 Hey everybody. Hello, hello. We are back at, okay, we're gonna get, we have to get, we gotta get both people on the monitor here. I have a special guest today. Malik, you look good. Okay, first of all, let's just start with the usual stuff. My name's Andrew Champagne. I am the producer of the show. And I'm here with my line producer, Steven, my monitor guy, Kevin, and my executive producer, Jordan Mitchell. Thank you so much, Jordan. What we have going on today is we are about two months from town meeting. What's the actual day to town meeting, Malik? March 5th. Okay. Now, you, okay, so, okay, let me, let me just do a little bit of stuff first of all. This is the monthly show about Democratic politics on town meeting TV. I'd like to thank everyone for watching. I'd like to thank everyone for helping me, Ms. Lauren, Glenn Davidian, Emily, Megador Work, the new director. These are very kind people. And obviously, with town meeting TV, you're gonna get the best coverage. You're gonna get the most, the best coverage in the state of Vermont, town meeting TV. I am a member of the Democratic State Committee. I'm also assistant treasurer of the Burlington Dems. And I was calling my old pal, Adam Roof, today. I said, I need to guess, man. I need to guess. Now, Adam comes on a lot. He's great. And I'd also like to thank Adam for the great job he did at the caucus. It was unbelievable, wasn't it? Yeah, it was great. So he said, I'd like to put you on. No, what is your last name? Is it Miles? Mines. Mines. Yes. Okay. He said, I'd like to have a fantastic new candidate from Ward 3. Come on. And his name is Malik Mines, a young guy. And I said, hey, there he is. Now, maybe we can put his name underneath. Is that possible, Kevin? Do we have that name? Okay. There you go. That looks good. Yeah, looks great. Why don't you take a screenshot? Okay, we'll take a screenshot of that at the end so you have it. You can send that to your mom or your pops or whatever, right? Okay. So after 12 years of being a really pretty excellent mayor, I think, really fantastic, I was fortunate enough to swear them in for a second term. Moreau Weinberger is not running again. He's exploring some new options. I know he's thinking about possibly running for governor. I'd also like to see him down in Washington doing some more good work in the Biden-Harris administration right here. But so what we're doing is we have eight city council elections. And in three, now do we have an incumbent or no? We don't, right? No, we don't. What happened to that person? Oh, Joe McGee didn't run again. McGee didn't run again. Yeah. He's a good guy. Okay, Malik, you, now tell everybody where you live. What street do you live on? So I live on Allen Street, right across from the Old North End Community Center. Oh, right. Excellent. Excellent. Right in the heart of the, right in the heart of the Old North End. Yeah. Now, okay, one thing before we get into all this is for 25 years I was in Ward 2. I am now in Ward 3. Basically, North Street is the divider. Is that correct, Malik, now? I believe North Street is, it used to extend further past that and then recent Ward updates changed it. Okay. Okay. See, what has to happen with the Ward's is that they have to be within 10% of all eight Ward's have to be within 10% population of each other. We're going to do the Ward's real quick. Ward 1 is Montecristi School. Ward 2 is H.O. Wheeler School. Ward 3 is the Lawrence Barnes School. Sustainability Academy. Is that what they mostly call it? Yes. Okay. Ward 4 is St. Mark's Church. It kind of heads up to the New North End. If you're on the left side of North Avenue, you vote at St. Mark's Church. If you're on the right side of the Avenue, you vote at God Senior Center. Okay, then we head back to the South End. Ward 5 is Edmund School and that's where we had our, that's where we had our caucus. Ward 6 is B. Burlington Electric. No, no, I'm sorry, not Ward 6. Yes, Ward 6 is Burlington Electric and then Ward 8 with my great friend Hannah King is Fletcher Free Library. So you've got those all eight Ward's. Your Ward, if you live in the Old North End, your Ward might have changed. But what's going to happen for this election is all ballots will be mailed. Okay, they'll be mailed right around Valentine's Day. You'll get them around between February 13th, February 17th, somewhere around there. Now, let's say you don't get your ballot. You've moved. You, you lost it. It got recycled. You changed your mind. The dog ate it. It blew out the window. I mean, all these things happen. You can vote early at City Hall for, for several weeks. That will start around February. That will start right around Valentine's Day. Okay, and that's very important. So, you know, if someone's out of town or they're on, they're doing something. They're going skiing. They're, they're in college. They're on a road trip. They have to go somewhere they can vote. Now, let's say, let's say you don't have a ballot or you hadn't get one. And let's say you're not even registered. You can go to your polling place on Election Day, register and vote right then and there, which is amazing, isn't it? Yep. Also, non-citizens may vote this time, which is going to be great. We, non-citizens cannot, I hate to be a buzzkill here. Non-citizens cannot vote in, they cannot vote in state, county, or national elections. But they can vote on ballot questions. They can vote for inspectors of elections. They can vote for Justices of the Peace. They can vote for City Council and they can vote for Mayor. Malik, so we haven't, we haven't, we had an open seat. Joe McGee has left. He did a good job. He's a big time prog. Hey, Buddy Joe. We worked together on Senator Welch's campaign, which was fantastic. Joe is a great advance man and just a good dude. He is now the campaign manager for, you know, will be our Democratic opponent, which is Emma Mulvaney-Stanik. Joe, thanks a lot. We sent, we sent an open seat here. So Malik, let's tell us a little about yourself. How, how you came to be in Brownington. Did you grow up here? Tell, tell, tell me your story, man. Yeah, so I grew up in Philly. I guess the start from like, yeah, so I grew up in Philly and I guess the start. You grew up in Philadelphia? Philadelphia, yeah. In and out of the false care system until I was about eight years old. Okay. I was adopted and then spent a lot of my life just like bouncing from school to school and then. It sounds like it was tough. Yeah. I mean, you don't really realize that until after you're like out of that environment about like how tough it actually was. How about your adopted parents? They were good folks. It was just one person. Okay. And yeah, she was amazing. Okay. Well, let's say her name and thank her. Okay. Well, Gwyn, thank you very much. Okay, you'll be able to send her a link to this. She can see it. Yeah, she's really proud. So Gwyn, I'm inviting you up here to help campaign with your son. Okay. And I'd love to meet you. We'll go door to door. We'll meet everybody. That'll be killer. Get you out of Philly for the weekend. Get come up to beautiful Brownington. So how did you go from, you know, it's funny about Philadelphia. I was just reading an article on the paper and this kind of broke my heart. I grew up in Hartford, which is a poor city. Philadelphia is the poorest big city in America. Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah, it's pretty bad. Yeah. Now, this will go into a question that we're going to talk about in Burlington, but unfortunately, and I'm not talking about cannabis, okay? I smoke pot, all right? Not talking about pot. Pot is legal. Pot is not killing anyone. We're talking about fentanyl. We're talking about crystal meth. We're talking about crack cocaine. There's an epidemic of that in Philadelphia. Yeah, it's terrible. Yeah. I grew up right in the heart of that, too. Is that Kensington? Kensington, yeah. So I grew up at Kensington, Allegheny, G Street. Allegheny Ave. Yeah. I do have to say, though, growing up, it wasn't as bad as it was currently. You wouldn't notice every now and then like you would hear about like the murder rate in Philly and like that being like, you know, pretty bad, but it wasn't until a few years ago when I took a trip down and I was driving through my own neighborhood that I really started to notice a difference because it was much more open air drug market, right? It was like fires on the side of the streets for people to keep warm, open air drug dealing, open air drug use. My favorite library, which was like a really open air intravenous use in front of kids and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. So like it's just sad to see that the library that was there too was also just being used and like needles were tossed around. And again, just like the crime that was going on was something that having to hustle up money every day is a is got to be a rough, rough deal. Now, okay, hey, I'm 60 years old. We partied. Okay. We party my generation party. I got busted for pot. I had cops put guns to my head for pot. Okay, so but the one thing I have to say is I see these people downtown. No one looks very happy. It looks like it's a terrible, terrible buzz. And you know, I'm reminded of, you know, what people used to say jail institution or death. And it just seems awfully sad. Now, we're going to come back to that because that's going to be a big focus of the show. Yeah. So let's talk about you kind of on your own in Philly, you got you got someone watching out for you Glenn. Yep. How where are you going to high school? You going to school in in Philly? Or what are you doing? Yes, I went to school in Philly. I spent a lot of my time so between third grade and eighth grade, a Catholic school. And then in Philly, there's a lot of school choice. So it was like time to exactly. So there's a choice of either going to the neighborhood school or applying to a charter school or to a private school. My neighborhood school is probably the worst school in the nation at the time. So okay, I thought he was going to say the worst in my neighborhood or the worst in Philly or the worst in Pennsylvania. No, it was honestly, the worst in the nation and NBC nightly news, I did a report on it. My sister had gone to school there. And I knew for a fact that like, that's not what I wanted to do. Now okay, let's talk about let's talk about the high rate of unemployment, drug addiction, dropping out of school for adopted kids. Yeah. They seem to have unfortunately seem to get involved in the whole, you know, police situation and the odds are really against them. What what can we do to help adopted kids in Vermont? What can anyone watching this do? If you know they're interested in helping a kid or it sounds like without your adopted mother, I'm not sure you'd be up here talking to me today. You probably just be working in Philly, right? Going to community college or something? If it wasn't for a lot of people, yeah, I wouldn't be here at all. Even the decision to go to college, like I was not thinking about that at the time when it was 12th grade, because it was sort of life or death at that time. And you got to think like, am I going to go to college or I'm going to go like flip burgers at McDonald's like to support myself? And at the time, people were going to get something into college. And then I had to think critically about it, like, okay, it's time for me to make a decision, like I can either stay here in Philly and like live within these cycles, or I can leave bus to move. Yeah, and I chose to get out. Um, yeah, my friend, you know, it, you know, I was thinking that song by Bruce Springsteen, City of Ruins, let's, I just want to say for the record, Philly, when Philly is good, Philly is frigging amazing. Amazing. I love visiting. Yeah, like the great parts of Philly are great. Oh my God. That parts are said, like, you know, and I wish I can do what I can to help back there. But right now, so you can now tell us about your academic stuff. Okay, where did where did you go for high school or college? Okay, so it sounds like high school, you went to a great charter school in Philly. Why don't you say the name of that and bust that out? So it actually doesn't exist anymore. Recently. And again, why is that? It's always 5050 when it comes to charter schools, you have a really great one or a really bad one. And it just sucks that a really great one ended up being shut down. That I don't know why. That's something we're going to talk about. I think there's going to be some charter schools in Burlington. Um, okay. So it's a big chaotic for you, man. Justin Philly. Yeah. Again, you didn't really reflect on it until after I got to Burlington. So the story goes, you had some good friends down there and your sister. Yes, I had some really good friends homies. Okay. And they're all going to college and I knew that once they're all gone, then all I have left this family. And I talked to my college advisor. They put me on track. We took a trip up here to Champlain. I didn't even know Vermont existed at the time. But once I got here, you just heard about it, knew it was in New England. That was it. It was just like something, you know, I was like, Oh, state capitals and like, Oh, man. And then Vermont and Montalier. So it was something that wasn't on my mind ever. Like I didn't think I'm doing when we only knew Philly. You know, I just want to say Champlain College is a really great school. Um, you know, I think we might go to, um, I have, well, how much time do we have if I choose, um, Steven, what do we have for time today? Anyone here? Okay. I thought someone was out in the camera. All right, we're going to keep talking. We might. Yeah. Okay. Well, what, what so let's go to six o'clock. Okay. That's 20 minutes. Yeah. Perfect. Okay. So we started this show. Nice and loose and easy. Yeah. Um, I always do a little bit of COVID rap. COVID is not gone. If you have questions, the state has a toll free number to help you. It's called 211. My buddy Kevin usually puts that up. Um, if you have not been vaccinated, please get vaccinated. How are you doing with your COVID shots? Good. Don't great. Okay. Now we see in like a city like Philly got decimated, you know, where everyone's tight and close. You have a lot of older people. Um, not, you know, a lot of the housing stock is old. The ventilation wasn't great. You know, how many hundreds of thousands of people died in Pennsylvania? I shuttered it. I don't know. Yeah. Um, we lost some good people up here. So 211, if you have some questions, let's say, hey, it's pretty cold today. Let's say you're having some problems with your heat. Let's say you're in problems getting a job. Let's say you're having problems just with everything. Maybe you're having, I'll tell you, it was the last couple of weeks were dark, dark morning, dark afternoon and dark night. It was about 24 hours of darkness. And that can be hard. Especially if you're alone, the holidays, you know, everyone's like, oh, the holidays is the greatest time of the year. They can be great or they can be terrible. If you're alone, the holidays are tough. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So we're always trying to watch out. 211, if you need three squares, which is the old food stamps program, you need to talk someone, hey, let's say you have a little bit of a medical condition, you can go over to community health, which is an unbelievable resource, which I need more people taking advantage of. So you're, you're your counselor, smart person, they must have said, hey, this kid, he's going to do better with a smaller school, you know, and maybe get out of the city. So you came. I'll tell you, that's one of the nicest parts of Burlington over there by, by the college. Yeah, it was amazing. Yeah. I mean, we came in a dead of winter and again, driving through and up through New England and up past New York. Oh, yeah. I mean, I swear that the driver took like the longest route ever to get here. Takes a long time. We stopped at every McDonald's on the way. Once we got here, I was not dressed appropriately. Long Johns, right? I was wearing jeans and not even a hat or anything. Running shoes. Yeah, you know, like when Philly in winter, like the winter in Philly isn't nothing compared to here. No. So, um, yeah, we got here. We took it towards the summer, though. Good Lord. Yeah, it's a, yeah. So you took it. Okay. Now, just move things forward. Yeah. That campus is one of the prettiest campuses in New England. It's gorgeous. Dr. Finney was able to implement the beautiful hill section of the school of the town. It doesn't, you know, you kind of, you don't see where academia and houses meet. It really fits well. And that lake view is pretty nice, isn't it? Yep. So you came up there, that wonderful cafeteria, the great programs. And, you know, you know what's funny about Champlain is, years and years ago, they started that major where they're doing gaming. And I remember, you know, I'm 60 years old. So I remember thinking gaming major. Is that like Frisbee major or tie-dying or something? And I realized that is like really helping the college. You know, I didn't grow up playing games, but thank you, Kevin. My executive producer tuning up everything for me. We've done this show for about five years. Nice. Yeah. You're going to come on after you elected, right? Yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah. So you started Champlain. You move up there. Now, do you start in the summer? Are you starting to fall? What do you do? Started in fall. Jumped right into it. You roommate ice? We're roommates. Great. We're still friends that we ended up rooming for. I love it. I love it. Awesome. Hi, Tom. Hey, Tom. Tom, are you registered to vote? Tom lives in a DC now. Okay. Yeah. Okay, I'm going to ask Tom because you're going to send this to everyone. You're going to get this from Kevin. Tom, I'm hoping you're going to come up for a weekend and go knock doors with Malik and I. Okay. All hands on deck. All hands. Yeah. Okay. So you're at Champlain College. You're like, it's a hard school, too. Did you feel like you were set up academically for it? Like the math that, you know, I was. No. Oh, no. Right. Oh, no. You really had to grind it. Yeah. The the level at which I was at compared to a lot of my like fellow peers was completely different. Some of those kids are crazy whip smart. They are. And it wasn't that it's not that I wasn't smart. It's just that the course work. You didn't have the proper. Now, you know, that's that's something we should talk about in in schools in in in urban areas is for example, UVM sophomore class is 67% female. It's terrible. My friend, the whole this whole generation within COVID, these young males or let's okay, let's be let's be correct. People who maybe don't identify with with labels are sitting college out. Mm hmm. And I always think you're in Burlington. I always tell people you can start with a cheap class at CCV. And you don't have to look if you love math, don't take Latin five. Okay. If you love engineering, don't take history 10. Take what you like. Take a class you like. Now what now what was your major? What what are you liberal arts guy? I'm guessing secondary education and sure. Yeah. So yeah, my time up here I was a preschool teacher for about six years, and then I ended up running after school programs for the school district. Wow. Yeah. Six years. Yeah, about six years. So you're at Champlain. Now what's your did what year what year did you what year did you graduate? So I intended it until 2017. Okay. Yeah. So you are how will do 2728. Excellent. To be 20s in Burlington is really great, isn't it? Oh yeah. So let's thank Champlain for you know, we've been joking around a little bit, but that's a damn good school. They really watch out for the kids there. The the advisors are, you know, if you're screwing up, they're going to find out they're going to talk to you if you're if you're unhappy. They keep working on new new programs. I think that's I think that school is is an amazing school. Yeah. And so so you graduated. Now what do you okay, tell everybody Malik what you have to do in Vermont if you want to be a teacher what like okay, what do you do for like your certificate. So you so you have an undergrad in education. Is that correct? No. Okay. Yeah. But was your question how to become a teacher? So yeah, how do you go from what was your major that you graduated with? I was a secondary education major. Okay. Yeah. So you okay. So you know, so had you done some classroom teaching beforehand in your senior year or anything there? No, so the way that it works is Champlain. So I work at UVM now too. So I work in the Department of Ed and we help with students going through matriculation to actually become teachers now. Oh, wow. So yeah, over at the College of Education and Social Services. Okay. So I work with the director of Educational Licensure and Director of Community Collaboration. So there's a lot that goes into becoming a student teacher into even becoming a teacher in Vermont. You have to be sure. Do they make it hard or easy? It's as hard as you want to make it to that point, you know, but like it has its challenges as does any major. Okay. There's a lot of benchmark students have to reach. And there's a lot of compassion has to go along the way to for these students as well. Because again, it is really hard because you are like 20, 22, and you're in the classroom. To be honest, you're a kid. Yeah. Yeah. Now, I knew a lady. She's still alive. She's 98 years old. Mimi. She graduated. There's a Johnson State College, which just does a lot of education. She graduated in 1945. And she taught just just by herself at age 22, a one room schoolhouse. There's still a couple one room schoolhouses left in New Hampshire and Vermont. Wow. Yeah. So I always think about, you know, okay, it's pretty mucky crummy day out today. But we're in Burlington. We could walk downtown in 10 minutes, right? Yeah. What about if you're out in Newport? What if you're out in Randolph? Like you know what I'm seeing? And I feel that Governor Scott is missing is that the rural poverty is you don't see it. But I work with a lot of people at the fair in the summer. And I talked to a lot of rural people and they're really having some tough times that we're going to have to get back to the drug thing because it seems to be pervasive through urban country. All sorts of different old young. Yeah. And it's it's really threatening in our country. Yeah. And so what? Okay, Malik, we have we have 11 minutes left. So we're going to stick with brass tax ward three issues all the way through. Yes. Okay. We know we cannot arrest our way out of this, man. Not at all. If we arrest everyone's getting high. There'll be more people inside than out almost. Yeah. We know, you know, I saw this this really banged up guy this summer basically injecting in front of these school kids walking by and I kind of walked by and they didn't see. But so what? What do you do? What? What do you do? As I said, I've been arrested for smoking pot. But now like no one is being arrested. And where do we go with criminality? Where do we go with health? I think you have to be got a favor health over criminality. You got a favorite humanity overall of that first though, because you still have to recognize that these people are human and that. Thank you for saying that. You know, like they have fallen on hard times and like there's just predators who prey on them. And it sucks to me to like see this happen like within like a community that I chose to move to and like it wasn't as prevalent as it was now. And then for people to just lose the compassion throughout all of it and like again like online on the forums and people who are talking about it are just rude and it does nothing to help. There's a there's a little bit. I'd like to see a little more helping and a little less complaining. Yes, exactly. I will tell you if let's say kids maybe eight, 10 years old now, they're 18 and we lose that generation to this stuff. Yeah, we're done. Yeah, we're done. Let's talk about I'd like to see some treatment more treatment centers on North Street. I think you've got to be where the I think you have to be where the people are. I'm also waiting for the first, you know, Swahili speaking policemen Bosnian speaking policemen. Yes. You know, maybe someone speaks Spanish. My friend, I believe something like 64 languages are spoken at BHS. Is that correct? Yep. What do you think we got to get BHS up back and going, right? Oh, yeah. And soon the kids are doing such a good job down there. They are. They like being downtown. It's fun being down to resilient too. And I think they really like again, just having that access once the school bell rings and just go out and like it's so nice to just see them like sitting in coffee shops and just like doing their homework either before or after like classes. And it's also really nice to just see them like out and about and having fun. So absolutely right. Now, you next week will start pretty much door knocking six nights a week, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm going to walk with you around with you. Adam's going to walk around with you. If someone is not registered to vote. Okay, let me Okay, we have eight minutes. This is very important though. Okay, I live on Green Street. My ballot is going to be sent to me on Green Street. But like let's say a lot of students they move June to June. Yep. So that ballot is not going to follow them. They're not going to get the ballot. The ballot's going to be sent back to the city. City's going to say, Hey, they're not living there anymore. And put a challenge on them. So if if you have moved, hey, oh, we got some voter information, voter registration volunteer, Kevin, thank you so much. These guys are so nice. Aren't they? No, that's great. Yeah. You can go to City Hall and register to vote. You can call me. We'll put up my number. You can call Malik. Now, do you not register voters or I'm going to teach you? I'll teach you. Let's go through it. Yeah. Okay, here's the most important thing. In a lot of conservative states, if you don't have Vermont identification, you know, like in Texas, if you don't have a Texas ID, they won't let you vote. Anytime they minimize letting people vote, it's racism, classism, sexism. They're just a freedom because you are not like them. So in Vermont, we can register with the last four digits of the social. Okay. We don't want your full social. Okay. If you have a driver's license or a non driver's ID, we need that number. But if you don't. So if you are going to cut this is very important, anyone going to Champlain, UVM, CCV, St. Mike's, you can vote in town meeting day. Okay. Now, for, for example, the kids at St. Mike's, you go all the way down to Colchester to vote. Champlain College, you would vote at Edmunds School. And then the UVM, there's several awards where the kids will vote. Yep. Let's talk about retaining our young people. More people are dying than are being born in Vermont. And we're losing our young people. For example, like Philly lost you. Okay. I'm not saying you won't go back to live, but the brain drain. What do we, what are we doing? You know, we know the winner's heart up here. It's not easy. Yeah. There's sometimes there's not a lot of money. What are we, what are we doing to keep? Now, I will tell you, I hope as a member of city council, you will be down in Montpelier lobbying our state reps to get some more funding for University of Vermont. Yeah. It's very important. They are sometimes a good neighbor. They don't pay. They pay absolutely nothing in tax less than zero. They also are not housing enough students. Now that is affecting Ward three. Your rents are now one of the reasons that Joe said he couldn't run. He said, I'm not sure I might might have trouble finding a pad. Yeah. Now how's your rent? Is it expensive? Yeah. Right. Yeah. I mean, it's a great place and I'm happy to be like where I am. It's just really small. Okay. Full disclosure. I have a wonderful, wonderful landlord. Yeah. Okay. And this, this knee jerk just all the landlords are all terrible. That's not the case. Being a landlord is not easy in Vermont. I think you know that. But your rents expensive. You paying about 1000 bucks, something like that. Closer to 2k. Wow. Studio apartment. I mean, you guys can come in and just by yourself. No, but you guys can come in and have a tour if you want of my apartment and see like the condition that it's in. It's really good. But however, it's really tiny studio. It's a studio and it's 1600 plus utilities. You can can partition it off a little bit for say you have a little space. It is partitioned pretty well though. But it's just like again, there's no living area. It's you know, like you work like eight hours a day, five days a week, sometimes even more because I had a part-time job on Church Street. And it's still just like I do all of this for what? And I think you save it. Yeah, exactly. And that sentiment is probably felt by a lot of EVM students and people who are like discouraged to stay here housing. You really need to make about 25 bucks an hour, don't you? Or more. Yeah, or more. Let's talk about you, VM. You know, I dinged them a little bit there on the housing and stuff. But I don't know what we do without them. They're amazing. They're amazing. How are the people you work with? Oh, it's amazing. Yeah, we care, man. Yeah, we need you. You, VM, I love you. But I need you to pay some tax and I need you to build some more dorms. The thing is about, okay, we got the lake on one side, we have you be on the other side, we have the interviewee on the other, we're going to have to go up, right? If we're going to build? We're going to have to maybe look to other townships as well too, and like seeing what they're doing. I think housing is probably an issue across a lot of townships too. I see it's an issue everywhere. It is. And like I noticed that like, you know, St. Albans is like developing their downtown district and developing more housing there. I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I am going to respectfully thank everyone. And you're going to take it the last three minutes. Give them your name, tell them, spell your name, tell them how, tell them how to reach you and take it out. You have till six o'clock and you did a great show. I'm really proud of you. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I mean, I'm not really sure. It feels like I'm talking to my self. Yeah, Malik minds. I'm running for war three city council. You guys can vote for me on town meeting day. I really love Burlington. It's become my home. And I hope to stay here for a long time and represent you guys for a long time after town meeting day. Please reach out to me. If you guys have any questions at all about where I stand on housing, where I stand out on the drug crisis, where I stand out on the environment. I'm truly here to listen and to hopefully bring change to Burlington. So yeah, you can reach me at vote at Malik minds.com. I believe that takes you right to my email. And I can respond to you. You can also just catch me walking around town as well to please stop me on the street and come talk to me. You know what? I had to come back. I'm sorry. But town meeting. The election is Tuesday, March 5th. Okay, the polling place for Malik will be Lawrence Barn School 120 North Street. That's the sustainability Academy. If you'd like to vote early, you can vote at City Hall. You will all be sent a ballot. If you are not registered, you can register and vote same day. And okay, we have to okay, we're back up. So two more minutes. Just stress that again, how to reach you and you're going to be walking around you. Do you have a campaign man? You want to talk a little about your campaign real quick? Yeah, two minutes. Yeah, the campaign is going nice and strong. I got a lot of supporters right now and I feel really happy as like a first time candidate who's running. Once again, I didn't see myself running until most recently and working in the school districts. So I do hope to do this for all of the residents of Ward three families, seniors, college students and everyone of every, you know, every background. Thank you for your time. And I hope to hear from you guys pretty soon.