1 00:00:01,430 --> 00:00:02,360 Starting now. 2 00:00:03,060 --> 00:00:07,280 Commonalities where guests find common ground through uncommon 3 00:00:07,300 --> 00:00:10,920 conversations, politics, religion, finances, 4 00:00:11,020 --> 00:00:14,600 all the topics your grandmother told you not to discuss with friends. 5 00:00:14,940 --> 00:00:17,560 And now your host, Matthew Dowling, 6 00:00:17,820 --> 00:00:20,600 and today's guests commonalities. 7 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:30,930 Well, thank you for joining another episode of Commonalities. I'm your host, 8 00:00:30,930 --> 00:00:35,370 Matt Dowling. My guest today is a gentleman by the name of Jesse Moats. 9 00:00:35,370 --> 00:00:39,730 If you're from the a Gallatin School District area, you may have met, 10 00:00:40,100 --> 00:00:44,410 uh, Jesse or his son, Herman. Uh, they are always out and about. 11 00:00:44,420 --> 00:00:46,490 Jesse's been a, uh, 12 00:00:46,490 --> 00:00:50,450 member of the council in Smithfield Borough for 22 years, 13 00:00:50,830 --> 00:00:55,170 and he's been a committee man on the Republican Party Committee, uh, 14 00:00:55,180 --> 00:00:59,370 on and off since he was 18 years old. Jesse, welcome to the program. 15 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:03,690 I wanted to give you a chance at the top of the show here to, uh, 16 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:07,530 tell us a little bit about your background, a self introduction, if you will, 17 00:01:07,990 --> 00:01:10,810 and, uh, and anything else you wanted to add in there. 18 00:01:11,900 --> 00:01:15,230 Okay. Uh, good morning. First of all, thank you, uh, Matt, 19 00:01:15,230 --> 00:01:18,510 for having me on the show. I really appreciate the giving me the time to speak. 20 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,020 Um, I, uh, 21 00:01:21,020 --> 00:01:25,860 grew up in a little village over Hayden Town, George's Township. 22 00:01:25,860 --> 00:01:29,380 Lived there all my life until I got married. And, uh, 23 00:01:30,370 --> 00:01:32,700 I was married for 31 years and one month, uh, 24 00:01:32,700 --> 00:01:36,980 until I lost my wife six years ago. I have one son, Hermann, and, uh, 25 00:01:37,250 --> 00:01:40,980 he's turned in to be a fine young man and whatever. My best pal. 26 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:45,300 And I've lived in, uh, Smithfield Barr now for, uh, 27 00:01:45,300 --> 00:01:49,980 since 1997, and I've been on council for 22 years. And, 28 00:01:49,990 --> 00:01:54,580 uh, I am a, uh, conservative Republican. I am pro-life, 29 00:01:54,930 --> 00:01:58,740 pro-choice. I am strongly support the Second Amendment, 30 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,820 and I follow and support the Constitution of the United States as it's written 31 00:02:03,820 --> 00:02:06,780 by our founding fathers. And, uh, 32 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:11,300 I'm retired from wvu uh, college. I worked at the college for, uh, 33 00:02:11,830 --> 00:02:16,390 uh, quite a few years. And, uh, 34 00:02:17,420 --> 00:02:21,710 also I am, uh, I believe in family values, 35 00:02:21,820 --> 00:02:24,750 morals, and co good common sense. So, you know, 36 00:02:24,750 --> 00:02:28,390 that's a little bit about my background and whatever. And, uh, 37 00:02:28,420 --> 00:02:31,830 I look forward to, uh, serving on the board if I am elected, 38 00:02:31,830 --> 00:02:36,150 and I will make the best possible decisions to benefit our parent and students 39 00:02:36,150 --> 00:02:39,790 and, and improve the school system in the Abu Allen area school district. 40 00:02:42,260 --> 00:02:46,600 Now, I, I think you wanted to, uh, hear at the top of the show wish, uh, 41 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:48,840 a happy birthday to someone. So let's get that. 42 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,360 Uh, away here, Jesse. Okay. Yeah. 43 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:57,120 I'd just like to wish my son Herman happy birthday coming up Saturday, and, uh, 44 00:02:57,630 --> 00:02:59,680 he's looking forward to that. But, uh, 45 00:03:00,270 --> 00:03:03,920 I just wanted to make sure I got a chance to say happy birthday to him. 46 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:09,570 Well, uh, you know, we, we had a pre-call yesterday where we did, uh, 47 00:03:09,570 --> 00:03:14,410 a little bit of a pre-interview. We do that normally, uh, with my guests. And, 48 00:03:14,740 --> 00:03:19,530 uh, one of the questions that, uh, that we discussed a little bit, um, 49 00:03:19,790 --> 00:03:24,290 was why you were interested in running for, uh, 50 00:03:24,290 --> 00:03:28,770 school board director. You have been a councilman for 22 years. 51 00:03:29,300 --> 00:03:32,290 Um, you know, why school board and why now? 52 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,930 Okay. Well, you know, uh, I, uh, 53 00:03:36,930 --> 00:03:38,970 care about our children and grandchildren, 54 00:03:39,670 --> 00:03:42,010 and I want to help if I can, 55 00:03:42,010 --> 00:03:46,450 to ensure the best possible educational outcomes for all students because they 56 00:03:46,450 --> 00:03:49,250 are the future of tomorrow. And, uh, 57 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,130 I think I have the ability to make good, uh, 58 00:03:52,130 --> 00:03:57,010 sound deci decisions I always have since I've been on council, I believe. And, 59 00:03:57,020 --> 00:04:00,930 uh, you know, I'm no different than anybody else. I mean, you, 60 00:04:00,930 --> 00:04:05,330 I've had some good things in my life happen and some bad things happen and have 61 00:04:05,330 --> 00:04:06,690 some good times and some bad times. 62 00:04:06,910 --> 00:04:11,050 But I've always tried to give a little bit back to my community. So I, 63 00:04:11,050 --> 00:04:15,250 I decided, you know, I'm wanted to try and do something to help improve the, uh, 64 00:04:15,250 --> 00:04:18,490 educational skills and stuff for our students out in the Albert College School 65 00:04:18,770 --> 00:04:22,640 District. So that's, that's the main reason that I'm running. 66 00:04:23,500 --> 00:04:27,040 You know, I, I was, uh, I was once told, uh, 67 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,960 by someone who was in politics for quite a long time that, uh, 68 00:04:31,030 --> 00:04:35,480 good political candidates go to school boards to, to die, 69 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:37,520 because you can only do two things, 70 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:41,400 raise taxes or eliminate services, 71 00:04:41,420 --> 00:04:45,360 and you have to find a, a healthy balance between those two things. 72 00:04:45,870 --> 00:04:50,680 I wanted to talk to you first about your opinion on school taxes 73 00:04:50,820 --> 00:04:55,680 and, and should we, um, be looking at an increase in school taxes. 74 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:58,840 I know there are a lot of fund program, uh, excuse me, 75 00:04:58,840 --> 00:05:02,960 a lot of programs that you want to continue to fund, but let's, uh, 76 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:07,560 start talking a little bit about your opinion on school board taxes. 77 00:05:08,590 --> 00:05:12,840 Okay. Uh, first of all, you know, I'm not in favor of raising any taxes. I, I, 78 00:05:12,840 --> 00:05:15,720 uh, pride myself on holding the line on taxes. 79 00:05:15,850 --> 00:05:20,840 So I will not vote for any increases in the school board taxes or whatever. And, 80 00:05:20,840 --> 00:05:21,510 uh, 81 00:05:21,510 --> 00:05:26,200 I will look for other alternatives to try and bring money and revenue into the 82 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:29,360 district to help fund the, uh, the, uh, schools and everything else. 83 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:33,440 But I believe our senior citizens and, and everyone else, you know, uh, 84 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,200 has gone through a lot in the last few years. Instead, 85 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,000 prices are out of control everywhere. 86 00:05:38,180 --> 00:05:42,640 And last thing they need to do is have their school taxes or any other taxes 87 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:44,080 raise, you know what I mean? At this time. 88 00:05:45,220 --> 00:05:49,760 Now, you know, I, I still in my mind think of myself as, 89 00:05:49,770 --> 00:05:52,000 as a young person and, uh, 90 00:05:52,070 --> 00:05:54,960 feel like I just graduated from high school yesterday. 91 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:59,760 But being that I graduated 2020 or 20 or 2003, 92 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:00,593 excuse me, 93 00:06:00,620 --> 00:06:05,320 and we're now in 20, 23, 20 years have passed and our schools 94 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:10,080 have, uh, become much different in that timeframe. We see, 95 00:06:10,130 --> 00:06:14,880 uh, constantly that there are, uh, violence that happen in our schools. 96 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:18,400 We've seen, uh, multiple school shootings over the years. 97 00:06:18,690 --> 00:06:22,960 So I wanted to give you a question about school security and, 98 00:06:23,260 --> 00:06:27,960 you know, what in your mind makes sense to keep our kids safe, 99 00:06:28,450 --> 00:06:32,640 uh, while they're, you know, receiving our educational programs during the day? 100 00:06:33,780 --> 00:06:36,870 Okay. Well, I believe that we, we need to have, uh, 101 00:06:36,870 --> 00:06:38,390 at the times we live in today, 102 00:06:38,390 --> 00:06:41,510 you never know what is going to happen on any given day. 103 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:46,510 So I would support keeping our security, uh, officers at, 104 00:06:46,510 --> 00:06:49,630 at the school and stuff to, uh, maintain, uh, 105 00:06:49,630 --> 00:06:52,390 the protection of our students while they're in school and the staff and 106 00:06:52,510 --> 00:06:54,990 everyone else. So I am in favor of, uh, 107 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:59,110 of the having security officers in the school. And, uh, 108 00:06:59,300 --> 00:07:02,270 I know we had talked about, uh, uh, 109 00:07:02,340 --> 00:07:06,630 some of the school districts who are smaller that maybe can't afford, uh, uh, 110 00:07:07,030 --> 00:07:12,010 security and, uh, about arming maybe, uh, custodians or whatever stuff, 111 00:07:12,010 --> 00:07:14,450 uh, if they have the ability and, 112 00:07:14,450 --> 00:07:18,090 and want to do that to have some kind of a protection for our students. 113 00:07:18,090 --> 00:07:21,410 And I would be in favor of something like that as long as they, 114 00:07:21,410 --> 00:07:25,770 they have direct 2 35 and have done the training to complete the course of stuff 115 00:07:25,770 --> 00:07:29,450 and, and, uh, firearms and everything, uh, of that nature. 116 00:07:29,540 --> 00:07:32,690 So something like that I would be in favor of, cuz some kind, 117 00:07:32,690 --> 00:07:35,410 some kind of protection is better than no protection at all. 118 00:07:36,870 --> 00:07:40,120 Sure. And, and yesterday in our pre-call, 119 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:44,680 you talked about some programs that you wanted to make sure that you continued 120 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:48,520 to fund, uh, for, for school students. Uh, 121 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:50,400 and those were after school programs. 122 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:54,440 So I wanted to give you a chance to talk a little bit about the programs that 123 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:58,800 you think are important to continue to fund adequately within the school 124 00:07:59,040 --> 00:07:59,873 district. 125 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:01,590 Oh, yes, of course. Uh, uh, 126 00:08:02,260 --> 00:08:05,550 I believe we should need to continue and support the, uh, 127 00:08:05,550 --> 00:08:08,470 activities in our sports department and, uh, 128 00:08:08,900 --> 00:08:12,310 ROTC RO OTC and any other activities that's after school, 129 00:08:12,310 --> 00:08:13,910 because we need to have, uh, 130 00:08:13,910 --> 00:08:17,470 these types of events and stuff for students to be involved in our stuff or 131 00:08:17,630 --> 00:08:20,630 whatever. Uh, it's good for them, it's good for the community. 132 00:08:21,610 --> 00:08:22,300 Yeah. And, 133 00:08:22,300 --> 00:08:26,620 and those afterschool programs definitely keep our kids off the streets and keep 134 00:08:26,620 --> 00:08:31,100 them out of trouble. Um, a another topic that, uh, that I wanted, 135 00:08:31,100 --> 00:08:34,580 wanted to ask you about is, um, you know, 136 00:08:34,580 --> 00:08:38,820 our career and technical institute that we have, uh, I, 137 00:08:39,090 --> 00:08:44,060 I know it's a, a multi-school district project that Abor Gallatin, uh, 138 00:08:44,060 --> 00:08:46,220 pays into to, to be a part of. 139 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:51,100 But I've seen some fantastic things come out of what we used to call vo-tech 140 00:08:51,100 --> 00:08:55,080 Now, cti, Fayette, cti, um, you know, know, 141 00:08:55,190 --> 00:08:59,680 they now have a, a bakery, a p pary, uh, 142 00:08:59,820 --> 00:09:04,000 and, uh, and a restaurant that the culinary students are operating, 143 00:09:04,530 --> 00:09:07,880 um, autobody. They have there, they have some different programs. 144 00:09:07,940 --> 00:09:12,920 One to get your feelings on, uh, our vo-tech options and, 145 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:15,800 and preparing our students kind of for, 146 00:09:15,940 --> 00:09:19,280 for a job that doesn't require a college education. 147 00:09:20,190 --> 00:09:22,440 Well, I, I think it's a, a, uh, 148 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:26,480 a good program that they have out there at the cti and, uh, uh, 149 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:28,760 I would recommend that if someone that, uh, 150 00:09:28,850 --> 00:09:32,280 is not interested in college or can't afford to go to college would like to do 151 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:35,600 some kind of a trade, it would be good for them and good for the community, 152 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:40,280 whatever. Cuz we are short on, on, uh, different, uh, jobs and everything in, 153 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:42,760 in the area on trade jobs and whatever. So it, 154 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:44,880 it is a good program that they have there and stuff. 155 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:47,040 And I believe that's something that, uh, 156 00:09:47,100 --> 00:09:50,520 our students should look at or whatever. 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And, uh, 220 00:14:07,490 --> 00:14:10,770 before we get back into our interview with Mr. Moz, 221 00:14:10,770 --> 00:14:15,770 I wanted to again publicly invite anyone who is running for public office 222 00:14:15,770 --> 00:14:20,010 in the upcoming primary election or the general election 223 00:14:20,500 --> 00:14:24,370 to reach out to me at info coordinated three sixty.com. 224 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:26,930 We'd be happy to have you on the program, 225 00:14:26,930 --> 00:14:31,850 whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, doesn't matter. We'd like to, uh, 226 00:14:32,310 --> 00:14:35,730 get your message out to the voters, uh, 227 00:14:35,730 --> 00:14:40,650 just like we're doing today with, uh, with Mr. Moats and his campaign for, uh, 228 00:14:40,930 --> 00:14:43,890 Albert Gallatin School board. So if you're running for public office, 229 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:46,010 this is public notice that, uh, 230 00:14:46,010 --> 00:14:50,330 we'd love to have you as a guest on commonalities. Now, uh, Mr. Moz, 231 00:14:50,540 --> 00:14:52,040 we about, uh, 232 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:56,840 in the pre-interview some things that you wanted to see happen in schools, 233 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,600 and I think we touched on a lot of those before the break. 234 00:14:59,820 --> 00:15:04,520 And then we talked about some things that you're not so much in favor of 235 00:15:04,530 --> 00:15:08,120 in our public schools, and I wanted to give you a chance to, 236 00:15:08,490 --> 00:15:11,800 to talk about some of the, the do not that, uh, 237 00:15:11,830 --> 00:15:14,480 that as a school board member you would vote against. 238 00:15:15,790 --> 00:15:17,820 Uh, yes. Uh, one of the things, you know, 239 00:15:17,820 --> 00:15:21,220 that's going on all around the country anymore is whether the, 240 00:15:21,220 --> 00:15:25,220 is the transgender thing or whatever, and talk about transgender, uh, 241 00:15:25,500 --> 00:15:27,180 restrooms and public schools and everything else. 242 00:15:27,180 --> 00:15:31,740 And I am totally against that because it puts our students in danger and, uh, 243 00:15:31,970 --> 00:15:36,340 I am totally against that and will not vote and support any kind of transgender, 244 00:15:36,910 --> 00:15:41,900 uh, restrooms or anything else in our school district. And, uh, also, 245 00:15:41,900 --> 00:15:46,340 you know, there's been talk about, uh, uh, transgenders or whatever, uh, 246 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:48,460 men that transgender to, uh, 247 00:15:48,460 --> 00:15:51,820 wanting to be a women and one of them participate in, uh, 248 00:15:51,820 --> 00:15:54,180 girls sports and stuff in schools and stuff. 249 00:15:54,180 --> 00:15:59,100 I am totally against that because I believe that is totally morally 250 00:15:59,100 --> 00:16:00,820 and totally wrong. And, uh, 251 00:16:00,890 --> 00:16:04,340 I I'm not in favor of anything like that and I will not support anything like 252 00:16:04,340 --> 00:16:05,173 that. 253 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:11,130 Sure. And, and I know that's becoming a big topic, especially in our, uh, 254 00:16:11,900 --> 00:16:16,170 in our big cities like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. 255 00:16:16,620 --> 00:16:16,970 Um, 256 00:16:16,970 --> 00:16:21,770 but it won't be long before issues like that start to touch rural areas like, 257 00:16:21,780 --> 00:16:26,450 uh, Georgia's Township and, and Fair Chance, et cetera, uh, 258 00:16:26,450 --> 00:16:28,890 that are down there in the Albert Gallatin School District. 259 00:16:28,890 --> 00:16:30,650 So it's good to know, um, 260 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:35,370 what you will or what you won't support as a school director and, 261 00:16:35,370 --> 00:16:38,290 and holding the line on, um, you know, 262 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:43,410 biological females only participating in girls sports is 263 00:16:43,410 --> 00:16:48,130 something that I think a lot of the parents out there, uh, would support. Um, 264 00:16:48,130 --> 00:16:51,810 you know, I try to stay pretty neutral on this show as the host, uh, 265 00:16:51,810 --> 00:16:53,450 but it's something that, you know, 266 00:16:53,450 --> 00:16:56,850 I saw several bills moving in the Pennsylvania house, uh, 267 00:16:56,850 --> 00:17:01,850 prior to my retirement. And I know that that's an issue that is, uh, 268 00:17:01,850 --> 00:17:05,770 has not been fixed yet, uh, on a statewide basis. 269 00:17:06,100 --> 00:17:09,730 So it's gonna come down to our individual school directors, uh, 270 00:17:09,730 --> 00:17:11,210 to make those kind of, uh, 271 00:17:11,210 --> 00:17:15,330 choices or determinations until the Commonwealth has, uh, 272 00:17:15,330 --> 00:17:19,770 has passed laws that either permit or don't permit, uh, 273 00:17:19,990 --> 00:17:24,970 transgendered individuals from participating in different sports. Um, 274 00:17:25,190 --> 00:17:29,130 you know, one of the other things that you had mentioned to me yesterday was, 275 00:17:29,500 --> 00:17:29,850 uh, 276 00:17:29,850 --> 00:17:34,850 about some of the curriculums that deal with sexuality in our 277 00:17:34,850 --> 00:17:38,130 elementary schools. Uh, you know, where teachers are, 278 00:17:38,350 --> 00:17:41,930 are teaching different things that deal with an individual's, uh, 279 00:17:41,930 --> 00:17:46,770 sexuality wanted to kind of give you a launching point to talk 280 00:17:46,770 --> 00:17:49,600 about your opinions on that issue. Um, 281 00:17:49,690 --> 00:17:54,200 do you think it's right that our elementary school teachers have curriculum 282 00:17:54,310 --> 00:17:59,080 that, uh, that talks about sexuality with our students, uh, in, 283 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:00,400 in those elementary years? 284 00:18:01,380 --> 00:18:05,730 Uh, no. I do not. I do not believe in that, uh, that that is totally wrong. And, 285 00:18:05,730 --> 00:18:10,130 and there's no place for that should be no place for that in our schools with 286 00:18:10,130 --> 00:18:13,170 the teachers, uh, having to do that with our students or whatever. 287 00:18:13,170 --> 00:18:15,490 That's something that should be, uh, 288 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:20,810 taught by or was discussed with the parents or discussed in and maybe, uh, 289 00:18:20,810 --> 00:18:23,490 church with your minister or something of that nature. 290 00:18:23,750 --> 00:18:26,570 But as far as having this in the schools and everything else, 291 00:18:26,570 --> 00:18:29,530 I believe it's totally wrong, and I will not support that. 292 00:18:30,910 --> 00:18:35,570 Now. You know, I, I reflect back on my years, uh, 293 00:18:35,740 --> 00:18:39,330 in, in school. I was, uh, privately educated at a, 294 00:18:39,330 --> 00:18:42,650 at a Catholic parochial parish for elementary school, 295 00:18:42,650 --> 00:18:46,890 and then went into the Uniontown Area School District and graduated from 296 00:18:46,890 --> 00:18:51,570 Uniontown High School. I have, uh, a number of teachers that, you know, 297 00:18:51,570 --> 00:18:56,370 I could call out by name that I know were influential on making me the person 298 00:18:56,370 --> 00:19:01,090 that I am today and, you know, had really positive experiences with them. 299 00:19:01,170 --> 00:19:05,130 Sometimes our teachers get a bad rap during, uh, you know, 300 00:19:05,130 --> 00:19:10,130 union negotiation and, and so forth. And, uh, I I wanted to, 301 00:19:10,130 --> 00:19:14,730 you know, ask your question, ask your question, dealing with, uh, 302 00:19:14,730 --> 00:19:18,090 what type of teachers we should be hiring, uh, 303 00:19:18,090 --> 00:19:22,890 and how we should be negotiating those teachers salary contracts, 304 00:19:23,180 --> 00:19:27,690 knowing that, uh, you know, politicians did some bad things, uh, 305 00:19:27,690 --> 00:19:31,490 in the early two thousands with their, uh, 306 00:19:31,670 --> 00:19:36,130 the teacher's retirement benefits and with their pension plan. Uh, you know, 307 00:19:36,130 --> 00:19:39,890 the state saw huge interest coming in, uh, 308 00:19:39,890 --> 00:19:43,570 when we were kind of at the boom of the market. And, uh, 309 00:19:43,570 --> 00:19:47,690 and the Commonwealth didn't make payments into that, uh, pension fund. 310 00:19:47,990 --> 00:19:50,890 And then when the crash happened, uh, 311 00:19:50,890 --> 00:19:55,170 the housing bubble that bursted in the early two thousands, um, 312 00:19:55,180 --> 00:19:57,770 of course we saw, um, 313 00:19:58,290 --> 00:20:02,130 those funds rapidly decrease and it left us 314 00:20:02,550 --> 00:20:07,370 substantially lower for the pension obligations that we needed to, to make. 315 00:20:07,370 --> 00:20:11,610 So one of our biggest cost drivers in public education is the cost of pension. 316 00:20:12,300 --> 00:20:16,770 Uh, but I wanted you to talk a little bit about how you foresee contract 317 00:20:16,770 --> 00:20:20,930 negotiations and, you know, is it important that, uh, 318 00:20:20,930 --> 00:20:23,930 that we get the best teachers possible, things of that nature? 319 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:26,890 Okay. Yeah. Well, first of all, I wanna say, you know, 320 00:20:26,890 --> 00:20:29,050 we have some of the best teachers, uh, 321 00:20:29,360 --> 00:20:33,170 that anywhere in the district or anywhere in the county here in the Albert 322 00:20:33,170 --> 00:20:35,410 County School District, and I know a couple of 'em personally, 323 00:20:35,590 --> 00:20:39,650 and they go above and beyond the call of duty on doing their jobs and, 324 00:20:39,650 --> 00:20:42,050 and working with our students and, and everything. 325 00:20:42,350 --> 00:20:44,610 And so I just wanted to mention that, uh, you know, 326 00:20:44,610 --> 00:20:46,410 we do have some of the best teachers here and stuff, 327 00:20:46,410 --> 00:20:50,680 and I would always look for the best possible candidates for teachers or 328 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:53,920 whatever, because we need, uh, to have the good teachers, uh, 329 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,600 the best that we can find. Because if you don't have a good teacher, 330 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,240 then you're not gonna have good students. So, you know, 331 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:01,960 and as far as negotiation with the contracts and everything else, 332 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,360 I would go to the wall with, uh, 333 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:08,240 the teachers and help them get as much, uh, 334 00:21:09,530 --> 00:21:14,160 contract, uh, with the, uh, state or whatever, you know, 335 00:21:14,490 --> 00:21:18,600 as much as possible because they, they, they do a good job and, 336 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:22,960 and they deserve to have a, they decent wage and funding for their, 337 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:24,640 their pensions or whatever, you know, 338 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:29,560 and there's other alternatives and other ways to try and raise money to, uh, uh, 339 00:21:30,020 --> 00:21:34,590 fund the, uh, uh, pension system or whatever. And, and the state needs to, uh, 340 00:21:34,590 --> 00:21:39,110 do as much as they can to, uh, uh, help fund that, uh, pension, whatever. 341 00:21:39,110 --> 00:21:42,790 Cause like I say, we, we do need the best possible teachers that we can find. 342 00:21:42,790 --> 00:21:47,730 And there is a lot of 'em here. Well, we have to get our second break in, 343 00:21:47,860 --> 00:21:52,130 uh, for the program, Mr. Moats. We'll be right back here on commonalities. 344 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:59,770 You're listening to commonalities where guests find common ground through 345 00:22:00,090 --> 00:22:01,250 uncommon conversations. 346 00:22:01,810 --> 00:22:05,130 We'll be back after this brief break to recognize our sponsors. 347 00:22:08,270 --> 00:22:11,290 I'm Melinda De LaRose. As an Assistant District Attorney, 348 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:15,330 I've protected Fayette County families and fought to uphold our constitutional 349 00:22:15,330 --> 00:22:18,130 rights. 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Uh, 403 00:25:47,510 --> 00:25:50,630 he is currently a councilman, uh, 404 00:25:50,630 --> 00:25:54,630 on the Smithfield Borough Council. He's been serving for 22 years. 405 00:25:54,630 --> 00:25:58,870 He's now running to be a school director in the Albert Gallatin Area School 406 00:25:59,110 --> 00:26:03,950 District. Um, Mr. Moz, thank you so much for joining us on today's program. 407 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:05,630 Uh, again, 408 00:26:05,630 --> 00:26:08,830 I wanna make that public announcement that if you're running for any public 409 00:26:08,830 --> 00:26:10,670 office, regardless of political party, 410 00:26:10,970 --> 00:26:15,150 I'd love to have you as a guest on the program. Uh, so reach out to me. 411 00:26:15,150 --> 00:26:17,390 You can find all my contact information at 412 00:26:17,930 --> 00:26:22,670 www.matthewdasindaviddowling.com, 413 00:26:22,670 --> 00:26:25,430 matthew d dowling.com, and, uh, 414 00:26:25,430 --> 00:26:28,670 shoot me a message and tell me you'd like to be on the show so that we could 415 00:26:28,670 --> 00:26:31,110 share your thoughts and opinions, uh, 416 00:26:31,110 --> 00:26:35,870 as someone running for office with the constituents. That will be, uh, 417 00:26:36,110 --> 00:26:39,950 going out to the polls here in just a few weeks, uh, 418 00:26:39,950 --> 00:26:44,400 for our primary election, or if need be, we can get you on before the, uh, 419 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,960 the November general election. So, Mr. Moz, uh, 420 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:52,520 we've talked about a lot of the, uh, the dos and the do nots that, uh, 421 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:57,360 that you believe that the school districts should, uh, either do or do not, 422 00:26:57,810 --> 00:27:02,680 uh, already. But I wanted to talk to you a little bit about, uh, 423 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:07,520 a little bit further about taxation. Uh, you know, I know that, uh, 424 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:12,360 having served this area in, uh, the state assembly, um, 425 00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:17,120 I know that we have a lot of senior citizens that are on fixed incomes. Um, 426 00:27:17,540 --> 00:27:21,960 and I wanted to talk to you about school taxes. And, uh, 427 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,880 you already said that you wouldn't support a increase, 428 00:27:25,420 --> 00:27:30,160 but would you be interested in looking at plans that funded education, 429 00:27:30,690 --> 00:27:34,920 uh, throughout the entire Commonwealth a little bit differently? And, uh, 430 00:27:35,100 --> 00:27:38,840 and do you have any ideas for alternative ways, uh, 431 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:43,600 that we can fund education so we can keep the programs that we need while 432 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:48,240 lowering that burden on, uh, especially our senior citizens with fixed incomes? 433 00:27:49,210 --> 00:27:53,520 Uh, yes. Uh, I would, uh, um, entertain the, uh, 434 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,680 plans or whatever and, and look at different options or whatever on, on, uh, 435 00:27:58,210 --> 00:28:02,920 uh, funding, uh, uh, reducing taxes for the, uh, seniors and funding, uh, taxes, 436 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,320 uh, for the school board different way or whatever. 437 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,760 And there's always alternatives to look at. And, uh, 438 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,120 right now I'm in the process, uh, of, uh, 439 00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:14,680 going through some things and looking at that or whatever. And, uh, I will, uh, 440 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:19,000 come in and, and recommend some, uh, recommendations later on, you know, 441 00:28:19,290 --> 00:28:22,320 as the campaign goes on. But I am looking into things like that, 442 00:28:22,330 --> 00:28:23,760 of that nature right now. 443 00:28:24,940 --> 00:28:28,440 Now to see that shift, you're gonna have to see, um, 444 00:28:28,750 --> 00:28:33,200 some changes made at the state level that would be kind of beyond your, 445 00:28:33,530 --> 00:28:37,600 uh, ability to make change as a school board director. 446 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:41,000 But you would have to interface with your, uh, 447 00:28:41,150 --> 00:28:45,720 with your state representative and with your state senator. Uh, 448 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,320 are those people that you know and you would feel comfortable reaching out to 449 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,760 and, and talking about alternative ways of, of funding education? 450 00:28:53,580 --> 00:28:56,000 Yes, I do. Uh, I mean, I, I have good, 451 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,480 have good relationship with her new state representative and Christopher 452 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:04,560 District, whatever, and, and, uh, with our state senators, pat Stano and I'm, 453 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:09,040 I would, I'm sure I'd be able to reach out and, and discuss, uh, with them, 454 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,560 you know, some of the alternatives and stuff like that. 455 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,400 And hopefully we get some good responses. 456 00:29:14,100 --> 00:29:14,920 You know, and, 457 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:19,320 and we've been talking about one of the alternative ways to fund education, 458 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,840 being moving state sales tax from, uh, 459 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,880 6% on the dollar to 7% and 460 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:31,320 expanding some of the goods that are taxed here in Pennsylvania. Um, 461 00:29:31,330 --> 00:29:35,800 we don't tax necessities like food or clothing, um, 462 00:29:35,860 --> 00:29:39,920 you know, that's a start. Uh, and, and I wanna know if, 463 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:41,960 if you would support that. Um, 464 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:46,160 but just raising that sales tax by 1%, uh, 465 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:50,560 studies have shown isn't enough of a tax shift, uh, 466 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:54,280 to completely eliminate property tax, but it would help, uh, is, 467 00:29:54,290 --> 00:29:58,000 is that an alternative that you would, uh, you would support and consider? 468 00:29:58,750 --> 00:30:03,180 Well, I would, I would, uh, support, uh, the, uh, 469 00:30:03,180 --> 00:30:07,980 1% increase to 7% as long as, uh, we didn't, uh, 470 00:30:09,530 --> 00:30:12,350 use, uh, didn't put the tax on the food and, uh, 471 00:30:12,350 --> 00:30:15,710 health items and other things like that, whatever clothing items, I, 472 00:30:15,710 --> 00:30:19,230 I still don't believe we should tax that. But if, uh, raising, uh, 473 00:30:19,230 --> 00:30:23,830 the sale tax 1% would help reduce property taxes of that nature stuff, 474 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:25,430 AI would be in favor of that. 475 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:30,290 Sure. So, uh, you know, I, I wanna, um, 476 00:30:30,530 --> 00:30:34,290 shift gears here a little bit because we are getting to the end of, 477 00:30:34,290 --> 00:30:38,850 of today's interview. We have, uh, about six minutes or so left. Um, 478 00:30:38,870 --> 00:30:43,290 you know, I want to allow you to give out your information. 479 00:30:43,540 --> 00:30:47,250 Uh, if someone wants to get in touch with you, talk about your campaign, 480 00:30:47,250 --> 00:30:51,210 help you with your campaign, uh, how can they go about doing that? 481 00:30:51,470 --> 00:30:55,490 And we'll get to that in just a moment. But I, I also wanted to, uh, 482 00:30:55,860 --> 00:30:59,370 to allow you to, to add anything else that, uh, 483 00:30:59,370 --> 00:31:02,410 you think is important about, um, 484 00:31:02,790 --> 00:31:07,490 our K through 12 education, um, uh, 485 00:31:07,490 --> 00:31:09,370 that we haven't discussed so far in the program. 486 00:31:09,660 --> 00:31:13,930 So go ahead and take a couple minutes and wrap it up and give your contact 487 00:31:13,930 --> 00:31:17,650 information out if someone wants to get in touch with your campaign. 488 00:31:18,270 --> 00:31:22,160 Okay. Uh, well, yeah, I think we've touched on just about, uh, 489 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,840 the major important things that we, uh, uh, 490 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,840 wanted to talk about in the school district. And like I said, uh, 491 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,400 there's always ways of improvement. You just have to look for them. 492 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:35,360 There's always ways to improve the education system. And, and I, I'm willing to, 493 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,680 uh, go above and beyond and give my time and, 494 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,640 and as much as I can to the community, into the school board to help with the, 495 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:47,120 uh, school district and with improvements or anywhere that I can. Now, 496 00:31:47,170 --> 00:31:50,760 if anybody is interested in helping with my campaign, they can reach me, uh, 497 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:55,690 by telephone. Uh, I don't wanna give the number out over the air, but, 498 00:31:55,690 --> 00:31:59,930 uh, they can reach it to my Facebook or whatever it's on the, my Facebook page, 499 00:31:59,930 --> 00:32:04,010 or they can, uh, message me on Facebook, messenger of that nature, whatever. 500 00:32:04,470 --> 00:32:08,650 And, uh, I would appreciate any help that they could give me. And I may also, 501 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:12,610 I should off, uh, mentioned that, uh, uh, I am running, uh, 502 00:32:12,610 --> 00:32:15,730 for school director as a candidate on the Republican party only. 503 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:20,010 I did not cross foul because I really don't believe in the cross foul, uh, 504 00:32:20,010 --> 00:32:22,170 followings because it's really not fair. 505 00:32:22,170 --> 00:32:26,850 You have to run on your perspective party for any other office other than school 506 00:32:27,170 --> 00:32:30,530 director and district judge, and judges. And, uh, you are what you are. 507 00:32:30,530 --> 00:32:34,450 You can't be both, you can't be Republican and Democrat, but I, if I'm elected, 508 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:38,490 I will support each and every voter and parent in the district. 509 00:32:38,490 --> 00:32:42,600 That's what we're here for. So, uh, I just wanted to mention that. 510 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:43,920 But if there's any democrats, 511 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:45,920 I have some Democratic friends out there or whatever, 512 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,600 and if there's any Democrat that would wish to vote for me in the primary, 513 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:53,080 they simply just write my name in Jesse j Mote and your vote will be counted. 514 00:32:53,420 --> 00:32:56,720 But, uh, that, that's, uh, pretty much, uh, 515 00:32:57,140 --> 00:33:00,320 the end of the, uh, uh, my, uh, 516 00:33:00,630 --> 00:33:04,440 comments for that or whatever. And I do appreciate you having me on the show. 517 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:09,360 And, and, uh, I really enjoyed being here as a guest and, and going over there, 518 00:33:09,370 --> 00:33:13,720 uh, my, uh, uh, decisions to run the school board and, and everything. 519 00:33:13,810 --> 00:33:16,320 So I do appreciate that, Matt. Thank you. 520 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:20,520 And hopefully we can get you get together and do another session on different 521 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,080 things about the community and stuff later on a different date. 522 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:28,370 Sure. We'd love to have you back as a guest anytime. And, and you kind of hit a, 523 00:33:28,370 --> 00:33:33,330 uh, a hot button for me. Uh, I didn't realize that you hadn't cross filed, 524 00:33:33,820 --> 00:33:38,650 um, but during my, uh, my service in the Pennsylvania house, I, uh, 525 00:33:38,930 --> 00:33:43,810 co-authored a bill with another representative where we would've eliminated 526 00:33:44,150 --> 00:33:46,450 the ability to co-found, uh, 527 00:33:46,450 --> 00:33:50,890 cross file in judicial campaigns and school board elections. 528 00:33:51,220 --> 00:33:54,930 Uh, as you said, those are the only offices where you, uh, 529 00:33:54,930 --> 00:33:57,650 you don't have to pick a party. And, uh, 530 00:33:57,650 --> 00:34:00,810 and the idea there was that, uh, 531 00:34:00,810 --> 00:34:04,250 that you should be politically neutral in those positions, right? 532 00:34:04,250 --> 00:34:06,370 But it's kinda hard to, uh, 533 00:34:06,820 --> 00:34:11,530 to know what a person's beliefs are if you don't know what party they stem 534 00:34:11,530 --> 00:34:12,250 from. And, 535 00:34:12,250 --> 00:34:16,690 and that's why we were trying to eliminate that ability to cross file so that, 536 00:34:16,690 --> 00:34:19,730 uh, that voters knew, uh, 537 00:34:19,970 --> 00:34:23,730 if you were a registered Republican, Democrat, independent, et cetera. 538 00:34:24,180 --> 00:34:28,970 So that's something that I worked on. Sadly, uh, it didn't move very far, 539 00:34:29,420 --> 00:34:32,370 uh, under the Wolf administration, but I hope that, uh, 540 00:34:32,370 --> 00:34:36,290 one of my contemporaries serving in the house at this time may pick up that 541 00:34:36,290 --> 00:34:41,250 baton and, and run with it. Um, this is being commonalities. I'm your host, 542 00:34:41,250 --> 00:34:45,090 Matt Dowling, and, uh, my guest today has been Mr. 543 00:34:45,090 --> 00:34:46,610 Jesse j Moes, 544 00:34:46,730 --> 00:34:51,530 who's a candidate for the Aric Gallatin Area School Board. Again, 545 00:34:51,700 --> 00:34:55,010 uh, regardless of party, if you're running for public office, 546 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,530 please feel free to reach out to me. Uh, visit my website, 547 00:34:58,530 --> 00:35:03,210 matthew d dowling.com, and, uh, we'll get you on the program before, 548 00:35:03,300 --> 00:35:08,170 uh, either the May, uh, primary or our November general election. 549 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:09,570 Thanks for listening. 550 00:35:09,570 --> 00:35:11,010 Today. Goodbye. 551 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,010 This has been commonalities, 552 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:19,410 a show where guests find common ground through uncommon conversations. 553 00:35:19,490 --> 00:35:22,450 Copyright 2022, coordinated 360. 554 00:35:22,670 --> 00:35:26,210 All public rebroadcast should be done with prior written approval from Matthew 555 00:35:26,210 --> 00:35:31,090 Dowling. 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