Tulsi Gabbard

You can't just ship in water easily or truck in water from somewhere else.

You knock out a major water aquifer like that, that's over 300,000 people whose lives are directly affected and impacted.

And so I joined a bunch of people.

We went out and we started gathering, telling people like, hey, did you know that this is what they're trying to do?

This land, again, going back to lobbyists and money and politics, this landfill...

company was very cozy with the president of the state Senate who was kind of greasing the wheels for him to get this thing approved and fast tracked.

And so, you know, it was petitions, old school piece of paper pen standing outside the grocery store telling people like, hey, do you know that this is what's going on in your neighborhood?

And many people saying, no, I had no idea.

And then signing their names and saying, well, of course we have to stop this.

Long story short, we stopped it.

The landfill was never put in place over that water aquifer.

And that politician was exposed.

And that for me was just like, oh my gosh.

Made a change.

You can make a difference.

You really can make a difference.

And so I was at 21 at a kind of a fork in the road.

I was thinking about maybe I should go to school because I thought I was going to work in the TV and film industry.

I went to community college first and studying TV and film production and understanding the power of storytelling and so on.

But ended up at this juncture where...