i went to a rural school. we raised our children in rural public school. any daughter is a rural public school teacher. as i was talking to rural superintendents, i know i m not going to change your mind but i want to look you in the face and talk about, you know, public education is the foundation of our educational system. it s the foundation of our society. our state economy. so this isn t a zero sum gain. it will elevate education overall. so what can i help you do to make you feel more competitive? i heard over and over, we need flexibility, we can t be competitive when it comes to teacher s salaries. we put that in the bill. we gave them the flexibility to increase teacher salaries. we removed some of the burdensome lange and provided new money for some of the districts that have a private school if their system. so it s a win. our rural schools, even if they don t have a private school are getting a lot of options. martha: it makes things more competitive. it makes some public
race with outside money. but we just went after it, and we told a story of what congress has accomplished the last two years. and we reminded people in nevada that we were the hardest hit back by covid, with the unemployment about 35%, and now we are the fastest recovering place in the country. and people understood that, and appreciated it, and we went after it, and we will do so again, because we are not through with the problems. i wonder, i actually want to talk to you about the covid effect on all of this. because the democratic candidate, in terms of the governor s race, it seems like governors have been punished, in a way, or we talk about split ticket, but it looks like some democrats at the gubernatorial level is having a hard time then congressional democrats. and i wonder if you think that is because of covid, and the fact that some of these governors had to oversee the closure of local businesses, and take the hit to the state economy. is that why you are seeing different
local businesses, and take the hit to the state economy. is that why you are seeing different numbers in the same party for people in a gubernatorial race versus the congressional race? i think it is very likely. you cannot imagine how hard a decision it was for our governor to close down the strip. when our economy is so dependent on that income, where so many people are employed in tourism and travel business. to see the strip, you could drive down, it looked like the twilight zone. it closed down for several months. so i am sure that that has something to do with it. but if he hadn t done that, the recovery would have taken longer, it would have been harder. lives would have been lost, and it would have taken more of an effort to get people back into jobs, and children back into school. can you talk to me a little bit about the economic message? because there was a lot of cry about democrats and how they were going to talk about the economy, how they were gonna talk about inflat
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