Oct. 14, 2024

Part 2 | Lindon Magee | Candidate for Judge Louisiana Division L

Part 2 | Lindon Magee | Candidate for Judge Louisiana Division L

Chief Judge Blair Edwards announced the establishment of Division L within the 21st Judicial District Court to manage the rising caseloads in Tangipahoa, Livingston, and St. Helena parishes, with a particular focus on juvenile cases. In this episode,...

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Chief Judge Blair Edwards announced the establishment of Division L within the 21st Judicial District Court to manage the rising caseloads in Tangipahoa, Livingston, and St. Helena parishes, with a particular focus on juvenile cases. In this episode, Lindon Bennett MaGee, a candidate for the Judge’s seat, discusses her motivations to run and the necessity of Division L. Lindon, a local attorney with a decade of experience, highlights the overwhelming case numbers due to increased population and pandemic-related judicial delays.

She shares her early influences, including her mother and the character Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird), which shaped her passion for justice and helping underserved communities. Lindy commits to addressing juvenile crime and emphasizes the need for judges to balance legal acumen with empathy. As her campaign progresses, she encourages community engagement ahead of the November 5 election and expresses her dedication to fostering an equitable judicial system for all residents.
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Hey everyone, and welcome back to local leaders of the podcast.

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And I got a familiar face probably by now sitting

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across from me. Miss Lendon McGhee is candidate for district

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judge in Division else. First of all, welcome to the show.

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Thank you.

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We're glad to have you back. This is your second appearance.

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Yes it is, and thanks again so much for having

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me back.

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I love it. And uh, look, you must have loved

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it so much you couldn't stand it. You had to

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come back from more exactly. Maybe make you a co

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host one day. You've been on the campaign trail since

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last time we talked. I look on your Facebook, I

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follow your page and you are everywhere. Oh how's that

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been going?

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I literally feel like I am running for you.

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You are in in all senses of a word, that's true,

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and meeting a lot of people, all that sort of stuff.

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How's that been?

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It has been wonderful.

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I have just really enjoyed being able to talk to

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everyone along the campaign trail and speak with them and

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get their feedback about the issues that they're facing in

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our communities.

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Very good and just a little refresher quickly for those

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that may not have seen the last podcast, although we

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have thousands of people that saw that, which is always

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a good thing getting your message out. Let's get a

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little bit give everybody a little bit of your background

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again and what inspired you to pursue a career in law.

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Well, my name is Lindy McGee. I am running for

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District Court show on the November ballot. I'm a lifelong

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resident of our district. I live here with my husband

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and our two little boys. I have been in the

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legal field for the past fifteen years. I've worked as

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a victim's advocate for the District Attorney's office. I've worked

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in juvenile court with our Public Defender's Office. I've worked

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in private practice. Most recently, i've been a staff attorney

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for our judges chambers. And you know, people ask when

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I decided I wanted to be a lawyer.

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It was really very early.

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On that I decided that, and it's just because I

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see it as a way to help the community. You know,

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you think of Atticus Bench and how he's a you know,

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was able to help out his neighbors who might not

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have been helped and get paid in apples.

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And I just really.

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Love that so we can I have been before been

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a mess.

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The most interesting form of pay.

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That's awesome. There's a lot of of experiences you go

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through when you're a judge, and there's experiences you go

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through prior to that as an attorney. What specific experiences

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would you say make you feel prepared for that role

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as a judge.

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Honestly, I feel like I guess you'd say my resume

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it covers pretty much anything that you can think of that.

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Would be before a judge.

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Yeah, but I really feel like it's my personal experiences

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that make me more qualified even than my resume would.

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Yeah, you've served on both the prosecutor side of things

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and the defense attorney side of things, right, I think

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that's very important when seeking a judge judgeship. Would you agree?

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I do, And I think it just allows you to

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see the bigger picture. I know, when you're in court

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sometimes you may be advocating for your client and you

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truly believe your case and you think that your client

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should win, and you're going through this argument. You're hoping

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that the judge is it your way as well. But

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in two weeks, you may be representing someone and you're

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using your opponent from that prior case. You're using their

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argument and trying to amp it up, and it just

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lets you see that there truly are two sides to

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every case.

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Yeah, there really are. And you know, the beautiful thing

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to me about the law is it applies to everyone.

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And so whether you're a prosecutor and you know you're

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prosecuting someone that may have done bad things, or you're

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a defense attorney and you're protecting that particular person's right

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to the law and to make sure that all their

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rights are given and covered. Both of those things are

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very important, and you can relate as a judge to

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both sides of that. You know what it's like to

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be on a prosecutor side of that and a defense

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attorney side. I think that's important.

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And then too, just as a staff attorney, you're looking

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at you're able to look at the these cases objectively

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as well, And what I've seen in that role is

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you can look at the case and weigh each person

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on each side, whether that's the state's interest in ensuring

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that justice has served or whether you're looking at a

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defendant and trying to figure out why they're really there

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and what is going to actually rehabilitate them in a

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way that's best for our community, right, and you're able

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to explore options to try to figure that out and

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figure out what's appropriate in different cases your.

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Particular division division l focuses. Is there like a percentage

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that it you know, maybe forty percent family law or

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how does that work?

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Well, at least initially, it will take over twenty percent

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of all of the juvenile cases in Livingstone, Saint Helena.

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TANGI well with the caveat in Saint Helena, but it

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will take twenty percent of our juvenile case load, our

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misdemeanors and our traffic cases.

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Gotcha, And so twenty percent of that will be juvenile cases.

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Which is you have a family, you have how many children,

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two children married, and you kind of know you can

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relate to that, right exactly. Yeah, that's important.

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Yes, And I've seen, you know, the struggles that we

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all face as parents. I know there's so many times

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before I had kids where I would go, oh, mon

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would never.

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They have already look before I was a parent, I

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can't tell how many times I said, you know, especially

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when you're much younger and you say I would. I'm

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not gonna tell my kid what my parents told me.

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I'm not. I sound just like my parents now I'm

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talking to my kids, I mean just like them. And uh,

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there's only one way to go through that, and that's

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to go through that, right, And that's the only way

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you can relate to that. You think, you know until

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you have children, and then you realize.

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Right real quick, even just realizing that each child is different.

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I know my oldest and my youngest, they are are

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completely different personalities. They have their own strengths, their own weaknesses,

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even at their ages. They react differently to stress, they

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react differently to praise, and I feel like that's so important.

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Yeah, it really is.

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I also know the different stresses that it places on

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you as a parent. I know, you know, before my

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Christmas shopping list, you know, was much different and now

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and it's already I mean it's the beginning of October

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and I'm already thinking and trying to play in Okay,

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what's my Christmas budget? How are we making this work?

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What do the kids want?

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What do they need?

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Yeah, And that's just added stress along with the grocery Bill,

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as you're sorting all of this out, I think that

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all of that weighs heavier on you whenever you've got

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little kids at home.

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Yeah, it really does. I mean you have a responsibility there.

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And I remember distinctly when I had my children that

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I grew up like that. I mean, at the second

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my wife and I knew she was pregnant, you know,

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it was like I matured. Yeah, all of a sudden,

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you know, it wasn't all about me anymore. And those

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things are those things are important. Now. I do want

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to talk a little bit more about your background, and

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first of all, you have a wonderful father who when

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you came on last time, I posted some short clips

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and one of them was specifically talking about your dad,

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and he actually commented on it. He's like, that's right,

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and so I really love that. But you come from

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a very hard working family, real people, right, regular people,

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plant workers and hard workers, people that we can all

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relate to.

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Right right right now.

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My dad he is on a turnaround right now, working

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in shall met so he is home, but yeah, he's

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on a night shift right now, and he's been asking still, hey,

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what can I do for you? If there's anything I

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can do before I go to sleep. When I get

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home in the morning, let me know, need to go

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out everything else and I'm going you go sleep.

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We're good.

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Yeah, you gotta work. Yeah, and luck we obviously, you know,

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I'm sure you would say you can't do it without them.

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They those soldiers that you have that are putting up

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signs and all those sorts of things. That's important, yes,

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for sure.

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Even especially him being on the night shift right now

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has been beneficial because my mom will come stay the

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night with me.

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Yeah, and she can just stay.

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Like this morning, when I left my kid, you know,

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my youngest, he's still in the bed sleeping. I can leave,

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She's just there. It makes it so much easier. I

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have a great support system with you know, all of

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our family love that.

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I have kind of a question you would commonly ask

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if someone running for judge, I would say, and that is,

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how do you plan to engage with the community if

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you're elected? You know, communities big around here.

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I think just being a part of the community and

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going out and still continuing, you know, to talk with

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people and realizing what they're going through. And you know,

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I think it's important to know the struggles of the

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people who are in front of you in court are.

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Facing Yeah, and it's just very important.

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Being in school with my kids, I know, that's so huge.

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You see what's going on, you hear different things, and

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just being in the school and in the community is

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so important as well.

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You discussed the judge ship and the parishes that it covers,

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and that is Tangy, Livingston and Sant Helena. Correct, right,

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And there's kind of a caveat with Saint Helena. Explain

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that real quick.

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So this seat will be on the ballot in Saint Helena,

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but this judge will not go to Saint Helena, at

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least initially, probably for the first at least three years.

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It is set up to not go to Saint Helena. Okay,

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but again, still on the.

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Ballot they you can still vote yes.

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And as you know, everything I guess is subject to change. Sure,

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So the biggest issue is if we're able to get

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another juvenile judge, then that would be subject to change.

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Yeah. Well, and this whole division is a good example

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of that. I mean that this division didn't exist before now, right,

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And that kind of leads me into my next question.

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And that is one thing that you will hear from

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the community, right in any community you get to throughout

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the country. Is that the wheels justice just seemed to

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turn slightly. They do turned, but it's a very very

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slow process. Number one, would you agree with that? And

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number two, how do we rectify that?

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I do agree with that, and I think that a

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lot of it, it's very frustrating. It would be just

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agency struggles. I know, say, from COVID, we had a

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backlog as far as getting fingerprints tested, DNA testing, everything

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like that. You know, it creates a backlog and that

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slows things down. So when you're in court trying to

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get a case to trial and they're going, well, we

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still don't have the DNA back we got to wait,

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and it's very frustrating. But I think just working with

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different branches and trying to figure out how we can

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more efficiently handle these things and increase the speed that

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these cases are getting to us would be very helpful.

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And adding this division does help with that, and I

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guess that's a product of efforts being made to increase

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the speed there, and that's always a good thing. Yes,

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what is your approach to ensuring fairness and impartiality in

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a court room? How do you make sure that everything

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stays fair and impartial.

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To me, it's just about keeping an open mind and

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knowing that these are people in front of you and

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it could be your kid, it could be your cousin,

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it could be your sister, and that's who you're dealing with,

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and you want to treat that person accordingly. You want

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them to be treated how you would hope that your

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family was treated in court, And that's if you know,

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if my family member committed a terrible crime, I would

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still hope that when they go to court they are treated.

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You know, I would expect the sentence to be swift,

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and I would expect it to be just. But I

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would also hope that people still realize that I'm a

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mom sitting in the pew watching my child. Yes, and

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I think that you have to keep that consideration.

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What do you think the biggest challenge is for judges

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these days in this community.

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I think the caseload certainly is a challenge, you know,

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just being bogged down, having so many cases on your

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dockets and trying to sort them out. I think that

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that's a huge challenge. And our judges, you know, they

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have done a great job trying to move cases through.

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Just our court calendar itself is limiting. You know, we're

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a three parish district and you only have so many

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trial weeks. You know, you can't just set things. I

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know some people think, oh, just put it on the calendar,

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but to do that, you have to make sure is

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their courtroom available, is their court reporter, is your minute

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cork there. There's a lot that goes into it that

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has to be planned.

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That's true, and not in your normal The everyday parson

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that doesn't spend all day in court wouldn't know that.

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They don't see that that backside of everything that makes

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those wheels turned right.

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Now, social media I feel like has given a new

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challenge I think in some way. In some ways, I

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think it's good and make sure you're held accountable for

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what you do. But it's also very hard to get

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the full story out, especially from the judiciary. You know,

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you're not able to comment on things, so you're not

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even able to walk out of the courthouse and say, well, look,

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this is what's going on, this is why all of

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this is Happenings are kind of tied and you just

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have to sit back and hope that people do their

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homework and find out the full story.

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Yeah. Oh, that's a great point. Great point, And that

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is something that social media. You know, there's some positives

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to it, and there's some negatives to it, and there's

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a big rush to judgment sometimes maybe in some cases

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from the public, not necessarily from the legal side of it.

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How would you handle cases that attract significant public attention?

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I have learned to I've worked with thirteen sitting and

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retired judges extensively, and I've been very privileged to have

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been able to do that, and watching them, I have

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learned I think that the best and most appropriate response

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to those cases is to remove that from your thought process.

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Try your best to separate yourself from that. And it's hard.

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I mean, still you've you know, you're going home, your

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husband's telling you, hey, talking about your case on social media?

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You know, I saw this on Facebook?

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What's going on?

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I can remember a case that we were handling a

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few years ago. My mom called me on my way

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to work one what.

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Did this, judge?

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You?

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I just saw this. I went, well, that's not really

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what happened.

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But you know, I think though, as a judge, you

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have to block all of that out and just keep

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that out of your reasoning. And that's hard whenever you're

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in an elected position. But I think that as a judge,

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that's the only thing you can do.

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Yeah, and you're right, it's an election. It's a balance

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because you are you're an elected official. But you you know,

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you can't look at it that way. You've got to

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look at everything from the perspective of the law and

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consider all evidence one way or the other right.

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And it's hard because say, if you're dealing with a

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case and your prosecutor, district attorney is getting a bunch

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of heat on social media, it can walk outside, have

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a press conference, explain their actions, explain why they're doing

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what they're doing. Yeah, the judge isn't able to do that. No,

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there's no public comment on the ongoing controversy.

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Yeah, that's a great point and I haven't thought about that,

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but very good, very good point. How do you envision

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the role of the judiciary evolving? We talked about social medium.

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One thing that I noticed a lot of and primarily

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because I'll watch a lot of it, is a lot

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of things are on like court TV now and televised

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hearings of these very high profile cases. And court cases,

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So that to me would be one way that it's

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already evolved. It used to be if you wanted to

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go to a trial and sit in on that trial,

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you were there and all you had was a pen,

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the piece of paper. I mean, you're not allowed to

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video do anything. Well, that's relaxed a lot, to the

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point that some people get upset when a judge will say,

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I don't want cameras in the court room, that kind

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of thing, And I would imagine that the high profiality,

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if that's a word of that case definitely plays a

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part because the public there's some advantageous things to having

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a camera in the courtroom. You know, the public gets

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to see how the whole system operates, and I think

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it's a beautiful system and I love it that people

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have been exposed to that without having to actually go

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and travel to that. Of course, the O. J. Simpson

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case was the one that kind of blew the whole

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lid off of televised cases. I mean, more people watch

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that in the Super Bowl. I think that year. What

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do you think about, you know, the next decade and

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how the judicial processing in itself is going to go.

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I feel like we have to open ourselves up more

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to the public. And I think it's great because it's

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increased to public interest. I mean, OJ, I can remember watching.

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That, you know, sitting them.

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It came on, you know, you watched Young and the

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Restless and OJ yeah.

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Yeah, everybody knew Judge lance Edo, right, you know, I

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remember that name to this day. And he's way out

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in California or wherever he was the Murderall trial recently,

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so Creighton Waters, Wow, he was good.

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It's great because I think, you know, whenever after that

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trial you have people showing up for jury duty who

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are excited because they just watched the Murderall trial. Yes,

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you also, though, have to explain to them, hey, we're

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in a small report room in Louisiana without those resources.

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And note this, you know we're not going to sequester you.

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You won't be here for a month. You can go

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home tonight.

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And yes, and that, you.

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Know, trying to get people to understand. You know, each

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district's a little different, and once you go state to state,

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that varies hugely. Sure, but I think that the public

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interest that it brings definitely out weighs any negativity that

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can be explained.

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I agree. One hundred percent. And you know we talked

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a little bit earlier. Not to backtrack, but you had mentioned, uh,

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the fact that in in courtrooms and things like that

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these days, the responsibility of the judge and uh, you

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know that kind of starts at a young age when

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you when you have these aspirations to be whatever it

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is you want to be. And I always use this

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as an analogy, Uh, when kids are trigger treating. I

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used to see a bunch of police officer kids right

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that come up in a copy uniform or whatever. I

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don't see a whole lot of that anymore. And I think, uh,

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I think one of the issues with police right now

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is case load. You know, the same as same as

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attorneys and judges, and you know you have all this

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this just massive case load, and so everything slows down

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and you can't work from a from a police officer's case.

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You can't you can't spend the time you would like

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to spend on every single case because you got four

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hundred of them, you know. And same thing from the

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perspective of the court system. You know, it turns slow

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because there's four hundred of them, which is why this

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division came into existence. Kind of lighting that up. With

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all of this kind of evolving with TV in the courtroom,

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that kind of thing, maybe we'll start seeing some judges

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come up trick or tricking at nine years old, ten

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years old in a black robe. You know.

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That you said that about the police officers and all two.

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I think it is to what we're exposing our kids to. Yes,

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and I know I think papatrol.

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Has really helped.

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Yes, you know.

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They're not watching, They're not. Our society has reached a

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point I feel like where you don't or many people

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don't praise our police officers like they should put in.

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They are just overworked, I believe, and like you said,

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lack of resources. I know it's funny that my little

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boy I have to beg him to take off his

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police uniform everywhere we go. You would wear it all

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day that I had to get him to so that

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he had one whenever I watched the other. He is

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now telling people he goes around vote for my mommy.

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If you don't, I'm gonna arrest you.

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Yeah.

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I'm trying to explain to him, baby, you can't do that. No,

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come on, But he though.

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That started because my mom, with watching him, she got

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tired of the cartoons that are on TV. And she try,

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she's a big one, you know, let's watch Scooby Doo.

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You know, there's so mutching cartoons now. And she just says,

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you know, I know what for watching Scooby Doo or

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Bugs Bunny, They're not trying to send a message to

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the four year old. So she started, you know, going

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old school. Then also she started watching cop shows with him,

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and that developed and now you know, I have a

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little we call him Sheriff.

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Shep love that. Love that. Yeah, very good. Now let

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me ask you. You've been an attorney for quite a while,

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and uh, what would you say is a memorable moment

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for you in your role as an attorney?

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I would say my adoption cases.

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Yeah, those.

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In that adoptions are always our happy days in court

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because there are you know, just very tragic days.

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There is your blay days.

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You know, but adoptions always end on a high note

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and you're looking at a family being made when so

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often in court families are being torn apart.

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Oh that's it's a really good true quote. That's right in.

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That in the adoption process, I've represented, you know, I

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often will represent parents seeking to adopt or children being adopted,

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I'll be a pointed to represent them, and then also

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presented parents who are fighting the adoption. Sure, and that

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you know it's always difficult, but you're really at that

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point looking or the judge is looking at the best

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interest of the child and making sure that that's served

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in their decision.

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Yeah, and it's and it's serious business. I mean, judge

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ships are serious because you are the the deciding factor

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really in someone's life at a major level, right, Yeah,

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And so you really want someone That's why I'm continuing

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to hammer down someone that can relate to a lot

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of different aspects of life exactly.

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And people so often say, hey, you know, I haven't

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ever seen a judge before. I'm never going to see

476
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a judge. And I'm going you don't know that.

477
00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:50.519
You could be right. You could be the victim of

478
00:25:50.519 --> 00:25:52.920
a crime. Yes, you could.

479
00:25:53.160 --> 00:25:56.440
Have a family member that develops a drug problem. All

480
00:25:56.480 --> 00:25:59.200
of these things happen. You could be in a car wreck.

481
00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:04.000
These things happen to just about everyone I know, and

482
00:26:04.039 --> 00:26:06.599
that puts you in that courtroom and you don't expect it,

483
00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:09.680
but it's one of those things. Don't say it can't

484
00:26:09.680 --> 00:26:12.160
happen to you, because it can happen to anyone.

485
00:26:12.359 --> 00:26:15.319
That's right. That's right. And let me ask you, what's

486
00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:19.519
the most enjoyable thing about working in the legal field

487
00:26:19.559 --> 00:26:19.880
for you?

488
00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:23.960
I love the people aspect of it.

489
00:26:24.119 --> 00:26:24.359
Yeah.

490
00:26:24.680 --> 00:26:28.400
Also, though I'm a very big researcher, a book worm,

491
00:26:29.400 --> 00:26:33.000
I love legal research. I love, you know, figuring out

492
00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:36.960
reading opinions, figuring out the different reasons that judges are

493
00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:40.160
ruling certain ways, the different reasons different laws are made,

494
00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:44.039
how they should be followed, how your case law supports

495
00:26:44.559 --> 00:26:48.200
different aspects of those laws, and how some case law says.

496
00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:51.759
Yeah, but in this instance, you can differ.

497
00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:56.559
In your career thus far. When you were I want

498
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to take you back to when you first you know,

499
00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:03.519
you got out of law school, you're doing your first cases.

500
00:27:04.599 --> 00:27:07.400
Did you envision your path leading to this at that

501
00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:08.519
point in time in your life?

502
00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:11.880
That was always my hope. Yeah, it really was.

503
00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:15.000
Love that, Yes, so it was. It's been a goal

504
00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:16.880
kind of from the beginning for you.

505
00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:17.759
Yes, it has.

506
00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:21.000
Yeah, And that's why I've worked to make sure that

507
00:27:21.359 --> 00:27:23.960
I understand all areas of the law so that I

508
00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:28.200
can best serve as a judge and from different perspectives

509
00:27:28.279 --> 00:27:31.480
as well, as you said, on both sides of cases.

510
00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:35.000
And I think that that's just hugely important in this role.

511
00:27:35.559 --> 00:27:37.880
What message do you want to convey to voters who

512
00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:41.599
are considering you as a candidate? What what? What is

513
00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:45.599
something that you know? I don't want to say a

514
00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:48.799
campaign promise because that doesn't sound right. But what is

515
00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:50.799
it that you really want people to know?

516
00:27:52.359 --> 00:27:55.799
I really want them to know I will do my

517
00:27:56.160 --> 00:28:00.680
very best to assist our community and whatever way I

518
00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:03.559
can as a judge. And I think that you truly

519
00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:06.880
are able to, especially in juvenile court, you know you're

520
00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:10.359
dealing with people, and in misdemeanor court, you're dealing with

521
00:28:10.440 --> 00:28:14.160
people who might be I guess, for lack of a

522
00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:18.559
better term, they're almost they're at the gateway and you

523
00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:22.119
can consider yourself as a gatekeeper and look and try

524
00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:24.519
to figure out if you're able to figure out and

525
00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:28.319
I guess, crack the case and figure out the best

526
00:28:28.519 --> 00:28:32.200
penalty for the people in front of you, and you know,

527
00:28:32.279 --> 00:28:37.359
in criminal court that would rehabilitate them, then you have

528
00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:40.960
saved a life. And some of these people, in some

529
00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:44.400
of these crimes, they need to be punished chargely. I'm

530
00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:47.319
not at all second guessing that and I will not

531
00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:51.960
waiver in those situations. But what really interests me are

532
00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:54.720
the others who've come before you. And it might be

533
00:28:54.839 --> 00:28:58.000
that they just didn't have a support system and they

534
00:28:58.000 --> 00:29:00.960
fell into the wrong crowd. You know, it might be

535
00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:04.240
a crime that's quote unquote you know, victimless. You know,

536
00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:07.680
it might be that they got quite in possession. Yeah,

537
00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:10.119
and you can figure out, Okay, is this someone who

538
00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:12.680
I can get to a support group and who a

539
00:29:12.680 --> 00:29:17.519
support group would benefit and if so, you know, can

540
00:29:17.599 --> 00:29:20.160
we try this before we try something else.

541
00:29:20.319 --> 00:29:26.319
Yeah. I think that's hugely important. And look from one

542
00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:29.440
aspect of the legal system all the way to the

543
00:29:29.680 --> 00:29:32.079
all the way to where you know, these people are

544
00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:37.640
sentenced to prison in some cases, it's no secret that

545
00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:40.960
our prisons are related with presenters, right, I mean, they're

546
00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:46.119
overflowing and and uh, in some cases justified and they

547
00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:49.799
need to be there. But in some cases, you know,

548
00:29:50.920 --> 00:29:54.960
taking pressure off of that by looking outside the box

549
00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:57.279
a little bit, right, you know, just step outside the

550
00:29:57.319 --> 00:29:59.839
box and see what other options are available is not

551
00:29:59.880 --> 00:30:02.799
a bad thing. And that's something that's what I would

552
00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:05.799
look for in any anyone that I would be voting

553
00:30:05.799 --> 00:30:11.519
for for Judge for sure. So how can people support

554
00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:14.400
your campaign? Okay, so everybody's heard this and they're all

555
00:30:14.559 --> 00:30:17.880
vote for Lindy. How do they support you?

556
00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:20.720
You can reach out on Facebook also, I have a

557
00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:23.960
website that you can go to. Yeah, you can any

558
00:30:24.039 --> 00:30:27.519
questions that you have, any request. Of course, you know

559
00:30:28.039 --> 00:30:31.359
you are more than welcome to I've been checking my

560
00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:34.160
Facebook messages. I get a ton of them, so I

561
00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:36.480
may be a day or two behind and responding, but

562
00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:37.400
I am doing that.

563
00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:42.119
Yep, very good. And a couple of fun questions for

564
00:30:42.160 --> 00:30:46.599
you favorite TV judge if you had to pick a TV.

565
00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:48.680
Judge, Judge Judy.

566
00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:52.000
Judge Judy is awesome. Look, that's the first thing that

567
00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:53.839
came to my mind when I was when I was

568
00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:58.000
reading it. Judge Judy is awesome and the best, the

569
00:30:58.039 --> 00:30:59.680
best out of you know, they had a bunch of

570
00:30:59.680 --> 00:31:03.000
them come after that. It's Judge was where it was at.

571
00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:04.960
I loved she's no nonsense.

572
00:31:05.720 --> 00:31:09.400
My grandmother whenever she was older, you know, I was

573
00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:13.920
very close with her and her and my grandfather. They

574
00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:16.279
kind of moved from you know, the price is right,

575
00:31:16.640 --> 00:31:19.720
check Wheel of Fortune and we're really watched Court TV

576
00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:22.039
more so, and I would laugh because you know, they're

577
00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:23.680
getting on there and they're fighting, and I'd go over

578
00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:25.359
there and visit and I'd be getting, you know, the

579
00:31:25.400 --> 00:31:27.839
worst headache, and then it clicks with me. I think

580
00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:30.279
they were doing that because it just reminded them of

581
00:31:30.319 --> 00:31:32.759
our family. They're all in there arguing with each other,

582
00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:36.039
having all their issues has shot. So I think that

583
00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:38.079
that was kind of their way of, like, you know,

584
00:31:39.160 --> 00:31:41.759
tapping back whenever they were more involved with people, and

585
00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:44.440
you know, it's people age less and less come and visit.

586
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:47.200
So I think that it just made them probably feel

587
00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:48.119
a little more comfortable.

588
00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:51.880
Oh one hundred one hundred percent. And I got a

589
00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:54.920
little fun information for all of you out there on

590
00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:57.200
the law that I'll share with. I actually looked up

591
00:31:57.279 --> 00:32:01.799
obscure laws in Louisiana and I found this interesting. Biting

592
00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:05.920
someone with your natural teeth is simple assault, but if

593
00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:09.799
you bite someone with false teeth, it's considered aggravated as well.

594
00:32:11.279 --> 00:32:13.799
I don't know why, but I'm going to research it,

595
00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:16.759
I promise you. I guess maybe if you have false teeth,

596
00:32:17.319 --> 00:32:20.359
it's considered like a weapon of some sort. Maybe, because

597
00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:21.000
I don't.

598
00:32:20.759 --> 00:32:25.920
Know, I could envision someone doing something to their cheeth

599
00:32:26.039 --> 00:32:29.039
somehow or cross teeth to cause more harm.

600
00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:31.880
Yeah, maybe if they took him out and hit them

601
00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:35.200
on the head. I don't know, but those in the books.

602
00:32:35.319 --> 00:32:37.920
It could be that one of our legislators got bitten

603
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:38.440
by someone.

604
00:32:42.039 --> 00:32:45.720
That could be Yeah, very good. Well, I appreciate you

605
00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:48.400
coming on. I appreciate your hard work on your campaign.

606
00:32:48.799 --> 00:32:52.359
Anybody out there that has followed you on Facebook can

607
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:57.160
see you are everywhere, and I sure appreciate that. And

608
00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:01.440
quickly early voting is a eighteenth through the twenty ninth

609
00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:06.160
of October, correct, yes, and so you are number thirty five.

610
00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:06.960
That's right.

611
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:10.920
November fifth, of course the big day. But if you

612
00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:13.839
can get out there and early vote, do it because

613
00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:16.799
it's going to be along line the day of right. Yes,

614
00:33:16.960 --> 00:33:20.000
definitely a couple of other elections going on that day

615
00:33:20.039 --> 00:33:20.480
as well.

616
00:33:20.680 --> 00:33:21.559
Yeah, nothing too.

617
00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:24.440
Nothing to major. Lenny's on there. It's all you need.

618
00:33:24.480 --> 00:33:27.680
And I might see a president on there somewhere presidential things,

619
00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:30.279
but you know, just make sure you vote thirty five

620
00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:34.240
right exactly. There you go. Thank you again for coming on.

621
00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:35.000
I enjoyed it.

622
00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:36.680
Thank you so much for having me.

623
00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:40.119
Yeah, and good luck to you. You coming up on

624
00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:41.559
the end. It's so much to hear.

625
00:33:41.720 --> 00:33:43.720
Twenty seven days that I'm counting.

626
00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:46.720
Nope, nope, not that you're counting, all right, And to

627
00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:50.279
all of you, thank you very much for listening, subscribing,

628
00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:53.640
sharing the podcast. And we're going to link miss Lendy

629
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McGee's information for her Facebook, et cetera in the description

630
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of this video, so just click on that and it'll

631
00:34:01.960 --> 00:34:04.200
take you right there where you need to go. We'll

632
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link her website as well. So until next time, I'm

633
00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:12.480
Jim Chapman reminding you love your community, support a local business,

634
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and keep leading. Thank you very much,