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You guys hear me okay right now?

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Oh yeah, yeah.

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Okay, yeah.

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It's been uh pretty exciting past couple
weeks.

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That's uh been a lot going on.

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But uh anyways, uh my name is Sale Frey, and

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I'm running to be an ex Texas State Senator
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District 30.

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District 30 is a big, massive area.

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It stretches from here all the way up to the

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North Texas border, out to Wichita Falls, and
almost down

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to Fort Worth.

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But the good news for you guys is that if

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you live anywhere in Frisco, it doesn't matter
if it's

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in Denton County or Collin County, if you live
anywhere

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in Frisco, I'm gonna be on your ballot this
coming

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November.

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So uh for those of you who don't know me,

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I'll go ahead and introduce myself just real
quick.

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My name is Dale Frey, and uh, you know, my

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wife and I came back down here to Texas to

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be with her father when he got stage three
cancer,

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which is one of the many reasons I'm running
for

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office because I'm very sensitive about our
broken healthcare system.

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Uh one of the first warning signs I got when

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I came back down to here to Texas was meeting

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a friend of mine, a woman named Kennet, who
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her own LLC, who is a health care provider
herself,

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particularly for assisted living.

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And she's ranting to me over a cup of coffee,

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telling me how she has to drop her Medicaid
recipients

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because she tells me the money's just not
there anymore.

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She says the uh Medicaid rates have not been
adjusted

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since long before the pandemic and inflation
is kill her,

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killing her in the sector, and she has to drop

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these people, which she does not want to do.

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She's going through a lumba, but she has to,
right?

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And it's so frustrating because we're not part
of the

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Medicaid expansion program down here in Texas,
one of the

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few states that's not.

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We pay into this program through our federal
taxes, and

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so therefore we're paying for medical programs
in California.

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We Texans are paying for medical programs in
New Jersey,

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but not back here in Texas.

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All the meanwhile, Kinets having to drop her
Medicaid recipients.

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All the meanwhile, we have people who are poor
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not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid.

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And if we were part of this program, it would

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increase the threshold in which you would have
to be

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at in order to qualify for this program.

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This affects people's lives.

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It affects people like my father-in-law,
especially him, because you

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know he's a retired public school teacher, and
I was

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shocked to find out how little amount of money
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made in retirement as a public school teacher.

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I was shocked to find out how little amount of

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money our public school teachers make uh
before they retire.

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One of our board members here, she was telling
me

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how much she made how much money she made
before

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she retired

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And I said, My God, Becky, that's the same
amount

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of money I made in my first job at a

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college.

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Our teachers are not being supported, our ISDs
are not

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being supported.

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Our independent school districts used to get
more direct funding

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from our legislature a decade ago, but in the
past

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decade, they've refactored that right now is
more dependent upon

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your property taxes, which is a lopsided way
of funding

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our ISDs.

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It clearly does not work.

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And if anything at all, our ISDs are under
attack

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because right now our governor is pushing for
a Medicaid

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screen, I'm sorry, pushing for a school
voucher scam.

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And if that thing passes, it will be the final

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nail in the coffin for our ISDs.

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And I hate to tell you guys, but I mean

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it's it's intentional.

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It's all part of a scam driven by two Texas

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billionaires called Tim Dunn and Ferris Wills.

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If you look them up, you'll find all a whole

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bunch of horrible things that they're pushing
for.

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And they really are the puppet master to a lot

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of these politicians, unfortunately.

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But I don't have enough time to go into that

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right now.

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I just basically say that we need to support
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public schools.

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We need to support our public schools, our
public school

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teachers.

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Our youngsters are the future of Texas and the
future

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of this country.

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So if we don't support them, we're not
supporting our

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own future.

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As some of you may know, so far the state

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house has been the thing pushing back against
the school

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voucher scam.

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In the past session, they've been blocking it.

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Governor Abbott has been trying to get more
people employed

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in the House.

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I'm sorry, elected to the House that will be
on

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his side for the school voucher scam.

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But so far, they're the only ones pushing
against it.

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And the state Senate is the one that's been
initiating

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this program.

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And so we need Texas State Senators to be on

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our side to say no to the school voucher
program.

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And I'm want.ing to be your next Texas State
Senator

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for Senate District Service

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So it really means the world to me if you

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do a couple of things because I really need
your

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help with this guys.

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I can't do this alone.

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I need you to one vote, and I mean vote

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all the way down the ballot.

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I need you to contact your friends and the
people

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that you know, because friends don't let
friends not vote.

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This is not this is not a red state.

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It's not, people think it is, but it's not.

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This is a non-voting state.

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That's what's happened right now.

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We're letting them win by not showing up.

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We're letting them win by getting discouraged.

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We're letting them win by not telling our
neighbors.

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As Ramona was talking about, we gotta come to
talk

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to our neighbors, talk to our friends, and
make sure

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that they understand that it's really worth
spending the time

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to get out there.

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You've got to do this for the sake of our

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future, guys.

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Again, my name is Dale Frey.

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You can learn about me from Frayfortexas.com.

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This F R E Live for Texas.com.

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If you come over here and find uh a literature

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up here, we can learn more about me from there

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as well with the QR code.

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Um thank you for your time.

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All right, yeah.