What Do You Learn About Government Once You're on the Inside? | Councilwoman Katrina Baskin

So how did...

How did you get from teaching into politics? Like, take us through that road because...

Oh, boy.

You know, we talked to Shev, like, you know, and Shev was like, he was a teacher.

And then somebody was like, he saw that, like, the kids and the literacy rates.

And he was like, they said they blamed it on politics.

And he was like, all right, well, I'm going to

run.

Exactly.

And it's interesting because...

Senator Jones and I, we kind of have a lot of similarities.

You know, he's a PK as well.

He's an educator and then he got into politics.

So for me, growing up in the church, we did a lot of community service, looking after the seniors, back to school drives, the toy drives, taking care of the homeless, cleaning the community, stuff like that.

And at one point I kind of hated it.

Like why I gotta spend my Saturday doing X, Y, and

Z.

But when I had my own kids, I had them doing the same thing.

And I'll never forget one morning we had to wake up five o'clock because we were going down to Key West to do some things.

And it dawned on me like, wait a minute, God was for even preparing me back then, like to even have that experience, like just to see how things were organized, see how to galvanize people, get them excited to get involved in taking care of the community, understanding that we are shepherds of our community.

And I'm like, dang, I understand now my kids hated it too.

But even now I see my kids, my daughter would do things for the homeless.

My son loves to keep the community, like our street clean.

So it's like, you know, Everything happens for a reason.

So as a teacher, no matter what school I was at, I always found myself if I saw a need, like if there's a family in the community, they, you know, they're on hard times, they need groceries or kids need school clothes or whatever the case was.