James Talarico

Bobby Kennedy was a trust fund baby and still sympathize with working people.

So I don't think that you have to be...

born poor to be able to do that.

I do think it provides a helpful perspective.

I was born to a single mom and that experience has helped inform how I view things.

So a lot of my colleagues, I would say, just have no experience.

So for instance, there was a bill that we passed, unfortunately, that would make it easier for landlords to evict people.

And we were trying to work with the author of that bill to add some exceptions for, you know, if you just miss a bill because you're late, you shouldn't get evicted.

Right.

Like we're trying to build that out.

And the author just kind of had no conception with how you could miss a bill.

Like it just because when you're that when you have people who do that.

Right.

Like he was like he was like his accountant does all that.

I'm like, but when you're a working person, you're balancing raising kids, working multiple jobs.

Yeah.

Right.

Maybe trying to exercise when you can, like when you're doing all that.

And God forbid you have a medical problem.

Like, yes, some stuff falls through the cracks.