Providence City Council

Yes, I'm ready.

I have the experience of being, serving in the Providence City Council for over 10 years, working on budgets that had millions, millions of dollars as part of the budget, working in deals, uh, with private, um, investors, bro- working with the labor movement.

So I understand what it takes to get things done.

I have that experience of being in the local government, but also I have been serving in the, in the role of lieutenant governor for over five, five years.

We, it's time we started asking builders how to build.

What's your experience with working with builders and developers as you've been lieutenant governor and, and working on affordable housing and workforce housing?

Well, I have the advantage that I've been working on, with builders since I was in the Providence City Council.

I worked with several of them to build housing in my community of, in Olneyville, and to build housing throughout the, the City of Providence.

I'm not saying that this is, isn't someone that could then, you know, live a very, uh, could have a very successful life.

Who knows? He may end up being chief of staff to the Providence City Council.

Yep.

But the question is, and I don't blame the young girls for walking off and saying, "We're not competing against a boy." And what I want you to understand is under, if it's Governor Fowlkes, this will become the norm.

But if, if Helena Fowlkes...

I, I disagree with this argument that, "Well, you know, he's the mayor of Providence and I have to, you know, I have to get along with him." I, I think she has it backwards.

So that's gonna be the new mayor of Providence and the new head of the Providence City Council.

And I find the signs they're holding obnoxious and I find it atrocious.

so a few things this was just something uh off that i saw this morning there was a debate by the way there was a debate between ken block and aaron guccian the republican and helena folks and one thing i want to tell you about helena folks is that she's frightening and what do i mean why do i say that what do i mean by that Well, she had a debate, and in the debate, she said how she absolutely supports David Morales, the Democrat socialist who was just elected mayor of Providence, 27 years old, never had a job in his life, and is an actual Democrat socialist.

By the way, I'm here to tell you that they also said that a guy who's 28 years old, Miguel Sanchez, He's going to be the president of the Providence City Council.

He too is a Democrat socialist.

Both of them are pro-Palestinian.

June Rose is going to handle the transition for Mayor Morales.

Now, during the aftermath of the Brown University shooting, Jesse Waters had a field day because June Rose has been the chief of staff for the Providence City Council.

There's a very good chance that June Rose is going to be the chief of staff to the new mayor.

So let's look at this graphic.

English is not her first language.

You mean to tell me of a state of one million people, this is the best we can do? She was, uh, head of the Providence City Council.

When she was the head of the Providence City Council, she supported defund the police.

I...

So out of one million people, this is the best the state can do for the number two slot should something happen to the governor.

I, I fully, um, I fully understand that I'm gonna be carrying the mantle alone against these two individuals, okay? And the trolls are already coming out.

But that's David Morales, and that is Miguel Sanchez.

And Sanchez is gonna be the head of the Providence City Council.

And I'll monitor the other media how they're going to write about this.

Providence City Councilor Miguel Sanchez says he's whipped up in a boat to become the city council president for, I didn't realize, so it's 2027.

So he'd become the city council president in January until 2031.

That's a decent amount of time.

And I, I understand it's all, Justin, about tone, and he doesn't wanna come off like a bully.

But, um, she, she also, when she was on, head of the Providence City Council, she supported defund the police.

I, I think that's, you know, you know, you don't have to be a bully, but that's fair to bring that out.

I also noticed that they didn't Bring that out.

And we have to stop that.

I tried to work really hard when I was in the Providence City Council to build a good relationship between law enforcement and the community.

When you have organizations like ICE coming into our communities with individuals that are not trained, that they don't follow the rules, they're just destroying all those years of work that we did to build trust between the community and law enforcement.

So that's why I oppose ICE.

Those are the organizations that have been building affordable housing in our community.

And we have to make sure that we... make things simpler for them to be able to build affordable housing.

One of the measurements that the Providence City Council took, which I support, is to make sure that while they're building affordable housing, they don't have to pay taxes.

We give a tax break to those organizations so they're able to continue to build affordable housing in our community.