00:13I'm Jay DeLancey from Raleigh, North Carolina.
00:17I'm a retired lieutenant colonel in the Air Force with a strange career that started as
00:21an Army journalist and ended, went through nuclear, the nuclear world.
00:26I was a nuclear launch control officer in charge of 50 ICBMs at a base that no longer exists
00:34in Missouri, and then went further into the nuclear world controlling bombers and tankers
00:43until peace broke out in 1989, and it changed everything.
00:48But anyway, I finished a career in the Air Force doing various other jobs, mainly public
00:53affairs because of an initial stint in the Army as a journalist, which circled back around,
01:00and I became an Air Force public affairs officer and retired doing that and leveraged that knowledge
01:09and that sense of really importance of the critical matters.
01:15And I focused that energy on election integrity and started an organization in 2011 to explore
01:23that issue.
01:28My first paying job was as a newspaper delivery guy on a bicycle for, or I was a paper boy,
01:35as we called it, for the Raleigh Times in Raleigh, North Carolina, a now defunct newspaper.
01:44Right. In 2011, I started the Voter Integrity Project of North Carolina, and we just decided,
01:52we didn't know what we were doing, but we thought we would do research, and we were kind of pioneers
01:57in it. We found 30,000 dead people on North Carolina voter rolls, and those election officials
02:04are the same people who told us there is no vote fraud, but they did not know they had 30
02:08,000
02:08dead people on their rolls. And after we ran that one through, we went after non-citizens
02:15that had gotten out of jury duty by convincing the courts they were not U.S. citizens, but
02:21somehow they were magically registered to vote. And I did document that. If I may shamelessly
02:28promote, I did document that in this book called Aliens Among Us.
02:35The bargain there. But the most rewarding job was training, overseeing the training for Air Force
02:43people who were deploying with the Army into Afghanistan to make sure they had the proper
02:49training they needed in order to bring them home alive.
02:57I live by two rules, actually. People call it the golden rule, but that only says half of it,
03:02because the first half of the rule is, as Jesus said, it's the greatest commandment. There's two
03:08of them. Number one is love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your strength and all
03:12your
03:12might, and love your neighbor as yourself. Now, if you do the first, you're going to have the right
03:19definition of love. And I've had people work for me who were horrible people, and they live by just
03:25the second rule, treat your neighbor as yourself. And I had one subordinate who was really abusing
03:32an officer below her. And I said, how would you feel if someone did that to you? She goes, well,
03:37I would expect them to. Of course, she couldn't look me in the eye when she said it. I knew
03:40she was
03:41lying. But if you love God first, that puts parameters on your definition of love. So you're
03:49not going to mistreat people and tell yourself you're loving them when actually you're doing
03:56evil against them. So those are my two rules. That's not just one, but it's two.
04:06I've got several, but my main best friend will tell me the truth. And he's like a, like a brother.
04:13He will, he'll tell me whether I like it or not. He'll tell me the truth.
