1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: Michael Vari Show is on the air. 3 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:18,959 Speaker 2: The US is the first time in the history of 4 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 2: the world where a government was organized with a constitution 5 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 2: laying out the rules that the individual was supreme and dominant. 6 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 2: And that is what led to the US becoming the 7 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 2: greatest country ever because it unleashed people to be the 8 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,480 Speaker 2: best they could be, unlike it had ever happened. That's 9 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 2: American exceptionalism. 10 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 3: Our resolve is unbroken and our purpose is unchanged to 11 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:47,559 Speaker 3: delivery government that serves the American people better than ever before. 12 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 4: To win with every single facet. We're going to win 13 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 4: so much. You may even get tired of winning. And 14 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 4: you say, please, please, it's too much winning. We can't 15 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 4: take it anymore. Resident it's too much, and I'll say, no, 16 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 4: it isn't. 17 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 5: We have to keep winning. 18 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:06,040 Speaker 4: We have to win more. 19 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 3: We're gonna win more. 20 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 4: We're gonna win so much. You never did think that 21 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 4: it ever would happen again in America. 22 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 2: You never didn't think they would ever get together. 23 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 4: Again, would do so, would be allowed again in America. 24 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:23,399 Speaker 3: You never did think that it ever. 25 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 2: Would happen again. 26 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 6: It is a tall, proud city build on rocks stronger 27 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 6: than notions, wind swept, god blessed and teeming with people 28 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:36,040 Speaker 6: of all kinds, living in harmony and peace. A city 29 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:40,400 Speaker 6: with pre ports that hunged with commerce and creativity. And 30 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 6: if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors, 31 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 6: and the doors were open to anyone with the will 32 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 6: and the heart. 33 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: To get there. 34 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 6: That's how I saw it and see it still. 35 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 3: And we will restore and renovate our nations once great cities, 36 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 3: making them safe, clean, and beautiful again. And that includes 37 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 3: ouration's capital. 38 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 4: You never did that, we'd never get together again. 39 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 3: Under my plan, income as will skyrocket, inflation will vanish completely, 40 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 3: jobs will come roaring back, and the middle class will 41 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 3: prosper like never ever before. And we're going to do 42 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 3: it very rapidly. I will bring back the American dream. 43 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 3: Your expectations are not big enough. Not big enough, start 44 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 3: expecting and demanding. 45 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 5: The county judge of Webb County flip from Democrat to 46 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:49,519 Speaker 5: Republican the first time in one hundred years. Republicans carried 47 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 5: that county, as Donald Trump did with just over fifty percent. 48 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 5: We saw counties in the state of Texas that have 49 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 5: not gone and that have never gone republic that went republican. 50 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 5: We saw a county that had not gone Republican since 51 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:10,919 Speaker 5: eighteen ninety two go Republican. This is not a team 52 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 5: people have rooted for. This is an agenda. Secure our borders, 53 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 5: provide educational opportunity in the hands of the student and 54 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 5: the parent, not the education establishment and the unions. This 55 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 5: is what our people voted for. Black, white, brown, rich, poor. 56 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 5: Across our great state. We now have every state wide 57 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 5: elected official, We have the majority in the Senate, and 58 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 5: we have eighty eight out of one hundred and fifty 59 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 5: state reps. And yet the Democrats are on the verge 60 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 5: of controlling who the House Speaker is because some of 61 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 5: your Republicans are keeping company with the Democrats and hoping 62 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 5: you're too busy with Christmas shopping and as CC football 63 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 5: to pay attention. Michael quinn Sullivan has the Texas Scorecard 64 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 5: and he provides constant news and analysis of what's going 65 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 5: on in Austin. I would encourage you to subscribe. It's 66 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 5: a wonderful, wonderful source of inside information. There is a 67 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 5: great deal of insight based on relationships, time spent there 68 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 5: and wearing out the phone as to who's doing what 69 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 5: and why he's our guest, Michael. Welcome to the program, Michael. 70 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 7: It's great to be with you. One of my favorite 71 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 7: people on the planet. I get to spend my morning 72 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 7: with you. That's really exciting for me. 73 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 5: I appreciate that you have been covering what's going on 74 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 5: with the State House, and the response I get from 75 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 5: most people is I didn't want to have to think 76 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 5: about what's going on. We got eighty eight out of 77 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty state reps. Why are we even 78 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 5: having to mess with this. Why don't you start us 79 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 5: real slow into rewinding to drunk daid and how they 80 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 5: won the primary with Democrats and who's driving this ship 81 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,839 Speaker 5: for these Republicans to end up keeping company with Democrats 82 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 5: so that Republicans haven't controlled the House in quite some time. 83 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 7: Something you said at the outset is so critically important. 84 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: I hope folks caught it. 85 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 7: You said people voted for an agenda, not for a team, 86 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 7: and that is absolutely right. We have all been trained 87 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:39,600 Speaker 7: for a very long time to treat politics, to treat government, 88 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 7: to create the creation of public policy like it is 89 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:48,359 Speaker 7: some college athletic events where you know, I'm an Aggie. 90 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 7: You know, I was upset for all about twelve seconds 91 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 7: after the loss a couple of weeks ago, but you know, 92 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 7: my life goes on. 93 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: It doesn't impact me. 94 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 7: And we've been kind of trained to look at politics 95 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,679 Speaker 7: that we put every thing that the context of, oh, well, 96 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 7: it's a team, you know, go elephants, go donkeys, and 97 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 7: then you know, once the thing in the news goes away, 98 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 7: we're supposed to just move on from it. But that's 99 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 7: not the system our founding fathers created. We're a republic, 100 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 7: and then a republic, the citizens are supposed to be 101 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,359 Speaker 7: in charge, and being in charge means we have to 102 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 7: actually take positions, we have to be involved. It has 103 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 7: to be something more than a spectator sport. And when 104 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 7: you look at Daid Feeling, that Daid Feeling and the 105 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 7: guys who've come before him as Speaker of the Texas House, 106 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 7: they have benefited from all of us kind of absorbing 107 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 7: Texas politics the way we absorb college football, where we 108 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 7: cheer on whoever is wearing our jersey this week, and 109 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 7: then we just kind of, you know, move on from 110 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 7: that and we ignore it for the rest of the time. 111 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 7: But as citizens, we have to do better. Daid Feeling, 112 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 7: Speaker of the House, presided over a twenty percent increase 113 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:58,599 Speaker 7: in the growth of government as a Republican. In one 114 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 7: budget session, he impeached the Attorney General of Texas, who, 115 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 7: by all accounts, has been keeping his fingers in the 116 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 7: holes and the dam that the Biden administration keeps trying 117 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 7: to poke. You know, he had that's who he went after. 118 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 7: Dade Feeling had a very rough primary, had a couple 119 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 7: of challengers, pushed into a runoff. He won by less 120 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 7: than six hundred votes, you know, kind of the counting 121 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 7: the people who showed up in the runoff, he won 122 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 7: by about six hundred votes. However, what we now know 123 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 7: is about two thousand Democrats turned out crossed parties to 124 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 7: turn out in Dade Feelin's primary election so that he 125 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 7: could be elected, which means he actually lost front with 126 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 7: Republicans by something like, you know, you know, two thousand 127 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 7: plus votes, right. 128 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 5: And not going into that. He trailed going into that 129 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 5: primary runoff, and David Covey had just short of fifty 130 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 5: percent enough to win that outright. I'm from that part 131 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 5: of the state, from Orange County, and I got to 132 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 5: tell you, I thought we had him beat in the 133 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 5: first round, but anyway, go ahead. 134 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 7: Yeah, so you said, see Ederton Dade Feeling is Speaker 135 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 7: of the Texas House because several years ago he conspired 136 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 7: with Democrats and a few Republicans to hold it to 137 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 7: get the speakership. That's been a pattern quite frankly since 138 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 7: about two thousand and nine, where left leaning Republicans conspire 139 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,559 Speaker 7: with the Democrats to get a few Republicans and. 140 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 1: Then they kind of run run roughshod over the Demo 141 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:39,439 Speaker 1: old Republicans. 142 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:43,680 Speaker 5: Michael Quinivan Texas Scorecard dot com, and I urge you 143 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:45,599 Speaker 5: to subscribe if you want the daily. They do a 144 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 5: daily newsletter on what's going on in Austin. And I 145 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 5: think for most of you you would like the perspective, 146 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 5: the truth seeking from which the position from which they 147 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 5: emanate more with him coming up ding. 148 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 1: And this other guy, Michael bare. 149 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:08,440 Speaker 5: So what's going on in Austin. The grassroots didn't get 150 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:12,720 Speaker 5: this involved, but as you heard Michael Quinn Sullivan of 151 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:16,199 Speaker 5: Texas Scorecards say, this has been going on since about 152 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 5: two thousand and nine. You may remember the name Joe Strauss. 153 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 5: Dennis Bonnen came in. His brother is still a state rep. 154 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 5: And still part of this group that leads the coup, 155 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 5: and they're led by the lobby It's the political action 156 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 5: committees of the statewide organizations like Texas Medical Association. That's 157 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:40,680 Speaker 5: the groups that lead these folks. And they are very 158 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 5: very well funded. And that's where a lot of these 159 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,440 Speaker 5: state reps that are selling us out. That's where they're 160 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 5: getting their money, and they're consulting, and there's some really 161 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:53,200 Speaker 5: smart guys. There is a couple of lawyers that represent 162 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 5: these groups that you know they write the letters. You 163 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 5: when you send an email to Will Metcalf saying, hey, 164 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 5: how come you're not supporting Look, why are you over 165 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 5: there supporting Burrows? And he sends you this letter because 166 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 5: all of you are forwarding to me. You might notice 167 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 5: all the guys on that side are sending the same letter. 168 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 5: Not one of those dumb asses drafted it. The lobbyist 169 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 5: for them drafted that and said, here, send this. 170 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 1: Out to people. 171 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 5: This is what you got to tell the base. You 172 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 5: got to give the base enough of their red meat 173 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:25,440 Speaker 5: that they'll stick with you. We didn't end up where 174 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 5: we are today with the liberal Republicans, the left wing 175 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 5: leaning Republicans keeping faith with the Democrats to control the 176 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 5: House overnight. You have to understand a bit of the history. 177 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 5: Michael Quinn Sullivan. I don't know how many people really 178 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 5: understand what happened with Dennis bonding and with you and 179 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:47,200 Speaker 5: that Dennis Bonden was the speaker before he handed it 180 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 5: off to Dade Feeling and Dade Feelin's family bought his bank, 181 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 5: and boy, wasn't. 182 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: That a real deal? 183 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 5: Could you explain that history? Because I think once people 184 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 5: understand the history of where we are with all this, 185 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 5: it makes a lot of sense for what we're seeing today. 186 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. 187 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 7: So you know, again, these guys have figured out the 188 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 7: formula because of Texas structure that you can get a 189 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 7: couple of Republicans and all the Democrats and Democrats can 190 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 7: can win and run the legislature despite not having won elections. 191 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 1: With the people. Uh. 192 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:24,680 Speaker 7: Dennis Bonnan became speaker after Joe Straus stepped down. 193 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:25,439 Speaker 5: Uh. 194 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 7: Dennis Bonnen wanted to U kind of trapped me in 195 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 7: a little in a little scheme. 196 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:32,320 Speaker 1: Uh. 197 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 7: He and Dustin Burroughs, actually they called me to his office, 198 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 7: asked me to meet with them and put forward a 199 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 7: little quid pro quote plan if I did some things 200 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 7: help them politically. Uh, they would offer some uh some 201 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 7: state goodies to me in my organization. We said, not only. 202 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,120 Speaker 1: Did I not like that idea, I went public about 203 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: it so that they couldn't, you know, fill me in jail. 204 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 7: Not going to jail is usually a high priority for me. 205 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 7: And and as a result, Dennis bonn And had to 206 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 7: had to step down as Speaker's Worth noting Dustin Burroughs 207 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 7: has never apologized for his role in that that little 208 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 7: scheme that he and he and Dennis bonn And had, Uh. 209 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 7: Dustin Burrows was the key, was a key player in 210 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 7: that little game that Bonnin tried to play, a little 211 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:24,320 Speaker 7: scheme he tried to wrote me into. So you know 212 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 7: you so bonn And goes out incomes day Feeland again 213 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 7: with a couple of Republicans and all the Democrats and 214 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:33,840 Speaker 7: the Republicans in the Texas House. And this is where 215 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 7: everyone has to have some culpability here, the Republicans in 216 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 7: the Texas House, the majority has continued to go along 217 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:42,439 Speaker 7: with it. Well, you know, that's kind of the way 218 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 7: the game is played. They seem to say, you get 219 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 7: get all the Democrats, a few Republicans, and you too 220 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 7: can thwart the will of the people of Texas. The 221 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 7: nice thing that has happened is over the past couple 222 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:57,679 Speaker 7: of years, folks have started to say, no, we're tired 223 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 7: of winning at the ballot box and losing legislative Like 224 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 7: we're Texas. We've been in complete. We've let Republicans be 225 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 7: in complete controlled the state for thirty years nominally, but 226 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 7: we don't have the policy results to show for it. 227 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 7: Our property taxes are still out of control, we don't 228 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 7: have school choice, go through all these things that the 229 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 7: people of Texas have been wanting that haven't been done. 230 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 7: Why because we let the Democrats from the minority run 231 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:28,439 Speaker 7: the Texas House. 232 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 5: So we go from Bonn and to the transfer to 233 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 5: Dade Feelin, which left us in the last legislative session 234 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 5: unable to get the things done we needed to get done. 235 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 5: Dan Patrick was frustrated. Greg Abbott was frustrated. We couldn't 236 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 5: get school vouchers, we couldn't secure the border, we couldn't 237 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 5: cut taxes to the extent that we had planned and 238 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 5: hoped that the grassroots voted for. Explain that transition from 239 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 5: Dade over to how Dade steps down and now we 240 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 5: end up with Dustin Burroughs. 241 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 7: You know, it really felt like I was watching the 242 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 7: poor man's Republican version of the Joe Biden Kamala Harris Transfer. 243 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:20,160 Speaker 7: You had months where both voters and lawmakers alike were saying, 244 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 7: Dade Feeling can't be the speaker. 245 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 1: He barely won reelection. The job. 246 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 7: The speaker at the Texas House has two jobs. To 247 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 7: preside over the chambers, essentially the third highest ranking conscience officer. 248 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 7: The unspoken job the Speaker of the House is to 249 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 7: protect the incumbents of his own of his own party. 250 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 7: Dade Feeling lost a historic number of his incumbents. Fifteen 251 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 7: of his incumbents lost their primaries. All you know, his 252 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 7: close allies lost their primaries to conservative challengers. He can't 253 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 7: protect incumbents. Another six of his close allies, uh didn't 254 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 7: even seek reelection because they knew they were going to 255 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 7: lose to to conservative challengers. Dade Feeling couldn't protect the incumbents, 256 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 7: So the Romanian incumbents were saying, day, you've got to 257 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 7: step down, You've got to go away. 258 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 1: You're you're you know, you're not able to do your job. 259 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 7: Feeling and those around him, though refused to hear it, 260 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 7: so he you know, he was out telling everyone he 261 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 7: was going to be re elective speaker. He hired Rick Perry, 262 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 7: I'm our former governor to be his spokesman, and Rick 263 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 7: Perry on television telling people that, oh, don't worry, Dade. 264 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,360 Speaker 1: Feeling's got it sewn up. He is going to win 265 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 1: as speaker. He has the vote to speaker. 266 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 7: Two weeks later, it becomes very apparent that Dade Feeling 267 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 7: about two weeks two days before the Republican caucus was 268 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 7: to meet to select a nominee, Dade Feeling dropped out. 269 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: Uh, Dade Feeling dropped out at again. 270 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 7: If Dade Felon had dropped out months ago, you and 271 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 7: I would not be having this conversation, and either Dustin 272 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 7: bros Or some other Feeling two point zero State Rep 273 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:10,640 Speaker 7: would be would be the Republican designee for Speaker of 274 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 7: the of the Texas House. Instead, Dade Feelin, like Joe Biden, 275 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 7: hung on for months beyond when when he should have 276 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 7: should should. 277 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 1: Have bowed out. It's also for I ended up with Dustin. 278 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 5: It's important for folks to understand. We talked about the labels, 279 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 5: and you used an analogy that I use as voting 280 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:32,560 Speaker 5: for a team because you went to A and M 281 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 5: or went to UT, versus voting for an actual agenda. 282 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 5: When Dade Feelin bec became so toxic that they had 283 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 5: to pull him out and find someone else to step 284 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 5: in his number two, and that becomes Dustin Burrows. It's 285 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 5: not that Dade Feelin was the problem, It's that what 286 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 5: they were doing was the problem. And Burrows will still 287 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 5: do that. It's just that people knew what Dade Feelin 288 00:16:54,160 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 5: had been up to, and his drunkenness while presiding had 289 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 5: become sort of this metaphor for what exactly these people 290 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 5: that were drunk with power and we're spinning in the 291 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:11,360 Speaker 5: face of the grassroots were all about. Dustin Burrows would 292 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 5: still be part of that line of Joe Strauss and 293 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:18,440 Speaker 5: Dennis Bonnen and Dade Feelin, and it's important to understand, 294 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:20,639 Speaker 5: and we're going to get into the state reps and 295 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 5: where they are with all this, it's important to understand 296 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 5: exactly what they're signing up for. That's a continuation of 297 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 5: what the base is voting against. As you noted, fifteen 298 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 5: House incumbents were defeated this March. Because the grassroots have 299 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:42,400 Speaker 5: had enough. We want not just Republicans, but Republicans who 300 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 5: stand for the agenda that we've all agreed to. And 301 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 5: if not, we'll vote for an underfunded, less known candidate 302 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 5: to beat an incumbent, which is almost impossible to do. 303 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:54,400 Speaker 5: And we're going to do that again. And so we're 304 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:56,320 Speaker 5: having to spend all this effort. And you know, Michael 305 00:17:56,359 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 5: quinn Sullivan's scorecard is our guests, it's just like Jony Ernst, 306 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 5: It's just like Mitch McConnell, it's just like John Cornyn. 307 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 5: It's like these folks up there. We voted for Trump, 308 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 5: we voted for change, and you've got these Republican senators 309 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 5: up there playing games behind the scenes and working against 310 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 5: the Trump agenda, which is our agenda. More of our 311 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 5: conversation with Michael quinn Sullivan Texas Scorecard. Check it out, subscribe, 312 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:25,959 Speaker 5: support it, read it, learn it, You'll love it. 313 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 1: Southern Pride. Southern Pride to Michael Berry Show. 314 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:49,119 Speaker 5: A Guatemala illegal alien smuggler who is accused of murdering 315 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:53,360 Speaker 5: women and children along the path as they smuggled illegals 316 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 5: from Guatemala to the United States when their families could 317 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 5: no longer pay at each way station, accused of murdering 318 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:07,399 Speaker 5: those illegals that he was smuggling here. Has been caught 319 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:13,120 Speaker 5: in Colony Ridge, accused in what's called a mass casualty 320 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:16,160 Speaker 5: event for how many he is said to have murdered. 321 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 5: Turns out he not only owns a property at Colony Ridge, 322 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 5: which he bought from the developer directly. Developers signature is 323 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:28,480 Speaker 5: on the purchase, but ended up owning four lots. How 324 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 5: come him to feel so comfortable at Colony Ridge as 325 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 5: if he was just blending in. We'll talk about that 326 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,879 Speaker 5: coming up in a bit. We'll also talk about the 327 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 5: Katie Market days. Betsy Proctor, the woman who brought the 328 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 5: claim against the city for trying to, as she said, 329 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:52,920 Speaker 5: steal the market away from her. She'll tell her side 330 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:55,400 Speaker 5: of the story coming up at nine o'clock. Michael quinn 331 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:59,239 Speaker 5: Sullivan Texas Scorecard, which is one of the sources of 332 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,440 Speaker 5: information I use both his commentary and a fellow named 333 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:07,199 Speaker 5: Brandon Walton's report day in and day out. I'm not 334 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 5: at the capitol, I'm not going into the meetings, I'm 335 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 5: not talking to the state reps all day every day. 336 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:20,399 Speaker 5: And it is a very very good unvarnished insight into 337 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:24,440 Speaker 5: what's going on behind the scenes. Speaking of which, Michael Quinnsolvan, 338 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 5: let's talk about I'm hearing from folks. It's got a 339 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 5: message from a listener in Midland that his state rep 340 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:34,119 Speaker 5: won't tell him which side they're on. Dustin Burrows is 341 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 5: a Planti's attorney in Lubbock, so our KFYO listeners there 342 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 5: are very familiar with him, and another state Rep there 343 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,439 Speaker 5: who is supporting him. But let's start with the Harris 344 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:50,240 Speaker 5: County GOP delegation. You tell me that everybody is for Cook, 345 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:53,919 Speaker 5: who's our guy, who's more of the reform candidate, and 346 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:57,120 Speaker 5: not Burroughs, which is basically drunk day in the lobby, 347 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 5: except for Lacey Hull. What's gone wrong with Lacey Hull? 348 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:04,879 Speaker 1: You know, that's a question. 349 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 7: I think a lot of folks had been asking for 350 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,360 Speaker 7: a while, what's gone wrong with Lacey Hall? He could 351 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 7: probably write a novel there. Lacey Hall apparently decided when 352 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 7: you got in that she was going to be more 353 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:20,760 Speaker 7: receptive to the needs and the desires and the wants 354 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 7: of the lobby and less interested in what the grassroots 355 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 7: voters had to say. That that seems to have been 356 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,919 Speaker 7: kind of the path she's taken. She's one reelection doing that. 357 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 7: So I guess, you know, I guess whatever reason folks have, 358 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:36,400 Speaker 7: they haven't been informed or are. 359 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 1: Kind of okayed with that. 360 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 7: I think it's really important to make a distinction between 361 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,479 Speaker 7: David Cook and Dustin Burrows. I think that neither one 362 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 7: of these guys, or he would call, you know, a 363 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 7: conservative champion, neither one of them has voted the way 364 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 7: I think, you know, if Michael Berry were transported into 365 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 7: the legislature, that you would have voted. The distinction, though, 366 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 7: is that David Cook has said he wants to reform 367 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 7: the culture of the House, which means let Republicans be 368 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 7: in charge of the Texas House and not Democrats. Not 369 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:08,880 Speaker 7: do this you know, power sharing kind of thing that's happened. 370 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 7: The people of Texas has said they want Republicans in 371 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 7: charge of the of the state government, and in the 372 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 7: Texas House, Democrats have been mostly in charge. So David 373 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 7: Cook wants to reform the House. So when everyone gets 374 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 7: all caught up on who's the conservative, who's less conserva 375 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:29,399 Speaker 7: more conservative, that's not actually the real question in the 376 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 7: speakership race. It's who's going to make sure that Republicans 377 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,360 Speaker 7: are running the chamber that the people of Texas put 378 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 7: them in charge of. And that's the key difference. So 379 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:42,639 Speaker 7: when you see Lacey Hall siding with Dustin Burroughs, what 380 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:46,159 Speaker 7: Lacy Hull is saying is she wants to keep having 381 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 7: the same results. She wants to keep things pretty much 382 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 7: the way they are now. She won't campaign that way 383 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 7: when she's knocking on doors putting out her flyers. You know, 384 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,879 Speaker 7: she is the second coming of Ronald Reagan. She is, 385 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:03,400 Speaker 7: you know, the good Berry Goldwater. She is the conservative Conservative. 386 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 7: But yet she's apparently okay with the power sharing arrangement 387 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 7: with Democrats. And that's where I think folks need to 388 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 7: start asking her a lot more questions about about why 389 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 7: that is. 390 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:16,400 Speaker 5: And it's important to understand those who are supporting Boroughs 391 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 5: who before that supported Dade Feelin, who supported that before 392 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 5: that supported Dennis Bonden. It's all the same folks who 393 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 5: voted to impeach Paxton and split the party. But it's 394 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:30,359 Speaker 5: very important to understand that they have made a deal 395 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,360 Speaker 5: with the Democrats to get the Democrats support, that there 396 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 5: will be Democrat Committee chairman. There is not a Republican 397 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 5: voter in Texas who says I'm going to show up 398 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 5: and vote Republican for Trump and all the way down 399 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:48,160 Speaker 5: because I want to make sure we have Democrat committee chairmen. 400 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:52,159 Speaker 5: That is not what our people have demanded. That is 401 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 5: not what they expect. In the Harris County delegation, Sam 402 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 5: Harless came over to the Cook side and left the 403 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 5: boroughs SI Mono Dialla, who has been a disappointment, is 404 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 5: letting other people say that he's for Cook. But I 405 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:11,240 Speaker 5: have not seen him personally say he's for Cook. Do 406 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:12,119 Speaker 5: you have a sense of that. 407 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 7: I have not seen him say it. I have not 408 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 7: seen him tweet it. I have not seen him email it. However, 409 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 7: a number of folks close to him, Apparently at the 410 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:28,120 Speaker 7: Harris County Republican Party Executive Committee meeting this week, someone 411 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,680 Speaker 7: close to d'alla was able to read a text message 412 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 7: from representing d'alla saying that d'alla was. 413 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 1: Going to be backing Cook. 414 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 7: Now we have not seen that, but yeah, I tend 415 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:41,479 Speaker 7: to take people at their word until they, you know, 416 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,920 Speaker 7: do something that contradicts it. Someone to assume that everyone 417 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 7: was telling the truth and that d'alla has is giving 418 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 7: his support to the Republican Caucus nominee, which again, this 419 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 7: is giving his support to the process they all agreed to. 420 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 7: Which is ironic because Dustin Burroughs back in twenty seventeen 421 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:06,360 Speaker 7: wrote the rules that Dustin Burrows and Lacy Hall are 422 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 7: now breaking. So when you hear these some of these 423 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:14,120 Speaker 7: folks around Dustin Burrows are saying, oh, well, we shouldn't 424 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 7: care about the process, we just want a good guy elected. Well, 425 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 7: Dustin Burrows wrote the process. He wanted everyone to agree 426 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 7: with the process. He pushed hard for this process to 427 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,439 Speaker 7: be in place, and then when it wasn't convenient, of course, 428 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 7: he and Lacy Hall are breaking that contract they made 429 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 7: with their fellow Republicans, and they. 430 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 5: Are counting on the fact that it's Christmas and people 431 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,440 Speaker 5: won't pay attention, and they can send out these form 432 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,159 Speaker 5: emails as the lobbyists right for them, and that the 433 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 5: grassroots won't pay attention to this. But it hearkens back 434 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,640 Speaker 5: to the great old Ronald Reagan line. If you can't 435 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 5: make them see the light, make them feel the heat. 436 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 5: And what they're feeling is the heat. And I think 437 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,959 Speaker 5: that's why Sam Harleys came over to this side and 438 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 5: I think that if Mono does the right thing, I 439 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,400 Speaker 5: think that's why he will. We'll talk about your state 440 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,880 Speaker 5: reps in Montgomery County, for County, Brazoria County coming up. 441 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:04,920 Speaker 5: The information that I get from the show that I 442 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 5: don't seem to get from other places. 443 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 7: The Michael Berry Show. 444 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:14,720 Speaker 5: Who the next figure of the House of the State 445 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 5: of Texas House of Representatives is is incredibly important. And 446 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 5: this isn't the junior high class president race where it's 447 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:29,880 Speaker 5: important that Bobby win and not Susie because Bobby's our friend. 448 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 5: We're talking actual policies and laws in the State of Texas. 449 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 5: How much money will be taxed and raised and spent 450 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 5: and where it will be spent, whether our border will 451 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 5: be secured, what our schools will look like, how many 452 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 5: regulations will we have and what will they look like. 453 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:51,439 Speaker 5: How will we rebuild Texas after the vaccine shutdowns. These 454 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 5: policies will affect every small business, every child, every family. 455 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 5: They are very important. It's not just who we like 456 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 5: more thing, and it's very important. You understand Dustin Burrows, 457 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:09,920 Speaker 5: just like drunk Dad, who they had to get out 458 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 5: of the way because you knew too much about drunk Dad. 459 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 5: They're hoping you won't know who Dustin Burrows is. Dustin 460 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:20,359 Speaker 5: Burrows was his little lieutenant, his little right hand man. 461 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,879 Speaker 5: In all of this, there's been this little group of 462 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 5: weasels and that's what they are. And they're run by 463 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:31,159 Speaker 5: a couple of lawyers at in Austin and Houston and 464 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,200 Speaker 5: some big money donors who tell them what to do. 465 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 5: These are the people who the last day of the 466 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:40,919 Speaker 5: state session impeached Ken Paxton and split the party apart. 467 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:44,639 Speaker 5: Paxton was bringing these cases against Biden and winning, and 468 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 5: we had to get so involved. The Senate had to 469 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 5: be split in half. The Democrats are cackling over all 470 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,400 Speaker 5: of this because you've got some folks who have decided 471 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,160 Speaker 5: that they're going to sell out to some big financial 472 00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 5: interests and slap the face of the grassroots voters. And 473 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,879 Speaker 5: we are not going to allow that to happen. Michael 474 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,440 Speaker 5: Quinn Sullivan's our last segment with him. He's Texas scorecard 475 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 5: dot com, Montgomery County. It's important while we criticize those 476 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,639 Speaker 5: who are wrong, like Lacy Hall, who sold out to 477 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:19,439 Speaker 5: the lobbyist lobbyist Lacy, it's important that we give credit 478 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:23,160 Speaker 5: to those who stand tall day in and day out, 479 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 5: because we have a tendency to take them for granted. 480 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 5: And that's Montgomery County Steve Toath, who along with Cecil 481 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,879 Speaker 5: Bell and Janice Holt are with Cook. What's wrong with 482 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:34,879 Speaker 5: Will Metcalf? 483 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:42,680 Speaker 7: Yeah, Look, Will Metcalf. Just four days before the Republican 484 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,479 Speaker 7: Caucus voke, he was telling constituents, a lot of these 485 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 7: folks have taken screenshots, posted them on x and other places. 486 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 7: Four days before the speaker vote, Will Metcalf, knowing who 487 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 7: the candidates were, knowing what was going on, Will Metcalf 488 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 7: told them in writing, promising that he would back the 489 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 7: caucus nominee, telling them he would bat, that he would 490 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 7: follow the rules, that he would follow the contract if 491 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 7: you will, that he signed by being a Republican of 492 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 7: the Texas House. He promised to do that, and yet 493 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 7: on Saturday he was one of those who he didn't 494 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,920 Speaker 7: like the results, so he went with Dustin Burrows and 495 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 7: he went with the Democrats. Not to try to sneak 496 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 7: Dustin Burrows in as the next Speaker of the House. 497 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 7: Will Metcalf was one of those who's now sending out 498 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 7: kind of a word vomit email whenever something whenever someone says, hey, 499 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 7: aren't you doing what you promise? Kind of complete non 500 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:43,160 Speaker 7: sequiturs from what he promised to do and what he's 501 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 7: now doing because he knows it's indefensible. I am told 502 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 7: I learned last night that there is a gentleman who 503 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 7: is making plans to run against Metcalf in twenty twenty six. 504 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,720 Speaker 7: And this fellow claims, you know, people can claim all 505 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 7: sorts of things. He claims he has half a million 506 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 7: dollars that he'll put to his own race against against 507 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 7: all Metcalf. And what he's kind of waiting for is 508 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 7: to see what Metcalf does on January fourteenth. And I 509 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 7: think that's where a lot of these cats are going 510 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 7: to have to kind of figure out, you know, what 511 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 7: team are they? Know? Do they really think that they 512 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 7: can do better than the guys who lost in twenty 513 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 7: twenty four And we're going to have spend a bunch 514 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 7: of time one to have an opponent. 515 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 5: I'd rather spend my time beating Democrats. Let's go to 516 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,560 Speaker 5: Fort ben County. You got Matt Morgan, the new guy 517 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:36,600 Speaker 5: is with Cook, And then what has happened with Gates 518 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,960 Speaker 5: and Kitsman who were with borough what what happened to Gates? 519 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 7: You know, Gates actually was one of those guys who 520 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 7: was out telling everyone that he was going to help 521 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:51,479 Speaker 7: the reformers. Reformers, Reformers Go, Reformers, Go Team Reform, and 522 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:55,360 Speaker 7: then suddenly at the last minute he started being seen 523 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 7: hanging around with Team Feeland. There's a lot of rumors 524 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,800 Speaker 7: out there that what Gates is actually trying to do. 525 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 7: He he probably more correctly than others, saw that, Oh 526 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,600 Speaker 7: my gosh, you know, there's there's a lot of craziness 527 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 7: going on, and he thought maybe he could emerge from 528 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,680 Speaker 7: the from the dust up as a speaker, candidate himself, 529 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 7: the and and the look at you know, maybe as 530 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 7: a strategy. I don't know, but he but what appears 531 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 7: to have happened though, is that he has made angry 532 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 7: a lot of the Reformers who he told them he 533 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 7: was with them. And he's also kind of upset, uh, 534 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 7: some of the feeling Burrows guys, because uh, you know, 535 00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:38,280 Speaker 7: they now realize he was using them for his own purposes. 536 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,240 Speaker 7: And uh and so you know, Gary Gates may find 537 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:46,480 Speaker 7: himself as a man without a caucus in in many 538 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,840 Speaker 7: ways come come January, because neither side's trusting him. 539 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:50,040 Speaker 1: You know. 540 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 7: I think at the end of the day, a lot 541 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 7: of the reformers at least have a grudging respect for uh, 542 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 7: you know, for some of the feeling guys, because hey, 543 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 7: they're they're they're kind of being true to themselves. Whereas 544 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 7: Gary Gates has made a lot of promises and said 545 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:04,200 Speaker 7: a lot of things, have a lot of people. 546 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,160 Speaker 5: He gets out there on these issues. Michael Quinn Sullivan, 547 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 5: you follow this year round. We don't talk about it 548 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 5: every day because I don't think the average person cares 549 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,920 Speaker 5: about the day to day. But he gets out there 550 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:16,760 Speaker 5: on issues and then he comes back and says, you 551 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,880 Speaker 5: know what I was wrong, Please forgive me, and then 552 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,720 Speaker 5: here he is again. I mean, and what about Kitsman. 553 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 7: Yeah, Kitsman is more of a kind of kind of 554 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 7: like Lacey Hall. He has just kind of decided he 555 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 7: wants to be with the lobby. He wants to be 556 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,440 Speaker 7: with the guys in Austin. He wants to be invited 557 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,760 Speaker 7: to the cocktail parties on the top floors of the 558 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,160 Speaker 7: big buildings in downtown Houston. He wants to be in 559 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,840 Speaker 7: that crowd, which is kind of sad. You think something 560 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 7: you're from Fort Benn County. I think a lot of 561 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,400 Speaker 7: us still, I mean, it's not this way anymore. We 562 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,240 Speaker 7: still have kind of an image of Fort Benn County 563 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:58,800 Speaker 7: as a conservative, right thinking place, and Kitsman could continue 564 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,720 Speaker 7: to legislate that way, could be that way, but instead 565 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 7: he is siding with the UH, with with the crony insiders, 566 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 7: and apparently against his constituents. 567 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,720 Speaker 5: We've seen this happen. These guys. They leave town and 568 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,960 Speaker 5: they get they end up in Austin. They get invited 569 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,560 Speaker 5: to the fancy cocktail parties and the nice steakhouses and 570 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,040 Speaker 5: the staffers for the girls, and the money starts flowing, 571 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,040 Speaker 5: and all of a sudden they forget where they came from. 572 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 5: Jeff Barry from b A R. R WI, from Brazoria 573 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 5: County with Burroughs, what's his problem. 574 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:36,520 Speaker 7: Yeah, Barry came into the Texas House. He's not a 575 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,920 Speaker 7: member yet. He is a member of Act. He is 576 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,000 Speaker 7: just one. He's kind of the in some way. I've 577 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 7: heard him described by a number of these other incoming 578 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 7: freshman lawmakers as kind of an odd ball because he's 579 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,840 Speaker 7: the one who's not actually with all the reformers. He 580 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,680 Speaker 7: was supported by by King feel and going into the primary. 581 00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 7: Uh so, you know he's he's kind of dancing with 582 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,840 Speaker 7: those who brought him, and I suspect that in Brazoria 583 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:04,600 Speaker 7: County that's only going to last. 584 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:05,960 Speaker 1: For a very short period. Real quick. 585 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,600 Speaker 5: I don't know how you say his last name. Cody 586 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,080 Speaker 5: the Suit from Missouri County is with Cook. 587 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:12,920 Speaker 7: Cody the Suit. Yeah, yeah, so he is with Cook. Look, 588 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,759 Speaker 7: Cody of the Suit. I'm not someone everyone thought was 589 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:16,520 Speaker 7: going to be with Cook. 590 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,480 Speaker 1: But he's with Cook. He's doing what he promised. And 591 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,320 Speaker 1: guys like Cody the Suit should. 592 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,960 Speaker 7: Get our praise when they do what they say they're 593 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:24,319 Speaker 7: going to do. 594 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:26,920 Speaker 5: As I said of Sam Harras Yestery. Look, it's not 595 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,080 Speaker 5: personal for me. I want good government. I don't want 596 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,560 Speaker 5: Democrats as committee chairman. I want educational opportunity. I want 597 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:34,760 Speaker 5: a secure border, and I know you do too. Michael 598 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:38,080 Speaker 5: Quinn salivon texascorecard dot com. He does a great job 599 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:38,440 Speaker 5: with it.