Tommy Ahlquist in Hailey
September 29, 2017
Republican Idaho Gubernatorial candidate Tommy Ahlquist spoke at the Senior Connection in Hailey, Friday, Sept. 29th, as he continues a 44-county state tour in 44-days. He talked about his three-legged platform focused on jobs, education, and healthcare.
Introduction
Bio
Jobs
Education
Healthcare
Audience Questions
#1:
Idaho’s Medicaid Gap & Compare/Contrast to Other Gubernatorial Candidates Brad Little and Raul Labrador
#2:
Idaho Governor in a Politically Polarized Nation
#3
Trade/Vocation Education in Idaho
#4
Four-Day School Week & Improving K-12 Funding
#5
Senior Connection Medicaid Comment
#6
Senior Employment
For more information about KTEC/Kootenai Technical Education Campus mentioned in question #3, visit ktectraining.org.
Turn it off.
‘Turn off your TV and think for yourself.’
-Banksy
[Social media, too; at the very least, be aware and a proactive consumer of news and information shared/posted on fb & twitter in context of alternate news and fake news infiltrating our virtual media.]
“A clinical psychologist on the anxiety our politics appears to be causing.”
To get practical: For individuals experiencing anxiety that causes significant distress or interferes with day to day life, it’s a good idea to see a mental health professional for a few sessions to get some strategies to cope. As a starting point, however, when we feel overwhelmed by political or other anxiety, it’s usually time to refocus on self-care.
“I would’ve said something.”
I believe what the self-centered have torn down, the other-centered will build up.
MLK
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“If I could have did something different, I would’ve said something. But that’s what evil depends on, good people to be quiet.”
Dr. William Lynn Weaver in Fayetteville, NC, speaking to the racism experience at his integrated school in 1964.
“Weaver has never been back to West High School since graduating 50 years ago. After hearing a StoryCorps interview that aired on NPR last month, the current principal reached out, and Weaver says he will return to the school in early 2018 to talk to the students about his experiences with integrating the school.”
StoryCorps/NPR
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/29/551235513/-evil-depends-on-good-people-to-be-quiet