 The idea is that the Pledge of Allegiance let me speak forward. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. These are my standing. And, ladies and gentlemen, let's hear it for our veterans and our veterans' families. In the U.S. today, so let's give them one more round of applause. I would like also for y'all to remain standing for a moment of silence. For our Democratic Party family members who have recently passed, who are bedridden, who need our prayers, who need us in our hearts. A moment of silence for our Democratic Party family. Let's also celebrate our Democratic Party family members that are celebrating their keeps again. Let's start it y'all. The agenda. Their motion. Their second. The discussion. All in favor. All in favor. All right, we have an agenda. Now there is one thing that I'd like to point out. At every meeting, we welcome it to our Democratic Party family members. People that have decided to step up and fight for our Democratic Party family. Today, I'd like to welcome them into our Democratic Party family, Nicholas Maddox. Nicholas, are you here with us today? Go forward. Nicholas, I want you to tell us, you apply to be a Democratic Party QC chair. And today, we have a record number. More Democratic, more QC chairs. Today, and in the history of the Democratic Party Party, we have a record number. Are you a Democrat? I'm a Democrat because my grandfather, inspirational person in my life, trust me, verified. I have verified that this is for you to us. Let's gather time. Every motion to approve Nicholas's appointment. And a discussion. All in favor. All in favor. All right, Nicholas here. So we're going to give you the local office. Attitudes ready to right hand and repeat after me. I, Nicholas, promise to defend the Constitution of the United States of America. Revolve to the best of my ability. Revolve to the best of my ability. Revolve to the state of Texas. Revolve to the state of Texas. And we'll fight to uphold to uphold. The very county Democratic Party, the very county Democratic Party, continue to rule, continue to rule. And I will block walk, and I will block walk. Vote back. Get out the vote. 7 o'clock you all. So we're going to have a little conversation with the next governor of the state of Texas. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2018 primary election debate series. Sponsored by the very county Democratic Party and our social media host and guest and sponsor, Livestream Media. Let's hear it for Livestream Media ladies and gentlemen. We're now going to highlight the Democratic primary election for Texas government. There are nine candidates in the field competing for the Democratic nomination that you, the voters, will decide on our seats. So let's welcome our candidates this evening one by one. First, we have here tonight Andrew White, Eric Davis, and three names. I am the chairman of the very county Democratic Party and your moderator for this evening's debate. So here are the rules. Each candidate will be given three minutes for an opening statement, and then we will ask a series of questions. They will each have up to two minutes to respond. They will end the debate with closing remarks. Each candidate will have three minutes for their closing remarks. We have a timekeeper, Iain Straub, right there. He will let you know when your time is about to be up. The red is up. So let's get the show started. What do y'all say? Okay, let's begin. Questions? Well, with opening remarks, that's right. We will begin with Andrew and come this way. Andrew, you have the floor. Okay, thank you. All right. All right, good. Is anybody ready for a new governor out there? Yeah! My name is Andrew White. I'm a common sense Democrat, and I'm running for Insanity and Reason Back to State Government, which is, what's a new thing? It hasn't been there in a while. I'm kind of listening to her. Let me tell you what. The governor of the Insanity governor was governed in the same exact style as President Straub, right? He's focused on the extremists. He's focused on the fringe voters in his party. And he's completely ignored the rest of us and 28 million in Texas. Right? Who do they tell the governor? Average governor is exactly like Straub. On taxes, he ignores the economy. On education, he ignores the teachers and the principals. He ignores the doctors. He ignores the hospital administrators. On climate change, right? He ignores the scientists. On women's health. He doesn't listen to women. He tells the women what to do, right? On every topic that matters. Criminal justice reform. Over-pronged. All of these important issues. Our governor simply doesn't listen to the ban. Whatever habit does it will be. You know what? Math will catch up. It always does. Let me give you a quick review on the math. Our $100 billion state budget, 70% of it is two things. Education and health care. On education, I'll give a $5,000 teacher pay raise to attract and retain the best teachers in Texas. That's $5 billion commercial property tax loophole. On health care, we'll expand Medicaid. It's a $6 billion annual check and we need to cash it to protect our hospitals and protect our people. Lots more to talk about, not a lot of time. I want to tell you why I'm here. I'm an entrepreneur. I've never wanted to be a politician. I never thought about being a politician. So I started a business 15, 20 years ago. Sold my house around the 1930s. Put all the money into starting a business and into a business group. I sold that business five years ago. Five months ago, my father passed away. A lot of y'all know that my father was governor of Mark White in 1988. Some of y'all voted for him. I still remember him. But I'm here because I gave the eulogy at his funeral. And I got to stand up and tell a couple of thousand people about how big my father was. He made the top decisions that made Texas better. No passive play, teacher salaries, smaller class sizes in the CBL Hall. He made those decisions even though he knew he could lose his job. He would lose his reelection if he did. But he made them anyway. That made Texas better. His first vote of his funeral was Governor Abbott. And I knew at that time that Governor Abbott did not govern Texas like my father did. He did not do right and risk the consequences. And that's why I'm running for governor. I'm a real talker because that's what we're going to have tonight on this panel is real talk. My name is Senator Davis. I am an educator. I do know how to fight for you. The $5,000 is great for what about those returning teachers that have a problem with their TRS and their ERS. Because now that their insurance is going up, how do they afford to believe it? I know how to fix that. We fix it by making sure that corporate America pays its fair share of the tax with education. We can even add a 3% to the 27% of the lottery that we get combined as an extra billion dollars. We can do a lot with that billion dollars teacher. Now we'll run down our resume because it is limited. Okay, I'm in a mirror. I'm a police junior. At the school board trustee, I am an educator. I sat on the North Texas Super Bowl to meet many, many crime commissions and things like that now. Most of all that I am so excited about, I've been a community activist. I get out on a piggy bank with the teachers and the firefighters, the flight attendants. These are the things that build community. I know how to put the streets, put them in the streets. More than taxes, we rebuild roads and we rebuild highways in the area in which I was in the mirror. We made economic development. We had a full of people in the areas that I lived in and that I was in the mirror because the simple fact is we needed jobs. So we invited corporations to come in to make sure that they had the higher input in that area where we lived and worked and played. So I know how to get it done. Experience counts because when people are getting ready again, you bring in a 41, 43 million dollar workshop. This year, money is not about everything. It's some of it. But it's about the people because it is a movement that is going on in America and the people are tired of not getting out of their homes. And they are standing up saying that we do not take it anymore. And guess what? I am that soldier on the ground. It reminds me when I was a dentist dog better. I learned that we leave no one alive. Because the people in America look at my hand up and we as people I stand together and say no more. We take this reminder of it because we empower you first. So that said, I am going to take my seat. Hopefully I will follow my campaign. Yes, I am very energetic but I am serious about this business. I am taking care of Texas. Texas has suffered and the hands of Greg Adams are all enough. And when Andrew said that he is right he is more extreme than Trump. That's right. Of course, if I am going to go instead of allowing Trump to bring a wall on our doors no, since Greg Adams like to sue people guess what? Let some Trump keep their wall on our doors. They support that. Thank you, next governor. I started this journey, which one is set now so I can actually see bright lights. I started this journey much too long. And we have now just 25,000 miles on our car. Every corner of Texas 63 counties as of today. Because we actually have a strategy called the 254 strategy within our campaign. Because it's going to take all 254 counties. We must listen to every Texas. Not just the big cities. Not just the real Greg Valley. Every Texas. Some say, well, don't go to the right counties. I am not going to get anything. Well, let me tell you that we are going to get something. Because as I have been traveling let me tell you what I have found. We do not have a blue wave about to hit Texas. We don't. We have a blue tsunami about to hit Texas. The engagement of Democrats that in 2018 I think a lot of us woke up on November 7th of 2016 and it wasn't a journey. It wasn't a journey. I keep thinking it was, but it's not. Then we had a special session where we talked about toilets in which trees to cut down. Our education our health care the gerrymandering campaign finance reform immigration, you name it it's all in the toilet and the only thing our governor cares about is who's sitting on one. That is not how we run government. We don't play the list of enemies. You need a leader. I have five businesses in Dallas. Three are on profits. Before I moved to Dallas I was in 2005. Before then I was a mediator with the department later. As a mediator you know you have to bring people in who don't like each other. And usually during a mediation process they don't even like you. I'm used to it. It is for everyone to the table as a right and a place at the table. Let's find our common ground and build from there. But there are certain things I will not budge on. But many one being women's rights. We need to refund planning parents. Make sure that we don't limit women's access but that we actually go back and undo what's been done. That's what you need in Texas.com. So that's my qualifications. I guess in ten years I was a precinct chair like many of you people here down southwest Houston. It's a good life. We do all the grunt work knocking on doors, getting out in the bad weather. It's weird. It's not so much. We've all met those times before. But to me, real with people like you guys who get the voters out to the polls we need to thank all of you guys for everything that you did. The governor, all of you did. Parties honoring one another with our candidates. And this past year we are an embarrassment to the other 49 states. That's why I got into applications. I'm self-employed. I've always done consumer electronic stuff mostly because there's always a new toy out there. There's always a new puzzle. A new way to get things done. And that's what I hope to bring to the governor's office as well. When you do the same thing over and over again, you get the same result. And hopefully we've learned that lesson by now. It's been 24 years that we've elected a Democrat to any state office and we've got to start doing things differently. We've got to start teaching a common language with Republicans out there because we're going to need Republican voters in order to kick president Reagan out of office. Yes. And what I recommend suggesting and recommending to the state party, to the national party, what I call the new pro-life, the Republicans of the townhouse that they're pro-life for years to years but they're not. They're pro-birth, after that you're on your own. I don't think that a Democrat of pro-life will be supportive of people not only through the birthing process but afterward. I've got more money to give to them. Woo! My name is Muthila Desin. I'm running for governor. But before I do that, I want to greet you all. I also want to greet my right-handed advent tracker. You all be nice to him that way. They have a decent amount of money. But I've got to be nice to him because we show him how we accept everybody as Democrats. So, thank you very much for showing me your rights to Matt. But, uh, I was born right here in San Antonio. I'm in Santa Rosa Hospital and I grew up on the west side because at that time I was seven years old. At that time we were very poor. There was no big streets, our drive, our face sidewalks and our side of the block because we lived way earlier this time. I was the eighth child of migrant workers. A lot of my life, I lived at San Antonio all the way up to this year. About seven years old, my mom decided no more migrant workers because it took me away from my education. Back then, there were no exceptions for coming in as migrant workers. In October or December we didn't come in at the beginning and couldn't come in. So my mom said, no more. This child is going to the last two children about to go to school. So one of the neat things that happened on that is I learned very much about warning people in school and the changes they made. I'm a stronger people than you personally. Start out right and how to go up all the way. If you start out in a good way you're going to want to continue. And after that, I went to college. Again, no funds, no way to get through college. And I only heard about grants and loans the last year of my school. So it took me six years to go to a four year school because I worked my way through. Sometimes two or three jobs at a time. A few hours a year, a few hours there and I worked several jobs. And then I went to the military. I spent a little time in the military and then I was with the National Guard for the total of about 13 years. After that, I was blessed to go and be a federal agent. And being a federal agent, I was also sent overseas to open up an embassy for my department and to do a couple of little things. I also went to other countries to do intel for the United States. Then after that, I stepped down for my role. Shepherds are already out. Let me hurry. The last 13 years have been the proudest year of our county. Seven largest departments in the United States. Over 2,800 employees and 153 million in budget. Don't tell me no Latina can handle working with people and having big budgets. We can do that. Any Democrat, a Republican member of Congress and we get that back money and we can only do that what they care about and with all that income inequality we will never resolve anything else. Education. So we fail by not loading worker tax to the government. It makes again 49.8 million last year that it is. One is the same. I'm about to make it 498 million in this week. If you go to look at the long run like I understand early about the week talking about the last year it's still up to the shortfall that we have in the education fund. It should be an education fund a lot of people don't know. The big impact we have on the governor is the science research fund. There's been only 11,000,000 106,000 in the last few years. He has so many different programs that are entitled under the governor and under the normal with the research and finance. So we need to put those on back into the education and we need to stop 22 million in the balance program 20 million in the private school Now the bottom standard of education is that we should not be in taxpayer money on time So we need to come back to funding education about 21% of the education fund That's what we're doing. And we have to come back to funding education even though our competition is in real estate. So that's the stream that we have and the governor will lead me out with those funds and I have always been a good person for the people. It's going to take more than two minutes to tell you how I've already screwed it up. So I'm going to talk about the solutions. What? The voucher system will never pass my desk without a reason. As a convention then we can say since July that we need to close the loop on large corporations that's 5 to 6 billion dollars a year that we're missing out on with that in education. We need to look at our current lottery system. Remember when we all looked at the lottery and it was supposed to all go towards education? As in like something extra maniac as we say in Louisiana? Yeah it wasn't. They put it in on top and then they take it out at the bottom. Lottery money put it in and stays in. We also need to look at the legalization of medical and recreational cannabis. All types of processes and the casinos we are losing way too much money to New Mexico's Oklahoma and Louisiana. We're in here and all that money goes towards education and you don't put it in but we also need to start treating our teachers as the professionals they are. The test uses a form of punishment towards the student, the teacher, the school and the district. We need to change that and test our children at the beginning of the school year so we have time to make any deficiency they may have in their educational journey. Testing now when there's only 2 to 3 weeks in school what are you going to do if you look out? That's not how we need to treat our children we need to use to any testing because when there's a problem it's a federal level but how we test and how we use to test is determined by Texas. We're not going to dwell on it too much except to say that I'm from Houston. The Houston Independent School District is talking about having to make out for a shortfall on their budget next year several million dollars because they can't get funding. The teacher school district where 80% of the students are under the poverty zone and we had to write a check for somebody else and now we're going to end up maybe closing schools, firing people whatever it is. Money is a huge issue. Another solution though among the many that you'll hear today we've got to start teaching parents how to be better teachers. So the first and best teacher a kid ever had the parents, in fact but there are too many parents out there who got a bad education and you tell them they got to help their kids they don't know where to start they never passed 10th grade algebra and they forgot what 6th grade history was all about but what we got to do is to teach parents to be better better teachers teaching the curriculum teaching kids discipline teaching kids time management and that kind of thing all of these important character issues parents don't know where to start there are too many parents like that who don't know where to start if you take a parent who's making minimum wage and have three kids at home that mom or that dad is motivated to do what he or she can to make sure your kids accept one school. So we got to get parents more involved in that that's kind of the idea sitting in the middle of the room forever now we got to talk about that secondly two years tuition three in our community colleges every high school graduate who wants to skill and make a good living not everybody is made for college but everybody is made to learn a good living so we all know that the Texas rate of very high education and of course we all know that not that this rates in the first second or second grade but we all know that how you start is how you live and we have a super day at kindergarten the child will begin to understand and join the education first let me read that out and tell you about some of the things that have to be mentioned besides all the things that have to be mentioned no government should have to have the court to tell them to do the right thing for their education the courts have told Abbott twice that they need to do something for our education that is one of our primary education have to have the court to come and tell us you're doing something wrong changes and besides all the other stuff that's been around we all know that pretty much the same way I honestly believe that the budget is a moral document for a state and we have to decide what our priorities will be our priorities need to be job play and health care those are the things that are important to all of that so our priorities should be there and we need to continue I'm going to say a lot of the same things but I don't want to go over it but of course we want community college education and of course we want community education but we have to look at the educational way that we are funding education in order to look at our sales tax our sales tax are hurting our tax by our educational taxes but it's a fail that's on many levels so we can do I think we need to start with our teachers that's the way we can do to help our teachers we need to spring the teachers' union I think we can get rid of our state spring to our teacher union there are the ones that would come up with a plan there are the ones that are there every day there are the ones that can tell us what needs to be done because they're in that classroom five days a week there are the teachers telling us what needs to be done I want to listen to the teachers I want them to tell me ah this is what we need to be done this is what you need to do this is how we're going to do it this is our plan we need more money of course we need to have a state income tax right now all the millions of businesses in the state of Texas only 124,000 pay any taxes no we need to have a state income of course like I was saying but with this and that we need to have a state income tax with that money to the state income tax we can solve so many problems education of course I know that with the teacher aren't you able to have the teacher at my hand sit right here with the teacher as well we're failing our children think about that we're failing we're ruining the children what could be worse what could be worse it's shameful our economy in Texas is doing just great great new jobs, what's going on things are good right in our schools in the bottom 10 it should be the top 10 we should be first in Texas it should be first education if done right is job creation also isn't it it's also job creation so here's what our governor said here's his leadership he signed a budget that had a requirement in the budget over the next two years so if that budget can pass and now he came out with a solution that says he's going to count those property taxes and only two and a half percent those numbers don't quite add up houses if you can't have hope it doesn't work our state's gone out of the education business 10 years ago the state paid for half of our students education today it's a paper 38% of all the rest of it on the property tax issues so if you fix education in Texas you've got to fix it by spending money wisely you spend $800 million on poor security not only the poor, it's very sure that's a federal issue not a state issue that points to our education we close people that walk out of our care we would spend the evening we don't need to raise taxes we should spend as money wisely but if you fix education I'm predicting it will be a healthcare question coming up everybody soon if you can fix healthcare then you can fix property taxes thanks a lot, appreciate it I'm going to give you two gifts for you the first and it is on house care house care that we know that made you conserved all taxes where do you stand on the affordable care act much indirectly the affordable care act needed to be fixed it needed to be repaired but what we're trying to do is destroy it just like social security when it was created it looks nothing like what it looks like today looks nothing like what it was invented when it first came out we tweak it, we make it better if you have a program like an ACA of course it's going to have to be tweaked we knew that going in it wasn't going to be perfect but instead the republicans just want to scrap it and put more people on the other cheerleaders I am a proponent or either a medic here for all or a single payer system I have more than you I know more trust that there will be a way to get their email let's try to figure it out so we're going to figure it out for them in Texas and the second phone call I think will be to the federal government to ask for our Medicaid expansion about it 28 million people without access to healthcare will be denied that and the only reason we denied it is because Obama came up with it in the Democrats but mainly because it was Obama's name on it they stood on the necks of people in order to improve this glorious point and just so you know the first phone call had to make this to my she doesn't mean it when the governor is talking that's why it's a second phone call it's not the first so there you go the medical system is beyond repair allusion between the insurance industry the medical industry pharmaceutical I think there's no hope for it anymore so I think what we need to do is to join the rest of the civilized world we are the only country in the civilized world that does not offer universal healthcare to a citizen it's human right we've got to start treating our people as if they're human beings there's more points with their T-Party people and we've got to turn that around we've got to get the other states to put with us how long Bernie Sanders and the first five that I wish them I'd be able to come there's five there two things that come so what does that tell you this is what we need people that want to care about education and healthcare I'm sure you know that since planetarium clinics were closed over a hundred pregnant women had died we have medical deserts in some areas of Texas there is no place where they can go for a hundred laps to get care and I have a task force going on trying to figure out why over a hundred pregnant women have died I can very easily tell you why they died without having a task force there's no medical care nearby that's why they died because they didn't have a place to go to where they could get some help so my time is up but I do believe I have 30 seconds I do believe in universal healthcare and again I'm over 65 so of course I want to be taken care of in my 90s and 100s not yet I still have a lot of ways to go of course I want to be taken care of so you do need to pay attention to what is that a couple billion not million, billion dollars back into Texas that was the money that we gave to the government, the federal government so why don't we take our money back and we all agree on that if it only happened because of ego you're doing it I'm not taking it nobody should put ego above the health of the people in Texas thank you I've already put 25,000 it's important to be serious why? because that's where we come in to talk about healthcare and I can't tell you how many people have signed up for Obamacare and dropped it the deductibles, she had a 12 but she still had to pay 300 dollars a month for the asthma because she'll never meet those postage and deductibles so she just dropped out of Obamacare so it doesn't matter if we expanded people had it but they can't make the deductibles in Obamacare what use is it in the state to be dealt with in Obamacare? all community needs a hospital can't just come back in and put a life back on those jobs are gone the community suffers that money is having a reputation that goes beyond just the healthcare needs it's going into the community itself and let's talk about this what do we have here in Obamacare? it's called the ER like the ER there are no more expensive ways to get healthcare and in the ER we look best at our system in the world but that's not the right way to get healthcare I heard a story of a man who was having his own problems he did the exact right thing in the ER and he had a choice and he couldn't afford a medicine in the ER he couldn't give them the 90 dollar bill they're allowed to give 900 dollar bills out of the ER it is worth taking in and making sure you're not waiting to get you back out make sure you're back out on the street and until it was having mental problems we went back to the next day and it did the exact same thing and you know what? you got picked out again and you went back and this went on he was doing the right thing he spent 90 thousand dollars taking care of this man for the $900 bill that doesn't make common sense that's where we have to fix this problem that's what we're still at thank you first of all I've been in the University of healthcare and for the next couple of years I wish to get the University of healthcare the first thing I'll do is drop all the losses that we had in the ER second of all I will go and accept any kind of expansion so we can get those hundreds of billions of dollars to make sure that if like the kids on the chips $200,000 on my head we can get that on the chip over 700,000 Texans if we go without insurance medical brands go up from $100 to over $300 a day rules, areas, can I get medical care because we had planned care and a lot of the rules there that they had that they needed those fellows now we've got a living being ready to be put in jail if they do such facilities like that you cannot have an extreme number like that if you really care about people second of all I think what they call a long care originally was property care a barman just took property care and tweeted and made it work better I believe the fellows got it sent because he took property care and made it work that's what they have to say about it so maybe I didn't want to tell you because somebody made it better so when we say when the republicans says that all the property care agents do they think they're great so let's give credit to what credit is due we age out I think that it's possible that we might because it's definitely all of the garbage so what we've got to do is put together and find out how to make it work like I said you've got to be our age to come together and come around so we can figure out how to do that way so simply a problem so far we've discussed public education talked about health care now we talk about peace share with us so don't greet jobs in south texas how are you going to greet jobs in south texas in pre-sindustry I'm down with the way here that's the one thing another thing we've got to do is to first of all businesses expand and they grow because not because of generosity to anybody else but for their own profit they go where the business is to consumers which you've got to do first of all you raise the minimum wage up to $15 an hour that gives you thousands or maybe millions of consumers who can actually afford to buy the goods and services that these businesses offer there have been several studies down the one that I remember I reminded of was up in Seattle where they raised the minimum wage up there and there was great money among all the restaurant owners up there they said they couldn't afford it well they found out some of those workers those minimum wage workers could actually afford to go out and eat dinner once in a while and the restaurant business boom up there it was kind of a false economy to say that so many of these businesses cannot afford it's a false economy secondly and this is more long term but we've got to improve our education system that feeds into everything right now the state of Texas has basically full employment 3% unemployment rate 5% of the students in our schools are food insecure when you got so many people the people are working they're working these minimum wage jobs but they can't afford to be consumers that doesn't make any sense at all we've got to turn that around I'm providing more consumers to the businesses the next step is we have a full minimum wage so come in to me that says we're bringing the jobs on the backs and the cost of the poor in this state and that's not the way we need to do it one of the things we need to do is better education better transportation better transportation and better tolerance look at all the big businesses that are looking somewhere right now it's Amazon before that it was Toyota before that there were others and what did they ask for we want to go around good schools the second thing they said we want good transportation public transportation and the third thing they said we want our folks to be accepted tolerance and diversity when I was a sheriff in Dallas County I found out that the 2010 census indicated that there was over 230 languages spoken in New York, Texas English and Spanish were about 200 what is that telling us that there's a lot of diversity among us and we need to start accepting diversity and one of the things that large businesses ask for is tolerance and let us look at the talent that is available by letting us take the diversity and then tolerance that is accepted there we need to go ahead and bring big business but not at the expense of the back of the worker we don't need to attract them with low wages we need to attract with little wages 46 counties in South Texas I think I brought them in every single one probably chapter 2 what we need to do to create jobs in South Texas we need to start moving away from an oil based fossil fuel evasion economy employing a renewable energy economy that there will be time to be down to Brownsville as you see them sitting on the dock they're built overseas and they're sitting on the dock why can't they open a man happy great job the same as in San Francisco San Francisco is $25 do you know what it is today? San Francisco is $25 you still pay the same price for a breath and you're going to get a lift like you are so the first thing we have to do is we have to raise the minimum wage the minimum wage affects $200,000 that's not going to move the needle it's important it's not going to move the needle the first thing as governor without veto any bathroom bill that comes across my dad you know why? bathroom bills are job killers there's no portion of 500 companies that are moving to Texas with a discriminatory bathroom bill so we have to protect that and if we don't reflect one of these people here our governor will sign that bill the second thing is Texas is the energy capital of the world if you want to move the needle on jobs it's going to have to involve energy alternative energy or traditional energy either way we need to expand our alternative fuels and our investment in those technologies Texas needs to leave in the technology of energy and that takes the governor's full lead in that second thing or the third thing is infrastructure just a day just turned out every highway plant that had ever been put together because we couldn't go longer to these until roads you know and now the people get the way of traffic even longer it's not like an adult either I'm really getting the working back you know like on time and what I want to do is I want to build those roads and if it takes a toll let's do the toll but here's the deal We're the bonds, we're pay off, we're put it through as a way. That's the deal. That's the deal. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Okay, south and south Texas, and the course was asked, what type of business would we bring? I went up here and said, well, first of all, we've got to increase the minimum wage. Well, if you don't have a job, you can increase the minimum wage. And out of that area, there's kind of room. So, I was looking at some research on reversible houses, and that area sometimes has a lot of problems in that area. So, what we would do is, there was military, industrial, reversible houses, plants, which creates jobs. We would get the water from our oceans that's on our coast, and we purified it. That way, Texas would not have the experience of drought anymore, because now we're creating fresh water. We're putting people to work in these streets, pipes, they're laying pipes, they're digging holes. We're putting them to work in industrial type positions which pay very good wages. That's how you create the good jobs that pay them good wages, because we've got to have the time to be able to fix it. Also, we talked about toll roads. I don't like toll roads, but I use them a lot because of where my school is that I teach at. But, I've got a plan. If we're going to have these toll roads, most of these people in China owns our toll roads. So, if I can't, Texas invested those toll roads and get interest and dividends back just like those corporations did. If you invested in it, you get a dividend check just like those guys do. But the good thing is, Texas owned it. Not China. Then, when the buzzer paid off, you'd have made some money, and the road becomes brutal. That's how you create those jobs. You don't have to spend $8,000 an hour. You're putting people to work. You're building infrastructure that we all want to use, and you need to make some money out of it. Thank you. One, Laura, I spoke about, I see that as, two, we need to invest in infrastructure. If we don't invest in infrastructure, businesses are going to move here. We need a public transportation. I agree with everything everyone up here is saying, except one thing. When I do believe renewable energy, we have to invest in renewable energy, and we have to remain number one and show the rest of the U.S. how it's done. Instead of being active, we have to be active. The one thing I don't agree on is toll roads. I am not a proponent of toll roads. If we're using public roads, there's a way we can fund it. We just have to do it. But no, toll roads, I personally, I call them roads for the rich. Because you got to have a lot of money to get on. And what you're doing is, is you're creating a set of roads for a surfer of people in the forum, enforcing everyone else to be on the congested side. Where they're wasting gas and oil, they're putting their emissions from their car, everything. I'm not a proponent of toll roads. Fill the roads and let everybody ride on to get to work. Good to work. Before we go to question number four, we're going to do some speed data. I'm going to ask you to raise your hand if you agree. Do you know? No. Raise your hand if you do. Raise your hand if you are pro-labor unions on this question too. Next speed data question. Are you pro-choice? Maybe TQIA writes. For question number four, we're going to talk about veterans. Go first. What would you do? I have a nice piece of property obtained by the Texas Veterans Land Board. There's a couple of issues that are coming up that are not so good for veterans. So those are the ones we need to discuss and those are the ones we need to look at. Honestly, when you ask a person to go spend their life and maybe die, you should be able to have something when they come back. Some of our enlisted folks have the equivalent of minimum wage for their salary. And when I was in and even now, about 10 years ago when I was talking to some of the veterans, because you stay on National Guard forever, I think they have an extension of 10 years to stay on there after you get out. Some of those enlisted folks were on food stamps and then they come out and have no terms. We need to start paying attention as we have them for other things. When our folks go out and do something for us, when they come back, we need to have something for them. And we need to look at the VA and cooperate and work with our government so we can better them. Yes, they can have a program but we need to better them and even cooperate and help them to do it better in Texas. That's what I'm thinking. There are several things I think Texas can do to help veterans and Sheriff Valdez mentioned one of them and the VA. The VA doesn't offer for veterans like myself. I care in distance. One of the ways that Texas can help is they can provide that eye care and dental care for the military veterans. I think that's a good way. We're already in from the VA with the state. When I bought my first house out of Maynard, I went to the Texas Veterans Land Board to borrow the money. At that time, the Texas Veterans Land Board was lending the money correct to a private, I think the state Veterans Land Board There are many number of ways that we can help our veterans to supplement that they're already getting from the VA or from try care. There's a way right now that I think is especially important. I hired the Iraq War Veteran to run the business and that young man in the course of 4 maybe 5 years that he worked with me that young man lost 3 of his friends in suicide and he would go into the office and say my friend just and then he'd come back a couple of months later and say the same thing and it was just happening in real time. We literally know at that time what epidemic that we really were facing. But today we do we do something about it. The PTSD is a real problem. And you know what? It takes real money to fix that real problem. And that's the sort of leadership that I would like to know about. Thank you. As a dentist on a bit I will tell you something personal about myself. Okay. I went to the VA and I'm 3 years counselor for it. I went for several times they kept telling me I have to go out on the economy and get another doctor and they just started working out and got another 20 minutes and 30 days they allowed me to go out. But then we looked at it and it still takes another 30 years I think. This will have my 17 year old mom and dad and I'll be there. They gave me the same check and everything. So I'm going to be there. The opportunity to make sure that we really process faster than what it is to take is to be a dentist and see you should not take your boy by the new date. They talked to me and they said that could be any doctor that's in your area and they will be able to be a doctor by the VA. That way we can take care of them. Also another thing that I'm going to say is that in the United States they want to do a VA that takes us on a crazy route. That way in the United States they don't want to fight patients because they don't want to deal with them. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I've got a lot of people that are fighting the ground that have been used to react to this conversation. I actually got a dozen of these experience, not just in the years, but in the future. That's the matter. But we're looking to ask you all to look here to bring out the most beautiful people in the world who have no name. Who don't need to be the shopper world. But it's so fun. We've got a big decision here. It's a good hand that's up here. I'll be frank, I'll be better. I'll be one of the people in the champion that knows how to fight and has been fighting more than 10, 15, 20 years. I've been on the ground, ladies and gentlemen. I can tell you, it's real out here. Many of you out here know who this is. It's the three-team chair. The three-team does it. You're educators. You're a person's partner. You know what it takes to get this job done. And I'm that person that will get this job done and I love it and I'm passionate about it. It's engrained in me. I'm not afraid of getting at it. And I have been saying it all across my social media. As soon as we go another day, I do have a challenge for getting at it. A challenge we took public debate just to have it. And now I'm waiting for a response. That's all I'm going to say. Please, thank you for coming to say that. Visit me at Mircidrid Davis, the number 4, txgov.org. Mircidrid Davis, txgov.org. Or give me your Facebook. Mircidrid Davis, see you. Guys, go to Facebook. You'll see what I'm doing every day. I'm writing. I'm writing. I'm writing about the dinner fact. We'll win this 2018 cycle. And I'll be your governor. I'll be your governor. And I'll be your great-grandfather. First of all, thank you all for coming out. It's a crowd like this that I see all across the country. And this is what's going on with the tsunami as we're talking about this today. Woo! But let's talk about one question that rarely gets asked. Which TFA has actually already looked together and ready to take it to Greg Evans? And that's our campaign. We already are fully set. We've been going on it just since July. We already have our strategy for victory all the way to November. We have the knowledge that we know we have to go to 254 counties. You can't fly over. You've got to drive through. You have to stop. You stop in the town squares, all over Texas. And yes, some people ask you, are you serious? You're a good friend. You go to Jacksonville. Yeah, I'll walk you down the aisle. Are you sure you know where you are? I'd like there's a different friend there. We have a policy. We have a solution. We have a passion. We have the courage. We already know where our offices are going to be around the state when we open our build-off, so that's where it's our merit. We are already on the ground. We are ready. You can't just say, I can be an Evan. You've got to show people that you can be an Evan. And that's what our campaign is about. And with your health, and with your vote, and no matter who you vote for, vote. Talk to your friends, talk to your neighbors, talk to the people at church, talk to the guy that's standing in front of you at the grocery line. You'd be surprised to see a different person actually out there. Some of them are just afraid to come out. About, about the people at the grocery line at the grocery line at the grocery line. People, talking to the people. That's the way the story works because we are not being read at the state. We are going to vote in the state. The message of the campaign is that it's the governor who takes the campaign world of my life. They do this because it's an adoration One thing I will begin to you, I mean we all say it, I say it too that we're going to beat Craig Evans, beat Craig Evans by talking to and listening to Republicans out there in the real world. We've got to talk to one another, but we don't do that. There's too much tribalism, there's too much name calling, there's too much activation out there. And that's why I started to talk earlier about what I call the new pro-life. Democrats don't like to hear that, but let me explain it to you. I think this issue will convert a lot of Republicans and get one of us elected government. New pro-life. You first of all roll any way to fill out the book. I won't challenge that. But Republicans have been telling us for years that they're pro-life. They are not pro-life. They are pro-verb. And after that you're on your own. The one thing to do pro-life, the Democratic idea of do pro-life is that there is life after birth, and we will afford that life. We will oppose capital punishment. We will oppose the old war. How about widespread poverty and ignorance? Those are life issues. And our Democratic Party, we've got to start threatening those issues. We've got to say it. We've got to speak it in the language that Republicans will understand and will respect. And they will convert it because a lot of them, a lot of them are just as fed up with Greg Abbott as you and I are. But we've got to speak their language and you don't call them a Democrat. You don't call them a newborn Democrat. They're going to say, they're going to tell you, I'm still a Republican. But we've got to convert people and we've got to get them understanding that we have a lot more in common with one another than we have separated. And all the pain calling, all the tribalism, and all this dualism that we've been going through for the last generation now, that comes to an end. We can get together. We can get a real-life, populist governor and government in office and again. We can do that. And this is probably the best opportunity that we've had in many, many years now. We've got to take advantage of it. And God gave each one of us one mile for two years. We all need to listen more to our neighbors and listen to the GOP people out there who want to change just like we do. Joe Monbeau, Joe Professor, WUF. Thank you all very so much for being here. I know that there are several places you could be from there but you're interested enough to be here. All of us are going to drop in part of this. And everywhere you go, we see the energy and the U.S. that's now coming. We've worked off our balance with Virginia. All of those have had to change. And it's all happening in the last few years. We can't change the hands of every Texan that I've liked it. Can't change the hands of anyone. It's the precinctures, the people in the world, the people talking to each other, the people knocking on the doors of those other people that are going to have one of us in their life. But I do want to say that in 2004, God was quite republicans. And at that time, I came in and God's unless it was God's passage at a time, it was not really their passage in their life that we're living in. There was a change coming down, pushing on and down at the time, it was totally really bad for them. Really bad for all of us. But it happened because the common everyday people started living something. I am glad to say that I'm involved by the common everyday people that AFL-CI are known as endorsement. The kind of character that we're used to, that African Americans have to get down and have a voice. All of us down to earth folks have a voice. And I want to say that all of those folks are continuing to say to me, we won't work and we won't make this happen. It is time for a change. Most of us are fed up. Some of those that we've heard, you've all heard, we'll make that happen. That is the way things are here. We're all of it. And so, I'm fed up with that too and I'm ready for a new Texas, a Texas that includes followers and helps us all to be the common folks that Texas knew what to do and knew what to make of it. Thank you very much. I'm not running up the road. We ran the political campaign, we'll never win. It's a hard reality that there hasn't been when he gave his body a million votes. Where in the heck are we going to come up with a million votes? We've come up with from the 60% of the people that are in the vote. And that requires a community of organizers. It doesn't require a politician. It doesn't require an inspector. It requires a community of organizers that don't have a good one. It's all going to be a community of organizers. I have been working with chapters all year long and I've met with individual 21. How many of them have met? I've met with a Peralton community movement in Dallas County, quite a hard-to-read friend, but those are the types of people that need to be counted. Moved here in Fair County, community movement begins with a 60% of the people out there. So we have to talk to their language and I speak to their language that language isn't income inequality. I know that. I'm not a rich man by any traditional imagination. I live paycheck to paycheck. Even though I'm self-employed, we still live paycheck to paycheck. I have absolutely zero amounts in savings. These are the people that we have to reach out to people just like me. The people that are in the worst of periods. The people that are working in the last few years that are making $10 a series people like my daughter are going to struggle. Those are the people that will come out and vote for us. Vote for me. I think that might be something important. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. You know that for quite a long time, what have you been doing about that? You know that for quite a long time, what have you been doing about that? You know that for quite a long time, what have you been doing about that? 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