Representative in Congress, District 19 candidate Darren Aquino

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4 REPORTER ROB MANCH ANDREPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONALCANDIDATE DARREN AQUINO.Rob: First one off the bat,because it’s the theme of ourinterview series is "What’s inyour Cup?" was the theme, sowhat’s your drink of choice?Darren Aquino: Coca Cola.Rob: Coca Cola alright.Darren Aquino: I loved it as akid.

I get these because Ibought them in the machine for adime.Rob: I was going to say, it’sbeen a while since I’ve seen aglass bottle.Darren: Oh yeah that’s myfavorite.

The cans tastehorrible.

The bottle, I rememberit as a kid just getting it.Rob: Alright Darren so, I mean,you know, the other question Ihad was to talk about yourpriorities in office, and itsounds like you already touchedon a lot of those, but it soundslike two of them were disabledissues and also fighting forhomeless veterans.

So talk alittle about both of those, andwhat you plan to do if electedto office to further both thosecauses.Darren Aquino: Well, healthcareis incorporated because you havementally-ill homeless on thestreet, healthcare.

So nowyou’ve got a homeless problemand a healthcare problem in thesame thing.

One of the things Ipresented, and there’s arecording of it, in 2016.

Youthink somebody would have didit, just to even look good.

Fakeit, right?

But the politics isso bad.

They don’t care aboutyou or me.

We have to take thisinto consideration.

We haveabandoned properties that belongto the government, right?Actually, they belong to you andme.

It’s our tax dollars.

Now Iwent to Home Depot and Lowes.

Ispoke to the CEO’s.

They saidDarren, we would definitely getbehind that.

We refurbish them,and then I call on citizens, andI’d be there myself.

I knowyou’d come out for veterans, I’dbet money on it, you’d come graba paint brush.

Habitat forHumanity by the formerPresident.

I met him, JimmyCarter, Regan’s funeral.

Wewould do it.

These are ourveterans.

Don’t we care aboutthem?

Let me tell you.

There isno caring from the panel.

Didany one of them, review all thefootage, not one of them spokeof the 1,000 homeless here.

Ifthey don’t care about them here,if we were to send them toCongress, they’re going toforget them there.

We have tosolve that problem.

We haveabandoned property.

Now I had ahealthcare plan I gave to Bush,okay, and he’d write to mepersonally, Secretary Carter.

Itold them, and that’s when theycame up with that voucher forpersonal care.

Bush came up withthat.

I wanted to take Medicareand Medicaid and make that anational insurance that’s kindof like a 401K.

We own it.

Weown it, and then we open it foraffordable pricing to theworking man, instead of justdisabled folks having it at 65.We can open it up, it will alsodraw revenue.

It was ano-brainer.

Took me 10 minutesto think of.

You know, a lot ofideas.

Does it need work?

Yeah,but it’s a place to start.

Yousee, you have to have a heartfor this country, and a heartfor the vulnerable.

Now thevulnerable, why do you thinkit’s such a systemic problem?The answer is simple.

The folksthat we elected, negle