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Welcome to the State of Freedom, everyone.
Happy, happy Tuesday.
We are, just as a reminder, grounded in faith, committed to the core principles of givingvoice to truth and living with courage and taking action.
It's Tuesday, September 30th.
It's 10 a.m.
I'm Danielle Walker and I'm joined by my friend and co-host, Chris Alexander.
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We are coming to you live on Voice of the People.
USA TV and radio network on rumble YouTube and Facebook if you're catching us later Youcan do that on any of those channels.
You can also listen to us on our Podcast platforms where we're audio only like Spotify andApple podcast Well joining us today are two great Louisiana Patriots and friends of the
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show who you've seen here before Christy hike is the president of the Louisiana RepublicanAssembly
you
Thank you both for joining us today.
Absolutely.
having us.
Thanks.
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Yeah, it's our pleasure.
Well, let me read the scripture of the day before we get into the conversation.
But you know, we fully expect y'all to spill the tea for us here in a little bit about thedysfunction, oh the dysfunctional state of the Republican State Central Committee.
So let me just read this.
Today's scripture is Psalm chapter 86 verses one through four.
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And it says, bend down to hear my prayer.
I'm in deep trouble.
I'm broken and humbled and I desperately need your help.
Guard my life from your faithful friend, your loyal servant for life.
I turn to you in faith, my God, my hero, come and rescue me.
Lord God hear my constant cry for help.
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Show me your favor and bring me to your fountain of grace.
Restore joy to your loving servant once again.
Okay.
and it just struck me that we all have times when trouble seems to overwhelm us and wefeel completely lost and alone in it, engulfed by it.
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And if you're there now, let me just encourage you to call out to the Lord for a liferaft.
He's our creator, the one who loves us more than anyone else and he's our lifesaver andour rescue.
you
comes from and He'll give us what He needs, what we need, and He'll be what we need to getto the other side of these circumstances.
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The danger is when we allow ourselves to become so isolated and so overwhelmed that wefeel like we're drowning in the trouble or the sorrow or the pain.
But we need to call out to Him like David did.
uh In Psalm 91 verse 15, it says, the Lord promises this.
He says, I will answer your cry for help every time you pray.
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and you will find and feel my presence in your time of pressure and trouble.
I will be your glorious hero and give you a feast.
You will be satisfied with a full life and with all that I do for you, for you will enjoythe fullness of my salvation." So he won't just bring us out of it.
He will completely restore our joy in our lives again.
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And all we have to do is pray and rely on him and trust him to help us through the storm.
And you know what, Danielle, that is so extraordinarily beautiful.
And as you were praying the Psalm, I was thinking that not only God's redemptive powerapplies not only to individuals, it applies to institutions as well.
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It applies to our party, which that could be the rallying cry of the Republican Partyright now.
Lord, help us.
We are in deep trouble because we are in deep trouble.
And to people who are
perhaps more aware of the sort of trouble that we are in, our two guests today, thatyou've already introduced two great, great patriots.
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And I want to thank you both for joining the State of Freedom today.
Thank you.
Thank you so much, Christopher, Danielle Let me give you a little context.
I've got another Bible verse for you.
If you remember in Ecclesiastes, Solomon said, there's nothing new under the sun.
Everything that's happened has happened before and everything that's happening today willhappen again.
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During the American Revolution, only about 10 % of the people supported the revolution.
About 10 % supported the monarchy.
80 % stood on the sidelines and said, don't, don't, don't involve me.
I don't want to get in.
You know, something bad might happen.
That's, that's about where we are today.
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And the people that supported the monarchy, some of them did because they thought theyliked the people in power.
Some of them did because they were afraid of change and they thought that status quo wasbetter than, than the possibility of what might happen bad if they tried and failed.
And that's pretty much where we are with the party.
We've got a lot of good people.
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We've got a group that's status quo.
And some of them because they support the folks in power.
Some of them because they just don't have the vision for anything any different and thinkthat it's going to be worse if we try to change things.
And then we've got a big group of people that are there for whatever reason, becausesomebody asked them to run.
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uh They like the social aspect.
Nobody else ran in their district.
And then you got us and part of our little group formed a caucus last year, year beforelast.
We call ourselves the deplorable Neanderthal caucus.
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And why do we do that?
Because Hillary Clinton said that we were deplorables and Joe Biden said we engaged inNeanderthal thinking and rather than argue, we decided we would simply embrace that.
Yeah.
That's where we are.
And yes.
most of our listeners probably know what the RSCC is, the Republican State CentralCommittee, which you and Christy are both members of, which is supposed to be the policy
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making arm to make formal policy recommendations for the Republican Party.
What you've just described is the factionalization of the policy making arm of the stateRepublican Party.
Why is that the case?
Why is it that
there are, seem to be, as you described, three different factions.
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One faction of apathy, one faction that seems actively uh supportive of things that areoccurring that we don't like, and then one faction of true patriots that are opposing it
and trying to change it.
Why is that the case?
Well, Chris, you know, there's an old saying that reasonable people can disagree.
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And it's certainly true that different people have different points of view and theirpoint of view is shaped by their personal circumstances and the people around them.
And so, you know, I choose not to be a bomb thrower, but I'd like to be an educator andI'd like to try to bring people along with us on this journey.
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I have spent my entire career, well, most of my career, I did run for elective office andlo and behold, unfortunately, I got elected.
And so I served in elective office for eight years and then served in appointive office ona commission and wound up being chairman of that commission.
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you know, I've always been a problem solver.
I believe that when you have a problem, it's kind of like
go into the ER and you have to do triage.
And if somebody's bleeding, you need to stop the bleeding, but then you need to fix theproblem so they can be healthy and go back to living their life.
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if we believe there's a problem, I don't like to see status quo and the problem continuebecause I like to fix problems and have people go back to living their life.
Yeah, I've seen you and Barry, I've seen you and Christy at the RSCC uh meetings.
I've seen a couple, I've been to a couple of them and neither one of you could be honestlydescribed as flamethrowers.
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You're both very reasonable.
You're both very articulate and you're simply trying to persuade people of the error oftheir ways and the rightness of your position.
But it seems as though
Some of these RSCC members and again, know, uh Republican operatives on a broader levelseem just intractably opposed to what the overwhelming majority of Louisiana citizens and
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specifically Louisiana Republicans want and are brimming with frustration about.
This divide between the establishment Republican Party in our state, even within the RSCC,and what 65 or 70 percent of Louisiana
citizens want.
Why is that the case?
I mean, I'm just trying to figure this out.
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Well, most of the people who ran and got elected have been blessed with some level ofaffluence because they have to be able to have enough time to do the job.
If they do the job, unfortunately, we've got we've got 225 people.
We struggle to get 125 to show up for a meeting.
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So we have a quorum.
That's that's another aside.
But you know, Chris, there's an old saying that that change happens when the pain ofstatus quo exceeds the pain of change, because change is always painful.
And obviously, ah
We have a great number of people that that pain level of status quo hasn't reached thepoint where they're ready to do something different.
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That's a great point.
it is.
you know, despite the factionalism that you outlined, um Christy, you were able to getyour resolution passed earlier this year.
I mean, it was a it was a razor thin majority, I believe.
um But this was your paper ballot, um your paper ballot resolution.
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Would you talk to us a little bit about the resolution itself and then some of the ironythat surrounded the vote?
Absolutely, Danielle.
The paper ballot resolution was in, it just comported with Trump's executive order, umwhich every resolution that I've brought has.
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Trump has been issuing, as you guys well know, these executive orders to clean up ourelection system across the United States.
And the federal laws need to be changed.
We all know that.
We need to
Those of us who have been working on this issue for the last five years since the 2020selection understand too well that we have uh fraud on every level and it's not just the
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voting machines.
It's mail-in ballots.
And I'm preaching to the choir, I believe, so I won't go into that.
But as it relates to the Republican State Central Committee, so I brought this paperballot resolution and um I think that
You know, I think the majority of people would, well, the majority did vote, but it wasonly a two vote win.
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So I think had we had more time to sort of explain the reasoning behind the resolution, Ithink we would have had a great majority vote for this resolution.
However, I asked if I could have um a speaker come in, a national speaker, and I was told,and the guy was Greg Phillips.
If you have ever seen the movie 2000 Mules, Greg Phillips.
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who is someone whose time is very limited.
He's in great demand across the United States, as you can imagine, because he has thisgeofencing technique that has been remarkable in catching fraudsters.
And Greg Phillips was willing to come to our little, what I term, know, podunk RSCCmeeting, you know, because, I mean, who are we?
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just this little one state.
He was willing to speak and I was told that there would not be enough time.
So,
No one was allowed to speak on the subject and yet the resolution passed by two votes.
So going forward, comporting with Trump's second EO about the lack of having criticalinfrastructure, foreign-made components in anything that's deemed critical infrastructure
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in any state, the second part of that resolution uh would have been no voting machines.
But I was told...
that the powers that be were sick of the subject and that I had already had my electionintegrity resolution.
And my response to that was until Nancy Landry no longer is gunning for voting machines inour state and until we have free and fair elections, they don't get to be sick of the
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subject.
However, they do shut our voices down.
Amen.
Christy, I got to ask you something about this.
Excuse me, Danielle.
The irony of this, if I'm not mistaken, is that the vote that was taken at which yourinitial resolution was passed at the insistence of someone who is not for paper ballots
for Louisiana citizens, didn't they insist that that vote be taken on paper ballots?
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They absolutely did Christopher, which was the complete irony of the entire situation.
And I had to laugh aloud because it was so unbelievable.
Prior to asking for that vote to be taken on paper ballots, she came out and made a longspeech against paper ballots.
So it's like we were on some sort of Saturday Night Live skit.
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It's absolutely impossible to miss the irony of that.
Truly.
yeah, and you stole my thunder Chris Yeah, it's okay.
It's okay Well, I'll see if I can get it back
Yes, So we have a situation here, and Barry, let me ask you this question.
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Because the state of the Republican Party in Louisiana now, it kind of reminds me, it'ssort of the political version of the 16th century dispute that Erasmus had with Martin
Luther within the context of the Catholic Church, where Erasmus
was strongly advocating for internal reformation of the corruption, and he thought it canand should be done, the catharsis should be done within.
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Martin Luther's position was that the church had become irredeemably corrupt, and the onlyway to solve the problem is to break away from it.
Are we Erasmus at this point when it comes to the Republican Party, or are we MartinLuther?
I sure hope we're a Rasmus.
I sure hope we are.
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And the jury's still out on that.
know, Chris, here's the thing that is gonna have to happen.
in my opinion.
And that's this.
Anybody who has ever supervised people had to learn, if they were going to be successful,how to criticize someone without them taking it personally.
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Because just because, I mean, we all make mistakes.
If you read any part of the scripture, you realize we're all sinners, none of us areperfect, we all make mistakes.
We, we
profit from correction and we pray that God will give us direction that we don't make thesame mistake again.
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Okay?
This is true in every phase of life.
It doesn't matter whether it's with your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your job,all your friends, none of us are perfect.
The problem that I see is that we have a very great number of people who have not learned
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how to deal with criticism without taking it personally.
And I can tell you as someone who has been an elected official and has set up on the daisand had people come in and point a finger and criticize it, it's difficult.
But nobody held a gun to your head to run for that position and nobody held a gun to yourhead to run for RSCC.
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And you know, what's the thing you need to...
pull up your big boy pants and go on about your business.
So we have to learn that criticism should not be personal and it should be constructiveand it should not be taken as personal.
So, you know, I think that's one of the major things that we've got.
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think we have a, what they say, the first goal of any politician is to get reelected andwe see people who are apparently afraid
that if they accept criticism, do something different, they might admit that they'reflawed and somebody might not want to vote for them again.
What an interesting point.
What an interesting point, Barry and Christy, I want you to comment on this also.
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uh Do y'all find that your constructive evaluation of what's going on within the RSCC, thepolicy positions, uh do y'all find that when you engage in constructive criticism or make
constructive suggestions about how to change things from a policy perspective, that it isoften taken personally by your colleagues?
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By some, yes, by some, but you know, not by everybody.
oh You know, I would say that the majority don't take it personally.
But yeah, some do.
And you know,
about issues, right?
It's not even a personal comment necessarily.
I would think that a lot of what you're talking about is policy related.
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You have two kinds of people that take it personally.
The first kind are the people who have their ego tied up in what they're doing.
And the second kind of people are the ones who got caught doing something that they don'twant to admit that they were doing.
And so it does become personal.
So, Barry, so, so Christy and Barry, is this is this personal speaking of personalattacks?
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Because one of the things that Danielle and I do on the state of freedom is that we talkvery unapologetically about both the good and the bad in our state.
And we we talk about the issues that frustrate Louisiana citizens and we talk about theissues that are being adequately addressed.
So I'm going to I'm going to we so I'm going to say something and you tell me if you
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perceive this as a personal attack.
So we have ordinary Republican citizens on the one hand in Louisiana who are being taxedto death, whose free speech rights are being violated, at least insofar as what we can do
at voting precincts now, totally crushed, whose land is being threatened withexpropriation for this carbon capture sequestration racket, who are being suffocated with
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oppressive insurance rates.
who are increasingly concerned about hackable voting computers, who don't want DNI in ourpublic institutions, and yet we have a Republican legislature that has done little or
nothing to meaningfully address these concerns.
And we talk about the legislators who have facilitated the problem over and over and overagain by their votes.
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Is that a personal attack?
It's not a personal attack.
By no stretch.
No, by no stretch is that a personal attack.
If you are not doing the job that the people elected you to do, then it is personal to thedegree that you are personally responsible for not doing your job.
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So I think that's called accountability.
That's right.
And too many of our legislators don't have it.
And thanks to you both and LACAG that this is changing.
The face of it in Louisiana specifically is changing.
Thank the Lord.
Chris, the difference is criticizing what someone does, not who they are.
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Criticize who they are.
personal.
Criticize what they do.
It's accountability.
Great point.
And by the way,
The RSCC has passed resolutions condemning almost every problem that you just outlined andnothing has happened.
Well, I will interject here if I may because I'm new.
Barry has served longer than I have.
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I'm only a year in service on the RSCC.
So I am actually learning as I go.
And one of the things that I think is so interesting that I learned is when you have aresolution that you put forward,
and say it does pass like the one in January for paper ballots, unless you put specificlanguage in the resolution for it to be disseminated to wherever you want it to go, i.e.
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the legislature or the governor's desk or the citizenry.
If you don't make that specific language within the context of your resolution, it doesn'tgo anywhere.
And unless you were there that day in the RSCC committee where it passed, you won't evenknow about it unless you read the, you know, I don't even know if they send an email.
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It goes on the website.
It goes on the website.
Wow.
Okay.
So, so again, learning, I'm learning.
I'm trying to figure all of these things out.
And I have, as a newbie, as a freshmen RSCC member, I am frankly appalled.
I'm appalled at the way things are done.
I'm appalled at the way things are not done.
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And I cannot believe that the governing body of the LAGOP does certain things that arenever even known.
They're never even known.
And the LAGOP board, it is unbelievable, Christopher.
And I want you to ask about it.
You would think that a formal resolution passed by the Republican state central committeewould as a matter of course, be promulgated to the legislature, to the LA GOP and made
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readily accessible to every Louisiana citizen.
It's unbelievable to me.
I didn't even know what you just said.
It's it's and it's ludicrous is what it is because what are we doing if we make thesethese these things that pass everybody it passes we voted on it as a body it passed and
now it's the it is the position officially of the LA GOP But nobody knows it.
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What is the point?
What's the point?
do you think that...
So, this begs an interesting question.
Is it possible that to some degree, and maybe I know the answer to this, maybe I don't, isit possible to some degree that the divide between the legislative implementation or the
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legislative action and the policy recommendations that are being made by the RSCC thatBarry just affirmed have been made over the years?
I find that impossible to believe since several reps and senators are on RSCC.
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They serve on the RSCC.
It's being ignored.
It's being ignored.
okay.
I'm just trying to give them a golden door, Barry, that you and I have talked about, butapparently they don't deserve a golden door on this.
Okay.
never read the art of workers.
Yeah, exactly.
Go ahead, Kristy.
I know you wanted to say something.
I just wanted to sort of interject because something really crazy happened.
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I think it's crazy.
um With regard to how we had a bylaw change.
Barry can speak more to this.
I'm just going to open it and he can elaborate.
There was a bylaw change based on my resolutions that I am bringing with regard toelection integrity and that no one wants to
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have passed.
And I do believe, and when we were earlier talking about making it personal, I believethat these resolutions that I am bringing, which, you know, they're resolutions that we
all who love freedom should agree on, right?
There's nothing, the left should agree on them as well.
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We just want transparent elections.
And these things align with President Trump.
Okay, I'm going to let Barry take over and let him tell you.
What transpired within the RSCC because it is unbelievable.
Well, now let's not say that nobody wants those passed because all of us deplorables wantit passed.
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But we wound up and we argued strongly against it with some bylaw changes that make itmuch more difficult to bring a resolution.
And it's really shameful, but...
It is what it is and we're just going to have to deal with it.
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eh
Barry?
How was it made more difficult?
Well, if you've passed a resolution about something, then you can't bring another one onthe same subject for a year.
And they want to use the resolutions committee as a censorship board rather than ascreening tool.
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And look, there are things that shouldn't.
necessarily they should maybe be sent back to the author to be redone because they'reeither poorly done or they're inflammatory or whatever.
Interestingly enough, I had one of my resolutions sent back as quote inflammatory and theypassed another uh resolution onto the body that passed unanimously on the same subject
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that was in my opinion a lot more in depth than inflammatory.
Mine was like three quarters of it.
page.
The other one was two pages.
But you know, hey, it is what it is.
And there are no standards.
No.
And I thought it was just, hey, Barry's put too many resolutions in.
Let's, So, Well, they put me in the penalty box and Barry was told, and I don't know ifyou're not going to talk about it.
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ahead.
Go ahead.
That.
that the reason, that change that he just mentioned that is now part of the bylaws that uhit's called a similar resolution.
And there's no definition for the word similar.
So, and he made a great analogy, which was um to me, which was for example, if Jane Doepasses away and we issue a resolution, which often happens, a memorial resolution to honor
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Jane Doe and her service.
Well, if John Smith, you know, at our next meeting has passed away and we'd like to bringthe same sort of memorial resolution for John Smith, but we probably can't do it because
it's so similar.
There's no language to define similar.
Right.
Sorry, I mean, you know, sorry, if you'd have waited another year, we maybe could havebrought that resolution to honor you.
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so.
Well, you know, what it winds up with is this.
There are certain things that are painful and we have to deal with it and take ourmedicine.
And sometimes folks just don't want to deal with things that are painful.
So they just make it much more.
It's like you lock the door to the parking lot for the doctor's office so you can't go geta shot and get over what you got.
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Yeah.
Barry, can you imagine in your company, the company that you just took over, can youimagine if your board passed a resolution that said, sorry, John Smith, say he's a member
of your board.
John, if you bring an issue up that has to do with the value of our company or the bottomline profits and revenues, if you bring that up and we discuss that.
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You don't get to bring, sorry, but you don't get to bring that issue up again before theboard for another year.
Even if the company's falling apart, even if there are major issues we have to address,sorry, it's just our rule.
We don't get to talk about it for another year.
You had your shot.
Can you imagine a private business being run that way, Barry?
Well, I took over a public company and now you understand why 50.3 % of the shareholdersproxied their votes to me to vote out the old board and vote in a new board.
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So yes, I can imagine that and it's never, there was a solution and it's never successfulwhen that happens.
And the solution in this case, Chris and Danielle, is that Republicans
need to get involved.
need to find out who their parish executive committee is and who their RSCC member is.
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And they need to light up their phone and their email.
And that's the solution.
And I would say, I would say also the solution, at least in my view, is if we actually areable to achieve secure elections with hand mark, hand counted paper ballots, all these
problems start taking care of themselves.
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Those people who got in there for the wrong reasons will be able to be voted out.
can't, I can't say that, you know, accountability can, can really happen until
we can trust our elections because I've found and I'm sure you could say the same.
A lot of these people completely operate with impunity.
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They are accountable to no one except perhaps the people who make sure that they getinstalled the next time.
They're donors.
but within the context of the RRCC, as you're saying, Danielle, I think this is what youwere referencing, the people who are currently serving.
And the point that I was trying to get to was that there was, and I think most of yourviewers, a lot of them know that certain of us, when we began talking about election
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integrity five years ago, doing the deep dive, we got canceled from certain organizations.
Our voices were censored, or at least they were tried to be censored.
And interestingly enough, fast forward to now I am serving in an elected capacity.
I have constituents and those self-same people who tried to censor my voice before are nowserving on the board of the LA GOP.
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And that is why that rule was brought that the resolution cannot be similar in a 12 monthperiod because they wanted me to stop bringing the election integrity resolutions.
Am I wrong?
No, you're not wrong.
And you know, it's interesting.
This is the decade in the Hebraic calendar, 80, 5780 is the decade, like 2020 for us.
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And 80 is the year of the mouth.
And this is, I think, is that right?
And this is an entire uh decade that war is being fought over our speech.
And we can see that it's been absolutely true.
We saw that it started in 2020.
Mask up.
Don't buck the system.
You didn't see anything.
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J6 was definitely an insurrection.
ah You are not allowed to question the outcomes of the 2020 election.
If you do, you're an election denier and on and on and on, you know, culminating, I wouldsay in a lot of ways in the the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk, who got killed, assassinated
for saying what saying the truth for saying something other people didn't like.
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So I think a big
As we fight this war of words, it's imperative that we, um mean, one, Christy, I knowyou're a big believer in this, put on the full armor of God so that we can actually fight
effectively.
We need Holy Spirit's guidance to be able to fight effectively because this is nottraditional warfare and the playing ground is not level.
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We're still being censored.
mean, Chris, you mentioned that Nancy Landry, our Secretary of State, brought a bill.
carried by comrade Greg Miller who basically made it so that we could not do exit pollingas citizens.
And I didn't tell you this, but I applied for um press credentials to the legislature.
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I actually haven't told anyone this.
And they denied them because I'm not a salaried member of the media.
Well, really?
I mean they did say I was welcome to come to any of the public spaces anytime.
Sure I am, yeah.
I know I am.
That's right.
That's right.
bottom line on that.
That's a great point, Danielle, that you raise.
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uh Christy and Danielle, you really, in bringing up SB 80 and bringing up that atrociouspiece of legislation that completely desecrated freedom of assembly and freedom of speech
that was passed in our legislature by Republicans and was signed by our governor.
and that we're simply not gonna let that issue go away.
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The only state in the country that makes a distinction between ordinary Louisiana citizensand quote bonafide news organizations like MSNBC and CNN, but don't get me off on a rant
here.
So Christy.
that they are making a pattern out of doing that if they're not allowing independentjournalists to have a seat with the rest of the media that has the badge of CNN, MSNBC, or
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whatever.
I mean, how do those people get to be salaried?
You would think it's because they have the opportunity to report and create an audience.
You would think so, yeah.
Christy, what is the, how many people do you represent in your RSCC district?
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Ooh, that's a great question.
I, you know, Christopher, I should know that answer and I'm remiss and not.
I will find out.
Do you have an idea?
Okay.
East Baton, 17.
Yeah, we do this by Senate districts.
Okay.
And it's proportioned according to the number of registered Republicans in a Senatedistrict.
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For example, the district that Cleo Fields had as the state Senator.
Only had two RSCC members because there aren't many registered Republicans.
My district, there's about 125,000 people in the Senatorial District, registered voters.
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uh About, I'm going to say half of them in District 17, Senator Klein-Peters District, areregistered as Republicans.
And we have five.
oh
So I'd say I probably represent 12,000 people.
And that.
yeah, let's just assume for a second, Christy, you represent somewhere between 12, 15, 18,maybe 20,000 people.
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Yeah, you are their voice.
So I think it's important to point out here that this provision that was passed by theRSCC, by the powers that be in the RSCC, they're not just censoring Christy Haik's voice,
they're censoring the voice of 20,000 people who elected you to speak for them andrepresent them.
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and to use, you know, words very, that's what makes it all the more.
And I hate to even use the word deplorable because I love the word deplorable.
So I'll use the word reprehensible.
That makes it reprehensible.
It's reprehensible Christopher and you continued on my thought progress that I didn'tfinish.
And that is that these same people who tried to censor my voice and actually amplified itin their efforts as you know, have now tried to censor my voice, but it's not my voice.
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I am representing a constituency and they're censoring their voices if they pull this off,but they're not going to because I did not run for RSCC to be censored.
And I ran for RCC to try to infiltrate, if you will, that's kind of a negative word, butto infiltrate the monarchy that Barry spoke of earlier, the establishment, because we need
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to infiltrate the establishment and bring the Republican Party back to its Ronald Reagan,Frederick Douglass roots, because we have gone so far astray of its origins that we have
lost our way.
And that's why we have all of these rhinos.
We have all of these people who are not doing the bidding of the constituents that votedthem into office, because now we know that it is a method that they use.
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They say that they are Republicans and they're actually Democrats in Republican clothing.
So when they are elected, because they said they were Republican, they're voting likeDemocrats and we wonder why, but that's a methodology that's being employed as you all
know.
And so...
The reality is we conservatives, and there are way more of us than there are of them,fortunately, have got to do something.
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And the way that we can make our voices heard is by running for office, is by, if youwill, infiltrating the establishment as the anti-establishment and really making a
difference in having our constituents' voices actually heard.
And so I think that they're seeing
At the level of the LAGOP board and in the herd, if you will, I think that they're seeingthat things are changing, that things are evolving in a way that they never expected
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because it was the monarchy, one abdicates and the next one just spills those shoes,right?
Puts the crown on.
That's not gonna stand anymore because we won't allow it to stand.
And so I think people really do, your listeners really do need to become engaged.
with their RSC, figure out who that is.
Figure out who represents you with your RSC seat and get in touch with that person andtell them that you support their efforts on behalf of election integrity.
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All of the issues, carbon capture, everything that we've been fighting for and against thelast five years.
Get in touch.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, Kristi and Barry, you know, maybe getting a little bit back to the effectiveness ofthe RSCC for a second, you know, a big criticism of Congress is that they use their
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perches on the dais and on social media and public spaces to voice their opinion forsomething or against something.
And people criticize them by saying they, all they do is write strongly worded letters insupport or condemnation of something, right?
Do you view, is the RSCC in a position like that right now?
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Would you characterize it that way that all you can do is basically write a stronglyworded letter and it's not got any, does it have any teeth?
Well, I did hear from several people that the paper ballot resolution greatly inflamedNancy Landry.
So what that means, mean, you know, did it help anything?
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Well, you know, she's already inflamed by our efforts.
you know, I can't really answer that question.
think Barry has more experience with that.
an irritant is an excellent thing.
Well, you know, it takes a grain of sand to make a pearl.
know, we are what we settle for.
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And if we settle for being toothless dogs who wag our tail and are glad to get thrown atreat every once in a while, then that's what we're going to be.
That's right.
I choose not to settle for We are not two-footed dogs.
And we don't wag our tail.
We're not happy right now, so the tail's not wagging.
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You know, you both, you both, one of the reasons why I admire you, and I know Danielledoes as well, both of you so much is that you seem to embody ah in your public work, uh I
believe it was John Adams, you know, who said that, know, duty is ours in each moment andthe results are up to God.
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And when we meet our Maker, God is not going to ask us what kind of
results did you achieve?
He's going to ask us, did you act on proper principles during moments of extreme exigency?
And I think that both of you will be able to answer, yes, we did.
And that's the first point I want to make.
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And the second point I want to make is this, even if the establishment Republican party isnot paying attention to your resolutions, I can assure you that we are paying attention to
it.
And we use those good resolutions in order to buttress our own position with regard tocitizens across the state.
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so they understand that these resolutions that you pass, and they will continue tounderstand, even if they're not being implemented by the state Republican Party in the
legislature or by the governor, they're much, much closer to the sentiments of ordinaryLouisiana citizens across this state.
It's.
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You know, Chris.
one point to that, Chris, as you were saying that, it was like I could see uh somethingbeing a door jam, just opening the door up just enough to let something through.
And I think that's what you're talking about.
Y'all have brought resolutions on behalf of the people that's a door jam so that somethinggood can get through regardless of the establishmentarians.
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Yeah, I the thing that keeps me going is I remember what Gandhi said first they ignore you
Then they ridicule you.
Then they attack you.
And then you win.
So we are past the ridicule stage.
think we're at the attack stage.
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But you know, I'm kind of like the kid that got the really bad Christmas present andopened it up and said, boy, they got me a pony.
I don't know where they put it, but I see the evidence.
So I took
uh
as meaning that we're just on the edge of being done with that phase and now we're goingto win.
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So it's okay.
I'm still the same little guy that grew up in a house out in the country on the side ofthe road whose dad went to work wearing a uniform every day.
And I always will be regardless of what kind of success God has given me.
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I'm just center saved by grace.
Well, I'm an it's an honor.
I'm going to interject here.
It's an honor to serve next to Barry.
This is the uh humble guy that he is he because he has had my back several times withinthe context and the confines of the meetings because again, I'm new and I'm learning and
I'm like Barry if I want to object, what's the proper language and he'll tell me, youknow, and so.
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But some of these things that we're seeing back to the RCC, some of these resolutions andfor me being new, seeing these things that we're talking about, we're spending our time,
these people come from all over the state, right?
To represent their constituents and to talk about important, important things, I thought.
And we're talking about censuring uh Carville for wearing LSU gear.
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Yeah, that was a resolution.
That was a resolution.
Censoring James Carville, we don't want, the RSCC, the LAGOP doesn't want James Carvilleto represent LSU, so we need to say that.
We don't want him to wear LSU gear anymore.
That was a resolution.
No, maybe Mary will make him smoke on the video.
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uh I will say right here that my mother used to babysit James Carville.
She's from St.
Gabriel.
She said he was always a bad boy.
But that's neither here nor there.
um I just was appalled at the fact that these resolutions that are brought are so fluffyand have no import or gravitas whatsoever in many instances.
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So I think that people are now sorting to sort of understand, starting to understand,right?
Barry brings important resolutions.
um I'm trying to bring resolutions that comport with President Trump's EOs, which couldnot be more uh time sensitive at this juncture.
And we hope that we're going to have
something serious happened here quickly.
You guys have been talking about it on your program with regards to our elections, that wewill have something happen that will no longer have to worry about voting machines.
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And let me say this.
We're having a Republican conference in Alexandria on November the 1st on All Saints Day.
And a tip of the hat to Mike Chittem for being
several grains of sand that just kept irritating and pushing until that happened.
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So, you know, we got a lot of people that are trying to do the right thing.
That's right.
Yeah, and I'm not disparaging.
Look, we're not disparaging the majority of people in the RRC.
They're great people.
They just don't really know a whole lot because we don't meet very often.
We don't, you know, and it's hard to get together.
We're trying to change the communications aspect.
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of the RSCC and how we communicate with like-minded individuals that serve with us.
so Barry and I have gotten together quite often to talk about how that looks.
And I think that we are having, we have a good game plan.
So ground game is gonna be important going forward.
well, we're lucky to have, we're certainly lucky to have you there.
I mean, both of you were lucky to have you there.
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uh I want to put a quick word in for Mike Chitin.
Look, I know that uh on policy issues, y'all have your disagreements with Mike, but I dowant to say this.
When I was down there on that Saturday pushing for your ah
the one that ultimately passed.
And there were some factions in the RSCC that I think wanted to shut down debate.
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You remember it better than I do, Christy, but I do remember that there was an effortthere to shut down debate on the issue and I think to foreclose a vote.
And even though Mike Chitom, I don't think fully agrees with you on this issue, he stoodup and said, you know what?
I don't agree with them on this issue, but I am offended by the fact that this body woulddiscourage open
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And then.
wanted to mention that, and I think I'd be remiss without doing it because it stood out to
I agree with you Christopher.
Michael Chidham always stands, you can say whatever you want about Michael Chidham, if hedoesn't agree with you he always stands on constitutional principles and values and he
agrees what is right is right and what is wrong is wrong based on the Constitution and hestands up for that.
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true patriot who tries to do the right thing.
That's right.
Yeah, and we will survive that way.
I know I would be remiss, Barry, if I didn't tell you before y'all go that you areactually in my quote book, Barry, since I was 19 or 20 years old, since I left the
seminary, I've been keeping a green quote book where, I mean, literally it's 35 years old.
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And when I hear something that really jumps out at me, I go and write it.
And periodically I'll go back and review it.
And you said something recently that absolutely uh just jumped out at me.
I don't even know that I needed to write this down, but I wanted to do it in your honor.
And it is said basically the prayer is, and it takes us back to the beginning here.
Lord, please help that the quality of my good decisions outweighs the quantity of my baddecisions.
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And it's something that serves to keep us all humble.
and to recognize that we are all indeed sinners.
Those are not just words.
We are all wretched before the Lord and His sacrifice makes us righteous.
Thank God for His grace.
But Barry, I just wanted to say that and I hope everybody remembers that.
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And uh Danielle, do you have any final words for our guests today?
I'm just so grateful y'all are in the fight, that y'all are keeping such a great attitudeabout it.
I'm grateful that y'all have each other because it would be a very lonely place if youwere having to fight this fight alone.
And I know there are more with you than against you, like you said, Christy.
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So keep up the great work.
And um I know that transparency is key in this process because when it comes down to it,if there is an open debate, if there is a transparent vote,
by and large people are gonna vote the right way.
So if there's a prayer that we can have for the Republican State Central Committee, it'snot just that people get involved at home, but it's also that we would be praying that
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their uh internal activities would be both transparent and that there would be a fair votehad on all the issues that are brought forth.
Amen.
Thank you, Danielle, for that.
to that.
Well, God bless you both.
Keep up the good fight.
And there are a whole lot of Patriots amassed on the hill behind you with you.
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Oh, that's so wonderful.
you both so much.
God bless you and the work that you do.
Thank you, God bless y'all.
Well, Chris, are in it,
100%.
I love both of them.
And I love the fact that, you know, they are, they are standing strong.
And I love what, what Christy Haik's said, you know, I didn't run for office and getelected to this position to be, to be censored.
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And she means it, believe me.
And I think Barry, Barry is the same way.
And I hope on two points that Barry's right, Danielle.
I hope that we are the Erasmus.
of the political party.
I hope that our party can be recovered and purified from within.
And I also hope that he's right when he says we're in the attack stage now, inching closeto the stage where the patriot wins.
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I hope he's right on both of those points.
I certainly pray that he is.
Well, know, God has a very good sense of humor and he also puts us exactly where we needto be right when we need to be there if we're willing vessels.
And I think it's the fact that Barry has extensive experience on leading hostile takeoversis not lost on me.
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Now, I think he is a guy who would probably say, and he can correct me if I'm wrong, thatah he's not taking over something that doesn't need to be taken over.
And I don't think he has any ambition to take this over whatsoever, but he does know howto operate in hostile conditions.
And so I believe he's doing that beautifully, masterfully.
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think Christy, you know, she's such a person that operates in respect and that's the waythat they're going to be able to be successful.
You know, as frustrating as it is and as many names as they call us, ah you know, we haveto operate in the opposite spirit.
That's not the way that we're going to win.
We're not going to win by the same tactics that they use.
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So I think we're seeing Christy and Barry as great examples of the way to operate in, inhostile and difficult environments.
Oh, that's very, very well said, Danielle um that they are like the eagle.
You know, I heard something the other day that says, you know, when the crow gets on theback of the eagle and starts pecking at him and pecking at him and pecking at him and
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pecking at him, the eagle does not attack the crow.
The eagle just continues to fly higher and higher.
And there comes a point where the air becomes so thin that the crow can't breathe anymore.
and just falls off the eagle's back because the eagle transcends uh the capacity of thecrow.
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And I think we need to keep that in mind in the way that we approach politics, in the waythat we approach advocacy.
If we find ourselves ever in a situation where we are reducing ourselves to the level ofwhat we see in our adversaries so often, too often, then we are not honoring
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God and we need to remember the eagle and continue to rise.
And Danielle, we've talked about it many times when you said, my gosh, I just want to bitethis guy's head off.
I want to get guttural with this guy.
want to go gorilla on this guy.
want to rip their head off.
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And we have to sort of walk each other off the cliff and we have to return to grace andreturn to prayer.
Resisting the
personal vendettas resisting the kind of belligerence uh to which so much of our politicshas devolved.
So we need to keep it on the higher plane and you helped me to do that frankly on a dailybasis.
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Well, likewise, the road goes both ways on that.
And I think a big part of our ability to do that is knowing who we are in Christ.
If we know who we are, then we know how we are, uh we know the behavior that is acceptableto us for, you know, what's going to cause us to be disappointed in ourselves.
And, ah you know, we got to run with good people who have uh similar values to be able tohold each other accountable because some days it's easier than others.
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Indeed.
Some days it is easier than others, but you know, we will remain at the helm, remain atour post, and continue forward because it's again, it's God's battle, Danielle, not our
own.
Before we go, I want to strongly encourage everybody who hears this show right now, who'slistening to this show, or who may hear it later, to share the state of freedom with at
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least one person today.
Share and subscribe the state of freedom.
We are the voice of liberty across the state of Louisiana on issues across the range,speaking unapologetically on behalf of ordinary patriotic Louisiana citizens whose voice
has been ignored for way too long in our state.
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And one commitment that Danielle, you and I made when we first started this show is thatwe are not going to be hesitant in speaking the truth.
We're going to speak the truth boldly.
in love.
And even though we're not perfect, we try to do that each day, but speak the truth.
We will.
So help us to expand this voice by subscribing and sharing and donating to the state offreedom.
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is, it is just a, a great platform.
95 % of the reason why it's a great platform is because of you, Danielle.
Uh, but I'm working hard too over here and we're gonna, we're gonna keep, yeah.
And we're gonna, we're gonna keep spreading, keep expanding.
Also support LCAG, Louisiana Citizen Advocacy Group, Danielle Albee and Kinder thisevening, talking about the voting record on carbon capture sequestration of uh the two uh
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legislators who represent Alan Parrish, Senator Heather Cloud and Representative DeWittCarrier.
Some good, some bad on both, but we'll be talking about their recent voting record andtheir record on CCS the last year or two.
because again, if the voters are not informed about what is actually going on in thelegislature, they can't make an informed decision when they go to the voting booth.
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So I'm looking forward to being in Kinder tonight.
And Danielle, in the great words of William F.
Buckley, I can't close the show without saying this.
You may have an announcement, but oh, sorry, sorry.
No, I was just going to say that I also want to thank all of our listeners and viewers whoare beyond the boundaries of Louisiana.
You're welcome here anytime.
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We love you guys.
We couldn't do it without you.
And uh we will be back soon.
A uh couple just announcements here.
One, thank you to anyone who joined us in Houma this past weekend for the Charlie KirkMemorial Service.
in Terrebonne, it was really moving, it was incredible.
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It had almost 400 people there with short notice.
a huge, it was just a really sweet and I think heartfelt movement.
Saw some young men stand up and give testimonials and I just think that's the future.
know, these young men who are unapologetic about their faith, unapologetic to speak thetruth and may many, many more rise like them.
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This afternoon we'll be streaming a four hour special hosted by Steve Stern and DanSchultz on Rumble and X.
This is their precinct strategy and Christy Hike was the representative from Louisiana whooutlined what this looks like for our state.
So you can catch Christy there later today.
I believe it starts at noon our time and runs on from there.
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Tomorrow on For the Love of Freedom, Millersville, Tennessee, former Deputy Chief ofPolice, Sean Taylor.
We'll be on to talk about what has driven him to fight so hard for truth and transparencyand justice in the massive Rico conspiracy that he uncovered.
He was unable to join us a couple of times.
He had some crazy stuff happen, but he has confirmed that he will be joining us tomorrow.
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And he'll also give us some updates on the stuff that's happening, being uncovered byPeter Berniger with ActBlue and When Red, if we have time.
And then on Thursday, our friend Matt Mack will
come on back here on the state of freedom.
We'll be back here at 10 central to give some updates on Tina Peters case.
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And I believe we will be delving into some of the whistleblower testimonies from theSerbian whistleblower and Venezuelan whistleblower on the Dominion machines.
So we got a jam packed week.
I hope you don't miss anything and I hope we'll see you back here tomorrow morning.
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Absolutely.
And God bless uh the great patriot Boone Cutler.
Danielle, when you mentioned Matt Meck, it reminded me of Boone Cutler, who we were havingthe privilege of having on our show, golly, a year or two ago.
uh Very few have suffered more, sacrificed more, or contributed more to America, diedunexpectedly in his mid-40s.
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But rest in peace, Boone Cutler.
You were a great patriot who inspired us and many, many others.
God bless you eternally.
And Danielle, God bless you as always.
I look forward to seeing you again.
And in the great words of the one and only, the late, great William F.
Buckley Jr.
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in veying, shall go.
We shall go.
Here we go.
Welcome to the State of Freedom, everyone.
Happy, happy Tuesday.
We are, just as a reminder, grounded in faith, committed to the core principles of givingvoice to truth and living with courage and taking action.
It's Tuesday, September 30th.
It's 10 a.m.
I'm Danielle Walker and I'm joined by my friend and co-host, Chris Alexander.
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We are coming to you live on Voice of the People.
USA TV and radio network on rumble YouTube and Facebook if you're catching us later Youcan do that on any of those channels.
You can also listen to us on our Podcast platforms where we're audio only like Spotify andApple podcast Well joining us today are two great Louisiana Patriots and friends of the
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show who you've seen here before Christy hike is the president of the Louisiana RepublicanAssembly
you
Thank you both for joining us today.
Absolutely.
having us.
Thanks.
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Yeah, it's our pleasure.
Well, let me read the scripture of the day before we get into the conversation.
But you know, we fully expect y'all to spill the tea for us here in a little bit about thedysfunction, oh the dysfunctional state of the Republican State Central Committee.
So let me just read this.
Today's scripture is Psalm chapter 86 verses one through four.
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And it says, bend down to hear my prayer.
I'm in deep trouble.
I'm broken and humbled and I desperately need your help.
Guard my life from your faithful friend, your loyal servant for life.
I turn to you in faith, my God, my hero, come and rescue me.
Lord God hear my constant cry for help.
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Show me your favor and bring me to your fountain of grace.
Restore joy to your loving servant once again.
Okay.
and it just struck me that we all have times when trouble seems to overwhelm us and wefeel completely lost and alone in it, engulfed by it.
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And if you're there now, let me just encourage you to call out to the Lord for a liferaft.
He's our creator, the one who loves us more than anyone else and he's our lifesaver andour rescue.
you
comes from and He'll give us what He needs, what we need, and He'll be what we need to getto the other side of these circumstances.
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The danger is when we allow ourselves to become so isolated and so overwhelmed that wefeel like we're drowning in the trouble or the sorrow or the pain.
But we need to call out to Him like David did.
uh In Psalm 91 verse 15, it says, the Lord promises this.
He says, I will answer your cry for help every time you pray.
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and you will find and feel my presence in your time of pressure and trouble.
I will be your glorious hero and give you a feast.
You will be satisfied with a full life and with all that I do for you, for you will enjoythe fullness of my salvation." So he won't just bring us out of it.
He will completely restore our joy in our lives again.
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And all we have to do is pray and rely on him and trust him to help us through the storm.
And you know what, Danielle, that is so extraordinarily beautiful.
And as you were praying the Psalm, I was thinking that not only God's redemptive powerapplies not only to individuals, it applies to institutions as well.
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It applies to our party, which that could be the rallying cry of the Republican Partyright now.
Lord, help us.
We are in deep trouble because we are in deep trouble.
And to people who are
perhaps more aware of the sort of trouble that we are in, our two guests today, thatyou've already introduced two great, great patriots.
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And I want to thank you both for joining the State of Freedom today.
Thank you.
Thank you so much, Christopher, Danielle Let me give you a little context.
I've got another Bible verse for you.
If you remember in Ecclesiastes, Solomon said, there's nothing new under the sun.
Everything that's happened has happened before and everything that's happening today willhappen again.
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During the American Revolution, only about 10 % of the people supported the revolution.
About 10 % supported the monarchy.
80 % stood on the sidelines and said, don't, don't, don't involve me.
I don't want to get in.
You know, something bad might happen.
That's, that's about where we are today.
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And the people that supported the monarchy, some of them did because they thought theyliked the people in power.
Some of them did because they were afraid of change and they thought that status quo wasbetter than, than the possibility of what might happen bad if they tried and failed.
And that's pretty much where we are with the party.
We've got a lot of good people.
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We've got a group that's status quo.
And some of them because they support the folks in power.
Some of them because they just don't have the vision for anything any different and thinkthat it's going to be worse if we try to change things.
And then we've got a big group of people that are there for whatever reason, becausesomebody asked them to run.
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uh They like the social aspect.
Nobody else ran in their district.
And then you got us and part of our little group formed a caucus last year, year beforelast.
We call ourselves the deplorable Neanderthal caucus.
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And why do we do that?
Because Hillary Clinton said that we were deplorables and Joe Biden said we engaged inNeanderthal thinking and rather than argue, we decided we would simply embrace that.
Yeah.
That's where we are.
And yes.
most of our listeners probably know what the RSCC is, the Republican State CentralCommittee, which you and Christy are both members of, which is supposed to be the policy
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making arm to make formal policy recommendations for the Republican Party.
What you've just described is the factionalization of the policy making arm of the stateRepublican Party.
Why is that the case?
Why is it that
there are, seem to be, as you described, three different factions.
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One faction of apathy, one faction that seems actively uh supportive of things that areoccurring that we don't like, and then one faction of true patriots that are opposing it
and trying to change it.
Why is that the case?
Well, Chris, you know, there's an old saying that reasonable people can disagree.
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And it's certainly true that different people have different points of view and theirpoint of view is shaped by their personal circumstances and the people around them.
And so, you know, I choose not to be a bomb thrower, but I'd like to be an educator andI'd like to try to bring people along with us on this journey.
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I have spent my entire career, well, most of my career, I did run for elective office andlo and behold, unfortunately, I got elected.
And so I served in elective office for eight years and then served in appointive office ona commission and wound up being chairman of that commission.
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you know, I've always been a problem solver.
I believe that when you have a problem, it's kind of like
go into the ER and you have to do triage.
And if somebody's bleeding, you need to stop the bleeding, but then you need to fix theproblem so they can be healthy and go back to living their life.
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if we believe there's a problem, I don't like to see status quo and the problem continuebecause I like to fix problems and have people go back to living their life.
Yeah, I've seen you and Barry, I've seen you and Christy at the RSCC uh meetings.
I've seen a couple, I've been to a couple of them and neither one of you could be honestlydescribed as flamethrowers.
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You're both very reasonable.
You're both very articulate and you're simply trying to persuade people of the error oftheir ways and the rightness of your position.
But it seems as though
Some of these RSCC members and again, know, uh Republican operatives on a broader levelseem just intractably opposed to what the overwhelming majority of Louisiana citizens and
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specifically Louisiana Republicans want and are brimming with frustration about.
This divide between the establishment Republican Party in our state, even within the RSCC,and what 65 or 70 percent of Louisiana
citizens want.
Why is that the case?
I mean, I'm just trying to figure this out.
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Well, most of the people who ran and got elected have been blessed with some level ofaffluence because they have to be able to have enough time to do the job.
If they do the job, unfortunately, we've got we've got 225 people.
We struggle to get 125 to show up for a meeting.
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So we have a quorum.
That's that's another aside.
But you know, Chris, there's an old saying that that change happens when the pain ofstatus quo exceeds the pain of change, because change is always painful.
And obviously, ah
We have a great number of people that that pain level of status quo hasn't reached thepoint where they're ready to do something different.
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That's a great point.
it is.
you know, despite the factionalism that you outlined, um Christy, you were able to getyour resolution passed earlier this year.
I mean, it was a it was a razor thin majority, I believe.
um But this was your paper ballot, um your paper ballot resolution.
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Would you talk to us a little bit about the resolution itself and then some of the ironythat surrounded the vote?
Absolutely, Danielle.
The paper ballot resolution was in, it just comported with Trump's executive order, umwhich every resolution that I've brought has.
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Trump has been issuing, as you guys well know, these executive orders to clean up ourelection system across the United States.
And the federal laws need to be changed.
We all know that.
We need to
Those of us who have been working on this issue for the last five years since the 2020selection understand too well that we have uh fraud on every level and it's not just the
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voting machines.
It's mail-in ballots.
And I'm preaching to the choir, I believe, so I won't go into that.
But as it relates to the Republican State Central Committee, so I brought this paperballot resolution and um I think that
You know, I think the majority of people would, well, the majority did vote, but it wasonly a two vote win.
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So I think had we had more time to sort of explain the reasoning behind the resolution, Ithink we would have had a great majority vote for this resolution.
However, I asked if I could have um a speaker come in, a national speaker, and I was told,and the guy was Greg Phillips.
If you have ever seen the movie 2000 Mules, Greg Phillips.
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who is someone whose time is very limited.
He's in great demand across the United States, as you can imagine, because he has thisgeofencing technique that has been remarkable in catching fraudsters.
And Greg Phillips was willing to come to our little, what I term, know, podunk RSCCmeeting, you know, because, I mean, who are we?
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just this little one state.
He was willing to speak and I was told that there would not be enough time.
So,
No one was allowed to speak on the subject and yet the resolution passed by two votes.
So going forward, comporting with Trump's second EO about the lack of having criticalinfrastructure, foreign-made components in anything that's deemed critical infrastructure
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in any state, the second part of that resolution uh would have been no voting machines.
But I was told...
that the powers that be were sick of the subject and that I had already had my electionintegrity resolution.
And my response to that was until Nancy Landry no longer is gunning for voting machines inour state and until we have free and fair elections, they don't get to be sick of the
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subject.
However, they do shut our voices down.
Amen.
Christy, I got to ask you something about this.
Excuse me, Danielle.
The irony of this, if I'm not mistaken, is that the vote that was taken at which yourinitial resolution was passed at the insistence of someone who is not for paper ballots
for Louisiana citizens, didn't they insist that that vote be taken on paper ballots?
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They absolutely did Christopher, which was the complete irony of the entire situation.
And I had to laugh aloud because it was so unbelievable.
Prior to asking for that vote to be taken on paper ballots, she came out and made a longspeech against paper ballots.
So it's like we were on some sort of Saturday Night Live skit.
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It's absolutely impossible to miss the irony of that.
Truly.
yeah, and you stole my thunder Chris Yeah, it's okay.
It's okay Well, I'll see if I can get it back
Yes, So we have a situation here, and Barry, let me ask you this question.
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Because the state of the Republican Party in Louisiana now, it kind of reminds me, it'ssort of the political version of the 16th century dispute that Erasmus had with Martin
Luther within the context of the Catholic Church, where Erasmus
was strongly advocating for internal reformation of the corruption, and he thought it canand should be done, the catharsis should be done within.
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Martin Luther's position was that the church had become irredeemably corrupt, and the onlyway to solve the problem is to break away from it.
Are we Erasmus at this point when it comes to the Republican Party, or are we MartinLuther?
I sure hope we're a Rasmus.
I sure hope we are.
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And the jury's still out on that.
know, Chris, here's the thing that is gonna have to happen.
in my opinion.
And that's this.
Anybody who has ever supervised people had to learn, if they were going to be successful,how to criticize someone without them taking it personally.
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Because just because, I mean, we all make mistakes.
If you read any part of the scripture, you realize we're all sinners, none of us areperfect, we all make mistakes.
We, we
profit from correction and we pray that God will give us direction that we don't make thesame mistake again.
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Okay?
This is true in every phase of life.
It doesn't matter whether it's with your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your job,all your friends, none of us are perfect.
The problem that I see is that we have a very great number of people who have not learned
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how to deal with criticism without taking it personally.
And I can tell you as someone who has been an elected official and has set up on the daisand had people come in and point a finger and criticize it, it's difficult.
But nobody held a gun to your head to run for that position and nobody held a gun to yourhead to run for RSCC.
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And you know, what's the thing you need to...
pull up your big boy pants and go on about your business.
So we have to learn that criticism should not be personal and it should be constructiveand it should not be taken as personal.
So, you know, I think that's one of the major things that we've got.
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think we have a, what they say, the first goal of any politician is to get reelected andwe see people who are apparently afraid
that if they accept criticism, do something different, they might admit that they'reflawed and somebody might not want to vote for them again.
What an interesting point.
What an interesting point, Barry and Christy, I want you to comment on this also.
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uh Do y'all find that your constructive evaluation of what's going on within the RSCC, thepolicy positions, uh do y'all find that when you engage in constructive criticism or make
constructive suggestions about how to change things from a policy perspective, that it isoften taken personally by your colleagues?
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By some, yes, by some, but you know, not by everybody.
oh You know, I would say that the majority don't take it personally.
But yeah, some do.
And you know,
about issues, right?
It's not even a personal comment necessarily.
I would think that a lot of what you're talking about is policy related.
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You have two kinds of people that take it personally.
The first kind are the people who have their ego tied up in what they're doing.
And the second kind of people are the ones who got caught doing something that they don'twant to admit that they were doing.
And so it does become personal.
So, Barry, so, so Christy and Barry, is this is this personal speaking of personalattacks?
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Because one of the things that Danielle and I do on the state of freedom is that we talkvery unapologetically about both the good and the bad in our state.
And we we talk about the issues that frustrate Louisiana citizens and we talk about theissues that are being adequately addressed.
So I'm going to I'm going to we so I'm going to say something and you tell me if you
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perceive this as a personal attack.
So we have ordinary Republican citizens on the one hand in Louisiana who are being taxedto death, whose free speech rights are being violated, at least insofar as what we can do
at voting precincts now, totally crushed, whose land is being threatened withexpropriation for this carbon capture sequestration racket, who are being suffocated with
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oppressive insurance rates.
who are increasingly concerned about hackable voting computers, who don't want DNI in ourpublic institutions, and yet we have a Republican legislature that has done little or
nothing to meaningfully address these concerns.
And we talk about the legislators who have facilitated the problem over and over and overagain by their votes.
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Is that a personal attack?
It's not a personal attack.
By no stretch.
No, by no stretch is that a personal attack.
If you are not doing the job that the people elected you to do, then it is personal to thedegree that you are personally responsible for not doing your job.
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So I think that's called accountability.
That's right.
And too many of our legislators don't have it.
And thanks to you both and LACAG that this is changing.
The face of it in Louisiana specifically is changing.
Thank the Lord.
Chris, the difference is criticizing what someone does, not who they are.
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Criticize who they are.
personal.
Criticize what they do.
It's accountability.
Great point.
And by the way,
The RSCC has passed resolutions condemning almost every problem that you just outlined andnothing has happened.
Well, I will interject here if I may because I'm new.
Barry has served longer than I have.
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I'm only a year in service on the RSCC.
So I am actually learning as I go.
And one of the things that I think is so interesting that I learned is when you have aresolution that you put forward,
and say it does pass like the one in January for paper ballots, unless you put specificlanguage in the resolution for it to be disseminated to wherever you want it to go, i.e.
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the legislature or the governor's desk or the citizenry.
If you don't make that specific language within the context of your resolution, it doesn'tgo anywhere.
And unless you were there that day in the RSCC committee where it passed, you won't evenknow about it unless you read the, you know, I don't even know if they send an email.
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It goes on the website.
It goes on the website.
Wow.
Okay.
So, so again, learning, I'm learning.
I'm trying to figure all of these things out.
And I have, as a newbie, as a freshmen RSCC member, I am frankly appalled.
I'm appalled at the way things are done.
I'm appalled at the way things are not done.
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And I cannot believe that the governing body of the LAGOP does certain things that arenever even known.
They're never even known.
And the LAGOP board, it is unbelievable, Christopher.
And I want you to ask about it.
You would think that a formal resolution passed by the Republican state central committeewould as a matter of course, be promulgated to the legislature, to the LA GOP and made
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readily accessible to every Louisiana citizen.
It's unbelievable to me.
I didn't even know what you just said.
It's it's and it's ludicrous is what it is because what are we doing if we make thesethese these things that pass everybody it passes we voted on it as a body it passed and
now it's the it is the position officially of the LA GOP But nobody knows it.
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What is the point?
What's the point?
do you think that...
So, this begs an interesting question.
Is it possible that to some degree, and maybe I know the answer to this, maybe I don't, isit possible to some degree that the divide between the legislative implementation or the
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legislative action and the policy recommendations that are being made by the RSCC thatBarry just affirmed have been made over the years?
I find that impossible to believe since several reps and senators are on RSCC.
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They serve on the RSCC.
It's being ignored.
It's being ignored.
okay.
I'm just trying to give them a golden door, Barry, that you and I have talked about, butapparently they don't deserve a golden door on this.
Okay.
never read the art of workers.
Yeah, exactly.
Go ahead, Kristy.
I know you wanted to say something.
I just wanted to sort of interject because something really crazy happened.
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I think it's crazy.
um With regard to how we had a bylaw change.
Barry can speak more to this.
I'm just going to open it and he can elaborate.
There was a bylaw change based on my resolutions that I am bringing with regard toelection integrity and that no one wants to
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have passed.
And I do believe, and when we were earlier talking about making it personal, I believethat these resolutions that I am bringing, which, you know, they're resolutions that we
all who love freedom should agree on, right?
There's nothing, the left should agree on them as well.
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We just want transparent elections.
And these things align with President Trump.
Okay, I'm going to let Barry take over and let him tell you.
What transpired within the RSCC because it is unbelievable.
Well, now let's not say that nobody wants those passed because all of us deplorables wantit passed.
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But we wound up and we argued strongly against it with some bylaw changes that make itmuch more difficult to bring a resolution.
And it's really shameful, but...
It is what it is and we're just going to have to deal with it.
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eh
Barry?
How was it made more difficult?
Well, if you've passed a resolution about something, then you can't bring another one onthe same subject for a year.
And they want to use the resolutions committee as a censorship board rather than ascreening tool.
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And look, there are things that shouldn't.
necessarily they should maybe be sent back to the author to be redone because they'reeither poorly done or they're inflammatory or whatever.
Interestingly enough, I had one of my resolutions sent back as quote inflammatory and theypassed another uh resolution onto the body that passed unanimously on the same subject
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that was in my opinion a lot more in depth than inflammatory.
Mine was like three quarters of it.
page.
The other one was two pages.
But you know, hey, it is what it is.
And there are no standards.
No.
And I thought it was just, hey, Barry's put too many resolutions in.
Let's, So, Well, they put me in the penalty box and Barry was told, and I don't know ifyou're not going to talk about it.
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ahead.
Go ahead.
That.
that the reason, that change that he just mentioned that is now part of the bylaws that uhit's called a similar resolution.
And there's no definition for the word similar.
So, and he made a great analogy, which was um to me, which was for example, if Jane Doepasses away and we issue a resolution, which often happens, a memorial resolution to honor
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Jane Doe and her service.
Well, if John Smith, you know, at our next meeting has passed away and we'd like to bringthe same sort of memorial resolution for John Smith, but we probably can't do it because
it's so similar.
There's no language to define similar.
Right.
Sorry, I mean, you know, sorry, if you'd have waited another year, we maybe could havebrought that resolution to honor you.
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so.
Well, you know, what it winds up with is this.
There are certain things that are painful and we have to deal with it and take ourmedicine.
And sometimes folks just don't want to deal with things that are painful.
So they just make it much more.
It's like you lock the door to the parking lot for the doctor's office so you can't go geta shot and get over what you got.
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Yeah.
Barry, can you imagine in your company, the company that you just took over, can youimagine if your board passed a resolution that said, sorry, John Smith, say he's a member
of your board.
John, if you bring an issue up that has to do with the value of our company or the bottomline profits and revenues, if you bring that up and we discuss that.
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You don't get to bring, sorry, but you don't get to bring that issue up again before theboard for another year.
Even if the company's falling apart, even if there are major issues we have to address,sorry, it's just our rule.
We don't get to talk about it for another year.
You had your shot.
Can you imagine a private business being run that way, Barry?
Well, I took over a public company and now you understand why 50.3 % of the shareholdersproxied their votes to me to vote out the old board and vote in a new board.
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So yes, I can imagine that and it's never, there was a solution and it's never successfulwhen that happens.
And the solution in this case, Chris and Danielle, is that Republicans
need to get involved.
need to find out who their parish executive committee is and who their RSCC member is.
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And they need to light up their phone and their email.
And that's the solution.
And I would say, I would say also the solution, at least in my view, is if we actually areable to achieve secure elections with hand mark, hand counted paper ballots, all these
problems start taking care of themselves.
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Those people who got in there for the wrong reasons will be able to be voted out.
can't, I can't say that, you know, accountability can, can really happen until
we can trust our elections because I've found and I'm sure you could say the same.
A lot of these people completely operate with impunity.
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They are accountable to no one except perhaps the people who make sure that they getinstalled the next time.
They're donors.
but within the context of the RRCC, as you're saying, Danielle, I think this is what youwere referencing, the people who are currently serving.
And the point that I was trying to get to was that there was, and I think most of yourviewers, a lot of them know that certain of us, when we began talking about election
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integrity five years ago, doing the deep dive, we got canceled from certain organizations.
Our voices were censored, or at least they were tried to be censored.
And interestingly enough, fast forward to now I am serving in an elected capacity.
I have constituents and those self-same people who tried to censor my voice before are nowserving on the board of the LA GOP.
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And that is why that rule was brought that the resolution cannot be similar in a 12 monthperiod because they wanted me to stop bringing the election integrity resolutions.
Am I wrong?
No, you're not wrong.
And you know, it's interesting.
This is the decade in the Hebraic calendar, 80, 5780 is the decade, like 2020 for us.
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And 80 is the year of the mouth.
And this is, I think, is that right?
And this is an entire uh decade that war is being fought over our speech.
And we can see that it's been absolutely true.
We saw that it started in 2020.
Mask up.
Don't buck the system.
You didn't see anything.
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J6 was definitely an insurrection.
ah You are not allowed to question the outcomes of the 2020 election.
If you do, you're an election denier and on and on and on, you know, culminating, I wouldsay in a lot of ways in the the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk, who got killed, assassinated
for saying what saying the truth for saying something other people didn't like.
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So I think a big
As we fight this war of words, it's imperative that we, um mean, one, Christy, I knowyou're a big believer in this, put on the full armor of God so that we can actually fight
effectively.
We need Holy Spirit's guidance to be able to fight effectively because this is nottraditional warfare and the playing ground is not level.
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We're still being censored.
mean, Chris, you mentioned that Nancy Landry, our Secretary of State, brought a bill.
carried by comrade Greg Miller who basically made it so that we could not do exit pollingas citizens.
And I didn't tell you this, but I applied for um press credentials to the legislature.
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I actually haven't told anyone this.
And they denied them because I'm not a salaried member of the media.
Well, really?
I mean they did say I was welcome to come to any of the public spaces anytime.
Sure I am, yeah.
I know I am.
That's right.
That's right.
bottom line on that.
That's a great point, Danielle, that you raise.
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uh Christy and Danielle, you really, in bringing up SB 80 and bringing up that atrociouspiece of legislation that completely desecrated freedom of assembly and freedom of speech
that was passed in our legislature by Republicans and was signed by our governor.
and that we're simply not gonna let that issue go away.
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The only state in the country that makes a distinction between ordinary Louisiana citizensand quote bonafide news organizations like MSNBC and CNN, but don't get me off on a rant
here.
So Christy.
that they are making a pattern out of doing that if they're not allowing independentjournalists to have a seat with the rest of the media that has the badge of CNN, MSNBC, or
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whatever.
I mean, how do those people get to be salaried?
You would think it's because they have the opportunity to report and create an audience.
You would think so, yeah.
Christy, what is the, how many people do you represent in your RSCC district?
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Ooh, that's a great question.
I, you know, Christopher, I should know that answer and I'm remiss and not.
I will find out.
Do you have an idea?
Okay.
East Baton, 17.
Yeah, we do this by Senate districts.
Okay.
And it's proportioned according to the number of registered Republicans in a Senatedistrict.
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For example, the district that Cleo Fields had as the state Senator.
Only had two RSCC members because there aren't many registered Republicans.
My district, there's about 125,000 people in the Senatorial District, registered voters.
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uh About, I'm going to say half of them in District 17, Senator Klein-Peters District, areregistered as Republicans.
And we have five.
oh
So I'd say I probably represent 12,000 people.
And that.
yeah, let's just assume for a second, Christy, you represent somewhere between 12, 15, 18,maybe 20,000 people.
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Yeah, you are their voice.
So I think it's important to point out here that this provision that was passed by theRSCC, by the powers that be in the RSCC, they're not just censoring Christy Haik's voice,
they're censoring the voice of 20,000 people who elected you to speak for them andrepresent them.
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and to use, you know, words very, that's what makes it all the more.
And I hate to even use the word deplorable because I love the word deplorable.
So I'll use the word reprehensible.
That makes it reprehensible.
It's reprehensible Christopher and you continued on my thought progress that I didn'tfinish.
And that is that these same people who tried to censor my voice and actually amplified itin their efforts as you know, have now tried to censor my voice, but it's not my voice.
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I am representing a constituency and they're censoring their voices if they pull this off,but they're not going to because I did not run for RSCC to be censored.
And I ran for RCC to try to infiltrate, if you will, that's kind of a negative word, butto infiltrate the monarchy that Barry spoke of earlier, the establishment, because we need
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to infiltrate the establishment and bring the Republican Party back to its Ronald Reagan,Frederick Douglass roots, because we have gone so far astray of its origins that we have
lost our way.
And that's why we have all of these rhinos.
We have all of these people who are not doing the bidding of the constituents that votedthem into office, because now we know that it is a method that they use.
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They say that they are Republicans and they're actually Democrats in Republican clothing.
So when they are elected, because they said they were Republican, they're voting likeDemocrats and we wonder why, but that's a methodology that's being employed as you all
know.
And so...
The reality is we conservatives, and there are way more of us than there are of them,fortunately, have got to do something.
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And the way that we can make our voices heard is by running for office, is by, if youwill, infiltrating the establishment as the anti-establishment and really making a
difference in having our constituents' voices actually heard.
And so I think that they're seeing
At the level of the LAGOP board and in the herd, if you will, I think that they're seeingthat things are changing, that things are evolving in a way that they never expected
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because it was the monarchy, one abdicates and the next one just spills those shoes,right?
Puts the crown on.
That's not gonna stand anymore because we won't allow it to stand.
And so I think people really do, your listeners really do need to become engaged.
with their RSC, figure out who that is.
Figure out who represents you with your RSC seat and get in touch with that person andtell them that you support their efforts on behalf of election integrity.
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All of the issues, carbon capture, everything that we've been fighting for and against thelast five years.
Get in touch.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, Kristi and Barry, you know, maybe getting a little bit back to the effectiveness ofthe RSCC for a second, you know, a big criticism of Congress is that they use their
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perches on the dais and on social media and public spaces to voice their opinion forsomething or against something.
And people criticize them by saying they, all they do is write strongly worded letters insupport or condemnation of something, right?
Do you view, is the RSCC in a position like that right now?
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Would you characterize it that way that all you can do is basically write a stronglyworded letter and it's not got any, does it have any teeth?
Well, I did hear from several people that the paper ballot resolution greatly inflamedNancy Landry.
So what that means, mean, you know, did it help anything?
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Well, you know, she's already inflamed by our efforts.
you know, I can't really answer that question.
think Barry has more experience with that.
an irritant is an excellent thing.
Well, you know, it takes a grain of sand to make a pearl.
know, we are what we settle for.
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And if we settle for being toothless dogs who wag our tail and are glad to get thrown atreat every once in a while, then that's what we're going to be.
That's right.
I choose not to settle for We are not two-footed dogs.
And we don't wag our tail.
We're not happy right now, so the tail's not wagging.
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You know, you both, you both, one of the reasons why I admire you, and I know Danielledoes as well, both of you so much is that you seem to embody ah in your public work, uh I
believe it was John Adams, you know, who said that, know, duty is ours in each moment andthe results are up to God.
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And when we meet our Maker, God is not going to ask us what kind of
results did you achieve?
He's going to ask us, did you act on proper principles during moments of extreme exigency?
And I think that both of you will be able to answer, yes, we did.
And that's the first point I want to make.
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And the second point I want to make is this, even if the establishment Republican party isnot paying attention to your resolutions, I can assure you that we are paying attention to
it.
And we use those good resolutions in order to buttress our own position with regard tocitizens across the state.
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so they understand that these resolutions that you pass, and they will continue tounderstand, even if they're not being implemented by the state Republican Party in the
legislature or by the governor, they're much, much closer to the sentiments of ordinaryLouisiana citizens across this state.
It's.
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You know, Chris.
one point to that, Chris, as you were saying that, it was like I could see uh somethingbeing a door jam, just opening the door up just enough to let something through.
And I think that's what you're talking about.
Y'all have brought resolutions on behalf of the people that's a door jam so that somethinggood can get through regardless of the establishmentarians.
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Yeah, I the thing that keeps me going is I remember what Gandhi said first they ignore you
Then they ridicule you.
Then they attack you.
And then you win.
So we are past the ridicule stage.
think we're at the attack stage.
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But you know, I'm kind of like the kid that got the really bad Christmas present andopened it up and said, boy, they got me a pony.
I don't know where they put it, but I see the evidence.
So I took
uh
as meaning that we're just on the edge of being done with that phase and now we're goingto win.
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So it's okay.
I'm still the same little guy that grew up in a house out in the country on the side ofthe road whose dad went to work wearing a uniform every day.
And I always will be regardless of what kind of success God has given me.
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I'm just center saved by grace.
Well, I'm an it's an honor.
I'm going to interject here.
It's an honor to serve next to Barry.
This is the uh humble guy that he is he because he has had my back several times withinthe context and the confines of the meetings because again, I'm new and I'm learning and
I'm like Barry if I want to object, what's the proper language and he'll tell me, youknow, and so.
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But some of these things that we're seeing back to the RCC, some of these resolutions andfor me being new, seeing these things that we're talking about, we're spending our time,
these people come from all over the state, right?
To represent their constituents and to talk about important, important things, I thought.
And we're talking about censuring uh Carville for wearing LSU gear.
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Yeah, that was a resolution.
That was a resolution.
Censoring James Carville, we don't want, the RSCC, the LAGOP doesn't want James Carvilleto represent LSU, so we need to say that.
We don't want him to wear LSU gear anymore.
That was a resolution.
No, maybe Mary will make him smoke on the video.
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uh I will say right here that my mother used to babysit James Carville.
She's from St.
Gabriel.
She said he was always a bad boy.
But that's neither here nor there.
um I just was appalled at the fact that these resolutions that are brought are so fluffyand have no import or gravitas whatsoever in many instances.
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So I think that people are now sorting to sort of understand, starting to understand,right?
Barry brings important resolutions.
um I'm trying to bring resolutions that comport with President Trump's EOs, which couldnot be more uh time sensitive at this juncture.
And we hope that we're going to have
something serious happened here quickly.
You guys have been talking about it on your program with regards to our elections, that wewill have something happen that will no longer have to worry about voting machines.
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And let me say this.
We're having a Republican conference in Alexandria on November the 1st on All Saints Day.
And a tip of the hat to Mike Chittem for being
several grains of sand that just kept irritating and pushing until that happened.
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So, you know, we got a lot of people that are trying to do the right thing.
That's right.
Yeah, and I'm not disparaging.
Look, we're not disparaging the majority of people in the RRC.
They're great people.
They just don't really know a whole lot because we don't meet very often.
We don't, you know, and it's hard to get together.
We're trying to change the communications aspect.
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of the RSCC and how we communicate with like-minded individuals that serve with us.
so Barry and I have gotten together quite often to talk about how that looks.
And I think that we are having, we have a good game plan.
So ground game is gonna be important going forward.
well, we're lucky to have, we're certainly lucky to have you there.
I mean, both of you were lucky to have you there.
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uh I want to put a quick word in for Mike Chitin.
Look, I know that uh on policy issues, y'all have your disagreements with Mike, but I dowant to say this.
When I was down there on that Saturday pushing for your ah
the one that ultimately passed.
And there were some factions in the RSCC that I think wanted to shut down debate.
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You remember it better than I do, Christy, but I do remember that there was an effortthere to shut down debate on the issue and I think to foreclose a vote.
And even though Mike Chitom, I don't think fully agrees with you on this issue, he stoodup and said, you know what?
I don't agree with them on this issue, but I am offended by the fact that this body woulddiscourage open
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And then.
wanted to mention that, and I think I'd be remiss without doing it because it stood out to
I agree with you Christopher.
Michael Chidham always stands, you can say whatever you want about Michael Chidham, if hedoesn't agree with you he always stands on constitutional principles and values and he
agrees what is right is right and what is wrong is wrong based on the Constitution and hestands up for that.
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true patriot who tries to do the right thing.
That's right.
Yeah, and we will survive that way.
I know I would be remiss, Barry, if I didn't tell you before y'all go that you areactually in my quote book, Barry, since I was 19 or 20 years old, since I left the
seminary, I've been keeping a green quote book where, I mean, literally it's 35 years old.
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And when I hear something that really jumps out at me, I go and write it.
And periodically I'll go back and review it.
And you said something recently that absolutely uh just jumped out at me.
I don't even know that I needed to write this down, but I wanted to do it in your honor.
And it is said basically the prayer is, and it takes us back to the beginning here.
Lord, please help that the quality of my good decisions outweighs the quantity of my baddecisions.
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And it's something that serves to keep us all humble.
and to recognize that we are all indeed sinners.
Those are not just words.
We are all wretched before the Lord and His sacrifice makes us righteous.
Thank God for His grace.
But Barry, I just wanted to say that and I hope everybody remembers that.
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And uh Danielle, do you have any final words for our guests today?
I'm just so grateful y'all are in the fight, that y'all are keeping such a great attitudeabout it.
I'm grateful that y'all have each other because it would be a very lonely place if youwere having to fight this fight alone.
And I know there are more with you than against you, like you said, Christy.
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So keep up the great work.
And um I know that transparency is key in this process because when it comes down to it,if there is an open debate, if there is a transparent vote,
by and large people are gonna vote the right way.
So if there's a prayer that we can have for the Republican State Central Committee, it'snot just that people get involved at home, but it's also that we would be praying that
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their uh internal activities would be both transparent and that there would be a fair votehad on all the issues that are brought forth.
Amen.
Thank you, Danielle, for that.
to that.
Well, God bless you both.
Keep up the good fight.
And there are a whole lot of Patriots amassed on the hill behind you with you.
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Oh, that's so wonderful.
you both so much.
God bless you and the work that you do.
Thank you, God bless y'all.
Well, Chris, are in it,
100%.
I love both of them.
And I love the fact that, you know, they are, they are standing strong.
And I love what, what Christy Haik's said, you know, I didn't run for office and getelected to this position to be, to be censored.
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And she means it, believe me.
And I think Barry, Barry is the same way.
And I hope on two points that Barry's right, Danielle.
I hope that we are the Erasmus.
of the political party.
I hope that our party can be recovered and purified from within.
And I also hope that he's right when he says we're in the attack stage now, inching closeto the stage where the patriot wins.
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I hope he's right on both of those points.
I certainly pray that he is.
Well, know, God has a very good sense of humor and he also puts us exactly where we needto be right when we need to be there if we're willing vessels.
And I think it's the fact that Barry has extensive experience on leading hostile takeoversis not lost on me.
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Now, I think he is a guy who would probably say, and he can correct me if I'm wrong, thatah he's not taking over something that doesn't need to be taken over.
And I don't think he has any ambition to take this over whatsoever, but he does know howto operate in hostile conditions.
And so I believe he's doing that beautifully, masterfully.
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think Christy, you know, she's such a person that operates in respect and that's the waythat they're going to be able to be successful.
You know, as frustrating as it is and as many names as they call us, ah you know, we haveto operate in the opposite spirit.
That's not the way that we're going to win.
We're not going to win by the same tactics that they use.
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So I think we're seeing Christy and Barry as great examples of the way to operate in, inhostile and difficult environments.
Oh, that's very, very well said, Danielle um that they are like the eagle.
You know, I heard something the other day that says, you know, when the crow gets on theback of the eagle and starts pecking at him and pecking at him and pecking at him and
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pecking at him, the eagle does not attack the crow.
The eagle just continues to fly higher and higher.
And there comes a point where the air becomes so thin that the crow can't breathe anymore.
and just falls off the eagle's back because the eagle transcends uh the capacity of thecrow.
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And I think we need to keep that in mind in the way that we approach politics, in the waythat we approach advocacy.
If we find ourselves ever in a situation where we are reducing ourselves to the level ofwhat we see in our adversaries so often, too often, then we are not honoring
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God and we need to remember the eagle and continue to rise.
And Danielle, we've talked about it many times when you said, my gosh, I just want to bitethis guy's head off.
I want to get guttural with this guy.
want to go gorilla on this guy.
want to rip their head off.
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And we have to sort of walk each other off the cliff and we have to return to grace andreturn to prayer.
Resisting the
personal vendettas resisting the kind of belligerence uh to which so much of our politicshas devolved.
So we need to keep it on the higher plane and you helped me to do that frankly on a dailybasis.
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Well, likewise, the road goes both ways on that.
And I think a big part of our ability to do that is knowing who we are in Christ.
If we know who we are, then we know how we are, uh we know the behavior that is acceptableto us for, you know, what's going to cause us to be disappointed in ourselves.
And, ah you know, we got to run with good people who have uh similar values to be able tohold each other accountable because some days it's easier than others.
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Indeed.
Some days it is easier than others, but you know, we will remain at the helm, remain atour post, and continue forward because it's again, it's God's battle, Danielle, not our
own.
Before we go, I want to strongly encourage everybody who hears this show right now, who'slistening to this show, or who may hear it later, to share the state of freedom with at
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least one person today.
Share and subscribe the state of freedom.
We are the voice of liberty across the state of Louisiana on issues across the range,speaking unapologetically on behalf of ordinary patriotic Louisiana citizens whose voice
has been ignored for way too long in our state.
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And one commitment that Danielle, you and I made when we first started this show is thatwe are not going to be hesitant in speaking the truth.
We're going to speak the truth boldly.
in love.
And even though we're not perfect, we try to do that each day, but speak the truth.
We will.
So help us to expand this voice by subscribing and sharing and donating to the state offreedom.
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is, it is just a, a great platform.
95 % of the reason why it's a great platform is because of you, Danielle.
Uh, but I'm working hard too over here and we're gonna, we're gonna keep, yeah.
And we're gonna, we're gonna keep spreading, keep expanding.
Also support LCAG, Louisiana Citizen Advocacy Group, Danielle Albee and Kinder thisevening, talking about the voting record on carbon capture sequestration of uh the two uh
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legislators who represent Alan Parrish, Senator Heather Cloud and Representative DeWittCarrier.
Some good, some bad on both, but we'll be talking about their recent voting record andtheir record on CCS the last year or two.
because again, if the voters are not informed about what is actually going on in thelegislature, they can't make an informed decision when they go to the voting booth.
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So I'm looking forward to being in Kinder tonight.
And Danielle, in the great words of William F.
Buckley, I can't close the show without saying this.
You may have an announcement, but oh, sorry, sorry.
No, I was just going to say that I also want to thank all of our listeners and viewers whoare beyond the boundaries of Louisiana.
You're welcome here anytime.
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We love you guys.
We couldn't do it without you.
And uh we will be back soon.
A uh couple just announcements here.
One, thank you to anyone who joined us in Houma this past weekend for the Charlie KirkMemorial Service.
in Terrebonne, it was really moving, it was incredible.
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It had almost 400 people there with short notice.
a huge, it was just a really sweet and I think heartfelt movement.
Saw some young men stand up and give testimonials and I just think that's the future.
know, these young men who are unapologetic about their faith, unapologetic to speak thetruth and may many, many more rise like them.
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This afternoon we'll be streaming a four hour special hosted by Steve Stern and DanSchultz on Rumble and X.
This is their precinct strategy and Christy Hike was the representative from Louisiana whooutlined what this looks like for our state.
So you can catch Christy there later today.
I believe it starts at noon our time and runs on from there.
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Tomorrow on For the Love of Freedom, Millersville, Tennessee, former Deputy Chief ofPolice, Sean Taylor.
We'll be on to talk about what has driven him to fight so hard for truth and transparencyand justice in the massive Rico conspiracy that he uncovered.
He was unable to join us a couple of times.
He had some crazy stuff happen, but he has confirmed that he will be joining us tomorrow.
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And he'll also give us some updates on the stuff that's happening, being uncovered byPeter Berniger with ActBlue and When Red, if we have time.
And then on Thursday, our friend Matt Mack will
come on back here on the state of freedom.
We'll be back here at 10 central to give some updates on Tina Peters case.
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And I believe we will be delving into some of the whistleblower testimonies from theSerbian whistleblower and Venezuelan whistleblower on the Dominion machines.
So we got a jam packed week.
I hope you don't miss anything and I hope we'll see you back here tomorrow morning.
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Absolutely.
And God bless uh the great patriot Boone Cutler.
Danielle, when you mentioned Matt Meck, it reminded me of Boone Cutler, who we were havingthe privilege of having on our show, golly, a year or two ago.
uh Very few have suffered more, sacrificed more, or contributed more to America, diedunexpectedly in his mid-40s.
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But rest in peace, Boone Cutler.
You were a great patriot who inspired us and many, many others.
God bless you eternally.
And Danielle, God bless you as always.
I look forward to seeing you again.
And in the great words of the one and only, the late, great William F.
Buckley Jr.
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in veying, shall go.
We shall go.
Here we go.
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