Daily Pulse: October 6, 2026 (State Senate Candidate Joe Espinola)

So we talked an awful lot about the dynamics of the three-person race, how similar it would be or would not be to the March 3rd special election to fill that seat.

What about the issues? Are the issues different today as we sit here on October 6th than they were in January, February and March of this

year? The issues are the same with a couple of caveats along the way.

And that's one of my biggest points.

If the issues were the same in March and they were in January and for the period of time that the senator right now has been in office and.

She says she's out in the community.

She's listening to the problem.

She hears what's going on, but nothing's being done.

We have the governor who said she was going to suspend the gas tax.

That hasn't happened yet.

Now she wants to build a gas line, which she stopped, and then she didn't stop, and then she did stop.

It's all a matter of what's going on in the election and what brings it to them.

But people are having a hard time out there.

And suspending just the mandates on the utility bills would cause so much relief for many, many people.

Almost every single person would have a sigh of relief if you just got rid of a few or maybe pause them for a little bit.

Who? I don't know.

I haven't met anybody that wants the world to blow up.

You know, we're all recyclables.

We're all renewable energy.

But at what cost? I don't think that we should be having the gas pedal to the ground.

racing to renewable energy, where some of us won't be there to enjoy it, but we're paying for it, And when we get there, it might not be any good anymore because it might be outdated.

Have you ever bought a computer? In a couple years, it's outdated and you've got to go buy another one, right? We have windmills falling into the ocean, killing whales and all this.

We're saving the earth, but we're killing all the animals.

And if you know the ecosystem, you see what it is.

The solar panels, I just had a friend of mine who has solar panels on his roof.

So we talked an awful lot about the dynamics of the three-person race, how similar it would be or would not be to the March 3rd special election to fill that seat.

What about the issues? Are the issues different today as we sit here on October 6th than they were in January, February and March of this

year? The issues are the same with a couple of caveats along the way.

And that's one of my biggest points.

If the issues were the same in March and they were in January and for the period of time that the senator right now has been in office and.

She says she's out in the community.

She's listening to the problem.

She hears what's going on, but nothing's being done.

We have the governor who said she was going to suspend the gas tax.

That hasn't happened yet.

Now she wants to build a gas line, which she stopped, and then she didn't stop, and then she did stop.

It's all a matter of what's going on in the election and what brings it to them.

But people are having a hard time out there.

And suspending just the mandates on the utility bills would cause so much relief for many, many people.

Almost every single person would have a sigh of relief if you just got rid of a few or maybe pause them for a little bit.

Who? I don't know.

I haven't met anybody that wants the world to blow up.

You know, we're all recyclables.

We're all renewable energy.

But at what cost? I don't think that we should be having the gas pedal to the ground.

racing to renewable energy, where some of us won't be there to enjoy it, but we're paying for it, And when we get there, it might not be any good anymore because it might be outdated.

Have you ever bought a computer? In a couple years, it's outdated and you've got to go buy another one, right? We have windmills falling into the ocean, killing whales and all this.

We're saving the earth, but we're killing all the animals.

And if you know the ecosystem, you see what it is.

The solar panels, I just had a friend of mine who has solar panels on his roof.