okay looked down at me as if i am nobody however this is a great opportunity for me to talk directly to vermont voters some of them that i met and some of them who has voted for me in absentee without even meeting me thank you all so very much from my heart i am truly blessed and i am very grateful and i am a democrat who is also an immigrant american i was born in nigeria and i got the amnesty from the congressional democrats the immigration act of one thousand nine hundred and eighty six i came to the united states right after high school i came here legally but i overstayed so when the congressional democrats signed the act of one thousand nine hundred and eighty six the immigration act i am the dreamer who today is a beneficiary and i really would like the same opportunity to be extended to the obama dreamer and president reagan actually signed the immigration law of one thousand nine hundred and eighty six so i'm indeed very grateful and from talking to some of the vermonters they really do like me and i hope they'll vote for me which is why i'm getting this opportunity to talk to you thank you and i hope you vote for me on august 14th in the democratic primary senator sanders who doesn't show up for the meeting just snubs me and as a matter of fact he is not the democrat and i don't know why he's not here to defend his seat i was ready to give him a debate of a lifetime however since he did not show up i'm very still thankful again and i believe in social security i believe because i am also an accountant who is able to calculate social security how much people will get paid when they retire i know i look young but i'm also a senior citizen i am fifty five years old and i would be turning fifty six also when i mention social security i also i also want to let the vermonters know that you can take every word that i say i will not promise what i am unable to deliver i will do what i promise i will not tell the college student they will get free education because i also went to college and i am an accountant i am a licensed insurance agent who also has a young daughter who is twenty one years old with a serious heart problem that brings me to the support of obamacare why i work tirelessly for president barack obama from whom i didn't get paid but i actually enjoyed servicing president obama as an activist because i really do understand as an insurance agent when i'm out in the atlanta area as an agent i wouldn't try to force insurance on anyone so that i can make commission and i really really do care about people and also because i have a daughter that has down syndrome and actually has an artificial valve i really do care about people and i would like to help using my experience as an accountant and also as an insurance agent to legislate for you i am also a law abiding citizen i have been in this country for as long as senator sanders has been a politician and he's not here to debate me i don't i was in fact talking to an elderly individual yesterday and is bernie's friend he loves bernie and i say oh i love him too but i do disagree with his politics i said what has bernie done for you what do i need to do to make you change your mind and the first thing out of his mind is that well bernie is helping me to get my social security i'm like no sir bernie is not helping you to get your social security you are paid and this gentleman that i was talking to is actually a retired attorney then i asked him sir you practice law you are an attorney he has also run for political office he told me he ran twice then i say senator sanders is not giving you anything that i couldn't do for you well folasade as we move along here we have a number of questions so we kind of want to get your opinion and your position on a number of these important topics so if we can move right along here i do want to ask if you are elected what is your first legislative priority that you would bring to the to the floor of the us congress well sir as i was talking to the elderly that i was talking to yesterday social security i wouldn't say is probably number two but i did not finish the conversation with the man and i would like to wrap it up in a minute so then i asked him i told him that you paid into your social security sir i am an accountant bernie is not helping you to do anything the only thing is if i am your senator i will make sure that the government or the system does not privatize your social security so that you don't ended up losing your money in the stock market like you know i am also an accountant then i said then he also said that bernie takes brings ambassadors here from sweden i'm like what does that got to do with you then he said i'm like the ambassadors that bernie is bringing then anyway i asked him how much have you donated to bernie so he talks about oh he was the one who mentioned that bernie buys him christmas dinner at the hilton so i'm like how much are you paying don't you think you are the one who is exactly paying for your own dinner i think he mentioned like he gives bernie a hundred then i'm like so at twentyfive dollars a plate to thirty a plate you are actually paying for your own dinner then he said well so if you give bernie one hundred you can buy for dinner christmas dinner he said he gives more than that that it's actuallythe money that he gives bernie every year he can actually buy he can buy ten dinners i'm like so you see and i can honestly look at vermonters faces no one from vermont from this state has donated a dime into my campaign and i am sade adeluola i will tirelessly work for you if i should become your us senator and i hope you just give me a chance in the primary so that i can have a chance too in the general election to win the general election also i would like to say my number one thing is immigration reform towards the end i wasn't happy with the democrats and i wasn't happy with president obama as swell my number one thing while i have supported president obama since two thousand and eight was the immigration reform and we didn't get that and we didn't get that so i was angry when the dreamers were let down so my one thing would be immigration hmm mmm because also i do not like the fact that children infants was separated from their mothers family people that is really really very sad you in fact i mean have benefited from the us immigration policy yes sir can you speak then a little bit more about how you feel that benefit that you've received should be open to to more people in the world see unlike senator bernie sanders who is not here to debate me i heard him saying all close the ice or what was the exact term close out the ice i would never say that because ice unless you really go through our system and the immigration system for a path to citizenship you will never understand the system it's easier for people to just judge and say get them out they don't belong here they are this they are this they are that what i really would like to do is i would like to i would never say close out the ice eradicate ice i would never say that because i know ice is part of the system for so many years and the situation now because congress hasn't done anything they refuse to do their jobs hmm mmm i was one of the activists who would yell at congresspeople and say do your jobs do your job and i also send out the email they didn't do anything so the already bad situation has been worsened as of today so eradicating ice is not the solution so i totally disagree with senator bernie sanders and some other democrats who are saying close out the ice that is not the solution because ice does so many other things other than they are the judicial system the immigration system the legal system so there are so many parts within the ice if somebody wants to become us citizen they have to go to immigration and customs enforcement as you are looking at me i was also an importer italian i was importing goods from italy austria switzerland and paris so i go through the immigration system mmm and i truly and also through i go through the customs the us customs so i really do understand how our system the same way i am also a tax preparer so i will never tell you closed out the irs okay i would never say that you had mentioned earlier in your opening comments folasade your concerns about health care you have a daughter who is using the health care system seriously let's say do you think healthcare is a right of every us citizen yes sir i believe health care it's not just a right it has to do with kindness and humanity which is the way that my mother died in nigeria hmm oh she died because she didn't have anyone to sign for her to have a csection during a preset induction a labor induction so healthcare is not just a right it has to do with humanity i know if you are a doctor and you see my daughter having a heart attack you will stop and help her you will not even care whether she has insurance you will not care whether she's a republican or democrat you will not care whether she is black or white you would care less whether she even has a supporting family like me you will do the right thing it is the right thing to do and we must help people in need healthcare is the most i really do support medicaid for the poor and medicare for the elders i do not believe we need to cut taxes for the upper one so that they would not pay their fair share i disagree with a lot of things that is going on and as an accountant and a licensed insurance agent and a mother to a very very fortunate angel who is lucky to be alive i am truly very thankful from my heart folasade we have come to almost the end of our show it goes so fast unfortunately so many areas that we have yet to cover so give us your closing statement here about your candidacy if there's any area of concern that we have yet to careto cover now would be the opportunity to uhto voice your well like i said i am truly so very very thankful for the wonderful opportunity that i have as an american i am very truly blessed i am your dreamer i am that child who was so pleased i am the person who is here deliberately to help the vermonters i've never been a politician i've never worked for the government i am a genuine democratic activist and i will want to ask every vermonter to give me a chance i promise never to serve more than two terms like i said if i am your us senator i will work for you tirelessly i will fight for you endlessly and i hope you vote for me on august the 14th thank you so very much and thanks to cctv for this great opportunity to be heard thank you very much i wish i can talk on thanks folasade adeluola a pleasure having you on the show this evening thank you for your candidacy thank you it takes great courage to put your name on a ballot thank you i'm matt kelly a reminder that here in the state of vermont we do have early voting you can go and cast your vote today if you'd like at your local town office and in the state of vermont if you aren't registered you can register up to and including election day for a complete list of upcoming candidate forums visit our website chseventeentv and for all of us here at town meeting television i'm matt kelly thank you for watching good night thank you so much mr kelly