Episode 231 - Convo with Amy Reichert Candidate for SD Supervisor

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[00:00:18] Good evening everyone and welcome to another episode of the California Underground Podcast.

[00:00:32] Tonight, Phil is actually on vacation so I'm filling in his host.

[00:00:35] I'm Camille.

[00:00:36] I'm usually here as the co-host but I actually have a special co-host tonight and a special

[00:00:40] guest.

[00:00:41] So, I brought on Sean Ferdickson because he lives in San Diego and he is very familiar

[00:00:46] with the mess that has been going on down there for quite some time.

[00:00:49] He is very involved and political stuff down there.

[00:00:52] He is a freedom fighter, he's a parental rights fighter.

[00:00:54] I absolutely love Sean.

[00:00:55] I adore him.

[00:00:56] I've known him for a bit now.

[00:00:57] Sean, how are you doing?

[00:00:59] Welcome to the show.

[00:01:00] Man, I am so blessed.

[00:01:01] Thank you for bringing me on Camille.

[00:01:03] What a joy.

[00:01:04] What an awesome opportunity to hang out with Amy.

[00:01:06] Ask questions about such a relevant race.

[00:01:08] No, I'm excited.

[00:01:09] It brings us to Amy.

[00:01:12] So, Amy here is running in this special election for County Supervisor.

[00:01:18] That has been quite a thing because she ran last year and Nathan Fletcher was unfortunately

[00:01:22] re-elected but he was his own demise and he has had a lot of drama which we'll get to.

[00:01:27] We've discussed it on the show many times.

[00:01:30] Anyway, he ended up finally, I guess quitting.

[00:01:35] He was kind of forced into...

[00:01:37] He's promoting as the word that I've used.

[00:01:40] He unfolded on himself and he is no more in San Diego politics at this time.

[00:01:46] There's now a special election happening and Amy is still running.

[00:01:50] She was right there and ready to go again and she's like, here I am.

[00:01:53] It is my time.

[00:01:54] I'm so excited to have you here, Amy.

[00:01:57] I'm here all about your campaign and just what's been going on.

[00:02:01] So Sean and I are just going to ask questions and figure out what's going on.

[00:02:04] Amy, first can you tell us just about you?

[00:02:08] I'm a lifelong Sandy Agen and grew up in Tierra Santa.

[00:02:13] I was raised Jewish.

[00:02:14] I had a Batmitzva with DeHeber School, the whole nine yards.

[00:02:18] My dad was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when I was very young.

[00:02:23] I share these details because it's really important part of my story.

[00:02:28] I went on to become one of the first people in my family to get a college degree and I earned

[00:02:34] my political science degree from San Diego State University later in life.

[00:02:39] When I was 30 years old, I was eight months pregnant and my dad died of complications

[00:02:44] from multiple sclerosis.

[00:02:46] And then five weeks later after a normal, uncomplicated pregnancy, my daughter Ashley was born

[00:02:51] in a coma.

[00:02:52] And again, I share these because right now the pressing issues in the county right

[00:02:56] now are mental health and addiction.

[00:02:59] And I've been really open about my journey.

[00:03:02] Went into church ministry and I led celibate recovery.

[00:03:05] And I've led hundreds of not thousands of people into treatment and recovery.

[00:03:10] Now fast forward to 2020 and that's when I met Sean Frederickson and the freedom fighters

[00:03:16] in San Diego.

[00:03:17] And we stood up for the safe reopening of schools, the safe reopening of churches, the safe

[00:03:24] reopening of businesses.

[00:03:26] And we fought against mandates right here in San Diego County and I'm so glad that we

[00:03:32] won last year I ran against Nathan Fletcher because he was the lockdown king in San Diego

[00:03:39] County.

[00:03:40] And he was reelected and then he spectacularly publicly imploded over charges of sexual

[00:03:46] assault.

[00:03:47] So now we find ourselves in a special election.

[00:03:51] And there was a runoff where I made the top two.

[00:03:53] I ran against about a million dollars in pack money to my zero impact money and now

[00:03:59] the race is on to November 7th really.

[00:04:02] We're at a crossroads at San Diego County, which way are we going to go?

[00:04:05] Are we going to go to socialism or are we going to go to common sense?

[00:04:08] So that's why I'm running.

[00:04:10] So that's like three weeks away.

[00:04:13] That 21 days but who's counting?

[00:04:15] So yes.

[00:04:16] Okay.

[00:04:18] And so I had a question on the tip of my toe.

[00:04:21] Oh Nathan Fletcher, is it true?

[00:04:23] He wouldn't he told people they couldn't walk on the beach or they had to they couldn't

[00:04:27] stop like they just had to keep walking.

[00:04:30] Was that am I correct on that?

[00:04:31] Yes.

[00:04:32] For sure.

[00:04:33] Talk about that.

[00:04:34] That absolutely happened in the County of San Diego and they put the Sheriff's Department

[00:04:39] in a really strange predicament because they found that the resources were so limited

[00:04:44] that they're policing the beaches.

[00:04:46] I remember I spoke with one of the the higher ups in the the Sheriff's Department trying

[00:04:50] to figure out, Hey, is this actually what's going to happen if we're just sitting on

[00:04:53] the beach?

[00:04:54] You know, having like dinner with my wife in my car and he's like, Well, honestly, we don't

[00:05:01] care but the County is trying to implement this stuff.

[00:05:03] So yeah, Nathan Fletcher was absolutely behind it.

[00:05:06] He was the the mask Nazi trying to to virtue signal during all the board of supervisors

[00:05:11] meetings.

[00:05:12] You know, if you know, there's been conversation Amy about the possibility of mask men.

[00:05:18] It's coming back out of curiosity.

[00:05:21] What would be your position if something like that were to come back?

[00:05:25] Like you've got a fairly split board.

[00:05:28] Where would you stand?

[00:05:30] So just last night I was at a community forum and my opponent.

[00:05:36] He said that she would bring back masks if she were County supervisor.

[00:05:41] Well, here's the thing.

[00:05:43] We don't want to get banned on YouTube about talking about this but we know that the science

[00:05:50] is clear about these things and I just I do not believe that mask in two year olds

[00:05:58] is humane or compassionate or sane or in any way common sense.

[00:06:04] So when I answered last night about what I would do, in my response to because here's the

[00:06:11] thing.

[00:06:12] There's just a lot of people that want to know, well, if COVID comes back, what are you going

[00:06:15] to do?

[00:06:16] Well, I absolutely would never lock down the County again.

[00:06:19] That's Richard.

[00:06:20] Did COVID ever leave?

[00:06:22] Good question.

[00:06:23] You know, like I have I know some people who are sick right now and want to on a group

[00:06:30] text state, one of them was like, Oh, did you test for COVID?

[00:06:32] I'm like, really?

[00:06:33] I'm doing that.

[00:06:34] I don't want to get cooked up YouTube.

[00:06:35] But I just think COVID is it's like last week, I had like a two day flu.

[00:06:40] I didn't test for anything.

[00:06:41] I'm like, I have a flu.

[00:06:42] You know, I'm going to go to bed.

[00:06:44] I'm going to drink my water and I'm going to get up to her.

[00:06:47] I'll be okay.

[00:06:48] That's what happened.

[00:06:49] And right anyway, sorry, that's a little on topic.

[00:06:53] It's.

[00:06:54] Here's the thing.

[00:06:55] It's like.

[00:06:56] Well, what if what if the run?

[00:06:59] I'm going to get your head.

[00:07:01] I've been called a COVID denier.

[00:07:04] I'm anti science science denier by my opponent and also I was called that by Nathan Fletcher.

[00:07:12] So the thing is why this is so relevant right now is we just need to move past COVID and

[00:07:19] we need to move on to the passing issues that are in San Diego County right now.

[00:07:23] In fact, we need to be laser focused on it right now 400,000 county residents are severely

[00:07:30] rent burdened which is just a fancy government term for the rent is too damn high.

[00:07:35] And we have a growing humanitarian homeless crisis too.

[00:07:39] All of these things are just getting worse from the people that have been running this

[00:07:44] county for the past few years and they're failing.

[00:07:46] Right.

[00:07:47] Right.

[00:07:48] Yeah.

[00:07:49] We often are discussing the home.

[00:07:55] It sounds like there's literally like bus falls of homeless people immigrants just being

[00:07:59] dropped off in San Diego right now and I know Amy, I've seen you and following you on

[00:08:03] Instagram.

[00:08:04] You know, I've seen you discussing that as well.

[00:08:05] We talked about that for a moment.

[00:08:06] Can you guys tell me more?

[00:08:08] Yeah, I can speak to that issue.

[00:08:10] I've been really vocal about it.

[00:08:12] So in the past month alone, we've had nearly 20,000 migrants that have been dropped off in

[00:08:17] San Diego County and last week at the San Diego County border supervisors, they voted

[00:08:22] to allocate $3 million for migrants.

[00:08:26] Now I'm sure that they felt that they had to do this but they didn't have to do this.

[00:08:32] And here's why it's the government's job.

[00:08:35] It's the federal government's job.

[00:08:36] It's their jurisdiction to protect the border.

[00:08:39] It's the federal government's job which has a seven trillion dollar budget to take care

[00:08:44] of this.

[00:08:46] The money that has been allocated by the county is not just free money.

[00:08:51] It was actually ARPA funds, yes, COVID funds and it's literally taking from residents in

[00:09:00] San Diego County money that would have gone to homelessness, affordable housing and even

[00:09:05] low interest loans to qualified buyers who have lower incomes to be able to purchase their

[00:09:11] own property.

[00:09:12] So that money, like going to the migrants, what was it?

[00:09:16] Is it supposed to house them?

[00:09:17] Is it supposed to feed them?

[00:09:18] What is that money supposed to do?

[00:09:22] So the federal government turned over massive amounts of money to NGOs, non-government organizations

[00:09:29] who then in turn were giving bus tickets or airfare to people who were newly arrived claiming

[00:09:37] asylum so that they could get to their sponsors in other country.

[00:09:43] That money dried up about a month ago and then the border patrol had no choice but to

[00:09:48] street release people in San Diego County at different transit centers.

[00:09:53] So we live in the county where there's less than a 2% vacancy rate for apartments and a

[00:09:59] homeless crisis that's out of control, so that of course was just making everything worse.

[00:10:05] Well, we've seen that you would say something.

[00:10:07] Yeah, the county continues to throw money at these issues like homelessness which you're

[00:10:11] touching on and it seems that the problems are continually getting worse.

[00:10:15] What are other solutions that can be implemented by the border supervisors?

[00:10:20] So you're absolutely right.

[00:10:23] They just keep throwing money at the problem as if that is a solution and what we're seeing

[00:10:28] is homelessness is only growing worse.

[00:10:30] So my platform is shelter first with treatment.

[00:10:34] We need more shelters, period end of story.

[00:10:38] We don't have enough shelters and there are people that are part of the homeless population

[00:10:44] that are service resistant and even if there was a shelter they wouldn't go there.

[00:10:50] And what's happening is there's significant public safety issues that are happening in

[00:10:55] different communities all throughout the county.

[00:10:58] People don't feel safe in their own parks, their own neighborhood parks.

[00:11:01] They don't feel safe walking their kids to school around needles that are on the sidewalk

[00:11:07] and even businesses especially down there, they just keep their doors locked.

[00:11:14] I've been looking at local city like policies where for example, incinitists, they 20 years

[00:11:20] ago they had very little homeless but it seems that the city's being incentivized

[00:11:25] to bring in homeless people.

[00:11:27] Like they have a high enough per capita than they get more access to funds.

[00:11:30] So why is this pay to or homeless, homeless encampment becoming something to welcome it

[00:11:42] rather than trying to alleviate?

[00:11:44] It seems like they're trying to create homeless encampments.

[00:11:47] Have you seen that?

[00:11:49] You're absolutely right Sean.

[00:11:51] I call it the homeless industrial complex.

[00:11:54] There is big money in the homelessness crisis.

[00:11:58] So California has something called housing first and housing first has spent nearly 25 billion

[00:12:05] dollars on housing first.

[00:12:08] And what we're only seeing is that homelessness is getting worse.

[00:12:11] So my plan is shelter first with treatment.

[00:12:14] I believe that if you truly love somebody, you hold them accountable, that there's accountability

[00:12:20] in left.

[00:12:21] And when somebody is struggling with severe addiction, severe mental illness and they are

[00:12:26] committing crimes.

[00:12:29] The best possible place for them is not jail, right?

[00:12:33] Where our sheriff's department is understaffed and we're seeing record overdoses and people

[00:12:41] taking their own lives.

[00:12:42] No, we need mandatory treatment.

[00:12:45] Shelter first with treatment.

[00:12:46] That's good.

[00:12:47] Yeah, I agree.

[00:12:49] You bring up law enforcement.

[00:12:50] One of the questions that I've run into with a lot of San Diego Police Department as well

[00:12:55] as the sheriff's department is that they don't feel protected by the legislative where if

[00:13:00] they were to enforce and stand for what the laws are, what they state, that they would be

[00:13:06] criminalized by these, you know, these left-leaning organizations.

[00:13:11] What would you do to help them out to make them feel protected by doing their job?

[00:13:16] This past week I got a major endorsement of the San Diego Police Officer Association endorsed

[00:13:21] me.

[00:13:22] They endorsed me over my opponent who is actually a sitting San Diego City Councilwoman.

[00:13:30] And here's why, my opponent supports something called the Protect Act except that it doesn't

[00:13:38] protect the public.

[00:13:40] It protects criminals.

[00:13:41] Now, that seems like an extreme statement to say but I can back it up.

[00:13:46] If you look at the Protect Act, what it does is it changes the definition of how a police

[00:13:53] officer can pull somebody over from reasonable suspicion to probable cost.

[00:14:00] And so if a police officer sees somebody outside of a bank and it's noon and it's 100 degrees

[00:14:06] and they're wearing a ski mask, well, reasonable suspicion means oh my gosh, I think that guy

[00:14:11] is going to go into that bank and rob it.

[00:14:14] But by changing the definition of when you can actually law enforcement can engage to

[00:14:20] probable cost, there's a completely different standard.

[00:14:23] And so it has to do with traffic stops and there's even language in there that won't allow

[00:14:28] police to ask somebody if they've pulled them over for maybe a light being out, a tail

[00:14:38] out to further question them if they are under the influence, they cannot.

[00:14:43] And the last thing too, exactly what you were saying Sean is officers not being protected.

[00:14:49] Part of the Protect Act would take away a qualified immunity from law enforcement which means

[00:14:57] if something happens on the job that they could be personally sued.

[00:15:01] So what law enforcement officer is going to sign up for that?

[00:15:04] Thank you.

[00:15:05] Good point.

[00:15:06] They're going to have doctors around to take out malpractice insurance and then they're

[00:15:10] going to go broke because you know, I mean it's not funny but like that's going to be

[00:15:14] so costly and eat at their salary that it's like yeah, right who's going to want to

[00:15:19] put their life on the line daily at the possibility of losing everything over an acquisition.

[00:15:26] And so yeah, that's pretty horrific.

[00:15:30] And I just think police officers need to be able to do their jobs and if they pull someone

[00:15:34] over for X, Y and Z and something else is going on we need them to be protecting the public.

[00:15:40] We need them to be you know, and even like you said a lot of these can go back to mental

[00:15:45] health issues not necessarily jailed but like that the police officer has an opportunity

[00:15:49] to possibly help that person with something that's going on.

[00:15:53] And I know we hear the police and get the you know therapist in there but no, you know,

[00:15:57] like the police is the first person there.

[00:15:59] You know, they're the first defense and we need to support them.

[00:16:04] We need to be back in up.

[00:16:05] We need to be giving them more resources not less.

[00:16:07] Yeah, it'd be great to incentivize police.

[00:16:09] Yeah, that's what it was me.

[00:16:11] Yeah, that's fantastic.

[00:16:12] Sean, you were going to say something.

[00:16:14] Yeah, I was just thinking about how we're running into a predicament with the Republican

[00:16:19] and Democrat party don't seem too different these days.

[00:16:23] You know, what can you do as a candidate to really stand up for the people?

[00:16:28] You know, what does it look like to have a candidate that values liberty and righteousness

[00:16:32] and morality?

[00:16:34] Absolutely.

[00:16:35] Yes, let's call it what it is, the unaparty.

[00:16:38] There you go.

[00:16:40] And I have to say it's been so fascinating as I had run for office and I talked to Democrats

[00:16:47] and I talked to Republicans.

[00:16:50] And I am endorsed by the San Diego Republican Party, but I'm also endorsed by the San Diego

[00:16:56] libertarian party.

[00:16:57] And my value is the Constitution of the United States and freedom.

[00:17:03] I'm a let and let live person.

[00:17:05] You do your life.

[00:17:06] Don't tell me how to live my life and do not tell me how to raise my own kids.

[00:17:11] These are four values of mine.

[00:17:13] And then I guess what makes me a Republican is just being visibly conservative.

[00:17:19] My opponent oversees constantly brags how she oversees the multi-billion dollar budget for

[00:17:27] the city of San Diego without mentioning that it's also $350 million in debt, the city

[00:17:34] of San Diego.

[00:17:36] And so what can we really do?

[00:17:38] I think we are so beyond red or blue in this country, I think we've got such major issues.

[00:17:46] It doesn't matter who I'm talking to.

[00:17:48] I've been with my opponent in 15 different community forms and I constantly will ask this

[00:17:55] question the audience.

[00:17:57] Do you believe that San Diego is better off now than it was five years ago?

[00:18:02] Nobody raises their hands.

[00:18:04] So I think that's something that we can all unify about and put the community first.

[00:18:08] In what ways would you say that San Diego has suffered from five years to now?

[00:18:15] Oh my gosh, just name any key metric from homelessness to public safety and I can quote those

[00:18:24] staff to cost of living.

[00:18:27] I mean every single metric that government is supposed to help with is just worse.

[00:18:34] And of course, the lockdowns made everything worse too.

[00:18:38] And now as we're seeing with the migrant crisis, the money that was set aside to help San

[00:18:45] Diego after the pandemic is not even going to be available to San Diego anymore.

[00:18:50] We are at a crossroads, we are at a crisis and this is going to be a history-making election.

[00:18:56] You know what I mean?

[00:18:57] What are your elected?

[00:18:58] Oh, I got it.

[00:18:59] Sorry.

[00:19:00] I got it.

[00:19:01] I've got a better question about this because how do you hold the federal government accountable

[00:19:08] to the border?

[00:19:09] Because the border issue is definitely an issue especially with conventional in like all

[00:19:13] of California but you guys are there.

[00:19:15] I mean you were right there.

[00:19:17] They're literally in your streets.

[00:19:19] And so how do you as county board supervisor get the hold the federal government accountable?

[00:19:27] You know, I just kind of go back to our freedom fighting days with Sean and standing up

[00:19:34] and bringing the community together and the people's voice being heard.

[00:19:40] We were able to stop a lot of nonsense from happening in San Diego County because of that.

[00:19:45] San Diego County, yeah we had it pretty bad and I'm being careful because of YouTube.

[00:19:55] But here's a thing because we all stood up and took a stance.

[00:19:58] We were able to protect San Diego County.

[00:20:01] So here's the thing, what about standing up to the federal government?

[00:20:04] That's just completely different animal if you will.

[00:20:09] Well I filed a federal lawsuit with reopened San Diego and we sued the city of San Diego

[00:20:15] and we won.

[00:20:16] We really did like a def adverses the life battle.

[00:20:19] So I am not new to standing up to the federal government or to standing up to government

[00:20:25] at all.

[00:20:26] So that's exactly what people could count on for me.

[00:20:29] It's awesome.

[00:20:30] All right so you make mention it was also no one.

[00:20:33] I'm going to let you grow Sean but again, I don't know how laggy it is.

[00:20:46] But okay one of the thoughts.

[00:20:48] Please.

[00:20:49] Okay one of the thoughts that you brought up standing against government.

[00:20:54] So there was a time where we had, I want to say a thousand people show up to the board

[00:20:59] of supervisors where we got there at 9 a.m.

[00:21:02] And I can't remember the specific item that we were discussing but we went from 9 a.m.

[00:21:08] to 2 a.m.

[00:21:09] The fault that evening where we were protesting and requesting the government to recognize

[00:21:16] that we the citizens did not agree with what they were attempting to pass whether it was

[00:21:21] the abortion making abortion a San Diego and abortion safe play safe haven or whatever

[00:21:30] it was or maybe is the ghost guns bill or maybe it was prolonging the mandates in the

[00:21:37] county but regardless how do we the people get heard because after 12 hours of us speaking,

[00:21:46] they didn't listen to us and by then it was unanimous where all five of the board of

[00:21:51] supervisors voted in opposition to what the thousand people before them requested.

[00:21:57] How do we know that you won't do the same thing?

[00:22:02] I think what it all starts with is I have been all over district four and it turned out

[00:22:10] that our freedom groups that stood up to the government over it turns out we weren't

[00:22:16] the only ones who have not been happy with how the government hasn't been listening.

[00:22:21] I have been all over district four to different community planning groups and the sentiment

[00:22:27] is the same and I don't want to say we're quite at a tipping point in San Diego County

[00:22:33] but I feel like we're almost there.

[00:22:37] So what I have tried to show through example is that I will be a servant leader, and I will

[00:22:45] continue to be a heart-centered candidate.

[00:22:48] What I'm hearing from people is that my opponent doesn't even look at people in the eye that

[00:22:55] she doesn't return emails or phone calls and I have demonstrated just as many other people

[00:23:02] who have led through the past few years is that I am in the community, I am not afraid

[00:23:09] to stand up, I'm not afraid of all the name calling that I've been called.

[00:23:13] I'm the one that returns the emails, I return those phone calls and I'm showing up and

[00:23:19] I'm hearing people and I'm listening to people.

[00:23:22] And so that's the way that I can really show people that how I campaign and how I have

[00:23:30] led through the past couple years is how I'll govern.

[00:23:34] Now have I made mistakes a long way, yes of course nobody's perfect but I'm heart-centered

[00:23:41] and that's the way that I want to leave.

[00:23:43] I want to put the people back at the top of the org chart where they belong if you look

[00:23:48] at the county org chart it's supposed to be at the people at the top then the board of

[00:23:53] supervisors.

[00:23:54] When I talk to people all over district four no one believes that the people are at the

[00:23:59] top they believe that the board of supervisors are at the top and we need to change it back

[00:24:05] for the people.

[00:24:06] Yeah Nathan Fletcher said a pretty terrible precedent.

[00:24:10] Keep going.

[00:24:11] Yeah I was going to say about a lot of people prior to 2020 had no idea that they even

[00:24:18] had a county board of supervisors or what their county board of supervisors did.

[00:24:21] I think San Diego was the wake up call for the state where they were like wait a second

[00:24:26] and Nathan Fletcher really because he was so hardcore about all his rules and restrictions.

[00:24:33] People were like hold on, hold on who are these people and who gave them the authority

[00:24:37] to do all these things and it was suddenly I guess it was like you know a good thing as

[00:24:45] project as a situation as it was it was like it really opened people's eyes up to be like

[00:24:50] hold on.

[00:24:52] Like Sean said thousand people showed up to that meeting.

[00:24:55] People were actually showing up to what were supervisors meetings for the first time

[00:24:59] and saying we have a say we are the people listen to us.

[00:25:03] And can we touch on just for those who are kind of new and still don't know exactly

[00:25:09] what's going on Nathan Fletcher I mean I feel like he was I know there's others in there

[00:25:15] but I feel like he was the most hardcore of the supervisors who was just like my way

[00:25:20] or the highway and then of course he was his own demise in the end.

[00:25:24] Oh yeah.

[00:25:25] So Nathan Fletcher was groomed to be an incredible politician.

[00:25:34] He had a career in the military in intelligence.

[00:25:37] He was a master of understanding the way people think and manipulating people off of their

[00:25:44] off of his comprehension through his military training and the way that he ran the board

[00:25:49] of supervisors was very unique because there was if you remember back just 15 20 years

[00:25:56] ago the San Diego County Board of supervisors was like a five zero Republican board where

[00:26:02] there were all in all five districts around the county it was five conservatives up until

[00:26:08] the time that Nathan Fletcher was elected.

[00:26:10] I'm pretty certain he was the first Democrat in a while to be elected especially in district

[00:26:15] four. The candidate that was was in that district before Nathan Fletcher's termed out

[00:26:20] and his last term nobody ran against him he was such a strong candidate in a Republican

[00:26:26] in district four and the time that Nathan Fletcher came in that role he immediately started

[00:26:32] like planting seeds of division.

[00:26:35] He knew that if you can divide it you can conquer it and so that that County Board of

[00:26:40] supervisors office was I would say fairly tranquil in the sense of people work together

[00:26:45] everybody had their own ideas and all the board of supervisors in their districts are

[00:26:49] all trying to build something up but Nathan Fletcher came in there with a strategy where

[00:26:54] he would divide people pit people against each other make himself the leader and start

[00:26:59] to implement people behind him which is what he did with Teralos and Riemer and then

[00:27:03] Nora Vargas and if it wasn't for his self selfish ignorant choices to abuse a woman we

[00:27:12] would still be dealing with such a tyrant but it's amazing what the Lord will do to the

[00:27:17] selfish.

[00:27:18] Not if that was too detailed.

[00:27:22] I don't want to say you want to talk about the whole board but Amy should you be elected

[00:27:29] you're going to have to work with Nora.

[00:27:34] She's a strong personality and I feel like you're a very strong personality how will you

[00:27:41] work with a divided board?

[00:27:44] I know if you win then it's going to be a majority right like you are the type breaker

[00:27:50] your campaign right this special election is a type breaker so I know you would have the

[00:27:54] majority should you win but should you win what do you how do you do that how do you work

[00:27:59] with someone who is so opposite of what you believe.

[00:28:04] Right so you know kind of going back to talking about like the unaparty and everything

[00:28:08] and this is something that I said publicly I actually vowed to be nonpartisan which this

[00:28:13] is a nonpartisan race supposed to be but yeah even on the ballot there's no R next

[00:28:21] year name there's no D next year name you're just supposed to put the people first period

[00:28:26] end of story right but that's not how it's been at all what I have seen is that special

[00:28:33] interests are completely the ones that have the ears of the supervisors in my race and

[00:28:39] I referenced this earlier there was a million dollars in pack money spent before the primary

[00:28:45] 600 thousand dollars of it was spent for my now opponent that I'm facing in the general

[00:28:52] and then the third place then a shirt she got four hundred thousand dollars in pack money

[00:28:58] but these are people who have had up these packs who literally prepare the puppet masters

[00:29:05] what are the packs that are supporting them.

[00:29:08] The packs that support my now opponent that I'm facing in the general labor unions as

[00:29:14] I you that way hold on that's Nathan Fletcher's wife Nathan's Fletcher's wife runs the California

[00:29:22] labor party and she got I find correct did she lower guns Lorena Lorena Lorena can

[00:29:29] all skid didn't she have to she stepped down from the assembly because she was doing some

[00:29:34] dirty deeds with the labor union and then she immediately got appointed as the head of

[00:29:38] the labor union is that correct.

[00:29:40] I don't know about your deeds but but yes some allegations.

[00:29:48] My opponent in the general is actually endorsed by Lorena Gonzalez.

[00:29:54] There you go so that makes complete sense.

[00:29:57] Yeah so how would I need I'm going to put the people first that's it and and I'm sorry

[00:30:06] I thought that was against like the rules of packs the state okay I'm expect something

[00:30:14] so what political action committees can do is they can raise unlimited amounts of money

[00:30:19] and they can do it's called an independent expenditure.

[00:30:22] So as long as the candidate isn't telling them how to spend the money they can spend money

[00:30:27] on texting they can spend money on mailers they can spend money on social media ads

[00:30:33] youtube ads television ads so here's my big homework assignment for anybody so you're

[00:30:39] only going to get a ballot if you're in district four for this race but next year is

[00:30:43] a big election year whenever you get a mailer in the mail make sure you flip it over look

[00:30:48] at the fine print on the back and then you're going to find out who paid for that mailer

[00:30:54] and it's it's very eye opening.

[00:30:56] It is.

[00:30:57] You know and I just want to kind of like state what's going on in in my race this again

[00:31:02] it is a David versus Goliath race it was a David versus Goliath race when I ran against

[00:31:08] the incumbent Nathan Fletcher my district is 49% Democrat and it's 19% Republican.

[00:31:18] So basically I didn't have any other Republicans that I had to run against that ran serious campaigns

[00:31:26] because they look at a district like this it's it's called a D plus 30 race and they just

[00:31:32] go wow that's impossible but here's the thing we cannot allow our county to go the same

[00:31:41] way that the city of San Diego has gone and my opponent has been a city councilwoman for

[00:31:48] the city of San Diego and everybody else around the county who doesn't live in the city

[00:31:52] of San Diego is going oh my gosh we don't want what's going on in the city of San Diego

[00:31:57] to spread throughout the county that's what's at stake right now so that's why I'm running

[00:32:03] I'm running because it's important for the future of my kids and eventually my future

[00:32:08] grandkids because we're going in the wrong direction and we need to change direction.

[00:32:14] Yeah I agree.

[00:32:17] That's sandag.

[00:32:19] Yes perfect.

[00:32:20] The county board of supervisors has a lot to do with sandag correct?

[00:32:27] Yes.

[00:32:28] I should do this.

[00:32:29] I want to say we've done emphasis on this and so I researched but like I feel like that was

[00:32:36] already a million years ago.

[00:32:39] So sandag stands for the San Diego the transportation and now I'm I shouldn't have had this at

[00:32:47] the right.

[00:32:48] Oh.

[00:32:49] San Diego is basically it's 18 local cities who each send a representative so it's San

[00:32:56] Diego its government basically for all of San Diego and they collect taxes through something

[00:33:04] called Transnet which is a sales tax that was voted on by the voters and it was supposed

[00:33:10] to go to our roads to widen our freeways to maintain our freeways for infrastructure improvements

[00:33:18] but instead now two thirds of our Transnet money now go to bike lanes and public transportation

[00:33:27] public transportation that only 4% of the population even takes.

[00:33:32] Right.

[00:33:33] And like those out in East County like it's not it wouldn't have any benefit to them whatsoever

[00:33:38] or like those who are out in the middle of it seems like nowhere it's still San Diego

[00:33:41] County wouldn't benefit them whatsoever.

[00:33:45] And they're proposing a per mileage tax.

[00:33:47] Like I know that's a big thing that kind of they keep delaying but that's a big thing

[00:33:52] because as we're pushing electric vehicles and people are starting to switch to electric

[00:33:56] and they're not then the less people are buying gas right so they're trying to all cars

[00:34:02] are supposed to they want to pass this per mile tax.

[00:34:06] And nobody even knows how they're going to help like what they want to put personal

[00:34:09] meters in your cars which is such a violation of your privacy.

[00:34:13] No one even knows how they're going to implement this but they are trying to do this.

[00:34:17] And I'm sure that would be a cost to you guys too in San Diego like oh well every car now

[00:34:21] has to have this installed and so that's another thousand dollars if you want to buy a car

[00:34:25] or you know the cost I'm sure.

[00:34:27] Anyway speak to that for a bit because I know that's been a big thing.

[00:34:32] Amanda actually voted to take it out of the transportation the regional transportation

[00:34:37] plan.

[00:34:38] However here's why it's because California yes the state of California is looking at doing

[00:34:45] a mileage tax statewide yes so buckle up everybody else outside of San Diego County.

[00:34:52] It was taken out of our regional transportation plan but it's because the state is thinking

[00:34:57] about doing one now.

[00:34:59] Here's the thing this whole idea of a mileage tax the whole thing was oh well you know people

[00:35:03] who have electric cars need to pay too but the mileage tax was also going to impact people

[00:35:08] with gas powered vehicles too.

[00:35:11] And none of this money none of it was going to go towards maintaining or improving our

[00:35:16] roads it was going to go to a 160 seven billion dollar public transportation plan right.

[00:35:24] So just think of the the train to know where in California and apply it to San Diego because

[00:35:30] that's what they were trying to do.

[00:35:32] So there's no looking at other ways to try to fund this thing and what they want to do

[00:35:38] instead is take 853 miles of our fast lanes that already exist on our freeways and turn

[00:35:46] them into toll roads.

[00:35:48] And you're going to pay the fast lanes.

[00:35:50] Yeah and here's the thing they're very same people who say that they want equity.

[00:35:58] Let me tell you it's only the rich people and they're going to be able to afford these

[00:36:02] lanes.

[00:36:04] So yeah to me this is the greatest argument against this plan which is another reason why

[00:36:11] we need you in there to have a voice of reason so that we're not you know and for anyone

[00:36:17] who's watching and saying oh well they already took this out so why are we talking about

[00:36:20] this because it kind of shows you what absurd ideas these people are coming with up with

[00:36:24] to waste your money.

[00:36:26] They are not physically responsible as she's already pointed out the city council member

[00:36:31] has driven the city 350 million her the county 350 million dollars in debt and then they

[00:36:36] just took a few million dollars that was allocated for something and sent it somewhere else

[00:36:40] and so this is why it's so important is because there are the ones coming up with these

[00:36:44] not so genius ideas to spend your money and tax you more absolutely we have got to stop

[00:36:50] that we have actually got stopped that.

[00:36:52] Yeah it seems like they're really doing it.

[00:36:56] The government officials are really finding a great way to fund these unions because if

[00:37:02] they did the high speed rail through San Diego County who's going to be building that the

[00:37:06] unions and the unions are the one that are backing all these candidates Nathan Fletcher

[00:37:11] Lorraine Gazzalas as well as Norvarius and Tara Lawson Remor and they don't care about

[00:37:17] the people.

[00:37:18] This is what I found is residents that are in Tara Lawson Remor's district who don't

[00:37:24] donate large swathes of cash to her campaign they don't get a phone call back from her

[00:37:29] office like how terrible would it be to have a candidate or that to have a representative

[00:37:35] that when you call because you have an issue in your district they don't care to call

[00:37:40] you back.

[00:37:41] That is not a representative that is a bureaucrat and we need more representatives that will

[00:37:45] listen to the requests of the people in your district because that's what a supervisor's

[00:37:50] for could you help us understand who are the cities that are in your district that will

[00:37:56] receive a ballot and then how soon should they be submitting their ballot?

[00:38:06] Absolutely so district four is 101 square miles and it has 675,000 residents in it and the

[00:38:13] cities that it makes up our parts of San Diego all of La Mesa and all of Lemon Grove.

[00:38:21] And then there's also the unincorporated parts of the county the communities that make

[00:38:26] up district far are everything from Bankers Hill to Mission Valley to Hillcrest to Claremont

[00:38:33] Bay Park Bay Ho, Linda Vista, Claremont Mesa, La Mesa.

[00:38:39] I mentioned that before Rancho San Diego which has been a great source of support for me,

[00:38:46] Paradise Hill, South Eastern San Diego, Orlando and Canto, San Diego State area and the list

[00:38:54] goes on and on it's just that it's actually here's the thing like I have fallen in love

[00:39:01] with San Diego all over again.

[00:39:04] I've been able to go into these communities, I mean let's face it we all have our normal

[00:39:09] just where we go every day and every time I walk into these communities and I meet people

[00:39:16] in these communities and I hear their concerns and their concerns are the same as other people

[00:39:22] but they're not being heard and so we have to change this it's just this election is so important

[00:39:29] and to your point here's the thing there's people that will never feel comfortable mailing

[00:39:35] in their ballot they'll have an opportunity to vote in person at a vote center or if they

[00:39:40] want to vote in person now and get it over with they can go to the registrar voters in

[00:39:46] Crenie Mesa vote tomorrow if they want to it opens up at 8 a.m. but you can drop off your

[00:39:52] ballot but here's the thing what I really encourage people to do if you do vote early it

[00:39:59] really does help to candidates because what happens is it helps us that way we don't have

[00:40:05] to knock on your door.

[00:40:07] We know that you've already voted we don't have to send you a text which costs money

[00:40:12] we can focus really on getting out the vote and the people that haven't voted.

[00:40:17] Excellent thank you.

[00:40:18] Yeah that was great.

[00:40:20] What else?

[00:40:21] What else go all down there in San Diego?

[00:40:26] I went in the primary election I went down to the registrar voters and I observed I think

[00:40:34] there's a lot of conservatives that are out there really concerned about ballot tabulation

[00:40:39] and the process of which these ballots are counted.

[00:40:43] And I know that there's not a whole lot of control that the Board of Supervisors has over

[00:40:46] that process because that's more of a state thing but I do want to encourage voters

[00:40:52] that the system that's in place does seem to have a pretty strong level of security

[00:40:57] transparency and if you would like to go down there as a voter and observe the tabulation

[00:41:03] and observe the voting process I highly recommend you get your eyes on there and you can actually

[00:41:08] go into the signature verification rooms and watch people verify the signatures and

[00:41:14] how they go about doing it because the more education we have is voters the more confident

[00:41:19] that we'll be when we're casting that ballot.

[00:41:21] That's thank you thank you for saying that because I know that's definitely like you

[00:41:28] said a concern of conservatives about you know stolen ballots etc etc and so that's

[00:41:35] very accurate.

[00:41:37] Yeah okay so one question that I have about one an endorsement that you just received.

[00:41:43] So when I saw this I was kind of like holy smokes what is going on.

[00:41:49] Bill Walton the former Hall of Famer is that right?

[00:41:53] Is that what I saw Bill Walton is endorsing you can you tell us a little bit of story about

[00:41:57] that?

[00:41:58] So Bill Walton he's just an NBA legend and he's been in San Diego for the past 35 years

[00:42:06] and last year he started speaking out against Mayor Todd Gloria.

[00:42:11] Now keep in mind that Bill Walton is a registered Democrat and what really set him off was how

[00:42:21] in his own community he lives in the double park area.

[00:42:25] He said that oftentimes when he's writing his bicycle he's attacked by people who are

[00:42:31] homeless.

[00:42:33] This has been his single issue and he has spoken out so I reached out to him and I asked

[00:42:41] for his endorsement and he gave it to me and I think that's just really like a really

[00:42:46] clear example of how people are kind of done with the whole not everybody but a lot of

[00:42:51] people are like you know what they're done with how city hall and county government are

[00:43:00] running things in San Diego County they're ready to vote for the person over the party

[00:43:05] and oftentimes it's like a single issue so it's been actually really great going out

[00:43:10] into different communities and again I'm the endorsed Republican candidate endorsed by

[00:43:14] the libertarian party as well but I had people coming up to me last night after the

[00:43:19] form they're like Amy I am a Democrat but I'm voted for you so yeah the Bill Walton

[00:43:25] thing was was really cool thanks for mentioning that Sean.

[00:43:28] Absolutely.

[00:43:29] Congratulations London.

[00:43:30] That's you.

[00:43:31] And also that speaks to you running as like you said you're running for the people they're

[00:43:36] not running to be like we all need to be Republican and everyone you know red I know

[00:43:42] I know you're you know I've spoken you personally and I know a lot of your beliefs but you're

[00:43:46] like look we're here for the people and what do the people want and obviously that's

[00:43:50] a perfect example of he's not concerned with who you're voting for for president or

[00:43:55] you know what religion you are behind the curtain he's just like Amy has solutions we have

[00:44:00] problems she has solutions I'm going to endorse her because I believe in her solutions

[00:44:05] to our problems and so that really speaks to you and who you are as a candidate and

[00:44:10] what you're doing you know what you believe in and so I just want to applaud you for that

[00:44:14] because that that does tell you like you're just you're for the people you don't care what

[00:44:19] party they vote for you're like I'm here for you we got a fix these things let's do it.

[00:44:24] So thank you.

[00:44:25] Thank you.

[00:44:26] Yeah one one thing that you mentioned early on was the 400,000 rent burdened citizens that

[00:44:34] are in San Diego County is there anything that the county can actually do to help this

[00:44:40] or is this just like a allow the system to fix itself kind of problem?

[00:44:45] Yeah I don't really think that government is the answer government is often the problem

[00:44:52] and we need to get government out of the way that's why we've stood up in the past few

[00:44:57] years because of government overreach so when you start looking at well why are things

[00:45:01] so bad in San Diego County for housing it's really bad actually all over but San Diego what

[00:45:09] we're seeing is just two weeks ago the San Diego City Council voted to increase water rates

[00:45:17] by 20% over the next two years.

[00:45:21] Okay that's a San Diego City Council that nine Democrats and zero Republicans they have

[00:45:30] to know that by increasing water rates that's also going to increase rent because typically

[00:45:36] in many situations it's landlords that pay for water and so you see things like that

[00:45:43] and then you also see things like well everybody opened up their SDG and EBill in January

[00:45:49] went you know I know I did and so what we really need is somebody to stand up to the California

[00:45:59] Public Utilities Commission to stand up to Sacramento and ask these questions why are we being

[00:46:07] charged the highest utility rates in the nation in San Diego and so I think there is actually

[00:46:14] something that a representative of the people can accomplish.

[00:46:19] I am not for rent subsidies again I mentioned 400,000 people are severely rent burdened in

[00:46:26] this county and I don't believe that the answer is socialism.

[00:46:30] I don't and I just see that as something that's going to get us more to debt and not solve

[00:46:37] the problem now here's the thing I am pro small business but I am anti-corporate so I'll

[00:46:45] stand up to the black rocks the black stones the vanguards of the world who are trying

[00:46:51] to come in to San Diego and buy properties and demolish single family homes so that they

[00:46:59] can build these huge apartment complexes and it is the wall street takeover of what was

[00:47:06] private property which that will be a disaster and I can talk more about that but you can

[00:47:12] absolutely count on me to stand up against that the corporate takeover of San Diego County.

[00:47:18] That's the exact position we need to candid it to take honestly is someone who cares about

[00:47:23] our region enough that's not a left or right policy that's merely an understanding of what

[00:47:30] it means to be a resident in a county and protecting our neighborhoods from these globalists

[00:47:36] and I want to hear what you would have to say to that Democrat that's thinking I don't

[00:47:43] know if I've ever voted for a Republican why would they want to vote for you?

[00:47:47] If you were their first Republican to vote for even though it's a non-partisan race

[00:47:53] we know that you're endorsed by the Republican Party what would convince them to make that

[00:47:58] decision to leave a candidate who's supporting socialism and more debt and more homelessness

[00:48:04] to choose you.

[00:48:08] So it has been over these single issues so specifically how I've been able to make contact with

[00:48:14] Democrats in district four is they are really upset about SB 10 that was a Senate bill

[00:48:20] that was passed it allows cities to opt in to it and what SB 10 would allow was exactly

[00:48:26] what I was talking about earlier your next door neighbor can sell their house to XYZ Corporation

[00:48:32] that corporation comes in bulldozes the house right next to you puts up ten units with no

[00:48:40] setbacks which meaning you'll have an apartment wall right next to your house with no parking

[00:48:45] there's no affordable housing cutouts and all those units will go at market rate now so

[00:48:51] instead of you having an extra neighbor now all street is your next door neighbor.

[00:48:56] And so when I am speaking with Democrats and their single issue they're saying Amy because

[00:49:02] you're with us on this and you took an early stance I stood up to the developers I went

[00:49:08] into these developer meetings you know for the endorsement process and I looked them in

[00:49:12] the eye and I said I will put the community first and I'll never forget I was being walked

[00:49:17] out by meeting you know by one of the leaders of the developers and she said well that

[00:49:22] was really refreshing and I can tell though she didn't really mean it and I go what do

[00:49:28] you mean she goes what you told you right and so no I didn't get their endorsement and

[00:49:35] I didn't get their money so those are the kind of things that I'm winning Democrats over

[00:49:41] SB 10 protection of neighborhoods protecting our neighborhoods from Wall Street takeovers also

[00:49:48] the other issue that's a single issue is like Bill Walton homelessness I mean the fact is my

[00:49:54] opponent voted against the unsafe camping ordinance it was controversial but it did pass the

[00:50:00] city of San Diego and what it did was it put a perfectly fine boundaries it said no you can't

[00:50:07] camp in front of somebody's business you can't camp in a park or walk a sidewalk and so it did

[00:50:17] set aside certain areas of the city where people could never never camp but it still allowed other

[00:50:23] areas open for camping and police cannot force them to go to a shelter when shelter beds are

[00:50:31] not available I am someone who deeply believes that it is not compassionate to allow people to

[00:50:39] sleep and die on our streets and so what it comes to in campments I don't believe that somebody has

[00:50:47] a right to set up camp in front of an elementary school or in front of the business so my opponent

[00:50:55] though apparently believes that people do have a right to do that interesting and I actually want

[00:51:01] to go back to what you said about Bill with the you know he wants to ride his bike and he's

[00:51:07] getting attacked by homeless people and that's actually an interesting thing because we touched on

[00:51:11] standard aga bit and they're allocating a lot of money that was supposed to be for the roads

[00:51:15] you know sending it to build to make bike lanes but then the bike lanes are not even doing

[00:51:20] anything about the homes issue and suddenly no one's going to use the bike lanes because they're

[00:51:23] going to be unsafe and and bought by tenants and you know bicycle and cars of the homeless

[00:51:30] taking over those areas and they're allowing it and yet they put the money into

[00:51:35] these bike lanes in the first place sorry I just wanted to throw this.

[00:51:40] It does not make sense so when was the last time both of you both of you have written like in

[00:51:46] like actual city of San Diego proper roads have you have you done so recently you're basically it's

[00:51:53] pothole city is what it is so it just doesn't make sense to spend all this money on bike lanes when

[00:52:00] it's literally ridden with our roads are ridden with potholes and it's dangerous for bike

[00:52:07] I know this firsthand I live in lamissa I live three streets away from the city of San Diego and

[00:52:13] I've taken bike rides with my family and we were going down this one road it was like a downhill

[00:52:18] slope in the city of San Diego not really steep but it was literally like I was dodging craters in

[00:52:25] the moon and I was concerned for my safety and my then 10 year olds safety at the time so no

[00:52:34] they're they're putting money into big bike lanes over roads that are crumbling and there's another

[00:52:40] thing that's going on because the city of San Diego is in deficit territory people are you know

[00:52:47] calling the city and saying hey my sidewalk is crumbling and the city of San Diego is like you fix it

[00:52:56] wow because there's no money to fix it so the city is telling people to fix the public sidewalks

[00:53:01] in front of their own houses that often have homeless encampments on them so make it make sense

[00:53:08] we need common sense common sense that's not common anymore and we desperately need to go

[00:53:15] in a different direction in San Diego County and again that is a non-partisan issue come on

[00:53:20] yeah it's a non-partisan issue everyone cares about the sidewalks and for the house

[00:53:26] yeah and that's how I that's how I talk with people I mean it there's times when I'll go into an event

[00:53:34] and they want to know are you a Democrat or your Republican right and then you know I try to go

[00:53:40] let's talk about the issues you know then I will you know share with them my my political

[00:53:46] affiliations with the Libertarian Party and the Republican Party sadly some people just shut

[00:53:52] down they they can't get past the political party yeah it's really fortunate people on the right

[00:54:02] there's people on the left and their their brains right now are just wired to like tow the

[00:54:10] party line and not even see the person in front of themself as much as possible I've just been in

[00:54:18] the community I'm it seven to ten events a week sometimes I'm at as many as five events a day

[00:54:29] on the weekends and I'm just trying to show up over there so people can see me in person instead of

[00:54:35] just going along with what my opponent has done which is the name calling and mud slinging that really

[00:54:43] is unbecoming of somebody in public office and I did challenge on that at a debate which was

[00:54:49] interesting good for you we are coming up on an hour that actually flew by Sean do you have any

[00:54:57] last questions for me I do so it seems like you're a grassroots candidate that is really focused

[00:55:03] on meeting the needs of the people you don't seem to be hyper partisan you know I love that you

[00:55:09] have the endorsement by Bill Walton what can people who support you do to help you knowing that

[00:55:16] you don't have six hundred thousand dollars coming from some super pack union labor union you're

[00:55:22] you need help what what does that look like well join my team I have three hundred fifty volunteers

[00:55:30] that are knocking on doors making phone calls they're texting their friends getting out the vote

[00:55:37] reach out to me here's my website a me for San Diego dot com that's Amy FOR San Diego dot com and

[00:55:44] here's my email address yes I'm actually somebody that returns emails so just reach out to me

[00:55:49] through my email a and y at Amy for San Diego dot com and then also I'm on Twitter and Instagram

[00:55:58] and Facebook at Amy for San Diego so I'd love to hear from anybody who's interested in getting

[00:56:03] involved and making some history wait a second did you say I stole my final

[00:56:08] okay hold on well I got another question you said three hundred and fifty volunteers

[00:56:14] that's right that's incredible so that's that's a pretty big team

[00:56:20] yes so part of my backstory was so I worked at a church for ten years and I oversaw ten

[00:56:26] ministries with six hundred and fifty volunteers so you know it's really interesting

[00:56:31] but the kind of things that you learn in life and how godly use you and uh yeah so I'm really proud

[00:56:38] of how many volunteers that we have at this campaign we don't have to pay canvassers to go knock

[00:56:44] on doors like my opponents have had to doubt yes that's that's a great point many of these candidates

[00:56:50] rather than building the trust in their community they pay people that are desperate for money to

[00:56:56] go out and do the bidding for these candidates who don't have the tenacity to go build a relationship

[00:57:02] so it's really impressive to hear the work that you've been doing to build that trust in your community

[00:57:06] as well as earn that respect from those volunteers yeah it's a really impressive campaign you're running

[00:57:13] so I'll ask since I'm at Marsh County as someone outside of the county who obviously I'm sorry

[00:57:19] cannot go to San Diego and don't off it's just not realistic for me how could someone else outside

[00:57:25] of your county help if people want to donate they can go to Amy for San Diego dot com there's a

[00:57:31] donate button at the top every single dime goes to voter engagement will be sending out texts will be

[00:57:38] sending out mailers to people's mailboxes so anything that fuels the fire uh for this campaign is

[00:57:45] welcome thank you so much are you doing phone calls i can do it well okay i've done that before so

[00:57:53] like for someone completely like in northern California not even near me uh but i don't know if you

[00:57:58] would do that so okay but that's easy rivetti that's that's really easy they like you can do like a quick

[00:58:04] ten minute training and and just do a few phone call the day and you know so if you're not in the

[00:58:09] county and you want to make phone calls just reach out to me at my email address to uh in the primary

[00:58:15] we knocked on over 15,000 dollars and we also made over 5,000 phone calls so that's something that

[00:58:21] you can do from the the uh comfort of your home you don't have to be in San Diego to do that

[00:58:25] and you can be in your pajamas you have to put on any makeup on your couch yeah so yeah

[00:58:32] hey but so i just want to encourage people to do that for other candidates because it is a great

[00:58:36] way to to help them volunteer you know 2024 is upon us uh yes okay that's that's actually the

[00:58:43] most meaningful thing that you can do here's here's my big like ask of everybody next year is a

[00:58:50] big election year it's just gonna determine everything about your local government and that's really

[00:58:57] if there is a candidate that you feel passionate about get off of social media don't post on

[00:59:04] Facebook about the latest outrage of the day reach out to a local candidate that you really like

[00:59:10] know and trust and get involved it's really easy and you know what most likely you're going to make

[00:59:15] friends along the way like my big friends yeah yeah yeah i just thought of a question really quick

[00:59:20] because i actually don't have the answer to this the special election you're feeling in for

[00:59:24] the remainder of fletcher's right for his time so this is till 20 26 yes 26 there will be three years

[00:59:35] left in his term three years left okay all right just wanted to make sure i understood that okay

[00:59:41] the election is November 7th no ever so just have in two weeks 21 days yeah um

[00:59:49] Sean where can people find you if they want to know more about you and get involved with

[00:59:53] San Diego Freedom fighters well i am on social media because that's where i like to hang out at

[00:59:58] Sean Fredrickson is my handle on instagram uh freedom revival events as well we'll be probably doing

[01:00:05] something exciting at some point this year putting out a voter guide likely send me a message

[01:00:10] send me an email always like to engage with folks spell on your name you just have one of those

[01:00:16] like they could go anyway so just spell that's true so you're you're either gonna have to pay close

[01:00:22] attention or just get lucky on social media so it's s h a u n Fredrickson f r e d e r i c k s so

[01:00:29] when if you spell it wrong just keep trying you'll find me eventually okay cool thank you

[01:00:36] and his name just start typing that in and you're gonna see him pop up right

[01:00:39] to see him right right that's true he's got a big deal out there uh any last thoughts from either of you

[01:00:48] you know i'm not gonna talk to anybody all right go ahead go ahead

[01:00:53] go ahead go ahead

[01:00:59] um you've got a vote as if your life depends on it because it does

[01:01:04] you need to get engaged you need to be involved uh if if you're just like kind of like

[01:01:10] sitting on the couch and you're just thinking you know what can you do there's a lot that you can do

[01:01:15] so thank you so much for having me on thank you so much Sean for your time and your great questions

[01:01:22] and everybody in the audience thank you so much yes and thank you so much for both of you

[01:01:27] Amy thank you for running um i i never run i can't imagine i mean it i sincerely hope you

[01:01:33] win but even just running i know you like last year as well and i know that takes a lot out of you

[01:01:37] and you and i kind of spoke last year you know about just some of the things going on and so um i wish

[01:01:43] people understood more and just like much respect to people who even decide to get Ms. Race

[01:01:48] and run and so thank you thank you thank you Sean thank you so much for being here to

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