Who is Dan Patrick helping?

This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalist Tony Ortiz and Texas Comptroller candidate Don Huffines. ( @KennethRWebster )

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Show this afternoon. As a matter of fact, a few
people are stopping by. You're gonna want to hear from
first Up, I'm the Agenda. Tony Ortiz from curvevall dot com,

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one of the most controversial.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
People in Texas political media.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
He has exposed an example of just blatant racism in
a publicly funded institution here in a government institution favoring
basically trying to discourage hiring white people. Will explain to
you what that means. Don Haffines is stopping by. He's
one of my favorite politicians. And then that's saying a lot,
because I don't like a lot of politicians. But he's
a good guy. He's an outsider, kind of like Donald Trump,

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and he's running for Texas Comptroller right now. Plus Crystal
from Wheelchairs for Warriors is gonna be stopping by in
just a little bit.

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Speaker 2 (01:46):
Hey, Whitey, Hey, white guy, you want a contract with
the government. But oh, I know what you're thinking, like, Hey,
I'm a local contractor. I could I could fix that
for the government cheap too. I got a lot of labor,
I got the parts, I got the guys.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
I could do it.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
I could bid on that contract. I could solve the problem. No, no,
you can't, white guy. We don't want you to fix
the sewer system at the airport. We don't want you
to reconstruct that road because your skin color. Sorry Whitey,
sorry cracker face, Honkloid sit down, shut up. We need
a diverse woman to do this job. You know who
should pick fix these pipes? A diverse woman?

Speaker 6 (02:23):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Well, I mean I don't have a problem with her
doing it, but just because she's black or yep, just
because she's black?

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Is she gonna do it for less money?

Speaker 6 (02:30):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:30):
More money? Is she qualified to do this?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Who knows? Never did it before? But she's bid on
the contract and she bid on it three months before
you did. Does that sound stupid? Does that sound dumb
to you?

Speaker 6 (02:42):
Kenny?

Speaker 3 (02:43):
You're being hyperbolic.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
No, this actually is happening right now, not just not
just somewhere in America, here in the state of Texas,
the Texas Water Development Board. Odd things are a foot
in places like San Antonio. Here with the story one
of the most controversial men in Texas political news, maybe
the most controversial, is certainly one of the most disliked.
Tony Ortiz, a good friend of this show, Current Revolt

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dot com. Tony, you guys have a story today on
your website, Competitive advantage given to minorities and project bidding.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
A polite way of explaining racism, isn't it.

Speaker 7 (03:17):
Yeah, it's basically just saying we're going to benefit everybody else, Well,
we're going to disadvantage white people, right, right, We're going
to put them at a disadvantage white men specifically. So
you know, last week we published a story about how
Texas A and M has race based quote us for
contract awards, right, and now we're finding out and.

Speaker 6 (03:36):
We got it.

Speaker 7 (03:37):
We got to tipp in and you can actually pull
your listeners can pull this up on their own web page.
You can see it live. The San Antonio Water System
has a page where they essentially it's called their procurement
page and they have a special section called anticipated Solicitations.

Speaker 6 (03:53):
Okay, and I'll quote it.

Speaker 7 (03:56):
It says I anticipated solicitations are opportunities for local.

Speaker 6 (04:00):
Small, minority owned and women owed.

Speaker 7 (04:03):
Businesses to learn about projects before they're released through the
city's web pages ninety days in advance. So essentially what
that means for anybody who hasn't translated that is, if
you are anybody but a white male, the city is
going to allow you to view projects that they're going
to put out to bid up to ninety days in

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advance before a white man hears about it. So it's
essentially like it is racism, like flat out there's no
other way to put that, and it's through the city's
web page.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
And I will just carry as you know, we're supposed
to have laws in the state against critical race theory
and DEI in government institutions, and does.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
That not apply to this? I thought we already outlawed
this nonsense.

Speaker 6 (04:49):
I have no idea.

Speaker 7 (04:50):
I don't know how they get around this or all
it can assume is that not enough attention has been
brought to this yet, right, and so the proper people
haven't looked at him said hey, you need to shut
this down because it's clearly racist.

Speaker 6 (05:04):
Right. Imagine a reverse.

Speaker 7 (05:06):
Scenario where you say, hey, we're going to provide white
people specifically projects have big at working on. I need
even advance before black people.

Speaker 6 (05:16):
People would lose their mind.

Speaker 7 (05:17):
There'd be riots, there'd be firebombings, things would be shut down,
people would be fired, white people kill somebody would die
for this, Okay. But when you put a disadvantage for
white people, specifically white then it's just it's just another
day in Texas.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Bro So, Okay.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
So the Texas Water Development Board, obviously that's part of
the state, but the San Antonio Water System is not
now in the state, we passed a law Senate Bell
seventeen and twenty twenty three bands DEI practices in Texas
public institutions of higher education. I don't understand why it's
that only applies to institutions of higher education.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Why if DEI policies are bad.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
In college is, why wouldn't they be bad at the
office where they fixed the plumbing system.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
It makes no sense to me.

Speaker 7 (06:06):
Yeah, you think it'd be applied applied or they would
write this bill to apply to like government, all government
institutions or government run institutions.

Speaker 6 (06:13):
Right.

Speaker 7 (06:13):
I can only assume that whoever wrote this bill or
when they got passed it, they didn't think to either
they didn't think, which is the air ei of their
part to expand it to include government run institutions or
organizations or you know, like we see a lot politicians
need something to run on the next session, and so
you pass a half hearted bill, right like it's half

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of the work done. And then you say, oh, okay,
I didn't realize there's more. Well you need to vote
for me next session because I got this done, and
so vote for me to vote to get in part two. Right,
So that's a possibility, right, but I don't.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Know, and those laws were proposed, I don't think they
ever passed.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Last year there was Senate Bill six point eighty nine
filed by State Senator Brian Hughes and House Spell fifteen
twenty one by State Representative stan Gerds Gurtis Smithsvelt from
Republican from I don't know that that ever passed though,
but that was supposed to get rid of DEI in
offices and government entities.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Again, it just makes no sense to me. You know, look, Tony, you.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
And I were talking off the air about how awful
Republican Party leadership is in the state of Texas, and
when you see what the federal government is doing, what's
possible on a federal level, or even like just the
state of Florida right over there on the other side
of the Gulf of America, it really makes you wonder
why the biggest Republican state in America we cannot get

(07:31):
our crap together.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
I mean, look at what happened this week, Nobe.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
I've never met anyone who thinks taxpayer funded lobbying should
be legal. Taxpayer funded lobbying what It's the thing that
stopped Don Huffines coming up in my next segment from
becoming Governor. They spent millions of dollars in taxpayer money
to go out and campaign against this guy. That's legal,
That's completely legal in the state. Today we learn this
bill from State Senator Mays Middleton, another friend of the

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show than on the show many times, that just that
is dead in the water right now, after this guy,
Robert Nichols attached something to the amendment SB nineteen exempting
full time employees of local governments from lobbying for their association.
Now that I was supposed to pass in the Texas
State Senate, which, if I'm not mistaken, is Dan Patrick's domain.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick's Well, what's he doing this week?
He's driving around the state.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Shutting down bong shops and CBD stores while he makes
videos of himself.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
The guy looks like he's not He doesn't look healthy
to me.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Whose life is improved because we closed a CBD shop? Meanwhile,
taxpayer funding lobbying, that's actually a real problem. We all
agree with. The guy's done nothing. Tony, am I what
am I missing here? How is it this bad?

Speaker 6 (08:41):
Well, you know who loves taxpayer funded lobbying is a
lobbyist that stuff.

Speaker 7 (08:47):
But yeah, we you know, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has
made shutting down TC in Texas one of his priorities. Okay,
I can imagine that people can sit down right now,
your lists can sit down and they can lift ten things,
and they think that should be a priority for the
average working class citizen, and shutting down THC is not

(09:10):
one of them. You know, I'm not a consumer, I'm
not a user, I'm not pro and I'm not anti TUC,
but I just think it's a waste of time to
focus on so much. So, like what you said, the
guy Patrick, and again he doesn't look well, and you
know it's rare to look well at his age, but
he doesn't look well, and they dragged him out of
his office to film like YouTube content almost like it

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looks like YouTube content with him going into th C
stores and like giving the workers a hard.

Speaker 6 (09:40):
Time about you know, about how people.

Speaker 7 (09:43):
Purchase these things in the age that they purchase these things.
And then he puts it up on Twitter like he's
trying to be a celebrity. And like, you know, we
talked off air, you mentioned he used to be a
radio a personality, so maybe he's trying to get back
to his roots. But it's like, man, this is a priority.
What a waste of time?

Speaker 6 (09:58):
And again, like I get it.

Speaker 7 (10:00):
Like these guys can't pass everything in one go because
if they do, they have nothing to run on next session.
They got a half heartedly get things done at a
snales pace so that we keep voting them into office.
Because if you get everything done in one session, and
you pass everything that the working class needs, why would
the people's aren't motivated to go out there and vote again,

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So they have to leave.

Speaker 6 (10:23):
Everything half done. And maybe this is a case of that.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, you know, it's a good point.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Look, anyone that listens to this show knows I'm a
liberty Republican. I don't have a problem with someone smoking
a plant. Of course, one person's freedom's end where another
person starts.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
I don't think people should be able to.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Stand around in downtown Austin blowing pot smoke in an
old lady's face. I'm also not a marijuana activist. If
if it's legal or not, I'm not willing to die
on that hill. There's things I care more about, monetary freedom,
free speech, you know, like lowering taxes, those things affect
everyone's life. Legal marijuana, okay, whatever, go to Colorado. But
it just it's such a slap in the face to

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see how things that we all thought were going to pass,
kitchen table issues as we call them, bail reform, bond reform,
the school choice, you know, border security, property taxes, Dan
Patrick campaign on property taxes. None of that stuff got
past this session. None of it appears to be getting
set past anytime soon. And the guy isn't He's not

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even in Austin right now. He's on a road trip
around the country of the Republic of Texas, that is
to lecture people on bomb shops and CBD, which is
frustrating to say the very least. Hey, what else have
you got gone on? Were you at the capitol this week?
I saw a photo of a Current Revolt media press chair.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
What was that on social media?

Speaker 8 (11:43):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (11:43):
We covered the McKinney may oral debate, right, So there's
a there's a pretty heated debate for mayor of McKinney,
and McKinney is just northeast of Dallas, right, and.

Speaker 6 (11:55):
So we covered it.

Speaker 7 (11:56):
There was some pretty good jokes, right, Some of the
candidates are not super serio and some are just clearly
the establishment pick right. So we we we were there,
we were invited his medium next right next to Dallas
Morning You. So we're moving up in rinks, I guess.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
And uh, and that's awesome for you. I bet it
sucked for them though.

Speaker 6 (12:17):
Yeah. They kind of look at me like what the heck, like,
you know, and they were nice.

Speaker 7 (12:21):
The reporter was nice and the photographer was very nice,
but they could tell that they were just like, what
the heck is?

Speaker 6 (12:25):
Oh my god, you're right next to you, Dallas Morning
is Tony. I love it.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
I don't think I I don't think I explained to people.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Well, for those that Devin ever bothered to, look if
you just listen to this radio show while you're stuck
in traffic, if you never go look at the news
websites that I recommend, or the people that publish these stories.
Part of what I love about Current Revolt dot com
is that it's fun to raid. It's funny, it's punchy,
that he gets right to the point. He he he

(12:51):
writes the way that we talk. His headlines are silly.
He's the guy, the guy I'm talking to right now.
Tony Ortiz is the guy that published the leaked Shila
Jackson Lee audio that got played on The View. Woody
Goldberg described to you as a member of the far right,
and yet you've come on the show and before and
said you're anti war, you don't care about marijuana laws,

(13:12):
you don't care what two consenting adults do in the
privacy of their own bedroom. I think part of the
reason why they call you the far right is because
they want to scare people into not listening to you,
because what you're doing is actually very reasonable and practical
and a lot of centrists would probably agree with it.

Speaker 6 (13:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (13:29):
To come intactic by the left is to like kind
of de weaponize their opponents or whatever, the people that
they're against by just completely labeling them a Nazi or
a white nation.

Speaker 6 (13:37):
It's like, bro, I'm a brown Hispanic. I'm not even white.
Past it because couldn't. I couldn't pass a white if
you wanted to. I'm brown, dude.

Speaker 7 (13:45):
That just you know, I just want a better country,
and specifically I want a better state. And so you know,
we write this stuff on our website, and I write
it for people that are like me. I hate reading
and I'm busy amount of time so everything. A lot
of what we put out is for people who have
five seven minutes during their lunch break to sit down,
pull up their phone and read something really quick, how

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to laugh and maybe talk.

Speaker 6 (14:07):
About it with their coworkers.

Speaker 7 (14:08):
And that's the kind of content we put out, and
it's been pretty successful.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
And it's spicy.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
I mean, you guys publish like raw dirt unelected officials
that other bigger news outlets wouldn't publish. But at the
same time, like if these guys are elected officials and
they're compromised because they're involved in extramarital affairs, or they
have drug addiction, or like their children committed heinous crimes,
and they don't want to be blackmailed, so they'll vote

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a certain way. When a lobbyist comes knocking on their door, Tony,
that's a big deal. I mean, that's the kind of
thing the Chronicler, the Dallas Morning Snooze probably should be
reporting on.

Speaker 7 (14:43):
Yeah, I don't understand. I still have to like really
nail down why a lot of these mainstream outlets are
afraid to report on the affairs or like the dirty
stuff that these our politicians are doing. But they are
They're not going to report it, and we've been one
of the only ones, if not the only one, will
put out this stuff.

Speaker 6 (15:02):
Right, it's incredibly important.

Speaker 7 (15:03):
If you are a constituting you're voting for somebody, you
need to know whether or not they are compromised, or
whether or not they're at minimum keep to their marriage mouth.
I think it's relevant to the character of the politician,
and unfortunately a lot of them are are just not
great people.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
I mean, that's it, because if they're willing to lie
to their spouse, imagine what they're not telling their constituents.
And like, Okay, if they're voting the way I want
them to vote, it doesn't matter. But if they're not
voting the way that we think they would vote, especially
the way they campaigned, this might.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Explain why they're doing that.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
And one of the things that you and I both
know from being around elected officials and lobbyists and politicians
and journalists and people in the entertainment side of political
news is that more than half of these people are perverts, degenerates, weirdos, creeps,
or at least just cheaters.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
I mean more than half of them, Tony.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
It blows my mind how many of them are dirt bags,
and they don't wear it on there. They pretend to
be one thing and they're obviously something completely. That's why
I own the fact that I'm a dirtbag on the
radio as often as pos.

Speaker 6 (16:00):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (16:02):
Yeah, it's it's the wildest thing you'll see. I mean,
it was what two years ago last session that the
farthest right leaning conservative member got busted for sleeping with
his nineteen year old staffer. And he was married with
like kids, and his guy was like the pinnacle of

(16:23):
Christian right conservatism and he got busted and so these
things happened.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
And wasn't there a part of that story, if I'm
not mistaken, that's supposedly involved abortions or like the morning
after pill. It's like, this is exactly what you don't
expect these people to be doing.

Speaker 7 (16:38):
He yeah, he You know, most represented most politicians go
back to their district, back home to their families at
the end of the week, and he decided to stay
the weekend for reasons we know now why. Then he
had his.

Speaker 6 (16:51):
Staffer over and they had relations.

Speaker 7 (16:54):
And then he took her in the morning to get
the Morning after pill.

Speaker 6 (16:57):
Wow, this is a.

Speaker 7 (16:58):
Guy that's like pro super for pro life and like
anti abortion and like you know, it's but this is
just average, this is just common in tech ledge.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
We cannot hate these people enough.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
I mean, it's like, Tony, never stop doing what you
do Current Revolt dot com. It's entertaining, it's interesting, it's informative,
and members of the establishment media and government really don't
want you to look at.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
It, so so do it. Current Revolt dot Com. Tony,
thanks to your time this afternoon.

Speaker 8 (17:26):
Thanks stop it government, get out of my life.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
You're listening to the Pursuit of Happiness radio. There's a
new trend going on around the country right now.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
People are going under with anesthesia to get a tattoo.
People that want to be tattooed are getting anesthesia, and
you know, medical experts do not recommend this getting People
are being put under so they can get a tattoo.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
And we wonder why Putin is not afraid of us.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
I'm just saying, you know, it's so cool though in
about our federal government right now, we don't First of all,
we don't talk about the good things enough. There's these
news stories about how terrible Doge is. Doge is making
all these big cuts to the national budget and cutting
out jobs from people that do jobs we could easily
have a computer do today.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
Wait, you're mad about that, that's what you're mad about.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Nobody that's criticizing Doge or Elon Musk is really willing
to analyze or cherry pick what items in our federal budget.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
They're mad that he took The thing they always say is, well,
they accidentally took.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Out photos from World War Two and Anola Gay and
the Tuskegee Airmen. And it's like, all right, but didn't
they immediately put that stuff back after they realized it
was a mistake. Yeah, okay, So then what are you
mad about. They can't explain it, they can't articulate it.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
Now.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
That's what's happening on a national level right now. They
have to pretend it's a problem. People are pretending that
they're mad that we're getting rid of waste, fraud, and abuse.
It's interesting to find out what happens when right wing
populist takeover a government institution like the federal government, an
executive branch of the government. Wouldn't it be remarkable if
something like that could happen in Texas and stop right

(19:10):
there before you try to correct me. But Cony, the
Republicans already constrolled control the state of Texas. Do they
understand every every Democrat voted with the Rhinos that elected
our current House speaker.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
I mean some would argue, what is it?

Speaker 2 (19:25):
State Representative Gene Wu seems to run the House Republicans,
All right, so that's the House.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
What's going on with Dan Patrick? Right now?

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Dan's a nice enough guy, but it's like he's ran
out of things to do, so now he's going around
trying to explain what's wrong with strip malls that sell
THHD products.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
It's like, well, what if we got back to property tax,
what if we got back to bail and bond reform?
What got what about school choice? What about things that
actually matter? I'm getting off topic here, but what if
someone actually went into our federal government and analyzed and
figured out where the real waste was at. You understand
here in our country, in our republican of tax as,
that is, we have a serious problem with passing laws

(20:03):
and then not enforcing them. We were supposed to get
rid of DEEI and ESG curriculum in our colleges that
hasn't happened at all. What if we had a guy
that could actually do that, What if we had an
Elon Musk of our own here in the state of Texas, well,
such a thing could be possible. Our current Texas Comptroller
is Glenn Hagar. I don't have a problem with him specifically,

(20:23):
but I always enjoying an upgrade. I always feel like
we could do better. Right now that opportunity is available.
If you listen to this radio show over the last
several years, you understand a few years back, there was
a guy named Don Huffines who ran for governor.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
Now, for the record, he didn't win.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
But in a sense he did because even though Greg
Abbott ended up, you know, the incumbent almost always wins
these elections, especially primaries in their own party. After losing,
you know, after that election happened, Greg Abbot went out
and copied all of Don Huffein's policies and made it
his platform for the next couple of years.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
Great.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Well, now the news is this, Don Huffeine is running
for comptroller the State of Texas, supervising the accounting, the
financial reporting of our federal government. Imagine chief financial officer
that's how Don would explain it.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
In fact, I asked him off the air, Don Happines
is on the air right now.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Don, I wonder if most people even know what the
comptroller does.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
And that was how you explained it, Chief financial officer.

Speaker 8 (21:22):
Well, that's right, Kenny, that's what the controller is. He's
also could be considered the treasurer. A lot of states
have that. But I'd like to point out to you
and your listeners that this is an open seat. Our
current controller has taken a new job, and that is
Chancellor of Texas A and M University, and he's been
in that position now for eleven years or so. So

(21:45):
this is an open seat, and I have announced that
I will be the next controller. I'm running for that
office in the Republican primary and that elections less than
a year away. And for everybody to understand, the controller
is what you just said, it's this chief financial officer.
The comptroller's in charge of collecting all the taxes and

(22:08):
dispersing all the money that the state spends. And right
now you're talking the state at Texas. Can you spending
over four hundred and fifty million dollars a day?

Speaker 3 (22:21):
That can't be right, night.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Don It sounds like you just said, we're spending four
hundred and fifty million dollars a day.

Speaker 5 (22:29):
That's right.

Speaker 7 (22:29):
Can you believe that seven days a week, every single day.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
Unbelievable. No, that's crazy to me. And what are we
getting for that?

Speaker 2 (22:36):
I mean, we're right now they're talking about giving tax
cuts to Hollywood movie studios, and yeah, I'd like to
see some of that money that's supposedly in our surplus
go towards benefiting taxpayers, but it never does.

Speaker 8 (22:49):
Hey, that's You're not the only one. I've been cheering
for that for forever, you know, within the legislature four
years in the state Senate, and I was the champion
to get rid of the business tax and any tax
I could, and of course it's running for governor, I've
been a big promotion of promoting, you know, getting some
property tax relief and tied to renting our property from

(23:12):
the government. You know, there's a lot of things the
state could be doing. And in the controller's position, I
will not be passing legislation, but I will be overseeing
all the money we're spending and where that money is
allocated to. Over two hundred state agencies and any political
subdivision in the state of Texas. It's important that the

(23:36):
comptroller keeps an eye on that to make sure it's
being spent properly. And what I'm going to do.

Speaker 6 (23:43):
Is doge at Texas.

Speaker 8 (23:45):
Just like they're doing, just like Elon Musk is doing
the DC. By golly, that's what we're going to do
in Texas.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
I love that. I think we need that.

Speaker 6 (23:53):
Now.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
For those that don't know who Don Haffeines's I've had
Don on this show many times. Don is a Liberty Republican.
He's a Ron Paul Republican. But for the record, he's
had a history of working very very friendly manner with
the MAGA Republicans, the very supportive of the Trump movement.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
And I pointed out that I think.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Ideology, ideologically, you lie somewhere in between those two groups
of people, which is probably the perfect place for someone
in this position to be. And I've also pointed out
to some of our listeners and you know, naysayer's critics
of whoever they think should be in this position. Don
Haffein's been very successful in his own life. He doesn't
need this job. Kind of like Donald Trump, kind of
like Elon Musk, He's not doing this job to benefit himself.

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He's doing this job to benefit Texas, you know, perhaps
build a legacy for his family great, but more importantly,
to actually do some good. And you don't would that
be am I describing this accurately? You don't need this job, right,
I mean, why do you want to do it?

Speaker 8 (24:50):
A very good question, Kenny, and I absolutely don't need
this job. And I'm the only person. Just give me
an example of that. When I was in the Senate
for four years. I'm the only elected office holder, according
to the Senate in Texas history, that never took any
money from the government. No pay, no pension, health care reimbursement,
travel vouchers, no nothing. In the course it's controller, I'm

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going to do the same thing. I'm not looking for
a job, and I'm just I'm a businessman. I've made
a lot of money and I just want to get
back to the really, just get back to the state
of Texas, because there really is very few people that
have the courage to sit in office and do what

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is necessary, to do what they say they're gonna do
and without flinching. And that's me, and that's just me.
I'm gonna if I say I'm going to dog the
state of Texas, can you imagine the pushback I'm gonna get.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Oh yeah, I love it.

Speaker 6 (25:50):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
And I've said this before about you. Donn is a
guy who is he's you know, he's a friendly guy.
He's easy to work with, but he's not a guy
that's afraid to criticize Texas Forublican leadership, He's not a
guy that's afraid to criticize the system.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
He's not an insider. He's never been a part of
the establishment.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
He has always been and you have always pushed ideas
and policies and principles. About four or five years before
the rest of the Republican Party latched onto the school
choice homeschooling, for example, don was an advocate for that,
probably a decade before the rest of the Republican Party
started talking about it.

Speaker 8 (26:25):
That's so true. I've been a champion of education freedom forever.
Actually homeschooled all my children and they're all adults now.
I'm married and I'm a grandfather, and it's a great
life I have. But this is a very very important position.
The controller is and mostly it's an underappreciated position of

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the power it has and the authority it has, and
what it can do for.

Speaker 7 (26:53):
The Texas taxpayers.

Speaker 6 (26:55):
I mean we.

Speaker 8 (26:56):
Spend in that kind of money. I mean seriously, I
mean very little oversight, very little oversight of where the
money goes, and all the millions of dollars worth of
contracts billions they're signing contracts to corporations and insiders and
doing all kinds of stuff that really I can't wait

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to dive into and really check, how you know, to
root out any fraud, waste and abuse that's going on
down there.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
I think it's great.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
Don.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
I was excited when you applied for this job, when
you announced you were going to be running, because the
first thing I thought is Don is probably overqualified for this,
and like he said, he doesn't need the job, but
who better to do it? A guy that can can
easily do the job. Don Haffine seems like the kind
of guy to me that would go in and to him,
the great triumph of this position would be reporting on

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fraud and waste and abuse outing the people, because it's
so exciting when you're doing journalism or investigative reporting, or
in doing an audit of something and you actually find
that thing that's not supposed to be and you can
report it to all the ethical, morally righteous people. Look,
there's a problem in the system here, and let's let's
lift it up and fix. Nothing is better for corruption

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than shining light on corruption.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
Nothing.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
If you want to end the darkness, turn the light on.
And I feel like Don Haffines could be that light
right now. So I Don, I was very proud to
be the first person to endorse you in this race,
but I know it was only timing as soon as
anybody found out you were running for this race. All
my friends in the MAGA populist movement, all my friends
in the liberty movement, all my friends in the conservative media,
all my friends in the conservative entertainment industry. You know,

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Comedian Chad Prather endorsed you, Alex Miehler, En George Joshue,
Corey DeAngelis, mattress Mac. I mean, the endorsements you're getting
here are fantastic. Ted Cruz's dad, Matt Ronaldi, former head
of the Republican Party, another outsider. Really, this is a
This is a stone cold list of people I'd love
to be at a party with. Steve toth One, probably

(28:57):
my favorite lawmaker, in the House, Brandon Gill one of
the most exciting members of Congress right now in Washington.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
Do you see the young rookie class?

Speaker 2 (29:04):
And I got to think with endorsements like that, Don,
you're probably going to upset the establishment quite a bit.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Are you ready for that fight?

Speaker 8 (29:12):
I am very ready, I really am. I just I'm
waking up very excited every day. We're going to win this.
We're in it to win. All the post show that
we are that I am going to win. And I
just remind you what you were saying earlier, Kenny, is
I'm the only candidate that's ever going to run in
this spot that has a record of rooting out corruption.

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You know, I closed that organization in Dallas. They when
I investigated them when I was in the Texas centate
at three thousand employees and they were stealing tens of
millions of dollars and I got six people put in
prison after I did the audite on the organization and
how much they were stealing. And anyway, it's I'm highly

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qualified for the position. I'm so excited to turn some
tables over down there in Austin, Texas.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Boy, you don Don, what do you love the most
about being a Texan. You're a lifelong Texan. You're a Catholic,
you and I. You're a liberty You're a liberty Republican.
You and I share a lot of opinions together, but
one thing we both decided to do is spend our time,
our lives in the lone Star State. And I'm just
curious what you enjoy the most about being here.

Speaker 8 (30:19):
I just love the fact that we have such pride here,
that the history of our state is so unique, so special.
You know it was really it's carved it with the
blood of Texans in Granede, and we fall for our liberty.
We earned that. We were our own country for ten years,

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we had our own currency. Texas is very special. We
don't look to anyone for our solutions. We don't need to.
We don't need to ask permission from anyone to solve
our problems, including the federal government. Look, this is Texas,
this is Texas. We will do what we need to

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do to make sure that our liberty is protected forever
and that every Texan can experience that every day. This
is a this is.

Speaker 6 (31:09):
What I love about.

Speaker 8 (31:10):
It is a can do state. Everybody that comes to
Texas can do anything they want to do in their
live streams, can be fulfilled. And that's what Texas is about.
Freedom and liberty.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Don, you got my endorsement. It's going to be an
uphill fight, but I got a feeling. I have a
feeling you're gonna win this. And I think you've already
done the legwork in that primary against Governor Abbitt, and
it'll be interesting to see how he and the people
that surround him feel about you being in this race.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
But it doesn't matter what they think. It's what the
people think.

Speaker 8 (31:41):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Don Hafeine's for Texas controller. God bless you and God
bless Texas.

Speaker 6 (31:45):
Brother.

Speaker 8 (31:47):
Oh thank you, Kenny, God bless you.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
You're listening to Keen Webster's Pursuit of Happiness very spicy radio.
I was having a conversation, Hi, we're back from everybody.
I was having a conversation with a friend of mine
at the gym. Recently, I work out. I don't know
if you know that about me lift. I like to
lift weights, and I lift weights with a diverse group

(32:10):
of people, ideologically speaking, people with different opinions, religious and
political beliefs, and we all get along.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Very friendly group of people.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
So I'll have a pleasant conversation with someone at the
gym who happens to be a liberal.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
It happens all the time. I'm happy to talk to him.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
And one of my liberal friends recently told me, Kenny,
you should stop being excited about Doge. Doge has cut
off funding to all your favorite nonprofits.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Which nonprofits?

Speaker 2 (32:37):
I don't know what the nonprofit they're like, military nonprofits,
veterans rights groups like which one? And this person friendly
person was just repeating something that they'd been told they
didn't actually know. They said, well, I don't know which
specific ones, but there's a lot of them out there.
You should ask one of your friends who handles a
veteran's rights nonprofit.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
I thought, well, I happen to know someone quite well.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
As a matter of fact, if you listen to this
radio show regularly, you know my absolute favorite nonprofit, my
favorite charity of all charities on Earth to support, is
Wheelchairs for Warriors. And the reason I support Wheelchairs for
Warriors is actually, well, it revolves around the context of
this exact conversation. Right now, Wheelchairs for Warriors exists because

(33:22):
military veterans who have been disabled are not getting the
wheelchair that they need. That's the whole point. We already
have a department of the government called the VA, and
when Trump's in charge, the VA seems to be okay.
When Trump's not in charge, the VA has some problems.
You remember, back during the Obama era, people were dying
on waiting lists at VA hospitals trying to get healthcare.

(33:43):
It's terrible. It was a huge scandal. Someone probably should
have gone to prison for that, but they didn't. Times change,
fifteen minutes of news will pass. People forget that they're
mad about something. But all that being said, this person
told me nonprofits like Wheelchairs for Warriors are suffering right
now as a DOGE.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
That's what I was told, and I wanted to know
if that was true.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
So I called Crystal from Wheelchairs for Warriors Wheelchairs for
Warriors dot org, a five O one C three charity.
You can make a donation right now, Crystal. Are you
guys losing out on money right now because of DOGE?

Speaker 3 (34:15):
Not a dome?

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Not How much money were you getting from the federal
government millions.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
Not a dome?

Speaker 3 (34:23):
Nothing? Well, then, what the hell are these people talking about?

Speaker 4 (34:28):
I'm not really sure. I don't know what's going on
within the UH. The thing that I can tell you.
The thing that I can tell you is we have
never relied on the government for funding. It has been
one of the things that I have been adamant that

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we will not do that. We will rely on funding
from corporations, individuals and foundations.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Sure we have one right now.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
We started getting so many recipients that needed assistance that
we couldn't manage, you know what we were doing. So
we have one grant. And listen, I know I'm the
executive director, but details sometimes escaped me. We have a
Texas Veterans Commission grant. That money comes from the Texas

(35:26):
state lottery. They allocate some of that money to veteran nonprofits.
We are one of the veteran nonprofits who receives money
from the Texas Veterans Commission that is not federal grant money.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
All right, question about that. So that money comes from
lottery tickets, is what you're saying.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
That's what I believe.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
Okay, So right now.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Dan Patrick is trying to make it so people can't
buy lottery tickets using a smartphone app. Does that sound
like something that might actually affect the funding of getting
these wheelchairs for military veterans.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
I'm serious, that's a serious question. I don't understand why
he's doing it. Who's this helping?

Speaker 4 (36:06):
She sing affects everything. And if I want to and
if I want to spend all my money, what if
I'm a veteran in a wheelchair and I can't get
up and go to the convenience store, but I want
to follow that is, you know, my mother wants to
buy a lottery ticket and she's elderly and she can't
get to the convenience store. That should be her free

(36:28):
will and her right to be able to spend her
money the way she wants to spend it. And if
she knows that it might even help wheelchairs for warriors
at the in the end game, maybe that's why she's
doing it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
Look, I some have claimed.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
It a lot of reasons for buying a lottery ticket.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
I mean, I don't have a problem with people buying
lottery tickets either. Some have claimed that they're using the
smartphone apps, the courier services they call it to rig
the system. But I don't think anyone's actually proved that's
true yet. So if that's true, prove it, and then
I'll support them. I don't want people to rig that
the system. But anyway, we're going off topic here. What's
going on right now? Wheelchairs for Warriors dot Org. You

(37:05):
guys are doing a lot of great work. One of
your employees Savannah Pania, who I think is very beautiful.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
She had turned thirty recently. How is she? How is
she still single? I don't get that.

Speaker 4 (37:17):
I know, Kenny, It's like, we should start we need
to start.

Speaker 7 (37:20):
Some dating shows.

Speaker 4 (37:22):
We need we need to start a show together, you
and I. We're gonna have it for the younger dating
people and then the me dating people.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Crystal, you're beautiful. You could date anyone you want, you know.
But look, so, let me.

Speaker 4 (37:36):
Tell you about a recent delivery we did. And I
want to challenge Tillman Forertita with the Rockets to let
us do a presentation at a Rockets halftime game. You
know where we did a presentation yesterday.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
San Antonio Spurs. Look you, I'm looking at your Instagram
right now. Look. I love this. The photos in the
video are beautiful.

Speaker 6 (37:59):
You have.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
It's a bunch of people in wheelchairs playing basketball. This
warms my heart. I love seeing stuff like that. That
makes me really happy. To see them getting out, having fun,
enjoying their lives.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
They should, they deserve it.

Speaker 4 (38:12):
The Texas Veterans Commission provided the funding for both of
those wheelchairs, and we present it too, and we'll have
another video later. But Tiffany got a daily Living wheelchair
because the VA denied her a wheelchair. Once again. I know,
I'm singing the same old song again. Year after year,
nine years we've been doing this and they wouldn't give

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her a wheelchair because she can walk using a cane.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
Yeah, but she needed the wheelchair.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
Couldn't quite that off of that. But she's about one now.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
But she was suffering so and now she's not so.
God bless you what you do. The work you do,
Crystal is so important. Your work, you were doing God's work.
I love you so much. You know you're one of
my heroes. You're one of my favorite people. And I
cannot express this enough. If anyone listening to this radio
show gives a day about American patriotism, about this country,
if you've ever said yeah, let's hear it for the troops,

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if you really believe that right, go to Wheelchairs for
Warriors dot org and make a donation because there are
men and women that have risked life and limb that
have literally sacrificed their limbs for this country, and they're
not being given the wheelchair that they need and deserve.
A small humble donation from you can make their lives better.
It's tax deductible. It is so important, Crystal. I'm so

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proud to call.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
You my friend.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
All same same.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Yeah, anytime year, you know, anytime wheelchairs for Warriors need something,
We're gonna be there because you, guys, what you do
really matters.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
Christal, I love you so much. You're doing okay otherwise.

Speaker 4 (39:40):
Yeah, everything's going fantastic.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
We have been.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
We delivered the two wheelchairs yesterday for basketball so they
can get out and play. And the Tiffany Clark was
telling us that that she went to the zoo with
her son and that she couldn't finish the trip and
it was a field trip and she was embarrassed and
she was embarrassed for him, and so she was just

(40:05):
in her bed for two days trying to recover. And
she was saying, I don't understand why the VA won't
give me a wheelchair. It's like I'm not bad enough.

Speaker 6 (40:12):
Well, how bad do I have to be?

Speaker 4 (40:14):
Do I have to be completely broken or can I
have the wheelchair so that I have not completely broken?
And she's a single mom, and they forced her into
getting the vaccine as well, and the vaccine caught the
blood clot. Oh, it's just a horrible story.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
Oh my god, the vaccine.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
They forced her to get the vaccine and she had
a blood Like this story is making me sick. It's
making me physically upset right now, Crystal. That pisses me off.

Speaker 6 (40:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (40:39):
Yeah, they forced her to get She told she waited
until the very last benuelievable till the very is so
that she could get She had to get the vaccine.

Speaker 4 (40:50):
She's a single mom. She joined the military to serve
her country, and they're telling her, look, you're at more
of a risk not getting the vaccine to your fellow
you know, soldiers. She's in the Navy. Sorry, and then
if you don't get the vaccine, And she said that

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my family has a history of these blood disorders and
you know this and that and the other. So they
just forced it on her or they were going to
kick her out of the military.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Crystal, you know, you know this is important to us,
and you know there is nothing I will do.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
There's nothing I won't do to help you guys out.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
But also another notable thing here is I don't think
you and I have ever gotten through an interview where
you did not cry.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
No, No, it's important.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
I think that's important for radio listeners to hear that
you really care. Crystal really cares, that this is real.
She's as reel as a good Crystal is one of
the realest people I know. There are people in this
line of work you will meet who are not genuine,
who are now down to earth, who don't actually care.
You see TV commercials for veterans' rights groups, and I
don't actually think that they care. I don't I've met

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some of these people when the when the microphones turn
off and the cameras turn it, they don't really actually
seem like they care that much.

Speaker 3 (42:06):
But Crystal does. And Crystal, I love you so much.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
You know you deserve any all the good things coming
to you, and I'm so grateful to have you as
a spokesperson and as a fighter for wheelchairs for warriors,
because we need people like you on this planet.

Speaker 4 (42:20):
Oh you're so sweet. My team, we were all crying.
It wasn't just me when Tiffany started telling us about
having to get the vaccine, and so when she tore
her acl and she had surgery, she got a blood
clot and then the she told the doctor if I
told you all, you know, and she's if she gets
she's extremely scared every day because she's worried about getting

(42:44):
a second blood clot. If you don't catch it, it
goes through your longer your heart. They just scare you
to death. And if you get two blood clots, apparently
you have to be on blood dinner. This is her
story to me yesterday as she was telling me, and
I'm trying to film her, and I'm bawling and Tina's crying,
and you know, we're all just going, what.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
Yeah, it's hurts. It is maddening. Christal.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
I wish I could give you a Tiffany a big
hug right now. I'm so sorry you're dealing with that.
But you know what, but hey, there's a happy ending
of the story. We got her the wheelchair, so that's awesome.

Speaker 4 (43:17):
We did. We're going to get her a basketball wheelchair.
We gave her a daily living wheelchair and we're gonna
we're working on getting her a basketball wheelchair. So she
can learn to play adaptive sports.

Speaker 9 (43:29):
With the Antonio first.

Speaker 6 (43:31):
Well, I want to do whatever.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
Well, she's my hero and you are too.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
I want to give you both a big hug and
tell tell Savannah if she needs a hug, I'll give
her one.

Speaker 6 (43:40):
Two.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
No problem, Krystal, I love Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
We'll discuss it on the day.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
I have no idea why you'd mentioned dating right now.
I don't know what you're talking about, Crystal. Crystal, I
love you. I love everybody listening to If you are
a regular listener of this radio show, I would not
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