1 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:11,639 Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:17,280 Speaker 2: Are you the guys on the beach who hate everything? 4 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 2: Is this some sort of hYP music that I don't understand. 5 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,479 Speaker 3: I just want to say for the record, since we 6 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:34,879 Speaker 3: heard President Trump say in the Oval Office that CNN 7 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 3: hates our country, CNN does not hate our country. 8 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 4: And here's here's a breaking news. We live in a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, 9 00:00:58,520 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 4: anti Semitic country. 10 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 2: Everything they're doing runs against making America great. 11 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:04,960 Speaker 5: It was never great. So I'm not gonna say the agampart, 12 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 5: but making America great. 13 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 6: Taking off the Independence Day weekend, President Trump will be 14 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 6: at Mount Rushmore, where he'll be standing in front of 15 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 6: a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled 16 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 6: away from Native Americans, told that UH be focusing on 17 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 6: the effort to quote tear down our country's history. 18 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 5: They strongly believe, these human smugglers that. 19 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 3: This is their chance to enter the United State, this 20 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 3: is their chance of the American dream. 21 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 5: That's why they risk everything only to find out that 22 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 5: it's all a lie. 23 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 7: And when we got our freedom, our quote unquote freedom, 24 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 7: we were never restored whole, which is why you hear 25 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 7: about reparation. So until the United States it tones for that, 26 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 7: it makes good on that we're still living in a 27 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 7: racist country. 28 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 1: Well, Greg Abbott will get a notch on his belt 29 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: because out of the House yesterday came a school voucher 30 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 1: bill which passed eighty five sixty three. It'll pass the Senate, 31 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 1: they'll go into reconciliation, they'll work the bill out, it'll 32 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: go to the governor, and that will be his crowning 33 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: achievement of the session. I'd love to tell you that 34 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: it's a perfect bill. I'd love to tell you that 35 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: it's a one hundred percent win, but it's a pyrrhic 36 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: victory of sorts because it's sort of like winning the 37 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 1: first round of the playoffs but losing your quarterback. The 38 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 1: bill should have taken money it's currently going to public 39 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 1: education and redirected some of that for school vouchers. It 40 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 1: did not, because at the end of the day, the 41 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: public school lobby is more powerful than any other interest 42 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: in the state of Texas. That's why teacher pay raises 43 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 1: is an issue in every single election section and Republicans 44 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: are as keen to call for teacher pay raises as 45 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 1: the Democrats are. Nobody knows what the teachers are getting paid, 46 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 1: which is all. No teachers need to get paid more. 47 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: And then we see videos of what's going on in 48 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:30,919 Speaker 1: the schools, and we see the schools that are failing. 49 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,639 Speaker 1: Why should all teachers be paid more? And God help 50 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: you if you're Mike Miles and you are the HISD 51 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: superintendent sent down by the state to fix the state, 52 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: and you dare say some teachers are overpaid and some 53 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: teachers are underpaid because some teachers are overperformers and some 54 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: teachers are underperformers. The school district and their friends at 55 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 1: the Houston Chronicle, who've made nothing but hell for Mike Miles, 56 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: spend all their times. This is awful. Every teacher needs 57 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: to be paid more, more and more more, and you 58 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: can't have merit pay. If you have merit pay, you'll 59 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: have some teachers who are getting paid more than other teachers. 60 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: And that's not fair. It is not nice. Remember what 61 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: kind of people are teaching. And you also have to 62 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: realize that the public schools aren't about teaching anyway, just 63 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:19,839 Speaker 1: like the universities, the public schools are not about tuition 64 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 1: of your children. In a classroom. Instruction, learning development haven't 65 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 1: been for a long time. Now, you don't have to 66 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: tell me that you're a teacher or your wife's a teacher, 67 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: and that you care about it. And every year before 68 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: the school year starts you go and buy school supplies. 69 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 1: You're a hero. Love it, Love you for it, Appreciate 70 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:39,679 Speaker 1: you for it. I understand that there are good people. 71 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: When I tell you that the Democrats were destroying our military, 72 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: that's not to say that your son is not serving 73 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 1: with bravery in the Middle East. That is to say 74 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:52,720 Speaker 1: that the people who've taken over these institutions have surreptitiously, continuously, 75 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: seditiously undermined the goal of what was happening, all while 76 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: sucking up more money. They're good at it. This is 77 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 1: what they do. It's what they do all day, every day. 78 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 1: They're very, very good at it. So what the Republican 79 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:13,600 Speaker 1: legislature has done is they vallocated more money so that 80 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 1: the public schools still get all the money they want. 81 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 1: And now you give a voucher to the kids that 82 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 1: basically aren't in the public schools because God forbid, the 83 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 1: public schools have to compete. Public schools do not want 84 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: to compete. They do not want to compete with folks 85 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:31,799 Speaker 1: doing and they'll have all the reasons in the world 86 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 1: that they don't want to compete, but make no mistake, 87 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: they don't want to compete because if they had to compete, 88 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,720 Speaker 1: people wouldn't go to schools where there's knifings and shootings 89 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 1: and principal beatings and teacher beatings and all of the 90 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 1: things that go with that. 91 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 8: They'd go to schools that were taught by the Catholic Church, 92 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 8: or that we're taught by charter schools and the like, 93 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 8: and that they would not farewell against that, because you 94 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,039 Speaker 8: have some people that went into education because they actually 95 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 8: care about it, and they'll start targe schools. 96 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:05,840 Speaker 1: Lots of dog lovers in our crowd. That's a good thing. 97 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: Blessed be the dog lovers. And now a message from 98 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 1: Ramon Roblis, the King of Dan. 99 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 9: Fifteen years ago, the quiet one picked us while the 100 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 9: others in the litter were all yap yap, yap, and 101 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 9: the quiet one just sat there still watching. He wasn't 102 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,119 Speaker 9: any more adorable than the rest, but he had something else, 103 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:34,919 Speaker 9: something steady, so we picked him. The quiet one for 104 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 9: fifteen years longer than our boys have even been alive. 105 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,920 Speaker 9: That little kabapoo, the size of a shoe box, brought 106 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 9: us joy, frustration, belly laughs, and all the messy emotions 107 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 9: you never expect to get from a dog until it's 108 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 9: too late to imagine life without him. Our boys came 109 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 9: along in twenty fifteen and twenty eighteen, and the quiet 110 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:58,720 Speaker 9: one was there standing sentry like an old soul who 111 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 9: knew his job before anyone told him. The boys took 112 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:06,679 Speaker 9: to him right away. So many memories, too many to remember, 113 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:09,359 Speaker 9: and that's the deal you make with your best friend. 114 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 1: He barely ever barked. 115 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 9: We could count, literally on two hands, the number of 116 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 9: times we heard his voice. But always he watched, he cuddled, 117 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:24,119 Speaker 9: or he just sat alone, content in the silence. Today 118 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 9: we say goodbye to the quiet little Cavapoo. So tonight, 119 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 9: drink the good whiskey, bite the good cigar, Take ten seconds, 120 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 9: and in your softest whisper, say, that's a good boy, Harrison, 121 00:07:44,200 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 9: that's a good boy. 122 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 1: Very to understand. When it comes to political issues that 123 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: are intentionally very complicated. Over the years, John Cornyan has 124 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: done things to undermine an initiative we wanted accomplished setting 125 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 1: up the votes to kill it, deciding which Republicans would 126 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 1: vote against it, and those Republicans would be the safest 127 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: Republicans because in a six year Senate term, you wouldn't 128 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:47,839 Speaker 1: be up for election that time, and your polling was 129 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: pretty good, so you could afford to take one for 130 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 1: the team, the team being the Swamp, not the Republican base. 131 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,680 Speaker 1: While at the last minute holding out, he's still studying it. 132 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 1: He wasn't sure what he was going to do. He 133 00:08:58,160 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 1: was going to give it a good study. You know me, 134 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 1: Old Wayne mccorny, And I'm gonna study it real hard. 135 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna look at both sides. I'm gonna keep an 136 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: open mind. Into the last minute, he'd vote for it, 137 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,959 Speaker 1: and the base would say yay, John Wayne mccorn and 138 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: he voted for it. What you didn't know is that 139 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 1: behind the scenes he was killing it. And so if 140 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 1: you say John Wayne mccorny sold us out, folks that 141 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: got the email from the consultants that are paid a 142 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: lot of money by the Swamp to tell you that 143 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:27,199 Speaker 1: John WAYN. Mccorny is a good conservative, they'd say, no, no, 144 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: you're what's wrong with you? He fought for us and 145 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 1: he got it passed out of committee or he got 146 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: it whatever. But it never actually wins, never actually passes. 147 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 1: And these people don't notice because there are a lot 148 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 1: of people who my boy, god, I'm Republican, I ain't Democrat, 149 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: I ain't a woe from Debtrick Burnberg Democrats, and you 150 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: keep messing around, We're gonna lose our Senate. See TM, Democrats, 151 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 1: what you're gonna do? I get this, you know, I 152 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 1: know cornn ain't perfect. He ain't, but you know what, 153 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: at least he's Republican. I'm telling you a democrat could 154 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 1: do us less harm. I'm not for a democrat. I'm 155 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 1: telling you if you don't have, have you ever noticed 156 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 1: that you got Republicans controlling government And it isn't till 157 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 1: Trump gets there that they actually do anything. Give the 158 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 1: Democrats credit when they take control of something, they run things, 159 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: they get things done. Then you take the case of 160 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 1: the State House in the state of Texas. We've had 161 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 1: a Republican majority for years, but it's always been controlled 162 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 1: by the Democrats. It's a very complicated strategy executed beautifully 163 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 1: by the Democrats and the swamp. Because remember the swamp's 164 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: paying the bills and the swamps. A lot of people 165 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: who you would think were Republicans. You got lawyers with 166 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 1: big law firms. Everybody knows who I'm talking about, little 167 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 1: sought off fellows that claimed that, you know, they're the 168 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 1: Republican but actually they're working with the swamp, which means 169 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: using the Democrats. And that's the people running the state. 170 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 1: That's some big donors, and they have absolute control over 171 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:00,679 Speaker 1: the Republicans that are put in there because they don't 172 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: want Republicans that are controlled by you. Those people are dangerous. 173 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:08,560 Speaker 1: Those people are like Trump. And a lot of the 174 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: people controlling this and the car Rove sphere are people 175 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 1: that supported Nicki Haley, not because Nikki Haley would be great, 176 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 1: because they don't like Trump. They cannot control Trump and 177 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: that upsets them. But I guess I'd rather the bill 178 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 1: pass than not because it puts the state of Texas 179 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 1: in a school voucher movement. I just wish I could 180 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 1: see Republicans one time cut expenses, just one time, just 181 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:42,319 Speaker 1: one time cut expenses. And remember this, if you're sitting 182 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: and looking at the at the invoices you've sent, if 183 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,559 Speaker 1: you're in accounts receivable for the State of Texas government. 184 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: You don't have to raise taxes to see. I think 185 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 1: it's a five percent tax increase, a five percent revenue increase. 186 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 1: Come in, When is the last time the tax assessor 187 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 1: collect through the local appraisal board has lowered the value 188 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: of your home. Your home has supposedly gone up in 189 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: value every year for decades, never ever going down in value. 190 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 1: It's hell to keep it the same. Well, I guess 191 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:24,600 Speaker 1: you can fight the tax increase. You can conveniently hire 192 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:29,079 Speaker 1: Paul Bettancourt, Republican state senator, to fight the tax increase. 193 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 1: That's a good racket if you can get it. Let's see, 194 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 1: I'm in the state Senate. Should I fight to lower 195 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: the overall property taxes? Or should I leave the property 196 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 1: taxes how they are and get paid in my private 197 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: business when I get your taxes lowered and I get 198 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 1: a percentage of it. If that was a Democrat, we'd 199 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: call that a conflict. But because it's a Republican, noay 200 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:57,439 Speaker 1: says anything. Isn't that weird? I mean, do we stand 201 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 1: on principle or we just stand on our inships and 202 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 1: sit quietly. There's no way that's not noticed. If a 203 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 1: Democrat had a property tax protest firm a Democrat did, 204 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:14,199 Speaker 1: we'd say, well that that's kind of weird. We went 205 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 1: after Democrats who were representing cities and counties that were 206 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 1: trying to get more money when they were elected state officials, 207 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 1: and doing that on the side, seems like it matters. 208 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 1: No a hairdcounting public party loves Paul bencourse, so it's great, 209 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 1: it's fine, and hey that of course one of the 210 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:34,839 Speaker 1: best senators up there. There's no doubt he's probably more 211 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 1: effective than most of the other Republican senators, if not 212 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:40,440 Speaker 1: all of them. I just needed to say that so 213 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 1: that it's on the record, because there's no way nobody 214 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: else has noticed that. Every single person notices that. Well, 215 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:50,319 Speaker 1: then you get to drunk date. Drunk Day's going to 216 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 1: drunk date. He just can't help himself. He goes against 217 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 1: the school voucher bill because he went against Greg Abbott 218 00:13:57,520 --> 00:13:59,559 Speaker 1: and Greg Abbot beat him, and this was his attempt. 219 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: He and his little buddy Gary van Daver of New Boston, 220 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,840 Speaker 1: both who were almost defeated last time. Their big win 221 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: was to fight against the school voucher bill. They're the 222 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 1: only Republicans that voted against at KPRCTV. 223 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 10: Governor Greg Abbott is calling this quote an extraordinary victory. 224 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 10: He posted that on x and as we've reported, this 225 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 10: was one of the governor's top legislative priorities. The House's 226 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 10: voucher plan would funnel one billion dollars in taxpayer dollars 227 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 10: towards education savings accounts that families could then use for 228 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 10: school tuition or things like textbooks, therapy, or transportation. Earlier 229 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 10: on Wednesday, as you mentioned, the House also passed this 230 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 10: week being eight billion dollar proposal to boost public school funding. 231 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 10: And this could increase the base amount that school districts 232 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 10: receive poor student It could potentially boost teacher pay as 233 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 10: well as improve the quality of special education services. Texas 234 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 10: lawmakers who back the bill say that it was crafted 235 00:14:57,120 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 10: to avoid mistakes that have been made by other states 236 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 10: with voucher programs. 237 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: One local counselor. 238 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 10: Tells KPRC too that they've been receiving more calls from 239 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 10: parents looking to move from public to private schools. 240 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 5: Yes, our inquiries have taken off. Families are calling just 241 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 5: really concerned and once again because of that unknown not knowing, 242 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 5: you know, family submit inquiries through our website and we 243 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 5: have seen a huge influx in those Now. 244 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 10: As far as what happens next in this process, it's 245 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 10: a bit of a formality, but the House is now 246 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 10: going to cast a final vote to approve the voucher 247 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 10: and school spending bill. 248 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 8: From there, those. 249 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 10: Measures then head back to the Senate, which approved its 250 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 10: own version back in February, and from there the two 251 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 10: chambers are going to have to iron out any differences 252 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 10: and abused. 253 00:15:49,960 --> 00:16:06,280 Speaker 1: The Michael Barry Show, Houston City Council has named Terminal 254 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 1: E at Intercontinental Airport after Sheila Jackson Lee. I'm going 255 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: to tell you if you were to take points on 256 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: a continuum in a decline, this is one of the 257 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 1: major ones. You go to a museum and you can 258 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: look at a thousand years of history, and you know, 259 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 1: about one hundred and eighty years, they'll mark one thing happened. 260 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 1: This was the Reformation, this was the abdication, this was 261 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: you have and then I think nothing happened for one 262 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years. You could look at this one factor, 263 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 1: Sheila Jackson Lee, and there it is. Harris County beat 264 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 1: him to the punch and named an administration officer after her. 265 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: So we have we have two buildings the airport people 266 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: will have to come through, which is which is rather 267 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:13,880 Speaker 1: appropriate because Sheila Jackson Lee was nationally famous for her 268 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 1: abuse of airline staff. She would demand a first class ticket, 269 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 1: she didn't have it. She get on the plane and 270 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:33,959 Speaker 1: she'd demand that somebody'd be removed. She would belittle and 271 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:36,920 Speaker 1: scold airline staff for the kind of stuff that would 272 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 1: cause a mere commoner to be kicked off. I remember 273 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 1: when the Congressional Black Caucus was meeting and Continental Airlines 274 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: was trying to get some concession for they wanted to 275 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:56,439 Speaker 1: add more more markets, I think, and FA was holding 276 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 1: it up. And the Congressional Black Caucus had a meeting, 277 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 1: and in the meeting there was discussion and they went 278 00:18:04,359 --> 00:18:06,920 Speaker 1: to Sheila and said, you know what, do you think 279 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:10,199 Speaker 1: this is your local airline? She said, absolutely not. We 280 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 1: tell them no, I want them to come grovel. She 281 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 1: did that to more people. She was abuse. You got uh, 282 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 1: you got her cussing out in the staffer. One of 283 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:29,119 Speaker 1: her staffers. You'll remember in an undercover recording, one of 284 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 1: her staffers got her calling another staff for a fat ass, 285 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:38,920 Speaker 1: and he he killed himself three days later. Maybe I 286 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: don't know. Put you know journalism likes balance. Sheila Jackson 287 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 1: Lee terminal E and we put his name underneath there. 288 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 1: And Princess fat ass that you. 289 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 11: Took a piece of tables from that woman regarding something 290 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 11: that we sold, like done pair? Where is it what 291 00:18:55,160 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 11: they were helped call from what I talked about. 292 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 12: I don't want to do. 293 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 11: I want you to have a brain. I want you 294 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:09,440 Speaker 11: to get read it. I want to say, congres Woman, 295 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 11: it was such and such state. That's what I want you. 296 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 11: That's the kind of stay that I want to have. 297 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:15,600 Speaker 11: So some stupid other did it you? 298 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 12: And I don't have the information nobody sent me informs 299 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:20,399 Speaker 12: that I need to. 300 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 11: Ensure my experience schedule. And uh, you know if if 301 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 11: Google did it, did it? Did it? And nobody knows 302 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,960 Speaker 11: what being in my office gat nothing. I gave it 303 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 11: to you. Your job was to get it on the calendar, 304 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 11: imprinted in your brain. 305 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 12: What sent me the information? Back ing congress Woman, I 306 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 12: made sure that the old white duncan tell Evans that 307 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 12: you gave me for so and so date at seven 308 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 12: is on accountant not to spoke Jerome ass Okay, So 309 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:49,199 Speaker 12: when I called Jerome, he golet me sit up there 310 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 12: like a fat ass is an idiot. 311 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 11: Talking about what he doesn't know. Dank promote y'all cap 312 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 11: it work. I could have a hand put together to 313 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 11: They asked committee for the manage. Nobody nobody's respecting them. 314 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,440 Speaker 11: If I give him that, what you're doing to me, 315 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:12,440 Speaker 11: they ain't doing. And this is an example of a 316 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:16,160 Speaker 11: I gave it to one. If I'm not child's working. 317 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 1: Okay, I want to be very clear. She was not 318 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:24,440 Speaker 1: in an executive position, an administrative position. She was going 319 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 1: from event to event trying to be announced so that 320 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: she could give a speech. They never let her chair 321 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,680 Speaker 1: an actual committee. They would give her a subcommittee. Toward 322 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 1: the end, she tried to put forward a bill when 323 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,639 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi was a Speaker of the House to honor 324 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:47,879 Speaker 1: that pedophile Michael Jackson, and Nancy Pelosi wouldn't let it 325 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 1: come to the floor. She didn't have that clout. She 326 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 1: never chaired a committee. She never got a meaningful bill passed. 327 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 1: They're quoting that she brought all this money to the 328 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: airport system in Houston. By that measure, every congressman can 329 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 1: count every dollar they received for the airport in their 330 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 1: congressional district. She had nothing to do with that right, Nobody, 331 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 1: nobody had any reason to give her anything, because even 332 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,680 Speaker 1: the Democrats never gave her the clout because they knew 333 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 1: what a clown she was. They knew better than most 334 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 1: people in Houston. Do I die? She stayed in Congress 335 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:33,200 Speaker 1: for thirty years? Is that an accomplishment? How is that 336 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: an accomplishment? 337 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:36,200 Speaker 12: Maybe he is no better than the immigrant that came 338 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 12: in shackles like myself. 339 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,640 Speaker 1: How is that something you're going to say is important 340 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 1: when in thirty years you never actually did anything? Shut 341 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 1: it down, Shut it down. This was a racist, This 342 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:58,880 Speaker 1: person was corrupt, This person was mean, This person was evil, nasty. 343 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 1: There is there's nothing good to say of her. I 344 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: am outraged, and now you've got to do you know 345 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 1: what this is about? Sheila was black. It's very important 346 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:14,119 Speaker 1: we honor someone who was black. What did Sheila do 347 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: other than scream about being black? What did she actually accomplish? 348 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,200 Speaker 1: But I guess at some point, what does she ever 349 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 1: do other than stand in front of a camera and 350 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: try to get her ugly mug And let's be honest, 351 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:33,439 Speaker 1: try to get her ugly mug in every news story 352 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 1: I could. If they would talk, I could have every 353 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: news reporter I've ever known, which is a lot in 354 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 1: the last almost thirty years. Tell you stories of things. 355 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:49,200 Speaker 1: She would do, things, she would say, things, she would do, 356 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 1: little little games she would play. All she wanted was 357 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: to be on TV. That's the sitting eight hours. They 358 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:00,159 Speaker 1: had to change the rule at the State of the 359 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:04,399 Speaker 1: Union address because she would send a stafford and they said, no, 360 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:06,879 Speaker 1: you gotta sit your own fat ass there, Jerome. You 361 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 1: got to sit there. Sheila just so she could be 362 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 1: seen on TV, hoping the idiots back home would think 363 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 1: that meant she had cloud. 364 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:17,760 Speaker 8: Someone now quoted by Sila Jackson Lee. 365 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 1: Us I die the Michael Berry Show. 366 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 13: I'm Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and I hailed from Houston, Texas. 367 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 13: I've never seen a clap so hard as you did tonight. 368 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 4: I never seen you in the Secret Service. 369 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 14: Fight for CONGRESSWOMMM. I've never seen so many men laugh 370 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:55,399 Speaker 14: at you win. You stand catching the camera when it panned. 371 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:58,880 Speaker 1: You're giving half a chance. 372 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,640 Speaker 13: And I've never seen that jacket bloss of red think 373 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 13: that you're wearing with a crowd wig on your head. 374 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:07,880 Speaker 13: That stuns my eyes. 375 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 14: Where does she get that. 376 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 4: The congress woman in red. He's standing with me. 377 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:23,160 Speaker 1: When the president speaks. 378 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 13: Nobody else stands. It's just you and me, Nancy Filos. 379 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: But I hardly know this congresswoman by my side. I'll 380 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:50,919 Speaker 1: never forget. 381 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:56,639 Speaker 14: How many times you who stood to li. 382 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:14,120 Speaker 15: The congresswoman in red, the congresswoman in red, the congresswoman 383 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:15,440 Speaker 15: in red. 384 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:28,959 Speaker 1: The congresswoman in red. Tim Fleck, who was at the Chronicle, 385 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:30,920 Speaker 1: who was at the Houston Press at the time, later 386 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:35,359 Speaker 1: went to the Chronicle editorial board wrote a piece that 387 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:41,159 Speaker 1: was often quoted in Houston political circles, and it was entitled, 388 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 1: What's driving Miss Sheila. This was nineteen ninety seven. It 389 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:48,680 Speaker 1: was only two years after she went to Congress. This 390 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: was before she was as imperious, blustery, rude, and corrupt 391 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,680 Speaker 1: as she would grow to be. Only five days into 392 00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:59,640 Speaker 1: her first term as a member of Congress, Shila Jackson 393 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: Lee hurried into her small office in the Longworth Building. 394 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 1: Back home. While serving on the Houston City Council, Lee 395 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: had forged reputation as a brusque and imperious boss, and 396 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,200 Speaker 1: her short time in Washington hadn't changed her. I want 397 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:15,440 Speaker 1: that asap seemed to be her favorite phrase, and on 398 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,479 Speaker 1: this day she had a rush order for her Legislative Director, 399 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 1: Meredith Jones. In January nineteen ninety five to one hundred 400 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 1: and fourth Congress was fizzing with the arrival of Newt 401 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 1: Gingrich's Freshman Warriors. Lee, one of the relatively few new Democrats, 402 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 1: was determined to make a splash on the House floor. 403 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,160 Speaker 1: She coolly informed Jones that the staff had thirty minutes 404 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 1: to craft an amendment to a piece of legislation that 405 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 1: neither they nor Lee had ever seen. Unlike Lee, Jones 406 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:41,399 Speaker 1: was an old hand on Capitol Hill, a ten year 407 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,239 Speaker 1: veteran who had worked for Congressman Mike Andrews. She had 408 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:46,359 Speaker 1: a reputation as a nuts and bolts operative and seemed 409 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:50,119 Speaker 1: the perfect navigator for a freshman legislator unfamiliar with Washington 410 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 1: dos and don'ts. Clearly, what Lee was requesting was a don't. 411 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 1: Don't waste the time of the other four hundred and 412 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,680 Speaker 1: thirty four members of the House with a frivolous, ill 413 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,920 Speaker 1: considered amendment. A former Lee stafford explains the absurdity of 414 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 1: the congresswoman's demand. Look, you're a freshman, you're in the minority. 415 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 1: You don't even know what the gd bill is that's 416 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 1: being offered. How are you going to offer an amendment 417 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 1: to it when you don't even know where the ladi's 418 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,159 Speaker 1: bathroom is. Jones tried not to offend her new employer 419 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 1: as she gently explained that rushing to the floor with 420 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 1: a slipshot amendment would only damage her credibility. Give the 421 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: staff more time. Pleaded Jones to do some research and 422 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 1: come up with them amendments that had a chance of 423 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,639 Speaker 1: attracting respectful discussion, if not passage in the Republican control Chamber. 424 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: Lee glared when Jones finished, the congress woman bark, you 425 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,640 Speaker 1: now have twenty nine minutes. That incident reveals much about 426 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 1: Sheila Jackson. Lee Jones did produce an amendment, but, like 427 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,879 Speaker 1: a myriad of others, the congresswoman offered in her first ternament, 428 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,640 Speaker 1: went nowhere while alienating the very few people who could 429 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 1: make it possible for her to represent her district effectively. 430 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 1: It's a cost Lee has been willing to bear as 431 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: she pursues other imperatives. Speak, be seen, be quoted. You 432 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 1: know this article's pretty good. You can find it on 433 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:59,359 Speaker 1: lines called What's driving Miss Sheila Houston City Council voted 434 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:04,400 Speaker 1: to named Terminal E after Shila Jackson Lee. Last week, 435 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 1: Harris County at one of their buildings, the Administration Building 436 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,239 Speaker 1: named at the Shila Jackson Lee Administration Building, You've got 437 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: the Lee P. Brown Doctor Lee P. 438 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 15: Brown. 439 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:20,120 Speaker 1: She guy has a PhD in one of the softest 440 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 1: subjects you can possibly get. Lee Brown. Metro building a 441 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,879 Speaker 1: department that should be eliminated. Named for a guy who 442 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,399 Speaker 1: was put there because he was the black place filler 443 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 1: so that you could have a black first Portland Sheriff, 444 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 1: Houston Police Chief, Houston mayor, New York Police Chief, Atlanta 445 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 1: Police Chief. Drugs are a guy who screwed up everywhere 446 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: he went by the time he came to Houston. Didn't 447 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: just screw up. He's extraordinarily corrupt. I saw it firsthand. 448 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: I served on city council while he was mayor. You 449 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 1: keep naming these buildings after politicians, making gods of them, 450 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 1: as if there is nobody but a politician for whom 451 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 1: a building could be named. But if you think about it, 452 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 1: movie makers make movies about making movies. Writers write books 453 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:13,480 Speaker 1: about writing books, songwriters write songs about writing songs, and 454 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: other singers it's the ultimate vanity. It's a vain, glorious masturbation. 455 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,280 Speaker 1: If we honor other politicians, maybe we too will one 456 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 1: day be honored. We will be the keepers of the flame. 457 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 1: We will build our own reputation. There's no public servant 458 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,600 Speaker 1: involved in it. But if you were going to pick 459 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 1: somebody to choose to name Houston's airport for a woman 460 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:52,200 Speaker 1: who a cursory superficial search engine request would yield, had 461 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 1: an embarrassing history with abuse of staff at the airports, 462 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 1: a woman who was known own for screw ups, idiotic statements, 463 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,920 Speaker 1: and embarrassing the city of Houston. Never once did she 464 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 1: make us proud. And the only people they'll end up 465 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 1: naming something for Silvester. Just go ahead and know that's coming. 466 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 1: Wet Meyer will end up naming something at the city 467 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 1: for Sylvester Turner for the political trades that were made. 468 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: They will name something for Sylvester Turner, even though half 469 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 1: his staff were in prison by the time he left 470 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 1: the Mayor's office. All of this nonsense, and no one 471 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 1: speaks out against it. You know, internal black politics, because 472 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 1: you notice they're not naming anything for anybody way Black 473 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:48,200 Speaker 1: Democrat politics by very corrupt officials like Sheila Jackson, Lee Rodney, Ella, 474 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:48,960 Speaker 1: Sylvester Turner. 475 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 13: This is. 476 00:30:53,920 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: This is the most destructive thing for communities and it yields. 477 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 1: It's a story in the news today. This punk who 478 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,960 Speaker 1: stabbed the white kid at the school event, plunged a 479 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 1: knife into his chest. The family, see if I can 480 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 1: find this. The family received a huge fortune Carmelo Anthony's 481 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:30,000 Speaker 1: name when his bond was reduced by a DEI black 482 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,920 Speaker 1: woman judge from a million to two hundred and fifty. 483 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:39,000 Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony moves. Carmelo Anthony family moves into nine hundred 484 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:42,360 Speaker 1: thousand dollars home engated community after teens one million dollar 485 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,840 Speaker 1: bond on murder charge cut to two hundred and fifteen 486 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. That's ghetto fabulous right there. They raised a 487 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 1: million dollars for his defense because he's the new George Floyd. 488 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 1: Oh we don't need it. Well, let's buy a new house, 489 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 1: all right, goodness, and a new car, because how better 490 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 1: to celebrate that we got our And you wonder why 491 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 1: people are moving out of cities. It's an attempt to 492 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,160 Speaker 1: flee the corruption, the crime, and the