Rep. Anna Paulina Luna

And so I did realize, I was like, well, they keep, though, talking about what people in D.C.

are doing.

So if I want to change the discussion, I have to go to Washington to do it.

So I called my husband.

I was like, we're going to run for office.

He goes, what do you mean, we?

Yes.

Because what do you mean?

I was like, well, from what I gather, everyone's like a team effort.

And it's totally true.

If your spouse isn't on board, good luck because politics is nasty.

And so he ended up basically figuring it out with me.

And for someone like me, there's no how to manual on how to run from off.

It's usually family, like literally family affairs where like people like their parent did it or they have like a direct immediate tie to it.

So I figured it out.

And now that I'm in office, I'm realizing that I can make an impact to an extent with some influence, but it would be a lot more helpful if there were 10 other of me.

And so when I'm done in office, I'm going to help recruit younger candidates that have the ideological perspective that I do to run them.

And then I'm going to help do things for them behind the scenes to help get them in.

To help.

It's not.