Before I was an elected official, I was a labor organizer and doing immigrants rights work, labor organizing work, Bringing people together to demand that our city make some change. Because The city of Austin at the time was really being run by basically the police association and the big real estate lobby. But when actual working people came forward and said, hey, pay us better, by the way, that's. That's L. A. You just described L. A. As well. Yeah, but we organized. (01:21–01:29)
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