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- Well, it's 9.30, so I think that we will get started in a timely fashion this morning. I welcome everyone

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- who has come to the forum. I don't know if this is your first forum or you've attended several of the

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- league forums, but we want to welcome and thank you for taking part in democracy by

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- giving our candidates an opportunity to talk with you about questions that you might have concerning

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- what they will do if they are selected as your representative for Indiana District 9. My name is Sunny

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- Lear Camp. I am the moderator today, and I'm the president of the Brown County League.

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- If you are a member of the audience, we ask you to please keep your audio muted unless you are called

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- upon to ask a question. So if you have a question for one of the candidates, we're changing things up

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- a little. We used to have you notify one question moderator. We're just going to ask you to open chat

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- and put in there

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- I have a question, and then I will call on you in the order that those individuals announce their desire

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- to ask a question. We want you to know that all Democrat and Republican candidates

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- four District Nine in the U.S. House of Representatives were invited to this forum. Aaron Houchin, the

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- Republican candidate, did not respond to the invitation. So we are happy to have with us today Tanya

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- Hudson, Brad Meyer, and Floyd Taylor. Floyd is a write-in candidate. So although he won't appear on

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- your ballot,

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- If you choose to vote for him, you will need to write him in. Third slide, please. We're going to explain

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- the format to you. This is an informative meeting, not a debate. We ask that everyone be civil

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- and respectful. We will begin

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- by asking each one of the candidates to give a one minute opening statement. Then we will begin the

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- process of asking questions. As I indicated, put a message in chat if you have a question for the candidates.

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- And the way we will do it is that I will ask you to unmute and ask your question, and then please mute again.

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- and we will allow each one of the candidates to answer your question. The order in which candidates

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- respond will rotate. Response time for each one of the questions will be 90 seconds unless the moderator,

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- not myself, but we actually have a timekeeper. But if something comes up where we have to extend or

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- shorten, then we will do that.

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- Normally, that doesn't happen. We will conclude with a one-minute closing statement from each candidate.

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- Time will be moderated to facilitate participation of as many people as possible. This is being televised

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- by community access television services. I think that that is my introduction

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- And so we are going to start by asking Tanya Hudson if she would please give her one minute opening.

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- Thank you.

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- I'm Tanya Hudson, candidate for US House of Representatives, Indiana's 9th District. I've been a real

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- estate broker for over 21 years, a member of the Lions Club. I help people from many walks of life.

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- I think that leaders should be accessible, answer questions, do public forums, like we are here this

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- morning. I've been campaigned

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- campaigning around the district for about seven months since March when I got the nomination at the

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- Libertarian State Convention. The framers of our U.S. Constitution did not want a two-party monopoly,

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- and the current system is broken. But there is hope, and I offer

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- better solutions. I think it's not just time for a change in Washington, D.C. It's time for major reform.

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- And I want to thank the League of Women Voters for hosting and inviting me to participate in this. And

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- I look forward to the questions and sharing my vision. Thank you, Tanya. Brad, could we hear from you

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- next, please? Yes. Hi, I'm Brad Meyer. I'm the Democratic nominee for Congress in the Ninth District.

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- Wanted to thank the League of Women Voters and all the people that actually showed up for this. I think

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- it's important that everybody have a voice. That's why I've had over 30 town halls and many other events

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- to try to engage with the community. I think that's really important to our democracy. I'm a seventh

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- generation Hoosier. I spent 25 years in manufacturing leadership roles. I spent the last nine years

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- working for the Navy on systems that protected ships from missile attack.

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- When Trump came back to power and I saw what Project 2025 and this administration was going to do, I

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- decided to quit my job a year shy of early retirement to run for office because I thought something

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- had to be done. The bottom line is if we want a better future, we're going to have to vote for it. It

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- is time for a change. Congress isn't doing their job. And we need better leadership. Thank you.

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- Thank you, Brad.

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- Floyd, it's your turn. Well, I'm Floyd Taylor, and I'm the independent write-in candidate for the Ninth

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- District, and I'm running on the platform of direct representation, where my vote is tied directly to

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- the will of the voters. I don't have an opinion of my own that I should be putting forward. The voters

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- tell me what to do, and I do it, and that's the entire deal.

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- Thanks. Okay. Thank you very much. I'm sorry, would you please mute? Thank you. All right. Don't forget

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- that in order to ask questions, we ask you to open chat and put any questions you have in chat.

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- Just write, I have a question.

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- Then I will call upon you in the order in which people designate that they have a question to ask. Well,

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- we do have a few questions here to tee up for the candidates. Let me ask you, Brad, we will start with

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- you this time. If you are elected, which committee assignment would you most want to have and why?

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- You know, I think one of the most important for the state of Indiana is the ad committee. I think that

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- there's a lot of work that needs to be done for the farm bill, which still hasn't been put through.

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- And I'm also strongly interested in issues of economics and health care. So those are the main areas

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- that I would like to focus on. And I think that

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- of all of that, economics is the most important. We have to start making a difference in people's lives.

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- Thank you. Thank you, Brad. Now Floyd, that question will be posed to you. If you are elected, which

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- committee assignment would you most want to have and why? I've given that a lot of thought, and I think

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- it would probably be the House Armed Services Committee.

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- They have a lot of power and a lot of money, and we have a lot of military in this state. OK. Tanya,

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- same question to you. If you are elected, which committee assignment would you most want to have and

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- why? OK, there's so many committees in Congress, and one of the primary duties of Congress is the budget.

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- Congress controls the purse. I would want to be on the Ways and Means Committee and be involved with

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- appropriations. We do have a lot of wasteful spending. Also, I would want to be on the Armed Services

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- Committee because one of the other major roles for Congress is national defense. Those would be the

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- two. All right. I thank you very much.

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- All right, okay, Kathy Rountree, you have a question. Please unmute and ask your question. Thank you.

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- Yes, how would the candidates know what the will of the voters on issues is, especially for Mr. Taylor,

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- who would speak to the will of the voters? What methods would you use to get feedback from your constituents?

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- Thank you, Kathy, and we are posing that one.

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- to Mr. Taylor first. Well, I've developed something called the Congress app, which is an app that runs

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- on your phone. And you can directly put input on bills or submit bills for write up or suggestions.

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- And also, I would do all of the normal means where you can call, you know, call the office or

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- I also plan on having district offices where you can do real time video with me, whether I'm in DC or

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- in the district. Those are just the top ones off the top of my head. Thank you, Mr. Taylor. Tanya, we

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- would now pose that question to you. How will you get feedback and input from your your constituency?

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- Well, for seven months I've been campaigning and what I have found is that the issues that I care about

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- are the issues that the voters care about. The high price of fuel, groceries, utilities, people are

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- struggling to make ends meet. I would do town halls and public forums when on recess.

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- I would make the rounds throughout the district to keep in touch, as well as social media, of course.

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- That's a given. But I also think that in-person, face-to-face meetings with the people is important.

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- Even though there's a quarter of a million people that live in District 9, trying to get out there and

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- be present is very important, unlike the representatives that we have now who

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- I'm not even sure if she's a real person because nobody has seen her in public, so. Okay, thank you,

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- Tonya. Brad, pose that question to you. I think outreach to the community is hugely important. That's

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- why I've had, as I said before, over 30 live town halls, six virtual town halls, five round tables,

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- three healthcare forums,

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- That kind of outreach is really important. And we've been to as many party meetings as we can and county

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- fairs and community events because we need to engage with the public to understand what their concerns

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- and perspectives are. We also need to be very responsive. We've had a lot of problems with

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- this administration and the current representative of not responding to phone calls and letters and

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- requests for help.

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- community involvement and engagement is important, and also speaking with subject matter experts to

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- understand in more detail, not just what public current opinion is, but what the long-term implications

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- and risks are of a particular bill or topic. Thank you. Thank you, Brad. Everybody's being shy today.

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- You need to please put in chat if you have a question for the candidate. But I do have a backup here.

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- This question will be directed first to Tanya. What role should government play in healthcare? At the

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- federal level, a limited role because we do not want politicians in DC

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- dictating to the Hoosiers in Indiana what their healthcare needs should be. My focus would

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- be on prescriptions. The pharmaceutical companies need to be reined in. When you look at, I'm going

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- to use EpiPens for an example. If you are allergic to bees and you need an EpiPen, it's a lot cheaper

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- to get that in Canada than it is the United States. We're talking about epinephrine liquid like

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- in a tube the size of my finger. It shouldn't be costly. People who have insurance could have these

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- things covered if they have insurance and it's approved by their insurance industry. If you don't have

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- insurance and you have to pay out of pocket, it's too expensive. So if I'm elected to Congress, I would

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- focus on the pharmaceutical industry and try to bring those costs down to where medicine

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- basic medicine needs, especially if you're allergic to disease or cardiology. Any type of medicine should

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- be a lot cheaper and more reasonable for the consumers. Thank you, Tanya. Now I would pose that same

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- question to Brad Beier. What role should government play in healthcare? The current healthcare system

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- that we have,

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- In Indiana, we die eight years earlier, at least in southern Indiana, we die eight years earlier than

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- they do in Canada. We pay twice as much for health care. And so I'm in favor of Medicare for all. About

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- half of us are already on a government administered system. Government administered systems have an

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- overhead of about 1.2% where

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- private insurance is more like 15 to 18%. It is less expensive and it is safer for everybody to be on

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- a government healthcare. And this is in the constitution. It is a responsibility of Congress to promote

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- the general welfare and healthcare is certainly part of the general welfare. The current system, 75%

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- of bankruptcies involve medical debt and 80% of people with medical debt

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- have health insurance. The current system isn't working. And tens of thousands of people die every year

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- from lack of access to health care. I'm advocating a constitutional amendment that makes health care

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- a right in the United States. Thank you, Brad. Floyd, the same question to you. What role should government

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- play in health care?

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- I think government should play a limited and directed role in healthcare. I've written a bill that addresses

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- that exactly. It repeals the ACA. It provides denial free coverage for everyone and allows your insurance

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- companies to still have a seat at the table so it can actually get passed through Congress. Um, that's,

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- What I view as limited government involvement in health care is that everybody gets health care, and

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- that's the whole deal. You get health care. Thank you, Ms. Floyd. We do have a question from Sherry

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- Wittenbring. Sherry, if you would please unmute and ask your question.

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- to everyone. My question is to each of the candidates how you feel about data centers and also if you

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- would allow one on your own personal property. Okay and that question will go first to Brad Meyer. So

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- first the question of my own personal property. I lived on a hill that's not going to be practical for

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- any building. I can barely fit my house in the lot.

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- My view on data centers is that we need to have laws and policies in place that a community can make

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- their own decision. It's not my place, especially at the federal level, to make the decisions of what

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- an individual community allows or doesn't allow. The one thing that the federal government can and should

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- do is ensure that the Environmental Protection Agency and other oversight agencies have full power so that if

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- a community accepts a data center in, that there is some oversight to make sure that they're actually

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- following through and are environmentally sound. We also need to ensure that we have an adequate power

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- grid. Most of the other issues are state-focused issues and is not under the federal purview.

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- Thank you, Brad. Floyd, that question now goes to you.

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- How do you feel about data centers in Indiana? And would you allow a data center on your own property?

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- As far as how I feel about data centers, I wrote a bill to address the data center issues so the communities

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- themselves get to decide, get the last choice and the data center doesn't get tax breaks and they have

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- to provide a percentage of their profits.

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- to the local community. They have to provide all the infrastructure upgrades. They have to pay for the

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- fire department, the police department, every service that they're gonna need to protect that data center

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- or help that data center, the data center has to pay for. And a percentage of their profits go back

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- to the community. As for how I would feel for a data center on my property,

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- I practically live in one. I have racks of servers in my house, so I feel fine about it, but I don't

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- know if I could fit a whole mega data center on my property, but I'd be okay with it as long as I keep

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- the noise down. Thank you, Floyd, for that response. Tanya, your response to that question.

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- I'm going to have to agree with Brad. I think the federal government should have a limited role, and

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- it's usually the County Council that vote to have data centers somewhere in their county. So that's

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- an issue for local and state, and the federal government shouldn't play a role in that unless it involves

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- our national defense. Thank you, Tanya. OK, now.

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- Like I said, everybody's being shy. Please just write in chat, I have a question and you will get to

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- ask your question of the candidates. Laura Logan, thank you. Please unmute and ask your question and

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- it will be directed first to Floyd Taylor.

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- Yes, hi. Sunny, hi. I grew up in Noblesville. My mom was Pat Logan. I just wanted to say hi. Thank you.

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- Nice to see you. Okay, so I'm concerned about the fact that so many huge corporations don't pay taxes

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- and are not helping to fund the United States and also the fact

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- that the waste and spending of the current administration, when they talked about not wasting and trying

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- to, the whole Doge thing, how can all of that be reformed? Because frankly, it needs a huge overhaul.

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- Do you have any thoughts on that? Do you have any ideas of how we can take care of that and help solve

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- this financial problem that the whole country is in? I'm concerned about the snap cuts and of course,

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- the funding for healthcare and all of that. It's a big question and I realize you may not have time

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- to give your full explanations. Thank you.

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- Thank you, Laura. That question goes first to Floyd. I have drafted over 21 bills on my website

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- at floyd2026.com. Almost every one of them deal with that issue of accountability and spending the money

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- properly and making sure the public is fully involved in how we spend our money and where it goes and

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- that they're aware and can see plainly that their money is going for a cause not into somebody's back

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- pocket. That's, I mean, the tax situation with corporate donors and corporations, I think is a big problem

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- and needs to be addressed. It didn't used to be that way and we could return to a more sane taxing structure.

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- But we should also know where the money is going every dime of it. And all of my bills address that

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- issue. Thank you, Floyd. Tanya, we would now direct that question to you. It happened to relate to corporate

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- taxes, how to get the corporations to pay their fair share, and then just spending in general.

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- Okay, we call that corporate welfare and it does need to be reined in. I think there needs to be more

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- responsibility on the part of corporations when they are paying taxes. If you're looking at corporations

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- that are coming into a community, that's usually voted on at the local level and sometimes they have

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- an agreement. It's what they call TIFF and T-I-F-F.

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- Sometimes corporations will come in and they will build up the infrastructure for the local towns and

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- communities and provide jobs. If they're going to provide jobs and this and that, the locals will give

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- them a pass on paying taxes or putting off paying taxes temporarily because they're providing all these

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- services. Now, that gets away from us

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- when we're at the federal level and we're talking about other corporations that across the board affect

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- us at the national level and they should be paying taxes just like everybody else just like the smaller

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- businesses the percentage of the taxes they pay should coincide with that and I know it's complicated

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- and we could

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- probably spend 15 minutes just talking about that, but just trying to sum it up. As a member of Congress,

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- I would work on making sure that businesses pay what they should be paying in taxes. Thank you, Tonya.

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- Brad, would you like to address this? Several decades ago, corporate taxes accounted for a much higher

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- percentage of our total budget. And as that has been pulled down, our deficit has continued to increase.

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- She asked a very large question. I'm going to expand it a little bit further. Congress and our representative

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- in particular has gone out of their way to cater to the interests and needs and desires of big businesses

00:26:11.168 --> 00:26:19.966
- against the interests of the average person. We have a 20% food insecurity rate for children in southern Indiana.

00:26:20.066 --> 00:26:28.595
- And they cut funding for food aid and CHIP. We have a lot of people that need it, dependent on Medicare

00:26:28.595 --> 00:26:37.042
- and Medicaid, and they're cutting that. So they're doing everything they can to support big businesses

00:26:37.042 --> 00:26:41.470
- at the expense, budgetarily at the expense of people.

00:26:41.570 --> 00:26:48.985
- And the results of all of these things over the years, when I was 30 years old, the odds I was doing

00:26:48.985 --> 00:26:56.841
- better than my parents was 65%. Now it's less than 50% of 30 year olds are doing better than their parents

00:26:56.841 --> 00:27:04.184
- were when their parents were 30. Opportunity is being squeezed out by intentional acts of Congress.

00:27:04.184 --> 00:27:10.718
- And we need to start focusing on what's gonna make America and the people in it stronger

00:27:10.850 --> 00:27:18.745
- instead of focusing on what's going to make big businesses have bigger profits. Thank you very much.

00:27:18.745 --> 00:27:26.717
- Well, I think some people's morning coffee kicked in, so we've got some questions. Mary Ann Williams,

00:27:26.717 --> 00:27:34.612
- would you please unmute and ask your question, and it will be directed first to Tanya. Good morning,

00:27:34.612 --> 00:27:40.318
- everybody. I'm Mary Ann Williams, and my question relates to government.

00:27:40.418 --> 00:27:49.223
- accountability. Could you please comment on whether you would support impeachments for the many crimes

00:27:49.223 --> 00:27:57.943
- that have been committed by government officials in the last few years or other means of holding them

00:27:57.943 --> 00:28:06.578
- accountable? Thank you, Marianne. Tanya, would you like to address that question? The answer is yes.

00:28:06.578 --> 00:28:07.518
- If we have

00:28:08.066 --> 00:28:15.768
- elected officials who are breaking the law, doing unconstitutional acts, then that is a consideration,

00:28:15.768 --> 00:28:23.320
- impeachment. Also, the people are responsible for electing their officials, and if they're not happy

00:28:23.320 --> 00:28:27.582
- with what their officials are doing, then vote them out.

00:28:27.970 --> 00:28:35.037
- seem to have politicians that get reelected and they're not serving the people as they should. And the

00:28:35.037 --> 00:28:41.899
- people seem to be mom or not paying attention. We've got people here and the person that just asked

00:28:41.899 --> 00:28:48.897
- the question is obviously involved in paying attention. Good for her. But we have so many people that

00:28:48.897 --> 00:28:55.828
- are clueless about what's going on. But to answer the question, yes, I would consider impeachment if

00:28:55.828 --> 00:28:57.886
- the situation warranted that.

00:28:58.114 --> 00:29:04.619
- the same question directed to you. Yes, we need to hold people accountable so that we don't continue

00:29:04.619 --> 00:29:11.189
- to have the messes that we're facing right now. Having said that, we need to make sure that it's done

00:29:11.189 --> 00:29:17.694
- in a way that is public and that the public has confidence that it's not being done out of political

00:29:17.694 --> 00:29:24.328
- vengeance or retribution, that it's done out of a search for justice. That's one of the things, that's

00:29:24.328 --> 00:29:27.870
- one of the reasons that Trump is back today is because

00:29:27.970 --> 00:29:36.069
- there was not enough of a public hearing that the people began to see and understand that it was a search

00:29:36.069 --> 00:29:43.710
- for justice instead of vengeance against a political opponent. And we have to avoid the fact or the

00:29:43.710 --> 00:29:51.885
- appearance of that in order for this to work. Thank you. Thank you, Brad. Floyd, would you like to address

00:29:51.885 --> 00:29:57.310
- this question related to consequences for perhaps people in office who

00:29:58.626 --> 00:30:08.268
- have taken advantage of their position. Well, my position is, if you break the law, you should be in

00:30:08.268 --> 00:30:17.909
- jail. If you're a convicted felon, you should not be able to take public office. That's my position.

00:30:17.909 --> 00:30:27.742
- Go to jail. Thank you. OK, our next question will come from Maggie Phipps. Maggie, if you would please

00:30:27.842 --> 00:30:36.783
- unmute and ask your question. And it would be directed first to Brad Myers. Okay, on the same point

00:30:36.783 --> 00:30:45.814
- of accountability, what is your stance on campaign finance reform and implementing stricter lobbying

00:30:45.814 --> 00:30:53.950
- restrictions for members of Congress? Thank you, Maggie. Brad, if you could respond first.

00:30:55.298 --> 00:31:04.824
- So there are a lot of things that need to be done. Number one, we need to find a way to address Citizens

00:31:04.824 --> 00:31:14.169
- United, which has been horribly influential in injecting money into this, into campaigns. We also need

00:31:14.169 --> 00:31:22.878
- tighter ethics controls so that we shouldn't be allowed to trade individual stocks in Congress.

00:31:23.138 --> 00:31:32.456
- and we need tighter ethics controls on the Supreme Court, which right now seems to be able to do whatever

00:31:32.456 --> 00:31:40.807
- they dang well please. Thank you, Brad. Floyd, we would now direct that question to you. Well,

00:31:40.807 --> 00:31:49.246
- being said, I'm running an entirely self-funded campaign. I am all for campaign finance reform.

00:31:50.146 --> 00:31:59.003
- It would be nice if the federal government just said, well, if you're running for office, you get to

00:31:59.003 --> 00:32:07.772
- spend this much money across the board. Everybody gets to fix them out, have fun. Thank you, Floyd.

00:32:07.772 --> 00:32:16.629
- Tanya, would you like to address that question? Yes, Citizens United definitely set a bad precedent.

00:32:16.629 --> 00:32:18.558
- We do need to rein in

00:32:18.722 --> 00:32:28.061
- the amount of money that people get from huge donors. The PAC money that a lot of the politicians get

00:32:28.061 --> 00:32:37.674
- is huge. You scratch my back, I'll scratch your back. We know there's behind the scenes favoritism going

00:32:37.674 --> 00:32:45.182
- on and that needs to stop. It's not fair to the people running for office who are

00:32:45.378 --> 00:32:53.584
- of limited means like me. My campaign donations were minimal compared to others. So I understand that

00:32:53.584 --> 00:33:02.112
- you can work hard and talk to people and travel around the district. But it's easier to do that if you're

00:33:02.112 --> 00:33:10.800
- someone that has a lot of money. But we do have a problem with donors that don't even live in the district,

00:33:10.800 --> 00:33:13.214
- don't even live in our state.

00:33:13.474 --> 00:33:23.437
- that are given money to, for example, our incumbent who's not here today to defend her record and the

00:33:23.437 --> 00:33:33.400
- donations that she's received that she probably shouldn't have. Okay. Thank you very much, Tonya. The

00:33:33.400 --> 00:33:41.214
- next person with a question is Penny Giffins. Penny, if you would please unmute

00:33:41.634 --> 00:33:50.640
- and ask your question. It will be directed first to Floyd Taylor. Thank you and good morning to everyone.

00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:59.306
- I'd like to know where each of the candidates stands on term limits for the Supreme Court. Thank you.

00:33:59.306 --> 00:34:07.973
- Floyd. I think term limits for the Supreme Court are a great idea. I don't think any office should be

00:34:07.973 --> 00:34:09.502
- for life. I mean,

00:34:10.690 --> 00:34:20.605
- I wouldn't even want to do this job for life. But yeah, for life is a bad, bad precedent. Maybe 10,

00:34:20.605 --> 00:34:30.619
- 12 years. But yeah, I'm all for term limits. Okay, I'm going to tag on to that question. Do you feel

00:34:30.619 --> 00:34:36.766
- like there should be either a term limit and or an age limit?

00:34:41.858 --> 00:34:50.378
- Term limits, I'm fine with age limits. I'm kind of iffy on because I'm getting up there myself. Maybe

00:34:50.378 --> 00:34:58.814
- some kind of actual cognitive test past a certain point, not one that just determines whether or not

00:34:58.814 --> 00:35:06.666
- you can change your own diapers, but one that actually measures your IQ or your intelligence.

00:35:06.666 --> 00:35:11.678
- Thank you, Floyd. Tanya, I'll address that question to you.

00:35:12.834 --> 00:35:20.412
- Yes, I am for term limits across the board. The Supreme Court should only be there for a limited amount

00:35:20.412 --> 00:35:27.918
- of time, and that should be determined, I think, by Congress. That should be debated and voted on. I'm

00:35:27.918 --> 00:35:33.310
- also for term limits for Congress, and I signed my own term limits pledge

00:35:33.442 --> 00:35:39.376
- Unlike a lot of other politicians, they sign a pledge that says, if it comes to the floor of the House

00:35:39.376 --> 00:35:45.309
- for a vote, yes, I would co-sponsor or vote on knowing that it's never going to be on the floor of the

00:35:45.309 --> 00:35:50.782
- House for a vote. It hasn't. They don't do it. So I signed my own pledge term limiting myself.

00:35:50.914 --> 00:35:56.491
- to two terms, which would be four years, because four years in Congress is enough. If you can't get

00:35:56.491 --> 00:36:02.123
- something done in four years, you probably shouldn't be running in the first place. So I've signed a

00:36:02.123 --> 00:36:07.922
- real term limits pledge. Now, if somebody wanted to say, I'll sign a pledge that I will do three terms,

00:36:07.922 --> 00:36:13.610
- six years, not if it gets to the floor of the House, because I don't need a law to tell me about term

00:36:13.610 --> 00:36:18.462
- limits. So yes, I think the Supreme Court should have term limits as well as Congress.

00:36:19.650 --> 00:36:26.786
- Thank you, Tonya. Brad will allow you to answer that question now. So I think term limits for the Supreme

00:36:26.786 --> 00:36:33.720
- Court is a good idea. However, it would have to require a constitutional amendment. It's not something

00:36:33.720 --> 00:36:40.654
- that Congress can address. It has to be done through a constitutional amendment. You talked about age.

00:36:40.654 --> 00:36:48.126
- I just put out a post kind of poking fun of the age of some of the people in Congress. But I'm not comfortable

00:36:48.546 --> 00:36:55.591
- saying, you know, if you're 80 years old, you can't be in this office anymore. You know, it would be

00:36:55.591 --> 00:37:02.845
- nice if we could have a cognitive test. But if we had a cognitive test, you've seen what Trump has done

00:37:02.845 --> 00:37:10.449
- to manipulate things. If we had one today, he would find a way to throw out every Democrat using a cognitive

00:37:10.449 --> 00:37:17.982
- test. So that's a slippery slope that we need to be careful on. As far as a pledge, I joined a group called

00:37:18.498 --> 00:37:28.074
- take back Congress. And one of the things in there is a 12-year, a pledge of a 12-year limit. I'm thinking

00:37:28.074 --> 00:37:37.023
- I would rather be in six years, not 12 years. Thank you, Brad. OK. We are ready for our next person

00:37:37.023 --> 00:37:46.151
- who is in line to have a question. And please, I'm encouraging everybody in the audience. This is the

00:37:46.151 --> 00:37:48.478
- last one that I, the last

00:37:48.610 --> 00:37:57.210
- question from the audience that I have in chat. So please be signing up if you have a question. Shahana,

00:37:57.210 --> 00:38:05.400
- I'm sorry. Yes, unmute and please ask your question. It will be directed first to Tanya. Hi, thanks

00:38:05.400 --> 00:38:13.836
- everyone for being here for this forum. It's really helpful. My concern and question are around voting

00:38:13.836 --> 00:38:15.966
- access and voting rights.

00:38:16.098 --> 00:38:27.847
- I am wondering what you all think about the new Indiana voting laws, the ID laws that we have now. I'm

00:38:27.847 --> 00:38:39.367
- curious who you think should be an eligible voter in our democracy and what obstacles are reasonable

00:38:39.367 --> 00:38:44.158
- for eligible voters to be able to access.

00:38:45.250 --> 00:38:53.355
- submitting their ballot. That's my question. Thank you. Thank you, Shahana. Tanya, would you like to

00:38:53.355 --> 00:39:01.621
- respond to that question first? Yes, Indiana does have the voter ID requirement. You just have to show

00:39:01.621 --> 00:39:09.646
- your license or ID when you go vote just to prove who you are. But unlike the SAVE Act, which would

00:39:09.646 --> 00:39:14.942
- have required more documentation and would have made it difficult

00:39:15.362 --> 00:39:22.692
- Fortunately, the Save Act died. It didn't go anywhere, so I'm hoping that that stays that way.

00:39:22.692 --> 00:39:30.407
- Simple ID, just to prove who you are when you go vote, I think is reasonable, but I don't think you

00:39:30.407 --> 00:39:38.355
- should have to jump through hoops when voting is your right. So that's where I'm at on that. I haven't

00:39:38.355 --> 00:39:44.990
- seen any widespread voter fraud in Indiana. At least it's not been reported that way.

00:39:46.786 --> 00:39:56.342
- Thank you, Tonya. Brad, would you like to address that question? Sure. So voting should be as easy as

00:39:56.342 --> 00:40:05.805
- possible without introducing an excessive risk of fraud. The fact is that the federal government now

00:40:05.805 --> 00:40:11.614
- is going to be enrolling people in for the selective service.

00:40:11.746 --> 00:40:18.410
- and they don't have to do anything. So the government actually knows who's a citizen, who's not a citizen.

00:40:18.410 --> 00:40:24.264
- I think that the current system, which right now in Indiana is very easy to register to vote.

00:40:24.264 --> 00:40:30.740
- By the way, you need to register to vote. If you are not registered to vote, it's important you do that

00:40:30.740 --> 00:40:37.279
- because Monday is the last day that you can register before voting. The SAVE Act was just an intentional

00:40:37.279 --> 00:40:39.646
- barrier that they were trying to add.

00:40:39.778 --> 00:40:48.046
- And Indiana has a very low voter turnout and they suppress the vote well enough without the other gimmicks

00:40:48.046 --> 00:40:56.005
- they're trying to do. The state issues an ID to students, but you can't use that. In the SAVE Act, the

00:40:56.005 --> 00:41:04.273
- state issues a driver's license, but you wouldn't be able to use an Indiana state driver's license because

00:41:04.273 --> 00:41:08.446
- it doesn't denote whether you're a US citizen or not.

00:41:08.578 --> 00:41:17.870
- All of these are just attempts to make it harder to vote. That is their intention. They want to suppress

00:41:17.870 --> 00:41:26.897
- democracy. Thank you, Brad. Floyd, you may respond to that question. I think anybody who lives in the

00:41:26.897 --> 00:41:35.747
- 9th District should be able to vote. Voting should be easy. It's pretty easy now. You just walk in,

00:41:35.747 --> 00:41:37.694
- you show your ID, and

00:41:38.018 --> 00:41:47.104
- you vote is for registering to vote. The best I would be able to restrict it is maybe I nine level.

00:41:47.104 --> 00:41:56.371
- You know, everybody has to fill out an I nine. So if you have to fill it out to register to vote, I'd

00:41:56.371 --> 00:42:05.638
- be okay with that. Um, as far as who gets input, I, my Congress app allows anybody of any age to have

00:42:05.638 --> 00:42:06.910
- an input. So,

00:42:07.362 --> 00:42:19.070
- You don't have to be a registered voter. You don't even have to be 18. If you can get access to a computer,

00:42:19.070 --> 00:42:30.452
- you can weigh in, you can have your voice heard. Well, that's my position on it. Okay. Thank you, Floyd.

00:42:30.452 --> 00:42:33.054
- Okay. Rosemary Doherty.

00:42:33.410 --> 00:42:43.190
- has a question. Rosemary, would you please unmute and ask your question? It will be directed first to

00:42:43.190 --> 00:42:52.969
- Brad Meyer. Hi, and thank you. I think that gerrymandering has a real squelching effect on democracy,

00:42:52.969 --> 00:43:01.790
- and I'm wondering if there's a role at the federal level in making that illegal. Thank you.

00:43:03.810 --> 00:43:11.709
- Thank you, Rosemary. Brad, how would you like to respond? So there actually is the ability at the federal

00:43:11.709 --> 00:43:19.161
- level to make gerrymandering illegal, and I think it should be illegal. We should be trying to make

00:43:19.161 --> 00:43:26.836
- democracy work as well as possible for everybody instead of trying to manipulate it, where politicians

00:43:26.836 --> 00:43:32.798
- should be picked by their voter instead of the politicians picking their voter.

00:43:32.962 --> 00:43:42.209
- This is an anti-democratic thing. And we've seen the results of this, that about half of people in the

00:43:42.209 --> 00:43:51.546
- United States are Democrat or tend to vote Democrat and half tend to vote Republican. And we have these

00:43:51.546 --> 00:43:53.342
- lopsided victories.

00:43:53.602 --> 00:44:02.047
- basically because of gerrymandering. And you've got to credit the people of Indiana for standing up

00:44:02.047 --> 00:44:10.662
- in this last attempt to gerrymander out of cycle. I think that that is a good example of democracy in

00:44:10.662 --> 00:44:19.698
- action. Lloyd, that question to you. Yeah, the bill to end gerrymandering has come up in Congress multiple

00:44:19.698 --> 00:44:22.654
- times by both parties, and neither

00:44:22.754 --> 00:44:31.272
- party could seem to get it passed. It would seem to be something that maybe when both parties lose control

00:44:31.272 --> 00:44:39.232
- of the House and Senate, that we could get done. And it needs to be done. But so far, nobody's been

00:44:39.232 --> 00:44:46.078
- able to do it. Tanya, would you like to respond to the question about gerrymandering?

00:44:47.106 --> 00:44:54.682
- Well, I agree there shouldn't be gerrymandering and we've had issues here in the state of Indiana as

00:44:54.682 --> 00:45:02.408
- well. And I remember what District 9 used to look like when I ran for Congress before in 2020 if there

00:45:02.408 --> 00:45:09.984
- were 14 counties and then when they did the redistricting some people can call it gerrymandering. It

00:45:09.984 --> 00:45:11.934
- went from 14 counties to.

00:45:12.514 --> 00:45:20.274
- 17 counties plus a third of Bartholomew if you want to say 18 counties but two-thirds of Bartholomew

00:45:20.274 --> 00:45:28.033
- is in district six. So but article four of the constitution goes with states rights so I don't think

00:45:28.033 --> 00:45:35.870
- at the federal level we should dictate to the states on how they structure their state and the voters

00:45:36.162 --> 00:45:45.386
- need to hold their representatives accountable in the state of Indiana if they don't like the gerrymandering

00:45:45.386 --> 00:45:54.187
- in the Hoosier state. Okay. Thank you all three very much. And we now have a question from Laura Logan.

00:45:54.187 --> 00:46:03.326
- Laura, if you would unmute and ask your question and it will be addressed first to Floyd Taylor. Thank you.

00:46:03.778 --> 00:46:13.591
- I'm just running through issues that are currently being discussed. And I wonder what your opinions

00:46:13.591 --> 00:46:23.601
- are on regulating AI. Thank you. Thank you, Floyd. You get to address that one first. That's a really

00:46:23.601 --> 00:46:33.022
- interesting question. I've thought about it quite a bit because I personally use AI in my work.

00:46:33.218 --> 00:46:45.180
- And quite a bit, it's a very helpful tool for me. As far as regulating it, I kind of take the gun position

00:46:45.180 --> 00:46:56.471
- on that one. If AI is illegal, then only people who don't follow the law will have AI. And you could

00:46:56.471 --> 00:47:01.502
- only regulate so much. My position would be,

00:47:01.986 --> 00:47:12.733
- would be that we have some kind of guidance, some kind of ethical guidelines, but as far as regulating

00:47:12.733 --> 00:47:23.585
- it, I don't think that's possible because we can't regulate what other countries do. Okay, Tanya, would

00:47:23.585 --> 00:47:29.950
- you like to address that question? Yes, that is a conundrum.

00:47:31.138 --> 00:47:41.924
- If you use AI, the system, the AI system has access to your personal data that you are sometimes unaware

00:47:41.924 --> 00:47:52.505
- of. I think the people need to be educated on exactly what artificial intelligence can do when you use

00:47:52.505 --> 00:47:57.950
- it and how they use your data and store it. So like,

00:47:58.146 --> 00:48:06.698
- Floyd mentioned he uses AI well when he uses AI, the information he's getting from AI was data obtained

00:48:06.698 --> 00:48:14.920
- from other people who used AI and that data is stored in this bigger system, and I'm not a computer

00:48:14.920 --> 00:48:16.318
- software person.

00:48:16.642 --> 00:48:24.021
- but I understand it enough to know that it can be dangerous if the people are not aware of what it can

00:48:24.021 --> 00:48:31.614
- and cannot do. So I think at the federal level, we need to educate the people on artificial intelligence,

00:48:31.614 --> 00:48:36.414
- the benefits as well as the dangers of it. Thank you, Tanya. Brad?

00:48:37.666 --> 00:48:45.081
- I have a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering. So I've got some interest and background

00:48:45.081 --> 00:48:52.356
- in the technical side. And, but actually you start out and the first thing that we need to do is secure

00:48:52.356 --> 00:48:59.351
- data rights for individuals and that's privacy rights. So your data should not be used and sold the

00:48:59.351 --> 00:49:07.326
- way it's being done now. And in Europe, they have laws that restrict data access and in the United States because

00:49:07.426 --> 00:49:14.592
- Our Congresswoman and the rest of Congress sides with big business. They have allowed these things to

00:49:14.592 --> 00:49:21.688
- happen where they're selling your data and using your data in ways that you're not even aware of. We

00:49:21.688 --> 00:49:28.784
- need protections against deep fakes that right now the laws for slander and liabilities don't really

00:49:28.784 --> 00:49:34.334
- protect as well as they should against deep fakes. They need to be very clear.

00:49:34.466 --> 00:49:43.065
- And there's also issues of safety with AI that, you know, in the military, they had a rule that said

00:49:43.065 --> 00:49:52.090
- that AI cannot be used for the final decision to fire on a target. A human had to do that. They're trying

00:49:52.090 --> 00:50:00.604
- to repeal that. There's a lot of scary things going on where we're giving away our safety to AI and

00:50:00.604 --> 00:50:04.350
- we're trusting it too much. And there isn't

00:50:04.546 --> 00:50:13.581
- the kind of oversight to ensure the safety and privacy that needs to be. Thank you very much, Brad.

00:50:13.581 --> 00:50:22.797
- Kathy Bramtree has a question. Kathy, if you would please unmute and ask your question and it will be

00:50:22.797 --> 00:50:28.670
- directed first to Tanya. Thanks again, everyone, for being here.

00:50:28.770 --> 00:50:38.336
- Could you please speak to the current tactics and policy that ICE is using in our country? What do you

00:50:38.336 --> 00:50:47.624
- think of this and how would you change it? Thank you, Kathy, Tonya. Yeah, that falls under Homeland

00:50:47.624 --> 00:50:55.518
- Security. I've been disturbed by some of the things that I've seen on the news where

00:50:55.746 --> 00:51:04.301
- the brow beating, the physical assault on our citizens, and even people who are visiting our country.

00:51:04.301 --> 00:51:12.772
- We do have a problem with our immigration policy needs to be more streamlined. We do need to make it

00:51:12.772 --> 00:51:21.328
- easier for migrant workers to be able to come into this country legally, because right now the system

00:51:21.328 --> 00:51:22.334
- is archaic.

00:51:22.498 --> 00:51:30.346
- It's cumbersome. We have bottlenecked lines at points of entry. I think we need to add a couple more

00:51:30.346 --> 00:51:38.349
- points of entry and streamline the process to make it easier. I think ICE needs to be limited in their

00:51:38.349 --> 00:51:43.166
- role when they are looking for what they call illegal aliens.

00:51:43.266 --> 00:51:51.039
- I think there's, in some ways, they do have a role, but they have gone above and beyond what their authority

00:51:51.039 --> 00:51:58.242
- is, as we've witnessed on some of the newsreels that we've seen. So I think Congress does need to do

00:51:58.242 --> 00:52:05.516
- a better job in monitoring that, and they need to have hearings on it, quite frankly, and there needs

00:52:05.516 --> 00:52:11.934
- to be some changes made. Thank you, Tonya. Brad, would you like to address that question?

00:52:12.770 --> 00:52:20.890
- Yes, ma'am. So the questioner actually used the word tactics, and I think that that is important. They

00:52:20.890 --> 00:52:24.990
- are trying to solve a strategic problem tactically.

00:52:25.090 --> 00:52:31.279
- And the policy that they're putting in place doesn't match our values. And the only way that they'll

00:52:31.279 --> 00:52:38.019
- be able to meet the goals set by the president and accepted by Congress is through ever-increasing brutality.

00:52:38.019 --> 00:52:44.269
- And that can't be allowed. What we really need is a strategic answer to the problem that's been going

00:52:44.269 --> 00:52:51.070
- on for 40 years. And we've been stuck. And the answer is we need to first look at this as an economic problem.

00:52:51.298 --> 00:52:58.087
- We need more workers in the United States. That is the draw for people coming from the outside. And

00:52:58.087 --> 00:53:05.012
- if we need X number of people, then we need to issue X number of visas in a way that we can bring the

00:53:05.012 --> 00:53:12.412
- people in legally and with good oversight into the United States. Tanya agreed with me earlier on something.

00:53:12.412 --> 00:53:19.336
- I'll return the favor. I think Tanya was very correct in the things she said. But I would say we need

00:53:19.336 --> 00:53:20.830
- to go further to say,

00:53:20.962 --> 00:53:27.360
- Economically, we need to address this problem to bring in the workers because it's good for the United

00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:33.757
- States. It's a need that we have that people want to come in and work. And we need to end the practice

00:53:33.757 --> 00:53:40.155
- of illegal hiring. So when you watch 30 people being marched out of a chicken plant, those people that

00:53:40.155 --> 00:53:46.428
- worked committed a misdemeanor. The people that intentionally hired them committed a federal felony.

00:53:46.428 --> 00:53:50.590
- And that is the economic engine that's driving this whole problem.

00:53:52.546 --> 00:54:01.690
- Thank you, Brad. Floyd, would you like to address that question? Not really, but I will. ICE was a lot

00:54:01.690 --> 00:54:11.011
- more effective when they wore windbreakers and slacks. They did a better job. They deported more people.

00:54:11.011 --> 00:54:20.510
- They don't need to be dressed like stormtroopers. They don't need military gear. They don't need tear gas.

00:54:21.282 --> 00:54:30.258
- Hate to say it, but I agree with Brad on the ultimate responsibility for illegal immigration that lies

00:54:30.258 --> 00:54:39.408
- with the employers, not with the employees. And we need to enforce that. Thank you. Thank you, all three

00:54:39.408 --> 00:54:47.774
- of you, for taking those tough questions. And right now, I don't have anyone else in the queue.

00:54:47.906 --> 00:54:56.892
- Please be reminded if one of you has a question, just put, I have a question in chat. But I do have

00:54:56.892 --> 00:55:06.237
- some backup questions here in case this happens. The next question will be directed first to Brad. What

00:55:06.237 --> 00:55:15.673
- is your view on congressional war powers and the war in Iran? Sorry, I just realized I don't have power.

00:55:15.673 --> 00:55:17.470
- There we go. Sorry.

00:55:17.602 --> 00:55:26.258
- So, Congress has completely abdicated their responsibility for oversight in war powers. We took over

00:55:26.258 --> 00:55:35.428
- a country because they had oil and we wanted it. And now we've attacked Iran, who also has oil, so there's

00:55:35.428 --> 00:55:41.342
- a pattern forming here. And Congress did nothing. They said nothing.

00:55:41.474 --> 00:55:47.794
- You could, if you hold your mouth right, pretend that the War Powers Act gave the president

00:55:47.794 --> 00:55:54.870
- that authorization. But the fact is, is that this was a major strategic move. And ethically, there was

00:55:54.870 --> 00:56:01.945
- a responsibility to engage Congress so that the will of the people could be reflected, because I'm not

00:56:01.945 --> 00:56:07.166
- sure that it would have passed. And that's why Trump didn't go to Congress.

00:56:07.330 --> 00:56:14.387
- because he didn't want the answer. He didn't want to hear the people's voice. And Congress should have

00:56:14.387 --> 00:56:21.239
- responded back. And our Congresswoman, Erin Houchin, voted in favor of the Iran war when it finally

00:56:21.239 --> 00:56:28.297
- did come up. She should have been much more active to represent the interests of the people. And we've

00:56:28.297 --> 00:56:35.286
- gotten into the habit of being a little bit too permissive with presidential power, and that needs to

00:56:35.286 --> 00:56:36.382
- be dialed back.

00:56:38.306 --> 00:56:47.483
- Thank you, Brad. Floyd, would you like to address that question, please? Sure. Much like Brad said,

00:56:47.483 --> 00:56:56.751
- Congress itself has advocated the War Powers Act. They don't use it like they should. And these wars

00:56:56.751 --> 00:57:05.928
- are wrong. All wars are wrong. But the ones we're in recently are wrong to the 10th degree. I mean,

00:57:05.928 --> 00:57:08.222
- Congress should stop it.

00:57:08.578 --> 00:57:17.324
- It should have been stopped a long time ago. They should never have let the president order these wars.

00:57:17.324 --> 00:57:25.817
- And yeah, that's my whole opinion on it. It's just wrong. Thank you, Floyd. Tonya, would you like to

00:57:25.817 --> 00:57:34.899
- address that question? Yes, the AUMF authorization to use military force has been abused by this president.

00:57:34.899 --> 00:57:37.758
- The attack on Iran was an illegal

00:57:38.114 --> 00:57:45.716
- war. It was not authorized by Congress. Even the premise, Iran didn't have a nuclear weapon. They weren't

00:57:45.716 --> 00:57:53.103
- building a nuclear weapon. Did they have aspirations of possibly someday having a nuclear weapon? Yes,

00:57:53.103 --> 00:58:00.347
- but that information should have been brought to Congress and then Congress would have been the ones

00:58:00.347 --> 00:58:05.726
- to decide. If elected to Congress, I would vote immediately to end the war

00:58:05.858 --> 00:58:15.041
- in Iran as it's unconstitutional to begin with. Thank you, Tonya. OK. We have another question in the

00:58:15.041 --> 00:58:24.403
- queue. Shahana Ansari, if you would like to unmute and ask your question. And it will be directed first

00:58:24.403 --> 00:58:33.586
- to Floyd Taylor. Hi. I am hearing a lot about what you all think, and that's really useful. And thank

00:58:33.586 --> 00:58:34.846
- you for that.

00:58:34.914 --> 00:58:42.130
- I'm wondering what kind of actions you would take, how you would go about if you were elected, what

00:58:42.130 --> 00:58:49.417
- traditional routes of action and maybe some creative routes of action would you try and take to make

00:58:49.417 --> 00:58:56.849
- some changes? This comes from a perception on the voter side that we hear these things from candidates

00:58:56.849 --> 00:59:02.622
- and we get excited about them, but then once people are in office, these things

00:59:02.754 --> 00:59:11.973
- aren't able to pass for whatever reason. I'm curious what kind of actions you sort of, what's your plan

00:59:11.973 --> 00:59:21.014
- of action if you were to enter office? That question is directed first to Floyd. My plan of action if

00:59:21.014 --> 00:59:29.790
- I get elected to office is to bind my decisions to the constituent input through the Congress app.

00:59:30.018 --> 00:59:39.186
- or through input from the local district offices. That's it. I do not have a position of my own that

00:59:39.186 --> 00:59:48.354
- I plan on pushing forward. My vote will be bound 100 percent to the will of the district. Thank you,

00:59:48.354 --> 00:59:54.526
- Floyd. Tanya, would you like to address that question, please? Yes.

00:59:55.426 --> 01:00:04.565
- There are 435 members of Congress. So if elected to Congress, I would be one of 435. And there's a reason

01:00:04.565 --> 01:00:13.187
- why it's set up that way because our founders didn't want it to be too easy to have plans of action

01:00:13.187 --> 01:00:22.067
- without the consent of the people. We need to have debate and dialogue before we pass laws. And that's

01:00:22.067 --> 01:00:23.102
- why we have

01:00:23.234 --> 01:00:31.405
- many representatives that have to get together and speak to each other before there's a vote on the

01:00:31.405 --> 01:00:40.229
- floor. Plans of actions depend on the topic, depend on what the issue is that we're talking. Is it medical?

01:00:40.229 --> 01:00:48.645
- Is it national defense? Is it economics? There's a whole range of issues that need to be discussed and

01:00:48.645 --> 01:00:52.158
- debated before voted on. Thank you, Tanya.

01:00:52.386 --> 01:00:59.855
- Brad, would you like to address that question? Absolutely. This is a really good question. And it's

01:00:59.855 --> 01:01:07.921
- difficult to get things done through Congress. It absolutely is. And one of the issues is that the Founding

01:01:07.921 --> 01:01:15.614
- Fathers hadn't planned on having a two-party system. And the reason that it has worked out is it's the

01:01:15.614 --> 01:01:17.182
- only way that things

01:01:17.538 --> 01:01:25.090
- have been able to get done in an organized way. I'm one of 435, but when the Democrats win and when

01:01:25.090 --> 01:01:33.020
- I win, I'm going to be part of a larger group, a block that can work on priorities like universal health

01:01:33.020 --> 01:01:40.724
- care, fixing the tax code, making improvements in economics, working on the environment. All of these

01:01:40.724 --> 01:01:45.406
- things require cooperation for more than just one individual.

01:01:45.506 --> 01:01:53.404
- So the party system has real strength and value in that. It also has downsides, and we've seen that.

01:01:53.404 --> 01:02:01.458
- But that's why voting Democrat is important if you want to make things better under this election. And

01:02:01.458 --> 01:02:09.278
- even inside of that, there's the Progressive Caucus, which I'm planning on joining, which is a more

01:02:09.442 --> 01:02:18.479
- active part of the Democratic Party pushing for, again, universal health care, better tax code, environmental

01:02:18.479 --> 01:02:26.941
- improvements, and protecting social security. It's going to require cooperation and collaboration. You

01:02:26.941 --> 01:02:35.157
- asked about what inventive things we can do. And unfortunately, my time is up. Thank you, Brad. OK,

01:02:35.157 --> 01:02:37.950
- Laura Logan has another question.

01:02:38.050 --> 01:02:48.450
- And so Laura, would you unmute and please ask your question directing it first to Tanya Hudson.

01:02:48.450 --> 01:02:59.501
- Thank you. Yeah, I'm curious as to what your opinions are on ICE, the acts that ICE has been doing in

01:02:59.501 --> 01:03:07.518
- the country and the facts that they are undertrained and not well vetted.

01:03:07.618 --> 01:03:18.603
- and what do you think Congress can do to reduce the awfulness that they're doing? Thank you. Thank you,

01:03:18.603 --> 01:03:30.750
- Laura. We've had a version of that question asked, but perhaps Laura's looking for some additional details. Tanya?

01:03:31.010 --> 01:03:39.651
- Would you like to? Laura may not have been here when that question was asked just a little while ago.

01:03:39.651 --> 01:03:48.460
- And this is recording. So instead of repeating myself, I will want to say that as a member of Congress,

01:03:48.460 --> 01:03:57.694
- because we have 435 members, things need to be voted on. But also leadership is important in Washington, DC.

01:03:57.794 --> 01:04:05.500
- And because we have a broken two-party monopoly system, that needs to change. That's one of the reasons

01:04:05.500 --> 01:04:13.279
- why I'm running. I saw on Labor Day the leader of the Democrat Party, Joaquin Jeffries. If the Democrats

01:04:13.279 --> 01:04:20.318
- were to get the majority after November 3rd, he would most likely be the Speaker of the House.

01:04:20.898 --> 01:04:27.724
- And he was asked the question about Medicare for all because there was a couple of progressives in the

01:04:27.724 --> 01:04:34.417
- Democrat Party that want Medicare for all. He said no, absolutely not. He said that that has already

01:04:34.417 --> 01:04:41.045
- come up many times before and it's it fails. It's going nowhere. He elaborated on it more than what

01:04:41.045 --> 01:04:47.738
- I'm summarizing, but basically the leader of the Democrat Party said Medicare for all is dead in the

01:04:47.738 --> 01:04:50.654
- water. So that's something that needs to be

01:04:50.914 --> 01:04:59.507
- talked about and considered as we move forward with this campaign. Brad, would you like to add anything

01:04:59.507 --> 01:05:08.017
- and respond to that particular question about ICE? Yes, I would. So again, we're talking about in this

01:05:08.017 --> 01:05:16.362
- question, tactics related to ICE. And I've talked in my previous answer that we really need to think

01:05:16.362 --> 01:05:19.998
- strategically to make this problem go away.

01:05:20.834 --> 01:05:30.072
- Really, one of the things that we need to do is we need to shift away from an authoritarian approach

01:05:30.072 --> 01:05:38.395
- to enforcement at the tactical level. We need to be shifting resources not to getting more

01:05:38.395 --> 01:05:46.078
- people incarcerated and warehoused in concentration. We really need to increase our

01:05:46.178 --> 01:05:53.638
- adjudication abilities so that when somebody is brought into the system, they're adjudicated and they're

01:05:53.638 --> 01:06:00.955
- either deported or they're blessed to be in the United States. What we're doing right now, tactically,

01:06:00.955 --> 01:06:01.950
- is just dumb.

01:06:02.466 --> 01:06:08.620
- We've spent all of our money on enforcement. We're ramping up, and as the person said, they're

01:06:08.620 --> 01:06:15.616
- not well-trained, they're not well-vetted. We're ramping up on that side. We're getting a large collection,

01:06:15.616 --> 01:06:22.094
- a backlog of people that we're removing from the economy, that we're productive in the economy, and

01:06:22.094 --> 01:06:26.046
- we're having to pay to warehouse them. Instead of increasing

01:06:26.242 --> 01:06:33.995
- the throughput of the system, we've just got this big glut of people that are sitting in detention.

01:06:33.995 --> 01:06:42.214
- It is really dumber than a post. Thank you, Brad. Floyd, would you like to address that question, please?

01:06:42.214 --> 01:06:50.278
- Sure. What can we actually do about ICE and their fact that they're untrained and the fact that they're

01:06:50.278 --> 01:06:53.534
- using awful tactics? Cut off their money.

01:06:54.882 --> 01:07:03.650
- That's what we can actually do. It has nothing to do with how I feel about their tactics, but that's

01:07:03.650 --> 01:07:12.419
- how we can actually address the problems. Just take away their money. OK, thank you, Floyd. It looks

01:07:12.419 --> 01:07:21.100
- as if I don't have any questions in the queue. We still have some time here, so if anyone thinks of

01:07:21.100 --> 01:07:22.750
- a question, please

01:07:23.234 --> 01:07:32.957
- Okay, Rosemary. Rosemary Doherty has a question. And if you would please unmute Rosemary and ask your

01:07:32.957 --> 01:07:42.966
- question, it will be directed first to Brad Meyer. Given the fact that sort of dire situation that we're

01:07:42.966 --> 01:07:50.782
- in with the slide toward authoritarianism, and we do not have rank choice voting,

01:07:51.010 --> 01:08:04.825
- would you consider or what are your thoughts on joining forces just to defeat the current sitting

01:08:04.825 --> 01:08:14.974
- representative? Thank you. Okay. Brad, did you understand the question?

01:08:15.266 --> 01:08:26.570
- I was going to ask if I could request a clarification. Join forces with who? The three of you. Just

01:08:26.570 --> 01:08:38.439
- go as one to get more votes to have a greater chance of winning against someone who supports the current

01:08:38.439 --> 01:08:42.622
- situation, which I see as dire. Yes.

01:08:42.722 --> 01:08:50.473
- I agree that we are in dire straits. As I said before, I was working for the Navy and quit my job a

01:08:50.473 --> 01:08:58.225
- year shy of early retirement, specifically because I see this is not just an election about policy.

01:08:58.225 --> 01:09:03.806
- It's about the direction of our country. And as the Democratic nominee,

01:09:03.906 --> 01:09:13.008
- If Tanya and Floyd want to endorse me and move all their voters over to me, I would love for them to

01:09:13.008 --> 01:09:22.291
- do that. They have an opportunity, and I will go on mute. Floyd, how would you like to respond to that

01:09:22.291 --> 01:09:31.934
- question? Well, that's an interesting question. And I have an answer to it, and nobody's going to like it.

01:09:32.994 --> 01:09:40.079
- Aaron Houchett is going to win this race. There's no doubt about it. The math says Aaron is going to

01:09:40.079 --> 01:09:47.514
- win. Brad has zero chance of winning. There is not enough Republican vote. There's not enough Republicans

01:09:47.514 --> 01:09:54.809
- that will cross over to vote for a Democrat. There's no Democrats that are going to cross over and vote

01:09:54.809 --> 01:10:00.350
- for a Libertarian. Both Tanya and Brad have absolutely zero chance of winning.

01:10:01.186 --> 01:10:11.183
- It looks good and they can promise a blue wave or something, but it's just not going to happen. There

01:10:11.183 --> 01:10:21.867
- are a preponderance of voters that are independent, whether they call themselves Democrat or call themselves

01:10:21.867 --> 01:10:30.590
- Republican. There's only two ways this goes. Houchin wins and nobody cares, or I win and

01:10:30.818 --> 01:10:40.098
- the national news trucks to send on the ninth district. Okay, Floyd, thank you. Tanya, how would you

01:10:40.098 --> 01:10:49.470
- like to address that question? Well, as far as joining forces to agree that the person sitting in the

01:10:49.470 --> 01:10:52.318
- White House should be removed,

01:10:52.898 --> 01:11:02.552
- Yes, I think that if Brad and Floyd wanted to join me, because I think I'm the best option on the ballot,

01:11:02.552 --> 01:11:12.023
- and I do think that 2026 is an interesting year. District 9 is predominantly a red district, but I have

01:11:12.023 --> 01:11:17.214
- talked to many, many, many voters on the campaign trail.

01:11:18.018 --> 01:11:24.508
- Even the Republicans are disappointed in Erin Houch, and they don't want to vote for her. But many of

01:11:24.508 --> 01:11:30.872
- them don't want to swing too far left either. And I've been told that I have their vote. Of course,

01:11:30.872 --> 01:11:37.362
- they're telling me that to my face. But I am the better option if somebody doesn't want to go too far

01:11:37.362 --> 01:11:43.916
- to the left, but they're disappointed with who's in the office now, the Republican who's just a puppet

01:11:43.916 --> 01:11:46.398
- and parrots the White House, then vote

01:11:46.658 --> 01:11:53.978
- for Tonya Hudson, the Libertarian. I think if we get a handful of Libertarians from across the country

01:11:53.978 --> 01:12:01.298
- into Congress, it doesn't matter whether the Republicans or Democrats have more people. If neither one

01:12:01.298 --> 01:12:08.546
- of them has the majority because we have a handful of Libertarians, throw some independents in there,

01:12:08.546 --> 01:12:15.582
- then we can make a huge difference in Washington DC and roll back the pesky rules and regulations.

01:12:17.026 --> 01:12:23.666
- Thank you, Tonya. Sunny, may I add one other thing since I was under on my time? Okay. All right. So

01:12:23.666 --> 01:12:30.240
- I just wanted to mention that I believe there's actually laws against the three of us collaborating

01:12:30.240 --> 01:12:36.945
- together, right? So if Tanya, Tanya should be running because she thinks she's the best. Floyd should

01:12:36.945 --> 01:12:39.838
- be running because he thinks he's the best.

01:12:40.066 --> 01:12:47.195
- If they were trying to manipulate and say, you know, hey, I'm going to attack Erin this way, and I'm

01:12:47.195 --> 01:12:54.676
- going to try to erode her support, and we're collaborating together, I think that's actually not allowed,

01:12:54.676 --> 01:13:01.734
- right? The system is set up that we are competitive. And so anyway, I just wanted to mention that I

01:13:01.734 --> 01:13:08.510
- was a little bit glib in my response, and some of it is I don't want to break the law doing it.

01:13:10.242 --> 01:13:19.187
- Thank you, Brett. All right, we have Shahana has another question. So Shahana, if you would unmute and

01:13:19.187 --> 01:13:27.872
- ask your question, and it will be directed first to Floyd. Hi. I was wondering, actually, this is a

01:13:27.872 --> 01:13:37.164
- nice follow-up question to what was just asked. We have a lot of polarization in our communities. Families

01:13:37.164 --> 01:13:39.422
- have tension within them.

01:13:39.938 --> 01:13:48.563
- pulling people apart. I'm wondering what you feel competition wise, like what's a healthy level

01:13:48.563 --> 01:13:52.606
- of competition for a political discourse and

01:13:52.706 --> 01:14:00.984
- candidacy, and in what ways would you try, if at all, would you try to bring the community kind of more

01:14:00.984 --> 01:14:09.024
- aligned and together? I'm hearing a lot from what you all are saying. There's a lot of overlap, even

01:14:09.024 --> 01:14:16.984
- though there's different philosophical political backgrounds. How would you help the community kind

01:14:16.984 --> 01:14:18.974
- of see those alignments?

01:14:19.170 --> 01:14:26.171
- within us as well and come together as Hoosiers rather than members of particular political parties

01:14:26.171 --> 01:14:33.172
- or identities. Thank you, Shahana. Floyd, would you like to address that first? Sure. If you go sit

01:14:33.172 --> 01:14:40.313
- down and talk to your neighbor, you will find out that if you don't talk about politics, they believe

01:14:40.313 --> 01:14:47.454
- the same things you believe more or less. I mean, they all want a happy life, happy family, good job,

01:14:47.970 --> 01:14:54.925
- good pay, good health insurance. Everybody wants the same thing. Everybody wants the same goals. And

01:14:54.925 --> 01:15:02.088
- if you don't have political parties throwing a wrench in the business, everybody gets along. And that's

01:15:02.088 --> 01:15:09.043
- basically why I'm running as an independent is because everybody wants the same thing. There doesn't

01:15:09.043 --> 01:15:13.726
- need to be a political party throwing a monkey wrench in your life.

01:15:17.314 --> 01:15:26.132
- Thank you, Floyd. Tanya, would you like to address that question, please? Well, as far as bringing people

01:15:26.132 --> 01:15:34.700
- together, politically, that's difficult and always has been. We've had civil discourse in our politics

01:15:34.700 --> 01:15:43.102
- going back decades, even 100 years. In fact, it used to be worse. It used to be nasty. So we do have

01:15:43.102 --> 01:15:46.430
- competition. We do have debates. But in

01:15:47.330 --> 01:15:56.321
- the century, I'm gonna say the decade that we're in now, even though it does seem mean and mean-spirited

01:15:56.321 --> 01:16:04.885
- at times, there was a time in our history where it was a lot worse. I mean, people would physically

01:16:04.885 --> 01:16:13.705
- burn somebody's house down and the pitchforks would come out. So I think right now having some debate,

01:16:13.705 --> 01:16:16.702
- arguments, as long as we're civil,

01:16:16.994 --> 01:16:24.792
- should continue. There is some rhetoric that is uncalled for, but I think that's to a minimum compared

01:16:24.792 --> 01:16:33.119
- to our history. Thank you, Tonya. Brad, would you like to address that? I thought the question of competition

01:16:33.119 --> 01:16:41.068
- is an interesting thing. There are things that I'm fighting for, and I brought them up before, universal

01:16:41.068 --> 01:16:44.702
- health care and changes in our economic policy.

01:16:44.834 --> 01:16:53.607
- to help workers and Social Security. But fighting for doesn't mean that it's a competition. It is a

01:16:53.607 --> 01:17:02.469
- struggle to get policies enacted that help people. And there are people that see it differently, and

01:17:02.469 --> 01:17:07.294
- you can have a policy discussion and debate with them.

01:17:07.394 --> 01:17:15.148
- and try to reason with them. And then there are people that have their own self-interest or the interest

01:17:15.148 --> 01:17:22.681
- of their donors in mind that are against it because it doesn't profit them and their friends. So when

01:17:22.681 --> 01:17:30.066
- I talk about fighting, it's fighting against the people that are acting in self-interest instead of

01:17:30.066 --> 01:17:31.838
- interest of the people.

01:17:32.066 --> 01:17:39.577
- Floyd made the comment about a party throwing a monkey wrench in it. The fact is that Democrats and

01:17:39.577 --> 01:17:47.314
- Republicans, if you look at all the economic trends over time, they have been going down in a negative

01:17:47.314 --> 01:17:55.125
- way. What got me running for office is that Project 2025 is going to make those nose dive. So I've been

01:17:55.125 --> 01:18:00.158
- watching politicians manage the decline of this country for years.

01:18:00.706 --> 01:18:10.216
- what they're doing right now is going to crash it. Thank you, Brett. Okay, we have another question.

01:18:10.216 --> 01:18:19.632
- Sherry Frank, if you would please unmute and ask your question, it will be directed first to Tanya.

01:18:19.632 --> 01:18:29.330
- Hi, thank you. I just wanted to ask, what is your view and what action might you take regarding public

01:18:29.330 --> 01:18:30.366
- education?

01:18:30.530 --> 01:18:40.780
- and universal preschool. Thank you. Yes, Tanya, would you like to address that? That is a very good

01:18:40.780 --> 01:18:46.622
- question. And I hear it from both sides of the spectrum.

01:18:46.818 --> 01:18:54.231
- I think that the Department of Education at the federal level, not the state level, because I think

01:18:54.231 --> 01:19:02.089
- Indiana's State Department of Education does a fairly good job. It needs improvement, but I'm for states'

01:19:02.089 --> 01:19:09.502
- rights in the Constitution. I do not think that politicians in DC should be dictating the education

01:19:09.502 --> 01:19:10.910
- system in Montana.

01:19:11.554 --> 01:19:18.397
- as well as Florida, it can't be a one size fits all. And I've talked to teachers who, if they apply

01:19:18.397 --> 01:19:25.308
- for grant money at the federal level, there's so much red tape, there's so many rules that they have

01:19:25.308 --> 01:19:32.219
- to abide by to the point to where they can't even do their job if they accept the money. So I've had

01:19:32.219 --> 01:19:37.214
- a teacher say, I'm better off not even accepting grant money because it,

01:19:37.442 --> 01:19:43.654
- infringes on my ability to teach if I have to do all these ABC XYZ to get the money. So I think the

01:19:43.654 --> 01:19:49.865
- Department of Education at the federal level has been a dismal failure for decades, but I think the

01:19:49.865 --> 01:19:56.139
- money needs to go back to the states instead of at the federal level and let the State Department of

01:19:56.139 --> 01:20:02.413
- Education do what they need to do at the state level because they are closer to the people. They are

01:20:02.413 --> 01:20:07.134
- closer to the students. They are closer to the teachers at the state level.

01:20:07.298 --> 01:20:16.677
- the Federal Department of Education has been a disaster for decades. Thank you. Brad, would you like

01:20:16.677 --> 01:20:26.056
- to address that question, please? Sure. So the Department of Education has not responsibility. Tanya

01:20:26.056 --> 01:20:35.806
- is right in part in saying that the Constitution has given education as the responsibility of the state.

01:20:36.418 --> 01:20:43.864
- What the Department of Education has helped to do is to provide funding for the more expensive things

01:20:43.864 --> 01:20:51.165
- that the states are having trouble funding, such as funding for children with learning disabilities

01:20:51.165 --> 01:20:57.662
- and other disabilities. And the federal government was offering money to help with that.

01:20:57.858 --> 01:21:04.943
- which helps with people's property taxes, right? If the states had to do it on their own, property taxes

01:21:04.943 --> 01:21:11.825
- would have to be higher. And I'm 100% okay with the federal government saying, we'll provide a grant,

01:21:11.825 --> 01:21:18.775
- but you have to follow the basic rules. And I'm okay with a teacher saying, I don't wanna follow those

01:21:18.775 --> 01:21:22.014
- rules and the grant money going somewhere else.

01:21:22.114 --> 01:21:28.514
- The fact is that at the state level, we are seeing an intentional attempt to privatize our education

01:21:28.514 --> 01:21:35.168
- system. It's going to go bad. And one of the reasons that people want to gut the Department of Education

01:21:35.168 --> 01:21:41.695
- is the Department of Education provides insights into whether the systems are working or not. They are

01:21:41.695 --> 01:21:48.222
- scorekeepers that will help parents know whether these new systems that they're trying to put in place

01:21:48.222 --> 01:21:51.454
- by the state of Indiana is working or not working.

01:21:51.906 --> 01:21:59.792
- If you remove the scorekeeper, you can get away with anything. Thank you, Brad Floyd. Would you like

01:21:59.792 --> 01:22:07.757
- to address that question? Yeah, I wrote a public education reform act. If you take federal money, you

01:22:07.757 --> 01:22:15.956
- need to abide by certain standards and federal money cannot be used to fund private schools. And there's

01:22:15.956 --> 01:22:18.142
- a lot more to it than that.

01:22:18.786 --> 01:22:26.228
- but that's the gist of it, is that if you take federal money, you follow federal standards, you provide

01:22:26.228 --> 01:22:33.599
- a certain minimum level of service, which is higher than we have right now, and you can't fund private

01:22:33.599 --> 01:22:40.970
- schools with it. That's the whole thing. Thank you, Floyd. We have one more question in the queue, and

01:22:40.970 --> 01:22:46.910
- I think I'll make that the last question, and then we will move into your closing.

01:22:47.106 --> 01:22:55.080
- and we will be wrapping things up. So Shahana, you have another question, would you please unmute and

01:22:55.080 --> 01:22:58.910
- ask your question? And it will go first to Brad.

01:22:59.714 --> 01:23:07.186
- Yes, thank you all. I'll quickly ask a follow-up to the education question. How do you all feel about

01:23:07.186 --> 01:23:14.512
- funding for science? The cuts to scientific funding are a concern, and I'm curious how you would go

01:23:14.512 --> 01:23:21.837
- about addressing that in your role in Congress. Thank you, Shahana. Brad, would you like to respond

01:23:21.837 --> 01:23:23.742
- to that question, please?

01:23:24.098 --> 01:23:34.564
- Sure. So the federal government has had responsibility and huge influence for the last hundred years

01:23:34.564 --> 01:23:44.926
- in pushing forward basic science research through grants and other educational outreaches and their

01:23:44.926 --> 01:23:47.102
- research activities.

01:23:47.330 --> 01:23:56.659
- The abandonment of science is a serious threat to our future strength. And we've gotten to the point

01:23:56.659 --> 01:24:05.249
- that we hold, many of us hold in contempt knowledgeable people, people that have spent their

01:24:05.249 --> 01:24:14.762
- lives researching and learning and understanding, and we're cutting research funding. And I agree with

01:24:14.762 --> 01:24:16.702
- Floyd in saying that

01:24:17.378 --> 01:24:26.415
- there should be requirements if you're going to take a federal grant, but they're weaponizing that now

01:24:26.415 --> 01:24:35.628
- to minimize and to reduce the level of research. And if you look at what they're doing in the healthcare

01:24:35.628 --> 01:24:45.630
- system, they're cutting funding for cancer research. They're undermining immunization confidence. They're really,

01:24:45.858 --> 01:24:53.566
- trying to take us back and away from a science-based society, and it's not going to profit us in the

01:24:53.566 --> 01:25:01.427
- long run. Thank you, Floyd. Would you like to respond to that? Sure. I actually wrote a bill for that.

01:25:01.427 --> 01:25:09.135
- It protects science research funding and guarantees that if you're doing scientific research, if you

01:25:09.135 --> 01:25:13.790
- get a grant, they can't just come in and cut off your grant.

01:25:14.562 --> 01:25:23.029
- It has to continue to a certain point and there's a lot more details to the bill than that, but it's

01:25:23.029 --> 01:25:31.412
- basically supports scientific research and science research funding through the federal government.

01:25:31.412 --> 01:25:38.622
- Thank you, Tanya. Would you like to address that question, please? Yes, I definitely.

01:25:38.754 --> 01:25:46.704
- would be in favor of promoting science and technology, even on the medical side, research and development.

01:25:46.704 --> 01:25:54.431
- We need to be leaders in this world and not the followers and have other countries beat us on the front

01:25:54.431 --> 01:26:01.118
- of science and technology and medical research. So I would be in favor of promoting that.

01:26:01.218 --> 01:26:08.446
- As far as the Department of Education at the federal level, we don't need them for that part. Money

01:26:08.446 --> 01:26:15.675
- that is going to the Department of Education now should be returned to the states so that the state

01:26:15.675 --> 01:26:23.120
- level Department of Education can have those funds to use as they see fit in their state because every

01:26:23.120 --> 01:26:30.782
- state is different and I don't like the one size fits all approach from the politicians in DC. Thank you.

01:26:31.586 --> 01:26:41.930
- We're now ready to proceed into your one-minute final comments, and we will start with Floyd. Okay.

01:26:41.930 --> 01:26:52.997
- When November 3rd comes, you go to the polling place, you push your red button, you push your blue button,

01:26:52.997 --> 01:26:58.686
- you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the form,

01:26:59.394 --> 01:27:10.844
- Check the little box and you write in Floyd Taylor. That's my whole ask. Thank you. Thank you Floyd.

01:27:10.844 --> 01:27:12.318
- Tanya. Okay.

01:27:12.450 --> 01:27:19.567
- There was a lot of topics discussed here today and I have a lot more to say a lot more of my vision

01:27:19.567 --> 01:27:26.826
- and the solutions that I have as a candidate. So please go to my website. Hudson for Hoosiers.com and

01:27:26.826 --> 01:27:34.014
- learn about the issues that I care about, which are the issues that the voters care about. I have on

01:27:34.014 --> 01:27:41.416
- my website. It's called the roll it back cage and every week I do a weekly commentary about the current

01:27:41.416 --> 01:27:42.270
- events and.

01:27:43.234 --> 01:27:52.202
- My weekly commentary is written by me. Nobody else sees it until I post it. I don't use AI, so my commentary

01:27:52.202 --> 01:28:00.429
- that I write is word for word from me. The current incumbent. She's got to go. She has been failing

01:28:00.429 --> 01:28:09.726
- District 9 miserably. I think I'm the best option on the ballot and I need your vote. I have the experience the.

01:28:10.018 --> 01:28:18.107
- stamina and the tenacity to go to Washington, D.C., and do what needs to be done. Thank you, Tonya.

01:28:18.107 --> 01:28:26.439
- Brad, your final comments. As I said before, this election is about the direction of this country. And

01:28:26.439 --> 01:28:32.830
- the fact is, if you want a better future, you're going to have to vote for it.

01:28:33.090 --> 01:28:41.426
- The current incumbent, again, I'll have to agree with Tonya, has been in favor and rubber stamped everything

01:28:41.426 --> 01:28:49.303
- that Trump and Project 2025 is doing. It's having deleterious effects on the country. And you're going

01:28:49.303 --> 01:28:56.798
- to see that most of the things that have been advocated for are taking effect after the election.

01:28:57.570 --> 01:29:03.721
- If she was voting in your best interest, those things would have happened before the election so she

01:29:03.721 --> 01:29:09.811
- can brag about it. They've pushed it back till after the election so that you won't be able to vote

01:29:09.811 --> 01:29:15.962
- on what her record is really doing to you. And if she was so proud of everything that she was doing,

01:29:15.962 --> 01:29:22.174
- she'd be out spending time with people and having town halls and being at debates or discussions like

01:29:22.174 --> 01:29:25.950
- this. Thank you, League of Women Voters, for putting this on.

01:29:28.130 --> 01:29:38.131
- And thank you, all three of you, for coming to this forum and all of those in the audience. We appreciate

01:29:38.131 --> 01:29:39.358
- you so much.

01:29:39.458 --> 01:29:48.029
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01:29:48.029 --> 01:29:56.599
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01:29:56.599 --> 01:30:05.339
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01:30:05.339 --> 01:30:06.782
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01:30:07.042 --> 01:30:17.048
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01:30:27.549 --> 01:30:35.870
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01:30:36.002 --> 01:30:45.018
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01:30:45.018 --> 01:30:53.461
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