I'm just curious, you know, what you would see a kind of a democratic socialist doing in the city council to, you know, help provide the better sense of employment and opportunities for people.

Yeah, yeah, I appreciate that.

And, you know, as the national DSA endorsed candidate, you know, our big thing is putting working people first and having that as the center of our policy and the leadership and the decision making that we want to do right when we get into a public office.

I also like to remind people that working people also are artists, creatives, and musicians as well.

And we've had on this campaign alone and just my time in the community, we've had conversations with very, very Very homegrown Austin creatives who are telling us, yeah, it's hard.

It's really hard out here.

That basic context that you just gave, David, was very helpful because it literally tells the story of a city in which you could live here and, you know, wait tables and work everywhere.

I'm just curious to hear maybe your reactions to that and what you see the city's relationship with ICE should be, what you would do about an incident like this if you were on city council today.

you serious? Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

He said if anything happens to him, he said if my dog, you know, approaches him aggressively or bites him or anything, he has the right to put my dog down.

And I looked at him and I said, so you're going to try to kill my dog in front of me.

That's that's what you're that's what you're telling me, even though you're coming aggressively towards me and you haven't shown me any any type of warrant or anything.

any reason of why I should go with you.

And then we proceeded to walk across the street and about three cars pulled up, three or four cars pulled up, two unmarked, another Texas DPS, they blocked off the street.

But what about the people that don't? So what would you tell folks who may find themselves in a similar situation but don't have the same resources? Are their community might not know them or who they are?