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Just give us a quick synopsis of your platform
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quick.

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Sure.

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So um my campaign mainly well, I focus on many

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things, but the top two things is trying to
fix

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our broken health care system and trying to
support our

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public schools and our public school teachers.

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Uh when I talk about a broken health care
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I talk about how we have people who are poor

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but not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid.

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I'm talking about the fact that we have
healthcare providers

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right now who are uh dropping their Medicaid
recipients because

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the money's just not there anymore.

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The Medicaid race has not been adjusted since
long before

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uh the pandemic and inflation is killing them
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sector right now.

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When I talk about supporting a public school
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public school teachers, I've talked about how
a decade ago

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the state used to directly fund our ISDs a lot

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more.

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However, over the past decade, that funding
strategy has been

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refactored a bit where it depends a little bit
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on your property taxes, which is a lopsided
way of

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funding our ISDs.

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There's a school voucher program right now,
which is a

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scam in my people.

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And if that thing passes, it will be the file

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nail in the coffin for our public education
systems.

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We have to, in my opinion, completely reject
the school

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voucher scam.

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Right now, the state house has been rejecting
the school

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voucher scam.

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Thank goodness.

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I don't know how long they can hold on to

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that, but uh Governor Abbott can't initiate
laws by himself.

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It has to compete with this the state house,
the

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state senate, and right now the state senate
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one that is initiating the school voucher
program, uh sometimes

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called ESA to sometimes called called school
choice, but ultimately

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a thing that will defund our public schools.

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So I believe that we need Texas State Senators
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will support our public schools and be against
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voucher program.

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And I'm running for uh to be a Texas State

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Senator, and so I I hope that I can uh

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come up there in the Senate and and block uh

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this this horrible thing that will defund our
public schools.

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Yes, yes, yes.

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Well um uh what have you been doing since the

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announcement of the runoff?

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Have you been, you know, traveling Texoma are
the district

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areas you know campaigning more, getting your
platform and your

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message out there of what you stand for.

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Yeah, yeah.

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So I I've been I've been kind of going around.

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I'm I'm gonna be in uh Cook County uh this

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Saturday for a barbecue up there with uh a
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Club over there.

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I've uh drove out to Waterford uh to meet the

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precinct chairs over there.

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I've I've traveled around a bit.

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I I I wish I had more time.

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There's never enough time to travel all
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I I you know I've been to Wichita Alfalls.

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I've been to Wichita Falls multiple times.

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Uh so I'm I'm actually a federal contractor
with Nella,

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and when I need to get my CAF card uh

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reinstated, I actually have to go to Shepard
Air Force

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Base because ever since the pandemic, the
deers offices where

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we get our CAF cards uh reinstated, uh have
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been as open as they used to be.

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So even before campaigning, I've been to
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couple of times, particularly Shepherd Air
Force Base.

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Uh getting lost over there, realizing the GPS
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work on the base all that well.

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But anyways, I've uh I've been also to a
candidate

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forum up there in Wichita, which is very
interesting because

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it was a mixed forum.

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Uh but yeah, I've been I've been getting
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Uh my main focus so far right now is just

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to really make sure that our public school
teachers know

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that there's a runoff happening.

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Hard part with the runoff is making sure that
they

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even know that there's an election happening
because it's not

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advertising.

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I'm the only candidate in this race that's
endorsed by

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the uh Texas uh Teachers Classroom
Association.

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Uh I'm the only candidate uh that's that is
endorsed

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by the Texas Public Education.

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Uh so I'm really trying to advocate for and
push

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for uh our public school teachers and our ISDs
to

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understand that there's an election going on
right now because

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public education is my bread and butter.

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Right.

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Right.

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I mean, my first job at a college working at

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the headquarters of the Department of
Education in Washington, DC.

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So this is something that I know that our
public

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school teachers feel like they're under attack
right now with

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the school voucher program and with so many
other things.

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Uh so I I know that they will be uh

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a voting block that will show up to the polls,

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but they just need to know that this election
is

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even happening, right?

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Because most people don't know the runoff is
happening.

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So that that that is my my my primary focus

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right now, immediately before this runoff is
our targeting our

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our public education, putting my yard signs
out in front

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of the public schools to making sure that they
know

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that uh that uh that they need to get out

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to the polls that this coming Monday.