February 15, 2025 • 27 mins
Abe Cortez talks by phone with Jimmy Mata, the first Latino mayor of Burien, Washington, discussing his journey from a farmworker background to public service leadership. They explore community unity, Latino empowerment, and the challenges facing Latino communities, including issues like gang violence and voter participation. Jimmy shares his motivations for entering politics, inspired by President Obama, and highlights the importance of staying connected to one's roots. This episode celebrates cultural identity, resilience, and civic engagement, offering insights and inspiration to young leaders.
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
Hey, what's up? What's up?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
My name is Ade Cortez. Born and raised in Austin, Texas.
Today I lived in the Seattle metro area. I'm right
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Speaker 2 (01:00):
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Speaker 1 (01:03):
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Speaker 2 (01:14):
What's your homeboy?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
From way back in the day from Austin, Texas, but
today I'm in Seatalaria, Aforda. Don't forget that, baby, It's
all about building unity in the community. Peace, ladies and gentlemen.
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Welcome to the Powerhouse Podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I'm your host.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
We're here to the After Studio in Pualla, Washington with
engineer Or Bill and I've got a legendary community leader
and I can say I'm proud to say the current
mayor and the future mayor of the City of Bury
in Washington. I'm here with the one and only Jimmy
Mata comostas.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Thank you very much for taking my call today.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
And four years ago I got elected as mayor of
the city, first Latino mayor of elected. And I was
such an honor to serve as the mayor of the
city two terms. And now I got to run for
city council again, uh and continue to do the good
work that I've been doing here in the city of period.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
All Right.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I got to ask you, Jimmy Mata, because a lot
of people know you, but can you kind of backtrack
and start like what got you into public service?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Community service? You know?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I remember you, man, because a lot of people don't
know this, but you're one of the people who does
a Latino legislative day. And I didn't you start the
Latino Carpenter's Union or get it going.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
You know what happened is I came into the union
in nineteen ninety eight as a young you know, carpenter,
and I was able to help connect workers and making
sure that they had representation through a collective bargain agreement.
And that's how I got involved in the Carpenters Union.
You know, I never knew that there was an organization
that foughtware workers' rights. And so when I found the
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Carpenters Union, that was just right down my alley and
making sure not only in my carpenter but that I
was going to fight and making sure that people were
represented getting their wages paid because back then, you know,
a lot of the latinos because the legal status, wouldn't
be paid. And so people thought that that was legal
but against the law. If you work, you get paid,
and so that's just the way it works. And so
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I was able to as a young person just learn
the rules, regulations, you know, and see how legislation works.
But prior to that, you know, I was raised in
eastern Washington. You know, I was raised to two immigrant
parents that came here from Whatmala. I like to say
that they settled, right because that was the word back
in the day with the thirteen colonies, you know, the settlers, right,
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but I felt that my parents were settlers as well, right,
you know, before there was borders, you know, this was
a you know what they said, somos no porque Americas,
you know, North America, Central America, South America. But my parents
fled basically civil War of Guatemala because at Chiquita and Anna,
you know. And I grew up in a area. And
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that's why now in politics, it's interesting because it really
follows me. You know, I've had some family involved in
politics and Gatemala that I didn't know until now that
I'm an adult. And then I had some also family
that was engaged in the guerrilla warfare and whatema. But
it was you know, they were fighting against Jiuitavana taking property.
But three forms of government were trying to exist in
Guatemala at the time, capitalism, socialism, and communism. And it's
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kind of where we're at in our country right now,
you know, where you know, we're we're having this conversation
of what kind of government do we want?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Right?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
But you know, I grew up poor as farm worker,
but happy. You know, I had a family. I remember,
I remember abe I was I was over and when
Aschi were sleeping in the van, you know, and I
didn't know we were poor or homeless. But it's because my
parents were farm workers. So they would travel to Washington, Idaho, Oregon,
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you know, California because they were following the crops, but
we couldn't. I just, you know, I'd go back in
my mind now as an adult ice, I'm wondering why
they wouldn't rent a hotel even you know Motil six
or a Motil eight, you know, Motile that's inexpensive. But
you know, I'm a privilege Latino too, because I can't
afford to stay at you know, Motil later or Motil six.
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But my parents couldn't at the time because they were
farm workers.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
They hardly made it the.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Money, right, So but some of the happiest times in
my life was you know, traveling, you know, and uh
being in the van, waking up to that gas stove
outside with my dad cooking some frequalitos and some uh
tortillas with my mom and some frequality and some little
eggs there.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Nobody that was delicious.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Oh it sounds delicious.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
My poor mom.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
You know, we go out with my sister and climb
the cherry trees. And eat all these cherries. And I
don't know, I don't know if you've ever had an
experience like that, but I have my sister too.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
We ate so many cherries, are telling me her, my
poor mom.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
You know, she'd have to work, wake up in the
morning to get you know, the cherries picked to make
sure that they were making enough money to pay the bills.
But you know, she had a you know, she had
children with my father. We're a young couple here, and
so they had to you know, take care of us.
And so I just got to say that, never in
my wildest dream that I ever think that I would
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be called mayor of a city fifty four thousand residents,
forty two percent people of color, twenty five percent Hispanic.
And so I have the privilege today in America to
come from you know, immigrant parents to being ELECTEDBLIC official.
And my decision to that was when Obama finished his turnout.
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You know, I was a delegate to Obama. And I
remember when Obama I was being talked about getting elected,
you know, and I seen him on Oprah Winthrey show,
and I was like.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Man, he would just be a great president, you know.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
And I was so conditioned at the time, I said,
but that would never happen me as a young man.
And when that happened, it was like a dream come
true that, you know, America's flag was being represented by
people of color in this country, and so that really
inspired me. You know, it made me say, yes, it
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can be done. And you know, I never thought i'd
be an elected official. But what happened is when you
left office. I was at a Safeway the First Woman's
March in Seattle and a guy in the store, you know,
it's yelling. A white man is yelling at a Latino guy.
The Latino guy is shaking yes. The other guy doesn't
look like he's shaking yes. So I go by just
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to make sure it was okay. And the man turns
around and says, Yep, that's right. Your president's gone. You're
going back home. So in my mind, I said, well,
what home presson Idaho where I was born, Eastern Washington
where I was raised, or two blocks away from my
from the store, because I know you're not saying my
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parents' country, because I'm an American, right, So it's it's
it's what I told my kids, Hey, I'm gonna run
for office. Imagine that uh, you're come and you tell
your parents and you tell your kids, I'm gonna run
for office. But then that night, you know, I remember,
because when you're raised in poverty, when you're raised in
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the non you know, basically community of authority, then sometimes
you have doubt in yourself, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
So I told my kids.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I'm running, and then at the next morning, you know,
cooking breakfast, and tell my kids, Now, let me I
think all over spoke. I can't do that job. It's
very hard, you know. Look, you know, I don't have
a master's degree or a PhD. Some of these people
are highly educated, and they speak in a way that
I don't. And so I remember my son trying to begin.
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You know, they said, Dad, you said you can do
anything you want if you put your mind to it.
And I had to say I had a choice. Either
I said I'm lying or two. As I get out there,
get busy, get on the road, and let people know
where I stand and what I want to see my community,
and what I want to see in my community as
a place where we can all thrive. What I want
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to see in my community is that small businesses can
make sure they can scale up to be big businesses.
What I want to see is making sure that when
kids are walking down the street that they don't get shot.
I want to make sure that the drug dealers not
around the corner poising our children and dying to fentannel.
I want to make sure that we're not using gang
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violence and guns to murder thirteen year old children or
innocent people working at a chiropractic office. And so that's
why I really respect you because and I love what
you do in our community because like the lowrider shows,
I was just talking about you at the car show here,
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Durian of how you talk about unity. You know, we
can still keep her culture alive. We can still have
the lowrider culture, the you know, coming together, the Pachuco style.
But when we start picking up guns and we start
picking up knives and we start killing each other, we're
doing a disservice to the many generations that we need
to build to be men and women in this country
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that can build this country. And so that's why I'm
let I'm you know, read running for office, and I'd
love to be I love to be the image of
the community that I represent, which is, you know, all
shades of color. Because I represent the human race, right,
So that's a little bit about myself.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Man, that's pretty incredible, Jimmy mata. And let me tell
you right now, if you have young people are out
there listening Chicano's, where you're a Chicano from Guatemala, from
the Salvador, wherever you're originally from, you can do like
Jimmy did. Jimmy grew up poor, so did I. Me
and my sister. When you were saying about picking fruit
in Corpus Christie with my aunt or in Austin, I
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remember we used to jump over the tree and always
get the plums or the you know, the apples. Would
be like, what are you doing A little way boy?
I said, I'm hungry. I want to I want to
get some food. And a lot of it was those peaches,
you know, and some of them were even ripe, But
to me it was the biggest thing in the world.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Hey, with a little bit of salt. They all taste good,
probably like live and salt.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
If if there's young Chicano's out there that might be
a little shy, but they're educated and their leaders, what
advice do you give to them, Jimmy.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Here's the thing is that some of us are going
to become millionaires, some of us, you know, are going
to become famous. But here's the one thing that I
hope that you take from this is that don't forget
where you come from. You know, don't don't be embarrassed
of talking about, oh that you speak a different language,
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or that we have a rich history. Look, this country
is a new country. We're redefining what it is to
be an American because who's died for this country has
been all of us, the Native Americans, the African American,
the Latinos, the Whites, the Asians, and so you know,
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this is our country. This is for us to rebuild
and for you educated people out there. You know, we
need your help in our communities. We have a lot
of problems in our communities. You know, we have over
sixty four million Latinos in the United States of America.
Thirty four million can vote on only half of them vote.
That's a problem. We're two point five trillion dollars GDP
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in the United States is Latino. We are, you know,
we are a big buying power. And so I would
just say, you know, we got to build our communities.
Let's not tear them down, like graffiti on the walls,
Like why would we want somebody to come and say, hey.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Man, look, come to my house.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
You're going to have your walls all spray, Like no,
you know, let's have let's build space for that because
in Deary and we have a lot of artists, a
lot of I love the street art and you know
people's imaginations. So let's work with business and take their
walls and rebuild our communities. Thank you so much for
talking about unity, you know, and engagement. You know, we
were just talking about Latino Legislative Day, which is one
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day in Washington where we as a community come together
and we're able to talk about issues that are affecting
our communities and there's legislation that we end up passing
to make sure that our communities are taken care of.
Now when we represent communities, all communities, but we have
you know, different obstacles in the Latino community. You know,
we have different dialects that are spoken in Washington. We
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have people that come from different countries, we come in
different shades of brown, and so you know, there's a
lot of and there's a lot of things surrounding you
know what happens in our community drug addiction, gang violence,
youth violence, and some of the things that poverty brings
on us. But one of the things that I can
say is, you know, getting involved in politics very important
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because who represents you really matters. You know, it sets
up the programs that can bury. And I know that
I have the ability to listen to communities in two languages,
Spanish and English, and so that to me, it's important
for me. But I also want other communities to see
that that's important. It should be important to them. But
one of the things, even for fathers, you know, I'm
forty five years old, and you know, we're in a
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place right now in our society where you know, we
have very educated Latinos and Latinos that are still in
a working class environment, blue collar jobs, which those jobs
are needed, right So for the people that are going
to college, you know what, my hat's off to you.
We want you to be doctors, We want you to
have PhDs. For those individuals that weren't very good at school,
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and you know, I had my my classes and you know,
in my household, we didn't have anybody spoke the language,
so it's very hard to get that extra help. So
it might be that just need some extra help and
you need to learn how to ask. But we also
have blue collar jobs that pay very well, like my
son's are a union carpenter. You know, it starts to
start off at twenty seven dollars an hour. You know,
it's through a union apprenticeship program, and then every quarter
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you make money. In four years you journey out and
you're up in the fifty four dollars an hour, right,
So making those that's that's a good choice.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
That's incredible, by the way, Jimmy.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Yeah, and so and for all you that you know,
for some of you right now that are I want
to first of all, I give my deepest sympathy for
those who have lost their parents, grandparents to COVID. COVID
nineteen has been devastating for our communities. But you know,
we're at a place today that we can start seeing
that there's a light at the end of the tunnel
and a rebuild.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
You know.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
To just have your lowrider show, and I know it
was very very uh well, a lot of people participated,
but for those who haven't gotten their vaccine, it's very important,
you know, I know it's scary it's very important, you know,
we keep informed with the news. On top of that,
it's very important who represents us. It's very important to
register to vote. You know, our vote matters. You know
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I only vote. I only one to two percent of
the vote, meaning that you know, we need to engage, right,
We need to listen to what's going on because a
lot of this legislation that passes can impact you, your family,
and many genera generations to come right. So, but with that, Abe,
you know, I I don't know if you had any
more specific questions for me, but I want to thank
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you for the time that I've had to be able
to talk to community.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
No, I just want to say, if you can elaborate
real quick, if there's a young Latino out there, you
could be in eastern Washington, you could be in Vancouver, Washington,
the Seattle area, or as far up as Spokane. You
know what advice do you give to them? Because you
actually did it, you ran for office, you got elected
and became successful. So and of course you do the
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Latino Legislative Day, and you know what advice do you
give to somebody who right now is listening to this
podcast and wants to run for office.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
First of all, if it feels scary, it should.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
If you feel you can't do the job, you can
have those questions in your mind, but you can do
the job.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I mean, I gotta tell you I had.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I went through all those feelings, you know, And and
so it was very difficult to me to make the
choice that I was gonna go. One of us, that
I was gonna tell my children I could do it.
But one of anything is we got to believe in ourselves.
You know, sometimes we start feeling uncomfortable, but to learn
has to feel uncomfortable. Now, my dad used to tell me,
you know, son, there's three kinds of people. There's the dreamers,
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the talkers, and the doers.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Who are you? And if you're going to leave community and.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
You want to get involved with community, I would say
three also principles that I would leave you with is.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
The love of community.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
We got to get educated about the issues that are
occurrent in our Why do we have so much drugs
on our streets. Why is it that we're selffering with
mental health? Why is it that you know, we have
you know, children not coming to school. I mean, all
those things. We really got to figure out why and
then we got to move to action. And I think
here now in eastern Washington, it's you're in a prime
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place that you can, you know, say hey, we we matter,
we count, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I know.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
And I had to move out of the smaller towns
because I didn't really see a future for myself and
I said, I have to go into the city. And
I think in the city, I'll be able to find
opportunities for myself and my family because I started a
young family at twenty. You got to believe in yourself,
and you know what when you don't, let's not tear
our community. Do you know the reason that I'm the
mayor today?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Abe?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
You know what? It was because of a lot of
people ask.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
That because of another Latino. So in my community, the
people don't elect their mayor. It's the council that elects
our mayor. And there was another Latino who was elected
at the same time I was.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
His name is.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Council Member o Gaen, and Council Member of Game said hey,
because I was already wanting to see the deputy mayor
be the next mayor, which is a woman that is
still a councilwoman, you know, and she's you know, she's
been in politics for a long time, very school, very
educated scientists with education. But you know, my brother seeing
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me that I could do the job, and I questioned
myself whether I could, and he says, you know, I said, man,
just give me some more time, because Jimmy, we've been
waiting for one hundred and twenty five years. If it's
not you, then who. You've been doing work in labor.
You've been doing work in our community since you were
twenty two years old. And he goes, so, if it's
not you, then who?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
And going back to that, I can remember this Jimmy,
and we weren't really like best friends holding hands and skipping.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I don't do that anyway, Jimmy. I'm just joking. But
I remember remember a long, long time ago. It was
the Latino Day March. Yeah, I think there was over
twenty plus thousand. She kind of and I remember one
of the cops tell me, hey, sir, you seem pretty vocal.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You got a video camera.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
You need to get these people off the sidewalk and
into the street. So so me and a couple of
my friends tried whatever we could, and the cop kind
of looked at us and goes okay, thank you, you know,
because I was afraid he was start knocking people down.
But I remember that, man, I had to be like
twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
I think, yeah, yeah, no, I remember a young man
out there, you beating the streets, and I think we
got to continue to have that conversation, right, how do
we want to be policed as a community.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
You know.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
One of the things that you know, I want to
make sure that it's never confused, is that we don't
we don't want drug dealers on our streets, you know,
killing our children. But we also don't want cops on
the streets, you know, killing our people for no reason. Right,
So we need to have figure out whereas the community
can come together and figure out like, for instance, if
we're dealing with somebody who mental health, let's get some mental.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Health experts there, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
But if there's criminal activity, we need to make sure that,
you know, we protect our communities. And so, you know,
law enforcement has a tough job. But I think it's
a conversation we're going to have to really have and
sit down and discuss it, right and very in here,
you know, we were dealing with a lot with a
lot of use that was passing away because of gun violence.
We started working with mamas the papas, and that's key.
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My my papa is key, and to me my mom,
you know, my dad was you know, my dad died
of a drug overdose. Have forty eight years old and
bury in Washington and died of a heroin overdose. And
so for a long time, you know, I wanted to
hide that. I mean, who wants to be the son
of a drug addict?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
But I love my dad.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
You know, my dad gave me a lot of tools
that I used today, but he had a disease, and
that disease basically cause them to pass away earlier than
we should have. And so to me, it's like, Okay,
when we talk about drug addiction, we understand it, but
you know, I also understand that we have a disease
as being provided by somebody, and so that's where we
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need to really.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Focus on our on our streets.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
But you know, I love the That's why your events
I always feel very comfortable, very safe. You know, I
think in society we need to bring back what the
culture of low writer is, you know, of you know,
all the money that's invested in these cars and that
it's not. You know, sometimes it's been portrayed as trouble, right,
and so those are the that's the stuff what we
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need to make sure that we change the narrative that right. Yes,
and so that's why you're doing a great job representing,
you know, the low writer clubs in the state of Washington.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
And I appreciate your work. You know.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I have a sixty four convertible wow, and so you know,
I've been buying it from my uncle and I had
another one at sixty four super Sport. But when I
was thirteen I got it because I worked in the fields.
Then I tore it apart and I never put it
back together because at twenty I became a dad.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
I didn't have an extra money.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Well, speaking on that, Jimmy Matta is, don't forget man,
Just just to put a bug in here. Maybe we
can work together and do a Suavisito festival building and
coin Latinos Sonedos, Unity in the community, unity.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Custom car show in Burian. I don't see happy.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I'm happy that you're saying that, because we're going to
have what it's called the Betown Fiesta and Burian. There's
a committee coming together to organize it, and you know,
I'll invite you to the people that are making those decisions.
But there's also going to be a Latino Civic center
opening up in Burian. There's another organization, but another three
or four organizations that are going to exist out of
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another facility on Ambom where there's eighteen computers. So we'll
be able to have our children, you know, in our communities,
doesn't matter. You know, it's a Latino based organization, but
everybody's going to be welcomed, right because we're one needed.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
And so there there'll be.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
A father Pronos, We're gonna have Burian Youth Counsel's a
new youth counsel and burying and so they're really engaged,
really involved. They get really familiar with what's affecting their community.
And so I'm very excited about this. And then also
you know, when parents are dealing with their children or
children are dealing with their parents, because sometimes it's the
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other way around, right, that we can bring the help
to the whole family to make sure that we can
nurture a working relationship. You know, because I remember my
mom when I was growing up. You know, it's like
what Latina moms man and so you know, and I
you know, started having attitude, right, so I needed to
make sure that you know, I was learning how to
be respectful to my mother because I grew up without
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a father, right, and so she did a great job.
So I can say on that one oh.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
No, no, no, Latin don't play you know right at
the time. Believe me, you can ask my sister.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
By the way, while we're going here, I want to say,
what's up to my sister? Butlinda go to this out
of Meijo. She helped raise me. I mean as a kid.
She didn't have to because she's not much older. A
lot of people think she's younger than me. But I
want to say I want to say high to her
because she's been a big part of my life, along
with my friends. By the way, Jimmy, I got to
say this, and I want one of these days, I
want to get a chapter of lu LAC League of
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United Latin American Citizens in Bury and for the Seattle
Tacoma chapter. And one of one of my missions is
to build more LULAC councils like they have in that house,
because in that house, LULAC is very powerful. They're very
a good civic community organization. They've uncovered a lot of
stuff and they you know, they got lawyers that work
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with them.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I mean they're very powerful.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
You know, Abe Berry, you used to have a chapter here.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
In fact, the president who helped started here, I was
one of them, and so I was the president of LULAC.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Here in here.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
You know that how incredible that would have been about
fifteen years ago.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
By the way, one of the heads of lu LAC,
I think one of the national presidents out of Houston, Texas.
His last name is Mata.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Oh really, two t's and one T, I think too t's.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Oh wow, that's almost pretty most yes, I think so. No,
but I think that that would be great, you know,
and making sure that as we move forward here, that
you know everything that you're doing, and that you know,
the city Iberia is trying to accomplish, that we come
together as a community with different service providers, you know,
having the sponsors. I mean, look, if it wouldn't be
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for sponsors out there sponsoring community events, I mean, you know,
how would we be able to you know, uh, put
our stuff out there. Right And as far as Belinda,
your sister Latina, and you know, an attorney and so
it does does a lot ton of tremendous work in
our community.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
So I want to thank her and recognize her work.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
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Speaker 2 (01:58):
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Speaker 1 (01:59):
We're here to the After Studio in Pualla, Washington with
engineer Or Bill and I've got a legendary community leader
and I can say I'm proud to say the current
mayor and the future mayor of the City of Bury
in Washington. I'm here with the one and only Jimmy
Mata comostas.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Thank you very much for taking my call today.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
And four years ago I got elected as mayor of
the city, first Latino mayor of elected. And I was
such an honor to serve as the mayor of the
city two terms. And now I got to run for
city council again, uh and continue to do the good
work that I've been doing here in the city of period.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
All Right.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I got to ask you, Jimmy Mata, because a lot
of people know you, but can you kind of backtrack
and start like what got you into public service?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Community service? You know?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I remember you, man, because a lot of people don't
know this, but you're one of the people who does
a Latino legislative day. And I didn't you start the
Latino Carpenter's Union or get it going.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
You know what happened is I came into the union
in nineteen ninety eight as a young you know, carpenter,
and I was able to help connect workers and making
sure that they had representation through a collective bargain agreement.
And that's how I got involved in the Carpenters Union.
You know, I never knew that there was an organization
that foughtware workers' rights. And so when I found the
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Carpenters Union, that was just right down my alley and
making sure not only in my carpenter but that I
was going to fight and making sure that people were
represented getting their wages paid because back then, you know,
a lot of the latinos because the legal status, wouldn't
be paid. And so people thought that that was legal
but against the law. If you work, you get paid,
and so that's just the way it works. And so
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I was able to as a young person just learn
the rules, regulations, you know, and see how legislation works.
But prior to that, you know, I was raised in
eastern Washington. You know, I was raised to two immigrant
parents that came here from Whatmala. I like to say
that they settled, right because that was the word back
in the day with the thirteen colonies, you know, the settlers, right,
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but I felt that my parents were settlers as well, right,
you know, before there was borders, you know, this was
a you know what they said, somos no porque Americas,
you know, North America, Central America, South America. But my parents
fled basically civil War of Guatemala because at Chiquita and Anna,
you know. And I grew up in a area. And
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that's why now in politics, it's interesting because it really
follows me. You know, I've had some family involved in
politics and Gatemala that I didn't know until now that
I'm an adult. And then I had some also family
that was engaged in the guerrilla warfare and whatema. But
it was you know, they were fighting against Jiuitavana taking property.
But three forms of government were trying to exist in
Guatemala at the time, capitalism, socialism, and communism. And it's
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kind of where we're at in our country right now,
you know, where you know, we're we're having this conversation
of what kind of government do we want?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Right?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
But you know, I grew up poor as farm worker,
but happy. You know, I had a family. I remember,
I remember abe I was I was over and when
Aschi were sleeping in the van, you know, and I
didn't know we were poor or homeless. But it's because my
parents were farm workers. So they would travel to Washington, Idaho, Oregon,
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you know, California because they were following the crops, but
we couldn't. I just, you know, I'd go back in
my mind now as an adult ice, I'm wondering why
they wouldn't rent a hotel even you know Motil six
or a Motil eight, you know, Motile that's inexpensive. But
you know, I'm a privilege Latino too, because I can't
afford to stay at you know, Motil later or Motil six.
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But my parents couldn't at the time because they were
farm workers.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
They hardly made it the.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Money, right, So but some of the happiest times in
my life was you know, traveling, you know, and uh
being in the van, waking up to that gas stove
outside with my dad cooking some frequalitos and some uh
tortillas with my mom and some frequality and some little
eggs there.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Nobody that was delicious.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Oh it sounds delicious.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
My poor mom.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
You know, we go out with my sister and climb
the cherry trees. And eat all these cherries. And I
don't know, I don't know if you've ever had an
experience like that, but I have my sister too.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
We ate so many cherries, are telling me her, my
poor mom.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
You know, she'd have to work, wake up in the
morning to get you know, the cherries picked to make
sure that they were making enough money to pay the bills.
But you know, she had a you know, she had
children with my father. We're a young couple here, and
so they had to you know, take care of us.
And so I just got to say that, never in
my wildest dream that I ever think that I would
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be called mayor of a city fifty four thousand residents,
forty two percent people of color, twenty five percent Hispanic.
And so I have the privilege today in America to
come from you know, immigrant parents to being ELECTEDBLIC official.
And my decision to that was when Obama finished his turnout.
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You know, I was a delegate to Obama. And I
remember when Obama I was being talked about getting elected,
you know, and I seen him on Oprah Winthrey show,
and I was like.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Man, he would just be a great president, you know.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
And I was so conditioned at the time, I said,
but that would never happen me as a young man.
And when that happened, it was like a dream come
true that, you know, America's flag was being represented by
people of color in this country, and so that really
inspired me. You know, it made me say, yes, it
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can be done. And you know, I never thought i'd
be an elected official. But what happened is when you
left office. I was at a Safeway the First Woman's
March in Seattle and a guy in the store, you know,
it's yelling. A white man is yelling at a Latino guy.
The Latino guy is shaking yes. The other guy doesn't
look like he's shaking yes. So I go by just
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to make sure it was okay. And the man turns
around and says, Yep, that's right. Your president's gone. You're
going back home. So in my mind, I said, well,
what home presson Idaho where I was born, Eastern Washington
where I was raised, or two blocks away from my
from the store, because I know you're not saying my
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parents' country, because I'm an American, right, So it's it's
it's what I told my kids, Hey, I'm gonna run
for office. Imagine that uh, you're come and you tell
your parents and you tell your kids, I'm gonna run
for office. But then that night, you know, I remember,
because when you're raised in poverty, when you're raised in
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the non you know, basically community of authority, then sometimes
you have doubt in yourself, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
So I told my kids.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I'm running, and then at the next morning, you know,
cooking breakfast, and tell my kids, Now, let me I
think all over spoke. I can't do that job. It's
very hard, you know. Look, you know, I don't have
a master's degree or a PhD. Some of these people
are highly educated, and they speak in a way that
I don't. And so I remember my son trying to begin.
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You know, they said, Dad, you said you can do
anything you want if you put your mind to it.
And I had to say I had a choice. Either
I said I'm lying or two. As I get out there,
get busy, get on the road, and let people know
where I stand and what I want to see my community,
and what I want to see in my community as
a place where we can all thrive. What I want
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to see in my community is that small businesses can
make sure they can scale up to be big businesses.
What I want to see is making sure that when
kids are walking down the street that they don't get shot.
I want to make sure that the drug dealers not
around the corner poising our children and dying to fentannel.
I want to make sure that we're not using gang
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violence and guns to murder thirteen year old children or
innocent people working at a chiropractic office. And so that's
why I really respect you because and I love what
you do in our community because like the lowrider shows,
I was just talking about you at the car show here,
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Durian of how you talk about unity. You know, we
can still keep her culture alive. We can still have
the lowrider culture, the you know, coming together, the Pachuco style.
But when we start picking up guns and we start
picking up knives and we start killing each other, we're
doing a disservice to the many generations that we need
to build to be men and women in this country
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that can build this country. And so that's why I'm
let I'm you know, read running for office, and I'd
love to be I love to be the image of
the community that I represent, which is, you know, all
shades of color. Because I represent the human race, right,
So that's a little bit about myself.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Man, that's pretty incredible, Jimmy mata. And let me tell
you right now, if you have young people are out
there listening Chicano's, where you're a Chicano from Guatemala, from
the Salvador, wherever you're originally from, you can do like
Jimmy did. Jimmy grew up poor, so did I. Me
and my sister. When you were saying about picking fruit
in Corpus Christie with my aunt or in Austin, I
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remember we used to jump over the tree and always
get the plums or the you know, the apples. Would
be like, what are you doing A little way boy?
I said, I'm hungry. I want to I want to
get some food. And a lot of it was those peaches,
you know, and some of them were even ripe, But
to me it was the biggest thing in the world.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Hey, with a little bit of salt. They all taste good,
probably like live and salt.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
If if there's young Chicano's out there that might be
a little shy, but they're educated and their leaders, what
advice do you give to them, Jimmy.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Here's the thing is that some of us are going
to become millionaires, some of us, you know, are going
to become famous. But here's the one thing that I
hope that you take from this is that don't forget
where you come from. You know, don't don't be embarrassed
of talking about, oh that you speak a different language,
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or that we have a rich history. Look, this country
is a new country. We're redefining what it is to
be an American because who's died for this country has
been all of us, the Native Americans, the African American,
the Latinos, the Whites, the Asians, and so you know,
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this is our country. This is for us to rebuild
and for you educated people out there. You know, we
need your help in our communities. We have a lot
of problems in our communities. You know, we have over
sixty four million Latinos in the United States of America.
Thirty four million can vote on only half of them vote.
That's a problem. We're two point five trillion dollars GDP
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in the United States is Latino. We are, you know,
we are a big buying power. And so I would
just say, you know, we got to build our communities.
Let's not tear them down, like graffiti on the walls,
Like why would we want somebody to come and say, hey.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Man, look, come to my house.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
You're going to have your walls all spray, Like no,
you know, let's have let's build space for that because
in Deary and we have a lot of artists, a
lot of I love the street art and you know
people's imaginations. So let's work with business and take their
walls and rebuild our communities. Thank you so much for
talking about unity, you know, and engagement. You know, we
were just talking about Latino Legislative Day, which is one
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day in Washington where we as a community come together
and we're able to talk about issues that are affecting
our communities and there's legislation that we end up passing
to make sure that our communities are taken care of.
Now when we represent communities, all communities, but we have
you know, different obstacles in the Latino community. You know,
we have different dialects that are spoken in Washington. We
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have people that come from different countries, we come in
different shades of brown, and so you know, there's a
lot of and there's a lot of things surrounding you
know what happens in our community drug addiction, gang violence,
youth violence, and some of the things that poverty brings
on us. But one of the things that I can
say is, you know, getting involved in politics very important
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because who represents you really matters. You know, it sets
up the programs that can bury. And I know that
I have the ability to listen to communities in two languages,
Spanish and English, and so that to me, it's important
for me. But I also want other communities to see
that that's important. It should be important to them. But
one of the things, even for fathers, you know, I'm
forty five years old, and you know, we're in a
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place right now in our society where you know, we
have very educated Latinos and Latinos that are still in
a working class environment, blue collar jobs, which those jobs
are needed, right So for the people that are going
to college, you know what, my hat's off to you.
We want you to be doctors, We want you to
have PhDs. For those individuals that weren't very good at school,
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and you know, I had my my classes and you know,
in my household, we didn't have anybody spoke the language,
so it's very hard to get that extra help. So
it might be that just need some extra help and
you need to learn how to ask. But we also
have blue collar jobs that pay very well, like my
son's are a union carpenter. You know, it starts to
start off at twenty seven dollars an hour. You know,
it's through a union apprenticeship program, and then every quarter
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you make money. In four years you journey out and
you're up in the fifty four dollars an hour, right,
So making those that's that's a good choice.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
That's incredible, by the way, Jimmy.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Yeah, and so and for all you that you know,
for some of you right now that are I want
to first of all, I give my deepest sympathy for
those who have lost their parents, grandparents to COVID. COVID
nineteen has been devastating for our communities. But you know,
we're at a place today that we can start seeing
that there's a light at the end of the tunnel
and a rebuild.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
You know.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
To just have your lowrider show, and I know it
was very very uh well, a lot of people participated,
but for those who haven't gotten their vaccine, it's very important,
you know, I know it's scary it's very important, you know,
we keep informed with the news. On top of that,
it's very important who represents us. It's very important to
register to vote. You know, our vote matters. You know
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I only vote. I only one to two percent of
the vote, meaning that you know, we need to engage, right,
We need to listen to what's going on because a
lot of this legislation that passes can impact you, your family,
and many genera generations to come right. So, but with that, Abe,
you know, I I don't know if you had any
more specific questions for me, but I want to thank
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you for the time that I've had to be able
to talk to community.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
No, I just want to say, if you can elaborate
real quick, if there's a young Latino out there, you
could be in eastern Washington, you could be in Vancouver, Washington,
the Seattle area, or as far up as Spokane. You
know what advice do you give to them? Because you
actually did it, you ran for office, you got elected
and became successful. So and of course you do the
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Latino Legislative Day, and you know what advice do you
give to somebody who right now is listening to this
podcast and wants to run for office.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
First of all, if it feels scary, it should.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
If you feel you can't do the job, you can
have those questions in your mind, but you can do
the job.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I mean, I gotta tell you I had.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I went through all those feelings, you know, And and
so it was very difficult to me to make the
choice that I was gonna go. One of us, that
I was gonna tell my children I could do it.
But one of anything is we got to believe in ourselves.
You know, sometimes we start feeling uncomfortable, but to learn
has to feel uncomfortable. Now, my dad used to tell me,
you know, son, there's three kinds of people. There's the dreamers,
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the talkers, and the doers.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Who are you? And if you're going to leave community and.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
You want to get involved with community, I would say
three also principles that I would leave you with is.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
The love of community.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
We got to get educated about the issues that are
occurrent in our Why do we have so much drugs
on our streets. Why is it that we're selffering with
mental health? Why is it that you know, we have
you know, children not coming to school. I mean, all
those things. We really got to figure out why and
then we got to move to action. And I think
here now in eastern Washington, it's you're in a prime
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place that you can, you know, say hey, we we matter,
we count, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I know.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
And I had to move out of the smaller towns
because I didn't really see a future for myself and
I said, I have to go into the city. And
I think in the city, I'll be able to find
opportunities for myself and my family because I started a
young family at twenty. You got to believe in yourself,
and you know what when you don't, let's not tear
our community. Do you know the reason that I'm the
mayor today?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Abe?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
You know what? It was because of a lot of
people ask.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
That because of another Latino. So in my community, the
people don't elect their mayor. It's the council that elects
our mayor. And there was another Latino who was elected
at the same time I was.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
His name is.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Council Member o Gaen, and Council Member of Game said hey,
because I was already wanting to see the deputy mayor
be the next mayor, which is a woman that is
still a councilwoman, you know, and she's you know, she's
been in politics for a long time, very school, very
educated scientists with education. But you know, my brother seeing
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me that I could do the job, and I questioned
myself whether I could, and he says, you know, I said, man,
just give me some more time, because Jimmy, we've been
waiting for one hundred and twenty five years. If it's
not you, then who. You've been doing work in labor.
You've been doing work in our community since you were
twenty two years old. And he goes, so, if it's
not you, then who?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
And going back to that, I can remember this Jimmy,
and we weren't really like best friends holding hands and skipping.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I don't do that anyway, Jimmy. I'm just joking. But
I remember remember a long, long time ago. It was
the Latino Day March. Yeah, I think there was over
twenty plus thousand. She kind of and I remember one
of the cops tell me, hey, sir, you seem pretty vocal.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You got a video camera.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
You need to get these people off the sidewalk and
into the street. So so me and a couple of
my friends tried whatever we could, and the cop kind
of looked at us and goes okay, thank you, you know,
because I was afraid he was start knocking people down.
But I remember that, man, I had to be like
twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
I think, yeah, yeah, no, I remember a young man
out there, you beating the streets, and I think we
got to continue to have that conversation, right, how do
we want to be policed as a community.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
You know.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
One of the things that you know, I want to
make sure that it's never confused, is that we don't
we don't want drug dealers on our streets, you know,
killing our children. But we also don't want cops on
the streets, you know, killing our people for no reason. Right,
So we need to have figure out whereas the community
can come together and figure out like, for instance, if
we're dealing with somebody who mental health, let's get some mental.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Health experts there, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
But if there's criminal activity, we need to make sure that,
you know, we protect our communities. And so, you know,
law enforcement has a tough job. But I think it's
a conversation we're going to have to really have and
sit down and discuss it, right and very in here,
you know, we were dealing with a lot with a
lot of use that was passing away because of gun violence.
We started working with mamas the papas, and that's key.
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My my papa is key, and to me my mom,
you know, my dad was you know, my dad died
of a drug overdose. Have forty eight years old and
bury in Washington and died of a heroin overdose. And
so for a long time, you know, I wanted to
hide that. I mean, who wants to be the son
of a drug addict?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
But I love my dad.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
You know, my dad gave me a lot of tools
that I used today, but he had a disease, and
that disease basically cause them to pass away earlier than
we should have. And so to me, it's like, Okay,
when we talk about drug addiction, we understand it, but
you know, I also understand that we have a disease
as being provided by somebody, and so that's where we
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need to really.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Focus on our on our streets.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
But you know, I love the That's why your events
I always feel very comfortable, very safe. You know, I
think in society we need to bring back what the
culture of low writer is, you know, of you know,
all the money that's invested in these cars and that
it's not. You know, sometimes it's been portrayed as trouble, right,
and so those are the that's the stuff what we
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need to make sure that we change the narrative that right. Yes,
and so that's why you're doing a great job representing,
you know, the low writer clubs in the state of Washington.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
And I appreciate your work. You know.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I have a sixty four convertible wow, and so you know,
I've been buying it from my uncle and I had
another one at sixty four super Sport. But when I
was thirteen I got it because I worked in the fields.
Then I tore it apart and I never put it
back together because at twenty I became a dad.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
I didn't have an extra money.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Well, speaking on that, Jimmy Matta is, don't forget man,
Just just to put a bug in here. Maybe we
can work together and do a Suavisito festival building and
coin Latinos Sonedos, Unity in the community, unity.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Custom car show in Burian. I don't see happy.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I'm happy that you're saying that, because we're going to
have what it's called the Betown Fiesta and Burian. There's
a committee coming together to organize it, and you know,
I'll invite you to the people that are making those decisions.
But there's also going to be a Latino Civic center
opening up in Burian. There's another organization, but another three
or four organizations that are going to exist out of
(23:50):
another facility on Ambom where there's eighteen computers. So we'll
be able to have our children, you know, in our communities,
doesn't matter. You know, it's a Latino based organization, but
everybody's going to be welcomed, right because we're one needed.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
And so there there'll be.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
A father Pronos, We're gonna have Burian Youth Counsel's a
new youth counsel and burying and so they're really engaged,
really involved. They get really familiar with what's affecting their community.
And so I'm very excited about this. And then also
you know, when parents are dealing with their children or
children are dealing with their parents, because sometimes it's the
(24:25):
other way around, right, that we can bring the help
to the whole family to make sure that we can
nurture a working relationship. You know, because I remember my
mom when I was growing up. You know, it's like
what Latina moms man and so you know, and I
you know, started having attitude, right, so I needed to
make sure that you know, I was learning how to
be respectful to my mother because I grew up without
(24:47):
a father, right, and so she did a great job.
So I can say on that one oh.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
No, no, no, Latin don't play you know right at
the time. Believe me, you can ask my sister.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
By the way, while we're going here, I want to say,
what's up to my sister? Butlinda go to this out
of Meijo. She helped raise me. I mean as a kid.
She didn't have to because she's not much older. A
lot of people think she's younger than me. But I
want to say I want to say high to her
because she's been a big part of my life, along
with my friends. By the way, Jimmy, I got to
say this, and I want one of these days, I
want to get a chapter of lu LAC League of
(25:23):
United Latin American Citizens in Bury and for the Seattle
Tacoma chapter. And one of one of my missions is
to build more LULAC councils like they have in that house,
because in that house, LULAC is very powerful. They're very
a good civic community organization. They've uncovered a lot of
stuff and they you know, they got lawyers that work
(25:43):
with them.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I mean they're very powerful.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
You know, Abe Berry, you used to have a chapter here.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
In fact, the president who helped started here, I was
one of them, and so I was the president of LULAC.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Here in here.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
You know that how incredible that would have been about
fifteen years ago.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
By the way, one of the heads of lu LAC,
I think one of the national presidents out of Houston, Texas.
His last name is Mata.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Oh really, two t's and one T, I think too t's.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Oh wow, that's almost pretty most yes, I think so. No,
but I think that that would be great, you know,
and making sure that as we move forward here, that
you know everything that you're doing, and that you know,
the city Iberia is trying to accomplish, that we come
together as a community with different service providers, you know,
having the sponsors. I mean, look, if it wouldn't be
(26:33):
for sponsors out there sponsoring community events, I mean, you know,
how would we be able to you know, uh, put
our stuff out there. Right And as far as Belinda,
your sister Latina, and you know, an attorney and so
it does does a lot ton of tremendous work in
our community.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
So I want to thank her and recognize her work.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Hey, thank you for listening to the Powerhouse podcast S.
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