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Your first question, you kind of covered it.

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Do you want to skip it?

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That's fine.

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You want to answer it?

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That's great.

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But don't kill a messenger.

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I'm just reading it.

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Number one.

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Alright, you got what is your position on
school voucher?

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Oh, okay.

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Well, this might come as a surprise to you.

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All right, well, let me talk about this real
quick.

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I understand when someone says school choice
or says, hey,

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don't you want to be able to send your kid

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to the school of your choosing?

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Uh I understand how that's attractive.

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And look, if you wanted to have an additional
program

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such as school choice, this legislature should
fund that through

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the big massive surplus that we do very much
have

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here in Texas.

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We're the eighth largest economy in the world.

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We can pay to fix our roads, we can pay

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for infrastructure, we can even pay for a
school choice

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program if you really wanted to.

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But that's not the way this is built.

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This is specifically built to sacrifice money
from our public

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education system.

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In plain LISD, for example, we've just lost, I
think,

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was it three or four of our public schools?

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Yeah, in Plano.

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Um they're shutting down, and I've seen this
movie before.

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I think I know what's gonna happen next.

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Plain OIST is gonna sell those buildings
because they need

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money.

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Some fat cat rich billionaire is gonna
purchase those buildings,

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they're gonna turn them into charter schools,
and then they're

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gonna want the voucher program, right?

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What you're seeing right now is a
privatization of our

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public education system, and we need to stand
against this.

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All right, if if you have a problem, or you

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if you think you have a problem with something
that's

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being taught in the public schools, I've got
good news

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for you.

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Your public uh your ISD board are elected
officials, you

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can go to your PTA meetings, you can meet your

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teachers, you can elect your uh school board
members, all

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right.

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But but trying to implement a voucher program
that would

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completely end all public uh public education
to all Texas

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is not the way.

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So I stand strong uh harshly against the
school voucher

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program in its entirety.

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Thank you.

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So your next question: what do you think about
school

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voucher?