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Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air.

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Speaker 2: James Wright, maybe you think you're slur about Suparoo vehicles

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Speaker 2: in an ad you read on air. Is cute, but

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Speaker 2: it raises the question if you are really that ignorant

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Speaker 2: about the quality of the subaroof vehicles.

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Speaker 1: We have two Subaru I guess Subaru's plural.

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Speaker 2: The first forester we bought new, then later a used

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Speaker 2: one with about one hundred miles one hundred thousand miles

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Speaker 1: That's from James. He's a very angry lesbian.

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Speaker 2: He does not appreciate me making a slur against the Subaru,

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Speaker 2: a very quality vehicle.

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Speaker 1: He owns two.

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Speaker 2: He bought one new and very responsibly. He bought a

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Speaker 2: second one second one has over one hundred thousand miles

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Speaker 2: on it. And he doesn't appreciate me making slurs from him.

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Speaker 2: And now he wonders, am I really that dumb? Am

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Speaker 2: I really that dumb that I don't know about his Subaru?

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Speaker 2: It was the Dean Goss Dinner Theater. Several folks kind

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Speaker 2: enough to just send it was Dean Goss Dinner Theater.

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Speaker 2: I think there were two that and another one that

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Speaker 2: competed called the Something Club. I just can't remember what

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Speaker 2: it's called, like the Sportsman's Club or the Summ's Club.

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Speaker 2: There was a Dean Gos Dinner Theater and another one,

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Speaker 2: and I'll never know because I didn't live here, but

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Speaker 2: somebody will tell me by email Michael Berryshow dot com.

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Speaker 2: Someone said I would like to see the drive in

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Speaker 2: with car Hops return. I agree, Sonic doesn't quite get

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Speaker 2: you there.

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Speaker 1: I like the old especially if they're cute. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's start.

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Speaker 2: What concept would you like to see brought back or

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Speaker 2: brought to Houston?

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Speaker 3: Tom, you're up, yeah, I tell you all right. There

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Speaker 3: on fifty nine, across from where you find Cactus Records

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Speaker 3: in the water Burger, there's an old club I believe,

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Speaker 3: like an Egyptian looking thing.

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Speaker 1: Oh magic, I think it.

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Speaker 3: Used to be.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And they said that was going to be coming back,

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Speaker 4: and I ain't heard nothing else. In twenty twenty four

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Speaker 4: there was an article in the Chronicle about it, but

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Speaker 4: you know, Chronicle doesn't tell the truth very often. But

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Speaker 4: the other place Dinner and the show Doci Dough in.

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Speaker 1: The Woodlands, Oh yeah, man.

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Speaker 5: They.

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Speaker 4: Got they got at sitting there and every musician I've

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Speaker 1: Yeah, love that place. That is true.

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Speaker 2: That is one of the places you can still get

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Speaker 2: dinner in the show. I did forget that. Thank you

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Speaker 1: Tom.

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Speaker 2: The issue on Magic Island, I think this is the

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Speaker 2: one case where it wasn't the Chronicle's fault. I don't

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Speaker 2: want to speak out of turn, but the ownership of

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Speaker 2: that space used to be owned by a guy named

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Speaker 2: doctor Atari.

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Speaker 3: He was.

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Speaker 2: I believe he was an Irani doctor, and I don't

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Speaker 2: think he owns the property any longer. But there have

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Speaker 2: been some efforts to bring that property back, and there's

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Speaker 2: been some drama associated with it. I should probably stay

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Speaker 2: out of that because yeah, I'll stay out of that

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Speaker 1: Windshield, you're up, Go ahead.

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Speaker 2: What should Houston bring back or bring to the greater

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Speaker 6: Addie Michael, there was a concept called Spaghetti Western there

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Speaker 6: in the Heights and he's still there.

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Speaker 1: It was.

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Speaker 6: She Oh, is it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Still there?

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Speaker 6: I'll be darned.

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Speaker 6: Well, you know, everything seems like it was yesterday, but

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Speaker 6: remember concept called Antiqua.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, where was that? I remember they had a

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Speaker 6: That was it was owned by an Iranian and an

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Speaker 6: It was a little you had to really know about it,

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Speaker 6: they were an amazing duo. And the one of the owners,

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Speaker 7: Caught, and he'd have rabbit heads or a hoghead.

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Speaker 1: Just ship it, Just ship it.

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Speaker 6: It don't matter to ship it.

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Speaker 1: It was nice. Who were you a rep for Republic?

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Speaker 6: It was there, very nice. I was a rep for

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Speaker 6: first for Southern in South Florida, and then then Republic

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Speaker 1: You know, Irani's are interesting people. In the United States.

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Speaker 2: You almost never meet an unsuccessful Irani professionally, and you

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Speaker 1: Ray you're on the Michael Berry Show.

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Speaker 5: Hey, Michael, we go to a small place in Tomball

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Speaker 5: called Main Street Crossing. I know it, and they have

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Speaker 5: that's one of my favorite places.

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Speaker 2: That is that is the Unicorn in the business. He

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Speaker 1: Uh loves the business.

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Speaker 2: It's set up as a church, so they don't have

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Speaker 2: If they brought in enough that you know, there's hardly

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Speaker 1: That's why that place.

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Speaker 8: Was can actually break your ball.

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Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show.

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Speaker 2: We will be talking to several folks three to be exact,

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Speaker 2: maybe four this week regarding the Texas legislative session that

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Speaker 2: just concluded.

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Speaker 1: Luke Macys will be our guest in the next segment.

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Speaker 2: Luke is one of the guys who follows the session

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Speaker 2: day by day, Brandon Walton's with Texas Scorecard and also

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Speaker 2: Michael quinn Sullivan with Texas Scorecard to get their thoughts

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Speaker 2: on what passed and what didn't and why we're talking

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Speaker 2: about concepts that you wish would come to town or

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Speaker 2: that you wish would come back to town. The Dean

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Speaker 2: Gos Dinner Theater is a fan favorite. I never got

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Speaker 2: to go. I came to Houston in eighty nine, my

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Speaker 2: Ant said no, no, no, to Michael to pick a place

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Speaker 2: and we'll take you all and it should be nice.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know what was nice. It was nineteen ninety two.

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Speaker 2: And I'd only been in town for three years and

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Speaker 2: at least I thought the old San Francisco Steakhouse. That

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Speaker 1: I don't know what's there now, but that's where we went.

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Speaker 2: And the bread, you know, the old steakhouses would always

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Speaker 1: I missed that.

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Speaker 2: Even Hofbrow had that, and it had to grow on

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Speaker 2: the swing the whole time.

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Speaker 1: Those were good times.

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 2: What concept would you like to see come to town

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Speaker 2: or come back to town?

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Speaker 1: Melissa yet you're up?

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Speaker 8: Hello?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 9: How about belly dancing and whirling dervish?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? You know, is there one that you're thinking of?

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Speaker 4: Ye?

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Speaker 1: Like it?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 9: I lived in Cairo for six years and it was

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Speaker 9: do the belly dancing and really nervous show. And I

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Speaker 9: now because half the times we kind of thought that

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Speaker 9: the belly dancers were cross dressers, you know, like drag queens.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. There, What were you doing in Cairo?

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Speaker 9: I was a trailing spouse. My husband worked for a

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Speaker 9: patch oil and gas.

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Speaker 1: How'd you like that?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 9: It was amazing, amazing. I went, I did not want

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Speaker 2: Hey and hm and I used to think that poor bastard,

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Speaker 1: Meet and three? They're popular like Ville. I lived in Nashville.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I've eating it. My friend and Endham took me

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Speaker 2: But what I'm hearing from a lot of people is

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Speaker 1: You know, these big portions. That's what a That's what

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Speaker 7: It was in that center. But if Cafe Annie was

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Speaker 2: Unlike the United States, Congress is not continuously more or

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Speaker 2: call a special session, and they will do that for

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Speaker 2: Luke Macius is our guest. I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly.

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Speaker 2: He has a blog, a show. He follows the legislature

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Speaker 2: and he's got I think we're somewhat aligned on what

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Speaker 1: Luke, welcome to the program, sir, Thank you, Michael, thanks

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Speaker 1: for having me on So let's talk about this particular session.

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Speaker 2: Organically, start to finish one of the and I have

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Speaker 2: to you to what I don't ask. Obviously, I was

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Speaker 2: frustrated with the election of Dustin Burroughs. We may to

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Speaker 2: basically we replaced him with what I would argue is

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Speaker 1: Your thoughts, I think that's accurate.

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Speaker 8: I think the start of the session was definitely frustrating,

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Speaker 8: Dad Feeling. Now, it is worth acknowledging that a significant

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Speaker 8: very conservative people coming into reform. But you're correct, the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I would argue that Burrows was just Dade

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Speaker 8: Yeah, so I can't speak to the alcohol consumption, but

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Speaker 8: The difficulty in comparison comparing session to session is that

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Speaker 1: Conservative voting block.

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Speaker 8: Just as a quick example, if a conservative had an

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Speaker 1: What was drunk Dade's role behind the scenes, How much

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Speaker 2: What was how involved he was completely I mean he

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Speaker 8: So first of all, you almost never saw him on

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Speaker 8: In fact, what's funny is his surface pro he could

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Speaker 8: Even business lobbyists about how his office was hardly ever available,

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Speaker 1: He really was not active.

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Speaker 8: He had a couple of those bills, as you mentioned,

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Speaker 2: I was flattered because there were a number of articles

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Speaker 8: More so early on, they had more influence. And what

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Speaker 1: Just a moment. Luke mas is our guest.

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Speaker 10: You can find him at lukemacus dot com.

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Speaker 11: E Mary, you are more to Ring the King's English.

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Speaker 2: Luke not and listened to an opening of one of

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Speaker 1: So it's Luke m Acias. You can find him at

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Speaker 1: lukemcius dot com. He does a blog and he has

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Speaker 1: a podcast.

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Speaker 2: I try to triangulate information from various sources, including liberals, democrats,

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Speaker 2: liberal media, as well as folks who I think are

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Speaker 2: probably far more aligned with me than the other folks,

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Speaker 2: to get a sense of what's going on, for instance,

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Speaker 2: in the state legislature, because I will confess I don't

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Speaker 2: spend as much time on the day to day as

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Speaker 2: people like Luke Macius does, so he's one of the

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Speaker 2: sources that I look to for what the heck is

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Speaker 2: going on.

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Speaker 1: Luke, you in a I guess it's June eleventh.

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Speaker 2: You put up a post session overview the good Let's

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Speaker 2: talk about some of the things that came out of

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Speaker 2: this session, not just the House, but the House, the Senate,

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Speaker 2: and the governor has or you expect will sign.

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Speaker 8: So I think the top positive aspects, if I'm going

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Speaker 8: to go give people a big picture view, is the

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Speaker 8: Republican Party of Texas had eight legislative priorities at the

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Speaker 8: beginning of the session. Okay, when it came to I'm

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Speaker 8: gonna the most positive parts were the China land ban,

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Speaker 8: and again all of our conservative Republicans fought to make

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Speaker 8: sure that it was a real band that ultimately passed,

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Speaker 8: because they tried multiple times to open up a bunch

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Speaker 8: of loopholes where Chinese nationals could still buy land. But

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Speaker 8: I think the version of that that passing got signed

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Speaker 8: by Governor Rabbit is a very strong, if not the

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Speaker 8: strongest in the nation. When it comes to stop sexualizing

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Speaker 8: Texas children. There were a number of bills that passed,

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Speaker 8: probably eight, nine or ten that were all pretty substantive,

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Speaker 8: but the most substantive one was SB twelve, the Parental

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Speaker 8: Bill of Rights. Do you remember when there was all

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Speaker 8: the protests and riots in Florida over what the left

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Speaker 8: called don't Say Gay that Ron Desanta's passed. Texas passed

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Speaker 8: a version of that that is even better. So that

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Speaker 8: version stopped at sixth grade. This version goes all the

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Speaker 8: way through high school. It says no gender identity, no

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Speaker 8: sexual orientation, no diversity, no equity, no inclusion. All DEI

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Speaker 8: and SOGI policies are out. And we actually had this.

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Speaker 8: I mean, the Democrats all got up because one of

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Speaker 8: the things that the Senate insisted on the House tried

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Speaker 8: to keep it out, but the Senate insistent on it

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Speaker 8: was language that said no gender sexuality clubs. We have

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Speaker 8: gender and sexuality clubs on forty six percent of school

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Speaker 8: campuses in Texas public school campuses. They start as early

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Speaker 8: as second grade, and when that ban came to the floor,

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Speaker 8: the language was in it. The Democrats ended up giving

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Speaker 8: three hours of speeches where most of them shared stories

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Speaker 8: about how they the reason they were a pan sexual

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Speaker 8: or a bisexual, or a lesbian or whatever they were

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Speaker 8: as they identify. They talked about how the clubs that

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Speaker 8: they attended in middle school and high school were formative

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Speaker 8: to their experimentation and their sexual orientation. So what we

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Speaker 8: really found out was that the ban that the Senate

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Speaker 8: fought very hard to keep in ended up being really

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Speaker 8: important to that bill. But it also says that your

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Speaker 8: kid's not going to get sex education at school unless

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Speaker 8: you opt them into that program instead of having to

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Speaker 8: go opt out. So there's many different aspects. Basically, teachers

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Speaker 8: can't talk about sex and gender to students. Teach them

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Speaker 8: how to read, teach them how to multiply. You're not

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Speaker 8: even doing a good job of that, So just do

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Speaker 8: that and don't talk about it.

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Speaker 1: SB twelve.

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Speaker 8: SB seventeen is the China land ban. There were a

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Speaker 8: number of grid protection policies that passed. When it comes

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Speaker 8: to election integrity, there were a number of good policies

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Speaker 8: that pass. What I say is when it came to

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Speaker 8: stop sexualizing kids, they probably passed eighty percent of the

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Speaker 8: bills we wanted to pass. Election integrity was closer to

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Speaker 8: thirty percent. The Senate passed a lot of legislation that

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Speaker 8: the House still killed on election integrity, but there were

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Speaker 8: three or four different bills that were able to pass

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Speaker 8: to make it make our elections slightly more secure. We

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Speaker 8: were able to pass also the two to eighty seven

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Speaker 8: G program, and I will say that in the version

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Speaker 8: that it passed very impactful and statewide. So this is

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Speaker 8: to team up with President Trump's agenda and make sure

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Speaker 8: that every single county in America is participating with the

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Speaker 8: government in a coordinated way with ICE. That's what the

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Speaker 8: two eighty seven G program does. We even have rural

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Speaker 8: counties in East Texas that haven't participated with ICE, that

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Speaker 8: aren't routinely running everybody they arrest and put into jail

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Speaker 8: through the ICE database to then let ICE know, oh,

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Speaker 8: we've got a detainer request.

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Speaker 1: You can come pick this guy up.

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Speaker 8: We have places that are Republican counties that aren't even engaged.

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Speaker 8: So this mandates that every single county in Texas, including

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Speaker 8: the blue counties, do it. It tells them that they

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Speaker 8: have to have a full time employee that's doing it,

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Speaker 8: that the state of Texas will pay for that person

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Speaker 8: in reimbursement. But you will get somebody in, you will

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Speaker 8: start coordinating with the federal government, and you will do that.

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Speaker 8: So I think that is a strong win on the

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Speaker 8: immigration front. Those are the good things. There are many others,

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Speaker 8: but those are some of the top good things that

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Speaker 8: I think came out of the session.

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Speaker 1: What are some of the big issues.

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Speaker 2: I know you had a piece on TLR Texas w

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Speaker 2: lawsuit reform, being upset with boroughs. What are some of

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Speaker 2: the issues that did not get past of note?

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Speaker 8: So when I look at the things that didn't get

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Speaker 8: past a note, that are most obvious for Republicans.

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Speaker 1: First, there was a bill.

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Speaker 8: SB twenty eight eighty that the Senate passed that was

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Speaker 8: going to significantly crack down on the abortion pill. We

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Speaker 8: have about nineteen thousand numborn children that die via the

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Speaker 8: abortion pill. That are shipped in from out of state

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Speaker 8: every year, and this bill would have significantly lowered that

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Speaker 8: number from nineteen thousand. We made it much harder to

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Speaker 8: ship those abortion pills in. That passed the Senate died

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Speaker 8: in the House. There was a bill that would have

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Speaker 8: banned Drag Queen's Story Hour that the Senate passed as

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Speaker 8: a priority piece of legislation. That seemed like an obvious win.

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Speaker 8: Nobody likes Drag Queen Story Hour. It would have defunded

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Speaker 8: the libraries that host that. The Senate in the House

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Speaker 8: both put an additional constitutional amendment that says that if

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Speaker 8: you're not a citizen, you can't vote, which is already

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Speaker 8: in our constitution in a couple places, so it made

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Speaker 8: it triply illegal. But what the Senate passed in the

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Speaker 8: House killed was a bill that said that when you

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Speaker 8: register to vote, your citizenship must be verified, and that

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Speaker 8: was what the Democrats held the line on. Unfortunately died

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Speaker 8: in the Texas House. So there was a provision and

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Speaker 8: that is a very strong election integrity bill that I

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Speaker 8: think should have been an obvious wind. There was a

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Speaker 8: build a Senate pass on election integrity that said that

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Speaker 8: Harris County go ahead.

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Speaker 1: So this is the issue.

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Speaker 2: If your citizenship is not checked at the point at

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Speaker 2: which you register, once you are a registered voter and

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Speaker 2: you show up to vote, it is then never checked.

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Speaker 2: So our constitution, I know you know this, but it's

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Speaker 2: worth noting. Our constitution says you must be a United

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Speaker 2: States citizen in order to vote in Texas elections, and

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Speaker 2: everybody says, yes, that's a degree.

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Speaker 1: We ought to do that.

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Speaker 2: So then somebody goes to register and they're not a citizen,

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Speaker 2: they get registered, they go and vote, They effectively break

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Speaker 2: the law and there's nothing to stop them. So you

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Speaker 2: have to have some teeth in this. You have to

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Speaker 2: have a mechanism by which you actually these aren't self

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Speaker 2: enforcing laws, and I think that's important. So what we

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Speaker 2: were trying to do here was ensure that the constitutional

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Speaker 2: provision that you must be a citizen is protected and

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Speaker 2: a president it's not there are non citizens voting anyway,

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Speaker 2: worth noting on that.

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Speaker 1: I just want to make sure you're absolutely right to

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Speaker 1: take back to you.

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Speaker 8: While you and I were talking, Ken Paxson put a

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Speaker 8: pressure lease out saying that he has currently opened up

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Speaker 8: an investigation into thirty three non citizens that they've identified

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Speaker 8: the voted in the last election. I guarantee you those

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Speaker 8: are not the only thirty three, of course, to be clear,

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Speaker 8: but these are thirty three that the Secretary of State

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Speaker 8: found when it crossed, referenced just one federal database with

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Speaker 8: the people that voted, and they referred those to the.

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Speaker 1: General and General Packson is on it. So you're right,

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Speaker 1: that's why we should verify it. When you register to vote,

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Speaker 1: verify citizenship.

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Speaker 8: Does they send the past that the House killed it?

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Speaker 1: Hold with me for just a moment. You can find

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Speaker 1: him at lutmacius dot com. There's a blog. Does a podcast.

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Speaker 2: Will continue our conversation on what bills, what we're going

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Speaker 2: to Obviously, we're going to talk about Dan Patrick's crazy

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Speaker 2: and high hemp bill.

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Speaker 1: I don't know it looks position on that, but we'll

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Speaker 1: talk about that more than I

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