January 14, 2021 • 35 mins
BLAKPAC Chair George T. Farrell is joined by Terence L. Shigg to discuss the recent violation of the Halls of Congress. Blakpac condemns the actions of those who desecrated the Halls of Congress with violence. BLAKPAC stands firm on its principles of Pro Life, Pro Business and Pro School Choice. Blakpac knows how to talk about these issues to all people and promotes diversity and inclusion. George talks about how the GOP, specifically, Ronna Romney McDaniel FAILED. They failed to get out and talk to the people about the accomplishments of the Trump administration.
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George T. Farrell (00:27):
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George T. Farrell (01:16):
events of the last few days have shocked all
of us. And we need to cometogether as a country black
Latin Asians, whites, PuertoRicans, everybody so that we can
keep this country together. I ama native Washingtonian from
Washington DC I served as ametropolitan police officer. And
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I am shocked at the lack ofsecurity and preparation of the
Capitol Hill police is justunheard of that they were
unprepared. And I don't know ifthat's everybody was still on
Christmas vacation or New Year'svacation or hung over. Not sure
what's going on with that policedepartment. But it needs to
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actually be everyone needs to befired from the from the
leadership level, the chief hasalready stepped down. But the
lieutenants the captains in thesergeants should all be fired,
someone did not go up the properchain of command and secure one
of our most Reverendinstitutions. And that's
unacceptable in any country, notjust the United States. It's
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unacceptable in any country tobe that unprepared for a
demonstration in a breach ofsecurity and putting 535 members
of Congress and their staff indanger because you didn't know
what would happen after thosepeople got in the building. Let
me explain this because I'm aformer police officer. I can
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explain this a little bit. Thereare two police stations
metropolitan police stationsthat cover Capitol Hill one is
called one D. The other wascalled one D one which only
handles Capitol Hill and thatdisposal are every crowd control
device you can imagine. Actuallythey use fire trucks as crowd
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control because a fire truck tofire their water cannons and
push crowds back. The fact thatthere was not a fire truck on
the scene to handle this crowdamazes me just amazes me that
they would allow that manypeople to be that close to the
capital in the office buildingswhere Congress resides to fire
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trucks with a handle that crowdand push them back. The fact
that they're not there amazesme. The fact that the
Metropolitan Police Departmentwas not on the scene amazes me
in the fact that the CapitolHill police were so unprepared
is just unacceptable. You've putso many people at risk. You put
535 Congress people at risk thesenators in their staffs in the
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staffs were hiding under theirdesks, Nancy Pelosi his laptop
was stolen from the chief ondown to every every leadership
position to sergeant should befired is unacceptable. I'm not
sure who they were hiring butyou have we have the best
military police in the country.
At every base around Washingtonyou have Andrews Air Force Base,
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where the President helicoptertakes off. You have bases in
Virginia, you have bases inMaryland surrounding Washington,
DC, the fact that we were notcoordinated and ready for this
attack. And this was an attackon liberty and attack on justice
and attack on America. I cannotmake excuses for these people
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knowing that they had no rightto go into that building. Other
people want to make excuses andcall them patrons. They weren't
patrons, their riders. TheSmithsonian has better security
for their artifacts just forartifacts. And I want to
apologize for the people whofelt who felt that their lives
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were intact. Because youprobably felt if you weren't in
that building that your life wasin danger, you didn't know what
was going on, there was nocommunication. Imagine being in
your home and someone stormingyour home, in the fear that
would go through your mind. Thewhole, the whole situation is
unacceptable. I am I and I wantto apologize, and I've been
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there. So I'll start with that.
And we we need to secure our,our our government employees
better. I mean, I I know that alot of people think government
employees are worthless. And allthese people work hard every
day. They've been under a lot ofstress working through a
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pandemic wearing masks. There'sa lot of tension. And I want to
apologize and send prayers outto all these people who felt
that their lives may have beenin danger by an encroachment on
our US Capitol.
Terence Shigg (05:56):
And it's not like, I guess you could say it's
a, it's a symptom or a sign ofthe times what things have
culminated to, and what you'resaying is, we have to come
together, because we are thesame. We're on the same side,
we're one country. And so how dowe? Well, first of all, how do
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you what do you think, how doyou think we got to this point?
And where do you think we go?
George T. Farrell (06:25):
Well, we got to this point, because maybe we
did have a rigged election, butthere's a better way to handle
it. I have not seen the evidenceof a rigged election, there's
been court after court that havethrown it out. People have asked
for proof of dead voters and alist of names. They haven't been
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provided a list of names ofthese dead voters and voters
that weren't eligible to vote,which is why the courts keep
throwing it out you allays likealleging someone stole a candy
bar and say, well show me thecandy bar they stole, you don't
show the candy bar, right? Yougot to have some real solid
proof in the course have beenthrowing this out when bringing
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this up to people the course ofthrowing this out because you're
asking the same thing. Ifsomeone stole something, show me
what they stole, and show mewhere it is. If someone stole a
car, you know, where's the carthey stole? Well, the car they
stolen is over there andignition is broken. And you can
prove it. They have theirfingerprints on it. Right? We
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need we need the same type ofevidence to prove that this
election was stolen. Andunfortunately, the people making
the actual accusations have notshown the fingerprints. So
people are believing somethingwithout evidence. So and that's
that's been the main problem.
You say these votes were stolen?
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Show me the evidence on thecomputers or show me the names
of the people you say that havevoted that we're not eligible to
vote? Yes. And that's what wasmissing. You're saying? Well, we
need signature verification?
Well, signatures verification isfor the future in the past, you
just accuse people of stealingvotes. Show me the names. And
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several people have asked forthe list of names of people that
you say that that did or oneligible for some other reason.
And you haven't provided thatlist of names of dead people
that you said voted and that'swhy the courts keep throwing
this out. And I'm following thisas close as anyone that here's
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the here's the real reason. ThePresident logs in this is
unprecedent. To make light ofthis, but Bill Clinton had oral
sex in the white house he gotreelected. Okay.
That's amazing to me to have apresident a sitting president,
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not be elected, because hisparty, the Republican National
Party, committee, the GOP failto do a good job. They fail to
have inclusion of blacks Latinand Asians in their party.
That's why the President lost isthat is that simple. You go
through the voting list and youdon't have any blacks that voted
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for them or any republicans orAsians or Latins, not enough.
That's why you lost Why did youlose because the party that
you're in, ran by mitt romney'snice. Ronna romney did a bad job
for you. They did not do a getout to vote job properly. You
lost because your party failed.
You. Don't blame it on stolenvotes. Blame it on your party
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blaming or your team, your teamfailed to help you. Let's look
at this as a basketball team.
You're I don't want to bringdown LeBron I'm sure he don't
like this. You're LeBron Jamesand nobody's passing you the
ball. You're LeBron James andnobody can dribble. That's what
happened to your team. Mr.
President, your team was a grossfailure, you need to look at the
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Republican National Committee,the leadership in that
committee. And whether you havegood teammates, you have
horrible teammates, you that'swhat failed, you look at, look
at your Republican NationalCommittee, you need to fire
them, you need to get rid ofthem, you need to clean house.
But it's too late for you now,what you can do now is
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gracefully exit the building forpeaceful transitional part of
power. And make sure your peoplewho are there coordinate with
the by the administration, andyou may not like their policies,
but it's your duty as President,to make sure that there's a
peaceful transition apart ofpower, to make sure your people
don't tear up notes, inmeetings, transcripts, and that
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you do it with dignity. And withpride, you do it with dignity,
you know, you hold up ourinstitutions, you hold up our
country, and you say, I'm out,you're in, come in, I'm going to
open the door to you, I'm goingto welcome you like a grown up
not like a child, I want to, I'mgoing to open this, I'm going to
work with you as an adult, I'mgoing to be an adult, and I'm
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going to let you in, take over Idon't agree with your policies,
but we're going to worktogether. That's where it will
start. When people will followthe president with dignity. And
he let's bind him with dignity.
Without the name calling, thenwe can start to heal this
country.
Terence Shigg (11:31):
Something that you always talked about. And as
far as the the inclusion part ofit. And I think that is
something that is evident goingforward for any politician or
any campaign in any organizationto recognize that you're going
to have to deal with us, you'regoing to have to include us. And
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it shouldn't be this battle.
That. To do this. We shouldn'tyou shouldn't have to demand it
should be a it should be a nobrainer.
George T. Farrell (12:04):
Well, let me make this clear for the
Republican side, not a democraton the Republican side. Going
forward going forward fromGeorgia, the losses in Georgia,
Stacey Abrams has a game plan,she's going to spread that game
brand to Mississippi, Alabama,Louisiana, Texas, in Florida.
The Democrats don't have a gameplan with inclusion, or
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candidates, they have to startfrom scratch. They don't have a
plan right now. If they don'tcome up with a plan with Mr.
Trump or whoever, the democratshave a plan, the republicans
don't have a plan. They don'thave a plan going forward. They
don't have leadership. They justlost in Georgia, they don't know
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what they're going to do. Theyhave to start from scratch. The
Republican Party has to startfrom scratch. In North Carolina,
South Carolina, Alabama,Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana,
Tennessee, and Florida, theyhave to start from scratch with
leadership on down. TheDemocrats have a great plan.
They have a great plan. Ifyou're a democrat and you and
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you are pro abortion, and youdon't believe in school choice,
they have a plan for you.
They're praying may not benefityou, but they have a plan that
they're going to get you out tothe polls, the republicans have
no idea how to get the peopleout to the polls, they've
actually suppressed their votersby saying that the system
doesn't work for them. So nowyou have people who won't vote,
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you don't have to really workhard to get them to vote because
you told them don't trust thesystem. So we they have a lot to
do a lot of work to do on theRepublican side. I think the
democrats have it together, it'sgonna be harder for Republicans
to win in the south. Well, it's
Terence Shigg (13:46):
something that I was thinking about is how do you
because I, it really seems likethe dilemma that plays out is
they seem to be trying to figureout how do you how do you keep
your foundation or your base andexpand when base it's almost as
if they see the two as mutuallyexclusive, meaning you can't
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have the base and expand at thesame time, which, as we know, I
mean, that's not true. But itseems that's how the the
organization operate, is that Imean, if you get that
impression,
George T. Farrell (14:22):
they they have a base they need expansion.
The problem is they don't knowhow to do expansion. The people
they need to expand to theydon't know how to communicate
with the they don't know how tocommunicate with with Latins, or
Asians, or African Americans orany other people who are not I
would say good old boys. So theydon't they don't know how to
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communicate outside good oldboys, is the issues thing are
the way that black packcommunities and black packs
communicate on issues. We talkedabout school choice we talked
about Don't you want your childto have a good education,
especially with this COVID goingon. We talk about pro life. We
support pro life issues, but wedon't shove it down people's
throat. These are the thingsthat, that when voters we talk
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about opportunity for business,how do we expand opportunities
for business in low incomeareas? How do we get loans out?
How do we use the SBA to helppeople get a start in business,
who want to start a business, nomatter how small that business
may be, that may be an onlinebusiness, it doesn't have to be
an office building, you couldsell designer shirts or shoes
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online, you could you could bein a music business and be
pushing your, your, your yourmusic online, and selling it
online through all the onlineplatforms. That's a business,
you know, masterpiece, and allthese other guys started selling
music out of their trunk whenthey were still tapes and CDs.
Now you don't sell tapes andCDs. Now you sell it online,
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where people can buy your yourmusic, these are businesses that
we are successful at thatsometimes we need a little bit
of help and a little bit ofguidance. And that's where you
can win people over? Are wegoing to provide more assistance
for businesses in low incomearea, especially COVID? Where
you can't even do business faceto face anymore? How do you
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transfer your rest? How do youtransform your restaurant
business into a delivery onlybusiness, your business now may
be delivery only. And that couldbe a great business. If you're
starting out of your house, andyou're making bakery products,
and you're doing delivery onlythat could be a growth business,
you can grow from one locationto another, we've got to think
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outside the box to help peoplerestart their businesses and
restart their lives in the ageof COVID. And that's something
that the republican party inblackjack can help do we're
working on those things, becausewe're looking at how do we
restart the small businesses inour communities.
Terence Shigg (16:54):
And so what you're talking about is
quintessentially what politicswas originally, that's what it
was you were supposed to do,like you said you want to
politics one on one is, how doyou impact your community and
provide resources from them?
That's what your representativeand representative, you're
supposed to go out and get thosethings. So how do they How do
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they get that message out, andnot get it drowned out by all
the other noise, if that makes,
George T. Farrell (17:29):
that makes a lot of sense how you get the
message out that you're at aparty or pro business, pro life
and pro education. You do it,you just do it you lead by
example. And that's one thingthat the republican party has to
do, we had to lead by example.
We can't just do it with TV adsand radio ads that are talking
negative about the othercandidate. That's where you
fail. That's where we failed inGeorgia. Our our, our message
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was about how bad the other guywas. It wasn't about how good we
were. We talked more about theother candidates on a lot of
ads, and how bad they were thatwe never got the the message out
that hey, we're the party ofeducation. We're the party. I
mean, Trump did a lot of goodthings for education. Trump made
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all the HBCU funding permanent,it actually been done year to
year with an HBCU had to go upto Capitol Hill and beg for
money that should have beenpermanent years ago. He made
HBCU funding permanent. That'samazing. So now these schools
don't have to bet he actuallyincreased funding by 20 30%.
That message never got outthere. Especially in Georgia,
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where you have a number of HBCUsmessage never got delivered.
There's a lot of message, a lotof things that he did that did
not deliver, he got a vaccinedone in less than a year. That's
a great thing. Under Democrat,you still be waiting maybe 20%
making excuses as to why there'snot a vaccine. The bind
administration is going tobenefit from a process that was
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sped up regulations were weighedin it was done in less than a
year. So there's a lot ofthere's a lot of positive things
that Republican Party did,right. What did they do wrong?
They didn't get they didn'tdeliver this message. They fail
to deliver this message. Peoplewho are knowledgeable like me
understand what the differencewas, but they didn't get the
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message to the right people tosay that they had done a great
job.
Terence Shigg (19:29):
And agreed on that one. Because Yeah, I mean,
you look at it, and you look atthe organization that Stacey
Abrams has set up and the getout the vote and the bus tour.
They were really in thecommunities speaking to the
people and instructing themdirectly on Okay, this is what
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we this is what we're about.
This is what we're doing. Thisis where you need to go. This is
how you sign up. I think I waslooking at some of the
statistics and they were evensaying They had a certain number
of voters, somewhere above90,000. That hadn't even noted
in the presidential electionthat voted in the this just this
runoff. So they mean, so that'sthe type of ground game that you
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have to have going forward,because the future is just gonna
get more and more competitive,right?
George T. Farrell (20:23):
Yeah, we got a great, we've got a great
ground game. With blackpack.
This lady named Teresa Jones,she does a great job. We take
young people out, we train themand how to get how to be
canvassers. And we have a greatgame. Good ground game.
Terence Shigg (20:39):
Can you talk about? Can you talk about that a
little bit explain good groundgame as far as because your
database thing, the ground game,the training, I think that's
important for you to know thatthose things exist. Because you
really don't want you don't seethat.
George T. Farrell (20:53):
You don't see that? Well. blackpack has a
ground game, we have a groundgame team led by law, Teresa
Jones, where she takes we takeyoung people usually 25 to 20.
And we train them how toproperly knock on the door, how
to present yourself How to say,Ma'am, I'm with this campaign.
And I'm here to ask if you'regoing to vote, are you going to
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do mail envelope voting, ifyou're going to do mail in
voting, we will give you a stampand we handle a personal stamp
everybody that we go knock onthe door, if they're going to do
a mail in ballot, we actuallyhand them a stamp so that they
can, they may not use the stamp,but they'll remember, Hey, I got
this stamp from this blackpackgroup. I liked them I'm gonna
I'm gonna I'm gonna vote fortheir person just because he
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gave us a stamp. So sometimes astamp can do a lot more than he
think. So we do a lot ofcanvassing and training and
going on presentations. And itreally opens up the the eyes of
these young people because theysome of them have never worked
before. So we're taking themfrom non work to working in a
situation. And this is tiringwork, you're knocking on doors.
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Usually we knock on almost 40 to50 doors a day, sometimes up to
101 person knocking on 100doors, presenting themselves
over and over again. And afterabout 40 of door they developed
their own personality, their owntheir own way of presentation is
a very nice presentation. So noteveryone does the same
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presentation. We don't turn theminto robots. We also have a team
that does phone banking, wherethey're calling people all day
long and having conversationsand having the same conversation
where it says Hey, my name isthis. I'm with blackpack and I'm
calling to ask for your vote.
Are you going to vote earlier?
Or are you going to vote inperson? Once we do that, we have
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people that make up to 200 to300 calls a day, it can be a
little bit tiring, you have totake a few breaks every now and
then. But after we log in everysingle call what the response
is, where are they going to votefor your candidate or not? That
gives us an idea of how we'rerunning. It's our own polling.
So we have our own internalpolling. We have our own
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training for candidates where wetrain candidates, how first how
to pick an office to run for howto count votes. Because if
you're going to run for anoffice, the first thing you have
to do is know how many peoplevoted in the last election. So
you can estimate how many peoplegonna vote in the next election,
then you have to see if theyvoted Republican, they voted
Democrat, they votedindependent. The first thing to
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do a lot of candidates try toskip this part is know who won
the last race, how many votesthey won by and where they
Republican, Democrat before youeven choose to run for an
office. We love people to runfor school board because we need
more people on the school boardwho really, really care. And
school board training is greatbecause now you're involved in a
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young person, what their mealsare every day. What they're
reading, you know, are theyreading proper books, are they
reading things that are off thewall? So I love school board,
school board races arenonpartisan, most school boards.
They don't care if you'rerepublican or democrat or
independent. But it's greattraining to learn how you're
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going to perform in a meetingand operate as a part of a team
before you go on to citycommission or county commission
or even run for Congress. So wehave a grassroots training
session that trains people onhow to run for office. We train
kids on how to knock on doors,proper phone etiquette. We take
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them to different events inbecause once you're involved in
a political campaign, thoseevents all over the place that
we take them to is greattraining in our candidates when
we just put two blacks inCongress, Burgess Owens,
environment Donald's fromFlorida, for Asians to Koreans
from California, in OrangeCounty. So we had a large impact
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this year is on our website,which is www.bl AK Pac GOP
You'll see the list of all thefolks that we helped get elected
in 2020. In 2022, we're gonnahave a major, major impact that
like I said, we may not run alot of people as Republicans, we
may run people as independence.
Because we don't know if theRepublican Party, we don't know
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if the Republican Party is goingto survive the next two years.
Terence Shigg (25:22):
Well, one of the things that's a great overall
view of all the things thatblackpack offers that is unique.
And, and I'd like that you gavethe website because I want
people to know that in order todo that, it takes resources it
takes funding. And so peopledonating to black pack, this is
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what it's for. And does blackpack, because black pack is
independent of candidates.
Correct. And how does that work?
George T. Farrell (25:52):
Well, we we are an outside organization. We
are conservative, I like to saywe're more conservative than
Republican. So we are, you know,we are a values organization of
values that we support. Again,I'm pro life, pro school choice
and pro business. If we're ifwe're if we're on those issues,
and there's a lot of democratsthat are also agree with those
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issues. So if you agree withthose issues, we're the
organization for you again, ourwebsites www.li k Pac back DLP,
and you can see the work that wedo and in our postings, we also
have a Twitter at at realblackpack is our Twitter. I do a
lot on LinkedIn. I love LinkedInas a business is a business
site, but I use it a lot forpolitics. We have Instagram, we
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have parlor. So our social mediais growing and growing. And we
can tell that we're going tohave a great, a great year for
2021. So raising money if youwant to, you want to go to our
website and donate, donatewhatever you can. We don't beat
you over the head. We're justhappy that we can get done, what
we need to be done. What we needto get done and we do want
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people to look us up and we wantpeople to to see what I'm doing
to see what all our members aredoing and to see what our
candidates are doing. We have anevent on February 20 is going to
be in St. Petersburg, Florida isour Frederick Douglass Day event
is actually probably going toexpand right now we have a
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luncheon. One day so far we havethe most prominent black leaders
coming so far. We have ElbertGuillory is attending from
Louisiana. He's he's going to beour main speaker. We also have
former lieutenant governorJennifer Carroll from Florida.
She's going to be their powerfuldynamic lady was lieutenant
governor. We have a city councilmember from Daytona Beach quani
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to May. She's going to be apowerful force. He's one of the
city council of Daytona Beachwhere they launch rockets into
space. We have a former mayorPro Tem from stonecrest, Georgia
forgetting her name, but we havewe have her we have Webster
Barnaby, who's on who's in thestate legislature in Florida,
Webster Barnaby. Diane adomah isthe lady who's a stonecrest.
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Mayor. She's former stonecrestmayor, she's gonna be there. So
we have a lot of people who arecoming who have served in
government, who can lend youtheir knowledge. We have a lot
of people who are currently ingovernment. And we have a lot of
people who are knowledgeableabout about government and how
it works and how to get elected.
So we're focusing on in 2022,getting people elected getting
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them elected so that they canmove up in one day move to
Congress. The speaker for forthis event. is a good friend of
mine. We have him elected inSarasota, Naples, Florida,
Florida area. And I'm horriblewith names I should write up.
But I can post I can post theevent is the Frederick Douglass
event is gentlemen, we just gotelected to Congress. And we
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would like to have you there.
And we expect a lot more peoplecome so far we've got 100 people
coming in, we're going to have200 people coming is going to be
all COVID guidelines. We'regoing to be social distancing.
We may all be in like a plasticsuit swap. We talk to each
other. But as in St. Petersburg,Florida. We're also going to do
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a webcast The next day, we'rewhere we're going to do training
for canvassing, we're going todo training for how to run for
office. We're going to haveVernon Robinson who's a mail
how, who really knows how to dodirect mail. Bernie Robinson is
going to talk about theeffectiveness of direct mail he
he worked on several campaignshas been very effective. So
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we're going to have people whoknow how to win So if you're
interested in running for anyoffice, any office, no matter
what from, from dog catcher toCongress, maybe even president
will be there to help you, we'llbe there to help you set up your
your base of operations tell youwhat works, what doesn't work.
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What doesn't work is when youknow, we get people who have
never served in office and wantto run for Congress and say God
told him to run. That doesn'twork that way. You got to have
some experience before you getto Congress. And we like to have
experienced people that haveserved in other offices, other
positions from whether schoolboard whether City Council,
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whether it's county commission,and that way you build yourself
a base to run for higher officelater, if you like government,
you like serving in government,that's great. A lot of people
run they find out is not a thingfor them, and they go do
something else. But we likepeople who who have served in
low office been successful andwant to move up to other
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offices, or maybe Stay where youare, have been on a county
commission for two or threeterms is is is great, because
you can help your community. Imean, if you want to county
commission, you can determinewhat rows go where you can
determine the zoning for yourcity, you can determine a lot a
lot of things you're gonnadetermine where apartment
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buildings go, where a mall goes.
So serving on city council is isI think the lower offices are
more important than Congress.
Terence Shigg (31:25):
They get so caught up, like I said, in the
noise, politicians andpersonalities and you know, and
hit pieces that they forget thatthey are grassroots. They are
not even grad they'regrassroots. There are
organizations out there likeblack backpack that are
fundamentally there to upholdwhat the politicians are there
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for, and to teach people theright way and how it is ideally
to be done. So I think peopleget turned off by politics
because they don't hear thisenough.
George T. Farrell (31:57):
Yeah, what they need to understand, let's
say you're on a school board.
And and, you know, schools,school board issues,
construction contracts, forbuildings, for gyms. For
playgrounds, that is a lot ofmoney and school boards. Also,
what's important is you chooseto dental care and a doctor care
no medical care for the studentsin your in your care. You know,
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sometimes the child only getsdental care through a school
board. So these are importantdecisions, which means you're
going to issue a contract forthe local dentist, which means
you can make sure that dentistlooks like you're you can make
sure you hiring black dentistsor black doctors or a black
construction firm or sitedevelopment firms or architects.
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That's why I think school boardsso important the school board to
me is sometimes a mini city.
Sometimes it provides moreMercer, more services than the
city. And when you're in a citycouncil, you determine zoning
you determine what type ofbuilding goes where you
determine who is the Chief ofPolice, who's the chief of the
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fire department, whether you'regoing to have a black police
chief or Spanish police chief,all this is important on the
city level. All this isimportant on these local levels.
You want to county you determinewhere the county roads go. You
determine who is the electricalperson that fixes your your
lines, and your sewers and yourwater treatment. You're talking
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millions of dollars that you getto control as a city council
member, a county council memberor school board member. And
whether the person who gets getsthose contracts for security and
other things looks like you ispart of your community. And
believe me, when you're helpinga business grow, when you're
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helping that doctor or lawyerand you're making those
friendships and making sure thatpeople in your community look
like you that are doing businesswith you is a is a great way to
stay in office. That's part ofthe process. But we've got to
learn that government can workwith us, for us or against us.
But we we have to learn it atthe local level. So I really
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push for candidates to getelected to local level that
care. I look for candidates thathave some business experience
and some what we look for. Welook for candidates that have
those values that areconservative, you know, we can't
I hate to go there. But ifyou're looking at candidates
that are all they care about isabortion, abortion, abortion and
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pushing abortion on yourcommunity. That's not the
candidate for you. You'reeliminating your own people.
That's not right. So we'relooking for candidates that care
about people.
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George T. Farrell (01:16):
events of the last few days have shocked all
of us. And we need to cometogether as a country black
Latin Asians, whites, PuertoRicans, everybody so that we can
keep this country together. I ama native Washingtonian from
Washington DC I served as ametropolitan police officer. And
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I am shocked at the lack ofsecurity and preparation of the
Capitol Hill police is justunheard of that they were
unprepared. And I don't know ifthat's everybody was still on
Christmas vacation or New Year'svacation or hung over. Not sure
what's going on with that policedepartment. But it needs to
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actually be everyone needs to befired from the from the
leadership level, the chief hasalready stepped down. But the
lieutenants the captains in thesergeants should all be fired,
someone did not go up the properchain of command and secure one
of our most Reverendinstitutions. And that's
unacceptable in any country, notjust the United States. It's
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unacceptable in any country tobe that unprepared for a
demonstration in a breach ofsecurity and putting 535 members
of Congress and their staff indanger because you didn't know
what would happen after thosepeople got in the building. Let
me explain this because I'm aformer police officer. I can
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explain this a little bit. Thereare two police stations
metropolitan police stationsthat cover Capitol Hill one is
called one D. The other wascalled one D one which only
handles Capitol Hill and thatdisposal are every crowd control
device you can imagine. Actuallythey use fire trucks as crowd
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control because a fire truck tofire their water cannons and
push crowds back. The fact thatthere was not a fire truck on
the scene to handle this crowdamazes me just amazes me that
they would allow that manypeople to be that close to the
capital in the office buildingswhere Congress resides to fire
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trucks with a handle that crowdand push them back. The fact
that they're not there amazesme. The fact that the
Metropolitan Police Departmentwas not on the scene amazes me
in the fact that the CapitolHill police were so unprepared
is just unacceptable. You've putso many people at risk. You put
535 Congress people at risk thesenators in their staffs in the
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staffs were hiding under theirdesks, Nancy Pelosi his laptop
was stolen from the chief ondown to every every leadership
position to sergeant should befired is unacceptable. I'm not
sure who they were hiring butyou have we have the best
military police in the country.
At every base around Washingtonyou have Andrews Air Force Base,
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where the President helicoptertakes off. You have bases in
Virginia, you have bases inMaryland surrounding Washington,
DC, the fact that we were notcoordinated and ready for this
attack. And this was an attackon liberty and attack on justice
and attack on America. I cannotmake excuses for these people
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knowing that they had no rightto go into that building. Other
people want to make excuses andcall them patrons. They weren't
patrons, their riders. TheSmithsonian has better security
for their artifacts just forartifacts. And I want to
apologize for the people whofelt who felt that their lives
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were intact. Because youprobably felt if you weren't in
that building that your life wasin danger, you didn't know what
was going on, there was nocommunication. Imagine being in
your home and someone stormingyour home, in the fear that
would go through your mind. Thewhole, the whole situation is
unacceptable. I am I and I wantto apologize, and I've been
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there. So I'll start with that.
And we we need to secure our,our our government employees
better. I mean, I I know that alot of people think government
employees are worthless. And allthese people work hard every
day. They've been under a lot ofstress working through a
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pandemic wearing masks. There'sa lot of tension. And I want to
apologize and send prayers outto all these people who felt
that their lives may have beenin danger by an encroachment on
our US Capitol.
Terence Shigg (05:56):
And it's not like, I guess you could say it's
a, it's a symptom or a sign ofthe times what things have
culminated to, and what you'resaying is, we have to come
together, because we are thesame. We're on the same side,
we're one country. And so how dowe? Well, first of all, how do
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you what do you think, how doyou think we got to this point?
And where do you think we go?
George T. Farrell (06:25):
Well, we got to this point, because maybe we
did have a rigged election, butthere's a better way to handle
it. I have not seen the evidenceof a rigged election, there's
been court after court that havethrown it out. People have asked
for proof of dead voters and alist of names. They haven't been
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provided a list of names ofthese dead voters and voters
that weren't eligible to vote,which is why the courts keep
throwing it out you allays likealleging someone stole a candy
bar and say, well show me thecandy bar they stole, you don't
show the candy bar, right? Yougot to have some real solid
proof in the course have beenthrowing this out when bringing
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this up to people the course ofthrowing this out because you're
asking the same thing. Ifsomeone stole something, show me
what they stole, and show mewhere it is. If someone stole a
car, you know, where's the carthey stole? Well, the car they
stolen is over there andignition is broken. And you can
prove it. They have theirfingerprints on it. Right? We
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need we need the same type ofevidence to prove that this
election was stolen. Andunfortunately, the people making
the actual accusations have notshown the fingerprints. So
people are believing somethingwithout evidence. So and that's
that's been the main problem.
You say these votes were stolen?
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Show me the evidence on thecomputers or show me the names
of the people you say that havevoted that we're not eligible to
vote? Yes. And that's what wasmissing. You're saying? Well, we
need signature verification?
Well, signatures verification isfor the future in the past, you
just accuse people of stealingvotes. Show me the names. And
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several people have asked forthe list of names of people that
you say that that did or oneligible for some other reason.
And you haven't provided thatlist of names of dead people
that you said voted and that'swhy the courts keep throwing
this out. And I'm following thisas close as anyone that here's
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the here's the real reason. ThePresident logs in this is
unprecedent. To make light ofthis, but Bill Clinton had oral
sex in the white house he gotreelected. Okay.
That's amazing to me to have apresident a sitting president,
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not be elected, because hisparty, the Republican National
Party, committee, the GOP failto do a good job. They fail to
have inclusion of blacks Latinand Asians in their party.
That's why the President lost isthat is that simple. You go
through the voting list and youdon't have any blacks that voted
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for them or any republicans orAsians or Latins, not enough.
That's why you lost Why did youlose because the party that
you're in, ran by mitt romney'snice. Ronna romney did a bad job
for you. They did not do a getout to vote job properly. You
lost because your party failed.
You. Don't blame it on stolenvotes. Blame it on your party
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blaming or your team, your teamfailed to help you. Let's look
at this as a basketball team.
You're I don't want to bringdown LeBron I'm sure he don't
like this. You're LeBron Jamesand nobody's passing you the
ball. You're LeBron James andnobody can dribble. That's what
happened to your team. Mr.
President, your team was a grossfailure, you need to look at the
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Republican National Committee,the leadership in that
committee. And whether you havegood teammates, you have
horrible teammates, you that'swhat failed, you look at, look
at your Republican NationalCommittee, you need to fire
them, you need to get rid ofthem, you need to clean house.
But it's too late for you now,what you can do now is
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gracefully exit the building forpeaceful transitional part of
power. And make sure your peoplewho are there coordinate with
the by the administration, andyou may not like their policies,
but it's your duty as President,to make sure that there's a
peaceful transition apart ofpower, to make sure your people
don't tear up notes, inmeetings, transcripts, and that
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you do it with dignity. And withpride, you do it with dignity,
you know, you hold up ourinstitutions, you hold up our
country, and you say, I'm out,you're in, come in, I'm going to
open the door to you, I'm goingto welcome you like a grown up
not like a child, I want to, I'mgoing to open this, I'm going to
work with you as an adult, I'mgoing to be an adult, and I'm
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going to let you in, take over Idon't agree with your policies,
but we're going to worktogether. That's where it will
start. When people will followthe president with dignity. And
he let's bind him with dignity.
Without the name calling, thenwe can start to heal this
country.
Terence Shigg (11:31):
Something that you always talked about. And as
far as the the inclusion part ofit. And I think that is
something that is evident goingforward for any politician or
any campaign in any organizationto recognize that you're going
to have to deal with us, you'regoing to have to include us. And
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it shouldn't be this battle.
That. To do this. We shouldn'tyou shouldn't have to demand it
should be a it should be a nobrainer.
George T. Farrell (12:04):
Well, let me make this clear for the
Republican side, not a democraton the Republican side. Going
forward going forward fromGeorgia, the losses in Georgia,
Stacey Abrams has a game plan,she's going to spread that game
brand to Mississippi, Alabama,Louisiana, Texas, in Florida.
The Democrats don't have a gameplan with inclusion, or
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candidates, they have to startfrom scratch. They don't have a
plan right now. If they don'tcome up with a plan with Mr.
Trump or whoever, the democratshave a plan, the republicans
don't have a plan. They don'thave a plan going forward. They
don't have leadership. They justlost in Georgia, they don't know
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what they're going to do. Theyhave to start from scratch. The
Republican Party has to startfrom scratch. In North Carolina,
South Carolina, Alabama,Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana,
Tennessee, and Florida, theyhave to start from scratch with
leadership on down. TheDemocrats have a great plan.
They have a great plan. Ifyou're a democrat and you and
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you are pro abortion, and youdon't believe in school choice,
they have a plan for you.
They're praying may not benefityou, but they have a plan that
they're going to get you out tothe polls, the republicans have
no idea how to get the peopleout to the polls, they've
actually suppressed their votersby saying that the system
doesn't work for them. So nowyou have people who won't vote,
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you don't have to really workhard to get them to vote because
you told them don't trust thesystem. So we they have a lot to
do a lot of work to do on theRepublican side. I think the
democrats have it together, it'sgonna be harder for Republicans
to win in the south. Well, it's
Terence Shigg (13:46):
something that I was thinking about is how do you
because I, it really seems likethe dilemma that plays out is
they seem to be trying to figureout how do you how do you keep
your foundation or your base andexpand when base it's almost as
if they see the two as mutuallyexclusive, meaning you can't
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have the base and expand at thesame time, which, as we know, I
mean, that's not true. But itseems that's how the the
organization operate, is that Imean, if you get that
impression,
George T. Farrell (14:22):
they they have a base they need expansion.
The problem is they don't knowhow to do expansion. The people
they need to expand to theydon't know how to communicate
with the they don't know how tocommunicate with with Latins, or
Asians, or African Americans orany other people who are not I
would say good old boys. So theydon't they don't know how to
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communicate outside good oldboys, is the issues thing are
the way that black packcommunities and black packs
communicate on issues. We talkedabout school choice we talked
about Don't you want your childto have a good education,
especially with this COVID goingon. We talk about pro life. We
support pro life issues, but wedon't shove it down people's
throat. These are the thingsthat, that when voters we talk
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about opportunity for business,how do we expand opportunities
for business in low incomeareas? How do we get loans out?
How do we use the SBA to helppeople get a start in business,
who want to start a business, nomatter how small that business
may be, that may be an onlinebusiness, it doesn't have to be
an office building, you couldsell designer shirts or shoes
(15:30):
online, you could you could bein a music business and be
pushing your, your, your yourmusic online, and selling it
online through all the onlineplatforms. That's a business,
you know, masterpiece, and allthese other guys started selling
music out of their trunk whenthey were still tapes and CDs.
Now you don't sell tapes andCDs. Now you sell it online,
(15:53):
where people can buy your yourmusic, these are businesses that
we are successful at thatsometimes we need a little bit
of help and a little bit ofguidance. And that's where you
can win people over? Are wegoing to provide more assistance
for businesses in low incomearea, especially COVID? Where
you can't even do business faceto face anymore? How do you
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transfer your rest? How do youtransform your restaurant
business into a delivery onlybusiness, your business now may
be delivery only. And that couldbe a great business. If you're
starting out of your house, andyou're making bakery products,
and you're doing delivery onlythat could be a growth business,
you can grow from one locationto another, we've got to think
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outside the box to help peoplerestart their businesses and
restart their lives in the ageof COVID. And that's something
that the republican party inblackjack can help do we're
working on those things, becausewe're looking at how do we
restart the small businesses inour communities.
Terence Shigg (16:54):
And so what you're talking about is
quintessentially what politicswas originally, that's what it
was you were supposed to do,like you said you want to
politics one on one is, how doyou impact your community and
provide resources from them?
That's what your representativeand representative, you're
supposed to go out and get thosethings. So how do they How do
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they get that message out, andnot get it drowned out by all
the other noise, if that makes,
George T. Farrell (17:29):
that makes a lot of sense how you get the
message out that you're at aparty or pro business, pro life
and pro education. You do it,you just do it you lead by
example. And that's one thingthat the republican party has to
do, we had to lead by example.
We can't just do it with TV adsand radio ads that are talking
negative about the othercandidate. That's where you
fail. That's where we failed inGeorgia. Our our, our message
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was about how bad the other guywas. It wasn't about how good we
were. We talked more about theother candidates on a lot of
ads, and how bad they were thatwe never got the the message out
that hey, we're the party ofeducation. We're the party. I
mean, Trump did a lot of goodthings for education. Trump made
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all the HBCU funding permanent,it actually been done year to
year with an HBCU had to go upto Capitol Hill and beg for
money that should have beenpermanent years ago. He made
HBCU funding permanent. That'samazing. So now these schools
don't have to bet he actuallyincreased funding by 20 30%.
That message never got outthere. Especially in Georgia,
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where you have a number of HBCUsmessage never got delivered.
There's a lot of message, a lotof things that he did that did
not deliver, he got a vaccinedone in less than a year. That's
a great thing. Under Democrat,you still be waiting maybe 20%
making excuses as to why there'snot a vaccine. The bind
administration is going tobenefit from a process that was
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sped up regulations were weighedin it was done in less than a
year. So there's a lot ofthere's a lot of positive things
that Republican Party did,right. What did they do wrong?
They didn't get they didn'tdeliver this message. They fail
to deliver this message. Peoplewho are knowledgeable like me
understand what the differencewas, but they didn't get the
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message to the right people tosay that they had done a great
job.
Terence Shigg (19:29):
And agreed on that one. Because Yeah, I mean,
you look at it, and you look atthe organization that Stacey
Abrams has set up and the getout the vote and the bus tour.
They were really in thecommunities speaking to the
people and instructing themdirectly on Okay, this is what
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we this is what we're about.
This is what we're doing. Thisis where you need to go. This is
how you sign up. I think I waslooking at some of the
statistics and they were evensaying They had a certain number
of voters, somewhere above90,000. That hadn't even noted
in the presidential electionthat voted in the this just this
runoff. So they mean, so that'sthe type of ground game that you
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have to have going forward,because the future is just gonna
get more and more competitive,right?
George T. Farrell (20:23):
Yeah, we got a great, we've got a great
ground game. With blackpack.
This lady named Teresa Jones,she does a great job. We take
young people out, we train themand how to get how to be
canvassers. And we have a greatgame. Good ground game.
Terence Shigg (20:39):
Can you talk about? Can you talk about that a
little bit explain good groundgame as far as because your
database thing, the ground game,the training, I think that's
important for you to know thatthose things exist. Because you
really don't want you don't seethat.
George T. Farrell (20:53):
You don't see that? Well. blackpack has a
ground game, we have a groundgame team led by law, Teresa
Jones, where she takes we takeyoung people usually 25 to 20.
And we train them how toproperly knock on the door, how
to present yourself How to say,Ma'am, I'm with this campaign.
And I'm here to ask if you'regoing to vote, are you going to
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do mail envelope voting, ifyou're going to do mail in
voting, we will give you a stampand we handle a personal stamp
everybody that we go knock onthe door, if they're going to do
a mail in ballot, we actuallyhand them a stamp so that they
can, they may not use the stamp,but they'll remember, Hey, I got
this stamp from this blackpackgroup. I liked them I'm gonna
I'm gonna I'm gonna vote fortheir person just because he
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gave us a stamp. So sometimes astamp can do a lot more than he
think. So we do a lot ofcanvassing and training and
going on presentations. And itreally opens up the the eyes of
these young people because theysome of them have never worked
before. So we're taking themfrom non work to working in a
situation. And this is tiringwork, you're knocking on doors.
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Usually we knock on almost 40 to50 doors a day, sometimes up to
101 person knocking on 100doors, presenting themselves
over and over again. And afterabout 40 of door they developed
their own personality, their owntheir own way of presentation is
a very nice presentation. So noteveryone does the same
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presentation. We don't turn theminto robots. We also have a team
that does phone banking, wherethey're calling people all day
long and having conversationsand having the same conversation
where it says Hey, my name isthis. I'm with blackpack and I'm
calling to ask for your vote.
Are you going to vote earlier?
Or are you going to vote inperson? Once we do that, we have
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people that make up to 200 to300 calls a day, it can be a
little bit tiring, you have totake a few breaks every now and
then. But after we log in everysingle call what the response
is, where are they going to votefor your candidate or not? That
gives us an idea of how we'rerunning. It's our own polling.
So we have our own internalpolling. We have our own
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training for candidates where wetrain candidates, how first how
to pick an office to run for howto count votes. Because if
you're going to run for anoffice, the first thing you have
to do is know how many peoplevoted in the last election. So
you can estimate how many peoplegonna vote in the next election,
then you have to see if theyvoted Republican, they voted
Democrat, they votedindependent. The first thing to
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do a lot of candidates try toskip this part is know who won
the last race, how many votesthey won by and where they
Republican, Democrat before youeven choose to run for an
office. We love people to runfor school board because we need
more people on the school boardwho really, really care. And
school board training is greatbecause now you're involved in a
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young person, what their mealsare every day. What they're
reading, you know, are theyreading proper books, are they
reading things that are off thewall? So I love school board,
school board races arenonpartisan, most school boards.
They don't care if you'rerepublican or democrat or
independent. But it's greattraining to learn how you're
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going to perform in a meetingand operate as a part of a team
before you go on to citycommission or county commission
or even run for Congress. So wehave a grassroots training
session that trains people onhow to run for office. We train
kids on how to knock on doors,proper phone etiquette. We take
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them to different events inbecause once you're involved in
a political campaign, thoseevents all over the place that
we take them to is greattraining in our candidates when
we just put two blacks inCongress, Burgess Owens,
environment Donald's fromFlorida, for Asians to Koreans
from California, in OrangeCounty. So we had a large impact
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this year is on our website,which is www.bl AK Pac GOP
You'll see the list of all thefolks that we helped get elected
in 2020. In 2022, we're gonnahave a major, major impact that
like I said, we may not run alot of people as Republicans, we
may run people as independence.
Because we don't know if theRepublican Party, we don't know
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if the Republican Party is goingto survive the next two years.
Terence Shigg (25:22):
Well, one of the things that's a great overall
view of all the things thatblackpack offers that is unique.
And, and I'd like that you gavethe website because I want
people to know that in order todo that, it takes resources it
takes funding. And so peopledonating to black pack, this is
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what it's for. And does blackpack, because black pack is
independent of candidates.
Correct. And how does that work?
George T. Farrell (25:52):
Well, we we are an outside organization. We
are conservative, I like to saywe're more conservative than
Republican. So we are, you know,we are a values organization of
values that we support. Again,I'm pro life, pro school choice
and pro business. If we're ifwe're if we're on those issues,
and there's a lot of democratsthat are also agree with those
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issues. So if you agree withthose issues, we're the
organization for you again, ourwebsites www.li k Pac back DLP,
and you can see the work that wedo and in our postings, we also
have a Twitter at at realblackpack is our Twitter. I do a
lot on LinkedIn. I love LinkedInas a business is a business
site, but I use it a lot forpolitics. We have Instagram, we
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have parlor. So our social mediais growing and growing. And we
can tell that we're going tohave a great, a great year for
2021. So raising money if youwant to, you want to go to our
website and donate, donatewhatever you can. We don't beat
you over the head. We're justhappy that we can get done, what
we need to be done. What we needto get done and we do want
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people to look us up and we wantpeople to to see what I'm doing
to see what all our members aredoing and to see what our
candidates are doing. We have anevent on February 20 is going to
be in St. Petersburg, Florida isour Frederick Douglass Day event
is actually probably going toexpand right now we have a
(27:22):
luncheon. One day so far we havethe most prominent black leaders
coming so far. We have ElbertGuillory is attending from
Louisiana. He's he's going to beour main speaker. We also have
former lieutenant governorJennifer Carroll from Florida.
She's going to be their powerfuldynamic lady was lieutenant
governor. We have a city councilmember from Daytona Beach quani
(27:46):
to May. She's going to be apowerful force. He's one of the
city council of Daytona Beachwhere they launch rockets into
space. We have a former mayorPro Tem from stonecrest, Georgia
forgetting her name, but we havewe have her we have Webster
Barnaby, who's on who's in thestate legislature in Florida,
Webster Barnaby. Diane adomah isthe lady who's a stonecrest.
(28:10):
Mayor. She's former stonecrestmayor, she's gonna be there. So
we have a lot of people who arecoming who have served in
government, who can lend youtheir knowledge. We have a lot
of people who are currently ingovernment. And we have a lot of
people who are knowledgeableabout about government and how
it works and how to get elected.
So we're focusing on in 2022,getting people elected getting
(28:34):
them elected so that they canmove up in one day move to
Congress. The speaker for forthis event. is a good friend of
mine. We have him elected inSarasota, Naples, Florida,
Florida area. And I'm horriblewith names I should write up.
But I can post I can post theevent is the Frederick Douglass
event is gentlemen, we just gotelected to Congress. And we
(28:57):
would like to have you there.
And we expect a lot more peoplecome so far we've got 100 people
coming in, we're going to have200 people coming is going to be
all COVID guidelines. We'regoing to be social distancing.
We may all be in like a plasticsuit swap. We talk to each
other. But as in St. Petersburg,Florida. We're also going to do
(29:21):
a webcast The next day, we'rewhere we're going to do training
for canvassing, we're going todo training for how to run for
office. We're going to haveVernon Robinson who's a mail
how, who really knows how to dodirect mail. Bernie Robinson is
going to talk about theeffectiveness of direct mail he
he worked on several campaignshas been very effective. So
(29:44):
we're going to have people whoknow how to win So if you're
interested in running for anyoffice, any office, no matter
what from, from dog catcher toCongress, maybe even president
will be there to help you, we'llbe there to help you set up your
your base of operations tell youwhat works, what doesn't work.
(30:04):
What doesn't work is when youknow, we get people who have
never served in office and wantto run for Congress and say God
told him to run. That doesn'twork that way. You got to have
some experience before you getto Congress. And we like to have
experienced people that haveserved in other offices, other
positions from whether schoolboard whether City Council,
(30:28):
whether it's county commission,and that way you build yourself
a base to run for higher officelater, if you like government,
you like serving in government,that's great. A lot of people
run they find out is not a thingfor them, and they go do
something else. But we likepeople who who have served in
low office been successful andwant to move up to other
(30:51):
offices, or maybe Stay where youare, have been on a county
commission for two or threeterms is is is great, because
you can help your community. Imean, if you want to county
commission, you can determinewhat rows go where you can
determine the zoning for yourcity, you can determine a lot a
lot of things you're gonnadetermine where apartment
(31:14):
buildings go, where a mall goes.
So serving on city council is isI think the lower offices are
more important than Congress.
Terence Shigg (31:25):
They get so caught up, like I said, in the
noise, politicians andpersonalities and you know, and
hit pieces that they forget thatthey are grassroots. They are
not even grad they'regrassroots. There are
organizations out there likeblack backpack that are
fundamentally there to upholdwhat the politicians are there
(31:47):
for, and to teach people theright way and how it is ideally
to be done. So I think peopleget turned off by politics
because they don't hear thisenough.
George T. Farrell (31:57):
Yeah, what they need to understand, let's
say you're on a school board.
And and, you know, schools,school board issues,
construction contracts, forbuildings, for gyms. For
playgrounds, that is a lot ofmoney and school boards. Also,
what's important is you chooseto dental care and a doctor care
no medical care for the studentsin your in your care. You know,
(32:17):
sometimes the child only getsdental care through a school
board. So these are importantdecisions, which means you're
going to issue a contract forthe local dentist, which means
you can make sure that dentistlooks like you're you can make
sure you hiring black dentistsor black doctors or a black
construction firm or sitedevelopment firms or architects.
(32:37):
That's why I think school boardsso important the school board to
me is sometimes a mini city.
Sometimes it provides moreMercer, more services than the
city. And when you're in a citycouncil, you determine zoning
you determine what type ofbuilding goes where you
determine who is the Chief ofPolice, who's the chief of the
(32:59):
fire department, whether you'regoing to have a black police
chief or Spanish police chief,all this is important on the
city level. All this isimportant on these local levels.
You want to county you determinewhere the county roads go. You
determine who is the electricalperson that fixes your your
lines, and your sewers and yourwater treatment. You're talking
(33:21):
millions of dollars that you getto control as a city council
member, a county council memberor school board member. And
whether the person who gets getsthose contracts for security and
other things looks like you ispart of your community. And
believe me, when you're helpinga business grow, when you're
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helping that doctor or lawyerand you're making those
friendships and making sure thatpeople in your community look
like you that are doing businesswith you is a is a great way to
stay in office. That's part ofthe process. But we've got to
learn that government can workwith us, for us or against us.
But we we have to learn it atthe local level. So I really
(34:04):
push for candidates to getelected to local level that
care. I look for candidates thathave some business experience
and some what we look for. Welook for candidates that have
those values that areconservative, you know, we can't
I hate to go there. But ifyou're looking at candidates
that are all they care about isabortion, abortion, abortion and
(34:25):
pushing abortion on yourcommunity. That's not the
candidate for you. You'reeliminating your own people.
That's not right. So we'relooking for candidates that care
about people.
Dwayne E. Shigg (34:36):
Anybody can use foundation teaches our youth to
step off into life with theirbest foot forward without
cowardice but with courage anddignity. ABC was founded by
legendary life HeavyweightChampion Archie Moore in 1957.
He had a heart and passion forhelping the youth. He believed
if we went into the business ofprevention, we could save
billions of dollars and millionsof lives. He started ABC to
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teach Use the basic ABCs oflife. Are you concerned about
the world today? Do you want tohelp train our youth to be the
change needed in the world? Joinus in the fight for equality in
the fight for justice in thefight for our youth. If you
would like to help, go to wwwdot ABC youth foundation.org.
That's www dot ABC usefoundation.org be well and be
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blessed.
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