Carrollton Democratic Club Candidate Forum

Good evening. Thank you so much, Lynn. Thank you so much, Adam. And thank you, Judy, forever. Hi, Judy. My name is Candy Claudis Ba and I am running for County Commissioner Precinct 2. I am, I'll just describe briefly.

The County Commissioner's Court is kind of like the city council of the county, except we don't have zoning privileges. And we have a lot of say over what happens in terms of the federal funding, what happens in terms of our infrastructure, and what happens on election day. So where your polling locations are, how they're staffed, what those hours are, that goes through the county commissioner report. So I'll talk more at length about myself momentarily because

I think we're just describing the position that this is what it's running for. County Commissioner Precinct 2, that's Denton County, and most of the current thing is within that. My name is Dale Fred, and I'm running for the position of the Denton County Clerk. The clerk is more of a clerical role, so I don't I won't have any voting power, but my job

is to make sure that you all understand is what's happening to document everything and to be as transparent as possible. Because I'll be honest with you, a lot of people tend to know about the city councils, but they probably don't know that much about the commissioner court. I bet a lot of people who don't even know that this is even exists.

And it's something that affects all of us. I hope you all vote early. Please vote early. You can vote anywhere in the county right now. During the early voting period, but on the the last day to vote, our county switches up rules. So please make sure you vote early. Again, my name is Bill Frey.

If you want to learn more about me and my campaign, you can come to Frey for Texas.com. That's F R E Y for Texas.com. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, my name ladies and gentlemen, my name is Nick Pappas, and I'm running for Denson County Judge. That position is pretty much just the CEO of the county.

It is not a judicial position. So I will not be dealing with trials or misconduct or anything like that. I will be uh determining what the commissioner's court votes on. I'll be determining uh where we spend our money as far as the county. What about this one?

Oh, this one's the worst. I'll be determining where the money gets spent on in the county. I'll be determining where everybody's emergency resources go. I'll be dealing with interlocal agreements between the cities, the county, and the state. I will be the closest thing to the government that you will be able to interact with whenever you need

to. Thank you. All right, so I've got a couple questions that oh and Georgina. All right. And my name Serganabu says I am here for Vicky Goodwin. He's trying to be our next lieutenant governor.

So the Lieutenant Governor is one of the most powerful things we have in Texas that often compared to his powerful or more powerful than the governor. the governor. Somebody ever passes the legislator without coming to lieutenant's desk So, like last year V bicigkygie's still would have bully funded our public schools. That Dan Patrick had different priorities.

So instead of bringing her bill up or even letting it single on your day, he made sure that his priorities and his bill went through that underfunded our schools by $9.5 billion. And when I say under funded schools by $9.5 billion that means it didn't catch up to inflation by $9.5 billion because that's all they were trying to catch up to.

And it also sets the priorities for SPD in preparation. That's huge. Which is one of the things that Dan Hadrick uses as an iron fist to make everybody else listen if you don't do what I say then you don't get funding for your district. Exactly. Oh and it puts the people on committee so it

decides who goes on the committee. This is really important because your bill you can have the best bill ever but if you don't have the right person in committee that will bring the bill up for a vote it never has the opportunity to get children to make outdoors steps. So a lot of bills die that pass the House they also die in the Senate because whoever's on the

committee just decided that they didn't approve that bill or didn't doesn't like that person. So the lieutenant governor's office is very important and I will finish for give such questions. Okay. Thank you.