Meet with the Grayson Retired School Personnel earlier today

Hello everyone, thank you, and uh, thank you very much for having me. It's exciting to be here. It's exciting to meet you guys. Uh, as again, my name is Dale Frey, and I'm running to be your next Texas State Senator for District 30. District 30 is a pig massive area, it stretches across

11 counties. It goes from Denton County up to the North Texas border, up to Wichita Falls, and almost down to Fort Worth. So I do a lot of driving. Anyways, uh, to tell you a little about a little bit about who I am. Um, I graduated from George Manson University, which is nowhere

near here, but it's close enough to DC, so I was very blessed to get my first job of college working at the headquarters of the Department of Education in Washington, D.C. I've since built a career of being a federal contractor, and while I was up there, I met Leandra, a girl from Texas, and we all know Texas girls eventually come back home.

That got expedited when her father got stage three cancer. So we came back down here to Texas, and this is gonna segue to one of the many reasons I want to run for office because I have a really soft spot in my heart for trying to fix our public health care system. One of the first warning signs I got to see how bad things are down here.

I met a friend of mine, Kenneth. She owns her own L L C. She is a healthcare provider, particularly for assisted living, and she's ranting to me over a couple of coffees, talking about how she gets to drop with Medicaid recipients because she says our rates are the money's just not there anymore. She says, Dale, the rates haven't been adjusted since long

before the pandemic, and inflation is killing her in the sector. So she's dropping for Medicaid recipients. She doesn't want to do this. She's having a moral dilemma over this, right? Now, it's so frustrating because we're not part of the Medicaid expansion program. Needlessly.

We could be. We can opt into it. And I sometimes lose people when I talk about this. So let me explain what that is. The Medicaid expansion program is a national money bucket. We all pay money into through our federal taxes. Money flows from this national money bucket into each state in the country, but not us.

So we Texans do this bucket through our federal taxes, are paying for medical programs in California, we're paying for medical programs in New Jersey, but not back here in Texas. Texas is losing a good $10 billion a year over this. If we were adopted to this program, we would get that money back.

This affects people's lives. And it nearly affected my father in law, especially as a retired public school teacher, because I was shocked to find out how little amount of money the public school teachers make in retirement. I was shocked to find out how little money and money public school teachers make before they retire. Vicky, another friend of mine, told me how much money

she made at Frisco ISD as a teacher before she retired. And I said, My God, Vicky, that's the amount of money I made in my first job at a college. Our schools, I feel, are under attack right now. I'm not trying to be dramatic, I really, really mean that. Our schools are underfunded, and I understand that other people

on the other side of the aisle say, Dale, we've never given any amount of more money to our public schools than we have in the past. Technically speaking, that's true. The rates have slightly increased, but if you adjust that with inflation, you find out the actual value that's going to our ISDs has dramatically decreased, which is why our schools are underfunded.

It's hard for our ISDs to hold on to teachers nowadays. The rate at which people leave being a school teacher has jumped by 40% in the past two years because it's just so hard to hold on to our teachers as they get burned out and underpaid. And a couple ISDs I've seen, they do what they have to do.

It breaks my heart, but some of them are saying, well, we need to hold on to our school teachers, so we're going to lay out 20% of our teacher staff just so that we can increase the salary of the staff that we do keep. But all the meanwhile, that increases class sizes, burning our teachers out into more. This is not fair.

Especially if you all uh understand that there's a school voucher program being pushed by our governor right now, which I stand harshly against. And please let me explain to you that the school voucher program or school choice or VSAs, please look at it it and understand that is not paid by our big massive surplus that we very much do have in Texas.

in the Texas is the eighth largest economy world behind France. Okay. We can pay for our roads, we can pay for our infrastructure. And if you really wanted a school choice program, you can pay for that through our massive surplus, but that's not what the voucher program is designed to do.

It specifically sacrifices public education funding. And that is done intentionally. The school voucher program, I promise you, it is not the will of the people. It is the will of Tim Dunn and Ferris Wilkes, two Texas billionaires who financially support the majority of conservatives in the legislature. I really need you to Google this when you get

home because they're the ones who are really pushing for this program. It does not benefit our school teachers. It benefits those people who already have their kids in private schools. Case in point, when our governor drove around and tried to advertise the voucher program, he did a whole tour about this, right?

But he toured all the private schools. He never once went to a public school teacher, looked a public school teacher in the eye and said that this program will help you. He never did that to any of our public school parents. So far, the state house has been blocking the school voucher program so far.

I'm really nervous about this though, because the governor says it keep easy us the votes to get it passed in the next cycle. I don't know if that's the case. We haven't seen what happens in November yet. But guys, I don't know how long the state house can hold on and protect us against the school voucher scam.

What we do need to do is elect senators, because the governor cannot create laws by himself. It's only done by the House for the Senate. And right now, the Senate is the one that's initiating the school voucher scam. this. So we need Texas State Senators to stand against horrible legislation And I'm not even going to be your next Texas

State Senator for District 30. If you live in this area here, I'm going to be in your ballot in November. That said, I want to thank you for my time. I also want to just briefly talk a little bit about since my opponent's not here today, I'll I'll tell you a little bit about him. Obviously, it's not going to be very nice stuff, but

I really need to experience who you're hoping for, right? Because I've been in front of mixed audiences in the past, where there's more Republicans than Democrats. And I tell them this, hey, hey, look, uh, my opponent, Brett Nagabu, he calls himself a businessman. And he is. He owns a big fancy trucking company. His company delivers uh grocery items to the Kroger's grocery

stores. It's a pretty big business. But while he calls himself pro-business, the reality is three months ago, uh, the Arizona local chapter 104 of the Teamsters has summoned him to court for not only intimidating his employees into not unionizing, but he fires his employees to attempt to unionize, which is supposed to be illegal. On top of that, his second top donor is the

Texas for lawsuit reform pack. If you don't know what that is, that's the pact that wants to make it more difficult for you to sue your employer when your employer does wrong in doings to you. And if you need any more proof that this guy should not be your representative, he doesn't live in the district.

This has been a thing that we know since before the primary. He doesn't actually live here. He lot he lied about where he lived. The only reason he ever got this far is because he's got a lot of money and gave it to Donald Trump, and so Donald Trump endorsed him. The reason he's trying to run for a district that

he does not live in, the reason Senate District 30 is so special this time around, and why we have a lot at stake here, is because while we have state house refs here who will serve two years if they win, and usually state senators serve for two years as well. The state senate has a funky little twist to the way they do things

They operate in a system called 224. Every third cycle, a state senator runs for four years, not two. And this time around, Senate District 30 happens to be that four-year cycle. So whoever wins this race will not just be a senator for two years, he'll be senator for for four. Which is why this guy is pouring millions of his

dollars, literally spent four million dollars in his campaign to try to win this seat for a district that he does not live in. This man is not pro-business as he claims, given the fact he's being brought to court by the Teamsters, and also his tax, as you can see. He's pro-self-corporate interest. Again, my name is Dale Frey.

If you want to learn more about me, come to Freightfortexas.com. That's F R E Y for Texas.com. I think if any time you got blessed Texas, but I wanted to give to the candidates some little something to remember us. So this is a little Apple pin, and it actually works, even though it's a table pin.

And I want you to put this in your cup of pins or your drawer with your pins, and when you reach for something, Apple teachers teachers in the schools.