Elijah Manley
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83 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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So the deadline is Friday.
You know, maybe somebody gets out before then.
Maybe people get out next week.
That's still open.
But we need to consolidate so we can beat Debbie because Debbie, what she's doing is wrong.
And she's taking advantage of our district, a district she doesn't know that she's never represented.
It's extremely important that we have somebody with our lived experience representing this district.
This district was created in 1992 when she was first elected to the legislature, forcibly created under an amendment to the VRA because they would not create a seat to allow African-Americans a seat in Congress, although we had a strong constituency here in South Florida.
So they forcibly created this seat to ensure that we have representation in an elected district.
first african-american congress member from florida lc hastings in 1992 and has been represented by an african-american since and it's important especially at a time where the supreme court gave a go-ahead to republicans in the south to basically eliminate every black seat they want they did that in louisiana they're doing it in alabama they did it in tennessee and they're moving their way through the south and they're trying to do it and that's what republicans are doing but
But Republicans in Florida, they didn't eliminate the black seats.
This black seat, the elimination is going to come from a Democrat, a white Democrat running here if she wins.
And so Republicans, they left District 20, they left District 24.
Lois Franco's seat is now actually a black seat and will be.
We should not expect a white Democrat, somebody who's supposed to be our ally, to literally take away our representation.
It's important for the lived experience.
It's important in a time where our rights are under attack by Congress and by the presidency, and we need to have our voice there.
And plus, we don't need somebody that's been in Congress for a quarter of a century holding onto a seat and representing the district.
She doesn't know.
She doesn't know this district.
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