June 2, 2023 • 38 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- TPPF's James Quinterro on the special session, regarding property taxes
- Jay Valentine of Omega 4 America on voter fraud in Texas
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Now here's Jimmy Barrett. How areyou at spelling? Were you? Were
you good at spelling? I wasthe sixth grade Spelling Bee champion at my
school, at my elementary school.That that That's about as far as my
career and spell My career and spellingwent. So I guess I was a
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fairly good speller at the time.I don't know how I am now.
I guess I I'm fairly good.I remember most of the rules I before,
except after see that kind of stuff, So I remember most of that
that stuff. I don't pay alot of attention to to spelling Bees anymore,
certainly not to the National Spelling bthe scripts Howard National Spelling be other
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than to note that the winner everyyear seems to be an Indian American.
And I'm I'm gonna have to doublecheck here. I could be wrong.
I think our latest winner The twentytwenty three winner, whose name is dev
Shaw, is also Indian American.I could be wrong about that if you
go back to about two thousand andtwo thousand and one right in there,
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not every year, but almost everyyear, the National Spelling Bee champion winner
has been an Indian American. AndI know what an emphasis Indian Americans put
on education for their children. SoI think for them, it's kind of
like sports. Okay, only it'sacademics. But I think they kind of
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look at things like spelling bees likea sport and they want They're not looking
for their children to excel in baseballor football or or soccer. They're looking
for their children to excel in academics. And in that way, the National
Spelling b is a sport now itsays it says a lot I think for
for Indian American education. You know, there's a lot of a lot of
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um, a lot of extra afterhours type education opportunities, and you will
always find a lot of Indian kidsthat are enrolled in those types of types
of things, you know, theextra extra tutoring help. UM what is
the name starts with the kum coumeon something like that, UM where I
think a lot of Americans kids,a lot of you know, your typical
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suburban white kids, don't take advantageof that, or African American kids.
As far as that goes, itseems to be kind of unique within the
Indian community. And again, Ithink it speaks volumes of how important and
education is to them, you know. And I'm thinking of wondering as I
saw this latest winner, I wasI was wondering to myself, has anybody
taken a look at this and criedout for more diversity? You know,
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we seem to live in a dayand age where diversity, equity, and
inclusion is the name of the game. I guess we already have a minority
that is dominating the sport, ifyou will, the National Spelling Bee.
Maybe they don't feel the need tohave more diversity. Uh maybe they.
Maybe I was wondering them. Imean with with Indian American kids winning.
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By the way, the second placeyoung girl is a you know, white
suburban girl. Um. I forgetwhat her name is, but it's very
you know, very a very genericum white family name. So certainly there
there are are those who participate thatare not Indian, But it seems like
every year, it's like having acanyon win the marathon. Every year you
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have a winner seemingly who, inthe case of the National Spelling Bee,
is an Indian American. There's nocry out for diversity here. Don't we
need to mix this up? Dothey need? I mean, if we're
going to take d ei and it'sliteral, don't they need to like change
the rules or something to give thewhite kids a chance. Well, that's
right, we don't care about thewhite kids, all right. They've change
the rules to give the black kidsa chance. Do they need to dumb
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down the National Spelling Bee? Andby the way, have they already done?
That seems to be when when whenin the old days anyway, the
National Spelling Bee, you know,they would give you the word to spell,
they would give you the definition ofthe word, and they would use
the word in a sentence. That'sjust that's as far as you got with
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clues. Now you get a lotof clues here. He is, by
the way, the winning word withthe champ dev Shaw, who gets to
ask all kinds of questions about theword before he has to spell it.
Dev Shaw, if you spell thisnext word correctly, we will declare you
the two twenty three National Spelling Beechampion? Oh? No pressure, no
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pressure? A samophile samo meaning sandGreek? Oh wait a second samo meaning
sand Greek. Yes, phile meaninglover Greek. You're on the right track.
Can I please have all the information? Samophile is a noun from Greek.
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A samophile is an organism that prefersor thrives in sandy soils for areas
samophile. Maybe please have the sentenceany samophile? For example, a cactus
would flourish in the Arizona desert.Can you say it for us? Samophile
Samophiles? Samophile P s A MM O P H I L E samophile?
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That is correct? WHOA? Allright? You got the water and
you got the music. And Ithink they get a check or something,
and of course they get braggings.Is the National Spelling Bee champion? I
wouldn't have been able to, youknow what. I'm kind of being facetious
about the questions. I could haveasked all those questions. It wouldn't have
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helped me a lick in spelling samophile. You know, I'm sure where a
lot of people would make the mistakeis not putting the pa in front,
right, because the P is silentas it is in many other words,
like phosphorus. Actually it's not silent. The P is pronounced like an F.
But anyway, I digress. Soanother National Spelling Bee champion has been
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declared by Script's Howard. All right, quick little break back with Martin Mama.
We're going to talk about a coupleof things today. Coming up next,
James twin Tero, Texas Public PolicyFoundation. We have a special session
going on, and the big reasonthat's called the special session is to do
something about property taxes. It didn'tget done during the regular session. But
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there's competing plans out there and agovernor and a lieutenant governor who it odds
over which plan they want to seepass. So pick the brain of James
Quintero about that. Coming up next. You're on a nine fifty KPRC.
Happy Friday. All right, wehave a special session underway in Austin.
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The governor called back the state legislature. He wants us to well, there's
a couple of issues he wants todeal with, but in particular they want
to deal with property tax But thereseems to be a situation where the governor
and the Lieutenant Governor are not necessarilyon the same page. There are two
different plans out there, dueling plans, if you will. Both would lower
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property taxes, but how they wouldlower property taxes are different than the two
plans, and each evidently is marriedto their own idea. Here to talk
about with us from the Texas PublicPolicy Foundation is James Quintero. Before we
get into what the Texas Public PolicyFoundation recommends, James can explain to our
listeners where the disconnect is right nowbetween the governor and the Lieutenant governor.
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Hey, Jimmy, great to bewith you. Yes, I got some
good news and I got some badnews. If you're a Texas taxpayer.
The good news is it looks likethe legislature is primed to eventually deliver one
of the biggest tax cuts in Texashistory. The both bodies have appropriated seventeen
point six billion dollars in tax reliefproceeds. So as soon as we can
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come to some sort of agreement onhow best to deliver that, I think
everybody will see a meaningful reduction intheir tax bill. Now, as you
said earlier, you know, thebad news is that we can't come to
any sort of agreement on how togive it back. So what the Governor
and the House are suggesting is thattax rate compression is the best means to
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reduce taxes. And what that meansis tax rate compression is just a fancy
way of seeing tax rate cuts.And so everybody from homeowners to businesses to
renters will would realize some sort ofreduction in their tax bill were the Governor
in the House's planned to move forward. Now, for their part, the
text to Senate has a little bitdifferent an idea. They also want to
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do tax rate compression, but theywant to mix in an increase to the
homestead exemption and that would benefit homesteadersin particular. They want to move up
the homestead exemption from its current fortythousand dollars level to about one hundred thousand
dollars. So homeowners in particular standto gain quite a bit under the Senate's
plan. And both sides are prettywell dug into their positions well generally the
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case right, So they're both bothworking with the same amount of money.
One is just tax compression is acombination of tax compression and a bigger homestead
deduction. As you just said,so one would guess that the house version
that is endorsed by the governor woulda more across the board evenly spread out
tax guid And would would it benefitbusiness people more than it would homeowners?
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How would how would that? Iguess the more expensive the property you have,
the bigger cuts you end up getting, right, because it's based on
a percentage. Yeah, so thejurisdiction school districts in particular would have to
lower their rates from about ninety onecents as it exists today to about sixty
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five cents over the next two years. So it'd be a meaningful reduction in
the tax rate across the board.And yes, depending on the value of
your property, you may see alarger net gain than somebody else in a
different location. But and I thinkthis is important to note there is a
long term goal here associated with themove toward tax rate compression, because at
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least we hear at the Foundation reallysupport this idea of driving school district taxes
to zero. We ultimately want toget to the place where where there is
no school district mno tax That functionis housed at the state level and has
managed through the appropriations process, andso you know by putting our full weight
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on the tax compression component, Ithink we not only really make a huge
step in that direction this session,but keep us on the pathway toward elimination
and really transitioning away from this badsystem. Okay, well, let's talk
a little bit further about that,because the devil is always in the details,
is it not when you're talking aboutfunding schools, and those of us
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who pay property taxes would be thefirst to tell you the biggest, you
know, the biggest nut we haveto crack is a part of our property
taxes is what we pay to schools. I mean, many of us pay
three, four or five six thousanddollars a year or more just for the
school tax. When you start multiplyingthat against millions of households, if it's
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not collected in a property tax,where does the money come from? James
terrific questions. So one of thethings that the state legislature has done really
well is to abide by certain fiscalrules. And what I mean is that
not only last session, but insessions passed, they have imposed upon themselves
spending limitations, and so by managinghow much they spend, they're able to
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set themselves up to enjoy surplus revenue. And it's been our contention that instead
of spending this surplus revenue to growgovernment, we ought to be returning that
money back to taxpayers in the formof property tax relief. And so we've
had a lot of really smart peoplehere at the Foundation map out how we
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get from point A to point B, how we get to the eventual elimination
of property school district mino property tax. And our economists here suggest that we
can actually use surplus revenues that areexpected over the next several sessions to actually
eliminate it in ten years or less. So if the political will exist to
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do so, we can actually eliminatethat school mino tax using surplus money only
and effectively. How's that function atthe state? Okay, from a practical
standpoint, where's the surplus coming from? How do we know we're going to
have a surplus and where's it comingfrom? Great question. So again,
one of the things they've done wellat the state level, and maybe this
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session is a little bit of anexception, but they've really done well to
control the growth of state spending.And they've done so because they largely adhere
to the tax and expenditure limitations thathave been adopted in the past. But
above and beyond that, state revenuesare really the bolt come from sales taxes.
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And as we all know, notonly is this state booming economically,
but we're living in a period offairly elevated inflation. And I don't see
that that inflation going away anytime soon, which means that moving forward, sales
tax collections are likely to be elevatedas well. So unless the economy really
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hits a wall, and there's achance, you know, I don't really
have a lot of faith in theBiden administration, But unless it really hits
a wall, I think we canexpect a long term revenue outlook that favors
using surplus money to buy down theproperty tax. Okay, you know,
I'll be a pessimist just for thesake of argument. Here we go into
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a recession, a prolonged recession,sales tax revenue declines as a result because
people have lost their jobs. Othertaxes decline as a result of that as
well. What would make up thedifference? Do you go back to the
property taxol? I mean, isthat something that you would necessarily have to
bring back. Would you come upwith some other mechanisms. I know we
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have a rainy day fund, buthave a rainy day fund that there's no
limit as far as how much moneyyou can put into it, for example,
so that if you do have aprolonged period of bad economics, you
still have money set aside to payfor these things. Yeah. Great question
again. So just so everybody knows, we are sitting on a mountain of
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money right now, you know,they give back, give some back right
now. That's exactly right, that'sexactly right. So, so the stage
has passed a three hundred and twentyone billion dollars budget. Seventeen point six
billion dollars of that is money setaside for tax relief. So I'll consider
all of that money already appropriated.What is unspent is about ten to eleven
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billion dollars in additional general revenue moneies, and that money is, for whatever
reason, just sitting off to theside in case we enter a period of
economic recession. In addition to thatten or eleven billion dollars we have sitting
off in unspent gr we also havea twenty two billion dollar economic stabilization fund
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that's expected to materialize by the endof fiscal year twenty twenty five. So
those two pots of money, theten billion dollars in gr and the twenty
two billion dollars in ESF money,is more than enough to compensate for any
sort of revenue shortfall we have.But let's say things really hit a wall.
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Well, guess what then it's goingto be time to cut spending.
Because if households are hurting and they'reunable to keep up with the cost of
government, then you've got to pairthat cost of government back. Makes all
the sense in the world, isit's something government's not very good at doing,
pairing back, although we are farbetter here in the State of Texas
than certainly a lot of other statesin the federal government included. Here's another
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revenue idea. This is really kindof off the wall. James Quinter,
I'll have a little fun with theother on this. But maybe what we
could do is we could could thestate is set up their own little private
bank and become sort of the Stateof Texas version of like a Blackstone,
and we can help fund businesses thatand we will not require diversity equity index,
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we won't give them a score.We won't. We won't give them
any other score other than a goodcredit score based on their ability to repay.
And we can prevent companies from Budweiserand the like from having to go
woke in order to be able toget a big score. That's a good
question, Dan, I hadn't livedinto that one, but I can't tell
you. The state did re uptheir big corporate welfare program this session,
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so in addition to all the otherspending that we got going on, they
did reinstitute a new program to incentivizebusiness relocation to the States. So and
I think there were some caveats onthat, like you know, and not
a lot of money going to renewableprojects and some other things. So you
know, even within the new programsthat they're creating, I think some hopto
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ideas are being implemented to fight againstthe woke agenda. Yeah, I'll tell
you what, if we could figureout a way to cut off these these
financial elitists at the knees, thatwould be a beautiful, beautiful thing.
James, thank you as always forfighting the good fight on our behalf in
Austin, and we'll talk again,I'm sure. Thanks Jimmy, I appreciate
it. Yep. If you takecare Texas probably policy Foundation is James quinteroll
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back with more in a moment,Jimmy Bart Show. You're on AM nine
fifty KPRC. All right. Earlierthis morning on ktr H, we have
Jaane Valentine on America Omega partoning Omegafor America to talk about the possibility of
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voter fraud not really getting handled theway it needs to be in the state
of Texas. And he wrote anarticle. He's written numerous articles, but
he wrote an article about this aboutand it's kind of titled for American thinker,
kind of titled the vote fraud monsteris coming for Ted Cruz. And
in the case of Ted Cruz,you know, Ted Cruz, you know,
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could very easily be cheated out ofhis Senate seat if Harris County and
Tarrant County, in these big Democratsstrongholds, are allowed to continue to cheat
in elections. Now you know theycheat. I know they cheat. Our
guest knows they cheat. But asit turns out, I think one of
the most insightful things I learned fromyou talking to you this morning, Jay,
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is that we have a lot ofmoderate Republicans, even in the great
State of Texas, who are incomplete denial when it comes to cheating in
elections. And I'm scratching my headtrying to figure out why that is.
And this is after you've shown themproof. Well, there's a pretty simple
answer for that. So the reasonthat your rhinos and your moderates don't believe
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in election fraud is because to believein election fraud means you clean the voter
roles. To clean the voter roles, they perceive that's going to help Donald
Trump, and they're going to doeverything they can to not help Donald Trump.
So the smart thing for them todo, and what clearly they're doing
is to ignore it, to notdelve into the obvious voter fraud that we
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see in the data. We actuallyhave the property tax roles from major cities,
which are pristine in their accuracy,and we have the voter roles,
and when we compare the two,you would think they're from two different states.
That's how bad it is. Sopeople think, well, can Cruise
won six years ago and Abbott onetwo years ago, and therefore there's no
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voter fraud. I don't know.It's not like that there's so much voter
fraud. It's just that they werein the right place at the right time
and had enough to get by.But that's not the case anymore for Cruz.
So Cruz at best may win thiselection in an honest election by two
or three points. That's not nearlyenough because it's the year that Trump is
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running and the leftists are pulling outall the stops and they're doing everything.
Every trick that's been played for twentyyears is all going to happen in this
election cycle, and we think thatTed Cruz could very much be a victim
of that in a state Jay,in a state like Texas, you're saying,
a two to three point margin isnot big enough for Ted Cruz to
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overcome the cheating that is likely tohappen. What bigger percentage would you need
to overcome that? How big ofa percentage are we talking about here as
far as both that should not becounted? Well, the answer that I
would normally have given you is fiveto seven points is something that nobody can
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overcome. But after what happened toCarry Lake, we saw an election in
Arizona where carry Lake clearly won somewherebetween four and seven points, more likely
five or six point points, andyet they stole that election from her.
They changed the settings on printers.We did the expert witness report on her
data. We saw that some ofthe county election officials literally changed thirty thousand
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people's zip codes days before the electionso that they wouldn't get their mail in
ballots. Twenty two thousand new voterswere added after the official date. That's
the kind of thing that you're goingto see happen here in Texas. So
I don't know what the number isgoing to be, but I can tell
you right now that twenty twenty fouris the super Bowl for the leftists.
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It's the election that, under allcircumstances they have to stop Donald Trump,
and I think Ted Cruz's simply collateraldamage. It still boggles my mind that
we have not just not just progressivesand liberals, but but you know moderate
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Republicans that are afraid and so didsit against Donald Trump, that they are
willing to allow all of this tohappen. What is it about Donald Trump
that scares them that much. Well, again, we're data guys, so
from the data side, you know, we can comment anything that is not
about the data an opinion, andmy opinion is that Trump is the disruptor.
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He's going to change how things aredone, and a lot of people
are afraid of that. Okay,you know, that's fine. There's also
a social thing involved. There area lot of the Rhino Republicans that we
talked to and I talk to alot of them have a social issue and
they just want to keep everything calmand they don't want to do icky things.
And they consider that, you know, Trump is an icky guy.
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That's why they like people like Bushand people like that who don't really cause
a lot of ways. But we'redata guys, and what the data says
is that the amount of election fraudin every swing state is overwhelming. It's
between five to twenty percent of thecurrent voter role, and we have the
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data to prove that. I mean, we're not speculating on this. And
it's no different in Texas. Youknow, Texas has never really been at
this point. We're not really considereda swing state. So why would we
have so much cheating here? Ifthey really if I don't know that there's
any amount of cheating that they coulddo to have a Democrat when the presidential
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election here in Texas? Or isit could they could actually cheat their way
into a Democrat presidential victory in Texas. Well, it certainly could happen.
I mean, Texas is not thatfar out of reach. But the first
part of your question is, well, why would this happen in Texas?
This is a red state. Well, the amount of voter fraud in the
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voter roles in red states is nodifferent than it is in blue states.
I ran the voter roles for Missouri. I ran the voter rolls for the
folks in Alabama, and they're justas bad. The voter roles there in
the redd est states in America arejust as bad. Is this a problem
on a local level as far asbeing able to get the voter rolls the
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way they're supposed to be? Isit as state level? And if it
is at a state level, wheredoes the problem lie. It's accounting issues.
State is not really state assistant aggregation. So what we see is on
a county by county basis, wewill compare the tax roles with the voter
rolls. And when you start gettinginto some of the counties in around the
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large metropolitan areas, you're going tosee a disproportionate amount of phantoms, fake
addresses, people living in vacant lots, all that kind of stuff. And
one would think, well, it'snot going to happen in other areas,
but it is. It is happeningin other areas. And the reason is
it's beginning to impact school board elections. So we have reports from all over
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the country, from very blue countiesabout we had a school board election.
There were three hundred people who voted, and we know that our guy won
probably two hundred and fifty of thethree hundred votes, but he didn't.
And this is happening all over thecountry. And the reason is that five
years ago, nobody cared about astate rep election, or nobody cared about
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a school board election, and nowthey do. And so leftists are using
voter fraud in very red states,even in red counties, to impact things
that make a difference, which isa school board or a state rep.
Election. So don't don't think fora moment that this is a blue state
phenomenon. This is a national phenomenonin every county in America. All right,
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J Valentine, here's the big question, then, who can stop it?
Who are what can stop it.We don't think there's any one solution
for it. Now we're the dataguide, so we can address it from
the data side. We don't doelection machines and look at that kind of
stuff. From the data side,there is one solution that can certainly address
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it, and that is real timevisibility to the data of the county voter
registration role. So when any citizenfrom their phone can look at the county
registration role. Obviously people who arelaw enforcement people and people who are abuse
citizens their information is covered, butthey can look at the voter role and
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they can see that the guy nextdoor who's an elderly man living in a
home by himself has sixteen voters registeredthere, which they can tell empirically they
know as falls. That's what's goingto stop this. And one of the
things we're doing is we're working withstate legislatures now in three or four states
so that those states can actually enactthe ability to make voter roles visible to
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all of their citizens from their phonein real time. That means around election
time when people try to stuff theroles is going to happen to Inharrass County,
that will start happening in Harris Countyone hundred and twenty days before the
election. They're going to start stuffin those voter rolls with all kinds of
fake people and fake addresses. Citizenswill be able to see that from their
phone. That's how we're going tostop this, at least from the data
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side. That doesn't talk about machines, that doesn't talk about other things.
But from the data side, that'show we would answer the question. All
right, So we the people isup to we the people to call it
out for what it is and nottrying to depend on the state legislature to
get the job done because they won't. Well, unfortunately they aren't. And
so what we're hoping for is thatthere are some leading state legislators like Senator
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Hughes and I think he's from yourarea, and several others who are really
leading a charge to have much strongervisibility to voter rolls, and some of
the things they're doing I think arevery promising, and we hope to collaborate
with those folks. Okay, well, I hope you are better news in
the future. Thank you, Jay, appreciate your time again today. Thank
you, Bye bye, Jay ValentineOmega for America back with more in a
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moment. Jimmy Vertt Show here ona nine fifty KPRC. Let's talk a
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little baseball here. I've been inthe mood to talk a little baseball Major
League baseball. And there's a coupleof teams out there that are worth noting.
That would be the Los Angeles Dodgersand the Toronto Blue Jays, both
kind of in my sights right nowfor their position on LGBTQ issues, in
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particular, the Los Angeles Dodgers.The Dodgers. The Dodgers, you know,
are having a you know, they'recelebrating Pride Month. June's Pride Month,
so you can look forward to awhole bunch of stuff this month.
They're celebrating Pride Month with an eventat the ballpark at Dodgers Stadium where they
first they invited, then they disinvited, and then they reinvited. THEU that
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what does the name of that group? That the it's a group of of
of um transgenders who dress up likenuns and make fun of Catholicism and the
Catholic faith, the Sisters of Indulgencesomething something along those eyes. Their name
escapes him for the moment. That'sreally not the most important part of it,
other than the fact that again,this is a group. Listen.
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I can appreciate humor. I caneven if it's religious humor. I can
appreciate that. But that's not reallywhat these people are about. These people
are about UM being anti Catholic.They're about um putting down the faith because
of their belief system and things likeabortion and and and other sexual issues,
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and so they're they're they look atthe Catholic Church as an enemy, and
they go out and they protest againdressed up like nuns, and they have
you know, like a sexy Jesus, and they do all kinds of things
that I would think most Christians wouldfind to be offensive. I don't think
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Major League Baseball needs to be involvedwith honoring a group like this, even
if they are the Los Angeles Dodgers. And evidently what caused problems is first
they invited the Sisters of Perpetual Whateverto get an award, a community service
award is part of their Pride Nightcelebration. Then they started hearing in particular
from some of their Latino baseball fansbecause the Dodgers like the Astros have a
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lot of Latino fans, many ofwhom are predominantly Catholic, and therefore aren't
real happy that the Dodgers would dosomething like this, So they disinvite the
group, and of course you getthe backlash now from the LGBTQ community.
And just like bud found bud Lightand target everybody else, is that when
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you support a group and then youpull back the support, guess what you
get it from both ends. Nobodylikes you. And that's what's happening with
the Dodgers. So they reinvited thesepeople back and did the big apology and
all the things to go along withit. Here's Jimmy Phaylan Fox talking about
this big miss because they won't screamas loud as the other side. That's
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what this really has come down to. It's always been a little bit of
a tyranny of the minority, andthat you know, most of this stuff
happens because of social pressure campaigns.They initially wanted the canceled the Sisters of
Perpetual Indulgence. Why because this isnot what the coach meant when he called
for a drag bunt, good nighteverybody, Okay, stick yes, Oh
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no, I'll give you some baseballterms. Did you know I'm not even
kidding that Sam Brinton who worked inthe Biden administration as a member of the
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for real,for real? Yeah, so there is
an upside. The Dodgers finally gota guy who can steal. So the
good night, everybody, I gota million of them. But here's the
thing, and it's just scared.Okay. The first of all, has
nothing to do with baseball. Okay, we all support pride, but they're
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taking pride to these other levels nowthat aren't quite pride so much as their
militant blasphemy of the Catholic faith.And then we get labeled as bigoted for
just wanting a faith respective. Imean, let me ask you this.
Could you have any other group ata ball game tonight insulting any other religion
and not get run out of town? No, Catholicism is the only place
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in society where open bigotry is stillacceptable. They're trashing the faith, but
we couldn't discuss anything they do onthe air. Okay, we couldn't discuss
it on the air. So howis that cool to do? At a
ball game with little kids in thestands. It's not. Okay, we
all know the lyrics to take meout to the ball game, take me
out to the crowd. It's notbuy me some peanuts and a drag show.
Yeah, no, it's not.And he's right about that. Here's
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the other thing. Here's the otherthing. The Dodgers, like many other
baseball teams, used to have afamily faith night. You know, we're
religious organizations, were invited with theirfamilies to come out to the ballpark and
enjoy a baseball game. They didthat up until COVID nineteen, but they
haven't brought it back after COVID nineteen. It's like it disappeared. So if
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you're going to have a pride night, where's the family faith night. Shouldn't
this be equally distributed amongst all groupsif you're going to if you're going to
be political, if you're going torecognize certain groups this way, shouldn't everybody
have the opportunity. And then we'vegot the Toronto blue Jays, all right,
here's Greg Gutfield's day. One ofthe blue Jay players used to play
for the Astros. By the wayback in twenty fourteen, a picture for
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them has run into trouble for retweetinga call for a boycott on Target and
some of these other woke businesses gothauled in by the Blue Jays had to
apologize to all the players. Here'sthe story and some response from Greg Gutville.
It's Pride month and you will behappy about it or else. Just
ask Toronto Blue Jay's picture Anthony Basque, I know who new Toronto at sports
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this week? He posted a proChristian video to his Instagram account supporting boycott's
of Target at bud Light. Thoseare the companies you know who support men
with junk anchoring women's locker rooms,armed with their own built in towelhanger.
So after some blowback, he Ididn't mean it that way, jeez,
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Louise people. Yeah, I knowwho knew. So after some blowback,
did the player hold his ground andstick to his Christian beliefs? Nope?
Like Joy Behart sucking down a pruneMohito, he released a hot, steaming
pile of crap. I recognized yesterdayI made a post that was furtful to
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private community, which includes friends ofmine and close family members of mine,
and I am truly sorry for thatI just spoke my teammates to share with
them my actions yesterday. I apologizewith them, and as right now,
I'm using the Blue Jay's resources tobetter educate myself. Let's make better decisions
moving forward. The ballpark is foreverybody. We include all fans at the
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ballpark and we want to welcome toeverybody. That's all I'm to say,
Thank you, better educative self.Well, that had all the sincerity of
Hannibal Lecter telling his date that theketchup is for a hot dog. Still
the player, He groveled like hunterat a strip club without his ATM cards.
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Sad every word of that forced apologycame from the bottom of some lawyers
shriveled black hearts. So what didhe do that was so hurtful? He
shared a video and you don't haveto agree with the video, But so
what in today's world, if you'rea Christian and don't want trans propaganda dangled
in your face like a wang poppedfree from a women's swimsuit, that's too
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damn bad. You're uposed to justshut up about it. Sure, leftists
could scare authors, broadcasters, andeven bakeries with mob persecution, but pipe
down, you Christians because trans area marginalized community, although does it really
seem like they're in the margins anymore? They have more visible flags than the
un gift shop. I haven't seenthis many rainbows since I crashed that leprechn
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convention. Yeah, and whatever theevent, you better applaud with tears in
your eyes or else you're a transphobe. Refusing to do what you're told is
bigotry. Again, Anthony bast didn'tsay any of that Bible stuff himself,
but he agreed with it, whichis gross because yuck. It's Christianity and
according to Major League Baseball, Christiansare open for mockery, not support.
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Amazing, and his apology was obviouslyorchestrated by the Bull Club. And not
only did they force him, theymade him talk to his teammates is if
somehow what he did had any sortof an impact on them, and then
he made them. They made himapologize in far the media and do the
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via culpa and basically volunteer himself offfor re education camp so that he doesn't
make that mistake again. Now,granted, the Blue Jays play in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, so that mighthave a little something to do with
it, but unbelievable. Yep.You can't defend Christians, you can only
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This is the Jimmy Barrett Show,brought to you by Viewin dot Com.
Now here's Jimmy Barrett. How areyou at spelling? Were you? Were
you good at spelling? I wasthe sixth grade Spelling Bee champion at my
school, at my elementary school.That that That's about as far as my
career and spell My career and spellingwent. So I guess I was a
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fairly good speller at the time.I don't know how I am now.
I guess I I'm fairly good.I remember most of the rules I before,
except after see that kind of stuff, So I remember most of that
that stuff. I don't pay alot of attention to to spelling Bees anymore,
certainly not to the National Spelling bthe scripts Howard National Spelling be other
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than to note that the winner everyyear seems to be an Indian American.
And I'm I'm gonna have to doublecheck here. I could be wrong.
I think our latest winner The twentytwenty three winner, whose name is dev
Shaw, is also Indian American.I could be wrong about that if you
go back to about two thousand andtwo thousand and one right in there,
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not every year, but almost everyyear, the National Spelling Bee champion winner
has been an Indian American. AndI know what an emphasis Indian Americans put
on education for their children. SoI think for them, it's kind of
like sports. Okay, only it'sacademics. But I think they kind of
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look at things like spelling bees likea sport and they want They're not looking
for their children to excel in baseballor football or or soccer. They're looking
for their children to excel in academics. And in that way, the National
Spelling b is a sport now itsays it says a lot I think for
for Indian American education. You know, there's a lot of a lot of
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um, a lot of extra afterhours type education opportunities, and you will
always find a lot of Indian kidsthat are enrolled in those types of types
of things, you know, theextra extra tutoring help. UM what is
the name starts with the kum coumeon something like that, UM where I
think a lot of Americans kids,a lot of you know, your typical
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suburban white kids, don't take advantageof that, or African American kids.
As far as that goes, itseems to be kind of unique within the
Indian community. And again, Ithink it speaks volumes of how important and
education is to them, you know. And I'm thinking of wondering as I
saw this latest winner, I wasI was wondering to myself, has anybody
taken a look at this and criedout for more diversity? You know,
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we seem to live in a dayand age where diversity, equity, and
inclusion is the name of the game. I guess we already have a minority
that is dominating the sport, ifyou will, the National Spelling Bee.
Maybe they don't feel the need tohave more diversity. Uh maybe they.
Maybe I was wondering them. Imean with with Indian American kids winning.
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By the way, the second placeyoung girl is a you know, white
suburban girl. Um. I forgetwhat her name is, but it's very
you know, very a very genericum white family name. So certainly there
there are are those who participate thatare not Indian, But it seems like
every year, it's like having acanyon win the marathon. Every year you
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have a winner seemingly who, inthe case of the National Spelling Bee,
is an Indian American. There's nocry out for diversity here. Don't we
need to mix this up? Dothey need? I mean, if we're
going to take d ei and it'sliteral, don't they need to like change
the rules or something to give thewhite kids a chance. Well, that's
right, we don't care about thewhite kids, all right. They've change
the rules to give the black kidsa chance. Do they need to dumb
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down the National Spelling Bee? Andby the way, have they already done?
That seems to be when when whenin the old days anyway, the
National Spelling Bee, you know,they would give you the word to spell,
they would give you the definition ofthe word, and they would use
the word in a sentence. That'sjust that's as far as you got with
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clues. Now you get a lotof clues here. He is, by
the way, the winning word withthe champ dev Shaw, who gets to
ask all kinds of questions about theword before he has to spell it.
Dev Shaw, if you spell thisnext word correctly, we will declare you
the two twenty three National Spelling Beechampion? Oh? No pressure, no
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pressure? A samophile samo meaning sandGreek? Oh wait a second samo meaning
sand Greek. Yes, phile meaninglover Greek. You're on the right track.
Can I please have all the information? Samophile is a noun from Greek.
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A samophile is an organism that prefersor thrives in sandy soils for areas
samophile. Maybe please have the sentenceany samophile? For example, a cactus
would flourish in the Arizona desert.Can you say it for us? Samophile
Samophiles? Samophile P s A MM O P H I L E samophile?
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That is correct? WHOA? Allright? You got the water and
you got the music. And Ithink they get a check or something,
and of course they get braggings.Is the National Spelling Bee champion? I
wouldn't have been able to, youknow what. I'm kind of being facetious
about the questions. I could haveasked all those questions. It wouldn't have
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helped me a lick in spelling samophile. You know, I'm sure where a
lot of people would make the mistakeis not putting the pa in front,
right, because the P is silentas it is in many other words,
like phosphorus. Actually it's not silent. The P is pronounced like an F.
But anyway, I digress. Soanother National Spelling Bee champion has been
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declared by Script's Howard. All right, quick little break back with Martin Mama.
We're going to talk about a coupleof things today. Coming up next,
James twin Tero, Texas Public PolicyFoundation. We have a special session
going on, and the big reasonthat's called the special session is to do
something about property taxes. It didn'tget done during the regular session. But
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there's competing plans out there and agovernor and a lieutenant governor who it odds
over which plan they want to seepass. So pick the brain of James
Quintero about that. Coming up next. You're on a nine fifty KPRC.
Happy Friday. All right, wehave a special session underway in Austin.
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The governor called back the state legislature. He wants us to well, there's
a couple of issues he wants todeal with, but in particular they want
to deal with property tax But thereseems to be a situation where the governor
and the Lieutenant Governor are not necessarilyon the same page. There are two
different plans out there, dueling plans, if you will. Both would lower
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property taxes, but how they wouldlower property taxes are different than the two
plans, and each evidently is marriedto their own idea. Here to talk
about with us from the Texas PublicPolicy Foundation is James Quintero. Before we
get into what the Texas Public PolicyFoundation recommends, James can explain to our
listeners where the disconnect is right nowbetween the governor and the Lieutenant governor.
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Hey, Jimmy, great to bewith you. Yes, I got some
good news and I got some badnews. If you're a Texas taxpayer.
The good news is it looks likethe legislature is primed to eventually deliver one
of the biggest tax cuts in Texashistory. The both bodies have appropriated seventeen
point six billion dollars in tax reliefproceeds. So as soon as we can
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come to some sort of agreement onhow best to deliver that, I think
everybody will see a meaningful reduction intheir tax bill. Now, as you
said earlier, you know, thebad news is that we can't come to
any sort of agreement on how togive it back. So what the Governor
and the House are suggesting is thattax rate compression is the best means to
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reduce taxes. And what that meansis tax rate compression is just a fancy
way of seeing tax rate cuts.And so everybody from homeowners to businesses to
renters will would realize some sort ofreduction in their tax bill were the Governor
in the House's planned to move forward. Now, for their part, the
text to Senate has a little bitdifferent an idea. They also want to
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do tax rate compression, but theywant to mix in an increase to the
homestead exemption and that would benefit homesteadersin particular. They want to move up
the homestead exemption from its current fortythousand dollars level to about one hundred thousand
dollars. So homeowners in particular standto gain quite a bit under the Senate's
plan. And both sides are prettywell dug into their positions well generally the
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case right, So they're both bothworking with the same amount of money.
One is just tax compression is acombination of tax compression and a bigger homestead
deduction. As you just said,so one would guess that the house version
that is endorsed by the governor woulda more across the board evenly spread out
tax guid And would would it benefitbusiness people more than it would homeowners?
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How would how would that? Iguess the more expensive the property you have,
the bigger cuts you end up getting, right, because it's based on
a percentage. Yeah, so thejurisdiction school districts in particular would have to
lower their rates from about ninety onecents as it exists today to about sixty
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five cents over the next two years. So it'd be a meaningful reduction in
the tax rate across the board.And yes, depending on the value of
your property, you may see alarger net gain than somebody else in a
different location. But and I thinkthis is important to note there is a
long term goal here associated with themove toward tax rate compression, because at
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least we hear at the Foundation reallysupport this idea of driving school district taxes
to zero. We ultimately want toget to the place where where there is
no school district mno tax That functionis housed at the state level and has
managed through the appropriations process, andso you know by putting our full weight
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on the tax compression component, Ithink we not only really make a huge
step in that direction this session,but keep us on the pathway toward elimination
and really transitioning away from this badsystem. Okay, well, let's talk
a little bit further about that,because the devil is always in the details,
is it not when you're talking aboutfunding schools, and those of us
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who pay property taxes would be thefirst to tell you the biggest, you
know, the biggest nut we haveto crack is a part of our property
taxes is what we pay to schools. I mean, many of us pay
three, four or five six thousanddollars a year or more just for the
school tax. When you start multiplyingthat against millions of households, if it's
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not collected in a property tax,where does the money come from? James
terrific questions. So one of thethings that the state legislature has done really
well is to abide by certain fiscalrules. And what I mean is that
not only last session, but insessions passed, they have imposed upon themselves
spending limitations, and so by managinghow much they spend, they're able to
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set themselves up to enjoy surplus revenue. And it's been our contention that instead
of spending this surplus revenue to growgovernment, we ought to be returning that
money back to taxpayers in the formof property tax relief. And so we've
had a lot of really smart peoplehere at the Foundation map out how we
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get from point A to point B, how we get to the eventual elimination
of property school district mino property tax. And our economists here suggest that we
can actually use surplus revenues that areexpected over the next several sessions to actually
eliminate it in ten years or less. So if the political will exist to
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do so, we can actually eliminatethat school mino tax using surplus money only
and effectively. How's that function atthe state? Okay, from a practical
standpoint, where's the surplus coming from? How do we know we're going to
have a surplus and where's it comingfrom? Great question. So again,
one of the things they've done wellat the state level, and maybe this
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session is a little bit of anexception, but they've really done well to
control the growth of state spending.And they've done so because they largely adhere
to the tax and expenditure limitations thathave been adopted in the past. But
above and beyond that, state revenuesare really the bolt come from sales taxes.
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And as we all know, notonly is this state booming economically,
but we're living in a period offairly elevated inflation. And I don't see
that that inflation going away anytime soon, which means that moving forward, sales
tax collections are likely to be elevatedas well. So unless the economy really
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hits a wall, and there's achance, you know, I don't really
have a lot of faith in theBiden administration, But unless it really hits
a wall, I think we canexpect a long term revenue outlook that favors
using surplus money to buy down theproperty tax. Okay, you know,
I'll be a pessimist just for thesake of argument. Here we go into
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a recession, a prolonged recession,sales tax revenue declines as a result because
people have lost their jobs. Othertaxes decline as a result of that as
well. What would make up thedifference? Do you go back to the
property taxol? I mean, isthat something that you would necessarily have to
bring back. Would you come upwith some other mechanisms. I know we
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have a rainy day fund, buthave a rainy day fund that there's no
limit as far as how much moneyyou can put into it, for example,
so that if you do have aprolonged period of bad economics, you
still have money set aside to payfor these things. Yeah. Great question
again. So just so everybody knows, we are sitting on a mountain of
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money right now, you know,they give back, give some back right
now. That's exactly right, that'sexactly right. So, so the stage
has passed a three hundred and twentyone billion dollars budget. Seventeen point six
billion dollars of that is money setaside for tax relief. So I'll consider
all of that money already appropriated.What is unspent is about ten to eleven
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billion dollars in additional general revenue moneies, and that money is, for whatever
reason, just sitting off to theside in case we enter a period of
economic recession. In addition to thatten or eleven billion dollars we have sitting
off in unspent gr we also havea twenty two billion dollar economic stabilization fund
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that's expected to materialize by the endof fiscal year twenty twenty five. So
those two pots of money, theten billion dollars in gr and the twenty
two billion dollars in ESF money,is more than enough to compensate for any
sort of revenue shortfall we have.But let's say things really hit a wall.
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Well, guess what then it's goingto be time to cut spending.
Because if households are hurting and they'reunable to keep up with the cost of
government, then you've got to pairthat cost of government back. Makes all
the sense in the world, isit's something government's not very good at doing,
pairing back, although we are farbetter here in the State of Texas
than certainly a lot of other statesin the federal government included. Here's another
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revenue idea. This is really kindof off the wall. James Quinter,
I'll have a little fun with theother on this. But maybe what we
could do is we could could thestate is set up their own little private
bank and become sort of the Stateof Texas version of like a Blackstone,
and we can help fund businesses thatand we will not require diversity equity index,
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we won't give them a score.We won't. We won't give them
any other score other than a goodcredit score based on their ability to repay.
And we can prevent companies from Budweiserand the like from having to go
woke in order to be able toget a big score. That's a good
question, Dan, I hadn't livedinto that one, but I can't tell
you. The state did re uptheir big corporate welfare program this session,
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so in addition to all the otherspending that we got going on, they
did reinstitute a new program to incentivizebusiness relocation to the States. So and
I think there were some caveats onthat, like you know, and not
a lot of money going to renewableprojects and some other things. So you
know, even within the new programsthat they're creating, I think some hopto
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ideas are being implemented to fight againstthe woke agenda. Yeah, I'll tell
you what, if we could figureout a way to cut off these these
financial elitists at the knees, thatwould be a beautiful, beautiful thing.
James, thank you as always forfighting the good fight on our behalf in
Austin, and we'll talk again,I'm sure. Thanks Jimmy, I appreciate
it. Yep. If you takecare Texas probably policy Foundation is James quinteroll
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back with more in a moment,Jimmy Bart Show. You're on AM nine
fifty KPRC. All right. Earlierthis morning on ktr H, we have
Jaane Valentine on America Omega partoning Omegafor America to talk about the possibility of
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voter fraud not really getting handled theway it needs to be in the state
of Texas. And he wrote anarticle. He's written numerous articles, but
he wrote an article about this aboutand it's kind of titled for American thinker,
kind of titled the vote fraud monsteris coming for Ted Cruz. And
in the case of Ted Cruz,you know, Ted Cruz, you know,
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could very easily be cheated out ofhis Senate seat if Harris County and
Tarrant County, in these big Democratsstrongholds, are allowed to continue to cheat
in elections. Now you know theycheat. I know they cheat. Our
guest knows they cheat. But asit turns out, I think one of
the most insightful things I learned fromyou talking to you this morning, Jay,
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is that we have a lot ofmoderate Republicans, even in the great
State of Texas, who are incomplete denial when it comes to cheating in
elections. And I'm scratching my headtrying to figure out why that is.
And this is after you've shown themproof. Well, there's a pretty simple
answer for that. So the reasonthat your rhinos and your moderates don't believe
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in election fraud is because to believein election fraud means you clean the voter
roles. To clean the voter roles, they perceive that's going to help Donald
Trump, and they're going to doeverything they can to not help Donald Trump.
So the smart thing for them todo, and what clearly they're doing
is to ignore it, to notdelve into the obvious voter fraud that we
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see in the data. We actuallyhave the property tax roles from major cities,
which are pristine in their accuracy,and we have the voter roles,
and when we compare the two,you would think they're from two different states.
That's how bad it is. Sopeople think, well, can Cruise
won six years ago and Abbott onetwo years ago, and therefore there's no
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voter fraud. I don't know.It's not like that there's so much voter
fraud. It's just that they werein the right place at the right time
and had enough to get by.But that's not the case anymore for Cruz.
So Cruz at best may win thiselection in an honest election by two
or three points. That's not nearlyenough because it's the year that Trump is
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running and the leftists are pulling outall the stops and they're doing everything.
Every trick that's been played for twentyyears is all going to happen in this
election cycle, and we think thatTed Cruz could very much be a victim
of that in a state Jay,in a state like Texas, you're saying,
a two to three point margin isnot big enough for Ted Cruz to
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overcome the cheating that is likely tohappen. What bigger percentage would you need
to overcome that? How big ofa percentage are we talking about here as
far as both that should not becounted? Well, the answer that I
would normally have given you is fiveto seven points is something that nobody can
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overcome. But after what happened toCarry Lake, we saw an election in
Arizona where carry Lake clearly won somewherebetween four and seven points, more likely
five or six point points, andyet they stole that election from her.
They changed the settings on printers.We did the expert witness report on her
data. We saw that some ofthe county election officials literally changed thirty thousand
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people's zip codes days before the electionso that they wouldn't get their mail in
ballots. Twenty two thousand new voterswere added after the official date. That's
the kind of thing that you're goingto see happen here in Texas. So
I don't know what the number isgoing to be, but I can tell
you right now that twenty twenty fouris the super Bowl for the leftists.
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It's the election that, under allcircumstances they have to stop Donald Trump,
and I think Ted Cruz's simply collateraldamage. It still boggles my mind that
we have not just not just progressivesand liberals, but but you know moderate
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Republicans that are afraid and so didsit against Donald Trump, that they are
willing to allow all of this tohappen. What is it about Donald Trump
that scares them that much. Well, again, we're data guys, so
from the data side, you know, we can comment anything that is not
about the data an opinion, andmy opinion is that Trump is the disruptor.
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He's going to change how things aredone, and a lot of people
are afraid of that. Okay,you know, that's fine. There's also
a social thing involved. There area lot of the Rhino Republicans that we
talked to and I talk to alot of them have a social issue and
they just want to keep everything calmand they don't want to do icky things.
And they consider that, you know, Trump is an icky guy.
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That's why they like people like Bushand people like that who don't really cause
a lot of ways. But we'redata guys, and what the data says
is that the amount of election fraudin every swing state is overwhelming. It's
between five to twenty percent of thecurrent voter role, and we have the
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data to prove that. I mean, we're not speculating on this. And
it's no different in Texas. Youknow, Texas has never really been at
this point. We're not really considereda swing state. So why would we
have so much cheating here? Ifthey really if I don't know that there's
any amount of cheating that they coulddo to have a Democrat when the presidential
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election here in Texas? Or isit could they could actually cheat their way
into a Democrat presidential victory in Texas. Well, it certainly could happen.
I mean, Texas is not thatfar out of reach. But the first
part of your question is, well, why would this happen in Texas?
This is a red state. Well, the amount of voter fraud in the
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voter roles in red states is nodifferent than it is in blue states.
I ran the voter roles for Missouri. I ran the voter rolls for the
folks in Alabama, and they're justas bad. The voter roles there in
the redd est states in America arejust as bad. Is this a problem
on a local level as far asbeing able to get the voter rolls the
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way they're supposed to be? Isit as state level? And if it
is at a state level, wheredoes the problem lie. It's accounting issues.
State is not really state assistant aggregation. So what we see is on
a county by county basis, wewill compare the tax roles with the voter
rolls. And when you start gettinginto some of the counties in around the
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large metropolitan areas, you're going tosee a disproportionate amount of phantoms, fake
addresses, people living in vacant lots, all that kind of stuff. And
one would think, well, it'snot going to happen in other areas,
but it is. It is happeningin other areas. And the reason is
it's beginning to impact school board elections. So we have reports from all over
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the country, from very blue countiesabout we had a school board election.
There were three hundred people who voted, and we know that our guy won
probably two hundred and fifty of thethree hundred votes, but he didn't.
And this is happening all over thecountry. And the reason is that five
years ago, nobody cared about astate rep election, or nobody cared about
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a school board election, and nowthey do. And so leftists are using
voter fraud in very red states,even in red counties, to impact things
that make a difference, which isa school board or a state rep.
Election. So don't don't think fora moment that this is a blue state
phenomenon. This is a national phenomenonin every county in America. All right,
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J Valentine, here's the big question, then, who can stop it?
Who are what can stop it.We don't think there's any one solution
for it. Now we're the dataguide, so we can address it from
the data side. We don't doelection machines and look at that kind of
stuff. From the data side,there is one solution that can certainly address
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it, and that is real timevisibility to the data of the county voter
registration role. So when any citizenfrom their phone can look at the county
registration role. Obviously people who arelaw enforcement people and people who are abuse
citizens their information is covered, butthey can look at the voter role and
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they can see that the guy nextdoor who's an elderly man living in a
home by himself has sixteen voters registeredthere, which they can tell empirically they
know as falls. That's what's goingto stop this. And one of the
things we're doing is we're working withstate legislatures now in three or four states
so that those states can actually enactthe ability to make voter roles visible to
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all of their citizens from their phonein real time. That means around election
time when people try to stuff theroles is going to happen to Inharrass County,
that will start happening in Harris Countyone hundred and twenty days before the
election. They're going to start stuffin those voter rolls with all kinds of
fake people and fake addresses. Citizenswill be able to see that from their
phone. That's how we're going tostop this, at least from the data
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side. That doesn't talk about machines, that doesn't talk about other things.
But from the data side, that'show we would answer the question. All
right, So we the people isup to we the people to call it
out for what it is and nottrying to depend on the state legislature to
get the job done because they won't. Well, unfortunately they aren't. And
so what we're hoping for is thatthere are some leading state legislators like Senator
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Hughes and I think he's from yourarea, and several others who are really
leading a charge to have much strongervisibility to voter rolls, and some of
the things they're doing I think arevery promising, and we hope to collaborate
with those folks. Okay, well, I hope you are better news in
the future. Thank you, Jay, appreciate your time again today. Thank
you, Bye bye, Jay ValentineOmega for America back with more in a
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moment. Jimmy Vertt Show here ona nine fifty KPRC. Let's talk a
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little baseball here. I've been inthe mood to talk a little baseball Major
League baseball. And there's a coupleof teams out there that are worth noting.
That would be the Los Angeles Dodgersand the Toronto Blue Jays, both
kind of in my sights right nowfor their position on LGBTQ issues, in
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particular, the Los Angeles Dodgers.The Dodgers. The Dodgers, you know,
are having a you know, they'recelebrating Pride Month. June's Pride Month,
so you can look forward to awhole bunch of stuff this month.
They're celebrating Pride Month with an eventat the ballpark at Dodgers Stadium where they
first they invited, then they disinvited, and then they reinvited. THEU that
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what does the name of that group? That the it's a group of of
of um transgenders who dress up likenuns and make fun of Catholicism and the
Catholic faith, the Sisters of Indulgencesomething something along those eyes. Their name
escapes him for the moment. That'sreally not the most important part of it,
other than the fact that again,this is a group. Listen.
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I can appreciate humor. I caneven if it's religious humor. I can
appreciate that. But that's not reallywhat these people are about. These people
are about UM being anti Catholic.They're about um putting down the faith because
of their belief system and things likeabortion and and and other sexual issues,
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and so they're they're they look atthe Catholic Church as an enemy, and
they go out and they protest againdressed up like nuns, and they have
you know, like a sexy Jesus, and they do all kinds of things
that I would think most Christians wouldfind to be offensive. I don't think
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Major League Baseball needs to be involvedwith honoring a group like this, even
if they are the Los Angeles Dodgers. And evidently what caused problems is first
they invited the Sisters of Perpetual Whateverto get an award, a community service
award is part of their Pride Nightcelebration. Then they started hearing in particular
from some of their Latino baseball fansbecause the Dodgers like the Astros have a
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lot of Latino fans, many ofwhom are predominantly Catholic, and therefore aren't
real happy that the Dodgers would dosomething like this, So they disinvite the
group, and of course you getthe backlash now from the LGBTQ community.
And just like bud found bud Lightand target everybody else, is that when
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you support a group and then youpull back the support, guess what you
get it from both ends. Nobodylikes you. And that's what's happening with
the Dodgers. So they reinvited thesepeople back and did the big apology and
all the things to go along withit. Here's Jimmy Phaylan Fox talking about
this big miss because they won't screamas loud as the other side. That's
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what this really has come down to. It's always been a little bit of
a tyranny of the minority, andthat you know, most of this stuff
happens because of social pressure campaigns.They initially wanted the canceled the Sisters of
Perpetual Indulgence. Why because this isnot what the coach meant when he called
for a drag bunt, good nighteverybody, Okay, stick yes, Oh
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no, I'll give you some baseballterms. Did you know I'm not even
kidding that Sam Brinton who worked inthe Biden administration as a member of the
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for real,for real? Yeah, so there is
an upside. The Dodgers finally gota guy who can steal. So the
good night, everybody, I gota million of them. But here's the
thing, and it's just scared.Okay. The first of all, has
nothing to do with baseball. Okay, we all support pride, but they're
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taking pride to these other levels nowthat aren't quite pride so much as their
militant blasphemy of the Catholic faith.And then we get labeled as bigoted for
just wanting a faith respective. Imean, let me ask you this.
Could you have any other group ata ball game tonight insulting any other religion
and not get run out of town? No, Catholicism is the only place
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in society where open bigotry is stillacceptable. They're trashing the faith, but
we couldn't discuss anything they do onthe air. Okay, we couldn't discuss
it on the air. So howis that cool to do? At a
ball game with little kids in thestands. It's not. Okay, we
all know the lyrics to take meout to the ball game, take me
out to the crowd. It's notbuy me some peanuts and a drag show.
Yeah, no, it's not.And he's right about that. Here's
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the other thing. Here's the otherthing. The Dodgers, like many other
baseball teams, used to have afamily faith night. You know, we're
religious organizations, were invited with theirfamilies to come out to the ballpark and
enjoy a baseball game. They didthat up until COVID nineteen, but they
haven't brought it back after COVID nineteen. It's like it disappeared. So if
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you're going to have a pride night, where's the family faith night. Shouldn't
this be equally distributed amongst all groupsif you're going to if you're going to
be political, if you're going torecognize certain groups this way, shouldn't everybody
have the opportunity. And then we'vegot the Toronto blue Jays, all right,
here's Greg Gutfield's day. One ofthe blue Jay players used to play
for the Astros. By the wayback in twenty fourteen, a picture for
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them has run into trouble for retweetinga call for a boycott on Target and
some of these other woke businesses gothauled in by the Blue Jays had to
apologize to all the players. Here'sthe story and some response from Greg Gutville.
It's Pride month and you will behappy about it or else. Just
ask Toronto Blue Jay's picture Anthony Basque, I know who new Toronto at sports
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this week? He posted a proChristian video to his Instagram account supporting boycott's
of Target at bud Light. Thoseare the companies you know who support men
with junk anchoring women's locker rooms,armed with their own built in towelhanger.
So after some blowback, he Ididn't mean it that way, jeez,
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Louise people. Yeah, I knowwho knew. So after some blowback,
did the player hold his ground andstick to his Christian beliefs? Nope?
Like Joy Behart sucking down a pruneMohito, he released a hot, steaming
pile of crap. I recognized yesterdayI made a post that was furtful to
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private community, which includes friends ofmine and close family members of mine,
and I am truly sorry for thatI just spoke my teammates to share with
them my actions yesterday. I apologizewith them, and as right now,
I'm using the Blue Jay's resources tobetter educate myself. Let's make better decisions
moving forward. The ballpark is foreverybody. We include all fans at the
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ballpark and we want to welcome toeverybody. That's all I'm to say,
Thank you, better educative self.Well, that had all the sincerity of
Hannibal Lecter telling his date that theketchup is for a hot dog. Still
the player, He groveled like hunterat a strip club without his ATM cards.
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Sad every word of that forced apologycame from the bottom of some lawyers
shriveled black hearts. So what didhe do that was so hurtful? He
shared a video and you don't haveto agree with the video, But so
what in today's world, if you'rea Christian and don't want trans propaganda dangled
in your face like a wang poppedfree from a women's swimsuit, that's too
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damn bad. You're uposed to justshut up about it. Sure, leftists
could scare authors, broadcasters, andeven bakeries with mob persecution, but pipe
down, you Christians because trans area marginalized community, although does it really
seem like they're in the margins anymore? They have more visible flags than the
un gift shop. I haven't seenthis many rainbows since I crashed that leprechn
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convention. Yeah, and whatever theevent, you better applaud with tears in
your eyes or else you're a transphobe. Refusing to do what you're told is
bigotry. Again, Anthony bast didn'tsay any of that Bible stuff himself,
but he agreed with it, whichis gross because yuck. It's Christianity and
according to Major League Baseball, Christiansare open for mockery, not support.
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Amazing, and his apology was obviouslyorchestrated by the Bull Club. And not
only did they force him, theymade him talk to his teammates is if
somehow what he did had any sortof an impact on them, and then
he made them. They made himapologize in far the media and do the
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via culpa and basically volunteer himself offfor re education camp so that he doesn't
make that mistake again. Now,granted, the Blue Jays play in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, so that mighthave a little something to do with
it, but unbelievable. Yep.You can't defend Christians, you can only
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defend the drag queens. All right, have a great weekend. Please,
we'll see a Monday morning brighton earlyat five am the Share on News Radio
seven forty KTRH, and then we'reback here at four on a nine fifty KPRC
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