REEL SOUTH

[energetic electronic music] - Politics in my life is like food.

I need it in order to survive.

[hammers striking] I may not win, but I don't know if I can live with myself if I didn't at least try.

[energetic electronic music] What do you think?

It's cute, right?

For a campaign office?

And then we have kind of like our war room.

- Hi.

- Hi, how are you?

- [Janie in Spanish] Mija, vente para ac.

Sintate aqu mija.

- Aww.

- [Janie in Spanish] Mira aqu.

- Mom, I'm gonna break your - - [laughs] I really don't know where her personality comes from, okay?

She's something else.

- We can put one of 'em, I guess, we can use this for people to sign in?

- Perfect.

- There's tape right there.

- Frankie, like any challenger in a city council race, has an uphill battle.

When you're trying to evaluate the competitiveness of an election, money is what you look at.

Usually the recipe to overcoming a financial disadvantage is just kind of sheer work.

- When she sets her mind to do something, she takes it by the horns, really, and takes it by the horns.

- Hello.

- [Person In Crowd] Yay!

- My name's Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe, and I am your candidate for City Council District 8.

You're in my district right now.

Have a little bit about me for those... - District 8 is on the northwest side of town.

It's one of the fastest growing and most diverse pockets of San Antonio.

It's got the University of Texas at San Antonio.

- I want to get more young people involved in politics.

I can't help you cheat on your exam, but I can do whatever I can to help steer you in the direction that you want to go.

- [Student] Thank you so much.

[students clapping] - [Frankie] Thank you.

- [Dylan] District 8, it's got all kinds of interesting businesses and kind of growth in that respect.

It's also got the largest population of refugees and immigrants.

It's all these kind of different melting pots of people coming together.

- What I'm trying to get his more civic engagement.

I want more people to have a seat at the table, so I'm doing something a little different than what City Council has seen in the past.

Right now, there's 53 precincts that make up District 8.

I want to make sure that there's a representative of each precinct.

I think more voices at the table means that we're going to get a lot more done.

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