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Dick Pryor: This is Capitol Insider, your weekly look inside Oklahoma politics, policy and government. I m Dick Pryor with eCapitol news director, Shawn Ashley. One of the biggest tasks facing the next legislature when it begins its work in February will be redistricting. Joining us again for Part Two of our discussion on how Oklahoma will draw legislative and congressional district lines in 2021 are House Redistricting Committee Chair, Representative Ryan Martinez, Republican from Edmond and Senate Select Committee on Redistricting Chair, Senator Lonnie Paxton, Republican from Tuttle. Welcome, gentlemen.
Lonnie Paxton and Ryan Martinez: Thank you for having us.
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let me say first it is my intention to withdraw this amendment but i certainly would like to be heard along with my colleague and hope that we can work together on this at some other point. mr. chairman, the purpose of the amendment is to ensure our nation s under served urban and rural communities have access to healthy food, that would authorize the development of a healthy food initiative at the department of agriculture. oir senate colleagues included the exact language when they passioned the farm bill a few weeks ago. the healthy food financing initiative will provide the critical assistance, our urban and rural communities need to access healthy and affordable food. by providing a one time grant and loan financing grocery stores, food cooperatives and farmers will be given the support they need to enter new underserved markets and provide healthy groceries at an affordable price. hunger and obesity, both of these problems are a result of under served communities have
alcohol to be one of the most dangerous, particularly, abused and every drug, there is a difference between use and abuse, that often gets lost in the hyperbole. and alcohol can be used safely but when alcohol is abused, it can use many, many problems, from drunk driving to liver disease on down. and, many studies have attributed major social problems to alcohol abuse including domestic violence. so, i would agree on that point and, yeah from the veterans i interviewed, many actually prefer, discussing the discrepancy, many prefer like going on a mission, if they were asked, you know, would you prefer to go on a mission with an alcoholic or somebody who smoked marijuana, they often, you know, prefer to marijuana because as you pointed out, it doesn t have the hangover effect and, is seen as. there are mixed studies but is generally seen as relatively harmless if not abused. so there was, you know, some did use it for self-medicating effects. and actually what i found inte