October 7, 2024 • 40 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features Texas Republican women like Katy Boatman, Maritza Cantu, Tonya McLaughlin, and Alex Mealer. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
A new report claims RFK Junior had affairs with the
women in his anti vaccine group. Wow, you realize what
that means. I guess they didn't mind getting jabbed after all. Hi,
I'm Kenny Webster. Welcome to Monday Afternoon odds are Hopefully
you had a good after it. You had a good weekend,
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and now you're getting caught up with the news cycle.
And there's a lot happening because we're less than a
month out from the presidential election.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Now we're in the thick of it. It is happening.
It's heating up all around you.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
And town hall dot com just published an article with
an interesting headline. You probably didn't even know this. The
headline reads as follows, why Dems are freaking out about
Kamala right now, they're freaking out about Kamala. What are
they freaking out about?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You know how Trump has been everywhere all the time,
constantly doing interviews, rallies, day and day, early morning till
late night. Well that's not the approach that Kamala has
been taking. Now, in the last couple of days here,
it was announced she appeared on a podcast where they
often discuss how do I explain this unusual sex. She
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was on a podcast called Call Her Daddy, which is
like a sex it's a sex podcast, that's what it is.
And she was talking about tampons and how she went
to an abortion clinic and there's really feminine stuff here.
If you're a woman, you got to vote for Kamala.
She knows about tampons, was basically the gist of the interview.
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And then she's also doing an interview with Howard Stern.
Now you might think, wow, Howard Stern, that's pretty edgy.
Joe Biden did an interview with Howard Stern not long ago,
did you hear it? Softball pitching the questions to him,
just embarrassing how easy the interview was. It wasn't tough
at all. Howard Stern isn't really the man that he
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used to be. So Kamala Harris doing an interview with
him seems appropriate because she's not really the woman that
she used to be At any rate.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
We're in the thick of it now.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
We got less than a month from election day, and
Kamalis's schedule is Kamala's schedule's feather whiteweightlight. And you know,
you'd think with a presidential candidate less than four weeks
away from a presidential election, she'd be doing rallies and
interviews all over the place. Not so much the case.
She's kind of a disaster when she's in front of
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a camera. Trump is everywhere all the time. She ain't,
which is part of the reason why the people on
her team are now taking excessive amounts of pepto bismo.
Listen to this headline Politico dot Com Haunted by twenty sixteen.
Democrats fear Kamala Harris is playing it too safe. Then
they explain exactly what I just said to you. Democrats
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acknowledged Kamala is performing better than Joe and that's exciting
for them. But at the same time, you know, you're
not running for political donations, you're running for votes. Kamala
Harris is getting a lot of donations, but are people
going to vote for her?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
She has planned some of the interviews with people who
publicly endorsed her. She's also not in the lead. They
say Trump the Trump vote will be underestimated. Again, a
two point lead will not be enough for her to win.
Joe Biden had a four point five lead for four
point five point lead over Trump at twenty twenty, it
was barely enough to win. Kamala is nowhere near that margin. So, yeah,
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this is very exciting what's happening here right now.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
One of the.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Related questions is whether the mounting evidence that Trump is
over performing among key groups, and if so, where Harris
is making up the difference. You would assume she'd be
more popular with black voters, while she's not more popular
with black mail voters. You would assume she'd be more
popular with young voters. Well, actually, she's not more popular
with young voters. Most voters seem to trust Donald on
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economic issues, inflation issues, foreign policy, the border, immigration, and
those are supposedly the lead issues this election cycle, which
is part of the reason why she's going into this
election cycle having a tough conversation about abortion. That's really
all she wants to talk about. Donald Trump is high energy.
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He's in all places at once, all the time. Kamala
harris By comparison isn't really as good when she's unscripted.
Over the weekend, she was speaking publicly and her teleprompter broke,
so she kept repeating the words thirty two days because
she didn't know what else to say.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Two we got thirty two days.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
It's the election.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Now right here, she looks at the teleprompter and she pauses,
and she has this horrified look on her face. People
watching didn't realize it's because the teleprompter just broke.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
So thirty two days, thirty two days, Okay, we got
some business to do.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
We got some business to do, all right, now, this
is her improvising. Remember she likes to repeat herself a
lot when she doesn't know what else to say.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Thirty two days, got it, and.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
We know we will do it, and and this is
gonna be a very tight race until the very end.
So this is gonna be a very tight race until
the very end.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
We are the underdog.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
How many times do you think she repeats that? She
just kept repeating herself. When did she be the underdog?
By the way, she has the media, she has Hollywood,
she has the UNI Party in her corner. Yet she
still thinks she's the underdog. Isn't that interesting? I mean
it is interesting, guys. I think Donald Trump's gonna win.
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They say it's a They say she has a slight
lead in the national polls. Well, the national polls don't
mean crap. They don't. They mean nothing. It only matters
who wins the Swing States. And it's razor thin right now.
But remember the last time it was razor thin, they
say in the Swing States, Trump won. And if I'm
not mistaken, Hillary was leading in the national polls then too, Because,
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as I repeat, the national polls don't mean.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
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it from the mouth of Kenny Webster. All facts, even
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I mean Big Kenny. You're listening to Keny Webster's Pursuit
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Speaker 1 (06:56):
Very rude.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
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We got a lot on the way real quick, though.
I got to think, sometimes, as much as we try
to look forward into where we're heading with the news
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and what have you, it's very important to look backwards
as well. One year ago today, crazy things happened in
a place called Israel.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I had wondered.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I talked about it over and over again after the
terror attack on the Nova Music festival last year. Would
young liberal progressive types, would they really fully understand what
took place while they were out this summer in places
like America going to Kachella or Bona rou or Lollapalooza
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or Essence Festival or Jazz Festival or so many other
music festivals, music festivals all over the country. Burning man
taking place. If you're not from Israel, maybe you don't understand.
But one year ago, right now, a bunch of people
in their twenties were gathered together taking ecstasy mollie. They
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call it, mushrooms, LSD, mescaline, smoking weed, taking psychedelics, probably
drinking alcohol at the very least, listening to electronic music
music that sounds like this, and when they looked up
at the sky, what did they see paratroopers coming down
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at them? Imagine you're imagine you're on psychedelic drugs. Some
of you probably have an easier time imagining that than others.
And you see this taking place, and you probably didn't
think it was real, or you thought it was some
kind of a show. What is this like a performance
arts piece or something?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Is this even real? Looks like.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Looks like there are people with parachutes dropping down at us.
And then the next thing you know, you're being murdered, kidnapped, raped,
raped to death. That's what happened. What did young people
in America take away from that? A lot of them,
motivated by anti Semitic academic leaders, went out and believed
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it was time to protest against Israel. They didn't like
how Israel reacted to the attack. I've always had mixed
feelings on this because I don't want to fund a war,
much less both sides of a war. I've always said
I'm not conservative enough for the libertarians. I'm not libertarian
enough for the conservatives. I don't really care if Israel
defends themselves. I wish we didn't have to fund their
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military I'm not crazy about that. We gave Israel money
to launch rockets at Lebanon, and then now we're going
to pay to clean up Lebanon. The latest news over
the weekend, Kamala Harris made a big announcement. She says,
I know people are suffering out there, And everybody turned
and looked and said, oh, is she going to do
something for the hurricane victims? No, no, no, this isn't
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about them. Now, we're going to do something for the
people in Lebanon. Oh oh, well, we're still drowning over
here in the United States from the hurricane that we're
about to have another hurricane. Yeah, screw you up, heres,
it's Lebanon we're worried about now. It was just reading
a report about this over at the Washington Examiner, and
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they were talking about what we're describing to you right now.
The anniversary of Hamasa's barbaric attack on Israel really gives
you a good opportunity for someone to launch a nationwide
campus tour to insult college students.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Now's the time to do it.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Young people in America reacted to this news by going
out and protesting against the Jews. Look, I'm not saying
we need to insult these people, but just tell them
the truth. A lot of them might consider that to
be derogatory, but sometimes the truth hurts. All right, let's
back up a little. What spurs these thoughts are these
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articles that were just published in a couple of very
liberal news outlets. One of them is The Atlantic. John
Hopkins University political science professor Benjamin Ginsberg wrote an article
for The Washington Examiner titled why so many Students at Israel?
And then there's another article published right on the same
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day called the elite college students who can't read Books?
That's in the Atlantic. It's written by the magazine's assistant
editor Rose Horowitch. The Atlantic article details the experience of
veteran professors at the top universities who say their students
have trouble handling even half the reading the professors formally assigned.
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Many students, she reports, no longer arrive at college, even
at highly selective elite colleges, prepared to read books.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
What now.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
These two trends are clearly connected, As every professor can attest,
the average student's capacity to think critically is hampered by
a lack of knowledge. It's a shame young people don't
want to study history. Much of the history they do
teach nowadays involves left wing moralistic cues that seem to
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direct students towards viewing American history in an emotional manner
as a string of injustices. Forget about the fact that
you're here now, in modern day America, enjoying the highest
quality of life in human history, the lowest amount of inhumane,
unjust civil anti civil law. You know, we have civil
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rights here in the United States. They didn't always have that,
even in the founding days of our nation, we didn't
necessarily have that. But today we do have a there's
a young woman. There's a family of people that I
lived with. You guys know, I lift I go to
Starting Strength jim On Shepherd, and there's a woman there
who brings her too high school age kids and they
all lift weights together as a family. I think that's
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very charming. And the teenage daughter is always reading books.
Right now, she's reading nineteen eighty four by George Orwell.
She just finished Animal Farm. I am told that books
like nineteen eighty four and Animal Farm are no longer
assigned reading for high school kids. I was surprised to
hear that I enjoyed those books. They had a profound
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impact on who I am today when I read them
in high school. Catch her in the Rye no longer
assigned reading, Mark Twain, no longer assigned reading. So when
these kids get to high school, I mean college, that
they just haven't read the classic books that you and
I grew up reading. Combine that with the pathetically short
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attention span of most of today's students, partly a result
of the smart phone world, and partly a result of
outlandishly misguided reading standards pushed nationwide by the Common Core
Initiative and partly resulting from widespread lack of discipline, and voila.
We now have a whole age of cohort that can't
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or won't engage in sustained immersion in a text, just
sitting and reading a book for a long time. When
students can't sustain deep reading, when they are taught that
the West is a terrible place to exist, when they
are taught to feel rather than use critical thinking skills,
that's an obvious recipe for ignorant bounts of emoting against Israel,
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among other things. October seventh, offered a real stark choice
between good and evil.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
JD.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Tussel at Reason dot Com recently wrote about this Hamas
terris swarmed across the border from Gaza, a very bloody
attack on innocent people. Twelve hundred people were killed, The
vast majority were civilke. People who hate Israel will write
this off and say, yeah, but a lot of those
young people were off duty soldiers for the IDF Okay
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did they know that at the time. Even if that's true,
they weren't armed at a music festival. The attack set
off a still escalating conflict that raises questions about how
far people should be allowed to go to defend themselves.
At some point, the rest of the world is probably
going to turn on Israel. And I don't say that
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as somebody that's against Israel, but what you're watching right now,
it's gonna get worse before it gets better. Those who
embrace evil reveal themselves to us and let us know
where the next threat must arise. If they go beyond
speech to action, will already have them on our radar.
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Those who've already engaged in terrorism should be hunted. They
should be punished to prevent a reoccurrent of such crime.
Weirdly enough, a lot of college kids around America disagree
with them.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
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Speaker 3 (16:17):
Oh Hi, what's this?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
We're on?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Turn that music down? Thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Hi, everybody live in studio KPRC Radio. It's a Monday
afternoon and I am just been joined by a whole
bunch of guests. Some people you might be familiar with,
some people you're not. First, let me start by turning
the cameras on. We're live on social media, but we're
also live on the radio. So if you're watching us
on Facebook or Twitter or YouTube, Hello, I'm Kenny Webster.
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I'm a name you're probably familiar with in a face obviously,
since you follow me on social media, you may also
know this person. Alexandra del Morale Mieler is in the building.
Alex how you been? Get that mic in front of you?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Boom?
Speaker 6 (16:54):
No, I'm doing great, Alex.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
You are somebody our listeners are well familiar with, as
many of them have gone out and volunteered and campaigned
for you and the friends you made at Houston Young
Republican meetings and places like that. But you have people
with you our listeners may not be familiar with. Do
you want to introduce everybody to them?
Speaker 7 (17:11):
No?
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Absolutely, So I'm here with people that are actually my
good friends.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
So and on politics you always say people your friends.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
But these ones we ran really hard together in twenty
two and what happened was there was a concerted effort
when everyone was very dissatisfied with the results, to get
our strongest candidates and mobilize a pretty big effort. So
this Court of Appeals bench is very impressive, kind of
once in a generational talent, and I like to introduce them.
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You've got Tanya McGlaughlin and the Blue.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
So happy to be here today, Kenny, Thank.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
You, Hi, Welcome Tanya. I just turned your mic on
now they can hear you.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
Kanya is a former prosecutor, extensive Court of Appeals experience.
Then we have former judge Marisa andtu so she was
our lone Republican judge in twenty two set the standard
across the board in terms of performance, and both Tanya
and Ritza did something that's hard to do. Get law
enforcement to back you and even force the Chronicle to
acknowledge how good you are.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Why is that? Why is it hard to get law
enforcement to back you? Why do you think that.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Law enforcement easy?
Speaker 8 (18:11):
It's hard to get law enforcement to back you while
still keeping a chronicle endorsement.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Ah, yes, absolutely no.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Law enforcement overwhelmingly behind all of us.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
You were famously endorsed by the Chronicle.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
That it's not very easy to do.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
And I was actually running against somebody who is certifiably unwell,
it was so difficult, so I just made it and
that was about the most beat down endorsement you could
possibly get.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
And I didn't even have an opponent that was elucid.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
So that's true exactly. Well, okay, and then let's introduce
the rest.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Of the people.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
And then we've got Katie Boatman, one of the top
Appella attorneys in the region. So it really focuses on
the civil side, which is so important obviously with small businesses,
consistency and regulation. We have a bunch of activist judges
who are making laws as they wish they would be,
versus which our legislature actually passed.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
And to introduce yourself, Hi, Katie Boatman, Thanks so much
for having me Kenny, Katie.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Would you agree with that explanation that Alex just gave.
We have a lot of judges that think that they're
lawmakers and that's a problem.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
It's led to a lot of inconsistency in the opinions
from the Court of Appeals.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Why don't you get the mike in front of you,
like talk into the mind.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Yes, I would like people to be able to hear me.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Yes, I agree with that.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
We have a lot of inconsistency from the Court of
Appeals right now. We need to ensure that we have
judges who follow the law, and the three of us
are absolutely committed to following the law.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
There seems to be something a lot of people misunderstand
is conservatives and Republicans. We don't care if judges are
conservative or Republican. We care if judges follow the law
based on how they're written. And that's something a lot
of people seem to misunderstand because liberals want liberal judges
who will interpret a law not based on how it's written.
But I mean, there's so many examples of this. But
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you know, I don't even.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Know where to start.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Bond so legislature because we had judges that were very
different than former judge and two with all this easy bail,
soft on crime, revolving door, so legislature went to work.
All Right, we're gonna mandate you have to actually have
cash bond in certain situations. And so they come back
and they do, Okay, a dollar right, and so you cannot.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Legislate your way out of this.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
There's not enough loopholes you can close when you have
people that will blatantly disregard the rule of law, and
it's tearing this region apart.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah, it was crazy when it was a dollar bond
before the inflation crisis, but now I know that's.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Like you're basically just paying them, Yeah, right exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
That's like pennies at this point. So that is pretty nice, Alex,
I agree with you. So the three people here are
Katie Bowman, Maritza and Tu and Tonia Atania McLaughlin.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Katie, why did you decide to run?
Speaker 9 (20:51):
Well?
Speaker 7 (20:51):
I love Houston, I love our region. I think we
have so much to offer, but we really need change
at the courthouse and we need businesses and citizens to
be able to count on judges who do the right thing.
I've practiced before these courts for years, and it's really
been a big change over the years. We need to
bring back consistency that we had before twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I wish I had realized there was something wrong with
that Mike before we went on the air.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
It's a droopy mic.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Is the problem with She adapt and overcomes.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, she's great, She's doing great. How about you, Maritz,
So why'd you decide to run?
Speaker 10 (21:25):
Like Alex said, you cannot and we cannot legislate the
problem at the courthouse. What we can do is we
can change it. And the only way we can change
the problem at the courthouse is to have all of
your listeners get out and vote and vote for every
Republican judicial candidate down the ballot. When I learned that
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we could flip the courts to a Republican majority, like
you said, judges who are conservative follow the law, don't
legislate from the bench, don't have political agendas. Even though
I've been running since twenty eighteen to change the courthouse problem,
I decided to do it again for that reason. Because
this is a big opportunity that Republicans have.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
We need to take it.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Yeah, and I love that you explained it that way.
How about you, Tanya, Thank you Kenny.
Speaker 11 (22:14):
It is a mix of two things. We ran in
twenty twenty two, and we were so close that we
are trying to pull all that momentum into this year.
And when I learned that we could do that in
these courts and that these appellate courts don't have one
former felony prosecutor sitting on the bench at all, I'm
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not sure that that has ever happened before now. And
so knowing what we can bring and how hard we
worked in twenty two and that we can very easily
if we get everyone out, flip it.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
How does that happen?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
How do you get a judge that didn't have any
prosecutor prosecutor experience?
Speaker 11 (22:55):
Un So, how these court of appeals work is their
majority courts. So you get three appellate justices on an
appeal and then majority wins.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Well.
Speaker 11 (23:07):
In twenty eighteen, with the Beto blue wave, we lost
all ten of these seats to the current sitting Democrat incumbents,
and so that means whoever on the Democrat ticket just
decided to throw their name in. For instance, the seat
I'm running for, place four on the Fourteenth Court of
Appeals had been held previously by former Republican judge, former
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prosecutor Mark Brown. One of the the staff attorneys from
the first Court of Appeals just threw his name in
from Mark's bench and he won.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
And one thing that's changed since twenty eighteen. You used
to have at least some sort of semblance of moderate
law and order. But as you've seen what happened in
Harris County, that's a disqualification to be a former prosecutor.
You're not going to get through their Democrat primary. These
are all public defenders and their decarcerationists.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
So it's not an accident.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
That's such an interesting word. Decarcerationists. That's like, uh, like
anti natalists, the people that hate babies.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Decarcerationists.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
I mean, that's really how extreme, uh, the ideology is.
It's what got my attention, and I think that's one
of the big unifying things is the general public doesn't
realize how they've heard about Soros DA's But the one
thing about sources is just so incredibly efficient.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
You didn't stop with prosecutors.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
They took the courts, uh, and they have You know,
there are no moderate Democrats.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
You can look.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
At it.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Not in judges. They don't exist as a judge.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
Completely dependent on the party infrastructure to get you elected.
They have very strict canons, they have very strict fundraising limits,
and their party is chosen to put all their resources
to get people that will enact that kind of most.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Far right for left progressive ideology.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
So I don't use phrases like this a lot. Every
time there's an election, it always bothers me. People in
the media say this is the most important election in
your life, this is the biggest election ever.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
But to that point, the people are in the room
right now.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
If these women lose the races, this could be the
bell weather to the state turning blue.
Speaker 8 (25:20):
So, for example, people always ask me, Alex, are you
gonna running in twenty six, like not. If these guys
can't win, we cannot go from Harris County winning some
seats or losing by a point with all of the
issues that happened, but at least being competitive to now
they're rough. Math is they just need to lose Harris
County by five. And one of the things we don't
talk about from the lessons learned on twenty two is
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there were enough Republican votes that stayed home or didn't
vote all the way down the ballot, that we could
have thrown all of those garbage people out on the street.
And Republicans failed us. Yes, there were issues on the
other side, but we should have had such a margin
that when you look through the data, we actually won
the persuasion vote. Yeah, and so so disappointing to look
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and see how many Republicans voted at the top and
left or didn't turn out. And so that's kind of
the biggest pitch that I have is we actually have
the numbers. If every Republican goes out first day early
voting votes all the way down the ballot, we will
get our county in our region back.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
More broadly, I love that this is Look, this is
a big deal. Like I said, I don't use hyperbole.
I try not to sensationalize on the radio. This is
a race that could be a determining factor on whether
or not Texas turns blue and flips to a Democrat
controlled state in two to four years. If you're watching
us live on social media, don't change a channel. If
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channel either. We'll be right back in just a short one.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
We could certainly slow the aging process if aging had
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Why don't you Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Hi, everybody, We're back from Bray Kenny Webster here Pursuit
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Speaker 3 (26:59):
Nine fifty.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
We are twenty eight days out from the election, and
I have a I'm in a room right now filled
with beautiful, brilliant women, which is very uncommon on this
radio show.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Normally it's just me in here with him.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Smells pretty good in here right now. It is also
very uncommon.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
It is almost never like that. Alex is right.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Normally this room is filled with gassy, middle aged men,
but today not so much.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
My guess.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Right now, Alex Mueller somebody that conservatives, certainly young Republicans
know very well in Houston, but also Katie Bowman, Maritza Antu,
and Tanya McLaughlin McLoughlin, excuse me, and they are running
for Court of Appeals, And I guess maybe a good
place to go at this point of the conversation is
just to ask y'all you've chosen to live in Houston
You've chosen to live in Texas, your Conservatives, your Republicans,
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and I think we all know Houston is not the
city that it was twenty or thirty years ago. It's
not even in the city that it was ten years ago.
When I moved here from Chicago in twenty twelve, this
was a conservative, Republican controlled county.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
And when I moved here.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Although the popular in Houston in Chicago is roughly the same,
when I moved to Houston, the violent crime rate was
half of what it was in Chicago. This to me
was I compare everything, everything I compared about my old
home and my new one. Started with this, why is
it so different here? Well, for one thing, Republicans control
the county. There's a legal gun store in any direction.
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You throw a rock in any direction, you're going to
hit a gun range, a barbecue restaurant, and you know,
obviously yes, but.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Some ladies love the caso.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Yes, for some reason, that's changed, Tanya. Why do you
think Texas Houston no longer has half the violent crime
I think it's now like a two thirds comparison.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Why is it going up?
Speaker 11 (28:44):
I think the huge problem is we keep losing control
of the county, whether it is in the judicial seats
the regular political seats, that that is the difference. I
think if we flip everything back over, the counting will
see an immediate change.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
And it's just as quick as that. You think it's
that simple. How about you, what do you think, Meursa?
Speaker 6 (29:08):
I think the same thing.
Speaker 10 (29:10):
I was a prosecutor, very tough on crime, but like you,
I was a prosecutor when the judiciary was all Republican judges.
And so from two thousand and five to two thousand
and sixteen, when I was trying these cases in front
of Republican judges, you know, I didn't lose, and criminals
were held accountable. People went to prison for violent crimes
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that they committed and rightfully. So things are so different
now things have changed. There is less accountability, which is
a huge deal for me. Less accountability, people are not
being held responsible, people are waiting five years to go
to trial while they are out on bond, and it
could be anybody charged with murder, capital, aggravated robbery, sexual assault.
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So it's a combination of all of these things that
are driving the crime right up. And I don't have to,
you know, hyperbolize or exaggerate to anybody in Houston. If
you are a mom like me or a young woman
at night, you're probably not pumping gas at night. You're
probably not going to Walgreens or Target at night. You're
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probably not going to the ATM at night. Why because
your head is on a swivel. Because you see every
single day that moms like us and young women like
us are victimized at random, and it's happening a lot
more often than it used to.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Yeah, I think that's a great answer, Katie. Here's a
question for you. You look at a case like Gerald Goins.
We just had a case here in Houston five years ago,
a year and a few months before the George Floyd
thing happened. We had a racially charged news story in
Houston that involved a police shooting. The races happened to
go in the other direction. Black cop White victims did
not get the attention George Floyd got. Sadly, it's really sad.
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These were innocent people that were murdered in their home.
Five years, five years left later, we finally get a
result to that case. What are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 8 (31:03):
And I'll take that one. You know, I think the
first step number one is it's five years.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Right.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
So one thing that I was always impressed about Mariza
when she was judge, there were no murder trials that
went over a year, Like that's the standard you should be.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Going to trial under your year.
Speaker 8 (31:18):
Now it's two years, three years, four years, five years.
And what's happening? They are reoffending and victimizing the whole
time while we have judges that are running legitimately candle
businesses is their primary thing, like you can, okay enough, yep.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
It's not made up.
Speaker 8 (31:34):
And so they hide, you know, running from county judge
and like I want to see who goes to trial.
I want that they do everything they can hide the
data that you have. These judges all taxpayer lux funded
and they don't go to work. And why don't they
because that's what the Democrat majority wants, so they don't
want trial.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
One of your Democrat opponents is running a candle business
right now.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
In the Harris County District courts. It's very well known.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Are they scented candles become in.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
A wide variety. Yeah, I mean the amount of effort
we can use her primary, she lost her primary.
Speaker 10 (32:05):
But this particular judge during COVID it took her two
years to come back to the courthouse and actually, you know,
the Democrats put somebody up against her and they beat
her out in the primary. But yeah, it's it's a
true story and.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
And there's money like that is the point.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
The importance of our courts is that after the trial,
if the trial takes that long, the appeal can also
take that long.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
There's a recent case from the Court of a Criminal
Appeals where they called out the Court of Appeals for
taking five years to get a ruling on a case,
and then that case has been sitting in front of
the Court of Appeals for almost two more years.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
That's unbelievable.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
Unbelievable that should be, especially for these families that had
loss of a child. You know, when you're dragging this
out for years. I mean we're all friends with April
ol Gary. You are just putting such untold extra harm.
They can't get resolution and move on all because people
are active choosing not to do, you know, do their
job right.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
April li Guire is a victims rights advocate.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
She comes in here.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
She was on this radio show last week with Holly
Hansen talking about the.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Trands of both of them.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, the Joscelyn Nungary case just disgusting. And now we
learn that the suspects, which you.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Know, rist to nobody right, appear to.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Be guilty, appear to be members of the trend Day
or Ragua Streak gang, which has now been categorized as
a terrorist group. I wonder if I wonder if your
ladies have any thoughts on that.
Speaker 11 (33:32):
You know.
Speaker 10 (33:34):
It, Jenned that, according to the governor, is now a
primary number one organization in the state of Texas. And
I and I commend him for his efforts to put
these people back where they belong. But I'm from a
border town. I'm from McAllen, Texas, and so the border
topic is incredibly important to me. You know, I'm a
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Mexican American first generation whose parents waited seven years to
come to this country legally, and doing it right matters
to me. From what I've read, these two accused suspects
and they're presumed to be innocent. We have to give
them their constitutional right. They're presumed to be innocent until
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proven guilty. Had only been in the country for a
couple of months. Wow, And so you know, the procedure
is that they turn themselves into ice when they cross
the border, and they're given either an ankle monitor, their fingerprinted,
and then they're released and given a court date two
or three years down the road in immigration court. Yet
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another example of what doesn't work in this country. So
will they show up?
Speaker 6 (34:43):
Who knows?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
It's a great question.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
I think it's pretty obvious to everybody listening that there's
an immigration crisis happening right left to conservative liberal.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Everybody knows that.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I noticed recently Kamala went down to Douglas, Arizona, and
I immediately thought, Douglas, Arizona, where's that?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
I looked it up.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
It turns out the border barrier built there twenty years
ago by George W.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Bush.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
And she also traveled to El Paso, I think three
or four years ago, again one of the safer places
along the border, not surprisingly because there's a border barrier. Maritza,
you're from a border community, did you have thoughts on that?
Do you notice they never go to the bad place
they do?
Speaker 10 (35:19):
They don't go to McAllen where the Rio Grande Valley.
You know, most people coming from southern countries are coming
in through Mexico to McAllen, Texas, a tiny little town
with one hundred and fifty thousand population that's probably grown
about thirty percent because most of the migrants come into
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that small town. Never in my life have I ever
seen anything like it. Imagine what it's done to my hometown,
public schooling, healthcare.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
It is.
Speaker 10 (35:50):
It's tragic, really, And I think what's interesting is that
the governor is flying these people all across the country
and these small communities are comple lane in that they
can't handle the influx of migrants. We'll imagine being from
where I'm from, Imagine facing this daily and you've never
faced it before. So I think that Vice President should
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head to McCallan, Texas, where the true border crisis is happening.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
I love that idea.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
If you're just getting connected on the radio or watching
us on social media right now, I'm hearing my good
friend Alex Mieler. Alex is one of my best friends
in the local political scene. She and I recently did
a panel together at the Texas Youth Summit with a
bunch of other brilliant people, including Charles Blaine and Cindy Siegel,
and Alex brought with her today three guys Katie Bowman,
Maritza and two and Tanya McLoughlin, And what can we
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do These are candidates for the Court of Appeals. What
can we do to help them get elected?
Speaker 6 (36:45):
Hesing Court of Appeals.
Speaker 8 (36:46):
If you've been listening, you understand the reason that you're
not being covered. Local media does not want you to know.
This is what a Republican judge looks like, that they
exist and so Kenney's posted, will them post again if
that's all right? Got a recent video website tells you
all about the race. But any friends that you have, listen.
If you don't know who the Republican judges, that doesn't matter.
(37:08):
Just vote down. I guarantee you they believe in the
rule of law. They have the same values as you
in the other side. The other side, we've seen what
those policies look like in Harris County and it's going
to be more of the same. And my last pitch
would just be is we talked every time you keep
hearing about these really organized international terrorist organizations.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
I don't know what bigger.
Speaker 8 (37:28):
Pitch for the fact that we need judges that will
hold them accountable. You cannot have decarceration. It's dealing with
these violent games. You don't do something like they did
to Jocelyn and Gary's your first time, right. They've had
a history of getting away with these brutal crimes and
they're going to keep offending. We have to get them
to trial as soon as possible and put people on
the bench that will hold them accountable.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
That's it, I mean, that's so true. Look, we don't
know if the guys are guilty. I'm guessing they probably are,
but I'm not a judge either. Nobody starts with torturing
a child under a bridge, you know what, for two hours.
That's a crazy place to start your criminal career. We
can only imagine how many crimes have gone unsolved that
are connected.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Now.
Speaker 8 (38:06):
I'm going to hear in just Texas and Houston more broadly,
young women, you know, children, just the most extreme form
of torture and abuse. And we have no idea how
many people are coming in. But I do know that
every few days I read a new story about a
woman who was violently or child assaulted and killed.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Yeah, well, look, I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
This is a great movement right now, Katie Bowman, Maritza
and to Tanya McLoughlin, And this is a young female
conservative led movement to keep Texas read and starting with
the court system. I think it is a noble cause
at that alex If people want to volunteer or donate,
where do they go?
Speaker 10 (38:43):
Well you want to, you can head to vote gop
Judges dot com. You can find information about us and
the other seven candidates that are up for election for
the fourteen first Court of Appeals.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
We cover ten counties, Kenny.
Speaker 10 (38:58):
So, if you don't live in Harris County, but you're
in for Ben Brazoria, Grimes, Washington Waller, Austin Aston. Yeah,
al listen Colorado. Guess what you can vote for us too.
Educate yourself and educate your friends and your family, get
them out to vote early and vote all the way
down the ballot.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Mercy Into you're on social media. You're on Twitter and
Facebook and stuff. Yeah, I follow you.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
I knew that.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Tanya McLaughlin also on Twitter and Facebook.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Katie.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
You guys all have social media accounts. People can find
Katie Boteman. You can find me.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Go out there and find them. Hey, I'm Kenny Webster.
I thank you all so much for watching and listening.
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A new report claims RFK Junior had affairs with the
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that means. I guess they didn't mind getting jabbed after all. Hi,
I'm Kenny Webster. Welcome to Monday Afternoon odds are Hopefully
you had a good after it. You had a good weekend,
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and now you're getting caught up with the news cycle.
And there's a lot happening because we're less than a
month out from the presidential election.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Now we're in the thick of it. It is happening.
It's heating up all around you.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
And town hall dot com just published an article with
an interesting headline. You probably didn't even know this. The
headline reads as follows, why Dems are freaking out about
Kamala right now, they're freaking out about Kamala. What are
they freaking out about?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You know how Trump has been everywhere all the time,
constantly doing interviews, rallies, day and day, early morning till
late night. Well that's not the approach that Kamala has
been taking. Now, in the last couple of days here,
it was announced she appeared on a podcast where they
often discuss how do I explain this unusual sex. She
(01:29):
was on a podcast called Call Her Daddy, which is
like a sex it's a sex podcast, that's what it is.
And she was talking about tampons and how she went
to an abortion clinic and there's really feminine stuff here.
If you're a woman, you got to vote for Kamala.
She knows about tampons, was basically the gist of the interview.
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And then she's also doing an interview with Howard Stern.
Now you might think, wow, Howard Stern, that's pretty edgy.
Joe Biden did an interview with Howard Stern not long ago,
did you hear it? Softball pitching the questions to him,
just embarrassing how easy the interview was. It wasn't tough
at all. Howard Stern isn't really the man that he
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used to be. So Kamala Harris doing an interview with
him seems appropriate because she's not really the woman that
she used to be At any rate.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
We're in the thick of it now.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
We got less than a month from election day, and
Kamalis's schedule is Kamala's schedule's feather whiteweightlight. And you know,
you'd think with a presidential candidate less than four weeks
away from a presidential election, she'd be doing rallies and
interviews all over the place. Not so much the case.
She's kind of a disaster when she's in front of
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a camera. Trump is everywhere all the time. She ain't,
which is part of the reason why the people on
her team are now taking excessive amounts of pepto bismo.
Listen to this headline Politico dot Com Haunted by twenty sixteen.
Democrats fear Kamala Harris is playing it too safe. Then
they explain exactly what I just said to you. Democrats
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acknowledged Kamala is performing better than Joe and that's exciting
for them. But at the same time, you know, you're
not running for political donations, you're running for votes. Kamala
Harris is getting a lot of donations, but are people
going to vote for her?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
She has planned some of the interviews with people who
publicly endorsed her. She's also not in the lead. They
say Trump the Trump vote will be underestimated. Again, a
two point lead will not be enough for her to win.
Joe Biden had a four point five lead for four
point five point lead over Trump at twenty twenty, it
was barely enough to win. Kamala is nowhere near that margin. So, yeah,
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this is very exciting what's happening here right now.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
One of the.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Related questions is whether the mounting evidence that Trump is
over performing among key groups, and if so, where Harris
is making up the difference. You would assume she'd be
more popular with black voters, while she's not more popular
with black mail voters. You would assume she'd be more
popular with young voters. Well, actually, she's not more popular
with young voters. Most voters seem to trust Donald on
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economic issues, inflation issues, foreign policy, the border, immigration, and
those are supposedly the lead issues this election cycle, which
is part of the reason why she's going into this
election cycle having a tough conversation about abortion. That's really
all she wants to talk about. Donald Trump is high energy.
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He's in all places at once, all the time. Kamala
harris By comparison isn't really as good when she's unscripted.
Over the weekend, she was speaking publicly and her teleprompter broke,
so she kept repeating the words thirty two days because
she didn't know what else to say.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Two we got thirty two days.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
It's the election.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Now right here, she looks at the teleprompter and she pauses,
and she has this horrified look on her face. People
watching didn't realize it's because the teleprompter just broke.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
So thirty two days, thirty two days, Okay, we got
some business to do.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
We got some business to do, all right, now, this
is her improvising. Remember she likes to repeat herself a
lot when she doesn't know what else to say.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Thirty two days, got it, and.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
We know we will do it, and and this is
gonna be a very tight race until the very end.
So this is gonna be a very tight race until
the very end.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
We are the underdog.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
How many times do you think she repeats that? She
just kept repeating herself. When did she be the underdog?
By the way, she has the media, she has Hollywood,
she has the UNI Party in her corner. Yet she
still thinks she's the underdog. Isn't that interesting? I mean
it is interesting, guys. I think Donald Trump's gonna win.
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They say it's a They say she has a slight
lead in the national polls. Well, the national polls don't
mean crap. They don't. They mean nothing. It only matters
who wins the Swing States. And it's razor thin right now.
But remember the last time it was razor thin, they
say in the Swing States, Trump won. And if I'm
not mistaken, Hillary was leading in the national polls then too, Because,
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as I repeat, the national polls don't mean.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Everything you've heard is a lie, well unless you heard
it from the mouth of Kenny Webster. All facts, even
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I mean Big Kenny. You're listening to Keny Webster's Pursuit
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Very rude.
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That's true, guys, Careful that fish has a lot of
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here with us. It's good to be with you. Stick around.
We got a lot on the way real quick, though.
I got to think, sometimes, as much as we try
to look forward into where we're heading with the news
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and what have you, it's very important to look backwards
as well. One year ago today, crazy things happened in
a place called Israel.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I had wondered.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I talked about it over and over again after the
terror attack on the Nova Music festival last year. Would
young liberal progressive types, would they really fully understand what
took place while they were out this summer in places
like America going to Kachella or Bona rou or Lollapalooza
(08:01):
or Essence Festival or Jazz Festival or so many other
music festivals, music festivals all over the country. Burning man
taking place. If you're not from Israel, maybe you don't understand.
But one year ago, right now, a bunch of people
in their twenties were gathered together taking ecstasy mollie. They
(08:22):
call it, mushrooms, LSD, mescaline, smoking weed, taking psychedelics, probably
drinking alcohol at the very least, listening to electronic music
music that sounds like this, and when they looked up
at the sky, what did they see paratroopers coming down
(08:42):
at them? Imagine you're imagine you're on psychedelic drugs. Some
of you probably have an easier time imagining that than others.
And you see this taking place, and you probably didn't
think it was real, or you thought it was some
kind of a show. What is this like a performance
arts piece or something?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Is this even real? Looks like.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Looks like there are people with parachutes dropping down at us.
And then the next thing you know, you're being murdered, kidnapped, raped,
raped to death. That's what happened. What did young people
in America take away from that? A lot of them,
motivated by anti Semitic academic leaders, went out and believed
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it was time to protest against Israel. They didn't like
how Israel reacted to the attack. I've always had mixed
feelings on this because I don't want to fund a war,
much less both sides of a war. I've always said
I'm not conservative enough for the libertarians. I'm not libertarian
enough for the conservatives. I don't really care if Israel
defends themselves. I wish we didn't have to fund their
(09:50):
military I'm not crazy about that. We gave Israel money
to launch rockets at Lebanon, and then now we're going
to pay to clean up Lebanon. The latest news over
the weekend, Kamala Harris made a big announcement. She says,
I know people are suffering out there, And everybody turned
and looked and said, oh, is she going to do
something for the hurricane victims? No, no, no, this isn't
(10:11):
about them. Now, we're going to do something for the
people in Lebanon. Oh oh, well, we're still drowning over
here in the United States from the hurricane that we're
about to have another hurricane. Yeah, screw you up, heres,
it's Lebanon we're worried about now. It was just reading
a report about this over at the Washington Examiner, and
(10:31):
they were talking about what we're describing to you right now.
The anniversary of Hamasa's barbaric attack on Israel really gives
you a good opportunity for someone to launch a nationwide
campus tour to insult college students.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Now's the time to do it.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Young people in America reacted to this news by going
out and protesting against the Jews. Look, I'm not saying
we need to insult these people, but just tell them
the truth. A lot of them might consider that to
be derogatory, but sometimes the truth hurts. All right, let's
back up a little. What spurs these thoughts are these
(11:09):
articles that were just published in a couple of very
liberal news outlets. One of them is The Atlantic. John
Hopkins University political science professor Benjamin Ginsberg wrote an article
for The Washington Examiner titled why so many Students at Israel?
And then there's another article published right on the same
(11:29):
day called the elite college students who can't read Books?
That's in the Atlantic. It's written by the magazine's assistant
editor Rose Horowitch. The Atlantic article details the experience of
veteran professors at the top universities who say their students
have trouble handling even half the reading the professors formally assigned.
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Many students, she reports, no longer arrive at college, even
at highly selective elite colleges, prepared to read books.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
What now.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
These two trends are clearly connected, As every professor can attest,
the average student's capacity to think critically is hampered by
a lack of knowledge. It's a shame young people don't
want to study history. Much of the history they do
teach nowadays involves left wing moralistic cues that seem to
(12:25):
direct students towards viewing American history in an emotional manner
as a string of injustices. Forget about the fact that
you're here now, in modern day America, enjoying the highest
quality of life in human history, the lowest amount of inhumane,
unjust civil anti civil law. You know, we have civil
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rights here in the United States. They didn't always have that,
even in the founding days of our nation, we didn't
necessarily have that. But today we do have a there's
a young woman. There's a family of people that I
lived with. You guys know, I lift I go to
Starting Strength jim On Shepherd, and there's a woman there
who brings her too high school age kids and they
all lift weights together as a family. I think that's
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very charming. And the teenage daughter is always reading books.
Right now, she's reading nineteen eighty four by George Orwell.
She just finished Animal Farm. I am told that books
like nineteen eighty four and Animal Farm are no longer
assigned reading for high school kids. I was surprised to
hear that I enjoyed those books. They had a profound
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impact on who I am today when I read them
in high school. Catch her in the Rye no longer
assigned reading, Mark Twain, no longer assigned reading. So when
these kids get to high school, I mean college, that
they just haven't read the classic books that you and
I grew up reading. Combine that with the pathetically short
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attention span of most of today's students, partly a result
of the smart phone world, and partly a result of
outlandishly misguided reading standards pushed nationwide by the Common Core
Initiative and partly resulting from widespread lack of discipline, and voila.
We now have a whole age of cohort that can't
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or won't engage in sustained immersion in a text, just
sitting and reading a book for a long time. When
students can't sustain deep reading, when they are taught that
the West is a terrible place to exist, when they
are taught to feel rather than use critical thinking skills,
that's an obvious recipe for ignorant bounts of emoting against Israel,
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among other things. October seventh, offered a real stark choice
between good and evil.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
JD.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Tussel at Reason dot Com recently wrote about this Hamas
terris swarmed across the border from Gaza, a very bloody
attack on innocent people. Twelve hundred people were killed, The
vast majority were civilke. People who hate Israel will write
this off and say, yeah, but a lot of those
young people were off duty soldiers for the IDF Okay
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did they know that at the time. Even if that's true,
they weren't armed at a music festival. The attack set
off a still escalating conflict that raises questions about how
far people should be allowed to go to defend themselves.
At some point, the rest of the world is probably
going to turn on Israel. And I don't say that
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as somebody that's against Israel, but what you're watching right now,
it's gonna get worse before it gets better. Those who
embrace evil reveal themselves to us and let us know
where the next threat must arise. If they go beyond
speech to action, will already have them on our radar.
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Those who've already engaged in terrorism should be hunted. They
should be punished to prevent a reoccurrent of such crime.
Weirdly enough, a lot of college kids around America disagree
with them.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Late last night, after a few beers, we discovered the
art of deceiving politicians. Just tell them the truth and
they'll never believe you. Kenny Webster's Pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Oh Hi, what's this?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
We're on?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Turn that music down? Thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Hi, everybody live in studio KPRC Radio. It's a Monday
afternoon and I am just been joined by a whole
bunch of guests. Some people you might be familiar with,
some people you're not. First, let me start by turning
the cameras on. We're live on social media, but we're
also live on the radio. So if you're watching us
on Facebook or Twitter or YouTube, Hello, I'm Kenny Webster.
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I'm a name you're probably familiar with in a face obviously,
since you follow me on social media, you may also
know this person. Alexandra del Morale Mieler is in the building.
Alex how you been? Get that mic in front of you?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Boom?
Speaker 6 (16:54):
No, I'm doing great, Alex.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
You are somebody our listeners are well familiar with, as
many of them have gone out and volunteered and campaigned
for you and the friends you made at Houston Young
Republican meetings and places like that. But you have people
with you our listeners may not be familiar with. Do
you want to introduce everybody to them?
Speaker 7 (17:11):
No?
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Absolutely, So I'm here with people that are actually my
good friends.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
So and on politics you always say people your friends.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
But these ones we ran really hard together in twenty
two and what happened was there was a concerted effort
when everyone was very dissatisfied with the results, to get
our strongest candidates and mobilize a pretty big effort. So
this Court of Appeals bench is very impressive, kind of
once in a generational talent, and I like to introduce them.
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You've got Tanya McGlaughlin and the Blue.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
So happy to be here today, Kenny, Thank.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
You, Hi, Welcome Tanya. I just turned your mic on
now they can hear you.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
Kanya is a former prosecutor, extensive Court of Appeals experience.
Then we have former judge Marisa andtu so she was
our lone Republican judge in twenty two set the standard
across the board in terms of performance, and both Tanya
and Ritza did something that's hard to do. Get law
enforcement to back you and even force the Chronicle to
acknowledge how good you are.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Why is that? Why is it hard to get law
enforcement to back you? Why do you think that.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Law enforcement easy?
Speaker 8 (18:11):
It's hard to get law enforcement to back you while
still keeping a chronicle endorsement.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Ah, yes, absolutely no.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Law enforcement overwhelmingly behind all of us.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
You were famously endorsed by the Chronicle.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
That it's not very easy to do.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
And I was actually running against somebody who is certifiably unwell,
it was so difficult, so I just made it and
that was about the most beat down endorsement you could
possibly get.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
And I didn't even have an opponent that was elucid.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
So that's true exactly. Well, okay, and then let's introduce
the rest.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Of the people.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
And then we've got Katie Boatman, one of the top
Appella attorneys in the region. So it really focuses on
the civil side, which is so important obviously with small businesses,
consistency and regulation. We have a bunch of activist judges
who are making laws as they wish they would be,
versus which our legislature actually passed.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
And to introduce yourself, Hi, Katie Boatman, Thanks so much
for having me Kenny, Katie.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Would you agree with that explanation that Alex just gave.
We have a lot of judges that think that they're
lawmakers and that's a problem.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
It's led to a lot of inconsistency in the opinions
from the Court of Appeals.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Why don't you get the mike in front of you,
like talk into the mind.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Yes, I would like people to be able to hear me.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Yes, I agree with that.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
We have a lot of inconsistency from the Court of
Appeals right now. We need to ensure that we have
judges who follow the law, and the three of us
are absolutely committed to following the law.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
There seems to be something a lot of people misunderstand
is conservatives and Republicans. We don't care if judges are
conservative or Republican. We care if judges follow the law
based on how they're written. And that's something a lot
of people seem to misunderstand because liberals want liberal judges
who will interpret a law not based on how it's written.
But I mean, there's so many examples of this. But
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you know, I don't even.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Know where to start.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Bond so legislature because we had judges that were very
different than former judge and two with all this easy bail,
soft on crime, revolving door, so legislature went to work.
All Right, we're gonna mandate you have to actually have
cash bond in certain situations. And so they come back
and they do, Okay, a dollar right, and so you cannot.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Legislate your way out of this.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
There's not enough loopholes you can close when you have
people that will blatantly disregard the rule of law, and
it's tearing this region apart.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah, it was crazy when it was a dollar bond
before the inflation crisis, but now I know that's.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Like you're basically just paying them, Yeah, right exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
That's like pennies at this point. So that is pretty nice, Alex,
I agree with you. So the three people here are
Katie Bowman, Maritza and Tu and Tonia Atania McLaughlin.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Katie, why did you decide to run?
Speaker 9 (20:51):
Well?
Speaker 7 (20:51):
I love Houston, I love our region. I think we
have so much to offer, but we really need change
at the courthouse and we need businesses and citizens to
be able to count on judges who do the right thing.
I've practiced before these courts for years, and it's really
been a big change over the years. We need to
bring back consistency that we had before twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I wish I had realized there was something wrong with
that Mike before we went on the air.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
It's a droopy mic.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Is the problem with She adapt and overcomes.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, she's great, She's doing great. How about you, Maritz,
So why'd you decide to run?
Speaker 10 (21:25):
Like Alex said, you cannot and we cannot legislate the
problem at the courthouse. What we can do is we
can change it. And the only way we can change
the problem at the courthouse is to have all of
your listeners get out and vote and vote for every
Republican judicial candidate down the ballot. When I learned that
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we could flip the courts to a Republican majority, like
you said, judges who are conservative follow the law, don't
legislate from the bench, don't have political agendas. Even though
I've been running since twenty eighteen to change the courthouse problem,
I decided to do it again for that reason. Because
this is a big opportunity that Republicans have.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
We need to take it.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Yeah, and I love that you explained it that way.
How about you, Tanya, Thank you Kenny.
Speaker 11 (22:14):
It is a mix of two things. We ran in
twenty twenty two, and we were so close that we
are trying to pull all that momentum into this year.
And when I learned that we could do that in
these courts and that these appellate courts don't have one
former felony prosecutor sitting on the bench at all, I'm
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not sure that that has ever happened before now. And
so knowing what we can bring and how hard we
worked in twenty two and that we can very easily
if we get everyone out, flip it.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
How does that happen?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
How do you get a judge that didn't have any
prosecutor prosecutor experience?
Speaker 11 (22:55):
Un So, how these court of appeals work is their
majority courts. So you get three appellate justices on an
appeal and then majority wins.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Well.
Speaker 11 (23:07):
In twenty eighteen, with the Beto blue wave, we lost
all ten of these seats to the current sitting Democrat incumbents,
and so that means whoever on the Democrat ticket just
decided to throw their name in. For instance, the seat
I'm running for, place four on the Fourteenth Court of
Appeals had been held previously by former Republican judge, former
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prosecutor Mark Brown. One of the the staff attorneys from
the first Court of Appeals just threw his name in
from Mark's bench and he won.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
And one thing that's changed since twenty eighteen. You used
to have at least some sort of semblance of moderate
law and order. But as you've seen what happened in
Harris County, that's a disqualification to be a former prosecutor.
You're not going to get through their Democrat primary. These
are all public defenders and their decarcerationists.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
So it's not an accident.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
That's such an interesting word. Decarcerationists. That's like, uh, like
anti natalists, the people that hate babies.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Decarcerationists.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
I mean, that's really how extreme, uh, the ideology is.
It's what got my attention, and I think that's one
of the big unifying things is the general public doesn't
realize how they've heard about Soros DA's But the one
thing about sources is just so incredibly efficient.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
You didn't stop with prosecutors.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
They took the courts, uh, and they have You know,
there are no moderate Democrats.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
You can look.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
At it.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Not in judges. They don't exist as a judge.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
Completely dependent on the party infrastructure to get you elected.
They have very strict canons, they have very strict fundraising limits,
and their party is chosen to put all their resources
to get people that will enact that kind of most.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Far right for left progressive ideology.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
So I don't use phrases like this a lot. Every
time there's an election, it always bothers me. People in
the media say this is the most important election in
your life, this is the biggest election ever.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
But to that point, the people are in the room
right now.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
If these women lose the races, this could be the
bell weather to the state turning blue.
Speaker 8 (25:20):
So, for example, people always ask me, Alex, are you
gonna running in twenty six, like not. If these guys
can't win, we cannot go from Harris County winning some
seats or losing by a point with all of the
issues that happened, but at least being competitive to now
they're rough. Math is they just need to lose Harris
County by five. And one of the things we don't
talk about from the lessons learned on twenty two is
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there were enough Republican votes that stayed home or didn't
vote all the way down the ballot, that we could
have thrown all of those garbage people out on the street.
And Republicans failed us. Yes, there were issues on the
other side, but we should have had such a margin
that when you look through the data, we actually won
the persuasion vote. Yeah, and so so disappointing to look
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and see how many Republicans voted at the top and
left or didn't turn out. And so that's kind of
the biggest pitch that I have is we actually have
the numbers. If every Republican goes out first day early
voting votes all the way down the ballot, we will
get our county in our region back.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
More broadly, I love that this is Look, this is
a big deal. Like I said, I don't use hyperbole.
I try not to sensationalize on the radio. This is
a race that could be a determining factor on whether
or not Texas turns blue and flips to a Democrat
controlled state in two to four years. If you're watching
us live on social media, don't change a channel. If
you're listening to us on the radio, don't change a
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channel either. We'll be right back in just a short one.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
We could certainly slow the aging process if aging had
to pass its way through slow ass Congress, take another vacation,
Why don't you Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Hi, everybody, We're back from Bray Kenny Webster here Pursuit
of Happiness Radio Cape herec.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Nine fifty.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
We are twenty eight days out from the election, and
I have a I'm in a room right now filled
with beautiful, brilliant women, which is very uncommon on this
radio show.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Normally it's just me in here with him.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Smells pretty good in here right now. It is also
very uncommon.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
It is almost never like that. Alex is right.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Normally this room is filled with gassy, middle aged men,
but today not so much.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
My guess.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Right now, Alex Mueller somebody that conservatives, certainly young Republicans
know very well in Houston, but also Katie Bowman, Maritza Antu,
and Tanya McLaughlin McLoughlin, excuse me, and they are running
for Court of Appeals, And I guess maybe a good
place to go at this point of the conversation is
just to ask y'all you've chosen to live in Houston
You've chosen to live in Texas, your Conservatives, your Republicans,
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and I think we all know Houston is not the
city that it was twenty or thirty years ago. It's
not even in the city that it was ten years ago.
When I moved here from Chicago in twenty twelve, this
was a conservative, Republican controlled county.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
And when I moved here.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Although the popular in Houston in Chicago is roughly the same,
when I moved to Houston, the violent crime rate was
half of what it was in Chicago. This to me
was I compare everything, everything I compared about my old
home and my new one. Started with this, why is
it so different here? Well, for one thing, Republicans control
the county. There's a legal gun store in any direction.
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You throw a rock in any direction, you're going to
hit a gun range, a barbecue restaurant, and you know,
obviously yes, but.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Some ladies love the caso.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Yes, for some reason, that's changed, Tanya. Why do you
think Texas Houston no longer has half the violent crime
I think it's now like a two thirds comparison.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Why is it going up?
Speaker 11 (28:44):
I think the huge problem is we keep losing control
of the county, whether it is in the judicial seats
the regular political seats, that that is the difference. I
think if we flip everything back over, the counting will
see an immediate change.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
And it's just as quick as that. You think it's
that simple. How about you, what do you think, Meursa?
Speaker 6 (29:08):
I think the same thing.
Speaker 10 (29:10):
I was a prosecutor, very tough on crime, but like you,
I was a prosecutor when the judiciary was all Republican judges.
And so from two thousand and five to two thousand
and sixteen, when I was trying these cases in front
of Republican judges, you know, I didn't lose, and criminals
were held accountable. People went to prison for violent crimes
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that they committed and rightfully. So things are so different
now things have changed. There is less accountability, which is
a huge deal for me. Less accountability, people are not
being held responsible, people are waiting five years to go
to trial while they are out on bond, and it
could be anybody charged with murder, capital, aggravated robbery, sexual assault.
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So it's a combination of all of these things that
are driving the crime right up. And I don't have to,
you know, hyperbolize or exaggerate to anybody in Houston. If
you are a mom like me or a young woman
at night, you're probably not pumping gas at night. You're
probably not going to Walgreens or Target at night. You're
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probably not going to the ATM at night. Why because
your head is on a swivel. Because you see every
single day that moms like us and young women like
us are victimized at random, and it's happening a lot
more often than it used to.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Yeah, I think that's a great answer, Katie. Here's a
question for you. You look at a case like Gerald Goins.
We just had a case here in Houston five years ago,
a year and a few months before the George Floyd
thing happened. We had a racially charged news story in
Houston that involved a police shooting. The races happened to
go in the other direction. Black cop White victims did
not get the attention George Floyd got. Sadly, it's really sad.
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These were innocent people that were murdered in their home.
Five years, five years left later, we finally get a
result to that case. What are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 8 (31:03):
And I'll take that one. You know, I think the
first step number one is it's five years.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Right.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
So one thing that I was always impressed about Mariza
when she was judge, there were no murder trials that
went over a year, Like that's the standard you should be.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Going to trial under your year.
Speaker 8 (31:18):
Now it's two years, three years, four years, five years.
And what's happening? They are reoffending and victimizing the whole
time while we have judges that are running legitimately candle
businesses is their primary thing, like you can, okay enough, yep.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
It's not made up.
Speaker 8 (31:34):
And so they hide, you know, running from county judge
and like I want to see who goes to trial.
I want that they do everything they can hide the
data that you have. These judges all taxpayer lux funded
and they don't go to work. And why don't they
because that's what the Democrat majority wants, so they don't
want trial.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
One of your Democrat opponents is running a candle business
right now.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
In the Harris County District courts. It's very well known.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Are they scented candles become in.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
A wide variety. Yeah, I mean the amount of effort
we can use her primary, she lost her primary.
Speaker 10 (32:05):
But this particular judge during COVID it took her two
years to come back to the courthouse and actually, you know,
the Democrats put somebody up against her and they beat
her out in the primary. But yeah, it's it's a
true story and.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
And there's money like that is the point.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
The importance of our courts is that after the trial,
if the trial takes that long, the appeal can also
take that long.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
There's a recent case from the Court of a Criminal
Appeals where they called out the Court of Appeals for
taking five years to get a ruling on a case,
and then that case has been sitting in front of
the Court of Appeals for almost two more years.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
That's unbelievable.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
Unbelievable that should be, especially for these families that had
loss of a child. You know, when you're dragging this
out for years. I mean we're all friends with April
ol Gary. You are just putting such untold extra harm.
They can't get resolution and move on all because people
are active choosing not to do, you know, do their
job right.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
April li Guire is a victims rights advocate.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
She comes in here.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
She was on this radio show last week with Holly
Hansen talking about the.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Trands of both of them.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, the Joscelyn Nungary case just disgusting. And now we
learn that the suspects, which you.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Know, rist to nobody right, appear to.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Be guilty, appear to be members of the trend Day
or Ragua Streak gang, which has now been categorized as
a terrorist group. I wonder if I wonder if your
ladies have any thoughts on that.
Speaker 11 (33:32):
You know.
Speaker 10 (33:34):
It, Jenned that, according to the governor, is now a
primary number one organization in the state of Texas. And
I and I commend him for his efforts to put
these people back where they belong. But I'm from a
border town. I'm from McAllen, Texas, and so the border
topic is incredibly important to me. You know, I'm a
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Mexican American first generation whose parents waited seven years to
come to this country legally, and doing it right matters
to me. From what I've read, these two accused suspects
and they're presumed to be innocent. We have to give
them their constitutional right. They're presumed to be innocent until
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proven guilty. Had only been in the country for a
couple of months. Wow, And so you know, the procedure
is that they turn themselves into ice when they cross
the border, and they're given either an ankle monitor, their fingerprinted,
and then they're released and given a court date two
or three years down the road in immigration court. Yet
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another example of what doesn't work in this country. So
will they show up?
Speaker 6 (34:43):
Who knows?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
It's a great question.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
I think it's pretty obvious to everybody listening that there's
an immigration crisis happening right left to conservative liberal.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Everybody knows that.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I noticed recently Kamala went down to Douglas, Arizona, and
I immediately thought, Douglas, Arizona, where's that?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
I looked it up.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
It turns out the border barrier built there twenty years
ago by George W.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Bush.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
And she also traveled to El Paso, I think three
or four years ago, again one of the safer places
along the border, not surprisingly because there's a border barrier. Maritza,
you're from a border community, did you have thoughts on that?
Do you notice they never go to the bad place
they do?
Speaker 10 (35:19):
They don't go to McAllen where the Rio Grande Valley.
You know, most people coming from southern countries are coming
in through Mexico to McAllen, Texas, a tiny little town
with one hundred and fifty thousand population that's probably grown
about thirty percent because most of the migrants come into
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that small town. Never in my life have I ever
seen anything like it. Imagine what it's done to my hometown,
public schooling, healthcare.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
It is.
Speaker 10 (35:50):
It's tragic, really, And I think what's interesting is that
the governor is flying these people all across the country
and these small communities are comple lane in that they
can't handle the influx of migrants. We'll imagine being from
where I'm from, Imagine facing this daily and you've never
faced it before. So I think that Vice President should
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head to McCallan, Texas, where the true border crisis is happening.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
I love that idea.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
If you're just getting connected on the radio or watching
us on social media right now, I'm hearing my good
friend Alex Mieler. Alex is one of my best friends
in the local political scene. She and I recently did
a panel together at the Texas Youth Summit with a
bunch of other brilliant people, including Charles Blaine and Cindy Siegel,
and Alex brought with her today three guys Katie Bowman,
Maritza and two and Tanya McLoughlin, And what can we
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do These are candidates for the Court of Appeals. What
can we do to help them get elected?
Speaker 6 (36:45):
Hesing Court of Appeals.
Speaker 8 (36:46):
If you've been listening, you understand the reason that you're
not being covered. Local media does not want you to know.
This is what a Republican judge looks like, that they
exist and so Kenney's posted, will them post again if
that's all right? Got a recent video website tells you
all about the race. But any friends that you have, listen.
If you don't know who the Republican judges, that doesn't matter.
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Just vote down. I guarantee you they believe in the
rule of law. They have the same values as you
in the other side. The other side, we've seen what
those policies look like in Harris County and it's going
to be more of the same. And my last pitch
would just be is we talked every time you keep
hearing about these really organized international terrorist organizations.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
I don't know what bigger.
Speaker 8 (37:28):
Pitch for the fact that we need judges that will
hold them accountable. You cannot have decarceration. It's dealing with
these violent games. You don't do something like they did
to Jocelyn and Gary's your first time, right. They've had
a history of getting away with these brutal crimes and
they're going to keep offending. We have to get them
to trial as soon as possible and put people on
the bench that will hold them accountable.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
That's it, I mean, that's so true. Look, we don't
know if the guys are guilty. I'm guessing they probably are,
but I'm not a judge either. Nobody starts with torturing
a child under a bridge, you know what, for two hours.
That's a crazy place to start your criminal career. We
can only imagine how many crimes have gone unsolved that
are connected.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Now.
Speaker 8 (38:06):
I'm going to hear in just Texas and Houston more broadly,
young women, you know, children, just the most extreme form
of torture and abuse. And we have no idea how
many people are coming in. But I do know that
every few days I read a new story about a
woman who was violently or child assaulted and killed.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Yeah, well, look, I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
This is a great movement right now, Katie Bowman, Maritza
and to Tanya McLoughlin, And this is a young female
conservative led movement to keep Texas read and starting with
the court system. I think it is a noble cause
at that alex If people want to volunteer or donate,
where do they go?
Speaker 10 (38:43):
Well you want to, you can head to vote gop
Judges dot com. You can find information about us and
the other seven candidates that are up for election for
the fourteen first Court of Appeals.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
We cover ten counties, Kenny.
Speaker 10 (38:58):
So, if you don't live in Harris County, but you're
in for Ben Brazoria, Grimes, Washington Waller, Austin Aston. Yeah,
al listen Colorado. Guess what you can vote for us too.
Educate yourself and educate your friends and your family, get
them out to vote early and vote all the way
down the ballot.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Mercy Into you're on social media. You're on Twitter and
Facebook and stuff. Yeah, I follow you.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
I knew that.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Tanya McLaughlin also on Twitter and Facebook.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Katie.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
You guys all have social media accounts. People can find
Katie Boteman. You can find me.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Go out there and find them. Hey, I'm Kenny Webster.
I thank you all so much for watching and listening.
I love you all. I pray for you. I hope
you're all safe and drive safe out there. We need
you guys to come back tomorrow Bray early tomorrow morning
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