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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Time, time, time, luck and load. So Michael Varry's show
is on the air. I have.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Seventy five eighty show sponsor, most of which that was weird.
You just crashed that right just to zero. You didn't fade.
Oh you're on the phone. Okay, phone lines messing up? Okay.
So I am con what Okay. I am constantly calling
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them in between shows and at night to talk about
their business. A because I care in their show sponsors.
I want to help them succeed and see where I
can help them. B because it's a good insight into
the economy. Now, I believe that the greater Houston and
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the Texas economy have been have done better over the
last ten years the most of the rest of the country.
And there are a lot of reasons for that, but
I think we have been somewhat, if not immune, then
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protected from the economic downturn. Now I have show sponsors
in other parts of the country Pacific, Northwest, East Coast,
LA New York. Those in particular talk about the difficulties
they're having and the challenge as I see it, is
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that we had a tumultuous series of things have happened
in the last six years, and that means that normal
is not normal anymore. We go back to twenty nineteen
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and business was relatively normal and then and the economy
was doing pretty darn well. And then in the spring
of twenty twenty, in order to bounce Trump from the
White House, they gin up COVID, and that created a
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whole new system of winners and losers. People think that
every business suffered during COVID. That's not only not true,
it's far from the truth. I have show sponsors who
the worse it got during COVID, the more money they made.
And I'm not talking about N ninety five mask makers.
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I'm talking about home improvement. So by the fall of
twenty twenty, our home improvement show sponsors, which you may
have noticed a lot of them are, were absolutely killing it.
And think back what was going on? You may be
one of the reasons they were killing it because now
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all of a sudden, people weren't taking their vacations to
Europe that they had planned already, so they were staying here.
People weren't getting on a plane, people weren't going into
the office. So now all of a sudden, the home
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became the central hub of life. And when people were
at home all day, working from there, relaxing there, they
started thinking, you don't always want to pool, or you know,
our front door looks terrible, you got to get a
new front door. Or I just noticed our roof has
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a bunch of shingles missing. We need to get a
roof replacement, or windows, or and people started Sunflower floor Coatings,
a company that makes that comes in and does the
concrete in your floor and makes it look like a showroom.
Their business exploded because now people would you didn't You
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didn't have the hour commute there and the hour commute back,
so you had two hours back from that. And amazingly,
you didn't have to go from the parking garage to
your office and back and all the inefficiencies that went
with that. So people had extra time, so they started
doing things like cleaning out the garage, reorganizing thing. So
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our home improvement show sponsors had an explosive growth. MAC
was killing it at Gallery Furniture. So now all of
a sudden, these businesses, their business picked up so much,
seemingly overnight. So everybody was waiting on the other shooter drop.
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But there was too much invested in COVID and cultural
changes occurred. Some people stopped eating out. This has really
hurt the restaurants. Restaurants have never recovered from COVID. Some
people made behavioral changes where they would eat out and
then they stopped eating out, but they would DoorDash and
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now they realized, oh, I kind of liked door dash,
I like eating at home. So they never went back
to the restaurants. So date night of going out or
just the idea of getting dressed, going out, eating at
a restaurant and the restaurant experience, they pivoted that to
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Netflix and dinner in their underwear and that some you know,
some percentage of people have gone back to going out,
but many people and most businesses operate on the margin.
Most businesses, if you drop their business five percent, you
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can put them out of business. It doesn't seem like it,
but you can, because it's tight. The profit is so lean.
The grocery store business is, to my knowledge, the leanest
profit margin of any industry. I mean, they make pennies
and they have to be very, very efficient with how
they run their business. Restaurants tend to be obviously a
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higher profit margin, but still a relatively lean dangerous business
with the vagaries of ups and downs and those sorts
of things. So what I'm noticing now is here we
are five years past the advent of COVID, A couple
of years into. Okay, the COVID game is over. There's
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still some whack jobs out there wearing a mask. And
I will tell you, if you see a person now
wearing a mask, they're nuts. That person is that that
person is in such a paranoid, manic fit. But Michael,
some people have an upper respiratory issue. Okay, that is
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one in a billion. Stop doing that. Stop that's dumb. Stop.
The people who are wearing a mask are wearing a
mask because they are They have so embraced the fear.
Fear is their porn, Fear is their obsession. Fear for
the sake of fear is their greatest because it makes
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him feel very alive. Those people are crazy, absolutely crazy.
You don't you don't want them around here. They're nuts,
they're crazy, they're sick of they're Weirdo. Michael Berry, I
think that there might be So I've got nothing going
on down there. Probably Gavin Newsome is now presiding over
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a state that has the highest unemployment rate in the country. Yes, indeed,
the mayor of New Orleans. Her name is LaToya l
A capital t O A Cantrail. LaToya Cantreil is a
fat black lady who is very clearly dumb, extremely dumb.
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And she's one of these people we keep seeing pop
up in politics, like Stacy Abrams or Jasmine Crockett or
Sheila Jackson Lee. And it's these black women who are
really really stupid, I mean epic levels of dumb, and
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everybody actually knows it is the crazy thing. Everybody knows
they're dumb, and they get elected on the basis of
this kind of hodgepodge boilerplate campaign slogan. It's more of
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a vibe and it's it's a two part One of
them is, uh, we can lose anything if we put
our mind to it. We's just got to try. Uh,
we got to we got to shoot for the stars.
And so there's this, there's this there's this really third
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rate seventies problem about inspiration and you know that they'll
be uh, there'll be some some real silly wordplay We're
gonna be too blessed to be stressed, and just just
very basic kind of slogans. And I remember the first
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time I saw Sylvester Turner campaigning. It was nineteen eighty
nine and Jesse Jackson was real big at that time.
He had just run for president. And at the end
of Sylvester Turner speech at the University of Houston campus,
he said, like Jesse Jackson says, up with hope, down
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with dope, Up with hope, down with dope. Now, I'm
not gonna do it to you, but he repeated that
about twenty times. And as he would say up with
hope was it was like he was closing the tailgate
on a truck. He would he'd do his hands up
and then down with dope. He'd turn his hands over,
and it was like he was trying to get started
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on coming down the slide. You know, he's he's on
the mat and he's trying to get started, and he
up with hope, down with dope. And he did that
for a while, and to this day, I still think
to myself, Okay, so now we get these elected officials
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who were not very smart, and it's important to understand
the uplifting, real, real pedestrian, elementary level. We gonna do this.
We're gonna be able to fly. We gonna have a
good city. That is really that's not really the campaign.
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But that's for the white people, not the white liberals.
The white liberals are already salivating. You could be Black
Lives Matter, you could be a black panther. They love this.
White liberals will not be happy until they are destroyed
by black people. They will put their hand into the
pit to get bitten. They don't like upstanding black people,
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they don't like successful black people. They want to go
get the most raggedy ass black person and promote them,
and they feel real, real good about that makes them.
It's a virtuous thing to them, like going to the
Peace Corps, but they do it here. So that's part
of these campaigns, of the peace of the campaign. But
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the real source is what's hard for people to grasp.
The real connection is to close the door. We don't
want no white people in here. And that's when you
let your hair down. I mean, you take the extensions out,
you pull the wig off, and you get after it.
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And that is pure and simple white hate. It is
white hate, and nobody wants to talk about it. That's
why they always talk about white nationalism. There's no white nationalism.
There is a reaction to the white hate that's going on.
But there are some really stupid, really mean, really vindictive
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black politicians in America today saying the nastiest, nastiest things,
and they have a very welcome audience. You can see
it when a speech is given. You can see it
by the reaction. You can tell they're giving voice to
this very atavistic, angry black audi And if you sprinkle
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some white liberals in there, they'll they'll join in too.
They're happy to be a part of this. And this,
this demographic is now in charge of more police departments
as the chief, more fire departments as the as the
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fire chief, more mayors where they can put other people
like this in there, more schools. These people get into
administrative positions. They've infiltrated the military, they have infiltrated every
government office known to man Cain. And there is this
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very very toxic mix of extreme incompetence as well as
a vindictive nature, and you're seeing it. You saw it
in Cincinnati where this group of blacks beat these white people.
It's a wonder they didn't kill them. They beat them bad,
I mean, really really messed them up. And then and
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then you had the black activists coming in and saying
that those whites should be arrested for having deserved it,
and everybody kind of looks the other way and says,
I'm glad I don't live in Cincinnati. People in Cincinnati
said that when it was happening in Chicago and LA.
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People in Cincinnati said that when he was happening in
New York and DC, they didn't think it would happen
in Cincinnati. And so what we now have is an
entire nation on the run, fleeing people and institutions like this,
and blacks are fleeing too. They don't want any part
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of this. But now what you've what you have is
an absolute takeover that is so deep and so entrenched
into our school boards, our schools, our police departments, fire departments, universities.
It's awful and it's not going to change. And a
lot of people are going to have to be called
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racist to fix this problem. Where it needs from morning
suits to coordinating accessories, fired.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
One small one that they begin to run it well
down to Mississippi to the goulf of Mexico.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
The mayor of New Orleans, Latoria Cantrell, has been indicted
on Friday on charges for using seventy thousand dollars of
city funds to travel with her bodyguard, who she was banging.
It was all done, okay, he was banging her. It
was all done under the guise of official business. Flashback
to twenty twenty two. New Orleans City Council threatened to
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dock the pay of the mayor because she refused to
pay the city back for jetting around the globe first class,
saying that she was entitled to taxpayer funded first class
travel because as a black woman, traveling in kutch is
not safe. You see, you see what we've done. We
have empowered this fraud. Your answer to everything you do
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is as a black woman, we've tolerated this. We've actually
encouraged it. We've incubated it. Stop making victims out of
people based on their race. Stop allowing race to be
the explanation for anything. Stop assuming everyone is a racist.
The racist in this country are black people, not white people.
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And that's a fact. The violence being conducted on the
basis of race against another is black people against white people.
And that's when black people aren't beating the snot out
of other black people. All of those are facts. Everyone
knows this. No one says it. Nobody ever says it.
Everyone is afraid of the truth. Truth is dead in
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this country because there is a fear you will upset someone,
particularly someone black. And that's some some one black will
likely be in a position of authority. That's a fact,
all right. WWLV out of New Orleans, Louisiana on the story.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
On Friday, a federal grand jury charged New Orleans Mayor
Glatoya Cantrell with conspiring with her former bodyguard Jeffrey Vappy
to commit wire fraud and cover up an affair for
years while both were married. That includes allegedly charging city
taxpayers seventy thousand dollars for Vappy's expenses during trips together,
and Cantrell allegedly deleted thousands of WhatsApp messages and then
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whied to a federal grand jury under oath about it.
Acting US Attorney Michael Simpson says, this prosecution isn't about
Cantrell and Vappi's alleged affair. Did you take pause at
all about bringing criminal charges that at the heart are
based on a romantic relationship, especially with the first woman
mayor of the city of New Orleans.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
To me, it's irrelevant that it's romance or that it's female.
What is relevant is that it is an incredible breach
of the public trust. It's an incredible betrayal of people's
confidence in their own government, and it's a violation of
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innumerable federal criminal laws.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Former federal prosecutor Matt Chester helped convict former mayor Ray
Nagan in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
There are serious allegations in here. There are allegations of
falsification of documentation to get city money, their allegations of
lying to a federal grand jury, lying to federal law enforcement.
But at its core, those lies, those activities were about
hiding the illicit relationship.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
A twenty eighteen state case in Tennessee also involved the
first female mayor of Nashville spending the public's money on
an affair with their bodyguard. An associate alleged we Warren
Cantrell about that in twenty twenty two, and she texted back,
don't accuse me.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Remember fat Fanny in Atlanta who was trying to put
Trump in prison and she was riding Nathan's hot dog
her investigator, remember that little story. This is the pattern.
This is the pattern.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Big Tish in New York.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
This is the pattern Box eight in New Orleans back
in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
The stage is now set for a November budget showdown
at which the New Orleans City Council will seek to
reduce maryor Cantrell's twenty twenty three salary by thirty.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Grand I believe that, you know, we we have to
be transparent and accountable when it comes to public funding, The.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Council attorney says, Mary Cantrell is in fact a city
employee and must follow city policy which requires employees who
choose to upgrade travel accommodations to be solely responsible for
the difference in costs.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
And I think the City of New Orleans policy was
very clear.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
I'm in one hundred percent agreeance and I support him
one hundred percent with it. Oh, thank You's right. I
think she should pay it back.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
In the past, Mayor Cantrell has adamantly refused to reimburse
the city for her first class business travel expenses, in
spite of a city law which requires all city employees
to do so.
Speaker 9 (21:13):
All expenses incurred doing business on behalf of the City.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Of New Orleans will not be reimbursed to the City
of New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
I hope we don't have to take it this far,
that she'll see some of these legal opinions coming out
and do the right thing, but we will be forced
to take the necessary steps if she doesn't.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
The message that it sends is that the mayor's above
the law.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Council President Helena Moreno believes the majority of council members
will support the move to doctor mayor's pay unless she
reimburses the city before the November budget cycle.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
As I've definitely talked to other council members about it,
and you know they receive the memo as well, and
you know they believe that the money should be paid back.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Citizens have mixed views.
Speaker 10 (21:55):
If you're going to represent me, I want you to
go first class so all the way, and I do
not want you to have to pay for it.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
I drive on these city streets every day, bumpity bumpity bump.
You can't even see half the popholes behave in the city.
I think that money should be put forward to get
these streets fixed.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Then we go back to the former mayor, Ray Nagan
who went to prison.
Speaker 11 (22:21):
We as black people, it's time it's time for us
to come together. It's time for us to rebuild a
New Orleans, the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans.
And I don't care what people are saying uptown or
wherever they are, this city will be chocolate. At the
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end of the day. This city will be a majority
African American city. It's the way God wants it to.
Speaker 12 (22:58):
Ben't have New Orleans.
Speaker 11 (23:01):
No other way, it wouldn't be New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
So Ray Nagan was there was a great deal of excitement.
I remember like it was yesterday at his campaign when
he was running for mayor, because he was an executive
with Cox Communications, and he was a guy that the
thought was he could bridge the Black White divide. He'd
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be the Pont Chain Ponsture train, you know, bridge of
the communities, and that he was business oriented. Then Nagan
gets in, he's up for reelection and he had he
had he had home depot. He had them in order
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to give them the ability, he had held up a
home depot and in order for them to get to
open a home depot that they really wanted to open,
they had to buy their granite slabs from his son,
which was his company, and they started doing these projects
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and the son couldn't deliver. He was a good for
nothing loser and the projects were bad. And so the
story broke. I think somebody at home depot leaked it.
And so Nagan was in trouble ethically and he's up
for reelection, and all of a sudden, ray Nagan who
talked like this, and we got to make this out
black sit out. I got somebody off. And it's just
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you're wondering who's going for this. This is happening all
across the country, and everybody's pretending it's not.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
You are listening to the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Just down the road from New Orleans, his Baton Rouge
and West Baton Rouge parish officials said Wednesday that a
former mayor of Port Allen, who once served time on
a federal racketeering charge, has been accused of indecent behavior
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with juveniles. Wb RZ two in Port Allen with the report.
Speaker 13 (25:13):
Allen Mayor Jeric Lewis has been booked into the West
Patricks pairsh Prison on indecent behavior with juvenile charges. The
sixty four year old was arrested Monday. We were asking
for some more details on this arrest. Lewis was sentenced
to prison in twenty twelve to forty months in prison
in two years of probation after pleading guilty to racketeering
in an FBI sting called Operation Blighted Officials.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Lewis was sentenced in twenty twelve to forty months in
prison in two years of probation after pleading guilty to racketeering.
A sting operation targeted various municipal officials and asked them
to promote a wastebend cleaning service in return for cash.
Take a note how often black elected officials are busted
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from bribes. In reality case, the businessmen with whom they
were doing this behind the operation were actually undercover officers.
What is it with mayors of Port Allen? Do you remember? D? D. Slaughter?
She tried to issue herself a third paycheck.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He
makes me to lie down in green passes. He restored
my soul. An enthusiastic greeting.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
Friday has more problems emerged surrounding Port Allen mayor D. D.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Slaughter.
Speaker 9 (26:28):
This week we showed you the mayor's salary ran out
and she tried to get a third check. Today we learned,
she removed the ability for the CFO to sign checks,
blocked her out of all city accounts, and issued herself
a direct deposit for her paycheck today.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Tell us about your paycheck. I'm only doing my job.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
The council never approved you to make eighty five thousand dollars,
yet you issued yourself a paycheck today.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I'm only doing my job. Why did you do that? Yeah,
I have a good day.
Speaker 9 (26:57):
Slaughter cited Statute thirty three four oh four heard of
the Law of Senact for the reason she locked the
CFO out of the city's bank accounts.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Are you comfortable with what you're doing?
Speaker 10 (27:07):
I have the right with the low Senact and with
the revised statue.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Hmmm. Of course she had been witch hunt.
Speaker 12 (27:18):
I've been witch hunt since day one.
Speaker 14 (27:20):
I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisitions.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
They're always making acquisitions on her. Mayor d d Have
you ever traveled to Washington, d C?
Speaker 10 (27:29):
Went, uh, you know, to Washington, d C. And I
did meet with Senator mary Land Drew. I ran on
the basis of interrogatuity.
Speaker 12 (27:37):
I've been witch hunt since day one.
Speaker 14 (27:40):
I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisition.
Speaker 13 (27:44):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I need to unpack that there's some verb conjugation, challenges
and contortions in that sentence from can you give us
that again?
Speaker 10 (27:55):
I did went uh you know, to Washington, DC, and.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
I didn't she did went, she did win? Okay, all right,
I did went uh you know to Washington, d C.
Speaker 10 (28:06):
And I did meet with Senator Maryland Drew Iran on
the basis of interrogate.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Cut hold on integrity is a hard thing to have,
but it's a real hard thing to say. Yes. Yes,
It's like putting both those rs in library or the
S before the K and as it'll get you now,
it'll sneak up on you. Let's hear that again, the
whole thing. Let's say if we can get it again.
Speaker 10 (28:30):
I did went you know to Washington, d C. And
I did meet with Senator Maryland Drew Iran on the
basis of interroga cut hunt.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
When she's running on the basis of interrogation, is is
she's running on that basis? Did she always stumble over it?
And to the.
Speaker 15 (28:52):
People of Port Allen, I would like y'all to know D. D.
Slaughter would like y'all to know that D. D. Slaughter
is running right now. I am right now. D d's
latter running on the basis of of uh.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Uh integers and and and interrogatories, and I.
Speaker 15 (29:12):
Will I will always lead within in terror uh interrogate
and I will uh dde's laughter is.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Gonna have one thing she's gonna have, She's gonna have
in in terror, in terror.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah, it's me, that's me, interrogatutiue.
Speaker 12 (29:29):
I've been witch hunt since day one.
Speaker 14 (29:31):
I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisition.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Now, imagine that person. Imagine casting a vote for that
person to make the decisions. All right, we've got to
pave roads, we've got to get the ditches dug. We've
got to make sure the water treatment plant is operational.
We have to make sure we stay on budget with
our employees. We've got to make sure that we have
sufficient police resources, fire resources. Imagine that person making those decisions.
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Just imagine for a moment, imagine thinking that person. We
got a voting problem. You've got pockets of people incapable
of electing anything other than a street corner criminal. That's
what we've come down to. That's that's what we're down to.
And by the way, Sylvester Turner was just a slightly
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cleaned up DEDI Slaughter drinking Mitchello ultru He wasn't any better,
just as crooked, just better at hiding it. Play that
one one more time.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
It was so good.
Speaker 10 (30:40):
I did went, you know, to Washington, DC, and I
did meet with Senator Maryland Drew. I ran on the
basis of interrogaty team.
Speaker 12 (30:50):
I've been witch hunt since day one.
Speaker 14 (30:52):
I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisition.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Then what are we arguing about?
Speaker 12 (30:59):
We just all the about things that we should not
be arguing about.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Just argue about things. Just everybody argon, just running around argon, ramon,
can you give me some of that church organ you
play when George calls? This is Mayor d d Slaughter
preaching a sermon. I'm not kidding. This is real. She
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was preaching a sermon after she was accused, after her
interrogative was questioned and she didn't want to argue. She
went to a church because that's where you hide. She
went to a church to preach, preach every Sunday.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
My step quit is my Speerit.
Speaker 7 (31:42):
Serving more.
Speaker 12 (31:46):
Every Sunday in yo ya hear me up here?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
We didn't.
Speaker 16 (32:01):
Oh you listen to see the Lord? Why do you
think he's fund or your name true? And up about
the situation. Now the time and we must roll out
the scriptures.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
In our minds.
Speaker 12 (32:19):
We want to be ready on Jesus.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Truth holt, somebody we are to do right. Why we
haven't seen, not hearing her.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Urse?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
And they do that, come in the fun thing and
swept them all the wa
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Time, time, time, luck and load. So Michael Varry's show
is on the air. I have.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Seventy five eighty show sponsor, most of which that was weird.
You just crashed that right just to zero. You didn't fade.
Oh you're on the phone. Okay, phone lines messing up? Okay.
So I am con what Okay. I am constantly calling
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them in between shows and at night to talk about
their business. A because I care in their show sponsors.
I want to help them succeed and see where I
can help them. B because it's a good insight into
the economy. Now, I believe that the greater Houston and
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the Texas economy have been have done better over the
last ten years the most of the rest of the country.
And there are a lot of reasons for that, but
I think we have been somewhat, if not immune, then
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protected from the economic downturn. Now I have show sponsors
in other parts of the country Pacific, Northwest, East Coast,
LA New York. Those in particular talk about the difficulties
they're having and the challenge as I see it, is
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that we had a tumultuous series of things have happened
in the last six years, and that means that normal
is not normal anymore. We go back to twenty nineteen
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and business was relatively normal and then and the economy
was doing pretty darn well. And then in the spring
of twenty twenty, in order to bounce Trump from the
White House, they gin up COVID, and that created a
(02:51):
whole new system of winners and losers. People think that
every business suffered during COVID. That's not only not true,
it's far from the truth. I have show sponsors who
the worse it got during COVID, the more money they made.
And I'm not talking about N ninety five mask makers.
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I'm talking about home improvement. So by the fall of
twenty twenty, our home improvement show sponsors, which you may
have noticed a lot of them are, were absolutely killing it.
And think back what was going on? You may be
one of the reasons they were killing it because now
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all of a sudden, people weren't taking their vacations to
Europe that they had planned already, so they were staying here.
People weren't getting on a plane, people weren't going into
the office. So now all of a sudden, the home
(03:55):
became the central hub of life. And when people were
at home all day, working from there, relaxing there, they
started thinking, you don't always want to pool, or you know,
our front door looks terrible, you got to get a
new front door. Or I just noticed our roof has
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a bunch of shingles missing. We need to get a
roof replacement, or windows, or and people started Sunflower floor Coatings,
a company that makes that comes in and does the
concrete in your floor and makes it look like a showroom.
Their business exploded because now people would you didn't You
(04:44):
didn't have the hour commute there and the hour commute back,
so you had two hours back from that. And amazingly,
you didn't have to go from the parking garage to
your office and back and all the inefficiencies that went
with that. So people had extra time, so they started
doing things like cleaning out the garage, reorganizing thing. So
(05:08):
our home improvement show sponsors had an explosive growth. MAC
was killing it at Gallery Furniture. So now all of
a sudden, these businesses, their business picked up so much,
seemingly overnight. So everybody was waiting on the other shooter drop.
(05:32):
But there was too much invested in COVID and cultural
changes occurred. Some people stopped eating out. This has really
hurt the restaurants. Restaurants have never recovered from COVID. Some
people made behavioral changes where they would eat out and
then they stopped eating out, but they would DoorDash and
(05:54):
now they realized, oh, I kind of liked door dash,
I like eating at home. So they never went back
to the restaurants. So date night of going out or
just the idea of getting dressed, going out, eating at
a restaurant and the restaurant experience, they pivoted that to
(06:14):
Netflix and dinner in their underwear and that some you know,
some percentage of people have gone back to going out,
but many people and most businesses operate on the margin.
Most businesses, if you drop their business five percent, you
(06:35):
can put them out of business. It doesn't seem like it,
but you can, because it's tight. The profit is so lean.
The grocery store business is, to my knowledge, the leanest
profit margin of any industry. I mean, they make pennies
and they have to be very, very efficient with how
they run their business. Restaurants tend to be obviously a
(06:59):
higher profit margin, but still a relatively lean dangerous business
with the vagaries of ups and downs and those sorts
of things. So what I'm noticing now is here we
are five years past the advent of COVID, A couple
of years into. Okay, the COVID game is over. There's
(07:20):
still some whack jobs out there wearing a mask. And
I will tell you, if you see a person now
wearing a mask, they're nuts. That person is that that
person is in such a paranoid, manic fit. But Michael,
some people have an upper respiratory issue. Okay, that is
(07:44):
one in a billion. Stop doing that. Stop that's dumb. Stop.
The people who are wearing a mask are wearing a
mask because they are They have so embraced the fear.
Fear is their porn, Fear is their obsession. Fear for
the sake of fear is their greatest because it makes
(08:08):
him feel very alive. Those people are crazy, absolutely crazy.
You don't you don't want them around here. They're nuts,
they're crazy, they're sick of they're Weirdo. Michael Berry, I
think that there might be So I've got nothing going
on down there. Probably Gavin Newsome is now presiding over
(08:33):
a state that has the highest unemployment rate in the country. Yes, indeed,
the mayor of New Orleans. Her name is LaToya l
A capital t O A Cantrail. LaToya Cantreil is a
fat black lady who is very clearly dumb, extremely dumb.
(09:01):
And she's one of these people we keep seeing pop
up in politics, like Stacy Abrams or Jasmine Crockett or
Sheila Jackson Lee. And it's these black women who are
really really stupid, I mean epic levels of dumb, and
(09:28):
everybody actually knows it is the crazy thing. Everybody knows
they're dumb, and they get elected on the basis of
this kind of hodgepodge boilerplate campaign slogan. It's more of
(09:50):
a vibe and it's it's a two part One of
them is, uh, we can lose anything if we put
our mind to it. We's just got to try. Uh,
we got to we got to shoot for the stars.
And so there's this, there's this there's this really third
(10:10):
rate seventies problem about inspiration and you know that they'll
be uh, there'll be some some real silly wordplay We're
gonna be too blessed to be stressed, and just just
very basic kind of slogans. And I remember the first
(10:35):
time I saw Sylvester Turner campaigning. It was nineteen eighty
nine and Jesse Jackson was real big at that time.
He had just run for president. And at the end
of Sylvester Turner speech at the University of Houston campus,
he said, like Jesse Jackson says, up with hope, down
(10:57):
with dope, Up with hope, down with dope. Now, I'm
not gonna do it to you, but he repeated that
about twenty times. And as he would say up with
hope was it was like he was closing the tailgate
on a truck. He would he'd do his hands up
and then down with dope. He'd turn his hands over,
and it was like he was trying to get started
(11:18):
on coming down the slide. You know, he's he's on
the mat and he's trying to get started, and he
up with hope, down with dope. And he did that
for a while, and to this day, I still think
to myself, Okay, so now we get these elected officials
(11:43):
who were not very smart, and it's important to understand
the uplifting, real, real pedestrian, elementary level. We gonna do this.
We're gonna be able to fly. We gonna have a
good city. That is really that's not really the campaign.
(12:08):
But that's for the white people, not the white liberals.
The white liberals are already salivating. You could be Black
Lives Matter, you could be a black panther. They love this.
White liberals will not be happy until they are destroyed
by black people. They will put their hand into the
pit to get bitten. They don't like upstanding black people,
(12:30):
they don't like successful black people. They want to go
get the most raggedy ass black person and promote them,
and they feel real, real good about that makes them.
It's a virtuous thing to them, like going to the
Peace Corps, but they do it here. So that's part
of these campaigns, of the peace of the campaign. But
(12:52):
the real source is what's hard for people to grasp.
The real connection is to close the door. We don't
want no white people in here. And that's when you
let your hair down. I mean, you take the extensions out,
you pull the wig off, and you get after it.
(13:13):
And that is pure and simple white hate. It is
white hate, and nobody wants to talk about it. That's
why they always talk about white nationalism. There's no white nationalism.
There is a reaction to the white hate that's going on.
But there are some really stupid, really mean, really vindictive
(13:38):
black politicians in America today saying the nastiest, nastiest things,
and they have a very welcome audience. You can see
it when a speech is given. You can see it
by the reaction. You can tell they're giving voice to
this very atavistic, angry black audi And if you sprinkle
(14:02):
some white liberals in there, they'll they'll join in too.
They're happy to be a part of this. And this,
this demographic is now in charge of more police departments
as the chief, more fire departments as the as the
(14:22):
fire chief, more mayors where they can put other people
like this in there, more schools. These people get into
administrative positions. They've infiltrated the military, they have infiltrated every
government office known to man Cain. And there is this
(14:45):
very very toxic mix of extreme incompetence as well as
a vindictive nature, and you're seeing it. You saw it
in Cincinnati where this group of blacks beat these white people.
It's a wonder they didn't kill them. They beat them bad,
I mean, really really messed them up. And then and
(15:09):
then you had the black activists coming in and saying
that those whites should be arrested for having deserved it,
and everybody kind of looks the other way and says,
I'm glad I don't live in Cincinnati. People in Cincinnati
said that when it was happening in Chicago and LA.
(15:31):
People in Cincinnati said that when he was happening in
New York and DC, they didn't think it would happen
in Cincinnati. And so what we now have is an
entire nation on the run, fleeing people and institutions like this,
and blacks are fleeing too. They don't want any part
(15:53):
of this. But now what you've what you have is
an absolute takeover that is so deep and so entrenched
into our school boards, our schools, our police departments, fire departments, universities.
It's awful and it's not going to change. And a
lot of people are going to have to be called
(16:14):
racist to fix this problem. Where it needs from morning
suits to coordinating accessories, fired.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
One small one that they begin to run it well
down to Mississippi to the goulf of Mexico.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
The mayor of New Orleans, Latoria Cantrell, has been indicted
on Friday on charges for using seventy thousand dollars of
city funds to travel with her bodyguard, who she was banging.
It was all done, okay, he was banging her. It
was all done under the guise of official business. Flashback
to twenty twenty two. New Orleans City Council threatened to
(16:47):
dock the pay of the mayor because she refused to
pay the city back for jetting around the globe first class,
saying that she was entitled to taxpayer funded first class
travel because as a black woman, traveling in kutch is
not safe. You see, you see what we've done. We
have empowered this fraud. Your answer to everything you do
(17:12):
is as a black woman, we've tolerated this. We've actually
encouraged it. We've incubated it. Stop making victims out of
people based on their race. Stop allowing race to be
the explanation for anything. Stop assuming everyone is a racist.
The racist in this country are black people, not white people.
(17:33):
And that's a fact. The violence being conducted on the
basis of race against another is black people against white people.
And that's when black people aren't beating the snot out
of other black people. All of those are facts. Everyone
knows this. No one says it. Nobody ever says it.
Everyone is afraid of the truth. Truth is dead in
(17:54):
this country because there is a fear you will upset someone,
particularly someone black. And that's some some one black will
likely be in a position of authority. That's a fact,
all right. WWLV out of New Orleans, Louisiana on the story.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
On Friday, a federal grand jury charged New Orleans Mayor
Glatoya Cantrell with conspiring with her former bodyguard Jeffrey Vappy
to commit wire fraud and cover up an affair for
years while both were married. That includes allegedly charging city
taxpayers seventy thousand dollars for Vappy's expenses during trips together,
and Cantrell allegedly deleted thousands of WhatsApp messages and then
(18:32):
whied to a federal grand jury under oath about it.
Acting US Attorney Michael Simpson says, this prosecution isn't about
Cantrell and Vappi's alleged affair. Did you take pause at
all about bringing criminal charges that at the heart are
based on a romantic relationship, especially with the first woman
mayor of the city of New Orleans.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
To me, it's irrelevant that it's romance or that it's female.
What is relevant is that it is an incredible breach
of the public trust. It's an incredible betrayal of people's
confidence in their own government, and it's a violation of
(19:15):
innumerable federal criminal laws.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Former federal prosecutor Matt Chester helped convict former mayor Ray
Nagan in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
There are serious allegations in here. There are allegations of
falsification of documentation to get city money, their allegations of
lying to a federal grand jury, lying to federal law enforcement.
But at its core, those lies, those activities were about
hiding the illicit relationship.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
A twenty eighteen state case in Tennessee also involved the
first female mayor of Nashville spending the public's money on
an affair with their bodyguard. An associate alleged we Warren
Cantrell about that in twenty twenty two, and she texted back,
don't accuse me.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Remember fat Fanny in Atlanta who was trying to put
Trump in prison and she was riding Nathan's hot dog
her investigator, remember that little story. This is the pattern.
This is the pattern.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Big Tish in New York.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
This is the pattern Box eight in New Orleans back
in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
The stage is now set for a November budget showdown
at which the New Orleans City Council will seek to
reduce maryor Cantrell's twenty twenty three salary by thirty.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Grand I believe that, you know, we we have to
be transparent and accountable when it comes to public funding, The.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Council attorney says, Mary Cantrell is in fact a city
employee and must follow city policy which requires employees who
choose to upgrade travel accommodations to be solely responsible for
the difference in costs.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
And I think the City of New Orleans policy was
very clear.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
I'm in one hundred percent agreeance and I support him
one hundred percent with it. Oh, thank You's right. I
think she should pay it back.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
In the past, Mayor Cantrell has adamantly refused to reimburse
the city for her first class business travel expenses, in
spite of a city law which requires all city employees
to do so.
Speaker 9 (21:13):
All expenses incurred doing business on behalf of the City.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Of New Orleans will not be reimbursed to the City
of New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
I hope we don't have to take it this far,
that she'll see some of these legal opinions coming out
and do the right thing, but we will be forced
to take the necessary steps if she doesn't.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
The message that it sends is that the mayor's above
the law.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Council President Helena Moreno believes the majority of council members
will support the move to doctor mayor's pay unless she
reimburses the city before the November budget cycle.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
As I've definitely talked to other council members about it,
and you know they receive the memo as well, and
you know they believe that the money should be paid back.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Citizens have mixed views.
Speaker 10 (21:55):
If you're going to represent me, I want you to
go first class so all the way, and I do
not want you to have to pay for it.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
I drive on these city streets every day, bumpity bumpity bump.
You can't even see half the popholes behave in the city.
I think that money should be put forward to get
these streets fixed.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Then we go back to the former mayor, Ray Nagan
who went to prison.
Speaker 11 (22:21):
We as black people, it's time it's time for us
to come together. It's time for us to rebuild a
New Orleans, the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans.
And I don't care what people are saying uptown or
wherever they are, this city will be chocolate. At the
(22:44):
end of the day. This city will be a majority
African American city. It's the way God wants it to.
Speaker 12 (22:58):
Ben't have New Orleans.
Speaker 11 (23:01):
No other way, it wouldn't be New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
So Ray Nagan was there was a great deal of excitement.
I remember like it was yesterday at his campaign when
he was running for mayor, because he was an executive
with Cox Communications, and he was a guy that the
thought was he could bridge the Black White divide. He'd
(23:26):
be the Pont Chain Ponsture train, you know, bridge of
the communities, and that he was business oriented. Then Nagan
gets in, he's up for reelection and he had he
had he had home depot. He had them in order
(23:47):
to give them the ability, he had held up a
home depot and in order for them to get to
open a home depot that they really wanted to open,
they had to buy their granite slabs from his son,
which was his company, and they started doing these projects
(24:09):
and the son couldn't deliver. He was a good for
nothing loser and the projects were bad. And so the
story broke. I think somebody at home depot leaked it.
And so Nagan was in trouble ethically and he's up
for reelection, and all of a sudden, ray Nagan who
talked like this, and we got to make this out
black sit out. I got somebody off. And it's just
(24:33):
you're wondering who's going for this. This is happening all
across the country, and everybody's pretending it's not.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
You are listening to the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Just down the road from New Orleans, his Baton Rouge
and West Baton Rouge parish officials said Wednesday that a
former mayor of Port Allen, who once served time on
a federal racketeering charge, has been accused of indecent behavior
(25:08):
with juveniles. Wb RZ two in Port Allen with the report.
Speaker 13 (25:13):
Allen Mayor Jeric Lewis has been booked into the West
Patricks pairsh Prison on indecent behavior with juvenile charges. The
sixty four year old was arrested Monday. We were asking
for some more details on this arrest. Lewis was sentenced
to prison in twenty twelve to forty months in prison
in two years of probation after pleading guilty to racketeering
in an FBI sting called Operation Blighted Officials.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Lewis was sentenced in twenty twelve to forty months in
prison in two years of probation after pleading guilty to racketeering.
A sting operation targeted various municipal officials and asked them
to promote a wastebend cleaning service in return for cash.
Take a note how often black elected officials are busted
(25:57):
from bribes. In reality case, the businessmen with whom they
were doing this behind the operation were actually undercover officers.
What is it with mayors of Port Allen? Do you remember? D? D. Slaughter?
She tried to issue herself a third paycheck.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He
makes me to lie down in green passes. He restored
my soul. An enthusiastic greeting.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
Friday has more problems emerged surrounding Port Allen mayor D. D.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Slaughter.
Speaker 9 (26:28):
This week we showed you the mayor's salary ran out
and she tried to get a third check. Today we learned,
she removed the ability for the CFO to sign checks,
blocked her out of all city accounts, and issued herself
a direct deposit for her paycheck today.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Tell us about your paycheck. I'm only doing my job.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
The council never approved you to make eighty five thousand dollars,
yet you issued yourself a paycheck today.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I'm only doing my job. Why did you do that? Yeah,
I have a good day.
Speaker 9 (26:57):
Slaughter cited Statute thirty three four oh four heard of
the Law of Senact for the reason she locked the
CFO out of the city's bank accounts.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Are you comfortable with what you're doing?
Speaker 10 (27:07):
I have the right with the low Senact and with
the revised statue.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Hmmm. Of course she had been witch hunt.
Speaker 12 (27:18):
I've been witch hunt since day one.
Speaker 14 (27:20):
I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisitions.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
They're always making acquisitions on her. Mayor d d Have
you ever traveled to Washington, d C?
Speaker 10 (27:29):
Went, uh, you know, to Washington, d C. And I
did meet with Senator mary Land Drew. I ran on
the basis of interrogatuity.
Speaker 12 (27:37):
I've been witch hunt since day one.
Speaker 14 (27:40):
I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisition.
Speaker 13 (27:44):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I need to unpack that there's some verb conjugation, challenges
and contortions in that sentence from can you give us
that again?
Speaker 10 (27:55):
I did went uh you know, to Washington, DC, and.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
I didn't she did went, she did win? Okay, all right,
I did went uh you know to Washington, d C.
Speaker 10 (28:06):
And I did meet with Senator Maryland Drew Iran on
the basis of interrogate.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Cut hold on integrity is a hard thing to have,
but it's a real hard thing to say. Yes. Yes,
It's like putting both those rs in library or the
S before the K and as it'll get you now,
it'll sneak up on you. Let's hear that again, the
whole thing. Let's say if we can get it again.
Speaker 10 (28:30):
I did went you know to Washington, d C. And
I did meet with Senator Maryland Drew Iran on the
basis of interroga cut hunt.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
When she's running on the basis of interrogation, is is
she's running on that basis? Did she always stumble over it?
And to the.
Speaker 15 (28:52):
People of Port Allen, I would like y'all to know D. D.
Slaughter would like y'all to know that D. D. Slaughter
is running right now. I am right now. D d's
latter running on the basis of of uh.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Uh integers and and and interrogatories, and I.
Speaker 15 (29:12):
Will I will always lead within in terror uh interrogate
and I will uh dde's laughter is.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Gonna have one thing she's gonna have, She's gonna have
in in terror, in terror.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah, it's me, that's me, interrogatutiue.
Speaker 12 (29:29):
I've been witch hunt since day one.
Speaker 14 (29:31):
I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisition.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Now, imagine that person. Imagine casting a vote for that
person to make the decisions. All right, we've got to
pave roads, we've got to get the ditches dug. We've
got to make sure the water treatment plant is operational.
We have to make sure we stay on budget with
our employees. We've got to make sure that we have
sufficient police resources, fire resources. Imagine that person making those decisions.
(30:03):
Just imagine for a moment, imagine thinking that person. We
got a voting problem. You've got pockets of people incapable
of electing anything other than a street corner criminal. That's
what we've come down to. That's that's what we're down to.
And by the way, Sylvester Turner was just a slightly
(30:26):
cleaned up DEDI Slaughter drinking Mitchello ultru He wasn't any better,
just as crooked, just better at hiding it. Play that
one one more time.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
It was so good.
Speaker 10 (30:40):
I did went, you know, to Washington, DC, and I
did meet with Senator Maryland Drew. I ran on the
basis of interrogaty team.
Speaker 12 (30:50):
I've been witch hunt since day one.
Speaker 14 (30:52):
I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisition.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Then what are we arguing about?
Speaker 12 (30:59):
We just all the about things that we should not
be arguing about.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Just argue about things. Just everybody argon, just running around argon, ramon,
can you give me some of that church organ you
play when George calls? This is Mayor d d Slaughter
preaching a sermon. I'm not kidding. This is real. She
(31:23):
was preaching a sermon after she was accused, after her
interrogative was questioned and she didn't want to argue. She
went to a church because that's where you hide. She
went to a church to preach, preach every Sunday.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
My step quit is my Speerit.
Speaker 7 (31:42):
Serving more.
Speaker 12 (31:46):
Every Sunday in yo ya hear me up here?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
We didn't.
Speaker 16 (32:01):
Oh you listen to see the Lord? Why do you
think he's fund or your name true? And up about
the situation. Now the time and we must roll out
the scriptures.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
In our minds.
Speaker 12 (32:19):
We want to be ready on Jesus.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Truth holt, somebody we are to do right. Why we
haven't seen, not hearing her.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Urse?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
And they do that, come in the fun thing and
swept them all the wa
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