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Good evening.

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Thank you so much, Lynn.

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Thank you so much, Adam.

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And thank you, Judy, forever.

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Hi, Judy.

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My name is Candy Claudis Ba and I am running

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for County Commissioner Precinct 2.

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I am, I'll just describe briefly.

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The County Commissioner's Court is kind of
like the city

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council of the county, except we don't have
zoning privileges.

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And we have a lot of say over what happens

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in terms of the federal funding, what happens
in terms

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of our infrastructure, and what happens on
election day.

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So where your polling locations are, how
they're staffed, what

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those hours are, that goes through the county
commissioner report.

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So I'll talk more at length about myself
momentarily because

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I think we're just describing the position
that this is

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what it's running for.

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County Commissioner Precinct 2, that's Denton
County, and most of

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the current thing is within that.

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My name is Dale Fred, and I'm running for the

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position of the Denton County Clerk.

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The clerk is more of a clerical role, so I

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don't I won't have any voting power, but my
job

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is to make sure that you all understand is
what's

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happening to document everything and to be as
transparent as

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possible.

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Because I'll be honest with you, a lot of
people

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tend to know about the city councils, but they
probably

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don't know that much about the commissioner
court.

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I bet a lot of people who don't even know

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that this is even exists.

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And it's something that affects all of us.

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I hope you all vote early.

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Please vote early.

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You can vote anywhere in the county right now.

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During the early voting period, but on the the
last

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day to vote, our county switches up rules.

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So please make sure you vote early.

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Again, my name is Bill Frey.

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If you want to learn more about me and my

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campaign, you can come to Frey for Texas.com.

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That's F R E Y for Texas.com.

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Thank you.

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Ladies and gentlemen, my name ladies and
gentlemen, my name

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is Nick Pappas, and I'm running for Denson
County Judge.

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That position is pretty much just the CEO of
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county.

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It is not a judicial position.

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So I will not be dealing with trials or
misconduct

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or anything like that.

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I will be uh determining what the
commissioner's court votes

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on.

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I'll be determining uh where we spend our
money as

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far as the county.

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What about this one?

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Oh, this one's the worst.

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I'll be determining where the money gets spent
on in

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the county.

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I'll be determining where everybody's
emergency resources go.

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I'll be dealing with interlocal agreements
between the cities, the

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county, and the state.

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I will be the closest thing to the government
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you will be able to interact with whenever you
need

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to.

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Thank you.

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All right, so I've got a couple questions that
oh

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and Georgina.

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All right.

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And my name Serganabu says I am here for Vicky

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Goodwin.

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He's trying to be our next lieutenant
governor.

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So the Lieutenant Governor is one of the most
powerful

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things we have in Texas that often compared to
his

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powerful or more powerful than the governor.

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the governor. Somebody ever passes the
legislator without coming to

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lieutenant's desk

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So, like last year V bicigkygie's still would
have bully

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funded our public schools.

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That Dan Patrick had different priorities.

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So instead of bringing her bill up or even
letting

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it single on your day, he made sure that his

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priorities and his bill went through that
underfunded our schools

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by $9.5 billion.

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And when I say under funded schools by $9.5
billion

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that means it didn't catch up to inflation by
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billion because that's all they were trying to
catch up

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to.

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And it also sets the priorities for SPD in
preparation.

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That's huge.

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Which is one of the things that Dan Hadrick
uses

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as an iron fist to make everybody else listen
if

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you don't do what I say then you don't get

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funding for your district.

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Exactly.

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Oh and it puts the people on committee so it

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decides who goes on the committee.

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This is really important because your bill you
can have

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the best bill ever but if you don't have the

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right person in committee that will bring the
bill up

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for a vote it never has the opportunity to get

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children to make outdoors steps.

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So a lot of bills die that pass the House

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they also die in the Senate because whoever's
on the

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committee just decided that they didn't
approve that bill or

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didn't doesn't like that person.

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So the lieutenant governor's office is very
important and I

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will finish for give such questions.

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Okay.

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Thank you.