Tiffany Cabán for New York City Council (Election is June 22nd!)

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🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This episode was originally on our bonus feed, but as Tiffany's election is tomorrow we're putting it out today for everyone! Pete speaks to Tiffany Cabán, public defender and organizer with the Working Families Party, whose campaign for Queens County District Attorney drew national attention last year, and who is now running for New York City Council in District 22. https://www.cabanforqueens.com/ This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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0:00.0	Hello, current affairs listeners. It's Pete Davis here. I am here with the wonderful Tiffany Caban.
0:06.5	She is a lifetime public defender. She was an inspiring Queen's DA candidate, and now she is
0:14.0	running for New York City Council District 22. We had Tiffany on current affairs when she was running for DA, and we wanted to check
0:23.8	back in with her as she mounts a new run for New York City City Council. Thank you for coming on,
0:31.0	Tiffany Caban. Thanks for having me. It's good to be back. So glad to have you on. I wanted to start,
0:36.6	we're going to get into your city council race shortly,
0:38.9	but I wanted to start Tiffany with your previous race. We love hearing and talking about stories that
0:46.3	end with a kind of happy triumph, but in the fight for justice, it's very important for our listeners
0:52.2	to understand that sometimes there are lost
0:55.0	battles along the way. And your loss in this Queen's DA race was heartbreaking to me and all
1:01.6	of us at current affairs and I'm sure to many of our listeners. And I'd love to ask kind of as an
1:07.5	educational moment for folks that kind of have hardship along the way in the fight for
1:11.8	justice, looking back at it with some time between it. What was your experience of being at the
1:18.6	center of that? What have you learned? What was surprising? And is there anything you can teach us
1:23.5	about getting back on the horse and mounting another run. I think there were things that I had
1:29.0	experienced that taught me about how to sort of handle falling short in a very, very close race.
1:35.6	55 votes, which amounted to 0.06 of 1% of the vote. That's how slim the margin was. And I would
1:43.3	be lying to you if I didn't tell you
1:45.0	that it took a long time. Like that's hard. It took a really long time to recover. I might not have
1:49.5	like fully recovered from it. But at the same time, I'm a public defender. Like I am used to
1:54.7	having the deck stacked against me. I'm used to losing more than I win. you just you just stay hungry right like you stay on your grind
2:01.6	and also an organizer and you know after my race one it took a little bit of time but being able
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