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AG Commissioner LP candidates: 2014 State Convention
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Jun 5, 2025
Rick Donaldson David (Rocky) Palmquist vote4rocky.com
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was a 1987 Ron Paul was his gateway drug
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as he called it to the libertarian party
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he attended the 1990 uh convention ran
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for a land commissioner candidate in
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1990 as well State Senate candidate in
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1992 County Judge candidate had got
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almost 40% of the vote in a two-day race
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in
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1994 1998 County Judge
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candidate and his numbers uh and notori
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in Rockell are going way up for that
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2004 uh farmers market in Rockwell and
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called a crazy Rick by in more good
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press
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2010 he was our agricultural
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commissioner and got almost 165,000
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votes
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right in addition we have Mr Rocky
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palmquest uh Rocky is an 11th generation
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Texan and still Farms the same land as
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his ancestors did in the 1800s uh
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Rancher farmer nurseryman Rocky has been
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an entrepreneur since the age of 14
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active in many local charities in this
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community ring from Elder Care Alliance
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club and mentor to young men and women
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interested in Texas
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agriculture gentlemen you both have
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three minutes for opening statements I
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would ask Rick Donaldson to speak first
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wow all right I'm going to stand up here
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if you don't mind come it's libertar
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convention do what you
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want hey guys if you got him light them
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um let's see here like K said you know
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i' I've been in this a long time I
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started out in 1987 with Ron Paul uh
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running for libertarian candidate for
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the president of the United States he
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didn't get it but he was my gateway drug
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um I have been def going out there and
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speaking my mind and and talking to
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people ever since I enjoy everything
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that I do with the libertarian parties
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the little bit of back and forth that we
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get between candidates between people in
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the party and the candidates and the
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candidates and the party I think that's
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all great for
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growth uh although you know how much
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growth does the libertarian party want I
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mean we are actually the party of low
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smaller government how big do we want
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this party to be I want the libertarian
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people the people of Texas uh to be the
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ones that gain out of all this thing I'm
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not against Rocky Palmquist Rocky
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Palmquist is on my team we're out there
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to castrate some elephants and some
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donkeys if
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you I've got a lot of people that that
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stop me on on the road Walt Disney is
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doing a great thing about promoting my
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candidacy there's this guy over there on
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that TV show called Duck
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Dynasty anybody watch it well he looks
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like me you know he does he really does
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and I get people stopping me in all
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kinds of different places asking me hey
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are you that guy are you sigh you know
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no he looks like me I've had this beard
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since I was in high school I mean you
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can go back and look at the pictures
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okay I spent 4 years in Sam steel Canoe
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Club you know I found out exactly what
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the Navy's doing you know all that
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garbage out there in the middle of the
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oceans you know the stuff that's causing
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that elino and Lino stuff that's causing
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our weather to go crazy well I was part
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of that for four years and please I I I
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submit my AP humblest apologies I did
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not mean to do the negative things that
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I did to the planet or to the
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populations of all the all the Earth um
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this is my Redemption tour if you will
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I'm I'm out there trying to correct all
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the things that I have done to
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participating that garbage that I was
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involved in before um Liberty is my goal
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uh whether Rocky wins his nomination
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whether I win this nomination you know
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Liberty is what we need to be going
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after uh like I said the the Republicans
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and the Democrats they've been doing
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this thing since the
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1860s come on people if you keep getting
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doing the same thing over and over and
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over again you're going to get the same
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thing you've always gotten I thank you
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very much for your time thank you for
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your votes go out there and get 50
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people to believe the same way you do
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and vote for your libertarian slave
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thank Mr compest good evening ladies and
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gentlemen I'm Rocky Palmquist I'm an
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11th generation Texan
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I still Farm the same land that my
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ancestors farmed from the Spanish land
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grants Texas is very near and dear to my
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heart and there's nothing worse than
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seeing what's happening in our state of
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Texas right
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now our budget we're broke don't let
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them lie to you we're
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broke plain and simple let me explain to
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you what the agriculture department does
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the agriculture Department it is the
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licensing agency for
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nurseries for your
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Farms it controls the weights and
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measurements at your grocery store it
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controls the gas
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pumps there's a lot more to it than just
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farming it's a
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floated
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giant
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bureaucracy okay you've got a republican
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agriculture commit commissioner now that
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seems to think it's okay for the feds to
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come down here and put cameras on
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private
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property on the Rio Grand border because
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heaven forbid we don't want those ants
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coming over
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here let me tell you something you shut
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the damn border down down there and you
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get ready to pay $6 for AE of lettuce
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because that's what's going to happen to
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you you keep letting these Republicans
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and Democrats tell you what to do and
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we're all going down the drain and if I
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am your agriculture commissioner of this
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craft is going to stop today I need your
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support thank
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you hi Rocky you want to follow that up
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I told you I get boisterous that's why I
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leave this thing away a little
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bit we're going to K down a notch and
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ask you a question what is your position
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with regard to genetically modified
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organisms and what would you do with it
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at it at the state
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level okay a lot of this is being
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controlled by the
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FDA okay I am not so much against
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GMO but I can tell you I don't need it
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this is a personal decision between
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people if you want to consume it that's
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okay if you don't you're probably better
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off for
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it the biggest problem with the GMO or
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the GM thing it's the companies
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themselves okay you've got
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Monsanto you've got Archer Daniels
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Midland these people are on corporate
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welfare have you heard the Monsanto
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protection act that our president has
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signed okay it's not about the food so
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much it's about who's controlling your
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food do you want these people to control
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your food from the field to your plate
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because that's what's happening the
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Family Farm is going by the wayside and
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that's where you get your real food the
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property taxes are going to wipe us out
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completely and let me add this to you if
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we would get off our butts legalize hemp
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in the state of Texas we wouldn't have
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this problem of P
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Mr Donaldson on
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GMOs genetically modified organisms are
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a ban to our agricultural system uh we
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now have the um genetically modified
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fish that are going to be going on we've
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got the salmon what they call the
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Frankin fish we all know these
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problems the best way that we as Texans
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as libert Arians in the in the
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agriculture Department can uh can
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operate what I intend to do is like what
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was originally intended by the ACT
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commission back in 1907 was to address
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all of the safety issues the quality
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issues of the foods of of the products
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that going out there on the market make
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sure that we know exactly what is in
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these foods that we have I'm not for
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making uh labels mandatory what I'm what
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I'm going to emphasize as far as the
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libertarian is concerned is redirection
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of infrastructure we have infrastructure
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right now in the department that can
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tell us exactly what chemicals what
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insecticides pesticides fertilizers that
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we have they're being used on our crops
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we also have the ability to tell the
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people by our uh what they call go Texan
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program that uh uh commissioner Jim heow
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created back in what was that
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77s Jim high tower was in there anyway
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cre the goex uh label what this Goan
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label can do is we can identify exactly
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which products are GMO so that you guys
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can see it on the Texas act
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commissioner's page so that you know
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exactly which chemic kills are out there
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and causing you problems thank you
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Mr Don again what are your thoughts
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about the situation in Nevada where the
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Federal Bureau of Land Management is
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preventing a Rancher from using public
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lands owned by the state for
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grazing we current we currently have a
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problem or a situation up on the uh Red
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River between Texas and Oklahoma similar
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to that the Bureau of Land Management is
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coming in and taking land away from
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Farmers saying that this land does not
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belong to you because of the way that
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the uh the rivers all run uh you know
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the the Oklahoma border changes because
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of the way that the rivers are are are
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moving so in the past it's been wherever
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the grass is green on the south end of
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the Border that's where Texas begins but
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the Bureau of Land Management comes in
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and they say that land does not belong
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to you because the rivers changed and
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we're going to take that land away from
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the farmers there and we're going to
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turn it into Bureau Land Management land
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and we're going to allow things to
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happen up there
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because that's our property now it
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doesn't belong to the state of Texas it
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doesn't belong to the state of Oklahoma
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how did it become federal land you know
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I understand the Texas Constitution
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United States Constitution to say land
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properly seeded from the state belongs
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to the federal government I don't know
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that the Bureau of Land Management has a
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pro has the authority to seed Texas land
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to the Bureau of Land
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Management and Mr P and before you
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answer there it has been requested by
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Folks at the back of the room that you
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do in fact use the microphone at least
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point it sort of toward you it's it's a
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high ceiling sir and it's you despite
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your excellent lungs I know you can hear
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me now there we go so on on Nevada Ranch
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situation Federal Land
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Management there's more than 2.5 million
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acres in the state of Texas from the
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Bureau of Land
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Management
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okay let me let me just say this what's
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going on in Nevada with the Bundy Ranch
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that's the real deal folks that's
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Americans standing up for what they
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rights
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are while this does not fall under the
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purview of the Texas agriculture
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commissioner I can G run te
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you I would be up
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there I'm an old country
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boy let me choose my words carefully
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here because there's ladies in the room
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children too and children
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too but don't pour water down my back
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and tell me it's
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raining I know
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that and as your agriculture
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commissioner here's plain and simple
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what I'm going to do I am going to be
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the biggest thorn in the side of the
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United States government that they've
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ever seen in their entire damn
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life I'm getting the flag from C here so
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let me back off a little bit thank you
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very much let R get back to
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it excellent another question first to
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Mr pquest yes sir what are your thoughts
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about fracking and its potential impact
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on the
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environment
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wow I am not in the oil business I'm in
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the farming
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business okay so I'm not going to get up
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here and tell you I know anything about
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fr
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in um obviously with the amount of water
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that is
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used for fracking is going to give us a
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problem with the farms and ranches okay
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we've already got an issue with a
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drought right
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now um look
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uh I've always been known to uh say it
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like it is so here it
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comes Frack away get your own property
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okay you go effective somebody else's
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property your salt your methane your
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sulfur comes out of that well and it
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affects my my property you got big
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trouble okay I think that's how it needs
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to be handled I think that we need to
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take these big companies into account
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make them pay for the damages it's just
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like Monsanto and the rest of these
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government corporate Giants we don't
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serve them the United States government
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doesn't serve them they're supposed to
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be there for profit and not for
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abuse I will stand with the farmers and
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the ranchers and The Growers of Texas at
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every turn there's uh no choice in the
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matter go ahead and Frank keep the oil
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prices low just don't infringe on
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somebody else this is Texas and we
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believe in Liberty and we won't do
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that espe on FR fracking would you
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please repeat the question what is your
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what are your thoughts on fracking and
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its potential impact on the environment
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and specifically
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agriculture my concern more in not just
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agriculture in everybody's everyday
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life uh fracking uh as I understand it
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has the implication of adding chemicals
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to the ground water um
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that are not conducive to any human
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animal or plant
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life let's go back to the uh most recent
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2012 election and the campaign for
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increasing the amount of money that goes
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to the water water uh and water
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development in the state of Texas did
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you did you guys know that in that water
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bill that just got pass by the majority
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of Voters in the state of Texas that
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took money from our general fund to
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create new water districts new water
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corporations to be able to develop new
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water do you realize 2/3 of that water
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goes to corporate entities to develop
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more oil and gas
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um extraction from the soil onethird of
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it goes to the farmers in the cities
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that 1/3 gets divided in what is it 6040
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the cities get 60% the farmers get 40%
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but the 2/3 of it goes to the to the ho
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gas industry we need to stop this kind
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of stuff this is our water this is our
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life this is our life
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blood can I have
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a in the state of Texas we have
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something called
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TCEQ Texas commission on Environmental
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Quality so I want to make something
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clear here the Texas Department of
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Agriculture has nothing to
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do with your water supply other than
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maybe the pesticides that uh some of the
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Farms are are putting out and that's
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going to be controlled by the
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agriculture department but as far as the
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environment goes as far as the wellwater
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goes or anything like that the
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agriculture department has absolutely
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nothing to do with that okay thank
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you espe Mr joh the Agriculture
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Commission also regulates the free lunch
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program what would you do with
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that wow taking taking Texas money Texas
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taxpayers money that's going to the
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federal government that's being returned
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to us to feed our children what are we
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going to do my position there is let's
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re just you know figure out how to
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reconfigure the program we've got all
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these children that are going hungry
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let's take that money and and start a
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gardening program on each campus
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throughout the entire state of Texas
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it's already our money let's put that
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put that to good use let's get Gardens
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at every every Elementary Middle Junior
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and high school throughout the state
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just the money that we're given turn it
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into seeds turn it into agricultural
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programs so these kids can learn how
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to survive
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if the economy does hit the fan like
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everybody keeps telling us we're going
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to have you know I'm I'm for preparing
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for that shtf day and if it happens what
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are you going to do do you know how to
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grow anything do you know how to raise
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anything that you can consume do you
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know how to help your neighbors this is
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up to each and every individual in the
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state of Texas to be able to grow this
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stuff and it's up to us to learn how to
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do it and to protect this land and to
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and to make things grow properly
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prosperously for every individual in the
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state Mr pus on the lunch program that's
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regulated by the a
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department okay not only are they going
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to regulate uh the lunch program but get
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ready for breakfast and supper too
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okay Michelle Obama wants to make sure
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that your children eat what she wants
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them to
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eat but look let's face it a lot of
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these people that are on the free
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breakfast free lunch free supper what do
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their parents get they're already on the
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Lone Star Card folks we're being tapped
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twice you're paying for the parent
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cigarettes and the
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beer and then you're turning around and
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you're paying for the kid kids lunch at
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school now what's more important that
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child to have lunch or those parents to
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have beer and cigarettes when they get
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home from whatever job they may or may
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not have what we've got to do is tell
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the fed you know
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what up
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yours we're not going to do it that's
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how you handle things it's called
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leadership you stand up and you telling
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me enough is enough we're not going to
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take it anymore this is Texas and we
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want our office back you fans go back to
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Washington DC and stop telling us how to
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run our
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business all right well we've come to
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the end so two minutes closing
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statements free to you Mr confest we'll
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start with you thank you all very much I
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I just want I look out in the room and
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it almost brings me to tears look at the
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Liberty look at you here we are here for
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a
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reason we're sick and damn tired of
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people breathing down our throats every
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time we turn
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around we have to have a car inspection
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I have to have my flowers inspected by
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some fed that doesn't even know what a
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merry gold
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is each and every one of us in this room
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it's up to you to make something happen
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and I guarantee you is your agriculture
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commissioner in the state of Texas
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there's not going to be a day that goes
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by that the feds don't worry what the
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hell is Rocky GNA do to us
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today thank you all a big hand for the
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libertarian party of the State of
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Texas Mr Don 2 minutes
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close well I've got no pipe dreams
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believing that I'm going to get this
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without you guys
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helping but I do have a pipe dream my
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pipe dream is that every one of you is
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going to go out of here and you're going
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to get 50 to 100 more people that are
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going to vote for libertarian candidates
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just like you
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are the only way that we can win is with
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you I need your campaign contributions I
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need your assistance but I want your
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mouth I want your I want your hands I
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want your
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fingertips I want you to go out there
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and I want you to spread Liberty
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throughout all of this land I don't care
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if they're in Texas I don't care if
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they're overseas I don't care where
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these people are I want you to spread
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Liberty because everybody overseas
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everybody that I've ever met in my
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worldly travels I spent four years in
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the Canoe Club and and everybody seems
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to know somebody from Texas so everybody
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that you know let them know that there's
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a couple of crazy guys up here that are
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willing to fight for you this is all
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about you this isn't about Rick
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Donaldson I don't think this is about
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Rocky pal I think this is about Texas we
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can turn Texas Gold in this election we
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got more people that are upset with the
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way the blue and the red is been turned
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to this place
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bloody I don't like this I like I I
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think you need to be more in control of
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what you have your property you'll see
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some wanted posters up around here you
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know what 5,000 gold coins is worth
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these
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days would you believe $6.4 million
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minimum and that's all I'm asking I'm
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asking you to put
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5,000 gold coins worth of your effort
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your effort I don't want your money I
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want your effort out there promoting
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Liberty all we need is 5 million votes
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through our entire executive slate I
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don't who care who you vote for we need
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you to work for 5 million votes for each
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and every one of our executive
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candidates and that will filter down to
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the rest of our candidates I thank you
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all for attending I look forward to
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shaking every one of your hands and on
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Far people this is us this is Liberty
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let's go
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andion
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