My Guest At The Table Is Candidate Andrea Stephenson

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good morning good morning good morning
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and welcome to another edition of good
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morning gonna hello all Micronesians I
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think with net land how are you this
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morning and everybody around the world
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listening to the show so happy to be
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here with you this morning today is
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Thursday so you know I got a guest at
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the table today my guest is ins Andrea's
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Stephenson we're gonna come back we're
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gonna talk to her she is running for
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House District 104 right and Winnett
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County but it will Dacula
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and Buford in some parts of
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Lawrenceville so she's gonna come back
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and she wants us to know what she's
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about what she's running for she is a
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people's person she's been doing this
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for a very long time I don't want I
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won't start yet I'm gonna go head in
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there and jump into our heart school to
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listen it's a beautiful day here Annette
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right now it's about 80 degrees going up
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so how about 88 so pretty nice day we
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had some rain yesterday but it wasn't
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too bad but we got a beautiful day
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coming today so I'm excited about that
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um so listen we're gonna do our
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horoscope today you know I like doing
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the horoscope that I want you to know
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what's going on in the stars with you
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our harvest goes to brought to you by
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astrology mikeandfi stand he's our
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resident a horoscope a zodiac and star
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man today is August the 1st can y'all
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believe it it's August the 1st already I
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can listen we got four months before
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these years officially out I'm not
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jumping the gun I'm just being realistic
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here y'all we are at four months into
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this thing yes we are but listen let's
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get on in with the horoscopes right now
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we're gonna kick it off with Aries Aries
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deception and confusion regarding your
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status and society is likely voice your
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opinions and contribute to the debate
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romance could be exciting if you are
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spontaneous that means you get you can
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not be doing the same old stuff Aries
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you got to be spontaneous again you want
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to have romance in life you got to be
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spontaneous think about that for a
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second Taurus you might you might find
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that coworkers will support your
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endeavors you should consider submitting
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some of your written work for
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publication don't make excuses don't
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make excuses Taurus and listen I I
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personally believe and I was just
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telling Andrea we're in the studio right
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now I was just telling Andrea I think
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she should write a book
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I think everybody should write one book
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in their life I don't care this but 12
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pages I think everybody so Torres your
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work should be in publication I think
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you should go ahead and get out there
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and stop sitting on it that's what
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they're trying to tell you that's what
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your stars are saying stop sitting on
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your work Gemini secret enemies maybe
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eager to spread rumors about you watch
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out for the enemies Gemini authority
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figures may be less than accommodating
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if you have done something deceitful
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okay
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get busy on the on the home improvement
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projects as you've been procrastinating
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about listen stop procrastinating Gemini
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go ahead and get the work done
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go ahead stop it and watch out for
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deceitful folks watch out for cancer
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don't overspend on luxury items dazzle
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them with intellectual conversation
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listen you ain't got to spend a lot of
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money just be very intellectual with
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them alright try not to attempt to do
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something unless you are fully intent on
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following through with the plans don't
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if you don't plan on finishing it don't
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start it give me cancer don't do it if
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you don't plan on finishing it leo you
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have two choices get out on your own
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I've been to your mates wimps home
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improvement projects will run smoothly
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your hypnotic eyes will capture the
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hearts of those who interest you so bad
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a little bit today back to eyes a little
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bit leo
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just just a little bit cuz they are
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hypnotic today virgo you should be
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trying to clear up legal contracts that
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have been pending children might be on
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your mind don't hesitate to make special
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plans just for two don't believe
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everything you hear
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listen there's an old saying don't
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believe anything you hear and half of
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what you see all right listen I'm gonna
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go to a song and I'll be back to bring
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you the next six harvest girls brought
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to you by astrology microfiber right on
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the good morning Burnett Show
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another people meant to be the baby you
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were made from
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that you use like I can't breathe I
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can't do yeah you know you're
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run away
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[Music]
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you know
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you so much you know I can't let go you
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know I can get it up you know I want
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more of it touch you know I owe you so
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much baby I can help myself
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just some baby would say you know that
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there is no baby
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this
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[Music]
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Oh
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[Music]
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I wanna stay with you I wanna do the
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place
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if I don't way to make you break it
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you see the pun of words to say baby I
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want
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thinking of you every day every day
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love you so much you know I can't let go
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you know I can get it
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one more point for it
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during summer
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[Music]
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Oh
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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go ahead and call me for a baby girl
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nothing yeah I know that we're meant to
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be
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[Music]
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without you can't kick
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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hey hey welcome back to good morning
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Adam your host OG Bell Kearney listen
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we're gonna pick it up with the rest of
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the horoscope listen I love the horse
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goes right you know
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Andrew was telling me she's like you
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know the horoscopes are not real I think
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I know but I like the harvest gold I
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know some people some people don't like
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him they don't believe him I do I mean I
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think I like him I think they're very
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entertaining she told me to say that she
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told me to say it's very entertaining so
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they're very entertaining all right
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we're gonna pick it up with Libra Libra
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don't rely on others to handle your
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workload put your efforts into physical
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fitness programs or competitive sports
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try not to judge too quickly listen
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don't be so judgmental today Libra could
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be you and that on the other side of
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that you know what I'm saying
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Scorpio be sure not to reveal private
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information to the wrong individuals I
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always say this if you want to keep your
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business private keep it to yourself
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that way it doesn't get out you can get
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you can get ahead if you're willing to
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take a partner if you can't get ahead in
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the company you're with perhaps it's
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time to move on sometimes change is good
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Scorpio sometimes you got to make that
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move Sagittarius problems with your
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partners are apparent don't let others
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build bully you into greeting and so
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into agreeing with them sit back don't
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let anybody bully you today said tell
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them the fault you you sit back and tell
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them to fall back that's what you do
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Capricorn if you're uncertain of your
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feelings keep your opinions to yourself
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put your efforts into being creative so
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should get together to bring you in
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contact with intelligent friends it's
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nothing like having some intelligent
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friends so go out and do some little
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social gathering today cap Aquarius
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communication will be your best bet
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don't be too open or put your faith in
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unreliable coworkers agreement arguments
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may flare up in your home listen don't
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put your faith in nobody but God let me
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just say though whoever you believe in
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people gonna disappoint you if you know
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that much you'll be okay
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alright my fellow fish Pisces get busy
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trying to make more money I'm always
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trying to make more money yeah I know
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I'm always trying to make more money
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that's what I'm doing every day okay
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fish brand you not I'm saying you're
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make me your weight I wanna pick up a
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take a fight but if you're persistent
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with your affections their anger should
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dissipate opportunities to get ahead or
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evident now listen if my main wanna pick
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a fight the day today is not the day I
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know about that being affectionate I'll
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be ready ready to fight somebody that's
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not sure I'm just kidding I'm just
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joking
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so listen that's your horoscope for
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today brought to you by astrology mica
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thoughts and I bring you more harder
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scopes on Monday when I return but right
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now we have a guest in the house y'all
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we have a guest in the house miss Andrea
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Stephenson is our guest today she's
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sitting at the table you know this is
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the part of the show that I call a seat
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at the table I have a person in
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StudioLive sitting to the table talking
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about what's going on with them now she
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is a politician Andrea and I met about
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probably about three years ago and I
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actually worked on one of her campaigns
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and I I was a part of a democratic
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organization here for women so you know
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I'm trying to I want it I'm going to
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serve the community as best I can so I
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do with this show I also do it by you
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know helping out where I can where I'm
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needed
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um so anyway andrea has been in politics
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for a long time and I'm not gonna tell
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you her sir I'm gonna let you tell the
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story she is a phenomenal woman a
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beautiful spirit you know I went to her
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house quite a few times spent some long
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evenings at her house doing some things
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and I I think that's why I decided I
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didn't wanna go to politics after I
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spent some time here I was like I don't
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want to do this if I had to fight about
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it come in a sentence I'm not the person
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but you know people tell me all the time
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I said I should do it I don't know if I
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had the temperament to do it but she
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does she has a caring heart a caring
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spirit she's been doing this a long time
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she was raised up in politics I wasn't
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my mom you know my mom did monster dr.
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Martin Luther King no she marched with
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him and she went to jail and she had to
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eat greasy grits and Camilla Georgia's
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she told me that story she stayed in
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jail for two weeks because she marched
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her doctor my mother King and you know
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that that makes me proud to know she's a
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fighter even though I know my mom is a
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fighter anyway that's the other side
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that's why I got their little league
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streak my dad was a Friday and my mother
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was afraid if I got a little mini shirt
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that's why I know if I make a good
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politician you gotta have an even
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temperament like Andrea listen so I'm
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gonna start running my mouth and I'm
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gonna be Miss Andrea Stephenson or she
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is running for House District 104 and so
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she's gonna tell you a little bit more
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about who she is and how she got to be a
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politician in the great state of Georgia
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because she's originally from the great
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state of New York y'all up north on
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bricks welcome Andrea thank
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you so much oil tree for having me so
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listen tell my people let's let's go
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back a little bit before we get into the
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politics cuz I we're gonna live there
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for a minute once we get there because I
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know you you have a lot of things that
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you want to talk about a lot of things
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you're passionate about so let's let's
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go back who's Andrea what would Andrea
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hail from Andrea would grew up in New
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York the daughter of parents who marched
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and sang with Martin Luther King
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I too was there on the steps of the
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Lincoln Memorial when I had a dream
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speech was read Wow and you know what I
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remember from that standing there crying
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and crying and crying because it was so
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beautiful and it was so real and was so
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right
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how how old were you need oh I was about
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12 or 13 12 or 13 years old Wow yes yeah
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we went with school on a bus we had a
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choice and I took that choice and I've
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never regretted it and that's one of the
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reasons I loved Wynette's so much
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because of the diversity so having grown
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up in New York and I have two masters
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degrees one from Columbia University
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School of Public Health I've worked in
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public health my whole life and I've
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also dabbled in politics I've lived in
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several states and I've been very happy
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here in Gwinnett and I've lived here for
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over 12 years Wow nice nice my love
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goodnight - I was born in Georgia I was
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born in Albany shout out to my family in
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Albany Georgia but I was raised in New
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Jersey and when I moved here I kind of
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we just kind of dropped into Gonet by
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happenstance and when I got here I
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didn't want to go anywhere else
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Cobb County I was like I'm not going
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because he works in Cobb County I feel
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bad because he has a very long commute
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every day but I love with it so I'm not
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planning on going anywhere
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so now so you say you graduated with a
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master's from Columbia desk that's
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pretty prestigious thank you very much
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and so I know that you educated tell us
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about your exes I know you're passionate
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about education tell us about you still
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as an educator well I I have taught and
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at FAMU for seven years in public health
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and community health I've I'm a biology
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teacher in the state of Georgia although
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I don't use that degree very often and I
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also sub teach every now and then
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winnette I'm very familiar with the
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education here I've tutored
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title one students those that speak
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English and those that barely speak
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English and we need more of that now you
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know I'm glad you said that because we
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had you know right now with everything
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that's going on with immigration and and
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all those things and you know you've
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been able to teach these kids you know
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and teach kids who can't really speak
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English
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what are you feeling and so now we bout
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to jump into politics y'all cuz I
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thought we were coming and I'm
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passionate about this stuff injury and I
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we watch it mess NBC I think she watches
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way more than I do because you go to her
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house her mom is watching it her mom is
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a sweetheart
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and she's sitting in front of TV she's a
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die-hard MSNBC fan and I remember going
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hey darling and she's so sweet you got
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to see her she had on a little pick out
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thinking way outfit the last time I saw
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her she came to see me I was sick and
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they came to my house to visit maybe
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she's a beautiful woman but immigration
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in let's talk about immigration for a
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second I had I had a candidate on a
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couple weeks ago and she told me she's
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like I'm straight up Pro for the wall
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and I said to her but when you see
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what's happening at at the border how
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could you be for something that's gonna
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totally divide her divide us now that
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interview got lost because we had a
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technical and it was a very long
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interview was an hour and 20 minutes and
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we lost it I hurt hurt me to my heart
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she's coming back in September or
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October to to talk to us again and she
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was a Republican and so she said to me
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she was pro-choice for the wall you know
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she felt like people come here and they
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take over our jobs and you know they
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take from us and I said to her honestly
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there are jobs in the United States that
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most people won't do so when you say
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those type of things and I know you've
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been you know you talk to people who are
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of different nationalities what's your
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feelings about where they are right now
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with everything that's going on with
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immigration I can tell you this I can
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tell you that I think that we can do a
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better job with money that they're going
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to put into the wall however at the
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state level for the job that I'm trying
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to run for that would have nothing to do
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with it we do have here in Gwinnett
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County Sheriff who is
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working to implement 287 yeah and it has
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become a problem for some of the
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residents in Gwinnett County for example
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a lady that is one of my volunteers is
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stopped continuously sometimes two or
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three times a day
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of course she does not look like a
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typical white resident of Gwinnett
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County it's very embarrassing it's very
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upsetting it's it ruins her day her
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brother who also does not look like like
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I do has been brought to jail
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although he's been released because
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these these young people have been
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raised and born in America right I think
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that if they're going to go after people
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they need to go after people who are
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criminals right and they need to leave
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regular people alone who are not doing
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anything to harm anybody you know I
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talked about 287 they actually did the
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commissioners actually did an event I
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think it was last night if I'm not
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mistaken where they wanted to they
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wanted to talk about the pros and cons
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of 287g and I talked about this a couple
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of weeks ago so 287g for those of you
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don't know what it is it is a bit as a
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program that our chef here has said you
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know what we're gonna redo this program
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again this year and what it does is give
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the Sheriff's Department the opportunity
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to write to actually just I don't want
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to say profile but kind of you're like
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profiling um to check immigrants just
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you know if you look in like an
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immigrant and you have the opportunity
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to say hey you need to see your
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paperwork and that's making a lot of
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people who are different nationalities
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feel really really unsafe and uneasy and
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uncomfortable like you know I mean so
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they actually did that that's that a
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session last night at Langley over at
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the Justice building on Commissioner
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Molly
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Marlene Foskey was one who headed that
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out last night so I don't know the
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outcome and I was and I didn't see
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anything printed about it today but I
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will find out what happened what did
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they what was the what was the outcome
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from that event last night and I bring
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it to you on Monday if it's out there
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for me to bring to you so you know under
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it breaks my heart I know we have
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criminals right we have criminals
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data right here born here looked like
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you look like me right here and I feel
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like we put more and since what you said
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the criminals get rid of the bad people
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put them somewhere leave the good people
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here and and I think that's I think they
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missed it and I understand that you know
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our president he said he was gonna build
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a wall and that's how he won the
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election with the wall and for me it's
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not so much about people coming into the
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country that are really bad because
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drugs are coming it's not coming over
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the border I don't think I've heard
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anybody yet say hey we found like two
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pounds of cocaine at the border no they
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flew it over they flew it over in a
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plane you know I'm saying so dick they
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didn't pick it up at the border in a
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plenty or it came over into some
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avocados that's kind of crazy something
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they're getting it here and it's not at
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the borders it's all these other places
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so now I know that you're running for
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House District one on one tell our
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listeners or 104 I'm sorry how you can
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window forth tell I tell our listeners
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what where does house district 104 what
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that what it whatever does that cover
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and what are your plans to to unseat the
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the person that's in that seat right now
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I know he has been there for quite some
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time three times and I'm you ran against
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them last year and you'd lost by
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approximately seventeen hundred votes
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that's not all that's not a lie that's
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very doable so now what's your plan this
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year how do you plan to make this happen
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this year in 2020 first of all I'm
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asking all Democrats and all
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independents to come out and vote and
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vote down the ballot that means voting
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for every person and every resolution
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that's on there if you leave it blank
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then you haven't voted and there's then
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you're not putting your democratic
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rights to fruition the other thing is we
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are Dacula Lawrenceville Bethlehem or
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burn Buford and Hudson now that's a
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gerrymander district if ever I saw one
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and there are many many different
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demographics in in my district and many
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people have different priorities so for
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that reason I'll be holding
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meet-and-greets in various locations to
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listen to what the citizens in 104 want
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are concerned about and what they want
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to happen in the future this is about
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change and this is about bringing human
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values democratic values back to
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Gwinnett now for those who are listening
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who don't know what gerrymandering means
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can you explain to them what that means
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and how that affect them as a voter the
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legislature in Georgia every 10 years
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gets to change where districts are
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located and who is in those districts so
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they can literally draw lines through
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the middle of Dacula or the middle of
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Lawrenceville and and they can be
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squiggly lines or whatever and put more
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Republicans in one district so that the
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Republicans are definitely going to win
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that district and less Democrats by that
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they start you know just breaking things
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up and it seems to me that that's quite
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illegal so now how do we combat them
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because I heard gerrymandering like like
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over the last couple of years is
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probably less since the last big
21:27
election which is the 2016 election I
21:29
heard voters rights been suppressed I've
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heard gerrymandering what do we do I
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know Stacey Abrams is doing a lot right
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now what are we doing here in good net
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to make sure that everyone who is
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entitled to both have the opportunity to
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cast their vote whether it be Republican
21:45
or Democrat but they have the right to
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cast that vote what are we doing here in
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2018 when it went blue and what was
21:53
important is we elected many people to
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the house and a few to the Senate more
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Democrats who are going to stop this
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kind of gerrymandering and do something
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that's fair and honest in 2020 it'll be
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10 years and the next legislature will
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determine how the lines are going to be
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drawn we need 16 Democrats in all of the
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state to win in the house I hope to be
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one of those 16 Democrats that will stop
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drawing lines that have preference for
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Republicans and Republicans only so now
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you know what can the citizens do I know
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that when I went to go vote I
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forgot what I was voting for this was
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recently this earlier this year there
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was a young woman she was pregnant and
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she was she was she was pregnant and she
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was upset because she ivote at
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Cornerstone Church right there on
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Grayson Highway in Lawrenceville she
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came there to vote they told her to come
22:55
there to vote they tell them when she
22:56
got there your name is not here see they
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she had to go back to winder to vote so
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she says she said she had been to three
23:02
places trying to vote what is that how
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do we come back there because she was
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pregnant she wanted to give up and I had
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to say to her baby listen I know it's
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frustrating and she was a young lady as
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I know it's frustrating this is what
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they want you to do they want you not to
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vote that's why they're giving you all
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these problems and she was like I just
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left this place I'm pregnant I'm tired
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and I said but you know what you gotta
23:21
fight for this it's one of those things
23:23
you have to fight for you were given a
23:24
prison to vote you need the boat so she
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said okay and I don't know her we were
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standing in line I saw that she was
23:30
stressed out and frustrated because she
23:32
had been trying to bull all morning and
23:34
now it was about 6:30 in the evening I
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was six o'clock in the evening and she
23:37
still had not boarded because they were
23:39
sending her all around the world now
23:41
with all the crap that goes on when it
23:43
comes to our voting polls and things
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like that what can we do as citizens to
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make sure that stuff stop I know you're
23:50
out there fighting the good fight for it
23:51
for the right to vote and right for all
23:53
transportation and all these things what
23:55
can we do as a citizen to say you know
23:57
what we're not gonna stand for this crap
23:59
anymore we're gonna stand up and stand
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for that we're gonna stand up against it
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what can we do I think you should attend
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I think everybody should attend the
24:06
County Election Board meetings and there
24:10
are people there that can absolutely
24:12
help you and help you find out if where
24:15
you're going to vote and we're and where
24:17
you're supposed to vote so your name may
24:21
have changed and that may prevent you
24:23
from voting unless you've changed your
24:25
name properly and you can go to the
24:27
Secretary of State's website and you can
24:29
double you know put in your social
24:31
security number all kinds of information
24:32
and they will tell you if you are still
24:35
registered to vote because some people
24:37
were were pulled off the polls we need
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every one of us to respect our vote and
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to do something to make it happen
24:47
and I and I know that people have been
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turned out more and more to vote but
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there are some young people the
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Millennials they say they're not voting
24:54
as much what can we do to make those
24:56
young people say you know what I
24:58
understand why they're fighting what
25:00
what do we need to tell them to get them
25:02
on board with what we're doing I know
25:04
that the presidential election we have a
25:06
lot of folks and this 2020 election
25:08
coming down the pike but right now we're
25:10
talking about gwinnett we need the young
25:12
people unite to get out there and cast
25:14
their vote what can we say to them what
25:16
can we what can we say to entice them to
25:18
understand the importance of voting okay
25:22
well what are young people interested in
25:24
they're interested in getting their
25:25
education they're interested in
25:27
finishing their education going on to
25:29
live productive lives with with decent
25:32
wages but they're stuck with these long
25:37
debts yes to their colleges yes I think
25:41
that we should have internships galore
25:44
we should ask every business to help
25:46
these children finish paying their debts
25:49
I think we should try to get any kind of
25:54
money that we can to help them pay their
25:58
debts that I think would help I think
26:00
that would help too my daughter is you
26:03
know she has a college debt right now
26:04
and it shows up and she it's huge
26:07
it's probably about $60,000 in college
26:10
day and so you and now she's a new
26:11
mother so when you think about trying to
26:13
make a living
26:15
pay off college debt and raise a family
26:18
that's a lot for anybody and I think
26:20
that's probably one of the reason
26:21
they're turned off and like you know
26:22
what it's not helping me
26:24
so what moving forward what is something
26:26
I mean I know you said you think
26:28
businesses should help out and honestly
26:30
I talked to your god I forgot her name
26:33
but she's over at um gateway 85 and she
26:36
said to me one of the ways they do they
26:39
raise funds that all the business owners
26:41
kind of chip into this pot of money and
26:44
that makes sure that they have beautiful
26:46
sidewalks and beautiful awnings and
26:48
beautiful downtown areas I think that's
26:50
great
26:50
so it comes out of out of some kind of
26:52
budget and we did something like that
26:54
very similar for student loans that
26:56
would be great and I thought about it
26:58
even for businesses like small
26:59
businesses
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if you have a losses for prime example
27:05
there are nine hundred and sixty
27:06
thousand residents right here in the
27:07
county I'm looking at nine hundred and
27:09
sixty thousand it's probably more now in
27:11
the county of GU neck can you imagine if
27:14
there was a way for them to add two
27:17
cents to their I don't know cell phone
27:19
bill that goes into a pot that's gonna
27:22
either fund the business or pay us to
27:24
the long-dead two cents it doesn't sound
27:26
like a lot but when you multiply that
27:28
times nine hundred and sixty thousand
27:30
people right and that's every month we
27:33
can get some things done and when and I
27:35
please forgive me if you're listening to
27:37
this show but I forgot her name its
27:40
gateway 85 when she was telling me this
27:41
I was I thought I thought to myself man
27:44
we should be able to do something very
27:46
similar today for small business you
27:48
know there are people out there who want
27:49
to start a small business and they can't
27:51
you know because they don't have the
27:52
funding they don't have the capital they
27:54
may have the training but they still
27:55
need the capital
27:56
you got student loan debt that's killing
27:58
people like it is some people are
27:59
committing suicide because they just
28:01
don't see a way out because of student
28:02
loan debt it's ridiculous
28:03
and you know I know that one anything
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now we gotta talk about this we got to
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talk about this in the next second cuz
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I'm gonna go to a song but we're gonna
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come back we gotta talk about health
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care for all education for all those are
28:18
two hot topics right now I heard Bernie
28:20
Sanders talking about it the other day
28:22
he strongly believes in that but I heard
28:24
someone who did a who was talking
28:26
against him I think it was in the debate
28:28
in the in the debate recently and he
28:31
gave a very strong argument as to why
28:34
health care for all will not work and we
28:36
got to come back in the next segment and
28:38
talk about this so I'm gonna go to a
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song and I'm gonna come back and
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continue my top 100 and we're gonna talk
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about its health care for all a good for
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all or is it not good ball and we'll
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talk about that on the other side
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listen stay tuned y'all y'all it's a
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good morning when Adam your host or your
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bill Kearney I'm here today with at the
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table with Andrea Stevenson she's
28:56
running for High Street district 104 104
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right here in that County I'll be back
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right after this song
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I've got some dollars on the pocket and
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I really wanna spare
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get all this bad on you now be a date
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for the night be my plate makes your
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neck I'm doing chest take a slow
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don't you miss me already
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even my
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but I manage
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I keep
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buddy
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kids
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already
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even my
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Niraj can defile animes I am
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hey welcome back the good money when I'm
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your host or kind of giving you a seat
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at the table with a political candidate
32:27
Miss Andrea Stevenson she's here she's
32:29
running for House District 104 listen if
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32:51
you in the right before the Sun we're
32:53
gonna come back we're gonna talk about
32:55
healthcare we're gonna switch gears just
32:56
a little bit and talk about healthcare
32:57
because I know that's one of the things
32:59
that under is passionate about but I
33:01
gotta tell her I was listening to a
33:03
debate with Bernie Sanders and I forgot
33:06
the gentleman he was abating against in
33:07
Bernie's health care for all his thing
33:09
is everybody should have health care and
33:11
so the gentleman's argument was unions
33:16
have been fighting for health care
33:17
forever
33:18
and that is the one thing that that is
33:21
really important to a lot of people who
33:23
may lose their job and so they're saying
33:25
that it's unfair for those people to be
33:28
cast into a part of health care for all
33:30
when the health care the plan that's
33:33
laid out is not a great health care plan
33:34
that Bernie argument was it is a good
33:36
plan I wrote the plan what's your
33:38
thoughts on that Andrea alright well I
33:40
believe that we that health care is a
33:42
right and that you know the people that
33:45
you go to work with that your children
33:47
go to school with that you sit on the
33:49
bus with of the Train with all these
33:51
people you know are people that need
33:55
health care if you have private
33:56
insurance that's wonderful continue it
33:58
if you have union insurance that's
34:00
wonderful if you want Obamacare that's
34:02
just fine I think that we have to find
34:06
another alternative for people who do
34:08
not have health care they may be working
34:10
two or three jobs but at least and
34:12
they're keeping a roof over the head and
34:14
feeding their children but they don't if
34:17
they don't have health care how are they
34:20
going to maintain a job or continue
34:23
going to school I mean if you break a
34:25
leg what are you going to do if you
34:26
don't have health into crowd into the
34:28
emergency rooms of our hospitals
34:30
which are overcrowded already and who
34:33
winds up paying for that healthcare the
34:35
hospital because the hospital has to you
34:37
know cannot get paid back right so we
34:40
have you know it's just it's just a
34:42
right and we have to fulfill that right
34:45
whether or not we do it but the Bernie
34:47
Sanders way or we do it the Joe Biden
34:49
way I don't care we just have to make it
34:52
available for all especially in Georgia
34:54
have you driven lately down in South
34:58
West Georgia not okay well I
35:01
occasionally go down to Tallahassee to
35:04
see all friends and which they call
35:06
South Georgia and it's just very very
35:11
sad because hospitals are gone and
35:14
clinics are gone and pharmacies are gone
35:17
and people just sit on porches and
35:19
there's no industry there and people are
35:22
very sad they don't have help many of
35:24
them don't have health care at all how
35:26
are you going to function in this
35:29
society without health care I don't know
35:31
because we know so much today I mean
35:34
we're curing cancers we're treating all
35:36
kinds of illnesses people you know
35:38
children maternal mortality in this
35:42
state is the worst in the country and
35:43
this country is one of the worst in the
35:45
developed world's Wow okay so it's
35:48
measured by a hundred thousand per
35:49
hundred thousand so Georgia is has a
35:51
maternal mortality rate of forty six
35:53
point two four hundred thousand now
35:55
compare that to Canada or France
35:57
it's a which is about seven 100,000 Wow
36:00
and and in the country as a whole it's
36:03
about 25 or 26 per hundred thousand
36:05
these are 2015 figures these are in
36:08
ancient figures this is absolutely
36:10
abominable and it needs to stop you know
36:13
I gotta tell you so I was a union worker
36:15
I used to work at a hospital under a
36:18
union a union 1199 when I was in Jersey
36:20
worked there for almost nine years and
36:22
one of the things that you know we we
36:24
were thankful for was to have great
36:25
medical care and so I kind of understand
36:28
what the gentleman was saying he was
36:29
like you know I don't think that we
36:30
should take good health care a good
36:32
health care plan from someone who has
36:35
earned that through a union and given
36:37
give everybody this other plan and maybe
36:39
not
36:39
good now I do believe that we do need
36:43
some kind of a great affordable health
36:46
care plan I do believe that and I think
36:48
that's where it's falling off and I
36:49
think the problem is is that no one has
36:53
really and I'm not gonna say that
36:54
because I'm sure they have stayed up
36:55
plenty of nights trying to figure out
36:57
what's a good affordable health care
36:58
plan I think that's the issue does
37:01
everybody need health care absolutely
37:02
does everybody need the same type of
37:04
health care I wouldn't say take somebody
37:06
health care plan from them to give them
37:07
something the same across the board
37:09
that's not better than what they have
37:11
already I wouldn't say that
37:12
and I was newly worker for a very long
37:14
time at a hospital which is crazy
37:16
and like you said when I was there the
37:18
hospital that I worked at went bankrupt
37:20
it went bankrupt and shut completely
37:22
down after they built a brand new MRI
37:24
Center and a brand new parking deck
37:26
about six months later the hospital was
37:28
completely shut down and then I saw
37:30
other hospitals closing around the world
37:32
but those were dopes those people that
37:34
were working there with union workers
37:35
with great health care plans they were
37:36
able to move on to other jobs but we're
37:39
talking about people right now like
37:40
people who do not have good jobs that
37:43
have great health care plans those are
37:45
the people that need health care and so
37:46
I think that although what I understand
37:49
I understand what Bernie is trying to do
37:50
and a lot of other the politicians who
37:52
say everybody need health care I agree
37:54
but I don't think you should strip
37:56
health care from people who have a great
37:58
plan to put them on a plane everybody's
38:00
gonna be a part of now I did hear him
38:02
say stuff like and this is this is he
38:06
said he said you know Canada has health
38:08
care for everybody but if you acts a lot
38:10
of Canadians that the plan sucks so they
38:12
come in to the United States for
38:13
services now to me that's making that's
38:16
putting a strain on our health care
38:17
system if Canada has health care for
38:20
everybody but it's just not working and
38:21
then they gotta come over to the United
38:23
States to get health care that's putting
38:25
a strain on our healthcare system so I
38:26
think when it when you say health care
38:28
for everybody I agree but I think that
38:30
like you said before there needs to be a
38:31
good plan in place that will afford
38:34
people affordable health care for those
38:37
who don't do not have it okay so all
38:40
right so listen I know you have some
38:41
events coming up tell us about your
38:43
events coming up I know you got a lot of
38:45
things playing I know you know your your
38:47
goal is to to win the election this time
38:49
to representing House District 104 and
38:52
the best
38:52
possible and so you are really trying to
38:55
connect to the community that's why
38:56
you're here today
38:57
I'm helping you connect to the community
38:59
in a very different way for you I know
39:01
that but how can they connect you in
39:03
person not because I know you're gonna
39:04
be on location talking to people about
39:07
what you're gonna be doing for the
39:09
district well first I'd like to invite
39:11
everybody to visit Andrea for
39:13
georgia.com learn a little bit more
39:15
about me volunteer donate or just just
39:18
read about what we're trying to do on
39:20
August 19th which is a Monday from 7 to
39:23
9 p.m. we're inviting anybody who would
39:26
like to to come talk with us at gyro
39:29
City there's a meal involved
39:32
it'll be $20 for adults the minimum and
39:36
15 for for students children are half
39:40
price it's going to be you know a buffet
39:42
it's a beautiful meal with you know
39:44
fresh bubble-butt Locka and everything
39:46
else like what is that it's a Greek
39:50
dessert okay so here's the thing we say
39:56
gyro right but I got a friends from New
39:58
York when my best friend she says good
40:00
oh she's nice and I was like yeah I want
40:04
a gyro she's a good girl yeah yeah well
40:09
there'll be several kinds of euros and
40:12
we're going to be very pleased to
40:17
announce that but Brian Whiteside the
40:21
Solicitor General of when that county
40:23
will be there to introduce me and to
40:26
tell us what's going on in the
40:27
solicitor's office he is a new democrat
40:30
has just been elected last year and I'm
40:34
very proud of what he's doing because
40:36
he's doing fantastic things I really
40:39
would like to talk with our citizens
40:42
find out what's going on find out what
40:45
their what what they need to be done in
40:47
the legislature in Georgia so that we
40:49
can really make things happen so that we
40:51
can bring in more jobs who would have
40:54
ever thought by the way that that we
40:56
would be surpassing Hollywood and movie
40:57
in the introduction yeah well guess what
40:59
we can do the same thing with green jobs
41:01
yeah we can do the same thing with
41:03
electric vehicle
41:05
week we have so many talents here in
41:09
Gwinnett County we can absolutely get
41:13
everybody to work everybody get can get
41:16
health care and we can spread out all
41:19
this throughout the state so that
41:20
everybody is equal and everybody gets to
41:24
live the American dream when that is
41:27
doing a lot I can tell you that you know
41:29
that's why I do this show one of the
41:31
things I'm really excited about is
41:33
curiosity labs over in Peachtree Corners
41:35
they have partnered with Sprint to do
41:38
some great things over there so they got
41:39
the the autonomous driving car they have
41:42
a that's an electric car which is great
41:45
so they got a lot of things coming out
41:46
of Peachtree Corners which is also
41:47
right-hand good net county
41:48
now when you say green jobs what what
41:51
are the opportunities out there for
41:52
green jobs I know Amazon is bringing
41:54
thousands of jobs they're not green
41:55
there are other companies that's
41:57
bringing hundreds and thousands of jobs
41:58
they're not greens what are green jobs
42:00
and what can we so they're so this shows
42:03
in 120 countries right people are
42:05
listening to us they may have some green
42:07
technology that can come into the space
42:09
and help us and help our citizens and
42:11
help the state of Georgia what are some
42:13
of the green opportunities that you
42:14
would like to see coming to the state
42:15
green jobs I'd like us to become the
42:18
number one seller of solar panels and
42:21
manufacturer of solar panels in the
42:23
world
42:23
let's surpass China and let's start in
42:25
Georgia okay okay wind turbines we can
42:30
give money to the all these wonderful
42:32
universities so that they can get
42:34
patents on new and new energy producing
42:37
things everything has energy all cells
42:39
have energy right okay let's do
42:41
something that's different
42:43
let's make change happen here in
42:46
Gwinnett County let's do it in 104 and
42:48
let's do it right the green way the
42:51
green way all right listen
42:52
and receive assumes and you're given the
42:54
website again listen you want to make a
42:56
donation to our campaign you can how can
42:57
they make a donation to the campaign
42:59
Andrea Andrea for Georgia comm you've
43:01
got three different ways to do it all
43:03
right go to Andrea for georgia.com
43:04
listen this has been a seat at the table
43:06
on the good morning when that show my
43:08
guest here Miss Andrea Stevenson she's
43:10
powered up she's but she's ready to
43:12
fight y'all she want to win this thing
43:14
1,700 votes that was that was hardly any
43:16
she almost did it but 2020
43:19
he's coming for you you know what I'm
43:21
talking to out there she's coming I'm
43:23
this kid I wanna I want to get him on
43:24
scare to anything but listen she has she
43:27
has a new plan she feels like there's a
43:28
new plan for a district and she wants to
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roll that plan out thank you again for
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