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- speaker-0: And now is this your first cell? And you said you ran before, so what did you run for before or whenever? speaker-1: So two years ago, I ran for House District 38 first. I jumped into that race. There was a lot... Yeah, there was a lot going on that year. I had just finished my first year of law school and I was trying to decide if that was actually a route for me. I've got kind of a go-getter personality. as you're learning law, you're thinking, is it better to argue law? speaker-0: That's a very deep water race. speaker-1: Be a judge. Is it better to decipher law? No, I think it's better to fight for it, create it, legislate it. That same year after that summer, there was this massacre in Buffalo, where I'm from, and two of my family members were killed in that top shooting. And so a lot of us got to go to DC and we got to go sit in front of Congress. We got to sit in front of the house. That was one of the first moments that hit me, that I meet people every day who are more intelligent than the ones making decisions. In the United States government, was like, totally bet people that could probably decipher, break this down and find a more amicable solution than you guys. It's kind of like you don't even want to. It's such a big level. thought. speaker-0: To raise the money, to raise the money, I'm not creating a solution. speaker-1: I mean, it's kind of like, y'all don't want to find it. So this is a little big for me. Let me go home and let me see what I can do at home where I live, where my daughter will grow up, where all my friends are, my nieces and nephews.