we have Paula over be with us here todayPaula do you want to talk about whatoffice you're running 1 i'm running forthe US House of RepresentativesMinnesota 2nd districtpeople who may not be familiar with thatMinnesota has eight representative tothe house we have two senators ourdistrict and I'm in district 2 greatwhat we do you want to run frogsI thinkbasically I see governmentthe two political parties that weekbattling for control of the governmentboth blaming the other side not reallyoffering usand really giving peopleso I'm running up independent candidateI think we need an independent candidatein order to mediate some of thatpolarization I call it the politicalpolarization of the American public it'sbecoming quite severe and we see it ofcourse it basically turned it into abattle of the sexeswhat do you most advocatewell this campaign has really focusedfrom the beginning I ran intothis is our second runand we really have from the beginningfocused on foodour political problem in gauging peoplein our politics making politics maybelook respectable againandtwoto give people meaningful triplets and Ithink that when we've accomplished thatgoal then we willin regards to the education gap is thereany legislation that's out there thatyou would want people to know more aboutwell I'm not focused on education at thefederal levelthe basic fundamental problem with anylegislation at the federal level intendsto create a mandatethe No Child Left Behind thestandardized testing now they're lookingat the Common Core those thingstend to come to us as a mandate ok thisis what you have to do is what schoolbusiness that to do in there goodnot funded and so they create a lot ofconstraints a lot of pressure ondistrict and I don't think that they'reaccomplishingfor the most part I think the federalgovernment would probably get out ofeducationyouone thing that people should definitelydo is don't we've got an election comingup in November young people inparticular have been very absent fromthat part of the way our politicalprocess works is that well it's based onopinion polls right and so they look atthe demographics they look at thepopulation if you don't vote then youropinion really doesn't matter and so youdon't have a voice in our politicalprocess and especially for young womenso one question that we've been askingeveryone we interviewed is are you aBackstreet Boy fan or an insect and ifyou had to pick this year accidentallybecome a question for everybody well youknow can I hate to acknowledge this butI'm actually a new kids on the block andI'm and I'm putting that out there nowbecause I knew it was gonna come upeventually