1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:00,400 All right. 2 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:01,120 How are you guys doing? 3 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:02,400 So my name is Dale Frey. 4 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:04,880 I'm running for the Texas State Senate for District 30. 5 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:07,120 There are many things I'm very passionate about, like our 6 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:09,760 trying to fix our broken health care system, supporting our 7 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:12,400 public school teachers, supporting our public schools. 8 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:13,840 Let me go more into detail about that. 9 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:15,440 You see, my wife and I moved back down here 10 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:17,040 to Texas to be closer with our father as he 11 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:19,120 battled battled stage three cancer. 12 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:20,640 And I was shocked when I came down here to 13 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:22,080 find out just how bad things are. 14 00:00:22,080 --> 00:00:24,320 A friend of mine named Kennette, she owns our own 15 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:24,960 LLC. 16 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:26,160 She is a health care provider. 17 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,240 She's ranting to me over a cup of coffee, talking 18 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,200 about how she has to drop her Medicaid recipients because 19 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,600 the Medicaid rates have not been adjusted since long before 20 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,240 the pandemic and inflation's killing her in the sector. 21 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,680 So we have people, uh healthcare providers dropping their Medicaid 22 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,320 recipients, all while we're not part of the Medicaid expansion 23 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,360 program, only because it's blocked by Governor Greg Abbott, something 24 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:47,360 we already pay money into, and money that does not 25 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:48,800 come back here at a home, but does go to 26 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,840 California and New Jersey and other states, which is insane. 27 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:54,800 We have people who are poor but not poor enough 28 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:57,120 to qualify for the Medicaid program. 29 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:58,000 This is insane. 30 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,000 All these things could be fixed if only we had 31 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,440 better leadership in Austin. 32 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:03,440 I want to support our public school teachers. 33 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:05,280 My father in law that was talking about, he was 34 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:06,080 a public school teacher. 35 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,240 I was shocked to find out how little amount of 36 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:10,640 money he made as a retired public school teacher. 37 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:12,960 I was shocked to find out how little money school 38 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:14,560 teachers make before they retire. 39 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,360 A friend of mine, uh Vicki on the Frisco Democratic 40 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:19,360 Club board, she's told me how much money she made 41 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:21,680 before she retired, and I said, My God, Vicky, that's 42 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:23,520 the same amount of money I made my first job 43 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:24,720 out of college. 44 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:26,640 Our school teachers are not supported. 45 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:29,040 A decade ago, our legislature used to give more direct 46 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,520 money to our public schools, but over the past decade 47 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:33,440 they've adjusted the way that that money flows. 48 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,280 It now comes a little bit more so out of 49 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,560 your property taxes, which is a lopsided way that does 50 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:39,680 not work. 51 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:41,840 We need to fund our public schools. 52 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:47,600 We cannot call our school teachers groomers. 53 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:49,680 What they're doing is they're taking care of our kids, 54 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:51,440 which means they're taking care of our future. 55 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:52,640 And I want to support them. 56 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:54,320 I want to support our public schools, I want to 57 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:55,440 support our teachers. 58 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:57,040 Uh that said, I don't know how much time I 59 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:57,520 have left. 60 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:58,240 Okay, cool. 61 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,480 So I'm gonna runoff right now. 62 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:03,400 Usually this is a point where I ask you for 63 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:03,800 money. 64 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:05,160 I'm not gonna ask you for money. 65 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:05,400 I'm know 66 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:07,160 that sounds weird, but I gonna ask you is to 67 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:08,760 come out and vote. 68 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,480 My runoff election is not at the beginning of May, 69 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:12,600 it's at the end of May. 70 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:13,720 It's May 28th. 71 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:15,800 So what my big ask for you right now is 72 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:17,880 to open up your phone, open up your calendar, and 73 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:21,320 mark down on May 28th, and also the week before 74 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:22,520 that is early voting. 75 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,400 On May 28th, vote for Dale Frey. 76 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:26,920 That's F R E Y. 77 00:02:26,920 --> 00:02:29,880 You can also find more information about me at Freyfortexas.com. 78 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:32,680 That's f R E Y for Texas.com. 79 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,600 On the table out there, you can also see a 80 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:35,800 card with my face on it. 81 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:37,960 There's also the dates for my runoff election are there 82 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:38,520 as well. 83 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,160 Again, it's pretty weird for a candidate for you to 84 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:43,880 not ask money from you, but that's how this is 85 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:44,680 what I need to do. 86 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,080 Because the hard thing with a runoff is making sure 87 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,960 that people even know that a runoff is happening. 88 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:55,240 So please, Freyfortexas.com, that's F R E Y, May 28th. 89 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:56,200 Thank you for your time.