WAKE UP CALL #10 w/Doni Anthony

Arlington Texas DISRUPTIVE Mayoral race candidate Doni Anthony is here to talk about the current state of politics and race in America, and the American she’s campaigning to help create.

Episode Transcript

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Yeah, suffered Biden and everything becauseoh we're alive. Yeah you're good.

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Um so, but um but Bidenand everything. Because I think people who
are running for office you need tostart asking who they voted for during the
last election, because I think it'sa part of your decision making skills,
you know what I'm saying. So, if you made a decision to vote
for Biden and you're one of thecandidates running for office, was it based
off the fact that you actually likedhis policies, which he didn't really talk

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about and didn't really answer to manyquestions, or just because you're just going
against Trump. Well, I thinka lot of the people that voted for
Biden are all I mean, we'renot even ninety days. We're basically ninety
days into his administration right now,and everybody has Buyer's remorse, right,
I mean almost everybody. I've seen, even like the most extreme left people

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that I'm friends with on Facebook.And I live in Los Angeles now,
so you can imagine I'm friends withsome very extreme left people on social media.
They're already like what is this guydoing? You know, from the
crisis at the border, from youknow, the really slow to move stimulus,

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and then all these other bills kindof trojan horsing in a bunch of
things that nobody cares about or thinkswe should be spending money on. It's
sort of like everyone's worst nightmare aboutthis administration has already come true. Everything
the conservatives said, you know isgoing to happen is happening. Yeah,
but we're the conspiracy theories though,Yes, yeah, any you know,

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any sort of you know, andI listen. For me, I'm of
the people through this whole sort oflast four or five years thing. I
wouldn't say I became conservative. Ithink I came to the realization that my
views are now conservative based off ofthe landscape of where we are. And
I imagine it might be similar foryou. I mean, tell me a

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little bit about how you got involvedin politics and what kind of inspired you
to run for mayor of Arlington,Texas. So for people that don't know
you're running in this upcoming election formayor of Arlington, which, if people
don't realize, Arlington is where theCowboys play, right, So it's a
pretty I don't know if it's themost well off suburb of Dallas, but

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it's a pretty affluent area in Dallas, and yeah, tell me a little
bit about your campaign and what gotyou excited to run so well got me
into politics in the first place.I've paid attention to politics for a long
time because I started working when Iwas sixteen years old, and I was
excited by the way. I workedat a March supermarket in Indiana and I

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worked in the video department first.So wow, so we share that background
of having worked in video stores.Yes, so I'm excited. I thought
it's gonna be balling. I openedmy paper stuff you know this back in
the day, and I look atit and I remember, like, people
don't even get paychecks anymore. Likeit's wild, right, I feel old.

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I'm like thirty three years old,and I'm like, whoa, no
one has those anymore now. NamesUm, So I was excited. I
went home to my parents. NowI was like, Okay, I'm not
excited. I'm really upcited. I'mlike, what's wrong of my paycheck?
They took too much my paycheck andthey're like, what's wrong with it?
Because in Indiana, we actually havestate taxes, local taxes. We're in

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Texas, we don't have those assista federal taxes, but when it comes
through your payroll, right, andthey's like, this is how it is.
So I started watching people. Istarted watching the Obama debates, the
Democrats debates, the Republican debates,and I was looking and listening to who's
going to spend more of my money? Because if they're talking about spending more,
that means you're gonna take more moneyin my taxes. So I have

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honestly, Two's another thing. Ifyou remember my age, the only thirty
three. So the only election cycleI've pretty much had was starting off with
Obama. And I did not likeObama. I did not like McCain,
so I didn't vote for either oneof them. I did not like Obama
and I did not like Rommy.Didn't vote for either one of them.
And and now like everything waking upand showing things, I was right.

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Both those guys were corrupt. Sothe whole of I was I never voted
for a correct person. Well me, back then, I didn't, and
I actually did recently voted for JohnCornen first sentence this last run around,
but um, so I would havebeen doing. I have two different groups
that I colly ones called the conservativeSIP ones called the Red Sense, and

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with the SIP we actually like we'rehelping candidates during the November election get fundraising.
We did dinners, we from infront of our groups, have them
talking to people about their campaigns.We found people to go knock doors for
them, and you know, Iuse on platform to help help their campaigns
out as well, because I reallywanted to get people with similar values in

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the different positions, like judge inthe Congress. So I did all that
the election was stolen and I'm like, well I did what, they didn't
do anything. What do I needto do now? Because I can't just
sit back and just complain and donothing. Everyone's complaining and everyone's like,
I'm done voting. Well, you'rethrowing in the toweling you do that.
You know they cheated in two thousandand sixteen, but they didn't cheat it

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enough, so we can still defeatthem. We have to get election integrity
under wraps, but we still haveto have us come out in numbers and
actually fight back. We can't justlay down and take it. Well,
you know what I think is interesting, And I'm a little bit older than
you. I'm thirty. I'll bethirty eight in August. So my first
election was actually the pre nine toeleven George W. Bush and who was

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the other candidate that he ran against, oh Al Gore Al Gore Um.
And so it's so funny, likemy senior year of high school was the
year of that election in two thousandand you know, which was hotly contested
and widely believed to be you know, stolen, a stolen election if you
remember, Jeb Bush was the governorof Florida at the time. And the

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hold up of all the recount andall of the count issues, I mean,
that election basically hinged on Florida.And the belief, the widespread belief
and widely accepted belief was that,you know, George W. Bush's brother,
who's the governor of Florida, wasin on the fix, I mean.
And there was mainstream media outlets thatwere saying, you know, is

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this election stolen? Is this electioncompromised? And this is twenty years ago,
and nobody got labeled a conspiracy theorist. Nobody was kicked off of any
sort of platforms or media platforms oranything like that. And now fast forward
to this past election, there arerampant examples of at the very least,

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we can say things that need tobe looked into and immediately the amount of
to me, like I always lookat, is what is the reaction spurned
by a particular the spreading of aparticular point of view. And when people
started to say, you know,hey, this election needs to be looked
at, this doesn't make sense,this doesn't feel right, and you know,

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the media and all of social mediaand all of big tech and everybody
come back and go, no,no, no, there's nothing to see
here, and we're gonna take downany Twitter accounts that say that there is,
and we're gonna we're gonna remove anyarticles. It's I mean, that
gets to a point where it startsto feel like you're going against the state
sponsored propaganda and they'll do anything theycan to remove that. And it's like,

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wow, this is this kind ofeffort to squash the dissenting opinion just
lends credibility to it, right.I mean, if if you think the
election was fine, great, openan investigation, satiate the people that believe
that it wasn't legit, and let'smove on with our lives. But the

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fact that they were so adamant ofthere's there's no fraud, there's nothing,
there's none of this, there's noneof that. It's like, you know,
it just doesn't feel right. Imean, and I don't know what
it felt like in Texas. Obviously, Joe Biden did not win Texas,
no surprise there. But I'm gonnatell you my travels around the rest of
the country, I didn't It didn'tfeel like we were on the verge of

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a Biden victory. I thought wewere on the verge of a Trump landslide.
And then for the numbers to comein completely the other way and the
way that it happened, it feltabsolutely suspect. And anybody who disagrees with
that is out of their goddamn mind, because you know, it's it's possible

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for you to tell me that themost uninspiring candidate of the last fifty years
won the most votes in US electionhistory. It just doesn't add up.
That alone, just does not addup. And here's a funny thing.
You have to campaign. Biden didnot campaign, Yeah, yeah, hardly
out and about yeah. Trump wasout there. He had a high approval

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rating. He put on at thesneeze in a way, Oh bless you
there, sorry, and he didn'tcampaign. I know how important it's a
campaign and get out there and talkto people. I'm running a campaign right
now, and it's like, noway that I couldn't sit back and not
do anything and expect to win theelection, right yeah. And it's amazing

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to me. And this is thething. It is like, immediately if
you became somebody who didn't believe inthe election results, your conspiracy theorist,
your Q and on person you youknow, there's all these sort of negative
monikers that people throw out, andto me, it's like, listen,
you know, as a as aas an American citizen, I think we
should be committed to asking those kindsof questions like what happened? You know,

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how did this go the way thatit did? And by the way,
the thing that I think is sointeresting about it is if you go
back to the media that Tuesday night, before all these votes dropped, all
these they thought it was over,They thought Trump won, like the funeral
had begun, you know, fromthe mainstream media that oh god, had
happened again. And here we are. We were so cocky again and so

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confident again, and now we're sowrong again and there were like CNN and
everybody were starting to have these conversationsof like, why are we not getting
the polling right? Why do wenot understand what's happening in this country?
Why are we so disconnected from whatseems to be the people the constituency.
And then you know, overnight completelychanges the votes and everybody wakes up the

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next morning with this newfound sense ofof excitement and enthusiasm, and it's just
the whole thing just kind of reeksof shit. And I imagine you know
that that kind of thing inspired peoplelike you to go, you know what,
I have to run for office.I have to get involved. And
so you mentioned the election and yousaid, you know, this is where
I kind of wanted to get intorunning for office. Why why mayor?

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Why did you pick mayor in Arlington? Well, when I was looking and
see what I could do at thelocal level, because I feel like a
lot of issues that happened in thiselection were local issues. So I was
looking to see was available and inthe mayor position was up coming up.
So Arlington, Texas had voted forterm limits, so our incumbent mayor he

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can't run anymore, and so sorewere there were eight people running, but
now someone had fell any charges andhe got disqualified on the ballot, but
his name is still gonna be onthe ballot. I don't understand that.
But um so, what's happening isbecause okay, here's my issue with tournaments.
By the way, a lot ofpeople say they want tournaments, but

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for me, I look at asif someone the accountability from the voter is
going away. We first we needthe election integrity. But if you do
tournaments, you get rid of peopleyou actually like. You have to go
around and find another person that's goodto find for that. We already have
term limits. It's your vote.You just vote them out. You don't
vote them in anymore. And ifthey break the law, we can get

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them out, you can remove themfrom office. So people just aren't using
those things. And then what happenedis we have a guy named Jim Ross
who's running for mayor as well.He's been endorsed by the mayor who got
term limit out. And then oneof the other guys who's running was on
council. He was term limit outfor the council piece he can run for
mayor for two terms. Now he'snow running for mayor and they're the ones

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that are the front runners. Sothe Arlington Texas really want term limits or
what is this? This a bigestablishment, big money going into these people's
campaigns and elections. Well, that'swhat I always thought was kind of interesting,
the concept of term limits because justbecause of what you said, like,
you know, a lot of timesthese people will max out their term
limit on one office and then they'lljust run for another. I mean,

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how many how many former governors arenow basically retiring through the Senate or through
the House, you know what Imean. They ran their their states and
you know, and then the nextthe kind of the next obvious move is
like, oh, I'll go intoCongress because there are no term limits there,
and so I'll stay as long asI can and collect as much money
as I can. And I thinkthe spirit of you know, the spirit

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of term limits from my mind,because I'm very pro term limits only in
the capacity of I don't want thepeople who write legislation to have the ability
to stick around forever, because Idon't feel like that necessarily leads to legislation
that serves the American people. Ithink that leads to legislation that serves the
legislation, and I think we've seena lot of that where you know,

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basically bills are written as a formof campaigning. Now where you know,
people will try to sponsor legislation rightlegislation and pass legislation that allows them to
stay in office to get reelected andso, and we see that more in
Congress and than anywhere else. Iagree with you. I think when it
comes to things like mayor, governorthose types of things, I mean,

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I think if you're a state thathas one you like, you should be
able to keep them for as longas you can, particularly because those are
more executive positions, right. Mayoris kind of more of an executive control
over a town, governor of thestate, you know, and the president
obviously of the United States. Ithink the term limits are more important legislatively
in those branches of government because youknow, they are the long lasting,

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impactful things that happen in our countryor that affect our country over over those
terms that imagine this, if wehad tournaments for Congress, there'll be a
lot of the bad folks out immediately. Yeah, I mean, and when
you stay bad, it's like it'snot even it's not even the ones who
are harmful in what they're trying todo, but the ones who are just

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completely ineffective. I mean, Ican't remember, you know, it doesn't
get talked about a lot, butI remember when Ted Cruz was primarying for
the presidency, they were like,this guy's missed you know, through campaigning
and stuff. He's missed like sixtypercent of his congressional obligations in terms of
being around for votes. And so, you know, those types of numbers

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are shocking, regardless of the politicalcandidate to say, hey, man,
like you still have a job asa legislator to show up and be a
senator, to show up and bea congressman or congresswoman you know, in
the House or the Senate, andthose responsibilities shouldn't be neglected in that.
But but Cruz wasn't the only guyI've done that. That's kind of par

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for the course with senators and representativeswhen they're campaigning. I mean, they're
they're just and you know, it'slike through the whole pandemic. I mean,
these guys, these men and womennever took a pay cut. They
never took you know, they tooklike six months off where They're like,
yeah, we're basically not getting togetherbecause of COVID and it's not like they
stopped paying themselves through that time atall. So right, I think I

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think there are some branches of ourgovernment that a lot of the American people
feel are inherently corrupt. I mean, what are some of your hot button
issues running for mayor in Arlington,What are the things that you think can
help you win? So for me, I'm a strong support of the constitution,
and people will have I've seen somepeople in my comment section of my

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ass talk about the Constitution doesn't matterat the local level. How is that
possible? Yes, it does.If someone they can infringe in your rights
at the local level. And honestly, I use this example, belts that's
unconstitutional. You can choose if youwant to wear a seatbelt or not.
They shouldn't pull you over, havean excuse to go through your car.

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You have to pay two dollars finefor a seat belt. That that's what
we're stepping And then with the businesseswhen you make it, I'm also pushing
to deregulate for residents and businesses.That's going to attract more business here,
more jobs here. People don't wantto come here, stay here and start
their businesses here. I want tomake it easier for them because I want
to make it to where they don'tfail. Businesses start and they can fail,

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but in Arlington, Texas, andwe make it to where it's easy
for you not to fail, thenthat's what I'm looking for, and that's
going to attract a lot of peoplehere. My other thing is like the
home based businesses, for people havebeen you know, at home coronavirus,
you know, and and there's certainindustries. If you want to do business

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from home, you have regulations foryou have to modify your home according to
how the city tells you to tohave your business. They're depending on what
kind of business you have. Youcan only have one employee in your home
at once if you're having your businessfrom home. And honestly, if you
want to start from your home tohave a business, that is very fair.
You're most likely not going to failbecause you're not out paying for commercial

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rent or a chair or a littlespot, because you're already paying rent or
mortgage where you live at. SoI'm really I'm pushing for that a whole
lot. I'm looking to make surethat we have freedom of speech and transparency.
People shouldn't be discriminated on only oneside getting heard, not together.
We do have campuses in Arlington,Texas. The other thing is public safety

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and health. So with health,my example with the virus, when you
go to a doctor and you wanta second opinion, you can get a
second opinion. But the only thingthey're pushing on these vaccines. If you
really truly care a mask, ifyou really truly care about people's health,
you give them more than one option. You don't let the media or social

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media censor another option to make surepeople are okay. Because there's there's a
guy that's on counsel right now who'srunning for office. He posted all the
desks every single day, the numberof cases every single day in his profile.
But what did you do? Whatdid you do to make things safer?
I would have stood up and say, hey, hold on, why

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is it the social media is pushingthese doctors are saying that they've cured over
three hundred people who that they caughtone who had the virus early on,
and we're censoring this. If youreally care about these people dying, then
why are you not stating up andasking and getting that in your city.
Well, don't I just feel likepeople have the right to decide what treatments
are right and not right for them. I mean, you know, again,

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when we talk about when we talkabout the Constitution is sort of the
centerpiece of the American a centerpiece ofAmerican culture more than anything else. It's
like, you know, so muchof that to me is the is the
you know, early aspects of theBill of Rights talking about everyone having the
right to life, liberty, andthe pursuit of happiness. And to me

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that that should be the freedom ofthe individual to decide what is right for
them. I mean, you know, I'm I'm somebody who has been pretty
vocal about the fact, Like I'mfairly certain that my girlfriend I both had
COVID very early on November December oftwenty nineteen. We both work, We're

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both around people all the time.She was working a major event in Los
Angeles at the time that was seeingthousands and thousands of people from all over
the world every day, and Iwas like, it was only a matter
of time before, you know,one of us would have gotten sick.
And we were sick for about tenweeks, and you know, and then
for sure, I know we hadit about seven months later because she tested

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and we came back positive. Soit's like I'm somebody who's had it likely
once maybe twice over the past twoyears. I don't need a vaccine.
I don't. It didn't kill me. I'm fine, and it should be
my freedom to not be vaccinated againstsomething that I'm not concerned about. And

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the idea that we're now going toessentially mandate vaccines with these these vaccine passports
and saying well, if you don'tchoose to get vaccinated, you're going to
be limited to how you can participatein the economy, to me is like
this is no different than the startof what happened to Jews in World War
Two, where they said, listen, you know, we're not we're it's

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it's a it's not a ban onJews. We're just gonna move you over
to this part of the city,and then we're gonna move you over to
this part of the city, andthen we're gonna put you on trains and
we're gonna send you to Auschwitz,and we're gonna incinerate you as a people.
And it's like, holy shit,that escalated quickly it's like, yeah,
no kidding, and that's kind ofthat's kind of how this feels.

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And a lot of people like theyhate that comparison right to the things of
World War two, but it's like, this is not that country. This
could that could happen in every othercountry in the world, and we would
go, Okay, I get it, but this, you know, we
have the Constitution and we have thatforced emphasis on individual freedoms for that reason,
so that people don't feel like they'rebeing forced into doing something that they

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don't want to do. Right,and then people need to The thing is,
I say this all time, peoplehave to wake up. The thing
is if you wait too late,when you're finally like, oh my gosh,
this is going on, there's nothingyou can do about at that point.
So we got to actually paid attentionto who's actually staying they want to
do things for you personally, havea plan in place, not just talking

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points that by the way, Iknow that some of them are using my
website talking points and actually discuss likethe plants, like I'm talking about deregulating
because that's gonna make it easier forbusiness to start here. We had to
spend less money. We spend lessmoney. They need to spend less on
taxes. People are pay less ontaxes. One of the candidates was talking

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about you ever heard of a monorail train before? Yeah, he was
talking about getting one in Arleans andTexas. Here's the thing, how can
you promise the residents that you're notgoing to increase their taxes? But those
those trains are one hundred and twentymillion dollars per mile. We just left
our economy and shot So why arewe looking at spending money like that for

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the Arling for the city And where'sit gonna go? Is it going to
go in the entertainment district? Like? Are we still just catering to the
entertainment district but not catering to thepeople and the people of Arlington I voted
numerous times that they don't want publictransportation at all into Texas. Two.
So well, here's the other thingthat's interesting is I was trying to find

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an article here, but California famously, I mean, what did we spend
nine hundred billion on a train thatwas supposed to run essentially from northern California
to southern California? And you know, we spent tons of taxpayer money on
this project and it's just not goingto happen now. And yeah, you

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know, of all the it's interesting, of all the things that you hear
people talk about wanting to recall CaliforniaGovernor Gavin Newsom over people, that one
doesn't get brought up a lot.But that's a pretty big one. You
know, where did the money go? So? Did you spend all this
money on these contracts? And thenthere's just there's no train. There's I
think they built they built some railfrom like the Fresno area, and then

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it kind of stops a little bitnorth of Bakersfield. So they built a
few hundred miles a track and that'sit. It's like, dude, you
know, the lack of you know, in terms of accountability of the money,
where does the money go? Imean, you know, I grew
up on the East Coast. Theygrew up in Philadelphia and then later moved
to the Midwest when I was inhigh school. But I gotta tell you,

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man, if somebody's nine million,nine million, forget about ninety million,
forget about ninety billion, If somebody'snine million dollars went missing, you're
gonna find that guys, you're gonnafind the person responsible's body in the river.
So the fact that we have thesepoliticians that are literally just basically spending

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uncontrollably on shit and not producing,I think people are disgusted by it.
They're sick of it, and we'regetting to a point, I think politically
in our country where every when it'sjust going like, dude, this has
to stop. And then, uh, when I said public health and safety,
I do not want to defund thepolice. I think there's a jargon

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that's you know, spit out nowadays, and I think a lot of people
don't want that. For me,what's interesting is, I don't know,
if you watch Caitlin Bennett at allgun Girl, she just put a video
out on YouTube where she talked toyou know, people of color in Florida
where she is, and overwhelming likeseventy percent of those people do not want

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the police defunded, do not wantless police in their states, in their
cities, And I think the generalAmerican people do not want less police.
That does not feel like the answerfor a lot of these violence afflicted communities.
Yeah, yeah, it's not.And then with that too, is
like we need to have the trainingwe need to have the professionals in those

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departments, they need to have theresources they need to be able to operate.
And that also falls with the firedepartments as well. They need the
same things so where they were safe, especially a city with almost four hundred
thousand people in it, there's nolike going backwards. We can look and
look at the budget and see wherewe could find ways to spend less on
certain things and put more money somewhereelse and within that department. So we're

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getting the best I guess being forour buck in the department. But the
other thing I want to point outtoo is if here's another thing an issue
if people don't think about with police, if they focus more on the crimes
in the city and opposed to thepetty things like tickets, and if you're
tell lights out and giving people ticketslike that, there's less and I guess,

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less negative interactions where it doesn't reallypossibly really need the interaction with the
police. I think it'd be betterand then we'll help fight the crime rate
because they're more so focused on theviolence opposed to raising money for the city.
Yeah, it is interesting that thepolice have sort of become another arm
of fundraising for stay in local governments. Right. You know, we always

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heard these rumors growing up as kidsof like, well, it's the end
of the month, the police havethat ticket quoted a hit, Right,
You'd start to pulled over more andyou'd see more speeding tickets and those types
of things, and it's like,you know, I don't know if that's
still a practice, or really everwas an actual practice, but if it
is, I mean I can't imagineanything worse for public trust in public safety

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than the idea that the police havea function or a job responsibility of generating
funds for the state, which tome is like the root of corruption.
Right, So if the police haveany job responsibility other than protecting the people,
you know, in their jurisdictions,that's a conflict and that needs to

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be investigated and shut down. Imean, I agree wholeheartedly that that are
you know, part of the problemis that we do have police doing things
like that that are not essential totheir job function or why we have them
in the first place. And Ijust think those kinds of things have gone
on for so long that a lotof the day to day people just don't
really question it. Well, that'swhy I'm running from Mayor and I remember

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Mayor, Like people are gonna seea whole different city. They may be
like, wow, someone's actually doingsomething for us, Like you don't have
to like if you see a policeofficer, you're not like did I speed
speed limit? Am I doing anythingwrong? Like you have to worry about
those things. And then the oneof the last piece I want to say
about the police because people have askedme this a lot as a mayor race,

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but people ask me what my stanceson marijuana? And here, if
you have two ounces or less,they just, I guess, just take
it and you're you can go.But my thing is that's kind of not
fair because if you have an opencontainer of beer or alcohol in your car,
they don't take it. So whyare you taking people's expensive cannabis?

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What are you doing with that?Or you y'all just don't in a way
like what are you doing with it? Yeah, So if it isn't a
close container and they're not clearly notusing it, I don't feel like they
should take it. If if twohouses or less you're not in trouble,
than you shouldn't take it. Well, isn't it interesting how these things that
have historically been super liberal points ofview have now migrated their way over to

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libertarianism and conservatism. You know,I think more libertarians and conservatives are in
favor of, you know, legalizationof drugs, especially legalization of marijuana,
and absolute decriminalization of a lot ofthose class A narcotics and things like that.
I think, you know, andI think we're kind of getting to
that place of, you know,we want maximum freedom for our people in

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the freedom to choose. And youknow, it's so interesting that, you
know, liberals all day we'll saythere are no circumstances in which a woman
should have to choose about, youknow, or shouldn't get to choose,
I should say about what to dowith her body, and yet we have
all these other things where we regulatewhat people can do to the bodies.
It's kind of crazy when you know, when you hear a lot of sort

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of feminist celebrities go my body,my choice, it's like, cool,
Then why isn't heroin legal for everybody? If we're going to say that people
have full autonomy over their bodies intheir personhood, you know, then make
it all legal. And then theimmediate pushback they get is, well,
the problem is someone on drugs canyou know, harm another person, and

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that's that's why we have to preventthat. And they go, okay,
cool, well abortion harms another person. So it's just to me, the
biggest frustration I have with that wholeargument is that it's like we are conditionally
about the individual right. We lookat things like a woman's right to choose
and we go, oh, youhave a total autonomy over your body.

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No legislators should be able to tellyou. And then when it comes to
narcotics, we go no, no, no, no, that's dangerous.
That could be dangerous for other people, so you don't get to put that
in your body. And the otherthing I always say, too is when
we start to talk about socialized healthcare, which I do think is a luxury
we could afford in this country.But the problem I have is is I
don't want the government to come inand start monitoring what I'm allowed to eat,
what I'm allowed to drink, tellingme how many you know, how

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many steps. It's like, imaginea world with socialized medicine, and then
imagine if the government sends you aticket. Back to the point you talked
about municipalities serving the wrong master.Imagine you get a ticket for not getting
your steps in, you know whatI mean, Because we have socialized medicine
and you didn't exercise as much asyou're mandated to to receive medical care.

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In this country, nobody ever reallystops and thinks that these sort of socialist
programs that would make things free andeasy and available to people come with the
same socialist controls, and nobody reallysort of unpacks that. It's like,
yeah, free healthcare is great ifit doesn't mean that my Apple watch sinks

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up to the FED and tells themthat I didn't exercise enough today and I
get it in the mail because ofmy state sponsored healthcare. So those are
the kind of things that, youknow, it's funny you bring that up
and people want to call you conspiracytheorist. But as we're seeing now with
the vaccine and these vaccine passport concepts, we're not that far off. We're
not that far away from the governmentdictating to you what you have to do

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for your health right. And thenanother thing with that whole the abortion thing,
one thing I think is that peopledon't even know where it came from,
how it started it was a gettingrid of and estaminate the black race,
the unwanted the people. Yeah,people, that that is you know,
when you talk about things that shouldbe taught in school, that to
me is one that's right at thetop, right is what are the origins

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of planned parenthood? And what wasthe original I mean essentially it was a
total plan for black genocide from thebeginning, right, And it doesn't get
discussed enough. And again it's oneof those things if you bring up,
people go, well, that mighthave been why it started, but that's
not how it's utilized today. Butif you look at the numbers statistically more,

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what is the percentage of abortions thatare for women of color? Isn't
it something way out of proportion withthe populace in society? I think,
you know, Black and Latina womenmake up you know, less than twenty
percent of the population. They makeup sixty percent of abortions something ridiculous like
that. I remember the exact numbers, but it's high. And they also

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put them in those neighborhoods as wellas a target yeah and targeted yeah,
and then so and then the otherthing like you were bringing up with,
I bet there are more planned parenthoodsin Fort Worth than there are in Arlington.
I would be willing to bet.I don't know. Actually, I
actually don't think that Arlington I neverloose. Yeah, I'm gonna go on

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a limb and get I don't knowfor sure, but I'm gonna go on
a limb and guess if there wasactually a conservative city. Yeah. Um.
And then the last one of thelast things, So you were talking
about the people wanting to illegalize ordecriminalize the drugs and everything. I do
want people to understand their history.Marijuana was illegal under FDR, a Democrat

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socialist. Um. I guess itwas competing with paper, which he had
a financial tie to it. Andthen the Supreme Court said what he was
doing was unconstitutional. So at thetime they had them, they had the
whole Congress. So Congress was ranby Democrats and they made it illegal and
they make now they're going to legalizeit and they never do. Yeah.

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It was particularly about um, itwas particularly about hemp as a competing product
for paper, and um. Youknow, and there's been so many great
documentaries about it. The kind oftalk. UM, go through that history
and understand that it was sort oflinked same thing with like you know the
And this is what's so funny iswhen people go like, why doesn't the

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American why does the American pop wastrust the government? I go go all
the way back. So you're bringingup a good example to turn in the
century. Basically, the real underlyingroot cause of the making marijuana illegal had
to do with financial interest in paper. When you look at the nutrition facts
that you and I both grew upwith, they were basically state sponsored propaganda

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that was like pro sugar lobby,right, And it's sort of like this
idea that you know of the essentiallythat the food pyramid we were raised on
was sort of like publicly traded sponsorship. Right. You need to have this
much dairy because that's how many dairyfarmers support our campaigns, and this many

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grains because we have this many grainfarmers that support our campaus. It's like,
it's so interesting to me that youlook everywhere you look, it's like
everything we were raised on and everythingwe were told has some benefit to some
politician or some corporation behind it,and it just it makes you mistrusting.

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And the thing I say, likethe problem is the problem I have with
QAnon. Most of all is thatthe government takes no responsibility for it.
And it's like, if you aresitting back as the government and saying,
man, it's amazing what the Americanperson is willing to believe. They never
question why. And the answer isoverwhelmingly because we trust our government so little

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these days that many people are willingto believe any possible alternative to reality because
they know that the bullshit that you'retelling us isn't fucking real, you know
what I mean? And so Ithink, you know, that's what I
think is amazing is when they lookback on January sixth and they talked about
how unamerican it was and unpatriotic itwas, and how problematic it was.

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Not a single congressman or woman stoodup and said, listen, regardless of
the motivation, that is a groupof people outside that don't think we're doing
our job, and they don't thinkwe represent them, and they don't think
that we're what we're good for theAmerican people, and we have a responsibility
to correct that perception. Not asingle person in Congress or the Senate stood

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up and said that to me,just yeah, which tells me that they
that they've been waiting for it.They know it's coming. There's a reason
that they erected a wall around theCapitol immediately. It's because they know that
this kind of thing probably should havehappened sixty years ago, and they've been

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counting the minutes ever since. Andthey know they are not a government that
is by for and of the people. They've stopped being that for a long
long time. And that bill isgoing to come due very very soon.
And I think they were worried thatthat was the day. Yeah, you
know, And that's why they're soquick to try to levy these harsh consequences

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for people that particip to pate itin that January sixth demonstration, because they
want to send a message, don'tever think about coming up against your own
government. And you know, Idon't think that though, that that kind
of thing is over. I thinkwe're going to see it again. I
think we're going to see it worsein our lifetime unless, you know,
unless we can do it. Wecan fix it through the democratic process by

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electing people like you. Yeah,you know, I'm really happy Rob.
January six So the kennidate that theestablishment candidate, he has been portraying himself
as a If you look at hiswebsite, you would think the guy was
a Republican or a conservative because hehas a military experience. He was a
cop before business owner. But Iwatched his interview, the one the one

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of the interviews of us talked aboutearlier, and he said he was not
a Trump supporter, and I knowthere's Trump supporters were probably voting for him.
This needs to come out because it'sa non parson ring, so there's
not going to be a d orR next to our needs. He said
that the people who went to theCapitol thought they were patriots, but they're
not. So he said the samething one of my candies. I'm running

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against that, the same thing thatyou just brought up. And do we
really want someone in office like that, because if the government isn't actually serving
the people at all anymore, wehave the right to take our country back.
Yeah, that guy will not defendthe people's rights. And I think
you know that that that message needsto be heard loud and clear from the

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people who represent those people. It'slike, listen, if you if you
ran a restaurant and a hundred ofthe people that are eaten in your restaurant
in a in a week, gottogether outside of the restaurant and we're like,
this place needs to change or beshut down or ended. You can
you can talk all day about howthat assembly is wrong, how it's you're

(39:52):
at the end of the day,your business is accountable to those people as
your customers, and I think ourgovernment is accountable to us as its constituents.
And you know, this rampant attemptto sort of, you know,
create some sort of propaganda against thatmovement and the movement to make participation in

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that event a criminal offense, tome, tells you everything you need to
know about whether our government feels accountableto our perception of their effectiveness or whether
they're just a rogue agency now doingwhatever they want, writing whatever checks they
want, and not expecting the Americanpeople to comply. And you know,

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to me, this is sort ofit's all sort of boiling over. It's
coming to a head at this stage. And why now, who knows,
But you know, I think theoverwhelming feeling that the average American voter has
is that government no longer serves them, and how people choose to participate with
that information varies. Some people toyour point. After the election happened,

(40:58):
we're like, I'm done. I'mdone voting, I'm done participating. I'm
completely disenfranchised. I want nothing todo with it anymore. No one on
either side is out to serve meor anyone other than themselves. And then
there are people that I think likeyou, who got even more motivated by
it and said, I'm going toget involved at the highest level. I'm
actually going to run for public office. Yes. If I can't trust anyone

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who's running to represent me, representour rice, protect them. I've been
watching for you know years, ourrice is getting scraped away, then I
know that I need to actually goin and do it myself. Yeah,
And I like that. I mean, what's more American than the whole roll
up your sleeves and do it yourselfmentality. I mean that's kind of that's

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kind of what we were created on, right Yeah. And then and then
you have people who are like,well, let's just try to talk it
out me nice, like Okay,we need the unity, yes, but
like at the end of the day, they didn't politely ask to take America
and that's our own country. That'snot how it worked, right, Right,

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Yeah, it was We weren't necessarilyfounded on this idea of like asking
for permission, right, It wasmore of a do it and ask for
forgiveness mentality. And you know,and so I think for us to imagine
that any revolution in this country wouldhappen in a different way is a little
naive. What are the Do youhave any predictions coming up for sort of

(42:30):
the next election cycle? I mean, as somebody who's in the space of
politics running for office mayor of Arlington, Texas. I've got your website posted
on the screen, so people cango check that out and donate to your
candidacy. Where do you think we'regoing in the next six months to a
year in terms of this political shiftthat's kind of happening. We talked at

(42:51):
the top of the hour about howeverybody is sort of all of the things
that people predicted that were negative aboutthis administration and kind of what they would
try to do is all come true. Do you feel like the momentum is
sort of shifting that more and morepeople are finding conservatism, They're looking for
new candidates like you running for office. They're trying to find people that are

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more representative of the people than thesystem I mean, what are you hearing
out there on the campaign trail thatfills you with hope that it's moving in
the right direction. Well, I'vetalked to people all the time, and
they could be on the left,they could be on the right. And
what I've realized and well I alreadyrealized this, but like I'm seeing that

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people are realizing that we have morein common than the media and our government
wants us to believe we're not asdivided. Issues that we're talking about big
issue. People care about their taxes, they care about not being told what
to do, Like, there's alot of things. So I talk to
people. So they could have beenvoted for Biden, they could have been
a leftist, but they talk tome and they like me and they want

(44:00):
to vote for me. And I'mcoming across meeting people in person now and
in person and like, hei,you're the girl running for me or aren't
you? And I'm like, yes, how do you know? And like
a lot of word of mouth isgoing on, And that is one of
my favorite things, is out talkingto people. Because you can see a
sign, you can see a yardsign, you can go to a website,

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but that relationship is being built,and when your friend tells another friend
that they're supporting you and they wantto make sure they go out and vote,
that's that's going to stick more becausethey trust them and a lot of
people don't even know there's an electiongoing on, and I think that that
these local elections bank on that.So do they say people can come out
and vote and they keep getting votedin. Do you find that people are

(44:43):
surprised at your political leanings just basedoff the fact that you're a black woman?
I mean, do you feel likethat is still a surprising thing when
you kind of talk about some ofyour views and some of your plans.
Do you think people are surprised bythat? Because I think, you know,
I think most of the people inAmerica, who I shouldn't even say

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most of the people, I thinkmost of the people on the left in
America still think that people of colorare overwhelmingly liberal, overwhelmingly democratic, And
I think what this last election cyclein this next election cycle have shown us
is that that couldn't be further fromthe truth, is that there is not
this monolith of the black voter orthe black politician that is overwhelmingly democratic,

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overwhelmingly conservative. I mean, yousee women like yourselves, women like Kimberly
clay Sick, who ran for officeon this last cycle. I think you're
seeing. What I think is interestingis that you'll hear people on the left
constantly go we need more women ofcolor, we need more women of color
in these positions of leadership. Butthey I don't think they could be more
terrified of the women of color inthis country that are running as conservatives,

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because there is a lot there area lot of candidates like yourselves who I
feel like are doing a great jobof dis erupting that presumptive status quo.
Yeah, I think that it's it'sabout half and half people are surprised that
I am. But how I carrymyself and how I speak and everything,

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they kind of like, oh,I can see that, actually yeah,
And so for me, I've alwaysbeen pretty different from other people that I
like to use my common sense andeverything. But some people are like,
wait, you supported Trump and like, yeah, why not? And I
started I've been I've been saying thatfor quite some time. Actually, now

(46:35):
yeah, why not? And they'relike, well, he's racist. I'm
like, no, he's not.Yeah. I think that's so interesting.
Is when people just go, well, he's racist, It's like, well,
has he said I mean, andso much of that has pinned on
things that he was accused of inthe private sector, things that he said.
I mean. People go back tothe Central Park five thing and they
go, well, there's no betterexample of him being racist than his call

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to prosecute and sentenced those boys todeath. But you know what's interesting is
is I think almost everyone on thenews back then had that sentiment because people
forget that that was a summer inthat time in New York where crime was
out of control and that was oneof many rapes and violent attacks that had

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happened in Central Park. And soto me, that letter reads as a
New Yorker saying, get my fuckingstate back under control or my city back
under control, and send a message. And you know, I think it's
unfortunate because, as we found out, that was a huge corrupt thing.
Those boys were innocent, They werecoerced into, you know, the giving

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the statements that they did and kindof played against each other to testify against
each other, and you know themall the truth that's come out about that
case since that has shown how badlyand inaccurately. Those boys were you know,
first questioned, then charged, thenquickly prosecuted and sentenced, and then

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we find out that, you know, all these years later, the none
of those five boys had anything todo with that particular crime. But those
are the kind of things that Ithink, like only a lazy person would
hear, would like read Donald Trump'sletter. There know nothing about the time,
nothing about the circumstances, nothing abouthis political history in New York because

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he was historically a very democratic guy, right he was a system democrat.
You know, you can find allthese pictures of him with Al Sharpton and
a lot of these other sort ofprominent New York politicians at the time that
you know, nobody would have everthought of that as racist until it benefits
them running against him now in twentysixteen and twenty twenty, where you know,

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they just want to pivot that narrative. No, I guess put it
this way, nobody ever called DonaldTrump a racist while he was writing checks
for millions of dollars to black charities, black organizations, all those types of
things in New York over the lastforty years. Donald Trump was the perfect
American citizen right up until he decidedto run for office. Oh yeah,

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and like, why would the NAACP, like, you know, give awards
to someone who's racist? Yeah?Is it interesting? That interesting? Yeah?
I mean, you know, youtalk about and on your website,
which people can visit. I haveit pulled up here, let me throw
it on. Yeah, so peoplecan check out Donnie Fromayer dot com and

(49:38):
they can see you've got some reallycool stuff here. You've got your platform,
You've got your about Yeah. Theother thing I liked you have as
a questionnaire, So you're also quiteyou know, you're also pulling your potential
voters on your website, and tome too many politicians, this was one
of the things that was most excitingto me about your campaign is that you

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do talk a little bit about whoyou are and your platform and what your
plans are. But there's also amoment here of going listen, if I'm
completely off base about where I wantto take Arlington, Texas, tell me.
And the fact that you have thisquestionnaire option on your site to me
as a as a voter, grantedI don't live in Arlington, but as
a voter, if I saw acandidate with that, it would fill me

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with this idea of oh wow,she actually cares about what we really think
and is at least open to theidea of, you know, pivoting to
reflect what the constituents actually want.Right, and if you can be a
favor Can you go back to thatquestion? I have a new feature on
there. You're gonna like this.Yeah. Do you see where says see

(50:45):
the charts base on complied responses orcompiled response Yeah? Right here? Yes
you want me to click that.Yes, we have charts of what people
are actually thinking and saying. Thisis actual data. This isn't polling,
This isn't this is user compiled dataof people that are responding to your questionnaire.

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Look at this. This is whatI like here. So, first
of all, do you think yourproperty taxes are fair? No? They
keep going up every year, andthat is probably reflective of the fact that
you don't have a state income tax, right, so your property taxes are
going to be higher in Texas andI could imagine the landowners homeowners are feeling
the squeeze there. How did Arlingtonhandle COVID overreacted and shut down too much?

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Interesting that that's the overwhelming sentiment.I think. By the way,
this isn't just in Arlington. Ithink this is the entire country. I
think higher country. Probably seventy threepercent think we overreacted and shut down too
many things. And I bet inLos Angeles, for instance, this number
is more like ninety percent than seventythree percent, say I would say,

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and this one does not surprise meat all. What is your position on
masks? Seventy eight percent. Peopleand businesses should be able to choose whether
they want to use masks. Andthen this one pretty split. Do you
feel safe in Arlington? Problems atnight? Looks like feel safe overall?
Feel safe in my neighborhood, butnot Arlington overall, you know. So

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it's it's interesting how much the responsesof this very you know, and then
this and this is nice overwhelmingly ifyou're considering moving away from your tyrannical city
or skate, would you relocate toArlington, Texas? If Donnie wins,
that's cool, that's very cool.But you know, that kind of pulling

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and showing people that data, Ithink is important for candidates to say,
hey, you know, we werealso listening, right we're campaigning, and
we're trying to tell you what wewant but this isn't you know this.
We're also listening, and you know, it definitely helps when the data supports
your opinions right right point of view, because it's not about me. I

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mean, it's partially because I wantmy rights and my freedoms, but it's
not just about me. It's aboutthe people of Arlington, Texas. They
a lot of them feel like theyhave been represented for a long time and
that you know, the entertainment industrydistrict gets all the attention and the residents
are being left behind. And it'sabout time the city is owned by the

(53:27):
establishment. The people don't own thecity. It's time that Arlington residents take
the city back and make it hoursagain. Yeah, and I think,
you know, I think that kindof hearing candidates talk about that it should
be exciting for people. It's excitingfor me. I mean, I like
hearing candidates talk about, listen,I'm running because I want to change,

(53:50):
you know, the way that thisthing works. And you know what's really
sad to me is like I lookat somebody like AOC and she was kind
of like the Cinderella story of thataction that she ran for because she kind
of came out of nowhere and ranagainst a very prominent politician in New York
and then one and then immediately hasbecome a system democratic politician, you know,

(54:14):
joining these different committees and you know, arguing with large corporate interest and
that type of thing, and isalmost like, to me, a perfect
example of absolute power corrupts. Absolutelysomebody who got in, got a taste
and then just fell in line,fell in line with the party, you

(54:37):
know, fell in line with justthe status quo of politics. And you
know, I think, um,I think ultimately a lot of people,
you know, are tired of seeingthat, They're tired of seeing like these
fiery, you know, motivated candidatesjust gets swept up into the business as

(55:00):
usual, right, And so whatcan you say to potential voters that would
let them know that you're not goingto be one of those people that you're
going to be one of the peoplethat kind of stays Donnie Anthony, whether
you get in, you know,whether you get that opportunity or not.
So and I'm actually happy about that. You bring up a lot of great
points. You're amazing, by theway, Well, thank you. So.
People ask me all the time sincethey're the nonparsonaries are you a Democrat?

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Are you Republican? And I sayI'm a conservative. They go,
well, why don't you just sayRepublican? I go, because the people
and my values are above the party. So the party can leave and do
something different, But my loyalty isto the values and the people. Yeah,
and that is I think that iswhere we're going as a country.

(55:46):
By the way, in terms ofthe candidates that we want and that we
like, is that you know,I've always been somebody who's voted for an
individual. I've never cared about party, never cared about those things. I've
always had the approach of like ifI were the person hiring, which is
honestly the way that voters should beviewing themselves. Like you are the in

(56:06):
an election, You are the hiringmanager. Who would you rather pay to
work for you? Right? Andthat's to me the simplest thing. If
the average American person looked at everyelection and said, Okay, if I
ran a business and I had Donnieor I had this other guy, who
would I want to come work forme? And that should be the gut

(56:28):
instinct that I think people follow whenit comes to how they vote, and
not just not just the individual,but you know, the platforms and the
sort of legislation and those types ofthings that you support and that you want
to get behind. It's who doI think is going to do the best

(56:49):
job for me overall? And Ithink, you know, at least in
the last couple election cycles, peoplehave gotten too too emotional, you know,
too overwhelmingly emotional, you know,to to kind of vote with a
clear head, if that makes sense. I mean, there are so many

(57:10):
people that I think hated Donald Trumpso much that they voted against their own
best interest. And it's interesting becausepeople will say that all the time to
people, like people would say thatto Kanye when he came out as a
pro Trump guy, and they said, Kanye, you know, he's a
racist. How could you vote againstyour own best interest? But I think

(57:30):
there are a lot of people thatdid that in voting for Joe Biden,
are voting against Donald Trump. Theyand now they're seeing the you know,
their worst nightmares come to fruition.I mean, we look at the southern
border in there's you know, thecrisis there is bigger than it's been before.
I mean, is that really anissue for you guys in Arlington?
And is it. Something that isvery important to your voter is the border

(57:54):
wall crisis. I mean, you'renot on the southern borders so much,
right. You know, it's funnythat no one is actually really bringing this
up during the campaign. And inArlington, Texas actually is a sanctuary city,
but Dallas is the one keeping peoplethere right now. Um. And
and it would be concerned if Ibecome mayor, I would want to make

(58:16):
sure that people are safe. Andwe're not having that going on in Arlington,
Texas because we can't have that atall, like what you were saying,
um um, Minnesota, but goingover there, we can't have that
in Allinson, Texas. And Ibring that up because I do think that
behind You know, a lot ofpeople want to talk about the discussion around
immigration being racist, but I thinkthere is a cultural thing as well.

(58:40):
Um. It's not just as simpleas the color of the skin of the
people migrating to an area. Thatthere is cultural baggage that comes along with
you know, any mass migration likethat, You know it happened by the
way it happened in the in theturn of the century. If you watch
Gangs of New York. I meanthere was very much a a migrant violence

(59:01):
that came over to America in thelarge boom of Ellis Island, the Irish,
the Italians, you know, versusa sort of traditional guests it would
be, you know, people fromGreat Britain, that type of thing.
But that you know, that contentioncame over with the migrate, like they

(59:21):
brought the conflict from the United Kingdomto America through migration, and that's continued
to happen where you're seeing these warringsides of the drug war in Mexico.
That violence is spilling over the southernborder into particularly places like Al Paso,
Texas. You're seeing it in Minnesotawith the you know, people that are

(59:45):
cultures that are part of Somalia thathave been engaged in civil war for thirty
one years over there. That comesover to the United States and spills over.
So it's interesting that we live ina society today where you can't even
really talk about that without being labeleda racist or a bigot. But those
are real cultural realities of other partsof the world that we inherit when we

(01:00:08):
open the floodgates to wide immigration.And I don't know what this you know,
obviously, to me, the solutionis not, well, we just
ban everybody from this country, orwe don't we you know, we don't
let anybody from this part of theworld, you know, migrate here,
which is obviously not the goal.Nobody wants that kind of thing, but

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you do have to take into considerationhow that could essentially, you know,
re engineer an entire city in theimage of another country and another culture,
and that might not be good foryou know, that state or area that
that group migrates to. So,you know, it's interesting that I feel

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like so many people on the leftwho are super pro migration, no nothing
of these cultural conflicts that exist inother parts of the world that come along
with the immigrants that come from thoseplaces. And as that continues and continues,
I mean, it's interesting people willlook at what's her name, I'm

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drawn a blend ilhan Omar. They'lllook at her and go, wow,
isn't this amazing that, you know, the social landscape of America's changing so
much that people from other countries comeover and they immerse themselves in the community
and they get elected, and that'sgreat. But what you also don't realize
is that that's not the only placethat the culture can completely influence and completely

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re engineer a town, or acity, or a state. And so
you know, it's so amazing tome that they can look at the ilhan
Omar thing in Minnesota and go,this is so representative of what the state
has become and ignore the fact thatthe violence that comes at those cultures as
they come to America is also soreflective of what the state has become.

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Right, And so I think thebiggest concern I have in terms of the
immigration discussion in America is we spendso much of our energy talking about the
race of those people that we andwe talk about how important racial diversity is
to the fabric of America, whichI think we all agree is what makes
us great, But we don't talkabout the insidious, potential cultural things that

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could be infiltrating our country that couldreally disrupt our values. Going back to
what you said, you're not aboutparty or about values. To me,
if I all of a sudden wokeup and found out that my neighborhood in
Burbank, California had become pro femalegenital mutilation because of immigration, I would
all of a sudden have a problem. I would be like that I'm not

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okay with, right. I don'tthink we should be. It's the same
thing. It's like, well,you know, we don't believe in human
sacrifice, but so many people havemigrated here from ancient Greece and they believe
in human sacrifice, and now wehave one every week at the TGI Fridays.
These are these are horrible potential realitiesthat nobody ever really imagines. And

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then and then it comes to fruition. And so you know, I think
we've got some real things we gotto work out in America before we just
sort of open the floodgates. Andthe one is the war on drugs,
because so much of the violence overthe southern borders related to the illegal drug
trade. And you know, goingback to what we talked about earlier about
people, you know, most peoplebeing in favor of decriminalizing drugs or or

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you know, straight up legalizing themacross the board. Uh. Somebody said
this on Bill Marr last week.We can either have the war on drugs
or we can have drugs. AndI think we all agree that the war
on drugs is probably worse for theAmerican people than just letting them have drugs,
and decide for themselves what works andwhat doesn't. And you know,

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um, I think people are somepeople are kind of worried about that potential
opening the floodgates of what that couldmean for public safety. But I think
we know that the war on drugshas probably led to more actual death than
the drugs themselves. And you know, that's that's my opinion, and that's

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you know, I think a lotof people share that opinion. But but
those are the kind of conversations aroundimmigration I don't think happen enough. Right
And then, um, last I'llmake one more point. Last night,
I got a question in from awebsite. The guy asked me about Biden's
unconstitutional gun laws that they're trying topush and how would mis mayor in the

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Arlington Police Department would react to that. Would I fall in line or would
I tell the police not to enforceit? And I, like I said,
I'm running off of, you know, supporting the constitution. So therefore
I would support all rights and Iwould have to make sure the police don't
enforce it in Arlington, Texas.Yeah, And that's uh to me.

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That's the best kind of civil disobediencethat I want to see from elected a
faire. I've been here in California. A lot of people don't know this,
but the sheriff in Upland, California, supposedly, this is just what
I've been told. I have nosort of it's not really a thing you
can prove. But when the COVIDrestrictions came down and they told restaurants you

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can't be open, and they toldbusinesses you can't be open, supposedly the
sheriff of that area went around andtold everybody, open up. We're not
going to enforce this. We're gonnakeep running your businesses. You have the
freedom to decide. You can decideif you're going to mask up, you're
not going to mask up, you'regonna make your customers mask up, whatever.
But we are not going to enforcesomething that we think is unconstitutional.

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So it pleases me to hear yousay the exact same thing is that you
know that that would be an unconstitutionalban and that you wouldn't enforce it in
Arlington. And I'm sure that thatpleases the voters of Arlington. Yeah,
cities will be safer. My thingis when there's more guns in house holds.

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This and he will be safer.If someone wants to go and attack
or rob or do anything, they'regonna go for the homes they don't have
protection, Yeah, don't you.Isn't an interesting? I wonder if you
ever think about this because I thinkabout this all the time. I feel
like when you look at the OldWest sometimes and granted, we only have
movies to go buy, so that'sa little bit fabricated, But isn't an

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interesting that the world seemed to bea little bit nicer place when everybody had
a gun on their hip? Itwas almost a yeah, I mean,
isn't it? And you know it'sa good day, madam. You know,
it's like it's like, uh,you know, we don't know if
that's actually how it was or ifit was just blood bath and the streets
every day. But it is kindof interesting to me to think that we

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were a little bit more gentlemanly andladylike in a time where people all wore
guns on visibly on their hips,versus today where you know, we couldn't
be we don't have guns on ourhips, and I feel like people couldn't
be more rude to each other.Right, It's like being your car and
like flipping someone off because you feelthat safeness. Yeah, if they pulled

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a gun on you, you wouldimmediately go, you know what, I
wasn't that upset? I'm sorry?Yeah, yeah, And I think you
know, I think it's it isYeah to me, it's like, you
know, that threat of consequence.And this is a we can get into
a much deeper psychological conversation about people. But people are generally motivated by one

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of two things. Every person inthe world is either motivated by opportunity or
motivated by consequences. One of thetwo, um, and you know so
to me, the gun on thehip does a pretty good job of keeping
the people motivated by consequences in check, you know what I mean. And
I don't think it does anything toprevent the people motivated by opportunity. I

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don't think it suppresses them in anyway. But boy, is it interesting
how many people will act right giventhe threat of consequence, right, I
mean, you don't have to lookany further than imagine somebody is being an
asshole somewhere and then they bump intothe security guard who could clearly smash them
into oblivion, and all of asudden, they're they're the sweetest, nicest

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person. Right. You see thisat concerts all the time. You see
it when people deal with the policesometimes. You know, it's it's amazing
how the threat of consequences can immediatelyturn even the biggest asshole into a gentleman.
And you know, and I thinkI think that that's kind of we

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have this weird this. The otherthing that kind of bothers me is like
we have this weird sort of fearbased obsession with guns in our country where
I think most of the people thatare afraid of them have never shot them,
have never used them, They knowvery little about them. And so
I think we definitely need more educationand understanding around guns. Oh yeah,

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our courage. I want that forthe city. Don't people get to educated
and know how to use them,more comfortable with it. I think it's
be even more of a hobby.I think that the industry and AMMO and
guns will even go up more umand because of that and people having that
and knowing how to use them,because you don't. If you don't understand
something, you can tend to fearit. Yes, yeah, I mean

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that's that's the that's the really thefoundation of all human fear right is the
unknown, and so you know,I think I think guns are such a
contentious issue in this country because somany people have not have very little or
no experience with them. And youknow, we'll see, we'll see where
it goes. I'm excited for yourcandidacy, Donnie. I think you know,

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I would definitely vote for you ifI were in Arlington. And and
I'm glad you were willing to comeon the show today and spend a little
bit of time with us to kindof talk about your candidacy and your plans
for Arlington. And I would encourageanybody who ends up watching this who's in
your area to go to your site, pay you a visit, and uh
and check in with you at theballot box here coming up soon. Yeah,

(01:10:04):
and you guys, make sure y'allshare this because, um, if
you just like it, it's justgonna sit there. You share every platform
that you have, Yeah, exactly, and people will be able to get
this on locals. I'm gonna throwyour website up there again so people can
see it. Donnie fromayor dot com. Donnie, have you, um,
have you any experience with locals orany of these other platforms. I mean,

(01:10:26):
have you has anybody gone out oftheir way to try to censor you
in this run for office or um, you know, in your in your
push for conservative values being reflected ingovernment. Have you run up against big
tech in any way? Not?I mean it already we're censoring me beforehand.
I had sixty thousand followers before thepurgeoning removed all the people. People

(01:10:48):
aren't seeing my content very much.Um. That's why I tell people please
please share this because it's not goingto be seen. Um. And so
yeah, with that, you knowwhat to I'm gonna use ballot Pedia as
an example because Ballotpedia, if yougo into my profile, um, you'll

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see my name on there. Butthen if you scroll down, you'll see
Jim Ross and Michael Glasby like they'retalking about their notable endorsements that they have.
But in order to see my page. My response is you have to
click a link. And I'm like, that helps those two guys out,
Like why would you do that putdown their profiles? Yeah? Yeah,

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it is interesting how that they howthey sort of um, you know,
even even in the in the processof trying to look you know, fair
and equal, they do a verygood job of showing that it isn't always
fair and equal, right, andyou just look at it. Yeah,
I just I was just kind ofthrough and it's like, wow, that's
it's that. Yeah. And thenfor me, that tells you who the

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establishment is. And you look athow much money they raise. I posted
a chart recently, but how muchmoney was it on the campaign? And
like, I'm INTI establishment man,So I'm gonna have to go after them.
I'll bring them up more and morebecause other people say they're against the
establishment, but they don't pull upthe receipts like I do. They don't
go after them. I'll be goingafter them harder because we don't need any

(01:12:15):
more conservice feeling they were fulled ortrick for voting for the wrong candidate.
Yeah, I um, you know, and I definitely think I probably represent
most of the Americans in the countrywhen I say that I wish voting were
a lot easier technologically. I think, you know, there's there's got to

(01:12:38):
be an easier way to kind ofcapture the vote. What I think is
amazing is like I have to showmy face and upload an ID to use
every banking app on my phone.Why couldn't we just make that voting.
Why couldn't we just like upload yourdriver's license so we can verify your identity,
take a scan of your face,and then enter your vote, you

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know what I mean. And soit's amazing to me how slow we are
to adopt good technology when it comesto voting. And you know, I
also think that's part of what makespeople believe it's not legit or you know,
there's some reasons to feel deceived,to feel like that system is not
in place to really reflect the truewill of the American people. There's only

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one election that I felt like forsure that I didn't participate in, but
I remember being a witness to thatwas really reflective of this sentiment of the
American people being tired of system government. And it was when Jesse Ventura won
the governorship in Minnesota. That happenedwhen I was young. I was probably

(01:13:42):
like thirteen or fourteen. It wasbefore I was able to vote, but
I remember him being a sort ofdisruptive third party candidate and really really won
the people over and ended up winningthat election. And that's you know,
I've kind of felt that same waywhen Trump won, of like, wow,
this is this is really the Americanpeople stepping up and going, Yeah,

(01:14:03):
this system of how we pick presidentsand who we pick for president doesn't
work for us anymore. So we'regoing to do something different. And you
know, I was actually very inspiredby Donald Trump winning the presidency, and
I think, yeah too, peoplebetter on one second, Harvey, please
still lay down? No no,no, no, go over there,

(01:14:24):
go over here, lay on,honey. My dog's like a mom even
on the computer for too long.Get over here, needs attention. Uh,
what kind of dog do you have? He's a lab massive mix.
Oh okay, is it probably abig boy? Yeah, he's he's a

(01:14:45):
he's all right, he's an averagesized dog. Okay. Um, he
has the fruit, the loopy face, um, massive hass. But he
has more of like a lean labbody, lab body. Okay, he's
not fig so he's not like alittle box eight labs. So yeah,
but yeah, I mean, Ithink, you know, I think that

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that should excite people, That thatkind of thing happening in our election should
excite people. And I think Ihope that this twenty twenty election was the
last two party presidential election we have. I think having more people, you
know, more candidates running in thegeneral could potentially shake things up in America
and make it a much different politicallandscape to where we're not just serving party,

(01:15:30):
we're serving the people. Yeah,I agree, because I feel like
if you're going to run for president, you should be able to have as
much airtime. People should be ableto have an opportunity to choose you over
the other candidates, and it shouldn'tbe necessarily like, oh, it's just
you know, Republican or a Democrat. Well yea. Even though the Aleppo
thing was a nightmare for Gary Johnson, I do believe that if Gary Johnson

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debated Trump and Hillary on the generalstages and was able to campaign and particip
paid in those debates, I actuallythink Gary Johnson would have won in twenty
sixteen because compared to those two,I think he actually had of views and
a plan more reflective of what mostof Americans wanted. Legalized drugs, tight

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immigration reform in terms of making surethat you know, it's not just the
open season on America, lowering taxes, reducing you know, restrictions and regulations.
A lot of the things that you'retalking about that are really not just
I think conservative values, but Americanvalues. Yeah, And honestly, then

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that argument that people who have like, oh you're throwing your vote away can
actually will be avoided because the otheropportunities are there for everyone can see the
other Kennedys. So it's more ofan equal and fair playing field. You
know, back in the day whenwe have multiple parties, like during Lincoln,
they all had a chance a voice. We heard. Well, what's

(01:16:57):
so interesting to me is people say, oh, you throw your vote away.
You could go back and watch.I think there's documentary documentary about when
Jesse Venture ran for governor, butboth of the big party candidates said that,
they said, oh yeah, goahead and vote for Venture, vote
for third party, you'll throw yourvote away. That guy got elected.
And by the way, two termsas governor in Minnesota and a pretty prosperous

(01:17:23):
time in Minneapolis. My favorite memoriesof Minnesota were under Jesse Ventura's administration there,
and I just remember it's sort ofbeing a good time. And you
know, I think more and moreof those disruptive type candidates getting into office
is the way we fix the system. You gotta get aside from term limits,

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aside from all those things, electionreform and those things are important,
but getting disruptive candidates into these positionsis how we fix it. And I
think you're think you have the potentialto be one of those candidates, and
I'm excited to see how the raceshakes out for you. Thank you,
I appreciate it. Donnie Anthony,candidate for mayor Arlington, Texas. Thank

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you for joining us this morning.It's this morning here, it's afternoon for
you, so you gotta you probablygot a big D still, Yes,
excellent. Anything you want to sayor plug before we get out of here.
You got any events coming up thatpeople can check out? So tomorrow
and I'm not for sure how theyblaze with how they air this stuff.

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I'm gonna be on Pat Gray showin the morning, early early in the
morning, and I'm excited for everyoneto see that one because one of the
ways we connect it was I alwayssay it's not a democracy like you keep
calling America a democracy, and it'sa constitution republic. And I guess I
caught their attention, and so I'llbe on their show tomorrow. That's exciting.

(01:18:51):
I am actually really wanting to getI want to I'll say now,
So I'm about to bring it upI want to. I want a real
debate with the candidates. It hasbeen forms. I want debates, and
I want some real questions. Um, some questions there are have not been
asked, like the people actually askingcertain questions. Um. I feel like

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there's certain questions they're asking to appeasethe establishment in a sense, some of
the questions on some of the differentforms of all of them. And I
really would like to have a realdebate. I want to. I want
them to say who they voted forfor president. I want them to say,
um, if they thought if theJanuary six was, um, you
know insurrection that I want to knowif um they're okay with immigration, they

(01:19:39):
okay with their guns while being removed, and no fluffy answers, tell the
truth, Like, I want themto really speak on these things. These
are really important times and people arelike, oh, well, I wasn't
involved in like the local arlands andgroups like Republican groups or clubs. I'm
independent kind of person. So Istarted my own thing, and I was
helping in all of DFW and like, maybe maybe if you come back,

(01:20:00):
you know, we can help youout in the future, you know,
if you want to run again.I'm like, no, the time is
now, you know. So,I mean I got a lot of support.
People who are aren't local, youknow, people don't vote locally in
local elections are now voting. Hoppeople get registered to vote so they can't
vote in this election. It's gonnabe a lot of new voters. And
um, I'm really really excited aboutpeople are on my website consistently. People

(01:20:25):
are like, you know, wow, I didn't even expect the response,
Like if you go to my commentsection, I respond, So I'm I'm
Donnie and I'm sorry, I'm Donniefor Mayor. On Facebook, it's my
page. It's very tiny because ofthe censorship. I deleted my Facebook page
and I was like, okay,I'm running for office. I need a
page now, um so. Andthen on Twitter it's Donnie for Mayor or

(01:20:48):
Donnie the Don. I have bothof those, and I am about free
speech and freema speech. So I'mon gab too, and I love GAD.
I'm I post on gab heavy,So it's Donnie the Don on Gap.
Cool, very cool. Well,Donny Anthony, thanks for joining us
today, and everybody go check outDonnie's website, Donnie for Mayor and vote

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get out and vote, and tellyour friends to come and vote. Bring
your friends. We need we needeveryone out there fighting with us now