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April 18, 2010 - Dan Bidondi Show
10:08
RI BLACKSTONE VALLEY TEA PARTY PART 4
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- An insurance policy to CVS for like $600,000, didn't do a thing for it.
And then he voted against that bill that was in front of his committee that would allow you to take your Blue Cross prescription to any pharmacy.
Remember that?
And now our great Supreme Court in Rhode Island decided that that's perfectly legal.
It is so screwed up.
If you can't give money, Tony, time to a campaign.
Find out who's running.
Stuff mailboxes.
Address envelopes.
Do phone calls.
Hand out literature at the polls on election day.
There's things you can do if you don't have the money.
But the candidates really need money because the unions Union employees have to pay their dues or they lose their job.
A portion of their dues goes to candidates that the leaders of the union want elected.
Even if it's against, even if you as a union member don't like that person, they're going to give money to them anyway.
2010 is probably the best year, I mean, Two years ago, four years ago, you never would have seen a group get together like this.
You never would have seen people at the State House complaining.
People are getting to the point where they've had enough.
And I think everybody's had enough.
I probably shouldn't tell you this, but I've even considered moving out of the State myself.
I mean, I could move to New Hampshire.
New Hampshire has no income tax, no sales tax.
Their property tax is a little higher, but I'd gladly trade the no income tax and no sales tax for a little higher property tax.
And they're not that far away, so it can't be a geographical thing.
So, can you imagine if Rhode Island had lower spending, lower taxes, more freedom, You'd have more jobs.
Your kids wouldn't have to move away to get a job.
How many kids now get on out of college, have these huge student loans and can't find jobs?
I work at Rhode Island Hospital right now.
And there's a girl who just graduated pharmacy school.
student loans of $200,000.
Wow.
That's three times what I paid for my first house.
And there again, the government saw a problem, college was getting expensive.
So they set up this student loan program.
And all it did was tell the colleges that there's more money available so we can double tuition.
Tuition over the last 30 years, every year is going up double the rate of inflation.
Because the more money that's available, they just jack up tuition.
The pharmacy school.
When I went to pharmacy school from 71 to 76, tuition was $1,800 a year.
You know what it is now?
$32,000 a year.
And it's all because there's more money available.
It's basic supply and demand.
The basic supply and demand of economics you can't change.
So the only way we're going to change it is getting rid of the people that are there that represent unions.
I have passed out a few meetings, a list of all the people in the General Assembly that have a connection to unity.
They're employed by a union, they work for a right seat in the union, they're a teacher, they work for a government agency, they're retired.
They're so connected.
And the only reason they're there is to take your money.
and it's about time you kept it.
And that's basically my presentation.
Any questions?
Can we get a hold of that PowerPoint presentation somehow to share with other people, either via email and whatnot?
Of course, obviously, we can have your name there at the bottom as the author so that everybody knows who I can develop the material.
I'll put it up to the teapot.
Awesome.
What do you expect the erase would cost you?
What's the cost?
Well, I ran two years ago and Tessoni spent...
I paid close to $40,000.
And I spent about two, but I got 36% of the vote.
So if I had gotten 13%, 14% more of the vote, I could have beaten him.
But he's not working for the union anymore.
I guess they had a disagreement.
So now he's a labor arbitrator for the state.
So if you're a company, and you go to arbitration, and you pick him as one of the arbitration nuts, you deserve to go to business.
Because you know which way he's going to look.
This is Smithfield that you're running against?
Smithfield and Old Smithfield.
All right.
Do you think that they've had enough of the shenanigans to actually give you, you know, 86% of the vote instead of 36% of the vote?
86%?
No.
All right.
66%?
All I want is 51.
All right.
Hopefully it'll be a two-way race, because that's the other problem.
Anytime things like this happen, if you have multiple candidates going after an incumbent, they always end up splitting the dissatisfied vote, and the incumbent gets back in.
I mean, I've actually taken out papers to run before, and if it's been a three-way race, I will drop out.
Because I know that the best way to get rid of the incumbent is not to have a three-way race.
David, the assembly members who have pro-union bias that they've been talking about are back here on the table, so I believe that if you want that, that's a good plan.
What guarantees, by voting Swinton to come out, what guarantees that we get a change in government?
It depends how many you vote up.
Even in that, you have things in place already.
How can you change that so where the impact will be felt?
Same things like the Carrillo Act.
You can repeal that.
My goal is I'm going to run for the Senate.
I think everybody should run for the Senate.
Because if you have 19 votes in the Senate, you run the state.
Doesn't matter what Gordon Fox in the House wants to do at all.
Doesn't matter what the governor wants to do, whoever that's going to be.
Without those 19 votes in the Senate, the majority of the Senate, you can't do anything.
So nothing would happen without those 19 votes.
So I think if people vote and run for the Senate, and you can control 19 votes, none of those 19 people want lower taxes and lower spending, you'll get it.
Um, the Voter Initiative has been hanging around the General Assembly for a long time.
There's pros and cons of the Voter Initiative because, in truth, democracy is a bad thing.
Democracy is basically majority rule.
And that's the problem we have now.
We have 48% of the US population doesn't pay any federal income tax at all.
Well, those 28% are going to go out and vote when they want free health care, they want free this, they want free college tuition, because they're not paying the bill.
Problem with voter initiative is you're going to have the same problem.
If we had a voter initiative bill and the only thing you could do would be to cut spending, I'd be in favor of that, certainly.
But the problem is now you'll have the same people who go to the polls that live on all these government programs would do the same thing.
My concern is the people in Rhode Island seem to be so epistetic.
You know, in other words, you asked them to consider coming out to a rally, or you talked with them, and they didn't seem to sort of throw away for a few, you know.
Is it?
Well, to be honest, probably most of them are too busy working to try and keep their heads afloat.
Even some of these rallies, I mean, there was a rally risk at the State House at 11 a.m.
this morning.
Well, how many people who are working some two jobs just to pay their property tax can go to a rally at 11 a.m.
on a Tuesday morning?
And even the General Assembly?
You ever notice that the reason the General Assembly doesn't meet in the morning is actually because that's when the lawyers have to be in court?
If we had a General Assembly, it met, like, say, after 5 o'clock or after 6 o'clock every day.
More people could run, but they don't want to do that.
They want to limit it.
Most union contracts, specifically, you can say, right in the contract, if you get elected, you can leave wherever your assigned duty is to go to the General Assembly.
So it's not a problem for them.
But for an average person to run and be able to go to the General Assembly at two, three o'clock in the afternoon or whenever they meet, it's almost impossible and it's deliberate. - From your perspective then, as you go into the war, in as you go into the war, in other words, from house to house, and try to topple people over the yard and go around the neighborhood, what is the best way of reaching out to the people in the garden?
Because apparently TV, radio, some people listen to something and watch it, but not that bad. - Well, face-to-face contact is always the best.
If the public employee unions are the problem, and that's roughly, say, 30,000 people in the state, well, that means there's 970,000 other people who are not benefiting from the public employee unions.
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