Astead Herndon
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6,554 appearances
61 recordings
8 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard yesterday
Astead Herndon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Is the CBC on the wrong side of this?
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No.
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Yeah, you're saying there's no daylight between your constituents and those votes who are taken.
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But I do want to go back to your earlier point, because it is important to say, and I want to acknowledge that black candidates often do not come from the same amounts of personal wealth.
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Not often, not often.
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Yeah, that a lot of other members of Congress have.
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I think that's an important true point.
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The ability to raise money is often more difficult.
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But I mean, theoretically, you know, the CBC or others could advocate for public election, public funding of elections.
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They could advocate for small dollar numbers and people raising money through that.
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Like, and so I'm just saying, like, aren't there other avenues that they could take that will put them more aligned with a Democratic base that's increasingly against corporate money?
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We do.
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Okay.
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All right.
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I hear you.
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All right.
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You're like, we already do that stuff.
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Period.
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Absolutely do it.
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Support for this show comes from Quince.
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