1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:01,280 It's good to be here. 2 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:02,640 Thank you so much for having us. 3 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:06,000 Just like Stephanie, it was an honor to run to 4 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:07,440 be your Texas State Senator. 5 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:09,520 I ran for Texas State Senate District 30. 6 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:11,520 She ran for 12, and now we're both running for 7 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:12,320 County Commissioner. 8 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:14,960 She's running for C4, I'm running for Precinct 2. 9 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:17,200 Now, I'm not going to cover the infrastructure stuff except 10 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:18,320 we covered all that already. 11 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:19,840 So there's two other things that I want to cover 12 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:20,480 tonight. 13 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,360 Well, the pre uh the Deccan County Commissioner's job is 14 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:24,640 a really big responsibility. 15 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:26,240 There's lots of different things they do. 16 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:28,720 But there's two points of contention I'll bring up next. 17 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:30,480 The first is the fact that we do not have 18 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:32,400 countywide voting on election day. 19 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:36,640 Sounds like a lot of you know that, but just 20 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,520 to rehearse it, you can vote anywhere in the county 21 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:41,680 in the early voting period, but not on the last 22 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:42,560 day of the vote. 23 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:44,800 This is so confusing as so many people we're seeing 24 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:48,080 about 50% of people getting redirected on the voting day. 25 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,080 And this is straight up voter suppression, guys. 26 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:51,360 It's very voter's pressure. 27 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:53,840 We've heard stories of college kids saying, oh man, I 28 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:55,920 uh I gotta be for class, I guess I just 29 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:56,720 can't vote today. 30 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:58,800 There's another story of a guy who is no wheelchair, 31 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,120 and he hydraulically lifted out of his car. 32 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,200 He's on a week machine, by the way. 33 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,640 Wheeled in, got told, sorry, sir, you can't vote here. 34 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:08,640 This is voter suppression. 35 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:10,240 It doesn't have to be this way. 36 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:12,960 Every single one of our county commissioners are Republicans, and 37 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:14,160 that's because of them. 38 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,000 We need it with the County Commissioner's Court. 39 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:17,040 The next thing I want to bring up with the 40 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,360 County Commissioner's Court is 287G. 41 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:20,560 Sounds like a lot of holy. 42 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:21,520 Raise your hands, probably. 43 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:23,360 Has anyone heard of 287G? 44 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:23,920 Yep. 45 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:24,480 Okay. 46 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:28,000 So what that is, is a contract between Denton County 47 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:28,960 and ICE. 48 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:34,240 What 27G does is it deputizes our local police 49 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:36,880 officials as ICE individuals. 50 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,520 Now, this is something that I don't know if you've 51 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:40,240 been watching the news. 52 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:41,600 Have you been seeing what IC has been up to 53 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:42,240 in other cities? 54 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,200 What keeps me up at night is thinking if God 55 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:47,040 forbid we have a president who's saying he's going to 56 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:48,880 go after everything world, he's going to go after the 57 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:49,680 world cities. 58 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,240 If he wants to go after the world colleges, is 59 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:55,600 he going to send these ICE individuals to like UNT? 60 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:57,200 What's going to happen with those kids? 61 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:58,560 Are they going to get thrown in jail? 62 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,160 Because we see how peaceful protesters get thrown in jail. 63 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:02,600 And that keeps me up at night 64 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,320 Because right now Denton County is being sued for a 65 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:07,880 wrongful death uh situation. 66 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:12,120 Uh Keith Aaron Vanderbitter, aged 27, dying in a benton 67 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,600 county jail due to dehydration. 68 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:15,400 Wow. 69 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:20,120 Our Tenton County jails cannot see an influx of people. 70 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,760 And if Ice comes here and they go to UNT, 71 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:24,600 you know those college kids, you know they're gonna protest, 72 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:26,120 and you know they're gonna get locked up. 73 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:28,280 And then we're gonna see more and more lawsuits just 74 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,280 like Keith Aaron Vader veteran. 75 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,280 That's what keeps me on that time. 76 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:34,840 We need to flip the county commissioners court. 77 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:35,720 It's possible. 78 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,840 There are four commissioners and one judge, two commissioners, that's 79 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:40,680 Stephanie and I, and the judge. 80 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:42,440 Uh we don't have a judge yet because it's done. 81 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:56,600 We will put the Devon County Commissioner Court to decide. 82 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,320 So this year very small, there's an election coming up, 83 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,200 um, and we heard from uh the lady who's gonna 84 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:03,880 be in this upcoming election coming up. 85 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:05,800 I'm talking about the election in the middle of the 86 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:06,760 year 2026. 87 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:10,040 So please, depending upon where you live, if you're uh 88 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:12,920 east side, I'm sorry, if you're west side, Denton County, 89 00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:14,760 Texas, please vote for Stephanie. 90 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,160 If you're east side of Denton County, Texas, where I 91 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:18,760 am, please vote for Dale Frey. 92 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:20,920 If you want to learn more information about me, you 93 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:22,680 come to Frey for Texas.com. 94 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:25,720 That's F R E Y for Texas.com. 95 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:27,400 Dale Freyford County Commissioner. 96 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:28,680 Thank you all very much for your time. 97 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,560 Thank you for coming to the time.