What say you?

Uh, I'm optimistic, because I'm optimistic about the American public, that the American voters are not foolish enough to say, "Because I'm unhappy about gasoline and diesel prices," but...

And, and I guess there could be people who don't take into account the fact that in real dollars, wages are up $2,000 under Donald Trump.

Why? In, in, in large part because he preserved the tax cut that Kamala Harris had promised to get rid of, the cut that came in 2017.

And part of this is people get used to the situation the way it is, and they say, "Well, this is what I pay in taxes." Yeah.

Do you know what you'd be paying today if Kamala Harris had become President of the United States? It would be thousands of dollars higher because the tax cut from 2017 was scheduled to go away.

Donald Trump and the Republican Congress managed to preserve that, so that's one big change.

Yes, yes, I do.

Am I right?

No, you're right.

No, but let me make it worse.

So one year ago, the Democrat super majorities in both the House and the Senate, and you have Democrat Governor Kotek, and you've got every statewide office is filled with a Democrat.

And all the major cities are, and counties, are staffed with Democrat elected officials.

So the Democrats run the entire show.

And what happened? Kotek goes to the legislature, says, "Give me s- 15 billion increase." Now remember, this is a state of four million people.

What are your thoughts on that? And, and if they were to do it, what should they be talking about?

What bothers you most about the state of Oregon?

Lack of representation, true representation of what is good for the people, okay? And so for example, take any subject.

We've talked taxes to death.

How about fires? Two million acres of the state went up in flames, and I will fault TV and radio and newspapers for not telling the other piece of the story.

Do you know we went a third of a century with no big fires at all? See, you don't know that because nobody tells that part of the story.

You say, "Well, how did we do that? Was it because we weren't in the woods?" No, it's because we were in the woods big time.

We were cutting and replanting.

No.