Alright zanita, we are recording again.
5 minutes on the clogs,
sanita and Kardashian,
chief of staff in Southwestern College,
also running for the seat of
Chula Vista mayor in 2022.
Zanita, thank you so much.
We'll get right into it.
Chula Vista Fantastic City,
countless positive, of course,
like every place one or two things
that we want to fix up and really
put some effort into in your eyes,
what is that one big issue in the city
and how would you address it as player?
Yeah, well, thank you for having me
giving me the opportunity to speak
the big issue in Chula Vista that I
think has been talked about to death.
By our residents and I moved here
in 2004 is really the balance
of how we've grown as a city.
We have provided the housing for our region.
We provide the workforce for our region,
but we do not have high paying jobs
or work centers in Chula Vista.
And so why this is the most
fundamental problem is because it
impacts so much across the board.
We have a mass exodus of
residents who leave the city.
They take their tax dollars with them.
They eat where they work.
They shop where they work when
they come back, they're exhausted.
They can't even enjoy the city they live in.
And what that does is it takes money away
that we would have to use pay for our fire,
our police, our parks,
our libraries,
all the important community services.
It impacts our quality of life
when we're spending that much
time in traffic and we can't go to
our kids after school programs.
It's not good for our environment as
the traffic is idling and it's not
good for our roads and our freeways.
And our infrastructure having that
many cars on them so my priority as
mayor will be to be very intentional
partnership not just with our
local business groups,
but we really need to start building
and strengthening our relationships
with our regional economic and business
organizations to begin being proactive.
And how do we outreach and how do
we market our city as a city in a
destination of choice for businesses?
We are in an incredible by national region.
There's no reason why we.
I shouldn't be leveraging that and we
shouldn't have a more robust economic
development strategy because it impacts
all of those things I just said,
not just dollars and cents.
Zanita 2 minutes 43 seconds
on the clock question.
#2, you've obviously spent time
putting together a campaign.
People can Google that campaign.
Google your name and find
out most things about you.
But what is the one thing that
you want the people of two of us
to know before they vote about
you that they won't find on a
Google search or your campaign
page? Everybody who knows me and who
has worked with me in the community
knows that I'm an open book,
so you can probably find everything on
the campaign because this community has
really been like a family to my family.
I've worked in it for the last 20 years.
I've developed friendships and relationships
and all of that is documented on my campaign.
I guess I would say more of a fun personal
thing is we are an animal lover family,
so you will always find this
with two dogs and two cats.
We believe in big dogs,
so we have 170 pound Great Pyrenees,
140 pound Newfoundland and two cats and
we're a rescue family so our two cats we
received from Chula Vista Animal Shelter.
There's a Great Pyrenees rescue out in
Ramona that we've gotten our Great Pyrenees
at our new fee of mom unfortunately
passed away a month after giving birth,
and so our vet.
It's like a small town vet, right?
Chula Vista's second largest city,
but we very much feel like a
small town called us up and said,
hey, we know that.
You can handle big dogs,
so a lot of people will recognize us.
They'll recognize our dogs first
because it's like having a big
polar bear and a big black bear,
but we have a heart for animals.
We have a heart for a rescue.
We have a heart for animal
rights and animal justice,
and it belong with anything.
I truly believe animals
provide healing in spaces,
humor and spaces and just provide such a
well rounded part of our community we have.
Big dog parks.
Wonderful trails,
so I personally I think most
people who know me know that.
But voters who don't know me may not
know how much of my heart actually
belongs to our furry community members.
All right, zanita.
We've got 40 seconds still on the clock.
The time is yours.
Anything else you'd like to
say to the voters before they
go ahead and vote? Yeah,
absolutely, so my I've never run for office.
I think I'm the only candidate
who hasn't been on the ballot,
so my name is not familiar on the ballot,
but I've been in this community for 20 years.
I really want to break the stereotype
of what politicians look like and
really help our residents like me
who have invested in this community
who care about this community to
really be be able to see themselves.
In different leadership roles,
things that we wouldn't have saw
ourselves in the past because
that's not who we wanted to be.
But you know what we are.
We're all leaders.
We all give back to our community.
We all are passionate about it and
we can do that in any space that
we're willing to do the work to do.
Lock the phone is going.
I was Anita Incarnatione running for
the Chula Vista seat for mayor in 2020.
Who's Anita? Thank you so much.
Thank you. Thank you for having me.