We're. Welcome everybody to this Tuesday's Carolyn's Corner and we do have an election coming up. August 11 and so I had several candidates who I have been endorsed who are in the runoff and so I wanted to use this time to give them a minute to talk about themselves and their race and why they're running let me just say when I picked the folks I want to endorse. it's because they're good people they will. In these roles, honor and distinction and last of all, I think they can win these races and some of these guys are really tough races races. We really need to take and I'm just very honored to be supporting them and very glad to have them on so we have Kibo Taylor. Nicole Love Hendrickson me on chemo. I'm gonna give you just a minute Cuz Cuba has been running from as most candidates is what we do is we run from event to event to event from Zoom call to meeting with with people socially distance and so we're all just kind of in the final throws of things. When you come up to an election like this, so I'll start off with Nicole is that okay with you? Yes, okay great. So we are so pleased to have Nicole Love Hendrickson and she is running for the Gwinnett County chair position. so tell us a little about yourself. you know your background and why you're running absolutely and Thank you. Carolyn for inviting me to Carolyn's Corner and thank you for the esteemed endorsement at truly is an honor. I know you run an impressive race and like. People and constituents and community leaders who care deeply about when it count as a portion of your district as many of us do on this call and so it means a lot to have your full endorsement for this race as Carolyn said, my name is Nicole Hendrickson and I'm running to be the next Gwinnett County chairman of the Democratic ticket and prior to my running for office, I was a division director for Gwinnett County government, which I had served for five years. I was. To the board of commissioners where I spearheaded the community outreach division and worked on efforts to engage and build bridges with our very diverse community and ensure that they have equal access to our local government and so was heavily involved in many of the public Affairs as it relates to Gwinnett County government and ensuring that we were evolving citizens across the board specifically to ensure that we had reflective and inclusive processes and and that people felt heard at the decision making table my background is. So I have my master's degree in social work from the University of Georgia and I that with an emphasis in community planning, I worked in the nonprofit and social services sector for many years here in Gwinnett County, I served as the associate director for the Gwinnett Coalition for Health and Human Services prior to go on over to Gwinnett County government and focused on issues such as homelessness affordable housing food insecurities, substance abuse and mental health issues all. Were impacting our most indigenous communities here in Gwinnett County and ensuring that we created and strengthen a social safety net that and that time I was still developing and now we we still are working to strengthen some of those social safety nets and so I decided to run for office because I wanted to ensure a strong voice and representation for the people of Gwinnett County our community is drastically changing with over 70 percent of our population representing a racial ethnic minority and as we move into. A future I felt that it was important that we had a leader at the helm of the Commission chair seat that represented the voice and the values of our constituents. there are many issues that are at the forefront and I feel that somebody who is in touch with the community and understands what those needs are also understanding of having a leader that understands how to build bridges is also important to this role and I decided to throw my name in the hat and I was one of five candidate. On the Democratic ticket for the primary race and was the front runner in that race and finished the primaries with 49 percent of the vote. just shy of of avoiding a runoff, but that was not the case however, after all of the absentee ballots were counted my second place opponent Lee Thompson decided to suspend his campaign and throw his support behind me and so now I am the presumed nominee. The Democratic ticket for the runoff and the presumed Democratic nominee for the general election, so I'm still on the ballot and still need all of your votes to ensure that I secure this nomination on August eleventh and so it's important that you get out to vote early voting is underway right now. or you can also request a ballot absentee ballot up until Friday. I'm I'm being told that's the latest you can request a ballot or you. On Election Day on August eleventh on your on your normal election polling place and so I ask for your vote and ask for your support and I'm happy to answer questions after the introductions. Thank you okay. Well. thank you so much. and for those of you who are watching and this is a position that will really affect all of our daily lives in a really day to day basis, you know they got the County out there they're making decisions about our parks and making decisions about transit they're making decisions about our police force They. Decision about lots of lots of things that are that are going on in the County that really affect our quality of life and you know the the day-to-day choices that we make and so I'm very pleased and decided to run and she's very talented and I think we'll do enormous credit to this County also just wanna thank Lee Thompson for you know suspending his campaign and it was a very, you know honorable thing to do and we appreciate that okay so. we have Nikki Merritt and she is running for the Georgia State Senate District nine and you know this is likely to be a very hotly contested race so and I think you know Nikki is the one to win it. so Nikki tell us a little bit about yourself. Okay. Thank you Caroline and I just wanna Thank you for having me I am honored by your endorsement. It is exactly women like you that inspire me to run in the first place. I know you face a run off like I did and then you came back. You know you lost the election and it came back again and instead I still wanna serve so you know when I look at the work that you did and just you the fight that you have, I said, You know what I'm gonna jump in here. I wanna do that too, and it was women like you that are are leading women like me so I just wanted you to know that piece, but yes I am running for state Senate in. It is a it is the top flippable seat in the in this election cycle over state Senate and it largely is due is because it's because of our Democratic our demographic shifts. We are shifting more Democratic. We have more minorities more women. We're working class families so that has a lot to do with why this seat is a flippable seat now with that I am a Georgia native, I studied the University of Georgia. I'm a long time resident I live in Cobb County. I grew up in Cobb County and and I live in Gwinnett with my family. I'm a working class mom. I served in until I started in telecommunications for 20 - three years and while proudly serving there, I was in my Union, my labor Union, CWA, 30 - 204, and I was there fighting for workers rights. I was working but to fight for workers rights, too, and they're working conditions and before deciding to run for office, I actually volunteered with nonprofit canine and I did that were representing the cloud and I kind Space after the 2016 election to do what I could to change the direction of our of our state and our country so as a board member, we were able to register over A thousand voters from 2016 to 2018, and we saw a huge gains in 2018 after that and now as a board member which I still am, I still coordinate a community events and engagements the empower our voters to educate our voters and what really did it for me as I was out there talking to voters I felt like or I heard from them, they felt like they didn't count that they weren't being heard. And I looked at who was representing them at least in the State. Senate District nine. I knew that they weren't we have out of touch Republican legislators sitting in the seat currently he votes on party lines and a lot of the bills that he signs on to and votes on they they negatively impact African-Americans immigrants and you know after he voted on HB 40 - one that was an attack on women and I had it after that. like you know this is it We can do better our constituents here deserve better and then two just recently he just has a lack of response on Kobe you know as his party and his governor that are making or not making the decision to keep us safe. He's solid on this, he's silent on black Lives matter. We still don't know where we're PK is on black lives matter he never made a statement so it was just out of touch in the party lines and I know he was not representing our diverse communities as we speak so I'm jumping in there. I'm running to make sure families that look like mine and all of our diverse families have a voice in government and I wanna ensure that we live in a state with policies that reflect our diverse communities and protects our vulnerable families and serves the needs of working families prioritize people has always been the backbone of my community as a Union member and a working class mom that is important to me and now we're at a time where people are looking for candies, they can relate to They have empathy and honor. And I and I am the candidate that can do that for everyone out there in my community, social Justice matters equally in-laws matters policies that directly impact our black communities matter and I wanna be the voice of the table advocating for everyone out there in state Senate at night and in the state of Georgia, my top issues priority voter protections making sure our public education is fully funded and expanding Medicaid and accessible health care options. These are just a few of my priorities. I have a list you can go to merit for Georgia dot com and see all of it but. I am in a run off I did win 48 percent of the votes in the primary of out of a three -person race, so I am in the lead to win this seat in the runoff. I'm asking everybody to get out and vote for me again if I had your vote if not, I hope I'm earning your vote but we are confident that my voters will get out there again and clearly I was the voter's choice and we just need to make. That everybody knows I am the Democratic nominee to lead us forward here in Georgia and so just to re-emphasize some of the I mean Nikki will be making decisions that are in we have suffered for so long we don't have affordable health care and it makes me nuts and a lot of that is because the choices that our Legislature has made you know we've been cutting higher education and K 12 education, and these are the choices that our legislators will make and Would just be so wonderful to have someone like Nikki having a seat at the table advocating for us at the gold so just wanna reemphasize this is a very important race so everybody please get out there and vote. Okay another really important race that we have here is my friend. Kibo Taylor, who's running for sheriff here in Gwinnett and you know all of us you know have talked so much about the Black Lives Matter movement and racial. Incredible Justice reform but this is also you know we think about that in the context of the black community, but here in in Gwinnett its a huge issue in the Hispanic community as well, where we were the sheriff currently in Gwinnett. you know enforces the 280 - seven G program you know which really creates this rift between the Hispanic community and our law enforcement which is not good. It doesn't it means we are less safe in this area because of that. so with that I wanna turn it. To Taylor, who's running for sheriff and to talk about you know his background why he got into this race and you know some key parts of his platform. Thank you, Caroline and also to Thank you very much for your endorsement and everything that you've done for me as far as my campaign goes I don't even know how to say thank you enough. Okay. I am very much appreciative and you know I look forward to earning your support and your endorsement every day as we move forward with what it is, we're trying to get accomplished here as you said, my name is Taylor and I'm running to be the next sheriff of Gwinnett County now. From Lawrenceville, Georgia sometimes that's good, sometimes it's bad. I've had the opportunity to go other places, but just seems like I've always wound up back here at home. product of the Gwinnett County School system started with the Gwinnett County Police Department back in 1983 and when I actually started Gwinnett County was a lot different than what you see or the Gwinnett County that you see today when the County was not a very diverse County within itself. A police Department was definitely not a diverse Police Department I work my way up split my time evenly between the criminal investigation division and the Uniform division where I worked in special investigations the majority of my career over there. I worked out there as an investigator. I worked there as a sergeant and I was also the drug unit commander my last name over in SIS also doing. I went back to school. There's a lot of folks to do. I went back. I was at Georgia for a while. I was there a little bit earlier than Nikki and Nicole and my trip to Georgia really didn't work out so well so I had to go back later on in life and get my degree got my bachelor's degree in criminal Justice went back and got a master's degree in public administration. Also to you know one of the thing that I'm very proud of is I'm command College graduate. Number 10. I'm also a graduate of the DEA Drug Unit Commanders Academy I have you know either over a close to 3000 hours of post certified credits I have my management certificate. I'm also posting instructor just I've had a great career with the police Department and when I retired up to 26 years of service, I retired as the highest ranking African-American in the history of that Department. I also to. At first african-american in the history of that police Department to make rank what leads me into what I wanna talk about, you know we talk about diversity and inclusion of those are the two hot topics right now that when we look at some of the things that's been been going on here in Gwinnett County and across this nation, we understand the need for diversity and we understand the need for inclusion one without the other means nothing and when I was with the police. Man. and once I got promoted, I was you know put out there on stage as the diversity you know, look, we have diversity now, but what I didn't know and what was not being said was is that there was no inclusion there. I didn't have books and even as a major in that Department, I had a very limited voice. so what I understand now moving forward is that if you have diversity, but you don't have inclusion, then you don't really have anything. I wanna do is is when I go in I'm going to have a Mass. that's gonna be the first and it's gonna be reflective of the diversity here in Gwinnett County, but I'll also make sure that my command staff has a voice and that is the beginning along with training is how we start to rebuild trust and transparency out here in the community, you know so that is the start of what we call the criminal Justice reform police reform. I call it when it comes to sheriff's reform, whatever it is That is where it starts. And so you know in with that being said, when we ask, I was asked this question last night. Why are you doing this and it finally you know I've been trying to think of all these nice little cool answers and trying to come up with different things but last night it just it hit me. It's like some of us is just called to serve and when I look at my life my career, the things that I've done outside of policing. it has led me. Moment right here so I know I'm the right person in the right place at the right time to move this when it comes to Sheriff's Department into what we need to make it as far as we can serve all of the citizens of Gwinnett County So again, Carolyn Thank you for this opportunity. Thank you for inviting me one more time you know thank you again for all of your support and everything that you're doing I'm in good company here with these other two ladies and And I'm just very proud to be on this stage to see what it is that we as a team. can accomplish for the people here at Gwinnett County. So I'm excited about it it's busy. I'm tired from running from place to place, but I wouldn't have it no other way right now. Okay. I just yeah. Thank you for stepping up. Thank you for running. I mean these are very tough races for those watching. It's very hard to do and you can see you know we're just. You know, we're out there. We're just people you know, like like that you are watching who care about our community and really you know wanna do something we wanna be helpful wanna do good in our community which leads me to our first question we have Carson who's asked and my friends and family say that all politicians are bad and there is no point in voting. How can I explain to them That voting is in fact worth it? I can take that, but let's see any of you would like to jump in. I feel like Nicole. that I saw that question and I said, okay, That's that's something that I've I've always been passionate about is mobilizing and educating people about the voting process and it's not and it goes deeper than just educating about voting process but helping them understand how they represented why local elections matter you know who are representing them who are representing the values? Why? A vote for people who represent their values and if they're not getting what they want in their elected officials, then they need to hold them accountable or create the space to challenge them or find somebody who can challenge them. you know we politicians go into office or at least we want to believe that politicians at least I'll speak for me and that's on this panel we go into this for the right reasons we go in this because we wanna serve we have a heart to serve. We want to be transparent. We wanna make sure that we represent the voice of the people but when we. they're away from that then we lose public trust and then people feel that their politicians are not worthy of the seats that they hold and so I I would just say a word of encouragement understand who all of your local election elected officials are because it goes beyond just every four years of voting and sometimes people only vote every four years and only for the the Federal elections and the presidential elections, but don't realize how much local elections matter. And when you dig deep and understand who represents you on your school board, your district attorney Your County commissioners your city Council your mayor, you will start to find that there are more people that are closest to the people that truly are making a difference in the day-to-day lives of everyday citizens. just like Carolyn had mentioned before these are people that are that are making decisions on what roads and sidewalks are coming to your community. These are people that are making decisions about your. And what taxes you're paying These are people that are making decisions on what who they're gonna appoint as the police chief we're parks are gonna go in your community where where they're gonna put up stop signs and just things like that that are that are impacting your local your local communities and day to day decisions and so getting involved you know voting is is just one piece of it but educating yourself about your elected officials understanding what their platforms and policy positions are serving on. Volunteering with your local government talk to your City Council person talk to your County Commissioner serve on their local boards. Ask to be appointed so that you can understand how the process works and then when you get a behind the scenes picture of of what goes on and how decisions are being made and even be an active and part of that decision. if it makes you more informed and empowered to be part of that process and that's what leadership should be about It should you know politicians should involve their their residence. In their constituents that they serve in that decision making process because we are elected to serve you, we're not elected to serve our own agenda. Of course, we have our platform issues but truly ultimately when we're elected, we are there to to listen to the to our constituents and and value their voice and listen to what those issues are and bring that to the table when we're making decisions and so I would say don't lose hope in your elected officials because the trajectory is changing but if you feel. Your politician or elected officials not representing you, then you have a choice you can either get involved challenge them or vote them out. I would just say you know on that the you know the greatest satisfaction you get from doing these things is to be able to solve problems and help people. I mean that's the point and that's why you know all of us are running but I'd also say you know I don't think people realize how very close to the people are local officials are our State House. You know even people are like you know what what's gonna happen? If you go to Washington, you know and I'm like I'm right here. I live here. My son goes to school here. I would imagine tons of people of my cellphone number. you know it's really easy to get in touch with me. so we're not far away from anybody but it does take you know you gotta knock on that door and make that phone call I know our State House and Senate representatives. I mean they often answer their own phones. A lot of times usually not during the legislative session, but they're they're right there but on that voting rights issue, I know Nikki, that is one of your. Issues can you. sure so the biggest thing when I'm out there talking to voters, I just try to reach them in a way to so that they understand their connection to government and we start with the basics. So when I hear things like my vote doesn't count or you know it doesn't do anything it doesn't matter the first thing I ask them is what do you care about and from there if they tell me they care about their family, they care about their money. I can. Kinda walk them back like okay, Well who's making decisions about the taxes that you pay or your school or your children's school who do you think is doing that and then when they give you an answer and we can walk it back a little more and go a little deeper and I said, Okay, well if if if you know that the school board is making this decisions or your taxes are determined by your local government and your state government who's selecting those people making those decisions. So that's the biggest thing that I try to do to get them to really. To how their vote actually count and as we know, I know everybody looks at federal but the local level that is directly tied to your money. The biggest thing we do at the state Legislature is passing a budget to spend your money so that's money on deciding on if we're gonna put that money to public health services and we're gonna put more money into expanding health care options if we're gonna put that money into education you get to say. but through your. How you want that money spent? that's the biggest thing that we do and that is determined by your elected representative and and I think you know a lot of people don't get that and then when I was out talking to a lot of our young people were protesting, I what I got from them is I get that you guys are protest. It's great still do that. but do you understand the political level of this? Do you understand how your DA is your district attorney is put into place. Do you understand who's in? Of your police force, you know who is it the mayor, you know, I try to get them to kind of dig deeper and then once we can start answering those questions and said, hey, well, that is something you determine if you don't like the job that your mayor is doing you don't like that police force you can go to them and say that if you didn't like your DA guess what vote them out, get rid of them if you don't like your state legislator how you voted on a bill to spend your money you get to vote them out or call them up as Carolyn said. We are accessible, I consider as civic legislators, my neighbors can see me on my porch and come and talk to me. You know I'm pretty accessible and relatable to people. I'm just regular every day Mom like everybody else and I'm just stepping up to serve because I feel like I've been called to do so and I have the capacity to do it. so you know boating is the most basic contribution people can make to politics and the decisions that affect their families and then it eventually does trickle up to the to the federal level. So that's just how I attack it and I and I try to get them to understand that. but even in that, too, we need to make sure that our voters do have protects. I'm telling them to get out there and vote and participate. I know here in the state of Georgia, we need to strengthen our vote of protections. We need to make sure our voters have confidence in their votes being cast, so there are a lot of things that we can do to make absentee ballot, easy and seamless. I would love to see that Bill pass to make election. A day of holiday I want to get rid of any Red tape for people to be registered to vote. I think that should be automatic so you know voting is my thing and if if if anything I really try to get people to understand why I believe in it so much and why they should believe in it so much and we can continue to do that. and I think we should put specifics back in schools. That's why a lot of people don't understand what what their levels of government are and what they do. there's a lack of education. Just not with the parents with the kids so that yeah the voting to me. that's everything That's That's everything that we're doing here and it's so important for everybody to stay engaged and I would just say if it's more important it wouldn't be such a people wouldn't be fighting so hard to take it away from us exactly and so so every Mother's Day and we are fighting so hard to make sure that everybody has that chance to vote you know Congressman Lewis passed away not long ago and he basically put his life on the line for that right. Mm hmm, and so just to know how much has been sacrificed for all of us to be able to vote and make sure that voting is fair and you know everybody has a chance at that and we have work to do particularly in Georgia. we do know there are other States as well where there's serious problems but anyways so moving on from that you know I think you know all of us have been really touched by the calls for you know, racial Justice and really thinking about racism, but nowhere has that been you know more clearly expressed. Then you know talking about the relationship between law enforcement and our community and I have seen some really great initiatives where some of the black church leaders have gotten together with the police in Gwinnett and had a conversation and I know Kibo, you have so much experience in law enforcement. you know you know very much on the enforcement side. you know, I know you worked as an undercover cop what you know what do we need to do you know maybe drawing on some of your experience to build that relationship and make sure that we restore trust you know in our. Law enforcement well first of all trust and transparency is what's needed and we in the law enforcement community has gotta be the one to take the lead on that. okay and that's been a real sticky point right there is because a lot of law enforcement leaders don't wanna accept the fact that the majority of the problem that we're dealing with is in law enforcement, you know nobody. Say that there's prejudice and bias and law enforcement and it is it's systematic Nobody wants to say that there's a problem in law enforcement with the excessive use of force and which leads to lawsuits and wrongful death lawsuits, but it is and so when you have those two perfect storms, colliding with each other, you know we start to see things what we've seen here in the last four to six months with. Getting killed and even more so on a local level seeing and the number of of lawsuits of unnecessary excuse me assess of force that's going on over there in Gwinnett County Jail for me again, like I said I I started to see some things back in 2016. I didn't know what I was looking at didn't know what I was doing, but you know when you see incidences just crossed like Ferguson and things that are going on across the nation here you know the racial tension. Between the black community and law enforcement was getting hot and what we try to do is bridge you know some gaps here creates some bridges so that we can bring the community in the city law enforcement. You know we also brought in a lot of religious leaders and we brought in you know civic and you know other leaders in the community. so we organized that brought everybody together as a in an effort. To lower the tension and get people to see each other for folks and start the conversation of how we could work together. so let's fast forward to now you know. when we see what we have now it is in common upon you know the leadership the people at the top to take the necessary steps first of all to clean your Department. Okay and nobody wants to talk about that, but we're gonna have to work hard to clean the Department up and I know I'm skipping around a little bit, but you know we have. The courage to go in and say hey, I have a problem here and the people are not in line with you know conducting themselves to where they can treat everybody regardless of race, you know gender regardless of your culture, you know if you have a problem with treating someone equal right here, then they don't need to be in law enforcement and not only you know do I wanna get rid of them out of the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Department? I wanna work with people like Nikki and others so that we can add some laws so that once we. Out of one Department, they can't go to another Department. they don't need to be in law enforcement so once we recognize that have the courage to get rid of and get them up out of there, second of all man, we have to have the courage to go in there and bring in outside people outside of the state and you know other types of training and bring in some you know and I'm looking for outside vendors to come in and teach us you know how to be more confident in cultures. Okay, In other words, what I wanna do is bring in you know the folks they come in and we have this conversation and we train on how to accept people in other culture and how to treat people now. that's something that will benefit Winnett County, You know internally and externally from the sheriff's Department. and then last, but not the least we have to get out here and the biggest thing that we're gonna have to do is go back to putting boots on the ground. And that means that. So my deputies and everybody else's, we're gonna have to go out here in the community and walk the streets and talk to the people and let them see us in another way. outside of enforcement and you hear me talk about where I grew up at you know we didn't see the police over there and that's something that going back either. They were that answer call you know something else that happened. You know they were coming in on the enforcement capacity and what I wanna. Is is to put our put you know this deputies back out there in non enforcement so that when we're going to the community, we're gonna have conversations and they know us and know us by names. you know we need to have a system out here that what we're putting these deputies back into the school systems not in an enforcement capacity, but you know we can go in and back in you know the early nineties we have problems out here like there advance programs the world you know we're in this teaching strokes of. Gus you know on drugs so when you look at what's going on with kids out here today, you still got problems out here that you have gang problems out here in Gwinnett County. You got gun violence out here and then we also got these kids out here to where the victims of sexual assault and you know I just feel like that we can reallocate these resources man and start putting them into the schools you know and you know teach these kids man and start to rebuild these bridges and build that trust. But just to keep up everything that I said, you know one more time and it takes courage to go in and admit that you have a problem and it takes even more courage to go in there and fix those problems. So that's what we're gonna have to look for somebody That's got the courage to fix it right. So I think there's a legislative solutions that you referenced right, which is you know banning things like choke holds making sure we we have a National oversight review boards of police. officers are not skipping we we within. Not but also you know between police forces around the state or even around the country if they've had some serious complaint lodged against them. so I think there's a lot of you know a lot of solutions like that. But part of it is it is just that face to face contact with people and and knowing them and I just I think we do this big, you know get togethers in the community when there's a problem that's flared up, but we just need to make sure we're doing that all the time even when we don't see something kind of immediate happening, I just wanna really quickly. Cuz you will also have a Nikki talk a little bit about it before we have to wrap up so I thought I finish up with the cold. Do you have any thoughts about that because this County chair you will also be kind of on the line you know dealing with those kinds of issues. Yes and and what a lot of people don't realize is that the County Commission chair is responsible for prioritizing the budget for the entire County. they're also responsible for appointing the police chief, which is different than the sheriff in fact. Board of Commissioners approved the budget for the sheriff's office, as well as for the police Department as well and so you know the the whole issue around public safety. you know social Justice issues as it relates to law enforcement as a social worker and somebody who has a background in social work, I wholeheartedly believe that we need to reimagine what public safety looks like and you know I I agree with Kibo in that. We do need to refocus efforts on more crime prevention measures to include having you know more community policing as well as investing in community resources. I had posted an article on my Facebook page about social workers working in the police Department and responding to issues such as you know domestic situations situations where homelessness is coming into play or you know. issues and this town in Kentucky has seen some results with having social workers in their Department. now, that is you know not to say that is going to be the solution in the end. all be all. However, I think that we have to look outside the box and how we reimagine public safety and I think that we as as the chair I do have discretion on how we prioritize the budget and how we can look. I mean public safety is our biggest budget of our County budget. We fund more in public safety, but that also includes our corrections. you know police fire and what have you, however, Can we put additional resources into social work and we put additional resources into counseling and mental health and resources that prevent and preempt crime while also addressing social Justice initiatives. so I'm I'm open to looking at that and working in partnership with our sheriff's Department our courts the court to do a lot of drug treatment. And you know to reduce our recidivism and you know looking at that as a as an option as well but looking at working in tandem with all of our law enforcement entities to ensure that we're not criminalizing issues that are impacting our indigenous communities like those who were experiencing poverty homelessness, substance abuse and mental health issues. Okay. It's a very thoughtful response. Thank you guys and thank all of you for the. For responses to these questions, okay, well with that we we do have to wrap up everybody we have an election August eleventh early voting is happening now throughout this week it's easy just go pop in put on your mask. you know go vote this runoff elections do often get overlooked but they are very important. for setting the stage for what happens in November and of course everybody Mark your calendars with a big circle November third. We have one of the most important elections of our lifetimes and everybody needs to make a plan. Vote absentee early vote ideally, if you're gonna vote on election day, if you have to do that, you know brace for a really long lines but you know everybody find a way we have to vote and that election and please vote on August eleventh and I'm honored to have this wonderful candidates with me good luck to you guys and we will be doing what we can alright and thanks to everybody for tuning in see you next week.