Jill: /
and you can help us with our ballot access plights, with phone banking, all the
usual stuff of campaigns. This is your campaign, join us.
Rob: That's
all the time we have. That's all the time we have for the radio show, but hold
on Jill. The podcast we can go a little bit longer and then we're going to
transcribe this.
If you're listening and you want to catch the rest of the interview, go to
Rob Kall, K-a-l-l at iTunes or OpEdNews.com/podcasts and you can pick up the
rest of this interview. Or go to OpEdNews and in a couple of days we'll have
the transcript of this as well.
So, I have a couple of more questions for you and then we'll wrap it up.
Who are you as a candidate? People want to know who you are. / Tell us about
you.
Jill: /
Great. Great, no and I appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for asking. I am a medical
doctor and a mother who's fighting for my kids, understanding that I can't save
my kids unless we save all kids. I mean that's fundamentally what motivates me
and why I don't find any of this stuff a deterrent to just getting out of bed
every morning and pushing as hard as I can.
From my perspective as a medical doctor, as an environmental activist and
a mother, I've seen the writing on the wall here for some time. I'd say the
last 15 years or so when I saw this epidemic of chronic disease descending on
young people. That is these diabetes, obesity, asthma, cancer, learning
disabilities, you name it. These are diseases that we didn't used to have in
kids or least they were in very small numbers. Now, they're epidemics. They're
just taken as a way of life but you know what? Our genes didn't change, things
changed in our communities.
I began to get active at the community level to try to change some of
those things, like our food and our pollution and our activity levels,
transportation, things like that. It took me about ten years of being an
activist to see that the system is designed to keep you spinning your wheels.
It doesn't matter. Whatever good solutions you have that save lives, save money
and create jobs, that's not what drives it. What drives it is money.
So, we actually passed public financing here in Massachusetts. That was
the last straw for me, because we got the big money out but then the
legislature, which was about 85% democrats, they turned and repealed the law,
because who wants to run in contested elections. They'd rather just roll right
back into office the way they always do. So, that to me said, "If we want to
fix all these things that ail us, we've got to first fix the political system."
I'd say to people, "I'm now practicing political medicine because it's the
mother of all illnesses and if we want to fix the pathology in our economy with
our jobs, our schools, our health care system, we have to first fix the broken
political system." The clock is ticking. We don't have forever to do this,
because we're not just failing to move forward, we are accelerating into
decline for our economy, for our environment, our health and education systems.
So, now is the time.
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