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Speaker 1: So Michael Very Show is on the air.

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Speaker 3: Oh, he says it's a scratch on his finger, but

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Speaker 3: I notice he's calling on one of those miracle drugs

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Speaker 1: I was right there when Andy came rushing in.

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Speaker 2: Barney got his hand caught in the.

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Speaker 1: Revolver and got hisself a serious infection.

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Speaker 2: I heard it.

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Speaker 3: Barnie was cleaning his gun or something, and he ripped

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Speaker 4: With terrible news.

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Speaker 3: Berney fire shot himself in the chest. I have read

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Speaker 3: both four reports of your regularly being drunk at work,

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Speaker 3: including by people who worked with your Fox News. Do

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Speaker 3: you know that being drunk at work is prohibited for

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Speaker 5: Senator, those are multiple false, anonymous reports peddled by NBCD.

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Speaker 5: You know that directly job is to the dozens of

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Speaker 2: Who I worry.

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Speaker 3: I'm not hearing that my question and said in your state, Minister,

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Speaker 3: except you commit to holding leaders accountable at all levels,

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Speaker 3: that includes you, sactor, you would be on the job

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Speaker 3: twenty four to seven. You recently promised some of my

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Speaker 3: Republican colleagues that you stopped drinking and won't drink if confirmed. Correct, Absolutely,

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Speaker 3: you don't know.

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Speaker 6: Many of your work colleagues have said that you show

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Speaker 6: I know you've denied that, but you would agree with

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Speaker 6: be disqualifying for somebody to be Secretary of Defense.

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Speaker 2: Senator, those are.

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Speaker 5: All anonymous false claims.

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Speaker 6: Now, I know you denied these things, but it isn't

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Speaker 7: This is the pattern, is that we have all these

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Speaker 7: any specifics, they don't have any corroboration whatsoever. And yet

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Speaker 7: and say this didn't happen. It's the same thing at CVA,

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Speaker 7: it's the same thing at FOX, it's the same thing

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Speaker 7: at the Veterans for Freedom, every single one of these.

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Speaker 1: It's every way.

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Speaker 5: Senator, as I've acknowledged to everyone in this committee, not

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Speaker 6: Now I just asked a simple question. You've taken an

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Speaker 6: oath like you would take an oath to be secretary

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Speaker 7: Is that correct?

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Speaker 5: I have failed in things in my life, and thankfully

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Speaker 7: Do you think you're being Kavanaugh right now?

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Speaker 8: I had a member not forty five minutes ago, look

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Speaker 8: That's what they're trying to.

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Speaker 9: Do to you.

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Speaker 8: That's their playbook. Get ready for more, and they're gonna

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Speaker 8: make it up just like they have so far, all anonymous,

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Speaker 8: just going to keep doing it because you're a threat

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Speaker 1: So yesterday I told you the story Ramon about my

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Speaker 2: And Michael shows.

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Speaker 1: Some of you will have gone to Lawyer's round Top

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Speaker 1: a it's gonna be a over three hours. You understand, right,

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: By the second quarter, she's talking to the woman beside

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Speaker 1: This is the big play, and you're over there yammering.

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Speaker 1: So that's the same thing with sushi and Okrey. I

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Speaker 1: Okrey's nasty, it's slimy and gross, I thought you's from

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Speaker 1: it's true. And I don't like it because I choose.

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Speaker 1: Not if I don't like something, I'm not gonna tell

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Speaker 1: You don't like it either, Well, I like it fried? Well,

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Speaker 2: Anyway?

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Speaker 1: Uh, fixing to is one word. It means I'm going

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Speaker 1: to do something. Number ten. There's no such thing as lunch.

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Speaker 1: There's only dinner and then there's supper. Well, that's my dad.

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Speaker 1: Number eleven. Iced tea is appropriate for all meals, and

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Speaker 1: a little tea with our sugar. It's referred to as

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Speaker 1: dark to see. Number fifteen. You don't push buttons, you

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Speaker 1: mash them. Number sixteen, y'all is singular. All y'all is plural.

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Speaker 1: Number seventeen. All the festivals across the state are named

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Speaker 1: after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal. That is true.

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Speaker 1: Number eighteen. You carry jumper cables in your car for

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Speaker 1: your own car. Nine You only owned five spices salt, pepper, occagun, seasoning, tabasco,

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Speaker 7: Wear That poor what Ditch and Michael Berry show the Evil.

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Speaker 2: Can Evil stunt cycle rum.

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Speaker 1: Ideal State Representative Steve Toath from north of Houston in

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Speaker 1: moment beforest State Representative Mitch Little, he's the warm up.

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Speaker 9: Aack what they do.

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Speaker 6: I don't have my security, Mitch Little.

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Speaker 2: I'm used to that.

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Speaker 1: You're you're the worm doc, You're the opener for Steve Toath,

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Speaker 2: Fluffed that that seems appropriate.

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Speaker 1: Quite honestly, you were just worn in yesterday, so you

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Speaker 2: But you did have.

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Speaker 1: An idea of what was going to happen, and you

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Speaker 1: What was different than what you expected?

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Speaker 2: You know, it was this is all part of our plan.

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Speaker 2: Quite honestly, part of me was worried that David Cook

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Speaker 2: we wouldn't get an opportunity, opportunity to really reveal who

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Speaker 2: these people really are. And now it's laid bare for everyone.

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Speaker 2: Everyone in Texas can see who is siding with the

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Speaker 2: Democrats or control of the Texas House. The Texas House

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Speaker 2: been since Joe Strauss was speaker, and Texans better buckle up.

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Speaker 2: You're getting ready for a wild ride.

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Speaker 1: Forty nine Democrats teamed with thirty six minority Republicans to

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Speaker 2: So I wish you could have been there on the

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Speaker 1: Because the Republicans have to go back to their districts

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Speaker 1: and they saw what happened to Drunk Daid. They saw

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Speaker 1: And they know it. Whereas the Democrats get to go

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Speaker 2: Their goal is it's really twofold. They think they're going

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Speaker 2: able to raise enough money to squelch out the grassroots

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Speaker 2: a paper tiger. They think that the party can't touch them. Well,

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Speaker 2: there are a lot of people home now, Michael, playing

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Speaker 1: Well, said interesting that all but Jeff Berry from Paarland

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Speaker 1: newbie Republicans voted for Cook and it was nothing but

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Speaker 2: Burrows, did they though? I mean those guys, the freshmen

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Speaker 2: who voted with with Burrows have been with They've been

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Speaker 2: and the clubs have to really know who they are.

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Speaker 2: The local party's got to got to filter out the

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Speaker 2: going to be here for a very long time. But

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Speaker 2: we can wait. The people in Texas can wait as

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Speaker 2: long as it takes to ensure that the Republicans control

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Speaker 1: Have there been threats made that those of you who

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Speaker 1: hell to pay, that you'd be frozen out.

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Speaker 2: Against against the people who didn't vote with him yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, people like you.

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Speaker 2: Oh No, there's just this kind of subtle nose in

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Speaker 2: the air, attitude that they're in control. There's nothing you

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Speaker 2: And you know, I think we're going to see a

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Speaker 2: accidental oopsies. Oopsy, we dropped all your election bills, Oopsy,

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Speaker 2: we dropped the China land bill, We ran out of time,

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Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. There's nothing. There's nothing in the

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Speaker 2: Texas House that happens by accident, Michael. Everything is a

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Speaker 2: product of design, and now it will be the design

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Speaker 2: of a majority of Democrats controlling the House. And they

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Speaker 1: State Representative Mitch Little is our guest. What happens today?

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Speaker 1: I know you have to be on the floor at

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Speaker 2: We got it. We're going to go over what the

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Speaker 2: caucus to discuss that and the significance of it, and

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Speaker 2: I believe the rules will be discussed next week and

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Speaker 2: the fight begins.

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Speaker 1: You're going to meet as as well.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to do, That's what we're hard to do.

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Speaker 1: You're going to meet as a Republican caucus and Dennis

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Speaker 1: Burrows will be there, presumably when he wasn't the choice

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Speaker 2: Oh, we don't know if he'll be there. In fact,

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Speaker 2: I think it'll be important for your listeners to know

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Speaker 2: So we'll be sure to make sure everybody's aware of that.

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Speaker 1: Cecil Bell from Magnolia flipped at the last minute. Did

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Speaker 1: that surprise you not?

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Speaker 2: Based on his communication to our group, I think what.

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Speaker 1: Does he get out of that?

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Speaker 2: I guess we'll find out. And what I'm realizing today

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Speaker 2: is not everybody's built for this, Michael. And when you

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Speaker 2: and he told voters you were going to fight for

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Speaker 2: them and fight for their values, it doesn't look like

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Speaker 2: what happened yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Ron Wilson, a black state rep from Houston who had

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Speaker 1: friends who were rappers. He was a longtime lawyer ran

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Speaker 1: very good buddies with Rick Perry. He was a Democrat,

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Speaker 1: of the deal. How mean he's sold out? What about

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Speaker 1: Sam Harlest? Did he surprise you because he had committed

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Speaker 2: Talk is cheap. Talk is cheap. We now have a

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Speaker 2: what you actually did. So at some point someone's going

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Speaker 2: to have to hold him accountable, whether it's their local party,

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Speaker 2: the voters, the donors, maybe all three, but it's it

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Speaker 2: has to start somewhere and it should start. Now.

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Speaker 1: I've got thirty eight seconds for you, and then I'm

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Speaker 1: going to Steve Toath and I know you've got to

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Speaker 1: go anyway. What's the one bill that you had hoped

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Speaker 2: Oh, I think the third rail for the Democrats is

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Speaker 2: election reform. It's why you know, people complain last session

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Speaker 2: about some things that didn't get passed, but no election

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Speaker 2: reform bills got passed. That's the third rail. They'll talk

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Speaker 2: about abortion, they'll talk about school finance, but there is

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Speaker 2: a redline. Then it is election bills, and so any

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Speaker 2: why and who's responsible for it.

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Speaker 1: Michael, Well, the majority of the people who supported Dustin

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Speaker 1: Burroughs to ensure that he could be the Speaker were Democrats.

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Speaker 1: They're not about to allow an election reform bill that

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Speaker 1: State Representative Mitch little GOI make us proud, Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: Steve Toath coming up, and Michael married you. State Representative

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Speaker 1: Steve Toath from the Woodlands area has been a rock

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Speaker 1: State Representative Steve Toast, Welcome to the program, sir. What

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Speaker 1: happened yesterday?

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Speaker 9: It was a colossal blowout.

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Speaker 4: I did a tweet last night saying I was floored

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Speaker 4: by what happened, Michael, because i've you know, over the years.

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Speaker 4: I said this to Cecil Bella said, Cecil, you know

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Speaker 4: you and I came in as freshman together in twenty thirteen.

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Speaker 4: We disagreed often on policy, but I've never heard you

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Speaker 4: lie to me. You lied to me, You lied to

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Speaker 4: everybody in the district.

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Speaker 9: Never saw it. Never have I ever seen you do

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Speaker 9: that before. I was floored, couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 1: Why do you think he lied?

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Speaker 4: He said, I'm a pragmatic Republican. I did what I

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Speaker 4: did so that I can pass legislation, and that you know,

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Speaker 4: I'm actually with Mitch right now.

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Speaker 9: Office the Sayhi Mitchy.

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Speaker 4: So he said, I did what I did so I

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Speaker 4: could pass legislation. And there's an unstated threat. If you

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Speaker 4: do this, you will be backbenched. You will not pass

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Speaker 4: any legislation. Do you not pass go? Do not collect

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Speaker 4: two hundred dollars don't get any money. You won't get

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Speaker 4: any money from the lobby. And it's funny, Michael, because

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Speaker 4: one of the things that they said, they kept saying

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Speaker 4: is they kept pointing to Dunn in Wilkes is these

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Speaker 4: conservative evangelical Christian oil men in West Texas, and I

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Speaker 4: think they maybe gave me twenty thousand dollars last session, right. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 4: meanwhile the lobby gave my opponent five hundred thousand dollars

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Speaker 4: for some reason. Lobby money is wholly sanctified, sent from

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Speaker 4: heaven money. But if twenty grand comes from Tim Dunn

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Speaker 4: or Ferris Wilkes, it's evil, It's it's terroristic political terrorism.

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Speaker 1: You know what's interesting State Representative Steve Tolkys, our guest,

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Speaker 1: is what they've done. And this is what this is

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Speaker 1: what very smart operatives and consultants and lobbyists do. Is

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Speaker 1: they said, look, we're in the back pocket of the lobbyists.

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Speaker 1: So what we have to do is we have to

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Speaker 1: attack the Conservatives as being beholden to rich people. And

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Speaker 1: so once they say you're beholden to a couple of

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Speaker 1: billionaires who want school choice and some of these issues

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Speaker 1: at the base wants, and then you're having to defend

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Speaker 1: going no, no, you are, and what they do is

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Speaker 1: muddy the waters. This is what the Democrats have done

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Speaker 1: for a long It's a brilliant tactic unless people figure.

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Speaker 2: It out.

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Speaker 4: Correct because you're taking you're taking the focus off the

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Speaker 4: policy and you're making it about Ferris Wilkes or Tim

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Speaker 4: Dunn or the lobby.

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Speaker 9: It's ridiculous, cauld we lose them.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, no, no, What is the bill that doesn't get passed?

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Speaker 1: What is the issue that we really wanted to get

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Speaker 1: done that doesn't get passed now that we don't accomplish

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Speaker 1: because Democrats control the House with the Republican leader.

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Speaker 2: Mis said it earlier.

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Speaker 9: It's it's liberal.

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Speaker 4: It's absolutely legislation that deals with writing our elections and

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Speaker 4: making our elections more secure. They don't give a crap

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Speaker 4: if we pass pro life legislation. They don't give a

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Speaker 4: crap if we pass the bill to keep from from

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Speaker 4: cutting the testicles off of little boys or the breasts

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Speaker 4: off of little girls. They don't care about.

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Speaker 9: Any of that stuff.

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Speaker 4: Because the long game is controlling how you elect people.

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Speaker 4: Because if you control how you elect people, eventually they'll

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Speaker 4: get their people in and they can do whatever they want.

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Speaker 4: That's the long game. You will not see any election

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Speaker 4: reform this session.

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Speaker 1: What's frustrating about this is that people who may not

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Speaker 1: may not be grassroots voters, but there are people that

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Speaker 1: live in the state and have a sense of and

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Speaker 1: they may vote Republican in November when they find out

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Speaker 1: that we still have a lot of problems that look

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Speaker 1: more like California and New York than you would have

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Speaker 1: expected in Texas, and they go, how can this be

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Speaker 1: in Texas? This can't happen in Texas. This is how

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Speaker 1: it happens. We may not be California or Democrat or

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Speaker 1: New York, but the Democrats use the same strategies. They

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Speaker 1: just have to work within our system to thwart what

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Speaker 1: we're doing. And they did it yesterday, Sure did, Yes,

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Speaker 1: they did.

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Speaker 9: They did it with steely, steely resolved.

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Speaker 2: They got it done.

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Speaker 9: So Sam, anybody.

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Speaker 1: Was supposed to be voting with us, and then he

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Speaker 1: goes and sells out what happened there.

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Speaker 4: It's you know, I think many of these guys took

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Speaker 4: an attitude of, well, I'm just going to tell people

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Speaker 4: that I'm going to vote for Cook so that I

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Speaker 4: keep the heat off myself. And then at the last minute,

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Speaker 4: I'm going to switch over. I think that's what a

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Speaker 4: bunch of them did, and I think that's what Sequel did.

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Speaker 2: As well well.

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Speaker 1: And then of course you what they're telling people is

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Speaker 1: I did what was best for my district. So you

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Speaker 1: voted for the guy that was gonna win, but you

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Speaker 1: helped him win so that he would win. That's how

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Speaker 1: that worked. You didn't work against him. What about Will

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Speaker 1: metcalf Well, that guy, that guy that the stuff he

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Speaker 1: sends out and the lies he tells, it's amazing to me.

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Speaker 4: He sat with me, Michael a month ago at a

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Speaker 4: Starbucks on fourteen eighty eight and twenty nine seventy eight Magnolia,

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Speaker 4: and he said, Steve, don't you worry about me.

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Speaker 9: Don't you worry about me?

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Speaker 4: And I'm going to abide by the caucus rules.

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Speaker 2: He lied to me.

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Speaker 4: He also lied to Pat Tibbs. He also lied to

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Speaker 4: the leader of the Montgomery County Republican Party, and he said,

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Speaker 4: don't you worry about me.

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Speaker 9: I'm going to vote.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to vote the caucus rules, and whoever.

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Speaker 9: Win's coming out of the caucus, that's who I'm going

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Speaker 9: to support.

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Speaker 1: He lied what did they say to you when they

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Speaker 1: lost the caucus, when the majority of Republicans went with

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Speaker 1: Cook and not Burroughs, What did they say, Because now

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Speaker 1: they have to pivot and go, well, we're going to

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Speaker 1: team up with the Democrats. You knew we would all along.

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Speaker 9: They haven't.

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Speaker 4: And so you know, as an example, you asked Mitch

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Speaker 4: a little earlier how he was threatened. He and I

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Speaker 4: weren't threatened, And it's because we weren't considered low hanging fruit.

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Speaker 4: Theyknew they weren't going to pull us over, so they

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Speaker 4: they didn't waste their breath on us, and so instead

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Speaker 4: they went after younger people like Caroline Fairley and other

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Speaker 4: ones that they knew that they could could get to

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Speaker 4: to switch.

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Speaker 9: Those are the ones that they threatened.

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Speaker 4: Those are the ones that they said, you better be

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Speaker 4: with us. And so now what they're going to try

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Speaker 4: and do is they're going to try and remake the

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Speaker 4: Republican Caucus, who they have a minority share in. They're

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Speaker 4: going to try and remake the Republican Caucus in their image.

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Speaker 1: Well, and we'll have some battles next election, which is

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Speaker 1: a year from now, because of course they're going to

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Speaker 1: try to get folks like you out and get more

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Speaker 1: of their voters in there so they don't have to

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Speaker 1: battle like this again. Because they took it on the

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Speaker 1: chin with drunk date. There's no doubt the drunk day

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Speaker 1: loss and figuring out who was going to replace him,

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Speaker 1: and that being his mini me, Dustin Burrows. They took

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Speaker 1: it on the chin on this one.

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Speaker 4: Oh and Michael, I'm telling you this is going to

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Speaker 4: be ten times as bad as the impeachment thing was.

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Speaker 9: I just know that.

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Speaker 4: I mean just seeing the traffic on social media and

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Speaker 4: the phone calls that our office is getting. That impeachment

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Speaker 4: vote costs fifteen moderate liberals Democrats their seats, and you're

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Speaker 4: going to see fifteen at least more.

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Speaker 1: And I look forward to that moment. I can wait.

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Speaker 1: Steve Toath go get them. Thank you, appreciate you, see you, buddy.

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Speaker 1: I have to be careful because in the process of

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Speaker 1: pointing out the cancers in our body politic, I forget

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Speaker 1: to point out the areas where we have volks who

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Speaker 1: are doing a great job. And it's always very Having

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Speaker 1: been an elected official many years ago, I remember people

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Speaker 1: are very good at criticizing the other side. But we

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Speaker 1: have to remember to support and applaud the people who

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Speaker 1: who we didn't have to worry about. We didn't have

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Speaker 1: to worry at the last minute. We always knew Sam

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Speaker 1: Harless might sell out. We always knew that Cecil Bell

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Speaker 1: might sell out. We never doubted the Steve Toats, and

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Speaker 1: and that bears noting, that bears a nice note. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're all happy to call Will Metcalf and tell him

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Speaker 1: he's the son of a bitch, but it might not

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Speaker 1: to take a moment to tell Toad, hey, great job,

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Speaker 1: thanks for doing what we do, because it's easy to

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Speaker 1: forget to be