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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We will post to the Daily Blast today the video.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It is absolutely beautiful. Deputies from all five precincts in
Harris County escorted the body of twenty one year old
Claire Munchaka. She went by her nickname Reese Reese Munchaka.
She was swept away in the Hill Country floods. She
was brought home to Conrod to be laid to rest.
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First Responders and neighbors lined the streets to pay their
respect as the glorious convoy.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Passed by.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
With horns honking, lights flashing, and hearts heavy. Twenty one
year old Reese Moonchanka was brought home to Montgomery County today,
escorted by law enforcement and greeted by first responders and
neighbors who wind the roadside to pay their respects.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
It just demonstrates the heart of the people of Montgomery County.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
According to the Montgomery County Judge, Reese was swept away
during a trip with friends to the Guadalape River near Hunt,
Texas last week. Three of those young friends have now
been found dead, including Reese. One other friend remains missing.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
He just was very loved by a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Those who knew Reese a proud twenty twenty two Caney
Creek graduate says she lit up every room she walked into.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
You always knew when Reese was in the building because
she stood out because she was exactly who she was.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Jalen Jackson and Tracy Underwood, both Kney Creek teachers and
close friends of Reese's mom, say they were devastated.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
I was just overwhelmed with grief for Miro and for
her family.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
To honor Reese's memory and support her family that you
launched the Forever Ree's Tribute shirt featuring angel wings, a halo,
and her favorite colors.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Regardless if you knew Reese or if you were friends
with her family, you're aware of what's going on, and
you're feeling the grief and the frustration and the sadness
and the desperation.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
The shirts were donated in less than twenty four hours.
More than two hundred were sold, their goal sell all
five hundred and raised ten thousand dollars. One percent of
the proceeds will go to the Munchaka family.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
I just pray that anyone kind of feels her spirit
when they're wearing their Perever Race t shirt.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
What message do you hope the family hears through this effort.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
I just hope they know that we love them. If
there's ever anything that you need, we are here. We
are your Panther family.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Sorry, I said Harris County. I meant Montgomery County. You
couldn't pull off something so beautiful, so pure in Harris County.
Of course, it would have to be in Montgomery County.
Class Act Montgomery County. Well done, Well done. A blue
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alert has been issued for the left wing terrorist who
shot at officers in a coordinated attack against an iced
attan center in Alvarado. Benjamin Song had been charged with
three counts of attempted murder of federal agents and three
counts of discharging a firearm during a violent crime. A
twenty five thousand dollars reward has been offered for his capture.
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The story from w FAA.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
Well, that blue alert has been issued for the now
twelfth person believed involved in this bizarre and brazen attack
here at the Prairie Land Detention Center and ICE Detention
Facility that happened back on July fourth. We've been telling
you about the arrest that had been made so far,
eleven so far, after a group in black military style
clothing started shooting fireworks at this detention center where we're
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standing right now, and sprayed graffiti on vehicles and a
guard building in the parking lot. Albareto police responded, and
when an officer got out of his car, he was
shot in the neck by someone positioned in the woods nearby.
According to the FBI, another they say, fired twenty to
thirty rounds at unarmed correctional officers last night. We told
you about the first ten arrested and eleventh alleged accomplice
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arrested to and now a blue alert for this man,
Benjamin Heneil Song. He is a former United States Marine
Corps reservist who the FBI says purchased at least four
of the guns recovered, including two ar style rifles. He
is charged in a federal complaint with three counts of
attempted murder of federal agents and three counts of discharging
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a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. The
FBI is asking for your help in locating Benjamin Song.
If you have any tips that could help them, you're
asked to call this number. It should be at the
bottom of your screen one eight hundred call FBI, or
you can send your tips online to FBI dot gov
backward slash prairie Land. That is the latest information from
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here as this blue alert is issued for some of
the FBI is now involved with and would very much
like your help to find.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Sorry Alvarado, Non Alvarado, As I said, can you believe.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Federal law enforcement officials being shot by left wing terrorists?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Friend? Should surprising nobody.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
The Michael Verry Show long to be a fight.
Speaker 8 (05:16):
And Breathe bonanza.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I've been doing a deep dive in the Vietnam War
over the last few months, and the subject has been
top of mind, including the number of American service members
who died in that war fifty eighty two twenty And
on yesterday Evening's program, I was doing what I often do,
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which is, while I'm talking about something, I'm finding the
material for the next story or looking for audio that
I would like to play along with that story, and
sort of keeping time while I'm talking as my brain
is focused on looking for something else. And it means
that often I will say that the sky is red
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and someone will email me and say the sky is blue,
and I say, yes, I'm aware, Why are you telling
me that, Well, you just said it. Was red, and
I will swear I didn't, and the reason is because
I was just you shouldn't distray. You shouldn't do distracted driving, Jim,
you shouldn't do distracted talk show hosting. And occasionally that
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will happen, probably more than I realized, But y'all are
polite enough not to point it out when you know
that I know the actual number.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So it was with.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
A bit of shame and horror last night that I
started receiving emails from Vietnam veterans to tell me it's
over fifty thousand, not five thousand.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
And of course it's out of.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Context because sometimes I don't see it for thirty minutes.
That's what are you talking about? The number who died
in Vietnam? I know it's fifty two thousand, eight hundred eighty.
I'm sorry, fifty two two hundred twenty. And I got
into arguments. I was certain I didn't say that, and
I thought, well, it's a little odd that this many
people are emailing me to correct me. And Jim Mudd
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checked the record, and yes, I had, in fact, I did,
in fact get that number wrong.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I know the correct number.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I simply misstated it, and I did it apparently twice
so worth noting it was fifty eight fifty two, Sorry,
fifty eight thousand, two hundred twenty. I don't know why
I keep wanting to transpose to two in the eight
fifty eight thousand, two hundred and twenty American service members
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recorded as having died in that war. It looks like
it is continuing. Tesla's being torched at the They're calling
it the Southwest Houston Look, and I suppose that's the
proper terminology. It's the there's a Tesla lot at West
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Teimer and South Gestner. Oddly enough, I was talking yesterday
about the Randalls that is on the northeast corner of
that block, and I mentioned the Tesla dealership that is
on the southeast corner of that lot. It's what used
to be a you remember what that was, Jim used
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to be? Is that an electronics store like a Fries,
but not a Fries. Somebody tell me what that Tesla
dealership there used to be. It's the southeast corner of
Guestner and West Teimer, and if I remember correctly, there
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used to be a Jack in the box out front there.
I tend to no places based on the fast.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Food restaurant that's up at the front corner. Well.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Houston firefighters from sixties Station sixties responded to a fire
about five in the morning on Sunday. They found two
Teslas burning in the parking lot of the dealership. No
injuries reported, but both vehicles were destroyed. Arson investigators are
handling the investigation numerous reports over the past several months
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of Tesla's being targeted in response to Elon Musk's doge work. Well,
they have cameras on them, so I suppose there will
be a video of what the guys look like who
walk up. Now, whether they've covered their faces or not,
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we shall see, And how they arrived, we shall see.
I don't think anybody walks to set a fire like that.
They probably had some accelerants, So my guess is they
pulled up in a stolen car. Recover that stolen car
and you'll find out who's set the who set the arson.
The revolving door in Harris County continues career criminal with
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at least seven burglary arrests in Harris County, once again
arrested by a retired HPD officer turned private investigator who
says he's caught him probably four to six times himself.
This particular officer has caught him four to six times.
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This is crazy story from ABC thirteen.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
It's all he knows, it's all he does.
Speaker 9 (10:30):
Even with half his face covered, this convicted burglar couldn't.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Hide for long.
Speaker 9 (10:35):
John Joseph Payez arrested Tuesday, and Mark Stevens has treated
him with a smile.
Speaker 10 (10:42):
So when I saw him, you know.
Speaker 9 (10:43):
And John Stevens is a retired HPD officer turned private
investigator who often works for home builders trying to prevent
construction site theft.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
You know, on topitip cameras and I hide and I
do whatever I have to do to catch them coming.
Speaker 9 (10:59):
In June twenty fifth, this van was captured on camera
leaving a new neighborhood in Crosby. A newly built home
had been burglarized, its appliances stolen. Six days later, the
same band was back, and Stevens soon saw a familiar face.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Was it a reunion?
Speaker 9 (11:18):
He says, Piez remembered him too.
Speaker 8 (11:20):
He looked up and he's like, no, you know, and
he goes, I'm so tired of seeing you.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
It's like, stop stealing.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
It's really easy.
Speaker 9 (11:32):
Stevens first came across Piees back in twenty sixteen, when
his construction site cameras caught what appeared to be a
bizarre pre breaking warm up.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
He would get out in the Mill Street and he
would just you know, start doing to stretches and getting
ready to do the heavy lift.
Speaker 9 (11:46):
ABC thirteen profile the suspected serial burglar wanted at the
time accused of helping himself to newly delivered building materials
and hauling them off on the hood of his car
because there was no room inside for this. He got
nine months in state jail before he was back at
it again.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
I've got John since then, probably four harpin four to
six times.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
Stevens shared pictures of this week's arrest and more. When
officers brought Pyez back to the scene of the crime,
two other men were with him and also arrested.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
All three of you are.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Currently small world. I play tennis if the Metropolitan Racket
Club Downtown with Mark Stephen's dad, who into his sixties
was a phenomenal tennis player. Ninety six thirty three West Timeline.
I'm told by people whose Google is not broke, which
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is a lot of folks that is the address of
that Tesla location where the two cars were burned, and
it has been a lot of things over the years.
Ron says it used to be Houston Jewelry. Paul Alexander
says that corner was a Houston jewelry and distributing. Near
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the street was a Jack in the Box. I thought
so well, I guess it's not there anymore, or is it?
And a Shipley's Donuts. Angie says that it was a
gem which is what I remembered it being, and that
it was this outlet store. But I can't read her
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email properly because the font chosen its comic sands and
I just can't understand why anybody would do that.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
But it says.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Clothing and Decor outlet, Rug and Decor outlet.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I don't know how long that lasted.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Molly says it was a Border's Books and then a
rug shop. That's the one she's talking about, And there
were further references to what.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
That location was.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Tesley used to be Border's bookstore, it was Houston Jewelry
and distributing. I was just reading some of the emails
several several folks suggesting Kim Ogg for Republican County Judge.
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There is a tendency for people lacking any creativity to
assume we have no bench, that there are no people
available to run for public office other than the people
you know, So should an opening appear as a middle
reliever for the Astros.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
It's the equivalent of saying.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Is Satchel Page available?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
No, he's one hundred and thirty? Okay?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Is Steve Carlton? How about we play Steve Carlton? I
think he retired with forty one hundred strikeouts. I don't know,
thirty five years ago. Oh okay, Joe Sambido? What if
we get Joe Sambido? Pretty sure we can't do that anyway.
What about Mike Fires Remember he was with us a
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couple of years ago. Yeah, he pissed everybody off if
you remember. Oh, oh okay, Well, let me think of
other people that I already know of because they're in
the public eye. And no, no, there's some other dudes
out there can hurl of baseball. Speaking of which, Cookie
Havens sends the news. Those boys they got something going
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on and down in Naedville.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Those boys.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Needville Little League update. The fourteen year old Nadville Little
league boys that went to the World Series back in
twenty twenty three, won the state championship last night, beating
West University fifteen to nothing, onto the regional tournament in Albuquerque,
New Mexico, for the last tournament before Junior's World Series.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Roll on Naedville.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Well, I'll say those kids as twelve year olds were
a treat to watch.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Some of you will.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Remember we got very invested in that team and the
coaches and the whole deal. They put on quite a show. Well,
two years later, the much less hyped publicized fourteen year
old league, which is what they've moved up to. In
that league, they have now won the state championship and
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are headed to the tournament. I guess this is probably regional,
the regional tournament that they're going to. I don't know
how the fourteens works, if it's in Williamsport or where
it is, I don't know. I do know that per
that update, that Needville team, those kids know how to win.
They know how to play baseball period. Democrats tell you
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there's no voter fraud. Media will tell you it never happened.
But if you actually follow just the news, and these
are the few who were caught nine people, including the
former chair of the Bear County Democrat Party, indicted over
a vote harvesting scheme. Among those indicted were Monuel Medina,
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who once led Bear County Democrats and served as a
legislative aide, as well as Cecilia Castellano, who lost a
bid last year to represent a district that includes Frio
County in the legislature's lower chamber. You dumbass, you cheat,
and you still can't win. The indictments add to six
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previous ones revealed by Ken Paxton in May. Among those
indicted include former Bear County Democrat Party chair and former
San Antone mayoral candidate Juon Monuel Medina two counts of
vote harvesting, Former Pearsall mayor Petra Davina Trevino Trevino want
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what she does? It like she doesn't do the tilde
or maybe they didn't do the Tilly on one count
of vote harvesting. Former Dilly council member in Eldo Rodriguez
on three counts of vote harvesting, Former Dilly Mayor Mary
Ann Obregon on two counts of vote harvesting. These names
seem to have something in common. Rachel leal on one count.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Of vote harvesting.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Former Texas House candidate Cecilia Costellano on two counts of
vote harvesting. Susana Flores Carrisalies on one count of vote harvesting.
Precinct Iree Frio County Commissioner ROWL Cardi salis the third
on one count of vote harvesting. Piersoll isd Secretary Martiseilla
Garcia Benavidez on one count of vote harvesting. That's a
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lot of Hispanic harvesting right there. That is a lot.
You need to mix one white guy in there, justin
Smith or Bob Jones or something, just to keep it
from looking like a pattern. Matt Quinn, the Secret Service
Deputy Director, revealed that the sixth Secret Service agents have
been suspended without pay after Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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Sunday will have been a year since the President was
shot in the head. Quinn tells CBS News, we aren't
going to fire our way out of this. Maybe not,
but it's a good start. Clip number nineteen, CBS News
Chad's prep is Eclip number nineteen.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
CBS News has learned six US Secret Service personnel were
suspended without pay for up to six weeks, then placed
into restricted duty roles with less operational responsibility. It's the
first we're learning of suspension since the agency launched its
internal investigation. Quinn told me that the Secret Service won't
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be terminating employees. Instead, he says, the agency is laser
focused on addressing operational failures that played out last July thirteenth.
To do that, they've introduced a new fleet of military
gray drones. There were notably no drones at that July
thirteenth campaign rally last year. The agency is also rolling
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out new mobile command posts that allow agents to communicate
over radio directly with local law enforcement. That capability didn't
exist last year, and it prevented the Secret Service from
learning about Thomas Crook's whereabouts until shots were fired. And
so for the average American who remembers what happened on
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July thirteenth, if they're asking, has the Secret Service done enough,
what's the answer.
Speaker 10 (20:36):
The answer is that Secret Service is totally accountable for Butler.
Butler was an operational failure, and we are focused today
on ensuring that it never happens again and executing our
strategic plan to increase technology, to improve communications, to make
sure our personnel are well trained, equipped and deployed.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
We'll try harder. Is not how good organizations move past
errors of that level. Any organization team, you name it,
where people are not fired is not an effective organization.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Period. That's too much a moment. She won't go that.
That's so funny.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I told you it was going to happen, and it did.
Greg Abbott wanted school choice a voucher program. It's not
even a good voucher program.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
The public school lobby, and it is a powerful lobby.
You think, oh, but but Michael, I went to public schools.
But Michael, I support the teachers. But Michael, we want
to have good public schools. But Michael, not ever make
go to private school But Michael, some places don't have
uh private schools.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
We want, we want good public schools.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
You don't get good public schools by pouring more government
money into them, number one. Number two, you don't get
good government schools by preventing competition. You want something to
get better, you put some competition in there.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
What if the only.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Way you could receive a package delivery was a United
States Post Office? What if there was no UPS or FedEx?
How many packages do you get from each of those.
It's a world of difference. The USPS US Postal Service
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is government run package delivery and mail. Now the mail part,
you have to remember you have to subsidize mail if
you want to have mail delivery. It's not profitable. Just
a fact, it is not profitable. And this is a.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Discussion we've had on the air and PULD. You shouldn't
have to subsidize it, do away with it.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Fine, But if you're going to have some level of
expenditures on things that are for the public good, mail
delivery is still one of those things that I would argue,
we could agree that would be a government expense. Well,
it can be subsidized. I pay for stamps just like
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you pay for college. What you pay for the stamp
does not cover the cost of operations for the post office.
It pays a percentage. Every bus system in America, in
a major city, if you are paying the fare the
bus toll, you are just subsidizing your bus expense. You
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are just contributing to the whole that never covers the
cost of running the bus line. Ever, and by the way,
the airlines vacillate between being profitable and losing money. So
no matter what you're paying in airline fees in air fares,
airlines are still a subsidized industry in this country. And
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the way it happens is they get bailouts constantly. Oh
we got Joyce to save your Sunnyside, Go ahead, Joyce.
Speaker 11 (24:24):
Last evening, I turned on my TV and across the screen,
in big, bold, colorable letters, it said the church can
now endorse political candidates.
Speaker 12 (24:38):
And people were so excited about that. Am I missing
something because the Black Church and I haven't always been
into politics, but as far back as I can remember,
the Black Church has always endorsed political candidates. And not
only the church endorsed them, the candidates would come in themselves,
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get behind the pulpit and endorse themselves. And I don't
understand how this is such a grand announcement that this
is happening today. And I can remember years ago that
that was a white church that had some literature out
in the fire, and they it was all kind of
negative stuff about that church. And that wasn't inside the church,
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that was outside, And I just don't understand. And they
would always, and this would make me so angry. They
would always and you've always anybody heard in me, Shair and.
Speaker 11 (25:39):
Especially the Queen.
Speaker 12 (25:41):
They would always come down that center aisle and the
congregants would jump up shouting Hey, then Hallelujah, Praise the Lord,
and I would get the hell out of there, and
they would not allow any rep I didn't like it anyway,
but I had to know, why is it that they
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only allow Democrat representatives to come in to the church
and they wouldn't allow Republicans. But that happened, Michael, and
that's been happening in my community, in my black churches
that I tend for years. Oh yeah, So I know that.
I know that I'm older and I don't compute like
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I used to. But please, somebody tell me what am
I missing?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
You know what I don't understand. You raise a good question,
and I will I will answer that question. Joyce.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
The first of all, white people in this country are
so afraid, all the time, everywhere, of everything. They are
afraid of being called a racist. They are afraid of
being told achieved. They're afraid of anything that could be
called white privilege. They're basically afraid of winning elections. A
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lot of white people are more comfortable losing elections because
winning elections will be called racist makes them uncomfortable. And
being called racist. You can, Uh, you can murder somebody,
you can steal the bank blind, but don't be called racist.
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Whether you did it or not, it's the end of
your life. It's the worst crime imaginable. They've worked so
hard not to be They they tipped extra to the
black waitress. Uh, they gave a little extra to the shoeshine.
Many there's a guy at work who handles the male
and they all they learned his name and the name
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of his wife and kids, and they're extra nice to him.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
They're really, really, really nice to the black people because
they want they want to show that that they they
like black people and they're not a racist. The problem is,
it's like this virus, this stink that gets on you
and you can't get it off, and you never know
when it gets flung on you. So they live in fear.
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So you've got I give you a great example, Sylvester
Turner who used to try to around behind Sheila Jackson
Lee and go to all the churches, especially in acres homes.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
And he would go.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
To all the churches and he would campaign there and
as I think everybody should be able to I have
no problem in that. And then when Ed Young got
involved in a political issue here by simply making a statement,
Sylvester Turner threatened that he was going to be reporting
Second Baptists to the irs and it was the end
of the world. And white people at Second Baptists, rich,
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powerful people were just horrified. Oh my god, we're going
to lose our taxi.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
No you're not. No, you're not.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Black office holders, black candidates, and black pastors understand that
as a minority of about thirteen percent of the overall population,
about a third.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Of the city of Houston.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
You've got to play ball. You know, you've got to
hide the ball. You've got to cut the ball, you've
got to put wax on the ball, you've got to
put vasilin on your cap and try to throw a
funny pitch. You do everything you can to win. And
so that's why blacks outperform at the polls and whites
underperform perfectly conservative white Christians because they're scared