Friday, September 25, 2026 - Part 1

0:00And good Friday morning and welcome to another edition end of the week edition of analyze this here on your N.P. or station in the US Virgin Islands WTJXFM 93.1 or yours truly in Apple James you got two candidates joining us in the candidate speaker in the 8 o'clock hour can be joined by Ms. Lisa Charles she is number 24 Annabella and also for Senate and then in the 9 o'clock hour member of the Board of Education and incumbent member we're not an interest can be joining us in our number two we gonna call the water service to find out what we're looking at for a weekend then

1:05one of my listeners sent me a song from Elo from back in the day and I told him on Wednesday since then I went I told him we gonna play this morning so after we don't with the water service we gonna knock that one out there all right and then we'll entertain all the candidates okay so we got the weather service on the line good morning what am I speaking with good morning this is J.V.Yana J.V.Yana how are you? I'm doing good how are you? I'm doing well I'm doing well I'm kind of warm are we looking at a heat of ice before today? Yes yes there is one it's from 10 a.m. to around 3 p.m. so we have the south east wind flow combined with some moisture across the area so that in combination with the temperatures showed

2:08result in some elevated heat indexes so yes there's there's a heated advisory for today what are we looking at for our beach goers and our boaters? in terms of that we have seas around the islands around like two to three feet not too bad in general but we do have moderate risk of rip currents for some exposed areas in in the islands and also during around like Sunday into early next week there's like a small swell that is expected to to arrive across the Atlantic waters so the risk is expected to increase to high but that will be like around Sunday into Monday the rest of the time there is like low to moderate

3:12rip current risk. What about precipitation over the weekend any good any showers? Well at least today there is for the island looking not so bad pretty much the heat will be the main hazard just passing showers but looking here at the models probably I think you will have like showers probably tomorrow night into Sunday morning there's some chances of showers maybe a little bit more persistent so Saturday night into Sunday morning across the US Persian islands there will be like a trough the trough that we're trying now but that trough will linger over the next few days and it seems that it could bring some rain in that period like Saturday night into into Sunday

4:13across the US Persian islands. Okay so he advised you for today and what about over the weekend? Also yeah it looks that that will continue it's likely that those warm to hot conditions will continue not only during the weekend but also like early next week so yeah stay hydrated and wear white light clothes because yeah the heat will be like one of the main hazards and and yeah some some rain particularly Saturday night into Sunday for the US Persian islands it doesn't look like it will be super significant but maybe you can see an increasing frequency of passing showers that night. Jiriana thank you very much. Yes of course have a good day. Have a good weekend.

5:15That's Angeliana Zias and what a service down there in San Juan yeah it's I know that the Sahara does impact on us because my windshield let me know that right. Oh we got a heavy intensity of Sahara does you could see it in windshield I've been seeing it but the heat that September to buy heat. That was the alarm told us about some years ago we feeling it now this morning were rough. I'm saying so keep it on that. Let me get Amelena King some back in the day. Veru. Random for a mojacena went to me so I got a little to actually a little about it. Alolosa yeah. I'm probably a rain song. I want you to listen to the Milo Brasio to see where you select of my lab music. One thing for Milo though they had a heavy bass.

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8:25I see where they are, they are featured in, different instruments. I'm a fan of Eddie Melendez in Puerto Rico just texted me as a reminds him of people plenty. I was released in 1964, right? The name of the album is today. Actually we've been released in 1974, right? And the name of the album is today.

9:25I will find the band members of this album, these are the things in 1974. I'm going to try and arrange the band members. Okay, here we go. Okay, here we go. That's the song. Listen to me. That's the song. I'll go play. I got my eyes. I got my eyes, incomparable. I got my eyes from Janspali, Ota Sigeant.

10:25Eddie Melendez is not easy to play the sax that fast. Done? That's the song. Okay, good. So I got the band members here. They actually got what they're playing. Alfred Laka, Jr. Dosty Crook, Kaling, Wesselhoff, Kaling, Wesselhoff. You are trumpet man. Eddie LeBran, as a kung-gang man. I got my eyes for show home at Lynch. Tramil Gerard, that's a little brother. Eddie Francis, same day. He said, I'm here. Don't go on. I ready to start the movements, Ota Sigeant. Okay, welcome back to this. I got that man. I got that song. I was in Australia, of course. That's the big one. I have no lyrics in this song. Anyway, we're going to get right to it. We got number 24. I'm the ballot Lisa Charles seeking a seat to be a member

11:28of the 37 legislature representing the district of St. Crook. Good morning, Mr. Charles. Welcome to Analyze this. Good morning. How you doing? Good. How you been? Great. Great. So first of all, congrats on the success in the primary. Thank you. This is the second. Go around it. And first of all, introduce yourself to the public. Who you are, what you're about, and what you hope to accomplish. Should you be given their consent? Great. Thank you. Good morning, everybody. My name is Lisa J. Charles. I am number 24, Senatorial candidate for the general election, for the district of St. Crook. I've been... I was born here on St. Crook. I guess it's like, where do I begin? But let's start with where I was born. I was born on St. Crook to two anti-gun parents that came here to look for a better life. And I was born, raised here. I was born, East on suburb, as a gallows being young.

12:28And then we moved to Glenn, and that's where I was raised until I left to go to college. But I went to school at the 7th Adventist School. I was pretty active in band music, pathfinders. My mom, music lessons. My mom and my dad made sure that we were well equipped with activities after school and even on the weekends. I went to college at Atlantic Union College in Massachusetts. And that's where I earned my bachelor's degree. I came back home, maybe both a year or two years after I received my bachelor's degree. And I came back home because this is where I want to be. I earned my bachelor's degree in health care management from Phoenix University. I did that online. I even went further and started doing my CPM.

13:31I earned my CPM through University of Virgin Islands. But in the middle of all of that, when I left from here, school first, I always seemed to forget about where I actually went first, which was Caribbean Union College in Trinidad. I went to Trinidad, and I went to UVI here. But you know, didn't earn the degrees, but I met people along the way. I got a little bored, joined those times, and then I decided to do something else. And I studied massage therapy. And now I'm a licensed massage therapist. And I did that right here on St. Croix. So in 2024, like you indicated that I ran before, I ran, I was always a Democrat. And I made the decision to run, and I ran, I did that decision very late. So I knew what it took, and it would not have been enough time for me

14:32to let the people know who I am. So I changed my party to independent, to give me, buy me, not give me, buy me more time. And right after, I believe I did very well, jumping in there at the last minute. In me, jumping in in the last minute, and I ran 12. And I didn't consider that a loss. I considered that an achievement for me, because it's easy to say, them, them, they ain't doing it, they ain't doing it, they ain't doing it right. So I jumped in, and I never regretted doing it. And so I changed back my party, and I went back to the Democrat, and I decided, after hearing the people again, I decided, you know what, you're not a quitter. You're not going to be finished with this. You're going to try it this way from your angle, from where you were.

15:35And that's why I decided to go back, jump back in. I don't want to be the one that's pointing the finger. I want to go into hot seat, because it is a hot seat. The actual campaign in 2026, how did that go? I mean, the results speak for themselves, but going out there and talking to the constituents, voter apathy, is that real? Yes, it is. Very much so. I encounter a lot of people, young and old, who said they don't, they ain't doing this no more. And, you know, in sit and don't or standing up or engaging with the people I've actually convinced about 20 people to go and register to vote or update their voters information. I feel good about that. And I tell them, it's not, you know, really me telling you to do this is not for you to go on vote for me. You vote for me because you think you believe that I'm going to be your voice, but nevertheless,

16:38don't silence your greatest power, your voice. It says people think that, you know, their vote is not going to count. Yes, it does. Yes, it does become involved. I'm becoming involved in the biggest thing that I have no clue, never. But I know I could do it. I know I can do it. What was the, what was it like between the last elections results and knowing that you are in the build on what took place in 2024? Yes. And getting into the arena in 2026, and from a non-Gobernatorial election in 2024 to a gubernatorial cycle now. So what I use, I use what happened in 2024 and I build on that, whereas like I indicated, I had no clue what I was doing. And I didn't get the help that I was reaching out for. And like I said, it was a last minute decision.

17:42So like Karabok to tell me, Lisa, you said one man ban, but I like learning is one of my biggest thing. And I wanted to find out where, where should I navigate, what I should do. And I saw where I air and getting out there on time. And I timely man, so the people could know who I am. People know me, but they don't know me by my name. And that was my problem. People did not know my name. They've encountered me, but they didn't know my name. And I realized ringing my name was a big thing. And that's that was, let me tell you something, never. That's one of the hardest thing for me to do is to, I feel like name dropping. Why do I have to drop my name? But yes, it's very, very important that you let people know who you are. We're talking with Lisa Child. She is a candidate for the 37 legislature representing District of St. Croix. We'll take a break.

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20:58We're back here on the Canada Speak here on LazySus. We got Miss Lisa J. Charles. She is number 24 on the ballot. She can see 30-37 LazySus. Good morning. Good morning. Miss J. Charles, I got a uniform question that I asked everyone who respected recovery. I can find a miracle grade between 1 and 10, 10 being excellent, 1 being poor, what would that number be? I'm glad it's on your merit. So I was here for Hugo. I was here. It was awful. And then I happened to be here again for Irma and Maria. And I'm going to grade the number is a low number. And I'm going between a two and a three.

22:07That's the uniform response. So don't believe you're there or there or low and without. Okay. Just literally everybody says three. Three is the one number. And I've heard up to higher seven. I've heard as low as one, but three seems to be the number that everybody feels comfortable using to describe. The recovery now. I know it's easy to sit on the side and think you know everything respect to what needs to be done infrastructure. But I believe that's because we're not seeing things with the naked eye. Correct. No, no, what is your take on white? You're you know, grading. Is at the level that it is. I mean, I'm sorry, but three is not good on a scale of one to 10. No, not at all. Being here and seeing what happened to our island and nine years later, things are not really untrulley.

23:09I don't really see a difference. I just see the broom sweep the streets and push everything on the side. That's what it looks like to me. We don't have a hospital and it shouldn't take that long. Things are not going to where it is with all the money that came here to the Virgin Islands. We we didn't do. I didn't see it. Like you know, we spend your money and you want to know what a money can because you did nothing with it. You just blew it. And I think a lot of the money was blown. I hate to have to say self-serving, but it's we should have been a lot further with the amount of money that we got millions of dollars more than that. So I don't understand. I don't understand because I could have seen where we could at least rebuild the hospital, but there's a lot of red tape. And people, there's too many red tapes to have to go through to have our money spent for the betterment of the Virgin Islands.

24:17What's your take on our energy crisis that for some reason we simply just can't get our hand on and see some type of relief because it's as it impacts everything in the territory in particular cost of living. Now energy crisis. We live in an island, water, wind and sun. And we still all school. I don't understand it. It's about management. I don't think the monies is being managed to get money. They get they get allocated funds, but I don't think they're being transparent with what's really happening and to tell you the truth. I don't see how it can be fixed. I really don't. I've seen solo farms going up and I'm trying to figure out, OK, so if these farms are going up, why don't they start where it is a section where we don't have to they can start building.

25:19Just like when you rent a building, they build it, they build in the to have it functionable for that purpose. Now, solar why we don't have solar going on here or the energy using water. And in a system where we have like no with the drought, why we have drought when is we so rounded with water. Those that water should be filtered and used to help nourish our land for the farmers. But I don't think people are thinking outside the box. They don't want to or maybe there's no need to because somehow it's benefiting them. I would hate to have to think that. But if we keep moving in the direction that we're moving, well, there's no reason why I can't say I don't think you walk in for us. I think you work is even self-serving. Or why don't you want to know that you are making a difference here in a virgin islands by doing the necessary changes. You don't expect it to happen all at once, but peace peace.

26:25Pilate, pilot that area to see how that would work versus trying to knock it down. But that's that's my point on that. No, there's the solar farms that we see in here in Ireland. I mean, we did have some solar farms that were damaged during the right. Correct. But I think we could see I think Ruzha Ram, Gawan, that's a monstrous farm that they put in up there. And I got all the areas. I see throughout even up east where the boys go. I see there right there by Diazio, right that smack there. I mean, they're putting them up. So I don't understand why they can't even try with the area, the areas where people even even the old seniors and senior homes. Try it. Try it. Let's see what it works and how it works at least with our seniors. Because I'm going to tell you, my priorities are straight. Correct. I've worked with the seniors. I know what it's like. I've worked with young people. I know what it's like. And being in a Medicaid field and being in the assistant director for a homemakers program, I see where we need a little bit more.

27:40So I'm working with our seniors and youth. And then if you work with the youths and the seniors eventually, we're all taking care of because each home has a senior or youths. And that's how I look at it. Everything that it surrounds it. Now, you mentioned health care. You mentioned the fact that we're nine years removed from Maria impacting us directly and Irma impacting St. Thomas and St. John directly and then each island being impacted by the other, not necessarily directly. The Wangyan flu hospital situation here on St. Croix and you're running for a district seat here on St. Croix. You're taken on why where we are with that and why you believe it's taken so long. My dad was a contractor. So I know, bidding all those things need to happen. What is taking place is that it's like either hard decisions are difficult for them to make, but a decision has to be made.

28:51I don't see why nine years removed where I still in the situation, to then have to build the module how many years ago, not too long ago, that should never have happened. We have property that is that that hospital could as that being going up while in the interim, they could have been doing sections where we can. A very good operating room equipments are issues and doctors are issues me in the position that I am in how frustrating it is for me to have to go to work and not have the resources and the tools. If a doctor doesn't have the tools for him to walk, is he completely being a doctor or just by a title. So I think if we take control of how long it takes for us to give the tools and the necessary equipment that we need, I don't want to have to leave St. Croix to have to go to a doctor.

30:00Or if I have an issue right now, my mom's not even here. It's not an ENT and an ENT is what I've had from the time I was a little girl. So if I need an ENT, I have to leave the island right now. Let me ask this question. Is there anything positive about St. Croix? Because the last thing I would want as a torture horse, former senator, entertaining candidate is here on the show and I brought this up another candidate. I was speaking with former senator Nelly Arrelli and tools that I think it was. I told her being candid about our existing situation is an obligation as a mandate. You don't want to be misleading or constituents. So at the same time, we need to instill hope into our people to give them the impression that there is light at the end of the tunnel.

31:05And that light is not always an oncoming train. So how do we do that? How do we keep public confidence at a level to let them know that if Lisa Charles is elected, she's not only going to be there to exercise oversight, but also bring legislation that will provide some reason. And that will provide some relief in certain areas and actually maybe create opportunities for those of us here in the territory. Now what I've seen is our people are very resilient. I've seen it on Hugo site and with Maria site. We went up and together and get stuff done. Those people I've seen they will go out and do what they have to do out of their own pockets to make things happen. No, it becomes strange, strenuous for them. We do have hope. It is possible with the idea and that's why I want I ran for a morning for Senate with the ideas of me working and knowing where to go and the resources and getting stuff done.

32:12Now we have to always think outside of the box because we're not going to always have everything right in front of us. Sometimes we if we have to bend the corner to go to get something and come back, then that's what we have to do. But are people are the people that are here? There I see hope. I do see hope. It takes time and nothing is going to be overnight. That's for sure. The billions are dollars that we are receiving in front of our government as a part of this protracted recovery. Are you up to believe that this is a do or don't window. If we don't get it done now, then there's a possibility that we're never going to get it done because this is an ordinary amount of money we're talking about here. Almost close to $25 billion territory wide neighboring islands and get this kind of money.

33:12I mean Puerto Rico got more Puerto Rico. You can't compare it to original Puerto Rico. No. But I mean, that's a lot of money. We have to fix our problem. If they happen now, you know. Now the question I have to ask with that with all the billions of dollars that came here. What is the problem? People don't know how to spend it. Where do they need to go? Now I remember when I did title five program and that we were getting money from feds to build how to deal with the students in the schools. A lot of people didn't know how to spend that kind of money. They didn't know it to go. They just hear money and then they start to frazzle. But if you think about where it needs to go and just go and get it done, the schools, we needed to make sure that we put the money where students who are unable to learn to have learning disabilities or anything of the sort instead of looking at the big picture.

34:13And we find that smaller need where it is and begin. We just need to find the beginning point because we have so many different areas that needs to be fixed. And I'm thinking they're trying to figure out where the money should go first. But I think we if we picked the top five areas that we are having problems and work there are infrastructure is is and I see that we keep putting a bandaid on it. Stop putting bandages fix it when the roads are your block half a road for almost two years years. And it's just a temporary road make it make sense for me. Now to purchase what you said, we found out years later that the feds actually told of an amab when we got the first allocation, the first billions and I was like up up to eight billion dollars in 2018 because the storm citizens up 10 by 2017 that I bet you guys don't spend this money.

35:20So I look like they knew that the amount of money could be and would be overwhelming correct and and we proven them to be correct in many areas. It's correct. I worked in a bank. I have never seen money like that in my life and I used to say with all this money where you could do it. But again, you got to go to outside the box and you got to think big. But are you are you also making an argument for something that former senators by Zalatli and my rejection talk about your planning planning. Listen, if we get monies, how much money we're going to need to build infrastructures for the roots, what do we need? But I think we got that we got that and did nothing with it to build a hospital. We got that and we did nothing with it. We didn't even find a place for it to happen.

36:20Now a lot of the problems I see I foresee from growing up until now. We don't take care of our buildings. We don't take care of our property. That's a maintenance issue. Yes, I mean, tenets issue. So you drive a car and drive a car and don't fix it. When you think it happened, it must break down. You have to continuously do maintenance maintenance. That's a lot of issues. We cycle in back to one of the concerns about when it said deferred maintenance. It becomes overwhelmed and then therefore you don't you don't phone it because you don't know where to where to begin. But the little problems that we were having and that's what your health as well. We put off things put off put off put off until it becomes a big issue. We know you can just fix one thing. You have many things to fix. We're talking with on Lisa J Charles. She's number 24 and the Synchray.

37:21I'm going to send it ballot. She. This is her second attempt at being a servitor representing the big island in the 37 legislature of diversion. When we come back from the next break, I'm candid chose. I want to talk a little bit about the environment. And then I also want to talk about something I'm asking a lot of the candidates with respect to education. I'll get now a libraries back into the full. I know we're in a technological window. No, everything is a cell phone. But that's just something as part of the development of young people. I want to get into that as well. We'll take a break and be back right after this. Okay.

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40:32That will change a bit even as the faces behind the desk change. Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. And I'm Omniveau. Weekdays at 7pm on WTJX TV, Channel 12. I went back here on Analai's this talking one of my friends here. We talking about it for the money. Good morning once again. I got here. So yeah, like going at the right and he said, he said the FEMA money is not here. It operates on a reimbursement basis. So it's not like we have it in the bank drawing interest.

41:35And I told him what actually we're conflated location with access. In other words, they've already appropriated all these monies. It may not be where there's a brings plane and they bring in the 25 billion dollars in the church. I'm not sure if it's right. But I understand that part. So I told him, you know, we can't believe that location with access from the standpoint that it's accessible. It's accessible. And it's for us as a people to put the proper structure in place. That would allow for when in fact there's work to be done. For example, a perfect example is we just built a new school. And that school, you know, the thought of a new school costing a quarter of a billion dollars. Right. That's a lot of money. And 260, four million I believe is the final number. I said quarter billion. I, you know, it's close from the half to 50. You know, 20 years ago, the cost for a new school was 30 million dollars.

42:41So we're almost nine tanks that amount 20 years later. I know it's not the territories fault. You know, a lot of changes, a lot of dynamics, outside of the territory, supply chain, just actual cost of everything going up. What have you? But the reality just just to show, right? How much money and this is a contextual thing. How much money has been made available, made available for the version. I had this discussion with the governor right after the primary, right? If we were to build 20 new schools at $250 million, right? Per school. That would only be 20% of the 25 million dollars. It will cost us five billion dollars. And we still would have 20 billion dollars left. That's the value of money we deal with. I think if we as a people, and you're going to be in a, if you're in a legislature, which I'm sure you're hoping comes the first.

43:47I had a good primary and you exercise in this kind of financial oversight. These are the questions or the discussions or conversations that your constituents want to have. Are we getting the technical? Are we having the technical discussion candidate Charles? Will respect the resources necessary for the people of Washington, Ireland, to thrive in your opinion? No, I don't think so. In my opinion, if you have a budget for your home, you know how much it's going to, it's cost to run your home. With all of the things that you want to do and the things that you need to do might be two different things. But you have in your head how much is going to cost for the things that I want versus how much is going to cost for the things that I need. That's two different things here. But at least you have it in your head. What is going to cost?

44:50So if I got that money, guess what? I going for the things that I would want versus the things that I need because it's incorporating all of that. No, if we plan, you think we have enough money to do both. I think we have enough money to do both. But if we go at the things that we need and think about the things that we need, vision. I see you actually doing that calculus. Yeah, vision. We have to vision. Have the vision. See it. When we grow it up, didn't it access? When you see yourself five years from now versus where you see yourself ten years from now, we can't always stay in the moment because we stay in the moment. We're always be losing. Wow, that's a deep stuff. We're always be losing because we're staying in the moment here. We're not thinking about five years from now.

45:52Well, we have to because the center of VLA mentioned last week that the end date, the end year is 2035. People might think that we still got a lot of time before you know it is going to be 2030. Then it's going to be 2033 when the final 24 months. And then we hustling. We hustling. That's like when they, you know, I like to keep the things that you know, you have a wish list. Keep your wish list. The things start writing them down. The things that you need. The things that you want to have seen. Are we right? We like to wait until August to say, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, you know what happens to not you buy things that you don't need because you did not keep a list of the things that you wanted to have. So you could have the things needed to take care of us. So I think we when we buy we just buy, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, because we just need to spend it, spend it, spend it, spend it, spend it.

46:52That's ridiculous. If you think about the things, how do you want to see your organization, your department, your division, your unit, think about all those things. If I had that. Just give me the money and let me spend it. I know what to spend it. No, no, be careful. Bye, bye, bye, we know you talking about buying, but we use bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, another great enough to be careful. I love something to that. I guess I was I was a part of the Buddha. I was in my 20s when Buddha was a nice one. He's one of these. I won't gain that. Not that this show. But we two were two quick to just say, oh, we got some money. Spence, spend, spend, spend, spend, spend, spend, spend. And usually people are just spending just because they want to spend that money without thinking about they don't want to go back and they don't want to. That's waste.

47:59Let me talk quickly because the conversation when the conversation good time to play fast, our environment. And I wish I was more and environmentally astute when I was younger. Now I sit here on a daily basis. I'm part of my inspiration is just looking outside and seeing, you know, how much we have to offer from our environment. I mean, and in particular when it rains, we haven't gotten a lot of rain, but any kind of rain, and we turn green in an instant. So talk about why protecting our environment is important, not only for us individually, but collectively as a territory. Take care of our environment shows that we're healthy. Now, like you indicated, rain, rain, rain. I remember when I was growing up, they would always tell me that East and is dry. I like back to Diffa because it rains up there. I didn't realize we had a minute, it green up here, I live in the area. So if we take care of our environment, we're healthier.

49:10We eat better. We nourish the ground that when future time come when we need something is prepared for us. We use our environment. We need to eat. Eat and agriculture. Clean beauty. It does something for a person living in a healthy looking environment. It stimulates the brain. We function differently. If it's dirty, we don't tend to look at it. A house, I'm going to look at a dirty house. You, you have a different feel, love walking into a clean home. So when we're in a environment that is clean, I remember growing up in the pathfinders, what we used to do is just go out and clean up. It's not our property. It's not ours. But when we do that, we're helping our environment. We're helping our community to stay clean and healthy. And in the long run, when people come here, they say, it's beautiful. I remember when I went to Switzerland.

50:26Is it as beautiful TV as a person? I was saying, wait a minute, the street clean. I was an awe literally in awe. The streets. I never saw one garbage piece of garbage on the street. Zurich. Zurich Switzerland took the train down to Lugano. It was beautiful. I was like, for a very long time, we stayed there for two weeks, two weeks. And it was the most beautiful place. I didn't I didn't do much, but to be in that environment where it's refreshing. Depend hours is also responsible for our libraries. We've been struggling. I mean, they've gotten a couple of them open. But talk about why we need to get back to having our children. Understand the value of libraries and actually experiencing that setting. It works for not only education, but discipline.

51:35I remember when my son went to get his library cards. We took him, he got his library cards up to no, he'd still go and pick up books if he could. It opens a part of your brain for wanting to research. When you see books and understanding how the library works with it, do it decimals. When you understand that you know where to go. Rather than I don't know where to go, it helps you to develop the mind for researching and finding areas where you can actually become more you learn more. Open opportunities and knowing that in the library, I can go and find a book on how to drill down in the ocean. I might want to be a welder, but I'm only thinking on the earth. I'm only thinking on land. We have blue waters out here.

52:42We don't see ourselves building bridges, sometimes somewhere somehow. I want to stay here and I would actually learn to go into the field of welding underwater. If you go and you educate yourself and learn and research about the areas that you want to go into, you would be surprised of how many things you can do with just the little thought that you had. We're talking with Lisa. J. Charles. She's candid at number 24 on the ballot. You feeling good about the campaign? I do. I do feel good about you. What's the difference between a non-governmental campaign and a government or campaign that you've been in both of them? You sense the voters are more focused on the big race compared to the legislative race? I've had the way I've asked people for help and I heard the term when they say they don't do campaigning if it's not a government or a race.

53:53You literally heard it. Several people. Several people said that. I didn't understand why until now I'm seeing everybody's looking for an opportunity. That's what it is. It's a job. Everybody's looking for an opportunity. If you're the governoratorial race and you're in it, you're rubbing your elbows and your shoulders with the right people. That's a big ticket. That's the biggest budget. We're talking 600 million. That's a fun money that they're responsible for. Legislature is only 20 or 25. You just have brands 30, 540. Can't compare to Tune Market. People jump into the government or a race and there's more than excitement. Believe it or not, it's not just those people because they get their families involved as well. It's hot. It's hot. It's hot. It's hot bread. You want to eat it?

54:54But yeah, I am seeing it. Put up a tie and this discussion. Why should the voters on St. Croix consider support and vote for Lisa J. Lisa J. Charles to be a member of the 37 Legislature representing the district of St. Croix. Listen and audience and everybody's out there in the sound of my voice. My name is Lisa J. Charles. Number 24, the senatorial candidate ballot for the St. Croix district. Choose me for the 37 Legislature because I feel what people are feeling out there. I've lived it. I've lived it. I know what are my three pillars are. I have what you call compassion. I mean what I say. I do what I say. I follow up because following up helps you complete a task.

55:56I do not leave something undone. I go back for it. I like to encourage people. I like to teach. I think believing in educating people. It doesn't mean just the books but the way about going around how to do things. I know how it's because I've worked in government. I worked in Department of Health, Department of Human Services, education. I raised a son by myself. I'm a mother of a one and only child. I fought to get him through to school where people used to tell me. Leave me alone. Let he do what he want. No, no, no. I have a responsibility. I no longer just want to have a responsibility in my home. I want to be responsible for the people of St. Croix and the people of the Virgin Islands. My number is 24 vote number 24 Lisa J Charles straight to the Senate floor.

56:57Thank you very much for joining us today. By the way, one of the listeners certified Dave Welda. I make over 100,000 per year. Some of the 300. See what I'm talking about. Thank you very much for joining us this morning. Thank you. Thank you very much for having me. Good luck with the campaign. We'll take a break. I'll be back right after this. The views and opinions expressed on analyze this are entirely those of the on air participants and did not reflect those of the station's board management staff or underwriters. When we pursue only convenience, we miss those hidden connectors that give our lives meaning. When nearly anything can show up to our doorstep with just a few clicks, what's the point of pursuing something more challenging? This is a show that celebrates the people around us that haven't taken the convenient road to where they are. And they remind me that life's meaning often comes in the pursuit of simple pleasures.

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