Ep. 367 - I've never asked my listeners to do this until now

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Friends - grassroots leaders like Gary Chambers only make it to Congress if everyday people like us make it happen. Today, I am asking you to do something that I have never asked my listeners to do before. I am asking you to click on the link in my bio on Instagram and donate whatever you can to give Gary Chambers - one of the most courageous men I know - a jumpstart in his run for Congress. I'll unpack and explain it all.
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0:00.0	Today, I'm going to ask my podcast audience to do something that I have never, ever asked
0:07.7	you to do before.
0:09.7	I am asking you to chip in and help send one of the most courageous, most compassionate,
0:19.9	most consistent, reliable, activist, and organizers in the country to Congress.
0:27.0	We can do this together, and too often we say we wished or hoped we had courageous voices
0:36.1	who spoke truth to power in Congress, but then when they rise up we don't actually do
0:40.9	anything about it.
0:42.6	And this is our chance to send Gary Chambers from Badden Rouge, Louisiana to Congress in
0:50.6	the upcoming special election.
0:52.2	Today I'm going to tell you how you can do it and what it's going to do and we'll all
0:57.1	chip in together.
0:58.6	Let's go.
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