Shelly Jackson

And I was like, I don't know what that means, but I'm there.

And I started organizing on all the things.

And so to fast forward, 2020 comes around.

It's the pandemic.

Candidates all over are struggling to get on the ballot, right?

Because in order to get on the ballot, you have to get signatures.

A lot of the times people get signatures by standing outside of a grocery store, right?

Asking, can you sign this thing?

Or knocking on someone's door.

But people didn't have the ability to do that because everyone was staying inside.

So then we end up getting to a place in my district in Roosevelt where we had three open seats, but only one person had actually made it on the ballot, which was just wild.

So in that situation, people can now start to run as a write-in.

Um, and we, I didn't think anything of it.

I was watching what was happening and I was hoping for the best, but what ended up happening was MAGA folks in our neighborhood said, Hey, this is an easy way for us to be on this district.

So they started running as writing candidates.

And at the time they were the only ones.

So we were going to end up in a place where we now had a majority MAGA district and people started calling me and I was ignoring their calls because I had a feeling.

I had a feeling what they were going to ask.

And then I started to answer.

And folks kept saying, hey, we're in this moment.