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Speaker 2: I do want to point out that various articles that

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Speaker 1: That is amazing.

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Speaker 2: And then it says FAA says people with severe disabilities

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Speaker 1: I don't think so.

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Speaker 2: In January fourteenth, so that was a week before I

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Speaker 1: Into the FAA's program. You ever flown a plane? Thank

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Speaker 4: So you weren't a military pilot or a commercial airline pilot.

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Speaker 4: Have you ever worked as an air traffic controller? No, Senator,

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 5: The American people when they think about aviation safety, when

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Speaker 5: And with all respect, mister Washington, it gives no comfort

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Speaker 6: The lack of staff he is directly attributable to the

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Speaker 7: We are looking for the best and brightest to join

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Speaker 1: He's the bird controller fifteen years said, well, I'm just

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Speaker 10: And the main thing you need to know is Micah Berry.

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Speaker 10: Don't give a damn what you think. He always have

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Speaker 1: all live next door to each other, they all go

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Speaker 1: to church with each other. They're all buddies. So they

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Speaker 1: give the contract to their buddy. Their buddy kicks some

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Speaker 1: of the money back. Their buddy helps, their buddy chairs

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Speaker 1: the campaign of the mayor or county commissioner, who's going

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Speaker 1: to keep this thing going, and then get They do

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Speaker 1: the same thing at the county. They do the same

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Speaker 1: thing at Houston Community College. They do the same thing

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Speaker 1: at HISD. And this is why all of those systems

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Speaker 1: are broken. This is why all of those systems are broken.

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Speaker 1: They're double dipping, triple dipping. They got multiple jobs, multiple kickbacks,

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Speaker 1: contractors or you know, they're they're having they're they're making

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Speaker 1: a love offering for this or that. They get all

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Speaker 1: their family members placed in government offices, campaign offices, you

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Speaker 1: name it. It's it's disgusting. It's why nothing works. It's

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Speaker 1: absolutely horrific, and it's happening to day in and day out.

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Speaker 1: It's the biggest racket you can imagine. And that's why

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Speaker 1: the taxes keep going up, and up and up waynel

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Speaker 1: Chafino has been on this Harris County Toll Road Authority

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Speaker 1: just kicking off billions of dollars over the years, billions,

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Speaker 1: and the County Commission just sucking it all up, all

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Speaker 1: their little projects. If you were to actually run the

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Speaker 1: numbers and look at because some of them will use

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Speaker 1: their maiden name, or they'll use a married name that

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Speaker 1: they don't want you to see that they have the

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Speaker 1: same name as another elected official. You pick some of

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Speaker 1: the people who are the most egregious criminal characters in

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Speaker 1: government in this region, and you start looking. It's good

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Speaker 1: to have a private investigator on the payroll. Paul Baker

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Speaker 1: does all this for me. You start looking because it's

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Speaker 1: very easy to see who relatives are, how many brothers

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Speaker 1: and sisters and sons and daughters, and that the people

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Speaker 1: they're married to, how many of them get hired by

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Speaker 1: government offices, and how many of them get hired by

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Speaker 1: engineering firms, architectural firms, contracting firms. It's so egregious it'll

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Speaker 1: make you vomit. You cannot believe this is actually happening,

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Speaker 1: but it is. Does anybody think it's odd that Sylvester

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Speaker 1: Turner goes from being mayor of City Houston for eight years,

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Speaker 1: absolute salute, criminal administration, His chief of staffs in prison

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Speaker 1: till till the end of August. I think for taking bribes.

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Speaker 1: You have the director of marketing for the Housing department

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Speaker 1: in prison right now for taking kickbacks. Now you've got

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Speaker 1: the city water department manager who was handing out contracts

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Speaker 1: and getting kickbacks, her assistant taking a plea today for

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Speaker 1: the same thing. You know, how many of these people

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Speaker 1: have all been indicted and sent to prison or indicted

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Speaker 1: and took deals. How many million dollars they've made? And

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Speaker 1: that's just the few that are prosecuted. And then Sylvester

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Speaker 1: Turner goes to serve in Sheila Jackson Lee's congressional scene.

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Speaker 1: What are the chances such a thing would happen? I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's just amazing, isn't it? Just absolutely amazing? This would

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Speaker 1: keep happening? Wow, Well, we got a big show for

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