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[Crowd noise and music] Female Voice 1: Do you have a minute? Thurman Adams: Yup. Female Voice 1: You won obviously. Thurman Adams: Obviously. Female Voice 1: What message does that send to you? Thurman Adams: Well you know I'm very appreciative that I won by 71%.

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Anything over 50 percent you're very happy for. But I think it does say that I've tried to represent my district, and I think it also says

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that I have to live up to what the people expect of me so that I will have to work even harder maybe the next four years. Female Voice 1: Anything specific that you want to work on?

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Thurman Adams: Well. one of the things that I've worked on is gross receipts tax. It's a very unfair tax.

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It's one whereby an employer pays or a businessman pays and can be losing money and still has to pay taxes.

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That is not the way that taxes should be setup. Taxes should be, you should pay them when you make money.

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And I would like to see gross receipts tax reduced. Female Voice 1: Anything else that is really of special interest to you? Thurman Adams: Not really special interests,

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but we're going to have a lot of things that are coming up. And we have the drug problem and a lot of

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other problems that we're going to have to face. And always are things that you never think about it that will be coming

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up in the next year or two. Female Voice 1: Thank you. Thurman Adams: Thank you.