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V Interesting with V Spehar

In Georgia, Energy Affordability Is on the Ballot

V Interesting with V Spehar

Lemonada Media

News

4.9882 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

What if you could lower your utility bill at the polls? In Georgia, that’s exactly what voters have had the opportunity to do. By flipping two Public Service Commission seats in 2025, they’ve shown that elected officials can be held accountable for rising energy costs. In this episode, host Gloria Riviera speaks with Leslie Palomino, Georgia State Director at Poder Latinx, about how the organization has been mobilizing Latino voters around energy affordability and what’s at stake for upcoming elections later this year.  This episode was made in partnership with Poder Latinx. To learn more about their work, visit poderlatinx.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Lemonado.

0:02.7

Hi, it's Julia Louis Dreyfus here, and I can't wait for you to hear our new episode of Wiser

0:15.6

than Me with Cindy Lauper on Amazon Music.

0:19.0

Cindy may be a girl who just wants to have fun, but for 40 years she has brought

0:23.5

playfulness and a dash of punk to some serious activism.

0:28.1

We talk about her lifelong LGBTQ-plus advocacy, her astonishing music career, and pick up a whole

0:35.4

lot of wisdom along the way.

0:37.1

Listen now only on Amazon

0:38.8

Music included with Prime.

0:44.7

Hi, it's Gloria Riviera. You might know me from Lemonada Media's No One is coming to save us

0:53.2

and good Things.

0:54.6

I'm dropping into your feed today because I wanted to share an episode of Good Things that feels especially timely and hopeful.

1:02.0

On Good Things, we focus on the people who aren't just talking about what's broken.

1:06.6

They're actually doing something about it.

1:08.9

Each episode, we take on big, complicated issues facing this country and look at them through a solutions lens.

1:16.1

We dig into everything from climate solutions to literacy to protecting democracy,

1:21.3

while always asking, who's rolling up their sleeves and what can we learn from them?

1:26.1

In this episode, I'm joined by Leslie Palomino, Georgia State Director at Padere LatinX,

1:32.2

about how the organization has been mobilizing Latino voters around energy affordability

1:36.8

and what's at stake for upcoming elections later this year.

1:40.7

If you're looking for smart, grounded conversations about how change really happens,

1:46.4

I hope you'll check out good things. Just search for it wherever you're listening right now.

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