were meeting to talk about race and race and race.
45:46
[SPEAKER_01]: So my goodness.
45:48
[SPEAKER_00]: And our president says, after the midterm election, gas is going down to $2 a gallon.
45:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Because it's all political.
45:55
[SPEAKER_01]: It's all political.
45:56
[SPEAKER_01]: It's all political.
45:57
[SPEAKER_00]: But if it's gonna drop the $2 a gallon, why not now?
45:59
[SPEAKER_00]: People suffer now.
46:01
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
46:01
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, well, here's a solution.
46:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's a money solution.
46:03
[SPEAKER_01]: Ready?
46:04
[SPEAKER_01]: Data Centers.
46:05
[SPEAKER_01]: Data Centers will bring all the revenue in.
46:08
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, that's going to be clips.
46:09
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
46:09
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to like that guy.
46:10
[SPEAKER_02]: Listen.
46:11
[SPEAKER_01]: We know this hot on your list.
46:13
[SPEAKER_01]: So just help us understand, yes, there's data centers could provide incredible amounts of tax revenue for local communities.
46:22
[SPEAKER_01]: But at the same time, there's a lot of people who don't like them in their neighborhoods and backyard.
46:27
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think in the end of their there are a lot of pros and cons and the pro if it was true because what they're Promoting to us is that data sentence gonna come in they're gonna bring in all this revenue and then the Communities gonna have all these extra money and not have to worry about it and they're gonna get all these tax cuts And not gonna pay property tax anymore on and on and on on the other hand You know the data sentence use fresh water
46:56
[SPEAKER_00]: That is the resource that we need.
46:58
[SPEAKER_00]: And particularly in Georgia when we hit a drought, if farmers cannot do not have enough water to even water their crops and they're taking a loss, how are we going to cool these data centers down?
47:11
[SPEAKER_00]: And these centers take a lot of water and don't get, you know, they're trying to, the semantics.
47:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh well, Mr. Lancy, that's the closed loop system that doesn't use as much water.
47:21
[SPEAKER_00]: That is true.
47:22
[SPEAKER_00]: So now we exchange in.
47:24
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a heavy upload.
47:26
[SPEAKER_00]: The maintenance isn't as large, but now it's a heavy electrical load.
47:31
[SPEAKER_00]: Because when it's hot outside, it takes more electricity to cool these things off.
47:36
[SPEAKER_00]: So anyway, go, you're electric a bill going up and you water bill going up.
47:40
[SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, right here in Newton County, 400 yards away, they're following the lawsuit because that data center has made some of those whales run dry.
47:49
[SPEAKER_00]: And who's going to dig it for him?
47:51
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it up to the consumer to have to dig down deeper to get more water?
47:54
[SPEAKER_00]: Why isn't the data center doing that if they have those funded?
47:58
[SPEAKER_00]: They're getting all these tax cuts, but the people aren't benefits from it.
48:02
[SPEAKER_00]: If the data center is so wonderful for us,
48:05
[SPEAKER_00]: Then all extra money instead of us waiting on the $5,000 that the person is going to send everybody, we should take the money from the data center and send it directly to these communities.
48:14
[SPEAKER_00]: If it's in your community, then you should begin to weekly monthly check from these individuals.
48:20
[SPEAKER_00]: To compensate you for the nuances that you're dealing with, the noise, our energy conservation problem that we have at
48:29
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you know, folks aren't getting a check.
48:31
[SPEAKER_01]: You know they're right.
48:31
[SPEAKER_01]: No, you like it.
48:33
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you get that $2,000 turf check?
48:35
[SPEAKER_00]: That was coming.
48:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody still went on $2,000 turf check.
48:38
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think it might have received the yet, but let me tell you what water.
48:42
[SPEAKER_00]: How long can we live without fresh water?
48:44
[SPEAKER_00]: not very long five days you can really live three days about a fifth day your organs are starting to shut down so at some point we have to decide for humanity it's human life more important than these data centers we have to make a decision as a country for our communities what is better you know it was really sad to
49:09
[SPEAKER_00]: that another congresswoman from New York who they call a representative says OCA against our initials, but Cartez out of New York.
49:20
[SPEAKER_00]: Why does she have to come to Georgia?
49:23
[SPEAKER_00]: to bring up an issue out of Madison County that their water was turning brown.
49:28
[SPEAKER_00]: Where was our representative?
49:30
[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody's coming in my house to take care of my problems.
49:33
[SPEAKER_00]: And by representing you, that's my issue.
49:36
[SPEAKER_00]: You should never have the call around to find help when the representative lives right here.
49:41
[SPEAKER_00]: We sent them the Congress for you.
49:43
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
49:44
[SPEAKER_00]: We have to preserve water and we have to decide how we're going to do that.
49:48
[SPEAKER_00]: If the data citizen is going to exist, make them collect drain, make them collect rainwater.
49:53
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you figure out where your water's going to come from, but it should not be from our first water.
49:57
[SPEAKER_01]: They are smart people.
49:58
[SPEAKER_01]: They think they can really create a very creative way.
50:01
[SPEAKER_00]: They can do all these little things, but we're gonna have to think about that.
50:05
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you want to go to your faucet and the water turns in the water's brown?
50:08
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what a lot of these people coming up with.
50:10
[SPEAKER_00]: They can drink with it.
50:11
[SPEAKER_00]: It can cook with it and they can not wash they clothes and the settlements in it because it's mud dirt whatever's coming out of there.
50:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Their water heat is went out, their wash machines didn't function well anymore.
50:22
[SPEAKER_00]: Who's gonna replace all these things?
50:24
[SPEAKER_00]: The consumer.
50:26
[SPEAKER_00]: And the water bill will go up.
50:27
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, along with every No matter how they say it's going along with everything exactly.
50:33
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so glad I brought that up.
50:34
[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks Good for that.
50:36
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a hot topic.
50:37
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a great hot topic.
50:39
[SPEAKER_01]: People on here just so you know, we have people on all different side and very few in the messy metal.
50:45
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like either no data centers or yesterday the centers are
50:48
[SPEAKER_00]: When you notice, we're going to get behind in technology.
50:51
[SPEAKER_00]: And now what we're seeing in here is that this technology, if we don't get some control over what's being created, the technology would take over us.
51:01
[SPEAKER_01]: I heard something there with 10 years.
51:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, they will become like rogue.
51:07
[SPEAKER_00]: And now can you fight a robot?
51:10
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you have to strip to fight or we do not?
51:14
[SPEAKER_00]: So now you're looking at, and there was a researcher that worked for one of these big AI companies that quit.
51:20
[SPEAKER_00]: Why do he quit?
51:22
[SPEAKER_00]: Because he said that if we do this, we're looking at our humanity, human beings, this whole country being destroyed.
51:30
[SPEAKER_02]: I think he quit and gave up all his ideas.
51:33
[SPEAKER_02]: He gave up everything.
51:34
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
51:35
[SPEAKER_00]: But he gave up all humanity and those are the people that we need.
51:39
[SPEAKER_02]: And these are the people that this is now, this is a crazy thing because it's one thing for, you know, I'm not a data center guru.
51:45
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not an AI guru.
51:47
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
51:47
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's one thing for me to say some stuff like that.
51:50
[SPEAKER_02]: These are people that work and breathe this stuff.
51:53
[SPEAKER_02]: They know it.
51:55
[SPEAKER_02]: And they're like, yeah, this is not good.
51:57
[SPEAKER_02]: That's scary to me.
51:59
[SPEAKER_00]: So I just want to put one disclaimer then I have to cut you off.
52:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you're good.
52:02
[SPEAKER_00]: You're one disclaimer.
52:03
[SPEAKER_00]: No, so there, an A company with AI contacted me and wanted me to go on a panel about AI.
52:13
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, initially, I was like, I don't know nothing about AI, I'm a nurse.
52:18
[SPEAKER_00]: But I need to do more research.
52:20
[SPEAKER_00]: There is a place like, but when you think about AI in the schools,
52:26
[SPEAKER_00]: chat GPT, all these things that are access to our young kids.
52:31
[SPEAKER_00]: Now they're giving them critical thinking, because the computer's doing it all for more.
52:37
[SPEAKER_00]: Now we got a bunch of individuals running around in the world.
52:40
[SPEAKER_00]: Are they really literated at this point?
52:43
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, are they going to be able to solve a problem?
52:45
[SPEAKER_02]: Can't get out of the cable.
52:46
[SPEAKER_02]: Can't get out of the cable.
52:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Can't tell time.
52:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll snap you though.
52:51
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
52:51
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
52:52
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's abbreviated.
52:53
[SPEAKER_00]: So they wanted me to go on this panel.
52:56
[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought about going on this panel with them.
52:58
[SPEAKER_00]: But guess what?
52:59
[SPEAKER_00]: It was being held in Las Vegas.
53:02
[SPEAKER_00]: And my husband and I talked about he goes, he's saying, how do you think about that?
53:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Las Vegas, all the places they can hold is meeting.
53:10
[SPEAKER_00]: They want you to fly you to Las Vegas to talk about AI, which is not even your specialty.
53:14
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a thing about it.
53:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Where can you go on in Vegas and not go through a casino?
53:19
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't even gamble, but that's how what the headline's gonna say.
53:24
[SPEAKER_00]: The last one was in Vegas with your money that you donated in Vegas.
53:28
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not, this is nuts, you absolutely correct.
53:33
[SPEAKER_00]: So need to say no, I didn't know.
53:35
[SPEAKER_00]: Because you never know when you're running a campaign where people are coming from.
53:39
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna tell you how the stores just can't pay in some funny business that's been going on that has come up.
53:44
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, can I mention one that I think is really important for voters to know, especially female voters.
53:50
[SPEAKER_00]: A gentleman called me on a phone a few weeks ago, and he had this, you know, just ran up, you know, he talked to people all the time.
53:56
[SPEAKER_00]: He was all I want to, I want to volunteer at blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
53:59
[SPEAKER_00]: Make a long story short.
54:00
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, yeah, I heard your mate name is this, this.
54:03
[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of weird way to do.
54:05
[SPEAKER_00]: How do you say that?
54:06
[SPEAKER_00]: So I told him.
54:08
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a transparent person, I'm not in the hide.
54:10
[SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna find out anyway.
54:11
[SPEAKER_00]: He was, how do you spell it?
54:12
[SPEAKER_00]: So I told him.
54:14
[SPEAKER_00]: He was, oh, is that your main name?
54:16
[SPEAKER_00]: I said, yeah, it is.
54:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Two weeks later, just true story.
54:20
[SPEAKER_00]: I called the Secretary of State.
54:22
[SPEAKER_00]: I called the Board of Elections.
54:24
[SPEAKER_00]: I got a letter in the mail saying, you're not a registered voter.
54:27
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
54:28
[SPEAKER_00]: And you need to register to vote.
54:30
[SPEAKER_00]: And it came in the name that he said was my main name.
54:34
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you know what happens to females if they and that farm is from the state of Georgia that they put that envelope when I went board of elections They said miscellaneous this is from a third party.
54:44
[SPEAKER_00]: I said, but this farm she said, yeah, that's the legal Georgia farm That is Georgia address to the Secretary of State, but we didn't from the board of election, but we didn't send that to you
54:54
[SPEAKER_00]: She said, and you need to report it to the Secretary of State, which I did.
54:59
[SPEAKER_00]: And she said, well, I think that I already put on the website that this has been happening at people are getting these letters in their name.
55:07
[SPEAKER_00]: If you sign that paper, because you know your name, so you may, women may be thinking, oh, maybe this is legit.
55:13
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I should do this.
55:15
[SPEAKER_00]: No, your ballot is going to be thrown out because now you are registered twice.
55:19
[SPEAKER_00]: And you cannot do that.
55:21
[SPEAKER_01]: So all this was a big set up.
55:22
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a big set up.
55:23
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
55:24
[SPEAKER_00]: And guess what, that one he might make name.
55:27
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, that, I have the envelope, I can bring it to prove I can make these doors up.
55:33
[SPEAKER_00]: I cannot make it up.
55:34
[SPEAKER_02]: That's, that's, that's, that's evil.
55:37
[SPEAKER_02]: That is, that is evil.
55:38
[SPEAKER_00]: But that's how our voter rights are being challenged.
55:42
[SPEAKER_02]: John Lewis.
55:43
[SPEAKER_02]: Why is he in the hand?
55:45
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, you know,
55:47
[SPEAKER_00]: got his head beating so many people and we crossed that bridge united as we the people.
55:53
[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't just black people in that pedestal bridge.
55:55
[SPEAKER_00]: That was why people there were all national justice.
55:58
[SPEAKER_00]: There were people of color there with women and with men, there were kids crossing a public bridge to cross the other side to have our national guard take our tax pair of money to turn around and beat American citizens.
56:11
[SPEAKER_00]: Make that make sense to me.
56:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.
56:14
[SPEAKER_01]: It does.
56:14
[SPEAKER_01]: Now you're giving history lessons.
56:16
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm telling.
56:16
[SPEAKER_02]: It does.
56:16
[SPEAKER_02]: And as a good one, it's a necessary one.
56:18
[SPEAKER_02]: Ham speaks boldly.
56:19
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
56:20
[SPEAKER_02]: Listen, this is amazing.
56:22
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to ask you this question as we, I hate to say it right, but because there's so much we can continue to talk about.
56:32
[SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of going back to that whole thing of, you know what, get behind partisanship, right?
56:38
[SPEAKER_02]: So your Republican opponent presents himself as a strong ally, President Trump.
56:44
[SPEAKER_02]: Beyond party labels, I ask you this kind of a two-part question.
56:49
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you feel like is the most important difference between the leadership you would bring to Congress and his, but then also on the other side of that coin, what do you feel
57:02
[SPEAKER_02]: It's good.
57:04
[SPEAKER_00]: I would say what I bring that is stocked difference from my opponent.
57:08
[SPEAKER_00]: The moment is leadership experience.
57:10
[SPEAKER_00]: It should teach a thinker.
57:13
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not a one, I've been leading people from the military.
57:18
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a registered nurse.
57:19
[SPEAKER_00]: I've taken care of people by the bedside.
57:22
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a compassionate individual.
57:24
[SPEAKER_00]: I have empathy.
57:25
[SPEAKER_00]: I know how to listen to individuals, develop a plan, and make a plan of action on how to support those individuals.
57:35
[SPEAKER_00]: My opponent,
57:38
[SPEAKER_00]: Forget whatever else.
57:40
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not in the pickup thinker.
57:41
[SPEAKER_00]: My opponent is an aspiring politician.
57:44
[SPEAKER_00]: I am not.
57:45
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a public servant.
57:46
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been services.
57:47
[SPEAKER_00]: I was a child.
57:49
[SPEAKER_00]: I am an advocate for people regardless of whatever their political affiliation is.
57:55
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think the only thing that I would that I have in common with my opponent is the fact that we're running for this office.
58:06
[SPEAKER_00]: That would be the only thing I could come up with, I, too, there is, we have no other nothing else in common, because I am for the people, and I would take a, oh, to the people and to the Constitution.
58:18
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't take a lions when an individual or an administration, and that is a big difference, because I am willing to lead, advocate, and serve the people interest of district 10, not my own, a not of anyone else's.
58:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's Will said, Pam speaks boldly.
58:36
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to keep you in that phrase, whatever you're going for, and so too, because I thought that's pretty good.
58:40
[SPEAKER_02]: Very much so.
58:41
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, people are going to want to know how to get more information about you.
58:44
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe they want to donate to the campaign, and maybe they want to vote for you.
58:48
[SPEAKER_01]: How do they find out more information about you, is there a website?
58:51
[SPEAKER_00]: There is a website called VotePamDolancy.com and I can tell you, GooglePamDolancy.com, all that stuff a pop-up, GooglePamDolancy.
58:59
[SPEAKER_00]: You can GooglePamDolancy, but VotePamDolancy.com is my website.
59:04
[SPEAKER_00]: And please reach out.
59:06
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I would like vote to say, I want voters to be informed.
59:10
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't just vote along political lines.
59:14
[SPEAKER_00]: vote for individuals that their values line up with yours.
59:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
59:18
[SPEAKER_00]: And remember, we're here to represent you, not ourselves.
59:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.
59:23
[SPEAKER_01]: That's good.
59:25
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we thank you so much for taking some time.
59:27
[SPEAKER_01]: I know you've been three hours this way, three hours that way.
59:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for spending an hour with us today.
59:32
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
59:33
[SPEAKER_01]: We're very grateful.
59:34
[SPEAKER_01]: And also, just for the people of Newton County, Morgan Walton, Jasper, the folks of Rockdale who watched this.
59:38
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
59:40
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a big audience that I hope your message gets out to as well.
59:42
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, thank you so much, and thank you so much for having me.
59:45
[SPEAKER_00]: It's been a pleasure to get the message out.
59:47
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want people to realize that I'm all about the people.
59:51
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not here for a paycheck.
59:52
[SPEAKER_00]: I did 39 years.
59:53
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm okay.
59:56
[SPEAKER_02]: Not hurt too much.
59:57
[SPEAKER_00]: Not too much, but I am hurting because this country is hurting.
1:00:01
[SPEAKER_00]: I have kids, you have kids.
1:00:03
[SPEAKER_00]: I want them to grow up in the country.
1:00:05
[SPEAKER_00]: The country wasn't perfect.
1:00:06
[SPEAKER_00]: Wasn't perfect for me, but I had an opportunity to thrive.
1:00:11
[SPEAKER_00]: And right now, people are barely surviving.
1:00:14
[SPEAKER_00]: We have to get people back with their not only survive, but they're able to thrive and enjoy what this country has to offer.
1:00:21
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much, I appreciate you having us.
1:00:22
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, thank you.