A Chat With A Candidate For Fresno City Council District 1

How do you

feel? Feeling good.

You know, our coalition is growing.

A lot of the groups that were probably hedging in a different direction all of a sudden want to have conversation.

The residents are extremely excited.

We actually ran out of signs earlier last week, so we just ordered some new ones.

The only thing that kind of has me a little bit remorse is my opponent, Rob, will never appear with me.

I was hoping today he'd join us, but it looks like he's trying to do a sit down with you separately.

Yeah,

so we'll get

a chance to hear from him next week and see where he stands on the issues.

So let me just jump right into it.

So how is District 1 going to look different

if you're elected? I think my hope really is to understand...

the diversity in District 1.

The needs west of 99 are slightly different than the needs in Tower.

The needs in Tower are different than what the conversations I'm having around Fresno High, which is very different than the conversations I'm having near Quigley Park or even Lions Skate Park.

What I'm hoping to bring is a voice that We'll advocate for all of our different communities that is willing to listen, that will consistently show up, who's unafraid and unapologetic to whether it's to take on the mayor or the administration to make sure that we're putting Fresnans in Fresno first.

And we're really building an agenda of a Fresno for all.

Gotcha.

You've

aligned yourself with many groups that some might consider progressive.

Would you consider yourself a progressive?

I actually don't really think of myself as a progressive.

I actually think of myself more as an affordability populist in the sense that is...

How do you

feel? Feeling good.

You know, our coalition is growing.

A lot of the groups that were probably hedging in a different direction all of a sudden want to have conversation.

The residents are extremely excited.

We actually ran out of signs earlier last week, so we just ordered some new ones.

The only thing that kind of has me a little bit remorse is my opponent, Rob, will never appear with me.

I was hoping today he'd join us, but it looks like he's trying to do a sit down with you separately.

Yeah,

so we'll get

a chance to hear from him next week and see where he stands on the issues.

So let me just jump right into it.

So how is District 1 going to look different

if you're elected? I think my hope really is to understand...

the diversity in District 1.

The needs west of 99 are slightly different than the needs in Tower.

The needs in Tower are different than what the conversations I'm having around Fresno High, which is very different than the conversations I'm having near Quigley Park or even Lions Skate Park.

What I'm hoping to bring is a voice that We'll advocate for all of our different communities that is willing to listen, that will consistently show up, who's unafraid and unapologetic to whether it's to take on the mayor or the administration to make sure that we're putting Fresnans in Fresno first.

And we're really building an agenda of a Fresno for all.

Gotcha.

You've

aligned yourself with many groups that some might consider progressive.

Would you consider yourself a progressive?

I actually don't really think of myself as a progressive.

I actually think of myself more as an affordability populist in the sense that is...