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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is Paul Corvino, Division president of iHeartMedia in Los Angeles, California,
with our pre election segment called Meet the Candidates Today,
I'm here with Daniel Botchik Martinez, a Republican running for
Congress in the thirty first Congressional district.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Welcome Daniel, thank you very much for having me. Hey
before we.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Get going, because this interview is about having our people
get to know the candidates.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We're going to do a little quick rapid fire Q.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And a beautiful fun stuff where we get your brain
working and your mouth moving.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
You ready the answer? Answer quick? It's rapid fire.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Beat your ski vacation, ooh, ski vacation Michael Jordan or
Tom Brady, Michael Jordans, Beatles, are Stones, Beatles, Star Wars
or Godfather Godfather Sean Connery or Daniel Craig Sean Connery
celebrity people say you remind them.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Of ooh, Brad Pitt.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
We'll go with that one. So welcome again, Daniel.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So tell me what area there's your district cover.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
My district starts in Monrovia if you're heading east on
the two ten and then goes to San Dimas Laverne
and then if you go south on the fifty seven,
he hit the sixty sixty west back pretty much San
Gabriel Valley Gabe from the mountains down to the.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Sixty and there's sixty Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
So give us a little bit of a background where
you're from and how you got to the point where
you decided that you wanted to get into politics.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah. Absolutely. I was born in Pasadena, so just outside
of the district, but I was living in Duherty at
the district at the time. My parents were legal permanent
residents from Chile when I was born, and I was
lucky enough to go to private school prep school my
entire life. I ended up attending Damien High School, the
Catholic high school in the area, went down to University
of San Diego, where I got degrees in psychology, history, philosophy,
(01:58):
and then I stayed for law school. As far as
politics goes, I was always interested in politics since nine
to eleven. I was in nine. I was in senior
in high schoolhen nine eleven happened, and that's when my
interest in foreign policy began, and I was I had
issues reservations with the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan,
and I was not a Republican at the time. I
(02:19):
actually was kind of worried that the Republican foreign policy
was causing problems. But then as I chose my candidates
based off of foreign policy and non intervention, and then
the Democrats betrayed me on that front. During the time
(02:39):
of when we were during the time when we were
holding citizens, we were holding human beings in Guantanamo Bay
without trial, without lawyers. I was in law school and
I was writing a paper on why if you're going
to hold human beings in a box, they're entitled to
certain due process rights, And that became something that was
just primarily important for me.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
What do you say they are major issues that need
to be addressed in your district the prime and what
do you plan on doing about it?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
The primary issue in the district is economy, inflation, the
loss of the American dream. Young people these days have
no conceivable way to imagine owning a home, raising a family.
And if you want toss address economic issues and inflation,
you have to address foreign policy. Because foreign policy, specifically
(03:29):
with countries that produce oil, it's intricately related to overall inflation.
If the cost of energy goes up. The cost of
everything goes up. And so if you have the if
you have Eurasia, Ukraine, and Russia on fire, and you
have the Middle East on fire, and you're going to
have prices the rise. And if you spend two hundred
three hundred billion dollars a year on foreign policy, then
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that's money that's not spent domestically on education, it's not
spent on health care, it's not spent on those issues.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
How would you measure success.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Oh measure success in my first term, the first term,
so domestically. The issue that I prioritize highest above all
is I work with a group of veterans in PTSD
traumatic brain injury and suicide mitigation. And that's something that
we don't hear very often from any political party because
the issue is complex and there's certain types of treatment
(04:20):
protocols that are not yet available at the VA, and
those if I could change the rules, because when you
run for Congress, you hold the pen to change the
laws and change the rules, if you could make it
so the veterans have access to these life saving treatments
that they're not presently have access to. If that was
the only thing I accomplished in two years and the
only thing I accomplished in Congress, I would be happy.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Well again, we've been here with Daniel Bocik Martinez, who's
a Republican running for Congress in the thirty first congressional district.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Thank you, thank you for being on.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
This is Paul Corvino, Division president of iHeartMedia in Los Angeles,
saying thank you for listening to our new segment.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Called Meet the Candidates.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Thank you.