1 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 1: It's that time time time time lucking load. So Michael 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 1: darry Show is on the air. 3 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 2: Rise Loo, get into Mic. We gotta feed a bed. 4 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:25,600 Speaker 1: I don't plan to shave. 5 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 2: And it's you think, but I just gotta see. I'm done, 6 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:31,640 Speaker 2: all right? 7 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 3: Will you come? 8 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 2: Mix's beating? Ready done, that's true. It's neither drink or 9 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:45,840 Speaker 2: drug and stool. I'm just done. All right. 10 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:50,519 Speaker 4: You've got an awful illegal alien who's about to be 11 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 4: punted to Uganda, and the liberals are signing a petition. 12 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 3: Oh no, not the partition, President Trump, what will you 13 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 3: do here? Here's the petition. I like to think of 14 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 3: how proud they were when they YEA, yeah, I'll sign it. 15 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 3: I like to imagine them out in front of the 16 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 3: Whole Foods, out in front of the what's the most 17 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 3: liberal location you can think of? Ramon, There they are, Yes, 18 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 3: I'll sign it. 19 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: Oh, who am I kidding? They generate all of this themselves. 20 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: He's probably signed by a bunch of illegal aliens. They 21 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 1: probably just signed it by a bunch of illegal aliens. Well, 22 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 1: at the current pace, this is going to be the 23 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 1: most active political season in a Republican primary that we've 24 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: seen in a very long time. Let me try to 25 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: give some structure to this. But this is this is 26 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: an ongoing deal, and it will only get more and 27 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: more busy as the days go by. So you've got 28 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: John Cornyan running for reelection to the US Senate, and 29 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: I'll break these races down in a minute. But you've 30 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: got John Cornyn running for re election to the Senate. 31 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: And you've got the Attorney General Ken Paxton having announced 32 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: his challenge to John Cornyn. Paxton leaving the Attorney General's 33 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: office freeze up the attorney general race. But going back 34 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:46,639 Speaker 1: to the Senate race, you've got Cornyn, who's down over 35 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:51,639 Speaker 1: twenty percentage points in the polls to Paxton. Well, now 36 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:59,079 Speaker 1: you enter the conversation Wesley Hunt, and it looks increasingly 37 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 1: like Wesley Hunt is in that race. I think if 38 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: Wesley Hunt is in that race, john Cornyn gets out. 39 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:09,679 Speaker 1: But I'm not certain of that. John Cornyn does not 40 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: want to leave. That is certain. John Cornyn is going 41 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 1: to lose to Ken Paxton, that is certain. Does Wesley 42 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:22,079 Speaker 1: Hunt give up his safe congressional seat to run for 43 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: the Senate. Obviously, there are only one hundred Senators as 44 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: opposed to four hundred and thirty five congressman. It's a 45 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 1: six year term rather than a two year term, and 46 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: you are immediately influential just by sheer virtue of the 47 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: power of the Senate, Whereas as a congressman, you know, 48 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: he's only been there a few years. You've got to 49 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 1: be there a long time before you have any real influence. 50 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: So I can see where that's tasty. I can also 51 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: imagine the risk if you lose. If Wesley Hunt ran 52 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: and lost, I feel certain President Trump would put him 53 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: in in his administration. I think a lot of folks 54 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: when they get to Congress, and I'm not saying that 55 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: this is what Wesley has done, but I think a 56 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: lot of folks when they get to Congress, they realize 57 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 1: being a congressman, there's no glamour. What the hell? 58 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 3: What was that? 59 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 1: And what happened? How does that happen? Though? Oh, pot 60 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,720 Speaker 1: was hot? Okay, all right? So I thought maybe you 61 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: were trying to silence me on Wesley Hunt. I thought 62 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 1: maybe that was a conspiracy. So you got so if 63 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: Wesley Hunt runs for the US and then you got 64 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 1: his seat, that pops open. That has not happened yet, 65 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: and it's not certain that that will happen, but I 66 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:45,799 Speaker 1: think there is. I think there's at least a fifty 67 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: to fifty chance that it does. Now you step down 68 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: to Ken Paxton's seat for Attorney General, You've got Joan Huffman, 69 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 1: a state senator who's running. She's represented by Alan Blakemore. 70 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: He's evil, he's the worst, he's absolutely horrible. Everything that 71 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:08,720 Speaker 1: is wrong with state government is Alan Blaymore. You've got 72 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: May's Middleton, who's also a state senator. He's represented by 73 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,719 Speaker 1: Jordan Berry, who I really don't I don't know much about. 74 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,719 Speaker 1: Middleton's got a lot of money from this area. John 75 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: Huffman also from this area. Two state senators from this area. 76 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: So you've got you know, you're always going to be 77 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: stronger in the district you represent. Then you've got Middleton 78 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 1: in his district, so you've got you've got the greater 79 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: Houston area being split to some extent. Then you've got 80 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: Chip Roy, who is now in the race, who is 81 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: a congressman from the outside the Austin area. And then 82 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:57,720 Speaker 1: you've got Aaron Wrights, who worked for Paxton and now 83 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 1: in the Trump administration. My understanding is well, Paxton was 84 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: expected to endorse rights and apparently got talked out of it, 85 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:18,040 Speaker 1: and that that's going to be And I don't know 86 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: that endorsements matter as much as people think they do, 87 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: but early on, insiders pay a lot of attention to them, 88 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: and that can often affect other insiders. I think at 89 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: the end of the day, the people vote on who 90 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: they're going to vote for and other than the Trump endorsement, 91 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: and even the Trump endorsement in certain places has not 92 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 1: been enough to move the needle. So you've got two 93 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: state Senators Hufman and Middleton. Aaron Wrights, who's never well. 94 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: He has run for office and lost, but he has 95 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:53,039 Speaker 1: not held office, but is expected to have the Trump 96 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 1: support that has not happened yet. And Ship Roy, who 97 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: has ted Cruz's support and is represented Axiom, who is 98 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: Cruise's political consulting firm. Chip Roy has offended the Magabase 99 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: by calling them maga effers. He has pissed off President 100 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: Trump on more than one occasion, and he has pissed 101 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 1: off I think the Magabase and a lot of the base. 102 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 1: Just as Trump was leaving office, chip Roy was one 103 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: of the ones calling for his head. And I think 104 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 1: a lot of people will not forget that that being said, 105 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 1: he's a pretty astute politician and I think he has 106 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: a higher state wide profile than any of the other three, 107 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: so should be very interesting to watch there. Agricultural Commissioner 108 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: Sid Miller running for reelection, Nate Sheets running against him, 109 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 1: Land commissioner. The only candidate I know of now is 110 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: Don Buckingham, who is there. She's ambitious, she'd like to 111 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: hold another seat, but I think that I think that 112 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: for now her play is to stay put where she is. Usually, 113 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:08,559 Speaker 1: when there's a reshuffling like this, candidate or officeholder, really 114 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: ambitious people will make a jump at a time like this, 115 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: and she strikes me as one of those people who's 116 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: trying to kind of bumble her way to the top 117 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 1: the way Greg Abbott did. And so this reshuffling may 118 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 1: mean that she runs for something else more racist to discuss, 119 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 1: you will sleep like each other Michael Barry Superior. They 120 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:40,439 Speaker 1: used this song in the America's Team documentary that Netflix 121 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 1: aired has begun airing. I've never been a Cowboys fan. 122 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:48,079 Speaker 1: I love Wade Phillips and so I rooted for the 123 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: Cowboys when he was there, and I always had this 124 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 1: immense respect for Tom Landry as a man and as 125 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: a coach, and my family, my mother especially was the 126 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: biggest Cowboys fan. I mean she was scream and holler, 127 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 1: which was unlike her, well, it was not like her 128 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 1: over sporting events. Anyway, when the when the Cowboys were playing, 129 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 1: I remember when the catch was made Dwight Clark. It 130 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:22,200 Speaker 1: was twenty seven to twenty one. It was a championship game, 131 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 1: and I think he was eighty one, and We're all 132 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: sitting around and I cheer, I jump up and cheer. 133 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 1: I mean, what a little turd, because my whole family's 134 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 1: just devastated, and I'm whoo. I loved Joe Montana, but 135 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 1: I rooted against the Cowboys every week, openly, loudly, obnoxiously 136 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: rooted against the Cowboys. And when he makes the catch 137 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 1: and you realize he's made the catch, he's inbounds, Everson 138 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: Walls just kind of, you know, his shoulders, he hangs 139 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: his head and he kind of went Really was nothing 140 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:02,959 Speaker 1: he could do. There was nothing he could do on 141 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 1: that catch. Anyway. I was never a Cowboys fan, but 142 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm fascinated by the story. And they tell 143 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 1: the story very well, and I think they actually do 144 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: a pretty good job, the Jimmy Johnson Jerry Jones saga 145 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: and how that thing has played out over thirty years. 146 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson's Golden Triangle boy. So I've always rooted for him, 147 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: and I was happy for him when the Cowboys won, 148 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 1: because he's a golden Triangle boy, and I mean, you 149 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: just it's the most valuable sports franchise, and on and 150 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 1: on and on. They do a pretty darn good job 151 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: with the with the documentary. All right, so back to it. 152 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: We've got a number of seats that are open. The 153 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:54,680 Speaker 1: Comptroller's seat is open. Christi Krattick, who I would say 154 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: is one of those folks who's you know, she's Tom 155 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 1: Krattick's daughter. He was the Speaker of the House, and oddly, 156 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 1: when when he was no longer the speaker, he stayed 157 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 1: on as a state rep. And he has stayed on 158 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: all these years, which is odd. That doesn't usually kind of, 159 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:19,959 Speaker 1: you know, pick up your ball and go home. But 160 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 1: he has hung around and has been a big, a 161 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 1: big guiding force in his daughter's career. And she is 162 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 1: very ambitious, as is Don Buckingham. Kelly Hancock is running 163 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: in that race. Christycratick was on the Railroad Commission. I'm 164 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: not sure if she still is. She may still be 165 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:45,319 Speaker 1: on the Railroad Commission. And then you have Don Don Huffines, 166 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:49,320 Speaker 1: who unfortunately is represented by Blakemore. But Huffins is going 167 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 1: to put whatever amount of money he needs to put 168 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:56,599 Speaker 1: in that race to win, and he looks to have 169 00:11:56,760 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: the early advantage he's got. He's bucking up most of 170 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: the big endorsements anyway, and the kind of money he's 171 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 1: going to put into that, neither of the other two 172 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: is going to be able to raise, even Christycratick, who's 173 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: a pretty proficient fun raiser, if I recall correctly. While 174 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: I was talking about the race, I did not see it, 175 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:29,679 Speaker 1: but Ken Paxton's endorsement of Aaron Wright's came down. It 176 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 1: was embargoed until eight, which I always think is so stupid. 177 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 1: They say Paxton endorsement of rights in bargoed till eight. Yeah, 178 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 1: because at eight o'clock when it hits on Fox News, 179 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 1: it's going to be such a jaw dropper. Hey, honey, 180 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 1: hold on, don't go to work yet. The big endorsement 181 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 1: just dropped. I got an email from a lady over 182 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:00,679 Speaker 1: the weekend and she said, hey, here's this song, and 183 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 1: it's a song by an artist I didn't know. It's 184 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: a song I never heard, and I really appreciate you 185 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:15,440 Speaker 1: playing it, but don't don't post it anywhere. Don't uh. 186 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: And I'm worried if people download it off your show, 187 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: they won't buy it anywhere. And I said, you know, 188 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:24,839 Speaker 1: if I were to tell you, how many times in 189 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: twenty years of doing this somebody has said, don't promote 190 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:35,679 Speaker 1: this too much, too much? Because I want to. I'm 191 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 1: going to do the big reveal, do the big reveal 192 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 1: next Thursday when three of my friends are coming over. 193 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:48,560 Speaker 1: You're most things die, not because they're too broadly known, 194 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 1: but because they're not known at all. And this idea 195 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:56,920 Speaker 1: that because it's really important to you, it is so 196 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:01,959 Speaker 1: hard to get people's attention about whatever your thing is 197 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 1: you're doing, it is so hard to get people to 198 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:11,079 Speaker 1: pay attention to that. It's almost impossible, almost impossible. And 199 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 1: for you to add, for you to add anything related 200 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 1: to that to in any way restrict that is surprising. 201 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: Ramon asked me if that was an endorsement of Hulfiin's No. 202 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 1: I like to know who the candidates are going to 203 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 1: be first but I think he wins that race. I do. 204 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: I think it'll be a good race. He's a former 205 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: state senator, He's he ran for governor. He actually he 206 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: actually ran a decent campaign for governor. It's hard to 207 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: run against a sitting governor. Uh, there's a fellow who's 208 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: running for governor now against Abbott. We'll get into that. 209 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: So let's go through our current office holders. The Attorney General, 210 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: Ken Paxton is running US Senate. The Comptroller Glenn hagar 211 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 1: has has gone to be president at Texas A and 212 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 1: M Robert Nichols Senate District three is not running for reelection. 213 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 1: Kelly Hancock Senate District nine is running for comptroller against 214 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 1: Hoff Fines. Senate District eleven. May's Middleton is running for 215 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: attorney general. Senate District seventeen. Joan Huffman running for Attorney General. Now, 216 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 1: each one of these office holders that's running for another office, 217 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 1: that means their seats are going to come up. So 218 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: you're going to have a lot of turnover. Senate District 219 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: twenty two, Brian Birdwell is not running for reelection. Good 220 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 1: House District nine. Trent Ashby is running for Senate District three, 221 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: which is Robert Nichols seat, which means that Trent Ashby's 222 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 1: seat will and so it goes on and on. Live 223 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: life doing it is big Michael Berry Show. All right, 224 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 1: So Senator Joan Huffman does not have to give up 225 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: he seed. Remember state senators, like US senators, serve six 226 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 1: year terms. Is that right. Somebody told me it was 227 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 1: four year terms. We thought it was six year terms. 228 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: I got to check that again. But this is not 229 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 1: on her re election cycle, so she gets a free 230 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: shot at this. That's one of the things about being 231 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 1: it's about holding an office with a multi year term, 232 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 1: is in the midterm of that you can run for 233 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 1: another office. So you've got of the state senators, You've 234 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 1: got two that we know of already that are not 235 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 1: running for reelection, Robert Nichols. All of these are the Republicans. 236 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 1: I'm just giving you the Republican side, Kelly Hancock, who 237 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: is unning for comptroller. Then you've got Middleton and Huffman 238 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 1: both running for attorney general. Huffman doesn't have to give 239 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:09,119 Speaker 1: up her Senate seat because she can even if she 240 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 1: lost the Senate primary, sorry, the attorney general primary, She's 241 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:17,399 Speaker 1: still a state senator and would still go back. Then 242 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 1: you've got Brian Birdwell, who's not running for reelection. Then 243 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 1: your state reps. You've got a lot of movement there 244 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 1: because every state senator wants to be statewide. Every state 245 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: rep wants to be a state senator. So now you've 246 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 1: got a District nine, Trent Ashby, who's running for Robert 247 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: Nichols seat. Nichols is not running for reelection. You've got 248 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 1: Steve Toath, as you heard announced on our show, running 249 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:45,200 Speaker 1: for Congressional District two. We have another candidate announcing their 250 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:51,480 Speaker 1: candidacy for a newly created congressional district, and that will 251 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 1: happen at nine o'clock. That's in bargo Ramon. It's embargoed. 252 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 1: You're not allowed to know till nine. It's either no, 253 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 1: just this embargoed. I decided to embargo it myself, just 254 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 1: to impose the embargo, just to be goofy. So you 255 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: got Tooth running against Dan Crenshaw. Now, an interesting thing happened. 256 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: Part of the redistrict that just passed the Senate last 257 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:18,399 Speaker 1: night had already passed the House. Of course, the governor's 258 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 1: going to sign it. This is this is the expected 259 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: five seat pickup. But let me be very clear. If 260 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:29,120 Speaker 1: Republicans have the opportunity, they will squander at least one 261 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: of those congressional districts. They will, I'm telling you they will. 262 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:35,760 Speaker 1: The Democrats won't. Democrats will pick one of those up. 263 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 1: But if the Republicans have an opportunity, they will squander it. 264 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: And the way they'll squander it is Karl Rove will 265 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 1: come in and he will oppose the candidate who's going 266 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 1: to win. This happened. This happened in the Senate race 267 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: in Missourian in twenty ten. Todd Aikin was going to win, 268 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 1: and Karl Rove came in there and put all the 269 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 1: money they could into defeating a who was a Tea 270 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 1: Party guy. So the Tea Party candidates are going to 271 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 1: catch hell from the Carl rod folks and the same 272 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:12,960 Speaker 1: people who brought you the Nicki Haley for President twenty 273 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 1: twenty four. They thought we'd forgotten in that primary. Those 274 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:23,159 Speaker 1: people will attack your your maga Republican congressional candidates who 275 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 1: wouldn't otherwise win, all right, so of your state reps. 276 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 1: So in the Crenshaw race, the creation of the five 277 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:38,879 Speaker 1: new congressional seats meant that some districts got carved up. 278 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 1: They're not five new Congression seats. They're redistricting. We don't 279 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:46,200 Speaker 1: actually add any net seats. We should, but we haven't yet. 280 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:50,200 Speaker 1: But what it does do is it carves those districts 281 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:54,159 Speaker 1: up differently. Well, DC did everything they could to protect 282 00:19:54,240 --> 00:20:01,439 Speaker 1: Dan Crenshaw. How his district was forty percent Harris County, 283 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:06,399 Speaker 1: sixty percent Montgomery County. They flipped that it's now sixty 284 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:11,119 Speaker 1: percent Harris County, forty percent Montgomery County. The reason that 285 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:16,120 Speaker 1: matters is the area that he picked up is very squish. 286 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:20,359 Speaker 1: Republicans in the area he gave up are hardcore Republicans. 287 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 1: A Montgomery County Republican is very different than a Harris 288 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 1: County Republican. Think Donald Trump versus Nicky Haley. And particularly 289 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:36,480 Speaker 1: because that district carves through the heights, you're getting folks 290 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: that could just disse easily vote Democrat. You're getting folks 291 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 1: who voted for Obama two times they call themselves Republicans. 292 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,360 Speaker 1: Those folks are far more likely to vote for Crenshaw 293 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 1: and far less likely to be bothered by a lot 294 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 1: of the stuff he's done. So you've got toath running there. 295 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 1: I still think Tooth can win that race. And there 296 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:58,360 Speaker 1: is another well funded candidate in that race, which we'll 297 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 1: get to. Dade Feeland State Rep. Not running for reelection, 298 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:05,400 Speaker 1: Drunk Daye Stan Lambert not running for reelection. Tony Tenderholt 299 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 1: unfortunately because he's one of the good guys not running 300 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:12,119 Speaker 1: for reelection. David Cook, State Rep. Running for Senate District 301 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 1: twenty two, which is Brian Birdwell. Remember Birdwell's not running 302 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:22,080 Speaker 1: for reelection. Giovanni cappri Capprilione not running for reelection. You 303 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 1: probably know that story. I'll tell it later if you haven't. 304 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:30,120 Speaker 1: Risk Ocaine running for Congressional District nine. He's a state Rep. 305 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 1: Running for Congressional District nine. That is one of the 306 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: districts that has been redistricted. It's currently Al Green. If 307 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,880 Speaker 1: we don't mess this up, a Republican the way it's 308 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,920 Speaker 1: now reconfigured with this new map that'll be coming out, 309 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,280 Speaker 1: a Republican should take that seat, and al Green will 310 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 1: have to I'll Al Green will have to do whatever 311 00:21:55,240 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: it is he does when he's not in Congress. Denis Rep. 312 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 1: Who I believe ran for the state Senate before. I 313 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: recall that many years ago. But I'm not pause on that. 314 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 1: He will be running in Senate District eleven, which was 315 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: held by Mays Middleton, who is who has to give 316 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:19,360 Speaker 1: that seat up because it runs concurrent with the attorney 317 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:23,639 Speaker 1: General's race. So that's just a few of the races. 318 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: There is also some drama related to political consultants that 319 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 1: is playing out, and that is Axiom, who is Ted 320 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: Cruz's political consultant who ran the DeSantis campaign but then 321 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:44,920 Speaker 1: DeSantis ended up hating them. That is Jeff row and 322 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:53,680 Speaker 1: his crew. Axiom is running Ken Paxton's race, and that 323 00:22:53,960 --> 00:23:00,639 Speaker 1: is because Chris ls Sevida is running Cornyn's race. Lavida 324 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: is one of Trump's people. He's not his only person, 325 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,640 Speaker 1: but he is perceived in Texas as being the Trump guy. 326 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,440 Speaker 1: He's not the only Trump guy, but that's kind of 327 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 1: his credentials. So you've got a Trump guy running Cornon's race, 328 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,400 Speaker 1: a Cruise guy running Paxton's race, and then you've got 329 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 1: Wesley Hunt in the offing. I think if Hunt gets in, 330 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,720 Speaker 1: Trump puts las Avida on Hunt, which would mean he 331 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,480 Speaker 1: wasn't supporting Paxton. That's a step yet, but I think 332 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 1: there's a chance that will does. So this is the 333 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: Michael Barry show the rational District nine currently held by 334 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: al Green. The redistricting maps that passed the Senate overnight 335 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 1: had already passed the House. They are going into effect. 336 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 1: The governor, we'll sign that. Yes, Democrats will file a lawsuit. 337 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 1: You've got to calm down when you hear that Democrats 338 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 1: have filed a lawsuit. You file a lawsuit on everything. 339 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,680 Speaker 1: It's what you do. It's a hell, Mary, but it's 340 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:21,880 Speaker 1: what you do. So just assume every time you win anything, 341 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:26,000 Speaker 1: Democrats have filed a lawsuit. I get breathless email from 342 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,920 Speaker 1: people panicking, what can we do to do away with 343 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 1: the court system. That's what the court system is for. 344 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 1: It's an appeal. It's like being mad that Karl Malone 345 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:38,680 Speaker 1: would turn and look at the refs. He flops, He 346 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 1: looks at the refs. Magic Johnson did it, Lebron does it. 347 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 1: There's nothing you can do about it. It's what it is. 348 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,920 Speaker 1: I don't think they'll win that. I think redistricting will 349 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 1: go into effect. And that's just that. And when it does, 350 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:57,919 Speaker 1: al Green cannot win that seat. The Democrats have already 351 00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: looked at the seat. They've already looked at the district 352 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 1: you look at the numbers, they know they can't win. 353 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 1: So al Green is looking at moving into running in 354 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:16,119 Speaker 1: the Congressional District eighteen Democrat primary. And you remember who 355 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:24,440 Speaker 1: the congress what was Congressional District eighteen. That race had 356 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 1: been wired for Christian menefeea win. He's the county attorney 357 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 1: who is supposed to step down from his job where 358 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,680 Speaker 1: he is now. Once he announced that he was running 359 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:38,200 Speaker 1: for office. He didn't. They're not doing anything about it. 360 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 1: The county. Rodney runs the county, not Lena, and Rodney 361 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,560 Speaker 1: is keeping him right there. So he's got a paycheck 362 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 1: and he can do Rodney's bidding as the county attorney. 363 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:53,680 Speaker 1: But the race has been wired for Menefee to win. Now, 364 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:59,119 Speaker 1: Joelonda Jones, who's currently a state rep and was on 365 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 1: city council before that, is running in that race. And 366 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: I think that she is I don't know that she wins, 367 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:10,399 Speaker 1: but I think she's got probably better name I d 368 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 1: than Christian Menefie does. She's an activist, she has Sheila 369 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 1: Jackson Lee's willingness to get behind the camera. She succeeded 370 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,920 Speaker 1: me on city council. I will tell you that in 371 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 1: that congressional district. She has a lot of the tools 372 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 1: of politicians you would see in the out of the 373 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: seventies and eighties, more of the Mickey Leland type campaigning, 374 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:38,639 Speaker 1: in the Mickey Leland type activism, and she may have 375 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,119 Speaker 1: enough to get over the finish line there. I don't know. 376 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 1: I'm just saying I wouldn't. I would not sell her 377 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: short Menafie is not a particularly charismatic candidate, but he 378 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 1: is Rodney's boy and that was that was set up 379 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,360 Speaker 1: for him to win. The problem is sometimes people don't 380 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 1: let Rodney have his way on these seats. They also 381 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 1: want to see it, and he didn't have me where 382 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:06,200 Speaker 1: to put him. Right now, al Green is not going 383 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 1: to win Congressional District nine. And this is al Green's paycheck. 384 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 1: He was a JP for many years, that's what he 385 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,920 Speaker 1: did before. And al Green is not going to stay 386 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,880 Speaker 1: in that race till next November and take the fall 387 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: because that district will have been redistricted. From what I've heard, 388 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,119 Speaker 1: I've not seen the final map. The final map is 389 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 1: out there, I just haven't personally looked at it. But 390 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,880 Speaker 1: from people I've talked to that they've seen it. Al 391 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 1: Green doesn't have a chance, and he's not going to 392 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: stay there and lose. He has the name ide to 393 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:42,680 Speaker 1: move into eighteen and win. If al Green moves into eighteen, 394 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,359 Speaker 1: remember you don't have to live in a congressional district 395 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 1: to run there. If al Green moves into district, into 396 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:54,639 Speaker 1: Congressional District eighteen's Democrat primary, Rodney will put Christian Menifee somewhere. 397 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,719 Speaker 1: He'll keep him as county attorney. Remember how they did 398 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:05,119 Speaker 1: Amanda Edwards. Amanda Edwards was going to run for mayor 399 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,719 Speaker 1: the race that whitmire Sheila Jackson Lee, and then Amanda 400 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,439 Speaker 1: Edwards was in. Amanda Edwards was peeling off some Black support, 401 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 1: and she was peeling off some money, and she was 402 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 1: a city councilman, and she was a much better looking 403 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:24,800 Speaker 1: candidate than Sheila Jacksonlee. She's an attractive woman. She's young, youngish, 404 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 1: I think she's probably early thirties. She's got a lot 405 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: of energy. And there will always be in predominantly black 406 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 1: districts an idealistic young black electorate. They may not be 407 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 1: enough to win the election, but there will always be 408 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: an idealistic young Black electorate, some of whom, some of 409 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 1: whom came here to go to school, some of whom 410 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 1: are from here and went to Howard and came home, 411 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 1: and they're tired of Sheila Jackson Lee. They're tired of 412 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 1: Rodney Ellis, and they want somebody that they think is 413 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 1: more like them, more of their sorrow sister or more 414 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 1: of their frat brother, more a young, young, energetic, hardworking, 415 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 1: respectable person who can conjugate their b verbs. And so 416 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 1: Amanda Edwards had a coalition and she was making a 417 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 1: decent run. She wasn't going to win, but she was 418 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,120 Speaker 1: going to keep Sheila from winning. So a deal was cut, 419 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:25,040 Speaker 1: and this is what happens in black races and in 420 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 1: the Black community. A deal was cut with her that 421 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 1: Sheila that she would pull out and Sheila would That way, 422 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 1: Sheila would have a good, clean path to being mayor 423 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 1: and Amanda Edwards would have that congressional seat, she'd have 424 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: Sila's endorsement. Well, as you know, Sheila doesn't win the 425 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 1: December runoff with John Whitmer in early December, and then 426 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,960 Speaker 1: that's on Saturday. She has until Monday at five pm 427 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: to file in the primary, the Democrat primary for Congress, 428 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 1: and of course she does. So she went back on 429 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: her deal with Amanda Edwards. I think if al Green 430 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 1: gets into Congressional District eighteen's Democrat primary, Mimfy can't beat him, 431 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 1: and Rodney has to potentially fracture his coalition. And Rodney's 432 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,320 Speaker 1: got a good business enterprise going right now. He's got 433 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 1: everybody placed. Remember he had his chief of staff as 434 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:39,120 Speaker 1: HISD board chairman. Of course, she got indicted and convicted 435 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 1: for that, and then but before she got indicted, he 436 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: put her at Houston Community College because that's another big 437 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,120 Speaker 1: pot of money, and she had the day job with 438 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:52,280 Speaker 1: him running his operation. But he's got all his people 439 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:57,120 Speaker 1: in all the right places, except he lost the mayor's race. 440 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,640 Speaker 1: He needed Sheila in the mayor's race to continue because 441 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:02,080 Speaker 1: there's a lot of money at the City of Houston 442 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 1: going around. And he and Whitmyer are mortal enemies. I 443 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 1: mean they hate each other. There aren't two Republicans who 444 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:16,120 Speaker 1: hate each other as much as those two hate each other. 445 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:22,320 Speaker 1: All right, we have a Congressional District nine, which was 446 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:26,680 Speaker 1: our Green seat, redistricted to make it a Republican seat. 447 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 1: Risco Caine is running there and our first candidate interview 448 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,280 Speaker 1: or the season or a candidate who will announce right here, 449 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,240 Speaker 1: right now, their candidacy coming up