Let_s Make Our MarQ

Meet MarQ Clayton discussing Her run for Judge of Tarrant County Criminal District in State of Texas.

Episode Transcript

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Make if you don't know your playthrows. Hey, what's up everybody?
Welcome to another edition the second editionof the Walking This Way Impact Was Podcast.
This is the second edition of theDouble Headed Bitch. Out to Steven.
He was on the first hour,now we're on the second one at

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the seventh prime time. I'm veryexcited their honor have a extraordinary woman here
on the podcast. I reached outto her via social media. She's running
for judge in the Terror in TerrorCounty and like, what you represent what
she is all about, and that'swhat we love here on the show.
People have their passion, people whoare passionate about what they do. And

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now I gotta welcome miss Clayton.Miss Clayton, thank you for taking time
time out your the schedule. Iknow you're very productive with the campaigning and
all the other great stuff to comeon here to talk about what you got
going on and all the other greatstuff. So welcome to the Walking This
Ways Impact Was Podcast. Thank youso much, thanks for having me again.

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Excuse my voice. I'm a bitunder the weather, but I still
want to be here and let folksknow about election, election season, campaigns,
judges, whatever we're here to talkabout. So I'm happy to happy
to join you and I appreciate itonce again, and let's talk about you
have a very repressive resume. Ofcourse that LEDs you up to this point

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where you run for judge. Sogive us the background of who Mark Clayton
is to the point where you're runningfor judge. Now, I know you
have a lot of great experience thatbeing you up to this point, So
take us to the beginning on howthis resonated that came about and decided to
run for judge. Okay, sobeing a lawyer is actually my second career

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I started. I went to undergradand I got my bachelor's degree in math,
and I went and worked with retirementbenefits for a while before I went
back to law school. And actuallywhen I went to law school, I
was my goal was to be asports and entertainment lawyer. But when I
got to law school, you learnabout all the different areas of law,
and so family law and criminal lawreally resonated with me, and I felt

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like they were the most rewarding areasof the law in that you're helping everyday
people in everyday situations and just beinga voice to the voiceless. And so
that's how I got in this realmof the law. I prosecuted down in
Hood County. I was the first, first and last so far, there's

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not been another African American prosecutor downthere in Hood County. But my experience
there was great. I mean,I got in day one and was in
a trial the next week. Thecounty attorney that hired me was really amazing
woman, Lorie Casper, and veryeducational, and so she taught me a
lot. And from there I openedmy own practice and that's what I've doing

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since prosecuting. So I litigated familylaw cases and now I'm strictly focused on
criminal defense. And so yeah,that's kind of that's my background in a
nutshell. And I like it becauseyou're doing something that you love to do,
You're doing something that you're passionate about. What is that feeling to wake

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up every morning that you're doing somethingthat you love to do and you're not
dreading it, you're not hating andyou're not resisting it. But you're getting
up every morning knowing, Hey,I'm doing something that I'm created to do.
It's a wonderful, wonderful feeling.I told almost anyone that this conversation
comes up, I've definitely found mypassion. This is not again, this

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is not anything that I This wasn'ton my checklist as a kid. What
do you want to be when yougrow up? Being a lawyer or a
judge was not on the list.It's kind of come to me just walking
in my path and walking in hisways. But now that I'm here,
I've definitely found my passion. Andit feels great to get up and help

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people who are in really tough situations, the most intimate times of their lives,
and you're able to assist them throughthose trials. Like it's just it's
it can't really describe it, butit's a wonderful, wonderful feeling. Right.
And I know what have been oneof the major concerns that you've been

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hearing as you've been on this campaigntrail. So the number one concern that's
facing Terran County criminal courts right nowis the case backlog. And it's like
a trickle down effect. So thesecases are backing up. Some cases are
taking three, four, sometimes moreyears to resolve, which is causing a

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crowding issue in our jail. Wehave four jail facilities in Terran County.
They're all at capacity. We've spentforty million dollars sending inmates to a private
facility three and a half hours awaybecause our jails are full, and that
in its is a problem because weare putting money in a private jail facility,
which we know those are created topath the pockets of whoever those owners

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are. And it's also causing safetyand security issues in our jail. We're
losing a lot of people. Justas of Valentine's Day, we've lost sixty
one people in the past few yearsin the jail, and that number is
pretty high, but it all tricklesdown. It's dealing with the safety and
security issue because there's not enough folksto work the jail. And so if

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we were moving cases effectively and efficientlythrough the docket, ensuring that these cases
are being resolved, we can seea little bit more help there in the
jail and making sure that our jailsare not being backed up and crowded with
folks. Right, And I knowthat is a big issue that is going
on with the jails being overpopulated becauseI am in that field. I am

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in the facility while working Dallas County, and I know that you know you're
dealing with them on a regular basis. The overpopulating a lot of people who
are with mental health, you know, homeless situation. So we have a
lot of those that are incars rateand their homes and got a lot of
menity issues have that been coming upas well. Absolutely a lot of people

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are in jail holding for to upwardsfor two years to go to a mental
health facility. And if you imagineif we actually reallocated the resources that we
have, if we spent forty milliondollars trying to create a mental health facility
here in Tern County instead of fundinga private jail three and a half hours
away that doesn't have the proper trainingor where we ought to care for our

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individuals. And so, yeah,mental health people are being jailed for mental
health issues. They're being jailed forbeing homeless or being in poverty, and
that is an issue with our criminaljustice system. We can't punish people for
having a mental health issue or beingimpoverished. And you see that a lot.
I'm running for a felony court,so the type of cases that you

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would generally see what those two issuesare missed, probably misdemeanors like a trespass
or something like that, so Iwon't really have a hold or a way
to affect change right there. However, just as a felony judge, I
am able to make sure. Andone thing that I'm adamant about doing is
making sure that I am evaluating bondconditions and making sure that individuals bond conditions

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are matching up and their bond amountsor matching up to not only what's written
on the paper, but the presentcircumstances of the situation. And so we
have to be keeping a track.The judge has to monitor his docket,
his or her docket, the numberof individuals that's in jail, how long
they've been in jail. Is itsimply because they don't have the money,
Because we're not supposed to keep folksin jail just because they can't pay to

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get out. That creates a disparitybecause if you have money, you can
just be out here walking free onthe street. But if you don't have
money, that you've got to sitin jail. And so those are things
that I am very adamant about ensuringthat I'm taking a closer look at Yeah,
because it is so we have alot of people, honestly, lot.
We have individuals who are sitting there, just be sitting there home.

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Uh was it five hundred dollars andthey don't have it and they just sitting
there. And how much are wepaying to keep them there per day?
More than it would cost for themto pay to get out? Right?
Yeah, we we just need morepeople. And that's that's willing to look
past the paper and actually be morelogical in the current situation. Right.

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And we know that when there's aa's a problem, there's always a solution,
you know, and a lot oftime interview focus more on the problem,
problem, problem, But you haveto have individual like yourself to bring
a solution that the Theeds can theykilled. I know you mentioned the jails.
You know, no understaff, youknow, underpaid. You know you
have a lot of officers. Iwork in the facility, so I know

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how how it deal is where you'redealing with people who are stressed. You
know, it's a dangerous ironmentn't gettingwrong? You know, once I put
that uniform on, I go behindthem walls. You know, my life
is on the line. But butyou have people who are understand we know
it is shortest ain't gonttle. It'sthe shortest of dso it's shortest of the

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CEOs within the jails. So you'redealing with a lot of over time.
You're dealing with people who are Idon't want to want to go home,
but can't go home. You haveto have stillity for twenty four hours,
which that's how it is, rightand so it's just compounding your stress,
the stress of the individuals that's injail on top on top on top until
it can busts. And that's theproblem that we need to eradicate it.

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Even imagine if we spend forty milliondollars paying our our officers a little more
to do their job right. Mostly, I mean most definitely, because like
I said, it's always work tobe done. And I'm like this,
it's all about twenty in one thousandpercent in which you do. No matter
what you do, I always wantto put in thousand percent. I always
want to have a positive attitude.I always want to be upbeat, always

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envisioned. Okay, what I wantto do when when you go to your
place of employment, what can Ido to make change? What can I
do to implemit that everybody could benefitbe edified an upbeat and that's what it's
all about, having an upbeat attitude, that positive mindset, knowing that hey,
I'm here to make a difference,I'm here to change the atmosphere,

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and just knowing that I'm just likethis. It's all by putting in one
thousand and what you do and Iknow you're putting in one thousand per cent
and what you're doing as well,and just with the networking mean people,
how has that journey being for you? As you know, you on this
path of greatness? And I saythat loosely. On this path of greatness,

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I've been meeting a lot of peoplealong the way. And one of
the things that I do want tobe sure that I'll be incorporating into my
core is the network of individuals whoare out here, who have programs already
getting grant funding to help individuals whomay be accused of crimes, or going
through the criminal justices to help findingjobs at the end of the day,

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you know, going through some typeof training or trade. That's the type
of information I want in my court. So it's also a place, so
I believe a court should be theplace of resource and not just punishment.
We're not here just to punish people. We want to try to make people
better see what they actually need,so that we don't have to see them
again. Usually there's something that's creatingthe problem that spirals into this vicious cycle,

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and if we can try to eradicatethat problem, maybe we won't see
this individual back in court again.And so I want to be sure that
I'm partnering up with different community organizationsand programs that's able to help an individual
move their life along. So it'sbeen great just meeting people, networking,
showing up. Okay, my dogis crying, but yeah, showing up.

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Yeah, because we are dealing withlitterry, repeat offenders on the regular.
It's like we're evolving though, becausedeal with a lot of a lot
of repeat offenders as well. Andthat's why I think one of the major
ones also do what you repeat offenders? Yeah, Orio wants to say hi
hello, All right, okay,but yes, and that's the goal we

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don't want. We don't want repeatoffenders. And the reason why people or
I wouldn't say it's always the reasonmajority of the times, the reason why
people repeat is because their circumstances didn'tchange, right, that's true. That's
true. They play plopped right backinto where they were at before. That's
true. And that's and then,like you said, having things implemented in

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place, and I know that peoplehave paid the debt to society. You
have people who do want to change. I know, we can't know.
People will put everybody in the samecategory. I don't getting wrong. You
have some buttholes, don't get mewrong. But you had people who did
make up a three sixty who wantsanother change, who wants to take another
chance society, but about things beingon their record holds them back. What

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can you say to an individual whowants to make that who has made that
change, want to do things theright way, but there it's kind of
hard because they have that thing ontheir record. Yeah. So that that's
another thing, a part of theeducation that'll come out of my quarts,
ensuring that the individual is aware ofthe collateral consequences. A lot of times

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I come across people that think,oh, you know, my lawyer said,
if I do this, I canstill get this off, and it
turns out that they actually can't.So they had been misinformed and so people
with felony convictions. Unfortunately, asthe law stands right now, you'll never
be able to get that off yourrecord in Texas. The law could change,
it is ever changing, but asof right now, you can't.

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And so that's a legislature issue.That's where you have to be voting for
legislators who are willing to write billsor submit bills that has something that may
allow you to get that off tenyears, fifteen years, maybe twenty years.
I mean, stuff from the eightiesand the nineties is still holding people
back simply because it's on there andit's not really fair. It's a totally

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different person, but you're still beingjudged on what you did when you were
nineteen twenty twenty one now you're fifty. And so that's where we have to
get out and vote for good legislatorswho are willing to not only write and
submit bills, but vote on themand galvanize other legislators to vote on those

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type of bills. I'll give anexample. Dwys it had been the law
that you couldn't get a DWI offof your record because it was a conviction.
Well, that law changed in twentyseventeen, you can get a first
time DWI off of your record now, or at least a non disclosure on
it where you don't have to tellan employer or the general public at all
about it. And so that's anexample of how the law could change.

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And so it can change. Butwe have to get people down in Austin
that toiling to make that change.Hey, that's it, lady JOm.
You got to listening to it righthere tonight. You going have to be
out there and make the changes.Don't complain about it. Get out there,
imforment the change. Take that firstup. There's no subtin it.
I believe it's no subten to tryeither we iss or we ain't. The

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two tills day. You gotta go. So we'll take a quick commercial break
and we're gonna jump right back intoour conversation. Let's make our Mark well,
Mark Clayton will be right back afterthis commercial break. Terror County just
spend eighteen million on what girl?They just spent eighteen million dollars sending inmates

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to Guarza County because all four ofour jails are filled here. And I
know it's because these courts are backedup. This is a problem, but
Mark, I know you can helpfix this. Okay, I know what
I need to do. I'm MarkClayton, Judicial candidate for Terran County Criminal

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District Court. Too. I promiseto continue serving and protecting the citizens of
Arrant County by following the law,upholding our constitution, ensuring fair and equitable
seniency, ruling firmly but with compassion. I need you to make your mark
in twenty twenty four. Run tothe polls and vote for me, because
your life depends on it. Itwas al jam were back here on the

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walk in this way. Impact waspodcast. So miss clay what what closed
your mind when you see your commercialon television? No? You what?
No? Just on television period?It really lights me up. The videographer
who did that, I mean hebrought a vision to life that I didn't
even have. That video is soamazing And I wish so we had spent

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eighteen million first, and I hadn'twe shot this before. The twenty three
million was spent on guards of thecounty. So I wish I'd been able
to say the forty million makes itmore impactful. But factis facts. It's
out there. But that video,honestly it it turned out so powerful.

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I the vision that the script thatI gave him, I could not have
envisioned how that it would turn intowhat he come up with. But I
believe in divine intervention and purposes andthings like that. The way it even
came up with that was kind ofdivine. But yeah, it really lights
me up every time I see it. Well, you know, it's a

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blessing, and I applaud you.I give you your roses right now,
thanks for what you're doing. Youknow, I just we had not I
had not met, we had notmet physically, we met on social media.
But I just give you a rosesbecause the Bible said give honest wants
do So I'm just giving you honorfor what you're doing. It takes us
very special individual as yourself to dothis kind of work, you know,

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work within the community, dealing withdifferent personality from different walks of life,
and at the end of the day, they come into your courtroom and where
you have to make the decision onwhat the term is their faith that if
that's the correct way to say it, if you want me to say it
that way. So, I mean, what what's go what's gonna make it
different? For you when you putthat robe on. That what people that's

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gonna see. That's very different aboutjudge and I said loosely, Judge late,
I receive all of that. Theone thing I want to make me
set me apart from other judges isthe compassionate part of what I said,
especially I said in this video eventhough these these are like the toughest the

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dire situations that an individual face.And it makes my skin crawl when I
see a judge the meaning an individualor being disrespectful sarcastic, especially in these
type of situations. They're so preciousto me, and in my eyes,
I'm thinking, you're not putting yourselfin this individual shoes. We've all made

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mistakes. The people that come tocourt are the ones that got caught making
their mistake true, and they shouldnot be treated any different than any other
person that steps into the court room. And so that is one thing that
I want to make sure my courtis going to be a court of compassion.

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That does not mean slap on thewrist, get out a jail free
card. That simply means treating everyperson with dignity and respect. You can
go on, tick, I justsaw video that I was gonna stitch on
TikTok of a judge, an AfricanAmerican male judge, demeaning an attorney and

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then threatening to hold her in contemptafter he repeatedly didn't allow her to answer
the question he asked. And it'sjust the power and authority that goes to
the head, and just because youcan doesn't mean you should. So my
court is not going to have thatthat type of stereotype that people will know

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that CDC two is going to bea court of respect, dignity and respect
for all people. Been seen incourt where a person is lost. They
come into the courtroom just trying tofigure out where they go. The computers
are here, a deputy can helpyou. Any person sitting in here with
the computer can help you find whereyou're supposed to be. And they will
turn them away, send them toanother floor the clerk's office to figure out
where they're supposed to be, insteadof helping them when they probably just need

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to go next door. Yeah,that's bed. So that those are the
type of things like that is completelyunacceptable to me. And so the court
that I will preside over, thestaff in my court will all exhibit the
same type of heart and compassion thatI am expecting. Yeah, and that's

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I'm glad you brought that up.I know. And notice why people ridicue
other people now, I ain't gonnalie. I see individuals who call them
all but the child of God andthe people fish because in a visually has
a simple question, but they'll blameme, blame, blame, blame,
blame, blame, blame, allcrazy to these individuals when they just ask

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a simple question. And that's wedon't want people in fear the decisions that
we're making in court is going toaffect their future. They need to understand
the decision. They need to understandwhat they need to do. You don't
need them up there blacked out becausethey're simply scared to just be standing in
front of you. They need tofeel free to ask a question if they

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have a question. To make sureall of my clients now they know when
you get up there, if youhave a question, well I ask them
to ask me the question first.But if you have a question, make
sure you ask it. When you'remeeting with probation, make sure you ask
whatever question you have because this isgoing to dictate how your case ends.

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Whether you understand everything that's going on, if you're going to do it right.
And so we don't want people infear of taking care of their business.
So yeah, yeah, and well, and I know that it's a
lot of work. It's a lotof work. That this is not an
overnight thing. It's not gonna getcleaned up overnight, and we know that.

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But we know it's gonna take timeto get loud things clean up.
And it takes the right interview asyourself to better clean up the things that
need to be cleaned up. Becauselike I said, that's that's a special
seat to be a judge to dealingwith these people's faith, their future and
what they're dealing with with their face. And I know it's I know trouble

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is easy to get into, butwe know it's hard to get out of.
And you got people right now whoare fighting for their freedom, not
saying they did anything. You gotsome people who are in got caught up
and with it said or whatever,but they are fighting for their innerges.
Yeah, it happens all the time. I had a case today that was

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just gotten hired on it. Thiscase was spiraling out of control unnecessarily and
we were the case today. Itshould have been resolved a long time ago.
You know, I don't know whatwas going on there, but this
particular client was about to have tobe in over his head about three or
four hundred dollars a month or oncondition that did not line up with the

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offense that he was charged with.And it was just spirally out of control.
And it's like, who's going tolook and say is this you know?
Does this case warrant this? No? So why are we here?
But those situations happen. And soto your point, when you get in

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trouble, it's hard to get outof it. You make one wrong step
and yeah it's good, goes down, Yeah it does. And I know
you got the end of the campaignis going on as well, so I
can though support you. How canit be involved? How can it flood
again? And where can it go? So please follow my social media I

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am Mark for Judge all spelled outand it's Mark with the Q. I
would love if you share that campaignvideo that was just played. I would
like to get that circulating as muchas possible. It's pinned on my Facebook
page. I'm on Facebook, Instagramand TikTok All of those are Mark for
Judge and my website is Mark Claytonfor Judge dot com. So if you

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want to learn more about me,you know why I'm running, my background,
feel free to jump on there.If you want to send some money
my way, it's on my websiteas well, so you can donate to
the campaign that helps. I haven'tspent out a lot for the primary because
I do not have a primary opponent, but for the general election, I
definitely will need the campaign funds.Okay, awesome, And I'm not living

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Terror. I'm in order as inTerror County, So I'm just letting you
know that. Thank you. Ohand early voting still a few more days
until Friday. The polls are openseven to seven all this week until Friday,
and then the primary election day ison Monday, Mark, I mean
Tuesday, excuse me, March fifth. And then another thing I like to

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educate people on for this particular election, like the race I'm running, you're
gonna have to vote two to threetimes to get your candidate in because if
there's a seat, which we havea few seats that are contested by three
or more people, has to havea runoff. That old current May and
then you come back and vote inNovember to finally put the person you want

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in their seat. So we geta lot of voter fatigue, but please
don't give up. Please stay diligentand keep your eye open for elections and
vote every single time there's an election, go and vote. And that's and
that's some us. So we wantto give shot there everybody version to us
right now, Miss Crystal, getbe shot to Miss Crystal said, let's
go Mark its farming. Let's goMark Clayton. It's forming again. You

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speak very well. It's fom okaybe shot. Everybody be shot to Marie
that's watching take great video for yourcommercial performs at all and Ms Turner said,
I vote for Mark clay Shot everybody. If we don't want to get
the people tuning in, ask youever Lashman right now here in the DFW,

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we don't want to get you out. Y'all are the backbone of the
major platform that we're putting out ona weekly basis because with our child,
we want to be here today.So we want to thank y'all for really
tuning in and being part of thisvery special episode here of Walking This Wate
podcast. Christa said, we're makingour mark in March and November. So

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I said, yeah, Also,let's talk about that too. I know
that if you're in different counties,I know that you can't vote, but
for the ones who are Interior County, there's no excuses. So how they
go about that, I know alot of times because I know people want
to vote but they're not in thatdistrict with that county versus Yeah. So

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yeah, please make sure you're votingin the right county. And there are
elections going on in other county.Dallas County and all the other surrounding counties
are also having elections right now.My race is Terran County, so if
you live in Terran County, Iwould love for you to come out and
vote for me. Like I said, don't have a primary plant right now,
but I will in November, andthen in Terrann County you can vote

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at any polling location in the county. You don't, it's no longer to
where you have to vote at theone that's by your house, so you
can vote anywhere in the county.And also those who have not REGI region
it is not going and rest good. I know we have some people may
transition who may move here in TarrnCounty who may not know got their information

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pluggy. That makes sense when I'mplaying, like go ahead and stuff vote
situated. You wouldn't be able tovote this time. But there's going to
be local local local elections in May, which is a city council, school
board, which they're trying to plaguethose out, So want to make sure
to show up on the school boardand city council elections. That's inmate.

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So if you get registered now youcan vote in those and then for sure
you'll be able to vote in November. So yeah, still get registered.
Yeah, most definitely. We're gonnatake another quick commercial. Rate ladies and
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of my life. Just live inthe best mind life. Same thing.
Spend sign. Educate your mind onetign one time. Yeah, I'm on

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that. Yeah we on that,man, I'm on that. Yeah we
on that. I'm on that.Same thing. Spend son, educate your
mind one time, one son onetime. Yeah, I'm on that.
Yeah we on that. Yeah I'mon that. Yeah we on that.
Yeah. Just living the best ofmy life. Just living the best mind.

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Yeah he's so, what's up?We backing bitch out to Gabril with
Atlanta Joy. He's a gospel recordingartist. We know everything is about mindset.
You know, everything starts on theinside. And I have to go
build before on the positive policies andnot be performed to this world, but

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be transformed by renewing of our mind. We may know the good and it's
suffer perfect will to God. Sowe know that we have to change the
mindset. I have to change themindset. We all have to change our
mindset to a envision what we want, how we wanted to think about it.
God made us, God created theheavens and the earth. He created
everything, and we are created andwe create too as well. Y'all realize

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that. And you know definitely lifeis the power of the tongue. If
you eat the fruit the else,you have to speak life, don't speak
death. Speak life. Knowing whoyou are, know your wealth, know
your value, know who you are, knowing that you are the apple and
God's you know you fearfully, wonderful, the maid. No let nobody take
that from you. You know,we all went through some things, we
all experienced some things, we allgot call up some things. But hey,

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at the end of the day,once you and Christ you're a new
creature. Old thing has passed,I said on the other show, old
things that's passed, All things becomenew. So this is a new start
for you right now. Not tomorrow, not next week, not two weeks,
start six months from now. Yournew march starts tonight right here.
You just have to believe it,receive it, and accept it. Knowing

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that we all it's all about beingborn again, right So when we were
born again, we start all overagain. We start our life a fresh
new so I just want to sharethat which I'm back here on Less make
Marked. We Judge Clayton, ofcourse not I say that loosely because I
speak bios. They were and Igive facts. So that's what it's all
about. So besides that, JudgeClayde, what keeps you motivated? What

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keeps you going? Besides working andyou're traditional? What keeps you going,
keeps you keep, keep you upbeatand all the other great stuff. My
kiddos, So I have to mynineteen year old up at Texas Tech,
who I've just become an ATM essentiallyfor her. And then my nine year

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old he's in third grade and woohe keeps me on my toes for sure.
But yeah, just spending time withthem, following them around and taking
part in their activities. My daughtershe plays volleyball club volleyball for Texas Tech,
so going to her tournament, andthen my son plays football, so
doing that. Family friends, weare pretty close. I'm pretty close with

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my family. So just hanging out, cooking out. I was just went
to you, how great, sooh man, But yeah, I'm really
a family friend oriented. So justhanging out with people that no one loved
me. And another thing that Ilove to do for myself, and I
encourage everybody to make sure you're doingself care. So I'm a son.

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First, I getting massage, shakeit down off for work, massage,
get your nails done and just relaxed, sleeping, go out to eat,
and just only focus on you,no work and none of that, you
know, because everything start when youfirst. I am. I'm an advocate
for that. You know, takecare of yourself, eat healthy because it
is the way of God for theprosper. Not help. That's in the

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Bible, he said, But loveit. It was evolved the as prosper.
You know, even I help aswell. Our soul prosper. So
God wants to prosper spiritually, butalso he wants us a prosper and not
help as well. Make sure weeating the right foods, taking the right
nurse, befly body makes you drinkingplenty of water to get in the risk
that you need. Now on that, be around positive things, be around

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positive people, go getters. That'sgonna keep you motivated and inspired. I
know what I told, I tolda friend like you, we have friendships
and you have relationships We're supposed tomotivate each other, inspire each other,
and hold each other accountable. Yeah, and that's what it's all about,
man, It's it's all about livingin life, having fun. And I
look at it to Judge Clay andit's that when I I wanna have a

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good time. When I'm going towork, I don't have a good time
well hanging out at home. Iwant to have a good time. I'm
because I'm the type of dude.I just take myself out, like especially
on Tuesdays. It's a good movie, to the movie on grill it it's
a movie I want to go see. I booked me a ticket online.
Don't see me to movies. Isay, you take you go to the

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movie by yourself. Yeah, Imean nobody anyway. If I miss somebody
along the way, cool. Otherthan that, I just have a good
time. I take myself lunch,movies. I gonna find different places here
in the df DE because this isa big city, so there's all the
stuff going on. Find little placesto go, get your establishment, going
network and just have a good timeenjoying life. Don't worry about the past

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whatever. Having our past is inour past, and a lot time we
do, we relive our past.And that's another thing too, We past
henders from so the past is thepath that they move on. But we
have a new start. Matter offact, we about to go to go
into March first this week nobody uhtwenty four. We got to ask ourselves

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are we at well we at?Are we seeing the results that we want
to see or we're just going alongwith our emotions. So we got to
ask ourselves that if not, you'regonna go. We're gonna go through this
whole entire year and our feelings.Then we want to get us. Then
we get that far use hope JenDecember thirty first general, all the assignment

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going. They have the main discipline, so that's all. It's a good
thing. So besides that, MissClaymon, what else has been going on?
How can people that's tuning in,how can they go ahead and follow
you and your social media platforms?How can they support? How can they
become a donor as well? Becausewe know it does take funds to get
this thing going, And I said, we'll fund everything else. We fund

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Amazon Prime, we fun neck Flick, we fun Humulu. But then you
know, so here we go nowSo my website is Mark Clayton for Judge,
all spelled out and Marcus with theQ mark Clayton for Judge dot com.

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You can donate on there, learnmore about me, my why,
who I am, where I'm from, what I've been doing. And then
social media Facebook, Instagram, TikTok. It's Mark for Judge, Mark with
the Q for Judge, all spelledout on all three of those platforms.
And I do TikTok. I lovetiktoking. It's uh since I learned it.

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It gets pretty addicting and it's somuch fun making those videos. But
I built up a pretty good followingon there too, And that's what it's
all about. Sisting in what you'redoing all the time, because when you
stay assistant consistently the key. Soeverything's gonna pay off, of course,
So that's what's all about. Letme ask you this, do you have

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any we are ready to lead theair. Do you have any words of
advice, any sounds of wisdom thatyou want to leave here with the listen
watch just be live stream right nowhim the DFW and go and watch replay
later. Yes, I will saythis is just the word that had come
to me uh this week, specificallyon Sunday. So for anybody who needs

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to hear, no matter how dark, dismal, or unattainable your path may
seem, whatever path you're on,whatever journey you're after, to keep on
walking and to stay faithful and puttingGod first and being obedient to His word.
So there's a video I shared onmy Facebook on while on my social

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media on Sunday. It was justa moment where God and his infinite power
reminded me again that I'm on thisjourney, that He put me on this
journey. And I'll share really quickly. So and this is not the first
time that this has happened to me. I was being announced at church on
Sunday, Potter's House, fort Worth, and I try to prepare. I

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don't know if I'm going to speakor just say my name and wave,
but I just want to be prepared. And so a scripture had come to
me to share with the congregation,Matthew twenty five and fourteen. And it
was the parable about the three menwho were given talents. One was given
five, one was given too,and one was given one. The one
with five multiplied hiss, the onewith two multiplied hiss and the one with

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one buried his, and so hedidn't multiply it. And so what I
was going to say was make surethat they're sharing the message that I'm communicating
with them and not bearing it orkeeping it to themselves, because if they
share it out, that's how wewill multiply the numbers at the poll.
I show up the church and MinisterJay gets on the stand before I'm even

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announced or anything, before we toget to the announcements, and he starts
talking about that that scripture, andI was just I instantly broke in tears,
and I'm like, I didn't evenhave to open my mouth to say
it. He had already said it, and it was just I love when
that happened. And so that justreminded me because this road, I mean

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doing this. People have asked me, you know, why are you running?
And Terren County has not elected aDemocrat in thirty years? Why are
you running as a Democrat. Ihaven't elected a black female in thirty years,
So why are you running? Well, don't don't you think? You
know it's not worth it or itwould be a waste, So it may
appear unattainable but I'm just continuing towalk and his way and following the path

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that God is setting out for me. I don't know what's at the end
of this road, and you maynot know what's at the end of your
road, but you have to you'retaking those steps forward and God is going
to direct you and lead you andtake care of you all the way along
that path. So just being obedient, listening, keeping your eyes, your
mind and your ears open to God'sword, recognizing those little nuggets where he

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drops down and it's like yep,I'm still here. Yeah. Yeah.
And that's the thing that is notlisten to those not listening to the nay
say and not listen to those tryingto discourage individuals. The Bible said,
we're in the world where we're notof the world. You know, I
say so ye'ah in the world,I'm not other world. I don't think

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like how the world thinks. Wedon't think I got the world thing,
even though we in this world,but we don't think how the world think.
We operate on a different solar system. We operate on the Kingdom mindset
system. So that's what that isall about. So I speak those things
to be the ware. Always bepositivity. It doesn't matter because when God

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got you, God got you,you know, you know, after the
May, at the beginning of theend. You know what I'm saying.
He used everybody, He used Moses, Abraham, he was everybody. Yeah,
and that's what it's all about.So listen, they say they just
used as a motivation. That's allthey do is so. But keep it
the great work. And that's whatit's all about. Keep it the great

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work. Like say, ladies,gentlemen, y'all man, reach your dream,
reach your goals. Don't be discouraged. It's not for everybody to understand.
You know that the Bible says,write the vision and make it plane.
Whosoever. That's an individual thing.Who said reader around with it?

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The visions not for everybody, youknow what I'm saying. So the ones
who understand, nobody said, rightthe vision, make a plane to the
right individual. It's gonna see thevision and gonna run with the vision.
Yeah, it is saying we'll runwith it. It's aid who's to read
it? But run with All yougotta do is write it, make it
plane. It's like that business planewhen you write out that business plan you're

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not running to get read the businessplanet. Who got to understand it's gonna
run with it. So Neil Mayahe had to visually go back home doing
Jerusalem, and the king that heworking for funded him the money to go
back and repair the wallers rusalm.We would joy. So God will put

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you around the right people. Youjust gotta be a Williams Jelson. Yep,
yep. He'll bring you exactly whatyou need, as Zach. So
that's what's all about. It's allabout having a good time. Marie said
absolutely that the Lord guide you.That's what's all about. You know what
I'm saying. Letting all your stepsthank you, Marie said, thank you

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mister Jackson and missus Clayton best whichis on your elections, so be shot
to ris Well, be shot thereeybody who's tuning in tonight. And I
said, when I holding up prolonga time, just Clayton, thank you
once again and take time like yourproduct the schedule to come on on tonight.
That will be a stranger and keepit the great work. Thanks well.

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Also, I know there's gonna besome elation parties all that stuff going
on very very soon. So that'swhat it's about. Having fun, ladies,
to have fun, find your findyour why, yeah you know,
and just have fun. And andnow that that your why. It's not
for you, but for the onesyou come in contact with. It's all

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about uplifting and inspire though who youcome in contact with that they can live
out their dreams and their goals andto grac So have fun. You know,
this was all about have fun.Anything else, Justge Clayton, you
wanna leave the arts for your leave. That's it, and thanks for tuning
in and enjoy the rest of y'allsevening. Thank you for having us well

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and you're and you're very welcome again, ladies and gentle by leave. I'll
be back here tomorrow night here andwalking this way impact What's podcast I will
have to you here on tomorrow nightat seven pm. So y'all tune in
on tomorrow and man, y'all havea great, great night and we'll be
back tomorrow night here at seven pm. Y'all was blessed night. I'm about

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to replay commercial with motile for JudgeClayton. Grab o to the vision of
what she's doing. Don't just watchit, just be watching it. But
watch it with the bobs, withall I gidding, get a good understanding.
Yeah, so when you watch thisvideo again, watch it and get

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a good good understanding. You blesseverybody. We'll be back tomorrow night.
And God bless Terror County just spendeighteen million on what girl? They just
spend eighteen million dollars sending inmates toGuardzen County because all four of our jails

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are filled here and I know it'sbecause these courts are backed up. This
is a problem. But Mark,I know you can help fix this.
Okay, I know what I needto do. I'm Mark Clayton, Judicial

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candidate for Terran County Criminal District Court. Too. I promise to continue serving
and protecting the citizens of Tarrant Countyby following the law, upholding our constitution,
ensuring fair and equitable seniency, rulingfirmly but with compassion. I need
you to make your mark in twentytwenty four. Run to the polls and
vote for me, because your lifedepends on it.