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Sure.

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So my first number one priority to me that's
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to me is our broken uh medical care system.

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So one of the main reasons my wife and I

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moved back down here to Texas is to be closer

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with our father.

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My father-in-law got stage three cancer.

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We came down here.

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I very quickly begin to realize just how
broken our

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uh our our medical system is, particularly in
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that Texas is one of the few states in the

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country that's opted out of the Medicaid
expansion program.

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The Medicaid money was just not there for him.

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It was also a very difficult hit for him as

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a retired public school teacher, which is one
of the

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other items I'm very much into supporting our
school teachers,

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and also our retired school teachers, because
I saw how

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much money he was getting as a retired
teacher, and

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it's it's it's nothing at all.

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It's it's horrible.

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And um, of course, another one too is every
Texan

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of course wants is a better infrastructure.

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Our power grid is failing us, and it's we're
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a cold snap just this week, and I believe next

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week as well.

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We all kind of get nervous about the power
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out, and uh for good reason have after what
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seen, what happened a couple years ago.

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So uh supporting our power infrastructure is
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as well.

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Oh, absolutely.

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This is something I had personally have
experience with.

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So I actually work with NOAA, the National
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Atmospheric Administration, and they're
actually uh subdepartment of the Department

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of Commerce.

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So that probably catches some people off
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gotta keep them understanding.

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What you have to understand about NOAA is our
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is to actually make sure that the fishermen
don't overfish

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and kill all of their uh prey.

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We need to make sure the environment is there
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them to continue their business.

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Uh, and that's something that we do as a part

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of the Department of Commerce.

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So making sure that we only apply regulations
when it's

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absolutely necessary in order for those
business businesses to continue

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to function.

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It's something that we need another example of
something kind

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of somewhat off topic, but something we that I
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the government and legislatures need to be
careful of is.

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yes, we absolutely should be giving tax
incentives to uh

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corporations uh in order to pull them in here
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stimulate our economy

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We also need to be careful.

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One uh one notorious example of this is what
Walmart

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is doing.

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So Walmart will typically get uh tax
incentives to move

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to a certain neighborhood in order to
stimulate their economy,

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create jobs, and everything's great for the
first couple of

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years, because usually they're given a tax
incentive that expires

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in a couple of years.

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Sometimes they will get abuseful in the uh
communications process

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and trying to extend those tax exemptions.

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Sometimes they just leave and that bombs the
local economy,

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and sometimes they'll just move somewhere
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Some uh businesses get abusive with this when
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an extension on tax exemptions, and that can
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a business having tax exemptions for a much
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of time than that was initially intended for.

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So the negotiation between government and
businesses when it comes

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to tax exemptions, which we naturally, of
course, should give

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out in order to pull them into our local
community,

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is something that we just need to be careful
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So, this is another topic that I care very
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about.

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As I said, my uh father-in-law was a public
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teacher, both my grandparents were public math
teachers.

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My mother was actually originally training to
be an English

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teacher, and what we're doing in Texas right
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horrible.

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We are detrimentally underfunding our public
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One of my good friends, I just saw the other

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day, sorry, day before yesterday.

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I saw her for the first time in a while,

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I said, Hey, how's your your your class going?

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So I want to know the her school situation.

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She said she told me, No, actually, I I quit

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my job uh a while ago as a school teacher,

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and uh I'm now uh working as a bartenderist.

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I said, Oh, I'm so sorry.

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She says, Don't.

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I make more money now.

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And I was shocked to hear that.

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But knowing just how underfunded our schools
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what we see.

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Uh thereh, there's's also this pus for
something called the

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school voucher program, uh, or a push for what
some

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call school choice.

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And I would, I would be able to have a

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conversation about school choice.

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But if you're gonna have school choice or have
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voucher, those vouchers have to be funded by
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surplus, which we have.

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Texas is the largest, I'm sorry, it's the
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economy in the world.

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We have the money in the bank.

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If you really want a school voucher program,
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pay for that.

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But I absolutely refuse to pay for school
vouchers by

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sacrificing public education.

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We need to support our public schools.

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And I will refuse to talk about any voucher
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until our public schools are supported.

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As someone who's not originally from around
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tell you that I've seen uh some of the mass

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transit things that you guys have.

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Um it's definitely something to be invested
in, it's something

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that can definitely be worked on.

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Um what I see here is okay, it's not great,

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it definitely could be better.

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Um, I also want to talk about it about roads.

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I know that probably sounds weird because the
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actually great on the highway where you get
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Where there's tolls, roads are great.

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They're phenomenal.

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But when you go to the neighborhoods, I notice
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by neighborhood things are different.

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And I think that this is something that we
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to look into and investigate because I tell
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roads in my local neighborhood, they're pretty
good.

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But I'll be honest, I live in a pretty nice

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neighborhood.

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Our neighboring neighborhoods, when I go to my
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houses, some of the roads are so bad in their

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neighborhoods, I almost don't feel comfortable
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I worry about the wheels on my car.

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It's very noticeable how different communities
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roads that are supported and not supported,
and it's glaring.

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So it's definitely something to look into and
invest in.

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That's a very good question

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So you may not believe this or not, but we're

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about to run out of water.

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If you don't believe me, let me explain.

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During the summer, right now, you may notice
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get messages in the mail or requests to try to

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conserve on water.

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We get told, hey, maybe don't bring your
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every single day.

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Well, the reason for that is because Texas is
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natural desert.

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In fact, we only have one natural lake here in

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Texas.

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All the other lakes were created by the Army
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of Engineers who uh irrigated these lakes to
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in Texas.

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So, with Texas being a natural desert, and the
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that the Army Corps of Engineers has done a
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job in creating all these other lakes, which
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However, it's still just not enough.

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So, one of the problems that we have with
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is the amount of surface water that comes in
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with the Texas sun and of course evaporates
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away.

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We also have a major population boom happening
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right now.

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We have more and more people coming in, so
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is something that we definitely need, and we
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uh get more of it and store more of it.

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Now, there's a couple of different ways to
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but the number one best way is to stop
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trying to irrigate more lakes, but create more
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reservoirs to hold on to water where it will
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necessarily be contacted by the sun.

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I understand that creating these uh types of
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uh that don't come in uh sunlight contact are
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expensive than simply irrigating a lake.

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Uh irrigating a lake is cheaper, it's faster,
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reason I have a problem with that is because
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usually involves imminent domain, which is
something I'm not necessarily

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a fan of.

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Uh, but the best way to to go about it

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is to we just need invest

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in our underground water reservoirs and also
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not come in contact with the sun.

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That's the best way to store water for our
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needs in the future.

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Yeah, that's a very good question.

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So there is a very wide stranded deviation of
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types of workforces that exist in Senate
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Collin County and Denton County happen to be
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populated areas within Senate District 30.

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The rest of Senate District 30 is all rural
farmland.

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So first let me talk about the farmers and
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their workforce.

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So the farmers actually do want people coming
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When I say coming here, I mean legally with
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special visas that allow them to work with the
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They depend on this heavily.

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So supporting that is something that's very
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Another issue that we need to worry about as
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for supporting our workforce is automation and
the fact that

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automation is taking lots of people's jobs
away, particularly for

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those who work in the manufacturing industry
or those who

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work with manual labor.

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You can't have a career anymore working as a
cashier

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at a grocery store, not as these uh touch
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self-checkout aisles become a thing.

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So supporting programs that assist people with
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or getting back into education is something
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need to do because there are people out there
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find themselves in situations where they need
to switch to

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a different type of job platform or need to
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more skills in order to jump into a different
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market.

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The best way I believe that the legislature
can help

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those get into the job market and continue to
support

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innovation in incorporate America is to invest
into our education

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system, invest in a higher education, and make
sure that

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people are ready to get. into a uh a real

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job in their first job out of college, which
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not something that everybody has

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I know quite a few friends of mine in college,

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they graduated.

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Their first job out of college was still
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a cashier or working somewhere else.

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I was lucky enough to jump into a corporate
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right out of college.

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My college helped me out with that.

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They taught me to tell me how to do
interviews,

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uh, etc.

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And I think that's something that everyone
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I think that's something that we need to
support.

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We need to support the higher education system
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country.

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It's very important.

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I don't believe in simply being left or right.

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I think you know the best solution can always
be

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found in the center.

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I understand that there are some uh very good
friends

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and candidates of mine who will, for example,
come out

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screaming angrily at the governor, type all
sorts of horrible

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things on social media, but I don't believe
that personal

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attacks are anything that's gonna get us
anywhere in this

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country.

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Personal attacks is something that may help
out a candidate

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trend on social media, but it's not actually
gonna help

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us in the real world.