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I fully support accountability and transparency.
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Accountability
Transparency
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Growing up in Stockton wasn't all doom and gloom.
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Doom
Gloom
Growing Up Up Growing
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I knew at an early age that I wanted to make an impact.
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Early Age
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I'm committed to helping the residents of Stockton succeed.
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Committed
Residents
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My mom was on welfare for the first five, six years of my life.
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Welfare
Life Mom My Life
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Diversity matters. You want your city departments to look like the city.
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Departments
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I've always been interested in political service and community advocacy.
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Advocacy
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We all aren't in government, we all aren't CEOs, but we all are somebody.
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Ceos
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California can't be a great state until all parts of the state are great.
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California
Parts
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I know, for me, I want to live in a community where people's basic needs are met.
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Basic Needs
Community Me People
Basic
Met
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Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.
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Autobiographies
By The Time
Frederick
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I harbor no illusion that government and elected office is a panacea for all of society's ills.
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Panacea
Harbor
Ills
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In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.
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Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Rights Movement
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I do think that people deserve a basic economic floor so the bottom doesn't fall out under them.
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Bottom
Deserve
Floor
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I'm tired of talking about where we've been. I'm more interested in talking about where we're going.
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Talking
Tired
Interested
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I'm someone very interested in diversity, equity, social justice, and getting rid of white supremacy.
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Equity
Social Justice
Supremacy
Rid
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I firmly believe that talent and intelligence are universal, but resources and opportunities are not.
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Resources
Talent
Firmly
Opportunities
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When I left Stockton and went to Stanford, I felt I hit the lotto. I did not think I was coming back.
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Stanford
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My mom, my aunt, and my grandma banded together and gave me a village of support when I was growing up.
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Aunt
Grandma
Growing Up
Support
Together
Village
Mom Together Me
Gave
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It's important to invest in our kids who are going to go to college or community college or a trade school.
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Community College
Invest
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I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.
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Status Quo
Literally
Quo
Status
Untenable
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I decided that I would defy expectations, be it those put on me by society, race, socioeconomic status, or my father.
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Defy
Status
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My father has taught me not to succumb to nihilism, and my mother has taught me the value of hard work and determination.
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Determination
Hard Work
Nihilism
Taught
Work Hard Work Me
Succumb
Value
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Government can't do everything, but there is a role for government and smart policy, especially in equalizing opportunities for folks.
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Folks
Policy
Smart
Opportunities
Role
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When I was in high school, people would ask me what I wanted to do, and I would always say I wanted to 'lead marches and give speeches.'
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Me People School
Marches
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Growing up, when I'd throw out the trash, I'd toss it and dart because all the cats would come running. That's why I still don't like cats.
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Toss
Trash
Cats
Dart
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For whatever reason, in this country we have a very interesting relationship with poverty, where we think people in poverty are bad people.
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Bad People
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I was born and raised in the south side of Stockton, California, to a mother still in high school and a father in a juvenile detention facility.
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Detention
Facility
Juvenile
Father Born Mother
South Side
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The power to remove an individual from office is reserved for the greatest betrayals of public trust, not just because you disagree with someone.
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Disagree
Public Trust
Remove
Reserved
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President Obama is an inspiration of mine, and interning with his administration in the White House opened my eyes to the possibilities of making change at the local level.
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President Obama
White House
Local Level
Opened
Possibilities
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I chose Anna as my wife because she is so kind yet so strong and challenges me to become a better person. She has a heart of gold and is unafraid about speaking to and living her values.
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Anna
Better Person
Gold
Unafraid
Chose
Speaking
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As the documentary 'True Son' illustrates, my campaign for city council started really small - with eight mostly political neophytes in my living room and with young people knocking on doors.
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City Council
Council
Doors
Living Room
Documentary
Illustrate
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There had to be something more important than me being comfortable, me being OK, and me being that one person that made it from Stockton. That's why I decided to run for city council in 2012.
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City Council
Council
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I thought I'd be a low-key producer or something, politics and film at the same time. But also, I'm not a big movie person - my girlfriend gets mad at me because I go to sleep whenever we go to the movies.
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Big Movie
Low Key
Producer
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Work does have some value and some dignity, but I don't think working 14 hours and not being able to pay your bills, or working two jobs and not being able - there's nothing inherently dignified about that.
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Bills
Work Your Value
Dignified
Inherently
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The first time I saw my father, he was chained. Gone was the mirage of the invincible man, the man who would protect me once I found him. At the age of 12, I finally saw my father - in an orange jumpsuit, looking weak and vulnerable.
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Chained
Invincible
Orange
Weak
Time Age Man
Mirage
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During the fall of my junior year, I interned in Intergovernmental Affairs in The White House with a focus on outreach to local elected officials. Although I hated the menial tasks the job required, it gave me a window into the power of local government.
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Elected Officials
Junior Year
Local Government
Officials
Outreach
White House
Window
Affairs
Junior
Required
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We're not just designed just to work all day and run a rat race. We're designed to be in community, to volunteer, to vote, to raise our kids. And I think the more inputs and investments we can give in people to do those things, the better off we are as a community.
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Work
Better Off
Community
Input
Race
Rat Race
Volunteer
Work Better Day
All Day
Those
Run
Day
Designed
Give
Off
Investments
Raise
Rat
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In our economic structure, the people who work the hardest oftentimes make the least. I know migrant farm workers who do back-breaking labor every day, or Uber drivers and Lyft drivers who drive 10 to 12 hours a day in traffic. You can't be lazy doing that kind of work.
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Drivers
Labor
Lazy
Structure
Traffic
Uber
Workers
Work Day People
Work Day Drive
Farm
Migrant
Oftentimes
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