226 | Tommy Marquez
Citizen Podcast
Tetherball Academy Media
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Navy Veteran and former Director of Congressional Casework Tommy Marquez joins the show to talk about his experiences dealing with the VA on a daily basis, the problems he has with bureaucrats, and meeting his wife through the Marine Mammal Program with the help of some bottlenose dolphins.
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| 0:00.0 | And all |
| 0:02.0 | this is what I learned working in Congress for nine years and running as a district office |
| 0:06.0 | and dealing with consensual relations. |
| 0:08.0 | Bureaucrats are cowls. |
| 0:09.0 | They get to hide behind an amidity, all right? |
| 0:12.0 | They get to hide behind that no one knows their name, that no one will ever hear |
| 0:17.5 | about the horrible decisions they're making, and they only get in trouble if they say yes. |
| 0:21.7 | They just continuously say no over and over then it's fine they don't have |
| 0:25.9 | any problems and right now no one is being fired at the VA. |
| 0:29.8 | Let's go. today Tommy Marquez you were in the Navy. Yes. Good and get that out of the way. I see |
| 0:47.8 | some boaters back there with stuff jammed into it. So let's let's start with just you. Where'd you grow up? |
| 0:55.0 | Born in Mexico. I grew up in Brawley, California. Pretty much the hottest place in California, |
| 1:01.6 | and poorest place in California and in California. |
| 1:03.3 | What is it inland empire somewhere? |
| 1:05.4 | No, it's east of San Diego. |
| 1:08.4 | It's on the Arizona, Mexico border. |
| 1:12.0 | Extremely poor, poor neighborhood, all field workers, migrants, |
| 1:17.0 | community, 86% Mexican, not Hispanic, Mexican. Mexican. |
| 1:24.0 | So, you were born, where in Mexico were you born? |
| 1:30.0 | Mexicali. |
| 1:32.0 | Mexicali. Mexico. |
| 1:32.6 | So there's one of those on both sides of the border? |
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