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The Local Election Most Detroiters Are Not Paying Attention To - Ep. 183 w/ Jenell Mansfield · Black Fridays: Business Growth for Entrepreneurs, Creators & Professionals

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[SPEAKER_03]: But I think what brought me to this moment, though, is that my mom passed about a year ago.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And she lived in D5.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And you know, I'm a lobbyist.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I will access.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know these people, I know these systems.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm calling around, because she made $26 over the federal power in life.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I call it a city.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm calling it state.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm calling the county.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Detroit area just seeing on age any nonprofit I could get my hands on to try to get some financial support for her nurse and home care because she had massive strokes and I got nothing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: and I knew if somebody with my level of education and access, could not get anything out of our systems, I know the working class people that I live next door to the left and the right, could not.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And so it really feels, and the policy is a context work.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And if you sit on a sidelines and you never get in and play somebody's still playing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And somebody's still winning and losing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So if you're not in the game at all or paying attention, you're probably the loser.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now let's go ahead and get back into the episode.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, don't Black Friday family.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome back to another installment of Black Friday's podcast.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Before again, to today's episode, I need to eat that light button, subscribe, drop a comment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just a video of the family friends and loved ones so that we keep this thing going.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now that we got that business out of wait, I literally got family in the building.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got someone in here who is a social justice warrior, a youth advocate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And probably the first lobbyists I've ever met in life, but they aren't in a very important race right now, running for Wayne County Commissioner District 5, Miss Janelle, Mansell, how you doing today?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm doing good, happy Memorial Day.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We hang around the holiday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We ain't here on the holiday working.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All the time, undefeated, never lost.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now you know, we can go back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to keep professional, but you know, we can play around all day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I did, yeah, that's how I met you back in, so when I when I started college, Janelle had finished many many, many years before.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Man, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She was my summer bridge peer advisor, I think it's what they what they called it, so she basically got a chance to babysit people who was fresh out of high school took.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was matriculating in the college and actually taking classes and that's where we met We've been locked in ever since somebody who was definitely a part of the family That my wedding had an amazing time gave me a spoke life and to me at the wedding and only way and only a way that she could So yeah, this is This is definitely family family on the podcast today took you long enough
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know, I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's all good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I ran into the public face now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Talk to my stuff a little broader now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So in terms of the race that you're a part of, like I said, it's very important.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't pack people's day-to-day in terms of the Wayne County Commissioner.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I wanted to start with the baseline of what is a Wayne County Commissioner or Commissioner in general for any county and what does that job into?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I love that question because I get that on the door as a lie and just in the while like what does the county commissioner do so essentially the county commission is the legislative body of the county so think of our government and tier so we have the federal level and you have the president and the Congress to state we have the governor and the state house and state legislature ought to get things.
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[SPEAKER_03]: thing you have your county you have the county executive who is more evidence for one county you have the commissioners who is the legislative body like that checking balances and then for the city you have your mayor and then you have your city council right and they legislate policies around the municipality together so at the county level the most important thing they do is assess property taxes assess collect um for properties access run the regional transit system we know in one county as a smart bus
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[SPEAKER_03]: county health, which is like the first line of defense for people who don't have health insurance or accessible health care, you can always go get free health care from the county, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Also in any other miracle out of things where we undergo it's 43 counties in Wank County, 23 communities, not counties.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Also more residents in 12 states passes budgets in the millions of dollars.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So there's a lot of inner workings and things that happen at the county level that we just simply don't pay attention to and there's a lot of resources there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So as a county commissioner, you kind of carousel the resources and tandem with the state and the city to ensure that all the people in the county are cared for and the people in your district.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And district five is one of the few districts telling encapsulating the city of Detroit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So that's a beautiful opportunity to serve the very city that I come from and there's 122,000 residents 116,000 of them are black.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So
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[SPEAKER_03]: To me, it's the perfect C, it's the perfect time because the incumbent who was in the C passed away and it's the first time it's open for you know there's a pointing and she's running But completely open for somebody to kind of make their stake and you know share their vision for what they think the sheet should be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then what does district five include of as far as the state of Detroit goes and then if there's any other cities that's rolled up and then as well.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it's Holly and Catholic in the city, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it goes from China to Greenfield, eight miles to Grand River in 96 freeway.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So that actually was coming into, of course, like, Bagley, this is Bagley.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm a proud resident of Bagley fast three years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm the University District, face to Gerald Russell Woods, Palmer Park, Charlotte Forest, but also Green Acres, Mary Grove community.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it's a huge district, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: very, very diverse in this sense of like economic backgrounds, education backgrounds, very working class people to some of the more affluent people out of the judges, city officials, Johnson Bissant lives in the district zone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There's a wide breadth of people to service and I think I got all the skills to meet and what they ate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: for sure and then and that that's perfect because like you said you it is the district that includes that is all included about the city of Detroit and then the first thing that anybody know about to is the love of your city and your background they're gonna know you from Detroit they're gonna know you aka
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're gonna know that you're a mom and I'm probably like the top three things that they would know just all first impressions, but in terms of being a daughter of Detroit, I would love to know how it has a city been able to help grow you into the woman that you're out today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Detroit is the most beautiful black city in the world.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And when I say the word, I mean the world.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know we come from a whole continent of black people, but it sounds special about the black people right here in Detroit, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think the culture, the confidence, the swag, that hustle, that resilience, I think has made me who I am.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And you know, coming from the West Side of Detroit, probably will, play me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, bro, be right, be right, be right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I was the first person in my family to go to college.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, well, I went to Detroit public schools and I didn't go to some of those legacy schools.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I went to man and like, and I retired and then went to Renaissance, right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And so I think I've had this beautiful hybrid experience of being like a real Detroit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to Rouge Park and going swimming in at the county, going to the corner store right in the below with my mama and like remembering a sight in the smells of the city before it is right now when it and falling in love with it and like that rodness and like it raises me and giving me the skills to go on to a run a size.
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[SPEAKER_03]: where I was one of the poor kids, okay, I was on a school with like very affluent children from very affluent families, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, but it gave me the skills to navigate both and I learned a lot from them as well as from that upbringing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I thought I think and then going on to university of Michigan really just made a perfect hybrid of how do you like operating these structures, but but stay true to yourself and Detroit gives you that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It gives that co-swishable also that provider when the confidence I could be a real Detroit girl
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and after living in different states, myself and like meeting people and they like, oh yeah, you're from Detroit or I know somebody they like they know they can identify it like, yeah, that is some about Detroit for sure.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, as we saw on Valentine's Day, I mean, I moved into Miami and we're having dinner at Carbone, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: And this is Dulce, next is he buffed it, you could see the watch, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: You can see it, you can see it, you could fill it off of the charter immediately.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We just got the aura, we got it, you know, the little swag.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love how you casually drop carbomb, but we gonna keep it rolling.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So of course, it's the thing with the theme of Detroit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would love to introduce him my favorite part of Black Friday with this free style Friday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, um, I hope you guys can borrow it for us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Talk to us.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you're not really wrapped.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm just saying that you've been in the booth, that's what.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So be, so look, I have a lot of dreams and like one of my dreams, you don't have a catering business.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, do education advocacy and I really want to be a
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[SPEAKER_03]: have a bunch of hits and be a cashed out, but I definitely want to be a load of them out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, hey, they hit your streets.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We growing like me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Bars as far as Bars, both for Jay Man, she's the girl with the plan.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She got all you need.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think you understand.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She gon' hit the doors and she gon' get the votes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She's the best you better put her on a top with your vote.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And this is Y'all against four.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I bet her arms.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I bet her arms.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I bet her arms.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I bet her arms.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I bet her arms.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It doesn't mean we're a prank.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I'm saying for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But since that you did, thank you for giving us some bars and being a brave soul to do so, I would love to ask you a couple of rapid fire questions for Y'all, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So speaking of bars, if you had to give district five for Wayne County, a theme song, what would that be given that you are a resident of the district?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What's the vibes?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I would say Diner Ross, I'm coming in.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Why?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because I think defied Bentley, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, it has got so many historical districts that aspects to it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And black owned business has always had a home near off liver noise and avenue of fashion.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But also like we're welcome in there beyond juice, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I think we've been that girl, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: And like Diana said, I'm coming up and I want the world to know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So like we've always been there, but now it's time to put that on a center stage as our city is growing and growing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And people want to come out from like just downtown in the town and see what our neighborhoods have to offer.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think D5 has their distinctive flair of not just a live and noise corridor, but also on six miles.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We got the toss and sauce.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He had on either further on periods and we got wing stars.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, we won't.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We want to fool a D5 shadow.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I always wanted a house on my drive as a little girl so this is like I'm living in my dream house But there's also beautiful areas tucked up all in there for people who grew here To grow to like plant their roots and have homes and be able to trust the schools and trust the community that would be It and so she coming up and she wants everybody to know love it loving and do this is who-parter?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Who would you say is your favorite either social justice warrior political person anybody that you like
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[SPEAKER_03]: seek or get inspiration for coming young um hello how mother be here because you out yeah because you flat out he'll be investigated by the fast for 20 years and he still said I'm a deserator you saw represent my people and I'm gonna do it flawlessly right yeah and I think he
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[SPEAKER_03]: He wore a moniker of what a black mayor is.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it didn't just set the tone for Detroit, but what it doesn't mean to have that type of black leadership nationwide, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we do see like with Mary's election, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: We love to see that black authenticity and that love for our city to come back, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: We also see it in Baltimore.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We see in the across the country where black mayors are on brand and I think he was the first one to ever do it And I want to be able to catch all I don't still be myself and do great policy and great work and bring business And do my job as elected official but still be do not like don't play with me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Of course Of course and the second part of that would you take $500,000 tourists or campaign or would you rather take a dinner with culminating
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[SPEAKER_03]: $500,000 to the campaign.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Colman has made his imprint on the world.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't say, Colman would tell you, take the five hundred dollars.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Colman would tell you, take five and thousand.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If Jesus ain't nothing, they don't offer you your salvation, you better take that money.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just doing it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What is a hidden gem in district five that people may not necessarily be aware of?
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[SPEAKER_03]: A hidden gem in district five.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I would definitely say periods, the new barn, you know, off live in the ways.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think it's getting a little, it's getting traction.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's always back when I ride by, but I think it's a beautiful hybrid of authentic Detroit bar.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You don't get that freeboard, but the fool was very good and creative and that energy of like a more modernized space, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like the static is really cool.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They got like a little printed sign of egg.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like we want to have with them like, yeah, there we is.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I definitely think that is one, and I will say my new favorite hinge in this park side on the island.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know y'all be like the old shoreblood, didn't know what's known.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's all the parts I come y'all and get us together.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, 24 hours, the best cheese corn beef egg rolls, and they'd be shaving the corn beef in the back and they got collage.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, you know, like I said, I hybrid kind of girl.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Say no more, we will be there after this interview.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Corn beef egg rolls, tomato sauce.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And laughing at least, you are a mother of twin boys.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Pick your favorite twin.
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[SPEAKER_03]: not pass them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And some days is the thing when you got three people, little people around you, they will lay off each other, the energy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They try to kick the other was what they dial, build the other was of the fidgetch.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So you really just, um, I just a little pond in there, you know, you're only getting shoes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They do it and it's you know, configuring in the house.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Who's the favorite that day?
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[SPEAKER_01]: For sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, thank you for partaking the freestyle Friday since successfully passing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They'd great job.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So now we'd love to be able to get back more into your story and being able to understand the journey that you took in terms of your pathway to now you're running for a commissioner for district five, but in terms of you started out in after Michigan, you started out education, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I see.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So what was that journey like in it?
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[SPEAKER_01]: How did this shape where you are now in the things that you value in are fighting for?
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[SPEAKER_03]: awesome question.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Love that is because teachers aren't everything, teachers do everything, teachers have the new skillset to make everybody else and that you have this skill set that you could replicate on everything, engage in with people, backwards planning, learning how to read a role and set the tone, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, you just take on a different set of leadership skills.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So when I left Michigan getting my master's social work, I remember telling my mentor, I want to be a teacher in social work on a site of world.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She was like, okay, do it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I was like, okay, hi.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, get some answers to social work.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Do teach for America.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You could do it on.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And so I did get my masters and social work from you of them and 2012.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then I was a core member for Teach for American Dictionary.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I taught on the East side at Brim and Scott, and this was when the E.A.A.
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[SPEAKER_03]: was coming in in the district.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I had more kids than I had seats.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I had 37 on the roster in about 33 to 34 showed a daily.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And me and me and let me tell you, me and my babies is still some of the best of friends.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like we have followed each other for years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They was knocking doors with me yesterday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like me and those kids having printed on each other and all teachers kind of say that about the first group.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But I think I took on such a different understanding of our city.
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[SPEAKER_03]: like education and versus like how I grew up and then be in place like on a totally different sector at a city like it just kind of opened my eyes right and so I went on to be a school social worker because I got pregnant with my twins and teaching just feels crazy when you when you're pregnant right and so I used my I had a certification in school social worker social work and I was using that and it was a charter school when the working conditions were horrible so we organized
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm sitting here with seven month old twins.
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[SPEAKER_03]: My count is over draw by $100 and I'm just applying for jobs.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I get a job with City Tradeplace Center being your inaugural Director of Academics and running like the three to eight space, right on the east side, on seven modeling then, I get the old loopy center.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And for me, that was paradise because that's where I taught because I taught every in the sky, right off like seven miles.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And a lot of my old students came back within the program and it really just taught me to impact of philanthropy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: and business and community when they like have a good comes close together how we could move community forward.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And all of this is working together in boom in 2016 is really interesting person gets elected.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We want to talk about them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And everything I did in my personal time became political.
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[SPEAKER_03]: My first experience knocking doors was on a badly recall initiative for warrants mayor because he got caught on a hot mic saying very interesting things about the black folks of warrants.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So that was some fun doors, though, because some doors is our cause.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, yeah, we got to get them out here the other one was like, we love to get off my portion.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, and this is, you know, New maga, America, and I began to like violence here on campaigns and do a lot of stuff outside of like running a center, and I knew like, maybe I want to run for office, so I did some office, like some prep work like Michigan political leadership program, um, new leaders council.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And everybody was like, you know, you really like politician, you need a job.
19:34
[SPEAKER_03]: That's like going to show that you can run for office.
19:36
[SPEAKER_03]: And so I became a director in the district, running the Piranha Academy initiative, which was like 150 parents and courses, over to semester, which allowed me to really touch the community in a different way.
19:48
[SPEAKER_03]: All of these thing about how these things are scaffolding up into finally I was offered a job with a team Michigan by a black woman who was my predecessor and she was like,
20:00
[SPEAKER_03]: And so for the first time they matched the their political organizer with their legislative work.
20:04
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm near political and legislative coordinator.
20:07
[SPEAKER_03]: I advocate for over 40,000 educators, public workers and healthcare workers across the state.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Which means I'll have you to budget workers rights.
20:16
[SPEAKER_03]: We help repeal rights work when the students of Detroit sued the state for 94.6 million dollars for their right to read.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And they won and the state won release it for years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I live we don't make sure in the district finally released that money.
20:28
[SPEAKER_03]: um teachers in Detroit hired after 2019 they didn't have to collect a bargaining rights because the member became DPS, DPSED, they did a little switch in there as any new teachers came uh being unionized so we worked to get there with their collective bargaining rights back and this has only been the last five years and so looking at all of these experiences, I learned how do we work with
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[SPEAKER_03]: community, how do we work with the business, how do we formulate laws that actually move things for the daily lives of working class people and like working in the labor movement has like taught me so much, you know, I got to be a delegate to the DNC and it's open so much doors to me as a black woman in politics, right?
21:08
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, being, being able to cast my vote for Kamala Harris at the National Convention was like one of the high spots of my life, right?
21:14
[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm.
21:15
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, so I think what brought me to this moment though, is that my mom passed about a year ago.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And she lived in D5 and you know, I'm a lobbyist.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I will access.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know these people.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know these systems.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm calling around because she made $26 over the federal power in the line.
21:35
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'll call it a city.
21:36
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm calling the state.
21:37
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm calling the county, Detroit, Area, just, you know, any nonprofit I could get my hands on to try to get some financial support for her nurse and home care because she had massive strokes.
21:48
[SPEAKER_03]: And I got nothing.
21:51
[SPEAKER_03]: and I knew if somebody with my level of education and access, could not get anything out of our systems, I know to work in class people that I live next door to the left and the right, could not.
22:02
[SPEAKER_03]: And so it really feels to me like, okay, you should do something.
22:06
[SPEAKER_03]: 50% of our budget in a county goes to the sheriff and to jails.
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[SPEAKER_03]: no way that we can't think of something more proactive to do for our seniors to Asian dignity and for our young folks to have like a welcome and city like how are we taking care of the taxpayers right before they can even interact with our criminal justice system so I'm here now you know looking at all the experience I've garnered from working with elected not only am I focused on winning because I know how to win I've ran field politically for the last two presidential elections the last governor tour and the last municipal
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[SPEAKER_03]: nobody knows about the last game better than me.
22:40
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like at least and also how to govern because I watch people govern very poorly and Detroit be put on the back burner.
22:48
[SPEAKER_03]: And I refuse for that.
22:49
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm excited to use all these fun skills and do a really hard thing.
22:54
[SPEAKER_03]: So I love that.
22:56
[SPEAKER_01]: I love that and then being able to obviously take your own experiences that you had in terms of the resources that are
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[SPEAKER_01]: put in place in order to be able to support us in the county, but then also not necessarily the most accessible because of broken systems, communication, all the things.
23:14
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm wondering if you could talk a little bit more as to some of the key resources that we may have like as a county or for the district that people may not be privy to because like you said, you called everybody in order to get support for your mom, but like what are some of those things that's in place for us?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then how does that?
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[SPEAKER_01]: How does that or should impact people's day-to-day who live in these areas?
23:37
[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
23:37
[SPEAKER_03]: So for example, one of the biggest responsibilities of the county is property taxes, right?
23:42
[SPEAKER_03]: And what happens when people in our communities go into for closure?
23:46
[SPEAKER_03]: What is the first
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[SPEAKER_03]: line of defense.
23:50
[SPEAKER_03]: When somebody has reached that point because of their taxes, are we offering them?
23:54
[SPEAKER_03]: Or do they got a call list?
23:56
[SPEAKER_03]: And then we tell them to call through other people.
23:57
[SPEAKER_03]: They never get an answer.
23:59
[SPEAKER_03]: Literally knocked a door of a woman yesterday who was keeping her great grandchild because her grandchild, now my judge is two, three generations removed from her children.
24:07
[SPEAKER_03]: And she was like, because I've had to take my great grandchild in and I retire and behind on my property taxes.
24:13
[SPEAKER_03]: And I say, if you're talking about it from consciousness, I keep calling.
24:15
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't get how do we, the same way we all mobilize to get somebody votes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: How do we mobilize the street team and take these resources to the people?
24:23
[SPEAKER_03]: Because there is payment plans.
24:24
[SPEAKER_03]: There is a pause you could do.
24:26
[SPEAKER_03]: There's many things at the county level, because I never want to say these things on a disease.
24:30
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think more evidence has done amazing things to make the county more accessible.
24:34
[SPEAKER_03]: I have more resources, especially around the taxation issues.
24:37
[SPEAKER_03]: But we know systems are systems.
24:40
[SPEAKER_03]: So how do we use our positions as commissioners to disperse these resources into communities outside of black clubs and photo opportunities, right?
24:49
[SPEAKER_03]: Really going door to door and having a system to talk to people transit.
24:53
[SPEAKER_03]: We know that no county, no city can survive without viable transit.
24:57
[SPEAKER_03]: Detroiters are ready pay for their smart bus, right?
24:59
[SPEAKER_03]: But we're eliminated in the access because of the 14 communities who have opted out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This August, they will have an opportunity to opt in.
25:06
[SPEAKER_03]: So that means Detroiters will get direct bus lines to refer La Vonga, climate of township, what does that mean economic development?
25:13
[SPEAKER_03]: That means our seniors have access to better health care, better shopping opportunities, our kids have other opportunities to find joy to go explore our county and our different cities, right?
25:24
[SPEAKER_03]: So we as Detroiters deserve that access, just as much as people come work and play in our city, for us to go work and play in their municipalities this way.
25:31
[SPEAKER_03]: Also, RxKids, that is an excellent program that Connie has taken on to pay new mothers a stipend for those first few months after birth.
25:42
[SPEAKER_03]: When I told you I was 13 hundred dollars overdrafted with seven months old, RxKids would have saved me in that period, right?
25:51
[SPEAKER_03]: So how do we in the face of losing federal funding?
25:54
[SPEAKER_03]: Make sure we can still back to feel those type of programs by working with the state, coalescing with the city, right?
25:59
[SPEAKER_03]: Because the city has its own separate artists program from the county.
26:03
[SPEAKER_03]: Just these very nuanced things people may not even understand.
26:07
[SPEAKER_03]: But how do we really get those resources to the doors of folks and take care of our most of our children in our seniors?
26:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I love that because the biggest thing, my, some of my biggest issues with politics, especially local politics is
26:19
[SPEAKER_01]: Like you said, people are showing up for the photo.
26:22
[SPEAKER_01]: Opportunities, the opportunity to be able to touch people during campaign season, but how do you keep that listening channel, that feedback and information?
26:31
[SPEAKER_01]: How do you keep that flowing throughout the entirety of someone's time and office and in general?
26:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Just to be able to keep a pulse of what's truly going on with people, because it could almost, it comes off as, I don't care until it's time for me to say my ass and get back into a political seat.
26:47
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, talk about it and I think from working in policies the last decade, and specifically in this lobbying road, the last five, I've watched really great legislators and I've watched really bad ones.
26:59
[SPEAKER_03]: The really great ones have constant communication with their constituents, whether it's the bare minimum happy hour or doing those deep campuses whenever you get more.
27:07
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm spraying summer.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They got whole teams of people in off election years going door to door
27:15
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you not see in your community that I could be doing differently, right?
27:18
[SPEAKER_03]: Opening up that communication, but also what is your, I have come up on this theory of like, remember back in the day in an ID.
27:25
[SPEAKER_03]: When it was a party, it would be the street scene.
27:27
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they'd be in the streets with the T-shirt, the flyers.
27:29
[SPEAKER_03]: Why would I have a street scene?
27:30
[SPEAKER_03]: In fact, when the street scene would be rolling through D5, letting people know what are the resources available to them and whether we have a target a senior, I went to a senior home last week.
27:39
[SPEAKER_03]: And it was like, you know, people come in here and they present to our seniors and they never
27:44
[SPEAKER_03]: How hard it would it be for you to make one month of touch on a difference in your home that you know that's not a heavy lift.
27:51
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
27:51
[SPEAKER_03]: And this is what I noticed about the best elected officials.
27:54
[SPEAKER_03]: They feel beholden to their people, not to any corporation, not to any donor, but to the voters.
28:01
[SPEAKER_03]: And so I think that's the biggest thing for me is how do we reinvent new ways to touch folks.
28:06
[SPEAKER_03]: And people let us say, oh, that's the social media candidate.
28:08
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe some people is on social media.
28:09
[SPEAKER_03]: They are not in legacy media.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're not listening to radio ads.
28:12
[SPEAKER_03]: How do you use these new structures and systems to turn resources to people versus just your message and vote for me?
28:19
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, because I think you could even see power in wherever you sit on the side of the teen takeovers.
28:24
[SPEAKER_01]: That's been happening in the only Detroit, but other major metropolitan cities.
28:29
[SPEAKER_01]: But
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[SPEAKER_01]: being able to mobilize on social media like I don't know how I want to say they the old man and me want to say they got together on Facebook, but that ain't how they did it.
28:36
[SPEAKER_01]: They I don't know snapchat, Roblox, whatever they do.
28:38
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they were on their socials and somebody from them to be replicating like that.
28:43
[SPEAKER_03]: Somebody's something's out there telling them to do that.
28:45
[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
28:46
[SPEAKER_01]: And so we need to figure out ways to be able to mobilize in similar ways.
28:50
[SPEAKER_01]: And then, you know, the other side, they've been able to figure out how to mobilize and, you know, storm capitals on January 6 through Facebook.
28:57
[SPEAKER_01]: So how do you, you know, how, like you said, leverage in these platforms to be able to go out and do good and mobilize people to make real change in the communities that we all live in and care about.
29:08
[SPEAKER_03]: absolutely.
29:09
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think it's a source with like understanding that we are in like the while, while West, the like social media and media in general.
29:18
[SPEAKER_03]: And it takes for you to pick up your mic and talk about the things you do to improve our community versus somebody's psi-op conversations that we see going out like sometimes we really have to understand like there is propaganda, there is manipulation in all of these systems.
29:32
[SPEAKER_03]: And if we don't step up
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[SPEAKER_03]: for social justice, for people for a movement, then they will remain collected, right?
29:40
[SPEAKER_03]: And then they'll limit our access because we see that with socials now.
29:43
[SPEAKER_03]: Socials started getting real weird.
29:45
[SPEAKER_03]: Why?
29:46
[SPEAKER_03]: Because they see it as a movement so they see the liberation aspect of it, right?
29:50
[SPEAKER_03]: And so I think social media is one thing, but I never discounted order to our face-to-face conversations.
29:55
[SPEAKER_03]: When we lost 40% of our kids in a district in Calvary, who were just not getting online, who didn't have the capability,
30:02
[SPEAKER_03]: And I started the first campus in initiative for the district to go support and final students.
30:08
[SPEAKER_03]: Going to them doors, totally changed.
30:10
[SPEAKER_03]: People's whole outlook on like, how do I feel about my school district?
30:13
[SPEAKER_03]: How do I feel about the resources available to me during this crisis?
30:17
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I'm saying?
30:18
[SPEAKER_03]: So I also think there is understanding how to innovate in his news like guys.
30:22
[SPEAKER_03]: But also, we know where words go to what works.
30:26
[SPEAKER_03]: And I imagine, you know, go talk to the people, go knock on their doors, go get in the community with the folks.
30:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
30:32
[SPEAKER_01]: And speaking of social media, where do you stand on 50, 50 dates?
30:36
[SPEAKER_03]: We don't do that around here.
30:39
[SPEAKER_03]: We don't do nothing to you.
30:41
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not 50, 50, 50.
30:42
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a y'all rogue.
30:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you'll say it in this economy, man.
30:47
[SPEAKER_03]: 50 better than this, baby.
30:48
[SPEAKER_03]: And also, that's how we also know that society out.
30:51
[SPEAKER_03]: Anything that is pulling the sentient from us not to be colorless and together.
30:56
[SPEAKER_03]: Honestly, the cook is that people don't like this stat.
30:58
[SPEAKER_03]: The cook is way out of poverty is to get married.
31:01
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, tell them more.
31:02
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you got to think if I'm a person, make it 30,000, and my partner's making 25.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Got you, combine it.
31:08
[SPEAKER_03]: We made 50 and we in one household, right?
31:11
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I'm saying?
31:12
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, if you look at the quantifiers for poverty, it's always a separate household.
31:18
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's not to push the institution of marriage.
31:21
[SPEAKER_03]: It also would be pushing the institution of
31:23
[SPEAKER_03]: I've seen you deliver here with the cousins, with the grandma, with the baby, right?
31:26
[SPEAKER_03]: How do we build communal structures to overcome poverty, right?
31:31
[SPEAKER_03]: If I keep telling you, you're going to get that apartment at 18, only you broke and you're a credit messed up.
31:36
[SPEAKER_03]: And you're going to be back with your mom and twin to anyway.
31:38
[SPEAKER_03]: You might not want to leave house, so, right?
31:41
[SPEAKER_03]: And so, and I think other, and I don't like to say we're not doing stuff in comparison with communities, because it's my community.
31:47
[SPEAKER_03]: But we we also got us at a certain point.
31:48
[SPEAKER_03]: Take our ownership of what can we do differently out of this system that is set up to be so like against us.
31:55
[SPEAKER_01]: So speaking of our people, we got slow down on the common log marriages.
31:58
[SPEAKER_01]: If you're going to be with that one for 20 years, go ahead and lock in because you combine the incomes and now we come up.
32:04
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, you know, we live going together for 30 years.
32:07
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a fight.
32:08
[SPEAKER_03]: Y'all got a fight.
32:09
[SPEAKER_03]: He is hostile.
32:10
[SPEAKER_03]: He is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's not.
32:11
[SPEAKER_01]: That's my friend, my roommate.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You keep living there long enough.
32:15
[SPEAKER_03]: Like he said, comment on all your married anyway.
32:17
[SPEAKER_03]: You want to steal split chess.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you want to break up.
32:19
[SPEAKER_03]: So you might as well just go get married.
32:21
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: facts.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
32:24
[SPEAKER_01]: What would you recommend the people in terms of being more informed and being more proactive when it comes to the things that happen in their community?
32:34
[SPEAKER_01]: So whether it be voting for Wayne County Commissioner or voting for any local lesson, because I always tell people you want to, of course, the national elections are they, they matter.
32:45
[SPEAKER_01]: But the stuff that happens is your day to day like that literally affects your
32:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Day-to-day livelihood and the things you have access to and what you're able to do, but I don't think a lot of people and I'm sure you've seen this and in your fight and struggles with government and these different systems and organizations that people don't fully grasp their own power.
33:04
[SPEAKER_01]: And so like what would you say that occurs people to invest more and two that power lean more into it.
33:11
[SPEAKER_03]: Because that's not, it's also not a mistake, right?
33:13
[SPEAKER_03]: That they're divested, like they're overworked, like our labor force is built off the format of chattel slavery, to extract the most, to give you the least, right?
33:22
[SPEAKER_03]: And the systems are built in this way, like when I'm knocking doors, the one lady's like, wow, I'm mad in my crackfile, where I say, oh, baby, that's the city.
33:28
[SPEAKER_02]: She's like, what would you do with this guy?
33:30
[SPEAKER_02]: She's like, what would you do with this?
33:31
[SPEAKER_03]: So myself, that's great, that's all for us.
33:33
[SPEAKER_03]: So look, the most basic steps are engaging the system is to vote.
33:37
[SPEAKER_03]: And at least Google, all of these candidates on your phone and see who has a platform you like, who do you agree with?
33:45
[SPEAKER_03]: Actually, do your research on the ballot because on election that you're not, I mean, cause it's like, if I get some people, who I need to vote for for this for this for this?
33:51
[SPEAKER_03]: Right?
33:52
[SPEAKER_03]: And who are your trusted validators, right?
33:54
[SPEAKER_03]: That you listen to that, even maybe when you don't feel
33:57
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'll be listening to your videos, I mean, yeah, I get to rent the rent.
34:01
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a great part of me with P is also a great platform.
34:04
[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
34:04
[SPEAKER_03]: If you want comments here on politics, just things going on on socials.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There is some trusted validators.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Gander news outlier media, Michigan Chronicle.
34:15
[SPEAKER_03]: We know we probably can't trust the MSNBCs, but find you a good, independent news source that you could trust the information.
34:22
[SPEAKER_03]: Right, even if it's Sam Robertson on Twitter, he, he gone to the truth.
34:26
[SPEAKER_03]: So who can we trust when we want a pins on those things and start with something small?
34:31
[SPEAKER_03]: Go to your black club or start watching some of these meetings.
34:35
[SPEAKER_03]: So I have set all my news alerts and I watch the Wank County meetings, hunted to the hunt.
34:40
[SPEAKER_03]: $300,000 being passed.
34:43
[SPEAKER_03]: All that is money moving around and nobody paying attention, at least start even if you're at work, play it in the background and city council meetings.
34:51
[SPEAKER_03]: The city council knows that there is a structure set of people that are always calling it.
34:54
[SPEAKER_03]: They like me such a such a thing.
34:56
[SPEAKER_03]: Why don't you be the shocker sometimes and call it right?
34:59
[SPEAKER_03]: Like sometimes what I always say is one step toward the process or toward the action is going to take three steps toward you.
35:07
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
35:07
[SPEAKER_03]: And we ain't just for people to be more involved in more and like asking more questions is going to be organized or somebody went on that other side.
35:14
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you like this, like come over here.
35:15
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to teach you more.
35:16
[SPEAKER_03]: And it and what people got understand.
35:18
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I live politics 24 seven as an active citizen.
35:23
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't got to do that, but you got to give something.
35:26
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
35:26
[SPEAKER_03]: This is not.
35:28
[SPEAKER_03]: And if you sit on a sidelines and you never get in and play somebody steal playing and somebody steal winning and losing.
35:35
[SPEAKER_03]: So if you're not in the game at all or paying attention, you're probably the loser.
35:39
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
35:39
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you see the video or the white man at Oakland County?
35:42
[SPEAKER_01]: He went to their county meeting and he went off on them and he liked things.
35:47
[SPEAKER_01]: He had a list of things that he trusted more than now.
35:49
[SPEAKER_01]: And he said, Bill Cosby is my bartender.
35:55
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm going to tell you, you better watch those people in Oakland County.
35:59
[SPEAKER_03]: And they're recall efforts on one of their commissioners.
36:02
[SPEAKER_03]: And it had all to do with like, please surveillance cameras in a contract.
36:06
[SPEAKER_03]: And them, like, getting the right say, let me watch how them people exercise their rights.
36:11
[SPEAKER_03]: And don't let you do anything to them.
36:14
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to even start serving as technology in our communities a predominantly black community you know I'm much been passed and nobody said nothing or they demonized or look crazy these people are given us a perfect example of We have a say here and if I don't like what you're doing.
36:30
[SPEAKER_03]: I can do it if I don't want them cameras in my community I'm not gonna do it.
36:33
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so how do we start modeling that activism in our communities while still center in public safety and you know The quorum in our city, but also we're not gonna just take anything
36:42
[SPEAKER_01]: And like you said, it's happening in plain sight because it's not like they're not having meetings about this and nobody's showing up or very low numbers with people paying attention to it.
36:51
[SPEAKER_01]: It didn't the people who do, then they try to pass them off as like, oh, that crazy person over there.
36:55
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, yeah, Julianne always doing something wild, but yeah, it's really some truth to and they're doing it in plain sight.
37:02
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and I think people are getting past the gas lighting, because gas is five dollars.
37:07
[SPEAKER_03]: A.O.
37:07
[SPEAKER_03]: President's fit up there and say, I don't think about America's financial situation.
37:11
[SPEAKER_01]: I bet you don't.
37:12
[SPEAKER_03]: I bet you don't.
37:13
[SPEAKER_03]: And you're in here grifting in Gosling.
37:15
[SPEAKER_03]: You get all you could get, right?
37:17
[SPEAKER_03]: And so I think that we have to be more active.
37:21
[SPEAKER_03]: We have to wake it up a little bit because we're getting done in.
37:25
[SPEAKER_03]: when you go into the grocery store and they digitally changing the prices of the groceries right in front of you, that's crazy.
37:30
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm on Instagram this morning.
37:32
[SPEAKER_02]: I know Mars got heavy cream.
37:34
[SPEAKER_03]: Why are you showing me the horizon is the only option?
37:37
[SPEAKER_03]: That is manufactured and they also know my own like all of these things are being coalesced against us.
37:45
[SPEAKER_03]: So the only thing you got to show two feet in your activism between you and like honestly, full-out fascism and all the
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I would love to understand your line of thinking of this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's case scenario, you win the selection on day one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously you have a mandate of what that role is for you to have.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So being able to, of course, like review the different.
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[SPEAKER_01]: bills that not bills.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry, the different legislature that comes through with what gets past budgeting things like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But outside of that, I'm sure there are different initiatives that you will be able to take on as a commissioner member.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So like what are some of the things that you want to be able to get rolling on day one taxes taxes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I want to talk about property taxes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I want to talk about the ways Detroiters are taxed.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think as an a person who has worked with elected officials, first asked our so-called Alicia building, who else is on that commission, who cares about that equally, and will be wanting to take that up with me, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: And so how do we build a coalition first within a governmental body and the environment community?
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[SPEAKER_03]: So working to education and understanding funding, everything's about that funding formula.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We've been fighting for like at least a decade for a weighted funded formula.
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[SPEAKER_03]: where we know kids in Detroit and West Bloomfield need different things to be educated and their property taxes are different.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So their schools are different.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So how do we make a for the gap that property taxes cost, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we need experts, researchers.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We had to pay a lot of money as a of team Michigan and attended with other unions and community partners to get the student finance research collaborative, which is basically the Bible on equitable school funding in Michigan.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We need the same for property taxes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: When you ask who are the property tax experts in the room, crickets, it's like three or four people who really understand why those meals are what they are, what has been classified out the levels that they have, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, and we need to get them people in the room.
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[SPEAKER_03]: and we need them to come a what are the former lay solutions to ensure that Detroiters are never overtaxed again.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The people who were overtaxed and placed in a four-culture crisis and lost their half ways to wealth are mayhold.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And even people there was an article in Alliary News this week saying that only people in Detroit were shorted their overage payments from that overtaxation.
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[SPEAKER_03]: One woman was saying she was expecting 801 and it came 15 and this is it was
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[SPEAKER_03]: We have questions.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We have questions.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I think that's my first thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We have questions.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I want answers.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Two, what is the formula?
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[SPEAKER_03]: What are the meals?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Why are the way they are and what needs to possibly change, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: And
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[SPEAKER_03]: What is going on with our assistance and our evaluations of our property?
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[SPEAKER_03]: People are being overseas.
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[SPEAKER_03]: How do we become dead?
40:31
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's be honest, you are checking the balance.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You are not a rubber stamp of the treasury.
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[SPEAKER_03]: How are you assisting my people in Detroit versus how you're doing with OEM?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's make it make sense.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So that would be my first thing.
40:42
[SPEAKER_03]: It's tax and I think that's a huge thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that that is going to cross and push back, cross and tension.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I want to build the coalition to look into it and then see what is the policy solution we could come out on the other end that we could galvanize community behind.
40:56
[SPEAKER_03]: Because it can't just be me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You shouldn't like any one person think they gonna do anything for you bottom sales.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You think who can I put in the place to echo my sentiments and I could get behind and help them get that done So for me it will be taxes and then of course to RTA.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So on the ballot I know Detroit's gonna pass it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We hope to what is RTA regional transit authority aka the smart bus.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay
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[SPEAKER_03]: So make sure we have access today and not in a way that disrupts D dot but under girls D dot operations and like I say it gives us that regional really for us to have regional trends that we have to start with county by transit we can go to McCone we can go to Oakland if we can get around way so really happen on with true and all the other community advocates behind that and really educate our community of the benefits of that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: and making sure they're taking full advantage.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So for me, the biggest things would be taxation, transportation, and of course, resources for our seniors.
41:46
[SPEAKER_03]: How are we using our budgets, how can I propose programs, and line items and things, or a grandized access to things that are already there, because I don't want to pretend like they're not doing great things.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But increasing the access for our seniors and for our young people.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And really, I think for my mom, I got to put down for my mom and make sure all the beautiful grannies and grandpas I met on the trail
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[SPEAKER_01]: all day all day and I would love to know what has been the biggest learning lesson or lessons that you've had and like you said you've been a part of campaign before and been behind the scenes now switching the attention to you and being in the driver's seat of having your own campaign that you're in right now with some of those things that you have learned along the way.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't like everybody that says they're going to come with you and encourage you to run and come
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[SPEAKER_03]: But for every one person, there's like 10 that are.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And like once you take that step, it just opens up so many doors of like, people want to support you and buy into the VGA.
42:43
[SPEAKER_03]: And I forgot what said it to me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: My best friend, Courtney, she said it's just like, it's the biggest exploration of self-belief.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I do you really believe you say you are who say you are that you can do the things you say you're going to do and it make you make you stand up so it is like a big Populate or the contest and it's packed me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm smart and pretty.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I can do it So no, but seriously, unless you know that it is very validating while also being very challenging and
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[SPEAKER_03]: make sure you have such a spirit of gratefulness because these people don't got to like you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I got a whole team of my friends who are Michigan, how we're renaissance like top tier brilliant people doing this for me for free with me for free.
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[SPEAKER_03]: right and I just am so blessed and so thankful and I noticed it's why this is the right time and why it's righteous because everything is aligned and I don't feel like I'm all dead.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like I got to work for it and earn it so I feel like it's it's a beautiful terrifying thing.
43:42
[SPEAKER_01]: And then if you want to take it to the next level you guys get some cast-take people in there you know that right.
43:47
[SPEAKER_03]: We got some techniques as an aerodynamic and it's not my best was a technique.
43:50
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, here's what I'm going to go to.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So if I didn't bring watch over here, okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, amen to that.
43:57
[SPEAKER_01]: How can people not that you are doing this campaign and being able to go through this journey?
44:02
[SPEAKER_01]: How can people be able to support you, whether they live in Wayne County District 5 or not?
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[SPEAKER_01]: How can what's the best ways for people to support?
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[SPEAKER_03]: First off, if you live in Wayne County, District 5.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We need your vote.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We need you to vote for me on August 4th.
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[SPEAKER_03]: General Mansville, I will be on the back of the ballot and we're asking everybody that lives in District 5.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So vote yes on the smart bus renewal.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And yes on General Mansville for counting commissioner.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And if you don't live in District 5, you want to support our new join them doors.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Campaigns are won by dollars and doors and ours are the ethics that is campaign, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: We need people to knock.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Every door like I say is 20,000 voters in this primary.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I need 10,500 and one votes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And every voter we talk to, they love what we're talking about.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And they want to vote for me.
44:48
[SPEAKER_03]: But we need the people to do it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So go to morewithmancefield.com.
44:52
[SPEAKER_03]: That is morewithmancefield.com.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Click on the link to volunteer and sign up.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We are outside on the doors.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thursday Friday Saturday and Sunday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we got phone calls because we know everybody don't like to put your phone to the
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[SPEAKER_03]: And lastly, we need the coins, we need donations, donations, let's hope it's donations, okay?
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[SPEAKER_03]: We have crossed our first 15,000 raised and we need about 30 to make this vision happen, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: So we need you to go on to morewithmaster.com again and click the link to donate, okay?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Any gift is majorly appreciated, especially if it's recurring.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But anything you do will be appreciated and push our vision further into district five and hopefully put us over the edge on a valley.
45:34
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm a Democrat.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The race is the primary.
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[SPEAKER_03]: My race is in November, but because this is a contentious primary, this is the race in this August.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So we need all the dollars, all the doors before August 4.
45:46
[SPEAKER_03]: So come on, hurry up.
45:47
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, Janelle, thank you so much for finally pulling up to the Black Friday's podcast.
45:53
[SPEAKER_01]: It's grateful to have you on a platform and as you can tell, we can talk about anything.
45:58
[SPEAKER_01]: You're coming to politics, what's going on locally, things like that, but grateful to see that you are stepping into your power and being able to step into the forefront of being able to drive true change for the people in our community and the people that I know that you care so much about just having the love and spirit and enjoying the love and on people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: in your day-to-day, but now being able to do so at a broader scale.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So shout out to you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And thank you for having me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you for supporting me always, living me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: T-T.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm glad that he let me come on today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So thank you for having me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Anytime.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody watch and listen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Make sure it's all continue to tap in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to see you all on the next one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Peace.