March 10, 2025

Jenny Fore on the Record: Candidate for Juvenile Judge in the 21st Judicial District

Jenny Fore on the Record: Candidate for Juvenile Judge in the 21st Judicial District

Jim Chapman sits down with Jenny Fore, a candidate for Juvenile Court Judge in the 21st Judicial District. We discuss the critical role of juvenile justice in shaping our community, highlighting Jenny's journey from Louisiana State University to...

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Jim Chapman sits down with Jenny Fore, a candidate for Juvenile Court Judge in the 21st Judicial District. We discuss the critical role of juvenile justice in shaping our community, highlighting Jenny's journey from Louisiana State University to working closely with legendary Judge Blair Edwards. Her unique qualifications as it relates to this Juvenile Judgeship really set her apart and her choice to stay above the fray of the typical political “mud slinging” and run her race off of her qualifications make Jenny both a rare and refreshing choice in this election.
Be an informed voter and check out this edition of Local Leaders the Podcast.

Early voting starts March 15-22, 2025

Election Day is March 29th, 2015

You can learn more about Jenny Fore here: https://www.jenny4juvenilejudge.com/

Timestamps
0:31 The most important election of 2025 is upon us
7:38 Jenny’s journey into Law
11:52 Jenny’s decision to Focus on Juvenile Court
18:29 Jenny Fore’s unique Experience and Leadership
23:01 Running on her own Merit
25:42 Call to Action for Voters

#Judge #louisiana #court #Juvenile #21stJudicial

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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Local Leaders the podcast.

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And look, they have a major election coming up for

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the twenty first Judicial Juvenile Court judge. I have a

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candidate for that position sitting across from me, and I'm

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gonna let her introduce herself.

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Thanks Jim.

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Yes, my name's Jenny Richardson for and like you said,

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I'm running for Juvenile Court judging the twenty first JDC

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and that's going to cover the parishes of Livingston, Tangiba

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Ho and Saint Helena.

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Probably the most important election of the year that people

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don't think is that major of a deal. Most people,

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it just doesn't look it's not the president, is what

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they're thinking in their mind. Probably the most important election,

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in my opinion, out there right now because it's juveniles exactly.

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These are our children and we need to make sure

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that our community's safe and that these children are getting

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the resources they need to succeed in life.

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Speaking of life, we're going to talk about your life

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a little bit today. As I was researching this, all

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I saw was a worker, a hard worker, and someone

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who was a leader. And we're going to start off

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maybe during your college where did you go to college?

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I went to Louisiana State University.

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You were a cheerleader.

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I was cheered for LSU for three years. I cheered

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my first two years, and I got hurt and actually

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didn't make it my third year and overcame that worked

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really hard and went back and cheered again my fourth year.

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People don't realize the work. Look when you're in college

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and you do anything extra outside of studying, it's impresso.

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Yes, so, I mean we practiced five days a week,

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We had workouts, all the stuff.

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So it's just.

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Like being on the football team, and we go year round.

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We cheer for football. We cheer for basketball, both women's

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and men's. I've cheered for swim meets, like who cheers

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for swim meets? Soccer matches, all the stuff. Oh, gymnastics,

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we cheered at the gymnastics, volleyball, all the.

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Stuff and events.

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Yes, disappearances, yes, yeah, they have us as the face

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along with Mike the Tiger, and we have to make

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a lot of the events.

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And what did you graduate in.

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I graduated in accounting.

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Yes, I was a political science major and a business minor.

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And my uncle, who is an attorney, said, Jenny, if

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you don't go to law school. Where are you going

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to do with your political science degree? He said, he

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needs a switch. And I was doing great at my

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accounting classes, so I said, okay, I'm going to go

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and graduate in accounting.

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And I also did lshu's internal auditing program.

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Oh so very good. But yes, now we're like numbers.

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That wasn't my calling. I loved going to law school.

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Yeah.

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Well, in a good degree to have in your back pocket.

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It is accounting, especially with what you do.

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I mean I had enough hours to sit for the

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CPA exam and everything.

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Yeah. So you go to law school. Did you fall

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in love with the law?

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I did? Yeah, I did.

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Where did you go to law school?

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I went to Southern University Law Center and I graduated

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magna cum latti from there.

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Okay, look at you, Jenny four. As a matter of fact,

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near the top of your class.

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Top four four. Yeah, wow four.

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Very impressive And what impressed me when I looked into

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that aspect of your life. The Chancellor's Award for Leadership

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just one of the many awards that you were honored with.

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Outstanding Leadership Award. Yes, you served on the school's Law

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Review and you were vice president of the Student Bar associates.

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I was yep, so vice president four.

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I'd just be studying it.

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I mean no, I was active even though I was

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in law school. I did what I can or could

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to be active.

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And I would imagine your experience as a cheerleader kind

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of gave you a leg up on leadership in general

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and how to work with teams.

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Yes, and talk to people and communicate with people and

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just be out there. Yeah, help people, because even with cheering,

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we gave back to the community.

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We were always out in the community doing something right.

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So eventually you graduate from Southern University Law Center, it's

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off and into life. At some point you marry the

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love of your.

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Life who I met in law school.

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Who you met in law school, who is another lawyer? Yes,

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mister cault Ford. Yes, and you'll have two.

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Children yep, Cecil and Cassius love the net. C six

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and Casses four.

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That's awesome.

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And they are just as active as I am.

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Yeah. Yeah, you are busy.

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Yeah, we have a village keeping us together right now.

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Wow, that's a beautiful thing. When you're a lawyer and

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you get out in the law world, you I want

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to choose what you want to specialize in. What you

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want to do. Some people go the personal injury 'ro oute,

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some people go the public defender. We're oute, what did

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you choose?

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So in law school I clerked for some bit pretty

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big firms mclinch, Stafford, George Carrigan and Styles. It just

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wasn't my thing. Yeah, So I was looking for a

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job and I was blessed. I'm telling you, by the

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grace of God. I was put in Judge Edwards's court

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as her law clerk, and I clerked for her. I

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started clerking for her for a year and a half,

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and that's juvenile court. Yeah, and you don't learn juvenile

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law in law school. The only thing that you would

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is sometimes we do clinics, right, and there's like a

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crim law clinic, a juvenile clinic, family law clinic. But

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I didn't do juvenile law clinic in law school. I

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had no idea what I was getting into, and so

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I stepped into her court and fell in love with

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helping the community and children.

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You had a passion for, Yeah, I mean it's clear throughout.

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Just looking over your resume, if you will, you can

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see that that is exactly where you need to be,

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because that's where you are I guess most passionate.

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So I waited for a job to open up at

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the Public Defender's Office and then I moved over and

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have been representing kids and Judge Edwards's court for the

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last ten years.

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So what is it about juveniles our future?

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They need to succeed. We need to give them the

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resources to succeed. There's kids in our community and families

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in our community that need help, and if we aren't

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helping them, who is Yeah, and we need to come

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together more as a community and help them.

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So what spurred this vacant seat to begin with?

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So Judge Edwards ringing for the first Circuit Court of

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Appeal and went in unopposed. So she qualified in July

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and she would have been on the November ballot with

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the president jual election. But because she went and unopposed,

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the seat opened up.

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So it's vacant.

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We would be finishing out her term and whoever wins

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would actually have to run again in twenty twenty six.

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Isn't there you have to eight years or something there.

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You have to have you have to be barred for

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eight years?

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Okay, so you used to remind her.

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That, Oh my gosh, yes, So I decided some when

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sometime when I was clerking for her, that I was

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going to run for the spot either when she retired

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or it came open. And so for years and years

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and years, I would say, judge, you can't go to

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the first circuit yet, you can't retire yet. I have

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two more years, I have three more years or whatever

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it was. And so finally I had enough years.

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Since she could go, yeah, now you can go on,

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you can go.

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I'm ready and I'm ready, and I mean it puts

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it takes a lot. She had to bring some of

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that home for years and years and years, and it

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takes a toll on a person being in this court too.

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Looking over everything, it looks like you just were preparing

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for this the whole time. You were very experienced in

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both truancy court yes and drug court yep.

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So I am assigned to represent children in these courts.

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So I've been.

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I when I was clerking for her, I was involved

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in drug court.

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And then when I started.

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At the Public Defender's Office, I am the public defender

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for kids in juvenile drug court and the truancy cases.

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Our truancy numbers are incredible, like it's crazy. We have

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kids that are missing over forty and fifty days of

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school and they're in first and second grade. So what

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happens when that happens, Like, we are looking at these

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families and we need to get in. We need to

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be proactive and see what's going on with these families

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and why they're missing school, because first graders just aren't

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missing school. So and then by the time they're in

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fourth grade, if they aren't reading, they're more likely to

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drop out of school. And if they drop out of school,

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what happens? They wind up in the system. And then

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another crazy number that I look at all the time

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is we're spending ten thousand dollars a year to educate

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our children, but one hundred thousand dollars a year to

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incarcerate our children. So what happens If we take some

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of that money and put it in services on the

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front end, that's right, then we wouldn't be dealing with

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these kids on the back end.

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Education really is the key. I think you nailed it.

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You have to educate these kids.

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So education creates hope.

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Yep.

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When you feel like you can, you know you can

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go out there and you can conquer the world because

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you have education behind you. Yes, that's a great feeling.

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Yes, And you have to be able to read much

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and we have parents children. There's a lot of people

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involved in our juvenile court system that just can't read.

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I believe you're the only candidate that is active in

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both truancy and drug courts, right, Yes, Yeah, that's a

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big deal.

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They'll cover sometimes. The other candidates will cover sometimes for us,

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but none of them are active on a weekly basis

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in drug court or truancy court.

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Yeah, that's a that's a huge deal. What is drug court?

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So it is an intervention program. We will meet that

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I meet with the kids that are in Phase one

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once a week, but our drug court team could be

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meeting with these kids upwards of three times a week

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and they're going to get randomly drug screened.

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If they're in our.

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Drug court program, the school system has to allow them

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back into school and it can be an alternative school.

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Pine Ridge.

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Pine Ridge is a great alternative school in Livingston Parish.

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I have lots of kids that succeed there because it's

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so structured and our kids, that's something they're missing is structured,

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a family unit, parenting, all of that.

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So when they have that.

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Little bit of structure, they succeed, So we get them

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back in school.

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We're making sure they're off of drugs.

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We actually had our juvenile drug Court graduation last week

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on Tuesday. I had three kids graduate from drug court.

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One of them hadn't been in school for years. So

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part of it as you have to have an education.

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If you're in drug court, you're getting an education. So

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this little boy, he was seventeen. I think he got

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his high set in a week.

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That's how smart he was.

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So now he is in north Shore Tech, has able

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to get his driver's license, has a vehicle and setting

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him up for success.

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That's what we're doing.

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Yeah, we had a little girl that she would always

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have her hair in front of her face and she

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just didn't have any self worth and she didn't want

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to go to school. I don't think her mom and

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them they thought her anxiety was too bad and she

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couldn't go to school.

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So she is now in school and she loves school.

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She's thriving in school.

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And then Rebirth is our program through the Office of

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Juvenile Justice.

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It's our schooling program. It's an online program.

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Sure one of the last graduate, she's one of the

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first graduates of the Rebirth o JJ program. She's going

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to be starting at a community college soon too.

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It really is a huge thing. So I hope the

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listeners today get out of this the importance of this

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election and to get out there and vote. To me,

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what's most important is experience.

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Yes, it matters, it does, especially in this kind of seat.

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Yes. Blair Edwards had over two thousand cases.

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Yep last year and we have the most cases in

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the state. Wow, most cases.

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Yeah, in the biggest growing parish, Yes, in the state

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of Louisiana.

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And with Tangibahoe too, because this is this is tri

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Parish and Tangibyhoe is also one of the fastest growing

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communities in the state.

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Yes. And I'm glad you brought that up. Saint Helena

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Livingston in Tangi voting for this particular judge ship you

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represented two hundred and seventy juveniles yourself personally.

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So it's cases.

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Yeah, maybe not, some of the cases could have been

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the same ju Well that's yeah.

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Yes, So two.

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Hundred and seventy and that's been about my case load

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for the last couple of years.

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Wow.

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And it has been growing and the crimes have been

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getting worse over the ten years I have been representing

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these children.

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You don't sleep much.

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Jennifer, But between helping these kids in.

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My own.

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You are busy. And let's talk about crimes involving guns

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with juveniles certainly on the rise.

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So I'm not sure where these kids are getting all

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these guns. I know sometimes they're breaking into cars, cars

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that are unlocked.

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I'm all four second Amendment. We just got to be super.

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Respon your car.

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Please like your car, Like your car. That's easy.

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So yeah, I mean they're getting these guns, they're making

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them automatic guns. And then a juvenile that has a

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possession of a handgun, that's just a misdemeanor.

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Yeah really yeah, six months suspending and first offense.

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You know how the law states, we're supposed to do

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the least restrictive means, So that's just usually a probation offense.

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So but I will say, if you are on probation

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and a juvenile and found with a gun and convicted,

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you were being revoked.

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You're going straight to a facility.

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Either group home, whatever OJJ has the recommendation, or if

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it's a group home or Florida Parish is long term,

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or they're OJJ secure facilities.

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You were going, Yeah, so.

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Does any particular individuals stick out or individual cases where

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it was a kid that people just pretty much gave

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up on and you came across them and it was,

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you know, someone that now looking back on it, it

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was like, wow, that that really really changed that sensations.

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You have a lot of those cases, even their families, families,

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extended family, they do just give up on them, and

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it's almost like the family doesn't know how to deal

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with them. They don't know how to deal with their

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trauma or even parenting because maybe the parents weren't parented

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and the parents have underlying trauma that they're trying to

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deal with, so they just push it off on the kids.

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So and that's not fair to those kids.

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When you see these juveniles go through the system, how

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long do they typically stay in the system, Do they

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become adults and it just continues if you don't get.

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The services for them.

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Yes, and usually if they wind up in an OJJ facility,

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they're going to be more likely to crimes. So we

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need to get them out in community based services.

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And that's what just the numbers show.

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So if we get them out and start working with

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them on the front end, they're going to be more

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likely not have to go.

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To a long term program. But have you heard about

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our Florida Parish's long term program?

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Tell me about it.

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So it's a great program.

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I have a great work in relationship with Joey Dominic

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in Florida Parish's Juvenile Detention Center, and I have kids

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that are going in in there, and they are setting

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them up to for success one hundred percent. So they

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are going in there and usually Judge Edwards won't parole

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them out until they have their high school diploma. So

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there are when they're finished, so we'll have their high

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school diploma, they will be OCEHOUS certified. They come out

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with PPEs. Joey has north Shore Technical School in there.

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He even has a Driver's ed program in there. But

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one of the things I will say, sometimes these kids

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are getting out at seventeen or even sixteen years old,

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and we're putting them back in their same environments. It's

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hard to get a job until you're eighteen, especially in

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the plants are offshore.

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Sure, so we need.

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To get a mentoring program together to for somebody more

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than OJJ to oversee these kids and help them and

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make sure they get the job when they turn eighteen,

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and make sure they stay out of trouble until they're eighteen.

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Yeah.

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So yeah, can make money and be productive.

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It's hope, it's it's uh, hey, I've got a skill.

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I can apply a skill. I've stood on welding. Yeah,

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you know, it's crazy for all those gamers out there.

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If you realize how much drone operators get paid.

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Now mean sin Clayton Foundation and Hammond is doing scholarships

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for kids to learn how to fly drones.

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It's insane and it's only going to get more and

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more in demand. And those trades. I've been on a

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soapbox half my life screaming about trades. Trades lead to businessiness, ownership, business.

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And that's where we're at right now. Maybe you don't

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need a college education.

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Maybe you need to go into a.

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Trade, and maybe that's better for you, a skill set.

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My brother, he was dyslexic, was in special ed his

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whole life.

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He is a diesel mechanic.

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Yes, making a whole lot of money doing that and

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one of the only diesel mechanics in the New Orleans area.

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So I great, I got a friend. The cuts grass

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that makes over a million dollars a year.

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That's in cut grass.

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Yeah, that's it. What he loves to do. That what

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he loves today. He loves to be outside, get a

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tam and he can make a ton of money doing it.

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Judge Blair AdWords. Another thing that stood out to me.

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You worked very plug Look, she is legendary. Yeah, legendary.

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She has made the juvenile court system what it is.

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I am the only candidate that worked under her as

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her law clerk.

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That's you.

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So I did that for a year and a half,

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so I got to see the inside of being somebody

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working under her, how she thinks as a judge, where

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she's leaning towards so, and even being in her court.

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I've seen all of that. But just working under her

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for that year.

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And a half, would you call that experience invaluable? Oh yes,

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oh yes, I would agree.

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I look up to her as a mentor a role model.

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All the stuff she's done great.

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Yeah, and she's moved on up to the Court of

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Appeal where she's at now.

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But we do miss her a lot.

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Should you get elected. It's really just transferring her philosophy

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in a lot of ways, and then adding what you

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can to.

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I mean, the world is ever evolving, our court will

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have to to so when there needs to be changes,

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I plan to make changes and what works will keep.

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I got some quotes that I dug up on you.

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You said, as your juvenile judge, I will bring knowledge

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and passion to the courtroom. I will continue to use

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my experience and understanding of juveniles in the twenty first

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judicial to work to lower crime while upholding the law.

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Exactly.

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Passion stood out to me in that statement.

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If I didn't think I was the right candidate for

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this job, or the right person for this job, or

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the most experienced for this job, I would not have

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them ran for it.

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How important would you say it is to be passionate

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about it?

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You have to, Yeah, you have to.

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I mean, these are families that need our help on

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all levels, not just the delinquency help.

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We have foster.

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Families that need our help. We have bio mom and

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dads that need to work their case plans to try

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to keep the family unit together. And then for the

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ones that won't work their case plans, we need to

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find stability for these children so that they can be

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successful too.

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I grey one hundred percent and it's exactly what I

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look for in a judge. And the reason I say

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this is so important. I keep hammering this down, but

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this election is very important because you don't want somebody

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in there that's going to become complacent. It's going to

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start hammering that gavel. Six months and you know, juvenile

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detention center and onto the.

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Next we're going to be kids that needs to be

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in the relation center. We have heinous crimes, they're enumerated.

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Some of these kids will be charged as adult. The

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DA has the charge in power. If judges find probable

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cause for some of these crimes, they're going straight up.

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Yeah.

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But then there's others that need second chances and need rehabilitation.

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Yeah, because they're getting out at some point. Yes, that's

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why the rehabilitation is so important. Whether you like it

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or not, most are going to get out, and you

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don't want them getting out and having no options.

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Yeah. I mean, juvenile life is twenty one. So at

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some point they're getting out. They're getting out, and we

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need to they need to be successful. Educate, rehabilitate, get

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them jobs, get them trades.

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All the stuff. Then you also said, quote, our youth

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deserve a system that holds them accountable but also helps

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them find a path forward somewhere in what we just

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said about and I think we've already covered this, but

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making education and treatment of priority.

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Yes, trum treatment. Yeah, trauma is a big thing. So

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some of these kids, when stuff happens to them, they

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go into flight or fight mode.

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Do you know what happens when that Yeah, cortisol.

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Yeah, it just soaks your brain and it can change

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your whole brain chemistry, how you think about everything. So

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these kids have to deal with the underlying issue of

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their traumas in order to move forward.

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Let's talk about some of your endorsements. Okay, real quick,

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You've got quite a quite a bit, uh the most,

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I guess the ones that stand out the most to me.

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You were endorsed by the Livingston Parish Young Republican.

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Yes, and I am a young Republican and you are

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a young Republican Republican.

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There you go. Also the Livingston R Pack.

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Yes, that was a big, big one.

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And look y'all, I was at a I guess you

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could say, a lunch awards ceremony a couple of weeks ago,

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and we got a Future five.

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Yes, that was very I was not expecting that, but

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that was that was a great achievement.

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I can tell you it was probably made for you

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because you have accomplished so much.

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And I want to accomplish so much more.

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Yeah, yeah, you got The future looks bright. The future

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looks bright. Now I want to dress something, okay, real quick.

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And look, everybody who listens to this show knows how

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I feel about MUDs laying. And if you notice, me

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and Jenny four have sat here this whole podcast almost

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a half hour already and we haven't we haven't once

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talked about any other candidates. It was all about Jenny

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because I don't want to spend my time talking about

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other candidates with her here, and she doesn't want to

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sling mud on anybody. She wants to run her race.

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Yeah, it's about my qualifications and my platform and what

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I stand on, and I hope people are looking at

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my qualifications.

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That's right. Spend spend her time talking herself up instead

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of talking down others. That tells me a lot about

488
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who I want to vote for. A lot of times

489
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when I see that stuff, that's the person I don't.

490
00:23:10.680 --> 00:23:12.400
Want to deal with exactly.

491
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I'm just going to be honest about that. But there's

492
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been a lot of ugliness. I guess you could say

493
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that I've come across recently online and it relates to

494
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some family that.

495
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Name. Yeah, at the end of the day, they just

496
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have my last name. I don't have any dealings with them.

497
00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:38.920
There are some things that was said about Colt's mother,

498
00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:40.160
who is not Colt's mother.

499
00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:40.519
Yeah.

500
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No, And Colt's mom is an amazing woman and she

501
00:23:46.200 --> 00:23:47.400
raised an amazing son.

502
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So I just hate that that was.

503
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There is a lot of lies that were put out

504
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and I don't know where it's coming from, but it's

505
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not true. Actually, it's been being run by Pakistan So yeah,

506
00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:05.839
some bots. So I mean, whoever made this page, they

507
00:24:05.880 --> 00:24:12.039
spent a lot of time I guess blasting me stuff

508
00:24:12.079 --> 00:24:13.319
I have no control.

509
00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:15.359
Over, no control over, and it's I don't.

510
00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:16.160
Have anything to do with it.

511
00:24:16.319 --> 00:24:19.440
Nothing new, nor my family, my immediate family, nor my

512
00:24:19.559 --> 00:24:20.799
children who were put on there.

513
00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:26.400
Yeah, so it's really disgusting. Yeah, and my and this

514
00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:28.680
is someone on the outside looking in. Let me tell

515
00:24:28.680 --> 00:24:32.519
you something about Jenny four And we share a lot

516
00:24:32.599 --> 00:24:36.920
of mutual friends. And you can always tell who someone

517
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is by who they are friends with. A lot of times.

518
00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:45.359
And the people that you know share Jenny's space are

519
00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:50.440
good people. And for those of you that are running

520
00:24:50.680 --> 00:24:53.599
races where you feel like you've got to tear somebody

521
00:24:53.640 --> 00:24:55.799
down because you can't run on your own accord, I

522
00:24:55.799 --> 00:24:58.599
feel sorry for you. That's what I have to say.

523
00:24:58.680 --> 00:25:01.000
That's what I would ask voters just to look at

524
00:25:01.039 --> 00:25:03.559
my qualifications and make their own judgment of me.

525
00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:06.039
And if you have questions, please reach out to me.

526
00:25:06.440 --> 00:25:08.720
My phone line is always open and I will answer

527
00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:09.359
your questions.

528
00:25:09.519 --> 00:25:11.839
So I love it, and that's all we're going to

529
00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:15.119
say about it. But I'll say you're a great person. Well,

530
00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:18.119
I support you one hundred percent.

531
00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:18.599
Thank you.

532
00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:21.119
I think you're going to do great things in this

533
00:25:21.319 --> 00:25:24.559
judge ship, and I believe in speaking things into reality.

534
00:25:24.680 --> 00:25:26.440
So I'm going to start calling you when I'll see

535
00:25:26.440 --> 00:25:27.559
you Judge Jenny four.

536
00:25:29.759 --> 00:25:32.400
Hopefully my plans God's plan, yeah, And if not, he

537
00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:33.319
has a plan for me.

538
00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:36.359
Amen, he sure does. But I'll tell you what, there

539
00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:38.880
is nobody on God's green Earth that's going to outwork you.

540
00:25:38.960 --> 00:25:41.119
I can tell you I work hard and I will

541
00:25:41.160 --> 00:25:43.119
continue to work hard for our community.

542
00:25:43.440 --> 00:25:45.000
Any any final.

543
00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:47.599
Thoughts, No, I've just asked the voters to please go

544
00:25:47.720 --> 00:25:49.359
out and vote March twenty ninth.

545
00:25:49.480 --> 00:25:51.759
Yes, we need to. I'm glad you said that. We

546
00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:52.559
don't even tell.

547
00:25:52.440 --> 00:25:55.960
People we're expecting a very low voter turnout, which is

548
00:25:56.039 --> 00:25:58.279
unfortunate because this is so important.

549
00:25:58.400 --> 00:26:00.880
It is so if you show up for any election,

550
00:26:01.039 --> 00:26:04.319
this needs to be the one go out vote. It

551
00:26:04.359 --> 00:26:06.519
takes five minutes. As a matter of fact, if it's

552
00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:08.359
a low voter turn out, you ain't gonna have to

553
00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:08.920
wait line.

554
00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:12.119
You probably walk right off for them to vote for

555
00:26:12.200 --> 00:26:15.839
me and support me. In early voting is the fifteenth

556
00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:16.680
through the twenty second.

557
00:26:16.759 --> 00:26:20.839
Yep, so, so early voting fifteenth through twenty second, election

558
00:26:20.920 --> 00:26:23.480
day March twenty ninth. Or you do you have I

559
00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:25.599
saw you had a I don't know if I call

560
00:26:25.640 --> 00:26:28.759
it an appearance or something a few weeks ago. Do

561
00:26:28.799 --> 00:26:29.759
you have anything coming up?

562
00:26:29.799 --> 00:26:29.960
Yes?

563
00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:30.680
I have one.

564
00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:35.119
Is it March thirteenth or fourteenth? That's in the French

565
00:26:35.119 --> 00:26:35.920
settlement area?

566
00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:37.039
Okay, so.

567
00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:41.119
I think it's on It's on Facebook, and I'll share

568
00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:42.279
it on my page too.

569
00:26:42.359 --> 00:26:45.680
Very good, and I'll lank her Facebook in the description

570
00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:48.200
of this video so that you can click get a

571
00:26:48.200 --> 00:26:51.559
look give her like follower whoever runs your page doing

572
00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:52.839
a great job on that.

573
00:26:53.119 --> 00:26:55.599
And I have so much on my calendar that I

574
00:26:55.640 --> 00:26:57.400
can't even tell you what date it is. I'll live

575
00:26:57.480 --> 00:26:59.480
by my calendars.

576
00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:02.880
That helps us. Colt has we all have access to

577
00:27:02.920 --> 00:27:06.599
this calendar. We're just we're just figuring it.

578
00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:09.319
Out right now, so totally get it. Well. Thank you

579
00:27:09.359 --> 00:27:10.880
for coming on. It's been an honor.

580
00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:13.240
Thank you for having me to kind of go through.

581
00:27:13.119 --> 00:27:16.200
Your life amazing so far and you still you still

582
00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:18.759
got many many years to go, still a young lady,

583
00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:23.720
but you are so experienced in this, and I would

584
00:27:23.799 --> 00:27:27.799
love to see the community get out and support you,

585
00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:32.839
whether you're in sant Helena, Livingston Parish or TANGI behoove

586
00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:36.799
you know you're you're up, go vote. Thank you, thank

587
00:27:36.839 --> 00:27:40.079
you very much for coming on. Thank you, and until

588
00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:43.880
next time, I'm your host Jim Chapman with local leaders

589
00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:47.839
of podcasts, reminding you love your community, support local business

590
00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:51.759
and local judges and keep leading. Thank you very much.

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