WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:25:29" NOTE recognizability:0.854 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.700 From Idaho's News Channel NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:02.700 --> 00:00:05.400 7 this is viewpoint. NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:07.820 Welcome to this special decision NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:07.820 --> 00:00:09.048 2022 edition of Viewpoint. NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:09.048 --> 00:00:10.276 I'm Doug Pat cash. NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:10.280 --> 00:00:11.600 Today we're focusing on the NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:11.600 --> 00:00:12.656 race for Idaho governor, NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:12.660 --> 00:00:14.276 specifically the three candidates NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:14.276 --> 00:00:16.296 running for the Republican nomination NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:16.296 --> 00:00:18.400 in the May 17th primary election. NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:18.400 --> 00:00:19.480 Governor Brad Little is NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:20.830 running for a second term. NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:20.830 --> 00:00:22.890 Lieutenant Governor Janice McKeon is NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:22.890 --> 00:00:26.119 hoping to unseat him as is Ed Humphries. NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:27.500 KTVB had planned to hold NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:27.500 --> 00:00:28.880 a debate among the three, NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:30.350 but it was cancelled after NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:30.350 --> 00:00:31.820 Governor little declined to take NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:31.873 --> 00:00:33.317 part and Lieutenant governor. NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:34.300 Mcgee's campaign didn't get NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:34.300 --> 00:00:35.770 back to us by the deadline. NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:35.770 --> 00:00:37.634 Schedule it so in lieu of that I NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:37.634 --> 00:00:39.329 reached out to the candidates for NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:39.329 --> 00:00:41.081 interviews and they all agreed to NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:41.136 --> 00:00:42.726 sit down with me for fairness. NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:42.730 --> 00:00:44.452 I asked each of them the same NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:44.452 --> 00:00:45.929 general questions on a few of NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:45.929 --> 00:00:47.069 the big issues facing Idaho, NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:47.070 --> 00:00:49.110 including public education, NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:49.110 --> 00:00:51.150 taxes, and abortion. NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:51.150 --> 00:00:52.730 We start with Ed Humphries. NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:52.730 --> 00:00:54.230 He's a married father of two NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:54.230 --> 00:00:55.570 young children living in Eagle. NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:55.570 --> 00:00:57.886 He describes himself as a constitutional NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:57.886 --> 00:00:59.430 conservative and a patriot. NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:00:59.430 --> 00:01:01.370 Humphries is a financial adviser. NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:01:01.370 --> 00:01:02.954 He says he walked away from NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:01:02.954 --> 00:01:04.010 financial practice to focus NOTE Confidence: 0.8071791125 00:01:04.065 --> 00:01:05.217 on running for governor. NOTE Confidence: 0.938872785 00:01:06.520 --> 00:01:09.150 Why are you running for governor? The NOTE Confidence: 0.904548603684211 00:01:09.160 --> 00:01:11.800 governor really has an immense ability NOTE Confidence: 0.904548603684211 00:01:11.800 --> 00:01:14.916 to bring positive change to the state NOTE Confidence: 0.904548603684211 00:01:14.916 --> 00:01:17.051 quickly because the governor has NOTE Confidence: 0.904548603684211 00:01:17.051 --> 00:01:18.412 oversight over the state's budget, NOTE Confidence: 0.904548603684211 00:01:18.412 --> 00:01:19.810 and if you change the way NOTE Confidence: 0.904548603684211 00:01:19.862 --> 00:01:21.030 that you fund government, NOTE Confidence: 0.904548603684211 00:01:21.030 --> 00:01:23.070 you will change the government itself. NOTE Confidence: 0.904548603684211 00:01:23.070 --> 00:01:24.150 And I'm a finance guy. NOTE Confidence: 0.904548603684211 00:01:24.150 --> 00:01:25.464 I think it's really powerful because NOTE Confidence: 0.904548603684211 00:01:25.464 --> 00:01:27.148 if you want the truth in politics, NOTE Confidence: 0.904548603684211 00:01:27.150 --> 00:01:28.308 you have to follow the money NOTE Confidence: 0.904548603684211 00:01:28.308 --> 00:01:29.595 and I know exactly what's going NOTE Confidence: 0.904548603684211 00:01:29.595 --> 00:01:30.770 on in the state government. NOTE Confidence: 0.904548603684211 00:01:30.770 --> 00:01:32.732 I think it's time for some change for this NOTE Confidence: 0.88497446875 00:01:32.750 --> 00:01:34.310 part of it, you can only name one, NOTE Confidence: 0.88497446875 00:01:34.310 --> 00:01:38.120 but what is your top priority and why? School NOTE Confidence: 0.923000914 00:01:38.130 --> 00:01:39.531 choice, no doubt. NOTE Confidence: 0.923000914 00:01:39.531 --> 00:01:42.333 The family should have more educational NOTE Confidence: 0.923000914 00:01:42.333 --> 00:01:44.308 options, and wherever the families NOTE Confidence: 0.923000914 00:01:44.308 --> 00:01:46.193 want to enroll their children, NOTE Confidence: 0.923000914 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:47.705 I think the tax dollars should follow NOTE Confidence: 0.923000914 00:01:47.705 --> 00:01:49.538 their kids to the school of their choice. NOTE Confidence: 0.923000914 00:01:49.540 --> 00:01:51.913 This is really a powerful issue for NOTE Confidence: 0.923000914 00:01:51.913 --> 00:01:54.218 everybody here in the state of Idaho. NOTE Confidence: 0.923000914 00:01:54.220 --> 00:01:56.012 Not only will it navigate some of NOTE Confidence: 0.923000914 00:01:56.012 --> 00:01:57.485 the divisiveness and the contention NOTE Confidence: 0.923000914 00:01:57.485 --> 00:01:59.120 that we're experiencing in our NOTE Confidence: 0.923000914 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:00.440 communities across this state, NOTE Confidence: 0.923000914 00:02:00.440 --> 00:02:03.500 but it allow families to take NOTE Confidence: 0.923000914 00:02:03.500 --> 00:02:05.230 control over their children's NOTE Confidence: 0.923000914 00:02:05.230 --> 00:02:06.630 future and ensure that they have an NOTE Confidence: 0.923000914 00:02:06.630 --> 00:02:07.659 education that meets their needs. NOTE Confidence: 0.911265548 00:02:07.670 --> 00:02:10.750 So do you support? Using. NOTE Confidence: 0.911265548 00:02:10.750 --> 00:02:12.962 Public tax money for vouchers for parents NOTE Confidence: 0.911265548 00:02:12.962 --> 00:02:15.299 to send their kids to private school? NOTE Confidence: 0.957517044285714 00:02:15.570 --> 00:02:18.110 Absolutely yeah, I believe public NOTE Confidence: 0.957517044285714 00:02:18.110 --> 00:02:19.889 or private that families should NOTE Confidence: 0.957517044285714 00:02:19.889 --> 00:02:21.407 choose how their kids get educated. NOTE Confidence: 0.957517044285714 00:02:21.410 --> 00:02:23.115 I don't believe in institutionalized NOTE Confidence: 0.957517044285714 00:02:23.115 --> 00:02:24.820 one size fits all model NOTE Confidence: 0.852813689 00:02:24.830 --> 00:02:26.390 and the way I understand it NOTE Confidence: 0.852813689 00:02:26.390 --> 00:02:27.430 though that's not constitutional. NOTE Confidence: 0.852813689 00:02:27.430 --> 00:02:29.376 The way the Idaho Constitution is written. NOTE Confidence: 0.843071076363636 00:02:29.730 --> 00:02:31.104 Well, we'll have to let the NOTE Confidence: 0.843071076363636 00:02:31.104 --> 00:02:32.240 attorneys hammer that one out. NOTE Confidence: 0.843071076363636 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:34.304 But the reality is that we need to NOTE Confidence: 0.843071076363636 00:02:34.304 --> 00:02:35.770 implement those kind of changes NOTE Confidence: 0.843071076363636 00:02:35.770 --> 00:02:36.966 in education families across NOTE Confidence: 0.843071076363636 00:02:36.966 --> 00:02:38.589 the state are demanding it. NOTE Confidence: 0.843071076363636 00:02:38.590 --> 00:02:40.719 So if it if it needs, if the Constitution. NOTE Confidence: 0.843071076363636 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:42.334 Needs to be amended well. NOTE Confidence: 0.843071076363636 00:02:42.340 --> 00:02:44.590 Then let's get the process started. Over NOTE Confidence: 0.882605385 00:02:44.600 --> 00:02:47.351 the last few years the legislature and NOTE Confidence: 0.882605385 00:02:47.351 --> 00:02:50.143 the governors have pumped quite a bit NOTE Confidence: 0.882605385 00:02:50.143 --> 00:02:52.459 more money into the education budget. NOTE Confidence: 0.882605385 00:02:52.460 --> 00:02:54.596 Would you support that if you NOTE Confidence: 0.882605385 00:02:54.596 --> 00:02:56.534 win to keep increasing funding NOTE Confidence: 0.882605385 00:02:56.534 --> 00:02:58.759 for teacher pay and technology? NOTE Confidence: 0.882605385 00:02:58.760 --> 00:03:00.348 Things like that. Teachers NOTE Confidence: 0.898994384 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:02.544 would make a lot more money under a NOTE Confidence: 0.898994384 00:03:02.544 --> 00:03:04.605 school choice model than they ever have NOTE Confidence: 0.898994384 00:03:04.605 --> 00:03:07.005 under this broken model we have right now NOTE Confidence: 0.898994384 00:03:07.005 --> 00:03:09.077 because the funding is going to follow NOTE Confidence: 0.898994384 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:12.097 the schools and schools that choose to. NOTE Confidence: 0.898994384 00:03:12.100 --> 00:03:13.985 Compensate their teachers and teachers NOTE Confidence: 0.898994384 00:03:13.985 --> 00:03:16.754 could be rewarded for the an entrepreneurial NOTE Confidence: 0.898994384 00:03:16.754 --> 00:03:19.226 spirit by starting their own schools. NOTE Confidence: 0.898994384 00:03:19.230 --> 00:03:20.360 It'll allow them to really NOTE Confidence: 0.898994384 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:21.490 take control of their pay. NOTE Confidence: 0.898994384 00:03:21.490 --> 00:03:23.226 So yeah, I do believe we need NOTE Confidence: 0.898994384 00:03:23.226 --> 00:03:24.406 to make significant investments NOTE Confidence: 0.898994384 00:03:24.406 --> 00:03:25.910 in the rising generation. NOTE Confidence: 0.898994384 00:03:25.910 --> 00:03:26.618 It's important, NOTE Confidence: 0.898994384 00:03:26.618 --> 00:03:30.279 but we need to invest it in the right way. NOTE Confidence: 0.9107719645 00:03:30.710 --> 00:03:32.678 Do you believe that critical race NOTE Confidence: 0.9107719645 00:03:32.678 --> 00:03:34.623 theory is being taught in Idaho's NOTE Confidence: 0.9107719645 00:03:34.623 --> 00:03:36.919 public schools and and why or why not? NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:03:37.190 --> 00:03:38.947 I don't believe it. I know it. NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:03:38.950 --> 00:03:40.090 It's an absolute fact, NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:03:40.090 --> 00:03:42.579 and it's really a shame that this isn't NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:03:42.579 --> 00:03:44.374 something that gets more coverage. NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:03:44.380 --> 00:03:46.977 I'll share with you some recent examples, NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:03:46.980 --> 00:03:48.600 but Boise State University. NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:03:48.600 --> 00:03:51.411 They have a racial inventory quiz and NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:03:51.411 --> 00:03:53.907 it asked the question what event led to NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:03:53.907 --> 00:03:56.401 the rise of the idea white supremacy NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:03:56.401 --> 00:03:58.944 and and according to them they say NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:03:58.944 --> 00:04:00.834 it's the Declaration of Independence. NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:03.088 That's a betrayal that is not that is NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:04:03.088 --> 00:04:05.401 not ethical or moral to to teach an NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:04:05.401 --> 00:04:07.280 entire generation to hate this nation, NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:09.128 but particularly K12 level. NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:04:09.128 --> 00:04:12.400 I've seen with my own eyes posters NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:14.400 that high school students. NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:16.470 Created over in in Bonneville County. NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:04:16.470 --> 00:04:19.070 Even saying things like white NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:04:19.070 --> 00:04:21.150 people are genetically defective NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:04:21.150 --> 00:04:23.010 descendants of albino mutants. NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:04:23.010 --> 00:04:24.230 This is hateful, it's evil. NOTE Confidence: 0.8934252 00:04:24.230 --> 00:04:25.778 It doesn't belong in our schools. NOTE Confidence: 0.882910719285714 00:04:26.190 --> 00:04:29.406 The state recently passed one of the most NOTE Confidence: 0.882910719285714 00:04:29.406 --> 00:04:31.577 restrictive abortion bans in the country, NOTE Confidence: 0.882910719285714 00:04:31.580 --> 00:04:33.902 banning abortions after six weeks of NOTE Confidence: 0.882910719285714 00:04:33.902 --> 00:04:35.877 pregnancy and allowing family members NOTE Confidence: 0.882910719285714 00:04:35.877 --> 00:04:38.085 to sue doctors who perform abortion. NOTE Confidence: 0.882910719285714 00:04:38.090 --> 00:04:39.530 It's being challenged, of course. NOTE Confidence: 0.882910719285714 00:04:39.530 --> 00:04:41.606 Do you believe that was the NOTE Confidence: 0.882910719285714 00:04:41.606 --> 00:04:43.440 right bill for this time? NOTE Confidence: 0.87802259 00:04:44.070 --> 00:04:45.393 Absolutely this this. NOTE Confidence: 0.87802259 00:04:45.393 --> 00:04:47.157 Entire country we're missing. NOTE Confidence: 0.87802259 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:49.204 Over 60 million Americans NOTE Confidence: 0.87802259 00:04:49.204 --> 00:04:51.759 today since Roe V Wade, NOTE Confidence: 0.87802259 00:04:51.760 --> 00:04:53.180 and it's a real travesty. NOTE Confidence: 0.87802259 00:04:53.180 --> 00:04:53.660 And I have to. NOTE Confidence: 0.87802259 00:04:53.660 --> 00:04:55.385 I mean, what are we missing from NOTE Confidence: 0.87802259 00:04:55.385 --> 00:04:57.220 science and culture and the arts? NOTE Confidence: 0.87802259 00:04:57.220 --> 00:04:59.140 Because 60 million people NOTE Confidence: 0.87802259 00:04:59.140 --> 00:05:01.060 never got their chance. NOTE Confidence: 0.87802259 00:05:01.060 --> 00:05:03.460 We need to embrace our NOTE Confidence: 0.87802259 00:05:03.460 --> 00:05:04.900 the rising generation, NOTE Confidence: 0.87802259 00:05:04.900 --> 00:05:05.893 our future potential, NOTE Confidence: 0.87802259 00:05:05.893 --> 00:05:07.548 not not terminate them before NOTE Confidence: 0.87802259 00:05:07.548 --> 00:05:09.470 they ever get their opportunity. NOTE Confidence: 0.877625748 00:05:09.780 --> 00:05:12.030 Do you support any exemptions? NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:13.080 --> 00:05:14.508 I don't believe abortion NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:14.508 --> 00:05:15.936 is an appropriate measure. NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:15.940 --> 00:05:17.823 At all, the reality is I understand NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:17.823 --> 00:05:19.781 that there are a number of members NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:19.781 --> 00:05:21.425 of the legislature and the like NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:21.484 --> 00:05:23.224 who want to ensure that there's NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:23.224 --> 00:05:24.780 exemptions for rape or incest. NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:24.780 --> 00:05:26.730 Specifically, in my own life, NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:26.730 --> 00:05:28.386 one of the people that had one of NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:28.386 --> 00:05:30.165 the most profound impacts on my life NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:30.165 --> 00:05:31.870 was actually a product of incest, NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:31.870 --> 00:05:35.146 and so these are tragic scenarios. NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:35.150 --> 00:05:36.378 But those people too, NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:36.378 --> 00:05:37.913 they they have an incredible NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:37.913 --> 00:05:39.710 potential and something to offer this. NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:39.710 --> 00:05:42.308 This world I would personally like NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:42.308 --> 00:05:44.770 to see abortion abolished entirely. NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:44.770 --> 00:05:45.841 I understand that. NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:45.841 --> 00:05:48.340 That's going to take time to get NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:48.410 --> 00:05:51.350 people to start to realize how we're NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:51.350 --> 00:05:53.660 really undercutting our own potential. NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:53.660 --> 00:05:55.556 Our own growth as a nation, NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:57.600 but every step in that direction NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:57.600 --> 00:05:59.806 to restrict it is something that NOTE Confidence: 0.92322092875 00:05:59.806 --> 00:06:01.350 I would I celebrate NOTE Confidence: 0.846826151818182 00:06:01.620 --> 00:06:03.545 the legislature and the governor NOTE Confidence: 0.846826151818182 00:06:03.545 --> 00:06:06.292 just approved the largest tax cut tax NOTE Confidence: 0.846826151818182 00:06:06.292 --> 00:06:09.724 relief package in the state's history. NOTE Confidence: 0.846826151818182 00:06:09.730 --> 00:06:12.637 Do you think more tax cuts should be enacted NOTE Confidence: 0.846826151818182 00:06:12.637 --> 00:06:15.076 next year and what is your tax plan? NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:16.150 --> 00:06:17.656 Well, and this is where it NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:17.656 --> 00:06:19.349 becomes a a giant shell game. NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:19.350 --> 00:06:22.206 I again any step in in that direction. NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:22.210 --> 00:06:24.850 I again I celebrate that. NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:24.850 --> 00:06:27.082 But when you're getting massive injections NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:27.082 --> 00:06:29.810 of money from the federal government, NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:29.810 --> 00:06:31.868 we are that that money all comes. NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:31.870 --> 00:06:32.810 It doesn't come with strings. NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:32.810 --> 00:06:35.216 Attached comes with chains attached and NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:35.216 --> 00:06:37.780 you have bureaucrats in Washington DC. NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:37.780 --> 00:06:39.404 They don't know what bathroom to use. NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:39.410 --> 00:06:41.216 They want to tell us how we NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:41.216 --> 00:06:42.890 need to educate kids in Idaho. NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:42.890 --> 00:06:44.346 I think that a lot of that money, NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:44.350 --> 00:06:46.096 some of it were rightfully owed. NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:46.100 --> 00:06:48.520 Payment lower taxes, for instance, NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:48.520 --> 00:06:50.494 but much of it is very problematic. NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:50.500 --> 00:06:52.180 I think it was a step in the NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:52.180 --> 00:06:53.278 right direction to reduce it. NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:53.280 --> 00:06:54.470 If I were elected governor, NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:54.470 --> 00:06:56.456 I would abolish the personal income NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:56.456 --> 00:06:58.000 tax in completely abolish it. NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:58.000 --> 00:06:59.760 Absolutely. How do you replace it? NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:06:59.760 --> 00:07:02.200 Well, the first thing we need to stop NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:07:02.200 --> 00:07:05.372 doing is cutting $50 million tax deals NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:07:05.372 --> 00:07:07.364 with multinational corporations like NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:07:07.364 --> 00:07:10.316 Facebook like our our governor just did that. NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:07:10.320 --> 00:07:12.540 That is completely out of control. NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:07:12.540 --> 00:07:13.611 These multinational corporations. NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:07:13.611 --> 00:07:16.110 They don't have Idaho's interests at heart. NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:07:16.110 --> 00:07:17.774 They can pay taxes, NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:07:17.774 --> 00:07:19.854 but the working class members NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:07:19.854 --> 00:07:21.690 are retired citizens. NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:07:21.690 --> 00:07:23.244 The small and medium sized business NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:07:23.244 --> 00:07:25.240 owners of this state they ought to be NOTE Confidence: 0.826349085833333 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:27.020 rewarded for the fruits of their laborers NOTE Confidence: 0.940804260769231 00:07:27.230 --> 00:07:29.982 in general. What do you see as the NOTE Confidence: 0.940804260769231 00:07:29.982 --> 00:07:32.123 biggest challenge facing Idaho in 2022 NOTE Confidence: 0.940804260769231 00:07:32.123 --> 00:07:35.267 and going into 2023 when the new governor NOTE Confidence: 0.940804260769231 00:07:35.270 --> 00:07:37.216 or the current governor will continue on? NOTE Confidence: 0.935952016923077 00:07:37.870 --> 00:07:40.758 Right now we have a major issue with NOTE Confidence: 0.935952016923077 00:07:40.758 --> 00:07:42.830 housing prices across this state. NOTE Confidence: 0.935952016923077 00:07:42.830 --> 00:07:44.806 Again, there our education NOTE Confidence: 0.935952016923077 00:07:44.806 --> 00:07:47.276 system has developed a complete. NOTE Confidence: 0.935952016923077 00:07:47.280 --> 00:07:49.105 Obsession with getting all the NOTE Confidence: 0.935952016923077 00:07:49.105 --> 00:07:50.930 young people in the state. NOTE Confidence: 0.935952016923077 00:07:50.930 --> 00:07:54.624 Getting into a college program NOTE Confidence: 0.935952016923077 00:07:54.624 --> 00:07:57.108 and then working in an office. NOTE Confidence: 0.935952016923077 00:07:57.110 --> 00:07:58.665 But people need to build NOTE Confidence: 0.935952016923077 00:07:58.665 --> 00:07:59.909 roads and build homes. NOTE Confidence: 0.935952016923077 00:07:59.910 --> 00:08:02.024 And if somebody enjoys turning a wrench, NOTE Confidence: 0.935952016923077 00:08:02.030 --> 00:08:02.743 that's fantastic. NOTE Confidence: 0.935952016923077 00:08:02.743 --> 00:08:03.860 They're creating immense NOTE Confidence: 0.935952016923077 00:08:03.860 --> 00:08:05.180 value for their communities. NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:06.340 --> 00:08:07.948 Humphries went on to say to NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:07.948 --> 00:08:09.020 address the housing crisis. NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:09.020 --> 00:08:10.460 He would offer more vocational NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:10.460 --> 00:08:12.669 training to beef up the workforce to NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:12.669 --> 00:08:14.459 get more skilled tradespeople out, NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:14.460 --> 00:08:16.560 building homes to increase the NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:18.240 supply so prices stabilize. NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:20.100 Now, in response to his comments NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:20.100 --> 00:08:21.340 about Boise State University NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:21.396 --> 00:08:23.070 having a racial inventory, quiz, NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:23.070 --> 00:08:25.170 Boise State sent me this statement NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:25.170 --> 00:08:27.095 saying some training materials not NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:27.095 --> 00:08:29.537 currently nor recently utilized by Boise NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:29.537 --> 00:08:31.350 State University staff were located NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:31.350 --> 00:08:33.340 on pages within the university's website. NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:33.340 --> 00:08:34.820 Despite efforts to keep NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:34.820 --> 00:08:36.300 all our pages updated. NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:36.300 --> 00:08:37.955 Some unused materials still existed NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:37.955 --> 00:08:40.430 on pages that had not been updated. NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:40.430 --> 00:08:41.402 Those training materials NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:41.402 --> 00:08:42.698 have now been removed. NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:42.700 --> 00:08:44.555 Any ideas presented in classrooms NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:44.555 --> 00:08:46.039 can always be debated, NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:46.040 --> 00:08:47.387 supported, and challenged. NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:47.387 --> 00:08:50.530 Universities leave a full range of ideas NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:50.598 --> 00:08:52.740 open to students coming up after the break. NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:52.740 --> 00:08:54.375 We'll hear Lieutenant Governor Janice NOTE Confidence: 0.842242141 00:08:54.375 --> 00:08:56.010 Mcgeehan stances on the issues. NOTE Confidence: 0.872930446333334 00:09:00.520 --> 00:09:02.344 Welcome back, we're focusing on the NOTE Confidence: 0.872930446333334 00:09:02.344 --> 00:09:03.966 race for the Republican nomination NOTE Confidence: 0.872930446333334 00:09:03.966 --> 00:09:06.388 for governor in the May 17th primary NOTE Confidence: 0.872930446333334 00:09:06.388 --> 00:09:07.793 Lieutenant Governor Janice McKeon NOTE Confidence: 0.872930446333334 00:09:07.793 --> 00:09:09.443 of Idaho Falls describes herself NOTE Confidence: 0.872930446333334 00:09:09.443 --> 00:09:11.070 as a conservative former president. NOTE Confidence: 0.872930446333334 00:09:11.070 --> 00:09:13.275 Trump has endorsed her in this race. NOTE Confidence: 0.872930446333334 00:09:13.280 --> 00:09:15.496 She and her husband have two adult children. NOTE Confidence: 0.872930446333334 00:09:15.500 --> 00:09:17.470 Mcgeehan served as a state NOTE Confidence: 0.872930446333334 00:09:17.470 --> 00:09:19.340 representative from 2002 to 2012. NOTE Confidence: 0.872930446333334 00:09:19.340 --> 00:09:21.860 We interviewed her at a business location. NOTE Confidence: 0.872930446333334 00:09:21.860 --> 00:09:23.636 She chose in the Boise area, NOTE Confidence: 0.872930446333334 00:09:23.640 --> 00:09:24.348 not the business. NOTE Confidence: 0.872930446333334 00:09:24.348 --> 00:09:25.764 She talks about at the beginning NOTE Confidence: 0.872930446333334 00:09:25.764 --> 00:09:26.670 of the interview. NOTE Confidence: 0.872930446333334 00:09:26.670 --> 00:09:28.686 When I asked why is she running for governor? NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:09:30.330 --> 00:09:32.969 Kendrick Idaho is the home of Hardware NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:09:32.969 --> 00:09:35.428 Brewery where more than two years ago, NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:09:35.430 --> 00:09:38.126 that's where all of this started for me. NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:09:38.130 --> 00:09:39.578 When Hardware Brewery was NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:09:39.578 --> 00:09:41.388 shut down by Mr Little, NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:09:41.390 --> 00:09:43.784 the family invited me to be with them when NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:09:43.784 --> 00:09:45.986 they decided to reopen their business. NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:09:45.990 --> 00:09:48.990 I stood with the family for their reopening. NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:09:48.990 --> 00:09:52.566 I stood with the family when law enforcement, NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:09:52.570 --> 00:09:54.887 Mr Littler law enforcement came in and NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:09:54.887 --> 00:09:57.049 threatened to take their license away. NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:09:57.050 --> 00:09:58.925 I stood with the family NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:09:58.925 --> 00:10:00.425 when that law enforcement. NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:00.430 --> 00:10:02.632 Issued a $2500 citation and I NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:02.632 --> 00:10:04.999 and asking Mr Little to please NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:04.999 --> 00:10:07.465 make the citation go away because NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:07.465 --> 00:10:09.978 they're just hard working Idahoans. NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:09.980 --> 00:10:11.300 Trying to make a living. NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:11.300 --> 00:10:13.052 I've stood with them from the NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:13.052 --> 00:10:15.234 from day one and I continue to NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:15.234 --> 00:10:17.136 stand with the people of Idaho. NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:17.140 --> 00:10:19.492 The people whose lives have been NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:19.492 --> 00:10:21.540 affected by the decisions of Mr. NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:21.540 --> 00:10:24.630 Little to shut down our businesses. NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:24.630 --> 00:10:26.106 Tell us that we couldn't go NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:26.106 --> 00:10:27.500 to church and worship freely. NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:27.500 --> 00:10:28.944 We're losing our freedoms, NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:28.944 --> 00:10:29.666 our liberties, NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:29.670 --> 00:10:31.504 we're losing the sovereignty of our state, NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:31.510 --> 00:10:33.658 and we're losing our our traditional NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:33.658 --> 00:10:35.530 conservative values are under attack, NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:35.530 --> 00:10:36.439 and so I, NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:36.439 --> 00:10:38.257 that's why I'm running for governor NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:38.257 --> 00:10:40.200 to protect those things that we NOTE Confidence: 0.925715497857143 00:10:40.200 --> 00:10:42.728 love and hold so dear here in Idaho, NOTE Confidence: 0.81245247 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:45.104 I'm gonna ask you to name only one. NOTE Confidence: 0.81245247 00:10:45.110 --> 00:10:47.168 But what is your top priority? NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:10:47.350 --> 00:10:49.086 Now I've come up with a vision. NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:10:49.090 --> 00:10:51.160 It's the a conservative vision NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:10:51.160 --> 00:10:53.750 for a free and prosperous Idaho. NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:10:53.750 --> 00:10:54.971 It starts with. NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:10:54.971 --> 00:10:57.006 Getting government off our backs, NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:10:57.010 --> 00:10:59.110 we need to reduce taxation. NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:10:59.110 --> 00:11:00.909 Our people are being overtaxed right now. NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:11:00.910 --> 00:11:02.454 We've got rampant inflation NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:11:02.454 --> 00:11:04.770 because of the fund money that NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:11:04.839 --> 00:11:06.569 is flowing into our state. NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:11:06.570 --> 00:11:08.850 Families are struggling with inflation. NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:11:08.850 --> 00:11:10.506 Being able to they're being penalized NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:11:10.506 --> 00:11:12.593 for being able for buying a loaf of NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:11:12.593 --> 00:11:14.429 bread at the grocery store and cost us NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:11:14.429 --> 00:11:16.321 twice as much to fill up our gas tank. NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:11:16.321 --> 00:11:18.498 My vision for the state of Idaho NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:11:18.498 --> 00:11:20.829 is to empower the individual. NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:11:20.830 --> 00:11:22.780 We're going to start with one NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:11:22.780 --> 00:11:25.080 idea that I have is to reopen. NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:27.354 The University of Idaho School of NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:11:27.354 --> 00:11:30.074 Mines so that we can nurture and NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:11:30.074 --> 00:11:31.862 cultivate geologists in engineers NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:11:31.862 --> 00:11:34.400 to utilize the resources that we've NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:11:34.400 --> 00:11:36.458 been blessed with here in Idaho, NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:11:36.460 --> 00:11:38.256 including rare earth minerals NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:11:38.256 --> 00:11:41.458 to help us develop a policy to NOTE Confidence: 0.751227168571429 00:11:41.458 --> 00:11:43.090 become energy independent, NOTE Confidence: 0.877466998333333 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:45.088 what do you see as the biggest NOTE Confidence: 0.877466998333333 00:11:45.088 --> 00:11:46.829 issue in Idaho public schools? NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:11:46.920 --> 00:11:48.756 Our school system is is failing NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:11:48.756 --> 00:11:50.658 our children and it's not our NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:11:50.658 --> 00:11:52.518 teachers that are failing our kids. NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:11:52.520 --> 00:11:55.117 It's our system that's failing our kids. NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:58.018 The statistics I have in 2021 NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:11:58.018 --> 00:12:01.224 only 39% of our children are at NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:12:01.224 --> 00:12:03.528 proficient level in math scores. NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:12:03.530 --> 00:12:06.638 Only 65% of our children are proficient NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:12:06.638 --> 00:12:09.777 in reading and we have continued to. NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:12:09.780 --> 00:12:12.944 Fail to meet our go on rate NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:12:12.944 --> 00:12:15.097 for higher education we need NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:12:15.097 --> 00:12:17.881 to we need to get rid of the. NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:12:17.890 --> 00:12:19.646 Socialist and controversial teachings NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:12:19.646 --> 00:12:22.680 in our classroom that is in our NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:12:22.680 --> 00:12:24.648 schools go back to the basics, NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:12:24.650 --> 00:12:27.346 teach our kids the ABC's the 1-2 threes, NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:12:27.350 --> 00:12:29.360 teach them about our constitutional NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:30.968 Republican form of government. NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:12:30.970 --> 00:12:33.316 And I'm a big proponent of NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:12:33.316 --> 00:12:34.489 skills based training. NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:12:34.490 --> 00:12:37.010 Having served as the President of the NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:12:37.010 --> 00:12:38.770 Career Technical Education Foundation, NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:12:38.770 --> 00:12:41.610 I believe that we need to do more to help NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:12:41.681 --> 00:12:44.536 our kids develop attainable real skills. NOTE Confidence: 0.848959230555556 00:12:44.536 --> 00:12:46.790 You mentioned NOTE Confidence: 0.749092753333333 00:12:46.790 --> 00:12:49.220 critical race theory. NOTE Confidence: 0.749092753333333 00:12:49.220 --> 00:12:51.476 You started your education task force. NOTE Confidence: 0.749092753333333 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:53.350 Do you believe that the NOTE Confidence: 0.749092753333333 00:12:53.350 --> 00:12:54.846 teaching of critical race NOTE Confidence: 0.749092753333333 00:12:54.846 --> 00:12:56.828 theory is widespread in Idaho? NOTE Confidence: 0.912049721538462 00:12:56.960 --> 00:12:59.410 I do not believe that it's widespread NOTE Confidence: 0.912049721538462 00:12:59.410 --> 00:13:01.479 throughout our school system in Idaho, NOTE Confidence: 0.912049721538462 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:03.610 but we know it's there and NOTE Confidence: 0.912049721538462 00:13:03.610 --> 00:13:05.320 we've seen examples of it. NOTE Confidence: 0.912049721538462 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:07.203 We had people testify to it and NOTE Confidence: 0.912049721538462 00:13:07.203 --> 00:13:08.772 I continue to receive examples NOTE Confidence: 0.912049721538462 00:13:08.772 --> 00:13:10.878 of it happening in our school. NOTE Confidence: 0.912049721538462 00:13:10.880 --> 00:13:11.840 So we need to, just. NOTE Confidence: 0.912049721538462 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:14.099 It's unconstitutional those NOTE Confidence: 0.912049721538462 00:13:14.099 --> 00:13:16.358 teachings are unconstitutional. NOTE Confidence: 0.912049721538462 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:17.632 We're all created equal. NOTE Confidence: 0.912049721538462 00:13:17.632 --> 00:13:19.540 And we all have equal rights NOTE Confidence: 0.912049721538462 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:21.230 and equal opportunities. Do NOTE Confidence: 0.915530492 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:24.125 you support more funding for our NOTE Confidence: 0.915530492 00:13:24.125 --> 00:13:25.835 public schools in terms of teacher NOTE Confidence: 0.915530492 00:13:25.835 --> 00:13:27.470 pay, technology, et cetera. NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:13:27.820 --> 00:13:30.112 Absolutely support the idea of giving NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:13:30.112 --> 00:13:33.115 more more money to pay our teachers NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:13:33.115 --> 00:13:35.460 higher salaries and buying technology. NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:13:35.460 --> 00:13:36.249 But for taxpayers, NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:13:36.249 --> 00:13:38.518 we need to see more of a result NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:13:38.518 --> 00:13:40.720 from the money that we're spending. NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:42.835 And I also would like to so you know, NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:44.808 if we're if we're not getting the results NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:13:44.808 --> 00:13:46.808 that we as taxpayers and as citizens, NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:13:46.810 --> 00:13:48.442 and that our children. NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:13:48.442 --> 00:13:51.457 Deserve then we need to address that NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:13:51.457 --> 00:13:53.912 underlying problem rather than continually NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:13:53.912 --> 00:13:57.008 to just pump more money into it. NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:13:57.010 --> 00:13:59.026 I'm I am a an advocate. NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:13:59.030 --> 00:14:00.910 I do support school choice. NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:14:00.910 --> 00:14:03.717 I'm a small business woman and in NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:14:03.717 --> 00:14:05.910 business competition is a good thing. NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:14:05.910 --> 00:14:08.754 I think that with two school NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:14:08.754 --> 00:14:11.964 choice that will only work to lift NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:14:11.964 --> 00:14:14.829 all boats and all all methods of NOTE Confidence: 0.904316689444444 00:14:14.829 --> 00:14:16.894 teaching our children will improve NOTE Confidence: 0.847838312727273 00:14:17.210 --> 00:14:18.308 the state recently. NOTE Confidence: 0.847838312727273 00:14:18.308 --> 00:14:20.504 Passed one of the most restrictive NOTE Confidence: 0.847838312727273 00:14:20.504 --> 00:14:21.960 abortion bans banning abortion NOTE Confidence: 0.847838312727273 00:14:21.960 --> 00:14:24.150 after six weeks, allowing family NOTE Confidence: 0.847838312727273 00:14:24.150 --> 00:14:27.120 members to sue an abortion provider. NOTE Confidence: 0.847838312727273 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:28.488 Do you believe that was the right way to NOTE Confidence: 0.861377118235294 00:14:28.500 --> 00:14:30.888 go? Absolutely and I actually had NOTE Confidence: 0.861377118235294 00:14:30.888 --> 00:14:33.388 since the decision of the Supreme NOTE Confidence: 0.861377118235294 00:14:33.388 --> 00:14:35.458 Court was leaked was leaked. NOTE Confidence: 0.861377118235294 00:14:35.460 --> 00:14:38.498 I put out a statement just yesterday NOTE Confidence: 0.861377118235294 00:14:38.498 --> 00:14:40.580 actually calling on governor. NOTE Confidence: 0.861377118235294 00:14:40.580 --> 00:14:42.710 Little to call the legislature into NOTE Confidence: 0.861377118235294 00:14:42.710 --> 00:14:44.887 special session so that we can once NOTE Confidence: 0.861377118235294 00:14:44.887 --> 00:14:46.705 and for all prohibit all abortions. NOTE Confidence: 0.861377118235294 00:14:46.705 --> 00:14:49.330 Make and and make Idaho be the NOTE Confidence: 0.861377118235294 00:14:49.401 --> 00:14:51.609 sanctuary of life that we believe NOTE Confidence: 0.861377118235294 00:14:51.609 --> 00:14:54.068 that life begins at the moment of NOTE Confidence: 0.861377118235294 00:14:54.068 --> 00:14:56.438 conception so and if I was the governor, NOTE Confidence: 0.861377118235294 00:14:56.438 --> 00:14:57.578 I would be doing that. NOTE Confidence: 0.892595726 00:14:57.590 --> 00:14:58.960 Do you support any exemptions? NOTE Confidence: 0.95985504375 00:14:59.830 --> 00:15:02.315 There are plenty of opportunities NOTE Confidence: 0.95985504375 00:15:02.315 --> 00:15:03.806 within the community. NOTE Confidence: 0.95985504375 00:15:03.810 --> 00:15:06.839 Again, always going back to the NOTE Confidence: 0.95985504375 00:15:06.839 --> 00:15:09.912 fact that life begins at the moment NOTE Confidence: 0.95985504375 00:15:09.912 --> 00:15:12.695 of conception that with the proper NOTE Confidence: 0.95985504375 00:15:12.695 --> 00:15:15.665 care and nurture from the Community, NOTE Confidence: 0.95985504375 00:15:15.670 --> 00:15:18.510 absolutely every life is worth. Setting NOTE Confidence: 0.810847894166667 00:15:18.520 --> 00:15:20.543 so not for the health of the NOTE Confidence: 0.810847894166667 00:15:20.543 --> 00:15:22.150 mother or rape or incest. NOTE Confidence: 0.9129745775 00:15:22.400 --> 00:15:24.191 Well, those are. NOTE Confidence: 0.9129745775 00:15:24.191 --> 00:15:27.176 Those are unique circumstances that. NOTE Confidence: 0.9129745775 00:15:27.180 --> 00:15:28.296 Have to be considered. NOTE Confidence: 0.9129745775 00:15:28.296 --> 00:15:30.460 If a woman's life is in danger, NOTE Confidence: 0.9129745775 00:15:30.460 --> 00:15:32.315 then that's that's that's separate NOTE Confidence: 0.9129745775 00:15:32.315 --> 00:15:34.170 then the protection of life NOTE Confidence: 0.9129745775 00:15:34.233 --> 00:15:35.908 at the moment of conception. NOTE Confidence: 0.893285311538461 00:15:36.100 --> 00:15:39.180 What do you see as the biggest challenge NOTE Confidence: 0.893285311538461 00:15:39.180 --> 00:15:41.850 facing Idaho going forward into 2023? NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:15:41.940 --> 00:15:43.836 Yeah, Idaho is a great state. NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:45.240 We have so much opportunity, NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:46.560 great resources, great people. NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:15:46.560 --> 00:15:48.907 But what's at stake is the loss NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:15:48.907 --> 00:15:50.496 of our freedoms, our liberties, NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:15:50.496 --> 00:15:53.200 the loss of the sovereignty of our state. NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:55.048 Where if we continue to take that NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:15:55.048 --> 00:15:56.939 money from the federal government, NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:15:56.940 --> 00:15:58.188 that tells us how we have NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:15:58.188 --> 00:15:59.580 to teach in our classroom. NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:15:59.580 --> 00:16:01.650 How we how we met manage NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:16:01.650 --> 00:16:02.685 our Medicaid programs? NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:16:02.690 --> 00:16:04.208 How do we build our roads? NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:16:04.210 --> 00:16:05.650 There's small communities, NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:16:05.650 --> 00:16:08.050 rural communities that are ready. NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:16:08.050 --> 00:16:10.655 You know they they wanna put traffic NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:16:10.655 --> 00:16:12.180 signals up in their community NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:16:12.180 --> 00:16:14.060 and are willing to pay for it. NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:16:14.060 --> 00:16:15.764 But we can't do it because we don't NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:16:15.764 --> 00:16:17.448 meet all the federal requirements. NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:16:17.450 --> 00:16:19.172 It's all about doing things the NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:16:19.172 --> 00:16:21.355 Idaho way and doing what's best for NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:16:21.355 --> 00:16:23.305 the people of Idaho tenant governor. NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:16:23.310 --> 00:16:24.770 Thank you. OK, thank you. NOTE Confidence: 0.833484258333333 00:16:24.770 --> 00:16:25.210 Appreciate NOTE Confidence: 0.898963 00:16:25.220 --> 00:16:25.859 your time, yeah. NOTE Confidence: 0.83590687 00:16:27.640 --> 00:16:29.000 When asked about tax relief, NOTE Confidence: 0.83590687 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:30.855 Lieutenant Governor McKeon says the NOTE Confidence: 0.83590687 00:16:30.855 --> 00:16:32.710 legislature should have given even NOTE Confidence: 0.83590687 00:16:32.771 --> 00:16:34.703 more of the nearly $2 billion budget NOTE Confidence: 0.83590687 00:16:34.703 --> 00:16:36.574 surplus back to the taxpayers should NOTE Confidence: 0.83590687 00:16:36.574 --> 00:16:38.219 have eliminated the grocery sales NOTE Confidence: 0.83590687 00:16:38.219 --> 00:16:40.770 tax and should have done more on NOTE Confidence: 0.83590687 00:16:40.770 --> 00:16:42.777 property tax relief coming up next. NOTE Confidence: 0.83590687 00:16:42.777 --> 00:16:44.222 The incumbent hear from Governor NOTE Confidence: 0.83590687 00:16:44.222 --> 00:16:45.529 Brad little on the issues. NOTE Confidence: 0.922660311428571 00:16:48.850 --> 00:16:50.850 Once again, today we are focusing on the NOTE Confidence: 0.922660311428571 00:16:50.850 --> 00:16:52.675 race for the Republican nomination for NOTE Confidence: 0.922660311428571 00:16:52.675 --> 00:16:55.090 governor in the May 17th primary election. NOTE Confidence: 0.922660311428571 00:16:55.090 --> 00:16:57.337 So far, we've heard from Ed Humphries NOTE Confidence: 0.922660311428571 00:16:57.337 --> 00:16:59.089 and Lieutenant Governor Janice McKeon, NOTE Confidence: 0.922660311428571 00:16:59.090 --> 00:17:01.401 now to the incumbent Governor, Brad. NOTE Confidence: 0.922660311428571 00:17:01.401 --> 00:17:02.965 Little also describes himself NOTE Confidence: 0.922660311428571 00:17:02.965 --> 00:17:04.529 as a conservative Republican. NOTE Confidence: 0.922660311428571 00:17:04.530 --> 00:17:06.203 He and the first lady have two NOTE Confidence: 0.922660311428571 00:17:06.203 --> 00:17:07.629 sons and six grandchildren and NOTE Confidence: 0.922660311428571 00:17:07.629 --> 00:17:09.585 call the city of Emmett Home. NOTE Confidence: 0.922660311428571 00:17:09.590 --> 00:17:11.492 He's now running for his second NOTE Confidence: 0.922660311428571 00:17:11.492 --> 00:17:13.336 term as Idaho's 33rd governor. NOTE Confidence: 0.922660311428571 00:17:13.336 --> 00:17:14.944 After serving as Lieutenant NOTE Confidence: 0.922660311428571 00:17:14.944 --> 00:17:16.665 governor from 2009 to 2018. NOTE Confidence: 0.922660311428571 00:17:16.665 --> 00:17:18.495 And as a state senator for NOTE Confidence: 0.922660311428571 00:17:18.495 --> 00:17:20.098 four terms before that. NOTE Confidence: 0.6766267 00:17:21.150 --> 00:17:22.674 Just first of all, governor, why are NOTE Confidence: 0.6766267 00:17:22.674 --> 00:17:24.490 you running for a second term? Well, NOTE Confidence: 0.911069363076923 00:17:24.910 --> 00:17:26.248 we are very pleased with what NOTE Confidence: 0.911069363076923 00:17:26.248 --> 00:17:27.959 we got done in the first term, NOTE Confidence: 0.765988742111111 00:17:30.110 --> 00:17:32.790 education's largest tax decrease NOTE Confidence: 0.765988742111111 00:17:32.790 --> 00:17:36.140 met our goals on transportation, NOTE Confidence: 0.765988742111111 00:17:36.140 --> 00:17:37.130 but there's a lot of work, NOTE Confidence: 0.765988742111111 00:17:37.130 --> 00:17:39.030 particularly on the education side, NOTE Confidence: 0.765988742111111 00:17:39.030 --> 00:17:41.016 whether it be literacy or whether NOTE Confidence: 0.765988742111111 00:17:41.016 --> 00:17:43.250 it be teacher pay and benefits. NOTE Confidence: 0.765988742111111 00:17:43.250 --> 00:17:44.798 We put those programs out there. NOTE Confidence: 0.765988742111111 00:17:44.800 --> 00:17:46.072 We know they're going to have NOTE Confidence: 0.765988742111111 00:17:46.072 --> 00:17:47.310 to be adjusted going forward. NOTE Confidence: 0.765988742111111 00:17:47.310 --> 00:17:49.228 And what's really important to me is NOTE Confidence: 0.765988742111111 00:17:49.228 --> 00:17:51.289 that we move the ball on literacy. NOTE Confidence: 0.765988742111111 00:17:51.290 --> 00:17:53.096 Get all kids reading proficiently at NOTE Confidence: 0.765988742111111 00:17:53.096 --> 00:17:55.657 the end of the third grade and that NOTE Confidence: 0.765988742111111 00:17:55.657 --> 00:17:57.257 we create an atmosphere atmosphere NOTE Confidence: 0.765988742111111 00:17:57.257 --> 00:17:59.039 where our kids our high school NOTE Confidence: 0.765988742111111 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:01.137 kids want to be teachers in Idaho. NOTE Confidence: 0.765988742111111 00:18:01.140 --> 00:18:02.850 So we'll have to keep modifying NOTE Confidence: 0.765988742111111 00:18:02.850 --> 00:18:04.460 to make sure that happens NOTE Confidence: 0.702580905692308 00:18:04.470 --> 00:18:05.952 and let's stick with the education NOTE Confidence: 0.702580905692308 00:18:05.952 --> 00:18:07.518 thing I was going to ask you. NOTE Confidence: 0.702580905692308 00:18:07.520 --> 00:18:09.634 What do you think is the biggest NOTE Confidence: 0.702580905692308 00:18:09.634 --> 00:18:11.185 priority next year after where a NOTE Confidence: 0.702580905692308 00:18:11.185 --> 00:18:13.019 lot of the funding went this year, NOTE Confidence: 0.702580905692308 00:18:13.020 --> 00:18:14.886 allowing districts to go to optional NOTE Confidence: 0.702580905692308 00:18:14.886 --> 00:18:16.712 all day kindergarten if they choose NOTE Confidence: 0.702580905692308 00:18:16.712 --> 00:18:18.824 what's going to be the issue next year? NOTE Confidence: 0.884088795 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:21.758 Well, we'll see how that worked. NOTE Confidence: 0.884088795 00:18:21.760 --> 00:18:23.776 I was fortunate that I got the NOTE Confidence: 0.884088795 00:18:23.776 --> 00:18:25.942 legislature to agree with me to put a NOTE Confidence: 0.884088795 00:18:25.942 --> 00:18:27.700 lot of flexibility in there because. NOTE Confidence: 0.884088795 00:18:27.700 --> 00:18:29.464 Problems I was in Jerome yesterday NOTE Confidence: 0.884088795 00:18:29.464 --> 00:18:31.900 and they have a great dual immersion NOTE Confidence: 0.884088795 00:18:31.900 --> 00:18:33.500 dual language immersion program NOTE Confidence: 0.884088795 00:18:33.500 --> 00:18:35.759 which is really great for Jerome, NOTE Confidence: 0.884088795 00:18:35.760 --> 00:18:38.707 but it's different in other areas so. NOTE Confidence: 0.884088795 00:18:38.710 --> 00:18:40.838 We want to see the creativity of NOTE Confidence: 0.884088795 00:18:40.838 --> 00:18:42.701 school districts and we're just about NOTE Confidence: 0.884088795 00:18:42.701 --> 00:18:44.972 ready to go live with our dashboard to NOTE Confidence: 0.884088795 00:18:44.972 --> 00:18:46.246 where everybody will be able to see NOTE Confidence: 0.884088795 00:18:46.246 --> 00:18:47.609 what kind of progress we're making. NOTE Confidence: 0.884088795 00:18:47.610 --> 00:18:49.830 The literacy we get that longitudinal NOTE Confidence: 0.884088795 00:18:49.830 --> 00:18:50.570 data back. NOTE Confidence: 0.884088795 00:18:50.570 --> 00:18:53.066 Then we'll be able to help teachers and NOTE Confidence: 0.884088795 00:18:53.066 --> 00:18:54.970 districts move the ball on literacy, NOTE Confidence: 0.722452987833333 00:18:54.980 --> 00:18:56.160 so it's still literacy. NOTE Confidence: 0.722452987833333 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:57.719 Oh yeah, and teacher pay? NOTE Confidence: 0.798118523333333 00:18:57.810 --> 00:18:59.609 Well, we spend half our money on NOTE Confidence: 0.798118523333333 00:18:59.609 --> 00:19:01.209 education if kids aren't reading, NOTE Confidence: 0.798118523333333 00:19:01.210 --> 00:19:02.400 we're not doing our job NOTE Confidence: 0.90851198625 00:19:02.470 --> 00:19:04.479 overall, and you can just pick one NOTE Confidence: 0.90851198625 00:19:04.479 --> 00:19:06.200 thing. What is your top priority? NOTE Confidence: 0.632186381666667 00:19:06.410 --> 00:19:08.758 Well, that's literacy is really it, because. NOTE Confidence: 0.632186381666667 00:19:08.758 --> 00:19:10.846 For every dollar state tax you NOTE Confidence: 0.632186381666667 00:19:10.846 --> 00:19:13.120 pay half of it goes into K12, NOTE Confidence: 0.632186381666667 00:19:13.120 --> 00:19:14.488 and if these kids aren't reading, NOTE Confidence: 0.632186381666667 00:19:14.490 --> 00:19:17.214 we're just and and we continue NOTE Confidence: 0.632186381666667 00:19:17.214 --> 00:19:19.996 to lighten the regulatory load on NOTE Confidence: 0.632186381666667 00:19:19.996 --> 00:19:22.196 small businesses in the state. NOTE Confidence: 0.632186381666667 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:23.964 And that's where a lot of our NOTE Confidence: 0.632186381666667 00:19:23.964 --> 00:19:26.264 economy explosion is coming from NOTE Confidence: 0.632186381666667 00:19:26.264 --> 00:19:28.614 is a regulatory difference between NOTE Confidence: 0.632186381666667 00:19:28.614 --> 00:19:31.056 us and almost every other well, NOTE Confidence: 0.632186381666667 00:19:31.060 --> 00:19:32.608 actually, every other state. NOTE Confidence: 0.632186381666667 00:19:32.608 --> 00:19:36.960 And so I was with a group of new businesses. NOTE Confidence: 0.632186381666667 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:39.116 Two nights ago and they were all NOTE Confidence: 0.632186381666667 00:19:39.116 --> 00:19:40.939 talking about how great it is NOTE Confidence: 0.632186381666667 00:19:40.939 --> 00:19:42.324 to do business in Idaho. NOTE Confidence: 0.794270992857143 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:45.137 Staying with education for one more question, NOTE Confidence: 0.794270992857143 00:19:45.140 --> 00:19:47.023 do you believe critical race theory is NOTE Confidence: 0.794270992857143 00:19:47.023 --> 00:19:48.930 being taught in Idaho public schools? NOTE Confidence: 0.82501391 00:19:49.040 --> 00:19:51.357 Well, the the debate on the floor. NOTE Confidence: 0.82501391 00:19:51.360 --> 00:19:52.812 I signed the first critical race NOTE Confidence: 0.82501391 00:19:52.812 --> 00:19:54.500 theory bill in the United States, NOTE Confidence: 0.82501391 00:19:54.500 --> 00:19:56.884 but the debate on the floor was we're NOTE Confidence: 0.82501391 00:19:56.884 --> 00:19:59.177 worried about it coming from other states. NOTE Confidence: 0.82501391 00:19:59.180 --> 00:20:01.287 But there's really no evidence of it NOTE Confidence: 0.82501391 00:20:01.287 --> 00:20:05.160 in Idaho, but we do that in Idaho, NOTE Confidence: 0.82501391 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:07.150 for better or worse, we. NOTE Confidence: 0.82501391 00:20:07.150 --> 00:20:09.730 What I say called blocking legislation. NOTE Confidence: 0.82501391 00:20:09.730 --> 00:20:11.940 You see something happening in NOTE Confidence: 0.82501391 00:20:11.940 --> 00:20:14.141 Seattle or Portland or California NOTE Confidence: 0.82501391 00:20:14.141 --> 00:20:16.727 and we put in blocking legislation. NOTE Confidence: 0.82501391 00:20:16.730 --> 00:20:19.282 And for the most part that that Bill NOTE Confidence: 0.82501391 00:20:19.282 --> 00:20:21.501 was blocking legislation and and even NOTE Confidence: 0.82501391 00:20:21.501 --> 00:20:23.769 the sponsors of it admitted that. NOTE Confidence: 0.861096673684211 00:20:23.780 --> 00:20:25.428 And so you've seen no evidence or no NOTE Confidence: 0.861096673684211 00:20:25.428 --> 00:20:27.115 one has presented evidence to you NOTE Confidence: 0.861096673684211 00:20:27.115 --> 00:20:28.650 that there are specific examples. NOTE Confidence: 0.916761951111111 00:20:28.660 --> 00:20:30.838 But we still want to be cognizant of it. NOTE Confidence: 0.89989766 00:20:31.270 --> 00:20:32.030 Of course, as you know, NOTE Confidence: 0.89989766 00:20:32.030 --> 00:20:35.430 the state recently passed one of the most NOTE Confidence: 0.89989766 00:20:35.430 --> 00:20:37.717 restrictive abortion bans in the country. NOTE Confidence: 0.89989766 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:40.450 Banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy NOTE Confidence: 0.89989766 00:20:40.450 --> 00:20:42.920 and also allowing for family members to NOTE Confidence: 0.89989766 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:45.400 sue a Doctor Who performs an abortion. NOTE Confidence: 0.89989766 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:46.920 You signed it into law, NOTE Confidence: 0.89989766 00:20:46.920 --> 00:20:49.032 but you also raised some very NOTE Confidence: 0.89989766 00:20:49.032 --> 00:20:50.440 serious concerns about it, NOTE Confidence: 0.89989766 00:20:50.440 --> 00:20:52.860 and particularly the enforcement mechanism. NOTE Confidence: 0.89989766 00:20:52.860 --> 00:20:54.774 Do you have any second thoughts NOTE Confidence: 0.89989766 00:20:54.774 --> 00:20:56.470 about signing that bill now NOTE Confidence: 0.89989766 00:20:56.470 --> 00:20:57.906 that it's being challenged? NOTE Confidence: 0.841134275555556 00:20:58.160 --> 00:20:59.942 I mean, I have I literally NOTE Confidence: 0.841134275555556 00:20:59.942 --> 00:21:00.833 have three choices. NOTE Confidence: 0.841134275555556 00:21:00.840 --> 00:21:02.680 I can sign a bill and say nothing. NOTE Confidence: 0.841134275555556 00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:03.980 I can veto a bill, NOTE Confidence: 0.841134275555556 00:21:03.980 --> 00:21:06.266 or I can sign and say I see some NOTE Confidence: 0.841134275555556 00:21:06.266 --> 00:21:07.449 fundamental problems there. NOTE Confidence: 0.841134275555556 00:21:07.450 --> 00:21:09.574 That maybe that we need to NOTE Confidence: 0.841134275555556 00:21:09.574 --> 00:21:11.678 address next year or sometime. NOTE Confidence: 0.841134275555556 00:21:11.678 --> 00:21:13.982 And and of course, there's going NOTE Confidence: 0.841134275555556 00:21:13.982 --> 00:21:16.570 to be a big decision from the Supreme Court. NOTE Confidence: 0.841134275555556 00:21:16.570 --> 00:21:18.789 Probably the end of June or July, NOTE Confidence: 0.841134275555556 00:21:18.790 --> 00:21:21.742 and then it's going to be a whole different. NOTE Confidence: 0.841134275555556 00:21:21.750 --> 00:21:24.564 It's probably going to be a whole NOTE Confidence: 0.841134275555556 00:21:24.564 --> 00:21:26.878 different set of circumstances for NOTE Confidence: 0.841134275555556 00:21:26.878 --> 00:21:30.330 what we do to to protect life, NOTE Confidence: 0.841134275555556 00:21:30.330 --> 00:21:32.563 and so that has been stayed here NOTE Confidence: 0.841134275555556 00:21:32.563 --> 00:21:35.092 in Idaho and we'll wait and see NOTE Confidence: 0.841134275555556 00:21:35.092 --> 00:21:37.342 what happens at the federal level. NOTE Confidence: 0.841134275555556 00:21:37.350 --> 00:21:38.520 And I'm sure we'll have to NOTE Confidence: 0.841134275555556 00:21:38.520 --> 00:21:39.300 do something next year. NOTE Confidence: 0.828496676 00:21:39.310 --> 00:21:40.875 And you know, the nearby NOTE Confidence: 0.828496676 00:21:40.875 --> 00:21:42.440 states are even ramping up. NOTE Confidence: 0.828496676 00:21:42.440 --> 00:21:44.813 For the women here who may cross NOTE Confidence: 0.828496676 00:21:44.813 --> 00:21:46.920 state lines to get abortions, NOTE Confidence: 0.828496676 00:21:46.920 --> 00:21:48.306 does that concern you at all that NOTE Confidence: 0.828496676 00:21:48.306 --> 00:21:49.769 the bill may be too restrictive? NOTE Confidence: 0.83662254 00:21:49.780 --> 00:21:53.072 Yeah, yeah it does, and you know, NOTE Confidence: 0.83662254 00:21:53.072 --> 00:21:55.630 cause our goal is just to NOTE Confidence: 0.83662254 00:21:55.630 --> 00:21:56.680 basically protect life, NOTE Confidence: 0.83662254 00:21:56.680 --> 00:21:58.780 whether it be here or whether NOTE Confidence: 0.83662254 00:21:58.848 --> 00:22:00.598 it be in a in another state. NOTE Confidence: 0.83662254 00:22:00.600 --> 00:22:02.602 But it we're going to have much NOTE Confidence: 0.83662254 00:22:02.602 --> 00:22:04.300 more clarity when the Supreme NOTE Confidence: 0.83662254 00:22:04.300 --> 00:22:05.856 Court decides this decision. NOTE Confidence: 0.71484299 00:22:05.870 --> 00:22:07.860 the US Supreme Court also, NOTE Confidence: 0.71484299 00:22:07.860 --> 00:22:08.800 of course, as you know, NOTE Confidence: 0.71484299 00:22:08.800 --> 00:22:10.520 you proposed in the legislature, NOTE Confidence: 0.71484299 00:22:10.520 --> 00:22:13.190 signed the largest tax cut. NOTE Confidence: 0.71484299 00:22:13.190 --> 00:22:14.120 In state history. NOTE Confidence: 0.858341282 00:22:14.130 --> 00:22:15.260 Thanks for bringing that up, NOTE Confidence: 0.91256919 00:22:16.130 --> 00:22:18.110 of course, but I want to know are you NOTE Confidence: 0.91256919 00:22:18.110 --> 00:22:19.975 going to do even more of that next year NOTE Confidence: 0.91256919 00:22:19.975 --> 00:22:22.222 or is it going to depend on the economic NOTE Confidence: 0.91256919 00:22:22.222 --> 00:22:24.028 situation as we see with inflation? NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:22:24.040 --> 00:22:25.769 Right now we did and we did. NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:22:25.770 --> 00:22:26.634 We did two things. NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:22:26.634 --> 00:22:28.723 We did, ongoing tax relief. NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:22:28.723 --> 00:22:32.029 We did some property tax relief. NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:22:32.030 --> 00:22:34.541 We did payroll tax relief and then we did NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:22:34.541 --> 00:22:37.370 the rebate and for the second year in a row, NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:22:37.370 --> 00:22:39.056 we did the rebate because we NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:22:39.056 --> 00:22:40.410 don't know what normal is. NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:22:40.410 --> 00:22:43.058 There was $6 trillion worth of stimulus put NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:22:43.058 --> 00:22:45.956 into the economy by the federal government. NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:48.592 And we know some of our revenue NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:22:48.592 --> 00:22:51.558 is a result of that $6 trillion. NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:22:51.560 --> 00:22:54.535 Idaho and other states what Idaho's doing. NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:22:54.540 --> 00:22:57.459 The most other states are doing is NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:22:57.459 --> 00:22:59.979 we're not spending all that money. NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:22:59.980 --> 00:23:01.304 We're paying off debt. NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:23:01.304 --> 00:23:03.880 We're putting away money for rainy day fund. NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:05.820 We're rebating at the taxpayers. NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:23:05.820 --> 00:23:07.716 We are investing it in transportation, NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:23:07.720 --> 00:23:09.200 education, and other areas. NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:12.639 But we we want to see what normal is, NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:14.285 and if we see what normal is, NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:23:14.290 --> 00:23:16.042 we'll probably continue to. NOTE Confidence: 0.846166331428571 00:23:16.042 --> 00:23:17.356 That just taxes. NOTE Confidence: 0.859698656666666 00:23:17.620 --> 00:23:19.972 What do you do about managing NOTE Confidence: 0.859698656666666 00:23:19.972 --> 00:23:22.577 rapid growth in Idaho and the NOTE Confidence: 0.859698656666666 00:23:22.577 --> 00:23:24.280 soaring housing prices? Well, NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:23:24.290 --> 00:23:27.685 let me kind of split your question. NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:23:27.690 --> 00:23:29.810 Rapid growth is best decided NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:23:29.810 --> 00:23:31.506 by your County Commissioner, NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:23:31.510 --> 00:23:33.790 your city, your local community, NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:23:33.790 --> 00:23:35.594 because some communities and NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:23:35.594 --> 00:23:36.947 that's their prerogative. NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:23:36.950 --> 00:23:38.886 Don't want to grow and you know when NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:23:38.886 --> 00:23:40.748 you elect your county commissioner, NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:23:40.750 --> 00:23:42.031 you're City Council. NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:23:42.031 --> 00:23:44.166 That's that's part of our NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:23:44.166 --> 00:23:45.570 local government system. NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:23:45.570 --> 00:23:46.722 But what we're doing? NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:23:46.722 --> 00:23:49.163 To help them with growth and to help NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:23:49.163 --> 00:23:50.803 with housing affordability is we're NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:23:50.803 --> 00:23:53.000 putting a lot of money into sewer, NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:57.624 water roads, broadband schools, NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:23:57.624 --> 00:24:01.212 teacher pay, teacher insurance. NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:24:01.212 --> 00:24:04.380 Those are all often property tax, NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:24:04.380 --> 00:24:06.900 so the state's paying for it. NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:24:06.900 --> 00:24:08.475 There should be less property tax and NOTE Confidence: 0.852607347142857 00:24:08.475 --> 00:24:10.128 there should be more houses available. NOTE Confidence: 0.896161002727273 00:24:10.500 --> 00:24:12.355 What do you see as the biggest NOTE Confidence: 0.896161002727273 00:24:12.355 --> 00:24:13.550 challenge facing Idaho growth? NOTE Confidence: 0.894425324 00:24:14.630 --> 00:24:15.930 Just how how do we? NOTE Confidence: 0.894425324 00:24:15.930 --> 00:24:16.922 How does the state? NOTE Confidence: 0.894425324 00:24:16.922 --> 00:24:17.914 How do our schools? NOTE Confidence: 0.894425324 00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:19.140 How do our universities? NOTE Confidence: 0.894425324 00:24:19.140 --> 00:24:20.360 How do our counties? NOTE Confidence: 0.894425324 00:24:20.360 --> 00:24:21.865 How do our roads cope with growth? NOTE Confidence: 0.776602848333333 00:24:23.210 --> 00:24:24.656 And while the governor calls growth, NOTE Confidence: 0.776602848333333 00:24:24.660 --> 00:24:26.350 the greatest challenge facing Idaho, NOTE Confidence: 0.776602848333333 00:24:26.350 --> 00:24:28.984 he also calls growth the greatest NOTE Confidence: 0.776602848333333 00:24:28.984 --> 00:24:31.525 opportunity for Idaho because it could NOTE Confidence: 0.776602848333333 00:24:31.525 --> 00:24:34.017 lead to higher incomes and more jobs. NOTE Confidence: 0.776602848333333 00:24:34.020 --> 00:24:35.180 These interviews were edited NOTE Confidence: 0.776602848333333 00:24:35.180 --> 00:24:37.285 for equal time and to fit the NOTE Confidence: 0.776602848333333 00:24:37.285 --> 00:24:38.810 time constraints of this show, NOTE Confidence: 0.776602848333333 00:24:38.810 --> 00:24:40.976 you can watch the full interviews NOTE Confidence: 0.776602848333333 00:24:40.976 --> 00:24:42.865 with the candidates in this NOTE Confidence: 0.776602848333333 00:24:42.865 --> 00:24:44.296 viewpoint story on ktvb.com. NOTE Confidence: 0.776602848333333 00:24:44.296 --> 00:24:46.508 There are dozens of key races in NOTE Confidence: 0.776602848333333 00:24:46.508 --> 00:24:48.600 the May 17th primary election. NOTE Confidence: 0.776602848333333 00:24:48.600 --> 00:24:50.388 For more on what you can NOTE Confidence: 0.776602848333333 00:24:50.388 --> 00:24:51.580 expect on your ballot, NOTE Confidence: 0.776602848333333 00:24:51.580 --> 00:24:53.310 text the word vote to NOTE Confidence: 0.895776772 00:24:55.820 --> 00:24:57.000 2083215614. Just the word vote. NOTE Confidence: 0.895776772 00:24:57.000 --> 00:24:58.776 You don't need the quotation marks. NOTE Confidence: 0.895776772 00:24:58.780 --> 00:25:01.100 We'll send you a link to our Idaho NOTE Confidence: 0.895776772 00:25:01.100 --> 00:25:02.419 primary election voter guide. NOTE Confidence: 0.895776772 00:25:02.420 --> 00:25:04.160 The guide also includes info. NOTE Confidence: 0.895776772 00:25:04.160 --> 00:25:07.050 On voter registration polling locations, NOTE Confidence: 0.895776772 00:25:07.050 --> 00:25:09.550 absentee ballots, and party affiliation, NOTE Confidence: 0.895776772 00:25:09.550 --> 00:25:11.594 so once again just text vote for NOTE Confidence: 0.895776772 00:25:11.594 --> 00:25:13.299 our primary election voter guide to NOTE Confidence: 0.839750252857143 00:25:15.410 --> 00:25:17.678 2083215614. That is, all of our time. NOTE Confidence: 0.839750252857143 00:25:17.680 --> 00:25:20.408 Thank you so much for watching this special NOTE Confidence: 0.839750252857143 00:25:20.408 --> 00:25:22.138 decision 2022 edition of Viewpoint.