explain who you are where you came from and all this good stuff but what we want to talk about the bait to actually ok well ok you had two debates and you're running for the senatorial district here in pennsylvania  both sides ok the fact that some of the things that are being said on some of these messages are true is irritating for example all the candidates on the other side from you are in fact talking about the cuts in state education right the governor has done there talking about how the state their financial state has in fact been reduced a couple times over the last few years based on our inability to handle some of our obligations the fact is that while the governor has i think a more clear cut but i don't think he's selling his program as well as you should right because of the fact the a lot of that was done well let me give you some statistics which i've researched here in the last couple days to find out the state pension program right peters a few years ago it was eighteen billion in the hole now it's close to fifty billion they kick the can down the road your opponent during your last debate said that that's not a problem so there's no pension issue that we're making too much out of it yeah i you know they said this is like saying we're going to have federal governments not borrow enough money from china it's going to borrow more i have a problem whenever people distort issues that they haven't had pay raises in years let alone a year right not even a cost of living increase right right and this is where you said whatever these people get so out of touch that they don't understand the damage that they're doing to the family is doing to the local communities the school districts and everything else tom wolfe came up with a eighty percent of the school districts are in fact raising taxes and i'm sorry to said that that was that was meant to be that was earmarked for construction of things which in fact it was not it was suggested that it be used but there were no limitations there  no reins on that so basically they had the money to where ever spent at that time governor rendell went out and the districts that he gave money to are basically heavily democratic areas  heavily on new teachers which in fact brings votes to the democratic party because as having been a teacher for short period of time and hearing the blah blah blah coming from the teacher's union it got discouraging because you know you sit there it's bad enough whenever you hear both sides but when you only hear one side you really get to be sort of in that camp and as a teacher it's almost sad because of the fact that you should ok is that then here is a post from the daily local news and it's in the pottstown area and it's talking about while some are sold a is talking about the pension issues not the problem or not a problem they're talking about that here's a quote if you think the penn pennsylvania pension crisis is just a fight in harrisburg between teachers unions and legislators took a take a look at your child's class size ok this pension issue is is causing school districts throughout the throughout the commonweal there's over five hundred of them but it's costing them teachers not because of the fact  cuts to corbett put in but as you said earlier the federal stimuli that in fact was spent a billion dollars just thrown into the state and so here spend it then you are relying on that they started projects and things that  education but that includes additional monies to go towards teachers pension right i think last year was four hundred something million and the rest of it then to upgrade other education right sixty cents of every new dollar goes to support a pension problem that's really crushing us well not according to your opponent now he says there's no problem there's no problem because he's part of their pension plan when you vote to increase your own pension by fifty percent of course are going to say because no problem couple other interesting facts they are talking about twenty seven thousand teachers being relieved in the last couple years because of this dramatic cut that never happened right now the problem that i'm having is the fact that whenever i started researching when did these problems start to happen it actually started to happen back in the year two thousand and i found out that since that time to now almost forty thousand students have left pennsylvania school right so we've actually had a decrease in the total number i'm not just talking about one district but total number of people leaving the rust belt going to the sunbelt or going out west or something we've had a net loss of forty thousand people during that same time not counting the twenty seven thousand that they're talking about there have been thirty seven thousand new revamp the education funding formula in over two decades they need to readdress that they have to readdress to the funding formula so that it addresses those issues the school sizes that are shrinking and others that may be growing it hasn't been adjusted according to the demographics in an area for twenty years you and i last time he came on we're talking about some of the funding issues and one of the main funding issue in peter's township and luckily knock on wood discount any one or two actually above twenty thousand so we've been watching that time and providing a very good education were rated top ten in the state so looking at all of that one of the issues that are coming down now which is very important is the idea of special ed right and the special ed students can cost the district somewhere between five to ten times the amount of money depending upon their position what they are needs are if they need a nurse with them if they need a pair of professional so that in fact sometimes can go up to one hundred thousand dollars for one student ok there's i mean there's there's major issues here that we the state has an as you said they haven't adjusted their cost because ten years ago the requirements to have a nurse with that student if they required wasn't there fifteen years ago that student would have never been in our classroom they would have been that  time one year and believe me they wanted out they wanted to have a classroom as much as i wanted to get but the key is i have the opportunity to see what's done on that level being a board member here and peters i have the opportunity to see how the board tries to control costs i actually sat on a program that i did whatever we raise at the last time because we refunded things and made the comment that i was told at that time we're not going to raise taxes for ten years yeah yeah how can they say that well i said that but i was told that and that was a total lie because of the fact that we found out that the monies that previous boards have been putting away weren't spent keeping up our schools so we in fact had one school we're going to be spending about a total of seven or eight million  dollars we have this school this building that we're in right now these all new windows in these upgrades these things like that so we're going to be spending probably fifteen to twenty million dollars in the next few years right what other people so we're catching up with could have been done for much less expense the last ten years well you know with this teacher page and the pension issue for us is going to be phenomenal in the next three years our teacher pensions go up three hundred percent and it is and is an ally and the nice thing is that you pointed that out your opponent once again doesn't think it's a problem while your opponent doesn't think it's a problem because his finances demonstrated he gets a lot of money from  educators he gets a lot of money from teachers unions and a good one so i mean i said whatever you have that circumstance you know you'll see other way or are you speaking for the special interests that send you checks free speaking for the people who voted for you and that you're supposedly working stores yes the privatization of liquor stores has been in front of this governor and randell for the last fifteen years easily with the day once again the research that i've done demonstrated up to about two thousand we were making a small profit we're subsidizing feeling states force at the moment many many of them and the pension issue is one of the problems there too because they are all  in a local food market the cost of that employees may be about twelve to fourteen dollars fifteen dollars an hour at the state's store depending upon your longevity you could be making forty fifty sixty dollars an hour right which if you equate that into a salary comes out to one hundred twenty dollars hundred twenty thousand dollars and sometimes whenever you look at that in the state system that means when you retire for the rest of their lives exactly they make after retirement than they were making while they were working parents talking about that it's a nice game where you work for four years especially in a country if specially if you can vote to increase your own pension especially if you can vote at midnight to increase your own pay over and over and over again yeah it's a nice gig and that's not your only job now and that's the other thing that most people don't understand your opponent gets a salary of between eighty eighty five thousand a year i believe that's a figure right the last reported perks that he has gotten tax free is somewhere between thirty to forty felt yes it's around the thirty thousand i know it's tens and tens of thousands of like you said it's untaxed and he even admitted that he is using his to pay for a mortgage on a house that he owns in harrisburg that perdiem is set up for people who live outside of fifty miles from harrisburg so that's for food and lodging and things like that he owns a home in harrisburg he's paying the mortgage on with our tax free money and he's also getting a tax write off on the the interest on that mortgage and when he sells it for profit is he going to write a check the commonwealth of pennsylvania i think not i think not well we're going to stop there helped me see the choice just because mike has treated me like everybody else because my boss showed me how to do a good job because the mentor believed in my potential is why i am where i am today i'm swimming faster than i ever dreamed i could i just over back to work as an artist i lead my high school team to two championships i am a valuable employee i have a very sad aspect of financing in pennsylvania right now dealing with pensions  to address to live doughty and i pulled this up today because very discouraged by this your opponent so there is not a problem but to address the liability each household in pennsylvania would need to contribute thirteen thousand dollars  pension program not to make it go away to make it livable to live with just to sustain a yes or a six hundred ten million new dollars every year have to go to court the pension problem we have right now at least and that's not counting the school districts who are going to be increased up to three hundred percent we're growing we went from i believe on end of the figures somewhere around one point five million two years ago now we're going to be looking at almost six million by two thousand and seventeen eighteen just keeps growing and growing well and people wonder why we need to raise taxes well just what you know in peter's and i try to get this point across to everybody in the church israeli school system if you raise one m it's two point three million dollars that's what one mil brings in right computers touchup if you raise one mil it's three hundred twenty thousand shows chargers valley the average teacher that you can get seventy eight teachers hard with because of the fact of what and people always say you're raising my one reason my taxes too and i don't have any kids in the district i want to talk to over seven thousand people i'm not over seven thousand or so and so many of them are seniors i've been all over the district talking to people and there are people have lost their homes that they had paid outright that they've lived in for decades research kids or grandkids will come there had to sell their homes because they can't afford the ever increasing property taxes on their homes and if we could stabilize the pension problem there would be millions of dollars for it up to take care of the issue and get it off the backs of seniors who are losing their homes to support education well as i've mentioned i was very disappointed because when i was looking at my was put forward by the governor now and i realize it it didn't have a lot of support and then i found out why but we'll talk about that in the the second the program would have saved know and i i used to be the chairman of the party use of well no and the reason why i became disenchanted because we had a republican governor we have a republican governor we have a republican senate we have a republican house and they can't get things through and that's why well yeah and they said one and as far as the education problems are concerned the pension the philadelphia area doesn't want that to happen because well the republicans are in a minority but they get in fact votes if they discouraging that really is and they said whenever i got into the political world i was hoping to in fact do something good for everyone not just for a certain group because i can stay in office getting those perks we were talking about  why is it that you don't have to have one when you cast your vote that will happen that will influence everyone else in your home state i think it's ridiculous not to require an id for that and because there is no requirement for it voter fraud is rampant and we all know that we can pretend it doesn't exist like we can pretend the pension problem doesn't exist but it does exist not just in pennsylvania but across the whole country i think anyone who cast their vote should be required to show some sort of an id i don't disagree with you i believe voter id i was in new york in april and i'm walking around and i decided to go to union station  and i walked in and i was amazed to see the you needed but you know id to buy a ticket to ride on their right there tram system and i sit there and think about that all the time i see as you said you need it for the cash a check you need to you know to buy a plane ticket you needed to do it i mean everything and why and then and being a social studies teacher i get really upset when people mess around with the with the voting system because that is the foundation of arc of our country it is when you have the free and i'm in cumbered voter fifty seven districts in philadelphia had not one republican vote exactly the these left wing judges support this stuff saying it's going to keep voters away know if you're a lot you're opening the door to illegals voting this way an election because they have an opportunity  by others it was interesting that there was a house and maybe it was missouri or montana or wherever that had one hundred one thousand two hundred fourteen tax returns go to it and there was no one living in that for millions of dollars were paid to that one address without anybody opening their eyes so yeah lazy one of these people complain about the system but they were part of the system that made it to be what it is today and then they want to look the other way you are basically paying for your campaign and i'm paying a good portion but i do have a pac that supports me tremendously and god bless them i appreciate it very very much i'm i'm very fortunate that i have someone i found out later on after i started receiving things in the mail myself saying who's reform p a i found out that scott wagner was behind that particular pac i've met him a couple of times in harrisburg over the last couple of years we think alike he's a businessman i'm a business woman we see the problem in harrisburg where politicians go and they they only serve themselves they're not serving the people who put them there and we had conversations about that and you know one story w other as far as abuse of pretty a mess of people right you know apologises raising their own pay politicians raising their own pensions and we had a conversation and i found out that he was behind a pac that supports me because they think alike and i agree with a lot of his policies and i'm very fortunate that the packets porting me while i went to the campaign finance report of your opponent ok and they say that basically this one period of time they raised about one hundred thirty six thousand dollars and philadelphia used in texas columbus ohio triangle virginia ok once again these are usually for one hundred fifty dollars or four thousand dollars each a lot of unions were outside of the  area a lot of and i'm talking about outside of the district that we're talking right ok so that was discouraging to see that a lot of those funding as well really was funny is the fact that his expenditure for two o these periods are twenty twenty two dollars off almost identical expenditures so what we're going to do we're going to give you a minute ok and tell these folks why they should be interested in voting for kerry well just like all of the points that you just said you know the problem i have in the reason i was running i put my hat in the ring is that i got tired of hearing myself complain i got tired of of saying politicians that we've put in office only serving themselves and it should be public service and not self service when you have a state senator who votes to increase his own pension by fifty percent voted with the midnight pay raise to increase his own pay whether it's forty five percent twenty percent he voted of creases own pay again and again and again over the course of his career and it is a career career politicians i find the longer they are in office the more beholden they are to special interests and the more they will do and say anything to say there we should be working for the people who put us in office we are the employee we should be serving the public and not the other way around and that's what i intend to do well news so we appreciate you coming back on the program thank you glad that we had this opportunity because once again you know you had some issues during your debates that in fact i thought would be interesting to bring up and i'm glad they and that's why i'm doing this video for you i was born in a tiny little town called cottage grove oregon not long after that my family moved to las vegas to take advantage of the job opportunities there but when i was two and my sister was four and our mom was only twenty our dad left so my mom moved her mother in to help raise us my mom took on three jobs she was a hotel maid a waitress and a telephone switchboard operator and in her spare time she would walk along the desert highway picking up empty coke bottles tree dean for food for the family i think that might have influenced my work ethic i started working at fourteen and i haven't stopped since besides a good work ethic my mom also instilled in us the value of an education i was the first in three generations to graduate high school i graduated an all girls catholic high school at sixteen and went on to college at seventeen and despite having had a horrible accident my freshman year where i spent almost a year in a wheelchair and many years after either on crutches or in any brace i was still able to graduate in four years with two degrees after college graduation i moved back down to southern california where i did some acting in television and film and i was introduced to my husband now for twenty six years i understand the importance of sticking to a budget meeting a deadline taking care of your employees and your community these are the values that i will be taking to harrisburg so if elected your state senator i promise to never vote to increase my own pay i will not take a taxpayer funded pension and as a business owner does i will submit receipts for actual expenses and not take advantage of the taxpayer i'm