Why are so many people in the sheriff's office accused of domestic violence?

This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features Houston city councilman Mike Knox and journalist Brandon Waltens.  ( @KennethRWebster )

Episode Transcript

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Jack ganon government sucks. Suit ofHappiness radio is DeLux. Liberty and freedom
will make you smile. A suitof Happiness on your radio toel justice,
Cheseburgers, and a libery rise atA new study suggests that people should drink

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less or not at all. I'mjust going to guess. The study was
conducted by the International Association of Killjoys. Hi, I'm Kenny Webster. Thanks
for joining us. Happy Tuesday afternoon. Good to have you here, big
show today. Brandon Walton stopping byfrom Texas scorecard dot Com. You know,
lawmakers in Texas, more specifically,state senators are meeting right now at

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this exact specific moment to discuss politicalviolence and campus free speech. We're kind
of walking a tightrope between those twothings right now in this country, aren't
we, And they're having a discussionabout it today in Austin, Texas.
He's there. He'll be calling inshortly to tell us about what's happening.
Also stopping by today, local goodguy, Houston City Councilman Mike Knox,

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who is currently running for Harris CountySheriff. I hope he wins. He's
going to be joining us at theend of the show. You know ed
Gonzalez and his chief of staff bothhave something in common. They have been
charged accused of some pretty outrageous examplesof domestic violence, and they want to
be in charge of the sheriff's department. That's amazing. We'll get to all

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that real soon, but before wedo, let's start off the show with
this. If you live in California, you're paying an insane amount of money
for gas right now, and it'sabout to get a lot worse. I
saw a study earlier today that saidthe number one state for leaving in America
right now that people are leaving isCalifornia, and the number one state they're

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going to his Texas. Not surprisingly, the number one you know partnership of
states where people are leaving and goingsomewhere else is from California to Texas.
I can't think of a better wayto explain that one. But in today's
edition of Getting What You Vote For, the dummies in California are about to
get hit with a fifty percent gallongas tax. That's fifty cents per gallon.

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You remember California voters handed the DemocratParty full power over the Golden State.
Well, the former Golden State.Is John Nolty put it, Democrats
run everything from the governorship to thewell do you name it? Everything,
everything in the city. What's controlledby everything in the state. What are
Republicans control in the state of California. Nothing. Democrats not only hold majorities

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in the state legislator legislature, theyhold veto proof majorities. In other words,
Republicans are powerless in California, andso blaming your problems on Republicans is
going to fall on deaf ears.According to Triple A, you guys know
what Triple A is. The averagecost of a gallon of gas in California

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today, it's five dollars and twentynine cents. It's about a bucks seventy
more than the national average. Insome parts of the state, gas costs
six dollars and thirty two cents pergallon. How can you afford to go
anywhere? The lowest cost for agallon of gas in that Democrat run crap
hole is five dollars and two centsanywhere. Now add fifty cents to those

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prices. Fox Business reports that inSeptember, the California Air Resources Board,
that'd be your carb. It's thestate's primary environmental regulator, reported gas prices
will rise next year by fifty centsa gallon in an effort to clean up
the air, because you know,when you raise taxes, it always makes

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things cleaner, right. I guessif people are driving less. I don't
know the report for SES the gasolineprice increases due to the low carbon fuel
standard reforms created in two thousand andseven. They're going to rise forty seven
cents next year and fifty two centsby twenty twenty six. Diesel prices could

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climb by fifty nine cents. Youknow what that's going to mean. Everything's
going to get more expensive than sixtysix cents in two more years. You
know why that's so bad? Right? You know what? Diesel fuel is
used for delivering everything hamburger, meat, gasoline, milk, you name it.
Democrats won elections all over the state, and the housing cost has exploded,

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grocery costs exploded. You could alreadyfeel the noose tightening twelve years ago.
Now where are we? Since twentyeleven, Democrats in California have consolidated
their power even more by chasing awaynormal people. That's why they're moving to
tech Hopefully the people moving to Texasrealize why they're leaving and they vote correctly.

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Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness, wherewe certainly realize we're a heart attack
away from President Kamala Here in thestate of Texas. A group of people
whom you pay to work for aliving sometimes are gathered together right now to

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discuss campus free speech. It's astrange term, guys. I'm a constitutionalist,
I'm a liberty Republican. I ama loyal brand evangelist of the First
Amendment. Will I will die forthe right to express myself. That I
know that sounds like hyperbole and sensationalism, No, I will. This is

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an important issue. If you can'texpress yourself, and if you can't defend
yourself, then you don't have yourGod given those are the two most important
things. That's why they're right therein the First and Second Amendment. Our
founding fathers knew that. But what'shappening on college campuses right now, it's
not exactly a First Amendment issue.These kids at ut were throwing feces.

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You don't have a constitutional right tothrow horse feces at a cop. You
don't have a constitutional right to blocka Jewish kid's access to English literature class
today, that's not a constitutional right, that's something else. So the Texas
Senate's Higher Education Committee is meeting rightnow. They just took a break a

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short time ago. As a matterof fact, one of our friends,
one of our reporters, our buddyBrandon Waltons from Texas scorecard dot Com,
is there right now with all thelatest. Brandon, is this civil discussion
between Republicans and Democrats or did itget a little ugly as I could probably
expect. Well, so far,it's it's been pretty good. I mean,

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we we've talked about specifically those antiIsrael demonstrations, protests, whatever you
want to call them, that wesaw happen on universities across the country.
But we also saw it happened verynotably at the University of Texas in Austin.
This was just a couple of weeksago. And I think the point
has been made you made this,which is, you know, people support
free speech. We love free speech. There have been nearly, by the

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way, a dozen maybe more ofthese pro Palestine protests on the campus of
UT since last October. The problemis when you have these demonstrations that are
actually set to disrupt, where they'reset to engage in violence, where they're
setting up in campments like we've seenyou know, at the University of Colombia

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and some others. That's where theissues come in. And so right now
you've got the Senate Committee on Educationhearing testimony on this, and hearing testimony,
by the way, from DTS,you know, the officers that were
there on the ground and getting evensome new information about what exactly the threat
was there. You know, literallyyou saw they reported that there were stockpiles

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of fricks of rocks, they foundfirearms, cupper spray, knives, et
cetera. And so this was definitelysomething that was set up to get out
of hand, and it seems likea positive thing that DPS a while with
the University of Texas Police Department,was able to stop this before it got

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two out of hand and to thelevel that we've seen some of these other
protests get. Do they know,by the way, where they got those
things from. The pro Palestinian protestersare actually being funded by people like George
Soros, the Rockefellers, the Pritzkers. This isn't my opinion. This is
in politic Politico, not exactly,Breitbart, not exactly. Texas Scorecard wrote

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a story about how a lot ofthe protesters are being funded by people that
aren't even necessarily anti zion Is.It seems like they're just trying to create
chaos. I mean, it looksthat way to me. Yeah, it's
people who want to see chaos,right. It's the same people that have
been funneling millions of dollars to electdistrict attorneys that have run on platforms of

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essentially not enforcing crimes, right,And why do they want that? A
lot of that is just literally thechaos that it seems to create, and
so it's a very dangerous thing andit's and it's always pointed out too because
you know, you hear about Okay, well that's interesting. They've got these
these bricks, these rocks to whobrought those in? And at the same

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time, you see and you seea lot of this reports that you know,
it's very suspicious that a lot ofthese riots across the country, these
protests, they look very similar,and so it sort of suggests that,
you know, perhaps some of thedirectors are coming from a central place.
All Right, we were told overand over again that these protesters that were

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out there were peaceful up until theyweren't, and then they were told they
had to take their camp their tentsdown. But forgive me for noticing things,
because I know I'm not supposed tonotice this, But this is Austin
we're talking about. If these protestershad just said they were homeless, they
wouldn't have made a move, wouldn'tthey. Well, you know, depending
on who was enforcing it, right, because what actually was was one of

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the one of the tools that wasused to get them to leave was the
fact that these protesters were in violationwhen they were setting up their camps,
were in violation of a new statelaw. Yeah, that specifically was going
after the city of Austin attitude towardsyou know, allowing anybody to camp anywhere
anytime. That was just a fewyears ago. You finally got out overturned.

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The problem is getting maybe a littlebit better in Austin, although there's
still some questions about whether or notit's being properly enforced or if they have
enough manpower to enforce it. Butyeah, I mean this is literally that's
that's exactly what the leftists on theAustin City Council just a few years ago,
where we're saying, would be greatif everybody could just camp out.
You can camp out in front ofsomeone's yard, on the street, on

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the sidewalk, anywhere. I knowsome of our listeners that are driving around
downtown Houston right now, we'll thinkI'm an idiot or a rube for saying
this. But we don't have thehomeless problem in Houston that they have in
Austin. Or singing Antonio, Imean, we just don't. I know,
we have homeless people. It's thefourth biggest city in the country.
Of course there's homeless people. Butback in twenty twenty one, Greg Abbott,

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Governor Rabbit, signed HB nineteen twentyfive, and like you just said,
that was supposed to make it unlawfulfor people to just camp wherever they
wanted to, with a fine ofabout five hundred dollars. But does that
even get enforced in Austin. Iwas in Austin earlier this year, right
before south by Southwest. I sawhomeless people all over the place. Yeah,

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it's all over the place. Andthey were making even back then,
right they were making some efforts tohave DPS come in then come come clean
it up. But the the encampments, unfortunately, have have come back,
you know, unfortunately, and thisis just you know, the the unfortunate
nature of this. But you know, the state actually set up a site

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with you know, with water,with facilities, et cetera, that that
the homeless could actually go use andgo live in. But unfortunately, uh,
you know, for for a lotof them there you had police officers
that were watching this area, andyou had PPS officers that were there,
and you know, they weren't allowedto use drugs or they weren't allowed to

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do a lot of a lot ofthings, and it became not a very
attractive place unfortunately for for a lotof the homeless that we have an offensive
that that's that's the unfortunate reality ofthe situation. Okay, And then don't
you guys have a place out inthe woods there where there's a like a
homeless community. I've seen videos ofthis on social media before. I know

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this has nothing to do with protesters, but I don't think I've ever asked
you about that, Brandon. You'veseen that footage before, right, you
walk out in the woods and there'sjust garbage and tents and shelters, all
of what the hell is that?It's what is it? And it's an
encamment at Roy G. Guerrero Park. Yeah, I mean, and you
know, you say into the woods, it's barely a few feet off of

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the walking trail, right, Sothis is a place where women, men
whoever go out right, maybe earlyin the morning, late in the evening,
they're walking, they're exercising, literallyjust feed away you have. You
have these homeless encampments where there aredrugs, where there are other things taking
place, and so it it's definitelynot a safe situation. All right.

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It's probably unfair to ask you aquestion. This difficult, Brandon Waltons of
Texas scorecard dot com. But fromyour own assessment, just from where you're
sitting, from your experience with thesepeople, and you look at the homeless
sentinel, addicted hoboes on the streetsand the Palestinian College protesters who smells worse?

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Can you tell from where you're sitting? Is uh? You know,
there there's certainly some overlap. Whatyou haven't well, you haven't included is
is the third group, which mightbe some of the journalists that cover these
yeah, I don't know. Itmight be a three way time. Who
throws more feces the literal the protestersliterally throwing feces, or the journalists figuratively

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throwing feces with misinformation on the internet. Go ahead, Brandon, Yeah,
it might Uh, that's a toughone. It might be. It might
be a tie on These questions aretoo hard. I'm sorry, I said
Brandon. I should have given youmore time to prepare. I'm sorry about
that. His website's texascorecard dot com. You could subscribe to their email list.

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I really think you should. You'reyou're doing yourself a disservice. But
it's one of my favorite emails.It's one of the it's it's probably the
best resource for information on what's goingon in Texas news and politics every day.
A short, concise email that Brandonand Michael quinn Sullivan of Texas Scorecards
sent out early every morning. Youget that in your email free of charge,
way better than the Houston Chronicle andnot for nothing here, but subscribe

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to Brandon on social media. You'llbe glad you did. The Only thing
that hurts more than paying taxes notpaying taxes. Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness.
A man in Georgia was accused ofdriving a lawnmower on a highway while

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drinking a beer, and not surprisingly, he was headed to Florida. Hi,
welcome back from Break tomorrow. Onthe show, I'm gonna play your
voicemail messages. I would do ittoday, we just don't have enough time
and I love hearing from you guys. If you want to leave me voicemail
messages, use the iHeartRadio app talkbackfeature while you listen to this show or

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our morning show, and you canleave me a little thirty second audio recording.
You'll hear your voice on the showat a later time time. I
don't want to spend the whole showtalking about climate change, but a quick
reminder, folks, we are hostinga climate change summit, sort of,
not exactly. We're gonna have freelunch for you. I know. Milton
Friedman says there's no such thing asa free lunch. So okay, what's

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the catch. The catch is youget to be on the radio if you
want to join me. On Thursday, June sixth at eleven thirty am at
the Giant, Texas, Stiller's tastingroom. We're going to record an episode
of this radio show. It willbe heard later in the afternoon while we
eat lunch free fajitas, and we'regoing to talk about things like the energy

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industry, oil and gas and howthat affects everything you do and why it's
so important to people here in Houston. And that's not all we'll be talking
about. I got to imagine thediscussion is going to involve what's going on
in the Mideast, what is goingon at the Mayor's office. I'm sure
we'll get time to discuss everything thatis affecting your life in that one hour
period. But if you can comejoin us us Thursday, June sixth,

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eleven thirty am at the Giant TexasDistiller's Tasting Room. Lunch is free.
It's on us, join me andmy buddy Daniel Turner from Power the Future.
It's gonna be good. Now.Brightbeart dot com just wrote up a
story about the Washington Post. Idon't read the Washington Post because I don't
subscribe. You have to pay forthe Washington Post, and I know,
you know, I know there's waysto get around that, but I just

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don't want to support him. It'sAmazon dot Com. The Jeff Bezos doesn't
get any more of my money,especially not for what they're doing at the
Washington Post. The hypocritical lunatics atthe far left Washington Post are demanding we
do something we never would take goldshowers. Okay, I know, maybe
you take a cold shower when youget unlucky after a late night of trying

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to be amorous with your better half. But no, no, no,
this isn't about your sex life.The Washington Post wants you to take a
cold shower to save Mother Earth.When I first about this anti science piece
of nonsense and I saw the headlinewhy you should embrace using cold water almost
all the time, I just assumeThe Washington Post would stick to things like

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dishwashers and washing machines. I getit. I don't use hot water when
I wash my clothes because it's notgood for your the fabric, not to
mention, it's a waste energy.You know, how dirty is your clothes?
How dirty are your clothes? Iget it. I don't work.
I don't have a blue collar job. I don't work with my hands.
But I don't need hot water towash my clothes. You know, I

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just cold water's fine, But there'sno way the Washington Post would demand we
take cold showers. I foolishly assumethat when I first doubled across this report,
that would be a ridiculous request.A bridge too far certainly is not
going to affect climate science, right, No, I was wrong about that.

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Should have known better. One ofthe tactics of the left is to
bludgeon you with their extremism to keepyou off guard, like when they tell
you never drive a car, neverfly in an airplane. And they tell
you this after they flew in aprivate jet to Dubai to attend a climate
summit. But here's the latest exampleof this insanity. Keep in mind that

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we are only three years out ofa pandemic that took up to a million
Americans' lives, but they want youto believe that showering accounts for seventeen percent
of the water Americans use in theirhome. And according to the EPA,
if you don't take a shower withcold water, you're going to destroy the
earth. You should rethink washing yourhands with hotter warm water for the same

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reason. Really, the Washington USdemanding we use cold water to rinse our
dishes only proves that no one atthe Washington Post has ever done their dishes.
I actually use hot water to washmy dishes and cold water to wash
my clothes. Maybe this is thereason why the Washington Post loves illegal aliens

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so much. They don't wash theirown dishes. The Washington Post demands we
use cold water to do our laundry. I guess I'm okay with that.
But the liars in the conspiracy theoriststhat the Washington Post want you to live
like an eighth century savage, butthey have no intention of doing the same.
They will kilt you into taking acold shower. They will use the

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government to bully you into taking acold shower. They don't want you to
use air conditioning. They insist youdo use mass transit. And these elite
hypocrites will continue to enjoy their hotshowers and their air conditioning. And yeah,
some of them even fly around inprivate jets, so don't be fooled.

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Much like air conditioning, hot wateris one of mankind's greatest inventions.
It's not just about the luxury ofit, it's the vital importance of cleanliness.
Hot water cleans it disinfects. Itworks a lot better than cold water
for things like your dishes. Itactually helps to stop spread infection and germs

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and viruses. You know, it'sactually the same thing with single use plastic.
The environmental lunatics hate single use plastic, They hate water bottles, they
hate straws, but those things createa much healthier society. What did they
tell you to do right before thepandemic? They said, don't use plastic
straws. And then what did theytell you to do during the pandemic?

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They said, actually, maybe someof that single use plastic stuff. He's
prayer the best right now to stopthe spreaded germs. Look, I'm reasonable
on this issue, probably because I'mnot a climate alarmist. I don't believe
the world is ending. I willactually use cold water sometimes to save money.
Most of my laundry is done withcold or cool water. My water

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heater is set to low enough thatyou could shower and do dishes without adding
any cold water. But take coldshowers. Seriously, Yeah, you first
Washington Post, and you know what, you know they're not doing it.
Why would they? They're a bunchof liars. People keep sucker punching celebrities

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in places like New York City.I know I just changed topics on you
there, but it's very bad.There's been a lot of news stories recently
about people like Rick Maranis and BethanyFrankel and the latest Steve Bouschemy, always
in a liberal city being violently attackedby some random person out on the street,
and authorities don't know how to handlethe crime. But I do think
I know of a way we couldcapitalize off of it. New from Nintendo

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Steve Bushemy Celebrity punch Out. Insteadof pummeling poor defenseless class Joe, you
can randomly punch actor Steve Bushemy inthe face and while the star a Fargo
Boardwalk Empire and several really crappy AdamSandler movies isn't deserving. You can avenge
Chris Rock by bitch slaving Will Smith, punch Kanye in his gip mass or
climb the rankings as Rihanna as youput down Chris Brown like a dog on

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christin omes Ranch get to the finalround, watch Mike Tyson destroyed Jake Paul
like Kendrick Lamar did. Drink fluFrom Nintendo Steve Busshemy celebrity punch outs.
They see whenever you lose sight ofthe enemy, look behind you. Yeah,
that's a bad paranoia right there.Probably brought on by a bong ripper
too. Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness. I got a star on my car

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and one on my chest, agun on my hip, and the right
to her wrest. I'm the guywho's a boss on this highway to watch
out what you're doing when you're drivingmy way. If you break the law,
you'll hear from me. I knowI'm working for the state. I'm
the highway Patrol. Yeah, allright. This is not a conversation about

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the highway Patrol. It's a conversationabout the Harris County Sheriff's office. But
as far as cop songs go,I always thought highway Patrol was kind of
a good tune, don't you thinkso. I'm glad you agree. I
want to talk about a gentleman.A lot of you from Houston and Harris
County know this guy very well.You've seen him on the news for years.
You've seen him out fighting for truthand justice and reasonable local government.

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You may recall Mike Knox, notthe pro wrestler. No, I know
there's a pro wrestler named Mike Knox. That's not who I'm talking about.
I'm talking about the Houston City councilmancurrently running for the Harris County Sheriff's position.
Now. His opponent, the incumbentguy named Ed Gonzalez, has a

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chief of staff named Jason Spencer.Jason Spencer is accused of shoving his son
against a bedroom wall and causing himto fall down the stairs by throwing a
gun case at the back of hisat him in the back. This happened
back in September, but people arejust starting to realize Jason Spencer, who
is a purported abusive dad according tothese reports. Like I don't know if

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he's guilty or not, but itdoes seem a little odd that a guy
that's accused of domestic violence is stillholding a position and a high ranking administrative
position in law enforcement here in thetown and in the city in Wall,
in the county Harris County. SoI asked Mike Knox to come on to
the show today and react to this. Mike, you are running against a

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guy whose chief of staff, who'sright hand man, the number two in
his office has been accused of somepretty horrific stuff here, I mean beating
a child. You being a fatheryourself, this has probably got to bother
you not to mention a man ofthe law. Well, absolutely it does,
Ken, and I have to tellyou that this is sort of indicative
of our current sheriff's lack of managerialskills and lack of ability to make good

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judgment calls. Let me just saythis that if any deputy or any civilian
employee of the Harris County Sheriff's Officeother than Jason Spencer would have been accused
of this, at the very least, I believe the sheriff would have relieved
them on administrative leave. That certainlyyou can't fire them until the disposition of

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the case, but certainly they don'thave to appear at work every day and
continue to function. Now, inthe case of Jason Spencer, he's got
an inordinate amount of responsibility. Thesheriff uses him to intercede on his behalf
with the Texas Jail Commission and talkabout the jail issues. And Jason Spencer

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is a civilian employee who started offoriginally as a PIO officer and then of
course Ed Gonzalez was headed for theICE the immigration naturalization. He was supposed
to be head of ICE, thatdidn't work out, and then because I
think they're friends, Jason was allowedto come back and they created a position

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of called chiefs of Staff that Edcreated just for his friend Jason Spencer.
So what we have here is,you know, the law applies to thee
not to me kind of thing.You have policies and procedures that you're not
following for your friends or are yourclose co workers, but you do expect
everyone else to follow. That doesn'tspeak well about his managerial skills. Yeah,

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I'm glad you brought up the thingfrom two years ago. A lot
of people might have forgotten about this. I had the new story on my
screen. I was already going toask you about it. Joe Biden was
going to ask Harris County Sheriff EdGonzalez to lead ICE the immigration Customs and
Fords, you know, to handleimmigration law around the country. And Ed
Gonzalez stepped down from the nomination afterthe Houston Community College police officers released an

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affid David that they were the receiverword the Melissa Gonzalez, who was then
the school's vice chancellor of workforce andEconomic Development was filing a complain against her
husband, ed Gonzalez, because ofthe suggested violence she had experienced at her
home at the hands of the sheriff. That makes two people in Ed Gonzalez
his office, including himself, whoare part of the involved in recent cases

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of domestic violence. This is theonly person the local Democrat party wants to
head the sheriff's office. Well,it's the one that they have allowed to
leave the sheriff's department. I don'tknow the validity of any of those claims.
I know it never made it tocourt, and I don't know if
that was a political thing or not, but uh, you know, the

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fact is it did come up,and I think that's why he wasn't allowed
to be or to move forward onhis ice appointment. But yeah, that's
uh. And his statement regarding JasonSpencer was essentially, and I'm paraphrasing here,
basically was that I don't believe thecharges are real, and so we're
not going to do anything about it. So he'll wait for the justice system

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to work its magic. All right, in the in the interim, he
still holds that position. He stillgoes to work every day, he's still
representing the sheriff at various functions anduh and that sort of thing. And
I just think as an administrator ofthe third largest county in the United States
population wise, I think that youneed you have an obligation to be more

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responsible in your decision making and managerialskills than our current sheriff. And you
know, policies and procedures are important. They're there for a reason, and
if you're going to have them,you should follow them. If you're not
willing to follow them, you don'tneed to have them. So I don't
know what he's doing or why he'sdoing it this way, but it is
what it is. So, yeah, what you just said seems like it

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should be common sense, but commonsense isn't common anymore. Not to sound
cliche, Mike. The whole reasoned Gonzalez was hand selected by the Biden
administration as a possible head to bethe ICE director in the first place is
because back at the end of Trump'sfirst term, ed Gonzalez was allowed vocal
critic of Donald Trump's immigration policies,which were considered controversial at the time.

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I don't think they are anymore.I mean four years ago, eight years
ago, some people thought Trump washawkish on the border. Now you have
inner city Black Democrats, inner cityHispanic Democrats saying, look, the immigration
situation in this country's out of control. This doesn't seem like an issue that
a local sheriff's candidate should have tocomment on. You'd think the federal government

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would be enforcing immigration laws, butEdgunzal has said, and if I'm not
mistaken, art Oscevedo said, theywere not going to help the federal government
when Trump was president and enforcing immigrationlaws. Houston, Texas is, according
to many experts, the human traffickingcapital of the United States. This is
where they take human trafficking victims.I got to think a sheriff, that's

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an issue you would have to dealwith. Do you have any thoughts on
that? Well? Absolutely, youknow the old saying about sickens coming home
to roost, right, So,a lot of these blue cities with the
liberal Democrats operating them or talking aboutsanctuary cities and all like that, Well,
when all these immigrants started moving intothere, they started realizing the error

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of that. And and yeah,I think that we need to be enforcing
border security you can't have a homewithout secure walls, and so we need
the border in order to have acountry. And yeah, the current sheriff
and art Oscevedo and others, youknow, took this approach, this liberal

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approach that well everybody's you know,they're not really criminals, they're just coming
here for a better life. Wellwe know that not to be true now
because I think in the past yearor something, three hundred thousand Chinese nationals
have come to the United States acrossour southern border. They're in you know,
military age, single young men betweeneighteen and forty years old have crossed

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the border. And let me justtell you something. I don't know much
about China, but I that Ido know this. You don't get to
leave China unless you have permission ofthe Chinese government to leave. And so
they're here for a reason. Idon't know what that reason is. There's
a lot of speculation about it,but it's not a good thing. And
people who violate the immigration laws are, by their very nature, their very

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existence, are in fact criminals.And the job of a sheriff is to
enforce the law, not to havean opinion about it one way or the
other. And so I think thatif laws are on the books, you
need to cooperate and partner with allof your partners federal, state, local,
whatever, you need to work togetherto provide for the safety of the

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people of Harris County. And Ithink that's a flaw in concept and also
in his decision making process. I'dlike to reinstate the two eighty seven g
program where we get to identify thoseinmates and they're in the county jail who
are also illegal immigrants and notify ICEabout them, so at least we know
how much money we're spending as aresult of these has been administrative policies of

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the federal government. At least,you know, try to get some reimbursement
from them for the cost to thetaxpayers of Harris County for having to do
this extra work you know that's beingallowed to fled across our borders. So
those kinds of issues our current sheriffisn't interested in, you know, he's
just not He wants to play thepolitical game. I believe that people want

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a strong sheriff to enforce the law. They don't really care about your politics,
and really it shouldn't come into playwhen you're operating as a sheriff.
Boy, Michael, Mike and Ox. You explained that perfectly. For those
that recognize that boy, well,that's who that is. That's Mike Knox,
Houston City Council at Large position numberone. Mike, I have been
a supporter of yours for years,have endorsed you twice for city Council.

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I think you've been around since twentysixteen as far as I can remember,
and I'm not any surprise to ourlisteners. I'm endorsing you again for sheriff
right now. You are a Republican. You have won election after election in
a city where at large Houston Cityat large positions where we've been told conservatives,
Republicans pro law enforcement candidates cannot winover and over again. I think

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you're our best hope right now tosave Harris County from so called progressive criminal
justice reform. I don't think thatI feel better about you right now than
I do about that DA race,and I'm pulling for both of you guys,
but we really want you to winthis November. Can a Republican win
in Harris County? Mike, Absolutely, a Republican win in Harris County because

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you have to reach the people youlook like I said, it doesn't matter
whether you're Republican, Democrat, independent, green, yellow, blue, white,
whatever your color happens to be.What you do know is that you
need to be safe before you cando anything else. You need a safe
environment to raise your family, togo to work, to be able to
sleep at night, and just enjoythe American way of life. So I

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think everybody, regardless of their politicalaffiliation, need and want a strong sheriff,
and we don't have that right now. And so that's what I'm bringing
to the table, a desire toyou know, not necessarily be on the
anybody's team. I'm going to beon the side of the people of Harris
County. I'm going to be theiradvocate for public safety in Harris County.

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And if you know, do whatI need to do to get the attention
of the Commissioner's Court or the statelegislature or whoever to give me the tools
that I need to help make HarrisCounty safe. And you know, it
doesn't matter to me what political affiliationyou are. We all want to be
safe, we all want to beable. It would be great someday to
be able to leave our doors unlockedand not worry about people coming in to

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steal your stuff. But that's notlikely to occur, of course, But
that's a dream of mine. I'dlike to see a safe community where everybody
gets along and they're not stealing fromone another or beating one another, robbing
somebody. That requires a strong sheriff, a strong DA and strong judges to
hold people accountable for their misdeeds.Mike Knox. The website is Mike Knox

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dot org. He spells his lastname can Ox. I know, for
those of you out there, ifyou've been following the politics of Texas for
the last decade, if you've beenfollowing the politics of Houston and Southeast Texas,
you know Mike Knox has been atthe front line of fighting for the
little guy, fighting for victims' rights. You know the story of him,
of his son Jason Knox, ofwhat their family has been through. If

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you have a little time today,if you have a few bucks, please
go to Mike's website Mike Knox dotorg. Make a donation. I am
endorsing this guy. I think heis one of the best people in Harris
County politics certainly the best person rightnow to be sheriff, and we hope
you win. We sure do appreciateyour time today, mister Knox Well,
thank you for having me. Iappreciate it, and hopefully we'll have some
more conversations down the road about otherissues as they come up. Thank you

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for calling me con on, andwe're gonna get Mike in the studio real
soon to talk about what's going onat the Harris County Jail. Hey to
the rest of you, thank youso much for listening this afternoon. I
hope you all drive safe, havean awesome time out there, and come
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