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was a 1987 Ron Paul was his gateway drug

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as he called it to the libertarian party

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he attended the 1990 uh convention ran

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for a land commissioner candidate in

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1990 as well State Senate candidate in

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1992 County Judge candidate had got

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almost 40% of the vote in a two-day race

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in

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1994 1998 County Judge

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candidate and his numbers uh and notori

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in Rockell are going way up for that

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2004 uh farmers market in Rockwell and

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called a crazy Rick by in more good

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press

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2010 he was our agricultural

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commissioner and got almost 165,000

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votes

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right in addition we have Mr Rocky

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palmquest uh Rocky is an 11th generation

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Texan and still Farms the same land as

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his ancestors did in the 1800s uh

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Rancher farmer nurseryman Rocky has been

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an entrepreneur since the age of 14

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active in many local charities in this

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community ring from Elder Care Alliance

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club and mentor to young men and women

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interested in Texas

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agriculture gentlemen you both have

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three minutes for opening statements I

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would ask Rick Donaldson to speak first

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wow all right I'm going to stand up here

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if you don't mind come it's libertar

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convention do what you

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want hey guys if you got him light them

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um let's see here like K said you know

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i' I've been in this a long time I

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started out in 1987 with Ron Paul uh

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running for libertarian candidate for

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the president of the United States he

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didn't get it but he was my gateway drug

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um I have been def going out there and

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speaking my mind and and talking to

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people ever since I enjoy everything

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that I do with the libertarian parties

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the little bit of back and forth that we

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get between candidates between people in

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the party and the candidates and the

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candidates and the party I think that's

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all great for

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growth uh although you know how much

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growth does the libertarian party want I

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mean we are actually the party of low

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smaller government how big do we want

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this party to be I want the libertarian

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people the people of Texas uh to be the

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ones that gain out of all this thing I'm

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not against Rocky Palmquist Rocky

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Palmquist is on my team we're out there

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to castrate some elephants and some

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donkeys if

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you I've got a lot of people that that

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stop me on on the road Walt Disney is

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doing a great thing about promoting my

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candidacy there's this guy over there on

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that TV show called Duck

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Dynasty anybody watch it well he looks

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like me you know he does he really does

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and I get people stopping me in all

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kinds of different places asking me hey

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are you that guy are you sigh you know

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no he looks like me I've had this beard

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since I was in high school I mean you

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can go back and look at the pictures

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okay I spent 4 years in Sam steel Canoe

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Club you know I found out exactly what

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the Navy's doing you know all that

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garbage out there in the middle of the

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oceans you know the stuff that's causing

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that elino and Lino stuff that's causing

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our weather to go crazy well I was part

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of that for four years and please I I I

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submit my AP humblest apologies I did

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not mean to do the negative things that

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I did to the planet or to the

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populations of all the all the Earth um

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this is my Redemption tour if you will

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I'm I'm out there trying to correct all

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the things that I have done to

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participating that garbage that I was

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involved in before um Liberty is my goal

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uh whether Rocky wins his nomination

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whether I win this nomination you know

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Liberty is what we need to be going

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after uh like I said the the Republicans

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and the Democrats they've been doing

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this thing since the

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1860s come on people if you keep getting

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doing the same thing over and over and

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over again you're going to get the same

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thing you've always gotten I thank you

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very much for your time thank you for

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your votes go out there and get 50

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people to believe the same way you do

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and vote for your libertarian slave

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thank Mr compest good evening ladies and

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gentlemen I'm Rocky Palmquist I'm an

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11th generation Texan

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I still Farm the same land that my

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ancestors farmed from the Spanish land

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grants Texas is very near and dear to my

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heart and there's nothing worse than

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seeing what's happening in our state of

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Texas right

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now our budget we're broke don't let

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them lie to you we're

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broke plain and simple let me explain to

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you what the agriculture department does

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the agriculture Department it is the

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licensing agency for

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nurseries for your

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Farms it controls the weights and

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measurements at your grocery store it

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controls the gas

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pumps there's a lot more to it than just

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farming it's a

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floated

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giant

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bureaucracy okay you've got a republican

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agriculture commit commissioner now that

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seems to think it's okay for the feds to

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come down here and put cameras on

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private

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property on the Rio Grand border because

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heaven forbid we don't want those ants

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coming over

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here let me tell you something you shut

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the damn border down down there and you

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get ready to pay $6 for AE of lettuce

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because that's what's going to happen to

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you you keep letting these Republicans

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and Democrats tell you what to do and

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we're all going down the drain and if I

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am your agriculture commissioner of this

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craft is going to stop today I need your

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support thank

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you hi Rocky you want to follow that up

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I told you I get boisterous that's why I

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leave this thing away a little

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bit we're going to K down a notch and

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ask you a question what is your position

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with regard to genetically modified

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organisms and what would you do with it

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at it at the state

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level okay a lot of this is being

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controlled by the

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FDA okay I am not so much against

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GMO but I can tell you I don't need it

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this is a personal decision between

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people if you want to consume it that's

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okay if you don't you're probably better

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off for

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it the biggest problem with the GMO or

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the GM thing it's the companies

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themselves okay you've got

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Monsanto you've got Archer Daniels

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Midland these people are on corporate

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welfare have you heard the Monsanto

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protection act that our president has

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signed okay it's not about the food so

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much it's about who's controlling your

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food do you want these people to control

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your food from the field to your plate

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because that's what's happening the

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Family Farm is going by the wayside and

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that's where you get your real food the

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property taxes are going to wipe us out

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completely and let me add this to you if

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we would get off our butts legalize hemp

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in the state of Texas we wouldn't have

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this problem of P

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Mr Donaldson on

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GMOs genetically modified organisms are

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a ban to our agricultural system uh we

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now have the um genetically modified

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fish that are going to be going on we've

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got the salmon what they call the

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Frankin fish we all know these

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problems the best way that we as Texans

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as libert Arians in the in the

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agriculture Department can uh can

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operate what I intend to do is like what

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was originally intended by the ACT

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commission back in 1907 was to address

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all of the safety issues the quality

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issues of the foods of of the products

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that going out there on the market make

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sure that we know exactly what is in

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these foods that we have I'm not for

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making uh labels mandatory what I'm what

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I'm going to emphasize as far as the

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libertarian is concerned is redirection

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of infrastructure we have infrastructure

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right now in the department that can

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tell us exactly what chemicals what

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insecticides pesticides fertilizers that

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we have they're being used on our crops

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we also have the ability to tell the

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people by our uh what they call go Texan

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program that uh uh commissioner Jim heow

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created back in what was that

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77s Jim high tower was in there anyway

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cre the goex uh label what this Goan

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label can do is we can identify exactly

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which products are GMO so that you guys

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can see it on the Texas act

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commissioner's page so that you know

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exactly which chemic kills are out there

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and causing you problems thank you

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Mr Don again what are your thoughts

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about the situation in Nevada where the

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Federal Bureau of Land Management is

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preventing a Rancher from using public

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lands owned by the state for

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grazing we current we currently have a

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problem or a situation up on the uh Red

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River between Texas and Oklahoma similar

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to that the Bureau of Land Management is

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coming in and taking land away from

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Farmers saying that this land does not

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belong to you because of the way that

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the uh the rivers all run uh you know

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the the Oklahoma border changes because

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of the way that the rivers are are are

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moving so in the past it's been wherever

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the grass is green on the south end of

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the Border that's where Texas begins but

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the Bureau of Land Management comes in

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and they say that land does not belong

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to you because the rivers changed and

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we're going to take that land away from

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the farmers there and we're going to

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turn it into Bureau Land Management land

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and we're going to allow things to

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happen up there

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because that's our property now it

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doesn't belong to the state of Texas it

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doesn't belong to the state of Oklahoma

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how did it become federal land you know

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I understand the Texas Constitution

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United States Constitution to say land

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properly seeded from the state belongs

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to the federal government I don't know

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that the Bureau of Land Management has a

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pro has the authority to seed Texas land

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to the Bureau of Land

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Management and Mr P and before you

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answer there it has been requested by

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Folks at the back of the room that you

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do in fact use the microphone at least

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point it sort of toward you it's it's a

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high ceiling sir and it's you despite

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your excellent lungs I know you can hear

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me now there we go so on on Nevada Ranch

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situation Federal Land

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Management there's more than 2.5 million

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acres in the state of Texas from the

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Bureau of Land

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Management

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okay let me let me just say this what's

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going on in Nevada with the Bundy Ranch

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that's the real deal folks that's

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Americans standing up for what they

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rights

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are while this does not fall under the

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purview of the Texas agriculture

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commissioner I can G run te

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you I would be up

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there I'm an old country

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boy let me choose my words carefully

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here because there's ladies in the room

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children too and children

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too but don't pour water down my back

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and tell me it's

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raining I know

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that and as your agriculture

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commissioner here's plain and simple

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what I'm going to do I am going to be

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the biggest thorn in the side of the

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United States government that they've

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ever seen in their entire damn

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life I'm getting the flag from C here so

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let me back off a little bit thank you

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very much let R get back to

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it excellent another question first to

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Mr pquest yes sir what are your thoughts

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about fracking and its potential impact

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on the

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environment

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wow I am not in the oil business I'm in

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the farming

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business okay so I'm not going to get up

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here and tell you I know anything about

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fr

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in um obviously with the amount of water

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that is

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used for fracking is going to give us a

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problem with the farms and ranches okay

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we've already got an issue with a

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drought right

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now um look

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uh I've always been known to uh say it

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like it is so here it

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comes Frack away get your own property

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okay you go effective somebody else's

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property your salt your methane your

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sulfur comes out of that well and it

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affects my my property you got big

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trouble okay I think that's how it needs

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to be handled I think that we need to

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take these big companies into account

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make them pay for the damages it's just

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like Monsanto and the rest of these

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government corporate Giants we don't

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serve them the United States government

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doesn't serve them they're supposed to

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be there for profit and not for

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abuse I will stand with the farmers and

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the ranchers and The Growers of Texas at

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every turn there's uh no choice in the

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matter go ahead and Frank keep the oil

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prices low just don't infringe on

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somebody else this is Texas and we

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believe in Liberty and we won't do

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that espe on FR fracking would you

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please repeat the question what is your

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what are your thoughts on fracking and

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its potential impact on the environment

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and specifically

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agriculture my concern more in not just

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agriculture in everybody's everyday

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life uh fracking uh as I understand it

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has the implication of adding chemicals

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to the ground water um

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that are not conducive to any human

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animal or plant

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life let's go back to the uh most recent

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2012 election and the campaign for

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increasing the amount of money that goes

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to the water water uh and water

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development in the state of Texas did

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you did you guys know that in that water

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bill that just got pass by the majority

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of Voters in the state of Texas that

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took money from our general fund to

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create new water districts new water

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corporations to be able to develop new

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water do you realize 2/3 of that water

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goes to corporate entities to develop

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more oil and gas

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um extraction from the soil onethird of

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it goes to the farmers in the cities

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that 1/3 gets divided in what is it 6040

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the cities get 60% the farmers get 40%

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but the 2/3 of it goes to the to the ho

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gas industry we need to stop this kind

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of stuff this is our water this is our

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life this is our life

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blood can I have

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a in the state of Texas we have

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something called

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TCEQ Texas commission on Environmental

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Quality so I want to make something

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clear here the Texas Department of

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Agriculture has nothing to

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do with your water supply other than

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maybe the pesticides that uh some of the

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Farms are are putting out and that's

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going to be controlled by the

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agriculture department but as far as the

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environment goes as far as the wellwater

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goes or anything like that the

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agriculture department has absolutely

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nothing to do with that okay thank

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you espe Mr joh the Agriculture

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Commission also regulates the free lunch

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program what would you do with

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that wow taking taking Texas money Texas

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taxpayers money that's going to the

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federal government that's being returned

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to us to feed our children what are we

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going to do my position there is let's

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re just you know figure out how to

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reconfigure the program we've got all

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these children that are going hungry

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let's take that money and and start a

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gardening program on each campus

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throughout the entire state of Texas

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it's already our money let's put that

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put that to good use let's get Gardens

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at every every Elementary Middle Junior

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and high school throughout the state

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just the money that we're given turn it

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into seeds turn it into agricultural

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programs so these kids can learn how

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to survive

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if the economy does hit the fan like

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everybody keeps telling us we're going

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to have you know I'm I'm for preparing

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for that shtf day and if it happens what

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are you going to do do you know how to

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grow anything do you know how to raise

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anything that you can consume do you

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know how to help your neighbors this is

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up to each and every individual in the

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state of Texas to be able to grow this

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stuff and it's up to us to learn how to

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do it and to protect this land and to

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and to make things grow properly

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prosperously for every individual in the

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state Mr pus on the lunch program that's

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regulated by the a

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department okay not only are they going

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to regulate uh the lunch program but get

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ready for breakfast and supper too

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okay Michelle Obama wants to make sure

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that your children eat what she wants

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them to

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eat but look let's face it a lot of

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these people that are on the free

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breakfast free lunch free supper what do

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their parents get they're already on the

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Lone Star Card folks we're being tapped

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twice you're paying for the parent

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cigarettes and the

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beer and then you're turning around and

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you're paying for the kid kids lunch at

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school now what's more important that

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child to have lunch or those parents to

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have beer and cigarettes when they get

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home from whatever job they may or may

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not have what we've got to do is tell

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the fed you know

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what up

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yours we're not going to do it that's

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how you handle things it's called

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leadership you stand up and you telling

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me enough is enough we're not going to

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take it anymore this is Texas and we

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want our office back you fans go back to

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Washington DC and stop telling us how to

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run our

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business all right well we've come to

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the end so two minutes closing

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statements free to you Mr confest we'll

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start with you thank you all very much I

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I just want I look out in the room and

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it almost brings me to tears look at the

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Liberty look at you here we are here for

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a

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reason we're sick and damn tired of

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people breathing down our throats every

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time we turn

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around we have to have a car inspection

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I have to have my flowers inspected by

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some fed that doesn't even know what a

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merry gold

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is each and every one of us in this room

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it's up to you to make something happen

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and I guarantee you is your agriculture

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commissioner in the state of Texas

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there's not going to be a day that goes

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by that the feds don't worry what the

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hell is Rocky GNA do to us

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today thank you all a big hand for the

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libertarian party of the State of

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Texas Mr Don 2 minutes

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close well I've got no pipe dreams

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believing that I'm going to get this

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without you guys

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helping but I do have a pipe dream my

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pipe dream is that every one of you is

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going to go out of here and you're going

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to get 50 to 100 more people that are

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going to vote for libertarian candidates

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just like you

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are the only way that we can win is with

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you I need your campaign contributions I

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need your assistance but I want your

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mouth I want your I want your hands I

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want your

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fingertips I want you to go out there

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and I want you to spread Liberty

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throughout all of this land I don't care

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if they're in Texas I don't care if

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they're overseas I don't care where

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these people are I want you to spread

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Liberty because everybody overseas

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everybody that I've ever met in my

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worldly travels I spent four years in

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the Canoe Club and and everybody seems

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to know somebody from Texas so everybody

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that you know let them know that there's

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a couple of crazy guys up here that are

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willing to fight for you this is all

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about you this isn't about Rick

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Donaldson I don't think this is about

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Rocky pal I think this is about Texas we

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can turn Texas Gold in this election we

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got more people that are upset with the

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way the blue and the red is been turned

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to this place

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bloody I don't like this I like I I

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think you need to be more in control of

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what you have your property you'll see

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some wanted posters up around here you

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know what 5,000 gold coins is worth

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these

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days would you believe $6.4 million

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minimum and that's all I'm asking I'm

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asking you to put

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5,000 gold coins worth of your effort

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your effort I don't want your money I

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want your effort out there promoting

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Liberty all we need is 5 million votes

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through our entire executive slate I

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don't who care who you vote for we need

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you to work for 5 million votes for each

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and every one of our executive

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candidates and that will filter down to

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the rest of our candidates I thank you

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all for attending I look forward to

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shaking every one of your hands and on

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Far people this is us this is Liberty

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let's go

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andion