Election Season Pt 1

municipal level election. It's a local election, so it doesn't get that much coverage. But UM, that's why we're out here today to see what we're gonna try to get you all the coverage you need. I'mna choose to rialto's finest. Um. We're here showing our support, just trying to form the people, educate the people that voting does matter, especially when we're talking about local and municipal elections that directly affects your city and your schools. Okay, that's cool, So tell me, uh,

how did you tell me? So? The way we met was really interesting. UM. So, as you know, I'm really involved in the protesting and the activism for the black community, especially in light of the George Floyd protesting. So there's an interesting group out of Fontana, California, Liberate the i E. And they were doing a protest. So, UM, I was invited to come down do a few different things, and UM, one of the things that they told me to speak.

So I did a few different things. So one of the things we did would start up and making sure all the people introduced themselves, and UM, that's when I met for Scilla. She said a little bit about you know, what she likes to do, why she's involved, why she thinks she needs to be out here protesting, different things like that. And so after the protest, it was just really coincidental that we like basically parked right next to each other, like everybody else parked somewhere else, and we

were the only two who parked over here. So I basically walked her to her car. We were talking about different stuff. We had each other's Instagram. So a few days went by, a few weeks went by, you know, and I just checked in on and I was like, Hey, you know, what's up. Are you gonna go to this protest? What are you doing? She's like yeah, I'm down. You know, She's like, I really want to talk to you about running for city council. This is all the information that

I found out. I found out, this is all you need to do. So actually, if you could help me with what I got going on, that would be dope. And then that and then the rest is like history. So so for sure, what you think or how do

you feel you can have San Bernardino your community. I feel that it takes a person that knows what it's like to live on these streets to run for the positions of these elected officials, because, um, who knows you better than your neighbor, right, Like who knows you better than like, you know, the person that you meet up

with at the park, like your friends. Somebody that actually knows what it's like to grow up in San Berdarnto County, you know, transition from child to teenager to adult there, you know, And I get that a lot, like you don't have experience, you're too young. But I'm a product of Summerdino County. Right, So what made you think about running? I mean, what made you feel like you wanted to get into this. Well, it all started, Honestly, I have to pay my respects um to the BLM and the

George Floyd incident, which was very very tragic. Um. Sorry, it's really hot in here. I don't know. Um. So yeah, the it all started with the George Floyd incident, which was a very very tragic murder. And UM, I saw it on Twitter because I'm I'm on Twitter a lot, and I just it didn't sit right with me. It didn't feel right that nobody in my city was doing anything about it, because I live in Fontana, California. So I felt like we should speak up no matter where

we are. We shouldn't um wait till l A does it, or wait till San Francisco does it. These bigger cities, we should always speak up for what we don't believe is right. And I don't believe what happened to George Floyd Rest in peace was right in any aspect. I don't think anybody should be murdered, um with the knee to the neck. I don't think anybody should ever have to get to that circumstance with the police enforcement, right,

So you just feel like I need to make a difference. Yeah, I just I couldn't sleep one day and I was just like, you know what, I have to say something, I have to do something. And I just went to Michael's. I got posters and I was like, Okay, let's do a Black Lives Matter movement here in Fontana. Let's just get up. Let's just go six pm Fontana City Hall and meet me there. If you're about the movement, if you're about this, if you're mad about this, if you're outraged,

let's go. Let's do it today. Yeah. So, um so my organization, I got a few organizations work. I'm working with so BLM Inland Empire b l M, i E. We were working with them in the very beginning of this, you know, even before George Floyd with you know, Timmy or Rice, a little boy that was gunned down. You know, so there's there's so many different names, even with a Philando Castillo, the guy who was uh he had a CCW the cops that let me see your you know,

let me see it, and he shot the guy. So we've been working on this for a long time with Black Lives Matter in an empire. But what I think a lot of people don't understand is that Black Lives Matter as an organization and as a movement are two totally different things. Okay, So now you have the organization that was founded by a few people. We're not gonna get into the two specifics of those people, but there were two women, one black, one white, or one Okay,

so that's where the actual organization was founded. But the actual movement of black lives matter, the movement of the people taking to the streets, the movement of people who are saying, you know what, because my life does matter, I'm willing to do what I need to do. I e. Run for city council. I have another guy we're working with, Mr Eugene Wiens. We have other groups that we're working with, and people are trying to do what they need to do in order to prove and show that our lives

do matter. One of the main things that Priscilla said to me that got to me was the youth, her advocation, her advocacy for the youth, that she wants to do something in her city, specifically for the youth. And in light of Corona, all the different things we got, most people don't even talk about the kids. The kids aren't going to school. It's almost like we forgot about those people.

Right now, you know. So one of the things that she said was, you know, we need to make sure the kids have something besides to aspire to grow up to work at Walmart forever. I mean, there's nothing wrong with starting there, but if that's the only thing that you can inspire to do is work at Walmart, work at McDonald's, well we need better options for the youth so we don't have a lot of the economic issues that we're having right now. That's that's I really don't know.

I really don't know what to say because I really don't try to get into it like understandable, because I actually believe that you can. You could cry your heart out to certain people, people in power, and your voice is unheard. And when people like yourself, running for a position is a certain way you have to be, is a certain look you gotta uphold or they don't look at you at all. You know what I'm saying. Do that bother you that something's in your life you have

to change to run for offers? It does bother me. And I think that's the main reason I want to run is because people need to realize that anybody can do it. Like I'm not a better person or a hero for doing this. I just decided to step up. And if nobody's stepping up, and the odds are me against no one. So if you win, do you do

you think you can make change? Almost definitely. Um, A lot of people don't understand that city council has a lot of power, and a lot of people don't understand that municipal, local level elections affect us more than these big Congress decisions, these big headlines, these big Trump headlines, all these huge headlines that distract us from the local is not good because the general local level decisions that people are making every day for us, we have no clue.

We have no clue what's going on. You tell the like even me, like me as an example, a couple of months ago, a year ago, I didn't know what the city council did. I don't know who they were, what people were running my city, you know, like, what were they about, what decisions were they making, how much power they have they I feel like we're put in this position to not know this information, so we won't

create change. But as soon as you know how easy it is to run and how easy it is to be elected, how easy it is to just step up and try to do it, then you're not that discouraged. But winning is one thing, losing is another thing. Um, I think you got to start some weird to get where you want to go. If it don't work this time, I knew what I can do, what I have to do, and I learned from the first time. Do you apply

yourself to that? Do you think that if I if I don't, if I don't win this selection, I'll be back definitely. And I don't think it's about winning or losing. I think it's about, um, just creating this. I want to say this scandal, you know, like, oh she's running, Oh you can run for city council. Oh you can do this. How old is she? Twenty four? A lot of younger people like myself, and even people younger than me, like Generation Z, they don't know that it's very very

simple to run. All you have to do is be eighteen, registered to vote, and be a resident of your city. And this is this goes for every city and nobody and nobody knows this information. Nobody tells you this information because they don't want us to know. So it won't be that easy for us to take these people out of their position of powers. So you have to have some kind of degree though no, not at all. You don't even have to need You don't need a degree

to be president. You don't have to go to school, you don't need anything. You need to be a certain age. There's a few criterion that that you have to meet, and most people were just not privy to this information. We just don't know it. So, you know, when they say we the people, that's really what they meant by this, We the people, meaning that we are the government. Once you're a teen, once you can vote, you are the government. If you choose to be, should you choose to be?

And a lot of what happened in and the black and the Brown community is is we just didn't choose to be. You know, as growing up, we all play cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians. But because police got a negative stigmatism, we don't want to be cops. Nobody wants to talk to the police. You know, I'd rather

be exactly you know. So, but here's the thing, will never stop what's happening in our police departments if, like she said, at a local level, we're not telling our kids to be the police officers, be the fireman, you know, we have to be these things on all levels, all

facets of life. I think more black we need more black officers because especially that grew up and and say Sam Bernard, you know, grew up in l A. Because if you know the people you're working with, you're dealing with, you're not gonna have that much resentment from the people that you pull over. If people know who they're dealing with, people of their own kind of whatever, however they want to choose to word it, it would be a better thing.

You know, you and I grew up as white boys police in Compton, and and these guys are coming in to go home, they come to work, and they're gonna they do what they do. We were just talking about it, and it's by enemies necessary, I think, so that puts them on edge already. But if we had our own people just say, if we we wanted to police our neighborhoods, we ain't gonna do it. But you couldn't even if you try it. Yeah we couldn't know we actually can.

So we have to stop saying what is impossible? I mean, I mean we couldn't be I say we could we can't only because most of the police officers working in our own cities don't live there. So you know, so what we can do is so for instance, you look at certain cities, certain municipal levels, they've already started to locally elect to defund the police. Okay, so you have some cities. It was good. I do. I do believe that's good because let me get a better definition and

better definition defund. So let's break first. Let's break down just defund. To defund means to take away and reallocate funds of direct direct So it doesn't mean that you will not be funded at all. It just means that I'm going to defund you. Means I'm going to take away some of your funds. Now how much that's subjective. We haven't got there yet. Defund does not mean abolish. Basically, give regicun reg gun, get out there and go to

work pretty much sort of speak basically. But but the difference in this is so um, we we and we're working on a lot of different frameworks and we're working with a lot of different people on this. So coming up, what I believe is is uh, like we, like you just said, growing up in Compton, it was always the white boys who came in there, and they already had

a certain type of mentality. So I believe that in part of this defundment of the police, what we really need to do is is make the demographic of your city. Your police department should look something similar to that. So if let's say Fontana, it's almost like seventy eight percent Latino, well, then seventy eight percent of the police department needs to be Latino. Okay, So we need to start implementing these things in our cities. We can do. It's gonna first

start out at the municipal level. A lot of people thinking, oh, it's gonna start at Trump, it's gonna start at to send it at Congress. No it's not. It's gonna start in our local communities first. This is where the steam

is going to be drawn from. And like she said, even if she doesn't win this alection right now, which we're gonna win this election, but she brings awareness, like she said, there's so many other young girls, young boys, young Latina girls that can get in power that could feel, you know what should I'm eighteen, I could be city council, could be this seeing you do it you're taking the first step, it's gonna be a whole lot behind you

that's gonna try. We really believe so exactly. And that's what happened with the first protest, that very first protest that I organized, and I don't even want to say organized, because I'm not part of an organization. I'm not part of a group. It's just me and so I just that day, I tweeted to everybody, like, let's go out, let's make traction. Let's show our city elected officials that were not okay with what happened to George Floyd. We're not okay with how the black community is treated. We

have to be allies, brown and black. After Unite and we went out there and we created traction, and we got the news out there and we got like, like the word rolling. So it was a domino effect. And I had a lot of messages like, hey, I saw what you did in Fontana, I want to do it in on terr I saw you did over there, I want to do it here in Orange County, And like it was traction. It was a domino effect. That's good.

So we got some strategies that were implementing some that we're not going to talk about because there are strategies, you know, but we got a few good strategies that we're working with. And one of the things she said, you know, like, so I work with organizations. Even though I work directly with Priscilla, She's not a part of my organization. She is a she's a voice for the people, and that's the main thing she wants to emphasize, like the manager or something like um so like the mentor Yeah,

I'm an integral part in her campaign. And what I do is so I help a lot of candidates people who want to run. So she's one of my main ones right now, and and because of her passion. So for instance, up once we talked about a few different things, and will fast forward to like two weeks of us knowing each other. Basically I met up with her and her brother. She was like, look, I'm short, like x amount of signatures. I gotta go out here and get these signatures. I need to go door to door. Are

you willing to come out and help me? Like you know, hell yeah, I'll come out there. So we literally walked up and down Fontana apartment complexus talking to people, letting them know like hey, she's running for city council. Are you registered to vote? Can we get a couple of minutes of your time? Like, she really took the time to do that. You know, I'm like, and you know me unc so I'm like, if she's really willing to do this, you know, I'm a rock with you. Boy.

You know how I get down. When you called me and told me the story, I was like, let's get them showing. Let's see if we can get more votes and more signatures or whatever we can do. Uh. I

believe in in in and change. I believe in I truly believe that we all can understand each other if we wanted to, you know what I'm saying, and in the places we can go if if we implement that in that daily struggle, um, and then what you're doing, it shows a lot of women because a lot of our women blackguard and brown and white are not like really showing who who they can be. It's it's nothing when you see him as tworking, it's ten pounds of makeup, is thinking that having a baby by this guy is

the way to go. Uh, they don't see future. And and if you see a young woman out there on that platform, such as yourself. I think it attracts and if other women is attracted by that and then see that and then want to be just okay, she doing it. I'm twenty three. Why I can't do it, you know

what I'm saying. So if you can, if you just get people to change their mind on that note, I think you want already so and then you know, really though so so for us to see it and then just just apply yourself to that part, then I think it's so good. We're doing every year, and you will come on the show every year every year. I know what I'm saying exactly, We're gonna do it win exactly. So we're gonna I mean, And the point you made about women is very important. We were just talking about

this the other day. I believe that glorifying sexuality is okay. Like you said, all these women are working. I don't think there's anything wrong with that because we in this point in time, for um, women are powerful and we're feminist and we're allowed to do what we please with our body. So if if female rappers want to open these doors for everybody to feel safe and do what they want, because they have the right, because we have

they have the power to. I believe that's okay. If if you believe that you want to be a female rapper and you want to work on YouTube and that's your goal, go ahead, go ahead, do it open heartedly. And if and if that's just not my thing, then it's not my thing. But I'm not gonna just just like um disregard these women because that's their passion righting writing. What's wrong is listen, listen. I have a daughter. You know,

whether she listened to your dad, you're not. You know, at some point you're gonna be your own woman and then you make your own decisions. But I've always told her the way you carry yourself is the way people are gonna see you. If you out here tworking and getting on the ground shaking your ass, that God is looking down at you shaking your ass. He don't see you as manage material. He see O. She with the business, Let me get at her. She's not looking at it

like that. So the way you carry yourself, whether you're turken tworking, wrapping or doing whatever you have to have that you know what I'm saying that that you have to have an esteem or regard about yourself. But there you go. So we were having this conversation earlier and back to you know, what you were saying is very true. We do believe that we have to empower women because we we do need to empower them. They have a voice that needs to be heard. You know us too,

and which will make us rise to the occasion. Everybody needs to do better. Iron shark and iron short sort of speak. But now what we were talking about as far as there's a difference between glorifying and objectifying, those are two different things, and we kind of get those misconscrewed a little bit. So, uh, when you when you objectify gap maybe, yeah, that's a difference between when you objectify sexuality and when you glorify it. Because our bodies

are beautiful things. We should glorify our bodies. We should glorify our sexuality. There's nothing wrong with that. Now. Tworking, in my opinion, does not glorify your sexuality as an exploitation tool. But like you're saying, if if a young woman chooses to twork, now here's the thing. Like you said, I have two daughters, so I don't want my daughters to be out there t working on the floor. That's

not what I want for them. However, I'm going to take the ownership and the responsibility to number one, teach them something different. And if you do decide to work on the floor, that's not the only thing you know how to do. You're working on the floor because you want to do it. It's fun for you. But you know what you also know how to do. You know how to invest in the stock market, You own your own companies. You are self made and self relying and

self sufficient. Now, however, somebody chooses to judge you based off of what they saw on you, that's their own I'm speaking on being disrespectful. Okay, what I see is how I'm gonna come at you. You know what I'm saying. And you've got a lot of young men that don't respect women period and now today and that and that creates a problem. It's a problem. And and some cats don't think here, they think with the other one. So when they see you twerking, they take that as something else.

We all in the hood, we all sit there and we watched and they're not only that you got. I'm talking about the eight year old kids that's tworking, like

the thirty that's triggering, like the thirty five. So there's a difference between obviously child exploitation and women because when when you're a woman, day right, right, But but when you're a woman and you're independent and you do what you want and you pay your own bills and yourself made, I believe you should be able to make your own decisions. And if and if you see me at the club's working, I don't want you to only take that home with you and say, well, that's all she's about. Like, no,

because women have regular lives too. I just wanted the reason why you have rape. No, let me tell you. I'm trying to tell you. I live in the neighborhood, and I know why cats come in women. We have right because of rapists, not because of what women wear. No, no, no, So okay, I'm a man, Okay, we're not Okay, we don't gowhere else because I no, no, no, okay, it's not this woman's fault that when you know, but just

listen to me. So if she's volumptuous, she got weak and talk freely on here, so you know she's volumptionous. She got a big old ass and big old titties, and you think it looked good. Right, you better know how to control your own self. That's not her problem. But that's they don't know. Some men don't know are young Are young men today are very disrespectful even if a woman don't want to respond back, you all kind of bitches and everything else. Now you've got some women

that respond back to that, dude, that's very disrespectful. You know what I'm saying that exactly, So it's totally different now. So i mean, come on, man, everything plays in itself the way you dress, and it's a certain way to dress.

If you got your cleavage out, I'm gonna respond. And when she walked out that door and she know, I'm gonna respond, just just like you're going to the nightclub half of the ship, these brown ass women wearing the day you can see everything, ain't You don't have to show everything with somebody that where the hell do you have me at? What the ship is going on? I want to think about what you've got. You ain't gotta show me everything. What I'm saying is I'm gonna get

off of this. I'm just saying that that being a position and just women just just knowing that is a problem out of here. Just like just like us dudes. You know what I'm saying. How many baby mamas you got? You too? I got both? No? Three three, So just just in that, it tells you, you know, I'm you're laying down with everything, and and and your baby mama might have two other kids about two other cats? What did that tell you? What is she telling me? You

know what I'm saying. Now I'm stuck with the baby with her, you know what I'm saying. So we're gonna get off of this because I'm gonna go all day with because I see how you're looking over there, and we will let you have it, please do. But for real, though, we need to check our kids. We need to we need to teach them better than what we're doing. And

and and we need to get in the neighborhood. We need to show and our people need to know black game, Brown need to know that it's other things after prison, it's other things. After we got more women going to prison in the neighborhood than dudes. Now, why is that it's getting that bad? So how do how do we change that by providing resources? Exactly? But and that's the defund the police statement that everybody seems to wild wild out about it's um. Defund does not mean abolish, it

means re allocate. So when we are re allocate the millions billions of dollars that the police are getting and we put them into resources for the community, then we see a better outcome. UM, predominantly white neighborhoods, all do you have that their resources are flourishing, Their kids go to the best programs, the best schools, they have the

best community resources. We had Carn's, we had pool more than the m Yeah, it was a lot of different programs coming up, you know, in the seventies and eighties, and that's what we're trying to get back to. But here's the thing. Those were like federally and nationally funded programs. So now we're just trying to start local, municipally funded programs where everybody can start these in their own individual cities and you can apply them and make them work

for what your needs are. Because what they need in Fontana may not be what they need in San Bernardino. That's probably what not what they need in Riverside or you know, somewhere else. So everybody's gonna adopt the policy and make it work to your own individual needs were deep running the police. If you take their resources from them, what happens and somebody called and shaped my child, my

son just got shot. Um. Um, when you have an accident on the freeway, they're already saying they're not responding to certain things. Already, they're trying to show you that you ain't coming. That's a scare tactic that they're using. So fearmongering is one of the greatest tactics of the state. Okay, the state loves the fearmonger. So one of the things

we have to realize is is this um. The reason why we even want to defund the police is because a lot of times the police don't even their intervention is not required, all right, So for instance, let's just say the police are called because a man who let's say he's fifty one fifty, he's documented schizophrenic or something to the effect of that. Well, why are the police called?

They don't know how to escalate to that situation. For instance, let's say, like you just said, an accident happens on the freeway, Why are the police the first people to arrive. Why is the HP the first ones to arrive when you don't when you're not medically trained. First ones who should have got there should have been the paramedics, the actual authorities that are needed that are warranted. So and when you say defund the police, the scenario I like

to use is is in our public school systems. They've made schools and teachers work for the last twenty years. Defunded, they've made our public schools consistently function with the consistent decreasing budget for the last twenty years. We're talking school and we're talking so we need st because we need our schools. We need our schools for our youth. We

do too, we really do. If we if we had more schools and more things for our youth, we wouldn't need as much policing because the kids the the kids wouldn't be in the streets. You take, for instance, affluent areas, they have resources. They don't have more police there, they have less police forces. You know why, because the people have resources, they're not selling drugs, they're not doing all of the different unscrupulous activities because there's a multitude of resources.

So we're with what we want to have shooting, you know what, We're going to have very very easily, very easily if we implement If we started implementing resources for Pooky and Ray ready to do. Pookie and Ray way out there shooting each other because they're selling dope. Most people ain't really game banging. No more like that. A few places, but I'll tell you in San Bernardino, they're not shooting each other over colors. They're shooting each other

over turf. It's all. It's all about turf battles. Now. They want the block so they can sell that so they can get their money. That's what it's all about now. So if we can provide something for Pookie and Ray Ray where you can really make some bread, bro, come on over here, I got you. Let me teach you some ship that I'm gonna really help you with a skill to get actual pay. Ready to come to the house and paint their money? Come on. If if I

got to you already know how we get down. So if I got to send you to the church, folks in the church folks, you come on. You know how we get down. So but if we got to start implementing these type of programs, that's what we need. So Pookie and Ray Ray have resources. Because I can't tell you to go work for McDonald's. When you've been selling dope for the last five years, you're making two three hundred bucks a day. How much power would you have

city council? How much power do you have? More power than people realize. So they're actually in charge um obviously side to side with the mayor of where the city budget goes. So for example, in Fontana, we have a budget around a hundred million dollars for the city and so Fontana p D gets sixty million of that and whatever is left over almost almost sixty five now they upped it. So whatever's leftover is like, that's for your schools, that's work it out. You guys share that. And Fontana

PD gets sixty five million. Do they need that money? That's what we're saying. And when we talk about defund the police, we're not talking about taking all of their money. We're talking about five percent, tem percent, a little bit like can you give us a little oppression? When they said defunded police, it's like get rid of the police. Grown no, because like in certain places that will work.

So you take Seattle, Washington, where they had chats, they had the little autonomous zone and they kicked the police out of like a like a six block eleven block area for a couple of months, and it was pretty cool. That can work in those places. That wouldn't work in Compton, that wouldn't work in San Bernardino. Like we we understand that. We know that, you know. So we're not saying, for instance, totally defund the police as far as to abolish. Now,

when we say abolish ice, that's what we mean. We mean abolish ice, you know, we mean get rid of that whole organization as a whole. That's exactly what we mean. But we mean defund the police because we do need some police. I do believe in a community policing. Let's just say, for instance, something happened in the hood, not showing them, you know, not to put nobody on blast,

but somebody you know who knows you, respect you. He over there tripping, he would listen to you before he would listen to the police come in and tell him to stop drinking and turn his music down, or whatever the case may be. You could be a community activism, you know, something like that when something happened in the community, when they call, hey, we got a problem, they know they're gonna call uncle James first and see if he can come talk some sense into that or whatever. Deesa,

I'll listen to you first. I'm over there tripping with my baby mama or something. The police come, it's gonna be a bad situation just by how their trained. But you're gonna be like, nephew, listen to me. Who will come on, nephew, and you know what to do? You know, it's gonna you're gonna de escalate because we, like you said, we know each other, but we're not in these positions of authority or power to make you feel like you have to listen to me. You're coming over like you're

siding with me. Like, nephew, I'm listening to you because I love you and respect you. You my uncle, that's family. We don't know these people coming into our communities telling me I gotta obey you know, who the funk are you? Why do I have to obey you? You know? But I got history with you. I gotta report with you, you know, and like we confuse people a lot, you know when I call you people, oh that's your uncle, I'm like, well, you gotta understand how how the black

community works. Like we got a history or a poor that's my uncle, through respect and love, like you know, through what we've been through. So but that's what we need to get to. So like how she said, the sixty five million at the police are getting, understand the social and economic implications that this half. Okay, because less than ninety so I mean, okay, so nent less than three percent of Fontana p D don't even live in San Bernardino County at all, and less than one are

black or brown Latino. Okay, So now that's it. So now look at the money we're given and who we're giving his money to. Now you know what my time with the city of San Bernardino. Look what happens when you start working with the city, become part of the bureaucratic monster. In the bureaucratic machine. Okay, not only do you get medical and benefits for you, you get it for your immediate family and when you retire out like

they were. The reason why Fontano went San Bernardino went bankrupt is when p D five and a few other places were retiring. They were retiring these guys out at their highest grossing year, providing medical for you, your wife and your children for life. So you got guys who were coming straight out of the academy seventeen eighteen years old, putting their twenty in, getting out at forty years old, and now you got to pay these guys a hundred and eighty thousand bucks for the rest of day life now,

plus provide medical benefits for them and their families. He's forty years old and he's in good health. How long do you think he's gonna last. So that's what happened to a lot of our money. So when we say defund them, we're really talking about these guys are overpaid for what they're doing. And now all the money that comes from our taxes of Fontana San Bernardino, our local cities, will they live somewhere else? They're spending their money in

Beverly Hills, in all the places that they live. Your campaign, definitely, part of my campaign is um forward thinking. So if we a better tomorrow, we have to do things for tomorrow, not thinking of the past or not thinking of like I feel like we're most of the time we're going backwards, you know, because even just with the simple phrase of defunding the police, people don't know what the meaning is. And then everyone freaks out like how you thought, Like, oh,

I thought you meant abolished. I thought you meant disregard it completely. But no, it just means take away five percent, take away ten percent, Just that we're asking for a small little chunk of your money for our youth, for our environmental issues, for social justice that we need, the social justice reform that we need. Fontana is a beautiful city, don't get me wrong. And a lot of these cities

are beautiful cities. And the fact is we have the resources to reallocate funds evenly, and we just don't do it. These people in power now, these elected officials, they might have had a good goal at first. They might have been for the people at the very beginning, but now they just lost track. They lost track because they're part of the system, you know. They they're just up in

that position of power. They're um like hand in hand with the mayor, hand in hand with people from Congress, you know, um, and they're just they lost they lost train of the vision. And the vision is that we need social justice for all our communities. We need everybody to have the best opportunities possible because we have the resources for it. We're just not putting the money in the right places for us. What what I've seen in a lot of campaigns is is people they run for office,

they win, and they just switch up on you. You think you're gonna lit them to change, Definitely not. I think part of um, what I'm advocating for is government transparency. So we have to know like when these decisions are being made, why they're being made, who's making them, when are they making them, and how can you change it if you don't like it? You know, So in Fontana

we have a big warehouse problem. Um they're just putting them in all these residential areas, which is not good for our quality of life, the small you know, there's a lot of repercussions that come with it. So it's just it's it's not fair to just do what the city wants and benefit of the city without thinking of the people. So government transparency is a big, big, big, big thing for me because up until a lot that

long ago, I didn't know exactly how it worked. I didn't know that we can fight against these these decisions. If the majority of the community does not want this warehouse in this certain area, we can fight that. And a lot of people don't know, or a lot of people don't care. And it's and that's the that's the part. It's getting people to care enough to register to vote, getting people to care enough to vote, getting registered people to care about things that actually affect them in their

everyday lives because we're busy. I mean, a lot of people have two jobs before corona or now that you know things are changing because of the coronavirus, but before people have two jobs, three jobs, like side hustles. We you know, we have to make ends meet no matter what. You gotta have a shig. One of the things that I want to touch on that you were saying is so one of the ways that we're gonna be rest assured,

and this is what I told Priscilla. You know, she has my dent undivided, you know, attention and help and support. So one of the things that we emphasize is is we're grassroots. Okay, So we don't accept any big dollar donations, and we're selective of who we accept money from. So we don't accept money from certain organizations. We don't and the reason why we don't do this is is to assure the people we're not gonna switch up on you. The most you can donate to us is two hundred

and fifty dollars. All right, that's it a grassroots campaign. So we're not accepting, you know, five six thousand dollars because if this company gives us five thousand dollars, but you only gave me ten twenty bucks, why do you believe I'm gonna do what you want to post to the people who's giving me all the money that I want. So I'm gonna let you know I'm policing myself. That is. But that's that's the way it used to go. So that's called chrony capitalism. So we're gonna put it into

chrony capitalism and nepotism. You know, your homies getting your homies in and all this money that changes elections. With Bernie Sanders did he raised more money than anybody in a presidential election, and he did it by grassroots campaign. So what's what's what's your approach and how she should run her campaign? So we got a few different approach. One of the main things we're gonna do, and this is just the format of all of what I do

with all my my candidates. I tell you, whatever district you're in, whatever municipality you're in, I want you to go knock on doors, go talk to the people, and go ask the people what they want. Take three to five minutes of whoever is willing to listen and talk to you, because I can't do anything for you if you don't tell me, if you don't tell me how it affects you on what I could do. So we need to go to all the people and let's ask the people what they want. And now let's break that down.

In the top three things, seventy people said this, another, you know, fifteen say at this, and that last percent said this, or let may be the last. Being honest with yourself and sincere about what you're doing, it's gonna go a long way. But you gotta sprinkle let a little that bullshit in it. Of course, mix it up and then you got that the right flavor, you know, just sprinkle a little bullstro because honest person ain't gonna

make it. You gotta you gotta give up a little bullshit and and you gotta let him shieve at you for real, you real. And so instead of stirring up the pot via talking about people in unnecessary banter, we're gonna stare up the pot with with showing you what these guys are doing with your tax dollars. That's how we're gonna stir the pot up. We're gonna let you know, look, you're elected officials. Let me show you when get shot. You know. So I wnna say Remington's going out of business.

But they didn't just make one, right, they made a lot of it. We all got that's all, you know. Yeah, yeah, you're so here. And here's the thing. What's the old saying, scared money don't make money right? You know? So we can't be afraid because yeah, we know we're gonna be targets or they're gonna start trying to do certain things

to stop us from making that noise. When people see you out there bold and and you're you, you're talking and you're not afraid to talk, you have no stutter in your voice, then people are gonna gonna start taking you serious and and just talking to you today and just meeting you today. I see a future, you know what I'm saying, But it ain't on me to call it. You know what I'm saying, I want to see when she get in the thick of things. I'm gonna be there.

I promise you I'm coming and and I'm gonna support and I want to see it, and I might be the biggest, biggest supporter. So we gotta let people know first and foremost registered to vote, so I can't. Okay, we'll get into that in a minute. We already did. No, we didn't, but you know we can't look sad. We were just telling he said, red tape. So listen, we're gonna find out what exactly what they told to you. And I'm gonna help you get past that because this is what I do for a lot of guys. A

lot of guys say, oh, I'm a felon. I can't own guns. Yeah you can. You don't need to just get a partner. I can show you how to get your constitutional rights restored. There's a few different ways you can do it. So it all involves reading. They always say, if you want to hide something from a black man, where do you put it in a book? Okay, So

we know that. Okay, So now let's start opening up some of these books that we never did because we want to get some ship that we never had, right, So let's open up some books that we never did. Because we understand. What we don't know is in the fucking books. That's where it's at. We got to read the books, and you got right if you want, if you want something that you don't have to have to do something you've never done. So we've got to get our people registered to vote. Now. We're not gonna win

this election without our people voting for us. So first and foremost, we can't deter people to say, hey, if you're a felon, you can't vote. We gotta let you know if you're a felon, look into what you need to do to vote. Usually, in most cases in California,

once you're on with probation or parole, you can vote. Now, if you've got certain things on your record, then yeah, you might have to go through what they call a California certificate or rehabilitation, and there's a few other things that you gotta do, but we have to cross that bridge when we get there. Everybody's case individually is different, but for most people, I want to say seventy to eighty percent of the people, once you're done with probation

or parole, you can vote in California. That's a fact. I want everybody to Google that. Now we gotta tell we gotta start emphasizing being registered to vote, don't wait till the last minute. So where it's two days before the election and now you're talking about, well let me go get registered and some other ship. You know, So we got to get registered to vote a SAP. We need to know who we're gonna vote for. And look, look, this is this is my candidate. I don't agree with

a hundred percent of everything she says. She's not gonna agree it with a hundred percent of everything we say. But we know we agree the majority on most of the things we say. That's how we align, That's how we align. So let's not alienate ourselves on what we don't agree on. Let's align ourselves of what we do agree on. So basically, she's the ones that's doing all the ride you pretty much. It's there, that that second voice for her. Yeah, she knew she wanted to do

something right. You know, how you get them, you know, it's like, you know, I look at all these kids, you know, and I see the spark in their eye and I love it. Like I told her that day, I'm like, we're all out there with mask on and I'm like, and I just seen, like the way you were talking, Like I've seen the spark in your eye. I knew you were serious. Out of all the people

talking that day, I said, she does. And I told her that, I said, all the people that were talking that night at that protest, I said, I knew you were serious. I said, I knew you were serious. You know. So, Um, what we have to really do is is that once we align ourselves, we gotta start saying, look, this is the guy we're running with. This is our you know, our girl we're running with. These are our candidates. This is the person we need to run our school board.

This is the person we need to be head of p t A, head of the fire department, head whatever, parks and recreation. If I wanted to come out there and then like everybody on the bike said, all the different bike sets, man, y'all got to register. Y'all gotta vote, y'all gotta vote for Priscilla. I'm taking you'll, come on, let's go. We gotta vote. We gotta so I can do that. You can do that, and then there's two things we're gonna do. Also, the rules are kind of sorry,

I don't want to cut you off. But the rules are kind of tedious and this is just San Bernardino County. UM. They implemented into a thousands seventeen a district system. So I'm running for District two, which is certain streets and certain areas. It's like a very middle area in Fontana, so it's from point A to point B, so it's a little chunk in the middle. You have to live in District two. You have to be eighteen and older,

and you have to register to vote. So if you're not, if you don't live in district, that was your question, right, Yeah, if you can't bring like uh, I wish we can, you know, we can all come out there and every caravan can't vote for her. But this is what we can do. So when we do massies, gathering, these protests, these rallies, things on the bike set, different things like that. So she works with other people too, And like we said,

other people are getting inspired to run for office. We're a little bit late in their time frame for them to do their their their campaigns. But when we when you have people, we want to be able to say, look wherever your people are from and their registered to vote. We got somebody there for them. We have a guy, we have a girl there. Everybody helping everybody. Everybody helping everybody. So when you bring these people they say, oh, I'm bald with hills. This is my guy out in that section.

Oh well, I'm definitely have you definitely have to have a cabinet. If you don't have nobody to beg you, you out there by yourself and that's everything. Oh yeah, it takes a village, Like I'm not doing this alone obviously, you know, like you got it very well. Yeah, of course. Yeah. She is a is a very well old machine. He's ready to go. He's ready to take a lot of

especially when it comes to politics, right. He knows said I wish I could when when we have certain politicians come, I'm like, I ain't working with that because I ain't on that, but I'll be saying, you choot you down here. I bet he can go head up with this motherfucker. He's telling me a good times. I tried to get out here on certain so I'm just not in tune with it like that. But what you were doing And when he called me, I was like, oh yeah,