Carlos Cardona gets Amped Up with Ryan Knight

Amped Up with Ryan Knight

Ryan Knight

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3.6 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2020

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Ryan Knight chats with Carlos Cardona about his remarkable journey from growing up in Puerto Rico to becoming the youngest elected official in New Hampshire history to being a surrogate for Bernie Sanders to his current campaign for State Representative. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support

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0:00.0	Welcome to Amped Up. This is your host Ryan Knight, and our guest today is Carlos Cardona.
0:15.6	Carlos is the chairman of Laconia Democrats. He's the youngest person ever elected in New Hampshire,
0:21.7	and now he is running for state representative in New Hampshire's third district. Carlos, welcome to Amped Up.
0:27.0	Hi Ryan, thank you for having me. I look forward to this conversation with you guys.
0:32.0	Me too.
0:33.5	Since this is your first time on the show,
0:35.8	why don't you start off by just giving us
0:37.6	a little bit about your background and why you're running for office?
0:42.3	Well, I am the chairman of the Laconia City Democrats.
0:46.8	I'm also the president or chairman
0:49.6	of the New Hampshire Progressive Coalition,
0:51.8	which it was founded this year, inspired by the Bernie Sanders movement here in New Hampshire.
0:58.0	I moved here from Puerto Rico.
1:00.0	I was born and raised in Guadilla, Puerto Rico.
1:03.4	And I look forward to sharing more about my story.
1:07.2	I guess where we could start is how I,
1:09.8	when I moved to mainland,
1:10.9	becoming, coming out of the closet at the age of 15 and immediately right after becoming
1:16.6	homeless because of family situations, not being very accepting of who I am.
1:25.0	Fast forward, things have changed a lot dramatically.
1:27.2	My mom and I have a great relationship now,
1:29.2	but at the time it wasn't something
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