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Speaker 1: Michael Very Show is on the air. Our roving reporter

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Speaker 1: Thornton Finch with his thoughts on the debate.

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Speaker 2: Senator Ted Cruz the Master Debate and Colin Allread his

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Speaker 2: wind bag. When vain Democratic opponent squared off in what

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Speaker 2: could only be described as a political showdown, Cruise painted

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Speaker 2: all Red's over there calling it racist until he decides

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Speaker 2: it's his campaign photo op. Colin already was a chameleon

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Speaker 2: on a kaleidoscope. His rhetoric looked nothing like his record,

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Speaker 2: and Cruise was on him like Hunter Biden on a

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Speaker 2: about Cruise's CanCon trip like it's the Gettysburg Address of

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Speaker 2: political missteps. But folks, Cruise turned that into a badge

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Speaker 2: Cruse mocking all Red for his stance on boys and girls' sports.

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Speaker 2: Here comes there's all read ladies and gentlemen, the linebacker

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Speaker 2: football field and a girl's locker room. So there you

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Speaker 2: have it, folks, This debate was a beatdown. Colin Allred

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Speaker 2: brought a red cape and blindfold to a bullfight, and

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Speaker 2: Ted Cruz was huffing, snorting and mauling his way to

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Speaker 2: a commanding victory. I'm Thornton Finch reporting for the Michael

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Speaker 2: Barry Show.

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Speaker 1: So here's what's going on in the local governmental entities,

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Speaker 1: which is why your taxes are increasing, Your streets are busted,

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Speaker 1: and things are so bad. People are leaving these communities

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Speaker 1: and they'll never come back. So in the City of Houston,

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Speaker 1: you've got a contractor with just two months of experience

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Speaker 1: operating out of an apartment, hand it over a six

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars park renovation project in the third ward.

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Speaker 1: He was given another one hundred and twenty thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: after his project went over budget and the end result

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Speaker 1: empty concrete pads with screws attached to nothing, No park benches,

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Speaker 1: no tables, nothing. The CEO of the Houston Housing Authority.

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Speaker 1: David Northern signed the contract and he walks out of

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Speaker 1: the interview with Amy Davis. This guy Northern, this kind

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Speaker 1: Northern has got so many scams going at the Houston

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Speaker 1: Housing Authority. And that's why Silvester Turner and Rodney Ellis

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Speaker 1: renewed his contract, gave him five years before Whitmyer could

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Speaker 1: These aren't mistakes they're making. This is all by design.

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Speaker 1: Credit to Amy Davis at KPRC TV for the story.

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Speaker 3: Larry Grisbye has lived here at Cuney Homes eight years.

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Speaker 3: It's the city's oldest public housing development, opened in nineteen

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Speaker 3: forty three. But Larry, like other people who live in

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Speaker 4: They post have been two benches here. It pould have

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Speaker 4: it post have been a table right there.

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Speaker 3: But all that's here are these concrete pads with screws

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Speaker 3: attached to nothing. KPRC two obtain these renderings of what

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Speaker 3: the landscape improvement project connecting Cuney Homes to the Columbia

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Speaker 3: Tap Trail was supposed to look like the estimated cost

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Speaker 3: six hundred forty three thousand, five hundred dollars. The Houston

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Speaker 3: Housing Authority actually paid contractors more than seven hundred and

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Speaker 3: sixty six thousand dollars. That's one hundred and twenty three

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Speaker 3: thousand bucks over budget. And this is what the people

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they posed to come back and put the.

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Speaker 5: Table and the other bent.

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Speaker 2: What happened, I don't know, yea.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know. I don't know. They never came back.

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Speaker 4: They never said nothing.

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Speaker 3: In our search for Grisbee's benches and this chess table

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Speaker 3: contractors paid for this work. Lamntree Woods owns Elite Project Managers.

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Speaker 3: He registered the company with the state on January ninth

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Speaker 3: and signed this contract with the Houston Housing Authority just

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Speaker 3: two months later, on March fourth. The registered address for

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Speaker 3: his business took us to this humble apartment complex. We

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Speaker 3: Our next stop was to the Houston Housing Authority to

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Speaker 3: find the other man. Who signed this deal? Houston Housing

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Speaker 3: Authority CEO David Northerners. Can you tell us how you

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Speaker 3: know Lamntre Woods and how he was chosen?

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Speaker 6: He's one of the contractors there. I don't know him personally.

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Speaker 3: You don't know him personally. And did you know that

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Speaker 3: his business was just formed two months before he got

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Speaker 3: that contract?

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Speaker 1: No, we will only here to discuss the fifty million

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Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, did you know that this is

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Speaker 1: a fraud and you're part of it?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, we're supposed to only talk about this

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Speaker 1: thing over here. We can't talk about this fraud. This

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Speaker 1: is your local government, folks. It is systemic. It is

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Speaker 1: top to bottom fraud. It is fraud on top of

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Speaker 1: fraud on top of fraud. It's a handful of characters

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Speaker 1: in this. Fore, bastard Lamnentree, whatever his name is, he's

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Speaker 1: just the bag man. Hey, Uh, we don't pay you

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Speaker 1: a bunch of money. You go, uh put some put

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Speaker 1: some park benches out. He don't know how to do that.

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Speaker 1: He has no clue. He didn't put any park benches.

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Speaker 1: The next the next story you're gonna hear about is

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Speaker 1: a guy that got these air conditioning contracts to put

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Speaker 1: they're doing. Literally, it is obvious they've never put a

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Speaker 1: window unit in an apartment or a house ever before.

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Speaker 1: I wish you could see the video. You would laugh.

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Speaker 1: Your twelve year old kid could have done a better job.

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Speaker 1: And they just keep paying them. Of course they're not

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Speaker 1: getting the money. They're getting a little money. The real

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Speaker 1: money for the who put this whole scheme together. This

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Speaker 1: ain't Lemon Tree's fault anyway.

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Speaker 3: Finish up cell phone number, and I have plenty more questions.

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Speaker 3: I just think, I mean, can you at all address those?

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Speaker 3: You're the director. Northern did agree to meet with me

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Speaker 3: off camera days later, but he had few answers. He

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Speaker 3: said he didn't know this project was incomplete. These contracts

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Speaker 3: we've obtained show all work was to conclude on or

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Speaker 3: before April first. HJA has paid Elite all of the

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Speaker 3: money under its contract and then some back at Cuney Holmes.

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Speaker 3: Grisbee is still missing the chess table, solar lights, and benches.

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Speaker 3: Documents show Elite project managers asked for another extension until

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Speaker 3: May seventh, and an extra seventeen five hundred dollars to

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Speaker 3: order the items. That was five months ago. We finally

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Speaker 3: got in touch with the La Monree Woods by phone

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Speaker 3: who it is he's speaking to. He also wouldn't say

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Speaker 3: why the chess table, the benches and the correct lighting

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Speaker 3: haven't been installed here months after we paid for them.

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Speaker 4: I tell Care a lot of people, they say your money.

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Speaker 4: Somebody ran off with the money. I tell Care a loader.

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Speaker 2: To hear that.

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Speaker 1: You know, thousands of dollars have been spent for work

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Speaker 1: that wasn't done. He's legoneree the Michael Berry Show, simple man.

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Speaker 4: Maybe I'm the place to pay you love me all

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Speaker 4: the time.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I'm afraid. Okay, So you know that the Houston

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Speaker 1: Housing Authority CEO David Northern signed off on a six

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Speaker 1: and never put any benches or anything with it. Then

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Speaker 1: they added another one hundred twenty thousand dollars after the

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Speaker 1: project went over budget. Let me ask you a question, folks.

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Speaker 1: The poor guy who's getting paid to put these park

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Speaker 1: benches in and clearly doesn't know how to do it, Lamntree.

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Speaker 1: Would you think Lamontree got this deal? When David Northern

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Speaker 1: says he doesn't know who Lemon Tree would is, I

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Speaker 1: think that's the only thing he's said this week that's true,

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Speaker 1: that's honest. He didn't give this contract to Lamontree. He

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Speaker 1: gave this contract to somebody whose name you'd know, and

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Speaker 1: they told to go do the work and he'd get

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Speaker 1: And if Amy Davis at KPRCTV didn't do this story,

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Speaker 1: do you realize this is going on all over? Remember

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Speaker 1: the water mains that were busted. When they tracked down

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Speaker 1: and he came to the door. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: You remember that that was the guy who was supposed

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Speaker 1: also the Houston Housing Authority a deal to install AC

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Speaker 1: in They didn't win this contract. These contracts aren't given

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Speaker 1: little cabal that's getting rich over all the graft and corruption.

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Speaker 1: Here's the story.

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Speaker 3: The Houston Housing Authority set out to install sixteen hundred

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Speaker 3: you and I paid more than five point four million dollars.

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Speaker 3: And Sophia. If this project sounds familiar to you, it's

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Speaker 3: because you interviewed HHA President and CEO David Northern right

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Speaker 6: Were you able to get this type of funding? Well,

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Speaker 6: departner House of Urban Development provides funding yearly to all

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Speaker 3: So now about fourteen months later, we are investigating why

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Speaker 3: that heat relief project cost you millions more dollars than

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Speaker 3: planned and who got the bulk of that money. But

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Speaker 3: this time around, David Northern is not talking. The hum

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Speaker 3: of this new window unit sounds like relief to Cuney

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Speaker 3: Holmes resident Larry Grisby.

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Speaker 5: Do you think it's better?

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Speaker 3: So? Yeah, yeah, But what we heard about the contracts

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Speaker 3: to install these acs in Houston's biggest and oldest housing

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Speaker 3: projects sounded troublesome. So we requested every contract. More than

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Speaker 3: twenty two companies hired to do the work. Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: just want to talk to you about this is public funds.

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Speaker 1: Just wanted to talk to you about the.

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Speaker 6: Work that eat camera that I brought you in.

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Speaker 7: Get rid of the.

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Speaker 3: Camera in you old midson. Did you know that his

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Speaker 3: business was just warmed two months before he got that contract.

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Speaker 1: No, we were only here to discuss fifty million dollars.

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Speaker 3: Grand HHA President and CEO David Northern wouldn't talk to

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Speaker 3: told me the Housing Authority decided to split the bid

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Speaker 3: That's the case of Lamententre Woods. We introduced you to

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Speaker 3: you good? So you signed up to speak? I mean

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Speaker 3: we would like to again. I offer you an opportunity

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Speaker 3: to talk to us. Woods declined to speak with us,

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Speaker 6: I have not know would I ever say any fronts

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Speaker 3: But before the pocket Park, Woods was installing AC's for

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Speaker 3: as an emergency, there was no bid and Woods walked

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Speaker 3: away with more than one point three million dollars. But

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Speaker 3: it's not just the money you paid for work, it's

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Speaker 3: also the money you paid for no work. These requests

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Speaker 3: for payment and checks reveal the Houston Housing Authority paid

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Speaker 3: out more than one hundred and twenty eight thousand dollars

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Speaker 3: for weather delays, material shortages, and days when residents wouldn't

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Speaker 3: let contractors inside to install those acs. You paid them

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Speaker 3: by the hour, sometimes for eight hours, to do nothing.

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Speaker 1: There's your government. That's just the housing authority. That's just

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Speaker 1: one little project, five point four million dollars to install

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Speaker 1: air conditioning units for public housing. You know, I know,

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Speaker 1: you know that Lamentree didn't keep this money. They gave

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Speaker 1: more to keep his mouth shut. Because that's how this

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Speaker 1: game works. Where do you think that money went? You

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Speaker 1: already know, you already know. Now you want to know

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Speaker 1: why these people work so hard to get elected? People

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Speaker 1: ask me all the time, how come somebody works so

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Speaker 1: hard to get elected to a job that only pays

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. Hell, they're

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Speaker 1: spending millions a year, millions of per campaign on a

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Speaker 1: job that pays one hundred and fifty. Sweetheart, that job

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Speaker 1: doesn't pay one hundred and fifty. That job pays so

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Speaker 1: many million dollars you would not believe it. Metro Metro's

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Speaker 1: not about moving people here and there. The light rail

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Speaker 1: that wasn't about being a cutting edge city with a

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Speaker 1: great technology. There's money in the surveying, there's money in

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Speaker 1: the land acquisition, there's money in the design. These people

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Speaker 1: sit around. I don't know how else to say this.

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Speaker 1: These people sit around in a room and they go,

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Speaker 1: all right, where's ten twenty thirty million bucks we can

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Speaker 1: look at all right, Metro's got some over here. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the Housing Authority, let's look through all their pro Oh

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Speaker 1: here's one. We can do emergency air condition and they'll

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Speaker 1: do a press conference emergency air conditions when it doesn't

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Speaker 1: steal it all? Do you believe Americans are better off

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Speaker 1: than they were four years ago? The Laco Barrier.

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Speaker 3: So I was raised as a middle class kid.

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Speaker 1: It would be the best my life.

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Speaker 3: I've been dream.

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Speaker 1: The Houston Housing Authorities Board of Commissioners, they have voted

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Speaker 1: to bring in an independent investigator. Oh we're what are

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Speaker 1: you gonna learn that you didn't already know? You know,

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Speaker 1: how these things work works at Metro, Housing Authority, every

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Speaker 1: but hell, it happens at Houston City Hall. You've got

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Speaker 1: the professional staffers, and then you've got these outside interests.

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Speaker 1: These guys that are real smart at stealing public money.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, they contribute to all the winning candidates.

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Speaker 1: If they're not with the winning candidate before the election, then,

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Speaker 1: as Joe B used to say, the late train still

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Speaker 1: arrives at the same destination. They bring a check. After

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Speaker 1: you're elected, there you go. You're supposed to do what

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Speaker 1: they tell you to do. Because nobody contributes to campaigns

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Speaker 1: except for the insiders. That's why it's very hard to

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Speaker 1: good government doesn't want to spend one penny contributing to it.

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Speaker 1: The law firms that get the bond deals, and the

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Speaker 1: engineering firms and surveying firms, and all the firms that

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Speaker 1: get the deals, they contribute mightily to the campaigns. And

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Speaker 1: what they do is they line up behind a candidate

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Speaker 1: run all the ads. And then you say to your candidate, hey, man,

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Speaker 1: how come here on TV? Your opponent's on TV. You

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Speaker 1: gotta get on TV, man, And he's just because I

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Speaker 1: don't have any money and he's got all the money.

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Speaker 1: That's how this works, and it always has worked. So

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Speaker 1: the housing Authority Board of Commissioners. See these commissioners, they

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Speaker 1: don't ask any questions. They just show up, vote and

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Speaker 1: all go to a nice lunch and you go look

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Speaker 1: at their resumes. They're all on all the other boards

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Speaker 1: and have been school boards, public education boards. They all

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Speaker 1: interconnect with about ten people whose names you know. Well,

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Speaker 1: they're going to hire an independent investigator to find out

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Speaker 1: how they approved millions of dollars of contracts that never

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Speaker 1: got performed. And at one point, windy units were put

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Speaker 1: to have them taken out because they weren't installed properly. Oh,

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Speaker 1: but they're getting serious. They've hired an independent consultant to

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Speaker 1: evaluate the work of the President and CEO of the HHA,

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Speaker 1: David Northern. We believe you, Board of Commissioners. We think

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Speaker 1: you're looking out for what's best for our interests as taxpayers.

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Speaker 1: Keep up the great work. This story from ABC thirteen

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Speaker 1: the Venezuelan gang trend de Aragua, Well, who took over

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Speaker 1: the apartments in Aurora, Colorado. Well, one of their little

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Speaker 1: turd members was trying to recruit middle school students to

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Speaker 1: join a theft ring. Turns out he's got a criminal record,

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Speaker 1: and it turns out he had been freed on yet

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Speaker 1: another PR bond. A PR bond is a personal recognizance bond.

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Speaker 1: That's where you go, hey, we're gonna let you out

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Speaker 1: and it's not going to cost you a penny and

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Speaker 1: nobody's gonna get in trouble if you don't show back up.

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Speaker 1: But you got a pinky swear. You swear you'll pinky.

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Speaker 1: But hey, what's the Spanish word for pinky. We're trying

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Speaker 1: to get him to Pinkys where he'll show back up again.

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Speaker 1: He stole four thousand dollars worth of goods from Houston's

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Speaker 1: from Sacks Fifth Avenue. He was also arrested in Arizona

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Speaker 1: for organized retail theft. Theft. Seems like a real nice guy.

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Speaker 1: Of course, when we arrest him, you'd want to put

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Speaker 1: him back on the streets because I doubt he's ever

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Speaker 1: going to kill anybody or do anything. Seriously, these guys

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Speaker 1: don't escalate from here, oh never.

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Speaker 7: One hundred and eighty pairs of women's underwear, That's what

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Speaker 7: police say Jorgenny's robertson Kova and another man were after

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Speaker 7: when they raided the victorious secret store at Willowbrook Mall

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Speaker 7: back in April and now, Texas DPS agents say the

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Speaker 7: alleged leader of the Two Men Penny gang was a

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Speaker 7: member of the infamous Trend of Rogua Gang TDA for short.

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Speaker 7: They're based in Venezuela, Cova's home country. On Coba's arms,

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Speaker 7: DPS agents say non TDA tattoos.

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Speaker 5: Trend de Ragua has been characterized as MS thirteen on steroids.

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Speaker 7: Just last month, Governor Greg Abbott signed a proclamation declaring

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Speaker 7: the gang a foreign terrorist organization.

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Speaker 1: TDA is notorious for their brutal violence and murder and

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Speaker 1: their kidnapping.

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Speaker 7: Texas DPS has launched a statewide crackdown on TDA members

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Speaker 7: and last week arrested Koba on a misdemeanor thing warrant

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Speaker 7: We've learned. He was previously arrested for organized retail theft

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Speaker 7: in at least two states. In July twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 7: he's accused of stealing almost four thousand dollars worth of

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Speaker 7: at panny theft at the Willowbroog, Victoria secret a heist

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Speaker 7: worth thirty four hundred dollars, and he's accused of going

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Speaker 7: back again two weeks later, this time with a juvenile accomplice,

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Speaker 7: a Pasadena police officer telling investigators she'd seen cover before

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Speaker 7: in a school pickup line where those Houston theft cases

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Speaker 7: got dismissed because April twenty eighth, he was arrested in Gilbert, Arizona,

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Speaker 7: and police there. What an extra diem all police will

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Speaker 7: tell us about that arrest is that it was for

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Speaker 7: organized retail theft. It's unclear if high dollar theft is

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Speaker 7: part of trend of Agua's usual operations.

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Speaker 2: The original limit to what those crimina activities are. It

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Speaker 7: Profit and according to d COVID, shouldn't even be in

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Speaker 7: the country. We've been reaching out to ICE for almost

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Speaker 1: You or somebody you know is going to be a

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Speaker 1: victim of a criminal who is an illegal alien. You

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Speaker 1: somebody you don't know in the future who was raped

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Speaker 1: and got pregnant. Well, if they get raped and they're

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Speaker 1: pregnious by an illegal alien, how about we close the

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Speaker 1: border and vote Republican. Get caught up in the rhetoric

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Speaker 1: the Michael Very Show.

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Speaker 2: I'm a knucklehead at times.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm telling me what you want.

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Speaker 7: You really really won, really really wound.

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Speaker 5: Tell me what you really really want.

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Speaker 3: I want, really really want.

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Speaker 4: If you want not here.

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Speaker 5: Yid Lord Mercy, I'm so stove up today. I know

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Speaker 5: if I could see them, there would be bruises all

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Speaker 5: over my body. Honey, tell them what had happened last night?

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Speaker 5: Me and why too?

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Speaker 3: Said?

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Speaker 5: Some of our friends was walking right down in the

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Speaker 5: had got turned around, and who pulls up with this

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Speaker 5: big old Levisian policewoman put them red and blue lights.

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Speaker 5: Honey on she drawed down on us, started asking us

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Speaker 5: all these questions. What was it she had asked? She

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Speaker 5: came asking father street name, and I told her, Ma Tusa,

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Speaker 5: stay on jarn Street cause I stayed down here on

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Speaker 5: what is y'all street names? I said, I stay on

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Speaker 5: just infuriated this woman. She blast us with that Cajun

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Speaker 5: we looked like a couple of damn flounders out there

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Speaker 5: And she kept them voted, just this is this, They said,

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Speaker 5: she want to know what names y'all let's knowed by.

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Speaker 1: On the street.

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Speaker 5: Ah, why she didn't just ask that. I told her

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Speaker 5: where Watusa go by Cutworm, and my secret service code

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Speaker 5: name is Biscuit. But y'all not supposed to put that

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Speaker 5: on now. And she said, yes, all this have to

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Speaker 5: So we got it all straightened out and we made

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Speaker 5: they say the police is no good.

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Speaker 1: Some of them is real nice.

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Speaker 6: The woman was looking at my presences that show damn

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Speaker 6: imagination for daddy's been head.

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Speaker 1: So let me tell you about a Democrat judge in

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Speaker 1: Harris County. Her name is Kelly Johnson. So she is

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Speaker 1: not able to serve right now. She has been ruled

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Speaker 1: unfit to be around other human beings or she might

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Speaker 1: hurt somebody or herself. So she's not able to be

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Speaker 1: on the bench until at least February. Now she's up

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Speaker 1: on the ballot in November, and I want you to

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Speaker 1: pay close attention because this is a race we need

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Speaker 1: to win. Back in July, Kelly Johnson's own court reporter

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Speaker 1: filed complaints saying that Judge Johnson had a significant decline

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Speaker 1: in her behavior on the bench. She's having mental health episodes,

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Speaker 1: she's drunk, the Chronicle reports, even the Chronicle that back

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Speaker 1: in July she trashed her courtroom during one of these episodes.

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Speaker 1: These mental health episodes. Think Lena had all go, but

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Speaker 1: it's all caught on camera, So other judges are having

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Speaker 1: to fill in because she she can't sit on the bench.

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Speaker 1: She hasn't since July. She had the complaint lodged with

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Speaker 1: the State Commission on Judicial Conduct. It includes allegations of

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Speaker 1: a hostile work environment that she caused. The judge's husband

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Speaker 1: sought a temporary restraining order against her. She was pulled

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Speaker 1: over by the Harris County Sheriff's Department for erratic driving

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Speaker 1: in April. A sergeant suspected she was intoxicated and that

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Speaker 1: she was attempting to use her position as a judge

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Speaker 1: to avoid scrutiny. She's a complete mess. If nothing else,

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Speaker 1: We've got to win this race, right, even Democrats would admit. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So when you get your ballot, I want you to

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Speaker 1: scroll down and you're going to see that Kelly Johnson,

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Speaker 1: this crazed woman is up for reelection, and I want

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Speaker 1: you to vote for the Republican Party. Didn't feel the

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Speaker 1: candidate she's going to be re elected because the Republican

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Speaker 1: Party has excuses. The excuse I was told is well,

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Speaker 1: we can't get anybody to run because if they don't

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Speaker 1: think they're going to win, they worry that they won't

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Speaker 1: be able to practice before the judges that just beat them.

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Speaker 1: How did the Democrats go from no judges on the

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Speaker 1: bench to taking over the judiciary. If you can't get

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Speaker 1: the same insiders who are hanging out at the courthouse

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Speaker 1: every day to run as a Republican because they don't

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Speaker 1: want to affect their daily gravy train with the Democrat judges, fine,

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Speaker 1: go out and find lawyers in the community that don't

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Speaker 1: care whether the judges like them or not and get

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Speaker 1: them to run. Go out and find retired judges. Go

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Speaker 1: out and find people that will run as Republics. If

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Speaker 1: you vote Republican in every race, there will be racists.

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Speaker 1: You cannot vote out these evil Democrat judges because the

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Speaker 1: local Republican party did not feeld a candidate. That's your job,

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Speaker 1: and I'm tired of the excuses. In fact, I'm tired

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Speaker 1: of the local party not doing its job. I'm tired

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Speaker 1: of the big donors who are contributing to causes that

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Speaker 1: are against our interest. At some point, there is a

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Speaker 1: lot of blame to be shared by people who are

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Speaker 1: either inept or unwilling to do their jobs. And if

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Speaker 1: you cannot do your job, get out of the way

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Speaker 1: let somebody else do it. This has gone on for

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Speaker 1: too long. Too many good people are kept out of

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Speaker 1: leadership positions, and they're out here and they're the ones

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Speaker 1: doing all the work and never getting any credit and

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Speaker 1: never given an opportunity to lead. And there is no

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Speaker 1: outlet out there that knows enough about what's going on

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Speaker 1: to call this out. Your local party is failing you.

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Speaker 1: Your local party is making excuses. Rodney is running this county.

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Speaker 1: He's putting all his He's even kicked out Democrats from

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Speaker 1: within the Democrat primary. He's kicked them out to put

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Speaker 1: his own handpicked Democrat. And you can hate Ridney all

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Speaker 1: you want because what he does is despicable, but you

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Speaker 1: know what else he does. He wins. All he does

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Speaker 1: is win, win, win. Our party does not. I don't

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Speaker 1: know about you, but I don't like seller dwellers. I

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Speaker 1: don't like losers. I don't like losing. I'm tired of

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Speaker 1: excuses of why we don't fill every seat, why we

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Speaker 1: don't raise enough money, why we don't win in November,

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Speaker 1: why they didn't send enough ballots out there, why we

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Speaker 1: didn't support the lawsuits to expose that. At some point

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Speaker 1: we got a lot of really really nice, prim and

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Speaker 1: proper people who are not Warriors,