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and there's things that we set in place
and they're myths
that have existed in this country about
ronald reagan that the facts don't back
up
and we need to go back honestly and look
at the facts and see what's happened
and where it started and it really
started with ronald reagan and phil
brown
right here in u.s texas six and i would
like to see it
end in u.s texas six
and let's have a new beginning okay
people will come in and really look at
and it will be better for democrats it
will be better for republicans
it'll be better and he's not go he's not
running just
just to represent democrats he's running
to represent people he will be there
for whoever there uh you know he will be
there for
us he's not going to be there patting
people on the back if they say that he
was in the legal election
because it wasn't an illegal election
once you have
exhausted all of the legal
appeals recounts
and you've gone through the corpse then
you accept the outcome you don't go in
and try to blurtion
the security officers if it happened
because your god didn't win
i've been very unhappy many many many
times when the election result came in
but i never went out and was violent i
never went out and committed treason
you know i never tried to do a palace
coup that's what we saw happen in
january
and it it's it's really time to to bring
that back
yeah we need people in office that will
not be leading
tours of the capitol for people who are
planning on coming
in and kidnapping the speaker of the
house and the
vice president united states to keep
from the certification of votes
um this is the reality you know we had
texas
we have congressmen from texas that
literally
led tours the day before that that
insurrection and and let people
and it was a time when the the capital
was supposed to be closed there were not
supposed to be any tours
the only ones that were on tours were
these
these people that were
you know yelling with trump and so we've
got to get back and change that around
the other thing that's really important
is we've got to stop dark money in our
in our elections
we've got to and this is a very
bipartisan area the koch brothers don't
like it but they have done
surveys of uh most of the republicans
and most of them
most of the republican base said we need
to get we need to know who the
millionaires are
that are financing our elections we need
the transparency that's a very
bipartisan issue
and he says we need he's very much for
um revoking citizens united and and
and getting drunk money out of out of
congress
out of our elections and we need to have
an independent body
an independent body not elected
officials draw the
draw draw the barriers
uh the boundaries um picking your
elect elected officials picking their
voters is not how this was supposed to
work you know
um that's not how we're supposed to be
doing it and so um there's some things
that need to be done on election reform
and uh you know they're reasonable
things and i think in the long run a lot
of republicans will buy into it
the people in the glass room some of
them in the office won't because it
you know it protects them in office but
we need to we need to get it to where
we're really protecting the people not
protecting the ones who are in front of
us
okay uh thank you your website also
uh i i served within the chain of
command under the command the
commander-in-chief
but i did not swear an oath to any one
man or political party
could you please elaborate on that okay
um there are a lot of people
as on january 6th that
are putting donald trump and i i mean
this is appalling to see what some of
the
churches have been doing they've been
putting the golden trump up there like
he is some demigod
and um there are members of congress
that instead of
uh recognizing
what how serious it was they have been
very frightened
of going against trump um
several of the republicans have stated
that if it had been a secret vote that
they would have voted to
to remove him the the repercussions
you know the repercussions on it donald
trump
is not so we swear
you don't swear a code of allegiance to
the president of the united states
the commander-in-chief is charged with
leading
our military but our military swears an
oath
to protect and defend the constitution
of the united states
and that's also the oath that the
president takes and that's the
congress takes but instead of looking at
what we do to protect the constitution
of the united states
which was to have a peaceful turnover of
the government
there were too many of them that
continue to say this is an
illegal election it was not fair
you know and and even even though the
the judges by and large were republican
appointees and donald trump
they were saying oh this isn't fair some
democrats have done it they put out too
many lies they instigated
they instigated a
a level of doubt and discard and
disharmony
that destabilizes our country
and um actually led to
a large number of people many of whom
were law enforcement agents and many of
them were
veterans that stormed the capitol
with a military plan it was very
it was very very clearly executed this
was not spontaneous
it was a plan to go in and forcibly
stop the certification of the vote
to uh turn over the presidency to the
man who
had won the election and this is not
how it's supposed to work everyone every
one of those people
in that building has sworn an
oath to the constitution of the united
states and the constitution in the
united states
outlines what the process is when we
have a question about it
how we answer it what the process is
with the courts
and when it is settled which it had been
we peaceably turn over power
to the next elected administration it's
always happened that way except under
donald trump okay and that's basically
you know
daryl eddings
came back from iraq
in a coma he spent 18 months
in a military hospital undergoing
multiple surgeries
and years of rehab to get to the point
where he could work
and make a living for his family he lost
people over there that he cares about
who were fighting for this country and
for him to sit there
and watch what happened on january 6th
and to hear the words that came out of
the word mouth of ted cruz
and donald trump and louie gohmert
and a lot of other elected officials
that basically were lies
that were you know he knows what it is
to be in countries where there are
palace coups
and to sit here and see this going on in
his own country
can you imagine what kind of a reaction
he has can you imagine how
how it hits him in the gut how he would
decide
to put his not his his life on the this
is a man that has always been very
private
there were very few photographs of him
because he was a us
marshal and he worked on drug
interdiction
and um he knew that there were people
that might recognize him
from those missions that were not nice
people
and he didn't want them knocking on his
door with his family
and he sat down and talked to his family
about it and decided
to put his face out there and put his
name out there
and run for congress because he is that
worried about where our nation is right
now
he's not worried for his neighbors
democrats and republicans
independents and libertarians okay
how would uh mr eddings handle the
vaccine rollout if elected
he's very pleased with how
president biden has done it the vaccine
rollout
has been uh
donald trump was good about getting it
accelerated on the
on on making it but he did not have
employees
a real plan to distribute it
daryl eddings has always been he spent
you know years in emergency management
you know he's he's been working on
another masters in
emergency management but he he would be
he would be working very much like what
uh
what president biden has been doing he'd
be working with us
with the scientists he would be working
with the supply chain he'd be working
with the military
he'd be working with the nurses to get
it out to as many people as possible
as fast as possible and as efficiently
as possible and he's that's one thing
he's very efficient is
when it's when there's something that
needs to be done
he knows how to to to move the people
and move the resources and assess the
problem
and get the job done and uh so on that
area he has
uh he's been he's been much more
relieved to see what has happened this
year than what we were watching last
year how would mr addings
uh help the economically disadvantaged
if elected
sorry how would mr eddings help the
economically disadvantaged if elected
jobs very definitely jobs jobs and
access to education
and also expansion of health care
right here in texas the texas uh
legislature and the governor refused to
expand medicaid but we are
we're basically paying for other states
to have medicaid
um there's so many things everybody that
has um
that has paid has helped a private
health insurance policy is paying a
higher premium
because we have so many uninsured people
in texas he would be working to
you know to to expand it to look at the
aca see what the problems are
instead of revoking it like joe barton
and has tried to do he would basically
be
working to look at it to see what the
problems are
and to find a solution to make it work
for as many people as possible
not to eliminate the options for private
health care
not at all but yet to give more people
an opportunity to
also he would be looking for ways that
um
people could have an opportunity to buy
home again um
housing costs is a big problem we have
too many
families that are being pushed out of
their housing
and we have too many veterans living
under the bridges
and he has worked on veterans housing
with a number of non-profit
organizations for years that's been one
of the things that he's
worked very heavily on his own veterans
housing and he also has been very active
on
veterans mental health issues and so a
lot of
families are suffering because of mental
health issues and they don't have the
opportunity to have the
the drug treatment on demand that they
need there if there's a long waiting
list
when you get ready when you get ready
for it there's a waiting list and you
know with an addict
somebody that has a substance abuse
problem if you don't if you don't strike
when the striking is hot
then it's if they have to wait and
they're not ready to go in and do
anything about it
and so that's one of the big problems he
would be working
on um very much he's done a lot on
suicide prevention
and mental health issues and ptsd and
these are impact these are
these are issues that are not democratic
or republican they're not black they're
not white these are problems that
because every time we have a lot of
veterans that have come home
and then there are a lot of us that are
suffering ptsd that we're never military
you know we're never military things and
people have been in school shootings or
are different areas in that area have
have ptsd and so we need a
better network a better social network
and then we also have to strengthen our
retiree social network
retired people shouldn't be paying
guaranteed student loans out of their
social security check and when somebody
has been working for a company they
should be able to
take their retirement plan with them and
what we've
allowed is there been too many cases of
corporations declaring bankruptcy
to get out of paying the retirement for
their employees
and then they leave it to the federal
government to take up the flag
we may need to go with something like uh
what we have for workers comp where
there's an
insurance it's an insurance policy
instead of a
a pension plan and then it goes with the
employee wherever they're going so that
after you work
20 years if you worked at 5 or six or
seven different jobs you still have
some security and we have to keep social
security you know social security is a
you know we can't we can't do it but the
way we do that is by putting people in
work
you know people have to work the more we
want the more we pay in
the stronger these systems but as long
as our jobs are offshore
as long as employers can just you know
call you in as an independent contractor
and let you go
you know whatever it suits them and not
you know not in that area
as well as long as we have no protection
for government for our employees and
there's no investment
by the companies into our workforce
we're not going to have
the resources we need for people to have
the retirement
as necessary houses
jobs retirement access to infrastructure
health rights those are the things that
everybody needs those are not things
that are
democrat needs and on public and doesn't
those are the things
everybody needs and that is exactly what
he is
that's exactly what he'll be working for
and also everybody's vote must count
and we need to know that it's counted
fairly and that when that election is
over
that uh you can go through the process
and you may find out that some of it was
wrong and you can correct it
but if you find out that it wasn't wrong
then you just
you know you just take it on your chin
and you just wait for the next election
that's the american way all right that's
where we need to go back to it
okay what is what are what are his
opinions on president biden
he is relieved to see
the things that president biden has been
doing
he feels like revoking
reversing most of president trump's
executive orders was a
was a good move um he is
pleased to see the caliber
of people with experience
to accept the mission of the departments
that they're being appointed to
that'll be appointed you know because we
found under trump
people that had no no credentials
whatsoever were appointed they was
mainly cronyism
and they were appointed to destroy the
departments not to
build them up daryl eddings believes in
good government
not no government
that doesn't mean that government gets
to do everything you know but basically
we have we always try to do better we
had
we had a bureaucracy that basically our
civil service was designed
so that it didn't you know the civil
service
and the hatch act worked for us my
mother was still in civil service
i didn't even know that she was a
democrat until she was dying i thought
she had voted republican
until she was on her deathbed because
she took the hatch act so seriously she
didn't even let her kids know what her
partnership was
but because a federal employee is
supposed to be nonpartisan
in the way they conduct their business
we had a
steady transition
and we also had experts people who knew
what was going on
were there to continue running things
until the next one is in place
we that's been really tattered and
shattered you know in so many areas
one good example is the post office
department
um you know the post office department
there's no
for-profit business that's ever going to
find
make profit serving every community in
the nation
you know no no company is going to make
a profit
serving every community community in the
nation
and yet at the same time they're going
out of the way to destroy the united
states postal office
that basically serves every
every community in the nation and um so
we have to go back in and look at that
so it's good
he's for people that are science
data look at what
look at the facts go with the facts
use your science user data rely on the
experts
get the politics out of it and make the
decision based on what we work
make the decision based on truth the
best information available
verify it and put people in charge that
have a background
and the expertise to do the job
and who believe that the mission as is
set out in our legislation
of that agency is what they really have
a commitment to if they don't have a
commitment
to the mission of that agency they
should not be put in charge of that
agency
and that's that's you know and so he
sees biden
trying to do that you know more so and
in the last administration they wouldn't
well we've talked about uh mr biden so
um what are
what are mr eddings thoughts on former
president trump
oh yeah he never called him the
commander-in-chief
as he was out of the military by the
time he was retired by the time he came
in
but he never called him the
commander-in-chief he called him 45
because he never earned his respect um
there was not any reason for donald
trump to be leading their troops
donald trump was putting too many people
at risk
for on a whim without without without
reading the intelligence briefings
without
without uh listening to his generals
without you know unless it was an echo
chamber that was
was feeding his ego he had no time for
it
and um it was dangerous it was dangerous
it's he's relieved that he's no longer
you know i mean it's not that he was a
republican
it was that he was a danger and that's
that's he was a danger to this nation he
was a danger to the men and women who
are
putting their lives on the line
to watch out for us and also he
violated some of our greatest allies
you know the things that he did to our i
always was unconscionable
and it wasn't just the ones that were
our peacetime allies he basically
he basically betrayed some of our allies
when they were
with their lives were in danger and they
were literally
fighting for their very lives
and so the betrayals you know you know
it's really it's very difficult for a
man who has
had the kind of life that daryl adams
has to watch
what happened under donald trump and not
be
appalled right
what are what are his thoughts on the
ongoing uh crisis at the southern border
well he worked for immigration yes and
at the same time he understands and then
he also worked
on drug interdiction so he's flown from
the top to the bottom but he's also been
in those countries
and he knows that it's not
what our policy is that is bringing them
here
what's bringing them here is what's
happening in their country
it's the terror the crime
the severe poverty and it's it's it got
it was bad enough because they're always
having hurricanes and disasters they're
just knocking them off the line
but when you get down to it you also
have kobe 19 that's on top of it
but he knows that if someone is
terrified
and they believe that they or their
children are going to die if they stay
in their neighborhood
they're going to go somewhere else and
um
they're not going gonna be able to keep
them back they're going to go
wherever it is they think that they will
be safer
maybe not safe but safer so he knows
that those are
situations that that uh it's a
humanitarian problem but it's going to
have to be solved
on a multi-prong attack that has to be
solved
in cooperation with the countries
to help the countries counter the drug
and the terror and the gang activity
they also have to be
held in a way that that deals with the
poverty
and then we have to be as humane as we
can
in receiving those who came we have four
years
of the united states government refusing
to process asylum
applications in a timely manner we were
already understaffed
before this happened and then he made
that to try to make it as a punishment
you can't make it as a punishment
he also knows that there is no way to
put a wall
up because he's flown from the pacific
ocean to the gulf of mexico
just the terrain would make it totally
impossible and besides that what are you
going to do with the fence when you have
two oceans on both sides of you
you know so you're not gonna keep people
over the higher the prince they're gonna
come over
so we have to find a way but as a law
enforcement officer
he really believes we have to be able to
allow the people who are here to come
out of the shadows
because as long as we have people in the
shadows
and they're afraid to cooperate with law
enforcement it's harder to take care of
the drug dealers
in the cartels and it's harder to take
care of criminals that are preying on
them
and as long as a criminal can prey on
somebody and there's somebody there that
was a witness
or a victim and they can't cooperate
with law enforcement we're all let's say
so we have to do something to give them
a chance to have legal
residency so they're not afraid of being
deported
all right so that they can coordinate
with law enforcement here and he sees
that as a real high thing
and he did go down to brownsville with
aclu
um when they had you know when they were
when they were under the trump
administration he actually went into the
courtroom and saw
children that were being blocked before
the court
without an assault he saw um
he saw multiple
immigrants multiple uh people that were
in orange
shirt uh armed sheets that were teetered
together that will all
fly together as a mass thing to be
deported not even having an individual
chance before a judge
he saw things that were not wrong with
as a criminal justice person that was
not fair
and that were not humane and what's
happening now is really sad but they're
at least trying to take care of these
children they're trying to move them out
of those shelters as fast as possible
they're trying to get them
they're trying to speed up the uh
the uh the background checks that's one
of the big problems they have to do
background checks on these uh
all these people that are coming forward
to be their guardians because they're
children that have literally ended up
being
sex trafficking right um by people that
claimed them so you have to do that it's
not an instant closet
but yet at the same time what you do
with those children and the
the mental health support that they have
while they're in there you don't go in
there and tell them that their parents
have deserted them
now glide to the parents and tell them
you know some things so
we have to be honest we have to be
truthful with the people we have to do
is
the best job we can do and and our best
job isn't good enough but in the last
the last administration it was cruel
you know it wasn't that it wasn't good
enough it was that it was
it violated the geneva conviction in
almost every way
right and also we test them you know
they were refusing to even give those
kids flu shots
under trump uh we test them and it
and we you know we we do our best to
take care of them
and we try to get them out of our
custody as fast as possible because
there's going to be a
the more you have together the higher
the pro
the higher likelihood of sexual assault
or violence or harm to one of them and
so you have to process them
and get them out as fast as possible
right and and protect them because
you know we just it's just a it's a
nightmare but yeah
he was very concerned for the children
he's got seven grandchildren of his own
and what he saw as a former ins
person no that was not how it was
supposed to operate
and it still has always done now but at
least they're trying to do it instead of
trying to do the opposite