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Midday Mobile - Hour 2 with State Rep. Chip Brown - August 12 2024
There will be no personal nor direct attacks on anyone and I would ask that you please try to keep down the loud cheering and the clapping. There will be no booing and no unruly behavior. With that this is painful and it will be for a long time. After all these are a couple of high-stepping turkeys and you know what to say about a high stepper. No step too high for a high stepper. This is midday mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 1065. Well Sean is a tough guy. I mean I think everybody knows that you know Sean he took some licks he hangs in there. Yeah what's wrong with the beer we got? I mean the beer we got drank pretty good don't it? Did you hear what I said? So this is a great council. I had no dollar bounce in. That doesn't shock it. If you don't like it you're bad. Last question were you high on drugs? Last question, kiss my ****. All right state representative Chip Brown filling in today for Sean Sullivan. Well thank you for being with us. Remember our text line is open at 2513430106. I'm joining the line right now with state representative Shane Stringer from North Mobile County Shane. Welcome board. Yeah thanks for having me Chip. Appreciate you. Wanted to bring you on today and maybe talk about a little bit about the second amendment. I know that that's something that's important to you. Over the years you've passed some important gun legislation, constitutional carry and and other legislation and kind of look forward on you know the upcoming session in February and what we might expect and maybe look at some of the challenges that that we're facing right now. Yeah I've you know really jumped right into it back in 2018 you know once I won my seat and got in there and you know just started addressing some of the important issues to me and my constituents and of course you know I cover North Mobile and North Baldwin County and very strong conservative group of people and you know one of the first things that came to my attention was the Constitution Carry language and and Biel and I had several constituents ask you know what my thoughts were and what I would consider doing with that. So you know at that time I really did not have a adequate knowledge on the Biel so I started doing some research and reaching out to sheriffs across the country where they had this already in place and you know talking to them just trying to get my head wrapped around it and you know I was really shocked and surprised man almost all the sheriffs and elected officials in the other states where this was at you know I would tell them what I was doing and you know my reasoning for researching and you know several of them you know right off the bat they were like represented the stringer what what do your people want what what are they looking for you know and I you know I told them that our polling had showed 70 plus percent every time wanted Constitution Carry and and these sheriffs they were like well you are represented to represent the people your constituents you should be doing that and and I was like you know very shocked to hear that from some of them but you know that's exactly what I did I dug in started working on this and you know we worked on it for I guess two or three years they are until we finally got it to where it needed to be and we were able to get it passed and it's it's turned out to be a very important piece of legislation especially right here in Mobile where we've seen crime gun crime has dropped you know since the bill has passed well that's right and you know working with you on that legislation it you know you had a lot of hurdles thrown up in your face and and it was very tough to get that through you know it's it's not always easy to try to get legislation of that magnitude through and but you know from a constitutional standpoint I think it's very you know very solid ground with that I mean you know people have a right to to bear arms they have a right to defend themselves that's correct you know and that that was one of the things I was constantly telling people that was opposing the legislation you know one it is the Constitution and we are to adhere to the Constitution and you know and then I would hear well I don't think that people know what's best for them you know or the government knows better or or we know better and I don't believe that you know I think the people know better and I think you know and if the people make mistakes then that's on them but we are still elected to represent them but yeah it was quite a quite a few hurdles trying to get that passed and meeting some of the resistance you know we did but you know one thing that was very unique to me in the middle of doing this and then getting through this is watching what was going on in Ukraine another country you know that had strong laws against gun ownership and and extremely tough to even get guns or permitting in those in that country but soon as Russia started invading them immediately the federal government starts trying to pass out of you know AR stock style weapons and you know it was just very watching the news and watching these stories and these people looked like they were picking up an alien they didn't have a clue what they were picking up or what they were doing and you know did not know how to operate these weapons and especially in safe manners and you know and we found out quick fasting in a hurry that that's not the time to do that so you know I applaud the United States and the representatives that stand up for our second amendment first amendment and for the Constitution in general for what they do to defend our people and make sure we're prepared well and that's right you know you you look at even even what we saw in Israel back in October you know the when they had they had made it where at this kibbutzes the farms that individuals weren't carrying weapons and they used to be a staple of Israeli society but at that time they weren't and so they were they were sitting ducks you know they didn't have a ability to defend themselves so that that ties right in with what you're saying in Ukraine and you know it it it's a if you if you look forward and you look at the state issues versus the federal issues oftentimes it's it's tough you know we're dealing with ATF and others that want to come down and and be tough on the states and do things that are necessarily on the up and up like you know on dealing with with braces and other devices on weapons that that can lead to many other things yeah absolutely I think that uh you know I think our federal partners get uh get misled sometimes you know and in some of this but also you know I know some of the federal agents that I've worked with over the years you know I've been in law enforcement for 33 years and some of them believe and think just like I do but you know the fact is we have got to defend the Constitution stay on stay on that we are so quick to try to inject our personal opinions in okay well I'm okay with the second amendment but I don't think they should have a magazine that can carry can I don't think that they should have a a extended stock or a short barrel or whatever and it just you know we can get into our personal opinions on all of the accessories and parts of these guns but I don't think that plays a part you know the fact is the second amendment is a individual right it's not a group right you know we're not out here snatching everybody's second amendment rights because we got a group of thugs and mobile or preacher or Birmingham or Montgomery that's out doing wrong you know what we do is we try to address those that group and we try to you know take their gun rights when they violate the law and deal with them and you know that's one of the things I guess it I guess it can be easier to address in a hole to just just come in and take everybody's guns or attempt to but that is not the solution the solution is less address the bad actors and the ones that are creating chaos in our communities well I agree with you 100 percent if you if you look it's uh it's a societal problem it's a mental health problem and in you know as a state as a nation we've got to focus more on mental health I mean we're we don't we have so many gun control laws on the books on the federal side that uh you know we're just putting law putting restrictions and laws on top of laws that we're not actually enforcing and it's a mental health issue if you if you go back and you look at at majority shootings it's a it's an issue that you know we we've got to do a better job as a society uh looking at the the core reasons for gun violence and for violence in general and you know I think as a state that is one thing I I applaud speaker of the house Nathaniel Ledbetter's he's focused on on mental health and you know we we passed legislation this last year that uh that I carried actually that that in the house that would focus on veterans mental health and for the first time as a state we're we're uh creating a task force our first meeting is on August 29th and Montgomery to try to develop a a road map a you know a test for what type of care veterans really need I mean I think we have to focus on veterans treating veterans you know and I know you've been very involved with that as well uh representative stringer on representing uh your district you know have a lot of veterans there and on uh your vice chairman of homeland security in the house and you know some of those issues that your committee's taken up like rioting and those sorts of things I mean what do you see coming up in the next session dealing with with uh some of those issues that that might be important coming through that committee yeah um you know what first of all I want to say I appreciate all your work you've done in the uh veterans and and dealing with that because that is extremely important you know our session uh correction our class and in the house we've tried to pass a lot of pro legislation to help our veterans and dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder and we've even looked at it and trying to uh get something in place for our first responder so hopefully you know we can continue to do some good work there but yeah I think we're going to see a lot of uh a lot of legislation coming attacking our second amendments I think you're going to see you know we've already seen a pre-filed bill and some some uh press briefings and releases put out uh trying to put permitting in place for for AR style weapons and rifles and that's absolutely not not going to fly in my court oh I'll continue to fight against that I think we'll uh you know we're going to continue to see uh probably for now some some different ones attempt to make changes to the Constitution carry the oil and you know and I'll completely fight against that I know you will too uh we've put too much work into it to to not you know keep it the way it is it's a good bill and it's it's working well for our state and you know I really don't even think it's uh you know it's hurt the sheriff's permitting I don't think that's gonna that's too big of a hit just yet so but we'll continue to look after our first responders and do what we can do for them and you know uh public safety homeland security we always have a lot of uh very interesting veals and of course a lot of that um you know it's very important to our second amendment and in our course our uh dealing with our military and veteran affairs well and I know one of the most important district I mean uh issues up up in your area in north mobile county in particular is highway 45 uh you know that's it's continuously been put on the back burner for years administration after administration and you know I think as a as a community we have to try to put that from the forefront and and I mean that's just a not it's just not a safe roadway and really as a state uh we need to it's somewhat of an embarrassment I mean it's for laying all the way down to you get to the state line and and then it's not I know you've worked tirelessly on that and you tell me a little bit about that you know um you know I've been one of my main priorities since I've got in the in the legislature and you know I had some talks with the uh lieutenant governor Ainsworth uh last session session before and he's he's committed to helping us and trying to address that and see what we can get done um you know throughout these uh efforts South Dot has came in and did like the scoring in the middle of the road which you know I do believe has helped um and creating a situation to prevent the head on collisions but I also am a firm believer you just got too much traffic on the road and until we get some asphalt on the ground we're going to continue to have problems but as you said I mean the road is for laying uh from Mississippi you know I think all the way to Chicago so it's time that we step up and address that it is a hurricane evacuation route with all the industry that we have in Mobile County with uh you know Airbus, Oscar, Amazon shipping center, Walmart shipping center, the steel mills in the north part of the county, the aluminum plan over in Bayman Ed. I mean we have got so much industry that has came and I think it was David Preston that maybe said something about the uh infrastructure we are going to definitely have to address our infrastructure. Yeah that's right and you know that those those growing pains uh that's part of it is is if you you bring an industry you have to uh they create jobs and then in turn you have to keep up with it the infrastructure side on the roads and bridges and you know we on on that particular section it's just uh you know over the years there hadn't been enough focus on it so I I applaud you on that because I actually travel that road quite frequently going back and forth to Mississippi and it's uh it's dangerous you know you see the many of the tags you see or Missouri tags Ohio, Illinois all coming in and when you get to Mississippi it is like the Golden Gates open up and it's forlained all the way through it's beautiful but then when you get to Alabama it's uh log jam you know backed up and people try to pass and I've seen numerous wrecks over the years often often buried deadly so something has to be done on it and I know that's that's an effort that you've worked on um you know tirelessly over the the last six years. Yeah and John Sullivan and uh Jeff for have always made this a priority and you know I don't think I've ever came on either one of their shows where they didn't bring this up and and talk about it you know it's that important but you know I've had legislators from all over the state that come up to me throughout the session that will you know that will tell me that I've came through there and you're exactly right this was a dangerous road I witnessed you know a dozen near misses so you know people are seeing how important it is and the changes that are needed so you know I appreciate your help and all the other legislators and Governor Ainsworth we're we'll continue to fight until we get something done. All right the uh what what other bills do you have coming up this session any that you want to talk about? Well you know I've got a couple I'm looking at I've got you know one issue that we've dealt with uh you know right now the Marine Police does not have to have probable cause to board a vessel if you're out in your boat somewhere and you've got a big boat district yourself and you know one of the things that we're seeing is they're they're using a Coast Guard rule that allows them to come on and do a safety inspection to gain access to your boat and then once they're in your boat then they can search do whatever they want and I just don't as a law enforcement officer I just don't think that that's proper you know I think that there needs to be probable cause for them to board your boat just like as a law enforcement officer I would need probable cause to search your car or enter your car so I'm looking at some legislation to try to dress that uh not trying to hurt our Marine police by no means and appreciate what they're out doing every day but you know I know it's a shortcut for them to circumvent probable cause but I just personally do not think that that's the proper way to do it that that we need to fix that in the legislature. Well I you know I agree with you on that we my district in particular is has probably more coastline than anyone else in in the legislature starts at Dog River runs all the way to Mississippi and then includes Dog River, Foul River, Mobile Bay, Mississippi Sound and part of the Gulf of Mexico and I get a lot of complaints about that you know they it's it if you're not going to get pulled over driving a car just for no particular reason there needs to be probable cause and I agree with you on that I mean it should be probable cause of them there's some particular issue why they pulled you over and not just looking for the opportunity to pull you over and find an opportunity to uh to cite you so we we we need to look at that and I applaud you for for stepping up and taking a look at it. Well I appreciate it I've met with the Lea and uh the Marine Division and trying to work out something and kind of make sure that they're aware and see if we could get it addressed to you know address some other way but it may it may take some legislation to to get it under control. Well thank you as a representative Shane Stringer uh North Alabama I mean North Mobile thank you Shane thanks for being with us. Thank you this is midday mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM talk 1065 Hey it's Chip Brown filling in for Sean Sullivan today we we just had representative Shane Stringer on with us talking about the second amendment uh remember our text lines open at 251-343-01-06 I think we've got time to take one of those texts on. Oh yeah we had uh Bill text in we need the traffic laws enforced on highway 45 it's like the Wild West. Well I would I would agree with you Bill it's uh you know we've got a we've got to enforce those traffic laws but we also we have to look at at widening that and extend it to connect to the four lanes in Mississippi that that's where it gets dangerous to me is that people pass particularly that aren't from this area and you know that area up around citronell is so hilly and they can't see over it and they get frustrated that they're number 15 in line and they want to get around that log truck and they they dare to risk it and then they have had on collisions or end off in a ditch somewhere so so that's speed on the road another texture said we also need a speed limit of eight knots and pretty to pass starting at the bridge to the last marker too many quad motorboats doing 50 to 65 knots have made it in safe. Well I tell you what I would encourage him to to reach out to the Alabama marine police and then ask them that they're the ones that you have to go through to get no wake zones. We're struggling with that a little bit in my district with uh we put in a boat ramp on part of our river that wasn't used to having heavy boat traffic and so we've we've gone through uh Alabama marine police and that's who you have to go through to deal with that. We've got some more tech can we read it to you after the break? Yeah let's we'll take it up after the break. This is mid-day mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 1065. This is Chip Brown with you this afternoon filling in for the legend Sean Sullivan. We're uh we're sitting here taking some text today our text line 2513430106 my my text my text man Dalton is with me text czar maybe but the text guru yes next doctor uh don't call me text czar because then everyone will get upset about that uh Jerry in Fort Morgan uh says the fact that the fact that the left has declared war on the right of freemen to defend themselves should be an inspiration for uh the elected representatives to pass legislation on the state level to protect the right of citizens. Well you know we try to do that I think we if we look at as a state I mean Alabama uh you know the right of free citizens as far as free speech the right of free citizens uh the ability to defend themselves through the second amendment those are things that that are important I mean we look at other legislation last year I I carried a bill that passed the governor signed that dealt with genetic genetic privacy you know you you saw your DNA to 23 and me and to ancestry.com and you don't know what happens with that oftentimes it's actually sold to uh things like the insurance industry where they run programs on particular areas and they look for markers for types of cancers and those sorts of things and that that can that can impact your policy and then also heck they could sell it to foreign governments I mean you you don't know and if you if you follow the news um ancestry.com was just sold to BlackRock who is uh shady if there is a shady industry other than anything that's involved with uh with George Soros is BlackRock I mean BlackRock has their hands in every single aspect of of uh not just American life but life around the globe and uh so what I did was I had a piece of legislation that it just simply said that when you uh when you submit your DNA to any type of service that they have to notify you and inform you what they're doing with your DNA and notify you if your DNA is uh potentially going to be sold or you have to agree to it so that way that you're protecting your privacy you're protecting your rights as an individual um you know not on another front um I have legislation that I carried last year that I'll be carrying again this year that deals with parental consent for vaccinations you know we saw during covid that uh you had there were schools there and one comes to mind and particularly in north Alabama that had intended to do a mass vaccination of their students and parents got wind of it and they were able to stop it but in Alabama the age of consent for on the medical side is 14 that was a law that was passed in 1973 I'm sure to deal with Roe versus Wade it was probably something that was rushed through and we've been saddled with that ever since and most people don't even realize that the the medical age you consent is 14 so technically in Alabama if you're 14 years old even though you can't drive you can't drink a beer you can't vote uh you can't really do anything you can't go see an r-rated movie you could go in and decide that you want to have a particular operation and technically you could do it now a hospital is not going to do it because they'd get they'd get sued their liability is so high but so I have legislation that says that children need their parents consent uh to receive any type of vaccination and that's the way it should be because children are not the property of the state they're not the responsibility of the state they're not the responsibility of some bureaucrats sitting in a office building in Montgomery they're not the responsibility of anyone but the parents for their legal guardians and so that's who needs to make those informed decisions and so as a state I believe that's the way that Alabama legislature is going it's going towards you know more personal freedoms and more individual rights do you find it's difficult uh the further away we get from the pandemic um to keep people energized and trying to go after things that should have been you know fixed earlier or should have been right before we went through I think it was it was such a dark period of time a lot of people just want to turn the page they're not thinking of the 2040 pandemic or the maybe sooner than that well that's right you know I it almost on cue uh you're seeing the World Health Organization say that we need we have an emergency for monkeypox uh you know we have monkeypox is it's gonna wipe all of us out and they want us to wear mask again and they want us to go back and do these foolish things that you know we're gonna we're gonna be locked down and we're we're gonna keep Walmart open what we're gonna close those mom and pop businesses uh you know you can fly on a plane but you have to wear a mask until you you eat something on the plane and then you could take the mask off that miraculously people aren't going to get sick in those few minutes um you know it's just it's absurd but it's uh it's it's it is true that you know so much of that was used for political opportunity and political gain you saw it with the the the mail you know the vote by mail efforts the drop boxes and you're seeing it again this morning I saw a video that Harris had a mask on her husband had a mask on she kissed him with the mask all of her staff had mask on as they boarded through masks they had they had mask on and they bumped mask I guess and uh you know it's just it's absurd it's a way to control people masks don't work they're foolish um you know I had legislation last year actually too that uh that parents could remove if there was a mask mandate that parents could tell their uh that their children could opt out all they had to do was sign a form and send it into school and and things like that it protects individual rights because if I'm a parent I want my child to wear a mask the child can wear a mask it doesn't say you don't you can't wear a mask it just says that those children uh the parents don't want them to wear a mask then they shouldn't have to wear a mask and I believe that as an individual too you know I won't wear a mask I think that uh as an individual I should have the right to make my own decisions and stand tall them on two feet yeah I almost feel silly maybe not silly but at the time early in 2020 you're you're thinking hey I'll put the mask on it's not that big a deal but then if you remember there was a moment there where a lot of us were saying hey you know if it makes other people feel good I'd do it but then it just the avalanche kept coming and they kept saying if you don't you're a horrible person what are you trying to kill grandma but at the early early moments of that I think there were a lot of well-intentioned people who said hey I don't think these masks are doing much but if it makes you feel better I'll do it and I think they really took that and kind of beat us over the head with it oh you're right I mean early on you know even in the legislature we had to wear a mask if we wanted to walk out on the floor and those sorts of things and so you just you had to do it and it was one we were in unchartered waters you know we were now we we know better we we got hindsight to look back on that and you know studies have shown that actually more people when we had the Spanish flu following World War One that more people actually died from wearing masks because it caused pneumonia and people died from pneumonia you know it's it just it makes sense that if you if small particles can get through a mask and even on the um you know on the uh not the world healthy the CDC websites at the early stages of covid if you remember Fauci was saying no you don't wear a mask you don't have to wear a mask and it was actually on their website that saying it's not effective and then for political purposes I think it's a way of controlling people that um you know you you have to do this and they they wiped all that out and all of a sudden it became a tool to to supposedly try to keep people safe. We always get a lot of 45 texts whenever highway 45 comes up. David says even though the entire stretch of 45 needs to be four lane if they would focus on the stretch from 158 to citronel that would take care of the vast majority of the problems so another take on 45 there. Well that's probably right I would think they would start on that section that that is closest to Mississippi and work back to me that would make the most sense and you know it something has to be done you know and I know people are working hard on trying to find a solution for that. Another texture Shane Stringer is right about Aliyah boarding and harassing boaters. I've had an officer board my vessel and made me throw back six white trout which I have no limit saying they were speckled trout with no spots. I get the safety checks but if they're going to try to enforce conservation laws they need to learn their fish is what this texture says. Yeah there's no limit on white trout you should be able to keep all those. That's one of my favorite fish on the Hollinger's Island reef out there. They're uh I'm giving my secrets away if you don't. But they're abundant you know there there's there's a reason there's no limit on them and and I agree I know that Representative Stringer is working on that legislation and we both get calls on that and we'll be working on that together. Here's more legislation I'm glad Chris brought this up Chris and Orange Beach I was telling you unprompted before the show about my family's history with hearing aids. We all like to do things that ruins our hearing so the hearing aid tax bill and Chris said I'm about to spend four hundred dollars on taxes for hearing aids or hearing aid. Please tell me if this new bill Governor Ivey signed into law goes into effect October 1st and save me 400 please but I believe that's by municipality right. That's right yeah it's the state portion of it but the municipalities can to make up their own decisions on that and I know that was Representative Margie Wilcox from House District 104 that was her legislation and she is working overtime to try to remedy that situation. I was in a meeting with her the other night and we both spoke and that was one of the the biggest points that she made was that she's trying to work with these mayors particularly locally to try to get a voice to try to change that legislation that the cities will follow the state and do away with the tax. And she needs to say it loudly or or have closed captioning for most folks who it matters for to know what's going on. Want to get to some more text when we get back here? Yeah it sounds good. 251-3430-106 last segment here of Midday Mobile with Representative Chipron. This is Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan on FMTalk1065. All right we're back this is Chip Brown filling in for Sean Sullivan where we're spending the afternoon taking a few texts here and talking about different legislation of course presidential election coming up November 5th you know it's just an interesting time to be alive and I know legislation that a lot of people always bring up on the text line whenever we talk about it or especially now that you're on these seafood bills and especially the country of origin bill from this last session that passed so where do we stand on that and do you have other similar items kind of in the works? Yeah we that was House Bill 66 in this last legislative session and that came out of the committee that I chair in the legislature that's the committee on ports and waterways and what that does is it it says that if you go to a restaurant or you know a deli a market that they have to tell you the country of origin they have to tell you if it's imported or if it's domestic or if it's wild caught or if it's farm raised and that comes out of of you know things like my own experience you know I went to a place local place back about a year ago and I asked the waitress what was the fresh catch of the day and she said she said sway and you know I said well where's that from and she said I think it's from the Gulf of Mexico and of course it's not because what that is is Vietnamese catfish that's raised along the Mekong Delta and if you ever see videos of how they raise that in the ditches you won't want to each sway and you know it's by doing that too it it does two things really you know our seafood industry in the state of Alabama and really nationally is under siege the federal government goes around the world and they they spend billions of dollars through USAID and through the World Bank and they they modernize seafood industries in countries like India, Ecuador, Liberia, all these emerging countries and economies and then we help them build up their commercial seafood industry and then their government subsidize them and then in turn they flood the US market with imports and we either don't charge any tariff or we charge very low tariffs so what we we have a problem right now with Ecuador where we haven't had any tariff on Ecuador we help them modernize their seafood industry and then we allowed them to to flood the market here in the United States and not only they flood the market they buy up all the cold storage so that when we finally do impose a tariff on Ecuador they have shrimp that's already pre-positioned to take advantage of that you know and so you get those situations and it it really hurts our commercial seafood industry that they have to pay for fuel they have to pay for you know labor costs they have to pay for insurance they have to pay for equipment I mean we've done a few things as a state I had a bill I believe it was two years ago that for the first time it treats commercial seafood as agriculture and because they are farmers they farm the sea you know and but in the past they weren't able to take advantage of the same tax breaks that our farmers get and so for the first time with the passage of that bill it was signed by Governor Ivy two years ago now our commercial seafood doesn't pay taxes on nets and you know line or those sorts of things and then they pay the lowest-evilorem tax on boats that that puts them in line with agriculture buying equipment like tractors and that sorts of things so we as a state we have to do what we can twofold one to combat the federal government to to get creative and look at things like that that can help out the commercial seafood industry but then at the same time we also look at legislation like that that lets you know where your seafood is coming from and it's a health issue the public has a right to be informed they they need to know where their their food is coming from and so this legislation will do that it'll allow those the people to know where their seafood is coming from and then this year I have a house bill one actually was the first bill filed nice that is the second part of that legislation that I passed last year then we'll go into effect this fall and what it does is it creates a fund that's paid for by seafood wholesalers that when they sell seafood that's imported they pay a fee a licensing fee every year that goes along just as a you know on part of the license that they already get from the state of Alabama to be able to be in business and what that money is what that money goes to is we'll go to the health department department of public health to have inspectors to inspect the seafood that comes into the state of Alabama because you know on the the domestic side we we have chain of custody we know where that seafood came from who touched it what truck it was on you know who handled it where it was this day that day so when it hits your table you can feel confident that if it was caught in the state of Alabama we know where it came from but if it's imported from you know India anywhere anywhere around the globe we don't know who touched that was it laying in the hole of a ship that didn't have refrigeration and it's tainted we don't know and so by doing this will it's a better effort to keep the people safe and that ties in so nicely what you're discussing I think in the first hour about our agriculture in this state and the products we make the products that come from our soil that we send off and then buy retail after it's you know put together by whatever country using sometimes slave labor sometimes just cheap awful working conditions kind of the same thing with our seafood industry there that's right you know it it actually unfortunately you have situations where international boats will catch seafood in U.S. waters and it's still cheaper for them though to send it back to say Thailand have it packaged and then sent back to the United States because our fuel costs labor cost everything are so high right now with this economy that you know we have boats just sitting at the docks that I was in biobatry a few days ago and there were definitely more boats at the docks and then we're out and so we we have to rectify that we have to I was you know I said earlier I was in Washington I was in Washington about three weeks ago and I went by Senator Britz office and Senator Turbyville's office and sat down and we had discussions about this and you know those first 100 days of a Trump administration that's one of the things that gets focused on is is looking at tariffs looking at at their their commerce rules and so we need to be on board we need to be ready very good I got anything else to say to the people no good out there and vote November 5th and you know I'm I'm proud to be your state representative in House District 105 and serve the people of state of Alabama god bless you and have a great week (upbeat music) (upbeat music)