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Council member Ayala shares personal insights on food insecurity
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Council Member Diana Ayala shares personal experiences and insights on food insecurity, emphasizing the urgency of addressing benefit issues. She highlights the emotional impact of not being able to help constituents who are facing food insecurity.
- Ayala recounts her own experiences with food insecurity
- She expresses frustration with the inability to help constituents whose benefits were stolen
- Ayala stresses the need for immediate action and common-sense solutions
Diana Ayala
1:30:34
Yeah.
1:30:35
No, you know, we're problem solvers and we are very passionate about that but you know we've also been on the receiving end of you know food insecurity and having lived that and knowing what it's like you know to not have food that day.
1:30:52
And when I go home at night and I have a constituent that is telling me that their benefits were stolen and now I have to tell them there's nothing I can do, like I can't sleep that night because I know I'm going home and I'm eating and I I can't like I I'm thinking, you know, like it's horrible.
1:31:09
Right?
1:31:10
And I and I and you know I I get it.
1:31:12
There are a lot of things that prevent us from being able to act a little bit more expeditiously but it just seems like there's some things that common sense it will tell you that, you know, we need to do something today.
1:31:22
Like we can't wait, you know, for the for anybody to come save us.
1:31:26
Like, we have to figure out what the solution is.
1:31:28
And wherever we can be helpful on on that end, you know, you can see we're pretty much we're we're the biggest pain in the butt, so we can we'll stick council member Kaban on them.
1:31:42
She likes it, she likes it.
1:31:45
Alright.