00:03 - Good afternoon.

00:04 - And it is a beautiful one.

00:06 - I want to welcome you to the campaign

00:09 - kickoff event of the Libertarian Party's candidate

00:13 - for governor in the 2026 election.

00:16 - His name is Ken Krawczyk,

00:19 - and he has a dynamic program

00:23 - that you're going to certainly be interested in.

00:26 - My name is Roy Monette.

00:27 - I'm with the Libertarian Party, and I'm pleased to tell you that

00:31 - the number one issue in this campaign

00:34 - is to finally fix the failing schools

00:39 - that we've endured in this state for decades.

00:44 - And Ken has an excellent plan for doing.

00:47 - That's probably the only plan that's going

00:50 - to actually fix it.

00:54 - Before Ken comes up, I want to introduce his running mate,

00:57 - running mate John Thomas, who is running for Lieutenant governor.

01:02 - John.

01:06 - Roy. Thank you. Roy.

01:09 - Thank you for coming out today.

01:12 - It's a beautiful day to be out here.

01:15 - Ken started his campaign for governor a couple of years ago,

01:20 - and I was very excited that Ken was running for governor,

01:23 - because this is not his first run.

01:27 - His first run for governor was back in, 1998,

01:33 - and he actually was the first libertarian I got to vote for.

01:38 - I turned 18 in 1996. The first libertarian

01:42 - gubernatorial candidate I could vote for was Ken Krawczyk.

01:45 - Now, to be part of the ticket with him is something fantastic.

01:49 - And whenever he reached out to me

01:50 - and said, hey, have you considered running for lieutenant governor?

01:53 - I was like, maybe I ran for U.S.

01:56 - Senate a couple of years ago.

01:58 - So I have had statewide running experience.

02:02 - But then he told me that his primary issue was going to be education.

02:07 - And I was like, Ken, I am in, I am in.

02:10 - We need to fix our schools.

02:12 - We Pennsylvanians need to fix our schools.

02:16 - That is where Pennsylvania's future lies.

02:21 - I have been an educator my entire adult life.

02:24 - It is something that that I am passionate about,

02:27 - not only because that is my job, but for me,

02:32 - it's something that's important for my faith.

02:36 - I am a Christian, and I believe that one of the greatest gifts

02:40 - that God has given us short of His Son, Jesus Christ, is His Word.

02:46 - And in order to be able to read the King James Version

02:51 - of the Bible, you need to be reading at a 12th grade level in order

02:54 - to be able to read the NASB, which is what I tend to read.

02:59 - You need to read at an 11th grade level in order to be able to read the ESV.

03:03 - You need to read at the 10th grade level.

03:06 - Unfortunately, many of our

03:08 - students cannot read at grade level.

03:11 - We are leaving so many students behind.

03:14 - We need to fix our schools

03:17 - in order for Pennsylvanian kids to access

03:21 - that great treasure that we have.

03:25 - And Ken has a plan to do that.

03:28 - I'm not going to get into the details of it, but it is a fantastic plan.

03:33 - It is. Reminds me a lot of my plan.

03:35 - Whatever I ran two years ago.

03:37 - He sent me that plan.

03:38 - I was like, Ken, were you taking notes off of me?

03:41 - He had it first, though. So,

03:44 - it's it's so I'm excited about his plan for education.

03:48 - I'm also excited that

03:51 - our message can resonate with the youth of Pennsylvania.

03:56 - I fear as somebody who works in a school,

03:59 - that the voices of our younger

04:03 - generations are not being heard.

04:06 - The Democrats and Republicans are not listening to our youth

04:11 - and the issues that they care about.

04:15 - They care about education.

04:16 - Yes, they're the ones who are being left behind,

04:20 - but they also care about issues like affordability.

04:24 - And right now, things are not affordable for our younger people.

04:30 - I love families.

04:31 - I love the idea of families settling down and having lots of kids.

04:36 - If you're a young person, get married and have kids.

04:39 - I love kids. We need lots of kids in Pennsylvania.

04:42 - But unfortunately, because of this affordability crisis,

04:46 - too many kids, too many young people cannot afford to have their first home.

04:51 - That delays marriage, that delays having kids.

04:55 - We need to solve that affordability crisis.

04:58 - Ken's plan will eliminate school property taxes.

05:03 - That is something that's going to make homeownership more affordable

05:07 - for our families and allow people to get into homes who right now cannot.

05:16 - Along with that, we have

05:18 - the we have a current

05:21 - governor who is signing bombs

05:24 - to be sent to the Middle East to destroy those families

05:29 - that I care about, because it's not only American families I care about.

05:32 - I care about kids all over the world.

05:35 - And right now, the American government is killing kids all over the world.

05:40 - That needs to stop.

05:41 - But that also affects the affordability crisis right here in Pennsylvania. Why?

05:46 - Because instead of money

05:49 - and resources staying here in Pennsylvania,

05:52 - they're going all over the world.

05:56 - Whenever, whenever

05:57 - we have factories in you, not area in Pennsylvania

06:02 - that are building munitions to be blown up

06:06 - in 7000 miles away in Iran.

06:09 - We're in the Gaza Strip.

06:11 - Those are resources that are taken from our state.

06:16 - Those are resources that are not being used

06:20 - to build those homes, to

06:24 - grow those crops, to build up Pennsylvania.

06:29 - So the federal government is printing money.

06:32 - And then using it to the people

06:36 - who are building and building those bombs are consuming resources,

06:40 - but they're not producing anything that consumers want.

06:44 - Consumers don't want these bombs.

06:47 - Consumers want

06:50 - we want beef.

06:52 - We want homes.

06:53 - We want our gas to be affordable.

06:56 - Unfortunately it's not.

06:57 - So what can we do it at the state level?

06:59 - One thing that we can do at the state level is pass.

07:03 - Defend the guard.

07:04 - Ken has promised that he will sign defend the guard.

07:10 - So what is defend the guard that says that the Pennsylvania

07:15 - National Guard cannot be deployed in a foreign combat zone

07:20 - unless there's a declaration of war by the US Congress.

07:25 - And we already know that the US Congress is not declaring war.

07:29 - They're cowards.

07:30 - They will.

07:30 - The Republicans and Democrats

07:32 - in the US Congress are cowards and will not declare war.

07:36 - So instead, they just do it by executive fiat.

07:41 - So without access to the Guardsmen,

07:45 - presidents like Donald Trump would lose that

07:48 - safety net that he has for

07:52 - launching a war of aggression in the Middle East

07:55 - because of the war of aggression.

07:57 - Right now, if the war of aggression doesn't go his way, he can always fall

08:01 - back on.

08:01 - We're going to call up the guard, not under Ken's leadership.

08:06 - That will not be a fallback position.

08:08 - So he has to think twice about

08:11 - sending our troops in into harm's way.

08:14 - So these are these issues.

08:16 - These family issues are very, very important to me.

08:19 - Ken has solutions.

08:21 - But the most important thing to me

08:23 - is that our families and communities can have hope.

08:27 - Hope that there is a future for Pennsylvania.

08:31 - We have a beautiful state.

08:35 - I've driven all over the state.

08:36 - I've seen how wonderful it is.

08:39 - We have fantastic people in the state of Pennsylvania.

08:42 - We have some of the best educational institutions in the country,

08:46 - in the world are right here in Pennsylvania.

08:49 - There's a lot to be hopeful for.

08:51 - But we need to get the government out of the way so that people

08:56 - can capitalize on those skills and those resources that they have.

09:02 - I'm also hopeful because I am, as I said earlier, I am a Christian.

09:07 - I think there's great hope.

09:08 - And Jesus Christ and he has has died and paid the debt for my sins.

09:15 - So I always, anytime

09:16 - I have a mic in front of me, I got to say that read your Bible.

09:20 - But also have hope because there's a lot of hope out here.

09:23 - And one of the great messengers of hope that we have in 2026

09:29 - is none other than Mr.

09:32 - Ken Crocker.

09:38 - Thank you.

09:39 - Thank you.

09:39 - Thank you.

09:41 - It's great to wait.

09:42 - Wait a minute, Roy.

09:44 - Where's my teleprompters?

09:46 - Ken, you don't get what you mean.

09:48 - I don't get a teleprompter.

09:49 - We don't use.

09:50 - Oh, you mean I have to say what I actually think and feel?

09:53 - What kind of political party is this?

09:56 - That's okay.

09:56 - I'm a toastmaster. I can handle this.

09:59 - Well, first of all, I'd like to thank PCN for being here today to cover this event,

10:04 - and I'd like to thank the people

10:05 - of Pennsylvania for giving me the opportunity to help.

10:09 - But, you know, I'm afraid

10:11 - I've got a lot of bad news, a lot of bad news.

10:14 - I'm a bad news bear these days.

10:16 - But fortunately, there's going to be a happy ending.

10:19 - Let me get into details with my campaign.

10:22 - I'm focusing on three main areas education, the economy, and elections.

10:28 - The three E's I call them.

10:31 - Let's take them one at a time. We'll go through it.

10:33 - What we where we are and where we're going to end up going.

10:36 - If we're lucky. First e education.

10:40 - Education in

10:41 - Pencil Pennsylvania today is abysmal.

10:44 - Do you know that more than half the kids cannot read at grade level?

10:49 - Two thirds of the kids cannot do math

10:51 - at grade level.

10:54 - And the trends there are getting worse.

10:57 - One thing after another.

10:58 - It's just nothing but problems in our education system.

11:02 - The Pennsylvania Constitution, which I call my job description.

11:06 - Article three, section 14, says that the Commonwealth shall operate

11:11 - a thorough and efficient means of public education.

11:15 - Is it thorough?

11:17 - When more than half the kids can't read or do math

11:20 - in terms of efficiency?

11:22 - Right now, the average cost to educate a kid in Pennsylvania.

11:25 - The latest numbers are out.

11:27 - It's almost $24,000 a year.

11:31 - 24,000.

11:33 - Do you know what the average cost of a private education is?

11:36 - Now let's leave out the fancy schools, the French schools, the academies

11:38 - and things like that.

11:40 - Your typical private school education.

11:43 - There is $11,000 a year

11:46 - versus almost $24,000 a year for Commonwealth schools

11:51 - come a lot of schools are

11:52 - more than twice the price of a private education.

11:56 - Supposed to be thorough.

11:57 - It's not.

11:57 - They're supposed to be efficient.

11:59 - It's not efficient.

12:01 - Serve the needs of the Commonwealth.

12:02 - Yeah. Would.

12:03 - If they want a dumb commonwealth.

12:05 - That's what we're producing now.

12:07 - We're producing kids who are not ready for the world.

12:12 - I told you I had bad news.

12:14 - But there's a solution for this.

12:16 - The best solution is liberty.

12:19 - The default should always be liberty.

12:21 - The best thing we can do is get government out of the way.

12:26 - Thank you.

12:27 - Thank you.

12:30 - Right now, Commonwealth is giving $11,000,

12:33 - roughly per kid to the school districts to educate a child.

12:37 - But it's $24,000 on average,

12:41 - whereas another $13,000 come from from your property taxes.

12:47 - What I'm thinking of doing

12:49 - is to take that funding, that $11,000, just going to the district

12:53 - and instead send it directly to the child, each and every child in Pennsylvania.

12:58 - $11,000, actually, 11,500.

13:01 - When you add in transportation,

13:03 - it goes to an education savings account that the parents can choose.

13:08 - Any private school in the Commonwealth to educate their child.

13:13 - $11,500 to educate your kid.

13:16 - And the best thing is we don't have to increase taxes to do that.

13:19 - That $11,000 is already going to the districts.

13:23 - Let's get it away from the districts.

13:25 - Give it to the kids and let parents decide, not some bureaucrat

13:29 - where their child is going to be educated.

13:32 - Now follow through with that.

13:34 - If we took that $11,000, took it away from the district,

13:37 - the district will no longer be educating your children.

13:41 - The property tax vanishes overnight.

13:45 - The minute we take that $11,000 away from them, we shut them down.

13:48 - We will sell the schools to the highest bidder.

13:52 - The highest responsible bidder?

13:55 - There are numerous private education firms out there that would be dying

13:58 - to tap into that $11,000 education savings account.

14:03 - We will unleash the free market.

14:05 - And instead of having bureaucrats deciding what goes on,

14:08 - having bureaucrats saying, oh, you can have boys in the girls room.

14:12 - Oh, you can have you can teach these funny things today.

14:16 - Kids learn more about all these different pronouns than what a pronoun is.

14:23 - All that goes away overnight.

14:25 - Not only does that go away, but also

14:29 - the only schools that virtually the only schools in the Commonwealth

14:32 - are unionized are the government schools.

14:35 - Right now, the teachers union, 98% of their donations

14:39 - to candidates go to the Democrat candidates.

14:42 - And you're wondering why we got boys and girls sports, boys and girls locker room.

14:47 - That's what the Democrats are doing.

14:49 - Maybe you like that.

14:50 - Maybe you don't like that.

14:52 - But with that $11,500 in your child's education savings account,

14:56 - you can choose whether or not you want to do that.

14:59 - If you think it's crazy, like, I think it's crazy.

15:01 - I certainly want to spend, send my kids or grandkids.

15:04 - Any one of those government schools.

15:07 - So there you have it.

15:08 - There's the overview.

15:10 - An education savings account, $11,500 for every child in the Commonwealth.

15:18 - And no more property tax.

15:22 - Life just doesn't get better than that.

15:24 - I told you I had a sad story, but I have a solution.

15:26 - That is my plan for education.

15:28 - Get government out of education.

15:30 - Bring back in parents and the free market so parents can choose

15:34 - any school for their child.

15:38 - Thank you.

15:40 - Thanks, everybody.

15:43 - So there's your first e education.

15:45 - I'm calling myself the education candidate because nobody else is doing this.

15:49 - I heard the other candidates talking. This is.

15:51 - Oh, we got this e ITC scholarship.

15:55 - What is it?

15:56 - Thousand dollars when you're paying $11,000?

15:59 - Yeah, $1,000 is going to help, but you're still $10,000 out.

16:04 - They've got no plan.

16:05 - They're just more of the same and more of the same.

16:08 - Is bad,

16:10 - I can go on about education for a long time, let you move on to the next e

16:14 - the economy.

16:16 - I know the economy's bad.

16:17 - Everybody knows the economy's bad.

16:20 - I sound like Howard Beale, don't I?

16:23 - Do you know what the cost of government in Pennsylvania has been rising

16:25 - at more than three times the rate of inflation for over 50 years.

16:31 - It doesn't matter if is a Democrat in office or a Republican.

16:34 - It doesn't matter if it's the high inflation era during

16:38 - the Carter years or the low inflation era that we recently had.

16:41 - It doesn't matter. The direction is up.

16:43 - Up, up.

16:44 - At three times the rate of inflation.

16:48 - Well, when I'm governor, that trend will end

16:51 - by the power granted to me in the Constitution.

16:54 - My job description I promise I will veto every single tax increase

16:58 - that crosses my desk.

17:01 - Thank you.

17:02 - No longer.

17:04 - No longer will the people of Pennsylvania be milked for all the special interests.

17:10 - I'll hold

17:10 - the line on the growth of government.

17:13 - But wait, there's more.

17:15 - Because the Constitution also gives the governor the power of the line item veto.

17:21 - You may not have heard about that because Josh Shapiro doesn't use it.

17:24 - His predecessors never used it.

17:27 - The line item veto is where I can go through any budget item, any bill,

17:31 - and cross out the things that I don't like.

17:35 - There's all sorts of places where money is being wasted.

17:39 - For example, do you know that we give over $200 million a year

17:42 - to horse racing?

17:45 - Horse racing?

17:47 - If you're a horse racing fan, don't vote for me

17:49 - because I'm going to use a line item veto to eliminate that

17:53 - 200, $200 million

17:56 - special interest boondoggle for the horse racing industry.

18:00 - There's so many others things that we the people should not be paying for.

18:04 - Joyce Stadium's

18:07 - gone.

18:08 - Funding for stadiums.

18:09 - The Phillies are paying, what, $100 million for Bryce Harper?

18:12 - They can afford their own stadiums.

18:14 - Why are they milking us?

18:16 - And if the Phillies and the Pirates fans, if they like stadium so much.

18:20 - Let them kick in.

18:21 - Set up a Go Fund Me or something like that.

18:23 - But I think that the I think that the various sports teams

18:27 - there are more than capable of funding their own.

18:30 - I have a list of all kinds of things that are here.

18:35 - Here's another one. Movies.

18:37 - You like to go to? Movies.

18:38 - $100 million a year in subsidies of your tax dollars gone.

18:43 - I'm going to raise that one.

18:44 - What else?

18:45 - Do you like your wine and spirits?

18:48 - The wine and spirits stores.

18:49 - They get $100 million a year.

18:51 - Private industry can do a lot better.

18:54 - I mean, they don't carry my favorite wine.

18:55 - But I want private privatization to come to those liquor stores, to

19:01 - convention centers.

19:02 - If they're so good for the economy, why doesn't the local economy fund it?

19:07 - There's another $100 million.

19:09 - Dirty air.

19:09 - $100 million to burn dirty coal the Commonwealth is paying for.

19:13 - What the heck?

19:14 - Unfunded mandates another $500 million.

19:18 - What about such a big long list here?

19:20 - There are 24 cabinet positions right now.

19:22 - We only need eight.

19:24 - We can get rid of 16 people.

19:25 - Them in their million dollar salaries.

19:27 - So many places.

19:29 - Just what I've summed up here on the governor gets his own

19:31 - $300 million slush fund.

19:33 - Gone gone gone gone.

19:35 - Just those things I mentioned right now is over $3 billion in savings right there.

19:41 - Well, the governor's latest budget is three, $3 billion.

19:45 - The governor's current budget is $3 billion over

19:48 - what the revenue is right now.

19:51 - How's he going to balance it?

19:52 - He wants more taxes. How can I balance it?

19:55 - Gone gone gone. The line item veto.

19:58 - One after the other.

20:00 - But he's not using it.

20:02 - He could.

20:03 - Instead, he's beholden to those unions, to the teachers

20:06 - union, to this union, to that.

20:08 - You're talking me wrong.

20:09 - A fan of unions. My father was a shops to it.

20:12 - What I object to is when the unions overstep themselves

20:15 - and start using the power of government to kick up the cost of our our budget

20:21 - by hundreds of millions of dollars, by billions of dollars.

20:26 - Big ticket items.

20:28 - But you know what?

20:28 - There are little ticket items that can go to stupid little things,

20:33 - and one of them really sticks in my craw.

20:35 - His name is cross Chuck.

20:36 - Every six in the craw. Chuck it.

20:38 - First one I want to mention, you come into Pennsylvania and there's that scientist.

20:42 - Welcome to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.

20:45 - Why is his name on there?

20:48 - Every every four years we pay to put up somebody else's name.

20:52 - It may only be 5000, 10,000 and $20,000.

20:55 - That adds up

20:58 - when I'm governor.

20:59 - Go on.

20:59 - No more self-promotion from the governor's office.

21:03 - What do I have?

21:03 - A big, long list of things.

21:06 - Little things.

21:07 - Another one here.

21:09 - These buildings, none of them have solar panels on them.

21:12 - There are companies out there that will put solar panels on your house for free.

21:17 - You just buy the electricity at below market rates.

21:20 - Why doesn't every building in the Commonwealth have solar panels on it?

21:24 - Just a stroke of the pen could do it.

21:26 - I don't know why he doesn't do it.

21:27 - What else we got there?

21:29 - License plates.

21:30 - Another stupid little thing there.

21:32 - What, 15, 20 different license plates. Designs.

21:35 - You got car, truck, motorcycle, house, car,

21:39 - trailer, all these different ones.

21:42 - Every one of those cost money to design.

21:45 - Every one of those cost money for inventory.

21:47 - Why don't we just have one kind of license plate?

21:49 - Put a number on it.

21:51 - Issue them sequentially and give them to everybody.

21:54 - Save a little bit of money.

21:55 - One thing, answer the other.

21:56 - I got a big long list here.

21:58 - Oh, boy.

21:59 - Here's another one, though.

22:01 - Size your speed, 55 or whatever it is you're doing.

22:05 - 90 miles an hour.

22:07 - They say, oh, it calms traffic, though.

22:10 - Signs cause ten, 20, $30,000 a piece.

22:13 - Get rid of them.

22:14 - And, you know you can put there instead.

22:16 - Just tow over a junk police cruiser parked by the side of the road.

22:20 - You want a calm traffic that is going to calm traffic.

22:23 - And not only does it take care of what do we do with an old police car?

22:27 - You don't have to pay for all them stupid signs.

22:30 - I could go down more and more of this list.

22:33 - Another stupid thing.

22:34 - Daylight savings time.

22:36 - Why don't we just put Daylight Savings Time year round

22:38 - or the regular one year round?

22:41 - People. Pennsylvania.

22:41 - You could decide that, but it cost money to flip.

22:44 - There's also health things involved with that too.

22:47 - Stupid little things. Get rid of them.

22:49 - But you know, the stupidest one.

22:51 - And the one I really want to get rid of almost as much as that first one.

22:57 - There's a place where the two old parties are acting like a special interest.

23:00 - Milking your money for their ends.

23:04 - We know it as the primary election.

23:08 - Why are we taxpayers paying

23:10 - for their candidate selection process?

23:13 - I don't know.

23:14 - Do you know that most people are not Democrat in the Commonwealth?

23:18 - Most registered voters are not Republican.

23:20 - One sixth of the voters aren't a member of either of the two parties.

23:24 - Why are we paying for the candidate selection process?

23:28 - Because they said so.

23:29 - Because they ran it through.

23:31 - Because they say we're going to line our nest.

23:33 - And I don't care what you Pennsylvania voters think.

23:37 - We libertarians, we pay for our own candidate selection process.

23:41 - Last month, John and I went to one of our conventions

23:44 - at our own expense,

23:46 - paid for a hotel room at our own expense, ran at the hall at our own expense,

23:50 - and picked our candidates all at our own expense.

23:53 - Why can't the two old parties do that?

23:56 - They all do it.

23:57 - You get to the green people, the native rights, the independents, the communists

24:01 - even pay for their own candidates selection process.

24:05 - Why? Why do we have to do it?

24:08 - Well, there comes that line item veto.

24:10 - Go on and let them try to override my veto.

24:13 - Ha! Prove that they are just another special interest.

24:16 - And for only themselves to line their pockets at our expense.

24:23 - And just like with the schools,

24:24 - privatizing schools, there's all sorts of little things that come into place.

24:27 - In addition to that.

24:29 - Because whenever they want to change the Constitution,

24:33 - they need to vote of the people of Pennsylvania.

24:35 - Whenever there's an important ballot question,

24:37 - they need the vote of the people of Pennsylvania.

24:40 - And, you know, when they put those things on the ballot,

24:44 - the primaries, cause nobody's there.

24:46 - What, 10% of the people show up?

24:48 - 20% under the exact number.

24:50 - But it's very, very low.

24:52 - It's not more than 50%.

24:55 - It's not 80%.

24:57 - It's tiny.

24:58 - So a very small subset of the people of Pennsylvania

25:02 - are deciding important things like what goes into my job description.

25:06 - I don't know.

25:08 - So we get rid of the primaries.

25:10 - We get rid of that too. That's gone.

25:12 - All gone.

25:14 - So many things.

25:15 - Anything they try and sneak through.

25:17 - Gone. Gone. Gone.

25:19 - Another one. One of my favorites.

25:21 - I am a graduate of the Abington Citizen's Police Academy.

25:24 - I'm not a full officer auxiliary.

25:26 - So I help out in natural disasters, direct traffic

25:29 - to parades, and I work DUI checkpoints.

25:33 - That's funny.

25:33 - A libertarian working a DUI checkpoint.

25:37 - Let me tell you, the first night that I did it.

25:40 - 10 a.m.

25:40 - 10 p.m. to 3 a.m..

25:43 - I could not believe the injustices.

25:45 - I saw.

25:46 - Eight people that night were all the way in irons,

25:49 - and not one of them was drunk to my eye.

25:51 - Not one.

25:53 - When they took the first guy away, I went over the testing officer.

25:55 - I whacked him on the arm.

25:56 - I said, what's your deal? This guy's not drunk.

25:58 - The officer said, well, you don't have to be drunk to be over his limit.

26:03 - I said, why are we out here?

26:05 - Eight lives were ruined that night.

26:07 - Eight lives gone.

26:11 - And none of them were drunk.

26:13 - And you hear something funny?

26:15 - There was about one in the morning, 130 in the morning.

26:18 - Guy came in with his girlfriend and they were trashed.

26:21 - He came over and he sat down in the chair

26:24 - and is a three step process the officers go through.

26:26 - They interview you for saying, have you been drinking?

26:30 - And the guy says, I'm not going to answer your questions, I guess.

26:33 - Well, that now empowers me to let you do a breathalyzer.

26:36 - I want you to blow in the kazoo.

26:38 - I got Lucas in a pig's eye.

26:40 - I'm going to do that.

26:42 - So they tried to convince this guy, good cop, bad cop,

26:44 - everything you do for an hour.

26:46 - They tried to get this guy to do something, and he just sat back

26:49 - in this iron chair like it was a La-Z-Boy in his living room.

26:53 - His girlfriend's over his head. Yeah.

26:54 - Yeah, that's the way.

26:57 - Do you know what happened to that guy?

26:59 - His dad came and drove him home.

27:01 - No handcuffs, no hauled away and irons in the back of a cop car.

27:05 - He went home in a dad mobile.

27:09 - I got home that night.

27:10 - I could not sleep.

27:11 - I was laying in bed, staring at the ceiling.

27:13 - I couldn't believe the injustices I saw.

27:17 - What have we, the people, voted for ourselves?

27:19 - What are we subjecting ourselves to?

27:21 - What have we agreed to?

27:23 - What is this like, Nazi Germany?

27:24 - Your papers please. Pulling over.

27:26 - They don't have the right to pull you over for no reason.

27:29 - That's true of any one person.

27:31 - Well, it's true for one person.

27:32 - It's true for every car. But they said, oh, no.

27:35 - If you stop every car, that's okay.

27:37 - No it isn't.

27:38 - You don't have the right to pull over one car, let alone every car.

27:44 - There's another

27:44 - place I can use the line item veto.

27:48 - DUI checkpoints gone.

27:51 - Yes. Don't give me wrong because there's a better solution.

27:53 - I told you I had bad news and good news.

27:55 - The good news is, the FBI has reported that the better way to do

27:59 - this is with roving patrols.

28:03 - Well, with patrols, catch more people.

28:05 - They catch people.

28:06 - Not just people in drinking, but people who may have been on

28:09 - prescription medicines.

28:10 - Maybe some guy just had a fight

28:12 - with his wife, and he's out there taking it all on the highway.

28:16 - It catches all those people instead.

28:18 - It's cheaper. It's more efficient.

28:20 - Don't argue with me. The FBI says so.

28:22 - So that's what I'm going to do.

28:23 - I'm going to eliminate DUI checkpoints in favor of roving patrols,

28:28 - because I will defend your constitutional right to live your life your own way.

28:34 - So many things that we can we can do.

28:37 - And the DUI checkpoints, they're just one of them.

28:41 - Something else we could save money on.

28:43 - I could talk about so many different things about

28:46 - how the economy we can improve the economy in Pennsylvania.

28:50 - One thing after another.

28:53 - I came here in a Cybertruck.

28:54 - I love my Cybertruck. I just typed in Harrisburg.

28:57 - Hit the go button and it drove me there.

28:59 - I love it.

29:00 - Best thing in the world.

29:01 - But, you know, the Commonwealth isn't charging me what I need.

29:06 - Pay for the roads.

29:08 - They say, oh, you're an electric car.

29:09 - We want $250 a year from you.

29:12 - Okay. Sounds kind of fair.

29:13 - Except I worked out my Highlander, which I had before this.

29:16 - I was paying $850 a year in gas tax because it's a heavier car.

29:20 - I drive 20,000 miles a year.

29:22 - I thought, hey, I'll get a discount here.

29:24 - What's a 2,030%?

29:27 - But they're

29:28 - doing that on the backs of people who don't drive a lot.

29:32 - Messed up.

29:33 - Anyway, I'd fix that, too.

29:34 - I had to get that in there.

29:36 - So let's move on.

29:37 - We got two of the three E's.

29:38 - We do the education, privatize it, eliminate property tax.

29:42 - What more could you ask for?

29:43 - Private education for your children.

29:45 - More money in your pocket.

29:46 - The economy.

29:47 - These are all tax increases.

29:49 - Line item veto to get rule that pork barrel.

29:51 - Special interest spending. One after the other.

29:54 - More money in your pocket.

29:56 - One thing I didn't mention is, over the course of my term, four years,

29:58 - I want to eliminate the personal income tax in Pennsylvania.

30:03 - People say, what are you crazy?

30:04 - It pays for, what, 30, 40% of the state income?

30:07 - Yeah, that's how much we got in terms of fraud, waste.

30:12 - I should mention fraud for a minute, too.

30:14 - Everybody knows what's going on in Minnesota and California.

30:16 - They're finding billions of dollars in fraud.

30:19 - I have an easy plan for that.

30:21 - Over the course of four years of my term.

30:23 - I'm going to just ask anybody who's on welfare.

30:25 - Anybody who's getting any money from the state, reapply.

30:29 - That's all. Just reapply.

30:31 - And we'll look at every single one.

30:33 - Are you have a child daycare center?

30:35 - Are there any children in there?

30:37 - You say you're disabled. Are you disabled?

30:40 - Could be.

30:41 - There are children. There could be. You are disabled.

30:43 - But I guarantee you, there are people who are not disabled

30:46 - who are getting money, daycare centers who have no kids, who are getting money.

30:50 - And you don't have to do any expensive kind of investigations

30:54 - or anything like that.

30:55 - All you need to do is just say, reapply.

30:58 - Spread them out over four years.

31:00 - So it's not a heavy workload on the bureaucrats,

31:03 - and we can take care that will save even more money.

31:06 - So I plan to eliminate that as well.

31:08 - You know, I'm going to back up.

31:09 - I'm going to think of other things we could do with the economy, too.

31:11 - But let me move on to the 30, because the 30 has to be the most important.

31:15 - The elections.

31:18 - Elections, man, I've had.

31:21 - Where do I begin?

31:22 - I begin at the very beginning.

31:24 - Mail in ballots.

31:27 - They're ubiquitous these days, but they happen to be

31:30 - the easiest way to cheat in an election.

31:34 - What's to stop some fraudster from submitting ten, 20, 100 ballots?

31:38 - Trying to figure out a way around, submitting it to some dead person,

31:41 - or some other person who knows is not going to vote.

31:44 - One after the other.

31:46 - So we should end mail in

31:48 - ballots in favor of good old fashioned in-person

31:52 - voting among your neighbors at your local polling place.

31:56 - Makes it a lot harder to cheat when you're standing right there

31:59 - because there's mail in ballots.

32:01 - You lose a chain of custody.

32:02 - You're like, oh, here it is.

32:04 - And you give it to somebody and away it goes.

32:07 - Well, what did you do with it?

32:08 - Did you open it up? Did he change it?

32:10 - Did he put it in some cell or somewhere all around the country?

32:14 - They're finding ballots.

32:15 - Boxes filled with votes that were never counted.

32:19 - And there are questions about Josh Shapiro,

32:21 - about how he handled the election when he was the attorney general.

32:26 - I can never forget that term, attorney general.

32:29 - Now, I know that Stacey Garrity is leaning on him for that.

32:32 - I'm not going to lean on him.

32:33 - I let Stacey do that because, you know, Stacey is running against Josh Shapiro.

32:37 - Josh, as we all know, he's running for president.

32:39 - But me, I'm the only one who's running for the people of Pennsylvania

32:43 - running to make sure that your kids are educated,

32:44 - making sure there's more money in your pocket,

32:46 - making sure that you have elections that you can trust.

32:50 - And there are so many ways that we can improve our elections.

32:53 - That's a that's one of them right there.

32:55 - Eliminate Mail-In ballots.

32:56 - I dropped my Constitution.

33:00 - The Constitution

33:01 - only lists four things that you can use.

33:04 - If you want to send in an absentee ballot.

33:07 - Convenience is not one of them.

33:09 - Pandemic is not one of them.

33:11 - Act 77, which passed that mail in ballots.

33:15 - It's unconstitutional.

33:18 - And I will take steps to make sure that we go back to what we should be doing.

33:22 - So many other things.

33:24 - I would say probably the most take, the most important thing

33:27 - is the way that we vote

33:30 - right now.

33:30 - We use what's called plurality voting.

33:33 - That means people vote and the person with the most votes wins.

33:36 - Pretty simple. Pretty straightforward.

33:38 - But it's internationally recognized as the worst way to conduct an election.

33:44 - Well, look at me. I'm a libertarian.

33:46 - When I go to vote. There's no libertarian on the ballot.

33:48 - Who am I going to vote for?

33:50 - I got to pick the lesser of two evils.

33:52 - I don't think so.

33:53 - Evil is still evil.

33:54 - I don't want to pick either one of them.

33:56 - So what do I do?

33:58 - There's a new way of voting that we haven't used here in the Commonwealth.

34:02 - It's been used in other places, but not yet on the state level.

34:06 - It's called approve.

34:07 - Approve? Disapprove. Voting.

34:11 - That's where you get to vote for not only the people you like,

34:14 - vote in favor of them, but also disapprove of the people you don't like.

34:20 - The way it works is for any race,

34:22 - you get to pick 1 or 2 candidate candidates that you like.

34:27 - So I like this person and that person approve.

34:29 - Approve.

34:30 - But I don't like this other person disapprove.

34:34 - You sum up the approvals and approvals plus one for the approvals

34:37 - minus one for this approvals.

34:39 - The highest net score wins.

34:42 - Pretty simple, pretty straightforward.

34:46 - Taking a look at some specific elections, there was some detailed studies

34:49 - done of Donald versus Hillary back in 2016.

34:52 - They found out that each one had a solid base of about ten, 15% somewhere in there.

34:57 - Those people go in there.

34:58 - They hit approve for their candidate.

35:01 - But, you know, most people didn't like either one.

35:04 - That disapproval would be broken by the end of the day.

35:07 - Most people say, no, not Donald Trump.

35:09 - No, not Hillary Clinton.

35:13 - Who would get elected instead?

35:15 - Not Donald.

35:16 - Not Hillary.

35:18 - Who got elected?

35:19 - Maybe be Gary Johnson, the libertarian guy.

35:22 - Maybe Jill Stein, the green lady, maybe some dog

35:26 - catcher who says, I'm fed up with a country and I want to run.

35:30 - Maybe he would win.

35:32 - We don't know.

35:33 - All we know is that the way we're doing elections right now, do not work.

35:37 - Because you cannot say who you don't like.

35:41 - So that's one thing I would really, really like to work for is for it.

35:45 - Approve. Approve. Disapprove.

35:46 - Voting RTV much better

35:50 - than plurality, a lot better than ranked choice or instant runoff,

35:53 - or any of those other types of voting that we've been doing.

35:59 - One after the other.

36:00 - I already mentioned getting rid of the primaries.

36:02 - Why should we paying for that?

36:04 - Some people say, oh, we should have an open primary

36:09 - and open primaries.

36:09 - The last thing you want.

36:11 - Think of it this way.

36:13 - Would you want General Motors shareholders voting for who's on

36:16 - Ford's board of directors?

36:19 - Would you have atheists voting for who's going to be the next pope?

36:22 - No. Open primaries are the worst thing in the world.

36:25 - What it will do.

36:26 - It will cement their hold on their own little special interest pocket of money.

36:33 - These primary elections open,

36:35 - open primaries are the worst thing we could possibly do.

36:38 - Close primaries?

36:40 - Yeah. I want it all the way closed.

36:41 - Only Republicans paying for it themselves.

36:44 - Only Democrats paying it for themselves.

36:47 - So many different ways we can improve our elections.

36:49 - You know, and I could probably just go to a driver list here.

36:52 - Yeah, different ones here.

36:54 - Require ID to vote.

36:56 - I should didn't even need to keep my paper for that.

36:59 - Right now Pennsylvania's pretty good.

37:01 - You have to sign

37:02 - and you could look and say, yeah, that signature pretty much matches.

37:05 - You can always practice somebody else's signature if you had a copy of it.

37:09 - I know one of my daughters tried to do that with us back when she was in school.

37:12 - She tried to get

37:14 - used my handwriting to sign failure notices and things like that.

37:18 - Well, if you're doing it, you can bet.

37:19 - Is there a fraudsters doing it too?

37:21 - Just require an ID to vote.

37:23 - And of course, citizens only should be allowed to vote.

37:26 - Oh, I should have somebody outside the state or outside

37:30 - the country voting for our people here.

37:33 - You know, I heard something just the other day and I just laughed out loud.

37:36 - This is brilliant.

37:37 - California does not require ID.

37:40 - Anybody can walk up there and vote.

37:41 - It's against the law for them to ask you where you live or anything like that.

37:46 - Somebody said, you know, I live in Oklahoma.

37:49 - I think I'm going to go to California in LA, and I'm going to vote for Spencer

37:53 - Pratt, the Republican guy.

37:56 - And I thought, that's brilliant.

37:59 - He's using the same thing that the Democrats want.

38:03 - Oh, there should be no ID for voting.

38:05 - Well, anybody in the country can go to LA and vote

38:08 - for the guy who wants to fix L.A..

38:10 - Unfortunately, we don't have that here in Pennsylvania.

38:13 - But I laughed out loud.

38:14 - But I heard that, man, that was just I was just crazy.

38:20 - So many other things.

38:21 - Let me go get him my list here.

38:23 - Another one big in the news these days.

38:26 - Gerrymandering.

38:28 - The Supreme Court just ruled

38:29 - there are special districts that are built in violation of the law.

38:33 - And they said, no, you got to you got to do it properly.

38:35 - So what happens?

38:36 - Well, they go back and they get in the back room.

38:39 - They draw them differently and they do it just enough

38:41 - to make sure that the Supreme Court's not going to kick them in the butt,

38:45 - but it doesn't answer the problem.

38:47 - The problem is you still got politicians

38:49 - deciding what these districts are going to look like.

38:53 - There is a different way.

38:54 - It's called precinct preserving, split buying district precinct preserving.

38:59 - Split line district.

39:01 - The way it works, you take, let's say, the state of Pennsylvania,

39:05 - and you draw the shortest possible line dividing into two equal halves.

39:09 - Then, depending on what race you're doing,

39:11 - let's say you're doing Congress where what 17 reps.

39:15 - You cut each one of those, you cut it in half again

39:18 - and then half again until you get it down to 17 equally sized districts.

39:23 - And if it's a city or a precinct, you go around it.

39:26 - You don't split precincts.

39:27 - That's why it's called precinct preserving split line district.

39:31 - It's done mathematically.

39:32 - There's absolutely no reason at all for some politician to decide.

39:38 - And here in Pennsylvania, the districts that we have now,

39:40 - well, the Constitution says that

39:44 - the legislature should write the law that divides up the districts.

39:49 - It's not what happened. Our Supreme Court

39:51 - violated the Constitution, stepped in and drew it themselves.

39:55 - And of course, they're Partizan two and two that come out.

39:57 - Partizan

39:59 - bet on it.

40:00 - But if we use precinct preserving split line district that will go away.

40:05 - Supreme court will have nothing to rule on because it's mathematical,

40:09 - it's equal, it's even and has nothing to do with politicians.

40:14 - Man, I'd love to get politicians out of government

40:17 - and you know, people laugh when they say, oh, Ken, well, you're a politician too.

40:20 - It's like, no, no, no, no.

40:21 - I'm not a politician.

40:23 - That's because I have not broken a promise yet.

40:26 - Today I break a promise.

40:28 - Then you can call me a politician.

40:30 - I promise you.

40:31 - But that day, that day is not come yet.

40:34 - What else?

40:35 - Hold the paper right side up. Term limits.

40:38 - Man, oh, man.

40:39 - Do we need term limits?

40:40 - Yes, we need term limits.

40:42 - How long some of our legislators been serving?

40:45 - We need new blood constantly.

40:48 - Look at the national government.

40:49 - I'm a Pennsylvania guy. I do too much with National.

40:52 - But you got people there being pushed around wheelchairs.

40:55 - All they're thinking is all these old pre boomer ideas.

40:58 - I'm a boomer. Proud of the too, by the way.

41:01 - I loved marching against the war in Vietnam and all that kind of stuff.

41:04 - But you got pre boomers there through deciding stuff here in Pennsylvania.

41:08 - We should have the same thing.

41:10 - The governor is term limited.

41:12 - Everybody everybody in government should be term limited.

41:17 - That should do it.

41:19 - Oh here's another one.

41:20 - This one gets me contributions.

41:24 - The entire

41:25 - contribution system in Pennsylvania is broken.

41:28 - As the governor candidate, I have to fill out the financial disclosure form.

41:32 - It's a softball form.

41:34 - It just says, do you have a mortgage?

41:36 - What's the interest rate? Who do you owe it to?

41:38 - That's it.

41:39 - Not how much.

41:40 - Probably the most telling piece of information on that form is my name.

41:45 - It's pointless.

41:46 - It's useless.

41:48 - Now, there is one good thing Pennsylvania does.

41:50 - They ban corporate donations

41:54 - so no company can give directly to a candidate.

41:56 - An individual has to do that.

41:58 - So there's the Citizens United decision came out of Washington

42:02 - about corporations making donations.

42:05 - Corporations are people too.

42:07 - They say, no, they're not.

42:10 - That's a legal fiction that the lawyers have made up in their own mind.

42:14 - Pennsylvania has rightly said no corporate donations anywhere.

42:18 - But, you

42:19 - know, that doesn't go far enough, because there's

42:22 - another source of donations that's crippling Pennsylvania

42:26 - out of state donations.

42:29 - Our governor, Josh Shapiro.

42:31 - Last time I looked, 60% of his donations come from out of state.

42:35 - Why are these out-of-state

42:36 - people putting their thumb on Pennsylvania's election scale?

42:40 - When I'm governor, I'm going to use the same legal authority

42:42 - to ban corporate contributions to ban out of state contributions.

42:47 - If Josh Shapiro thinks he's so good, let him come to me and talk,

42:52 - And I got to sneak in one side story here.

42:56 - I know joshing.

42:58 - He knows me.

42:59 - We have history.

43:01 - I'm from Abington Township.

43:02 - I've been there over 40 years.

43:04 - He was my township commissioner for a number of years.

43:07 - I've seen some of the things he does.

43:10 - Of course, he's a Democrat. He does Democrat things.

43:13 - He was then my state representative.

43:16 - Democrat, state representative.

43:18 - And this was, I guess, 2005, right around there.

43:22 - I went to Josh and I said, listen, we want to make it easier for third party

43:26 - candidates to get on the ballot, make it easier to form new political parties.

43:30 - And he said to me in writing an email back saying, I have it right here, too.

43:36 - I support free and equal elections

43:38 - and I will support your Voters Choice Act.

43:42 - Well, me and my buddies, we came down here.

43:44 - You got introduced and referred to a state government committee.

43:47 - Josh sits on the state government committee and a great.

43:50 - We got a vote.

43:52 - When it came time to vote.

43:53 - You know it. Josh Shapiro did.

43:56 - He voted against it.

43:58 - I was there in the

43:59 - room after I went out to Josh.

44:02 - He said, you don't favorable.

44:04 - He's well can we gotta get signatures in January in the snow.

44:08 - And you guys got the summertime joshing.

44:13 - You guys made up that law.

44:14 - Don't put it on me.

44:15 - If you don't like it, change it. With

44:20 - the man can't be trusted.

44:22 - That's why I call him Josh Shapiro.

44:24 - I'm not going to play Donald Trump.

44:25 - I'm not going to call him a liar.

44:26 - He was joshing when he said he was going to vote for it.

44:29 - So to me, he's Josh Shapiro.

44:34 - It's part of the reason why I'm running to

44:36 - because I can't wait for the debates.

44:38 - I'm going to make you a guarantee right now, and I will.

44:42 - I'm not a betting man.

44:44 - I'm not a gambling man. But I am a betting man.

44:46 - It's no gamble.

44:47 - I bet you the Josh Shapiro is not going to debate me.

44:50 - He's afraid of me because I know him and he knows me.

44:55 - He knows he's got no plan for the schools of Pennsylvania.

44:58 - He knows he's got no plan for the taxpayers of Pennsylvania.

45:01 - He knows all these things.

45:02 - He's not going to face me.

45:03 - Can you imagine being on the stage, Josh?

45:06 - Here's the way we get rid of your support from the school.

45:09 - School union.

45:10 - Josh, here's a way we can put all that tax money.

45:13 - The school tax money back in the pocket of Pennsylvania.

45:16 - Josh, here's a way that we can get private education for every kid.

45:21 - He's not even

45:21 - signing on to that EitC federal tax credit I mentioned before.

45:25 - I probably get the letters wrong.

45:27 - He gives $1,000 per kid or something like that.

45:30 - He's proud of that.

45:32 - Proud of that.

45:33 - He hasn't even voted in favor of it.

45:35 - All it takes is his signature to say yes, we'll

45:37 - accept it, and the feds will pour money at us.

45:41 - He's not even doing that.

45:43 - He is not going to debate me.

45:46 - I wish he will.

45:47 - Josh, right now I challenge you man to man.

45:50 - I want to stand on Pennsylvania stage and debate you over

45:54 - these issues one after the other.

45:56 - I'll bet you you're not going to do it.

45:58 - Prove me wrong. Prove me wrong.

46:00 - You saw that to me with a guy sitting at a table.

46:02 - The sign saying prove me wrong.

46:05 - I should have one on one of my tables here.

46:07 - Prove me wrong.

46:10 - Why? Why am I running for governor of Pennsylvania?

46:12 - So I'm mad as hell and not can't take it anymore.

46:15 - I'm not going to take these,

46:15 - like Josh Shapiro posturing, saying, oh, I'm for the taxpayers.

46:18 - I'm for the kids doing things for the kids.

46:21 - He's doing things to the kids.

46:23 - So we ended all that then.

46:26 - Can you tell him? Annoyed.

46:29 - You know, I call him Josh. He can call me annoyed. Can't.

46:31 - I don't know what else we got on here.

46:33 - Same day voting only.

46:35 - Again, a no brainer.

46:37 - End of the day. Release the results.

46:39 - None of this advanced stuff.

46:40 - No spreading it out over months where you might want to change your mind.

46:43 - A last minute thing may happen.

46:45 - Like Josh may wind up being indicted for Allen Greenberg's murder.

46:49 - I don't know. I don't know if he did it, but I.

46:52 - I'm not sure that he did the right thing when he was attorney general doing that.

46:56 - So we got that same day voting.

46:57 - That way, everybody's voting the same set of facts

46:59 - on the same day with the results that same day.

47:03 - And when we do vote,

47:05 - it's got to be

47:05 - paper voter verifiable paper ballot.

47:09 - I want to look at and say, yes, that's my vote.

47:11 - Yeah. You can count electronically, I don't care.

47:13 - But it was a recount.

47:15 - It's the paper that rules

47:17 - voter verifiable paper ballots.

47:20 - You know, I found out recently, you know who invented that, Tom Edison.

47:23 - It was his first patent.

47:26 - Tom Edison is one of my childhood heroes.

47:28 - Elon Musk is now my childhood hero. Mike.

47:30 - Adult hero.

47:31 - Nobody's better than me. That's why I drive a Cybertruck.

47:33 - I love the guy. What else have we got here?

47:36 - This is another one.

47:36 - True, near and dear to my heart.

47:40 - Make all political parties equal.

47:42 - Article one, section five of the Pennsylvania Constitution says

47:45 - all election shall be free and equal.

47:48 - Equal to.

47:49 - You know, for me to get on the ballot.

47:51 - I've got to get 5000 signatures.

47:53 - Do you know how many Josh Shapiro needs?

47:55 - 2000. Is that equal?

47:58 - Well, if you went to one of Pennsylvania schools,

47:59 - maybe you think it's equal because you don't know your math

48:02 - man. What?

48:05 - I'm pushing for something I call the political party Equality Act,

48:09 - rather than all the different flavors of political party that we have today,

48:12 - will be one a political party.

48:15 - It's defined when you have 1/20 of 1% of the voters registered in your party.

48:20 - That's about 4 or 5000 people, not too many,

48:23 - but certainly enough for a groundswell.

48:26 - And you get on the ballot.

48:28 - You don't need to collect any signatures.

48:30 - You have your party rules.

48:32 - You have a convention at your own expense.

48:34 - You nominate somebody.

48:35 - That person goes directly onto the November ballot

48:38 - because there's no primary anymore, remember?

48:41 - So they're doing it's a convention because you're actually on the ballot.

48:43 - No signatures,

48:46 - no cost. Right now, of course.

48:47 - 100 and $200 to file for governor.

48:51 - They're supposed to be free and equal.

48:53 - Well, it's not equal. It's not free.

48:55 - Well, it's a couple hundred dollars.

48:57 - How many candidates we got?

48:59 - If you if you're looking at 1/20, the 1% defining a political party,

49:03 - that means it's only for political parties in Pennsylvania.

49:06 - The two parties, libertarians, the Greens, maybe the Constitution Party.

49:11 - They're sitting around 4000 right now.

49:12 - Maybe they be included. Maybe not.

49:14 - It's only talking 4 or 5 political parties.

49:17 - So 4 or 5 people filing.

49:18 - That's what, a thousand bucks.

49:20 - The Commonwealth doesn't need an extra 1000 bucks.

49:23 - Get rid of that too.

49:23 - It's another. It's going to be line item vetoed.

49:26 - It's the expense of getting on the ballot.

49:32 - Another thing that that will do

49:34 - is get rid of the insane process we have now.

49:39 - Do you know that I collect my 5000 signatures?

49:42 - I submit 5000 signatures.

49:44 - Any individual, the Commonwealth can come up and say, I challenge that.

49:48 - Take me to court and they'll go through signature by signature.

49:51 - Okay. Oh, this is wrong. That voter moved.

49:54 - Invalid signature.

49:55 - Oh, they signed, but they should have printed. Printed?

49:57 - But you should have signed an invalid signature.

50:01 - And they get rid of all these bad signatures.

50:03 - That goes away.

50:05 - It's important that that goes away because in 2006,

50:09 - Carl Minelli, a green guy, ran for Senate Pennsylvania.

50:13 - That year, the ballot access requirement was 67,000 signatures.

50:18 - 67,000 versus 2000 for the two old parties.

50:22 - That's equal.

50:23 - Not even Pennsylvania educated kids would think that's equal. Man.

50:27 - So of course they dragged his button.

50:30 - He turned it 98,500 signatures, a record in Pennsylvania.

50:34 - They whittled him down below the minimum.

50:36 - They kicked him off the ballot, and they find him $80,000 for the temerity

50:42 - of wanting to give Pennsylvania voters a choice.

50:45 - This is the system we have today, and they do it to each other.

50:48 - I was on a podcast the other day, and the lady there says,

50:51 - do you know that they do it

50:52 - to each other, to the 24 ballot challenges between the old party candidates?

50:56 - They use it against each other.

50:57 - That fight to be in their convention?

50:59 - Not in public, not in our courts, not in our expense.

51:02 - All those things have to go.

51:06 - Fortunately, I was a plaintiff on a lawsuit

51:08 - that the judge finally looked at it.

51:10 - He says, you know, it's it's right.

51:13 - You're right. It's not equal.

51:15 - So he says 5000 signatures.

51:18 - It's like Your Honor.

51:19 - They need to.

51:20 - That's what do you fight that?

51:20 - That's not equal either.

51:22 - Well, maybe he went to the Pennsylvania schools, so he says no, no, no.

51:24 - That's equal.

51:25 - Now shut up.

51:25 - He didn't say this in my interpretation.

51:27 - Sit down and shut up.

51:28 - You're lucky you're getting only 5000.

51:31 - This is what we got in Pennsylvania.

51:33 - They're trying to keep us down.

51:34 - They're trying to prevent people like me from coming up here and saying,

51:37 - you're wrong.

51:38 - You're ripping off the voters.

51:40 - You're ripping off the elections. You're ripping off the schools.

51:46 - And a piece of paper is upside down.

51:47 - How many more things I can talk about?

51:49 - And the automatic voter registration.

51:51 - Josh Shapiro put that in there, too.

51:53 - You did? Oh, yeah. You're registered to vote.

51:55 - What if I didn't want to vote?

51:56 - Some people think some people on good conscience

51:59 - don't want to participate in the voting.

52:02 - Why are they forcing them to vote?

52:04 - Why are they automatically registering them?

52:06 - I don't know.

52:07 - I have an anarchist friend who says, no, don't vote.

52:08 - It only encourages him.

52:10 - Well, it's up to you to decide.

52:12 - It's what I'm in favor of. What else we got?

52:14 - I already said de-funding the primaries recall process for elected officials.

52:19 - I would love to recall, Josh, just for the things he's doing.

52:23 - Here's

52:24 - another.

52:24 - It's enact tougher sentencing for for any election violations.

52:31 - And here's a subtle one.

52:32 - Prohibit schools from being used as polling places.

52:36 - Because when they do that, the schools closed down for the day.

52:38 - And all the teachers now suddenly have the day

52:40 - free to campaign for those Democrat people.

52:44 - I don't know.

52:45 - I think I got it all.

52:47 - Whether it's eliminating mail in ballots, require, ID, approve, approve, disapprove

52:52 - voting, split a precinct preserving split line districting and gerrymandering,

52:57 - ban out-of-state contributions, term limits.

53:00 - Paper verified voter verifiable ballots.

53:03 - Same day voting.

53:04 - Make all political parties equal.

53:08 - And automatic voter registration.

53:10 - Defining the primaries.

53:12 - Establishing a recall process.

53:15 - Enacting tougher sentencing and prohibit schools.

53:19 - Man-To-Man.

53:21 - And there are other things to one of my advisors. Ken.

53:24 - The elections are already too long.

53:26 - That's because that's the most important thing we got.

53:28 - If you don't trust our elections, it doesn't matter.

53:31 - I'm curious, what's going to happen in California

53:33 - when people from all over the country flood LA and vote for Spencer Pratt

53:36 - for governor?

53:39 - I don't know what's going to happen.

53:40 - Maybe, Mayor Bass is going to say, well, the election is illegal,

53:43 - so I'm going to stay in office. Well, I don't know.

53:46 - Let's stick with Pennsylvania and talk about that instead.

53:51 - Rather me going on talk for a while.

53:52 - I think I should open up for questions

53:54 - because I got a thousand other things that I could talk about.

53:57 - But let me let me find if anybody has any questions.

54:00 - And, the hands are really going up. That's good.

54:02 - Yes, sir.

54:05 - I looked at the numbers that Pennsylvania

54:07 - has 900, around 9000 in sales.

54:12 - But we have plenty for like Jerry.

54:14 - Like what you mean by constitutional carry?

54:18 - That's a good question.

54:19 - The question was, there are 900,000, over 900,000 hunting licenses.

54:24 - And what about constitutional carry?

54:26 - All right, let me take those one at a time.

54:28 - First of all, the hunting licenses, one thing to Pennsylvania does,

54:32 - and it's in the Constitution that Pennsylvania, as trustee,

54:35 - takes care of the environment.

54:37 - I think that's great.

54:38 - I was in high school when I got passed.

54:40 - I think it's a great thing that we're taking care of the the ecology.

54:44 - My wife and I were big campers.

54:46 - In fact, we met on a camping trip.

54:48 - We were camping all the time.

54:49 - We're gonna be camping next weekend.

54:51 - Excuse me? The weekend after that.

54:53 - We go all the time.

54:54 - I was just camping last week out of State College, Greenwood first state park.

54:58 - I love it.

55:00 - So I love the way the Pennsylvania is handling

55:02 - that trusteeship for the for the lands of Pennsylvania.

55:07 - And there's one thing I really like about hunting licenses.

55:11 - The Pennsylvania Game Commission.

55:13 - They take virtually nothing from the state.

55:16 - There's no tax money that's supporting them.

55:18 - It's the licenses that are supporting them.

55:21 - It's not so much as it's a license.

55:23 - It's more more of a user fee.

55:25 - If you're using the hunting grounds, you pay the fee.

55:28 - It's like if you if you go into McDonald's and you get a hamburger.

55:32 - You pay the fee.

55:34 - If you're driving on the roads, you pay the gas tax.

55:37 - That's just there's not a gas tax. It's a user fee.

55:40 - You know, if you don't use roads, if you don't hunt, you don't pay it.

55:44 - It's free.

55:45 - So I love the way that the game Commission is set up.

55:47 - And I hope it's going to stay that way.

55:49 - There's probably some problems there.

55:50 - I've been hassled by.

55:54 - Excuse me.

55:55 - I've been hassled by different game wardens from time to time.

55:57 - My wife and I would do a lot of whitewater canoeing,

55:59 - and I had an officer standing in the bank saying,

56:01 - pull over and you're in the middle of a rapid.

56:03 - I don't think so.

56:06 - Anyway, there's I'm sure there's some reforms we can do, but generally

56:08 - speaking, I like the idea of what we have right now with hunting licenses.

56:13 - But when you look at constitutional carry

56:15 - right now, if you want to carry a concealed firearm

56:18 - in Pennsylvania, you have to get the state's permission.

56:21 - Well, if I go to my job description here, article one, section 21

56:24 - of the Pennsylvania Constitution, it says, and I quote, the right of a citizen

56:29 - to bear arms in defense of themselves, and the state shall not be questioned,

56:35 - shall not be questioned.

56:37 - None of this well-regulated militia stuff.

56:39 - In Pennsylvania, you have the right to bear arms without question.

56:43 - None at all.

56:45 - But they question it all the time.

56:47 - Your question about constitutional carry.

56:50 - That means no concealed carry permit.

56:53 - Of course I have one.

56:54 - I bow down to say.

56:55 - Please, master, may I please carry a gun?

56:58 - Yes, you may carry a copy of break.

57:01 - They ask a question.

57:05 - Is it any question where I stand on this?

57:07 - I'm 100% in favor of constitutional carry.

57:10 - In fact, if you get stopped and arrested and thrown in jail

57:14 - for not having a little slip of paper,

57:18 - there's another power of the Constitution.

57:19 - Has the power of the of the pardon?

57:23 - I'm promising my first day in office.

57:25 - I will get to the ball rolling to pardon

57:29 - all nonviolent people

57:32 - who just got busted for not having a dose of a paper.

57:35 - And it's not just constitutional carry.

57:38 - What about this insane war on drugs?

57:40 - That's crazy.

57:41 - If you're just kicking back, watching Rick and Morty smoking a joint,

57:45 - they could bust down your door, put you in a cage, take away all your

57:49 - your money, everything.

57:51 - First day in office.

57:53 - I will get the ball rolling to pardon every single nonviolent drug offender.

57:57 - Anybody who's in jail for a nonviolent and not a non crime.

58:01 - No victim, no crime.

58:03 - You got to get out of jail.

58:04 - Free card from this governor candidate.

58:07 - And I can't believe there's no question it not just a little piece of paper

58:10 - you got to carry.

58:12 - I ran for governor in 2002.

58:13 - I've been around the block before. I ran against Ed Rendell.

58:16 - One of the debates.

58:17 - We were allowed to ask each other questions.

58:19 - Candidates asking each other questions.

58:21 - I love I hope we do that with Josh.

58:22 - We'll see. He's not going to be there. Never mind.

58:26 - But I asked Ed Rendell.

58:27 - He said Ed.

58:28 - Constitution says the right shall not be questioned.

58:31 - But you have promised to elect to limit gun purchases to two a month.

58:36 - I want to know which.

58:36 - Are you going to betray your oath to the Constitution?

58:39 - O your promise to the anti-gun lobby?

58:42 - It smiles. Look at the camera.

58:44 - And he said, I think we have reasonable limits on guns

58:50 - right there.

58:50 - He just said, I'm not valid.

58:52 - I'm not worthy.

58:52 - I'm not qualified to be the governor of Pennsylvania.

58:57 - That's why I'm back.

58:59 - One thing after another.

59:01 - So many different things.

59:02 - I could talk more about drugs, too. Does that answer your question?

59:05 - I like the Game Commission because they're supported by fees.

59:08 - For same reason.

59:09 - I like the roads because they're supported by user fees.

59:12 - But when it comes to constitutional carry, absolutely.

59:15 - We should have constitutional carry.

59:17 - You do not have the right to be.

59:19 - They do not have the right to question you.

59:23 - But, you know,

59:24 - I was at another rally and there was this leftist guy in the audience.

59:27 - Are you saying everybody can run around with guys?

59:29 - Well, yeah.

59:31 - Yeah, I am, but there's.

59:33 - But with this, if you're an idiot with your gun,

59:37 - let me back up, because I started this thought line with driver's licenses.

59:41 - It's the same thing.

59:42 - Driver's license. That same little piece of paper. Who?

59:44 - You don't have a license, son.

59:45 - I'm gonna put you in a cage and things like that.

59:47 - Find you

59:50 - know, turn it on its head.

59:52 - Liberty should be the default.

59:54 - You have the right to drive without the license.

59:57 - You have the right to carry.

59:58 - 293 Without the carry permit.

01:00 - 01.761 Instead,

01:00 - 05.499 if you're out there and you're an idiot with your car, an idiot with your gun,

01:00 - 08.602 and you get dragged in the court, you're on those matters.

01:00 - 09.469 Be an idiot with a car.

01:00 - 11.972 So in 90 miles an hour in a residential area,

01:00 - 13.440 your honor, this man was hit with a gun.

01:00 - 15.275 He was shooting up the neighborhood.

01:00 - 18.345 Well, as part of their sentence, they don't get a carry permit.

01:00 - 20.480 They don't get a carry permit taken away from them.

01:00 - 26.253 They get what I call a can't license, can apostrophe T if you're driving

01:00 - 29.623 like an idiot part of your sentence, you can't drive license.

01:00 - 34.327 If you've been an idiot with a gun, you get a can't carry license.

01:00 - 37.464 If you're a fracker up there in northwest Pennsylvania

01:00 - 40.267 and your stuff is leaking all over the place.

01:00 - 44.137 You can't frack license if you're a miner, a coal miner dirty in the water.

01:00 - 46.406 You got a can't mine license.

01:00 - 47.340 I don't care who it is.

01:00 - 49.476 If you're a teacher and your kids are all failing,

01:00 - 53.880 you got a can't teach license, but it's all part of your sentence.

01:00 - 58.652 Once you're convicted of the crime, part of your sentence is to get a Kent license.

01:00 - 01.054 And it's not going to be forever.

01:01 - 06.059 It could be, for example, a can't drive license six months and we catch you drive.

01:01 - 08.828 When we have a Kent license, we throw your butt in the clinker.

01:01 - 12.265 Maybe overnight, do it again, put you in there for a week, do it again.

01:01 - 14.534 Then we start talking six months a year.

01:01 - 17.537 All those things you can't license for so many problems.

01:01 - 20.473 You got me started.

01:01 - 22.175 So there you go.

01:01 - 23.043 The game commission.

01:01 - 24.578 I like

01:01 - 25.445 Constitution, Carey.

01:01 - 27.914 I love all these permissions.

01:01 - 29.316 We got to beg from the government.

01:01 - 32.319 You know, you got to get permission for horse misfires.

01:01 - 34.621 Yeah. I'm massaging a horse.

01:01 - 35.589 I'm going to put you in jail.

01:01 - 38.592 You don't have a license.

01:01 - 40.527 Anyway, does that answer your question?

01:01 - 41.995 Thank you.

01:01 - 44.197 Yes, ma'am.

01:01 - 45.532 For the Pennsylvania

01:01 - 48.535 General Assembly and their role in education,

01:01 - 52.405 the role of the General Assembly in education.

01:01 - 55.408 Well, article three, section 14 of the Constitution

01:01 - 58.411 gives that power to the general Assembly.

01:01 - 00.680 Well, we see what they've done.

01:02 - 03.683 Kids can't read. Kids can't do math.

01:02 - 05.785 They play games with it.

01:02 - 08.788 I really was reading into this all the time.

01:02 - 10.523 Excuse me.

01:02 - 12.859 Okay, let me get a sip of water.

01:02 - 15.328 It's a beautiful day. I'm going to have sunburn. By the time this system.

01:02 - 20.867 Is hot.

01:02 - 23.870 Well, we know what kind of job the General Assembly did.

01:02 - 25.605 Abysmal. It's terrible.

01:02 - 27.574 That's to say, play politics.

01:02 - 30.577 Politics with our children

01:02 - 31.411 right now.

01:02 - 34.414 If you want to change something to school, there's a law.

01:02 - 35.849 Everything set up by law.

01:02 - 37.651 You know how hard it is to change a law

01:02 - 41.021 that's got to go through three days of hearing, which I don't always do.

01:02 - 45.225 And then it's got to, you know, back and forth and reconciliation bills

01:02 - 46.226 and all that stuff.

01:02 - 47.627 It could take six months, a year

01:02 - 50.664 or two years, 2 or 3 sessions before something changes.

01:02 - 54.567 Meanwhile, meanwhile, the motorcycles are going by.

01:02 - 58.638 Meanwhile, your kids aren't learning because being trapped,

01:02 - 01.641 we're ruining a whole generation of Pennsylvanians.

01:03 - 07.647 They've proven to us they are not capable of doing this.

01:03 - 09.582 They're incapable of managing it.

01:03 - 11.418 Their system is incapable of managing it.

01:03 - 13.386 We have a free market everywhere else.

01:03 - 16.389 Look at look at this cell phone.

01:03 - 19.326 I remember when it's all AT&T Ma Bell

01:03 - 22.729 ruled everything, and it took a long time to get a phone.

01:03 - 24.264 And when my brother was stationed

01:03 - 27.267 in New Zealand, it was $12 a minute to talk to him.

01:03 - 30.270 I could call New Zealand for free.

01:03 - 31.538 They deregulated everything.

01:03 - 34.808 They broke up my bill and said, free market takeover.

01:03 - 37.377 And now you have more knowledge.

01:03 - 40.747 You have all the world's knowledge at your fingertips in your back pocket.

01:03 - 44.417 This is what the free market delivers.

01:03 - 47.153 We see what the General Assembly delivers.

01:03 - 48.688 But you crap.

01:03 - 51.691 And people say, oh Kent, how are you going to convince them to do it?

01:03 - 54.227 I'm not because I have an ace up

01:03 - 57.230 my sleeve and I'm not going to bring it out.

01:03 - 00.367 I have it right there and anybody could take a look at it when we're done here.

01:04 - 04.437 I have a lawsuit and I was going to file it yesterday, but people said

01:04 - 08.408 can wait another couple of weeks when we get more media attention.

01:04 - 10.543 If we do, these two separate things.

01:04 - 14.514 What's the lawsuit does is it calls out the General Assembly,

01:04 - 18.151 as I mentioned, article three, section 14 of the Pennsylvania Constitution

01:04 - 20.086 says they should run a thorough

01:04 - 23.289 and efficient means of public education to serve the needs of the Commonwealth.

01:04 - 26.326 It's not thorough when kids can't read and do math.

01:04 - 29.329 It's not efficient when it's more than twice as much as a private education.

01:04 - 31.965 And if that serves the needs of the Commonwealth,

01:04 - 34.968 the political needs of these people, no.

01:04 - 38.371 So I'm going to challenge it in Commonwealth court,

01:04 - 40.740 and it's going to be filed sometime in the very near future.

01:04 - 42.041 Like I said, it's right here.

01:04 - 43.943 Anybody take a look around you read it.

01:04 - 46.346 Let me know if there's things you want me to add to it or subtract from it.

01:04 - 48.214 Everything like that.

01:04 - 49.549 Well, we're asking for a remedy.

01:04 - 54.187 Is that the judge force the divestiture of the public school system, government

01:04 - 57.757 school system, as I call it, because obviously they're not doing their job.

01:04 - 59.392 It's been that way for a long time.

01:04 - 02.429 And the trends are all heading down, down, down, down.

01:05 - 07.434 What would yeah, what would we forcing instead?

01:05 - 08.635 Here's what I was talking about.

01:05 - 12.338 Education savings accounts where the parents decide not a bureaucrat,

01:05 - 15.842 where instead of some law you have to change to make your education better.

01:05 - 18.211 Pick another school.

01:05 - 19.979 I was at another event where somebody says,

01:05 - 21.781 are we still going to have free school lunches?

01:05 - 24.918 I don't know, which school did you pick?

01:05 - 26.252 Did you pick a free lunch school?

01:05 - 29.355 Or did you pick one that's got steak and lobsters like they're given to the troops?

01:05 - 30.990 Are you giving them peanut butter and jelly?

01:05 - 32.592 Are you giving them ketchup?

01:05 - 33.426 Some of our schools.

01:05 - 35.628 Oh, ketchup is a vegetable.

01:05 - 36.763 That's lunch.

01:05 - 39.199 No, I can't say.

01:05 - 40.900 I call myself the education candidate.

01:05 - 42.302 I got kids, they went through this.

01:05 - 44.070 I saw it firsthand.

01:05 - 45.004 Her grandkids.

01:05 - 45.738 They're going through it.

01:05 - 48.341 I see it again firsthand.

01:05 - 50.643 I moved to Abington Township in 1981

01:05 - 54.714 because I heard that it was one of the top ten school districts in the nation.

01:05 - 57.617 Top ten school district Abington Township.

01:05 - 00.620 I never stopped to ask one key question

01:06 - 03.790 in whose opinion?

01:06 - 06.125 Not my opinion.

01:06 - 08.127 So what are these guys going to do?

01:06 - 09.362 Get them out of the way?

01:06 - 11.264 There was a court case three years ago.

01:06 - 13.032 Four years ago, four years ago.

01:06 - 16.035 William Penn versus them guys.

01:06 - 19.439 And the judge found our school system right now

01:06 - 23.142 unconstitutional because the funding is all messed up.

01:06 - 26.913 They give so much money to rich places, not enough money to poor places.

01:06 - 30.383 And we supposed the poor counties who were filing the the suit, the poor districts

01:06 - 33.920 and the judge says legislature go away.

01:06 - 36.923 I want you to come back and fix this problem.

01:06 - 39.726 I got seven things that I want you to do.

01:06 - 40.960 Well, it's been three years.

01:06 - 42.495 Do you know how many of those seven things I've done?

01:06 - 45.265 None.

01:06 - 46.266 Three years.

01:06 - 49.969 Three more years of graduating classes, of kids not being able to read,

01:06 - 53.006 kids not being able to do math.

01:06 - 54.674 We got to do something about it.

01:06 - 55.909 And that's the purpose of my lawsuit.

01:06 - 58.778 Just divest it, get it out of their hands.

01:06 - 03.483 The difference is the Constitution says shall provide for the education,

01:07 - 07.086 provide for, not necessarily provide directly.

01:07 - 09.455 So I was a free market to take over.

01:07 - 11.157 The free market should always be the default.

01:07 - 16.029 Whether it's constitutional carry, whether it's driving, whether it's education.

01:07 - 19.532 Free market should always be the default situation.

01:07 - 24.637 So we're going to get them out of the way and ask the judge for the divestiture.

01:07 - 27.307 Because three years have done anything.

01:07 - 30.310 I'm not going to do anything to playing politics with our kids.

01:07 - 31.544 I don't want to do it.

01:07 - 33.780 I've had it with that. So,

01:07 - 37.617 so we're going to file suit for the divestiture.

01:07 - 39.552 I just got a couple little gotchas in there, too.

01:07 - 43.957 One of them is a judge set a deadline, and if they're not done by that deadline,

01:07 - 47.293 they don't get paid, take away their pay.

01:07 - 49.329 That's already in the lawsuit.

01:07 - 51.764 Oh, there's little gotchas in there like that too.

01:07 - 54.767 So the question is what do I want them to do?

01:07 - 57.136 I'll quote John Galt from Atlas Shrugged.

01:07 - 59.939 Get the hell out of the way.

01:07 - 01.808 Thank you.

01:08 - 04.043 My favorite book, by the way, Atlas Shrugged.

01:08 - 07.113 And I should mention, I wrote a parody sequel to A Court Atlas snubbed.

01:08 - 10.750 I call it my platform novel because it says how we can run

01:08 - 15.288 an entire city or state with a pure libertarian principle.

01:08 - 17.523 It's an easy one to remember.

01:08 - 21.027 You have the right to live your life your way, provided you respect the rights

01:08 - 21.894 and property of others.

01:08 - 23.930 That's it.

01:08 - 24.797 Your life, your way.

01:08 - 26.299 As long as you respect others.

01:08 - 28.968 It's the golden rule on a political level.

01:08 - 31.204 Every law I support, every law I oppose goes back.

01:08 - 33.973 One central idea your life your way.

01:08 - 35.942 As long as you respect others.

01:08 - 38.811 So if you're driving like an idiot, shooting off your gun like an idiot,

01:08 - 41.814 you're not respecting rights, property.

01:08 - 42.782 I'm on.

01:08 - 45.051 And I go on and on about these things.

01:08 - 47.787 Anyway, check out my book Atlas Snubbed Book one.

01:08 - 50.556 It's available free on the web.

01:08 - 52.525 Oh, you other questions?

01:08 - 54.027 Oh, did I answer your question?

01:08 - 54.727 Thank you.

01:08 - 57.730 What is your stance on abortion? Abortion?

01:08 - 59.065 Oh, man.

01:08 - 01.067 You know, my first race was in 1994.

01:09 - 04.337 I ran for state representative and somebody.

01:09 - 07.106 And it was funny because I didn't know what a state rep did

01:09 - 09.709 when I said, yeah, I'm going to run for state rep. What's the state rep do?

01:09 - 11.978 That was the first time I read Pennsylvania's constitution.

01:09 - 13.746 I was what I was in my 30s.

01:09 - 16.115 Why did I get taught that in schools?

01:09 - 19.152 And, you know, you go look at the master plan for education in Pennsylvania.

01:09 - 22.889 Last time I looked, it's mentioned in the sixth grade civics.

01:09 - 24.557 Why don't we read it?

01:09 - 26.325 You know, the right to bear arms should not be questioned.

01:09 - 29.295 All election shall be free and equal. They don't teach our kids these things.

01:09 - 32.699 It's political dynamite, piano man. Anyway,

01:09 - 37.403 abortion stepped off topic that.

01:09 - 39.238 My first race.

01:09 - 42.275 As I said, I had to go and read my job description to find out what I was doing,

01:09 - 45.211 and I was surprised. Things that I learned in there.

01:09 - 48.214 But everybody and I talked about the right to bear arms,

01:09 - 49.982 voting and things like that.

01:09 - 52.485 But somebody said, what about abortion?

01:09 - 54.287 Well, I looked at it because you gotta have a stand

01:09 - 56.055 on abortion here in Pennsylvania.

01:09 - 57.757 And I thought about it, and I came up with something.

01:09 - 59.559 I've never heard anybody else say this before.

01:09 - 02.295 I'm claiming originality on this.

01:10 - 05.298 What I'd like to do is one small change to the law,

01:10 - 08.601 not the abortion laws, to the adoption laws.

01:10 - 14.407 What I would call for is if any parent, any woman, let's make it now.

01:10 - 19.312 A woman does not want her unborn child any individual organization

01:10 - 22.515 can step up and adopt it while it's still in the womb.

01:10 - 24.450 To the privacy.

01:10 - 25.985 The doctor.

01:10 - 29.222 They can ask the woman, please bring the baby to term.

01:10 - 33.359 Somebody wants it and the adoptive parents would pay for all medical fees

01:10 - 38.464 and the woman can say yes or no, that's pro-choice.

01:10 - 43.136 But if she says yes, we've just saved a baby that's pro-life.

01:10 - 45.905 And since you adopted parents, you're paying for it.

01:10 - 49.475 There are a lot of babies who are aborted for economic reasons.

01:10 - 51.110 That goes away.

01:10 - 55.114 We are guaranteed, guaranteed to reduce the number of abortions in Pennsylvania

01:10 - 56.916 and preserve a woman's right to choose.

01:10 - 58.651 At the same time.

01:10 - 02.588 I call it prenatal adoption, prenatal adoption.

01:11 - 05.191 And I've taken this idea to the abortion clinics.

01:11 - 06.359 I go there on Sunday morning

01:11 - 07.627 and they're all out there with their signs,

01:11 - 10.863 the pros and the cons, pros and the pros, different pros.

01:11 - 15.034 And I go to the pro-lifers and I say, here's a way we can save more babies.

01:11 - 16.869 They love it.

01:11 - 19.872 I go to the pro-choice, I say, here's where we can get them off your back.

01:11 - 21.474 They love it too.

01:11 - 23.376 I said, well, fine, let's get together.

01:11 - 24.377 But not with those Nazis.

01:11 - 26.712 Not one of those baby killers in there.

01:11 - 27.880 It's like Solomon came forward.

01:11 - 29.916 Let it be divided.

01:11 - 31.484 And of course, the media likes to do that.

01:11 - 33.820 Oh, yeah. It's a big abortion protest today.

01:11 - 35.388 Shooting doctors.

01:11 - 39.025 No, the question is not whether or not you should have an abortion.

01:11 - 41.227 The question is what do you do with the mess?

01:11 - 42.195 Right?

01:11 - 44.564 You got a baby waiting to be born to somebody. You want that baby

01:11 - 47.600 yes or no?

01:11 - 51.304 One of the big crimes with adoption is that there are not enough babies to adopt.

01:11 - 52.872 That's why people go overseas.

01:11 - 55.141 It's cheaper. It's more certain.

01:11 - 58.144 All sorts of other reasons why.

01:11 - 01.214 But the adoption.

01:12 - 03.349 People want the babies.

01:12 - 05.351 The demand is there, the love is there.

01:12 - 07.887 And all we need to do is make one little change

01:12 - 10.923 to the adoption laws to allow that to happen.

01:12 - 16.262 Now let me follow a few of the the else on the if then else statement here.

01:12 - 17.597 What are the women says?

01:12 - 20.566 No, no, I'm not going to carry the baby.

01:12 - 24.937 Well, again through the privacy the doctor ask her please hold on to the baby

01:12 - 28.507 can be safely delivered seven months, six months, somewhere around in there.

01:12 - 29.408 And again,

01:12 - 32.245 she can say yes or no. Yes, it's going to cost more,

01:12 - 34.747 but the adoptive parents will be paying for it.

01:12 - 35.715 Maybe it's necessary.

01:12 - 38.918 Maybe it's going to be a difficult birth and they, the woman can't afford it.

01:12 - 41.120 Well, the adoptive parents are going to pay for that.

01:12 - 44.357 She say yes or no?

01:12 - 47.159 Pro-Life and pro-choice at the same time.

01:12 - 50.162 Now what if she still says no, no, no, no, no, a thousand times no.

01:12 - 51.397 What's that point?

01:12 - 53.399 I would turn to technology.

01:12 - 57.169 We already routinely do embryo transplants in the animal kingdom.

01:12 - 01.774 It wouldn't take a lot of research to extend those techniques

01:13 - 04.944 to use for humans as well.

01:13 - 07.680 It may take 50 years, may take 100 years,

01:13 - 11.317 but I see a day coming when no unborn child need ever die.

01:13 - 14.086 And of course, people would want to fund that.

01:13 - 17.089 People who care about the unborn, they would definitely contribute

01:13 - 20.192 their country, contribute to that, to that funding.

01:13 - 24.230 So we can end the abortion debate on my fliers, it

01:13 - 27.533 says, Defuze the abortion debate, you're not going to end abortion.

01:13 - 29.735 There's no perfect world.

01:13 - 32.138 But what we can do is we can reduce the number of abortions

01:13 - 34.106 while preserving a woman's right to choose.

01:13 - 35.408 Thank you. That was a great question.

01:13 - 40.546 Yes, sir.

01:13 - 44.617 How would you feel about officeholders that do not approve the Constitution?

01:13 - 48.220 How would I handle officeholders who do not uphold their

01:13 - 51.223 oath to the PA Constitution?

01:13 - 53.926 Well, I guess the easiest thing to do

01:13 - 55.861 is to file suit

01:13 - 58.864 against them as oath breakers who've lied.

01:13 - 03.936 I'm gonna have to take a look and see what specific statute allows me to do that.

01:14 - 06.939 Because as I mentioned earlier, there is currently no recall provision,

01:14 - 10.910 so I guess we have to turn to the to the

01:14 - 15.014 oath and and affirmations law.

01:14 - 19.251 Because if I go into a notary public and I'm transferring ha title, for example,

01:14 - 20.920 and I say, yeah, I'm doing it.

01:14 - 23.189 And the notary said, yeah, that's the guy.

01:14 - 24.857 I just committed fraud.

01:14 - 26.425 That's a criminal offense.

01:14 - 27.626 That's not my car.

01:14 - 30.029 I got a notary to witness my signature.

01:14 - 31.964 Yeah, that's my signature. It's not my car.

01:14 - 35.735 They and I, we all sign

01:14 - 39.372 a notarized document saying I will uphold the Constitution.

01:14 - 42.308 Thank you. So you just gave me an idea.

01:14 - 44.377 We should file suit against each one of them.

01:14 - 46.145 Criminal for fraud.

01:14 - 48.014 Get them the heck out of there.

01:14 - 48.647 How about if we.

01:14 - 52.685 Maybe we don't need a recall provision if these guys aren't doing it?

01:14 - 55.688 Interesting.

01:14 - 56.856 You know, somebody once suggested to me

01:14 - 59.925 that we have a provision in the Constitution to say that, you know,

01:14 - 00.960 if they're not,

01:15 - 05.197 if they're not following the Constitution, they're not, not allowed to serve.

01:15 - 08.334 But I laughed, I says, come on, get real.

01:15 - 11.303 They're already ignoring the Constitution in dozens of places.

01:15 - 12.271 Well, I have 17.

01:15 - 13.973 I have, and they're listed out here.

01:15 - 16.909 They're already ignoring the Constitution all over the place.

01:15 - 19.311 Elections aren't free.

01:15 - 21.013 They're not equal.

01:15 - 24.016 The right to bear arms is not being respected.

01:15 - 26.619 They're not going to respect that part of the Constitution either.

01:15 - 28.521 They're going to figure out a way around it.

01:15 - 29.989 There's another that says that the legislature

01:15 - 33.426 gets salary and mileage and no, in the compensation whatsoever.

01:15 - 35.127 Well, they got a lot of other compensation.

01:15 - 37.430 They get medical care, they get retirement plans.

01:15 - 39.732 All these things that aren't in the Constitution.

01:15 - 42.735 Why? Because they're in the catbird seat.

01:15 - 46.806 We need a governor who's going to say, no, no, no, no, Vito, Vito, Vito,

01:15 - 48.240 line item veto.

01:15 - 51.310 Somebody to stand guard against that kind of nonsense.

01:15 - 55.381 Who you guys get me worked up.

01:15 - 57.683 Nice day in the sun.

01:15 - 58.651 At least I'm not sweating yet.

01:15 - 01.387 But anyway, that's what we do.

01:16 - 02.822 We'll get these guys for fraud.

01:16 - 05.758 You know, they follow the Constitution, or we take them into court

01:16 - 09.195 and let them justify why our kids can't read or do math.

01:16 - 13.032 It doesn't justify why they're demanding that we produce a little piece of paper

01:16 - 16.535 to carry a gun or to drive or anything like that.

01:16 - 18.170 So there's your question, sir.

01:16 - 20.706 Thank you.

01:16 - 22.308 Any other questions?

01:16 - 23.175 I gotta thank the PCI.

01:16 - 25.244 You guys got on patience here. He's still sitting there.

01:16 - 28.614 He hasn't he smile and still two PCI is great.

01:16 - 30.749 I absolutely love PCN.

01:16 - 32.218 I hope my relationship with them

01:16 - 35.921 goes back to the 90s when I was running for governor against Tom Ridge.

01:16 - 37.957 They always invite me in.

01:16 - 41.227 I always listen respectfully, ask me questions, give me the airtime.

01:16 - 44.363 PCN is a jewel for Pennsylvania.

01:16 - 45.164 Thank you for that.

01:16 - 49.368 PCN got you got a question now.

01:16 - 51.904 Yay! Thank you.

01:16 - 53.706 People will be their horns at us.

01:16 - 56.709 May I offer just a sentence or two?

01:16 - 59.345 You're not going well?

01:16 - 02.348 Oh, church.

01:17 - 03.282 I hope.

01:17 - 04.717 Let me introduce Roy Minute.

01:17 - 08.587 Roy is the mastermind behind the lawsuit through we're filing right now.

01:17 - 10.456 He's not an attorney or anything like that.

01:17 - 14.226 He's also the mastermind behind add, approve, approve, disapprove voting.

01:17 - 17.763 Roy is one of the smartest people I know, and he's been indispensable

01:17 - 18.764 in this campaign.

01:17 - 21.634 If he has something to say, I'm going to give him a couple of minutes to say it,

01:17 - 22.968 and then I'll wrap up.

01:17 - 26.338 What I want to say is, I hope, I want to,

01:17 - 29.875 first of all, thank everybody for their kind attention.

01:17 - 36.916 And I want to point out that Ken has a carefully thought through solution

01:17 - 40.186 for just about any problem that you can think of,

01:17 - 44.590 and it's solutions that actually would work.

01:17 - 48.060 And you can find all those solutions at Ken

01:17 - 51.263 Kay for pa.com.

01:17 - 55.434 But what you're going to be hearing from now

01:17 - 59.271 till November 3rd mostly is please

01:18 - 02.875 fix our failing schools.

01:18 - 05.144 That is a crucial issue.

01:18 - 08.981 We are turning out children who are not prepared

01:18 - 12.384 to live their lives or be good citizens.

01:18 - 15.421 So that is going to be the campaign's main focus.

01:18 - 20.226 And I thank Ken for doing such a good job of hammering away on it,

01:18 - 21.493 and I hope we can get it.

01:18 - 24.496 I hope we can get enough attention to get it fixed.

01:18 - 28.267 Thank you. Roy,

01:18 - 30.603 and thank you for all the help you give it on the campaign.

01:18 - 32.905 I literally could not be doing all this without the help

01:18 - 35.908 and I'm getting from all my other fellow libertarians

01:18 - 39.612 and also people like Josh Shapiro and Stacey Garrity

01:18 - 43.682 who drive me on because they they're not solving the right problem.

01:18 - 46.118 All right.

01:18 - 49.722 Let me finish by addressing the elephant in the room or the elephant on the steps

01:18 - 54.693 is maybe I should say people will tell me, can I love your ideas? Yes.

01:18 - 56.996 We got to get politics out of our schools.

01:18 - 00.933 Yes. We've got to veto all the tax increases.

01:19 - 04.036 Yes, we got to have elections we can trust but can't face it.

01:19 - 07.072 You're not going to get elected,

01:19 - 09.408 But wait, I can get elected.

01:19 - 10.342 Here's how.

01:19 - 14.513 And it's thanks to the two old parties because they have disenfranchized.

01:19 - 19.184 So many voters that a lot of people aren't going to vote this year.

01:19 - 23.489 Typically in these off year, even numbered elections like Governor,

01:19 - 29.528 most people don't vote 30, 35, 40% maybe.

01:19 - 32.498 I don't know hardly anybody votes these days,

01:19 - 37.536 but that could be turned to our advantage, because if you crunch the numbers,

01:19 - 42.941 all it takes to secure a libertarian victory this year is to attract the vote

01:19 - 46.645 of one out of six voting age Pennsylvanians,

01:19 - 50.282 one out of six can stop their tricks.

01:19 - 52.618 So if you're sitting at a table, you and five of your buddies know saying

01:19 - 56.221 other guy can do crazy and you say, oh no, I like what he says.

01:19 - 57.990 That's all it takes.

01:19 - 00.426 One out of six to stop their tricks.

01:20 - 04.263 And, you know, there's another, more subtle thing

01:20 - 07.266 which helps improve the chances

01:20 - 11.437 right now, one out of six can swap their tricks.

01:20 - 14.740 One out of six registered voters, one out of six

01:20 - 17.743 registered voters are not Democrats or Republicans.

01:20 - 22.381 So all we need is for the registered voters who are not members of two.

01:20 - 27.519 All parties just vote for me and I win in a competitive three way race.

01:20 - 29.888 That's all it takes.

01:20 - 34.526 So I'm calling on the independents, the Greens, the communists, all those people.

01:20 - 37.963 Please. Enough is enough.

01:20 - 38.864 Vote for me.

01:20 - 41.867 Ken Crouch, a libertarian for Pennsylvania governor.

01:20 - 44.903 Visit my website. Ken K for pa.com.

01:20 - 46.038 Get Ahold of me.

01:20 - 47.139 Invite me to come out.

01:20 - 51.276 Address your church group, your PTO, your gun groups,

01:20 - 55.147 your civic associations, your podcasts, anything.

01:20 - 56.682 I'm more than happy to come on

01:20 - 59.351 and present my vision for what Pennsylvania should be.

01:21 - 02.821 And I beg of you, please vote for me.

01:21 - 05.824 Ken Crouch, a libertarian for Pennsylvania governor.

01:21 - 08.427 Because if people keep on voting the way they've been voting,

01:21 - 11.196 they're going to keep on getting just what they've been getting.

01:21 - 14.299 And I don't know about you, but I have had enough.

01:21 - 15.968 Thank you.

01:21 - 35.721 And I'll see you on Election Day. And.