How's going? Nice to meet you. Thank you.

Yeah, that's actually an important concept.

Yeah, it is.

Rocky, please introduce yourself and give us some background about your political career.

Can you wait until he's set up or no?

I'm Rocky Anderson. I practiced law for 21 years in Salt Lake City. I did a lot of

plaintiffs work in the area of antitrust, securities fraud, professional malpractice, and a lot

of civil rights work. It seems that most of my practice was representing people who had suffered injury as a result of the abuse of power,

either corporate power or governmental power.

And it was a fantastic thing to me to be able to walk into the courtroom representing people who didn't have a lot of power or really any power on the outside

against people who had tremendous power on the outside, but when they all walked into the courtroom, Lady Justice's skills were balanced.

She was blind to the differences between them on the outside.

And those who abused their power violated the law were held to account.

And that is so central to our government, to our way of life, and yet it seems to have

been completely disregarded during the Bush and Obama years in very dangerous ways.

So I practiced law for 21 years, very proud to be part of our legal system.

I ran for Congress in 1996. I was a Democratic candidate.

Lost that race primarily because I was advocating marriage equality in 1996.

It was very early for that.

That was not a mainstream view by any means, which now, thank goodness, it is far more mainstream.

I think we've made so much tremendous progress.

Then I went back to my law practice for a couple of years and

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