WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:13:52" NOTE recognizability:0.866 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.838516644444444 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.098 Lieutenant governor begin. NOTE Confidence: 0.838516644444444 00:00:01.098 --> 00:00:03.294 Why are you running for governor? NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:03.630 --> 00:00:05.702 I'm gonna answer your your question by NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:05.702 --> 00:00:08.305 telling you a story I just came from North, NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:08.310 --> 00:00:11.285 Idaho and as I was driving from NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:11.285 --> 00:00:14.088 Challis and Custer County to Moscow, NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:14.090 --> 00:00:16.890 ID my car took me on this path. NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:16.890 --> 00:00:18.670 In fact, my navigational system NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:18.670 --> 00:00:20.847 said normally you come up through NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:20.847 --> 00:00:22.827 Lewiston and go up to Moscow. NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:22.830 --> 00:00:24.146 My car was telling me turn right, NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:24.150 --> 00:00:25.356 turn right and I was going NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:25.356 --> 00:00:26.160 through this windy trail. NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:28.498 This beautiful part of Idaho feeling blessed NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:28.498 --> 00:00:30.558 looking around how beautiful Idaho is. NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:30.560 --> 00:00:33.704 But I came on to this small town NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:33.710 --> 00:00:35.758 called Kendrick Idaho. Kendrick. NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:35.758 --> 00:00:39.580 Idaho is the home of Hardware Brewery, NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:39.580 --> 00:00:41.296 where more than two years ago, NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:41.300 --> 00:00:43.996 that's where all of this started for me. NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:45.448 When Hardware Brewery was NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:45.448 --> 00:00:47.258 shut down by Mr Little, NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:47.260 --> 00:00:49.672 the family invited me to be with them when NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:49.672 --> 00:00:51.878 they decided to reopen their business. NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:54.856 I stood with the family for their reopening. NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:54.860 --> 00:00:58.876 I stood with the family when law enforcement. NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:00.482 Mr Little's law enforcement came in NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:00.482 --> 00:01:02.250 and threatened to take their license. NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:02.250 --> 00:01:05.130 The way I stood with the family when NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:05.130 --> 00:01:07.878 that law enforcement issued a $2500 NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:07.878 --> 00:01:10.244 citation and I and asking Mr Little NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:10.244 --> 00:01:12.945 to please make the citation go away NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:12.945 --> 00:01:14.900 because they're just hard working NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:14.971 --> 00:01:17.155 Idahoans trying to make a living. NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:17.160 --> 00:01:20.175 I've stood with them from the from day one, NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:20.180 --> 00:01:21.884 and I continue to stand with NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:21.884 --> 00:01:23.020 the people of Idaho, NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:23.020 --> 00:01:25.372 the people whose lives have been NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:25.372 --> 00:01:27.420 affected by the decisions of Mr. NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:27.420 --> 00:01:30.456 Little to shut down our businesses. NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:30.460 --> 00:01:31.966 Tell us that we couldn't go NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:31.966 --> 00:01:33.380 to church and worship freely. NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:33.380 --> 00:01:34.832 We're losing our freedoms, NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:34.832 --> 00:01:35.558 our liberties, NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:37.394 we're losing the sovereignty of our state, NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:39.536 and we're losing our our traditional NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:39.536 --> 00:01:41.400 conservative values are under attack, NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:42.306 and so I, NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:42.306 --> 00:01:44.118 that's why I'm running for governor NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:44.118 --> 00:01:46.380 to protect those things that we love NOTE Confidence: 0.82708384625 00:01:46.380 --> 00:01:48.589 and hold so dear here in Idaho, NOTE Confidence: 0.733829001 00:01:48.820 --> 00:01:51.410 we ask you to name only one. But what NOTE Confidence: 0.733829001 00:01:51.410 --> 00:01:53.825 is your top priority in this campaign? NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:55.440 I have a great vision NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:01:55.440 --> 00:01:56.880 for the people of Idaho. NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:01:56.880 --> 00:01:58.746 I've been as I've been traveling NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:01:58.746 --> 00:02:00.590 around the state talking to people. NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:00.590 --> 00:02:02.012 Listening to the people of Idaho NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:02.012 --> 00:02:03.440 have come up with a vision. NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:03.440 --> 00:02:05.510 It's the a conservative vision NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:05.510 --> 00:02:08.100 for a free and prosperous Idaho. NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:08.100 --> 00:02:10.542 It starts with getting government off NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:10.542 --> 00:02:13.480 our backs. We need to reduce taxation. NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:13.480 --> 00:02:15.258 Our people are being overtaxed right now. NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:15.260 --> 00:02:17.636 We've got rampant inflation because of NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:17.636 --> 00:02:20.917 the money that is flowing into our state. NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:20.920 --> 00:02:23.200 Families are struggling with inflation. NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:23.200 --> 00:02:24.838 Being able to they're being penalized NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:24.838 --> 00:02:26.904 for being able for buying a loaf of NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:26.904 --> 00:02:28.735 bread at the grocery store and cost us NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:28.735 --> 00:02:30.656 twice as much to fill up your gas tank. NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:30.656 --> 00:02:32.868 My vision for the state of Idaho NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:32.868 --> 00:02:35.229 is to empower the individual. NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:35.230 --> 00:02:37.902 We're going to start with one idea that NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:37.902 --> 00:02:40.920 I have is to reopen the University of NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:40.920 --> 00:02:43.527 Idaho School of Mines so that we can NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:43.530 --> 00:02:45.770 nurture and cultivate geologists and NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:45.770 --> 00:02:48.421 engineers to utilize the resources that NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:48.421 --> 00:02:50.794 we've been blessed with here in Idaho, NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:52.596 including rare earth minerals NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:52.596 --> 00:02:55.798 to help us develop a policy to NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:55.798 --> 00:02:57.170 become energy independent, NOTE Confidence: 0.915419083 00:02:57.170 --> 00:02:57.700 what NOTE Confidence: 0.937816271818182 00:02:57.710 --> 00:02:59.378 do you see as the biggest NOTE Confidence: 0.937816271818182 00:02:59.378 --> 00:03:01.030 issue in Idaho public schools? NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:01.380 --> 00:03:02.980 Our school system is failing NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:02.980 --> 00:03:04.975 our children and it's not our NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:04.975 --> 00:03:06.955 teachers that are failing our kids. NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:09.557 It's our system that's failing our kids. NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:12.467 The statistics I have in 2021 NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:12.467 --> 00:03:15.666 only 39% of our children are at NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:15.666 --> 00:03:17.960 proficient level in math scores. NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:21.075 Only 65% of our children are proficient NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:21.075 --> 00:03:24.230 in reading and we have continued to. NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:24.230 --> 00:03:27.394 Fail to meet our go on rate NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:27.394 --> 00:03:29.889 for higher education we need to NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:29.889 --> 00:03:32.325 we need to get rid of the. NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:32.330 --> 00:03:34.090 Socialist and controversial teachings NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:34.090 --> 00:03:37.134 in our classroom that is in our NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:37.134 --> 00:03:39.108 schools go back to the basics, NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:39.110 --> 00:03:41.790 teach our kids the ABC's the 1-2 threes, NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:41.790 --> 00:03:43.800 teach them about our constitutional NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:45.408 Republican form of government. NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:45.410 --> 00:03:47.768 And I'm a big proponent of NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:47.768 --> 00:03:48.947 skills based training. NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:48.950 --> 00:03:51.470 Having served as the President of the NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:51.470 --> 00:03:53.230 Career Technical Education Foundation, NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:53.230 --> 00:03:56.050 I believe that we need to do more to help NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:56.127 --> 00:03:58.859 our kids develop attainable real skills. NOTE Confidence: 0.857239892352941 00:03:59.310 --> 00:04:01.250 You mentioned NOTE Confidence: 0.76509607 00:04:01.250 --> 00:04:03.659 critical race theory. NOTE Confidence: 0.76509607 00:04:03.660 --> 00:04:05.940 You started your education task force. NOTE Confidence: 0.76509607 00:04:05.940 --> 00:04:07.805 Do you believe that the NOTE Confidence: 0.76509607 00:04:07.805 --> 00:04:09.297 teaching of critical race NOTE Confidence: 0.76509607 00:04:09.297 --> 00:04:11.270 theory is widespread in Idaho? NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:13.850 I do not believe that it's widespread NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:13.850 --> 00:04:15.919 throughout our school system in Idaho, NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:15.920 --> 00:04:18.050 but we know it's there and NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:18.050 --> 00:04:19.760 we've seen examples of it. NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:19.760 --> 00:04:21.643 We had people testify to it and NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:21.643 --> 00:04:23.217 I continue to receive examples NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:23.217 --> 00:04:25.323 of it happening in our school. NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:25.330 --> 00:04:26.280 So we need to, just. NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:26.280 --> 00:04:28.539 It's unconstitutional those NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:28.539 --> 00:04:30.798 teachings are unconstitutional. NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:32.348 We're all created equal. NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:32.348 --> 00:04:35.722 And we all have equal rights and equal NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:35.722 --> 00:04:38.167 opportunities and we shouldn't be NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:38.167 --> 00:04:41.343 encouraging people that one set of person, NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:41.343 --> 00:04:43.698 one person is privileged or NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:43.698 --> 00:04:45.839 underprivileged compared to someone else. NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:45.840 --> 00:04:46.796 Those are, NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:46.796 --> 00:04:48.230 those are unconstitutional NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:48.230 --> 00:04:51.042 teachings and and and perhaps why NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:51.042 --> 00:04:53.443 our kids are not scoring like they NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:53.443 --> 00:04:55.629 should be in math and reading. NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:55.630 --> 00:04:56.908 We just we need to go. NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:56.910 --> 00:04:57.618 As I said, NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:57.618 --> 00:04:59.034 we go back to the basics NOTE Confidence: 0.904674941538462 00:04:59.034 --> 00:05:00.390 of teaching our kids NOTE Confidence: 0.901433215 00:05:00.490 --> 00:05:01.925 and so you have evidence NOTE Confidence: 0.901433215 00:05:01.925 --> 00:05:02.786 that you've uncovered. NOTE Confidence: 0.901433215 00:05:02.790 --> 00:05:04.360 Or, or at least examples. NOTE Confidence: 0.901433215 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:05.430 Yes, can you cite one? NOTE Confidence: 0.882668665882353 00:05:05.440 --> 00:05:08.696 Yes yeah. In fact, just the other day NOTE Confidence: 0.882668665882353 00:05:08.696 --> 00:05:12.618 I was contacted by a parent who the NOTE Confidence: 0.882668665882353 00:05:12.618 --> 00:05:14.905 teacher this was in the Wood River valley. NOTE Confidence: 0.882668665882353 00:05:14.910 --> 00:05:17.774 The teacher had in the for the class. NOTE Confidence: 0.882668665882353 00:05:17.780 --> 00:05:20.212 The class. In the morning she decided to NOTE Confidence: 0.882668665882353 00:05:20.212 --> 00:05:22.878 put a sticker on half of the classroom NOTE Confidence: 0.882668665882353 00:05:22.878 --> 00:05:25.262 and so the people that the children NOTE Confidence: 0.882668665882353 00:05:25.262 --> 00:05:28.250 that had a sticker on their hand were NOTE Confidence: 0.882668665882353 00:05:28.250 --> 00:05:32.760 labeled in a sort for one way and then. NOTE Confidence: 0.882668665882353 00:05:32.760 --> 00:05:35.223 And then they and then they switch so NOTE Confidence: 0.882668665882353 00:05:35.223 --> 00:05:37.526 that the other half of the classroom NOTE Confidence: 0.882668665882353 00:05:37.530 --> 00:05:40.170 wore the sticker in the afternoon. NOTE Confidence: 0.882668665882353 00:05:40.170 --> 00:05:42.194 That's that's creating division NOTE Confidence: 0.882668665882353 00:05:42.194 --> 00:05:43.206 and divisiveness. NOTE Confidence: 0.882668665882353 00:05:43.210 --> 00:05:45.112 And that's the that's the roots NOTE Confidence: 0.882668665882353 00:05:45.112 --> 00:05:46.380 of these controversial teachers. NOTE Confidence: 0.86031943 00:05:46.390 --> 00:05:49.360 Could it also be? You know, NOTE Confidence: 0.86031943 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:50.710 bringing out perspective, NOTE Confidence: 0.909477013076923 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:53.579 the role of our our schools should NOTE Confidence: 0.909477013076923 00:05:53.579 --> 00:05:56.119 be teaching our kids the basics. NOTE Confidence: 0.909477013076923 00:05:56.120 --> 00:05:58.928 And the parents should be the ones the NOTE Confidence: 0.909477013076923 00:05:58.928 --> 00:06:01.184 responsible to teach their children about NOTE Confidence: 0.909477013076923 00:06:01.184 --> 00:06:04.010 things in the society and the culture. NOTE Confidence: 0.87529439125 00:06:04.730 --> 00:06:08.209 In funding, do you support more funding NOTE Confidence: 0.87529439125 00:06:08.209 --> 00:06:10.420 for our public schools in terms of NOTE Confidence: 0.87529439125 00:06:10.420 --> 00:06:12.358 teacher pay, technology, et cetera? NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:12.570 --> 00:06:14.856 Absolutely support the idea of giving NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:14.856 --> 00:06:17.849 more more money to pay our teachers NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:17.849 --> 00:06:20.184 higher salaries and buying technology. NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:20.190 --> 00:06:20.982 But for taxpayers, NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:20.982 --> 00:06:23.259 we need to see more of a result NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:23.259 --> 00:06:25.467 from the money that we're spending. NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:25.470 --> 00:06:27.567 And I also would like to so you know, NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:27.570 --> 00:06:29.538 if we're if we're not getting the results NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:29.538 --> 00:06:31.549 that we as taxpayers and as citizens, NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:31.550 --> 00:06:33.810 and that our children deserve, NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:33.810 --> 00:06:35.626 then we need to. NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:35.626 --> 00:06:38.350 Address that underlying problem rather than NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:38.429 --> 00:06:41.757 continually to just pump more money into it. NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:41.760 --> 00:06:43.780 I'm I am an advocate. NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:43.780 --> 00:06:45.660 I do support school choice. NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:45.660 --> 00:06:48.144 I'm a small businesswoman and in NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:48.144 --> 00:06:50.660 business competition is a good thing. NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:50.660 --> 00:06:53.132 I think that with two school NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:53.132 --> 00:06:55.980 choice that will only work to lift NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:55.980 --> 00:06:58.577 all boats and all all methods of NOTE Confidence: 0.91166366 00:06:58.662 --> 00:07:01.547 teaching our children will improve. NOTE Confidence: 0.822693293333333 00:07:01.820 --> 00:07:04.052 He took my next question out of my mouth. NOTE Confidence: 0.822693293333333 00:07:04.060 --> 00:07:04.990 I do want to hit. NOTE Confidence: 0.822693293333333 00:07:04.990 --> 00:07:06.458 Many topics as possible, NOTE Confidence: 0.822693293333333 00:07:06.458 --> 00:07:09.123 so the state recently passed one of NOTE Confidence: 0.822693293333333 00:07:09.123 --> 00:07:11.108 the most restrictive abortion bans NOTE Confidence: 0.822693293333333 00:07:11.110 --> 00:07:13.110 banning abortion after six weeks, NOTE Confidence: 0.822693293333333 00:07:13.110 --> 00:07:15.585 allowing family members to sue NOTE Confidence: 0.822693293333333 00:07:15.585 --> 00:07:17.070 an abortion provider. NOTE Confidence: 0.822693293333333 00:07:17.070 --> 00:07:18.438 Do you believe that was the right way to NOTE Confidence: 0.897583433846154 00:07:18.450 --> 00:07:20.754 go? Absolutely and I actually have NOTE Confidence: 0.897583433846154 00:07:20.754 --> 00:07:23.141 since the decision of the Supreme NOTE Confidence: 0.897583433846154 00:07:23.141 --> 00:07:24.839 Court was leaked was leaked. NOTE Confidence: 0.897583433846154 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:27.842 I put out a statement just yesterday NOTE Confidence: 0.897583433846154 00:07:27.842 --> 00:07:30.103 actually calling on Governor little NOTE Confidence: 0.897583433846154 00:07:30.103 --> 00:07:32.761 to call the legislature into special NOTE Confidence: 0.897583433846154 00:07:32.761 --> 00:07:35.526 session so that we can once and for all. NOTE Confidence: 0.897583433846154 00:07:35.530 --> 00:07:37.445 Prohibit all abortions and make NOTE Confidence: 0.897583433846154 00:07:37.445 --> 00:07:39.819 and make Idaho be the sanctuary NOTE Confidence: 0.897583433846154 00:07:39.819 --> 00:07:42.500 of life that we believe that life NOTE Confidence: 0.897583433846154 00:07:42.500 --> 00:07:45.150 begins at the moment of conception. NOTE Confidence: 0.897583433846154 00:07:45.150 --> 00:07:46.488 So do you. I was the governor. NOTE Confidence: 0.897583433846154 00:07:46.488 --> 00:07:47.518 I would be doing that. NOTE Confidence: 0.893701352 00:07:47.530 --> 00:07:48.920 Do you support any exemptions? NOTE Confidence: 0.94133281 00:07:49.750 --> 00:07:52.250 There are plenty of opportunities NOTE Confidence: 0.94133281 00:07:52.250 --> 00:07:53.750 within the community. NOTE Confidence: 0.94133281 00:07:53.750 --> 00:07:56.350 Again, always going back to NOTE Confidence: 0.94133281 00:07:56.350 --> 00:07:59.170 the fact that life begins at NOTE Confidence: 0.94133281 00:07:59.170 --> 00:08:01.590 the moment of conception that. NOTE Confidence: 0.94133281 00:08:01.590 --> 00:08:03.815 With the proper care and NOTE Confidence: 0.94133281 00:08:03.815 --> 00:08:05.595 nurture from the community, NOTE Confidence: 0.94133281 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:08.450 absolutely every life is worth protecting. NOTE Confidence: 0.85034996625 00:08:08.460 --> 00:08:10.469 So not for the health of the NOTE Confidence: 0.85034996625 00:08:10.469 --> 00:08:12.069 mother or rape or incest. NOTE Confidence: 0.91285131875 00:08:12.340 --> 00:08:14.131 Well, those are. NOTE Confidence: 0.91285131875 00:08:14.131 --> 00:08:17.116 Those are unique circumstances that. NOTE Confidence: 0.91285131875 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:18.240 Have to be considered. NOTE Confidence: 0.91285131875 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:20.410 If a woman's life is in danger, NOTE Confidence: 0.91285131875 00:08:20.410 --> 00:08:22.260 then that's that's that's separate NOTE Confidence: 0.91285131875 00:08:22.260 --> 00:08:24.503 then the protection of life at NOTE Confidence: 0.91285131875 00:08:24.503 --> 00:08:28.150 the moment of conception, OK? NOTE Confidence: 0.882020414166667 00:08:28.150 --> 00:08:30.226 The legislature also just approved the NOTE Confidence: 0.882020414166667 00:08:30.226 --> 00:08:33.192 largest tax cut in state history. Do you NOTE Confidence: 0.882020414166667 00:08:33.192 --> 00:08:35.840 think more needs to go into tax relief? NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:08:35.930 --> 00:08:38.780 We had almost a $2 billion NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:08:38.780 --> 00:08:42.208 surplus and revenues and. NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:08:42.210 --> 00:08:44.400 We had a very small NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:08:44.400 --> 00:08:46.590 reduction in the income tax. NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:08:46.590 --> 00:08:49.110 We should have given more of that money NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:08:49.110 --> 00:08:51.990 back to the people of Idaho because NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:08:51.990 --> 00:08:54.170 basically people are being overtaxed. NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:08:54.170 --> 00:08:56.282 We should have removed the sales NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:08:56.282 --> 00:08:59.386 tax on food and that's one of my NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:08:59.386 --> 00:09:01.810 priorities when I become the Governor, NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:09:01.810 --> 00:09:04.071 I will work with the legislature to NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:09:04.071 --> 00:09:06.490 do that for the people of Idaho. NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:09:06.490 --> 00:09:08.854 There was a provision that would NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:09:08.854 --> 00:09:11.582 have given some money back to the NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:09:11.582 --> 00:09:14.088 people at the gas tank by temporarily NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:09:14.161 --> 00:09:17.009 reducing the sales tax on gas and then. NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:09:17.010 --> 00:09:19.284 Of course, the growing burden of NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:09:19.284 --> 00:09:21.769 property tax which was not addressed NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:09:21.769 --> 00:09:24.457 in this legislative session $2 billion NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:09:24.460 --> 00:09:26.938 that was flowing into our states. NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:09:26.940 --> 00:09:28.506 It should have been given back NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:09:28.506 --> 00:09:30.538 in full to the people of Idaho, NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:09:30.540 --> 00:09:31.641 but instead Mr. NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:09:31.641 --> 00:09:33.843 Little signed off on a budget, NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:09:33.850 --> 00:09:35.750 which increased government programs NOTE Confidence: 0.88677492 00:09:35.750 --> 00:09:37.710 by more than 21%. NOTE Confidence: 0.811759675454546 00:09:37.940 --> 00:09:39.879 So you don't think that the amount NOTE Confidence: 0.811759675454546 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:41.600 that they put towards education NOTE Confidence: 0.811759675454546 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:43.448 should have gone the 300,000,000. NOTE Confidence: 0.811759675454546 00:09:43.448 --> 00:09:45.180 I think it was. That should have been NOTE Confidence: 0.811759675454546 00:09:45.180 --> 00:09:46.770 more shifted back to the taxpayers. NOTE Confidence: 0.74608597125 00:09:47.030 --> 00:09:50.230 Well, what I'm seeing is that the Mr. NOTE Confidence: 0.74608597125 00:09:50.230 --> 00:09:52.036 Little's budget is being balanced on the NOTE Confidence: 0.74608597125 00:09:52.036 --> 00:09:54.378 backs of our children and our grandchildren. NOTE Confidence: 0.74608597125 00:09:54.380 --> 00:09:56.308 A lot of this money that's coming flowing NOTE Confidence: 0.74608597125 00:09:56.308 --> 00:09:58.486 into our state from the federal government, NOTE Confidence: 0.74608597125 00:09:58.490 --> 00:10:00.446 and it comes with strings attached. NOTE Confidence: 0.74608597125 00:10:00.450 --> 00:10:03.338 I know that we can automatically take NOTE Confidence: 0.74608597125 00:10:03.338 --> 00:10:07.124 30% off skim, 30% off the top of any NOTE Confidence: 0.74608597125 00:10:07.124 --> 00:10:09.316 federal dollar that comes into Idaho NOTE Confidence: 0.74608597125 00:10:09.316 --> 00:10:11.526 because of the administrative burden, NOTE Confidence: 0.74608597125 00:10:11.530 --> 00:10:13.732 the bureaucracy and these federal strings NOTE Confidence: 0.74608597125 00:10:13.732 --> 00:10:16.160 that come attached to this money. What NOTE Confidence: 0.882192859 00:10:16.170 --> 00:10:18.672 do you see? As a way to or what's NOTE Confidence: 0.882192859 00:10:18.672 --> 00:10:21.378 your vision on managing this rapid NOTE Confidence: 0.882192859 00:10:21.378 --> 00:10:23.723 growth that Idaho is experiencing? NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:10:23.860 --> 00:10:26.236 Well, when I read my first run for NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:10:26.236 --> 00:10:28.717 office was for County commissioner in NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:10:28.717 --> 00:10:31.447 Bonneville County and back then Bonneville NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:33.895 County was experiencing same sort of NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:10:33.895 --> 00:10:36.430 rapid growth that we're seeing today. NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:10:36.430 --> 00:10:38.805 It's all about being proactive NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:10:38.805 --> 00:10:41.619 as a small business owner. NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:10:41.620 --> 00:10:44.637 I know how we business owners we NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:10:44.637 --> 00:10:47.798 know how to see what's coming. NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:10:47.800 --> 00:10:52.016 You know, down the Pike and we act. NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:10:52.020 --> 00:10:53.608 Proactively, rather than reactively, NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:10:53.608 --> 00:10:56.780 which I see too often in government. NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:10:56.780 --> 00:10:58.050 So it's all about identifying NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:10:58.050 --> 00:10:59.810 you know what are the challenges NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:10:59.810 --> 00:11:01.343 with affordable housing? How? NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:01.343 --> 00:11:03.947 What do we need to do to free up the the NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:03.947 --> 00:11:06.560 supply and and free up the the labor demand? NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:06.560 --> 00:11:07.608 What can we do? NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:07.608 --> 00:11:09.010 Again, teaching our kids the NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:09.010 --> 00:11:10.150 skills to become plumbers. NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:10.150 --> 00:11:12.980 Electrician carpenters. NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:12.980 --> 00:11:15.843 Being able to utilize our own resources NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:15.843 --> 00:11:18.958 in our own forest for board feet. NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:20.088 That'll go a long way to NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:20.088 --> 00:11:21.240 reduce the cost of housing, NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:23.420 but there's also things within NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:23.420 --> 00:11:24.728 the government agencies. NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:24.730 --> 00:11:25.190 Again, NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:25.190 --> 00:11:27.950 the bureaucracy that that works to NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:27.950 --> 00:11:30.728 hamper and and prevent the individual NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:30.728 --> 00:11:34.440 from being able to in a timely manner, NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:35.664 get financing for homes. NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:35.664 --> 00:11:38.274 And those are things that that I would be NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:38.274 --> 00:11:40.340 looking at as as the Governor of Idaho, NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:40.340 --> 00:11:42.476 those all of those positions are. NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:44.232 Positions that are appointed by the NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:44.232 --> 00:11:45.992 governor and we're going to make NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:45.992 --> 00:11:47.600 sure that whoever serves in those NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:49.023 capacities in those positions are NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:49.023 --> 00:11:50.969 committed to looking out for the best NOTE Confidence: 0.8570008031 00:11:50.970 --> 00:11:52.416 interests of the people of Idaho. NOTE Confidence: 0.791229816 00:11:52.460 --> 00:11:54.170 Just a couple more questions. NOTE Confidence: 0.791229816 00:11:54.170 --> 00:11:57.274 What do you see as the biggest challenge NOTE Confidence: 0.791229816 00:11:57.274 --> 00:11:59.960 facing Idaho going forward into 2023? NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:00.070 --> 00:12:01.966 Yeah, Idaho is a great state. NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:01.970 --> 00:12:03.350 We have so much opportunity, NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:03.350 --> 00:12:04.670 great resources, great people. NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:04.670 --> 00:12:07.017 But what's at stake is the loss NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:07.017 --> 00:12:08.610 of our freedoms, our liberties, NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:08.610 --> 00:12:11.330 the loss of the sovereignty of our state. NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:11.330 --> 00:12:12.840 Where if we continue to. NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:14.556 Take that money from the federal NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:14.556 --> 00:12:16.236 government that tells us how we NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:16.236 --> 00:12:17.670 have to teach in our classroom, NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:17.670 --> 00:12:20.454 how we how we met manage our Medicaid NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:20.454 --> 00:12:22.328 programs, how do we build our roads? NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:22.330 --> 00:12:23.770 There's small communities, NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:23.770 --> 00:12:26.170 rural communities that are ready. NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:26.170 --> 00:12:28.487 You know, they they want to put NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:28.490 --> 00:12:30.308 traffic signals up in their community NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:30.308 --> 00:12:32.180 and are willing to pay for it, NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:32.180 --> 00:12:33.852 but we can't do it because we don't NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:33.852 --> 00:12:35.509 meet all the federal requirements. NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:35.510 --> 00:12:37.005 It's all about doing things NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:37.005 --> 00:12:38.860 the Idaho way and doing what's NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:38.860 --> 00:12:40.666 best for the people of Idaho. NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:40.670 --> 00:12:42.848 You get outside the Boise Beltway. NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:42.850 --> 00:12:44.392 Can you travel around the state NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:44.392 --> 00:12:46.268 like I have in the past year? NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:46.270 --> 00:12:46.584 Well, NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:46.584 --> 00:12:48.468 in the past four years serving NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:48.468 --> 00:12:49.737 as Lieutenant governor and NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:49.737 --> 00:12:51.375 listened to the people of Idaho, NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:51.380 --> 00:12:53.760 the people in our state need to have a voice. NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:53.760 --> 00:12:54.978 And I'm gonna be that that NOTE Confidence: 0.860149055 00:12:54.978 --> 00:12:55.790 voice for the people. NOTE Confidence: 0.846750766666667 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:57.597 And finally, what do you see as NOTE Confidence: 0.846750766666667 00:12:57.597 --> 00:12:58.809 the biggest opportunity for idea, NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:12:58.820 --> 00:13:00.068 the greatest opportunity? NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:00.068 --> 00:13:04.205 As I said, is a freeing up the potential NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:04.205 --> 00:13:06.755 of the individual to be successful, NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:06.760 --> 00:13:08.570 freeing the taking the government NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:08.570 --> 00:13:10.193 off their back, giving, NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:10.193 --> 00:13:12.858 helping the individual with attainable. NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:12.860 --> 00:13:14.920 Skills so that they can. NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:14.920 --> 00:13:17.062 See the opportunity just the just the NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:17.062 --> 00:13:19.934 idea of of if we were to put a 3D printer NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:19.934 --> 00:13:22.221 in the every first grade classroom and NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:22.221 --> 00:13:24.900 just to show the little kids how to look. NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:24.900 --> 00:13:26.979 What you can do with a 3D printer. NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:26.980 --> 00:13:28.780 You can build all these things. NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:28.780 --> 00:13:30.772 That's what we need to do NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:30.772 --> 00:13:32.100 to foster this creativity, NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:32.100 --> 00:13:34.176 which will lead to. NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:34.176 --> 00:13:36.771 More opportunities and more more NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:36.771 --> 00:13:39.603 production for our state and more NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:39.603 --> 00:13:41.828 success and enable our children NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:41.914 --> 00:13:44.466 to stay in Idaho and be able to NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:44.470 --> 00:13:47.630 properly provide for their families. NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:47.630 --> 00:13:48.785 Tenant governor thank you. NOTE Confidence: 0.873906606666667 00:13:48.785 --> 00:13:49.700 OK, thank you. NOTE Confidence: 0.803854151666667 00:13:49.770 --> 00:13:51.996 Appreciate your time. Yeah of course.