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Okay, but we need to go straight into this clip.
So Luke, our beautiful producer, if you can start this clip,
I think it's like 23 minutes and 34 seconds or something like that.
We want to let you, our listeners here, Dana Panapelebon on the Dane County
exec forum.
She's running for Dane County Executive against Melissa A. Garth.
And this is her response to why she qualifies for the role.
So the unique qualities and skills that I have is that I am an actual executive.
And I have been running departments.
I have been running programs.
I have been doing strategic priorities.
I have been budgeting.
I have been implementing budgets.
I have been working at that 1000 foot level in our community for a really long time.
So when I talk about the fact that we have a housing navigation system that's broken,
A, I already know that it's broken.
B, I know where the gaps are.
C, I know then what is needed to fill those gaps because me and the people in the community
have been talking about this for a really long time.
But we've not been able to move things forward because we've not had someone at the county
government level who is used to working at that 1000 foot level.
Go ahead.
We have a lot of that for me.
Shout out to Dana Pelabon if, you know, I'm biased.
So go vote for her.
Go vote for her.
Please go for her.
And I say this, not just because she's black or because she's my friend and both of
those things are true.
But because the county exec job is really is to manage budgets, people in the needs of
our community from executive kind of level.
And Melissa A guard is a legislator.
She's been polytricking her whole life and I get polytrics are really important.
And also I think she's a great legislator.
I think she has done some amazing work in the state assembly.
I mean, I think she should stay there and I think she should continue the work there.
And I think that we should appoint someone who has the just a knowledge and expertise
of the community that she served and housing is a huge issue.
And as Dana pointed out, she sits on board to where folks are dealing with the housing
directly.
She is the one to respond in crisis rate prices, domestic violence situations.
She's actually in the community, Melissa A guard, she's in legislation doing what she
should do, which is pushing legislation through that we need push through and including
cannabis.
That's another thing we can have her focus on.
She can't do that as a day kind of executive.
No, she cannot.
Any takes on what you heard?
Dana did a good job.
Yeah.
I mean, and here's the thing, like a day kind of executive, the one thing that that Melissa
cannot do is from the bottom bottom up, create relationships with people that she doesn't
have relationships.
Dana already has relationships with the community.
Dana is in the community.
Dana is the community.
And we're talking about.
We're talking about the community.
Right.
Dana has relationships with queer, white, black, able-bodied, all of county levels, city levels.
Like she already has relationships with everybody.
Melissa does not.
Yeah.
Melissa would have to pose and then go into communities and create a relationship.
She's not going to do that.
She's not going to do that.
She's not going to do that.
She's not going to do that.
She's not going to do that.
She's not going to do that.
And it's not going to be authentic.
No, it's not going to be authentic.
Yeah.
So in other words, vote for Dana Pelabon for a Dane County exempt and this is not a paid.
And what day should everybody get out and vote?
One is April.
November 5th.
The same day is a presidential election.
Right.
And go to Danafordane.com to donate, get a button, get a button, get a yard sign, follow her,
register to vote.
Yeah.
Follow her.
Host to fundraiser.
And in my black voice on my black show called the black conversion show centering blackness
and everything that we do in my work and my voice and everything, including Urban Triage,
I'm going to encourage everyone to vote black November.
Okay.
Vote for Kamala.
Vote for Dana.
Vote for Ariel.
And that list.
Now, some people might say you shouldn't do that.
But I'm going to encourage that you do because everyone else doesn't.
I think people known as black have a hard time voting for black people because we are
the, the, the, we are, we be confused sometimes.
No, we embody the stock home syndrome.
And we really want to be accepted by white people, white, raised, white institutions.
And when you step out on the ledge, like Brandy Grayson and you say black, this black,
that people really do this like you and they really do come for your life.
Like the guy did yesterday at, so we did happen yesterday, Brandy.
So just a little T for you here.
I'm not even getting to give you his name.
And again, you're listening to the black conversion show on 92.7 FM, I'm not going to give
you his name.
I look how I changed my voice.
I'm not going to give you his name.
That was my radio voice.
So, but it's this white dude that has been harassing Urban Triage every way.
He has done open records request on us, open records request on Dane County, open records
request on the city.
He's went to the chief of police.
He's went to the sheriff.
He's went to the chief police of Sun Prairie.
He is going to the city council.
He is going to Dane County supervisors.
And what he's attempting to do is gather support around this notion that Urban Triage is
incompetent and that we are not able, we don't manage stuff physically.
Well, we're just not a competent.
We're against white people, we're against queer people, we're anti, you know, trans,
we're anti LGBTQI, we're anti everyone according to the white man.
But the problem is that people actually believe him without any investigation or any further
inquiries.
They just believe him because he's white and they listen to him and they hold space form.
And like I've had even people on the supervisor, Dane County supervisors called me and be like,
so what's up with this and question to me and I've had the snap on them.
I actually cussed out Nazara who's on the city council and this for transparency a
week or two because she called me questioning me about this article and not from a place
of love or support.
And like I told her, you sounded like a Becky right now, right?
You're sounding like a Becky.
So he showed up at the forum yesterday asking the candidates, what y'all going to do
about Urban Triage and their mismanagement of Dane County funds and it was, and Melissa
A. Garz response was, well, there needs to be accountability.
And for me, that tells me that you don't understand how contracts work and you don't understand
really the management of nonprofits because all nonprofits spend their money sooner than
you, you plan on, especially when the needs are high and the conversation really should
have been focused on what are you going to do about the high needs and the lack of funding
and resources allocated to people who are in need of rental support, housing, stability
and security deposits.
But that wasn't the question, but big ups to Dana because she handled it like a pro,
but we don't have more time.
So I would give you more, but any last remarks from you guys.
We all just think to pay attention, tend to forms, read, do your homework because the
County Executive is a very, very big position.
These people take care of our roads.
These people take care of our air, our hospitals, our community.
Jail.
Jail.
Everything.
And so, and they have like a hundred, is it like a $600 million budget?
This person looks over and we need to take that serious.
And that term is four years.
I don't know.
We got to say, and we need somebody who has the actual budgetary experience, experience
of managing people.
Melissa does not have experience managing people at all.
The only experience she has in terms of budget was being on the Dane County Board.
And as someone who's on the Dane County Board, the only thing, not the only thing, but
the thing that we do with the budgets is we oversee the budget.
We don't have the hands on experience of managing it.
So she, she lacks that.
All right.
One day, they're going to give us more time like breakfast club, but you're listed
to the Black Conversion Show, a 92.7 FM.
We are out with Brandy Grayson and, April Kigare.
Hey, your favorite cousin, Clyde, peace, peace, love and hair, Grace.
