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INTERVIEW: Keisha Lance Bottoms Talks Running For Governor Of Georgia, Black Leadership, Kamala Harris + More · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's the world most dangerous waning to show to
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Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. CHARLAMAGNEA God, DJ NV, just hilarious, Envy and
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Speaker 1: just are gone. But ll Kuba Lauren Lrosa is here
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Speaker 1: and we got Testling figure O sitting in because we
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Speaker 1: have a very special guest, the former mayor of Atlanta,
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Speaker 1: and she's running for governor Georgia.
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Speaker 2: Miss Keisha Lance Bottoms is here.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, good morning, Thank you for having me.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for coming. How do you feel?
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Speaker 3: I feel great. It's great to be here. It's I
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Speaker 3: had a fundbraiser in New York and great to see
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Speaker 3: you in person.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely What move made you want to run for governor
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Speaker 1: Georgia in these crazy times?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we we are living. It's like in the twilight
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Speaker 3: zone right now. So I woke up the day after
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Speaker 3: the election in November, like so many people, wondering what
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Speaker 3: it meant for me personally and just for us as
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Speaker 3: a nation, for Georgia as a state. And I did
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Speaker 3: a lot of praying, a lot of talking, and then
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Speaker 3: some more praying, and I decided in season to get
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Speaker 3: back in the ring. We need strong leadership, and people
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Speaker 3: are looking to states and to local governments to stand
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Speaker 3: in the gap because we've got so much craziness and
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Speaker 3: chaos coming out of DC right now.
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Speaker 1: You know, Stacey Abrams ran for governor twice and she
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Speaker 1: fell short even with massive national attention. What would you
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Speaker 1: do differently so Georgia, you know, it doesn't be like
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Speaker 1: oh another almost yeah.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, Charlemagne, one of the first national interviews
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Speaker 3: I did was when I was a candidate for mayor
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Speaker 3: and you had me on and we did it the
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Speaker 3: old fashioned way. You go knock on doors, you call people.
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Speaker 3: Now we've got TikTok and all these other ways that
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Speaker 3: you have to communicate with people sitting here. I mean,
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Speaker 3: your audience is massive. We have to cover it all.
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Speaker 3: And what you do. You look at every election, from
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Speaker 3: Stacy's elections to the VP being on the ballot in November.
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Speaker 3: You take what work, you keep it, and then what
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Speaker 3: didn't work as well, then you fix. And the reality
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Speaker 3: is this, You know, there is a reason that Georgia
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Speaker 3: went blue in nineteen and twenty. We've got two state
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Speaker 3: senators who are two senators from Georgia who are Democrats.
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Speaker 3: So it's possible. It just hasn't happened yet, but it's
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Speaker 3: certainly possible.
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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of critics say Democrats in Georgia
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Speaker 1: can't win statewide unless they run more moderate, like would
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Speaker 1: you play to the center or lean fully into like progressive.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, my mom always says, you don't have
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Speaker 3: to tell the truth once, and the truth the truth is.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I am a moderate there, you know, you
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Speaker 3: just standing your truth and what you believe in. And
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Speaker 3: I believe that there are some policies that work from
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Speaker 3: the left. There are some policies that may be more conservative,
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Speaker 3: but at the end of the day, it's about getting
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Speaker 3: things done. And when I served as mayor, we got
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Speaker 3: a lot of things done, from adding and preserving seven
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Speaker 3: thousand units of affordable housing, to get in our city
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Speaker 3: workers up to a minimum wage of fifteen dollars an
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Speaker 3: hour because in Georgia it's just over five dollars an
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Speaker 3: hour to I mean, I can give an entire list
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Speaker 3: of things that we were able to accomplish, but it
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Speaker 3: was standing in our truth and what our values were.
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Speaker 4: I'm glad you brought that up because you were known
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Speaker 4: in Atlanta for real standing up for people against the
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Speaker 4: predatory lending and how the home buyers were getting things
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Speaker 4: taken and things like that. The homeowners. Can you speak
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Speaker 4: a little bit about that, well.
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Speaker 3: Affordable housing was a big push from our administration. And
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Speaker 3: it's not just an issue in urban areas. It's happening
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Speaker 3: in rural communities as well. We've been traveling around the state.
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Speaker 3: It's happening around the country, and you all know it's
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Speaker 3: people are paying attention to the mayor's race in New York.
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Speaker 3: Affordability is an issue. So we did focus not just
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Speaker 3: on affordable housing, but also helping the unbanked. We had
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Speaker 3: programs that would help people who were under their bank
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Speaker 3: or couldn't go to traditional institutions to even cash their
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Speaker 3: checks at the end of the work week, making sure
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Speaker 3: that we could help build up their credit, making sure
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Speaker 3: that they had a relationship with the bank. We were
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Speaker 3: able to do that through the US Conference and mayors.
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Speaker 3: Financial literacy is so important, whether it's from helping somebody
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Speaker 3: get a down payment on their first home to helping
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Speaker 3: to create credit that allows them to even think about
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Speaker 3: getting their first home. So it's like the approach is layered.
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Speaker 3: We know that there are a multitude of challenges that
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Speaker 3: people are facing, but government can and should help address
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Speaker 3: some of those and sometimes it's in conjunction with the
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Speaker 3: private sector.
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Speaker 4: I want to ask you, forty nine women have been
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Speaker 4: elected as governor and not one has been a black woman.
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Speaker 4: When you talk about what hasn't worked and what didn't work,
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Speaker 4: what are some some of the challenges that you see
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Speaker 4: that all though successful in Atlanta, which is the black mecca,
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Speaker 4: how will you, I guess galvanized when you look at
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Speaker 4: Georgia as a state, which is very different than Atlanta
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Speaker 4: being I would say it's own, you know, own state
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Speaker 4: by itself. How are you going to you know, reach
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Speaker 4: out to those communities that are not interested, you know,
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Speaker 4: in electing and not just a woman of color of
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Speaker 4: specifically a black woman. How do you how do you
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Speaker 4: plan on dealing with those challenges?
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Speaker 3: Well, the reality is this, we've never had a woman
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Speaker 3: an elected governor in Georgia either, and it is about
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Speaker 3: meeting people where they are. So we've been traveling around
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Speaker 3: the state. Atlanta is a great place, but I can't
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Speaker 3: rely just on Atlanta. If I did, if any candidate did,
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Speaker 3: we wouldn't win. So we've been making Warner Robbins Augusta
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Speaker 3: will be in Auburny next week. We have been to Savannah,
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Speaker 3: Chatham County. We're moving around the state talking directly to people.
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Speaker 3: So I've got this whole list of issues that i
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Speaker 3: want to focus on. Eliminating state income taxes for our teachers,
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Speaker 3: we got to teach a shortage, expanding medicaid in our state.
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Speaker 3: We've got nine rural hospitals who have closed. We have
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Speaker 3: half our counties who don't have obgyns, don't have pediatricians,
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Speaker 3: more deaths than births in more than half our counties
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Speaker 3: in the state. That's unacceptable. So we're moving around talking
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Speaker 3: to people. I've got my list of issues, but as
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Speaker 3: I'm hearing from people, I'm adding to that list. And
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Speaker 3: it's about reaching everybody, black women, black men, brown people,
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Speaker 3: white people. It's about listening and being willing to course
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Speaker 3: correct when necessary.
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Speaker 1: You know, Republicans in Georgia don't play fedal. You got
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Speaker 1: voter suppression. Jerry Manderain couturewards like, do you think you
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Speaker 1: can really outstrategize that you feel like you like kind
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Speaker 1: of walking into a trap.
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Speaker 3: No, We've done it before. I mean, and I know
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Speaker 3: you all are paying attention to what's happening in Georgia.
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Speaker 3: Five hundred thousand people have been removed from our voter roles.
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Speaker 3: There are hearings happening right now in the state where
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Speaker 3: they're trying to reduce early voting and remove absentee voting.
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Speaker 3: In this whole list, and when you look at a
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Speaker 3: place like Georgia where the margins are so thin, it matters.
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Speaker 3: So you mentioned Stacy Stacy's first race fifty five thousand votes.
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Speaker 3: She lost by the vice president one hundred thousand votes.
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Speaker 3: That's not a lot when you have millions of people
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Speaker 3: showing up to vote. So again, what we got to
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Speaker 3: do is keep talking to people, get them energized. Listen, listen, listen.
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Speaker 3: I've got four children, three are teenagers, one is twenty three.
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Speaker 3: I got to stop clutching my pearls when they say
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Speaker 3: things I don't agree with, because it's their reality. And
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Speaker 3: as candidates, it's great that we go up on television
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Speaker 3: and do all these fancy things. We got to go
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Speaker 3: into the barbershops, the beauty shops. We got to listen
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Speaker 3: to people.
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Speaker 5: And then act accordingly in the beginning of the interview
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Speaker 5: of Charlie may ask you like, why now in these
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Speaker 5: crazy times that I'm hearing you talk about like going
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Speaker 5: out and doing things. And the first thing I thought of,
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Speaker 5: especially with you being the first if elected, was uh
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Speaker 5: Kamala Harris's book, and she talked about, you know, just
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Speaker 5: a lot of the struggles she went through because as
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Speaker 5: a black woman, they weren't they didn't know that. Not
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Speaker 5: only did they not know what to do, it wasn't
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Speaker 5: built for her, but they didn't support and she dealt
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Speaker 5: with a lot behind the scenes. I know you you
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Speaker 5: worked with the Bidy campaign.
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Speaker 2: What did you.
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Speaker 5: Experience then, if I if at all anything that is
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Speaker 5: preparing you for what you're potentially about to walk into
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Speaker 5: as first woman black woman governor.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I worked in White House, and you can't work
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Speaker 3: in the White House and sit in that senior meeting
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Speaker 3: every morning just a few steps from the Oval office
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Speaker 3: and not be a better leader. You see how things
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Speaker 3: get done, and it is challenging anytime that you are
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Speaker 3: the first in the room, but it's also this opportunity.
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Speaker 3: I would always chuckle to myself when the President would say, Keisha,
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Speaker 3: what do you think? And I would think. I bet
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Speaker 3: nobody's ever been asked in the old office, So you know,
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Speaker 3: they're challenges, but there are also a lot of opportunities
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Speaker 3: there and a lot of times when we are the first,
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Speaker 3: it's hardest for us in those spaces, but you're opening
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Speaker 3: doors so that hopefully you won't be the last and
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Speaker 3: it won't be as difficult as people coming behind you.
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Speaker 2: How do you.
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Speaker 1: Navigate supporting the president like Biden while still being honest
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Speaker 1: about what he could have done better and he could
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Speaker 1: have done better for black communities, because I'm all record
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Speaker 1: is seeing the now of the Democratic Party and the
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Speaker 1: future of the Democratic Party, you got to throw that
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Speaker 1: old regime under the bus. And the VP does a
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Speaker 1: great job of doing that in her new book.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if you read it yet, but no,
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Speaker 3: I haven't read it yet. But you know, there were
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Speaker 3: a lot of great things that happened from the Biden
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Speaker 3: Harris administration that delivered for our communities, and I think
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Speaker 3: unfortunately right now, just a couple of days ago, I
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Speaker 3: was speaking with someone about black farmers on all the
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Speaker 3: strides that had been made in our rural community specifically
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Speaker 3: to support black farmers. Trump administration's already clawed it back.
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Speaker 3: So there were a lot of things that were done well,
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Speaker 3: and I'm very proud of that. Hindsight is always twenty twenty.
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Speaker 3: You think about things that perhaps could have been done differently,
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Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, that administration delivered
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Speaker 3: a lot of wins for our communities. And now we
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Speaker 3: got to look forward and figure out how do we
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Speaker 3: keep going, how do we keep building, how do we
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Speaker 3: keep moving? Even when I talk to you, when I
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Speaker 3: was running for mayor several years ago, Instagram was this
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Speaker 3: new thing, this new communications tool that we were using.
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Speaker 3: We're light years away from that. And if we are stagnant,
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Speaker 3: then we're not going to progress as a party. But
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Speaker 3: what I know is this, this democracy that we live
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Speaker 3: in for now to work and progress, and we've got
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Speaker 3: to be nimble the Republican Party, you know, I compare
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Speaker 3: these maga Republicans a broken clock is right twice a day.
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Speaker 3: They've hit it on messaging, and they've hit it on
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Speaker 3: the long game, and I think we can learn some
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Speaker 3: lessons in that.
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Speaker 2: I guess that's it for me.
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Speaker 1: Right like Democrats, you know, Democrats couldn't message when they
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Speaker 1: were winning, right at least on a federal level. So
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Speaker 1: now that they're losing, what can the party message the people?
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Speaker 1: And I know, I know it's just a state race,
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Speaker 1: but you're still representing the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 2: So what is the message now?
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Speaker 3: Well, I think Charlotte Mane like, we'll be looking at
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Speaker 3: you all to help us with that too, Like how
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Speaker 3: do people get their messaging? How do we communicate with people?
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Speaker 3: We perfected political messaging and ads and all these things
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Speaker 3: that we've done for decades on end. What we've not
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Speaker 3: perfected is and I'll just go back to this example.
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Speaker 3: I remember my now fifteen year old son was like
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Speaker 3: looking at some NBA something or another on television and
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Speaker 3: I heard Trump's voice coming through. I'm like, what is
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump? Like what are you watching? And he's like,
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Speaker 3: oh yeah, he's on here all the time because he
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Speaker 3: was talking to our kids when we were still on
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Speaker 3: cable TV. So I think it's going to take all
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Speaker 3: of us. It's going to take us thinking differently. You know,
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Speaker 3: the way that we've traditionally done politics clearly doesn't always work.
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Speaker 3: It's not always effective. You can still be principled, but
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Speaker 3: you can still be willing to learn something new. And
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Speaker 3: that's a challenge. And for me again, I'm listening when
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Speaker 3: I go into barbershop with my kids. I'm listening when
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Speaker 3: my son tells me, you know what he did two
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Speaker 3: three years before the election, we had a problem with
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Speaker 3: young black men. I'm like no, poland saying x y Z.
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Speaker 3: He's like, no, y'all got a problem. So I'm learning.
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Speaker 3: I'm learning to listen.
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Speaker 2: You know, you know Keisha a black mother.
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Speaker 1: From the start, she said, my son was watching some
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Speaker 1: NBA something something something.
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Speaker 4: I won't go back to when you said a part
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Speaker 4: of it is leaning on us, And I want to
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Speaker 4: talk about pressure that a lot of us we put
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Speaker 4: on you know Democrats as well. I know Charldamain's taking
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Speaker 4: a lot of heat for it. I've certainly talking a
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Speaker 4: lot of heat. I want to go back to what
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Speaker 4: you said about the black farmers. And so, although the
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Speaker 4: Biden administration did deliver, still pressure had to be put
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Speaker 4: on the Biden administration to do the right thing. In
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Speaker 4: twenty twenty two, turning Bedroom Crump pat two foul a
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Speaker 4: lawsuit against President Biden. So I think it's fair to
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Speaker 4: say that, yes, the Biden administration delivered. Yes, they certainly
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Speaker 4: did more than what a previous administration would do or
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Speaker 4: perhaps what another administration would do. But he also, because
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Speaker 4: I remember, was he was very conflicted about having to
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Speaker 4: do that. And so how do we be honest enough
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Speaker 4: for people to say that, yes, we are putting pressure
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Speaker 4: on possibly your favorite president or whoever you may like,
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Speaker 4: in order to get things done. And how can we
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Speaker 4: be honest about that when we're, you know, doing our
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Speaker 4: advocacy in the media. Basically, can you respect that that
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Speaker 4: I may have to say this, ain't it y'all not
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Speaker 4: doing the right thing because it's traditionally business, well you're
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Speaker 4: helping Trump or you're helping other side, when that's not it.
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Speaker 4: We're trying to just actually help the black farmers.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And what I'll say is this is we can't
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Speaker 3: let perfection get in the way of us participating. I'm
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Speaker 3: not saying that Biden Harris administration was perfect. Clearly it
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Speaker 3: wasn't perfect. But I'll put the worst day of the
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Speaker 3: Biden Harris administration up against this Trump administration any day
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Speaker 3: of the week, because at least I knew we had
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Speaker 3: a chance. And again, elections are about looking forward. We
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Speaker 3: want to make sure that when we elect people that
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Speaker 3: we have a chance to have us see at the table.
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Speaker 3: I've been inside the White House, so I know he
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Speaker 3: gets to walk through the door and have those hard conversations.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes you agree, sometimes you disagree. But as we look
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Speaker 3: to twenty twenty six, we got to think about do
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Speaker 3: we want to have a chance again? Do we want
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Speaker 3: to have a fighting chance? And my concern right now
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Speaker 3: is at the rate that we are going and the
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Speaker 3: way our democracy is being unraveled, literally hour by hour,
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Speaker 3: that if we surrender our right to participate, we're not
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Speaker 3: gonna have anything to participate in. John Lewis was my congressman.
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Speaker 3: He represented my district, and I'm often reminded of his words.
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Speaker 3: Our vote is the most powerful weapon that we have
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Speaker 3: in a democracy. If we don't use it, we will
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Speaker 3: lose it. I get that people are frustrated, and people
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Speaker 3: are choosing the couch. They're not choosing Democrats, they're not
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Speaker 3: choosing Republicans. They're just disgusted. I ain't going for none
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Speaker 3: of y'all. And that is the worst thing that we
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Speaker 3: can do, is to give up and not be a
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Speaker 3: part of the conversation and not be counted. So no,
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Speaker 3: no administration gets it all right. The Obama administration didn't
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Speaker 3: get it all right. The Clinton administration didn't get it
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Speaker 3: all right, but we at least had a chance to
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Speaker 3: try again. I don't see that with this Trump administration.
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Speaker 1: You know, one thing you did when you was mayor,
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Speaker 1: you gave raisers for police officers and firefighters and always say,
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Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, more money should go in
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Speaker 1: police officers pockets. Right, I feel like, you know, if
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Speaker 1: you have a higher salary for police officers, you'll get
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Speaker 1: a higher quality of a person for the job.
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Speaker 2: Right. Why did you decide to do that.
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Speaker 3: We had a retention issue. We were really struggling, and
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Speaker 3: we were Our officers were leaving, they were coming to
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Speaker 3: get trained in Atlanta, they were leaving to go to
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Speaker 3: other surrounding metro area cities and counties because we were
17:03
Speaker 3: not on par not just locally but nationally as well.
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Speaker 3: Our firefighters hadn't gotten their money, their appropriate raises in
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Speaker 3: fifty years. And at the end of the day, it's
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Speaker 3: you know, whatever your position is on police officers or
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Speaker 3: public safety in general, you know, it's not just about
17:26
Speaker 3: calling somebody when there's a crime, When you have a
17:29
Speaker 3: car accident, when somebody breaks in your car, you got
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Speaker 3: to have somebody who can come and investigate and then
17:35
Speaker 3: be able to go show up in court and testify
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Speaker 3: and do all those things. So it was important, and
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Speaker 3: you know it was. I didn't get the support of
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Speaker 3: police officers or firefighters when I ran, but I thought
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Speaker 3: that it was the right thing to do and it
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Speaker 3: was the right thing to do for our city.
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Speaker 2: Did they give you credit after the fake they did?
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Speaker 5: They did some of your kids. I know you got
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Speaker 5: four kids, your wife and some of your kids are older.
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Speaker 5: I heard you say something help you with like social
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Speaker 5: media stuff like that, Like how do you balance because
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Speaker 5: what you do in politics is very demanding. How you
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Speaker 5: balance It's like life outside of that.
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Speaker 3: With everything else that balance for a lot of people.
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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean, you know, thankfully, I have an
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Speaker 3: incredible family that sacrifices more than anybody could possibly understand.
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Speaker 3: And my therapist said something to me that I keep
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Speaker 3: in my heart a lot. She said, you were a
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Speaker 3: strong mayor. I want you to be a powerful governor.
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Speaker 3: Strong women push through. They have heart attacks, they have strokes,
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Speaker 3: and they die. She said, powerful women stop, they learned
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Speaker 3: a lesson and then then only then do they move on.
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Speaker 3: So for me, it's about balance. So if I have
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Speaker 3: to if I have to stop what I'm doing and
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Speaker 3: be balanced when it comes to the needs of my
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Speaker 3: kids or my family, my husband, that's what I have
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Speaker 3: to do because that's power. Because when I'm out of sync,
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Speaker 3: my family's out of sync, my community is out of sync.
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Speaker 3: So I'm I'm focused on being powerful as a mother,
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Speaker 3: as a wife, and as a leader, and balance is hard,
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Speaker 3: but it's a choice.
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Speaker 4: It means you think women get that grace though, because
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Speaker 4: you don't really hear men saying I'm gonna be balanced,
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna be a mother. Do you think that's why
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Speaker 4: people have a problem women leader? Yeah, exactly, Like they
19:35
Speaker 4: don't want a leader that's gonna be balanced. They want
19:38
Speaker 4: completely off balance and totally focused the inn on that.
19:41
Speaker 4: So I mean, do you think that plays a part
19:43
Speaker 4: and why? Yeah, I don't want women leadership.
19:46
Speaker 3: Life isn't fair. People are gonna always take exception to
19:50
Speaker 3: what you choose and how you choose. But for me,
19:53
Speaker 3: I know that I'm a more powerful leader when I'm
19:55
Speaker 3: balanced than when I take the time to take a
19:58
Speaker 3: walk or when I take the time to do something
20:01
Speaker 3: like listen to a book. It makes me stronger, and
20:05
Speaker 3: it makes me more focus. It makes me a better mother,
20:09
Speaker 3: makes me a better wife, it makes me a better leader,
20:14
Speaker 3: and a lot of times, you know, whatever your profession is,
20:17
Speaker 3: we often don't find that balance and we don't choose
20:21
Speaker 3: it for ourselves. So we go. You know, I was
20:24
Speaker 3: strong and I pushed through and then we pass out
20:27
Speaker 3: somewhere because we've been pushing through, and power is saying
20:32
Speaker 3: sometimes I got to put me first. You know, we
20:36
Speaker 3: often hear this metaphor when you're on the plane, you
20:39
Speaker 3: got to put your oxygen mask on first. Well, that's true,
20:43
Speaker 3: because if I'm not right, nobody is right in my house.
20:48
Speaker 5: What are your therapy as much as you want to share,
20:51
Speaker 5: what are your therapy sessions? Like, how do you separate
20:54
Speaker 5: Keisha land Spottoms as the person, the mom, the wife
20:58
Speaker 5: versus I'm coming here because my job in politics are
21:01
Speaker 5: putting me in a bad mental space?
21:02
Speaker 3: Or do they all come together in therapy? It all
21:04
Speaker 3: comes together. I love therapy. It's wonderful too. I highly
21:08
Speaker 3: recommend it too, you know, because you get to unpack
21:11
Speaker 3: all these things. You know, we live our lives and
21:13
Speaker 3: we think they're like these segmented spaces in our lives.
21:19
Speaker 3: But through therapy, what I have found is it's all related.
21:23
Speaker 3: You bring all that childhood stuff with you, the good,
21:26
Speaker 3: the bad, the ugly. It comes with you into adulthood,
21:30
Speaker 3: it comes with you into marriage, it comes with you
21:33
Speaker 3: into parenthood. Like you bring it all in. If you
21:37
Speaker 3: don't understand it, sometimes it just doesn't make sense. And
21:41
Speaker 3: the thing I love about therapy is that it's somebody
21:45
Speaker 3: who It's not like you're arguing with your spouse, like
21:49
Speaker 3: you're not taking a position. It's somebody who's neutral and
21:53
Speaker 3: who's helping you unpack it. My therapist can talk to
21:57
Speaker 3: me for ten minutes about something I've been talking to
21:59
Speaker 3: my husband about for ten years, and I'm like, oh, okay,
22:02
Speaker 3: I understand that. I get it because it's this neutral
22:07
Speaker 3: person who's trained to help you process and unpack. And
22:12
Speaker 3: quite frankly, given all of the challenges we're having with
22:15
Speaker 3: mental health, especially in the black community, like I'm really
22:19
Speaker 3: proud to speak about it publicly because it is taboo,
22:23
Speaker 3: and we know people are dealing with PTSD, anxiety, depression
22:27
Speaker 3: and all these things that we often don't identify or
22:31
Speaker 3: that we even call a weakness. Sometimes in the black community.
22:36
Speaker 3: But it's just like if you had high blood pressure diabetes,
22:40
Speaker 3: we say you need to go see a doctor. Well,
22:42
Speaker 3: it's the same thing with mental health. If you're struggling,
22:46
Speaker 3: sometimes you got to go talk to somebody who's a
22:48
Speaker 3: trained professional who can help you unpack and process.
22:52
Speaker 1: You know, you talked about a servant leadership a lot, right, Like,
22:55
Speaker 1: is it possible for a politician to actually be a
22:59
Speaker 1: publicier because I always see a lot of people who
23:02
Speaker 1: were servant leaders right, they were public services, but boy,
23:05
Speaker 1: when they get into politics, they you know, compromise themselves
23:08
Speaker 1: real quick.
23:09
Speaker 2: Yeah.
23:10
Speaker 3: Well, one I say, I don't think people, I don't
23:13
Speaker 3: think you should be a broke politician because you know,
23:18
Speaker 3: and sometimes people don't have the choice in terms of
23:21
Speaker 3: their income. But I've seen that sometimes that can be
23:25
Speaker 3: challenging for people that if you know, you're signing a
23:29
Speaker 3: stack of contracts like this worth one hundred hundreds of
23:33
Speaker 3: millions of dollars, for some people, it can't be tempting
23:37
Speaker 3: to kind of, you know, not be honest brokers out
23:42
Speaker 3: of necessity or whatever the reasons. I would say, you know,
23:46
Speaker 3: for a lot of people, we want everybody at the table.
23:49
Speaker 3: We want representation of a cross section of people. But
23:53
Speaker 3: what I tell people, especially younger politicians, is you can
23:57
Speaker 3: have a life after politics. So even if you go
24:01
Speaker 3: in and your income is not great and you're looking
24:05
Speaker 3: at these contracts you're signing for people getting millions of
24:08
Speaker 3: dollars in contracts, then plan for your future. Don't touch
24:13
Speaker 3: it now, Just plan for your future because at the
24:16
Speaker 3: end of the day, you're there to serve and you're
24:18
Speaker 3: there to stay free. And for black politicians especially, we
24:23
Speaker 3: are often targets and unfortunately sometimes you know it's we
24:31
Speaker 3: make it too easy to get in trouble.
24:33
Speaker 2: So basically, do right by the people when you in
24:35
Speaker 2: office and get that money. Once you get don do
24:36
Speaker 2: right by the people.
24:37
Speaker 3: The best political advice I got was from a friend
24:42
Speaker 3: of mine who said, whatever you do, make sure you
24:45
Speaker 3: can always go home. And what he meant by that
24:49
Speaker 3: was like when I walk in the grocery store, I'm
24:52
Speaker 3: not afraid. I can hold my head up high. People
24:55
Speaker 3: may not agree with me, but I can defend anything
24:58
Speaker 3: I've done, any decision I've ever made, even if it's
25:02
Speaker 3: as much as saying I made a mistake, I do
25:04
Speaker 3: it differently, but I can see I still live in
25:07
Speaker 3: the same house, same community, I shop in the same store,
25:11
Speaker 3: like all the things are still the same because when
25:14
Speaker 3: I left off as I was able to go back home.
25:17
Speaker 4: I want to ask your thoughts on because I'll be
25:20
Speaker 4: honest with you. I'm an independent, I used to be
25:22
Speaker 4: a Democrat, and I'm gonna be honest the messaging on, well,
25:24
Speaker 4: at least we have a chance. That don't really land
25:27
Speaker 4: with me, Like I want the straight you know, we
25:30
Speaker 4: going in we are taking whatever we can get, which
25:33
Speaker 4: I get, you know, and I understand your point. But
25:36
Speaker 4: I'm loving the energy that Governor Newsom is on right now,
25:40
Speaker 4: and he's been inspiring to a lot of a lot
25:42
Speaker 4: of people may not agree with his politics. I think
25:44
Speaker 4: everybody has a role to play politics. Your personality, your personality,
25:48
Speaker 4: his is his. Do you see him being helpful over
25:51
Speaker 4: because I know you're running for governor, but the Democrat
25:54
Speaker 4: Party as a whole bringing the smoke. What have been
25:57
Speaker 4: your thoughts on him being able to play that at
26:00
Speaker 4: offense defense, you know, to kind of say things that
26:03
Speaker 4: maybe other politicians cannot, or to kind of run that play.
26:07
Speaker 4: How have you been have you been received, have you
26:09
Speaker 4: been clutching your pearls.
26:13
Speaker 3: I love it. I mean, and that's his personality. So
26:16
Speaker 3: I love it, I think, and people are looking for
26:19
Speaker 3: people who are authentic and genuine in their leadership. That's
26:23
Speaker 3: his style, and I mean, I'm here for it. And
26:26
Speaker 3: what I would say, you know, even with you identifying
26:28
Speaker 3: as an independent, the respect that I have for that
26:33
Speaker 3: is that we can't take anybody for granted. And what
26:36
Speaker 3: I'm saying in this season, people are so much more informed.
26:40
Speaker 3: And I'm a Delta. I did something with a group
26:44
Speaker 3: of Deltas and when I tell you, they asked me
26:46
Speaker 3: the hardest questions of any group that I've been around,
26:51
Speaker 3: you know, and I was like, wow, okay, and they
26:54
Speaker 3: were there in support of me, but they want to
26:58
Speaker 3: like so you know, I'm not taking anybody for granted.
27:04
Speaker 3: We shouldn't take anybody for granted. I think at the
27:08
Speaker 3: end of the day, you know, a lot of people
27:11
Speaker 3: are more not Democrat, not Republican, and more in the
27:16
Speaker 3: middle than even we self identify as. But going back
27:21
Speaker 3: to Gavin Newsome, I love what he's doing. I love
27:25
Speaker 3: that he's owning it. I think that he is brilliant.
27:28
Speaker 3: I love that it is authentic to him. And I
27:31
Speaker 3: love that he is meeting the moment. I think the
27:35
Speaker 3: biggest danger for any of us would be to engage
27:39
Speaker 3: in ways is that that's not authentic to us because
27:43
Speaker 3: people see it, and you know, people have a high
27:46
Speaker 3: BS radar, and if it's not real, people are going
27:49
Speaker 3: to pick up on that too. It's real for him.
27:53
Speaker 5: What if your thoughts been around your safety going back
27:56
Speaker 5: into office like I.
27:57
Speaker 3: Know you had, Like you got your security.
28:00
Speaker 5: Dind it for some time because the death threat you're
28:01
Speaker 5: receiving and Trump's in office, and you guys had your
28:04
Speaker 5: back and forth with the whole resignation thing, where you're thought,
28:08
Speaker 5: it's just a crazy time. What are your thoughts around that?
28:10
Speaker 2: Yeah?
28:10
Speaker 3: I mean as a person of the faith, I plead
28:13
Speaker 3: the blood of Jesus over me and my family because
28:17
Speaker 3: it's real. When I was mayor, I had a lot
28:21
Speaker 3: of credible threats, including a credible kidnapping threat. I remember
28:28
Speaker 3: going for a walk one day and a man pulling
28:31
Speaker 3: up on me saying, Oh, I didn't think it was
28:33
Speaker 3: gonna be this easy to find you. Thankfully he didn't
28:37
Speaker 3: mean me harm, but he did find me out walking
28:40
Speaker 3: by myself. So I'm constantly.
28:45
Speaker 1: Wow I mean I understand you, you know, enjoy your freedom,
28:47
Speaker 1: you got faith in God, but why would you.
28:49
Speaker 2: Be walking by yourself? You still got to protect yourself.
28:51
Speaker 3: Probably not not the smartest thing to do, but you know,
28:55
Speaker 3: I left out my door. I went for a walk,
28:57
Speaker 3: and I didn't think, you know, this man was gonna
29:00
Speaker 3: drive over from De Camp County and look for me
29:02
Speaker 3: that day. Now it was it smart, no, but I
29:07
Speaker 3: mean that was I wanted to walk by myself that day.
29:11
Speaker 3: And so back in this season, I am mindful of it.
29:17
Speaker 3: I'm I'm cognizant of it. Anytime I'm speaking before a group,
29:22
Speaker 3: I find I like I'm looking around, paying attention to
29:26
Speaker 3: who's moving, who's you know, where's the exit? You know,
29:31
Speaker 3: layering on security. I mean, it's just it's it's the
29:35
Speaker 3: nature of the times that we're living, man, and it's, uh,
29:41
Speaker 3: it is unsettling, but it's our reality.
29:45
Speaker 2: Do you think that there's an attack on black mars.
29:52
Speaker 3: I think there's an attack on black leadership across the board.
29:57
Speaker 3: I think the attack on black mayors is like, that's
30:01
Speaker 3: a generational you know, even Ambassador Young was called before
30:08
Speaker 3: a grand jewelry, you know, so it's yeah, I mean,
30:14
Speaker 3: I think that's real.
30:16
Speaker 2: Why do like, why is it why black?
30:19
Speaker 1: Why does black mayor leadership get targeted that in that way?
30:23
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, so I'll give Atlanta as an example.
30:26
Speaker 3: The mayor of Atlanta is the CEO of the city.
30:29
Speaker 3: It's a strong mayor form of government, with over a
30:33
Speaker 3: billion dollar budget between the airport, the warder department, and
30:38
Speaker 3: the city's general fund budget actually probably closer to billion dollars.
30:43
Speaker 3: That's a lot of money and a lot of contracts
30:46
Speaker 3: that you're signing. So even in Georgia and in Atlanta,
30:52
Speaker 3: the guy who's the front runner on the Republican side
30:55
Speaker 3: for governor put forth legislation to take the airport from
30:59
Speaker 3: the City of Atlanta, to take it, to take it
31:03
Speaker 3: over because the city runs the airport, because their contracts there.
31:09
Speaker 3: Some would say it had a large part to do
31:12
Speaker 3: within helping to build a black middle class in Atlanta.
31:16
Speaker 3: So anytime you have money involved and you have a
31:21
Speaker 3: singular black leader who can sign those contracts, who cannot
31:27
Speaker 3: sign those contracts, it's going to get attention, it's going
31:32
Speaker 3: to get scrutiny, and it's gonna make you susceptible to investigation.
31:38
Speaker 3: It's not fair, but that was happening when Maynard Jackson
31:42
Speaker 3: was the mayor of Atlanta. It happened to Ambassador Young,
31:45
Speaker 3: I mean it, it happens.
31:48
Speaker 4: So basically saying that's where the powers I'm always talking
31:50
Speaker 4: about local and state. Local and state, that's where the
31:52
Speaker 4: power is. That's where things get done the most, the
31:54
Speaker 4: quick as the fastest. And you're saying that the local level,
31:57
Speaker 4: the mayor's is targeted because of the power that they have.
32:00
Speaker 4: Talk about a little bit about the governor, because we
32:03
Speaker 4: love the sex you know how sexity is. Talk about
32:06
Speaker 4: Congress and president, all of that, but talk about the
32:08
Speaker 4: power that a governor has that can literally change somebody's
32:12
Speaker 4: life overnight, opposed to being in Congress where you have
32:15
Speaker 4: to argue with hundreds of people.
32:17
Speaker 3: So when federal money, for example, comes into a state,
32:21
Speaker 3: it often flows right through the state government through the
32:25
Speaker 3: governor's office. Governor can determine budgets. The governor can determine
32:31
Speaker 3: how much we're allocating toward this community as opposed to
32:35
Speaker 3: that community. The governor of Georgia is one of the
32:38
Speaker 3: most powerful governors in the nation because they have the
32:41
Speaker 3: power of a line item veto. So when legislation comes
32:45
Speaker 3: to the governor. He can scratch out a line and
32:48
Speaker 3: change it just with the or she will be able
32:52
Speaker 3: to change it just with the stroke of a pen.
32:55
Speaker 3: So it matters. You are allocating budget, you are setting priorities,
33:02
Speaker 3: you are appointing people to boards, whether it's the border
33:07
Speaker 3: Regions which oversees higher education than the state, to the
33:12
Speaker 3: Port of Savannah that deals with export and import that's
33:15
Speaker 3: coming in and out of the state, to infrastructure projects,
33:19
Speaker 3: to public safety. All of that flows from the governor's office.
33:25
Speaker 1: What do you think about People are in Atlanta are
33:27
Speaker 1: very critical of Copcity.
33:28
Speaker 2: How would you address that?
33:31
Speaker 3: My concern about that is that when you are not
33:35
Speaker 3: investing in public safety, that you are getting out what
33:39
Speaker 3: you are putting in. So with the police training facility,
33:45
Speaker 3: there were two places that firefighters who were being trained
33:50
Speaker 3: police were being trained. The place that firefighters were being
33:55
Speaker 3: trained ended up being condemned because of mold of bad
33:59
Speaker 3: mone infestation. The place where police were being trained was
34:04
Speaker 3: like a fifty year old school building. The facilities were
34:08
Speaker 3: just they were awful, and I believe the prior police
34:12
Speaker 3: training place was condemned as well. They were awful. I
34:16
Speaker 3: mean the reality is that they have to be trained somewhere,
34:20
Speaker 3: and we needed a new facility in Atlanta to train
34:25
Speaker 3: our police and firefighters, and it was costing us a
34:29
Speaker 3: lot of money because we didn't have a state of
34:33
Speaker 3: the art facility. And again going into the morale and
34:38
Speaker 3: whatever your thoughts are again on public safety. When you
34:43
Speaker 3: have police officers, when you have firefighters, when you have
34:48
Speaker 3: people ems, paramedics, they have to be trained somewhere. They
34:53
Speaker 3: don't just show up and get put out on the street.
34:56
Speaker 3: And we needed a new facility in Atlanta to do that.
35:01
Speaker 4: One of the things I give you credit on I
35:03
Speaker 4: still like to call you mayor Lands Bottoms of your Mindy,
35:05
Speaker 4: it's through your title you building in non traditional, non
35:09
Speaker 4: traditional coalitions. A lot of times people just tap into
35:13
Speaker 4: hip hop and tap in who they think is cool
35:15
Speaker 4: for the moment. You've done an excellent job of building relationships,
35:19
Speaker 4: you know, with Tip and Killer Mike and really understanding
35:23
Speaker 4: how entertainment and hip hop is a part of Atlanta
35:26
Speaker 4: culture culture.
35:28
Speaker 3: How do you.
35:29
Speaker 4: Plan on still, you know, building those non traditional coalitions
35:34
Speaker 4: and how they can benefit you through the State of
35:36
Speaker 4: Georgia Because a lot of times, like you said, people
35:38
Speaker 4: just do the hot sauce in my bag, you know,
35:40
Speaker 4: to say, you know, I'm cool for the moment. You've
35:43
Speaker 4: really built some authentic relationships. How were you able to
35:46
Speaker 4: do that and how do you see that benefiting you
35:49
Speaker 4: in your race?
35:49
Speaker 3: Because you got to hear from everybody. And I love Tip,
35:53
Speaker 3: I love Carolling Mike. Those are my brothers, genuinely, and
35:58
Speaker 3: I know they bring a voice and a persona that
36:00
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna always hear in a board room. But
36:03
Speaker 3: by the same token, I have to build relationships or
36:06
Speaker 3: have had to build relationships with CEOs. Where there's a
36:09
Speaker 3: CEO of Delta Airlines ups or home depot, you have
36:13
Speaker 3: to build those relationships too. And a bastardor young used
36:17
Speaker 3: to call it the Atlanta Way. This where government, philanthropic groups,
36:22
Speaker 3: civic community come together, business community to be able to
36:26
Speaker 3: get things done. And we've been to beneficiary beneficiaries of that.
36:31
Speaker 3: So when Killer Mike and Tip served on my transition committee,
36:36
Speaker 3: I'll never forget we were sitting in the Metro Chamber
36:39
Speaker 3: of Commerce and you got all these Orchard five hundred CEOs,
36:44
Speaker 3: and Tip and Killer Mike like watching these CEOs, smitten
36:48
Speaker 3: that they were in the room like it was priceless.
36:52
Speaker 3: And in that room, Tip and Killer Mike met a
36:55
Speaker 3: man named Noel Khalil who was also on the transition committee.
36:59
Speaker 3: He's since passed. He was a wonderful man, affordable housing
37:02
Speaker 3: builder Columbia Residential. From that transition committee, they built a
37:08
Speaker 3: partnership that's now allowed them to put affordable housing on
37:11
Speaker 3: the West side of Atlanta. It came out of that room.
37:15
Speaker 3: So that's a responsibility that I felt I had as
37:18
Speaker 3: a mayor, not just to hear from them, but also
37:21
Speaker 3: to make sure they were president rooms.
37:23
Speaker 4: Put him in position, not just entertaining, that's in position.
37:27
Speaker 3: That's it I mean, and it's their influence is huge.
37:33
Speaker 3: But again also they're bringing up perspective. You know, Killer
37:37
Speaker 3: Mike very proudly said, like he's an independent, he he
37:41
Speaker 3: likes Brian Kim. There are things that Killer Mike believes
37:45
Speaker 3: in that some people may see as as extreme right wing.
37:51
Speaker 3: You know, I see it just as him being an
37:53
Speaker 3: independent black man making decisions based on what his value
37:57
Speaker 3: set is, and.
37:58
Speaker 1: Who loves Atlanta and who loves to Georgia and who
38:00
Speaker 1: was going to talk to office and build whoever's in
38:03
Speaker 1: office to do what's best for that state.
38:05
Speaker 3: Yes, and it's not person base. It's I mean it's
38:09
Speaker 3: it's not politically based.
38:11
Speaker 4: It's people based off the governor about the programs that
38:15
Speaker 4: he's doing for trade. I don't know if he likes
38:17
Speaker 4: him personally or not, but I know he likes the programs.
38:20
Speaker 4: You know that he's been able to have that relationship
38:22
Speaker 4: with to talk about that's right.
38:24
Speaker 3: And again this coalition building. When I was mayor, we
38:28
Speaker 3: closed this transaction. If you've ever been to Atlanta outside
38:32
Speaker 3: the Mercedes Bend Stadium, it was called the gulch largest
38:35
Speaker 3: real estate transaction in the history of the city. Out
38:39
Speaker 3: of that, we put money towards vocational training. Because Delta
38:43
Speaker 3: Airlines said, I got ten thousand mechanics, I need train
38:46
Speaker 3: Home Depot said I need I need some plumbers. True
38:51
Speaker 3: ist said, I need colders. We put money into this
38:54
Speaker 3: program to help train people to fill these great jobs.
38:59
Speaker 3: We were able to create an Affordable Housing trust fund
39:01
Speaker 3: that's city wide now, so if you got some rising
39:05
Speaker 3: property taxes, you can go tap into this trust fund
39:08
Speaker 3: to help pay your property taxes. A child savings account.
39:12
Speaker 3: All of our public school kindergarteners now have this child
39:16
Speaker 3: savings account that will follow them through high school. I
39:19
Speaker 3: couldn't do that just as the leader, just from our
39:23
Speaker 3: budget and the city. It took all of us being
39:25
Speaker 3: at the table being able to get it done. And
39:28
Speaker 3: what a Tip and kill a Mike are very astute
39:32
Speaker 3: with is understanding the needs of our community. Everybody's not
39:36
Speaker 3: going to college. Everybody doesn't want to go to college.
39:39
Speaker 3: Everybody shouldn't go to college, but they still need to
39:42
Speaker 3: be able to get some training so that when the
39:46
Speaker 3: unions are saying you can come through our program, we'll
39:50
Speaker 3: pay you to train forty two dollars an hour and
39:54
Speaker 3: then you'll have a six figure job coming out. You know,
39:58
Speaker 3: we have to have people advocating for that.
40:00
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right.
40:01
Speaker 1: I got a couple of questions, because I know you
40:02
Speaker 1: got to go and keeping on schedule. When you look back,
40:04
Speaker 1: what do you feel was your most misunderstood move as
40:08
Speaker 1: mayor and what would you want people to know about
40:10
Speaker 1: the thinking behind it?
40:12
Speaker 3: Probably my choosing not to run a second term. Yeah,
40:18
Speaker 3: that was it, because it didn't make sense to people
40:21
Speaker 3: because nobody had ever done it. And my poll numbers
40:24
Speaker 3: were at sixty eight percent, which was exceedingly high for
40:29
Speaker 3: any urban mayor, so I knew it was very likely
40:33
Speaker 3: that I would win if I ran again, And I
40:37
Speaker 3: made the decision not to run, and people thought it
40:40
Speaker 3: was from a position of weakness, but it was like
40:43
Speaker 3: one of the most powerful things I've ever done at yourself.
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Speaker 3: From that, what I learned about myself is that sometimes
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Speaker 3: you things that you do just won't make sense to
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Speaker 3: anybody else, and you gotta be okay with that. Also
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Speaker 3: that in the absence of your narrative, somebody's gonna fill
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Speaker 3: that void with something. And I tried as best I
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Speaker 3: could to articulate it to people. Quite frankly, a lot
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Speaker 3: of it I had to unpack in therapy and why
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Speaker 3: I chose it, why I chose to make that decision.
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Speaker 3: But what I do know is had I not made
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Speaker 3: it based on where I was personally in my family
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Speaker 3: personally in that season, I wouldn't be ready to step
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Speaker 3: back in the ring in this season.
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Speaker 1: Wow, if you became governor, what's the one change you'd
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Speaker 1: want people to remember you for, not not just in
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Speaker 1: Georgia but nationwide.
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Speaker 3: The biggest scene right now, the affordability piece is huge.
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Speaker 3: That's an overarching theme but Medicaid expansion is huge in
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Speaker 3: our state. We got people dying because they can't get
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Speaker 3: to a hospital, and I think if we can span
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Speaker 3: Medicaid immediately, it will change the trajectory of a lot
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Speaker 3: of communities in our state. And at the end of
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Speaker 3: the day, I want people to know that I was there,
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Speaker 3: that their lives were better, their communities were better because
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Speaker 3: I was there to serve.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Miss Keisha lands Bottoms. Tell them where to support
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Speaker 1: your campaign.
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Speaker 3: Keisha for Governor dot com. Please go online, follow me,
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Speaker 3: sign up the volunteer and people say, what can I
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Speaker 3: do if I'm not in Georgia. Everybody has a cousin
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Speaker 3: or a friend somewhere in Georgia. Everybody has the checkbook.
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Speaker 3: We need the resources and we we need the energy
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Miss Bottoms. I appreciate you for stopping by it.
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Speaker 2: I'll be a stranger, thank you. All right, it's the
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Speaker 2: breakfast Club.
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Speaker 1: Every day, answer the Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 2: You're finishing, y'all. Dump