Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh - California State Senator, Importance of Marriage, Accountability & More.

In this episode we speak with Senator Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh

Rosilicie is the State Senator of California's 23 District. This district represents the Inland Empire which would covers San Bernardino County and Riverside County. She talks to us about the importance of marriage, California government 101, her stance on education, accountability and so much more.

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________Content______
00:00 - Intro/Loving to Ride Bikes & Dance
10:10 - Who is Rosilicie?
20:20 - Importance of Marriage
35:22 - No Gossip Here/Responsibilities As A Senator
43:33 - Cali. Gov Lesson 101/Homelessness/$68 Billion Deficit 
1:08:48 - Government Accountability
1:11:36 - Mindset of Dem. vs Rep./Dysfunctional Family 
1:30:08 - Ochoa's Fav. Laws/Education/Critical Race Theory
1:57:50 - Loving Privacy/Current Projects
2:09:39 - Rosilicie's Empire

Transcript

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Press record.

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I forgot to press record.

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So, okay,

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now we're officially recording

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and we're going to start from the top.

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Okay, got it.

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At least you know how it's going to go,

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right?

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Whoops.

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All righty.

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Let's try that one more time.

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That was fun.

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Hi, everybody.

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Yes,

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But other than that,

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rambling on and rambling on

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and rambling on and rambling on.

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But we're not going to do that.

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We're going to introduce our amazing guest,

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which is a government

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official and who has been

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helping our community and

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who is a senator.

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And we're so glad to have her.

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And her name is Senator

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Rosalicia Ochoa Fogg.

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Welcome to the empire.

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Hi, thank you, Antonio.

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Thank you for having me here today.

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I'm super,

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super excited and honored to be

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your guest.

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We're honored to have you.

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And how's your day been?

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It's been wonderful.

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It's been a really, really sweet day.

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I'm home.

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I arrived from Sacramento

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yesterday and we had a town hall,

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so I didn't get home until very late.

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But I had a late dinner with my son.

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And this morning I was able

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to go on a sweet, short ride, a bike ride,

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which I love to ride my bike.

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whenever I have a chance.

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So it was really a nice,

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great way to start the day today.

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Got you.

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So where do you usually ride your bike at?

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Anywhere.

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We can go to the hills.

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We can go around town, just anywhere.

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Just love, love riding my bike.

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As long as I'm in the sun, outdoor,

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because we're indoors all day,

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most of the time, you know,

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reading meetings and Zoom meetings.

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in-person meetings.

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So we do a lot of work indoors.

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So whenever I have an

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opportunity to be outside in the sun,

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I take it.

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I take it.

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Gotcha.

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You're definitely a

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California girl with the sun.

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Absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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Yes.

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Other than I have to say the

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Latina in me loves to dance.

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So whenever I have an opportunity to dance,

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I'll take that as well.

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Me gusta bailar.

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Me encanta bailar.

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Me encanta bailar.

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¿Cuál estilo?

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De todo.

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even a little bit of rap you

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know but you know I i I

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like everything as long as

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it has a melody I think

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it's important and rhythm

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you have a melody a rhythm

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or or lyrics that just move

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my my soul oh my god those

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three things and if I can

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combine all three in one

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song then it's it's

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I got you.

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You're in heaven.

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You're in heaven.

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Yes.

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I love music, obviously.

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I got you.

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Me encanta salsa.

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Oh, te encanta.

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A mí me encanta bailar también el salsa.

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Yo crecí con la cumbia.

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Mis padres son de Yucatán y

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mis abuelitos les encantaba

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escuchar la cumbia.

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So the cumbia music is

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something that I grew up

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very much at home with my

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grandparents in Mexico when

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we lived in Mexico.

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And so it was just one of those things,

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but anything Latin that

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makes you move and, you know,

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can I get in there?

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It's just, oh, love it.

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Got you.

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Do you know where cumbia comes from?

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Cumbia?

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Yeah.

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I'm going to guess Cuba.

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Is there Cuba or the

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Cuban-African kind of...

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What name does it sound

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like as far as the country-wise?

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Cumbia.

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Colombia?

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Cumbia?

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Yeah.

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Colombia.

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Ah, que bien.

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You taught me something new today.

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Hey,

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and we're going to learn a lot from

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you today.

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So I'm super excited.

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Do you,

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when you mentioned like bike riding,

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I immediately thought of like, I was like,

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does she go like

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off-roading and mountain

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bike riding and stuff?

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You do that as well?

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We do that.

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Yeah.

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But lightly.

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I mean,

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I don't go full force like my

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husband or my son.

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because they are like amazing,

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amazing riders up in the hills.

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I'm a little more cautious about it.

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At my age,

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I kind of have to be riding in the hills.

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It's very, it's,

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it's an exercise that

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allows you to just focus

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and not think about

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anything else because you

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have to focus on the road

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and you're just the

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adrenaline that you get

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from it of the curves and the, you know,

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cause a lot of, a lot of the roads in the,

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in the hills,

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really steep hills.

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You just want to make sure

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you don't go off.

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So you're super, super focused.

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And I'm the kind of person

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that my mind is always going, going,

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going.

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So it's really nice to have

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something that allows me to

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not think about anything

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else and just focus on

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something on the road, on the air,

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you know, just, just nature.

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And then of course I love, um,

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I'm very much a self-proclaimed empath.

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I feel emotions very deeply.

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So nature, um,

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has a really healing,

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calming effect for me.

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So I love being in nature.

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I love being surrounded by

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trees and rivers and animals.

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So I love, love,

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love riding out in the hills.

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It's really,

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it's a great healing and

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calming experience.

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So if anybody wants to try it,

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I would highly recommend it.

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Yeah, you gotta, people need to go outside,

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man.

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They're becoming,

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have you heard of the cartoon WALL-E?

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Have you seen the movie cartoon WALL-E?

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No.

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Okay, I guess that's gonna be,

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you're gonna take some notes,

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that's gonna be on your notes.

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Watch WALL-E.

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Yes, W-A-L-L-E.

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Okay.

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And basically kind of talks

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a little bit about like

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mankind in the future,

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where they're just like fat

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and lazy and- Oh, the movie WALL-E.

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Yes, the movie WALL-E.

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Oh yes, oh no, yes, absolutely.

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And I think we're

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transitioning to that

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because we do so much.

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You know,

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we're talking about I'm indoors

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all day in front of a computer or,

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you know,

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in front of a desk in committees.

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Our life is very well for us

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as legislators.

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We're really,

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really always indoors and sitting down.

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But it's so important to

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ensure that we are going

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outside and getting our

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energy out and the stress out.

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And it's interesting because

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I was just speaking to my doctor.

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And he said, you know, walking is fine,

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but you have to ensure that

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you're doing exercise that

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gets you sweaty, sweaty, sweaty,

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and you're really hard.

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And it's great to do it outside, um,

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because it allows your emotions and, uh,

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it's an outlet.

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It's a great outlet, just like dancing.

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You know,

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when we go out dancing and you're

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sweating and everything,

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that's a great outlet as well.

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And we need to do that.

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And I think, uh,

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As we've seen an increase in

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behavioral health issues

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within our communities, our families,

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and so forth,

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a lot of the times we don't have outlets.

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And playing video games is not an outlet.

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It's not a healthy, healthy outlet.

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We need to be physically active.

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And my doctors always said, you know,

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our bodies were built and

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made to be physically active.

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And so for us,

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Those of us that sit a lot,

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it's important for us to

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make sure that we're out

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there doing something

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physically every single day when possible,

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if possible.

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Which makes a lot of sense, you know,

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because that's just like, I guess,

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biology and our genetics, right?

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Yes, absolutely.

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We were made to be physically active.

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And you can see when I don't

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have the time to be

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physically as active as I

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would like to be,

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You can tell my face starts getting really,

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really swollen and I get very achy.

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I just don't feel well.

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My energy level starts really suffering.

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But the days and the time,

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especially when I'm in the district,

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when I'm able to exercise

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every single day, you know,

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four or five days a week, oh my goodness,

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immediately the swelling in

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my face goes down.

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You know, I have better color in my face.

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My skin looks better.

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I feel more energized.

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And so whatever it is that

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allows us to move and get

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that be an outlet for us in

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a healthy way for our bodies,

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for ourselves and those around us,

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it's great.

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And I think it's a great way

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to deal with behavioral

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health issues as well.

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which makes a lot of sense.

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You know, Senator Rosalicia,

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for people who may not know

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who you are and the things that you do,

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can you please tell all of

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us who you are and the

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things that you do?

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Absolutely.

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So first of all,

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I'm a daughter of immigrant parents.

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They came from Mexico, from Yucatán,

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from Merida.

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And my mother actually still lives there.

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My dad comes back and forth,

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lives here a couple months,

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and then goes back to Merida,

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to Senotillo, which is his hometown.

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I'm first generation born

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here in the US and grateful,

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grateful to have had the

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opportunity to live both in

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Mexico and in the US growing up.

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It gave us a lot of life

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experiences that actually

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have allowed me to do the

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work that I'm doing right now.

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I am a wife of almost 28 years.

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I'll be 28 in June.

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I met my husband my senior

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year in high school at San

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Bernardino High School.

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And we're very, very excited.

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We've been together since then.

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I think about 32 years now.

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We dated for about five

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years before we were married,

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and we've been married almost 28.

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So very, very excited about that.

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We have three kids.

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My oldest is 24,

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just graduated from college

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in public health.

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I have a second daughter who's 22,

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and she's studying microbiology.

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And my son, who's a senior,

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in high school,

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so we're very excited for all three kids.

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And I think this is a great

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segue to talk about what I do now.

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I was a teacher for many years,

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actually for a couple of years,

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elementary school teacher,

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English learners.

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Then I went into real estate,

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I had my children,

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so I stayed home for a bit,

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decided to go back to the

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workforce and thought real

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estate would allow me to

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give the flexibility to

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still be very engaged with

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my kids' education.

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And do a little bit of work on the side.

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Did that for many, many years.

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Eventually,

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because of the work that I did

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and the volunteer work,

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I met through my husband,

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an assembly member,

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who eventually won his seat.

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He was running as he was a

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candidate when I met him.

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He eventually won his seat

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and he needed a part-time field rep.

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And I went to work with him

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part-time while keeping my

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full-time job as a realtor

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and still volunteering at

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schools and teaching.

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I don't know.

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People always ask us,

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how did you do all of that?

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I go, I don't know.

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You just do it day by day.

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But I always say when you're busy,

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productive, doing things, first of all,

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you're focused on doing

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something productive.

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And you are also don't get in trouble,

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which you don't get involved in gossip.

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You don't get involved because you're,

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you're, you're working, you're,

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you're producing something

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and it allows you to grow,

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which was a great experience because, um,

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once again,

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with all my life and

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professional experiences,

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when the opportunity,

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the call came to ask about writing for,

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uh, eventually.

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So let me go back.

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So I worked as a field representative,

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continue working as a field, uh, uh,

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I've been a realtor for 22 years.

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As a matter of fact,

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I still have my license.

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I just renewed it a couple of years back.

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And so I'm good for probably

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another two years.

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And so I continue to do that.

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There was an opening while

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I've been raising my children.

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I had been very active involved,

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whether it was volunteering

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in the classroom and then

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working at the school site

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council community cabinet and

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So in various capacities and

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through the chamber was

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also the chamber board president,

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chairwoman for a year on

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the board for four years.

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And that allowed me to work

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with the school district as well.

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So a lot of volunteer work,

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which opened up the

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opportunity to be

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considered for a board

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position when it became vacant.

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So I was one of three that

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signed up for an open seat.

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I was selected,

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served in the school board.

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and did that in addition to

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being on the board with the

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board of realtors as well,

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continue my part-time work

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with the assembly member

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and my full-time work as a realtor.

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So I was doing quite a bit.

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When a call came from various leaders

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asking me if I had

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considered running for the

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California State Senate.

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And I quite frankly chuckled.

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I laughed.

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I said, no, absolutely not.

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I've been very busy working

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and love my life as it is.

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So no,

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I have not considered running for Senate.

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And then I realized that

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they were very serious about asking.

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So why did they ask you?

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I think they saw what I had

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been doing in the communities,

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how I'd been facilitating

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and be able to work very

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effectively within the school board,

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within the various boards that I was on.

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And they knew that we had

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deep roots in the community.

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The Ochoa family came to the Inland Empire,

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were guesstimating around

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the mid-late 50s, early 60s.

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My dad arrived in the late

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60s at the age of 16.

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um and with with five of the

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seven siblings at the time

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eventually married my mom

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and she came at the age of

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18 when she married my dad

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in mexico so um deep roots

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on my side of the family

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and of course deep roots on

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my my husband's side of the

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family grandpa vogue was in

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the inland empire um early

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40s and had seven children

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my dad's side of the family

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were also seven children so

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Between the Bogues and the Ochoas,

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you know,

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they're quite all over the place

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in the Inland and have been

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in the Inland Empire for many, many,

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many decades.

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And so I think looking at

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what I have been able to accomplish,

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you know,

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building relationships and

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volunteering within our communities,

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along with the Deep Roots

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from both of our side of the family,

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I think they thought that

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it was a good

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representation and a good

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representative for the area.

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And because my life,

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both personal and professional,

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they just thought, you know what,

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you just have everything

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that would make you a good

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candidate to serve the

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community in Sacramento.

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And I'm grateful because I

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literally can see now how

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I'm a woman of faith.

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And I do believe that God

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has placed me in so many

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different positions that

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have allowed me to bring

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different lenses to this space right now.

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And so I'm grateful.

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I'm grateful for my life experiences.

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I'm grateful that I'm able

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to advocate for the Inland Empire,

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for my district,

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because I know the people.

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I know what's important to them.

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I know the values.

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And it's personal, right?

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When you're representing

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areas where you've either

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grown up or raised your

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children or worked in or volunteered in,

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your family has been here.

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You're going to want to do the very,

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very best job to represent

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the people there.

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Yeah.

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That's why it's a very personal, it's not,

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you know, we sell people.

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It's not self-serving for me.

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I'm not, you know,

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if I wanted to make money,

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I could definitely make

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money doing something else.

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If I wanted to have an easy

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job where there wasn't much stress,

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I can definitely find

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something else to do.

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But because I've seen where

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we've been in the past couple of years,

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where the people are,

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whether it's the housing cost,

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the cost of living,

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whether it's public safety,

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whether it's working in

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silos or the toxicity that

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has existed in government

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or in politics and within our communities,

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seeing that there's

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families that can't talk to

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family members because

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politically they don't agree.

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It makes me really sad

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because I took a lot of

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effort and heart in raising

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children that were kind

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that were respectful,

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that were hardworking.

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And this is not the world

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that I wanted for them.

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This is not the world that I

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want them to inherit.

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And I thought,

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what an amazing opportunity

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to step up and model what

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I've been able to

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accomplish locally within my communities,

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navigating different demographics,

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political ideologies in a healthy manner,

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in a respectful manner,

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in a level of decorum that we've lost.

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and show them at a greater

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space and a bigger space

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what that looks like.

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And so from the get-go,

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it took me a while.

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It took me about a month

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before I decided to actually go because I,

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from a mother's perspective, you know,

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as a caretaker at your home, you realize,

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I realized,

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I felt when that call came that,

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oh my gosh,

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I'm going to have the

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responsibility of

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overseeing the wellbeing of

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1 million people.

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And that was overwhelming, right?

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I hope you have the

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responsibility of your children,

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of your husband.

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But when you really think

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about the responsibility that you have,

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well, for me at least,

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this is the angle that I

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was viewing it from,

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the lens in which I was viewing it,

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was that I was going to be

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responsible for 1 million people.

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Wow, that's heavy.

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You know,

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I'm kind of going to go back a little bit,

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but because you said you

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were married for at least 20, 22 years,

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28 years.

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In June, I'll be 28 years.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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So, you know, as you know,

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especially in America, divorce is high.

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It's like 50 percent.

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Right.

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So what advice would you give people?

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And I know it's getting

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worse now with

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relationships and stuff like that.

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But what advice would you

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give people who are like,

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about being married and to

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stay married and the

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struggles and advice that

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you would give for people to,

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for marriage?

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Antonio,

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I'm so glad you asked that

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question because it's so

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important to understand the

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importance of marriage, um,

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in our society, in our culture.

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And I know some people say, well,

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I'm never going to get married.

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I'm, you know,

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I don't want to get married.

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They've seen bad examples about marriage.

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But the reality is that for most of us,

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most of us,

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we're wired human beings that

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need human connection.

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And we always need that, you know, ,

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your better half that

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brings out the best in you

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or that challenges you in

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ways that helps you grow.

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And coming from a home,

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and I say this because I

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think it's important,

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I want people to understand.

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I come from a family.

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My parents actually were

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divorced when I was the age of 11.

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And they were both remarried

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several times.

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Between them,

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I think there's either four

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or five divorces between my parents.

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Wow.

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And one of the things that

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was very important for me

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is I remember feeling as a

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child that I didn't have a home.

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After my parents were divorced,

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it was very hard to feel at home.

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especially when they were remarried.

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It just, it didn't feel like I had a home.

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And we were living between

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Mexico and the U.S.

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We lived in, you know,

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once when my dad left after

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they got divorced and they

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were leaving with my mom, it became very,

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very hard for her to

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financially keep us together.

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We actually,

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and this is important because

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I want people to understand

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my background and what lens

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I bring to the table as a state senator.

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After my parents' divorce, um,

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it became very financially

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unstable at home.

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It was very hard for me, for my mom,

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to keep us in the apartment that we had.

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And we actually had to move

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out and move in with

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another family in a

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two-bedroom apartment.

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They had a son at the time.

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He was 14, I was 12, and my sister was 10.

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And they were temporarily

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housing us in that place

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because my mom didn't have

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the finances to be able to

00:22:17.817 --> 00:22:18.557
keep our apartment.

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So we talk about, you know,

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understanding what it's

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like to be a home without having a home,

00:22:24.528 --> 00:22:25.169
understanding what it's

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like to be homeless.

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We knew what that was.

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But we also had grandparents

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that understood the,

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in Mexico at the time we

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were living in Hawaii when this happened.

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But my grandparents in

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Mexico said to my mom, you know,

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you can't live like this.

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You can't be living in

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someone else's home.

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The girls need a male

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influence in their lives.

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Why don't you send this

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the girls to live with us in

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Mexico until you get your

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life settled and are in a better footing.

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And so that's how we came.

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We went back to Mexico to

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live with my grandparents,

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which was the best

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experience that we could

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have had because they were solid.

00:23:03.356 --> 00:23:04.477
They weren't on survival

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mode at that time.

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They had the time to sit down with us,

00:23:08.138 --> 00:23:08.999
talk about life,

00:23:09.359 --> 00:23:10.759
talk about life experiences,

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talk about our family, our heritage,

00:23:13.241 --> 00:23:14.182
our background,

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the importance of education.

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importance of healthy

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marriages and families and

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what that looked like.

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And so it was a very healing

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and very needed input in

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our lives and experience.

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So I'm incredibly grateful.

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And this is why I think

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families are so important.

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But going back to the marriage part,

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my parents at that time

00:23:36.618 --> 00:23:37.358
were still married,

00:23:37.679 --> 00:23:39.641
even though they had had many, many

00:23:40.536 --> 00:23:42.497
uh, struggles and challenges,

00:23:42.537 --> 00:23:43.957
including alcoholism with

00:23:43.997 --> 00:23:45.837
my grandfather for many, many years,

00:23:46.718 --> 00:23:48.078
my grandmother stayed on there.

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Right.

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But because of her life experiences,

00:23:51.019 --> 00:23:52.701
she said to my sister and I,

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at the time we were 10 and 12, she goes,

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this is why education is important.

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Have your education, um,

00:24:01.564 --> 00:24:04.085
at the forefront of importance,

00:24:04.164 --> 00:24:05.506
because if anything were to

00:24:05.566 --> 00:24:06.605
happen to your husband,

00:24:07.494 --> 00:24:08.855
you will have the ability to

00:24:08.915 --> 00:24:10.115
provide for yourself in a

00:24:10.297 --> 00:24:12.718
dignified manner and way.

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And that stuck with you.

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What's that?

00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:16.500
That stuck with us.

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Yeah.

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Because we knew my mom's experience.

00:24:19.801 --> 00:24:20.862
We knew that my grandmother

00:24:20.882 --> 00:24:21.742
stayed with my grandpa

00:24:21.782 --> 00:24:23.203
because that traditionally, right.

00:24:23.423 --> 00:24:24.364
She would have been 91.

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So think contextually,

00:24:26.770 --> 00:24:28.333
born in Mexico.

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She would have been 90,

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actually 92 this year, 92.

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And this month, actually,

00:24:34.656 --> 00:24:36.258
her birthday would have been March 20th.

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And she, at the age of eight,

00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:40.442
was pulled from school by

00:24:40.481 --> 00:24:41.903
her father who said,

00:24:42.383 --> 00:24:43.683
you know how to read and

00:24:43.903 --> 00:24:45.105
you know how to do basic math.

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That's all you need because

00:24:46.246 --> 00:24:46.925
you're just going to get

00:24:46.945 --> 00:24:47.767
married and have babies.

00:24:48.448 --> 00:24:52.971
So she loved to learn, self-taught,

00:24:53.558 --> 00:24:55.259
self-taught and valued

00:24:55.319 --> 00:24:56.480
education because she was

00:24:56.520 --> 00:24:57.500
not able to have that.

00:24:58.501 --> 00:25:00.343
But she knew her history about her state.

00:25:00.623 --> 00:25:02.183
She knew the history of her family,

00:25:02.663 --> 00:25:04.384
cultural, anything that was cultural.

00:25:04.565 --> 00:25:05.726
She knew about politics.

00:25:05.965 --> 00:25:06.986
Every day she read her

00:25:07.026 --> 00:25:09.627
newspaper from front to back,

00:25:09.728 --> 00:25:12.088
every section, self-taught.

00:25:13.009 --> 00:25:15.611
So she gave us that passion of, you know,

00:25:15.711 --> 00:25:16.912
the importance of learning,

00:25:17.231 --> 00:25:18.112
lifelong learning,

00:25:18.492 --> 00:25:20.413
making sure that we had a

00:25:20.513 --> 00:25:21.634
foundation in which we

00:25:21.673 --> 00:25:22.775
could stand on our own

00:25:23.233 --> 00:25:25.836
but also modeled the importance of family.

00:25:27.076 --> 00:25:28.477
Husband and wife was

00:25:28.537 --> 00:25:30.258
important because you have to be there.

00:25:30.357 --> 00:25:31.959
Otherwise, things happen,

00:25:31.999 --> 00:25:33.480
financial crisis like your parents.

00:25:33.780 --> 00:25:35.701
So everything was personal for us.

00:25:36.122 --> 00:25:38.163
What it was like to be with

00:25:38.222 --> 00:25:40.424
a family that had a dad and a mom,

00:25:41.105 --> 00:25:42.105
husband and wife together.

00:25:42.586 --> 00:25:43.646
We knew what it was like to

00:25:43.686 --> 00:25:44.707
have a single mom

00:25:44.846 --> 00:25:47.009
struggling for most of her life,

00:25:47.048 --> 00:25:48.048
raising four kids.

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And so when it came to my

00:25:51.290 --> 00:25:52.352
time as growing up,

00:25:53.489 --> 00:25:57.250
As an adult, I knew that at one,

00:25:57.790 --> 00:25:59.071
I hungered and craved to

00:25:59.112 --> 00:26:00.152
have my own family.

00:26:07.096 --> 00:26:07.635
Take your time.

00:26:13.058 --> 00:26:14.118
From a young age, you knew this.

00:26:19.602 --> 00:26:20.221
And now you have it.

00:26:22.482 --> 00:26:23.983
Hey, God is good.

00:26:24.003 --> 00:26:26.846
God is good.

00:26:26.865 --> 00:26:27.945
But in that process,

00:26:29.567 --> 00:26:31.469
I did everything I could to

00:26:31.528 --> 00:26:33.769
try to understand what

00:26:33.849 --> 00:26:35.691
marriages needed to work.

00:26:36.912 --> 00:26:40.354
I've been reading books on the male brain,

00:26:40.394 --> 00:26:41.375
the female brain,

00:26:41.775 --> 00:26:44.396
learning about marriage and

00:26:44.517 --> 00:26:46.538
couples and how the brain works.

00:26:47.529 --> 00:26:48.171
in marriages.

00:26:48.770 --> 00:26:49.590
And here's an interesting

00:26:49.611 --> 00:26:51.152
fact because I think it's important.

00:26:51.512 --> 00:26:53.314
So I've read a lot because I

00:26:53.354 --> 00:26:54.273
didn't want to make the

00:26:54.294 --> 00:26:55.734
same mistakes my parents made.

00:26:57.016 --> 00:26:58.076
I definitely did not want to

00:26:58.115 --> 00:26:58.977
make those mistakes.

00:26:59.557 --> 00:27:00.738
So it was important for me

00:27:00.897 --> 00:27:04.599
to learn and make better

00:27:04.660 --> 00:27:06.780
choices than my parents did.

00:27:07.422 --> 00:27:08.902
And I say that with the

00:27:09.103 --> 00:27:11.263
utmost respect to my parents,

00:27:11.644 --> 00:27:13.585
who I absolutely love.

00:27:14.806 --> 00:27:14.925
And

00:27:15.557 --> 00:27:17.818
But I wanted to overcome the

00:27:17.898 --> 00:27:18.559
obstacles and the

00:27:18.619 --> 00:27:19.779
challenges that they made,

00:27:19.799 --> 00:27:20.760
the mistakes that they made,

00:27:20.820 --> 00:27:22.521
and not create those.

00:27:22.922 --> 00:27:24.883
And I've made my own mistakes, of course.

00:27:25.482 --> 00:27:27.663
But I wanted to overcome

00:27:27.864 --> 00:27:28.785
some of those mistakes.

00:27:29.904 --> 00:27:31.046
And in preparing myself,

00:27:31.105 --> 00:27:32.326
here's some things that I've learned.

00:27:32.747 --> 00:27:34.667
First of all, that marriage is hard.

00:27:34.968 --> 00:27:40.830
It's not a happy, everlasting fairy tale.

00:27:41.151 --> 00:27:41.471
It's right.

00:27:41.510 --> 00:27:42.551
It's not a fairy tale.

00:27:42.672 --> 00:27:45.133
And I did not raise my girls especially.

00:27:45.645 --> 00:27:48.007
with the understanding that

00:27:48.067 --> 00:27:49.247
marriage is a fairy tale.

00:27:49.926 --> 00:27:51.607
It's real life and it's hard,

00:27:52.048 --> 00:27:53.208
but it's a commitment.

00:27:53.468 --> 00:27:54.689
And you have to say, okay,

00:27:55.209 --> 00:27:56.910
I'm committed to this person.

00:27:57.369 --> 00:27:58.950
I'm marrying them because I

00:27:59.269 --> 00:28:01.451
believe that they have X, Y, and Z,

00:28:01.550 --> 00:28:03.152
which is important to me.

00:28:03.751 --> 00:28:05.231
They have to be grownups, right?

00:28:05.251 --> 00:28:06.152
They have to have certain

00:28:06.192 --> 00:28:07.853
values that I believe are important.

00:28:09.373 --> 00:28:11.233
And so I said, I think with them,

00:28:11.253 --> 00:28:12.934
I will be, you know,

00:28:12.954 --> 00:28:14.134
they're a good compliment.

00:28:14.673 --> 00:28:15.673
They work together.

00:28:15.713 --> 00:28:18.336
My grandmother always says, you know, Mija,

00:28:19.096 --> 00:28:20.517
don't worry about marrying someone rich.

00:28:20.837 --> 00:28:22.159
Marry someone at your own

00:28:22.199 --> 00:28:23.359
level so that together you

00:28:23.380 --> 00:28:26.682
guys can work and build your family,

00:28:26.721 --> 00:28:28.804
your legacy, and your wealth together.

00:28:29.644 --> 00:28:30.724
So that was important for her.

00:28:30.744 --> 00:28:31.605
And that was always in the

00:28:31.625 --> 00:28:33.467
back of my mind on that end.

00:28:33.928 --> 00:28:35.729
So, you know,

00:28:35.769 --> 00:28:38.050
we knew that faith was important to have,

00:28:38.611 --> 00:28:40.392
you know, as a foundation, right?

00:28:40.452 --> 00:28:42.013
Because grace,

00:28:42.334 --> 00:28:43.494
you have to have a little bit of grace

00:28:44.008 --> 00:28:45.509
We have to learn how to be forgiving,

00:28:46.130 --> 00:28:46.329
right?

00:28:46.410 --> 00:28:47.309
Because we're not perfect.

00:28:47.349 --> 00:28:49.872
We're all perfectly imperfect.

00:28:51.093 --> 00:28:52.854
You know, as a woman of faith,

00:28:52.933 --> 00:28:54.836
I do believe that because

00:28:54.875 --> 00:28:56.457
of the atonement, because of all of that,

00:28:56.477 --> 00:28:59.019
we have grace and we can forgive and,

00:28:59.038 --> 00:29:02.500
you know, and move on with intent of,

00:29:02.580 --> 00:29:02.881
you know,

00:29:03.761 --> 00:29:05.423
having a certain basic values

00:29:05.462 --> 00:29:06.923
that allow us to complement

00:29:06.983 --> 00:29:08.744
each other and in our relationship.

00:29:09.165 --> 00:29:10.405
But here's an important fact

00:29:10.446 --> 00:29:11.606
that I think it's very

00:29:11.727 --> 00:29:12.508
interesting to note.

00:29:12.978 --> 00:29:14.159
There was a book that I read

00:29:14.179 --> 00:29:17.381
that talked about how do

00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:21.002
you live and foster a good marriage,

00:29:21.284 --> 00:29:22.625
you know, to last?

00:29:23.325 --> 00:29:23.944
And part of it,

00:29:23.965 --> 00:29:24.826
they talked about the

00:29:24.865 --> 00:29:26.186
biology and the chemistry

00:29:26.547 --> 00:29:27.748
that goes on when you first

00:29:27.788 --> 00:29:28.709
meet someone and there's

00:29:28.729 --> 00:29:29.829
the attraction and the

00:29:29.950 --> 00:29:30.829
adrenaline and the

00:29:30.890 --> 00:29:33.192
endorphins and all the excitement.

00:29:33.692 --> 00:29:36.193
Did you know that all of that, you know,

00:29:36.213 --> 00:29:37.714
that makes you attracted and, you know,

00:29:38.394 --> 00:29:40.896
makes you begin a

00:29:40.936 --> 00:29:42.137
relationship with someone?

00:29:43.468 --> 00:29:43.627
Um,

00:29:44.028 --> 00:29:46.088
actually those chemicals and those

00:29:46.148 --> 00:29:47.269
endorphins, um,

00:29:47.828 --> 00:29:49.890
actually start fading away

00:29:49.950 --> 00:29:50.490
or you get this

00:29:50.609 --> 00:29:52.270
desensitized between five

00:29:52.590 --> 00:29:53.570
and seven years.

00:29:54.632 --> 00:29:54.852
Yeah.

00:29:55.632 --> 00:29:57.373
Now, why is that important?

00:29:57.952 --> 00:29:59.873
Because many, many people,

00:29:59.893 --> 00:30:01.193
especially when they've been, you know,

00:30:01.213 --> 00:30:02.673
around with many relationships,

00:30:03.214 --> 00:30:05.755
they get used to that adrenaline going,

00:30:05.775 --> 00:30:07.615
moving forward all the time.

00:30:08.561 --> 00:30:09.923
And that's what they're searching for.

00:30:09.962 --> 00:30:11.042
They think that that's what

00:30:11.163 --> 00:30:12.083
a relationship is.

00:30:12.222 --> 00:30:13.943
And once that starts diminishing,

00:30:14.003 --> 00:30:14.263
it's like,

00:30:14.663 --> 00:30:15.844
I'm not in love with you anymore.

00:30:15.923 --> 00:30:17.325
I'm not as attracted to you anymore.

00:30:17.365 --> 00:30:18.045
There's no fire.

00:30:18.105 --> 00:30:18.944
There's no nothing.

00:30:19.726 --> 00:30:20.705
And so it's important to

00:30:20.786 --> 00:30:22.066
note that that is just a

00:30:22.145 --> 00:30:24.166
normal course of how the brain works.

00:30:25.186 --> 00:30:27.048
You ignite that and how you

00:30:27.087 --> 00:30:28.428
change that is by doing

00:30:28.488 --> 00:30:29.429
something completely

00:30:29.469 --> 00:30:32.390
different and new with your partner,

00:30:32.430 --> 00:30:33.269
with your spouse.

00:30:34.371 --> 00:30:35.932
between five and seven years

00:30:35.972 --> 00:30:37.233
to ensure that that fire,

00:30:37.273 --> 00:30:38.454
that adrenaline of doing

00:30:38.575 --> 00:30:41.416
something new and exciting begins again.

00:30:41.757 --> 00:30:43.438
And you're able to continue

00:30:43.538 --> 00:30:45.200
on that relationship in growing.

00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:47.662
So have you and your husband

00:30:47.701 --> 00:30:48.623
gone bungee jumping then?

00:30:49.702 --> 00:30:51.265
Actually, yes, we have.

00:30:52.345 --> 00:30:54.626
There it is.

00:30:55.087 --> 00:30:56.509
We've done bungee jumping.

00:30:56.669 --> 00:30:58.829
We've actually done skydiving.

00:30:59.971 --> 00:31:01.893
We traveled around the world.

00:31:02.489 --> 00:31:05.550
We've done, you know, several things.

00:31:05.570 --> 00:31:06.510
We've had our children.

00:31:06.570 --> 00:31:07.451
Children are a new and

00:31:07.471 --> 00:31:09.532
exciting thing in life as well, right?

00:31:10.512 --> 00:31:11.854
And then also very important

00:31:12.294 --> 00:31:14.455
is that when you do meet someone,

00:31:14.496 --> 00:31:15.215
you marry someone,

00:31:15.596 --> 00:31:16.896
give yourself some time to

00:31:17.096 --> 00:31:18.337
grow together and have a

00:31:18.417 --> 00:31:20.098
life together before the babies come.

00:31:20.499 --> 00:31:22.000
Because life is very different.

00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:23.140
It will never be the same

00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:24.701
once those babies come.

00:31:25.040 --> 00:31:27.202
So give yourself a good couple of years,

00:31:27.242 --> 00:31:27.942
you know, two, three.

00:31:27.982 --> 00:31:28.983
My grandmother always said two,

00:31:29.003 --> 00:31:29.483
three years.

00:31:30.009 --> 00:31:31.009
Give yourself two or three

00:31:31.029 --> 00:31:32.990
years with your spouse so

00:31:33.010 --> 00:31:34.712
that you can build a strong

00:31:34.752 --> 00:31:35.794
foundation of that

00:31:35.854 --> 00:31:37.815
relationship that will not

00:31:37.855 --> 00:31:38.955
be the same once you have

00:31:38.996 --> 00:31:40.876
children for a very, very long time.

00:31:40.978 --> 00:31:42.959
So some of the advice that she gave us,

00:31:43.159 --> 00:31:44.519
that my grandmother, bless her heart,

00:31:45.540 --> 00:31:47.903
she passed away just

00:31:47.942 --> 00:31:49.104
shortly after I was elected

00:31:49.163 --> 00:31:50.025
as a state senator.

00:31:50.045 --> 00:31:52.266
She had Alzheimer's and dementia,

00:31:53.007 --> 00:31:53.907
which is why I'm such an

00:31:54.008 --> 00:31:55.769
advocate for an awareness

00:31:55.808 --> 00:31:58.151
for Alzheimer's and dementia on that end.

00:31:58.643 --> 00:31:59.723
But, you know,

00:31:59.784 --> 00:32:01.144
just little tips right there.

00:32:01.325 --> 00:32:04.327
So, you know, make sure you marry someone.

00:32:04.567 --> 00:32:04.847
You know,

00:32:05.048 --> 00:32:06.789
my grandma always had this saying

00:32:06.809 --> 00:32:07.470
to which I love.

00:32:07.529 --> 00:32:07.829
She said,

00:32:08.070 --> 00:32:09.711
if a man doesn't marry after two years,

00:32:10.432 --> 00:32:11.712
dump him.

00:32:12.334 --> 00:32:12.673
She goes,

00:32:12.974 --> 00:32:14.915
dump him because he's wasting your youth.

00:32:15.036 --> 00:32:16.738
And you don't want to waste your youth.

00:32:17.178 --> 00:32:18.398
And the men, we like the youth.

00:32:18.479 --> 00:32:19.420
The men like the youth.

00:32:20.500 --> 00:32:22.362
So she always said that.

00:32:22.422 --> 00:32:24.243
So those are some of the things, right?

00:32:24.263 --> 00:32:24.703
So faith.

00:32:25.417 --> 00:32:27.700
Bearing someone that is your

00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:29.401
equal intellectually, you know,

00:32:29.441 --> 00:32:31.902
emotionally, spiritually,

00:32:31.922 --> 00:32:36.605
and have certain values on that.

00:32:36.705 --> 00:32:37.746
And know that it's a commitment.

00:32:37.767 --> 00:32:38.626
Know that you're going to

00:32:38.646 --> 00:32:39.627
have ups and downs,

00:32:40.188 --> 00:32:41.709
but you just have to say, nope,

00:32:41.868 --> 00:32:44.010
this is my media naranja.

00:32:44.431 --> 00:32:46.492
This is my, you know, my...

00:32:47.844 --> 00:32:49.423
what's the word in English?

00:32:49.503 --> 00:32:51.164
The saying, my better half,

00:32:51.585 --> 00:32:52.184
my better half.

00:32:53.144 --> 00:32:55.046
And know that every five to seven years,

00:32:55.286 --> 00:32:56.885
you will start losing that, that,

00:32:57.125 --> 00:32:57.807
that fire.

00:32:58.346 --> 00:32:59.326
And it's up to you.

00:32:59.926 --> 00:33:00.826
Once you know that,

00:33:00.887 --> 00:33:02.468
then you can make an effort to shape.

00:33:02.587 --> 00:33:02.748
No.

00:33:03.107 --> 00:33:03.867
And I have to tell you,

00:33:03.968 --> 00:33:05.669
after all of these years with my husband,

00:33:05.689 --> 00:33:07.909
my, my heart still flutters for him.

00:33:08.108 --> 00:33:09.029
I still look at him and I

00:33:09.049 --> 00:33:10.289
think he's the most handsome thing.

00:33:10.349 --> 00:33:12.810
And I just, I love spending time with him.

00:33:12.830 --> 00:33:13.790
I really, really do.

00:33:14.365 --> 00:33:16.387
And so, but it hasn't been easy.

00:33:16.428 --> 00:33:17.048
We have, you know,

00:33:17.249 --> 00:33:20.050
like I say to your audience, no,

00:33:20.230 --> 00:33:20.832
it is hard.

00:33:20.892 --> 00:33:22.032
You have your ups and downs,

00:33:22.073 --> 00:33:23.755
but ultimately there's

00:33:23.775 --> 00:33:25.175
something to be said that

00:33:25.236 --> 00:33:27.538
is beautiful when you sit

00:33:27.577 --> 00:33:32.102
next to someone who you

00:33:32.142 --> 00:33:34.223
shared so many life memories with.

00:33:35.885 --> 00:33:36.926
So many life memories.

00:33:38.294 --> 00:33:39.154
And it's something so

00:33:39.194 --> 00:33:41.415
sublime and sweet about that.

00:33:41.895 --> 00:33:43.717
And I think we see that when we, you know,

00:33:43.757 --> 00:33:45.357
you interview these elderly

00:33:45.397 --> 00:33:47.579
couples that have been married for 70,

00:33:47.579 --> 00:33:48.579
80 years, right?

00:33:49.500 --> 00:33:52.281
And how endearing they are.

00:33:52.682 --> 00:33:54.303
It's because you've seen the highs,

00:33:54.343 --> 00:33:56.804
the lows, created memories together.

00:33:56.824 --> 00:33:58.025
And there's something

00:33:58.204 --> 00:34:00.006
incredibly special about that.

00:34:00.506 --> 00:34:01.846
And I wish that for my children.

00:34:01.906 --> 00:34:03.208
I hope that they can find

00:34:03.248 --> 00:34:04.167
their many and other kinds

00:34:04.268 --> 00:34:06.068
of better halves and create

00:34:06.108 --> 00:34:06.930
those lives moving forward.

00:34:08.061 --> 00:34:08.440
Yes.

00:34:08.460 --> 00:34:09.001
Awesome.

00:34:09.141 --> 00:34:10.222
And I think they will with your guidance.

00:34:10.242 --> 00:34:11.461
And I love when older people are like,

00:34:11.481 --> 00:34:12.661
I hate that mother.

00:34:12.742 --> 00:34:14.922
I love when they're all like,

00:34:14.983 --> 00:34:15.862
I hate that mother.

00:34:15.923 --> 00:34:16.603
He stinks.

00:34:17.344 --> 00:34:17.963
Okay.

00:34:18.384 --> 00:34:19.023
Yeah.

00:34:19.043 --> 00:34:22.385
You know, I want to give a,

00:34:22.885 --> 00:34:24.025
cause it seems like, you know,

00:34:24.206 --> 00:34:25.246
so much respect you have

00:34:25.266 --> 00:34:25.947
for your grandmother.

00:34:25.987 --> 00:34:27.367
So I want to, what's her name?

00:34:27.387 --> 00:34:28.266
Let's give her a shout out.

00:34:28.387 --> 00:34:28.947
You know what I mean?

00:34:29.887 --> 00:34:31.688
We refer to her as Mamita Inel.

00:34:32.489 --> 00:34:32.889
Okay.

00:34:33.009 --> 00:34:33.429
Inel.

00:34:34.148 --> 00:34:36.389
And she was Berta Inelda.

00:34:37.554 --> 00:34:38.516
Solis de Medina.

00:34:38.856 --> 00:34:40.338
And my other grandmother,

00:34:40.380 --> 00:34:41.802
who was also full of wisdom,

00:34:42.463 --> 00:34:43.684
was Mama Feli.

00:34:44.045 --> 00:34:45.106
We called her Mama Feli.

00:34:45.568 --> 00:34:46.409
And she's the one that lived

00:34:46.429 --> 00:34:47.972
here in San Ramadino until

00:34:48.012 --> 00:34:49.094
she passed away as well.

00:34:49.771 --> 00:34:50.510
So we want to give them a

00:34:50.570 --> 00:34:51.891
shout out because I can

00:34:51.931 --> 00:34:53.132
tell there was so much

00:34:53.512 --> 00:34:55.992
influence and reverence you

00:34:56.032 --> 00:34:57.693
had for these women in your life.

00:34:57.713 --> 00:34:58.773
So we definitely give a

00:34:58.833 --> 00:34:59.773
shout out for them.

00:35:01.193 --> 00:35:02.454
But I wanted to,

00:35:02.793 --> 00:35:03.614
because you mentioned about

00:35:03.934 --> 00:35:05.974
working in the workforce

00:35:05.994 --> 00:35:06.873
that you wouldn't gossip

00:35:07.235 --> 00:35:10.335
because gossip would get you in trouble.

00:35:10.795 --> 00:35:11.875
So I kind of was curious,

00:35:12.295 --> 00:35:13.695
how did that knowledge of

00:35:13.755 --> 00:35:16.396
not gossiping help you as a senator?

00:35:18.036 --> 00:35:19.157
You know, I think

00:35:21.996 --> 00:35:23.896
I think it builds trust.

00:35:24.117 --> 00:35:26.077
I think people know that

00:35:26.117 --> 00:35:28.199
they can trust you when they know that,

00:35:28.219 --> 00:35:29.418
you know, there's,

00:35:29.719 --> 00:35:30.478
do you remember when you

00:35:30.498 --> 00:35:31.139
were in high school,

00:35:31.179 --> 00:35:32.619
there were individuals who

00:35:33.619 --> 00:35:35.039
always talked about, you know, well,

00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:35.940
did you hear this happen?

00:35:35.980 --> 00:35:36.380
Did you hear?

00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:37.460
And they were just always

00:35:37.501 --> 00:35:38.521
talking about what was

00:35:38.561 --> 00:35:39.460
happening and sharing

00:35:39.541 --> 00:35:40.561
information all the time.

00:35:41.762 --> 00:35:43.141
I was never that kind of a kid,

00:35:43.282 --> 00:35:44.663
even in junior high and high school,

00:35:44.682 --> 00:35:45.722
it was never the kind of kid who

00:35:47.016 --> 00:35:47.916
needed to know what was

00:35:47.976 --> 00:35:49.677
going on and sharing it.

00:35:49.777 --> 00:35:50.759
Let me show you what I know.

00:35:50.778 --> 00:35:51.659
Let me show you what I know.

00:35:51.880 --> 00:35:53.001
I wasn't that way at all.

00:35:53.882 --> 00:35:55.362
And that has just been a

00:35:55.523 --> 00:35:56.684
pattern of behavior that

00:35:56.704 --> 00:35:59.065
I've had all through my life.

00:35:59.346 --> 00:36:00.887
And in politics, you know,

00:36:01.507 --> 00:36:02.208
one of the things that

00:36:02.228 --> 00:36:04.730
people love in politics is gossiping.

00:36:05.130 --> 00:36:06.431
Anything that's dirty,

00:36:06.471 --> 00:36:08.532
anything that is salacious,

00:36:08.592 --> 00:36:11.735
anything that's, you know, spicy,

00:36:11.795 --> 00:36:13.036
it's like, oh, did you hear?

00:36:13.056 --> 00:36:13.936
And they share it.

00:36:14.418 --> 00:36:14.717
And it's

00:36:15.273 --> 00:36:16.494
And I see that all the way around.

00:36:16.753 --> 00:36:17.894
And some of it, you know,

00:36:17.954 --> 00:36:18.755
there was something that

00:36:18.775 --> 00:36:20.295
was said to me at one point

00:36:20.335 --> 00:36:22.137
that I thought was really

00:36:22.157 --> 00:36:23.257
eye opening to me,

00:36:23.318 --> 00:36:24.518
especially when it came to

00:36:24.539 --> 00:36:25.619
the political area.

00:36:26.641 --> 00:36:29.882
Um, I had someone say, you know,

00:36:30.023 --> 00:36:32.324
all you have to say is, you know,

00:36:32.565 --> 00:36:37.248
I heard that and not saying, you know,

00:36:37.427 --> 00:36:38.387
what it was or anything,

00:36:38.407 --> 00:36:39.809
but that who said it,

00:36:39.889 --> 00:36:41.130
or if it was even true,

00:36:41.150 --> 00:36:43.231
but just to get someone, you know, uh,

00:36:44.192 --> 00:36:46.612
kind of in trouble or put

00:36:46.733 --> 00:36:48.592
doubt in the world about them.

00:36:49.012 --> 00:36:50.114
All you have to say, well, you know,

00:36:50.134 --> 00:36:52.594
I heard that X, Y, and Z happened.

00:36:53.534 --> 00:36:57.135
And that's how salacious the

00:36:57.175 --> 00:36:58.436
political world can be.

00:36:59.016 --> 00:37:00.076
And I remember thinking,

00:37:00.356 --> 00:37:01.257
that's disgusting.

00:37:01.297 --> 00:37:02.817
That is absolutely pathetic.

00:37:03.436 --> 00:37:05.498
And I thought, I will never be that way.

00:37:06.277 --> 00:37:09.278
And so when I hear things, I always ask,

00:37:09.318 --> 00:37:10.478
well, who said it?

00:37:11.358 --> 00:37:13.000
And who saw it?

00:37:13.766 --> 00:37:14.907
Because then there was a

00:37:15.067 --> 00:37:16.307
level of accountability.

00:37:16.327 --> 00:37:18.050
As you're going to say it,

00:37:18.409 --> 00:37:19.150
then you better be

00:37:19.210 --> 00:37:20.791
accountable and you're

00:37:20.811 --> 00:37:22.112
going to be responsible for

00:37:22.132 --> 00:37:22.813
what you're saying.

00:37:23.153 --> 00:37:24.275
And I think it's important

00:37:24.295 --> 00:37:27.336
to start building that

00:37:27.416 --> 00:37:30.480
mindset within the public

00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:32.842
because it can be very

00:37:32.902 --> 00:37:34.463
detrimental in this world

00:37:34.503 --> 00:37:36.664
for many individuals who

00:37:36.704 --> 00:37:39.407
want to be hurtful and mean.

00:37:40.148 --> 00:37:41.748
And they do that a lot in

00:37:41.768 --> 00:37:42.769
the political world.

00:37:43.358 --> 00:37:45.920
because they want some

00:37:46.260 --> 00:37:48.121
political advantage themselves, right?

00:37:48.860 --> 00:37:50.561
And so the self-serving.

00:37:50.981 --> 00:37:52.842
So I don't gossip.

00:37:52.922 --> 00:37:54.222
People know I don't gossip.

00:37:54.943 --> 00:37:57.724
And people will share things with me,

00:37:58.503 --> 00:37:59.885
but I don't have the need

00:38:00.005 --> 00:38:01.764
or the desire to express

00:38:02.246 --> 00:38:03.666
anything that has been shared.

00:38:04.085 --> 00:38:05.045
And most importantly,

00:38:05.106 --> 00:38:07.347
when I do hear something, I say, well,

00:38:07.527 --> 00:38:08.288
did you hear that?

00:38:08.947 --> 00:38:09.748
Did you see that?

00:38:10.387 --> 00:38:12.148
Or who saw it and who heard it?

00:38:12.802 --> 00:38:13.702
You clarify.

00:38:14.822 --> 00:38:16.643
Clarify and bring

00:38:16.764 --> 00:38:18.503
accountability to what you're saying.

00:38:18.523 --> 00:38:20.565
Because when something is said,

00:38:20.585 --> 00:38:22.545
especially if it's false,

00:38:23.146 --> 00:38:24.586
especially if it's salacious,

00:38:25.246 --> 00:38:27.068
then it's like feathers in the wind,

00:38:27.128 --> 00:38:27.347
right?

00:38:27.748 --> 00:38:28.989
We can never gather that.

00:38:29.688 --> 00:38:31.789
And we've hurt someone personally.

00:38:32.210 --> 00:38:33.849
We've hurt someone's family.

00:38:34.231 --> 00:38:37.032
We've hurt someone's marriage.

00:38:37.371 --> 00:38:41.693
And I think that is just not

00:38:41.713 --> 00:38:42.554
a good quality

00:38:43.706 --> 00:38:45.708
or value to have in our society.

00:38:46.248 --> 00:38:47.969
Yeah, it's almost like telephone as a kid.

00:38:47.989 --> 00:38:49.291
Yeah.

00:38:49.451 --> 00:38:50.331
You remember telephone?

00:38:50.351 --> 00:38:51.552
Yes, yes.

00:38:51.873 --> 00:38:53.373
Wow, that's so gnarly.

00:38:53.393 --> 00:38:57.076
You know, Senator Rosalicia,

00:38:57.376 --> 00:38:58.737
what are some of the roles

00:38:58.958 --> 00:39:01.239
and responsibility of a state senator?

00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:03.280
Oh, yes, let's go back to that.

00:39:03.860 --> 00:39:05.141
So as a state senator,

00:39:05.202 --> 00:39:06.684
there's a couple of big

00:39:07.264 --> 00:39:08.324
overall umbrella

00:39:08.465 --> 00:39:09.885
responsibilities that we have.

00:39:10.342 --> 00:39:11.302
So as the state senator,

00:39:11.402 --> 00:39:13.583
I'm responsible for right now,

00:39:13.583 --> 00:39:15.184
1.2 million people.

00:39:15.706 --> 00:39:17.206
There's about 35 cities and

00:39:17.246 --> 00:39:18.907
communities that we oversee.

00:39:19.527 --> 00:39:20.548
So what we call,

00:39:20.768 --> 00:39:21.989
we have work in the district,

00:39:22.130 --> 00:39:23.731
which is down here in the Inland Empire.

00:39:24.391 --> 00:39:26.813
And my cities right now are from Rialto,

00:39:26.893 --> 00:39:29.434
Colton, Bloomington, Rancho Cucamonga,

00:39:29.494 --> 00:39:31.277
Philly, Pending Hills, San Bernardino,

00:39:31.336 --> 00:39:31.797
Highland.

00:39:32.215 --> 00:39:33.617
I have all of the mountain communities.

00:39:33.637 --> 00:39:35.438
So Big Bear, Big Bear Lake, Crestline,

00:39:35.478 --> 00:39:36.018
Black Arrowhead,

00:39:36.099 --> 00:39:37.500
all the small communities out there.

00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:38.260
Okay.

00:39:38.501 --> 00:39:40.822
Down to Highland, Mentone, Cherry Valley,

00:39:40.862 --> 00:39:41.563
Yucaipa.

00:39:42.443 --> 00:39:45.545
We have Loma Linda, Redlands, Jemita,

00:39:45.565 --> 00:39:46.967
Jacinto, Menifee, Nuevo.

00:39:47.306 --> 00:39:48.728
And we have the pass area

00:39:49.528 --> 00:39:51.931
that includes Cala Mesa, Beaumont,

00:39:51.990 --> 00:39:53.331
Banning, and Cabazon.

00:39:53.851 --> 00:39:54.092
Wow.

00:39:54.693 --> 00:39:58.175
So it's a huge, huge district, right?

00:39:58.416 --> 00:39:59.996
So two things that we do,

00:40:00.277 --> 00:40:01.478
primarily umbrellas.

00:40:01.925 --> 00:40:02.585
In the district,

00:40:02.947 --> 00:40:05.347
we are able to help our constituents,

00:40:05.568 --> 00:40:07.110
anyone that lives within those cities,

00:40:07.489 --> 00:40:09.010
with any state agency,

00:40:09.110 --> 00:40:10.871
navigating any state agency.

00:40:10.911 --> 00:40:12.253
So if you're having issues

00:40:12.273 --> 00:40:15.195
with the EDD or the DMV,

00:40:15.215 --> 00:40:16.976
Department of Motor Vehicles, or...

00:40:18.974 --> 00:40:21.255
Or, um, let's see what's another big,

00:40:21.295 --> 00:40:22.556
big one that we have issues with,

00:40:22.735 --> 00:40:24.016
or your licensing board.

00:40:24.096 --> 00:40:25.117
If you professionally,

00:40:25.177 --> 00:40:26.137
you're having issues with

00:40:26.157 --> 00:40:26.956
the licensing board.

00:40:27.396 --> 00:40:29.318
We have direct contacts with

00:40:29.358 --> 00:40:30.318
those state departments,

00:40:30.398 --> 00:40:31.518
anything that's state related.

00:40:31.577 --> 00:40:33.398
We have direct contacts with

00:40:33.438 --> 00:40:34.079
them where we can

00:40:34.119 --> 00:40:35.398
facilitate the conversation

00:40:35.458 --> 00:40:37.338
and get the work done more quickly.

00:40:38.219 --> 00:40:39.400
When you say licensing board,

00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:40.940
does like real estate license count?

00:40:41.340 --> 00:40:41.599
Yes.

00:40:42.061 --> 00:40:42.340
Yes.

00:40:42.780 --> 00:40:43.001
Yes.

00:40:43.181 --> 00:40:43.800
So any,

00:40:44.181 --> 00:40:46.942
anything state related with your work,

00:40:47.641 --> 00:40:48.222
we can help.

00:40:49.414 --> 00:40:52.197
state agencies that aid our veterans,

00:40:52.456 --> 00:40:53.338
we can help with that

00:40:53.398 --> 00:40:56.039
because there's federal work on that end.

00:40:56.701 --> 00:40:57.822
So any state agency,

00:40:58.001 --> 00:40:58.983
we're here to help you

00:40:59.143 --> 00:41:00.583
navigate that constituent.

00:41:00.943 --> 00:41:02.385
The other thing that we do

00:41:02.585 --> 00:41:04.728
is my field representatives

00:41:05.268 --> 00:41:07.170
attend events and community

00:41:07.869 --> 00:41:09.311
events throughout the

00:41:09.331 --> 00:41:11.172
district where they're

00:41:11.213 --> 00:41:12.733
literally my ears and my

00:41:13.014 --> 00:41:14.536
eyes when I am not here.

00:41:15.583 --> 00:41:18.565
And when I'm traveling to Sacramento,

00:41:18.646 --> 00:41:20.487
so between January and September,

00:41:20.567 --> 00:41:21.646
I travel back and forth

00:41:21.927 --> 00:41:25.469
from here home to Sacramento.

00:41:26.108 --> 00:41:28.670
And my field reps are in the communities,

00:41:29.130 --> 00:41:31.612
listening to the issues, listening to,

00:41:31.632 --> 00:41:33.012
you know,

00:41:33.452 --> 00:41:34.574
the good things that are happening,

00:41:35.333 --> 00:41:36.614
who's who and doing what.

00:41:37.215 --> 00:41:38.434
And then at the end of the week,

00:41:38.474 --> 00:41:39.976
they give me a report as to

00:41:40.255 --> 00:41:41.717
what's important issues

00:41:42.137 --> 00:41:43.157
within my organization.

00:41:43.936 --> 00:41:45.795
within their geographical

00:41:45.976 --> 00:41:47.157
area so that I'm aware of

00:41:47.197 --> 00:41:48.016
what's going on in the

00:41:48.036 --> 00:41:49.677
district when I'm not in the district.

00:41:50.817 --> 00:41:52.358
And when I'm in Sacramento

00:41:52.438 --> 00:41:53.197
during those times,

00:41:53.237 --> 00:41:54.038
then we're meeting with

00:41:54.077 --> 00:41:55.677
stakeholders that are

00:41:55.737 --> 00:41:57.358
coming to talk to me about

00:41:57.699 --> 00:41:58.858
legislation that's been

00:41:58.918 --> 00:42:00.199
introduced that impacts

00:42:00.418 --> 00:42:01.920
their particular spaces.

00:42:02.460 --> 00:42:03.900
So then they tell me how the

00:42:03.980 --> 00:42:05.019
policy or how the

00:42:05.059 --> 00:42:06.260
legislation works or does

00:42:06.300 --> 00:42:08.541
not work within their

00:42:08.561 --> 00:42:10.721
spaces so that I can

00:42:10.940 --> 00:42:13.282
advocate in having those changes done

00:42:13.826 --> 00:42:15.867
in committees or between the

00:42:16.128 --> 00:42:17.168
author of the bill or

00:42:17.228 --> 00:42:19.949
myself or within our caucus.

00:42:20.030 --> 00:42:23.052
So we're working in

00:42:23.092 --> 00:42:26.153
Sacramento with legislation

00:42:26.315 --> 00:42:28.356
that impacts a variety of

00:42:28.476 --> 00:42:31.197
areas and spaces and then

00:42:31.378 --> 00:42:33.018
voting on them so that they

00:42:33.059 --> 00:42:36.481
can eventually become law in the state.

00:42:37.222 --> 00:42:39.202
And those laws then impact

00:42:39.282 --> 00:42:41.344
the way that we run our schools,

00:42:41.704 --> 00:42:43.005
how we educate,

00:42:43.916 --> 00:42:45.456
It also impacts the way that

00:42:45.717 --> 00:42:47.038
cities run their cities,

00:42:47.157 --> 00:42:48.398
what they can and cannot do

00:42:48.418 --> 00:42:49.277
within their cities.

00:42:50.838 --> 00:42:51.940
And then there's other

00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:53.480
spaces like in the businesses.

00:42:53.981 --> 00:42:54.260
You know,

00:42:54.340 --> 00:42:56.601
we pass laws that impact how

00:42:56.702 --> 00:42:57.922
businesses are conducting

00:42:57.961 --> 00:42:58.963
their responsibilities,

00:42:58.983 --> 00:42:59.922
what they can and cannot do.

00:43:00.282 --> 00:43:01.943
Public safety is another area.

00:43:02.384 --> 00:43:03.244
So you name it,

00:43:03.804 --> 00:43:05.985
that's what we do as far as

00:43:06.266 --> 00:43:07.706
introducing legislation to

00:43:07.766 --> 00:43:08.927
fix issues that are

00:43:08.967 --> 00:43:10.126
impacting our communities

00:43:10.547 --> 00:43:11.288
in different spaces.

00:43:12.275 --> 00:43:15.717
And, uh, we vote on laws to make law.

00:43:16.077 --> 00:43:17.818
We vote on legislation to make law.

00:43:18.097 --> 00:43:18.358
Yes.

00:43:18.878 --> 00:43:22.219
We all live by in the state of California.

00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:22.659
Wow.

00:43:22.980 --> 00:43:23.480
Impressive.

00:43:23.980 --> 00:43:24.780
You know, um,

00:43:24.900 --> 00:43:26.041
so I guess there's two

00:43:26.061 --> 00:43:28.121
questions that are on my mind is how many,

00:43:28.521 --> 00:43:28.722
um,

00:43:28.882 --> 00:43:31.663
how many state senators are there for

00:43:31.682 --> 00:43:32.342
the California?

00:43:33.023 --> 00:43:34.443
Oh, wonderful question.

00:43:34.523 --> 00:43:35.184
Thank you so much.

00:43:35.664 --> 00:43:37.585
So believe it or not, um,

00:43:38.550 --> 00:43:41.632
Antonio, the majority of Californians,

00:43:41.711 --> 00:43:43.172
I would say probably Americans,

00:43:43.492 --> 00:43:46.653
don't know government.

00:43:47.335 --> 00:43:47.554
No.

00:43:48.295 --> 00:43:50.695
California government, federal government,

00:43:51.217 --> 00:43:52.836
they interchange them.

00:43:53.318 --> 00:43:54.858
And then they don't know

00:43:55.239 --> 00:43:56.858
what each one does.

00:43:57.639 --> 00:43:59.760
So everybody focuses on federal, federal,

00:43:59.820 --> 00:44:01.222
federal, which is fine.

00:44:01.722 --> 00:44:02.621
But the ones that have the

00:44:02.681 --> 00:44:04.262
most direct contact in our

00:44:04.402 --> 00:44:06.304
everyday life are local governments.

00:44:06.324 --> 00:44:07.565
That means our city councils.

00:44:08.018 --> 00:44:09.338
That means our school boards.

00:44:09.878 --> 00:44:11.539
That means our water boards.

00:44:12.539 --> 00:44:13.440
Those are probably the,

00:44:13.639 --> 00:44:14.981
and then you have your special districts,

00:44:15.300 --> 00:44:17.802
but those are the most impactful locally.

00:44:18.202 --> 00:44:19.282
You should know who your

00:44:19.302 --> 00:44:20.202
council members are.

00:44:20.543 --> 00:44:21.302
You should know who your

00:44:21.324 --> 00:44:22.364
school board members are.

00:44:22.704 --> 00:44:23.623
You should know who your

00:44:23.664 --> 00:44:24.724
county board members are.

00:44:25.025 --> 00:44:25.784
You should know who your

00:44:25.804 --> 00:44:26.865
water board members are

00:44:27.306 --> 00:44:28.425
because they're passing

00:44:28.706 --> 00:44:29.746
local ordinances that

00:44:29.827 --> 00:44:31.327
impact your local life,

00:44:32.347 --> 00:44:33.268
your local community.

00:44:33.288 --> 00:44:34.409
So very, very important.

00:44:34.889 --> 00:44:36.929
Right after that, I would say state.

00:44:38.010 --> 00:44:38.949
State is very,

00:44:39.010 --> 00:44:40.471
very important because all

00:44:40.490 --> 00:44:42.471
of these different local governances,

00:44:42.992 --> 00:44:44.811
government bodies have to

00:44:44.891 --> 00:44:46.072
abide by the laws of the

00:44:46.172 --> 00:44:47.793
state then passes.

00:44:48.393 --> 00:44:49.974
So let's talk about our

00:44:50.014 --> 00:44:51.594
state government and what we do.

00:44:51.713 --> 00:44:53.275
So I have explained as a state Senator.

00:44:53.735 --> 00:44:57.876
So California government 101,

00:44:57.876 --> 00:45:01.697
we have the governor, we have 40 senators,

00:45:02.376 --> 00:45:03.137
each representing

00:45:03.197 --> 00:45:04.597
approximately 1 million people.

00:45:05.059 --> 00:45:06.882
then we have 80 assembly

00:45:06.902 --> 00:45:09.103
members and make up the the

00:45:09.403 --> 00:45:11.905
legislature now each body

00:45:12.525 --> 00:45:14.527
is able to introduce bills

00:45:14.947 --> 00:45:15.889
that have to go through

00:45:15.929 --> 00:45:17.329
committees in their

00:45:17.530 --> 00:45:20.492
particular uh uh house

00:45:20.853 --> 00:45:21.873
before it goes to the next

00:45:21.994 --> 00:45:23.135
one and does the same thing

00:45:24.175 --> 00:45:25.175
now it's important to know

00:45:25.336 --> 00:45:26.737
also and this is very

00:45:26.757 --> 00:45:27.378
important because the

00:45:27.418 --> 00:45:28.378
majority of californians

00:45:28.599 --> 00:45:30.420
don't know this and this is

00:45:30.481 --> 00:45:33.023
not being political this is fact this is

00:45:33.496 --> 00:45:35.856
Government 101 in California.

00:45:36.317 --> 00:45:38.117
We have, sorry, I used my hands.

00:45:38.137 --> 00:45:38.797
I'm very Latina.

00:45:38.836 --> 00:45:39.376
No, you're good.

00:45:39.416 --> 00:45:39.777
You're good.

00:45:40.398 --> 00:45:42.038
So we have the governor at the top, right?

00:45:42.077 --> 00:45:44.378
We've had third term

00:45:44.458 --> 00:45:46.219
governor that's been a Democrat,

00:45:46.498 --> 00:45:47.438
just as an FYI.

00:45:47.759 --> 00:45:49.500
Fact, not political, just fact.

00:45:50.039 --> 00:45:51.679
Third term Democrat in California.

00:45:52.420 --> 00:45:54.280
Out of the 40 senators in

00:45:54.300 --> 00:45:55.360
the state of California,

00:45:55.760 --> 00:45:58.382
we have 32 Democrats, eight Republicans.

00:45:58.842 --> 00:45:59.601
Full disclosure,

00:45:59.942 --> 00:46:01.563
I'm one of eight Republicans.

00:46:01.702 --> 00:46:02.342
I'm Republican.

00:46:03.755 --> 00:46:05.416
And out of the 80 assembly

00:46:05.456 --> 00:46:07.597
members that make up the legislature,

00:46:08.018 --> 00:46:10.840
we have 62 Democrats and we

00:46:10.880 --> 00:46:13.161
have 18 Republicans.

00:46:13.922 --> 00:46:14.061
Now,

00:46:14.141 --> 00:46:16.003
why is that important for Californians

00:46:16.043 --> 00:46:18.505
to know is that in order to

00:46:18.565 --> 00:46:20.045
pass a piece of legislation,

00:46:20.425 --> 00:46:21.586
it has to go through the committees,

00:46:21.666 --> 00:46:23.068
which are reflective of the

00:46:23.128 --> 00:46:25.128
makeup of the legislature, first of all.

00:46:25.789 --> 00:46:28.711
And then in the Senate, as a Senator,

00:46:28.791 --> 00:46:30.813
if I introduce a piece of legislation,

00:46:31.280 --> 00:46:33.280
I need to have 21 votes for

00:46:33.320 --> 00:46:34.501
my piece of legislation to

00:46:34.541 --> 00:46:36.762
pass the Senate.

00:46:37.422 --> 00:46:38.344
If it passes the Senate,

00:46:38.364 --> 00:46:39.423
then it goes to the Assembly,

00:46:39.824 --> 00:46:41.684
which has to go through the

00:46:41.724 --> 00:46:42.545
committees first.

00:46:43.005 --> 00:46:44.047
And those committees, again,

00:46:44.306 --> 00:46:45.706
reflective of the makeup of

00:46:45.726 --> 00:46:46.487
the legislature.

00:46:47.068 --> 00:46:51.210
If it gets to the Assembly, we, or not we,

00:46:51.230 --> 00:46:52.190
but the Assembly members

00:46:52.231 --> 00:46:54.711
need 41 votes to pass a

00:46:54.771 --> 00:46:59.554
piece of legislation in the Assembly.

00:47:00.014 --> 00:47:00.275
And then

00:47:01.701 --> 00:47:03.842
you know, if it gets modified, amended,

00:47:03.882 --> 00:47:04.922
which it does, by the way,

00:47:04.963 --> 00:47:06.083
committees always ask for

00:47:06.123 --> 00:47:06.724
some amendments.

00:47:06.744 --> 00:47:08.405
So always look at the

00:47:08.625 --> 00:47:09.846
legislation at the beginning,

00:47:09.985 --> 00:47:11.047
but always look at it at

00:47:11.086 --> 00:47:12.128
the final language to see

00:47:12.168 --> 00:47:13.648
what it actually looks like at the end,

00:47:13.728 --> 00:47:15.670
because technically they

00:47:15.690 --> 00:47:17.951
don't always look the same.

00:47:18.391 --> 00:47:19.411
So you might think that your

00:47:19.431 --> 00:47:20.893
Senator or Senate member voted like,

00:47:21.032 --> 00:47:22.333
what did they vote for this?

00:47:23.514 --> 00:47:24.715
Look at the final language

00:47:24.775 --> 00:47:27.637
first before you have any questions.

00:47:27.836 --> 00:47:29.478
And I always share with my

00:47:29.498 --> 00:47:30.298
constituents that,

00:47:30.952 --> 00:47:31.733
that if you have any

00:47:31.753 --> 00:47:34.494
questions on my final vote or, you know,

00:47:34.514 --> 00:47:35.594
even the committee called

00:47:35.755 --> 00:47:37.996
and ask us or email us and ask, you know,

00:47:38.036 --> 00:47:39.036
I'm kind of curious why the

00:47:39.496 --> 00:47:43.217
Senator voted for this or oppose,

00:47:43.478 --> 00:47:44.378
you know, that.

00:47:46.139 --> 00:47:47.059
It's so important.

00:47:47.519 --> 00:47:48.320
It's so important for your

00:47:48.360 --> 00:47:51.141
audience to know how to be

00:47:51.262 --> 00:47:52.882
engaged in the policy part

00:47:53.023 --> 00:47:54.543
of legislation.

00:47:54.563 --> 00:47:57.445
Well, I said policy, in legislation,

00:47:57.505 --> 00:47:58.605
it's policy once you voted,

00:47:58.625 --> 00:48:00.365
it's passed and signed.

00:48:01.164 --> 00:48:01.903
and legislation.

00:48:02.344 --> 00:48:03.125
But one of the things that

00:48:03.144 --> 00:48:04.405
are important to know is one,

00:48:05.065 --> 00:48:06.146
understand government,

00:48:06.987 --> 00:48:08.467
because it really does

00:48:08.708 --> 00:48:11.829
impact your personal life, your business,

00:48:12.050 --> 00:48:16.811
your work, and your ability to speak.

00:48:17.012 --> 00:48:18.532
It's important to be engaged.

00:48:18.572 --> 00:48:19.673
Many people know who the

00:48:19.713 --> 00:48:21.755
bachelor and the bachelorette is,

00:48:21.775 --> 00:48:24.476
but they don't know who

00:48:24.576 --> 00:48:25.657
literally are making the

00:48:25.717 --> 00:48:27.717
laws that impact our personal lives.

00:48:28.297 --> 00:48:29.057
And it's important to know

00:48:29.137 --> 00:48:30.119
why that's important.

00:48:30.938 --> 00:48:32.860
Because until you start

00:48:32.900 --> 00:48:34.141
losing various rights,

00:48:35.282 --> 00:48:37.143
then you think that that is

00:48:37.182 --> 00:48:38.443
just the way that life is.

00:48:38.702 --> 00:48:41.164
And I'm telling you right now,

00:48:42.405 --> 00:48:44.467
we make the loss and make

00:48:44.507 --> 00:48:46.887
the quality of life that we want to live.

00:48:48.369 --> 00:48:49.309
Which makes a lot of sense.

00:48:49.710 --> 00:48:50.949
Makes absolute sense.

00:48:51.070 --> 00:48:52.710
In the Inland Empire right now,

00:48:53.251 --> 00:48:54.853
it's important to note that

00:48:56.112 --> 00:48:57.213
the Inland Empire is the

00:48:57.373 --> 00:48:59.315
fastest growing region in

00:48:59.355 --> 00:49:00.615
the state of California.

00:49:01.552 --> 00:49:01.873
Okay.

00:49:02.534 --> 00:49:03.233
In the nation.

00:49:04.775 --> 00:49:08.617
Can you give an example of how, I guess,

00:49:08.637 --> 00:49:09.938
from what city to what city

00:49:09.998 --> 00:49:10.697
would be considered the

00:49:10.737 --> 00:49:11.518
Inland Empire for people

00:49:11.539 --> 00:49:12.039
who may not know?

00:49:12.780 --> 00:49:16.202
The Inland Empire is made up

00:49:16.501 --> 00:49:18.262
of San Bernardino County,

00:49:18.603 --> 00:49:19.222
all of San Bernardino

00:49:19.242 --> 00:49:21.164
County and all of Riverside County.

00:49:22.545 --> 00:49:22.806
Okay.

00:49:22.846 --> 00:49:24.326
That's the Inland Empire.

00:49:25.927 --> 00:49:28.409
So the whole counties, both counties.

00:49:29.237 --> 00:49:31.378
And so it's a lot.

00:49:31.619 --> 00:49:32.079
Literally,

00:49:32.099 --> 00:49:34.659
we have the power to potentially

00:49:34.719 --> 00:49:36.360
direct policy in Sacramento

00:49:36.820 --> 00:49:38.501
if we have an informed and

00:49:38.521 --> 00:49:39.961
an engaged citizenry.

00:49:41.523 --> 00:49:42.443
San Francisco,

00:49:42.463 --> 00:49:44.304
LA has been incredibly

00:49:44.403 --> 00:49:45.583
influential in their

00:49:45.623 --> 00:49:47.625
ability to impact

00:49:47.684 --> 00:49:49.346
legislation because they

00:49:49.385 --> 00:49:51.626
have learned the power of their voice.

00:49:52.266 --> 00:49:54.327
UC Berkeley, UCLA,

00:49:54.447 --> 00:49:57.349
USC has done a beautiful job

00:49:57.893 --> 00:50:00.295
in educating and empoweri

00:50:00.695 --> 00:50:02.737
and then having them enga in Sacramento.

00:50:02.757 --> 00:50:03.639
The inland do the same.

00:50:03.780 --> 00:50:05.061
And that's w why I've been

00:50:05.101 --> 00:50:08.003
so much lit to reach my constituents

00:50:17.514 --> 00:50:19.335
explain how the legislation

00:50:19.396 --> 00:50:21.157
process works how this

00:50:21.237 --> 00:50:23.878
policy come to be how do

00:50:23.978 --> 00:50:26.179
ideas that are presented in

00:50:26.280 --> 00:50:27.840
bill ideas and legislation

00:50:27.960 --> 00:50:30.023
come to sacramento to

00:50:30.483 --> 00:50:31.423
legislators assembly

00:50:31.463 --> 00:50:33.284
members senators in the

00:50:33.465 --> 00:50:35.525
area and how to have their

00:50:35.565 --> 00:50:37.626
voices actually engage in

00:50:37.646 --> 00:50:40.289
that process and most importantly

00:50:42.588 --> 00:50:44.028
We have to learn how to

00:50:44.108 --> 00:50:47.349
facilitate conversations about ideas.

00:50:48.630 --> 00:50:50.530
When we are addressing an issue, right,

00:50:51.170 --> 00:50:53.132
bills are basically

00:50:54.172 --> 00:50:56.333
problems that we're trying to solve.

00:50:56.952 --> 00:50:57.253
Okay.

00:50:57.793 --> 00:50:58.012
Right?

00:50:58.454 --> 00:50:59.233
Like the homelessness.

00:50:59.753 --> 00:51:00.253
Exactly.

00:51:00.414 --> 00:51:01.114
So homelessness.

00:51:01.135 --> 00:51:02.554
So let's talk about homelessness.

00:51:02.954 --> 00:51:04.235
People talk about it's one

00:51:04.255 --> 00:51:05.195
of the biggest issues that

00:51:05.215 --> 00:51:07.016
we have in the Inland Empire,

00:51:07.137 --> 00:51:08.036
actually across the state.

00:51:09.070 --> 00:51:10.431
But most people don't know

00:51:10.550 --> 00:51:11.652
that our governor has

00:51:11.831 --> 00:51:13.992
allocated over $23 billion

00:51:14.172 --> 00:51:15.893
in the past couple of years

00:51:16.193 --> 00:51:18.516
to address homelessness, right?

00:51:18.536 --> 00:51:20.237
That's Gavin Newsom, correct?

00:51:20.757 --> 00:51:20.996
Yes.

00:51:21.177 --> 00:51:22.737
Governor Gavin Newsom, right,

00:51:22.938 --> 00:51:24.358
under his leadership,

00:51:24.699 --> 00:51:26.739
they've allocated over $23

00:51:26.739 --> 00:51:29.222
billion to address homelessness.

00:51:29.302 --> 00:51:32.884
But we haven't seen a lot of improvement.

00:51:34.144 --> 00:51:35.045
Just think about how many

00:51:35.085 --> 00:51:36.246
homes you could buy with $23 billion.

00:51:36.266 --> 00:51:36.405
Yeah.

00:51:38.324 --> 00:51:39.385
I have a question for you about that.

00:51:39.425 --> 00:51:41.907
So if all that money has been allocated,

00:51:41.927 --> 00:51:43.007
but we haven't seen much change,

00:51:43.027 --> 00:51:44.568
then what do you think

00:51:44.608 --> 00:51:45.648
happened to the money or what?

00:51:45.989 --> 00:51:46.449
Talk to me.

00:51:46.730 --> 00:51:47.210
Talk to us.

00:51:48.871 --> 00:51:49.231
Yes.

00:51:49.731 --> 00:51:50.532
Thank you, Antonio.

00:51:50.552 --> 00:51:51.172
Great questions.

00:51:51.253 --> 00:51:51.632
Okay.

00:51:51.652 --> 00:51:52.974
So let's talk about the ideas.

00:51:54.514 --> 00:51:55.514
First of all, homelessness.

00:51:56.576 --> 00:51:57.876
What do you understand about homelessness?

00:51:58.376 --> 00:51:59.757
There's different facets

00:52:00.257 --> 00:52:02.400
about in homelessness, right?

00:52:02.699 --> 00:52:05.021
There's different areas of homelessness.

00:52:05.061 --> 00:52:06.282
There's homelessness because

00:52:06.909 --> 00:52:07.628
We have formerly

00:52:07.668 --> 00:52:08.688
incarcerated people that

00:52:09.130 --> 00:52:10.269
leave the prisons without

00:52:10.329 --> 00:52:11.409
the appropriate support

00:52:11.429 --> 00:52:13.931
systems or skill sets or

00:52:14.050 --> 00:52:18.112
knowledge or finances or a

00:52:18.552 --> 00:52:20.032
network of family or

00:52:20.072 --> 00:52:21.253
friends that can take care

00:52:21.273 --> 00:52:22.893
of them and get them back into society,

00:52:22.952 --> 00:52:23.112
right?

00:52:23.434 --> 00:52:24.534
So they end up in the streets.

00:52:25.114 --> 00:52:26.954
We have homelessness because

00:52:27.054 --> 00:52:28.175
we have individuals who

00:52:28.235 --> 00:52:30.355
can't afford housing in the

00:52:30.375 --> 00:52:31.235
state of California.

00:52:31.255 --> 00:52:32.115
It's too expensive from our

00:52:32.155 --> 00:52:34.275
students to families,

00:52:34.757 --> 00:52:36.077
to double income families that

00:52:36.572 --> 00:52:37.994
literally are working super hard.

00:52:38.114 --> 00:52:38.675
They're making money,

00:52:38.695 --> 00:52:39.795
but they can't afford the

00:52:39.835 --> 00:52:41.036
cost of housing in the

00:52:41.056 --> 00:52:41.838
state of California.

00:52:42.398 --> 00:52:43.298
We have individuals

00:52:43.398 --> 00:52:48.143
suffering from opioid psychosis,

00:52:48.443 --> 00:52:52.706
opioid addictions, behavioral health.

00:52:52.947 --> 00:52:54.128
Those are different issues

00:52:54.168 --> 00:52:55.429
that people are suffering

00:52:55.509 --> 00:52:57.431
from that make it so that

00:52:57.490 --> 00:52:58.552
we end up with people that

00:52:58.612 --> 00:53:00.072
are literally homeless.

00:53:01.713 --> 00:53:04.697
Oh, we also have teen moms

00:53:05.423 --> 00:53:06.664
that are kicked out,

00:53:07.003 --> 00:53:08.985
or we have LGBTQ community

00:53:09.005 --> 00:53:09.945
members that are kicked out

00:53:09.985 --> 00:53:10.485
of their homes.

00:53:11.786 --> 00:53:12.405
And so, yeah,

00:53:12.626 --> 00:53:13.425
those are the highest

00:53:13.786 --> 00:53:15.226
homeless figures and numbers.

00:53:15.666 --> 00:53:16.547
And our seniors,

00:53:16.586 --> 00:53:17.347
let's not forget our

00:53:17.407 --> 00:53:19.206
seniors who are literally

00:53:19.347 --> 00:53:20.427
on social security and

00:53:20.467 --> 00:53:21.387
literally can't afford,

00:53:21.427 --> 00:53:22.608
which I guess would fall

00:53:22.668 --> 00:53:24.708
into the people who can't afford housing.

00:53:25.088 --> 00:53:25.309
Yeah.

00:53:25.568 --> 00:53:26.489
Veterans as well, right?

00:53:26.969 --> 00:53:27.329
What's that?

00:53:27.688 --> 00:53:28.690
Veterans as well, right?

00:53:28.969 --> 00:53:29.469
Oh, veterans.

00:53:29.570 --> 00:53:30.570
Oh, yeah, absolutely.

00:53:30.610 --> 00:53:31.469
So all of those,

00:53:31.829 --> 00:53:33.391
and some of them are intersectional,

00:53:33.451 --> 00:53:33.670
right?

00:53:33.710 --> 00:53:34.891
Some of them are actually suffering from

00:53:35.342 --> 00:53:38.143
Various of those different

00:53:38.244 --> 00:53:39.045
areas of homelessness.

00:53:39.065 --> 00:53:40.885
So multifaceted issue.

00:53:43.387 --> 00:53:43.927
Personally,

00:53:44.768 --> 00:53:45.730
one of the biggest things that

00:53:45.750 --> 00:53:47.931
I've seen in which why

00:53:47.951 --> 00:53:48.911
we're not addressing

00:53:48.952 --> 00:53:49.992
homelessness effectively is

00:53:50.032 --> 00:53:52.173
that in California we have,

00:53:52.335 --> 00:53:53.394
and this is where it

00:53:53.454 --> 00:53:54.235
becomes a little bit more

00:53:54.275 --> 00:53:55.396
of a partisan issue.

00:53:57.057 --> 00:53:58.498
The majority of the

00:53:58.539 --> 00:53:59.480
legislature believes that

00:53:59.500 --> 00:54:00.740
we have to have housing first.

00:54:01.945 --> 00:54:02.987
And then everything else

00:54:03.027 --> 00:54:03.726
will come in its way.

00:54:03.766 --> 00:54:04.887
So house people first,

00:54:05.208 --> 00:54:06.367
regardless of what they're

00:54:06.407 --> 00:54:07.469
suffering from.

00:54:09.088 --> 00:54:09.750
My perspective,

00:54:09.789 --> 00:54:12.331
Republican perspective is like, no,

00:54:12.891 --> 00:54:15.791
we need to have housing

00:54:15.811 --> 00:54:17.773
with accountability in there.

00:54:18.313 --> 00:54:18.793
I like it.

00:54:18.853 --> 00:54:20.494
So with accountability,

00:54:20.554 --> 00:54:21.855
that means that we're

00:54:21.894 --> 00:54:22.936
expecting that if we're

00:54:22.956 --> 00:54:24.215
going to shelter you,

00:54:24.556 --> 00:54:25.677
you're going to have to go

00:54:26.056 --> 00:54:27.277
through treatment if you're

00:54:27.297 --> 00:54:30.159
suffering from opioid addictions.

00:54:30.864 --> 00:54:32.565
If you're suffering from behavioral health,

00:54:32.626 --> 00:54:34.427
we're going to expect that

00:54:34.447 --> 00:54:36.967
you're receiving, seeing a counselor,

00:54:36.987 --> 00:54:38.809
whatever it is the plan of action is,

00:54:39.208 --> 00:54:40.728
you have a plan of action, right?

00:54:41.309 --> 00:54:43.751
If you're formally incarcerated, are you,

00:54:44.090 --> 00:54:45.550
you know, doing your training?

00:54:45.632 --> 00:54:48.773
Are you doing training to find a work?

00:54:48.913 --> 00:54:51.974
Are you going to school?

00:54:52.134 --> 00:54:53.054
Are you, you know,

00:54:53.094 --> 00:54:54.275
doing something productive

00:54:54.295 --> 00:54:54.876
to help yourself?

00:54:54.916 --> 00:54:56.436
So we believe that you have

00:54:56.476 --> 00:54:57.777
to be able to commit to

00:54:57.836 --> 00:54:59.518
help yourself for us to be

00:54:59.538 --> 00:55:00.177
able to help you.

00:55:00.934 --> 00:55:03.114
Otherwise, if we have this other model,

00:55:04.476 --> 00:55:05.255
shelter first,

00:55:05.996 --> 00:55:07.838
then what motivation do people have?

00:55:07.858 --> 00:55:09.699
They're just coming in and out, in and out,

00:55:09.918 --> 00:55:10.398
in and out.

00:55:10.898 --> 00:55:13.641
But we're going homeless, coming back,

00:55:14.121 --> 00:55:16.021
going homeless, coming back.

00:55:16.902 --> 00:55:17.802
We're not addressing the

00:55:17.862 --> 00:55:19.184
issue at the root of the problem.

00:55:19.704 --> 00:55:20.344
And that's one of the

00:55:20.364 --> 00:55:21.625
reasons why I think the

00:55:21.684 --> 00:55:22.945
homelessness issue has not

00:55:23.005 --> 00:55:25.007
been completely fixed is

00:55:25.047 --> 00:55:25.867
because we don't have a

00:55:25.907 --> 00:55:27.809
level of accountability in there.

00:55:28.833 --> 00:55:29.014
Gotcha.

00:55:29.034 --> 00:55:29.934
We're just giving them homes

00:55:29.994 --> 00:55:30.454
and letting them do

00:55:30.474 --> 00:55:31.155
whatever they want to do.

00:55:31.655 --> 00:55:32.114
Exactly.

00:55:32.215 --> 00:55:33.096
And if you look,

00:55:33.416 --> 00:55:34.275
I don't know if you've ever

00:55:34.396 --> 00:55:35.516
interviewed some of the

00:55:35.536 --> 00:55:37.637
hotels or people or the

00:55:37.958 --> 00:55:40.438
facilities that house many

00:55:40.478 --> 00:55:42.159
of our sheltered individuals,

00:55:43.639 --> 00:55:44.380
but they'll tell you,

00:55:44.681 --> 00:55:46.081
unless we commit them to

00:55:46.201 --> 00:55:46.922
getting treatment,

00:55:47.362 --> 00:55:48.862
there's individuals that will go in there,

00:55:48.961 --> 00:55:51.543
destroy the place, leave.

00:55:53.123 --> 00:55:54.545
And it's happened here in Yucaipa,

00:55:54.625 --> 00:55:55.025
my city.

00:55:55.742 --> 00:55:58.143
We know for a fact that that has happened.

00:55:58.264 --> 00:55:59.304
We know for a fact that it's

00:55:59.324 --> 00:56:00.443
happened in many, many places.

00:56:00.824 --> 00:56:02.565
So there's no level of accountability.

00:56:03.005 --> 00:56:04.164
And the thought process for

00:56:04.204 --> 00:56:05.885
my colleagues on the other side is that,

00:56:06.246 --> 00:56:06.505
well,

00:56:07.346 --> 00:56:09.746
treatment and accountability is not

00:56:09.766 --> 00:56:10.567
going to be effective

00:56:10.626 --> 00:56:12.407
unless it's self-directed,

00:56:13.007 --> 00:56:14.788
unless self-initiated.

00:56:15.668 --> 00:56:16.028
That end.

00:56:16.449 --> 00:56:17.969
And we're going, well,

00:56:18.009 --> 00:56:19.048
how many people that are

00:56:19.068 --> 00:56:20.010
under a behavioral health

00:56:20.130 --> 00:56:23.150
crisis or opioid addiction, psychosis,

00:56:23.550 --> 00:56:24.490
have the ability to

00:56:25.498 --> 00:56:26.677
make decisions on their own.

00:56:28.338 --> 00:56:29.458
Be fully facilitated.

00:56:29.938 --> 00:56:30.498
Got you.

00:56:30.699 --> 00:56:32.099
And they're not in the right mindset.

00:56:32.579 --> 00:56:34.780
They're not in the right mindset.

00:56:35.201 --> 00:56:36.081
Are they going to make the

00:56:36.380 --> 00:56:37.001
right decisions?

00:56:37.061 --> 00:56:38.561
Or do we have to compel them?

00:56:38.882 --> 00:56:41.461
And this is where it comes a

00:56:41.521 --> 00:56:43.503
little bit of a contention, right?

00:56:43.563 --> 00:56:45.423
Because then we start having

00:56:45.884 --> 00:56:48.083
the ACLU talk about, well, civil rights.

00:56:48.483 --> 00:56:49.625
We can't infringe on someone

00:56:49.644 --> 00:56:50.704
else and tell them what to do.

00:56:51.184 --> 00:56:52.284
Well, you're right.

00:56:52.344 --> 00:56:53.425
We can't and we shouldn't.

00:56:53.726 --> 00:56:54.166
However,

00:56:54.833 --> 00:56:56.574
If we're expected to house them,

00:56:56.974 --> 00:56:59.036
to clothe them, to feed them,

00:56:59.436 --> 00:57:01.916
to treat them, to educate them,

00:57:03.137 --> 00:57:04.358
there has to be a level of

00:57:04.418 --> 00:57:07.960
accountability on that end.

00:57:08.481 --> 00:57:09.461
In my personal opinion,

00:57:09.501 --> 00:57:10.523
because there are many,

00:57:10.603 --> 00:57:11.983
many Californians who are

00:57:12.003 --> 00:57:13.164
working extremely hard,

00:57:13.623 --> 00:57:15.344
paying taxes so that we can

00:57:15.385 --> 00:57:16.525
provide these services.

00:57:16.945 --> 00:57:17.847
And if we're just saying,

00:57:18.186 --> 00:57:19.188
do whatever you want,

00:57:19.407 --> 00:57:21.489
live as you wish with no

00:57:21.528 --> 00:57:22.590
accountability measures,

00:57:23.902 --> 00:57:24.362
What is that,

00:57:24.583 --> 00:57:25.943
what message are we sending

00:57:25.983 --> 00:57:26.864
to our hardworking

00:57:26.905 --> 00:57:29.088
Californians who are working two, three,

00:57:29.188 --> 00:57:31.090
four jobs because the cost

00:57:31.130 --> 00:57:33.112
of living in California is so expensive?

00:57:33.132 --> 00:57:33.572
So expensive.

00:57:33.952 --> 00:57:34.213
You know,

00:57:34.253 --> 00:57:35.715
that leads me to such an

00:57:36.135 --> 00:57:36.856
interesting topic that I

00:57:36.896 --> 00:57:37.717
wasn't really gonna talk about,

00:57:37.737 --> 00:57:38.597
but I have to ask you,

00:57:39.139 --> 00:57:40.360
especially as being a Chicana,

00:57:40.480 --> 00:57:41.201
Mexican American,

00:57:43.510 --> 00:57:44.811
what are your thoughts about

00:57:45.030 --> 00:57:45.791
the law that has been

00:57:45.831 --> 00:57:48.472
passed to give migrants you

00:57:48.512 --> 00:57:49.572
know free money and stuff

00:57:49.592 --> 00:57:50.512
like that for living and

00:57:50.532 --> 00:57:51.353
things like that what's

00:57:51.393 --> 00:57:52.333
what's your opinion on that

00:57:52.353 --> 00:57:53.333
because I think that's also

00:57:53.373 --> 00:57:53.833
like a thing about

00:57:53.853 --> 00:57:54.795
accountability related to

00:57:54.855 --> 00:57:56.175
that as well so what's your

00:57:56.195 --> 00:57:58.295
thoughts on that so there's

00:57:58.335 --> 00:57:59.717
been several bills that

00:57:59.757 --> 00:58:01.157
have been proposed and have

00:58:01.217 --> 00:58:02.818
passed some I have

00:58:02.838 --> 00:58:04.137
supported some I haven't

00:58:05.579 --> 00:58:07.079
here's the thing there's a

00:58:07.119 --> 00:58:07.940
difference between

00:58:08.980 --> 00:58:12.601
undocumented uh immigrants um

00:58:13.099 --> 00:58:15.521
who are migrants who have

00:58:15.601 --> 00:58:16.402
reached the California,

00:58:16.443 --> 00:58:18.925
have lived here for 10, 20, 30 years.

00:58:20.025 --> 00:58:21.045
They've been paying into a

00:58:21.126 --> 00:58:23.047
system but have not been

00:58:23.068 --> 00:58:24.509
receiving services because

00:58:25.050 --> 00:58:26.391
it's not allowed under

00:58:26.490 --> 00:58:27.972
federal law to receive many

00:58:27.992 --> 00:58:28.733
of these services.

00:58:29.413 --> 00:58:30.733
But they've been paying into the system.

00:58:30.994 --> 00:58:32.375
So California has introduced

00:58:32.414 --> 00:58:33.956
several laws that says, okay,

00:58:34.556 --> 00:58:36.679
if you're a senior and you're blind,

00:58:36.699 --> 00:58:39.041
you're disabled, you've been here,

00:58:39.942 --> 00:58:41.282
then you can receive the

00:58:42.516 --> 00:58:42.976
a stipend.

00:58:42.996 --> 00:58:46.637
I think the proposed stipend was $300,

00:58:46.637 --> 00:58:47.398
but they have to be a

00:58:48.297 --> 00:58:49.298
senior and they have to be

00:58:49.338 --> 00:58:51.018
disabled to do that.

00:58:52.159 --> 00:58:52.539
Okay.

00:58:52.619 --> 00:58:52.880
Only $300?

00:58:53.420 --> 00:58:53.820
What's that?

00:58:54.300 --> 00:58:54.519
Only $300?

00:58:54.641 --> 00:58:55.101
Yeah, $300.

00:58:55.141 --> 00:58:55.900
Wow.

00:58:55.920 --> 00:58:58.561
That was proposed.

00:58:58.601 --> 00:58:59.262
And frankly,

00:58:59.282 --> 00:59:00.443
I don't know if it passed or not,

00:59:00.463 --> 00:59:01.182
but I know that was the

00:59:01.222 --> 00:59:02.143
proposal last year.

00:59:02.163 --> 00:59:04.664
It was a bill by an assembly member.

00:59:04.684 --> 00:59:06.965
What was his name?

00:59:09.487 --> 00:59:10.047
I'll look it up.

00:59:10.288 --> 00:59:12.969
I'll get back to you.

00:59:13.369 --> 00:59:14.269
Were you for that bill?

00:59:14.710 --> 00:59:15.090
What's that?

00:59:15.309 --> 00:59:16.510
Were you for that or against that?

00:59:16.630 --> 00:59:18.110
I did support that bill

00:59:18.170 --> 00:59:19.411
because there were people

00:59:19.492 --> 00:59:21.132
who were seniors and disabled.

00:59:22.233 --> 00:59:25.134
Um, and there, there, and I said to, and I,

00:59:25.393 --> 00:59:26.355
at the time when I voted

00:59:26.375 --> 00:59:27.114
for it in committee,

00:59:27.355 --> 00:59:29.675
I asked the author who's also Latino.

00:59:29.735 --> 00:59:29.996
I said,

00:59:30.436 --> 00:59:31.757
have these individuals been in the

00:59:31.817 --> 00:59:34.858
country and been working for, you know,

00:59:34.858 --> 00:59:35.318
10, 20, 30 years.

00:59:35.338 --> 00:59:35.478
Yeah.

00:59:37.351 --> 00:59:38.833
there's a huge difference

00:59:38.873 --> 00:59:40.454
between that who've been

00:59:40.494 --> 00:59:41.514
paying into the system,

00:59:41.554 --> 00:59:42.534
but have not been able to,

00:59:42.815 --> 00:59:44.275
to pull from the system to

00:59:44.295 --> 00:59:46.097
benefit was just coming in.

00:59:46.737 --> 00:59:46.936
Now,

00:59:47.097 --> 00:59:49.179
if you're going to ask me about people

00:59:49.219 --> 00:59:50.259
coming in and the open

00:59:50.298 --> 00:59:52.440
border and just receiving benefits,

00:59:52.539 --> 00:59:53.181
I'm going to tell you,

00:59:54.460 --> 00:59:55.422
I kind of have to draw the

00:59:55.461 --> 01:00:00.425
line because California,

01:00:00.465 --> 01:00:02.085
let's talk about California as a whole.

01:00:02.465 --> 01:00:03.106
Yes, please.

01:00:03.666 --> 01:00:05.467
California as a whole, um,

01:00:06.974 --> 01:00:07.454
Once again,

01:00:07.474 --> 01:00:10.635
the legislature voted to expand

01:00:11.376 --> 01:00:14.536
health care benefits and

01:00:14.617 --> 01:00:16.737
expanded the demographics

01:00:17.338 --> 01:00:18.619
to provide health care in

01:00:18.639 --> 01:00:19.679
the state of California.

01:00:21.239 --> 01:00:21.519
Now,

01:00:21.780 --> 01:00:23.280
when we look at the health care

01:00:23.320 --> 01:00:25.101
workforce in the state of California,

01:00:26.121 --> 01:00:27.601
we don't have the current

01:00:27.661 --> 01:00:29.123
workforce to meet our

01:00:29.282 --> 01:00:31.923
current California needs.

01:00:33.260 --> 01:00:34.440
And when we're talking about

01:00:35.442 --> 01:00:37.443
the Inland Empire in California,

01:00:37.483 --> 01:00:38.023
when we're talking about

01:00:38.043 --> 01:00:38.943
the Inland Empire,

01:00:39.443 --> 01:00:40.405
we're talking about health

01:00:40.465 --> 01:00:42.065
care in the state of California.

01:00:43.527 --> 01:00:44.628
It is recommended that we

01:00:44.668 --> 01:00:47.088
have about 50 health care

01:00:47.130 --> 01:00:50.751
workers to 100,000 citizens,

01:00:51.532 --> 01:00:52.112
constituents.

01:00:52.972 --> 01:00:53.954
In the Inland Empire,

01:00:53.974 --> 01:00:57.315
the last number that I remember was 35.

01:00:57.315 --> 01:00:58.637
We have 35 health care

01:00:58.677 --> 01:01:00.599
workers to meet the needs

01:01:00.639 --> 01:01:00.998
of 100,000 people.

01:01:03.338 --> 01:01:03.679
Wow.

01:01:04.278 --> 01:01:05.619
When you look and speak to

01:01:05.659 --> 01:01:06.539
people that are trying to

01:01:06.739 --> 01:01:08.280
go in and see a specialist

01:01:08.420 --> 01:01:09.380
in the Inland Empire,

01:01:09.400 --> 01:01:13.141
have you talked to anybody on that end?

01:01:14.722 --> 01:01:14.983
No.

01:01:16.724 --> 01:01:17.443
I just know,

01:01:18.224 --> 01:01:19.284
depending on people's insurance,

01:01:19.304 --> 01:01:20.425
which I'm assuming in this

01:01:20.525 --> 01:01:21.945
low-income area,

01:01:24.246 --> 01:01:25.786
it's really hard to get specialists,

01:01:26.146 --> 01:01:27.027
especially the low-income.

01:01:27.427 --> 01:01:29.387
Regardless, it takes three,

01:01:29.568 --> 01:01:31.768
four months to get health care.

01:01:32.224 --> 01:01:33.385
uh, from a specialist.

01:01:33.684 --> 01:01:34.626
My neighbor across the

01:01:34.646 --> 01:01:35.565
street has been trying to

01:01:35.585 --> 01:01:38.347
get him to see his doctor, severe pain,

01:01:38.847 --> 01:01:39.666
very uncomfortable.

01:01:40.027 --> 01:01:41.907
He can't see a specialist to me.

01:01:43.447 --> 01:01:46.608
And I am heartbroken for him.

01:01:47.128 --> 01:01:47.708
Heartbroken.

01:01:48.208 --> 01:01:50.070
So let's talk about that.

01:01:50.110 --> 01:01:51.010
Let's talk about the fact

01:01:51.030 --> 01:01:52.431
that we don't have enough

01:01:52.490 --> 01:01:53.371
healthcare workforce to

01:01:53.431 --> 01:01:55.391
meet our current needs in

01:01:55.411 --> 01:01:56.431
the state of California.

01:01:56.871 --> 01:01:58.851
Now we add demographics.

01:01:58.911 --> 01:02:01.452
We add services to the healthcare system.

01:02:02.181 --> 01:02:03.202
And what is that going to do?

01:02:03.762 --> 01:02:04.603
It's going to get worse.

01:02:04.643 --> 01:02:05.463
We can't bear it.

01:02:05.523 --> 01:02:06.344
We don't have it.

01:02:07.204 --> 01:02:07.704
We don't have it.

01:02:07.744 --> 01:02:08.465
So on paper,

01:02:08.626 --> 01:02:09.847
California is saying we're

01:02:09.967 --> 01:02:10.887
offering all of these

01:02:10.907 --> 01:02:12.088
services and do all of

01:02:12.128 --> 01:02:12.889
these demographics.

01:02:13.188 --> 01:02:14.909
But the reality in practice

01:02:15.309 --> 01:02:16.411
is that we're not because

01:02:16.431 --> 01:02:17.050
we don't have it.

01:02:17.992 --> 01:02:19.172
Here's the other quirk that

01:02:19.311 --> 01:02:20.393
people need to understand

01:02:20.413 --> 01:02:21.594
with health care in the

01:02:21.614 --> 01:02:22.414
state of California.

01:02:22.974 --> 01:02:24.596
So let's talk about Medi-Cal.

01:02:25.376 --> 01:02:26.717
Let's talk about subsidized

01:02:26.777 --> 01:02:28.597
health care in the state of California.

01:02:28.898 --> 01:02:29.097
Right.

01:02:29.659 --> 01:02:30.898
We've expanded services.

01:02:30.980 --> 01:02:31.800
We expanded healthcare.

01:02:32.076 --> 01:02:32.757
demographics.

01:02:33.617 --> 01:02:35.659
Did you know that up until last year,

01:02:36.358 --> 01:02:39.461
we had not up or increased

01:02:39.641 --> 01:02:41.623
the reimbursement rate to

01:02:41.744 --> 01:02:45.786
treat our patients in 20 years?

01:02:47.148 --> 01:02:50.389
What does that mean?

01:02:50.530 --> 01:02:52.431
When you're providing healthcare,

01:02:52.452 --> 01:02:54.112
the state is providing to say, okay,

01:02:54.554 --> 01:02:55.474
we're going to have this

01:02:55.514 --> 01:02:56.414
healthcare system,

01:02:56.434 --> 01:02:58.697
kind of like insurance for

01:03:00.137 --> 01:03:01.159
our Californians.

01:03:02.036 --> 01:03:03.358
And we're going to give you

01:03:03.458 --> 01:03:04.739
to treat people that can't

01:03:04.798 --> 01:03:06.641
afford private insurance, right?

01:03:06.760 --> 01:03:07.561
It's state insurance.

01:03:08.521 --> 01:03:09.222
It's state.

01:03:10.222 --> 01:03:12.085
We're going to give you, well,

01:03:12.125 --> 01:03:13.224
they have been giving you

01:03:13.224 --> 01:03:16.427
$70 out of a dollar to

01:03:16.547 --> 01:03:19.250
serve the population that

01:03:19.289 --> 01:03:20.990
can't afford private insurance.

01:03:22.813 --> 01:03:24.313
So subsidize healthcare.

01:03:24.713 --> 01:03:25.054
Gotcha.

01:03:25.074 --> 01:03:25.173
Right.

01:03:25.655 --> 01:03:25.835
Right.

01:03:26.420 --> 01:03:27.519
Subsidized health care,

01:03:27.780 --> 01:03:29.201
people that can't afford or

01:03:29.240 --> 01:03:30.880
not provided health insurance,

01:03:31.021 --> 01:03:31.942
they get the state,

01:03:32.181 --> 01:03:33.481
people who live in poverty,

01:03:34.782 --> 01:03:36.862
get the state Medi-Cal, right?

01:03:37.182 --> 01:03:37.943
And the state is saying,

01:03:38.123 --> 01:03:38.862
we're going to increase

01:03:38.882 --> 01:03:39.963
those services for you.

01:03:40.023 --> 01:03:42.023
We're going to expand who

01:03:42.043 --> 01:03:44.704
we're serving in that capacity.

01:03:45.885 --> 01:03:46.865
But yet you're only

01:03:46.925 --> 01:03:49.846
providing 70 to 72 cents

01:03:49.945 --> 01:03:50.606
out of the dollar to

01:03:50.646 --> 01:03:51.527
provide the services.

01:03:52.387 --> 01:03:54.047
Health care clinics and

01:03:54.168 --> 01:03:55.628
hospitals that serve

01:03:56.311 --> 01:03:59.012
The underserved areas who

01:03:59.112 --> 01:04:00.652
are serving probably

01:04:00.972 --> 01:04:03.855
anywhere between 75 to 95

01:04:03.855 --> 01:04:05.135
percent of the population

01:04:05.655 --> 01:04:06.856
is subsidized health care.

01:04:07.315 --> 01:04:07.596
Wow.

01:04:07.916 --> 01:04:08.797
And they're and they're

01:04:08.836 --> 01:04:10.498
going to get paid 70 cents

01:04:10.637 --> 01:04:12.239
out of a dollar to be able

01:04:12.278 --> 01:04:13.960
to serve those individuals.

01:04:14.039 --> 01:04:14.679
What do you think that's

01:04:14.699 --> 01:04:15.739
going to do with the

01:04:15.800 --> 01:04:18.661
quality and the caliber and

01:04:18.681 --> 01:04:20.081
the quantity of health care

01:04:20.282 --> 01:04:20.983
actually being served?

01:04:21.682 --> 01:04:22.463
Yeah, it's going to be down.

01:04:23.304 --> 01:04:24.425
It's not going to be serving

01:04:24.824 --> 01:04:25.184
the population.

01:04:26.086 --> 01:04:27.407
That's why you can't get,

01:04:27.487 --> 01:04:28.447
can't see people.

01:04:28.547 --> 01:04:29.148
And, you know,

01:04:29.248 --> 01:04:32.489
and then doctors are leaving

01:04:32.548 --> 01:04:33.608
the area because you're like,

01:04:33.909 --> 01:04:35.329
I want to serve these people,

01:04:35.369 --> 01:04:37.030
but I'm not getting paid

01:04:37.070 --> 01:04:38.969
and I can't afford to run

01:04:39.030 --> 01:04:41.271
my practice in the red, in the red.

01:04:41.751 --> 01:04:41.971
Yeah.

01:04:42.811 --> 01:04:45.231
So talk about impacting our

01:04:45.271 --> 01:04:46.192
healthcare system.

01:04:46.731 --> 01:04:47.092
Huge.

01:04:47.192 --> 01:04:48.052
When we're talking about

01:04:48.112 --> 01:04:49.592
expanding and just having

01:04:49.932 --> 01:04:51.032
an open war and allowing

01:04:51.052 --> 01:04:51.793
people to just come in,

01:04:52.313 --> 01:04:53.514
we can't even take care of

01:04:53.554 --> 01:04:54.373
the people that we,

01:04:54.992 --> 01:04:56.652
supposed to be taken care of

01:04:57.114 --> 01:04:58.994
in the state of California, our veterans,

01:04:59.215 --> 01:04:59.996
our seniors,

01:05:00.496 --> 01:05:01.878
our people with disabilities

01:05:02.097 --> 01:05:02.657
in our state.

01:05:03.259 --> 01:05:04.719
We can't even fully fund

01:05:04.800 --> 01:05:06.362
those different agencies in

01:05:06.422 --> 01:05:07.342
those different areas.

01:05:07.802 --> 01:05:09.523
And yet we're thinking that

01:05:09.965 --> 01:05:10.445
we don't have a

01:05:10.485 --> 01:05:11.826
responsibility to ensure

01:05:11.885 --> 01:05:15.048
that the border is secure, that countries,

01:05:15.088 --> 01:05:16.769
their home countries are

01:05:16.829 --> 01:05:18.831
responsible to care for their people.

01:05:21.134 --> 01:05:21.233
Okay.

01:05:21.458 --> 01:05:22.059
And as I said,

01:05:22.360 --> 01:05:23.920
California is incredibly generous,

01:05:23.981 --> 01:05:25.001
but we don't have one,

01:05:25.021 --> 01:05:26.182
the financial means,

01:05:26.242 --> 01:05:27.903
especially now with a $60

01:05:27.903 --> 01:05:30.626
billion deficit that the state is facing.

01:05:31.106 --> 01:05:32.648
Wow.

01:05:33.347 --> 01:05:35.110
And then with that,

01:05:35.670 --> 01:05:38.092
the fact that we don't have the workforce,

01:05:39.492 --> 01:05:41.074
even if we have the financial means,

01:05:41.135 --> 01:05:41.574
Antonio,

01:05:41.855 --> 01:05:43.677
we don't have the workforce to

01:05:43.757 --> 01:05:46.438
meet the needs here in

01:05:46.498 --> 01:05:48.320
California and much less so

01:05:48.760 --> 01:05:49.722
in the Inland Empire.

01:05:49.961 --> 01:05:50.141
Yeah.

01:05:50.599 --> 01:05:51.099
If anything,

01:05:51.139 --> 01:05:52.240
Empire is probably like last

01:05:52.300 --> 01:05:53.422
on the list if you get anything.

01:05:53.963 --> 01:05:55.403
Exactly, exactly.

01:05:55.744 --> 01:05:57.445
So last year was the first

01:05:57.485 --> 01:06:00.067
time in 20 years that the

01:06:00.106 --> 01:06:01.088
legislature said, okay,

01:06:01.108 --> 01:06:04.610
we're going to increase the MCO tax.

01:06:05.411 --> 01:06:07.092
And I kept asking, well,

01:06:07.132 --> 01:06:07.932
what does that look like?

01:06:07.972 --> 01:06:08.934
What is the reimbursement

01:06:08.974 --> 01:06:09.755
rate on that end?

01:06:10.655 --> 01:06:12.137
And they were kind of guesstimating.

01:06:12.157 --> 01:06:13.538
They didn't give me a final, final amount,

01:06:13.557 --> 01:06:14.458
but they were guesstimating

01:06:14.498 --> 01:06:15.898
about 80 cents out of the

01:06:15.938 --> 01:06:17.420
dollar for reimbursement.

01:06:18.300 --> 01:06:18.581
Okay.

01:06:18.742 --> 01:06:20.382
And you can imagine how everything is,

01:06:20.867 --> 01:06:23.891
Very inflation is huge, right?

01:06:24.030 --> 01:06:25.172
Inflation has been going up

01:06:25.251 --> 01:06:27.132
on every single department.

01:06:27.152 --> 01:06:28.534
So when the state is not

01:06:28.594 --> 01:06:29.635
meeting the needs of the

01:06:29.655 --> 01:06:31.356
reimbursement and really saying, okay,

01:06:31.777 --> 01:06:31.996
well,

01:06:32.097 --> 01:06:33.318
you want to provide all the services,

01:06:33.378 --> 01:06:35.360
but yeah, yeah.

01:06:35.860 --> 01:06:37.262
We're not, I say we,

01:06:37.342 --> 01:06:38.543
because I'm part of the legislature,

01:06:38.583 --> 01:06:39.923
but not part of the process.

01:06:40.704 --> 01:06:41.525
They're not doing it.

01:06:42.065 --> 01:06:43.567
And then because of the,

01:06:43.766 --> 01:06:44.867
of the deficit that we're

01:06:45.047 --> 01:06:45.909
facing right now,

01:06:46.929 --> 01:06:47.951
they are putting a hold.

01:06:48.786 --> 01:06:50.126
and trying to rethink about

01:06:50.186 --> 01:06:52.487
what they're doing with the MCO tax.

01:06:53.246 --> 01:06:56.967
And mind you last year, they also proved a,

01:06:57.128 --> 01:07:00.208
I believe it was $150 million.

01:07:00.248 --> 01:07:02.250
He was 150 million.

01:07:02.269 --> 01:07:04.449
It was 150 or $250 million

01:07:05.411 --> 01:07:07.110
to help hospitals that were

01:07:07.411 --> 01:07:09.331
at the brink of closing

01:07:10.092 --> 01:07:12.172
because they can't, they can't raise,

01:07:12.693 --> 01:07:13.032
they can't,

01:07:13.072 --> 01:07:14.472
they can't make the money to

01:07:14.592 --> 01:07:15.634
treat the patients.

01:07:16.574 --> 01:07:16.693
So,

01:07:18.137 --> 01:07:18.619
so very,

01:07:18.679 --> 01:07:20.820
very big and it's very complicated.

01:07:20.860 --> 01:07:21.599
I'm trying to give you the

01:07:21.920 --> 01:07:23.782
very slimmed down, uh, uh,

01:07:24.121 --> 01:07:25.842
basic understanding of what

01:07:26.143 --> 01:07:29.224
the thought process is about, you know,

01:07:29.385 --> 01:07:30.824
giving money to people that

01:07:30.844 --> 01:07:32.346
are undocumented or coming in.

01:07:32.927 --> 01:07:33.626
We can't afford it.

01:07:33.646 --> 01:07:34.467
We don't have the means.

01:07:34.507 --> 01:07:35.507
We don't have the financial

01:07:35.547 --> 01:07:36.548
means to be able to do that.

01:07:36.568 --> 01:07:38.190
We can't even fund fully

01:07:38.269 --> 01:07:39.809
fund our healthcare that

01:07:39.829 --> 01:07:41.710
we're supposed to be promising to serve.

01:07:42.172 --> 01:07:43.813
We're not fully funding our schools.

01:07:44.193 --> 01:07:45.273
We're not fully funding, um,

01:07:46.623 --> 01:07:47.463
our state agencies.

01:07:47.503 --> 01:07:49.684
We're not fully funding our, um,

01:07:50.846 --> 01:07:54.126
just our public safety agencies.

01:07:54.226 --> 01:07:55.067
We're not fully funding

01:07:55.186 --> 01:07:56.327
anything in our state.

01:07:56.907 --> 01:07:58.327
So we can't,

01:07:58.427 --> 01:08:01.809
we can't afford to just provide services.

01:08:01.869 --> 01:08:03.730
I mean, you can say it, you can write it,

01:08:03.809 --> 01:08:04.650
you can do all that.

01:08:04.851 --> 01:08:07.572
But the reality is the means

01:08:07.612 --> 01:08:08.711
are not there and the

01:08:08.751 --> 01:08:09.731
workforce is not there.

01:08:10.652 --> 01:08:11.492
And that's the reality.

01:08:13.478 --> 01:08:14.438
And the crazy part is,

01:08:14.539 --> 01:08:16.460
is that what it was 68

01:08:16.460 --> 01:08:17.439
billion or something like

01:08:17.460 --> 01:08:18.800
that for homelessness spent?

01:08:19.100 --> 01:08:20.579
No, 68 billion.

01:08:20.780 --> 01:08:23.081
We're in a deficit of $68

01:08:23.081 --> 01:08:24.720
billion as a state.

01:08:25.180 --> 01:08:25.421
Wow.

01:08:25.622 --> 01:08:26.101
As a state.

01:08:26.221 --> 01:08:27.862
But we have spent in the

01:08:27.902 --> 01:08:30.783
past several years, four or five years,

01:08:31.103 --> 01:08:33.762
we have spent $23 billion

01:08:33.882 --> 01:08:36.123
to address homelessness.

01:08:38.944 --> 01:08:39.925
Who knows what that money is?

01:08:39.944 --> 01:08:41.904
It's in someone's backyard or something.

01:08:42.622 --> 01:08:48.283
Well, and that's what we're saying.

01:08:48.304 --> 01:08:49.423
We need accountability.

01:08:49.904 --> 01:08:50.944
We need to reassess.

01:08:51.043 --> 01:08:53.125
But here's why it's

01:08:53.185 --> 01:08:54.324
frustrating sometimes for

01:08:54.385 --> 01:08:57.645
me as a super minority in

01:08:57.666 --> 01:08:59.426
the legislature is that I'm

01:08:59.466 --> 01:09:00.367
looking at these issues.

01:09:00.407 --> 01:09:01.927
We have oversight hearings.

01:09:02.387 --> 01:09:03.587
We had one in homelessness.

01:09:04.408 --> 01:09:07.288
But it's very hard to get an

01:09:07.349 --> 01:09:10.189
objective perspective on the issues when

01:09:10.859 --> 01:09:11.918
You have an oversight

01:09:11.979 --> 01:09:13.520
hearing with panelists on

01:09:13.560 --> 01:09:15.399
the forum that were the

01:09:16.060 --> 01:09:17.680
ones who initially proposed

01:09:17.720 --> 01:09:19.162
the ideas that were

01:09:19.322 --> 01:09:21.101
implemented to address homelessness.

01:09:22.063 --> 01:09:23.922
So it's a silo, right?

01:09:24.323 --> 01:09:25.583
It's an echo chamber.

01:09:26.083 --> 01:09:27.003
Instead of bringing people

01:09:27.083 --> 01:09:29.385
up from the outside, you know,

01:09:29.404 --> 01:09:30.545
from different perspectives

01:09:30.585 --> 01:09:32.286
and bringing them to talk

01:09:32.326 --> 01:09:33.065
about the issues,

01:09:33.525 --> 01:09:35.067
we're speaking and saying, well, no,

01:09:35.127 --> 01:09:36.667
it's working, but, you know, we have to,

01:09:36.806 --> 01:09:37.747
we can't compare this.

01:09:37.807 --> 01:09:38.787
We can't see this.

01:09:40.396 --> 01:09:41.398
And that was the frustrating

01:09:41.438 --> 01:09:42.578
part for me this last time

01:09:42.618 --> 01:09:44.519
when I had the homeless

01:09:44.719 --> 01:09:45.720
oversight hearing on

01:09:45.899 --> 01:09:47.940
housing and homelessness combination.

01:09:48.640 --> 01:09:50.801
Because to me, once I realized,

01:09:51.082 --> 01:09:51.561
wait a minute,

01:09:52.323 --> 01:09:53.743
you folks are giving opinions.

01:09:53.882 --> 01:09:54.884
You folks were the ones that

01:09:54.923 --> 01:09:55.963
put these policies into

01:09:56.024 --> 01:09:58.125
place or recommendations into place.

01:09:58.966 --> 01:09:59.786
How can you give us an

01:09:59.845 --> 01:10:00.985
objective perspective on

01:10:01.025 --> 01:10:02.167
whether or not these issues

01:10:02.327 --> 01:10:02.947
are being addressed?

01:10:03.306 --> 01:10:04.228
But I do want to say,

01:10:04.768 --> 01:10:06.029
because of the money that

01:10:06.069 --> 01:10:07.389
has been spent and the

01:10:07.509 --> 01:10:08.329
issues that we still see

01:10:08.369 --> 01:10:08.989
with homelessness,

01:10:09.699 --> 01:10:11.921
I, along with two or three, um,

01:10:12.122 --> 01:10:12.962
colleagues of mine,

01:10:13.322 --> 01:10:15.543
senators wrote a letter

01:10:16.444 --> 01:10:20.386
asking for an audit to be made, um,

01:10:20.466 --> 01:10:21.006
to see,

01:10:21.466 --> 01:10:22.648
and we had to narrow it down to

01:10:22.688 --> 01:10:23.368
certain cities,

01:10:23.448 --> 01:10:24.849
but we wanted to see how

01:10:24.889 --> 01:10:27.990
that money was spent, what programs.

01:10:28.800 --> 01:10:30.060
What programs were effective

01:10:30.261 --> 01:10:31.761
and not effective to have a

01:10:31.801 --> 01:10:32.983
level of accountability and

01:10:33.023 --> 01:10:34.123
more insight into it,

01:10:34.203 --> 01:10:36.445
because we're looking at each other going,

01:10:37.006 --> 01:10:38.948
how much more money do we need to spend?

01:10:39.389 --> 01:10:40.529
And mind you, Antonio,

01:10:40.729 --> 01:10:42.511
we had two years prior to

01:10:42.551 --> 01:10:44.573
this deficit of $68 billion.

01:10:45.274 --> 01:10:48.595
We had two years with one

01:10:48.595 --> 01:10:50.297
$80 billion surplus and

01:10:50.358 --> 01:10:51.759
another one with a hundred

01:10:51.979 --> 01:10:55.261
billion dollars surplus two years.

01:10:56.422 --> 01:10:56.622
Wow.

01:10:59.180 --> 01:10:59.341
Wow.

01:10:59.581 --> 01:11:01.302
This is post-COVID, right?

01:11:01.863 --> 01:11:02.423
Post-COVID.

01:11:03.824 --> 01:11:04.905
Yeah.

01:11:04.985 --> 01:11:05.407
22 and 23.

01:11:06.146 --> 01:11:06.467
Wow.

01:11:06.688 --> 01:11:06.908
Wow.

01:11:06.967 --> 01:11:07.247
You know,

01:11:07.429 --> 01:11:08.630
I had to ask this question because,

01:11:08.670 --> 01:11:08.909
you know,

01:11:09.130 --> 01:11:12.792
we mentioned a lot about both sides,

01:11:12.853 --> 01:11:13.734
about kind of, you know,

01:11:13.994 --> 01:11:15.076
you being in the minority

01:11:15.095 --> 01:11:16.256
as a Republican candidate.

01:11:17.037 --> 01:11:19.279
And I guess the question that I have,

01:11:19.319 --> 01:11:20.740
I guess, is two of them, which is,

01:11:21.979 --> 01:11:22.680
In your opinion,

01:11:23.621 --> 01:11:24.341
what do you think is the

01:11:24.462 --> 01:11:26.122
difference in the mindset

01:11:26.502 --> 01:11:27.884
of a state senator that is

01:11:27.963 --> 01:11:28.904
Republican and a state

01:11:28.923 --> 01:11:30.045
senator that is Democrat?

01:11:32.405 --> 01:11:32.685
Wow.

01:11:32.926 --> 01:11:33.667
I think that's going to have

01:11:33.726 --> 01:11:34.908
to be a separate show.

01:11:35.387 --> 01:11:35.728
Okay.

01:11:36.007 --> 01:11:36.328
Okay.

01:11:36.689 --> 01:11:37.588
To be continued.

01:11:37.609 --> 01:11:41.270
To be continued.

01:11:42.631 --> 01:11:45.613
I'll give you a short of a distance,

01:11:45.634 --> 01:11:46.994
but I think that in itself

01:11:47.215 --> 01:11:48.836
deserves a show in itself.

01:11:49.389 --> 01:11:50.550
Okay.

01:11:51.010 --> 01:11:51.871
And I'll give you just the

01:11:51.911 --> 01:11:53.391
generalities of how I see

01:11:53.431 --> 01:11:54.953
the difference between how

01:11:54.993 --> 01:11:57.095
my colleagues operate and how we think.

01:11:58.355 --> 01:12:01.358
So let's take the cost of living,

01:12:02.099 --> 01:12:02.899
first of all, right?

01:12:02.918 --> 01:12:04.159
The cost of living,

01:12:04.239 --> 01:12:05.461
everything's super expensive.

01:12:06.082 --> 01:12:07.563
Housing is expensive.

01:12:08.963 --> 01:12:10.204
Food is expensive.

01:12:10.805 --> 01:12:12.086
Gas is expensive.

01:12:12.105 --> 01:12:13.487
You name it,

01:12:13.606 --> 01:12:15.668
everything has gone up in the

01:12:15.689 --> 01:12:16.389
state of California.

01:12:16.408 --> 01:12:16.949
And by the way,

01:12:17.836 --> 01:12:21.137
Much of that is the result of policy.

01:12:22.078 --> 01:12:23.179
Of course, of course.

01:12:23.439 --> 01:12:25.280
Policy, but people don't get that.

01:12:25.820 --> 01:12:27.122
And I'll share with you why

01:12:27.181 --> 01:12:28.403
the difference is, right?

01:12:29.844 --> 01:12:30.923
Everything's super expensive.

01:12:31.125 --> 01:12:32.685
My colleagues will introduce,

01:12:32.725 --> 01:12:34.086
I'll give you one scenario right now.

01:12:35.167 --> 01:12:37.469
My colleagues were wanting

01:12:37.548 --> 01:12:42.171
to give a voucher that would increase,

01:12:42.532 --> 01:12:45.073
that would give women like a $20,

01:12:45.073 --> 01:12:46.413
I think it was a $20 voucher

01:12:47.824 --> 01:12:50.907
stipend voucher for feminine products,

01:12:52.146 --> 01:12:52.346
right?

01:12:53.047 --> 01:12:53.387
Okay.

01:12:53.627 --> 01:12:57.010
Because cost of living is expensive.

01:12:57.989 --> 01:12:59.011
Well-intended, right?

01:12:59.430 --> 01:13:01.952
Want to be helpful because it's expensive.

01:13:01.971 --> 01:13:03.193
A lot of women are trying to

01:13:03.212 --> 01:13:04.774
go to school and trying to

01:13:04.934 --> 01:13:06.594
work single moms, you know,

01:13:06.635 --> 01:13:07.475
with multiple daughters.

01:13:07.574 --> 01:13:08.375
It's very expensive.

01:13:08.895 --> 01:13:09.296
I get it.

01:13:09.855 --> 01:13:10.577
Very, very simple.

01:13:12.037 --> 01:13:13.417
Here, they want to provide

01:13:13.823 --> 01:13:15.844
government voucher for you

01:13:15.904 --> 01:13:17.125
to be able to get your

01:13:17.404 --> 01:13:18.105
committed products.

01:13:19.145 --> 01:13:20.787
Republican mindset, my mindset,

01:13:21.747 --> 01:13:23.048
if you had a choice between

01:13:23.069 --> 01:13:24.270
the government giving you a

01:13:24.409 --> 01:13:27.131
voucher for $20 or paying

01:13:27.551 --> 01:13:29.193
less in sales tax,

01:13:30.233 --> 01:13:33.836
paying less at the gas pump,

01:13:33.855 --> 01:13:36.037
keeping more of your money

01:13:36.136 --> 01:13:37.938
when you get paid when you work,

01:13:38.458 --> 01:13:39.578
keeping more of your,

01:13:40.260 --> 01:13:42.121
paying less in personal income tax.

01:13:43.783 --> 01:13:44.603
what would you prefer?

01:13:45.463 --> 01:13:46.684
Having the money in your

01:13:46.743 --> 01:13:48.005
pocket and having a choice

01:13:48.045 --> 01:13:49.105
in how to spend that money

01:13:49.546 --> 01:13:51.086
or having the government telling you,

01:13:51.146 --> 01:13:52.787
giving you a voucher and saying, hey,

01:13:52.827 --> 01:13:53.927
we're going to take care of you?

01:13:55.247 --> 01:13:55.488
You know,

01:13:55.529 --> 01:13:58.090
I think people are mostly like

01:13:58.170 --> 01:13:58.930
immediate thinkers.

01:13:58.949 --> 01:13:59.470
They're thinking like,

01:13:59.990 --> 01:14:00.511
I want the money

01:14:00.551 --> 01:14:01.451
immediately in my hand as

01:14:01.490 --> 01:14:03.271
opposed to thinking long term as,

01:14:03.311 --> 01:14:04.613
you know what, how much I could save.

01:14:05.073 --> 01:14:05.832
And I think that's kind of

01:14:05.873 --> 01:14:06.833
the American mindset.

01:14:06.873 --> 01:14:07.913
They want it now.

01:14:09.375 --> 01:14:10.034
But even that,

01:14:10.496 --> 01:14:11.876
that's not even saving right now.

01:14:11.975 --> 01:14:12.997
Think about it because...

01:14:13.623 --> 01:14:16.045
If you, for instance, California,

01:14:16.145 --> 01:14:17.465
and most California don't know this.

01:14:18.784 --> 01:14:20.664
California is one of the top

01:14:20.784 --> 01:14:23.966
three states in the nation

01:14:24.326 --> 01:14:26.787
that pays the most in taxes.

01:14:27.907 --> 01:14:28.186
Okay.

01:14:28.226 --> 01:14:29.287
Next to New York.

01:14:29.766 --> 01:14:31.188
Next to New York and Hawaii.

01:14:31.228 --> 01:14:32.387
We can be with Hawaii as well.

01:14:32.648 --> 01:14:32.927
Wow.

01:14:33.768 --> 01:14:36.569
So when we are taxed so high,

01:14:37.328 --> 01:14:38.349
people don't even think

01:14:38.408 --> 01:14:40.748
twice that what they're paying is taxes.

01:14:41.130 --> 01:14:41.949
Now think about this.

01:14:42.550 --> 01:14:43.210
You go to work.

01:14:44.024 --> 01:14:44.244
Right.

01:14:44.324 --> 01:14:46.626
You go to work and you're getting paid,

01:14:46.725 --> 01:14:47.525
say $20 an hour.

01:14:48.025 --> 01:14:48.206
Yeah.

01:14:48.546 --> 01:14:50.805
You pay taxes on that money that you are,

01:14:51.266 --> 01:14:52.287
that you're making, right.

01:14:52.327 --> 01:14:53.587
You're paying taxes on that.

01:14:53.747 --> 01:14:54.367
And this, you know,

01:14:54.386 --> 01:14:55.287
your personal income taxes,

01:14:55.306 --> 01:14:56.707
you're taking federal taxes.

01:14:57.108 --> 01:14:58.007
You're paying all of that

01:14:58.387 --> 01:14:59.747
being social security.

01:14:59.828 --> 01:15:00.849
You're paying a whole bunch

01:15:00.889 --> 01:15:01.788
of things on that.

01:15:01.849 --> 01:15:02.048
Right.

01:15:02.128 --> 01:15:03.029
And you looked at your check,

01:15:03.189 --> 01:15:03.889
you see how much you're

01:15:03.908 --> 01:15:06.510
paying on there then.

01:15:06.529 --> 01:15:08.930
So you pay money or you pay

01:15:08.970 --> 01:15:10.310
taxes on the money that you're making,

01:15:10.850 --> 01:15:12.331
then you're paying taxes.

01:15:13.027 --> 01:15:15.729
I'm spending that money, your sales tax.

01:15:17.211 --> 01:15:19.453
You're paying taxes on the

01:15:19.512 --> 01:15:20.993
money that you have worked

01:15:21.054 --> 01:15:23.015
for to buy things,

01:15:23.695 --> 01:15:24.716
even though you've already

01:15:24.796 --> 01:15:26.779
paid your taxes on making the money.

01:15:27.378 --> 01:15:28.420
Now you're paying taxes to

01:15:28.539 --> 01:15:29.780
spend your money.

01:15:30.282 --> 01:15:30.622
Gotcha.

01:15:30.681 --> 01:15:31.221
Double tax.

01:15:31.743 --> 01:15:32.262
Double tax.

01:15:32.823 --> 01:15:34.585
No, but even further than that,

01:15:35.286 --> 01:15:36.907
then you have to pay taxes.

01:15:37.146 --> 01:15:38.228
Well, they don't call it taxes.

01:15:38.268 --> 01:15:40.210
They call it fees, your DMV,

01:15:40.229 --> 01:15:41.230
your registration fees.

01:15:41.765 --> 01:15:42.966
How much do you pay on your car?

01:15:43.806 --> 01:15:44.587
A lot.

01:15:46.649 --> 01:15:47.090
Think about it.

01:15:47.850 --> 01:15:49.211
How much do you pay on your

01:15:49.251 --> 01:15:50.072
registration fees?

01:15:50.271 --> 01:15:51.453
That's a tax, my friend.

01:15:52.274 --> 01:15:53.935
It's not a fee, but it's a tax.

01:15:54.675 --> 01:15:55.296
From the government.

01:15:55.756 --> 01:15:56.537
From the government.

01:15:56.737 --> 01:15:58.398
From California.

01:15:59.599 --> 01:16:00.720
And when you compare what

01:16:00.800 --> 01:16:02.541
Californians pay in taxes

01:16:03.582 --> 01:16:08.425
versus what they pay in Texas, Arizona,

01:16:08.865 --> 01:16:09.206
Utah,

01:16:10.235 --> 01:16:11.917
your mind would be floored.

01:16:12.096 --> 01:16:13.518
That's a homework assignment for you,

01:16:13.578 --> 01:16:13.978
Antonio.

01:16:14.378 --> 01:16:15.960
Go check what people,

01:16:16.020 --> 01:16:17.860
other states pay around

01:16:18.480 --> 01:16:19.662
versus what California pays.

01:16:19.702 --> 01:16:20.922
So now we're paying taxes on

01:16:20.943 --> 01:16:21.922
the money that you made,

01:16:21.943 --> 01:16:22.703
that you work for.

01:16:23.104 --> 01:16:24.484
You're paying to the federal,

01:16:24.505 --> 01:16:25.425
you're paying to the state.

01:16:25.685 --> 01:16:27.447
Then you're paying money

01:16:27.487 --> 01:16:30.328
that you spend on buying your car.

01:16:30.889 --> 01:16:32.189
And then you annually pay

01:16:32.250 --> 01:16:34.091
taxes to ensure that you keep your,

01:16:34.150 --> 01:16:36.872
you know, you're keeping your car, right,

01:16:36.952 --> 01:16:37.353
annually.

01:16:37.853 --> 01:16:39.354
And then you're paying taxes

01:16:40.322 --> 01:16:43.042
Um, taxes and fees on your house,

01:16:43.262 --> 01:16:44.743
your property taxes,

01:16:45.363 --> 01:16:47.083
you're paying taxes on that continuous.

01:16:47.123 --> 01:16:48.564
You're paying more money on

01:16:48.585 --> 01:16:49.345
that end as well.

01:16:50.945 --> 01:16:52.886
So when you start adding up,

01:16:53.185 --> 01:16:53.905
I said to people like,

01:16:54.426 --> 01:16:55.806
and then when you buy your groceries,

01:16:55.867 --> 01:16:57.728
you pay seven and a half, you know,

01:16:57.828 --> 01:16:58.408
eight and a half,

01:16:58.427 --> 01:17:00.007
depending on where you live in the state,

01:17:00.708 --> 01:17:03.489
you pay that much more in, uh, in,

01:17:03.750 --> 01:17:04.369
in taxes.

01:17:05.077 --> 01:17:06.818
So think about it.

01:17:06.837 --> 01:17:07.918
And people don't think about that.

01:17:07.939 --> 01:17:09.820
They don't add all of the different taxes.

01:17:09.940 --> 01:17:13.563
We pay so much money in taxes.

01:17:14.123 --> 01:17:15.604
And then what we do is we

01:17:15.664 --> 01:17:17.206
have my colleagues who want

01:17:17.225 --> 01:17:18.367
to give all these vouchers.

01:17:18.487 --> 01:17:18.966
And he goes, well,

01:17:18.987 --> 01:17:19.967
we'll give you this stipend.

01:17:20.007 --> 01:17:21.029
We'll give you this voucher.

01:17:21.069 --> 01:17:22.989
We'll give you all of this.

01:17:23.029 --> 01:17:24.230
So we're paying them to give

01:17:24.291 --> 01:17:25.091
it back to you.

01:17:25.532 --> 01:17:26.893
And then think about the

01:17:26.953 --> 01:17:29.314
cost of administrating all of that.

01:17:30.176 --> 01:17:30.496
Okay.

01:17:31.189 --> 01:17:32.210
getting all of that,

01:17:32.909 --> 01:17:34.990
all of those programs in place.

01:17:35.851 --> 01:17:36.631
Properly allocated.

01:17:37.493 --> 01:17:37.773
Yes.

01:17:38.132 --> 01:17:39.213
All of those monies that we

01:17:39.253 --> 01:17:41.135
need to now invest in

01:17:41.175 --> 01:17:42.416
creating the departments,

01:17:42.916 --> 01:17:45.757
agencies to be able to

01:17:45.818 --> 01:17:48.498
disperse all of those programs around.

01:17:49.659 --> 01:17:50.439
Wouldn't it be more

01:17:50.520 --> 01:17:51.440
streamlined and more

01:17:51.480 --> 01:17:53.042
effective if we could just say,

01:17:53.381 --> 01:17:56.503
we're going to pay less in income taxes.

01:17:56.904 --> 01:17:58.185
We're going to pay less on

01:17:58.543 --> 01:17:59.283
property taxes.

01:17:59.323 --> 01:18:00.465
We're going to pay less on

01:18:00.664 --> 01:18:01.425
all of these taxes,

01:18:01.845 --> 01:18:03.085
give you more of the money

01:18:03.244 --> 01:18:04.985
in your pocket so that you

01:18:05.025 --> 01:18:06.645
can spend as you choose.

01:18:07.305 --> 01:18:08.346
And that's where I have a

01:18:08.407 --> 01:18:09.506
problem as a Republican.

01:18:09.546 --> 01:18:11.608
We have a problem with my

01:18:11.648 --> 01:18:13.207
colleagues' mindset is that

01:18:13.847 --> 01:18:14.668
we don't want to be

01:18:14.708 --> 01:18:15.908
dependent on the government.

01:18:16.969 --> 01:18:19.130
We work very hard to be independent,

01:18:19.649 --> 01:18:21.490
to be able to pursue life, liberty,

01:18:21.591 --> 01:18:23.030
and happiness, not

01:18:23.533 --> 01:18:25.694
to live by default because

01:18:26.314 --> 01:18:27.456
it's expensive and this is

01:18:27.496 --> 01:18:29.016
what they're providing for me to choose.

01:18:30.278 --> 01:18:31.078
True freedom,

01:18:31.939 --> 01:18:34.600
true happiness comes by

01:18:34.720 --> 01:18:37.282
making it by purposeful choice,

01:18:39.104 --> 01:18:40.585
not living by default.

01:18:42.326 --> 01:18:42.706
I love it.

01:18:43.065 --> 01:18:44.407
Where does all that tax money go?

01:18:44.426 --> 01:18:45.847
What's that?

01:18:46.347 --> 01:18:47.788
Where's all that tax money going?

01:18:47.809 --> 01:18:50.030
Voila!

01:18:52.454 --> 01:18:53.015
I was like waiting for a

01:18:53.036 --> 01:18:53.836
magic trick to show up.

01:18:53.855 --> 01:18:54.095
I was like,

01:18:54.115 --> 01:18:55.637
is she going to flowers going to pop?

01:18:55.677 --> 01:18:56.438
What's going to happen?

01:18:56.457 --> 01:19:00.180
I'm looking at the question.

01:19:00.261 --> 01:19:01.341
That's the question, right?

01:19:01.402 --> 01:19:02.743
That's the question asked to you.

01:19:02.762 --> 01:19:05.324
Um, the general budget,

01:19:05.364 --> 01:19:06.386
how things are divided.

01:19:06.867 --> 01:19:07.127
Yeah.

01:19:07.186 --> 01:19:09.189
Administrative government gets bigger.

01:19:09.208 --> 01:19:10.810
It gets fatter.

01:19:11.149 --> 01:19:13.551
It gets more expensive and

01:19:13.612 --> 01:19:14.472
the bigger it gets.

01:19:14.552 --> 01:19:14.792
And I,

01:19:14.893 --> 01:19:16.213
and I I'll tell you in the three

01:19:16.253 --> 01:19:16.675
years that I've,

01:19:16.975 --> 01:19:18.315
that I've been in the legislature,

01:19:18.376 --> 01:19:19.396
the more conservative I've

01:19:19.417 --> 01:19:20.938
become the more Republican,

01:19:21.297 --> 01:19:21.899
because I see.

01:19:22.641 --> 01:19:23.002
How?

01:19:23.381 --> 01:19:25.063
Because programs are not working.

01:19:25.923 --> 01:19:26.885
I'll give you an example.

01:19:27.385 --> 01:19:28.706
This was a prime example for me.

01:19:29.525 --> 01:19:29.805
L.A.

01:19:29.926 --> 01:19:31.167
has so many commissions and

01:19:31.186 --> 01:19:32.988
so many committees overlooking housing,

01:19:34.029 --> 01:19:35.609
but they're all not communicating.

01:19:35.649 --> 01:19:36.850
They're all doing their own thing.

01:19:36.890 --> 01:19:38.631
So we created another.

01:19:38.851 --> 01:19:39.832
We passed a bill to create

01:19:39.971 --> 01:19:43.033
another oversight agency to

01:19:43.113 --> 01:19:44.755
oversee and coordinate all

01:19:45.076 --> 01:19:46.515
of the different committees

01:19:46.716 --> 01:19:47.856
and agencies dealing with

01:19:47.896 --> 01:19:48.978
housing in L.A.,

01:19:49.641 --> 01:19:50.643
It's like a Russian doll.

01:19:51.162 --> 01:19:51.483
What's that?

01:19:51.762 --> 01:19:52.663
It's like a Russian doll

01:19:52.684 --> 01:19:53.465
where you just keep pulling up.

01:19:53.484 --> 01:19:54.505
Yes, you just keep going.

01:19:55.225 --> 01:19:56.386
And then you can't hold

01:19:56.407 --> 01:19:57.608
people accountable because

01:19:57.927 --> 01:19:59.168
as we saw with EDD,

01:19:59.548 --> 01:20:02.331
my first two years in the legislature,

01:20:03.030 --> 01:20:03.811
every time we had an

01:20:03.872 --> 01:20:05.412
oversight committee hearing

01:20:05.592 --> 01:20:07.333
to see what was going on

01:20:07.474 --> 01:20:09.735
with EDD as far as the

01:20:09.836 --> 01:20:10.716
effectiveness of the

01:20:10.777 --> 01:20:14.658
program or the agency, whether or not,

01:20:15.239 --> 01:20:17.180
how they were addressing the fraudulent

01:20:17.568 --> 01:20:18.927
claims that were happening in there,

01:20:18.948 --> 01:20:20.167
everything that was going on there.

01:20:20.708 --> 01:20:22.009
Every time we had an oversight hearing,

01:20:22.029 --> 01:20:22.429
guess what?

01:20:22.609 --> 01:20:23.588
It was a different director,

01:20:23.889 --> 01:20:25.509
different director, different director.

01:20:26.088 --> 01:20:27.430
How do you hold anybody accountable?

01:20:27.989 --> 01:20:28.229
Yeah.

01:20:28.430 --> 01:20:29.369
How do you even know who to blame?

01:20:29.409 --> 01:20:29.729
Yeah.

01:20:30.430 --> 01:20:31.590
How do you hold that?

01:20:31.649 --> 01:20:33.230
So I'm going, no,

01:20:33.671 --> 01:20:34.930
bigger government is not

01:20:34.951 --> 01:20:35.930
going to solve the issue.

01:20:36.911 --> 01:20:38.171
We're not going to solve it.

01:20:39.471 --> 01:20:40.391
We're going to have to start

01:20:40.412 --> 01:20:42.532
in many issues and we can have an honest,

01:20:42.572 --> 01:20:44.212
I think we can have a

01:20:44.252 --> 01:20:46.613
discussion about incarcerations.

01:20:47.024 --> 01:20:49.746
We can have a whole segment on education.

01:20:50.667 --> 01:20:53.347
We can have a whole segment

01:20:53.608 --> 01:20:56.408
on hopelessness and be able

01:20:56.429 --> 01:20:59.250
to thrive in our community in California.

01:20:59.949 --> 01:21:01.390
But one of the basic things

01:21:01.411 --> 01:21:02.851
that I want to emphasize is

01:21:02.872 --> 01:21:03.872
that many of the issues

01:21:03.891 --> 01:21:04.851
that we're trying to face

01:21:05.271 --> 01:21:07.552
and fix with government in

01:21:07.592 --> 01:21:09.613
California has to do

01:21:09.953 --> 01:21:11.555
literally with trying to

01:21:11.635 --> 01:21:13.956
mitigate the consequences

01:21:14.155 --> 01:21:16.016
of broken dysfunctional families.

01:21:18.109 --> 01:21:18.548
Whoa.

01:21:19.429 --> 01:21:20.489
And how do you address that?

01:21:22.069 --> 01:21:23.090
Having hard,

01:21:23.829 --> 01:21:27.631
honest dialogue as to why our

01:21:27.690 --> 01:21:29.551
families are broken and

01:21:29.570 --> 01:21:31.112
dysfunctional in our society.

01:21:31.832 --> 01:21:37.712
Take out this whole notion

01:21:37.733 --> 01:21:38.573
of hurting people's

01:21:38.613 --> 01:21:41.134
feelings and having honest

01:21:41.154 --> 01:21:45.215
conversations as to why certain cultures

01:21:48.060 --> 01:21:51.042
are immigrating to our society from India,

01:21:51.162 --> 01:21:54.743
from Asia, China, Korea, South Korea.

01:21:55.863 --> 01:21:57.564
Why are they people of color

01:21:59.826 --> 01:22:01.106
immigrating to this country,

01:22:01.686 --> 01:22:02.787
immigrating to our state,

01:22:03.287 --> 01:22:04.568
and being able to be

01:22:04.707 --> 01:22:07.069
financially successful entrepreneurs,

01:22:07.248 --> 01:22:09.470
homeowners, and making ends?

01:22:11.770 --> 01:22:12.431
And having- Because they

01:22:12.452 --> 01:22:13.631
look out for each other.

01:22:13.992 --> 01:22:14.953
They look out for each other.

01:22:15.622 --> 01:22:17.543
Family units, family units.

01:22:17.644 --> 01:22:18.885
I was just speaking to a

01:22:18.925 --> 01:22:20.265
gentleman from West Africa

01:22:20.945 --> 01:22:21.746
driving an Uber.

01:22:21.926 --> 01:22:24.087
I was taking an Uber and he

01:22:24.146 --> 01:22:25.127
was from West Africa.

01:22:25.167 --> 01:22:25.528
And I said,

01:22:25.747 --> 01:22:27.088
so tell me about your home country.

01:22:27.109 --> 01:22:28.590
I said, how did you come to the U.S.

01:22:28.649 --> 01:22:30.390
and what made you come to the U.S.?

01:22:30.430 --> 01:22:33.771
And he said, I came to the U.S.

01:22:33.792 --> 01:22:35.512
37 years ago at the age of 23.

01:22:35.552 --> 01:22:35.632
Wow.

01:22:35.773 --> 01:22:38.795
With the blessing of my

01:22:38.875 --> 01:22:41.555
parents and having borrowed

01:22:41.555 --> 01:22:45.457
$700 at that time for my parents to come

01:22:45.885 --> 01:22:46.926
to the United States.

01:22:47.786 --> 01:22:49.146
And I said, really?

01:22:49.346 --> 01:22:51.207
And what made you come to

01:22:51.228 --> 01:22:52.068
the United States?

01:22:52.509 --> 01:22:54.210
And he shared his story.

01:22:54.229 --> 01:22:55.869
And I asked him, I said, sir,

01:22:56.291 --> 01:22:57.952
would you mind telling me,

01:22:58.011 --> 01:22:58.612
tell me about your,

01:22:58.631 --> 01:22:59.792
the values and what's

01:22:59.832 --> 01:23:01.092
important in your country?

01:23:01.132 --> 01:23:02.014
Like what, how do you,

01:23:02.373 --> 01:23:03.935
when you talk about your, your, your,

01:23:04.074 --> 01:23:06.095
your heritage, your culture,

01:23:06.216 --> 01:23:07.737
what is important to them?

01:23:08.856 --> 01:23:13.619
He said, family, family is important.

01:23:14.005 --> 01:23:14.225
He goes,

01:23:14.345 --> 01:23:16.305
I've been married to my wife for

01:23:16.305 --> 01:23:17.265
38 years.

01:23:17.867 --> 01:23:19.346
She is my best friend.

01:23:19.667 --> 01:23:21.347
She's my confidant.

01:23:21.707 --> 01:23:22.988
She is, I mean, he,

01:23:23.189 --> 01:23:24.788
the way that he spoke about his wife,

01:23:24.969 --> 01:23:26.750
I thought I should be recording this.

01:23:26.789 --> 01:23:28.150
And if I ever get to meet his wife,

01:23:28.270 --> 01:23:30.412
I hope she hears how he speaks about her.

01:23:30.872 --> 01:23:32.292
Talks about the importance of his wife.

01:23:32.872 --> 01:23:34.193
And then he went on to talk about,

01:23:34.613 --> 01:23:35.873
of course, you know,

01:23:35.974 --> 01:23:37.474
obviously that meant his marriage, right?

01:23:37.574 --> 01:23:38.295
He didn't say marriage.

01:23:38.314 --> 01:23:38.975
He said his wife.

01:23:39.954 --> 01:23:40.775
And then he talks about the

01:23:40.796 --> 01:23:43.636
importance of his children, family.

01:23:44.115 --> 01:23:45.956
He goes, our children, education.

01:23:45.975 --> 01:23:47.377
He goes, education is important.

01:23:47.396 --> 01:23:48.176
And then he started talking

01:23:48.216 --> 01:23:50.577
about the accomplishments of his kids,

01:23:51.938 --> 01:23:53.978
first generation born here in the US,

01:23:54.018 --> 01:23:54.217
right?

01:23:54.238 --> 01:23:58.059
Their accomplishments in education.

01:23:58.779 --> 01:24:00.719
And then he talked about discipline.

01:24:01.579 --> 01:24:03.819
He goes, you know, in my country,

01:24:04.199 --> 01:24:06.020
discipline is important for our children.

01:24:06.761 --> 01:24:09.940
He goes, we never disrespected our elders.

01:24:10.761 --> 01:24:13.181
Whatever mom, grandma said, aunt said,

01:24:13.621 --> 01:24:14.261
We listened,

01:24:15.081 --> 01:24:17.561
we listened or else we got disciplined.

01:24:18.662 --> 01:24:20.442
Yes, very much so.

01:24:21.162 --> 01:24:21.863
He said, he goes,

01:24:22.323 --> 01:24:24.783
and when we were out in the community,

01:24:25.783 --> 01:24:26.884
discipline didn't just come

01:24:26.904 --> 01:24:27.543
from our parents.

01:24:27.963 --> 01:24:30.283
If someone saw us doing something stupid,

01:24:31.444 --> 01:24:32.024
discipline.

01:24:35.244 --> 01:24:37.105
So he goes, respect,

01:24:37.386 --> 01:24:38.626
discipline is important.

01:24:38.926 --> 01:24:39.246
And I said,

01:24:39.265 --> 01:24:40.345
so what do you think about here

01:24:40.386 --> 01:24:40.985
in the US?

01:24:41.006 --> 01:24:41.546
What do you see?

01:24:41.567 --> 01:24:43.426
And he goes, there's no discipline.

01:24:44.414 --> 01:24:46.076
Nobody disciplines the children.

01:24:47.537 --> 01:24:49.279
Everybody's doing whatever they want.

01:24:51.220 --> 01:24:52.060
So that was interesting.

01:24:52.100 --> 01:24:53.402
And the final thing he said, he goes,

01:24:53.582 --> 01:24:53.921
faith.

01:24:55.262 --> 01:24:56.484
Faith is important.

01:24:56.805 --> 01:24:57.125
You know,

01:24:57.244 --> 01:24:58.666
I grew up in a household where we

01:24:58.746 --> 01:24:59.646
read the scriptures.

01:25:00.367 --> 01:25:02.168
It was important to read the scriptures.

01:25:02.828 --> 01:25:06.152
And I said, wow, that's so interesting.

01:25:06.671 --> 01:25:08.092
Because he struck me before,

01:25:08.132 --> 01:25:09.774
and I failed to mention this earlier.

01:25:10.055 --> 01:25:11.336
He did say, he goes,

01:25:11.536 --> 01:25:12.817
my culture is very much

01:25:12.877 --> 01:25:14.137
like your Latino culture.

01:25:15.645 --> 01:25:17.007
And that's when he started talking about,

01:25:17.127 --> 01:25:19.650
you know, his wife, his family,

01:25:19.690 --> 01:25:23.034
his children, education, discipline.

01:25:23.354 --> 01:25:24.976
He also talked about the work ethic.

01:25:25.238 --> 01:25:26.458
He says, my wife and I,

01:25:27.020 --> 01:25:28.180
we own three businesses.

01:25:29.422 --> 01:25:29.662
He goes,

01:25:29.783 --> 01:25:31.926
I'm driving this because she's working.

01:25:32.166 --> 01:25:33.948
My wife is a nurse practitioner.

01:25:35.623 --> 01:25:37.064
And we have three businesses

01:25:37.225 --> 01:25:38.664
and I forget how many employees he,

01:25:38.744 --> 01:25:40.086
he was several employees.

01:25:40.105 --> 01:25:40.365
He goes,

01:25:40.645 --> 01:25:41.746
but what am I going to do at home?

01:25:42.027 --> 01:25:42.846
I don't want to sit around

01:25:42.907 --> 01:25:44.868
and just watch television and sit in my,

01:25:45.007 --> 01:25:45.547
in my couch.

01:25:45.908 --> 01:25:46.068
No,

01:25:46.488 --> 01:25:48.269
I can work and I can make tonight $150.

01:25:48.269 --> 01:25:51.229
That's might not be a lot of money,

01:25:51.250 --> 01:25:52.570
but that's a good amount of

01:25:52.610 --> 01:25:53.671
money that I can do a lot

01:25:53.711 --> 01:25:56.832
with $50 or I can sit at

01:25:56.912 --> 01:25:58.453
home and just watch TV and

01:25:58.472 --> 01:26:00.073
do nothing and not be productive.

01:26:00.793 --> 01:26:01.274
And I thought,

01:26:04.045 --> 01:26:04.385
Wow.

01:26:04.945 --> 01:26:06.065
And so I actually gave him

01:26:06.105 --> 01:26:07.266
my personal cell number.

01:26:07.306 --> 01:26:08.028
And I said, sir,

01:26:08.807 --> 01:26:10.429
I would love to highlight your story.

01:26:10.469 --> 01:26:11.949
We have to elevate your

01:26:12.029 --> 01:26:13.791
story as an immigrant to

01:26:13.810 --> 01:26:15.993
this country from West Africa.

01:26:16.453 --> 01:26:18.033
I said, you have a beautiful story.

01:26:18.613 --> 01:26:20.355
I am so impressed with who

01:26:20.395 --> 01:26:21.756
you are and who your family is.

01:26:21.777 --> 01:26:22.136
They go,

01:26:22.457 --> 01:26:25.519
we need to share your story of success,

01:26:25.639 --> 01:26:26.298
of achieving.

01:26:26.399 --> 01:26:26.720
I said,

01:26:26.819 --> 01:26:29.041
because you are truly the epitome

01:26:29.201 --> 01:26:30.221
of the American dream.

01:26:32.796 --> 01:26:34.238
facts it's a hundred percent

01:26:34.318 --> 01:26:36.220
facts and oh man I lost my

01:26:36.239 --> 01:26:38.483
train of thought yeah I

01:26:38.502 --> 01:26:41.027
lost it oh man I was I was

01:26:41.106 --> 01:26:43.048
right there too it's okay

01:26:43.470 --> 01:26:45.252
it's okay because I know

01:26:45.271 --> 01:26:45.872
there's a reason why I

01:26:45.912 --> 01:26:46.613
brought it up you know

01:26:47.210 --> 01:26:47.810
It'll come back to me.

01:26:47.869 --> 01:26:49.149
Oh, yeah, we're talking about, oh, yeah,

01:26:49.189 --> 01:26:51.270
families and the failure of

01:26:51.310 --> 01:26:52.251
American society.

01:26:52.291 --> 01:26:52.911
So I remember hearing

01:26:52.930 --> 01:26:54.952
something saying that the

01:26:55.652 --> 01:26:57.631
so strong families make

01:26:57.652 --> 01:26:58.391
strong communities,

01:26:58.652 --> 01:26:59.872
which makes strong societies,

01:27:00.153 --> 01:27:01.292
which makes a strong nation.

01:27:02.172 --> 01:27:03.634
And and so since we don't

01:27:03.673 --> 01:27:05.054
have a strong family,

01:27:05.793 --> 01:27:08.014
everything starts to crumble after that.

01:27:08.475 --> 01:27:08.734
Yes.

01:27:09.494 --> 01:27:12.034
And then we try to fix it with government,

01:27:12.774 --> 01:27:13.735
which is not very good

01:27:13.775 --> 01:27:15.076
about fixing issues because

01:27:15.600 --> 01:27:18.280
As I talk to people in my town halls, oh,

01:27:18.400 --> 01:27:19.822
Antonio, I welcome you.

01:27:19.841 --> 01:27:21.421
I invite you to come to one

01:27:21.442 --> 01:27:23.363
of my town halls because we

01:27:23.403 --> 01:27:24.384
talk about all of this.

01:27:24.743 --> 01:27:25.604
We talk about these issues

01:27:25.644 --> 01:27:26.323
because I really want to

01:27:26.344 --> 01:27:27.465
start facilitating the

01:27:27.505 --> 01:27:29.886
conversation of ideas and

01:27:29.926 --> 01:27:32.686
empowerment in governance.

01:27:33.186 --> 01:27:36.729
But I talk about legislation, right?

01:27:36.908 --> 01:27:38.389
We talked about, and I didn't even,

01:27:38.429 --> 01:27:39.329
I failed to mention this.

01:27:39.390 --> 01:27:39.510
So

01:27:40.100 --> 01:27:41.420
Out of the 40 senators, by the way,

01:27:41.659 --> 01:27:42.560
from the 40 senators,

01:27:42.780 --> 01:27:44.060
we're allowed to introduce

01:27:44.240 --> 01:27:45.421
up to 40 pieces of

01:27:45.480 --> 01:27:51.182
legislation in our term, right?

01:27:51.323 --> 01:27:52.722
So do the math on that, right?

01:27:52.743 --> 01:27:53.323
40 pieces.

01:27:53.344 --> 01:27:53.984
How long the term?

01:27:55.203 --> 01:27:56.144
Every two years, actually.

01:27:56.283 --> 01:27:57.284
And that term is four years.

01:27:57.564 --> 01:27:58.484
Okay.

01:27:58.484 --> 01:27:59.404
40 pieces of legislation

01:27:59.585 --> 01:28:01.685
every two years as senators.

01:28:01.926 --> 01:28:02.586
So do the math.

01:28:03.046 --> 01:28:03.945
Okay, 20 a year.

01:28:04.567 --> 01:28:05.287
Yeah.

01:28:05.447 --> 01:28:09.467
And then we are able to bring forth

01:28:10.800 --> 01:28:12.699
As assembly members, there's 80 of them.

01:28:13.001 --> 01:28:13.841
They're allowed to bring

01:28:14.041 --> 01:28:15.280
forth 50 pieces of

01:28:15.341 --> 01:28:16.860
legislation every two years.

01:28:17.921 --> 01:28:18.220
Okay.

01:28:18.622 --> 01:28:19.101
Do the math.

01:28:19.542 --> 01:28:19.841
Okay.

01:28:20.662 --> 01:28:21.902
We are introducing a lot of

01:28:21.962 --> 01:28:24.622
legislation that is

01:28:24.703 --> 01:28:26.863
encroaching on the autonomies of families,

01:28:28.523 --> 01:28:29.363
personal freedoms,

01:28:31.583 --> 01:28:33.043
with the intent of fixing

01:28:33.224 --> 01:28:36.064
issues with what I call Band-Aid,

01:28:36.545 --> 01:28:37.604
warm Band-Aid

01:28:38.015 --> 01:28:40.416
fuzzy band-aid legislation

01:28:40.435 --> 01:28:43.176
instead of addressing the

01:28:43.216 --> 01:28:45.417
root causes of many of these issues.

01:28:46.358 --> 01:28:47.538
So I asked people to start

01:28:47.578 --> 01:28:48.479
thinking differently about

01:28:48.519 --> 01:28:50.020
legislation beyond the warm,

01:28:50.079 --> 01:28:50.859
fuzzy titles.

01:28:51.640 --> 01:28:53.761
I want people to try looking at to ask you,

01:28:53.902 --> 01:28:55.082
well, what does this bill do?

01:28:55.742 --> 01:28:59.043
What problem is it trying to solve?

01:29:00.583 --> 01:29:03.265
And I said, I want you to go a little bit,

01:29:03.324 --> 01:29:03.945
a little further.

01:29:04.006 --> 01:29:04.765
So I want you to look at

01:29:04.805 --> 01:29:07.106
that problem like an onion.

01:29:07.711 --> 01:29:08.931
And I want you to peel that

01:29:09.032 --> 01:29:10.051
onion back a little bit.

01:29:10.953 --> 01:29:12.393
And I want you to think about, well,

01:29:12.432 --> 01:29:14.194
what's causing that issue

01:29:14.333 --> 01:29:15.375
that we're trying to solve?

01:29:17.456 --> 01:29:18.697
And I want you to peel the

01:29:18.796 --> 01:29:21.278
onion a little further and think about,

01:29:21.318 --> 01:29:21.537
well,

01:29:21.578 --> 01:29:23.418
what's causing that particular problem?

01:29:24.579 --> 01:29:25.659
And I want you to think

01:29:25.739 --> 01:29:27.140
about the problems that

01:29:27.161 --> 01:29:28.461
we're trying to solve like

01:29:28.501 --> 01:29:30.421
an onion and peel them back

01:29:31.882 --> 01:29:33.503
as far back until you get

01:29:33.564 --> 01:29:35.064
to the actual root of the

01:29:35.204 --> 01:29:37.345
problem that we're trying to solve.

01:29:38.466 --> 01:29:39.386
and ask yourself,

01:29:39.606 --> 01:29:41.728
is this legislation fixing

01:29:41.807 --> 01:29:42.788
the root of the problem?

01:29:43.809 --> 01:29:45.770
Or is it just a bandaid, a warm,

01:29:45.829 --> 01:29:47.350
fuzzy bandaid legislation

01:29:47.390 --> 01:29:48.331
to make us feel good?

01:29:49.051 --> 01:29:49.931
That would be something.

01:29:51.731 --> 01:29:53.193
And most likely it's the latter, right?

01:29:53.372 --> 01:29:54.233
As opposed to the former.

01:29:56.814 --> 01:29:57.694
I want to ask you about some

01:29:57.715 --> 01:29:59.576
legislation that you have

01:29:59.595 --> 01:30:00.815
put into the world.

01:30:01.336 --> 01:30:02.216
Which ones are some of the

01:30:02.256 --> 01:30:03.417
most proudest ones that you

01:30:03.497 --> 01:30:04.457
saw get accomplished

01:30:04.637 --> 01:30:05.257
throughout your term?

01:30:07.051 --> 01:30:08.192
I think the ones that had to

01:30:08.231 --> 01:30:11.034
do with education, very frankly.

01:30:11.234 --> 01:30:12.435
Education, I think,

01:30:12.536 --> 01:30:14.337
is foundational to our

01:30:14.377 --> 01:30:17.280
communities to the ability

01:30:17.341 --> 01:30:19.703
for human beings to thrive.

01:30:19.722 --> 01:30:21.725
And regardless of physical,

01:30:21.824 --> 01:30:23.386
mental abilities,

01:30:24.167 --> 01:30:25.087
I've done some legislation

01:30:25.127 --> 01:30:26.368
that had to do with trying

01:30:26.408 --> 01:30:29.271
to improve the ability to

01:30:29.631 --> 01:30:30.672
teach our children with

01:30:30.693 --> 01:30:32.814
disabilities in a more inclusionary way.

01:30:34.301 --> 01:30:35.280
I think that's important for

01:30:35.320 --> 01:30:36.662
me because they're one of

01:30:36.702 --> 01:30:37.703
the most vulnerable ones

01:30:37.722 --> 01:30:39.743
that we have there.

01:30:39.944 --> 01:30:41.123
And right now I have a bill

01:30:41.184 --> 01:30:42.604
legislation or package of

01:30:42.645 --> 01:30:43.585
legislation that's coming

01:30:43.625 --> 01:30:44.605
through that has to do with

01:30:44.706 --> 01:30:46.225
education as well with

01:30:46.265 --> 01:30:48.667
regards to math in the

01:30:48.686 --> 01:30:49.528
state of California,

01:30:49.587 --> 01:30:52.328
because as you probably already know,

01:30:52.368 --> 01:30:52.908
Antonio,

01:30:53.250 --> 01:30:55.229
the STEM careers are probably one

01:30:55.250 --> 01:30:57.091
of the highest paid careers

01:30:57.131 --> 01:31:00.113
that we have currently in our state,

01:31:00.233 --> 01:31:00.813
in our nation.

01:31:01.595 --> 01:31:02.356
And right now,

01:31:02.556 --> 01:31:04.078
with the rebounding of the

01:31:04.137 --> 01:31:06.038
math curriculum last July,

01:31:06.759 --> 01:31:08.100
we actually changed the

01:31:08.140 --> 01:31:10.402
goalpost of the math

01:31:10.421 --> 01:31:12.203
curriculum expectations in

01:31:12.243 --> 01:31:16.746
our state in order to supposedly,

01:31:17.046 --> 01:31:18.947
according to a gentleman in

01:31:19.447 --> 01:31:20.768
leadership that was in a

01:31:20.847 --> 01:31:22.849
panel during one of my committees,

01:31:25.890 --> 01:31:27.652
to help our black and brown

01:31:27.712 --> 01:31:29.012
community members achieve

01:31:29.073 --> 01:31:29.953
higher education.

01:31:30.873 --> 01:31:30.993
Okay.

01:31:31.134 --> 01:31:32.154
So basically you're saying

01:31:32.695 --> 01:31:34.237
they lowered the scores to

01:31:34.277 --> 01:31:35.478
make it more passable for people.

01:31:35.917 --> 01:31:36.679
The standards.

01:31:37.118 --> 01:31:38.581
So instead of, you know, having,

01:31:38.740 --> 01:31:39.121
for instance,

01:31:39.161 --> 01:31:42.644
requiring algebra one in math one,

01:31:42.823 --> 01:31:45.025
algebra one or math one in eighth grade,

01:31:45.185 --> 01:31:46.807
they say not required anymore.

01:31:47.627 --> 01:31:48.368
We're going to change

01:31:48.429 --> 01:31:50.690
calculus to data science,

01:31:51.731 --> 01:31:53.653
and that will prepare students to reach,

01:31:53.833 --> 01:31:55.274
you know, four year universities.

01:31:55.916 --> 01:31:56.216
Well,

01:31:56.416 --> 01:31:58.617
the professors from the Department of

01:31:58.676 --> 01:31:59.856
Engineering from UC

01:31:59.877 --> 01:32:01.997
Berkeley and other deans,

01:32:02.957 --> 01:32:04.078
professors up in UC

01:32:04.097 --> 01:32:05.837
Berkeley wrote a letter and said,

01:32:06.337 --> 01:32:08.158
this math coursework is not

01:32:08.219 --> 01:32:10.059
going to prepare our

01:32:10.139 --> 01:32:11.300
students with the rigor

01:32:11.359 --> 01:32:12.979
necessary to meet what is

01:32:13.800 --> 01:32:14.680
supposed to be accomplished

01:32:14.800 --> 01:32:18.301
in our majors here at UC Berkeley.

01:32:19.240 --> 01:32:19.582
Sorry,

01:32:19.962 --> 01:32:21.061
it's kind of related to like the no

01:32:21.082 --> 01:32:22.622
child left behind situation, right?

01:32:23.662 --> 01:32:25.323
And in what respect?

01:32:26.358 --> 01:32:28.838
Um, I thought the correct me if I'm wrong,

01:32:28.859 --> 01:32:29.618
but I thought the no child

01:32:29.658 --> 01:32:31.119
left behind situation was that like,

01:32:31.500 --> 01:32:33.841
no matter what grade your child gets,

01:32:33.881 --> 01:32:35.220
we're going to move them forward.

01:32:35.240 --> 01:32:37.721
Uh, it could be,

01:32:38.762 --> 01:32:39.483
this one is a little

01:32:39.523 --> 01:32:40.944
different because it has to

01:32:40.984 --> 01:32:43.243
do more with what classes

01:32:43.765 --> 01:32:46.204
are expected to be taken rather than,

01:32:46.225 --> 01:32:46.746
okay,

01:32:46.845 --> 01:32:47.945
we're not going to expect you to

01:32:47.985 --> 01:32:49.067
take these classes or offer

01:32:49.087 --> 01:32:50.386
these classes because we're

01:32:50.407 --> 01:32:51.828
just having a lot of black

01:32:51.887 --> 01:32:52.568
and brown students,

01:32:52.608 --> 01:32:54.247
not achieve them and not be

01:32:54.269 --> 01:32:55.509
able to attend these well.

01:32:56.215 --> 01:32:58.395
If you, instead of asking, well,

01:32:58.515 --> 01:33:00.676
why are these children not

01:33:01.577 --> 01:33:03.296
achieving to achieve it?

01:33:04.037 --> 01:33:05.417
How can we supplement that?

01:33:05.778 --> 01:33:06.618
We're just going to say, well,

01:33:06.637 --> 01:33:08.099
we're going to change the

01:33:08.139 --> 01:33:09.458
requirements so that it

01:33:09.498 --> 01:33:10.698
does not prohibit them from

01:33:10.819 --> 01:33:11.359
entering that.

01:33:11.720 --> 01:33:12.720
But then it doesn't talk

01:33:12.760 --> 01:33:14.060
about the fact that once

01:33:14.100 --> 01:33:15.820
they get to UC Berkeley,

01:33:16.001 --> 01:33:17.362
if they were to choose to

01:33:17.402 --> 01:33:19.301
go into the engineering department,

01:33:19.381 --> 01:33:20.962
they wouldn't have the

01:33:21.323 --> 01:33:23.363
mathematical foundation to

01:33:23.403 --> 01:33:24.463
be able to be successful.

01:33:24.524 --> 01:33:25.264
So what happens?

01:33:26.108 --> 01:33:28.150
Antonio, when you are taking a class,

01:33:28.730 --> 01:33:30.292
a math class for a certain

01:33:30.773 --> 01:33:31.753
requisite for a certain

01:33:32.034 --> 01:33:34.277
major and you can't hack it,

01:33:34.417 --> 01:33:35.118
what are you going to do?

01:33:36.920 --> 01:33:37.541
I'm going to go to the

01:33:37.581 --> 01:33:38.702
bathroom and smoke some weed.

01:33:42.984 --> 01:33:44.484
You know, back in the old days, I guess.

01:33:45.765 --> 01:33:46.744
You know, we're working with the story.

01:33:46.765 --> 01:33:48.025
You got to make the story engaging,

01:33:48.065 --> 01:33:50.426
you know.

01:33:50.466 --> 01:33:51.787
Realistic here, you know what I mean?

01:33:52.487 --> 01:33:52.867
Okay.

01:33:52.947 --> 01:33:54.627
Well, some people will choose that.

01:33:54.887 --> 01:33:56.208
Some people will default

01:33:56.349 --> 01:33:57.889
into other majors because

01:33:57.908 --> 01:33:58.588
they're going to say, well,

01:33:58.729 --> 01:33:59.569
I can't hack that.

01:33:59.609 --> 01:34:00.449
That's too difficult.

01:34:00.550 --> 01:34:01.951
I'm not going to pursue that major.

01:34:01.970 --> 01:34:03.211
I'm going to go to something

01:34:03.230 --> 01:34:04.171
that's a little easier.

01:34:04.190 --> 01:34:04.971
Yeah.

01:34:05.431 --> 01:34:07.091
And this is where I talked earlier about,

01:34:07.252 --> 01:34:09.912
you know, I believe that true freedom,

01:34:10.132 --> 01:34:11.793
true pursuit of happiness is,

01:34:12.560 --> 01:34:15.122
is purposeful it's by choice

01:34:16.423 --> 01:34:18.045
true freedom and happiness

01:34:18.206 --> 01:34:19.606
is not by default these

01:34:19.667 --> 01:34:21.868
students who decide to take

01:34:22.588 --> 01:34:23.949
other classes in other

01:34:23.989 --> 01:34:25.091
majors because this one is

01:34:25.110 --> 01:34:26.072
too difficult because they

01:34:26.091 --> 01:34:27.193
don't have the foundation

01:34:27.613 --> 01:34:28.554
the educational advantage

01:34:28.573 --> 01:34:30.255
to be successful that's not

01:34:30.295 --> 01:34:31.136
truly preparing our

01:34:31.155 --> 01:34:33.497
students for success and

01:34:33.578 --> 01:34:34.417
really pursuit of the

01:34:34.478 --> 01:34:36.020
american dream they'll

01:34:36.079 --> 01:34:37.381
achieve other dreams you

01:34:37.421 --> 01:34:38.782
know mind you and I stopped

01:34:38.801 --> 01:34:39.823
for personal experiences I

01:34:39.882 --> 01:34:41.583
had a lot of educational foundation

01:34:42.173 --> 01:34:43.515
a lot of educational gaps

01:34:43.555 --> 01:34:45.895
because I moved from so much as a kid.

01:34:46.435 --> 01:34:47.237
And so that's one of the

01:34:47.256 --> 01:34:47.976
reasons why I'm so

01:34:48.056 --> 01:34:49.297
passionate about education,

01:34:49.358 --> 01:34:50.177
because I don't want

01:34:50.297 --> 01:34:52.340
children to go through or

01:34:52.960 --> 01:34:54.780
continue going through what I did.

01:34:55.940 --> 01:34:56.141
Right.

01:34:56.282 --> 01:34:57.362
Because they don't know what

01:34:57.402 --> 01:34:58.023
they don't know.

01:34:58.842 --> 01:35:01.184
But I, with my life experiences,

01:35:01.744 --> 01:35:02.824
know what they don't know.

01:35:03.645 --> 01:35:04.985
And I don't want that for them.

01:35:05.286 --> 01:35:06.606
I want something better and

01:35:06.646 --> 01:35:08.047
I want an educational system

01:35:08.484 --> 01:35:10.604
Now by choice, you know, go, if you can't,

01:35:10.704 --> 01:35:12.265
if this school can't meet your needs,

01:35:12.765 --> 01:35:14.087
then you have the right to

01:35:14.127 --> 01:35:16.688
go and find a school as a parent,

01:35:16.847 --> 01:35:18.368
as a child, as a young student,

01:35:19.630 --> 01:35:20.489
go to a school that

01:35:20.609 --> 01:35:21.951
actually knows and has the

01:35:22.011 --> 01:35:23.811
programs to meet your needs.

01:35:24.431 --> 01:35:24.631
Yeah.

01:35:25.351 --> 01:35:26.033
And desires.

01:35:26.632 --> 01:35:27.332
And desires.

01:35:27.394 --> 01:35:27.634
Yeah.

01:35:27.894 --> 01:35:28.753
And have the tools,

01:35:28.793 --> 01:35:30.015
have the tools that you're looking for.

01:35:30.515 --> 01:35:31.015
Exactly.

01:35:31.475 --> 01:35:32.836
You know, I was looking in some of your,

01:35:33.036 --> 01:35:34.176
uh, um,

01:35:34.895 --> 01:35:35.694
I guess bills that were

01:35:35.774 --> 01:35:36.595
presented this year.

01:35:36.615 --> 01:35:37.176
And I thought it was some of

01:35:37.195 --> 01:35:38.095
them were kind of interesting.

01:35:38.657 --> 01:35:39.317
Maybe we could talk about a

01:35:39.337 --> 01:35:39.817
little bit about them,

01:35:39.837 --> 01:35:41.097
which was like the

01:35:41.118 --> 01:35:41.797
Riverside County

01:35:41.818 --> 01:35:43.337
Fairgrounds alcohol permit,

01:35:43.979 --> 01:35:44.998
which I thought was interesting.

01:35:45.139 --> 01:35:47.239
The mobile home evictions

01:35:47.279 --> 01:35:48.520
would sound like a really nice one.

01:35:49.541 --> 01:35:50.820
And I think I saw something

01:35:50.841 --> 01:35:51.782
that said like adding six

01:35:51.822 --> 01:35:52.962
more to the educational board.

01:35:52.981 --> 01:35:53.722
And I was kind of curious

01:35:53.783 --> 01:35:55.443
about why adding six more

01:35:55.462 --> 01:35:56.684
to the board was necessary.

01:35:57.323 --> 01:35:58.664
So do you want to address

01:35:58.685 --> 01:36:01.286
any of those or all of them?

01:36:01.345 --> 01:36:03.546
I'll be happy to address all of those.

01:36:05.238 --> 01:36:05.859
Basically,

01:36:06.399 --> 01:36:07.820
that came about from the

01:36:07.860 --> 01:36:11.021
curriculum change that we had in June.

01:36:11.882 --> 01:36:13.904
And what we realized is that

01:36:13.963 --> 01:36:14.864
the committees that were

01:36:14.904 --> 01:36:16.845
making the decisions on the curriculum.

01:36:17.086 --> 01:36:18.407
Can you explain the

01:36:18.426 --> 01:36:19.506
curriculum change that

01:36:19.527 --> 01:36:20.287
happened for people?

01:36:20.427 --> 01:36:21.908
It was the math curriculum.

01:36:22.128 --> 01:36:22.729
Ah, the math.

01:36:22.788 --> 01:36:24.090
Okay.

01:36:24.109 --> 01:36:24.510
Going back.

01:36:24.770 --> 01:36:26.150
So the legislative package,

01:36:26.190 --> 01:36:27.152
I have like three bills

01:36:27.171 --> 01:36:28.212
that are addressing that

01:36:28.273 --> 01:36:29.252
particular issue.

01:36:29.734 --> 01:36:30.793
So what I do, once again,

01:36:30.833 --> 01:36:32.234
going to the root of the problem, right?

01:36:32.354 --> 01:36:33.475
Like, how did this happen?

01:36:34.551 --> 01:36:35.891
And why did this happen?

01:36:36.332 --> 01:36:37.591
And then looking at the

01:36:37.712 --> 01:36:39.252
issues that allowed it to be happening.

01:36:39.372 --> 01:36:41.934
And that's how these bills came to be.

01:36:42.913 --> 01:36:43.413
First of all,

01:36:43.434 --> 01:36:44.454
I want to make sure that we

01:36:44.595 --> 01:36:48.636
bring this back because, um, it's needed.

01:36:48.756 --> 01:36:50.077
Oh, and just to go back on that,

01:36:50.096 --> 01:36:50.737
just really quick.

01:36:51.016 --> 01:36:52.677
So we did the math curriculum change.

01:36:53.057 --> 01:36:56.599
Uh, we bet the state in, in July,

01:36:56.618 --> 01:36:58.619
in September,

01:37:00.542 --> 01:37:01.582
the New York Post actually

01:37:01.601 --> 01:37:02.842
came out with an article in

01:37:02.863 --> 01:37:04.564
which the Department of Defense, the U.S.

01:37:04.583 --> 01:37:05.323
Department of Defense,

01:37:05.824 --> 01:37:07.805
said that the United States

01:37:08.046 --> 01:37:09.527
as a whole was not

01:37:09.606 --> 01:37:11.046
graduating the workforce

01:37:11.067 --> 01:37:12.908
that they needed to meet

01:37:12.948 --> 01:37:14.168
the needs of the Department

01:37:14.189 --> 01:37:15.529
of Defense for the U.S.

01:37:15.909 --> 01:37:16.170
Wow.

01:37:16.909 --> 01:37:18.811
And that in itself posed a

01:37:19.192 --> 01:37:24.373
national security issue for the country.

01:37:24.694 --> 01:37:24.994
Yes.

01:37:25.274 --> 01:37:27.115
So they had to import

01:37:27.485 --> 01:37:28.186
the workforce,

01:37:28.207 --> 01:37:30.028
the talent from other countries.

01:37:31.149 --> 01:37:32.789
That in itself poses a

01:37:32.829 --> 01:37:36.932
national security threat to our nation,

01:37:37.554 --> 01:37:37.814
right?

01:37:38.554 --> 01:37:40.355
So if as a nation we're not

01:37:40.395 --> 01:37:41.497
producing that workforce

01:37:41.516 --> 01:37:42.738
that we're supposed to be

01:37:43.417 --> 01:37:45.840
needing to meet the demands

01:37:46.039 --> 01:37:47.201
of the Department of

01:37:47.240 --> 01:37:49.443
Defense for the United States of America,

01:37:50.323 --> 01:37:53.605
and California fares at the

01:37:53.886 --> 01:37:56.247
bottom when it comes to reading

01:37:57.509 --> 01:37:59.390
math and science.

01:38:01.332 --> 01:38:02.512
And then we lower the

01:38:02.573 --> 01:38:04.835
standards in the pathway

01:38:05.314 --> 01:38:07.457
back in July for our

01:38:07.497 --> 01:38:08.797
students in California.

01:38:09.978 --> 01:38:11.139
Tell me how that's going to

01:38:11.179 --> 01:38:13.980
prepare our own children

01:38:14.662 --> 01:38:15.943
for the workforce of tomorrow.

01:38:17.304 --> 01:38:17.684
Got you.

01:38:17.923 --> 01:38:18.125
Wow.

01:38:18.145 --> 01:38:19.525
You know, this is making me think about

01:38:20.478 --> 01:38:23.000
You know, TikTok and, you know,

01:38:23.020 --> 01:38:23.539
they'll spend all their

01:38:23.579 --> 01:38:25.280
energy and information on TikTok,

01:38:25.320 --> 01:38:26.702
but we don't care about

01:38:27.101 --> 01:38:28.262
educating them properly to

01:38:28.283 --> 01:38:30.323
how to change a light bulb.

01:38:30.363 --> 01:38:31.484
This is why I'm so

01:38:31.625 --> 01:38:33.145
passionate about education

01:38:33.525 --> 01:38:35.967
and firing that fuel of learning.

01:38:36.047 --> 01:38:37.988
And, you know, I always say this,

01:38:38.449 --> 01:38:40.610
I am a lifelong learner, Antonio.

01:38:41.297 --> 01:38:43.139
I love to learn new things,

01:38:43.158 --> 01:38:44.880
which is why I love the work that I do,

01:38:44.939 --> 01:38:47.041
because I get exposed to so

01:38:47.121 --> 01:38:49.261
many issues and problems

01:38:49.282 --> 01:38:50.882
that I would have never been exposed to.

01:38:51.302 --> 01:38:52.944
But because of this work and

01:38:52.984 --> 01:38:53.805
it allows me to have

01:38:53.864 --> 01:38:55.265
conversations to figure out, well,

01:38:55.305 --> 01:38:56.046
what's the problem?

01:38:56.386 --> 01:38:58.466
And in my head, I'm a problem solver.

01:38:59.127 --> 01:39:00.608
I'm always thinking like, well,

01:39:01.028 --> 01:39:01.708
why is that?

01:39:02.349 --> 01:39:03.069
Why is that a problem?

01:39:03.109 --> 01:39:04.609
And I go back and back and I

01:39:04.729 --> 01:39:06.350
analyze always to the root

01:39:06.371 --> 01:39:06.791
of the problem.

01:39:06.831 --> 01:39:07.452
What caused it?

01:39:07.811 --> 01:39:08.692
Why did that happen?

01:39:09.032 --> 01:39:10.252
My educational bills this year.

01:39:10.742 --> 01:39:11.703
Exactly with that.

01:39:12.462 --> 01:39:13.724
And so I'm a thinker.

01:39:13.844 --> 01:39:15.585
I'm trying to figure out why

01:39:15.625 --> 01:39:16.305
is this working?

01:39:16.365 --> 01:39:17.426
Why is that not working?

01:39:17.806 --> 01:39:19.988
How do we bring forth ideas to fix it?

01:39:20.288 --> 01:39:22.569
How do we start changing the

01:39:22.831 --> 01:39:23.591
train of thought?

01:39:24.811 --> 01:39:26.972
This cultural,

01:39:27.094 --> 01:39:28.814
social experiment that we're

01:39:28.854 --> 01:39:29.935
having right now,

01:39:30.695 --> 01:39:31.657
which I'm extremely

01:39:31.676 --> 01:39:32.898
concerned with our youth,

01:39:33.438 --> 01:39:34.559
especially when we don't

01:39:34.658 --> 01:39:35.960
have understanding.

01:39:36.479 --> 01:39:38.100
And hence my town halls.

01:39:38.881 --> 01:39:40.502
As of last night, I've held events.

01:39:41.122 --> 01:39:43.503
40 town halls in 20 months.

01:39:44.423 --> 01:39:45.244
Wow.

01:39:45.265 --> 01:39:45.244
40.

01:39:46.206 --> 01:39:47.126
All with the intent of

01:39:47.185 --> 01:39:50.427
facilitating understanding, conversation,

01:39:51.109 --> 01:39:53.729
dialogue of ideas so that

01:39:53.789 --> 01:39:54.791
we can start creating a

01:39:55.011 --> 01:39:56.091
different path so we can

01:39:56.171 --> 01:39:58.092
plant the seeds in people's hearts,

01:39:58.453 --> 01:40:00.414
in people's minds to start

01:40:00.475 --> 01:40:02.076
thinking differently about

01:40:02.636 --> 01:40:05.297
where we are and where we want to be.

01:40:07.051 --> 01:40:08.372
What would you consider one

01:40:08.393 --> 01:40:09.313
of the things that would be

01:40:09.573 --> 01:40:11.574
a cultural experimentation

01:40:11.595 --> 01:40:12.996
that's happening to our society?

01:40:16.018 --> 01:40:22.563
Let's think about critical race theory.

01:40:23.724 --> 01:40:24.944
Okay.

01:40:24.965 --> 01:40:26.567
Let's think about critical race theory.

01:40:28.207 --> 01:40:28.988
Can you explain to people

01:40:29.007 --> 01:40:29.988
who may not know what that is?

01:40:30.389 --> 01:40:31.831
Critical race theory is

01:40:31.850 --> 01:40:33.591
thinking about the systemic

01:40:34.395 --> 01:40:34.494
uh,

01:40:34.755 --> 01:40:37.016
structures that have existed throughout

01:40:37.176 --> 01:40:39.158
history that have been, um, uh,

01:40:43.199 --> 01:40:45.001
detrimental to the overall

01:40:45.020 --> 01:40:46.542
wellbeing of human beings

01:40:47.082 --> 01:40:48.604
that are black and brown

01:40:48.764 --> 01:40:49.703
throughout society.

01:40:51.585 --> 01:40:52.286
Um, you know,

01:40:52.305 --> 01:40:53.506
they'll go back to talk about

01:40:53.565 --> 01:40:54.306
colonialism.

01:40:54.367 --> 01:40:58.628
They'll talk about, um, um, uh,

01:40:59.250 --> 01:41:00.109
cultures that have been

01:41:00.170 --> 01:41:02.851
invaded by Western cultures.

01:41:03.832 --> 01:41:06.435
Um, they'll talk about, um, you know,

01:41:06.475 --> 01:41:07.595
what an oppressor and

01:41:07.655 --> 01:41:08.997
oppressed person would be.

01:41:09.537 --> 01:41:12.180
All of these creating a, you know,

01:41:12.239 --> 01:41:13.480
talking about the different

01:41:14.362 --> 01:41:15.842
hierarchies of people and

01:41:15.882 --> 01:41:17.664
cultures and who dominated who.

01:41:19.426 --> 01:41:19.605
Um,

01:41:19.945 --> 01:41:21.307
and right now there's been a huge focus

01:41:21.347 --> 01:41:23.448
right now in the California legislature.

01:41:23.469 --> 01:41:26.952
We're talking about, um, reparations for,

01:41:26.971 --> 01:41:31.416
uh, those that are, um, uh, of

01:41:32.775 --> 01:41:34.516
black ancestors who were

01:41:34.636 --> 01:41:35.898
enslaved in the state of

01:41:35.918 --> 01:41:37.779
California and how we need

01:41:37.819 --> 01:41:39.341
to make reparations on that

01:41:39.381 --> 01:41:43.404
end because of the level

01:41:43.444 --> 01:41:44.005
and the number of

01:41:44.064 --> 01:41:45.166
incarcerated people that

01:41:45.206 --> 01:41:46.747
we've had in the state of California,

01:41:46.787 --> 01:41:48.748
which disproportionately, which it has,

01:41:48.809 --> 01:41:49.309
it's a fact,

01:41:49.769 --> 01:41:51.029
disproportionately has been

01:41:51.150 --> 01:41:52.091
incarcerated black and

01:41:52.131 --> 01:41:56.014
brown community members in our state.

01:41:56.914 --> 01:41:58.475
The level of poverty and

01:41:58.515 --> 01:41:59.716
economic opportunity for

01:41:59.756 --> 01:42:00.438
many of our black

01:42:00.871 --> 01:42:02.112
and Brown community members

01:42:02.372 --> 01:42:03.212
within our state.

01:42:03.853 --> 01:42:06.055
So we talk about how we need

01:42:06.074 --> 01:42:08.356
to have more opportunities

01:42:08.676 --> 01:42:10.578
available for everyone.

01:42:10.658 --> 01:42:13.300
And we have to mitigate some

01:42:13.340 --> 01:42:14.201
of these opportunities

01:42:14.400 --> 01:42:15.521
because to make up for the

01:42:15.582 --> 01:42:16.922
fact that they haven't had

01:42:17.463 --> 01:42:19.265
certain opportunities.

01:42:19.744 --> 01:42:20.905
And I agree with some of that,

01:42:21.126 --> 01:42:22.146
some of those issues,

01:42:22.226 --> 01:42:23.768
but where I have a concern

01:42:24.309 --> 01:42:25.689
about right now is that

01:42:26.430 --> 01:42:28.351
we're creating a culture in which

01:42:30.605 --> 01:42:32.166
There's a lot of resentment

01:42:32.706 --> 01:42:36.386
and hatred being promoted.

01:42:37.306 --> 01:42:38.886
Rather than healing hearts,

01:42:39.707 --> 01:42:40.747
we're promoting an

01:42:40.988 --> 01:42:42.328
animosity between

01:42:44.387 --> 01:42:46.529
individuals varying on the

01:42:46.569 --> 01:42:47.609
color of their skin,

01:42:48.569 --> 01:42:50.590
focusing a lot on color of

01:42:50.649 --> 01:42:51.670
skin for people.

01:42:51.810 --> 01:42:53.869
Everything that I hear, or not a lot,

01:42:53.930 --> 01:42:54.529
not everything.

01:42:54.989 --> 01:42:55.850
Let me rephrase that.

01:42:56.551 --> 01:42:57.751
A lot of the legislation,

01:42:57.770 --> 01:42:58.831
a lot of the focus

01:42:59.246 --> 01:43:00.846
has been on black and brown,

01:43:00.987 --> 01:43:01.667
black and brown,

01:43:02.927 --> 01:43:05.488
rather than talking about say economics,

01:43:06.489 --> 01:43:14.533
which is more of a same

01:43:14.594 --> 01:43:16.614
level playing field for everybody.

01:43:17.175 --> 01:43:19.735
Poverty is poverty, regardless of color.

01:43:20.896 --> 01:43:21.917
We have, you know,

01:43:22.557 --> 01:43:23.497
we do have black and brown

01:43:23.518 --> 01:43:24.479
community members that are poor,

01:43:24.498 --> 01:43:25.559
but we also have white

01:43:25.658 --> 01:43:26.819
community members that are poor.

01:43:27.469 --> 01:43:29.710
We have people from Asia that are poor.

01:43:30.029 --> 01:43:30.831
We have different,

01:43:30.890 --> 01:43:32.792
but the focus is black and brown,

01:43:32.931 --> 01:43:33.851
a lot of black and brown.

01:43:34.412 --> 01:43:36.753
And I would challenge that and say,

01:43:37.274 --> 01:43:37.533
you know,

01:43:37.573 --> 01:43:39.354
rather than focusing on the color of skin,

01:43:39.395 --> 01:43:42.216
which we have absolutely no control over,

01:43:42.697 --> 01:43:42.917
right?

01:43:43.317 --> 01:43:44.337
We're born with the skin.

01:43:45.537 --> 01:43:46.958
And I said this to many of

01:43:46.979 --> 01:43:49.520
my local leaders in education.

01:43:49.560 --> 01:43:52.641
I said, imagine hearing all the time that,

01:43:53.307 --> 01:43:54.868
black and brown community members,

01:43:55.207 --> 01:43:55.429
you know,

01:43:55.448 --> 01:43:56.889
disadvantaged black and brown

01:43:57.069 --> 01:43:58.488
disadvantaged black and brown.

01:43:59.269 --> 01:44:00.970
When you don't have control

01:44:01.029 --> 01:44:02.310
over the color of your skin

01:44:02.350 --> 01:44:03.029
of how you're born.

01:44:03.090 --> 01:44:03.990
And you're constantly

01:44:04.070 --> 01:44:05.990
hearing this notion that

01:44:07.131 --> 01:44:08.551
disadvantaged black and brown,

01:44:08.891 --> 01:44:10.091
imagine the psyche,

01:44:10.431 --> 01:44:11.591
imagine the impact on the

01:44:11.652 --> 01:44:12.653
psyche of that child.

01:44:14.252 --> 01:44:15.193
I would never,

01:44:16.132 --> 01:44:18.194
and I have never expressed

01:44:18.793 --> 01:44:20.314
those comments to my kids

01:44:21.494 --> 01:44:22.314
who are half Mexican.

01:44:24.246 --> 01:44:26.186
And who myself are Mexican?

01:44:27.627 --> 01:44:27.926
Never.

01:44:30.568 --> 01:44:31.807
But imagine the difference

01:44:31.847 --> 01:44:33.328
between that and talking

01:44:33.368 --> 01:44:34.988
about issues economically,

01:44:35.429 --> 01:44:37.130
because economically we can change.

01:44:38.489 --> 01:44:40.170
We don't have to stay in poverty, right?

01:44:40.711 --> 01:44:42.110
We can be at a job,

01:44:42.131 --> 01:44:44.051
an entry-level job and say, okay,

01:44:44.070 --> 01:44:44.872
I'm going to do this.

01:44:45.231 --> 01:44:45.471
You know,

01:44:45.532 --> 01:44:47.131
I was a hostess when I first

01:44:47.171 --> 01:44:49.932
started working at Chi

01:44:49.953 --> 01:44:51.153
Chi's restaurant in Florida,

01:44:51.873 --> 01:44:52.993
got paid minimum wage.

01:44:53.935 --> 01:44:55.317
But I knew that was an entry

01:44:56.198 --> 01:44:57.998
entry wage work for me.

01:44:59.300 --> 01:44:59.640
My,

01:44:59.659 --> 01:45:02.140
I knew that I had to finish high school

01:45:02.662 --> 01:45:03.662
and it wasn't a question of

01:45:03.681 --> 01:45:05.023
whether or not I was going to college.

01:45:05.063 --> 01:45:05.724
It was like, okay,

01:45:06.043 --> 01:45:07.085
you finish elementary school,

01:45:07.104 --> 01:45:07.864
you finish junior high,

01:45:07.885 --> 01:45:08.685
you finish high school,

01:45:08.725 --> 01:45:09.445
you go to college.

01:45:10.146 --> 01:45:10.367
Yeah.

01:45:10.846 --> 01:45:12.887
I knew that was the thought

01:45:12.929 --> 01:45:15.149
process right now as an

01:45:15.229 --> 01:45:17.551
adult in California, I know better.

01:45:18.311 --> 01:45:20.153
I know that not every child

01:45:20.372 --> 01:45:21.134
is college bound.

01:45:22.145 --> 01:45:23.524
That's why we have technical

01:45:23.585 --> 01:45:25.105
career colleges, right?

01:45:25.445 --> 01:45:27.386
Some kids are not going to be bookworms.

01:45:27.726 --> 01:45:28.966
They're going to be hands-on.

01:45:29.487 --> 01:45:30.547
Give me an opportunity to

01:45:30.627 --> 01:45:31.908
work on this and build this

01:45:31.988 --> 01:45:33.349
and figure this out.

01:45:33.809 --> 01:45:35.248
Now we have so many

01:45:35.328 --> 01:45:36.810
different types of schools

01:45:37.430 --> 01:45:41.490
to allow you to have a career within six,

01:45:41.810 --> 01:45:42.372
nine months.

01:45:43.252 --> 01:45:45.193
YouTube.

01:45:45.233 --> 01:45:47.003
You have YouTube where you can make $45,

01:45:47.003 --> 01:45:47.693
$50 an hour, right?

01:45:51.729 --> 01:45:53.070
So those are the things

01:45:53.150 --> 01:45:54.631
where I think right now

01:45:54.671 --> 01:45:56.293
we're failing because I see

01:45:56.373 --> 01:45:59.777
the level of antagonism, animosity,

01:46:00.957 --> 01:46:02.057
bitterness, and resentment,

01:46:02.158 --> 01:46:03.439
even though California was

01:46:03.560 --> 01:46:05.320
not a slave state.

01:46:07.422 --> 01:46:07.922
We weren't.

01:46:09.503 --> 01:46:11.725
I see that also as a problem

01:46:11.746 --> 01:46:14.948
because I just had a, I was privy to a, a,

01:46:14.969 --> 01:46:15.009
uh,

01:46:16.970 --> 01:46:19.012
forum that was done by

01:46:19.332 --> 01:46:20.814
students led by students

01:46:21.414 --> 01:46:22.175
that were Jewish.

01:46:24.197 --> 01:46:26.418
And, um, as you know,

01:46:26.439 --> 01:46:27.498
with the Jewish population,

01:46:27.520 --> 01:46:28.039
everything that happened

01:46:28.060 --> 01:46:30.761
with the attacks in, um, on October 7th,

01:46:30.902 --> 01:46:34.045
and then the, the war that's going on in,

01:46:34.385 --> 01:46:37.627
um, in Palestine, um,

01:46:39.088 --> 01:46:40.750
the issues with Hamas and Israel,

01:46:41.150 --> 01:46:41.890
these children,

01:46:41.951 --> 01:46:42.931
this Jewish children that

01:46:42.992 --> 01:46:44.613
came literally from different countries,

01:46:44.733 --> 01:46:46.614
some were there, some were darker.

01:46:47.980 --> 01:46:49.442
because of the critical race

01:46:49.481 --> 01:46:50.162
theories that are being

01:46:50.202 --> 01:46:51.342
taught in their schools are

01:46:51.363 --> 01:46:52.684
being targeted right now.

01:46:54.043 --> 01:46:54.503
Targeted.

01:46:57.225 --> 01:46:58.806
Can you give an example of

01:46:58.827 --> 01:46:59.766
what you mean by targeted?

01:47:00.067 --> 01:47:01.648
Targeted means they're being bullied,

01:47:01.667 --> 01:47:02.768
they're being physically

01:47:02.908 --> 01:47:04.269
aggravated because they're

01:47:04.288 --> 01:47:05.409
considered part of an

01:47:05.470 --> 01:47:07.650
oppressor culture in

01:47:07.690 --> 01:47:09.171
society in their past.

01:47:09.872 --> 01:47:10.631
Even though one of these

01:47:10.652 --> 01:47:11.533
students was actually an

01:47:11.672 --> 01:47:13.533
immigrant whose family is

01:47:13.573 --> 01:47:16.015
Jewish that were actually from Russia,

01:47:17.005 --> 01:47:18.524
who immigrated to the U.S.

01:47:18.746 --> 01:47:22.067
to avoid the level of

01:47:22.226 --> 01:47:23.606
anti-Semitism and racism

01:47:23.627 --> 01:47:25.167
that they were receiving in Russia.

01:47:25.188 --> 01:47:26.547
So they immigrated to the U.S.

01:47:28.509 --> 01:47:28.809
Sorry.

01:47:28.868 --> 01:47:32.130
So the fair-skinned Jewish

01:47:32.689 --> 01:47:33.850
are getting attacked by

01:47:33.890 --> 01:47:35.530
being oppressors because of

01:47:35.551 --> 01:47:36.390
the critical race theory?

01:47:36.411 --> 01:47:38.731
Labeled as oppressors, yes.

01:47:38.931 --> 01:47:39.292
Got you.

01:47:39.471 --> 01:47:39.891
Okay.

01:47:40.233 --> 01:47:41.993
And these children are saying, he goes,

01:47:43.173 --> 01:47:44.493
we haven't oppressed anyone.

01:47:45.164 --> 01:47:46.284
We haven't done anything.

01:47:46.305 --> 01:47:48.025
And one child, one kid,

01:47:48.046 --> 01:47:49.865
this young girl said, he goes,

01:47:49.926 --> 01:47:51.926
my parents are immigrants from Russia.

01:47:52.587 --> 01:47:55.307
And then eventually after the kids spoke,

01:47:55.787 --> 01:47:56.627
the parents spoke.

01:47:57.488 --> 01:47:59.628
And they said, he goes,

01:47:59.868 --> 01:48:01.529
we're being taught that the

01:48:01.689 --> 01:48:04.631
Jewish communities are oppressors.

01:48:05.350 --> 01:48:06.951
And now we're being targeted

01:48:07.212 --> 01:48:10.592
and assaulted and bullied,

01:48:10.693 --> 01:48:12.172
called names at our schools.

01:48:14.231 --> 01:48:16.072
And they're teaching critical race theory.

01:48:16.792 --> 01:48:18.853
And so we had a psychologist

01:48:19.073 --> 01:48:20.993
on there who was talking about it.

01:48:21.052 --> 01:48:22.092
And she actually brought it

01:48:22.212 --> 01:48:23.793
to our attention as leaders

01:48:23.814 --> 01:48:25.253
because there were several

01:48:25.293 --> 01:48:27.033
senators and assembly members in this.

01:48:27.474 --> 01:48:28.333
They wanted us to hear

01:48:28.434 --> 01:48:31.875
what's going on at the schools.

01:48:33.055 --> 01:48:34.194
And she said,

01:48:35.155 --> 01:48:36.595
this social experiment where

01:48:36.636 --> 01:48:37.576
we're trying to have more

01:48:37.615 --> 01:48:38.515
understanding and teach

01:48:38.555 --> 01:48:40.856
about different ethnic

01:48:41.077 --> 01:48:43.676
backgrounds is actually backfiring.

01:48:44.354 --> 01:48:45.435
and creating a lot of

01:48:45.536 --> 01:48:49.318
animosity and hostility amongst people,

01:48:49.377 --> 01:48:50.819
depending on the color of

01:48:50.859 --> 01:48:52.500
their skin or their race,

01:48:53.041 --> 01:48:54.921
which was supposed to do the opposite,

01:48:55.502 --> 01:48:55.722
right?

01:48:56.243 --> 01:48:58.283
It was intended, you know,

01:48:58.623 --> 01:48:59.744
with critical race theory

01:49:00.546 --> 01:49:03.207
and even ethnic studies in their state,

01:49:03.287 --> 01:49:04.608
you know, when the author,

01:49:04.627 --> 01:49:06.689
Assemblymember Medina, passed it,

01:49:07.470 --> 01:49:08.690
I think it was my first or second year,

01:49:09.150 --> 01:49:11.252
passed it on the

01:49:11.292 --> 01:49:12.212
Educational Committee when

01:49:12.252 --> 01:49:13.154
it was going through the committee,

01:49:14.587 --> 01:49:17.088
His intent in his conversation with me was,

01:49:17.668 --> 01:49:18.009
you know,

01:49:19.630 --> 01:49:21.511
ethnic studies was supposed to

01:49:21.570 --> 01:49:25.592
be a means by which school

01:49:25.632 --> 01:49:27.533
districts could bring in

01:49:27.673 --> 01:49:30.154
books that were reflective

01:49:30.335 --> 01:49:32.074
of the demographics of that school.

01:49:32.354 --> 01:49:34.195
He said, what I did, he goes,

01:49:34.235 --> 01:49:35.856
this bill was supposed to do what I did.

01:49:36.476 --> 01:49:39.158
I was teaching a lot of Chicano kids,

01:49:39.457 --> 01:49:40.559
a lot of Latino kids,

01:49:41.832 --> 01:49:43.134
And I didn't have a lot of

01:49:43.194 --> 01:49:44.934
materials that reflected

01:49:45.354 --> 01:49:47.114
their voice or their culture.

01:49:47.454 --> 01:49:49.155
So I started bringing in

01:49:49.555 --> 01:49:52.096
books written by Latinos, Chicanos,

01:49:52.537 --> 01:49:53.476
so that we could read and

01:49:53.497 --> 01:49:54.597
they could relate to

01:49:54.778 --> 01:49:56.859
authors that were

01:49:57.319 --> 01:49:58.838
reflective of who they were,

01:49:59.560 --> 01:50:00.279
see themselves.

01:50:01.060 --> 01:50:02.621
That was the intent of the bill.

01:50:04.001 --> 01:50:05.822
The bill was leave it to

01:50:05.881 --> 01:50:07.662
local control so that they

01:50:07.682 --> 01:50:10.203
can figure out what

01:50:10.243 --> 01:50:11.423
demographics do they have

01:50:12.056 --> 01:50:13.917
and bring in those books

01:50:14.077 --> 01:50:15.398
that are reflective of

01:50:15.457 --> 01:50:17.057
those children in that

01:50:17.097 --> 01:50:18.137
classroom so that they can

01:50:18.198 --> 01:50:20.458
hear their voice, see their culture,

01:50:20.838 --> 01:50:22.538
be more reflective, right?

01:50:23.439 --> 01:50:25.020
So that was the goal of

01:50:25.199 --> 01:50:26.640
assembly member Medina's bill.

01:50:27.319 --> 01:50:28.920
But I remember at that same

01:50:29.039 --> 01:50:30.240
committee hearing, you know,

01:50:30.261 --> 01:50:34.481
my colleague wanted to make sure that we,

01:50:34.702 --> 01:50:35.962
that they were safeguards

01:50:36.002 --> 01:50:39.181
and parameters that would not,

01:50:39.603 --> 01:50:41.483
that would protect from

01:50:44.264 --> 01:50:47.085
Books that may create or

01:50:47.246 --> 01:50:50.186
permeate anti-Semitic sentiments.

01:50:52.807 --> 01:50:53.047
Okay.

01:50:53.529 --> 01:50:55.470
That was his concern originally.

01:50:55.829 --> 01:50:58.331
And at the time I, what's that?

01:50:58.831 --> 01:50:59.612
I said, that's interesting.

01:51:00.492 --> 01:51:00.731
Right.

01:51:01.613 --> 01:51:02.432
Um, and so,

01:51:03.012 --> 01:51:04.613
and I remember having that and

01:51:04.673 --> 01:51:06.055
now what these kids were

01:51:06.114 --> 01:51:08.435
saying were expressing that

01:51:08.456 --> 01:51:10.317
they were bringing in materials.

01:51:10.837 --> 01:51:12.618
They were bringing in speakers.

01:51:13.456 --> 01:51:15.055
that were not balanced.

01:51:15.537 --> 01:51:17.037
They were favoring one

01:51:17.636 --> 01:51:19.637
culture or one ethnic,

01:51:22.618 --> 01:51:25.038
one ethnicity and not another.

01:51:25.179 --> 01:51:26.259
There was no balance.

01:51:27.038 --> 01:51:29.000
And because there wasn't a balance,

01:51:29.579 --> 01:51:31.300
now there's a lot of hostility,

01:51:31.460 --> 01:51:34.961
animosity being experienced

01:51:35.301 --> 01:51:36.481
by these students.

01:51:37.761 --> 01:51:40.483
And so it makes me wonder,

01:51:40.622 --> 01:51:41.703
it makes me wonder if

01:51:42.618 --> 01:51:43.458
It doesn't make me wonder.

01:51:44.479 --> 01:51:46.220
I'm seeing that what was

01:51:46.279 --> 01:51:47.961
intended is not what the

01:51:48.100 --> 01:51:50.001
outlook or the output is

01:51:50.060 --> 01:51:52.202
being viewed upon.

01:51:53.262 --> 01:51:55.863
And so- I was gonna, excuse me.

01:51:55.903 --> 01:51:56.724
I was gonna say,

01:51:56.844 --> 01:51:58.264
and maybe it can probably be like,

01:52:01.057 --> 01:52:02.279
like a class to class

01:52:02.918 --> 01:52:04.099
district by district basis,

01:52:04.158 --> 01:52:05.979
because based off the teacher,

01:52:06.000 --> 01:52:07.480
what they present and stuff like that,

01:52:08.921 --> 01:52:09.582
I think it might need a

01:52:09.601 --> 01:52:10.442
little bit more trial and

01:52:10.521 --> 01:52:11.743
error before we can make

01:52:11.762 --> 01:52:13.743
like a definitive like this

01:52:13.804 --> 01:52:15.944
is good or bad for the CRT.

01:52:16.465 --> 01:52:16.564
Oh,

01:52:16.725 --> 01:52:18.746
it definitely is going to need more time.

01:52:18.805 --> 01:52:20.207
But what we're seeing right now,

01:52:20.407 --> 01:52:21.908
because it's not being

01:52:22.068 --> 01:52:26.489
implemented in a balanced way,

01:52:27.596 --> 01:52:30.158
And because it continuously,

01:52:30.479 --> 01:52:31.399
see critical race theory

01:52:31.680 --> 01:52:33.641
has at its premise an

01:52:33.702 --> 01:52:35.582
oppressed and an oppressor perspective,

01:52:35.622 --> 01:52:35.844
right?

01:52:36.623 --> 01:52:39.065
And one of the things, right, there is,

01:52:39.105 --> 01:52:40.207
there's always, you know,

01:52:40.247 --> 01:52:43.109
this is one culture that, you know,

01:52:43.289 --> 01:52:44.791
overcame this culture and

01:52:45.011 --> 01:52:46.032
invaded this country.

01:52:46.712 --> 01:52:47.653
Well, historically,

01:52:48.293 --> 01:52:49.835
that's been the case all

01:52:50.335 --> 01:52:52.877
over the history of humanity.

01:52:53.797 --> 01:52:54.998
It has always been

01:52:56.291 --> 01:52:57.891
you know, cultures and countries going,

01:52:57.931 --> 01:52:59.092
coming in and out, even,

01:52:59.693 --> 01:53:01.134
even within native Americans,

01:53:01.594 --> 01:53:02.014
it's happened.

01:53:02.054 --> 01:53:03.614
It happened in the Mayan

01:53:03.675 --> 01:53:05.176
culture where our family's

01:53:05.216 --> 01:53:07.096
from within indigenous

01:53:07.136 --> 01:53:08.757
groups in Latin America,

01:53:09.137 --> 01:53:11.659
it's happened in the Western world, um,

01:53:11.760 --> 01:53:13.341
between it just

01:53:13.680 --> 01:53:14.981
historically that has been, that's,

01:53:15.542 --> 01:53:17.382
I guess, of the nature of humanity.

01:53:18.224 --> 01:53:20.744
So to bring it now and say, well,

01:53:22.092 --> 01:53:22.774
Because of that,

01:53:22.833 --> 01:53:24.614
we have to mitigate these factors,

01:53:24.635 --> 01:53:25.775
you know, X, Y, and Z,

01:53:25.836 --> 01:53:27.176
and base everything on color.

01:53:27.917 --> 01:53:29.219
I'm going, well,

01:53:29.319 --> 01:53:30.779
is that really what we want to do?

01:53:31.541 --> 01:53:33.442
What happened with, you know,

01:53:34.302 --> 01:53:35.884
creating opportunities for

01:53:36.225 --> 01:53:37.746
all regardless of color,

01:53:40.507 --> 01:53:42.529
but more based on need?

01:53:44.530 --> 01:53:48.375
If a child, you know, needs an extra tutor,

01:53:48.435 --> 01:53:51.296
well, let's give them an extra tutor.

01:53:51.842 --> 01:53:53.404
to make sure that they're mastering,

01:53:53.524 --> 01:53:53.863
you know,

01:53:54.064 --> 01:53:56.025
or pay the teacher extra so she

01:53:56.065 --> 01:53:57.867
can stay after school, before school,

01:53:59.047 --> 01:54:00.548
in order to teach the child.

01:54:01.269 --> 01:54:01.710
For me,

01:54:01.750 --> 01:54:02.710
it's more about giving

01:54:02.829 --> 01:54:04.470
opportunities rather than saying,

01:54:05.131 --> 01:54:07.533
you know, bad culture, bad people,

01:54:07.953 --> 01:54:10.215
bad color, you know,

01:54:10.295 --> 01:54:12.936
victim versus oppressor.

01:54:13.356 --> 01:54:13.658
Yeah.

01:54:14.957 --> 01:54:15.838
Go ahead.

01:54:15.878 --> 01:54:16.139
Sorry.

01:54:16.458 --> 01:54:18.761
No, no, I just don't, I'm not buying that.

01:54:19.301 --> 01:54:21.582
I don't think that that is a healthy,

01:54:22.298 --> 01:54:26.904
psychological, behavioral, uplifting,

01:54:27.104 --> 01:54:29.006
elevating mindset.

01:54:29.841 --> 01:54:30.400
Gotcha.

01:54:31.060 --> 01:54:32.822
In my opinion, I agree, I guess,

01:54:32.841 --> 01:54:33.402
with both sides,

01:54:33.421 --> 01:54:33.841
because I think it's

01:54:33.881 --> 01:54:34.903
important to know history.

01:54:36.523 --> 01:54:38.243
But then I don't think it's

01:54:38.323 --> 01:54:40.283
healthy to stick in a blame mentality.

01:54:40.344 --> 01:54:42.345
But then I agree with you about, OK,

01:54:42.364 --> 01:54:43.364
let's move forward and get

01:54:43.385 --> 01:54:44.524
some resources for people

01:54:44.545 --> 01:54:46.286
who may need resources to move forward,

01:54:46.805 --> 01:54:47.345
maybe if they've been

01:54:47.386 --> 01:54:48.707
disenfranchised or grew up

01:54:48.726 --> 01:54:50.186
in a low economic status,

01:54:50.207 --> 01:54:51.587
that we can give them hope

01:54:51.627 --> 01:54:52.328
and opportunities.

01:54:52.747 --> 01:54:53.347
I agree.

01:54:53.648 --> 01:54:55.009
And this is where education

01:54:55.069 --> 01:54:55.969
is so important, right?

01:54:56.324 --> 01:54:58.466
Because education is the one

01:54:58.525 --> 01:55:00.546
way that we're going to break any barrier,

01:55:01.185 --> 01:55:03.106
any barrier.

01:55:03.226 --> 01:55:04.027
It's education.

01:55:04.067 --> 01:55:04.806
You know, for me,

01:55:05.087 --> 01:55:07.287
it was learning about what

01:55:07.328 --> 01:55:08.587
a healthy marriage looks like.

01:55:09.189 --> 01:55:10.649
You know, as a wife, you know,

01:55:10.689 --> 01:55:12.229
what do husbands expect from a wife?

01:55:12.288 --> 01:55:13.590
What would they like to see in wives?

01:55:14.109 --> 01:55:14.590
Sandwich.

01:55:15.250 --> 01:55:15.590
What's that?

01:55:15.970 --> 01:55:16.610
A sandwich.

01:55:18.490 --> 01:55:20.712
Love through the stomach, right?

01:55:21.011 --> 01:55:22.712
But that's what it says, like education,

01:55:22.851 --> 01:55:25.153
awareness, understanding, empowering.

01:55:26.015 --> 01:55:27.877
I am afraid of this victim

01:55:27.957 --> 01:55:28.716
mindset that we're

01:55:28.737 --> 01:55:30.018
instilling in our kids that

01:55:30.238 --> 01:55:32.078
are offended by everything and anything.

01:55:32.899 --> 01:55:33.378
No one,

01:55:34.078 --> 01:55:36.619
no one should have the power to

01:55:36.699 --> 01:55:39.860
make you feel any less than

01:55:39.961 --> 01:55:41.341
who you know you are.

01:55:42.141 --> 01:55:42.962
Yeah, very true.

01:55:43.302 --> 01:55:45.002
Never relinquish your power

01:55:45.042 --> 01:55:46.703
to anyone to make you feel

01:55:46.724 --> 01:55:49.364
any less than you know who you are.

01:55:49.484 --> 01:55:50.786
We are all children of God.

01:55:50.926 --> 01:55:51.685
As people of faith,

01:55:52.349 --> 01:55:52.628
We are,

01:55:52.689 --> 01:55:54.909
regardless of what religion you believe,

01:55:54.949 --> 01:55:57.070
you know, most of us know that,

01:55:58.332 --> 01:56:00.332
a lot of us know that we

01:56:00.353 --> 01:56:03.274
are spiritual children, right?

01:56:03.414 --> 01:56:05.695
Of a greater creator with

01:56:05.735 --> 01:56:07.337
immense potential and talent.

01:56:08.256 --> 01:56:09.537
And our job as parents is to

01:56:09.618 --> 01:56:10.337
ensure we have an

01:56:10.417 --> 01:56:11.679
environment where these

01:56:11.878 --> 01:56:13.340
children can thrive and

01:56:13.420 --> 01:56:14.860
build their talents and

01:56:14.881 --> 01:56:16.081
their skillsets that they

01:56:16.121 --> 01:56:17.761
will then one day share

01:56:17.801 --> 01:56:19.603
with their community members, right?

01:56:19.922 --> 01:56:21.363
And if everybody does that,

01:56:22.551 --> 01:56:25.092
then lo and behold, we all have purpose.

01:56:25.894 --> 01:56:27.814
We all have a place in our

01:56:27.855 --> 01:56:30.957
society to play an important role in.

01:56:31.599 --> 01:56:32.498
And I think that's what

01:56:32.520 --> 01:56:34.320
we're missing is that we

01:56:34.680 --> 01:56:36.042
don't all have faith.

01:56:36.203 --> 01:56:37.543
We don't all know who we are.

01:56:37.564 --> 01:56:40.025
We all don't know that we have potential.

01:56:40.046 --> 01:56:41.988
And we're not all are given

01:56:42.047 --> 01:56:43.668
the opportunities to build

01:56:43.769 --> 01:56:46.551
those skill sets,

01:56:46.692 --> 01:56:49.474
knowledge that were formed on that end.

01:56:50.188 --> 01:56:50.787
And I agree.

01:56:50.868 --> 01:56:51.587
And in my opinion,

01:56:51.627 --> 01:56:52.868
I think a big reason why it

01:56:52.889 --> 01:56:53.509
might be happening is

01:56:53.548 --> 01:56:55.489
because of social media and

01:56:55.529 --> 01:56:55.970
people have been

01:56:56.010 --> 01:56:57.329
brainwashed to think that

01:56:57.670 --> 01:56:58.850
what they see is reality

01:56:58.890 --> 01:57:00.150
and their life is not real

01:57:00.211 --> 01:57:01.451
and they don't get the

01:57:01.530 --> 01:57:03.771
reinforcement of like, hey,

01:57:03.792 --> 01:57:05.992
you are worthy, you are important,

01:57:06.051 --> 01:57:07.092
you are great.

01:57:08.372 --> 01:57:09.313
And I think that's related

01:57:09.353 --> 01:57:10.873
to why we have such an epidemic of

01:57:11.891 --> 01:57:13.233
people on medication for

01:57:13.252 --> 01:57:14.493
their depression and people

01:57:14.512 --> 01:57:15.793
who are super insecure.

01:57:16.194 --> 01:57:18.815
It's like a big ball of an effect.

01:57:20.037 --> 01:57:21.117
But unfortunately we're

01:57:21.136 --> 01:57:21.877
running out of time,

01:57:21.997 --> 01:57:23.257
so I have to move on a little bit.

01:57:23.759 --> 01:57:25.579
And so I wanna thank you

01:57:25.939 --> 01:57:27.280
Rosalicia for being on.

01:57:27.740 --> 01:57:29.021
And I wanted to ask you,

01:57:29.061 --> 01:57:30.662
we did know that you like to ride a bike,

01:57:31.222 --> 01:57:33.503
but what's something that

01:57:33.583 --> 01:57:34.925
most people may not know about you,

01:57:34.984 --> 01:57:36.626
even close friends that you like to do?

01:57:37.891 --> 01:57:38.613
That I like to do.

01:57:38.972 --> 01:57:39.233
Yeah.

01:57:39.673 --> 01:57:41.555
Or anything about you that

01:57:41.614 --> 01:57:42.496
people don't know that I

01:57:42.515 --> 01:57:44.216
ride a bike and I like to ride my bike.

01:57:44.658 --> 01:57:44.797
Um,

01:57:44.978 --> 01:57:45.979
I think the majority of people know

01:57:45.998 --> 01:57:46.979
that I like to dance.

01:57:47.739 --> 01:57:49.122
Um, but what is, um,

01:57:50.002 --> 01:57:52.564
that I'm a very private person and I love,

01:57:53.545 --> 01:57:55.346
I cherish solitude.

01:57:55.827 --> 01:57:58.850
I love being in quiet home

01:57:59.390 --> 01:58:02.993
and just by myself, um, either pondering,

01:58:03.033 --> 01:58:05.615
thinking, sleeping or in nature.

01:58:06.426 --> 01:58:08.787
Um, with my hands in the dirt, I'm very,

01:58:08.827 --> 01:58:09.567
very private.

01:58:09.926 --> 01:58:13.467
I, I, I cherish solitude.

01:58:15.568 --> 01:58:15.988
I love that.

01:58:16.009 --> 01:58:16.168
And it's,

01:58:16.269 --> 01:58:17.529
it's the irony for being a

01:58:17.588 --> 01:58:18.448
government official, right?

01:58:18.469 --> 01:58:19.328
Cause it's to do with people.

01:58:19.850 --> 01:58:20.789
Like this is a balance, right?

01:58:20.829 --> 01:58:22.789
It's like, okay, stay over there.

01:58:23.010 --> 01:58:23.751
I'm going to go over here.

01:58:23.770 --> 01:58:24.211
Stay over there.

01:58:25.511 --> 01:58:26.331
It's one of those things, right?

01:58:26.350 --> 01:58:28.072
As an impact, my family,

01:58:28.091 --> 01:58:29.771
my dad and my mom are very extroverts.

01:58:29.792 --> 01:58:30.631
They're very social.

01:58:30.692 --> 01:58:31.792
And we love that.

01:58:31.832 --> 01:58:32.672
I can do all of that.

01:58:33.268 --> 01:58:34.689
But I actually love,

01:58:35.109 --> 01:58:37.091
because I am a thinker, I like to ponder,

01:58:37.131 --> 01:58:38.591
I like to figure things out,

01:58:38.891 --> 01:58:39.832
fix things in my head.

01:58:40.393 --> 01:58:41.934
And, you know, I love to read.

01:58:41.993 --> 01:58:43.996
And you can do that when you're quiet.

01:58:44.355 --> 01:58:46.417
And I love to read.

01:58:46.537 --> 01:58:48.179
I love to read ideas.

01:58:48.378 --> 01:58:52.180
Everything that's self-help, science,

01:58:52.280 --> 01:58:54.863
nature, development, you know, education,

01:58:54.922 --> 01:58:55.623
how things work.

01:58:56.184 --> 01:58:58.185
I love to learn and understand.

01:58:58.225 --> 01:58:58.786
And I hope,

01:58:59.445 --> 01:59:01.387
I wish every child could be

01:59:01.707 --> 01:59:02.748
given that gift.

01:59:03.529 --> 01:59:06.233
that light of inquiry.

01:59:06.252 --> 01:59:06.993
We're born,

01:59:07.234 --> 01:59:10.476
we're literally born innate learners.

01:59:10.657 --> 01:59:12.158
And somehow along the way,

01:59:12.578 --> 01:59:13.760
we kill that fire.

01:59:14.539 --> 01:59:16.703
And I want to help ignite

01:59:16.743 --> 01:59:17.422
that with our youth.

01:59:17.462 --> 01:59:19.064
And that's why I look and

01:59:19.125 --> 01:59:20.185
cherish any opportunity

01:59:20.206 --> 01:59:21.466
that I have to be able to

01:59:22.148 --> 01:59:26.150
go and meet and reach children.

01:59:26.391 --> 01:59:27.672
I want to inspire our youth.

01:59:28.842 --> 01:59:30.823
Yeah, you know, what's crazy about reading,

01:59:30.962 --> 01:59:32.283
well, and I think, well,

01:59:32.363 --> 01:59:33.203
from my perspective,

01:59:33.363 --> 01:59:35.663
I remember books were introduced,

01:59:35.923 --> 01:59:36.204
obviously,

01:59:36.225 --> 01:59:37.484
through school for most people.

01:59:38.265 --> 01:59:41.905
And I used to, I didn't realize that, well,

01:59:41.966 --> 01:59:42.765
once I realized you can

01:59:42.786 --> 01:59:43.945
read a book about anything,

01:59:44.765 --> 01:59:45.806
my life changed.

01:59:45.827 --> 01:59:46.606
I was like, oh, I can read,

01:59:46.627 --> 01:59:48.907
I don't have to read boring Mark Twain.

01:59:48.926 --> 01:59:50.347
I can actually read a book about this.

01:59:51.368 --> 01:59:52.148
How cool.

01:59:52.667 --> 01:59:53.507
And that changed my life.

01:59:53.528 --> 01:59:55.288
And I think a lot of children need that,

01:59:55.788 --> 01:59:56.368
need to know like, hey,

01:59:56.389 --> 01:59:57.208
you don't have to read

01:59:58.001 --> 01:59:58.900
only what the school gives

01:59:58.921 --> 02:00:00.020
you there's what what are

02:00:00.042 --> 02:00:01.362
you interested in you like

02:00:01.402 --> 02:00:02.742
bugs you like this you like

02:00:02.902 --> 02:00:04.443
basketball let's read about

02:00:04.483 --> 02:00:05.802
it we can learn more about

02:00:05.823 --> 02:00:08.382
it you know and I wanted to

02:00:08.443 --> 02:00:09.363
ask your opinion do you

02:00:09.423 --> 02:00:11.323
consider audiobooks reading

02:00:13.484 --> 02:00:15.225
yes well it's not physical

02:00:15.284 --> 02:00:16.164
reading but it's

02:00:16.984 --> 02:00:18.445
intellectual ideas coming

02:00:18.506 --> 02:00:19.706
into your brain and

02:00:20.206 --> 02:00:21.886
stimulating that brain and

02:00:21.926 --> 02:00:23.926
giving you those ideas right so

02:00:24.688 --> 02:00:26.208
it's reading but not reading

02:00:26.349 --> 02:00:27.628
it's audio they're audio

02:00:27.649 --> 02:00:30.170
books and um and yes as

02:00:30.229 --> 02:00:31.350
long as you're getting that

02:00:31.411 --> 02:00:32.751
simulation those ideas and

02:00:32.931 --> 02:00:35.032
growing thinking I think

02:00:35.072 --> 02:00:36.432
it's important which by the

02:00:36.472 --> 02:00:38.154
way thinking back about my

02:00:38.173 --> 02:00:39.073
policies the other thing

02:00:39.094 --> 02:00:39.793
that I was really really

02:00:39.814 --> 02:00:41.454
proud about um there were

02:00:41.494 --> 02:00:42.876
two bills that did not pass

02:00:42.935 --> 02:00:44.796
but the the governor came

02:00:44.815 --> 02:00:46.596
by and it was to expand the

02:00:46.636 --> 02:00:47.778
mental health capacity in

02:00:47.797 --> 02:00:48.738
the state of california by

02:00:48.757 --> 02:00:49.478
the way this is out of the

02:00:49.518 --> 02:00:50.798
blue but going back

02:00:51.222 --> 02:00:52.264
because there is a need in

02:00:52.283 --> 02:00:53.265
the state of California to

02:00:53.324 --> 02:00:55.025
expand mental health capacity.

02:00:56.407 --> 02:00:59.488
And I introduced that when

02:00:59.509 --> 02:01:00.390
we had a surplus,

02:01:00.789 --> 02:01:02.490
because I thought we could

02:01:02.511 --> 02:01:03.231
do that at that time.

02:01:03.271 --> 02:01:04.733
It was sad that it wasn't done that way.

02:01:05.153 --> 02:01:05.953
But then the governor

02:01:06.795 --> 02:01:08.216
introduced and said that

02:01:08.235 --> 02:01:09.936
now it was a time through bonds,

02:01:10.216 --> 02:01:10.997
and that's what you see in

02:01:11.018 --> 02:01:12.037
the proposition right now

02:01:12.078 --> 02:01:12.899
in trying to expand the

02:01:12.918 --> 02:01:14.039
mental health capacity in

02:01:14.060 --> 02:01:14.940
the state of California.

02:01:15.320 --> 02:01:16.521
But it was yours truly,

02:01:16.542 --> 02:01:18.082
the Inland Empire senator,

02:01:18.628 --> 02:01:19.109
who came,

02:01:19.729 --> 02:01:21.210
brought forth the idea because of

02:01:21.270 --> 02:01:23.230
our sheriff, Sheriff Shannon Dykus,

02:01:23.270 --> 02:01:25.051
who told me that that was a

02:01:25.072 --> 02:01:26.853
concern in the University of California.

02:01:26.912 --> 02:01:28.073
And so I decided to move

02:01:28.113 --> 02:01:29.395
forward and introduce a

02:01:29.414 --> 02:01:31.314
bill that would expand that in the state.

02:01:32.136 --> 02:01:32.395
Wow.

02:01:33.136 --> 02:01:33.317
Well,

02:01:33.556 --> 02:01:35.438
quick question about the hierarchy of

02:01:35.478 --> 02:01:37.458
government for the state of California.

02:01:37.838 --> 02:01:41.301
Does it go governor, Senate, assembly,

02:01:41.860 --> 02:01:42.581
and then council?

02:01:43.622 --> 02:01:46.283
So the state government is

02:01:46.323 --> 02:01:47.083
just those three.

02:01:47.623 --> 02:01:47.863
Okay.

02:01:48.652 --> 02:01:50.332
local government yes you

02:01:50.393 --> 02:01:52.372
have council city councils

02:01:52.752 --> 02:01:54.493
you have school boards you

02:01:54.514 --> 02:01:55.594
have water boards and you

02:01:55.613 --> 02:01:56.654
have special districts

02:01:56.914 --> 02:01:58.095
depending on you know what

02:01:58.114 --> 02:01:59.036
it is that you have in your

02:01:59.155 --> 02:02:00.515
area special districts

02:02:00.555 --> 02:02:03.136
could be um water districts

02:02:03.216 --> 02:02:04.318
or they could be like

02:02:04.778 --> 02:02:05.877
cemeteries there's special

02:02:05.917 --> 02:02:06.597
district for seminars I

02:02:06.818 --> 02:02:07.899
didn't know that until I

02:02:07.918 --> 02:02:09.658
came to office um and then

02:02:09.838 --> 02:02:11.260
over that I would put the

02:02:11.300 --> 02:02:13.100
county the county would be

02:02:13.161 --> 02:02:13.860
right over that

02:02:14.774 --> 02:02:15.555
And the county also

02:02:15.574 --> 02:02:16.636
represents those areas that

02:02:16.676 --> 02:02:18.537
are not cities, right?

02:02:18.677 --> 02:02:20.019
Unincorporated areas.

02:02:20.498 --> 02:02:21.699
So you have those there,

02:02:21.779 --> 02:02:22.640
then you have the county.

02:02:23.001 --> 02:02:24.483
And the county receives

02:02:25.023 --> 02:02:26.944
money by the state to

02:02:27.085 --> 02:02:28.886
implement programs to disseminate.

02:02:28.905 --> 02:02:30.427
So the state will give a lot

02:02:30.467 --> 02:02:31.368
of the funding to the

02:02:31.429 --> 02:02:32.529
county so the counties can

02:02:32.550 --> 02:02:34.310
then implement and disperse

02:02:34.530 --> 02:02:36.372
those funds throughout the counties.

02:02:38.064 --> 02:02:38.404
Okay.

02:02:38.663 --> 02:02:39.045
Awesome.

02:02:40.005 --> 02:02:43.046
Um, so Senator Rosalicia,

02:02:43.587 --> 02:02:44.106
what are some of the

02:02:44.146 --> 02:02:45.688
current projects that you are working on?

02:02:46.328 --> 02:02:51.109
Whether it's family, politics, dancing.

02:02:51.550 --> 02:02:52.911
Um, well,

02:02:54.891 --> 02:02:55.953
all of the above that you just

02:02:55.993 --> 02:02:57.432
mentioned are part of my, my,

02:02:57.592 --> 02:02:59.094
my sphere right now, but, um,

02:03:00.395 --> 02:03:02.095
so project wise, um,

02:03:02.355 --> 02:03:03.935
I'm also running for office

02:03:03.956 --> 02:03:05.296
for reelection this year.

02:03:05.377 --> 02:03:06.457
So that's taken up a lot of

02:03:06.478 --> 02:03:07.278
my time as well.

02:03:08.141 --> 02:03:09.523
I'm hoping to serve another

02:03:09.563 --> 02:03:10.643
an additional four years.

02:03:11.023 --> 02:03:14.585
And that is a new district.

02:03:14.604 --> 02:03:15.685
So right now I'm currently

02:03:15.864 --> 02:03:17.185
Senate District 23.

02:03:17.185 --> 02:03:18.966
But because of redistricting

02:03:19.065 --> 02:03:20.306
throughout the state that

02:03:20.346 --> 02:03:21.346
happens every 10 years

02:03:21.606 --> 02:03:24.488
after the census comes forward,

02:03:25.309 --> 02:03:26.609
the lines are redrawn.

02:03:26.628 --> 02:03:28.729
And because the lines are redrawn,

02:03:28.750 --> 02:03:31.871
I have to run in a new Senate district,

02:03:31.890 --> 02:03:33.192
which is now which is going

02:03:33.212 --> 02:03:34.811
to be referred to or is

02:03:34.851 --> 02:03:37.679
referred to as Senate District 19.

02:03:37.679 --> 02:03:38.920
And that will incorporate,

02:03:39.000 --> 02:03:40.661
I lose some of my current area.

02:03:40.881 --> 02:03:43.162
I lose San Bernardino.

02:03:43.462 --> 02:03:47.104
I lose Rialto, Bloomington, Colton.

02:03:47.546 --> 02:03:50.887
I lose Highland, Finland, Pennant Hills,

02:03:51.228 --> 02:03:53.810
Menifee, Nuevo, and Rajapakamanga.

02:03:54.449 --> 02:03:58.292
And I gain Barstow, Apple Valley, 29 Palms,

02:03:59.474 --> 02:04:01.914
Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree,

02:04:02.615 --> 02:04:05.637
and everything to the east of us.

02:04:05.698 --> 02:04:05.837
So

02:04:06.277 --> 02:04:07.778
What would be considered the low desert?

02:04:08.498 --> 02:04:11.520
Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Palm Springs,

02:04:11.801 --> 02:04:13.862
Indian Wells, La Quinta, Bermuda Dunes.

02:04:14.762 --> 02:04:17.305
So a thousand palms, desert hot springs.

02:04:17.324 --> 02:04:19.105
I think I got them all.

02:04:20.127 --> 02:04:21.167
So that's my next,

02:04:21.207 --> 02:04:23.649
my project that I'm also working on,

02:04:23.668 --> 02:04:25.970
which is, you know, quite a feat.

02:04:25.990 --> 02:04:28.573
Just my current district knows my heart.

02:04:28.653 --> 02:04:29.654
They know the work that I've

02:04:29.694 --> 02:04:30.954
done in the current district.

02:04:31.814 --> 02:04:33.997
But only 45% of my current

02:04:34.037 --> 02:04:35.537
district is in my new district.

02:04:36.037 --> 02:04:38.019
So I have 55% new district

02:04:38.038 --> 02:04:39.880
that has absolutely no idea

02:04:39.960 --> 02:04:42.021
what I've done in my current district.

02:04:42.162 --> 02:04:43.662
So that's my project.

02:04:44.283 --> 02:04:44.462
Wow.

02:04:44.502 --> 02:04:45.503
And so you basically have to like,

02:04:46.043 --> 02:04:46.824
it's like coming into like

02:04:46.845 --> 02:04:47.784
a new job and being the

02:04:47.824 --> 02:04:49.565
manager at a new job and

02:04:49.586 --> 02:04:50.966
like getting people to understand.

02:04:51.027 --> 02:04:52.108
And it's probably gonna be

02:04:52.127 --> 02:04:53.028
even different working in

02:04:53.069 --> 02:04:54.429
that new area because it's

02:04:54.448 --> 02:04:55.029
going to be completely

02:04:55.050 --> 02:04:57.030
different than dealing with Rancho.

02:04:58.072 --> 02:04:58.452
Oh yeah.

02:04:58.591 --> 02:04:58.912
I mean,

02:04:58.952 --> 02:05:00.113
the demographics are definitely

02:05:00.153 --> 02:05:01.793
going to be different.

02:05:01.913 --> 02:05:02.434
However,

02:05:02.453 --> 02:05:05.036
I think many of the same concerns exist.

02:05:05.440 --> 02:05:07.002
you know, the ideas, homelessness,

02:05:07.042 --> 02:05:09.643
the cost of living, public safety,

02:05:10.542 --> 02:05:11.143
education.

02:05:11.222 --> 02:05:12.863
So the concerns are the same,

02:05:12.963 --> 02:05:14.363
regardless of demographics.

02:05:14.644 --> 02:05:16.364
It's just maybe the severity of them,

02:05:16.664 --> 02:05:17.664
depending on the area,

02:05:17.704 --> 02:05:19.485
but many of the concerns are the same.

02:05:20.086 --> 02:05:20.747
Got you.

02:05:20.846 --> 02:05:22.747
Why do they do the redistricting?

02:05:22.787 --> 02:05:23.847
Why is that a thing?

02:05:24.528 --> 02:05:24.868
Do you know?

02:05:25.427 --> 02:05:27.889
So, yes, it's because they do,

02:05:28.009 --> 02:05:29.090
we have a census, right?

02:05:29.270 --> 02:05:30.289
We have a census that

02:05:30.747 --> 02:05:32.149
tells us how many people

02:05:32.189 --> 02:05:33.970
live in each community, have they grown,

02:05:33.989 --> 02:05:34.871
have they shrunk.

02:05:35.350 --> 02:05:38.091
And so redistricting allows

02:05:38.353 --> 02:05:39.693
us to ensure that we're

02:05:39.733 --> 02:05:42.055
representing 450 million

02:05:42.114 --> 02:05:44.076
people or slightly less for

02:05:44.216 --> 02:05:45.136
our assembly districts,

02:05:45.136 --> 02:05:47.177
1 million people or less so

02:05:47.217 --> 02:05:48.738
that they can grow in the

02:05:48.779 --> 02:05:49.538
Senate district.

02:05:49.578 --> 02:05:51.399
So it's representative of

02:05:51.460 --> 02:05:53.502
the growth of population or

02:05:54.641 --> 02:05:56.143
the loss of population and

02:05:56.162 --> 02:05:57.163
making sure that the

02:05:57.224 --> 02:05:58.824
districts are representative of those.

02:06:00.605 --> 02:06:00.886
Okay.

02:06:00.945 --> 02:06:01.766
Oh, that makes a lot of sense.

02:06:01.787 --> 02:06:02.226
So that way,

02:06:02.787 --> 02:06:04.688
that way a Senator is not over

02:06:05.509 --> 02:06:06.829
representing an amount of, okay.

02:06:06.949 --> 02:06:07.270
Okay.

02:06:07.890 --> 02:06:08.310
Okay.

02:06:08.369 --> 02:06:10.211
And you'll find out you're

02:06:10.230 --> 02:06:11.731
re you're rerunning by November, right?

02:06:11.752 --> 02:06:13.212
You'll find out everything in November.

02:06:13.252 --> 02:06:13.552
Yes.

02:06:13.913 --> 02:06:15.715
So we just had a primary at March,

02:06:15.755 --> 02:06:16.875
March 5th.

02:06:17.255 --> 02:06:17.496
You know,

02:06:17.515 --> 02:06:18.956
we had a primary and then in

02:06:19.015 --> 02:06:20.277
November will be the

02:06:20.417 --> 02:06:22.918
general election where we'll know,

02:06:23.139 --> 02:06:23.439
you know,

02:06:23.458 --> 02:06:24.939
hopefully whether or not I am

02:06:25.000 --> 02:06:25.739
able to continue to

02:06:25.779 --> 02:06:26.780
represent my district.

02:06:27.180 --> 02:06:27.520
Got you.

02:06:27.581 --> 02:06:28.742
I guess fingers crossed, right?

02:06:29.445 --> 02:06:31.686
I hope, I hope.

02:06:32.487 --> 02:06:34.487
I ran the first time because, like I said,

02:06:34.546 --> 02:06:35.987
I wanted to model what I

02:06:36.006 --> 02:06:37.787
wanted to see in governance and politics,

02:06:37.807 --> 02:06:38.507
something completely

02:06:38.528 --> 02:06:40.047
different than we've seen.

02:06:40.408 --> 02:06:41.448
And I think I've been able

02:06:41.488 --> 02:06:42.988
to accomplish that in

02:06:43.269 --> 02:06:45.149
trying to help heal our families,

02:06:45.208 --> 02:06:47.930
our communities, our cities, our state.

02:06:48.590 --> 02:06:50.470
And I think I've been able to model that.

02:06:50.530 --> 02:06:53.211
I've held the bar high on that end.

02:06:53.751 --> 02:06:55.532
But now I'm on fire.

02:06:55.551 --> 02:06:57.212
Now I'm on fire because now I want to

02:06:57.744 --> 02:06:59.445
I want to ensure that people

02:06:59.525 --> 02:07:01.407
are informed because now I

02:07:01.506 --> 02:07:04.408
see where we have gaps and

02:07:05.229 --> 02:07:06.890
how we can fill those gaps

02:07:06.949 --> 02:07:09.310
by really engaging people

02:07:09.650 --> 02:07:11.112
and helping them understand

02:07:11.131 --> 02:07:13.132
the power of their voice.

02:07:14.073 --> 02:07:14.774
Um, and you know,

02:07:14.814 --> 02:07:15.755
with knowledge comes

02:07:15.854 --> 02:07:16.914
empowerment and with

02:07:16.954 --> 02:07:17.716
empowerment comes

02:07:17.815 --> 02:07:19.197
engagement and engagement

02:07:19.657 --> 02:07:20.717
in turn empowerment.

02:07:21.137 --> 02:07:22.639
So now I'm on fire to help

02:07:22.658 --> 02:07:23.359
people understand.

02:07:23.918 --> 02:07:25.140
These are the laws that are

02:07:25.180 --> 02:07:25.900
being introduced.

02:07:25.961 --> 02:07:26.701
These are laws that are

02:07:26.720 --> 02:07:27.881
impacting your personal life.

02:07:28.622 --> 02:07:29.644
How do you feel about that?

02:07:30.304 --> 02:07:32.166
I love it.

02:07:32.225 --> 02:07:34.247
How many terms can you run as a senator,

02:07:34.367 --> 02:07:34.908
state senator?

02:07:35.228 --> 02:07:36.309
So as a senator,

02:07:36.328 --> 02:07:38.430
we can run up to three terms,

02:07:38.610 --> 02:07:39.612
so 12 years total.

02:07:39.992 --> 02:07:40.351
Okay.

02:07:40.731 --> 02:07:42.173
That's actually not too bad.

02:07:42.594 --> 02:07:43.835
And this would be your second term?

02:07:44.335 --> 02:07:45.496
This would be my second term.

02:07:45.576 --> 02:07:47.877
And I have to say, it has flown.

02:07:48.498 --> 02:07:50.140
I've never aged as fast as I

02:07:50.180 --> 02:07:51.081
have these past four years.

02:07:51.701 --> 02:07:52.081
Oh, wow.

02:07:53.192 --> 02:07:53.573
Oh, wow.

02:07:53.993 --> 02:07:54.592
You look good.

02:07:54.833 --> 02:07:55.333
Don't worry.

02:07:55.835 --> 02:07:56.175
Thank you.

02:07:56.215 --> 02:07:58.317
It's just I'm passionate about the work.

02:07:58.396 --> 02:07:59.257
I'm passionate about the

02:07:59.297 --> 02:08:00.578
people I represent and

02:08:00.639 --> 02:08:02.940
about the issues that impact them.

02:08:02.961 --> 02:08:03.841
That reminds me when someone

02:08:03.862 --> 02:08:04.983
said about Barack Obama,

02:08:05.023 --> 02:08:06.543
he came in with a full head

02:08:06.564 --> 02:08:08.386
of black hair and he came out all gray.

02:08:10.140 --> 02:08:11.121
I get it.

02:08:11.480 --> 02:08:13.243
I absolutely get it.

02:08:13.302 --> 02:08:15.243
It makes sense.

02:08:15.805 --> 02:08:17.305
You've been having enough alone time,

02:08:17.365 --> 02:08:18.646
I guess.

02:08:18.707 --> 02:08:20.167
But the way I figure it, it's like,

02:08:20.347 --> 02:08:20.609
you know,

02:08:20.628 --> 02:08:22.329
when I was pregnant with my

02:08:22.369 --> 02:08:24.030
babies and your body changes,

02:08:24.070 --> 02:08:25.591
you gain weight or uncomfortable,

02:08:25.632 --> 02:08:26.193
you're all of this.

02:08:26.273 --> 02:08:26.453
Right.

02:08:26.953 --> 02:08:28.414
But I didn't care.

02:08:28.435 --> 02:08:30.777
I loved, loved being pregnant.

02:08:31.056 --> 02:08:33.298
I was what I refer to as I'm

02:08:33.359 --> 02:08:37.061
on goddess mode and I'm creating life.

02:08:37.322 --> 02:08:38.643
I'm carrying my baby.

02:08:39.248 --> 02:08:41.150
And I could care less what

02:08:41.190 --> 02:08:42.452
my body looked like because

02:08:42.612 --> 02:08:44.132
I knew I was in goddess mode,

02:08:44.193 --> 02:08:45.054
being my baby.

02:08:45.673 --> 02:08:48.657
And so I look at this work

02:08:49.436 --> 02:08:50.278
in the same manner.

02:08:51.099 --> 02:08:53.761
I look at this work that this is my baby,

02:08:53.801 --> 02:08:56.443
this is my home, I'm caring for it,

02:08:57.184 --> 02:08:58.364
and I'm passionate about it.

02:08:59.405 --> 02:08:59.985
I love that.

02:09:00.345 --> 02:09:01.828
And I heard a term not too

02:09:01.868 --> 02:09:04.128
long ago that referred to

02:09:04.168 --> 02:09:05.130
women as Stargates,

02:09:07.171 --> 02:09:08.033
which I thought was really cool.

02:09:10.685 --> 02:09:13.028
Because life passes through the womb,

02:09:13.087 --> 02:09:13.448
obviously.

02:09:13.507 --> 02:09:14.349
So there's stargates.

02:09:17.171 --> 02:09:18.252
Senator Rosalicia,

02:09:18.271 --> 02:09:19.372
I want to thank you so much

02:09:19.393 --> 02:09:20.474
for being on The Empire.

02:09:21.293 --> 02:09:23.296
Let's say 100 years pass by,

02:09:23.296 --> 02:09:24.756
250 years pass by,

02:09:24.777 --> 02:09:26.398
half a millennia passes by.

02:09:27.238 --> 02:09:27.859
What would you like your

02:09:27.979 --> 02:09:30.400
empire to look like, whether it's family,

02:09:31.301 --> 02:09:33.984
political, government, community?

02:09:34.384 --> 02:09:34.984
What would you like your

02:09:35.064 --> 02:09:37.806
empire to look like 500 years from now?

02:09:38.766 --> 02:09:39.287
Oh, my gosh.

02:09:40.305 --> 02:09:42.025
I would love to see the

02:09:42.065 --> 02:09:43.525
continuation of the family

02:09:43.586 --> 02:09:46.447
unit in our community, the love,

02:09:46.466 --> 02:09:48.828
the respect, the value for education,

02:09:48.847 --> 02:09:49.648
the warmth,

02:09:50.207 --> 02:09:52.809
and the level of humanity that

02:09:52.849 --> 02:09:53.488
is going to be,

02:09:54.029 --> 02:09:55.649
that we currently see and we're losing.

02:09:55.970 --> 02:09:57.010
I want to make sure that we

02:09:57.069 --> 02:09:58.331
have that level of humanity,

02:09:58.631 --> 02:09:59.911
respecting that every

02:09:59.990 --> 02:10:04.452
individual has different gifts, talents,

02:10:04.712 --> 02:10:05.552
and skill sets,

02:10:06.092 --> 02:10:09.054
and that everybody has a purpose.

02:10:10.806 --> 02:10:12.127
within their family and

02:10:12.148 --> 02:10:13.269
within their communities.

02:10:13.288 --> 02:10:14.448
I would love to continue

02:10:14.488 --> 02:10:15.770
that level of humanity

02:10:15.909 --> 02:10:17.211
moving forward 500 years.

02:10:20.012 --> 02:10:20.972
That is so beautiful.

02:10:21.212 --> 02:10:22.194
That is so beautiful.

02:10:23.274 --> 02:10:23.875
Again, Senator,

02:10:23.895 --> 02:10:24.796
I want to thank you again

02:10:24.836 --> 02:10:26.136
for being on The Empire.

02:10:26.636 --> 02:10:27.617
Can you please let everybody

02:10:27.676 --> 02:10:30.019
know how they can find you, reach you,

02:10:30.158 --> 02:10:30.878
support you,

02:10:30.899 --> 02:10:32.619
know where your new districts are?

02:10:32.659 --> 02:10:33.501
Can you please let everybody

02:10:33.581 --> 02:10:34.981
know all that information,

02:10:35.021 --> 02:10:35.761
where they can find you?

02:10:36.322 --> 02:10:36.802
Absolutely.

02:10:36.882 --> 02:10:38.984
So as senators, we have

02:10:39.556 --> 02:10:41.337
our government official website,

02:10:41.677 --> 02:10:42.738
which you can just Google

02:10:42.757 --> 02:10:44.679
Senator Rosalicia

02:10:44.798 --> 02:10:47.920
Ochoa-Bogue governance or government,

02:10:48.220 --> 02:10:49.279
and then you'll have our

02:10:49.300 --> 02:10:50.980
website with all of the information there,

02:10:51.041 --> 02:10:52.740
how to contact, how to receive help.

02:10:53.261 --> 02:10:57.262
If you need help on any state issue,

02:10:57.302 --> 02:10:58.262
we're here to help you.

02:10:59.122 --> 02:11:00.203
You can see the pieces of

02:11:00.262 --> 02:11:02.463
policy that I've been able

02:11:02.503 --> 02:11:05.064
to sign in the state of California.

02:11:05.542 --> 02:11:06.564
and piece of legislation

02:11:06.604 --> 02:11:08.323
that I've introduced every single year,

02:11:08.425 --> 02:11:09.904
including this particular year,

02:11:09.944 --> 02:11:11.265
which we're starting a new session.

02:11:11.926 --> 02:11:12.926
You can also have,

02:11:13.106 --> 02:11:14.027
if you're looking more

02:11:14.067 --> 02:11:15.368
about on the political side

02:11:15.488 --> 02:11:17.069
as to why I'm running,

02:11:17.109 --> 02:11:17.889
where I'm running my

02:11:17.929 --> 02:11:19.210
district and so forth,

02:11:19.250 --> 02:11:23.532
then you can just look for

02:11:23.612 --> 02:11:27.373
Senate 2024 and you'll have my campaign.

02:11:27.493 --> 02:11:29.274
So very different areas,

02:11:29.335 --> 02:11:31.275
very different websites.

02:11:31.577 --> 02:11:32.596
We have government and we

02:11:32.657 --> 02:11:34.198
have political campaigns.

02:11:34.770 --> 02:11:36.070
So on either that,

02:11:36.091 --> 02:11:38.891
you can follow us on Instagram, Facebook,

02:11:39.332 --> 02:11:41.012
and Twitter.

02:11:41.394 --> 02:11:42.894
And we have accounts for both.

02:11:42.934 --> 02:11:45.195
We have government and we have political.

02:11:45.296 --> 02:11:45.796
And by the way,

02:11:46.155 --> 02:11:47.216
we're not supposed to

02:11:47.296 --> 02:11:48.176
interchange each one.

02:11:48.216 --> 02:11:49.818
They're very, very separate and different.

02:11:49.837 --> 02:11:52.520
So I hope to hear from you

02:11:52.539 --> 02:11:56.082
and hope to any questions, concerns,

02:11:56.141 --> 02:11:57.322
let us know on the state

02:11:57.381 --> 02:11:58.722
level if need be and

02:11:59.136 --> 02:12:00.356
the personal campaign label

02:12:00.556 --> 02:12:01.856
um that you can learn more

02:12:01.877 --> 02:12:03.057
about who I am as a person

02:12:03.497 --> 02:12:04.538
or come visit us at our

02:12:04.578 --> 02:12:06.179
district office um in

02:12:06.220 --> 02:12:09.560
redlands awesome and ladies

02:12:09.600 --> 02:12:11.141
and gentlemen I'll have all

02:12:11.181 --> 02:12:12.483
the links uh in the

02:12:12.523 --> 02:12:13.783
description for her

02:12:13.823 --> 02:12:14.804
channels and her

02:12:14.844 --> 02:12:15.804
information so that way

02:12:16.163 --> 02:12:16.925
guys are like what did she

02:12:16.944 --> 02:12:18.865
say you can just we'll have

02:12:18.886 --> 02:12:19.765
you just click on it and

02:12:19.786 --> 02:12:20.627
you can get it and we'll

02:12:20.667 --> 02:12:21.966
find her that way either

02:12:21.987 --> 02:12:22.828
through instagram or the

02:12:22.868 --> 02:12:23.587
website so we'll make sure

02:12:23.608 --> 02:12:25.128
that we get that to you guys

02:12:25.708 --> 02:12:26.649
And I want to thank

02:12:26.770 --> 02:12:28.231
everybody for staying

02:12:28.271 --> 02:12:29.233
through and listening.

02:12:29.252 --> 02:12:31.034
I want to thank Senator

02:12:31.074 --> 02:12:33.618
Rosalicia Ochoa-Bogg for being on.

02:12:34.018 --> 02:12:35.078
I think we learned so much.

02:12:35.640 --> 02:12:36.421
We learned that she learned

02:12:36.440 --> 02:12:38.302
about marriage and family

02:12:38.342 --> 02:12:39.064
values through her

02:12:39.104 --> 02:12:41.365
grandmother and all those teachings.

02:12:41.827 --> 02:12:44.009
We learned that, you know,

02:12:44.009 --> 02:12:46.787
$28 billion, I think it was,

02:12:47.929 --> 02:12:49.510
that the state of

02:12:49.550 --> 02:12:50.390
California went through.

02:12:50.430 --> 02:12:51.190
We also know that she's a

02:12:51.291 --> 02:12:52.771
big advocate for education

02:12:53.212 --> 02:12:55.113
and educating kids and how

02:12:55.173 --> 02:12:56.435
important family is for

02:12:56.494 --> 02:12:57.676
making a community stronger.

02:12:57.695 --> 02:12:59.577
I believe we learned so much today,

02:12:59.817 --> 02:13:00.057
all right?

02:13:00.438 --> 02:13:01.238
And so I want to thank her.

02:13:01.259 --> 02:13:02.118
I want to thank all you guys

02:13:02.139 --> 02:13:03.119
for listening and watching.

02:13:03.579 --> 02:13:04.860
Please like the video if you

02:13:04.881 --> 02:13:05.442
haven't already.

02:13:05.561 --> 02:13:06.641
Comment down below what you

02:13:06.681 --> 02:13:07.943
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02:13:08.564 --> 02:13:09.845
Subscribe to the channel if you haven't.

02:13:09.885 --> 02:13:10.265
Like I said,

02:13:10.284 --> 02:13:12.065
we're working on building up this channel,

02:13:12.145 --> 02:13:12.646
getting more

02:13:13.207 --> 02:13:14.429
of great people on more

02:13:14.448 --> 02:13:15.689
people to see it to share

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this video um my name is

02:13:17.891 --> 02:13:19.613
antonio v miles yes I am

02:13:19.654 --> 02:13:21.315
the host um if you guys

02:13:21.336 --> 02:13:22.337
want to help support the

02:13:22.377 --> 02:13:23.377
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02:13:23.557 --> 02:13:25.220
everybody's support you can

02:13:25.239 --> 02:13:26.780
contribute uh make

02:13:26.820 --> 02:13:27.881
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02:13:31.666 --> 02:13:32.747
rest are in the link in the

02:13:32.766 --> 02:13:34.189
description and uh

02:13:35.807 --> 02:13:36.547
Other than that,

02:13:36.887 --> 02:13:37.588
I just want to thank

02:13:37.609 --> 02:13:39.149
Senator Rosalicia

02:13:39.208 --> 02:13:40.569
Ochoa-Bolk for being on.

02:13:40.590 --> 02:13:41.871
I want to thank all you guys.

02:13:42.430 --> 02:13:43.411
And we'll catch you guys in

02:13:43.430 --> 02:13:44.171
the next episode.

02:13:44.771 --> 02:13:45.091
Okay?

02:13:45.112 --> 02:13:47.252
Thank you for the opportunity.

02:13:47.613 --> 02:13:48.533
Thank you so much.

02:13:49.234 --> 02:13:49.734
Peace, guys.

02:14:06.903 --> 02:14:07.403
And that's it.

02:14:08.042 --> 02:14:08.944
Thank you, Antonio.

02:14:08.963 --> 02:14:10.503
Thank you so much for the time today.

02:14:10.524 --> 02:14:11.484
It was enjoyable.

02:14:12.465 --> 02:14:13.666
Thank you so much for being on.

02:14:13.746 --> 02:14:15.985
I appreciate you very much.

02:14:16.447 --> 02:14:17.667
And is it okay?

02:14:18.426 --> 02:14:19.108
Just make sure that I can

02:14:19.608 --> 02:14:22.069
use this on all of our platforms.

02:14:23.048 --> 02:14:24.789
Yeah, no worries.

02:14:24.829 --> 02:14:25.489
No worries.

02:14:25.729 --> 02:14:26.010
As I said,

02:14:26.050 --> 02:14:28.631
I'm very transparent and I'm not

02:14:28.690 --> 02:14:31.131
afraid to speak about any subject matter.

02:14:31.152 --> 02:14:32.193
So go for it.

02:14:32.273 --> 02:14:33.153
Yes, absolutely.

02:14:33.689 --> 02:14:34.909
Okay, I just wanted to make sure.

02:14:34.930 --> 02:14:37.672
I also wanted to know if

02:14:38.793 --> 02:14:39.934
it's not too much of a hassle to you,

02:14:40.354 --> 02:14:41.336
if you can make a small

02:14:41.355 --> 02:14:43.618
30-second clip of your

02:14:43.658 --> 02:14:44.859
experience with this interview,

02:14:44.899 --> 02:14:46.119
what you thought and stuff like that.

02:14:46.579 --> 02:14:47.701
Okay, absolutely.

02:14:48.141 --> 02:14:48.721
Email it to me.

02:14:49.283 --> 02:14:49.502
Sure.

02:14:49.542 --> 02:14:50.404
Are you talking about a

02:14:50.423 --> 02:14:51.444
video or are you talking about audio?

02:14:51.484 --> 02:14:52.926
Are you talking about email?

02:14:52.966 --> 02:14:54.447
Video, video, yeah, video.

02:14:54.927 --> 02:14:55.247
Okay, awesome.

02:14:55.408 --> 02:14:57.229
A small clip of how you felt

02:14:57.250 --> 02:14:58.770
about the experience and stuff like that.

02:14:59.073 --> 02:14:59.793
It was wonderful.

02:14:59.814 --> 02:15:01.194
Thank you for being a good listener.

02:15:01.215 --> 02:15:02.695
Thank you for facilitating the questions.

02:15:02.716 --> 02:15:03.756
I appreciate it very much.

02:15:04.457 --> 02:15:05.238
Thank you so much.

02:15:05.318 --> 02:15:07.920
And if you know of anybody

02:15:07.979 --> 02:15:09.702
or become aware of any type

02:15:09.761 --> 02:15:11.583
of grants or anything that

02:15:11.604 --> 02:15:12.543
could help support the work,

02:15:13.085 --> 02:15:14.046
I'd really appreciate it

02:15:14.086 --> 02:15:14.845
too if you come across

02:15:14.886 --> 02:15:15.667
anything like that.

02:15:16.127 --> 02:15:16.728
Absolutely.

02:15:16.828 --> 02:15:18.009
I will keep that in mind.

02:15:18.389 --> 02:15:19.050
Absolutely.

02:15:19.069 --> 02:15:20.631
Thank you, Antonio.

02:15:21.391 --> 02:15:22.072
And next time,

02:15:22.112 --> 02:15:23.654
we'll have to hear more about your story.

02:15:24.493 --> 02:15:25.034
My story?

02:15:25.515 --> 02:15:25.734
Yes.

02:15:25.916 --> 02:15:27.317
That's not that boring.

02:15:27.337 --> 02:15:27.377
No.

02:15:29.555 --> 02:15:33.378
I like pulling the strings this way.

02:15:33.399 --> 02:15:33.918
It feels good.

02:15:34.800 --> 02:15:34.979
Oh.

02:15:35.961 --> 02:15:36.221
Yes.

02:15:36.542 --> 02:15:37.983
When the time is right, I'll say yes.

02:15:38.564 --> 02:15:38.884
Okay.

02:15:39.123 --> 02:15:39.645
Perfect.

02:15:39.925 --> 02:15:40.305
Perfect.

02:15:40.385 --> 02:15:41.286
Well, thank you so much.

02:15:41.546 --> 02:15:44.710
You have a wonderful weekend, actually.

02:15:44.750 --> 02:15:45.390
It's Friday.

02:15:45.609 --> 02:15:46.371
Yeah, it's Friday.

02:15:46.430 --> 02:15:47.011
You as well.

02:15:47.511 --> 02:15:47.972
You as well.

02:15:47.993 --> 02:15:48.592
Thank you.

02:15:48.912 --> 02:15:49.113
Okay.

02:15:49.134 --> 02:15:50.034
Well, you take care.

02:15:50.494 --> 02:15:50.835
Bye.

02:15:51.216 --> 02:15:51.456
Bye.