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Governor Greg Gabbin emerged as the big winner
in the

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primary runoff.

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There will be plenty of votes to make sure we

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pass school choice.

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Results from Tuesday's runoff show in four of
the six

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key house races, Abbott backed candidates
ousted the incumbent.

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The people who are against school choice, uh,
they really

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don't know why.

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They just don't want to have competition in
their schools.

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Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on, hold on,
hold

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on.

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Let's let's take a step back here, Mr.

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Governor.

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We know why we're against the school voucher
scam.

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First of all, the school voucher program as
proposed does

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not utilize our massive surplus at all.

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We got money in the bank right now in Texas

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to pay for our roads, to pay for our
infrastructure,

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and so much more.

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If you want a school voucher program in
addition to

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what we currently have already, we can fund
that through

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our massive surplus.

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But that's not what's happening right now.

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Uh the voucher program, as described as being
proposed, specifically

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sacrifices public education funding away from
our public schools.

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All this while our public schools have already
been defunded

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as it is here in Texas, because a decade ago,

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our legislature used to give more direct
funding to our

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ISDs.

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But that's been refactored because in the past
decade, now

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we've made it more dependent upon your
property taxes that

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defa that uh funds your public schools, which
is a

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lopsided way of funding our local independent
school districts because

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different districts have different amount of
property tax values.

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So it's not equal at all.

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This has really been hurting our public
schools and also

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our public school teacher salaries.

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Case in point, Vicky, a friend of mine who uh

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told me how much money she made before she
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as a public school teacher, I told her, My
God,

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Vicky, that was the same amount of money I
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in my first job out of college.

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We have school teachers retiring with the same
amount of

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salary as an IT guy like myself, with the same

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salary got my first job out of college.

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Things have gotten so bad here in Texas
between underfunding

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our our teachers and our systems and the lack
of

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support that we give them that we have
literally lost

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forty percent of our school staff in the past
two

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years.

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We're also losing at least three schools, uh,
public schools

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in the Plano area in Texas.

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And I hate to sound cynical, but I've seen
this

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movie before, I know what's gonna happen next.

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These schools that we're losing in Plano,
Texas, they're going

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to be sold by the ISD there because they need

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the money, they're going to sell it

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Someone's going to buy it, and then that
person who

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buys those local facilities, they're going to
turn them into

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charter schools.

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And then those charter school owners are going
to want

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the voucher program to support them out.

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Folks, you see what's going on right now.

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This whole thing is nothing more than a scam
to

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privatize our public education system.

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That is what is happening here.

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The school voucher program and the private
privatization of our

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public education system is not the will of the
people.

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It is the will of Tim Dunn and Ferris Wilkes,

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two Texas oil billionaires who want to push
their personal

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Christian national values upon our Texas
politics.

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That is what is happening here.

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And look, I understand that in the past
session, Governor

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Greg Abbott pushed for a bill that would
include both

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a little voucher program binded with an
increase to teacher

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salaries and more money to our ISDs.

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And I understand the concept of negotiation,
but what some

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of you may not realize or not understand here
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the inside baseball up on how local politics
here happens

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in Texas is that we can't trust the governor
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the governor has a superpower called line item
veto power.

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This is really important.

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Understand this.

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The president of the United States has the
ability to

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veto bills as a whole.

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Governors, however, have something beyond
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They have line item veto power, where before
they sign

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a bill, they get the opportunity to reach
inside of

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that bill and then subtract line by line,
sentence by

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sentence, parts of that bill that they do not
like.

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Governor Greg Abbott has a history of abusing
that power

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very much.

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So even if we did want to negotiate and push

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forward an omnibus bill that would contain
both a miniature

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voucher program and an increase to our public.
schools, we

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know what he will do

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We know that he will use his line item veto

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power and subtract out the parts that would
increase the

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funding for our public schools and only keep
the voucher

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program as well and then sign that into law.

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He has done this before with other bills of
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subjects.

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Folks, our public schools in Texas are under
attack right

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now.

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And what we need are Texas State Senators who
will

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stand in support for our public schools and be
against

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the school voucher scam.

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The state house so far has been against school
vouchers.

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As seen in this video, I don't know how long

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they can last with that.

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I don't know.

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We'll only know after November.

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But we need to stop the state senate from
pushing

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the voucher program.

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And I am running to be your Texas State
Senator,

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and I want to stand up for our public schools

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and our public school teachers.

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I hope coming this November you will find my
name

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on the ballot as well as other names.

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And I hope that you look at every name,
including

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my own, and understand who is for and against
our

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public schools.

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My name is Dale Frey.

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I'll be your Texas State Senator for the
Northern Hemisphere

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of Texas and uh state Senate District 30, and
I

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hope you come out and take our school support
very

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seriously.

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Thank you for your time.