Well, I, you know, I've always been a conservative. I've always voted for balanced budgets in Austin when I was there for 12 years. In fact, We have, you know, billions of dollars in surplus in Texas than an Austin budget. Different here. I hate, you know, how we have the 37, 38 trillion dollars in debt. Again, being a conservative Republican, it drives me crazy. (08:30–08:36)
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Asserts that Texas has a budget surplus of billions of dollars.
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