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Welcome back to the Takeout. Andrew Shu
is perhaps best known for his role on the hit 90s soap opera Melrose Place,
but in more recent years, he's turned his attention to civic engagement. He's leading a new series of forums hoping to promote public participation in government in three key states.
The forum is now active in New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada. Three of the states expected to vote first or earliest in the 2028 presidential primaries.
The online platforms receive feedback from community members and look to identify bipartisan solutions to what participants consider chronic or easier to solve problems.
And Andrew Shu joins us now from Charleston, South Carolina.
Andrew, thank you so much for joining us.
This is a really interesting project that you guys are obviously trying to launch here ahead of the presidential the next presidential cycle um but also at a time when I think there are a lot of Americans eager to find ways to work together.
So give us a sense of exactly how this works.
Yeah. Well, I I appreciate you having me on, Ed. Th this is an opportunity for Americans who are are so frustrated with what they believe is a broken and uh maybe possibly corrupt system that they are shut out of and give them the platform uh to come together, aggregate their voice and turn that into a new political power.
Uh it it works where you come online, you're able to submit ideas and you can uh deliberate in in-person meetings, online meetings, and it ends with an in-person assembly with representative body that has to reach 70% consensus in order to put something forward to the legislature.
We're working with legislators. We're working with uh experts in each issue. And uh the good news is that people are showing up.
We have political balance. we have real scale. I can tell you about some of the numbers, but I I I think we're on to something.
The American people uh kind of had had enough with partisan politics and they realized that it's gotten so performative that it's no longer solving the big issues of the day.
And so we wanted to test it at the state level where we felt we could get our arms around it. We could show uh how this could be credible enough the media would cover it, the legislators would take it seriously and the people would show up.
So I really believe this could be if we can if we can do this well and do this well uh right this could be a real fix to our division and our dysfunction.
>> Give us an example of the kind of issue say there in South Carolina maybe out in Nevada that people have sort of united around and said this is what we want our legislators to take up.
>> Yep.
>> So it started out broad as probably 25 big issues but they've narrowed it down to four. Uh and it's different in all three states. the number one issue here in South Carolina. I'm right here in Charleston right now, the roads and infrastructure. Uh in Nevada, it's actually housing and affordability. And in New Hampshire, it's education and property taxes,
>> but they they have many different issues they want to dig into. So, it's going to be interesting to see, you know, where the legislation actually comes from. Uh so, it's a process. We don't know exactly how it's going to play out.
That's that's the beauty of this. When they say, "Oh, you have an agenda here." is like, "No, we have an agenda for the people to create their agenda."
>> And the idea is to sort of signal to lawmakers in both parties, hey, we've helped you build public consensus and opinion on this. Please take now what we've shown you is popular or should be dealt with and get it passed already.
>> Yeah. But the difference here is this is not an academic exercise where we're just giving guidance. There's citizen assemblies that have worked overseas and we've had them here at the city level where that guidance is given but then they don't take it up.
We're actually going to have a citizen lobby because we've had hundreds of thousands of people participating at the front end. We think we'll have tens of thousands of thousands of people being part of that citizen lobby uh so that we actually get something passed. So this is a process that goes from participation that could be five minutes or you know five hours on the platform leading to a citizen lobby that that ensures that something gets done.
We need progress.
The people are so frustrated. They're really concerned about what's happening with AI.
And it it's just time that the American people come together uh kind of end our cold civil war.
And like I said, people are showing up.
If you build it, they will come.
And they are coming. Let's consider this a to be continued conversation because as we get out to New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina with the presidential stuff starting next year, we'll we'll find you guys and you can give us some more palpable examples of how this is working. But we appreciate you sharing early work here of the forum, Andrew Shu. And uh like I said, we'll do this again. We we'll keep talking about it.
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