Tim Carpenter

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2,284 appearances 17 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 5d ago

Tim Carpenter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And you want to talk about closing our public schools.

People have something to say about both of those issues.

Yeah, absolutely.

Um, one other thing and we'll get to the work you've done in in the second floor of the Capitol.

Do you think that some of your former peers in the legislature, Republicans, underestimated you?

All right, so um when you you you're inaugurated in January and you're thinking

We're gonna have to prioritize some of this.

What were the

A few things that you just put at the top of your list about how you needed to change the face of state government.

Yeah, those are extraordinary numbers.

Uh you you mentioned there were several things.

So you you were broke, you needed to get revenue up, you invested in economic development.

Was there another element or two there?

record number of kids in foster care.

Yeah, you can definitely see the fingerprints of those policies on how the the most recent state history.

Let's talk about other things that uh have transpired.

The budget, of course, constitutionally has to be balanced.

And uh I think um that's been done.

The the legislature uh ac accumulated a large treasury uh excess uh money and the state's been spending that down in the last couple of years.

Um in other words, they're spending more on an annual basis and they're taking in a new tax revenue.

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