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Yeah, I don't know.

We didn't talk about this beforehand and everything,

but it doesn't feel like I'm ruining a good mood.

Anna Casey, who was my boss on the Scott Griggs Merrill campaign, she passed away this week as well.

And I don't know, man. I just, you know, I definitely, definitely, if I have a platform, want to use it to say how awesome I thought she was, how much of an impact that, you know,

she made. She's a, you know, she has been a campaign manager and just, you know,

person who helps political candidates, both, you know, kind of like a, with strategy while

in office, with strategy when running for office, just, you know, just

is someone who's professionally talking with politicians and, you know, local politicians

at all times and just, I don't know, the history of Dallas prior to her showing up was the

Citizens Council handpicking candidates and that's who sat on the council

um you know i don't know i don't want to like i'm not a expert level of story i mean i care about

this stuff i try to be informed about it is possible but if i'm wrong about details don't be

shocked but and i you know i don't want to present this as all like an all one person thing.

But like, I don't know, usually within our lifetimes, there's been times whenever the council

didn't have like any real level of disagreement. Like it was just, you know, well, we're all

picked by the big money guys and sitting here to agree with each other and make sure that the

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