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There are cultural impediments to doing this work.

Let's say you work in the FBI.

You know that one of the two political parties is, let me put it nicely, white supremacist adjacent at a minimum.

So there's a lot of people that are like, you know what?

Like, let's go find the safest white boy we can find.

Poor kids are just as bright and just as talent as white kids.

This election has proven that this administration has proven painfully in some ways is that black people cannot save this country from white folks.

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This is Adrian Garcia, who knows better.

Adrian Garcia ran for city council while I was on City Council.

And Gabe Vosquez, at the last minute ran for controller, maybe mayor.

I don't remember what it was.

But he runs for mayor and at the last minute.

And I think he had wired it where this is one of these games people play,

their handpicked candidates going to replace them.

The filing deadline is 5 o'clock.

At 455, Adrian Garcia walks in.

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