it very interesting, because i used to advise a lot of candidates back in the day. and i always found that it was easier if you go to campaign then to govern. and while it's being counted, i think it is safe to say that you are winning in november, nearly a foregone conclusion. and at that point, you will no longer be an outsider. you will be a politician. you will be a person on the inside. and as you are talking about these issues, you've listed affordable housing in one of the interviews on the campaign trail, education funding, policing, as some of the biggest issues affecting district nine that you want to tackle. and it seems to me that you are laying the groundwork that that is something that you won't get done in one year or two years, is it that you are building a coalition here? are you trying to bring people along to the political process, to understand how change actually takes place? >> absolutely. on my platform,