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Marie Gluesenkamp Perez

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254 total appearances

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The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

It's been frustrating for me at times, you know, in this new world I'm in is like, it's not hitting, they're insulated. They're not hearing these horrifying stories about industrial accidents and It's not their play date that's getting in a car wreck because daddy's on fentanyl.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

It's been frustrating for me at times, you know, in this new world I'm in is like, it's not hitting, they're insulated. They're not hearing these horrifying stories about industrial accidents and It's not their play date that's getting in a car wreck because daddy's on fentanyl.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

It's not their cousins who are robbing grandma because they've got a fentanyl, you know, and treating that with an urgency of like, how do we stop the flow of fentanyl? How do we build resilience against foreign actors that would like to see, you know, the entire middle class being addicted and unproductive?

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

It's not their cousins who are robbing grandma because they've got a fentanyl, you know, and treating that with an urgency of like, how do we stop the flow of fentanyl? How do we build resilience against foreign actors that would like to see, you know, the entire middle class being addicted and unproductive?

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

A few things. I mean, cartels don't operate under political boundaries. And so I think multi-jurisdictional interdiction, I think that works. Ensuring law enforcement has the tools to be able to, you know, communicate and cooperate. Like I have issues where like some of my departments, they transition to digital radios and some of them are still on radio towers and they can't talk to each other.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

A few things. I mean, cartels don't operate under political boundaries. And so I think multi-jurisdictional interdiction, I think that works. Ensuring law enforcement has the tools to be able to, you know, communicate and cooperate. Like I have issues where like some of my departments, they transition to digital radios and some of them are still on radio towers and they can't talk to each other.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

They have to relay through a 911 responder, you know, like there are issues like that. There's, And the geopolitical question of these Chinese produced precursor chemicals. I was talking to my dad and one of his buddies from high school was running a factory in Mexico and figured out they were bringing in fentanyl precursors on the weekends.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

They have to relay through a 911 responder, you know, like there are issues like that. There's, And the geopolitical question of these Chinese produced precursor chemicals. I was talking to my dad and one of his buddies from high school was running a factory in Mexico and figured out they were bringing in fentanyl precursors on the weekends.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

He went to the cops in Mexico and they were like, yeah, we fucking know. You can shut up or you can move to Canada. And so he moved to Canada, you know. It's all of the supply chain going into it. And there are also some, I think the GLP-3s, is that right?

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

He went to the cops in Mexico and they were like, yeah, we fucking know. You can shut up or you can move to Canada. And so he moved to Canada, you know. It's all of the supply chain going into it. And there are also some, I think the GLP-3s, is that right?

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

They have promising studies on reducing fentanyl addiction and helping people break that chain. But it's long work, you know. Yeah. And there's other drugs that are promising where it's like rather than having to go in and getting a dose, like if you're living where I live, like you can't have a job and be in recovery.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

They have promising studies on reducing fentanyl addiction and helping people break that chain. But it's long work, you know. Yeah. And there's other drugs that are promising where it's like rather than having to go in and getting a dose, like if you're living where I live, like you can't have a job and be in recovery.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

You have to go drive into Vancouver, you know, an hour and a half, whatever, every day to get a treatment, to get the drugs to help you get off. There's another drug that's emergent that's like a 30-day release, things like that. There's the long work of addressing the appetite and why people are vulnerable to these drugs.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

You have to go drive into Vancouver, you know, an hour and a half, whatever, every day to get a treatment, to get the drugs to help you get off. There's another drug that's emergent that's like a 30-day release, things like that. There's the long work of addressing the appetite and why people are vulnerable to these drugs.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

It's like interdiction of fentanyl and treatment and better options for people. If you know that you can run your own business, you can buy a log truck, you can do whatever you want with your life, you really do have latitude to make things in life, you're a lot less vulnerable to a cheap high.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

It's like interdiction of fentanyl and treatment and better options for people. If you know that you can run your own business, you can buy a log truck, you can do whatever you want with your life, you really do have latitude to make things in life, you're a lot less vulnerable to a cheap high.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

So there's a book my grandpa gave me. The Wheelwright Shop is written in the 1920s by George Stroot, whose family had been building wooden wheels in England for 200 years. And like the specifics of it are just beautiful. Like he's like, you know, you had to know that that grove, the elm grows too rich. It's not good for specific uses.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

So there's a book my grandpa gave me. The Wheelwright Shop is written in the 1920s by George Stroot, whose family had been building wooden wheels in England for 200 years. And like the specifics of it are just beautiful. Like he's like, you know, you had to know that that grove, the elm grows too rich. It's not good for specific uses.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

To build a wheel that will last and that your name is attached to and that's useful to your community. You have to know how the sap is running that year. You have to know when to quarter and when to split. It's a really beautiful book. There's another one, Experiences in Visual Thinking. It's like kind of a hippie, like, you know, 70s. But it is really brilliant at helping people.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

To build a wheel that will last and that your name is attached to and that's useful to your community. You have to know how the sap is running that year. You have to know when to quarter and when to split. It's a really beautiful book. There's another one, Experiences in Visual Thinking. It's like kind of a hippie, like, you know, 70s. But it is really brilliant at helping people.