camera you're running for the forty sixth district senatorial of pennsylvania is that correct yes all right well actually i'm going to start off right off the bat by letting you tell the people a little bit about yourself and the fact that many of them have soon you're heard you know in their homes on a weekly basis through well we'll talk about that ok let's start off with where you're from actually i was born in a very tiny tiny little town in oregon called cottage grove that i think was smaller than the school but very shortly after that my family moved to las vegas because at the time my father was a lumberjack in alaska and my mother thought that having two children have an older sister having two little girls living in literally a floating tarpaper shack down the rivers from logging site to logging site was not such a good idea so and i magine i don't know why i don't know why yes no danger there so the they decided that they were going to move down to las vegas because it was you know one hundred sixty four vegas was booming lots of employment opportunities in the side or go down there so we live there for a very short while because when i was two and my sister was four and my our mother was only twenty my dad left couldn't take that you know vegas is not a whole lot like the woods of alaska and so he couldn't take it decided to go back up north and my mom worked three jobs to provide for us one was a hotel maid at the dunes so tell she was a telephone operator they still had the men  another was working around the pool side and because she had to work so much she actually moved her mother in with us to help raise us washee seat on employment never took a dime from anyone in the state or or anything and she worked extremely hard and actually when she had some spare time she would walk along the highway in the desert of las vegas picking up coke bottles to redeem to pay for food but they said i can see where the hard work ethic comes from right when did one did you move to pennsylvania i moved i met my my husband out in los angeles where i basically grew up in eighty four and in eighty six i moved here to pennsylvania because he already had two children and you know that was that was easy to decide that this is where we would live and we got married in one thousand nine hundred eighty in january and by nineteen by september we dope and up the very first drive through quick louve that the mon valley never seen so that was a business we started in one thousand nine hundred eight and you still have that going to get a you know we just celebrated twenty five years to that so that's what i mean laser there's not a lot of businesses that have been successful in that area for that length of time it's very difficult it's very difficult and especially in that i like to say i'm in the oil business it's it will change business but it's a tough industry as are many and it's hard to be a business owner and you pour your life and your soul and all of your time and all of your savings into starting a business so for the first six and a half years i was there every single day through nine months pregnant twice lifting codes and topping fluids and you know until i started getting really strange looks from people and after my son was born it was just too hard to have two kids there now at the same time so i do i handle you know the behind the scenes things but you know and there was actually being that we're not a franchise we're an independent it's it's one location in when all gala it was easy for me to understand the needs of our area just our immediate  customer base and it was tough there's a lot of older people on fixed incomes and things and i was able to it was a struggle but i was able to keep our full service price the same for a levon years and that's hard to do two she just graduated from ohio university last may and two months to the day later she signed a three year contract deal with katie c t v which is the n b c affiliate in rochester minnesota she produces an anchor's the news every weekend and she's a reporter for three days a week the rest of the and she just received a first place associated press award for one of her stories which is now along with two others up for any consideration although it's for that matter right out of college while still about to run out of college both talking about right out of you also have a song of just graduated yes dante is my son my daughter's name is devon by the way sorry didn't mention that but dante is my son and he just graduated this past saturday from four kenyan military academy and he begged to go  there because when when he came from middle school he was in the public school system and i had said to my husband look he's going to be going to a private school for high school and we can talk education in just a bit  but he went to see all cell and the moment he walked in he was three years behind in everything and that was the last year of his dad's life so as every single day i was taking my husband to weston hospital for tests for transfusions for all of the things that he needed for treatments and things and i couldn't help dante catch up keep up anything so the november of his freshman year as seamless as when his dad passed away and by the end of that school year my son said listen the only way i'm going to get to do what i really really want to do in life and really succeed and reach the goals that i have is if i go to fourteen a military academy kid been there once for a friend's son's graduation i think my son was about nine or ten and fell in love with it he just fell in love with the whole thing so he convinced the family that that was the right thing to do and it really was because the first semester that he was there he was on the honor roll so it's he was really in his element and when he graduated saturday he graduated as the battalion commander which is the highest ranking officer needs higher school in charge of six hundred thirty cadets which was funny because he would call me kasia lee and st these kids don't respect me and they don't pick up their very handsome family you have think and it's just fascinating but the folks who actually hear you or see you on t v practically every week and talk about that a little bit well i think the one you're referring to is the northwood realty commercials that i did and it's the parade of homes every weekend you'll see you know that there are real estate show north a real tease show and i introduce a lot of things and we've shot those i don't know how many i did for them over the years but i haven't done a new one in a very long time they just keep you know running the was funny whatever i mentioned here to the teacher that you were coming on just i know that me i know that but i know them well that's me well let's talk about your race all right talk more we'll be going to a commercial a little bit but i don't want to get actually i got i got tired of hearing myself say isn't anyone going to do anything about this doesn't anyone see what's happening here i as i said i moved here in one thousand nine hundred six from the los angeles area and when i moved to southwestern pennsylvania it was like stepping onto a different planets the people here are incredible they are generous they're giving they're loyal to their community they're neighborly when they ask you how are you they yeah it was astounding to me and i just really was so fortunate and so lucky and blessed that i was able to raise my kids in an area like this and then to see all around me things that are improving and changing and modifying but not south of kansas for nothing seems to really be addressed if you're south of the cannon spring area and i don't i think that's completely wrong i'm tired of our area being treated as the basement of the state is what i call it it's strong it's sturdy it supports arrest but you never really put a lot of money into it and that's it's time for a change and the support that i had the opportunity to be a guard in the silence of the lambs and i overheard jonathan demme me one time talking about doing a timed piece nineteen ten nineteen twenty time piece here in western pennsylvania because as we all know there's many movies being shot here there's a couple right now that's right right but he told us as people who go out and find a place and he figured that they'd be gone for weeks the following day they were back and also they said that i was overhearing their conversation i was at this off you know if and whenever they originally sold a lot of those abilities because they thought the gambling industry was going to go there right they never got it right but they haven't done anything with it since and that was that's been my got twenty five thirty years or france or all blocked off been there to it it's sad it's very sad and you know i one of my master's programs from california and i remember reading a document the dr park caskey brought to us and it was in the program of geography and regional planning and it stated that if it wasn't for brownsville pittsburgh would become a major city not talk about how things would change it was that was on the national pike that everybody thought that that would be the area but a bring up a good analogy with the basement you know most people don't pay attention they don't or something down there they only go down when they need it and that's sad because politicians have always gone down there every four years at its very well and green county as well oh you know i've been spending a lot of time down in green county and people are amazing it's a tremendous area they have a lot of things going on down there but so many of them don't even know who their current state senator  there are independent because they've had to be they they didn't have anybody to turn to life said and they probably have no clue if you ask anybody on the street they probably have no clue today who their representatives are because they never hear from them  see them once once every maybe prayed once in a while for a photo op but that's it sad it is so it's a sad commentary on our government for one and of course our government today is sattar than it's ever been as far as i'm concerned and that's a personal view but you know but the state is getting some things better not a lot in a while we'll discuss education and all that i still have i walked this tight rope because having been a teacher for a short period of time and being on the school board here i can see what our ministration is finally doing to better our students which are good to begin with right simple moments are what make every day count just released now is the fault in our stars which actually is my daughter's very favorite book ever and when i told her i had an audition for it she was really excited then when i told her i actually got a small part in it she was over the moon so yeah i had it's just a very small little parts  know i play mom at the park and my little boy goes over and you know is sort of spying on the two stars and i call him back over this tiny tiny but like most the parts that i've been in over many many many years if you blink you'll miss it  rocky four and pretty in pink there's about fourteen shots of me in pretty in pink these are all movies that nobody under the age of forty are going to even run amber rose a lot of cheers and love boat and  several of those you know i've had a very very busy and fortunate career in the short time i was in los angeles after college and before moving back to pennsylvania but since i moved to western pennsylvania i've done countless commercials and things a lot of them for free as for friends well you do a lot of work to support the mon valley yes ok a lot of times for advertising for red area yeah i produced a commercial for our model the hell of chamber of commerce actually for last christmas and it was just a i just of the voiceover on it but i got my camera guy there and we did this really nice thirty second spot about holiday shopping and i'll get help because the town is so pretty and it's so  great shops and great vendors and there's a lot to do and i wanted to just you know donate that time and effort to the chamber of commerce and hopefully get people to come to when i get hella for christmas shopping why has a very good friends who own  they had a lot i screamed and store but they went back to what judy sock you and want her husband she was from peter's and her mother was a teacher here was one of my teachers and she has a shop that she does community yes you're active as a business owner right now you've already mentioned why the premise of why you in fact were thinking about getting into politics right along with that premise though you have two kids they're not children anymore so you know they don't have to be watched over twenty seven right this takes a lot of time it does it takes a lot of time and a lot of effort and sorry to say in our society even though the airways are free to those companies who a b c n b c and that if you want to get a lot of you have to pay yes ok and it costs a lot of money to run a race you're running against an incumbent who  well for whatever reason there's a lot of rumors out there but we won't go into any of that you have the support of the local republican party yes and you won the primary  little piece of beaver in its place right now you have those areas  what would you try to bring to the communities that you feel or one under service and and neglected in those areas ignored green county has been neglected forever and much of s said when you hear a soft point finally all of a sudden blossomed it's out there dormant for years always and it's fabulous and it brings a lot of employment and taxes and everything into the community so that's great but we don't see any of it we don't see any of those folks here certainly that that live in our community who work there right but as far as the county monies coming in here we see very few ok based on that though we see one hundred percent in brownsville or these other communities on a green counties and how how do you see your position as a state senator benefiting these folks well one of the reasons that it it's so difficult to have large companies and things like that come into through throughout the rest of the area one of the problems is pennsylvania has the highest corporate tax structure in the country and it makes it very hard for companies who that want to move in build a base and all the headquarters in unless you're in a place like cell phone or something that's understandable but we need to spread it around a lot more we need to make it more friendly for companies to come in and create jobs  government doesn't create jobs our job is to make it easier for companies to want to have a headquarters or a factory or services provided in our state and we have to address that so that's one of the things that i would like  to accomplish is to address the corporate tax structure which is prohibit prohibitive and it sends people elsewhere the other thing would be to take advantage of the gas industry that is here but we have to do it in a responsible way i've had seven family members die of different kinds of cancers in a ten year period i am extremely concerned with what goes into our water what takes place close to and around  or housing developments we have to be very protective and very sponsible but still at the same time take advantage of what could be the biggest boon for this area since the steel mills and i agree with you my i had john mara on and he is in fact the chairman of the agricultural committee here for the state and he shared with me always we shared information back and forth my my military career field  chemical nuclear biological warfare but whenever you know i'm also a realtor or who whenever we sell homes right on as a major issue and these gas drillers are where they want to drill where they want they don't know and sansom was one of those communities that fought that we didn't say no to drilling we said no you can't drill next to a real residential community can't drill next to that school so we put some restrictions on it and the supreme court in fact did support peters and cecil and the other communities that went against you had to fight pretty hard for and they had to fight very hard for it and it was it was sad to come you know what happens in the middle of the state where you have nothing but farms and there's a whole lot different so whenever they paint with a wide brush and say everybody falls under this you know the township had to stand up and say no you know we you're violating the stay constitution by telling us that we can't zone this exactly and so on it peters peters put up a good fight and they won but the area that i'm concerned in is drilling ok the dust you know if we're going to worry about raid on which is radioactive particles in the soil that come up through our basement and in fact cause a potential cancerous hazard if we're going to worry about that why are we worried about whatever the dust is coming out of these drill machines and if it's local  the field with one hundred fifty acres around it i'm not as concerned because the weather naturally the particles are going to drop to the ground and i'm not going to appreciate that they're there but they're not going to do the danger because they're going to go to the half life relatively fast but whenever you're near a residential community and i and the dust has blown over our houses where our students and families live right i have a real concern that let alone our water what happens to it you know what it can't you can't clean  that doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy right know what those particles are right but do you have you have some real reasons personal reasons though dealing with your opponent something that has to do with their job no an accountable are costing our taxpayers millions and we have to address that issue it should be conducted just like a business if you go on a business trip you have possibly maybe a charge account or something and the only items that get charged to that account or the ones that you actually spend in the legislature those people who live outside of a fifty mile radius from harrisburg are given what's called per diem they just give them a blanket amount for food and lodging and that's what they get paid to them for every trip that they take it to harrisburg and there are some people who will report a trip into harrisburg and not actually be there many times or as with my opponent there are charges of a chartered airplane that he's taken into harrisburg it's a three hour drive from pittsburgh you don't need to charter an airplane that cost the taxpayers six or seven hundred seven hundred fifty dollars a trip to get to harrisburg and on top of that having a least a vehicle that's paid for by the taxpayers  it's just it's not a blank check and there should be responsibility and accountability and it is after all public service not self service we're coming to the of the program and i don't want to cut you pay for my own health care so i know that that's not possible for a lot of people and that shouldn't be you know the health care issue should be decided you know who would you vote for but that's my own personal choice but i do believe that the taxpayer should be protected and not have to pay hols and we were still supporting things and i know somebody's going to get upset with me but we're still supporting the common core we're still exploring some issues that i really not sure about you know they call it pennsylvania common core but it's basically the same thing and i'm the teaching position they have to be allowed to teach again as kids you know people our age we we loved so many of our teachers because the in gauged us they got us involved in the learning process it was fun to go to school we were excited about learning now with all the mandated testing which is going to get ten times worse if we do have common core they're basically little robots that signature and the teacher literally is scripted in many many cases they can't engage the student they can't treat different students differently it's not a one size fits all education can't be that education for should be a local issue not a federal federally mandated issue well we will be talking