Running with My Girls | Why Voting is Your Voice
Clip: Season 11 Episode 6 | 33sVideo has Closed Captions
Shayla Richard, a City Council candidate in Denver, talks about the importance of voting.
Shayla Richard, a candidate for Denver's City Council District 11, talks about the important civic duty of voting and why citizens must go to the polls if they want to be heard. Richard says that "savvy" politicians target underserved communities, and make decisions for their own benefit and against the best interests of their constituents.
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Running with My Girls | Why Voting is Your Voice
Clip: Season 11 Episode 6 | 33sVideo has Closed Captions
Shayla Richard, a candidate for Denver's City Council District 11, talks about the important civic duty of voting and why citizens must go to the polls if they want to be heard. Richard says that "savvy" politicians target underserved communities, and make decisions for their own benefit and against the best interests of their constituents.
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Like, they count on you not to know.
They count on you not to be curious, to find out.
They count on your ignorance and they depend on your ignorance because when you're ignorant to what's going on, oh, they can pass so many things over you because your head's been down and you've been working and grinding and raising your kids the whole time.
The reason why we're not getting what we're supposed to be getting is because there's not enough of us saying this is wrong.
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