Dr. Bobby Eberle - Fort Bend County GOP Chair Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, school board elections, you know, they don't always
drive a lot of traffic. So is that what went wrong?
Is that what went wrong? Not enough people showed up
to vote in Keller and Katie and Mansfield. Id's where
conservative school board members didn't fare so well. Let's ask
doctor Bobby Everlee, he's a Fort Ben County GOP chair. Voter.
Turnout counts for a lot, doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh sure do Hey, thanks for having me on this morning.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Appreciate it, you bet. So why is it that Democrats
are better to get people to turn out to vote
in these types of elections evidently than conservatives are. What
do you make of that? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:37):
I think, yeah, I think there's a number of issues.
One of them is as clearly as we saw in
the November elections, Republicans Conservatives were motivated and they came
out and you saw the results. But here's the thing is,
like we always have to stay ready for the next election.
There's always an election around the corner. And Republicans like

(01:00):
to just go on with their lives. You know, they
like to, hey, we won this, now, let's you know,
take care of our kids, let's pay the rent, let's
work and they're not looking toward the next election. Where
the Democrats, whether it's city council races, you know, municipal
races or school board races, anything they can do to
get into the government, they're always looking and they're always motivated.

(01:24):
And that's something that Republicans really need to work on
and fort Bend though, we did have some issues of
some personal issues that helped to take out the incumbent
Republican that we had. I mean, these are non partisan races,
but the Republican we had in that race, and that
really really hurt us. Rather than rallying around the Republican incumbent,

(01:48):
we had a faction that split the vote and that
hurt both races, There's no doubt about it. So we've
got some work to do on that end. But conservatives
and gen need to be able to rally, focus, mobilize
in these elections that don't have a major turnout. In
Katie the margin was exactly what it was last year

(02:12):
when the conservative slate kind of went down to the
liberal slate sixty forty. We saw that again in Victor
Perez's race sixty forty. So in these small turnouts, we
have to be able to tell people that what's at
stake your kids' future, boys and girls' restrooms born in

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the schools, that's what's at stake. And this is what
the Liberals ran on and actually won on it.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
And that's amazing, that's amazing. Yes, yeah, I think it's
one of those cases where and I'm not quite sure
what the disconnect is, but if you're a conservative, and
even if you're a sixty five year old conservative and
your kids are long gone, not in the public school
system anymore, you're still paying through the nose school tax.
I would think you would want to you want to

(03:02):
have a say, and what goes on in those schools,
that's your tax dollars being spent. And I don't know
that we've done a good enough job of letting people
know exactly how important these local elections are. The results
of local elections dictate your life, sometimes a whole lot
more than national elections do.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Exactly you bring it back home, right, I mean your taxes.
This is where the local government is either influencing your
children or fixing potholes or whatever it is, other roads, structures, infrastructure,
and so you need to be vigilant and when look
at those tax dollars, see how you want them to spend,
and see what kind of policies you want that affect

(03:42):
your kids'.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Day to day lives.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
And you know, the vast majority of Americans, poll after
poll do not support boys in girls' restrooms or porn
in schools. And yet these people were able to be elected.
So we've got to be able to put the word out.
One of the problems is is that obviously, in partisan
elections the party we did a great job with messaging

(04:04):
with getting out the vote. We don't do that in
the municipal and school board elections. That's up to the
candidates since it's non partisan, and they really need to
be able to put that campaign together.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
And drive out that vote. There you go, all right, doctor,
good to hear from you. Thank you appreciate it. Doctor
Bobby Everley Ford, Ben County GOP Chair