1
00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:11,680
Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So

2
00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:27,240
Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. Prisfernest is our guest.

3
00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:29,680
Speaker 1: We will continue our conversation with him, and then we

4
00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:32,720
Speaker 1: will talk to Tracy Lynn Shannon, who is a candidate

5
00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:37,440
Speaker 1: for the Humble ISD position for school board. She came

6
00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:42,440
Speaker 1: out hard against the Drag Queen Story Hour. Now she's

7
00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:45,160
Speaker 1: running for city council and the folks who want Drag

8
00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:49,160
Speaker 1: Queen Story Hour are coming after her. They have their

9
00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:55,720
Speaker 1: panties in a riff fellas. Anyway, Victor Perez, the president

10
00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,760
Speaker 1: of the Katie ISD School Board, is being challenged by

11
00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:02,520
Speaker 1: a group of people that has been hosting rallies against

12
00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,840
Speaker 1: Tesla and probably carving a few of them up obvious.

13
00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:10,000
Speaker 1: I support Victor Perez in his re election there. Chris

14
00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:12,760
Speaker 1: Ernest is our guest. He's a school board trustee at

15
00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:16,600
Speaker 1: Spring Branch Independent School District, which is asking voters for

16
00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:20,280
Speaker 1: a six hundred million dollars school bond. Chris, couple of

17
00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:24,480
Speaker 1: quick questions. They're direct, they're not personal. The six hundred

18
00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,559
Speaker 1: billion dollars six hundred million dollars is said to cost

19
00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:29,679
Speaker 1: by the time interest is paid, over a billion dollars

20
00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:39,440
Speaker 1: taxpayer should know that, right, Is that a question? Yes?

21
00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:44,319
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I mean nobody's hiding behind it. I mean, yes,

22
00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:45,120
Speaker 2: it's expensive.

23
00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:47,560
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at the materials that the Harris count

24
00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:50,680
Speaker 1: Republican Party came out against, and let's take on one

25
00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:54,680
Speaker 1: by one. No classrooms, shocker, no classroom?

26
00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:54,960
Speaker 3: Yeah?

27
00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:56,920
Speaker 2: Can I address that? Can we address them one by one?

28
00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:57,160
Speaker 3: Then?

29
00:01:58,040 --> 00:01:58,480
Speaker 2: Yeah?

30
00:01:58,600 --> 00:01:59,560
Speaker 1: Absolute questionrooms.

31
00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,120
Speaker 2: But this is coming on the heels of like we

32
00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:06,680
Speaker 2: just have literally rebuilt every single elementary school. We've started

33
00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:10,399
Speaker 2: to rebuild Memorial High School halfway done. We've made significant

34
00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,880
Speaker 2: additions to Stratford and Northbrook High School. We've rebuilt one

35
00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:20,320
Speaker 2: middle school. We're building world class career and technical training

36
00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,480
Speaker 2: center over off of Guthrie that no private school will

37
00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:27,160
Speaker 2: be able to offer. We've partnered with HCC. We've got

38
00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:30,160
Speaker 2: an early college graduate program that we launched two years ago,

39
00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:33,800
Speaker 2: graduating our first group of kids from Northbrook this year

40
00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,359
Speaker 2: that will have a two year degree when they leave

41
00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,200
Speaker 2: our high schools. So the idea that oh, there's no classroom, well,

42
00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,640
Speaker 2: like every bond for the last thirty years in Spring

43
00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,680
Speaker 2: Branch has been one hundred percent focused on classrooms. At

44
00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,680
Speaker 2: some point you're going to have to rebuild the football stadium,

45
00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:51,400
Speaker 2: and I know that that's always going to be a

46
00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,120
Speaker 2: political lightning rod, but at some point it does need

47
00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:56,640
Speaker 2: to happen. It was built the same year the astronom

48
00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,160
Speaker 2: was built, and I think the Texans are lobbying for

49
00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,560
Speaker 2: a new stadium now. Yeah, so I mean at some

50
00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:03,600
Speaker 2: point it's going to happen.

51
00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:07,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, but earlier you said the scoreboard looks like it

52
00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,280
Speaker 1: came out of the Astrodom. I liked the Astrodom scoreboard.

53
00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:12,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.

54
00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:19,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rememberck in the seventies, Chris, I know you and listen, yeah,

55
00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,799
Speaker 1: I know that all you get I get it. But

56
00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:27,880
Speaker 1: these I think you can understand. For a lot of taxpayers,

57
00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,480
Speaker 1: especially if they don't have kids in these schools, they

58
00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:32,400
Speaker 1: look at their tax bill and they see it going

59
00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,560
Speaker 1: up and up and up, and they're frustrated and and

60
00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:38,680
Speaker 1: there there are reasonable questions. They're tough questions, but they're

61
00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,880
Speaker 1: reasonable questions. And you're a smart guy, I know you

62
00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:46,320
Speaker 1: understand that there is a lot of frustration over whatever

63
00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,120
Speaker 1: the reason being, the mistakes made in the past between

64
00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:50,720
Speaker 1: Some of these people live in the city of Houston,

65
00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,360
Speaker 1: so they've seen the City of Houston collapse and they

66
00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:56,840
Speaker 1: have to pay for it. They've seen Metro and what

67
00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,520
Speaker 1: they've done, They've seen all of these things happen. New

68
00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,680
Speaker 1: stadium built for professional teams, and they're still paying for it.

69
00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:06,360
Speaker 1: So you're coming as ten out of ten on the

70
00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,520
Speaker 1: heels of that. I mean, I'm sure you can understand

71
00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:12,280
Speaker 1: the frustration that being said, I think Spring Branch Independent

72
00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:16,640
Speaker 1: School District probably has the best public schools uh in

73
00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,720
Speaker 1: the region for public schools, and Memorial High School is

74
00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:25,440
Speaker 1: probably the best public school. You'd have to go out

75
00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:28,320
Speaker 1: quite a ways to get to maybe Woodlands or Katie

76
00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:30,440
Speaker 1: to get to a public school that rivals it. There's

77
00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:34,200
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. And there are kids, I personally

78
00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,159
Speaker 1: know families who've pulled their kids out of Saint John's,

79
00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:41,400
Speaker 1: Second Baptist Kincaid, Saint Francis or others and put them

80
00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:45,120
Speaker 1: in Memorial for numerous reasons and felt like they didn't

81
00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,359
Speaker 1: see a drop in quality. That's something to be proud of.

82
00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:50,360
Speaker 1: It is are you and.

83
00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:54,119
Speaker 2: That all of our home values around here, no doubt.

84
00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:56,040
Speaker 1: I had a little state company in the late night.

85
00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:01,200
Speaker 1: People people move into areas. Western Diversity was Bolshov's guy

86
00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:02,960
Speaker 1: named John Threet, who was the principal at the time,

87
00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:05,640
Speaker 1: and I developed a good relationship so that I could

88
00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:07,360
Speaker 1: take kids up to the school when they bought into

89
00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:11,039
Speaker 1: the district, and that school drove a big part of

90
00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:13,800
Speaker 1: the home values there. Bel Air, same thing. Are you

91
00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:17,240
Speaker 1: endorsing Jennifer Hihland, Walker Agnew Junior and Carolyn Bennett?

92
00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,799
Speaker 2: I have not. You know, when I ran the first time,

93
00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,400
Speaker 2: I literally felt like I ran against the board the

94
00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,640
Speaker 2: first time. So I have not publicly endorsed any school

95
00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,440
Speaker 2: board candidate, but I likely will be voting for those

96
00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:31,080
Speaker 2: three years.

97
00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:36,400
Speaker 1: Fair enough, Is there anything else you want people to

98
00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:38,960
Speaker 1: know about this bond package? Early voting started today, by

99
00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:39,240
Speaker 1: the way.

100
00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:45,120
Speaker 2: Oh look, look, these are legitimate needs. There's four proposals

101
00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,560
Speaker 2: out there. You know, if we get two or three

102
00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:49,279
Speaker 2: out of the four, I think it'll be a major

103
00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,960
Speaker 2: improvement for our community. Our entire community. Michael uses these facilities.

104
00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:55,280
Speaker 2: When you walk into any one of our four high

105
00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:58,680
Speaker 2: schools on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday night, you're

106
00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:02,080
Speaker 2: going to find it full of elementary age kids playing

107
00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:07,919
Speaker 2: basketball from you know, before Thanksgiving until February March I

108
00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:11,440
Speaker 2: mean literally full of our kids, whether they're second Baptist kids,

109
00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:14,240
Speaker 2: Kinkaid kids. I mean, anybody that lives in our community

110
00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:17,960
Speaker 2: goes through SBMSA, and SBMSA uses all of our facilities.

111
00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:18,880
Speaker 1: So this isn't just.

112
00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:24,440
Speaker 2: For Stratford High School or Springwood's High School or Memorial.

113
00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:26,960
Speaker 2: This is also an investment in the community. And the

114
00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:29,240
Speaker 2: other thing is is this is the front yard of

115
00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,160
Speaker 2: our district. You know, I can't tell you how many

116
00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,400
Speaker 2: times it irritates me that I've had a friend to

117
00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:38,119
Speaker 2: come and watch Memorial High School play a baseball game

118
00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,800
Speaker 2: and be like, like, this is Memorial High School, Like

119
00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,680
Speaker 2: this is the storied you know, like what everybody hears

120
00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:48,320
Speaker 2: about the reputation that you just alluded to, Like this

121
00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:52,520
Speaker 2: is it? Like really, I mean, it's just we have

122
00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:55,440
Speaker 2: fallen so far behind that it's become embarrassing when you

123
00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:58,320
Speaker 2: go into Tolley Stadium and we can't you know, sometimes

124
00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:00,839
Speaker 2: you have to have a neutral site for a Katie

125
00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:04,400
Speaker 2: High School play. We can't host anybody there because the

126
00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:08,480
Speaker 2: stadium is so deteriorated. Memorial High School is the number

127
00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:11,240
Speaker 2: one rated baseball team in the state of Texas right

128
00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:13,520
Speaker 2: now in six a and we're not going to host

129
00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:16,480
Speaker 2: any playoff games because our field is in such poor condition.

130
00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,120
Speaker 2: I mean, it just can't be made. It's just embarrassing.

131
00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:23,240
Speaker 2: It's embarrassing, understand. So it's just time to do something

132
00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:23,800
Speaker 2: about it.

133
00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:28,280
Speaker 1: And Spring Branch has done a wonderful job with the schools,

134
00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:30,440
Speaker 1: and I think Spring Branch in the last few years,

135
00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:34,640
Speaker 1: particularly throughout the district, has seen great improvements with new

136
00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,640
Speaker 1: folks on the board and new blood over there. I

137
00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,320
Speaker 1: would just encourage you, Chris. I know you're frustrated. I

138
00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:42,400
Speaker 1: felt this way on city Council that it seemed like

139
00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:45,000
Speaker 1: all I ever heard was bitching and nobody appreciated the

140
00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:47,600
Speaker 1: good work we were doing and the best of intentions.

141
00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,000
Speaker 1: I think you have to understand that. I would just

142
00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,600
Speaker 1: I would urge you to keep a smile on your

143
00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:56,480
Speaker 1: face and be a positive front of that and understand

144
00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,280
Speaker 1: that you can win voters over. But there is a

145
00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:03,840
Speaker 1: great frustration over property tax increases, in that massive check

146
00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,760
Speaker 1: they pay for the school district, and just carry on.

147
00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,240
Speaker 1: You know, if you feel good about what you're doing,

148
00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:16,040
Speaker 1: there's no shame in it. To the keeper the storm

149
00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:30,720
Speaker 1: and dissolve. Occasionally, I will pulled forth as a way

150
00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,560
Speaker 1: to give guidance to folks as to how to pitch

151
00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,760
Speaker 1: a story to me. Not because I'm so important, but

152
00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:40,720
Speaker 1: if you want to get your story guest issue on

153
00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:45,480
Speaker 1: the air. I don't take very many interviews today. Happens

154
00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,280
Speaker 1: to be a bit of an anomaly. But in order

155
00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:51,520
Speaker 1: to get an issue before me or anyone else to

156
00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:54,520
Speaker 1: whom you're making a pitch, there are a couple of

157
00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:59,240
Speaker 1: things you should do. And the email that landed our

158
00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:04,200
Speaker 1: next guest is a master class in how you do this.

159
00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:09,920
Speaker 1: This woman, she had another she pitched me on something

160
00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:12,520
Speaker 1: else that got my attention. She's good, She's very good.

161
00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:14,480
Speaker 1: Her first name is Angie. I can't remember her last name.

162
00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:18,360
Speaker 1: I'll find it in a moment, but here was the email. Czar.

163
00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:21,800
Speaker 1: My Aggie college roommate is a conservative running for the

164
00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:25,760
Speaker 1: Humble ISD board. She's being attacked because of her past

165
00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:29,640
Speaker 1: work against drag Queen story time that point, so she

166
00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:33,440
Speaker 1: got right to it. She doesn't get to the ask

167
00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,560
Speaker 1: until later, but let's cut some slack there. Then a

168
00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,800
Speaker 1: link to the article from the Texas Observer, which is

169
00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:42,760
Speaker 1: a liberal newspaper. Tracy Shannon mass resistance drag Queen story Time, Texas.

170
00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,720
Speaker 1: So she doesn't just tell me what happened, she puts

171
00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:48,040
Speaker 1: a link to it. She gets right to the point,

172
00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:51,439
Speaker 1: easy to read and understand and make a decision. Her

173
00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:54,840
Speaker 1: name is Tracy Shannon and a link to Tracy Shannon's

174
00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:57,240
Speaker 1: Facebook page. And I think she'd be a great guest

175
00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:01,160
Speaker 1: on your show. Other interesting highlights of Tracy. This is

176
00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:06,319
Speaker 1: where it gets interesting. Number one, Tracy is a transgender widow.

177
00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:15,240
Speaker 1: Her ex husband Andy is now Andrea. That can't be easy.

178
00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:20,679
Speaker 1: Your husband decides he's a woman and he's killing it

179
00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:25,520
Speaker 1: on the Virginia Women's Golf Circuit. Again a link to

180
00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:31,960
Speaker 1: an article about Andrea. Number two, she had a viral

181
00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,120
Speaker 1: moment with she Jack because Tracy asked she Jack a

182
00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:39,200
Speaker 1: question at a town hall and she Jack took a

183
00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:43,760
Speaker 1: phone call. Do you remember this the audio?

184
00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:47,760
Speaker 4: If he hadn't happened without approaching on someone else's civil

185
00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:52,800
Speaker 4: liberty and if your conscience allows you foresee the direction?

186
00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:56,679
Speaker 4: Do you think simply because you think it's good for America?

187
00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:14,160
Speaker 4: Then okay, seriously, really I need to if we are

188
00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:20,920
Speaker 4: conscious allows your if promise is conscious of my often do.

189
00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:23,480
Speaker 1: You think do you think it is good for air?

190
00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:26,840
Speaker 4: And where are my passive tyranny? And when does it

191
00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:29,880
Speaker 4: stop if commerce has no conscious to stop it simply

192
00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:32,640
Speaker 4: because we think it's good. I am a cancer spider.

193
00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,040
Speaker 4: I was treated in the two cancers in one day

194
00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:39,880
Speaker 4: after diagnosed this, and I love the healthcare system I have.

195
00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:44,400
Speaker 4: I'm currently divorcing and unemployed and facing having to get my.

196
00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:45,559
Speaker 3: Own health care insurance.

197
00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:47,960
Speaker 4: I do not want a government solution.

198
00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:54,320
Speaker 1: Sheila Jackson Lee was criticized for many stupid acts, but

199
00:11:54,400 --> 00:12:00,160
Speaker 1: you remember passions were high. This was against Obamacares teen

200
00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:05,240
Speaker 1: years ago. Sixteen years ago. It was so bad for

201
00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:08,400
Speaker 1: Sheila Jackson Lee that she posted this video trying to

202
00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:09,600
Speaker 1: explain her behavior.

203
00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:12,679
Speaker 5: And then there's a little thing called a cell phone

204
00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:15,600
Speaker 5: or in this instance, a BlackBerry, something that many of

205
00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:17,959
Speaker 5: us use that as a member of Congress, I really

206
00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:20,120
Speaker 5: used this to keep in touch with my consisuent, to

207
00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,720
Speaker 5: get information, to make sure that, in fact, as a

208
00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:26,640
Speaker 5: representative of the United States Congress, you're only a phone

209
00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:29,719
Speaker 5: call away. As a mom and a wife, yes, I'm

210
00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,839
Speaker 5: concerned about my family and take emergency call. Well, let

211
00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,320
Speaker 5: me tell you what I was doing on August eleventh

212
00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:38,360
Speaker 5: at our town hall meeting, someone asked a question. I

213
00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:40,599
Speaker 5: wanted to be sure that I was correct, so I

214
00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:44,120
Speaker 5: called the Congression hotline on HR thirty two hundredths. All

215
00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:46,880
Speaker 5: they do there is point you to the page and

216
00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:49,440
Speaker 5: the line so that they're able to provide you with

217
00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:52,280
Speaker 5: an answer. So it wasn't that I answered a phone.

218
00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:56,000
Speaker 5: I dialed a phone because my consistuents are so important

219
00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,319
Speaker 5: that I wanted to make sure that I got them

220
00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:01,200
Speaker 5: the right answer. Now I'd listened to all of them.

221
00:13:01,559 --> 00:13:04,040
Speaker 5: Every single person that came to this town hall meeting

222
00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:08,840
Speaker 5: had an opportunity to listen Tocilo Jacksonale, And if I listened

223
00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:12,440
Speaker 5: to them, was to get questions answered. That's what America

224
00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,120
Speaker 5: is all about. That's what democracy is all about. I

225
00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:17,439
Speaker 5: wish the Republican National Committee would get it right. It

226
00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:20,600
Speaker 5: was a phone call of what I was, in essence,

227
00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:24,839
Speaker 5: making a call to ensure that everyone there had a

228
00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:26,520
Speaker 5: right answer through our hotline.

229
00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:30,280
Speaker 1: Yes, that's Sheila Jackson Lee. She just wants to get

230
00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:32,240
Speaker 1: the truth out. And sometimes in the middle of your

231
00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:35,439
Speaker 1: question that she can't answer and won't answer, she has

232
00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:38,760
Speaker 1: to take a call because there is an incoming truth

233
00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:42,080
Speaker 1: bomb and she must intercept that and share it with

234
00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:44,599
Speaker 1: the people, because that was Sheila, and I think we

235
00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:47,400
Speaker 1: should name Terminal E for her, so as the planes

236
00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:50,720
Speaker 1: are coming in, we will remember the incoming phone call

237
00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,240
Speaker 1: that she took, and that will be our reminder that

238
00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:57,240
Speaker 1: as we come into the terminal and we disperse into

239
00:13:57,240 --> 00:13:59,839
Speaker 1: the public, we are like the water drop its from

240
00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:03,240
Speaker 1: lis bad breath mouth, and we are being disseminated upon

241
00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:07,800
Speaker 1: the crowd as little little truth puddles. Wherever she may go.

242
00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:16,280
Speaker 1: May her memory live forever. Tracy Shannon, h I'm not

243
00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:22,320
Speaker 1: even sure where to begin with you.

244
00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:26,800
Speaker 3: Well, I'm ready for school boys.

245
00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:30,960
Speaker 1: That's the least interesting thing I get about you. All right,

246
00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,480
Speaker 1: let's say, let's say it as your friend Angie. Your

247
00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:35,280
Speaker 1: friend Angie should teach courses.

248
00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:36,000
Speaker 2: You know.

249
00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:39,280
Speaker 1: I get stupid pitches from pr agencies all day long,

250
00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:40,840
Speaker 1: all across the country, and they want to get this

251
00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:43,560
Speaker 1: or that guest on, and they're paid by book publishers

252
00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:46,680
Speaker 1: and movie actors and movie screens. And I almost never

253
00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:49,040
Speaker 1: take them because the I don't know the person, they

254
00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:51,680
Speaker 1: don't know me, and it's stilted, and it's but it'll

255
00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:55,720
Speaker 1: it'll begin with some Hi, how are you? I hope

256
00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,200
Speaker 1: you're doing well, Comma, and then in a different font,

257
00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:02,000
Speaker 1: Michael is just awful. This woman is the second time

258
00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:04,840
Speaker 1: she's pitched a story to me that I loved that

259
00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:07,400
Speaker 1: stuck out from a thousand emails to day. This woman

260
00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:10,760
Speaker 1: is good. Your friend Tracy's good. One of your friend

261
00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:11,560
Speaker 1: Angie did good.

262
00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,360
Speaker 3: Angie. Yes, she's my college roommate. We've been friends for

263
00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,920
Speaker 3: over thirty years and she's really awesome.

264
00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:25,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say, Angie Peters, I guess is that's right.

265
00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:27,520
Speaker 1: And her husband's the one that held the punks on

266
00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,080
Speaker 1: the ground that were still in the guy's powerwasher. If

267
00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:34,960
Speaker 1: you remember that, y'all are just y'all are just y'all

268
00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:37,920
Speaker 1: are made for Mari Povich or something. I mean, there's

269
00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,120
Speaker 1: this all sorts of interesting thing that goes things that

270
00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:42,840
Speaker 1: go around y'all through. Really, I guess no thought fault

271
00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:45,000
Speaker 1: of your own. Okay, let's start with the fact that

272
00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:50,240
Speaker 1: you were attacked because you were working against drag Queen

273
00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:53,880
Speaker 1: story hour. Let's start with there. Oh, we're up against

274
00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:56,560
Speaker 1: a break hold with me for just a moment. It

275
00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:58,680
Speaker 1: took us an entire segment to introduce this woman. I

276
00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:01,840
Speaker 1: don't think that's ever happening now. I mean cancer survivor

277
00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:05,800
Speaker 1: running for city council, fought against drag Queen's story outer.

278
00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:08,160
Speaker 1: Now they're out to get her. Husband becomes a woman

279
00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:11,120
Speaker 1: and he's a professional golfer. She's on what she made

280
00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:13,240
Speaker 1: national news? Was Sheila Jackson Lee? Good lord?

281
00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:13,520
Speaker 3: This one?

282
00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:21,360
Speaker 1: She probably won the lottery too. The Republican Party of

283
00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:26,800
Speaker 1: Texas endorses candidates in city council races, and it is

284
00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:30,520
Speaker 1: very rare that there'd be two Republicans running for the

285
00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:35,080
Speaker 1: same city council seat. Those endorsements tend to be a

286
00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:38,680
Speaker 1: solid way to know, particularly because city council races are

287
00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:42,920
Speaker 1: typically nonpartisan. So, for instance, you've got a guy running

288
00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,800
Speaker 1: against Victor Perez, who I support, and that guy is

289
00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:49,600
Speaker 1: out there acting like he's a Republican when in fact

290
00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:54,600
Speaker 1: he's on every blue mailer. He's part of a group

291
00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:59,240
Speaker 1: that called Indivisible Katie that shows up at Tesla dealerships

292
00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:03,040
Speaker 1: to spout craziness. It's a part of It's a group

293
00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:07,920
Speaker 1: of people that desperately want drag time, Drag Queen story

294
00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:10,760
Speaker 1: time back in the schools and don't like Victor Perez

295
00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:13,000
Speaker 1: for bringing some common sense back to the school district.

296
00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:16,640
Speaker 1: He's done a great job. The problem is a lot

297
00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:19,280
Speaker 1: of the teachers, many of them are whack jobs. Vote

298
00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:22,440
Speaker 1: on this early voting, and so you've got to get

299
00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:26,159
Speaker 1: parents of kids because it's hard to get nonparents, just

300
00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:30,200
Speaker 1: taxpayers out to vote. But I hope you will. Let's

301
00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:36,480
Speaker 1: talk about the humble ISD. The endorsed candidates are Gracie

302
00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:40,720
Speaker 1: de Leone, Christine Chris Parker, and Tracy Lynn Shannon, who

303
00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:46,760
Speaker 1: is our guest. She's a doozy, Tracy Lynn sheennon this one.

304
00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:49,080
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do with you. Tracy Lynn Shannon.

305
00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:52,600
Speaker 1: You've got so many things I could talk about at length,

306
00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,879
Speaker 1: but let's get into it. Why did you decide to

307
00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:58,399
Speaker 1: run for city council? I mean for a school board.

308
00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:02,199
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm a mom of four in my district and

309
00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:04,960
Speaker 3: a grandmother with kids coming up in this district. I've

310
00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,359
Speaker 3: been involved in watching what's going on in my community

311
00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,439
Speaker 3: with the school board. I've been engaged at the school

312
00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:14,639
Speaker 3: board meetings, have been active in getting books reviews that

313
00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:18,720
Speaker 3: were potentially unsuitable for children in our district, and some

314
00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:21,879
Speaker 3: of those were absolutely inappropriate to be in the schools

315
00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:26,200
Speaker 3: because they were sexually explicit or sexually graphic, and so

316
00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:31,960
Speaker 3: seeing my board be unable to pass motions to increase

317
00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:36,200
Speaker 3: transparency to the community, or even be able to see

318
00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:39,239
Speaker 3: the contract that they're voting on before they vote on it,

319
00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,600
Speaker 3: or be able to hear the concerns of the teachers

320
00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:45,720
Speaker 3: in the district through the Teacher Advisory Council and have

321
00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:51,040
Speaker 3: that brought up for the board to see those concerns

322
00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:53,560
Speaker 3: and maybe act on them. We're not able to get

323
00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:56,119
Speaker 3: measures like that passed, not able to have a discussion

324
00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:59,119
Speaker 3: on the DAAIS about backroom security to make sure that

325
00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:04,800
Speaker 3: the integrity of sex segregated bathrooms are respected in our district.

326
00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,760
Speaker 3: These are just a few of the things. And reinstating

327
00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:11,480
Speaker 3: Megan Mooney, who was a radical gender ideologist known throughout

328
00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:15,680
Speaker 3: the state of Texas for fighting the state over trying

329
00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:20,560
Speaker 3: to protect children from radical gender modification procedures that leave

330
00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:25,000
Speaker 3: and sterilized She was actually interacting with children in our district.

331
00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,000
Speaker 3: Who knows what goes on behind closed stores with someone

332
00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:30,080
Speaker 3: like that in our district, but I know it was

333
00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:33,119
Speaker 3: on her website. Was very disturbing, and when I showcased

334
00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:35,360
Speaker 3: it at a school board meeting, I'm the one being

335
00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:40,800
Speaker 3: attacked over that because people were shocked that a doctor

336
00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:47,080
Speaker 3: was promoting on her website a prosthetic penis for little

337
00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:51,240
Speaker 3: girls to put in their underwear so they could pretend

338
00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:53,800
Speaker 3: to be a boy. And I wanted the district to know, like,

339
00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:55,879
Speaker 3: this is a liability, so I brought one to the

340
00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:58,400
Speaker 3: school board meeting. And you would think that my campaign

341
00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:00,520
Speaker 3: slogan is now I brought my penis to the school

342
00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:04,160
Speaker 3: board meeting. By the way people act, and they are

343
00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:10,080
Speaker 3: actually calling me a child predator because I went undercover

344
00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:13,360
Speaker 3: at Drag Queen Story Hour. I exposed Drag Queen sex

345
00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:16,920
Speaker 3: offender in the Houston Public Library and several other nefarious

346
00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:20,119
Speaker 3: actors in that program and around the state, shutting down

347
00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,400
Speaker 3: Drag Queen Story Hour all over Texas to protect children

348
00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,840
Speaker 3: from these people who are not good role models. That's

349
00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:28,880
Speaker 3: not a good role model for any child. I don't

350
00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,920
Speaker 3: care how that child identifies. That is not a good

351
00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:35,160
Speaker 3: role model for children. And by the way, children are

352
00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:38,960
Speaker 3: not the emotional support animals for adults who have various

353
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,840
Speaker 3: sexual identities. We need to protect children, not indoctrinate them

354
00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,800
Speaker 3: or scandalize them. And you know that's part of the

355
00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:49,720
Speaker 3: reason why I'm running because I feel like our school board,

356
00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:53,280
Speaker 3: you know, they say they're conservative. Everybody on there right

357
00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,720
Speaker 3: now ran as a conservative, and they are not governing

358
00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:00,280
Speaker 3: as conservatives. They're not able to get enough votes to

359
00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:04,080
Speaker 3: do things to just have simple policy that upholds the

360
00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,280
Speaker 3: rights of parents to direct the moral upbringing of their children,

361
00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,560
Speaker 3: or so that parents know that when their children go

362
00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,760
Speaker 3: to school, their reasonable expectation that they're not going to

363
00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:19,480
Speaker 3: be exposed to sexually explicit content or content that violates

364
00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:23,639
Speaker 3: their primal rights by introducing them to concepts and themes

365
00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:27,120
Speaker 3: that are not appropriate for the school district to weigh

366
00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,359
Speaker 3: in on that they're the domain of the parents. And

367
00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:34,400
Speaker 3: I've been really disappointed watching my school board. So when

368
00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:39,200
Speaker 3: the incumbent that I'm running against didn't have anybody running

369
00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:42,399
Speaker 3: against him on the final data file, I decided I

370
00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:44,159
Speaker 3: would file. I knew that was going to start up

371
00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,199
Speaker 3: a lot of conversation about me in my district, but

372
00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:49,600
Speaker 3: I never imagined that there would be lies about me,

373
00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:54,400
Speaker 3: vicious lies saying that I've sexually assaulted children, and not

374
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,159
Speaker 3: only that, the teachers are spreading that lie in the

375
00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:00,200
Speaker 3: district and at the very school where my grandson I'll

376
00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,960
Speaker 3: go next year. That is just beneath the dignity of

377
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,320
Speaker 3: the profession of teachers to be doing that.

378
00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:14,480
Speaker 1: You are very brave to take on this fight and

379
00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 1: to undergo what you have undergone. Tracy Lynn Shannon is

380
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:23,119
Speaker 1: our guest. She's a candidate for school board Humblelias d.

381
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 1: Where do you think you got the strength you were

382
00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:28,680
Speaker 1: going through? We'll talk about your husband in a moment.

383
00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,359
Speaker 1: You know he's leaving the household. So you're a single

384
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:37,159
Speaker 1: mom four kids. That's tough. Where do you think you

385
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,560
Speaker 1: found this strength? Did you have a dad who invested

386
00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,119
Speaker 1: in you, a mom who invested in you, a coach,

387
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,160
Speaker 1: a teacher, Because this is rare. Most people would look

388
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 1: the other way and turn the other cheek and just

389
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,320
Speaker 1: hope somebody else fixed it. You're the if it is

390
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:52,800
Speaker 1: to be, it's up to me person.

391
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:54,919
Speaker 2: Well.

392
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 3: I would definitely credit my mother for being an example

393
00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:01,200
Speaker 3: of fighting for its rights. Dragged me to protest when

394
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 3: I was just a baby, and of course she was

395
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,239
Speaker 3: also an undercover and I went with her while she

396
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 3: while she did undercover research to find out what was

397
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 3: going on in our community when I was just a kid,

398
00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,480
Speaker 3: And definitely I leaned on my faith to just survive

399
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,680
Speaker 3: the hard times that came with what my ex husband

400
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 3: did to me and my children, and knowing how painful

401
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:30,440
Speaker 3: that was and how nobody really understands it even fully today,

402
00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:34,200
Speaker 3: how it's damaging to women, how destructive this is to

403
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 3: family and children. I knew that I had to be

404
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:43,359
Speaker 3: a voice for this, against this movement because it's so harmful,

405
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 3: and nobody was. And I was watching it, you know,

406
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 3: post Bruce becoming Caitlin, just watching this devour families and children.

407
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,160
Speaker 3: And I was one of the ones who first exposed

408
00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 3: in Texas way back in twenty nineteen that children are

409
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:05,679
Speaker 3: actually undergoing child gender modification procedures, actually getting surgeries, and

410
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 3: nobody's believed it up in the Texas Texas legislature, so

411
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:12,600
Speaker 3: bright twenty twenty one, I brought audio and shared it

412
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:15,720
Speaker 3: with everyone in the legislature so they would hear a

413
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 3: doctor's office and telling me that they are doing orchaectomies

414
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 3: on fourteen year olds in Texas. It's just so hard

415
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 3: to get people to realize what's going on. No one

416
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:30,199
Speaker 3: wants to believe what's going on in our schools or

417
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:33,680
Speaker 3: what's going on in Texas because I really wish Texas

418
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,919
Speaker 3: lived up to the conservative reputation that it has, but

419
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:38,879
Speaker 3: we're just so in the dark.

420
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,359
Speaker 1: Hold on just a moment. Prascy Lynn Shannon is a

421
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:46,680
Speaker 1: candidate Humble ISD school board. In a Very Brave Lady,

422
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:59,159
Speaker 1: Very Brave Mommy's Michael Barry's show, the Dearly Republican Party

423
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 1: of Texas as endorsed candidates in these school board races

424
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: that are going on now. I encourage you to get

425
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 1: out and vote because these are low turnout off year

426
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 1: local only elections, which makes your vote count much more.

427
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:19,439
Speaker 1: Those endorsements have tended to be pretty solid, with very

428
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:24,679
Speaker 1: rare exception, because there is typically only one person running

429
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:28,360
Speaker 1: who I would consider a Republican or more importantly, a conservative. Now,

430
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 1: if you get someone who's a real fire breathing taxpayer advocate,

431
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:38,680
Speaker 1: tough mommy, teach my kid right person, then you get

432
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 1: real excited. But often you have to settle for somebody

433
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:46,439
Speaker 1: who's just at least not as bad as the other person.

434
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 1: Those endorsements for Harris County are for Spring Branch ISD,

435
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:56,720
Speaker 1: Jennifer Highland, Walker Agnew, and Carolyn Bennett for Humble ISD.

436
00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 1: Gracie Daleon, Christine Chris Parker, and Trey Lynn Shannon, who's

437
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 1: our guest for Pasadena ISD. Mary Davis, Tammy Nielsen, Paul

438
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 1: of Alasko and Thomas Shanebine for Clearcreek ISD. Scott Bowen

439
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: for League City City Council, Scott Higginbotham for Waller ISD.

440
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 1: Cassandra Gonzalez Posey, and for Katie ISD. My guy, Victor

441
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:32,119
Speaker 1: Perez or Betts. If you prefer Ramon, who's done a

442
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 1: wonderful job there, Tracy Lynn Shannon, Let's go back to

443
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 1: you going undercover during Drag Queen's Story hour. Walk me

444
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 1: through to take about a minute, walk me through what

445
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 1: that event looks like because we see video that's taken.

446
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,200
Speaker 1: But to be there, I can't imagine.

447
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Well, to get in you had to have

448
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 3: a kid that was twelve or under at the time.

449
00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 3: I believe my daughter was fourteen, almost fifteen years old,

450
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 3: but she looks younger than she is. So she went

451
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 3: in with me, and she videotaped the beginning before it started,

452
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 3: the whole point of her even videotaping that was to

453
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 3: show that Mayor Turner's office was going to make us

454
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 3: stop videotaping. At the time, I was a member of

455
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 3: the National Press Photography Association, and they were going to

456
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 3: help me make sure I had a right and anyone else

457
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,640
Speaker 3: I right to record at this public event. I did

458
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,399
Speaker 3: have on a hitting camera as well, in case anything

459
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 3: went down that needed to be exposed, but she did

460
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 3: the One of the staffers for the mayor's office asked

461
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 3: my daughter to turn off her phone and no recording.

462
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 3: All that was recorded was the back of some heads.

463
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 3: One kid turned around, you could see his face because

464
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 3: he was in a mom flap, and you could see

465
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 3: the two drag queens at the front. This particular one

466
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 3: was not one of the most scandalous ones. It was Christmas.

467
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,159
Speaker 3: They knew all eyes were on them in the community

468
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 3: by this time, so they were trying to tone it down.

469
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,399
Speaker 3: It was just a few months later up. I mean,

470
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,680
Speaker 3: they did make some type of innu window jokes that

471
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,640
Speaker 3: the parents lacked at. And I must say that these

472
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,200
Speaker 3: events are really for the entertainment of the adults. This

473
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 3: is not something that's really promoting literacy. These are some

474
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,239
Speaker 3: parents who really need to get a night out, you know,

475
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,439
Speaker 3: go get a babysitter and just and get of the

476
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 3: house instead of dragging their kids to be scandalized at

477
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 3: the drag Queen story hour that it espcially adults, mostly women,

478
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,360
Speaker 3: bringing their children to this and there were some men

479
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 3: going following the women and young girls into the restroom

480
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 3: at the Houston Public Library back then that nobody seemed

481
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 3: to care. This did not seem to bother our city

482
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 3: council at all. I actually put together almost three hundred

483
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 3: page documents the time showing various ways that the Euston

484
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 3: Public Library was violating their own policies. One of the

485
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 3: policies they violated was they weren't doing background checks, which

486
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 3: is how they ended up having a sexfender entertaining kids

487
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 3: at the library.

488
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: The drag Queens could read to anybody. The elderly would

489
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: love to have somebody come in. They're reading to the

490
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: children for a reason. Tracy Lynnshannon, candidate for Humble ISD Board.

491
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: Early voting this week all the way through next Tuesday

492
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 1: seven eight to seven p and then Saturday, May third

493
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: is election day. Please don't wait until that day to vote.

494
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: Take up a minute and sixty seconds because the other

495
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: things I want to get to and talk about your husband, Andy,

496
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: who became Andrea and how that transition occurred and how

497
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: you and the family dealt with that.

498
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 3: And initially started with him cross dressing at home and

499
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 3: that's it. And we went to a therapist in Houston

500
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 3: to address that, and I thought she would probably tell him,

501
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 3: don't do that, it's hurting your marriage. Instead she told

502
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 3: me I was close minded and possibly a lesbian. He

503
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 3: continued to see her behind my back after I said

504
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 3: we weren't going to go to this person, and ultimately

505
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 3: she wrote a letter for him to legally transition and

506
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 3: medically transition behind my back. He was taking hormones for

507
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 3: eleven years. He tried to breastfeed my daughter. He also

508
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 3: so we ended up going to court after several years

509
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 3: of marriage and him having a secret life behind my

510
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 3: back and deciding he was going to go through with

511
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 3: a transition. We went to the family court in Texas,

512
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 3: where I was divorcing a legal woman on paper because

513
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 3: the state of Texas allowed his documents and ID to

514
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 3: be falsified, and so in court I was pressured every

515
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 3: day to use preferred pronouns or potentially be held in contempt.

516
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 3: And this was back in two thousand and ten, so

517
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 3: it could only be worse today, and so how did

518
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 3: we deal with that? It was just us against the world.

519
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 3: Should we even speak out about that? We were seeing

520
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 3: as the insensitive people. There was no compassion for us.

521
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 3: There's no special therapy for us. My kids were court

522
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 3: ordered into therapy where they're told they can know while

523
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 3: they're no longer call their father dad anymore. And this

524
00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 3: was all at the hands of the state of Texas.

525
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 3: That's why I'm advocate for children and women against this

526
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 3: ideology which is so harmful and there's just nobody's rights

527
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 3: that can coexist with this ideology.

528
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: I can't imagine. I don't know how to express this,

529
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: but the thought that's going through my mind. Forgive me

530
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: if it sounds callous, but it seems like it might

531
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 1: have been easier if he was killed in a car

532
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: wreck then to go through this.

533
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 3: Well, the children have actually expressed that sentiment. Of course,

534
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 3: they love their father. I taught them that love their

535
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 3: father in spite of everything, and to respect their father.

536
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 3: But that doesn't mean they have to respect that decision

537
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 3: that he made, or believe in trans ideology or any

538
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 3: of that their experience is valid and that this hurt

539
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 3: them as valid and they should be allowed to say

540
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 3: that because it's the truth. In the world we're living

541
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 3: in right now, for them to speak the truth of

542
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 3: what their experience is, they'd be shut down and called

543
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 3: a bigot. And this is why I speak out so

544
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 3: loudly against all of this. It's not because I hate anyone.

545
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 3: It's because my experience and experience of my kids is

546
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 3: valid too. In women, we don't have anything as long

547
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 3: as men can falsify their sex and identify as women.

548
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 3: That includes women's business certifications, any business or any kind

549
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 3: of women's organization, anything female, any female spaces or places,

550
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 3: or anything, awards categories. We don't have it. If a

551
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 3: man can be a woman, we don't have anything for women.

552
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: You are a tough lady, and you have that character

553
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: that I think we need most in people willing to

554
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: serve publicly, and that is you are fearless. I hope

555
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: you win. I wish I could vote for you. Tracy

556
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 1: Lynn Shannon is running for Humble ISD.

557
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 3: You know, thank you.

558
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: These bad experiences that people can go through or go through,

559
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: the goal is to turn that to channel it for

560
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: good for other people. And I get this sense that's

561
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 1: what she's doing. A bakery for sale coming up