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Ramon Romero Jr.: “I certainly would not have spent $800 million on border…”

Featuring: Ramon Romero Jr., Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 90

A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero

Published March 30, 2016 | Video Starts at 06:22

And to the news, to most people, it'll look like, yes, we funded pre K, we added money, but we didn't properly fund pre K. I certainly would not have spent $800 million on border security. And now here we have a senator who says that that number needs to be closer to $3 billion. We're creating larger agencies that doesn't seem to be very fiscally responsible. (06:22–06:26)

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Asserts opposition to the $800 million expenditure on border security.

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Ramon Romero Jr.

“Only $126 went to an average homeowner [from the tax cuts].”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 05:05-05:20
“33% of that franchise tax went to people outside of Texas.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 05:24-05:30
“We knew that we needed somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 to 600 million dollars [for pre-K].”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 06:07-06:12
“We, as Democrats were told, go see what you can do with $100 million [for pre-K].”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 06:11-06:15
“Yes.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 06:17-06:18
“Here we have a senator who says that [border security funding] needs to be closer to $3 billion.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 06:25-06:30
“Absolutely.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 06:50-06:51
“Property values continue to rise and rise and rise. Yet we've given $9 billion in tax cuts since 1997.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 11:55-12:02
“Already this state prides itself on becoming business friendly. And it's tax cut after tax cut after tax cut.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 12:04-12:11
“In the meantime, working class families still continue to struggle.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 12:10-12:14
“When you talk about fast growth and the burden that comes with fast growth, look at the amount of capital improvement bond packages within…”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 12:34-12:43
“As a state, we're funding transportation on our highways.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 13:01-13:05
“We're having to lower our standards. You know, we lowered our standards. You know, now we're so proud that 90% of our kids are graduating…”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 18:45-18:58
“I believe that after years of lack of funding, proper funding, we still rank at the bottom of the nation in terms of how we fund our…”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 19:12-19:22
“Less than 10% of Hispanics, Latinos that enter a four-year university graduate while their white counterparts graduate over 50, almost 60%.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 19:35-19:45
“What we're doing wrong in the schools that are the poorest, in the schools that are generally people of color or persons of color in those…”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 19:45-19:57
“Redistricting has created a lot of this mess.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 20:19-20:23
“There'd be less people at the emergency room if more people qualified and we expanded Medicaid.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 23:59-24:05
“County after county after county came into the County Affairs Committee this year and approved 1115 waivers.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 25:05-25:12
“We're pulling money down from the Affordable Care Act. It's just not in the name of Obamacare.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 25:14-25:19
“20% of our population doesn't have health care.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 25:31-25:34
“We have set our sights on Washington. And everything out of Washington is bad.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 28:27-28:31
“We spent $800 million on border security.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 28:38-28:43
“The numbers translate to over $2 million per DPS apprehension.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 28:48-28:54
“The general consensus of Texas doesn't like [open carry].”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 32:06-32:09
“People go up and shoot up police stations and they know that there's, you know, guns inside the police station.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 32:18-32:24
“Boston still had the opportunity to opt out as a city.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 32:36-32:39
“Now we have open carry in these large cities, right? Yeah. We're the testing grounds.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 32:48-32:53
“The Republican Party is saying at this point that Donald Trump is the best that we can offer from our side.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 34:56-35:02
“Unintended consequences due to. Due to tax cuts. Look at Southwest Petroleum's lawsuit right now.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 36:11-36:17
“We've given tax cut after tax cut, and we didn't realize that the lawyers were going to divide that and, you know, turn that that language…”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 36:22-36:31
“I think that, you know, you can start with equal pay for women as an example. It was absolutely something that Wendy Davis campaigned on…”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 41:48-42:02
“Women should not make 25 to almost 30% less than men for the same job.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 42:02-42:08
“You go into my side of town and you see the schools on my side of town. Don't tell me that you're getting the best education.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 42:20-42:25
“And then you go outside and there's no grocery stores. You've got convenience stores. There's no jobs anywhere around. The jobs that are…”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 42:24-42:32
“Families, especially brown Latino families are getting pulled over by DPS officers because they're brown.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 47:57-48:05
“Latinos are being pulled over and they shouldn't be getting pulled over on the way to school, making their kids late.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 48:15-48:21
“We shouldn't be doing a federal job and certainly not spending money that could have been used so much more wisely and giving that education…”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 48:32-48:40
“It should be that this should be the federal position to take to secure our borders.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 48:52-48:58
“There is probably no job more noble than being a teacher for our Texas students.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 53:00-53:05
“Fund and class size is terribly important.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 53:09-53:12
“We don't track our guns. And how many of those guns are going across the border? And now we're worried about the cartels and we're the ones…”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 58:21-58:29
“The reality is in Texas, it's far too easy to get a gun.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 58:49-58:53
“At some point, we're going to take seriously the fact that you can get a gun at a gun show without an id.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 58:52-58:57
“We also, last year we voted to allow, you know, tax free day for buying your guns, putting more of a load on those that are doing the…”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 58:57-59:07
“Now it's tax free weekend, so people are going to. We're going to have to give them that gun even though we haven't done it. Proper…”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 59:09-59:18
“Do you believe then that we shouldn't know who buys a weapon in the state of Texas? Well, at a gun show. So someone walks into a gun show…”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 59:36-59:47