Hello, I'm Zeke, and welcome to the Zeke Podcast. Let's talk, Pennsylvania. The guest I have today was born and raised in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and has a deep understanding of both her community and the political landscape affecting it. She's a registered nurse, union leader, and now running to flip a state Senate seat blue this November third. Thank you so much for being here, Sue Mulvey.

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No matter where you are, I’ll meet you with hope and a plan to make your community better one day at a time. Welcome to the Zekely Podcast. Let’s talk Pennsylvania.

How are you?

my I'm very excited you're here. I mean, Sue, the trifecta is within our grasp this year and you are potentially gonna get us over the line.

So it's time to make a little history. No dem's ever sat in this seat, but I think we're ready.

I am so ready. And I'm ex I'm particularly interested in you because you remind me of Katie Muth I've heard a lot about you. And you're and

Yeah.

I've just heard that you've got this je ne sais quoi about yourself. You don't take any shit, and you are very passionate about helping people. And and when I interviewed Katie Muth she was the exact same way.

we need more people like you in the state Senate.

well, I'm working really hard. We are knocking doors and we are making phone calls, writing postcards, doing all that craziness to get my name out. that's the biggest deal right now is you know, the PA50 is huge and there's teeny tiny little corners everywhere that you know does doesn't have a lot of Wi Fi capability and doesn't have a lot of people online. So, like getting to those people is really hard. And I'm running against the 30 year incumbent. She's been in

one public office or another since nineteen ninety-six.

it's been a whirlwind,

and we're working hard.

I know. Well this is gonna be my contribution to your campaign. Okay, so we're gonna

thank you.

we're gonna play some games, have some fun, learn all about you. You ready?

Okay.

All right, so you were born and raised in Canneaut Lake. Am saying is it Canneaut

Am I saying it correctly? Okay, so you were born and raised, which is a very small

Yeah, Kanye Lake. Yeah. Yeah.

borough in Crawford County, located on the southwestern shore of PA's largest natural glacial lake. It sounds lovely.

It is. It's a teeny tiny little lake. we used to swim across it in the summer and walk across it in the winter. So

Okay.

lots of fun. Sometimes we drove across it, but don't tell my mom that because that's something that she wouldn't want to know. Yeah. That's

I am never. That's amazing. Okay.

something she wouldn't want to know. I wouldn't want to tell her, but yeah. We had a lot of fun up there and there was nothing like being a local and you

Mm-hmm.

know, having having that lake to yourself in the winter was just some really, really special moments.

I was in Erie, Pennsylvania for medical school. And so I might have driven through it at some point to get down to Pittsburgh. I I don't I probably did,

Did you go to Lee Con?

I'll have stop

by

I went to Lecom, yeah.

okay, yeah.

I did.

Absolutely. Then you probably I don't know if you're over there, but if you're on 79, you drove at least around it.

Well, someday I'm gonna have

Yeah.

stop by. You definitely are selling it a hundred percent.

we're gonna play a game called Born in a Small Town. Okay, some trivia, all right? so you're gonna you're

Okay. Okay.

gonna guess these people and they're all Pennsylvanians, all right? So not

Okay.

to be confused with a teenage witch, this global pop superstar was born in East Greenville Borough, a small square mile borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Not a clue. Sub somebody Sabrina? I don't know.

Yeah,

yeah. Sabrina Carpenter. Sabrina Carpenter. Yeah.

really? Okay, so d

that's not fair. She's she's she's a she's a very young superstar. I y I'm old, remember. Yeah. Okay.

Yes. That's okay. It's okay. Well,

I'll I'll give you some older ones, okay? All right, so

Okay.

this acad this Academy Award nominated Batman and Beetlejuice actor was born in Beaver Borough, Pennsylvania.

Michael Keaton.

Michael Keaton, very good, yes. okay, this actor who looked for clues on a Nickelodeon show with this dog was born in Boyertownboro, Pennsylvania.

Bluesclooth? the what was his

Yeah, yeah. Do you remember you know his name?

name? I don't. I remember Steve. Yes. Yeah.

it was Steve Burns. Yeah. Steve Burns.

I know. All the good ones are from Pennsylvania. Here's the last one.

I'm telling you. It's true.

It is true. This Oscar nominated actor and director who shot to superstardom in the hangover was born in Jenkintown Borough.

in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

yeah, dunno, who's that? Serious

Bradley Cooper.

Really? I did

Yeah, Bradley Cooper. I mean

and he's huge. He's huge for like Pennsylvania. You know, he loves coming back for games and everything. He's he's really good. So yeah, I mean lot

Yeah. Yeah, did not know that.

a lot of great people grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. Okay, Sue? So, you know, stay there. You you're gonna blow up in the state senate, I can feel it.

Sue, Republican politicians in Pennsylvania have been trying to defund public schools for the past 30 years. What will you do in Harrisburg

Yeah.

to help ensure public schools in the Commonwealth get the funding they need?

public education is a right in Pennsylvania. It's a right that every single one of our children gets a free and fair and adequate education. so we really have to mind our constitution. and when you look at charter schools and especially the cyber charter schools, you know, they really don't meet up with the brick and mortar public schools that we have, especially if you're looking at test scores and what is happening at those charter schools.

I'm all for funding the very best education for our children, period. Whether it is a charter or whether it is your regular public school. But when it comes to testing, it's the public schools that rock those tests way more than the

Yeah.

charter schools do. And we have to be responsible to Pennsylvania to create adults. We're not raising children, we're raising human beings, we're raising adults. And they have to be able to go out and make their way in the world. And if they can't do that, then we've failed them.

So I would really make sure that we have adequate funding for every single school, especially public schools in Pennsylvania, and charter schools would have to be looked at with a fine-tooth comb because they really, really need to be to be up to standard.

I agree. I mean, there really is not a lot of regulation when it comes to charter schools in Pennsylvania, unfortunately. That's just the way that they are designed. there needs

Right. Right.

to be more legislation passed so that we can have, you know, d do a fine-tooth comb for those types of organizations, but we're not gonna be able to do that without the trifecta. We cannot fully

Exactly.

fund public schools without the trifecta. You're running for the state senate. 30 years

Yes.

plus, we have not had the majority as Democrats, and this is gonna be our year. And I'm glad that you will focus

Right. I hope so.

on public schools. No, I don't.

I mean hope is everything, but I I really wanna see it happen. I was I was eleven years

I hope so. Yeah. I do too.

old. Eleven years old the last time we had the trifecta in Pennsylvania and I want it now.

Sue, you must have some crazy stories about being a high school nurse. I can you share can you share one of them? Just one.

Crazy stories? I don't know.

Any crazy stories.

Yeah, you've gotta have somebody come into your office with just something wild.

well we have a list about things that kids want and that we add to it every day.

Like, can you do a

yeah, please, please do tell.

can you do a strap test? Can you x-ray this? Do you have my contacts? Do you have my rubber bands for braces? Do you have do you think you have my glass lenses? Do you have my lenses?

you know, do you have shoelaces and hair ties and bobby pins?

And all kinds of things like that.

don't just have like a a

know? So that's

a room in the back where you have cabinets of everything that people need. You don't have that now.

Every

single thing. Yeah. I can mix you up. I'll reconstitute you some mitmoxicillin here right for now. No problem. Do you need an IV? Like, sure, we can do that too. Do you know? It's it's

my god, that's amazing.

funny, but it's it's crazy. I've really increased what my office does have because we do have hair ties and bobby pins and safety pins and deodorant and toothpaste and toothbrushes and most things you can find in my office. I have to tell you. It's it's true. But

Well, I

feel like someday, you know, if you ever want to start a TikTok account or something, I always enjoy watching accounts where you have teachers who write down things that their students say to them in class and you need to take out a marker and then cross it off as they read it and it's hilarious. So I feel like you

Yeah.

as a school nurse say, Today, these are the things that students came to ask me for. You just go through the list. I feel like that would garner some followers. So just think about that, okay?

Yeah. Yeah.

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Sue, when children were lacking winter coats or coming into school with burns, you took it upon yourself to form a committee to study the problems and look for a solution. Have you ever gotten pushback when presenting the data you collect to those who have the power to enact positive change?

believe it or not, I haven't.

Good.

a lot of times, you know, because p banks and things in our area, they like to give, they like to see results. So when I went to them and said, This is my plan, this is what I want to do, they basically said, We can give you 10,000, we can give you 15,000, but you you know, keep your

Mm-hmm.

accounts here at like Marquette. Because Marquette was the biggest donor to the WINS project. And they they backed us wholeheartedly.

And explain explain

No, and

the wins so the WINS project just explained that that that feeds children every weekend during the school year.

It was weekend it

was weekend yeah. It was I'm sorry, it was weekend nutrition for students and we

Mm-hmm.

so what had happened was everyone knew that kids were coming to school hungry on Monday, but then kids started coming in like with burns from like spilled boiling water, spilled bacon grease, whatever. And then I I didn't want to debate the problem, right? The problem is childhood hunger and childhood prov poverty. I can't fix that. I you know, I can't fix that in a meeting a week for a couple months, but I can feed kids.

And I can get food into kids' hands that can keep them sustained over the weekend that they don't have to boil water or or fried bacon grease, right? So myself and like three other teachers came together and we just believe it or not, we went on Google how to start a backpack program. And the Colorado Department of Health has a step-by-step guide. So helpful. So we,

Mm. That's amazing.

yeah, it really was. So we basically just wrote down the list.

And I said, we're not starting this until we can pay for a whole year up front. So I wanted $50,000 in the bank before we even started. But got talked into starting it when we had about $18,000 in the bank and

Mm-hmm.

you know, a hope and a prayer. And I ran it for 10 years, left it with a hundred thousand dollar CD, and we were doing a thirty-five thousand dollar a year annual budget, feeding about five hundred kids a year, five hundred kids every weekend during the school year.

ch things that they could cook on their own that would lessen the risk of them getting getting hurt. And it's just it was a great, great program and it's still going today. I think it's being I moved up to the high school so I couldn't have hands on anymore.

Mm-hmm.

Is this all mine? Is it all mine or do I have to share it? And I said, Nope, baby, it's all yours.

My God.

but you know, there was a bill before before Josh Shapiro paid for breakfast and lunch. There was a bill in the in the going through legislature and it got voted down.

And we had the money. And it was $80 million

Yes.

to pay off every single school lunch debt or school cafeteria debt so kids wouldn't get embarrassed at lunch with like a peanut butter sandwich and applesauce and water.

Yeah.

And they voted it down. And we had the money. It didn't come from the rainy. It was excess money that we had. And that was a win-win. That was a win for the people providing

Yeah.

the lunches. It was a win for school districts. It was a win for kids. And they said no. And I'm like, you know what? You're the people at

You're the people that won't go help in the concession stand so your kid can play the sport, right? Like you're that that just kills me.

It's the Republicans who are holding that back. And so I'm just grateful

Yeah.

to know that there are people like you who exist in Pennsylvania and God, we need to get you in the state senate as soon as possible.

Sue, you enjoy fling golf, which I had to look up be because

I do.

I've never heard of it. Okay, and to be fair,

Yeah.

I've never played a full round of traditional golf in my life. I'm more of a miniature golf guy. but I want to

That's great.

know how did you get into fling golf?

So my son is a professional fling golf player. He's one of the top players in the country. A couple years ago,

Okay.

he got he got invited to an international tournament in London. So of course we had to go see him play. and so he's been wanting me to play for a while. This past July, we actually took like a whole family vacation, like with his wife and daughter and his sisters and their significant others. We all went away and he said, That's it, you're playing fling golf with me. And I was terrible at it, but I loved it.

And so then I don't know if you know this, but in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, there is a golf course called Dum Dum, D-U-M-D-U-M. It is part

Okay. huh.

of the Fuel Park foundation. It's a nine-hole golf course. It's free. You

Hello.

there's no charge to play. You can walk on and play whenever you want. They just ask that you sign in. This is an amazing area. We have there's a lighted pickleball court, a lighted driving range, and then the free golf course. It's stunning and beautiful.

So if you ever get to Mercer County, come check it out.

Yeah.

and so every day I'd go play nine holes, and I just just but sometimes by myself, sometimes my husband will play with me. And I just love it. It's fun and it's fast, and you don't have to have 87 clubs in your bag. You have one stick that it's kind of like the cross between lacrosse and golf. It's one

Yeah.

stick and you throw the ball and it's just way so much fun.

Yeah, I I was watching YouTube

Love it.

videos about it. I had I just had no idea that this existed.

I read a little bit about it. I guess Fling Golf was invented by Alex Van Allen, who first conceived it as

a child in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was launching golf

There you go

balls with lacrosse sticks in his backyard. So it fling golf originated in Pennsylvania, which I had no idea.

Awesome.

Yeah.

Everything

good comes from Pennsylvania.

Sue, I wanted to get your reaction to this. I'm sure you heard about it, but Republican state rep Scott Barger stated during a September House committee meeting that he would look for reasons not to hire women of menopause age if legislation protecting workplace accommodations for menopause symptoms became law, such as the ability to sit or take short breaks for water.

Well, as a 57-year-old woman, that pisses me off.

Yeah.

I think that's insane. Well, maybe what if we don't hire, you know, 57-year-old men? What would you say to that? Do you know? But

I

yet, but yet our Congress is 70 and 80 years old and they're leading the country. So

my god.

I think that's abhorrent. I think there are, you know, there's women my age that have so much to offer.

I think I think that is a bad thing for him to say, and I think he should lose his job. I think that's

I

sexist and ageist, and I think he should lose his job.

Yeah, misogyny. It's it's everything. I mean, how can you say that you can't accommodate a woman for that? But they're literally wheeling Mitch McConnell around, you know, Congress in a wheelchair. I mean, like, you know, they'd be happy to wheel in anybody for votes.

In a wheelchair. Yeah. Yeah. I still wanna hear I still wanna hear him

talk.

you know, he's not gonna talk. As long as he shows

Yeah.

up to vote and they like raise his hand up on the side, they're gonna be quite happy about that. But yeah, we need people who

Yeah, I

are not sexist, misogynists, and ageists elected to office.

Yeah.

And I'm glad that you you fit the opposite side of that bill Sue

All right, so we're gonna play unpopular opinion PA edition, okay? I want you to tell me an unpopular opinion

no.

you have about about Pennsylvania. Just something and it can be literally anything.

I'm not a Penn State fan.

no. Sue. Sue. I want you to I want you to win.

I know.

That's hilarious. Okay, what what who do you root for?

Yeah, I

I I'm a West Virginia fan, so I I

West Virginia, okay.

don't think I I don't think Joe Paul was the greatest coach of all time. I know. Sorry, that's my unpopular opinion. That's my unpopular opinion.

okay. All right. Well has g has anybody like have you made anybody No, that's

fine. I mean, has it has it gotten you into a lot of trouble and with some conversations in Pennsylvania? Yeah.

yes, lots and lots and lots of trouble.

I know. But you know what?

I do have a contingent of pit fans that agree with me. So so like sometimes there you go.

Okay, all right. Well I just don't want it to cost you any votes, Sue. Okay. I mean I'm I'm the this is gonna this is

gonna be airing, so I don't want you to like lose any votes by November third.

There you go. What's your unpopular opinion?

Okay, so mine is the soft pretzels that you can get in Philly. You know, the ones that are like all connected together like an accordion that they sell at games and everything in the paper bags. I hate them. I I I I

Yeah. Yeah. Do you

don't I do not like them at all. And I love soft pretzels. Like I like Auntie Ann's. I like pretzel factory, the nuggets and everything.

Uh-huh. Yeah.

But those like, you know, you see them everywhere and I just can't stand them. I I feel and I'm

You know, I was

at a I was at a swap meet in Philadelphia though once and they have donuts on a stick, which I think are amazing. I they're the best ever. But I I've never had one of those pretzels.

Yeah. Yeah. No, I think there's a lot of great food in Pennsylvania.

I'll to try one.

Yeah, I mean I you may be disappointed, but yeah, I I think I think that's slightly less offensive than your Penn State reference, but I mean I'm not gonna judge you for it. Don't worry about that. I'm the

Yeah. I think Penn

State's a yeah, yeah, it's it's fine. It's just all my all my siblings are are Penn State alum and

I was the youngest by ten years, so it kind of got shoved down my throat for a

Mm-hmm.

long time. And I'm like, I I'm like, I don't know. Let's get some color in there. Blue and white, like, come on now. Let's get a little color. So yeah, I have

All right. Absolutely. Yeah.

I have gotten I have gotten hit for that quite a bit and gotten slammed by some of my Penn State alum colleagues. But you know what, we

Mm-hmm.

just we we just agree to disagree. How about that?

Okay.

I I think on that topic that is quite all right. That is quite all right.

There

you go.

Sue, Pennsylvania is ground zero for a measles outbreak, and Republican politicians at the federal and state level continue to spread misinformation about vaccines. What will you

Yep.

do in Harrisburg to address public health issues?

Education, education, education, and just keep talking. you know, Pennsylvania is one of a few states, I think 13 left, that still offers a moral exemption that you don't have to have a you don't have to have medical or religious exemption. We have something called a strong moral exemption. And as a school nurse, I see that used quite a bit as somebody that just doesn't want to go out and get the immunization when when we tell them to.

Yeah.

because like I'll look up their immunizations and they have every other one except the one I'm telling them to go get, right? And I'm like,

Yeah.

And a lot of times, because I'm in high school, it's meningitis. And I'm like, can we talk about meningitis just for a minute?

my god.

I know we'll talk about measles in a minute, but this is how meningitis goes. I have a headache. I'm in the morgue. Like that's

Yes, I I can

like

attest to that, yes.

somebody made a

I agree.

reference?

Like, are you telling me that I can't bring peanuts into this classroom because there's one child with peanut allergy, but five kids in this room can get measles and spread it to everybody else? are you kidding me? And I'm like,

Yeah. I know.

I can't make this up.

I know.

I had a student today from I'm not gonna say what hospital, following me and she said, There are two people in the ICU with measles. And that tells me that we are way under reporting.

Yeah.

Because there shouldn't be, I mean, there shouldn't for the numbers that they're telling us, there shouldn't be two people in the ICU. so I think I think they're way under reporting. And I think that we need to vaccinate our children per our doctor's wishes. I

Yeah. Yeah.

I like I'm a nurse and I get it. I I question physicians all the time, right? And I I believe in second opinions. But when the first doctor, the second doctor, the third doctor, and the fourth doctor tell you to get your vaccines, you should probably just go get them.

'Cause they're safe and they're, you know, I I have I have exchange students coming in from other countries around the world and they get more vaccines than we do.

as a physician, I feel very strongly that vaccines save lives every day. They've saved millions of lives all

Every day.

over every day. And the you know, if you go to PA.gov, they actually have a tracker of how many people in Pennsylvania are getting the measles, and it shows how many have been vaccinated versus unvaccinated. And it's literally less than one percent. Less than one percent of people who are vaccinated get the measles. So vac but this is like

It's like it really is like PTSD for me as a doctor who lived through COVID, who saw Republican politicians in Pennsylvania try everything that they could to keep things open, prevent quarantining, and just allow this virus to spread. Thank goodness we had a Democratic governor. Thank goodness we had someone in the health department who was a Democrat because lives were saved. And we were under reporting the deaths during that time as well. So I mean, this this

Yeah.

is j this is real life. This is life and death.

our children shouldn't be pawns in this game. They really shouldn't be. So

No, they

shouldn't.

I I'm glad that you are gonna be on the side

I remember the I remember

of science. I really am.

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Sue, I've been told you love Zatsix Golden Dawn donuts. Is that true? Are they the best in town

I do. my God.

or the best in PA?

They're the best in PA, man. They might be the best in the whole world. my God. Yes. You

Really? Really? I love donuts. Wow. Okay.

I'm telling you. I'm telling you. They're the best ever. I stopped there more days than not to get a donut on my way to work. Yeah.

I'm v okay, so like what's

what's your favorite flavor?

just a raised donut, like a yeast donut with chocolate frosting. That's it.

Chocolate frosting.

Okay.

Mm-hmm. Occasionally

And and do they have like do they have a bunch of different flavors? Like if they have like

a whole bunch? Okay.

my god, yeah, they have a ton. They have like cake donuts

and the raised donuts. And now they have they have cronuts that are just there's nothing better than a glazed croissant because like, you know, butter and sugar

yeah.

and my god, just amazing. But yeah,

they're so good and they're fresh and they're warm sometimes. And the ladies

behind the counter are so nice.

Yeah, go to Zatsik Gondon. I I and you know what it's it looks exactly like it did 50 years ago when I used to go in

Mm.

there with my mom with the orange and green or the orange, it's orange and white or green and white, you know, asbestos square tile floors like those old ones, right? my gosh. And it No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Not that. You know, you know the floor tiles, you know what they look like. Yeah.

my god. You're gonna get them shut down soon. The health the health department's coming out to Zatsix tomorrow. my god. I know. I know what you're saying. I know what you're saying, yeah, yeah.

And they still have, let me tell you.

So when I was a kid, it cost a penny to put in the machine and twist the knob and get like the little bouncy ball. So I

Uh-huh.

take my granddaughter in there and it's fifty cents now to do it, but we we we only step we can't step on the orange squares when I take my granddaughter Emerson in. You can't step on the orange squares because that's lava. And then we have to go back and get a donut, and then we put fifty cents in and get the bouncy ball or whatever she wants out of that machine, right? With the that you spin it and it comes out.

Mm-hmm.

And then we go to the lake to the playground.

And we do that every Thursday all summer long.

That's amazing. I mean, I went so I went on I

I know.

went online and I looked up Zatsix Golden Dawn Donuts and they don't there's no like official website where the it's a standalone page. It's like it's kind of tucked into a grocery store, it seems like. You know, it's like all yeah, yeah, it's like at the grocery store. Yeah, so

It is a grocery store, yeah. It's a golden dawn. Yeah.

like I'm I'm looking this up and it doesn't look that magnificent, but the way that you're selling it, like they should sell their donuts online if you're hearing this Zatsix Golden Don Golden Dawn Donuts owner.

They should sell their donuts everywhere.

Yeah, I mean come on, that these days

Yeah.

you can order donuts from Tim Buck too. Why are you not selling these a mi I feel like they're being selfish, Sue. They're being selfish with their donuts.

Yeah, I know.

It is because you have to go to Kanye Lake to get them and they're wonderful. And I think, yeah,

All right. Well I'm gonna

it's it's the golden dawn in Kanye Lake. They're the best ever.

next time I'm out in Western Pennsylvania, I'm gonna go there. You you've sold me a hundred percent. I'm going to.

You have to. You have to. Absolutely.

Well, we're gonna play a game

called glazing.

Okay, have you heard have you heard of the term glazing before? It's Gen

No.

Z, Gen Z.

It's giving someone or something excessive praise, usually used as a negative or tease like teasing.

Like you're you're really glazing that person. You're like pouring it on. So I'm gonna

yeah.

g I'm gonna give you some people and I want you to tell me who's glazing who. Okay. how about

Okay.

Stacy Garrety and Donald Trump?

sh I don't that's tough. He

Yeah, right.

does praise her a lot. He was praising the last time I saw he was praising her a whole bunch to

I know.

the point where I'm like, I don't know. Do you think

I know.

she glazes him?

my God. She she flies down to Mar-a-Lago and and the White House all the time just to have an awkward handshake with him. It's it's so embarrassing. It is just so embar for those

Yeah. Yeah.

who don't know. I mean her her facial recognition and name recognition is not very good in Pennsylvania, thank goodness. I Josh Shapiro's just gonna steamroll her in the polls. But she's running for govern

Yeah.

she's running for governorship. she's the Republican, and she

Right. Yeah.

loves Donald Trump. I mean, just loves him, loves all of his policies, loves the data centers.

Loves the war in Iran, loves the tariffs.

Mm.

Anything that he does, she loves it. And again, I know. And Donald Trump has been having like hundred thousand dollar fundraisers for her in Mar-a-Lago. So yeah, I think they've been glazing each other, but I would say she is more glazing him though. She's putting up much more

She's glazing him.

stuff about

yeah, heavy,

Yeah.

heavy, heavy glaze on Donald Trump. Okay, I have a couple more for you.

Always.

Brian Fitzpatrick.

And Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.

Brian Fitzpatrick is glazing Mike Johnson.

Yeah, I mean to be honest, they don't do a lot of it publicly, but you know,

Uh-huh.

Mike Johnson is glazing Fitzpatrick financially all the time. He's cutting him

Yeah.

massive, massive checks. I think like six figure checks for campaign finance. I don't know.

Where do I find a donor like that? Where where are

are they d use like like one eight hundred donor? Like I wanna know where we find people like that because it's hard.

I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. But look, Brian Fitzpatrick is getting bucku bucks. He's getting glazed

hardcore financially from Mike Johnson,

And I really hope that

yeah.

Bob Harvey unseats Brian Fitzpatrick because Brian Fitzpatrick is MAGA. He votes when it counts to get MAGA

Yes. Yes. A hundred percent.

agendas passed. And, you know, control of Congress runs right through Pennsylvania. So, you know, don't it does.

It certainly does. It certainly does.

we gotta stop the financial glazing. Okay, here's the last one.

Yes.

RFK Jr. and Joe Rogan.

that's tough.

I say probably Joe

It's a Yeah, go ahead.

Rogan because he's just gross.

He is really gross. So actually it's kind of flipped. So before Trump,

Really?

yeah, before Trump was elected, Joe Rogan used to glaze RFK Jr. all the time. Bring him onto his podcast and just

yeah.

praise his Maha agenda. But now

Yeah.

it's usually just RFK Jr. glazing Joe Rogan. He'll just praise Joe

okay.

Rogan a lot. I look, Joe Rogan is still part of the machine that got us here. And and I

Yeah.

I really hate that. And this he's one of the big reasons why I started a podcast, is because I didn't

Really?

I didn't realize

how big podcasts were until

Uh-huh.

after twenty twenty four. I had no idea that there were all these people getting red pilled on shows like Joe Rogan. And so this

Yeah.

look I'm not I don't I may never get the kind of following he ever has, but I I do under I do I mean, I

You really should though. I think you should.

do understand well the problem is like he does rage baiting on his show. You know, he'll just see like he he'll bring on people it's like should women be able

Always, always. I don't understand that.

to vote?

Like, let's talk about that today. It's like why the fuck are you talking

Yeah. Let's talk about that.

about like whether or not women can vote in twenty twenty six? But you know,

Right.

it's captivating for young people. They think it's funny.

well how about

Joel Webb and should women speak in public?

I know, it's just it's just gross.

All right. No more

yeah.

no more glazing Republican politicians. We

are gonna get some glazed donuts, okay, at Zatskit's

Thank you. That absolutely.

Golden Dawn Donuts.

Sue, as a nurse, what was your reaction

Yes.

to the big bullshit bill and its cuts to Medicaid?

I think it's going to destroy rural health care.

Yeah.

the I think the most heartbreaking part is that the real devastation is gonna start January first, twenty twenty-seven. When the big

yeah.

bullshit

Like our

bill Medicaid

Yeah.

cuts happen, that's going to affect three hundred thousand Pennsylvanians. Three hundred thousand Pennsylvanians are at risk of losing their health care because of Republican politicians. And look, I wanna take back Democratic control of Congress more than anyone, you just like the next person. But you better believe that when people are dying at higher rates.

When they're losing their health care, Republicans are gonna just point their fingers back at us and say, Well, the Democrats are in control. Clearly it's their fault. Like they're the ones that passed the bill. Trump signed it into law. So the the

clearly. of course. Of course. Of course.

the optics are gonna be terrible, but the

Yep.

it just shows the callousness of the Republican Party.

Yeah.

and and we really need healthcare providers who understand that healthcare is a right. It is a right in this country. You yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. You

know what? I never thought I would live in a healthcare desert. But right now, so Sharon Reginald just ki just closed the last interventional cardiac cath lab in Mercer County. So right now, if you have a heart attack, like so if I'm sitting here right now, you and I are chatting and I'm like, chest pain. I think I'm having a heart attack. 90 minutes until I'm on a cath lab table. Ninety minutes. I'm dead.

my I mean, yeah,

you're dead. Yeah, you're dead.

I'm dead. I'm dead

or I've I've lost a significant amount of heart tissue, right?

Yeah.

I'm dead. There's no interventional cath lab in in Crawford County in Mercer County anymore. Ninety minutes

This

away.

it's just devastating. And that is why it is even more important for people in your district to elect you as the next state senator. Because with these cuts coming at the federal level, we have to pass legislation at the state level to protect Pennsylvanians. There's money that has to be appropriated

Absolutely. Absolutely.

to keep hospitals open, to give people access to their Medicaid dollars at the state

level.

it's just it's so

important. This moment means something.

And people keep keep

people

I do have a plan. Like, you know, we do need first of all, 73% of the corporations that are taking care of the Delaware tax loophole, they need to pay their fair share in taxes. There's

There you go.

other avenues of re

of revenue that we're not using. You know, like the Pesamatic that took out seven billion dollars and paid nothing in taxes, perhaps, you know, legalizing marijuana, things like that.

there are w tons of ways we can get more tax money into the state that we could subsidize rural health care so people living in rural areas like us can go to the hospital and know that we're gonna care, you know,

Yeah. Yes.

and that we don't have to get on a helicopter, which is an eight thousand dollar bill. Who's paying for that? And the thing is,

We are. We are.

is what people don't understand is you know, people will go to the ER. ERs are amazing at what they do. They really super are. They're so good at what they do.

But you know what they're not good at? Treating an earache for a reasonable cost, right? Because that's

Yeah. Right.

just not what they're set up to do. And what's gonna happen is is people are gonna end up at the ER sicker and it's gonna cost more money and they're not gonna have a way to pay. And so who's gonna pay for it?

We all are. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. We all are. We all are. Yeah.

And that's why we have to meet this moment, elect more Democrats like yourself, so we can turn the ship around.

Sue, what gives you hope?

you know what gives me hope, really? Tell you the truth. Gen Z gives me a ton of hope. Not the millennials,

Interesting.

not the boomers. I'm Gen X. I'm Gen X. I'm Gen

Sue, I'm a millennial. Come on.

X, man. I you know what?

I think they've got some great ideas. And I

Okay.

think they are solid and I think we need to nurture them and I think they might save the world.

Okay. You know, I I am a little offended as a millennial. Okay. I'm I'm busting my ass for Pennsylvania. But but okay, you know, I I know you are. I know you are.

I know. I know. Me am too.

Look, I I am not a discriminator when it comes to what generation you are. If you're in the game with me for Democrats and protecting democracy, we're on the same team. But yeah.

Yep. Have you seen that

Gen Z though? They're they're kinda awesome.

No, they are. They're great. They're great. I I certainly have brought

Yeah.

on Gen Z people onto the show. I think they have a lot of great ideas. They're energized. And that's

Yeah.

great. Well, again, you give me hope. Okay. Because you're you're

well thank you.

running for a position of power. You're a good person. You will use that power for good things. And

Yeah.

and again, I'm gonna say it. I'm I know people are probably annoyed, but I I will never get annoyed saying it. it is hard to not have hope when I see leaders like you in the Democratic Party. People are saying, where where are the leaders in the Democratic Party? I'm talking to one right now.

thank you. Thank you. Yes.

You are a Democrat, you are a leader,

and so I have a lot of hope just by talking to people like you every day.

Sue, my last question for you is what are your plans to get you through these next few years in America?

well it depends on what happens on November third. That's gonna be a that's gonna be a hinge moment in my life right there.

Okay. Yes. Yes, yes.

but if I win, I'm planning on doing everything I can in four years to change what a leader in the House legislature looks like. the best bosses I've ever had have had open door policies, and I understand that I can't have a true open door policy because I won't be in every office every day, right?

But on the days I'm there, if you want to come talk to me, you'll be able to talk to me. I will have an open door policy and you'll be able to talk to me. to the Republicans out there, if you vote for me, I promise you I will do everything I can to make you proud of me.

so that's my plan if I win. And my plan if I lose is to continue to inspire kids at school and hopefully be the one, find another one because I I've had one student that just I I she I'm over the moon proud of this young woman who got an academic scholarship to Allegheny College. And you know who gee, you know who I'm talking about if you hear this. I'm overly

proud of this young woman and I think I'll have another one of those and and you know continue to inspire students and hopefully when they look back on their lives, I will be the one that changed it.

Well, you're doing great work. I and again, maybe play some flingolf in between, you know, all of the things. You could get some

There you go. Yeah, there you go.

decompression, but I hope you get the first track. Okay. I really want to see you in the state senate come November.

I do too. I I do too. I'm a very competitive person, so I hate losing. But you know what? I

huh.

do know this is a David Goliath moment.

Uh-huh.

And I've always been a champion for the underdog. So

Mm-hmm.

I want people to be a champion for me. Come out and vote. Every single person has to come out and vote for Sue Malvey and the

That's right.

PA fifty. And you know what? If you like Dave and Goliath and you want to make a little history,

Mm-hmm.

put a Democrat in that seat for the first time ever.

That's right. Sue Mulvey Democrat running for

There you go.

state senate the trifecta.

Yay, can we do it? That'd be great.

The trifecta, come on, Pennsylvania.

I need I d my birthday present, my holiday presents can all be wrapped into one on November 3rd. Just give me the trifecta, okay? And Sue Mulvey

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

is part of that puzzle. Now, Sue, what is your website?

it is Sumalby4pa

The number four.

Senate.com. Yep, number

four. P Sumolv4PA Senate.com. But the best place to find anything that I do is on my Facebook page. It's just Sue Mulvey for Sue Molby for Senate.

Yeah.

if

you live in Crawford County, Mercer County, or Lawrence County, get off your ass and go

to Sue Mulvey's

Please.

Facebook page or her website, make a small donation, sign up to Door Knock, send a postcard. I don't want to hear that your vote doesn't matter. People are winning seats all over the country, flipping historically red seats, blue, and sometimes they are decided by one vote.

You could be the vote that sends Sue Mulvey to the state senate next year. Sue, I can't vote for you. I wish that I could, but I'm just

It's okay.

so I'm just so grateful that you're running. You're a wonderful person, and I hope that I can call, congratulate you on November.

so and if you can't call and congratulate me come on out we'll have a drink and I'll get you a donut absolutely

And give me a donut. Thank you so much, sir.

absolutely you're welcome thank you so much for having patience and getting this done for me I really appreciate it I've had a good time

Absolutely. Well, thank you so much for joining me here on the Zekely Podcast. Stay hopeful and get involved. And until next time, let's keep building a stronger Pennsylvania together.