DeSantis' Ballot Controversy, Florida's Voting Crisis and Ashley Brundage's Call for Change

Discover how systemic obstacles shape Florida's voting landscape with our special guest, Ashley Brundage, a passionate advocate running for office. 

Uncover the real story behind Governor Ron DeSantis' controversial cancellation of mail-in ballots and how it threatens voter accessibility. With only a 1% gap in the polls, Ashley offers an urgent call to action, emphasizing the power of community support and grassroots movements. 

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

You could help us to request mail-in ballots, because Ron DeSantis canceled every single mail-in ballot on purpose so that way people wouldn't have an easy path to getting to vote and adding more obstacles to voting. You know, this is part of why he's done this kind of stuff. And we're going to be passionate about this race. It's so important that we get people involved.

Speaker 2: 0:21

And I'm pretty sure that we're going to have down in the comment section a link to your website so that they will be.

Speaker 2: 0:28

We'll make it easy for people to help you out.

Speaker 2: 0:30

I have donated to Ashley and I'm going to donate some of my time to make some calls for her, and so it's very important that when we have candidates who are viable, who stand a chance of winning, that we support them all that we can, because it's so rare that we get people into positions where they can make a difference, and getting Ashley into Tallahassee and getting her to face up to all of those people who want to do harm to our community is going to be something that she is going to be able to help change minds in Tallahassee. Now, it may not happen overnight, and it probably won't happen overnight, and we may end up with situations like we ended up with Zoe Zephyr in Montana, where they purposefully changed the rules to marginalize us and prohibit us. But we make change, we make differences, and so, yes, we are going to have your link there, because we definitely want to get you some support, because this is a difficult, difficult race, and let me just also quantify this for people really easily too.

Speaker 1: 1:43

If you're wondering oh, she's in Florida, she probably has no chance of winning. Fyi, the district I'm running in is a plus four Biden plus four district, meaning Joe Biden won this district in 2020 by four points, so a Democrat could win this seat and we have an opportunity to win because the woman I'm running against she's all over the place, as I told you through this interview. It's important to know that and I'm pulling only 1% behind. So the shocking thing is is I've gotten a lot of press, I've gotten a lot of engagement from people around the United States and around the world, but we have not had a lot of people go to our website and donate, which is really frustrating. And then I think about this. It's like there is just in Florida alone, there's an estimated 120,000 transgender people. If people say it's half of 1%, so 22,120,000 people. If just all of those people people donated two dollars, we would have all the money we would need to run our campaign. We have a shortfall of two hundred and forty thousand dollars right now, and so if everyone around america donated one dollar or five dollars or whatever it is that they have the resources for, if all of our trans people went around the world and supported us and donated towards our campaign, we would have be fully funded and I would be able to have the resources to say, oh you know what? Yeah, I'm going to improve a male piece for male piece program. We're going to send Ron DeSantis' picture on mail to houses and we're going to tell people that. Hey, by the way, I gave Ashley Brundage the award for women in business because I think that she is a shining, positive example and role model for our community. We could literally print that on mailers.

Speaker 1: 3:37

Because you decided to get involved and challenge everybody else to get involved in your community. That could literally happen today if you got involved and got other people to get involved. Now don't think that that just means that you can go on social media, on Facebook, and post the link and with my link to donate and say donate to Ashley because I did. That's not going to be seen. Fyi, facebook's algorithm is going to shut that down faster than you can say shut down, because they know that political campaigns need to be paying money for them to get seen. So that's not going to work.

Speaker 1: 4:11

But you could go to my site. You can make a donation, screenshot your donation and then share the screenshot image of your donation and say I did something so powerful today. Look at what I did. I want you to go and get involved in my community too, and you could do that. And then, in the comments, once people start saying what'd you do, what'd you do, what'd you do Right, and then they start seeing your image. Facebook is not going to hide that because it's going to go past the algorithm. You could do that easily and get involved.

Speaker 2: 4:43

We need you and then you can put that in the link to your site in the comments.

Speaker 1: 4:47

And so you can put the link to your site in the comments In the chat.

Speaker 2: 4:49

Yes, and so you can make a difference. So we have a call to action for folks here. Let's help get Ashley to Tallahassee, because I've known this woman for quite a while. I have been thoroughly impressed with her. She is one of my friends. I have donated to her and it was more than a dollar, so I expect 100 of my friends to match have donated to her and it was more than a dollar, so I expect a hundred of my friends to match me and help me out. And so let's get out there. Let's do this, and thank you so much, ashley, for taking time out of your busy campaign schedule to sit down and talk with a little blogger who doesn't have very many folks on, but I definitely. You are such an empowering individual, your vision is fantastic and we need to get you into office.

Speaker 1: 5:39

Yeah, yeah, we can do it. We can do it With any amount of people. We can do it, Thank you.