Dealing with the runaway Democrats

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• Redistricting and the Democrats that fled Texas

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
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Speaker 3 (00:14):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
This is the Jimmy Barrett Show, brought to you by
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our show today. I muna lead with this today. It
shocks me, Well it doesn't, It doesn't shock me. We
spend four hours a day. Your average American spends four
hours a day thinking about money, whether you're thinking about

(00:48):
how much things cost, or you're thinking about you know
what your balance is in your bank account, or you're
hatching out a plan in your mind to make more money.
For more hours a day is spend thinking about money.
That's a part time job, four hours a day thinking
about money, and I'm kind of wondering to myself, how

(01:10):
guilty am I of spending that much time doing it?
A lot of it has to do right now with affordability,
I guess you have to think of it. You have
to think about money before you go to the grocery
store anymore, right before you go to the supermarket, because
you have to plan out how much you're going to spend.
I mean, most of us are under some sort of budget.
I guess you don't think it's much about money if you, well,

(01:32):
I take that back. I was going to say that
maybe you don't think it's much about money if you've
got lots of money. But I think that people have
lots of money or are still trying to figure out
how to get more money, and what they're doing with
their money, and how they're investing their money. They're just
thinking about different aspects of money than the rest of us.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
The rest of us.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
The rest of us are trying to figure out how
to afford our bills, how to afford the groceries this week,
bills to pay, tariff news, inflation worries. We are told
that money is living rent free into our minds for
hours a day on average thinking about money. According to
a research piece from a financial services company called m Power,

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four hours equivalent to a part time job. Fifty four
percent of us. That's a little more than half of
the twenty two hundred and six adults who were surveyed
said they're thinking about it more than they did last year.
I think that's probably fairly accurate. I think we're spending
more time thinking about our purchases and whether we're going
to make them or we're not going to make them.

(02:31):
It could be as simple as thinking about, well, we're
going to go out to eat tonight, where are we
going to go? Because now price matters. I have a
one of my favorite breakfast restaurants has just gotten not banned,
it's been downgraded, downsized, downsized to I have a regular rotation.

(02:52):
I know this will sound weird. I have a regular
rotation of places I go to eat, and breakfast is
one of those things I really enjoyed because they don't
I'll get breakfast during the week when I'm working, but
I get off early enough, especially on Friday's where I
can go to breakfast, So I usually get breakfast on Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday. So we go out and get breakfast three
days a week. And we have listed here one to

(03:14):
We have like five, maybe six places that are in
the rotation. And there's the heavy rotation, which are the
breakfast places I like the most, and then there's the
secondary rotation, the ones I like them, but I don't
like them as much. My number one restaurant breakfast restaurant

(03:35):
rotation has just been moved from primary to secondary because
the bill got too high. We had breakfast this couple
weeks ago now because I haven't been back since we
had breakfast, and the bill came to thirty eight dollars.
In some odd sense, that's before the tip. Thirty eight

(03:55):
bucks for breakfast. The iced tea I had cost four
dollars and fifty cents. They raised the price of a
glass of iced tea to four dollars and fifty cents.
Now my case, I drink iced tea and like it's
like it's going on in style, so I generally get
my money's worth. But still that's that's double what most
of the other places I go to charge for rice tea.

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And what did I have for breakfast?

Speaker 2 (04:19):
I had?

Speaker 3 (04:21):
It was anything bill. In fact, Elizabeth just had like
a sauge, sausage and gravy.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
That was it.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Biscuits and gravy, sausage, gravy. That's that's all she had.
And I just had you know, your standard, you know,
omelet with a side dish, and and I had a tea.
She had a water thirty eight dollars. So I went no,
that's it. We find we're getting too close to forty
dollars for breakfast. I'm not going to do this, So

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I said, you know what, Sorry, guys, love you, but
you've just you've gotten crazy. Your food's great, but you've
gotten crazy, crazy expensive. A lot of other places we
go to at the around thirty thirty one dollars, you know,
they're danger I'm not going to spend over most forty
dollars on breakfast. I'm just I'm not going to do it.
I'm sorry, I'm not going to do it. So that
that occupies my mind. Maybe I do spend four hours

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a day thinking about that kind of stuff, because that
does occupy my mind. Those are the things I'm thinking
about while I'm making decisions. Where am I going to
go to eat?

Speaker 2 (05:19):
You know? How am I going to set up the
bills this month?

Speaker 3 (05:22):
You know? You know, we have somebody takes care of
our pool, so sometimes I would pay them at the
end of the month or in the middle of the month.
And now I'm going, okay, well let's figure out which,
you know which it works best into the budget. So
we are spending more time thinking about that stuff. Here
here's the other thing, and it's the thing that makes
me think that this is probably the real reason why

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we spend more time thinking about money. All all of
our banking, generally speaking now is on an app. A
lot of your if you're into investing, a lot of
your investments are on an app. So it's really easy
to check that stuff right. In fact, I probably checked
my bank account twice a day, my checking and savings accounts,
mainly because I'm a little bit paranoid about getting hacked,

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that somebody who's going to figure out my password go
into my account and steal my money. You know, I'm
always worried about that kind of stuff. So I check
it a couple of times a day. Make sure there's
no unusual activity, make sure there's not a deduction there
that I did not authorize, make sure that there's not
a bill in there that I didn't Okay, And if
I see something and I don't know what it is

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because Elizabeth bought it or spent it, then I'll ask
her about it, just so I know it's legit. Not
that I care that she spent the money. I don't
her money as well as mine. It's our money, as
she likes to say, she's right. I just like to
make sure I know exactly how it's being spent. So
if you hover over that stuff, if you worry about
that kind of stuff, and if you're invested in stocks,

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same thing, you could have an app and you can
be track of that stuff all the time. Well, while
you're tracking your stocks or what's going on with your
bank account, what are you thinking about? You're thinking about
your money. So between the two different things, the affordability
factor that's going on for a lot of folks right now,
and concerns over hacking and other things, and making sure

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that you know things are showing up the way they're
supposed to. Like maybe if you're on Social Security and
you get a payment from Social Security, making sure that
made the bank account. Yeah, I can see where most
of us do probably think about money four hours a day,
maybe even more than that. All Right, we're back with
more in a moment, quick little break Jimmy Bart Show
here on the AM nine to fifty KPRC.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
All right, couple of topics we do.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
In this particular segment of our show, but I want
to start with this one mainly because this is the
story that mainstream media is not going to be covering
or be gonna be covering very much. So I want
to make sure that we don't ignore it here on
our show and on our station. And that is the
Russia hoax story and the Department of Justice. It is

(08:12):
nice to see that we have a Department of Justice
that is trying to figure out exactly what happened with
the Russia hoax and to see if charges can be brought.
I would not be the least bit surprised to see
a grand jury be called in evidence presented and potential
charges against Carol Lloyd Clinton, among others. If you're not

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familiar with the story, I'm sure most of you are.
But if you're not familiar with the story, we'll start
with this John Radcliffe, the CIA director, you know, unsealed
the unsealed the information from the Russia hoax case from
both the CIA and the FBI, and we have found
all kinds of evidence showing pretty much exactly what happened.

(08:59):
Here's John Racline again talking about what happened or what
they surmise has happened. Along with that, we have some
reaction here of what is likely to happen next as
far as the DOJ investigation.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
Under penalty of perjury while under oath. Hillary Clinton's own
campaign manager confirmed that there was such a plan and.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
That Hillary approved it.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
It is the greatest political scandal that we hopefully will
be the last that we'll see in our lifetime.

Speaker 5 (09:25):
Well, if this is true, it sounds like Hillary Clinton
broke the law and Hillary should be in handcuffs.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
And I hope that.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
When charges are referred that this isn't become another Benghazi,
because I am, like every other hardworking American, sick and
tired of people politicians, especially breaking the law, flaunting the constitution,
being a threat to democracy, and having no consequences, and
we need real consequences here, and I believe in the
leadership of the Trump administration.

Speaker 6 (09:52):
More than half of the private individuals who met with
Secretary of Stick Clinton in the first half of her
tenure were Clinton Foundation donors. Those eighty five donors gave
a huge one hundred and fifty six million dollars combined
to the Clinton Foundation. Congresswoman, that's more than half of
the Clinton Foundation's budget in twenty fifteen. And then he

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had nations like Sadi Arabia Kuwait giving money to the
Clinton Foundation doing business before the Secretary of State Clinton
and Bill Clinton taking in massive speaking fees paid by
entities with interest before the Obama Whitehouse.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
Sounds like a lot of pay to play. And we
saw this with Joe Biden as Vice president. This is
the Democrat playbook. And quite frankly, she should be indicted
for these things. And this is what transparency looks like.
And I hope that we follow the full letter of
the law and provide as much transparency and accountability to
the American people because they tried to take Donald Trump

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out with lies and with hoaxes, and he stood the
width of the storm, he stood at all to become
president of the United States.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
And this was just a way for her.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
To cover up her transgressions and what she was doing fleecing.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Not just Americans, but fleecing other nations.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yep, that is representative Nancy makes By the way, from
South Carolina. You here she's running for governor. Yeah, she's
going to run for governor of South Carolina, by the way, moron,
just in general, what this case is all about, in
how the Department of Justice intends to proceed on this.
Here's the report from Fox Senior correspondent.

Speaker 7 (11:26):
Rich Edson sources tell our Justice Department team that Attorney
General Pam Bondi is moving to the next step in
her investigation into the intelligence surrounding the twenty sixteen election
during the Obama administration. Bondi has personally ordered an unnamed
federal prosecutor to present evidence to a grand jury relating
to an alleged conspiracy to tie then twenty sixteen presidential

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candidate Donald Trump to Russia. Justice declined to comment on
the investigation. It's unclear where the grand jury will meet,
who will testify, or who specifically prosecutors will try to indict.
A week and a half ago, the Justice Department announced
it had created a strike force to evaluate evidence that
Director of National Intelligence Tulsea Gabbard had referred to DOJ.

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Last month, Gabert declassified intelligence that she maintained shows that
in twenty sixteen, Obama administration officials manufactured and politicized intelligence
to undercut then president elect Trump and his incoming administration.
Democrats contend that nothing Gabbert has released counters the widely
accepted conclusion that Russia medal to help the Trump campaign.

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They say Gabbard's allegations are just a distraction the Justice
Department is still early in the process of securing any
possible indictment.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Prosecutors would take.

Speaker 7 (12:42):
Evidence to a grand jury to determine if there's enough
to indict. Grand juries do meet in secret, so there
is often information presented there that the public will not
have access to.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
And who knows how long all that is going to take.
By the way, and you know what normally happens with
these kinds of things. By the time they go through
this higher process, what are the chances that President Trump
will still be in office? Is there any way they
get this concluded and potential charges brought before the next
presidential election, And then you're going to be dependent on

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whoever the next president is in order to see it
follow through. And if a Democrat gets elected next time around,
God forbid, then it'll all go away. Charges will be dropped,
It'll all go away. That's part of the problem with
the legal system in general. Anything connected with the government
takes so damn long to get anything done, and in

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oft times these things go from one administration to the
next and are promptly dropped. I mean, look at all
the things that kim Ogg was going to do locally,
as far as potential prosecutions. They for the most part,
got dropped when Shawn Tier came into office. That's what happens.
So we'll see, we'll see if we get any satisfaction
from any of this stuff. Right now, I must share

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this might be my favorite piece of audio for the day.
And I was kind of riffing on this one this morning,
trying to figure out is this guy trying to help
bring CNN more towards the middle or is this guy
auditioning for Fox. I'm not quite sure. Their polster over there.

(14:22):
You've heard me talk about him before. Harry Nton is
his name. Harry Innton is an interesting cat. He's in
charge of the CNN polling and he really does call
it the way he sees it. He doesn't cherry pick
numbers to try to make Trump look bad or to

(14:42):
make Democrats look good, and back quite the opposite. You know,
he's going over some poll numbers yesterday and he's talking
about Trump is the most consequential president of this century
and maybe going back quite aways into the last century.
I mean, can you imagine anybody on CNN, regardless of

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what their job is as CNN, saying that about President Trump.
It's mind boggling, and he showed just how just what
kind of bad shape Democrats are in right now. And
it's probably going to get worse for Democrats because you
have Elizabeth Warren coming out and endorsing Mondami, the socialist

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slash communist who's running for New York City mayor. But anyway,
let me share the audio with you. What do you
think about this? This is Harry Enton CNN Polster. Take
a list to what he says, and then you tell me,
is is he trying to drag CNN into the middle
the middlesphere the way it used to be report on
both sides or is he auditioning for Fox with this?

Speaker 8 (15:45):
I can't think of a more influential president during this century,
and it starts here with tarffs.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
He said he was going to.

Speaker 8 (15:53):
Raise tarifs, and despite the claims otherwise, he is in
fact doing that. Trump, at least in my mind, is
the most influential president certainly this century and probably dating
a good back chunk into the twentieth century as well.
Executive orders immigration with net migration, and we're talking about
tariffs and the effect of tariff rate. Donald Trump is
remaking the United States love it, like it or lump it.

(16:14):
He has been tremendously influential to a historic degree. This
particular point, the Democratic brand is in the basement. It
is total and complete garbage in the mind of the
American public. The Democratic Party's net fabru rating record lows
and all three Wall Street Journal thirty points underwater, CNN
twenty six points underwater, Gallup twenty six points underwater. And
that is being driven in large pop by discontent within

(16:36):
the Democratic base. The Democratic base wants something different.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
Well, the question is what do they want different? Do
they want more the socialist Democrats socialist or do they
want to return to more of a mean stream outlook
they want do they want Democrats to be more like
Republicans or do they want Democrats to be more like socialists.
That's the question is, and the jury's out on that one.

(17:03):
I refuse to believe that that most mainstream Democrats, the
majority of mainstream Democrats want to go socialists. But hey,
who knows. All right, DoD We're gonna come back. When
we do, We're gonna talk more about you know, the
Texas Democrats. They are still in Illinois. We had representative
Republican representative Katrina Pearson on our morning show today on

(17:25):
kt RH. We had Governor Abbott making a big decision
yesterday about arresting, potentially arresting these Democrats who don't show
up in Austin and a whole lot more so, we'll
share some audio on all this with you coming up next,
Jimmy Barrett Show here an AM nine fifty KTRC. So

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Democrats are all in right now and Texas redistricting now.
The thing that's so ironic about all this to me
is that you've got Democrats in New York and Chicago
and California. Who are you talking about? What a travesty
of democracy this is? Is if they haven't all done

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the very same thing. Whatever party is in power gets
to draw the redistricting lines, and as long as you're
not doing it to separate people based on race, it's
whatever you draw is perfectly fine. And what is being
done here in Texas has nothing to do with race,
and it has everything to do with politics. Not all

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Republicans are white. There are plenty more. In fact, more
than ever, black Republicans, Hispanic Republicans. Republicans have made huge gains,
and we have a population this move here We've had
so many people move here that we're gonna end up
with more Congressional districts, and they're gonna end up being
Republican districts when all of a sudden done, no matter

(19:06):
what the Democrats want to try to do as far
as skipping town and trying to prevent a quorum, but
they're getting plenty of help. They're getting plenty of support.
The next the next clip by play for you, just
just so you can hear how insane this is. You
got Kathy Hochel, the governor of New York basically declaring

(19:27):
war on Texas Republicans. And Jasmine Crockett from our own
state of Texas, who's upset because, of course, if they
get these lines redrawn, her home no longer resides in
her district, so that creates a whole world to hurt
for her. Al Green too, he's upset because he knows
he would get eliminated from Congress. So here they are,

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and the little response out on the whole thing at
the end towards President Trump.

Speaker 9 (19:52):
Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of Okay, we know that, yes, yes.

Speaker 10 (19:57):
He is, he is, he is, But.

Speaker 11 (20:02):
In a functioning democracy, he still would not be able
to get away with this.

Speaker 10 (20:07):
This has happened a lot recently though, with the Democrats
from Texas to Indiana to Wisconsin. They're running away from
their jobs. The American people don't know the word jerry mander.
You go out to the street, you ask them what
jerry mander is. They don't know, and they don't care.
They have other things they're dealing with. They know what
it looks like when you don't go to work. And
all the headlines right now are Democrats run away from

(20:29):
their jobs. People want politicians to show up, and they're
not showing up. They say the Republicans are pulling a
power grab. What do you think bringing twenty million migrants
into the country was? You know, they're saying this is
an abuse of power. Put the map back up of
Illinois that looked like an earthworm on LSD Cannet BUSI exactly.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
So they're saying that we're going to steal the midterms.

Speaker 10 (20:54):
The Republicans with the last time Trump was president, they
stole the midterms by hovering the Russia hoax over his head,
which costs him the House. Now, Obama told Democrats a
couple of weeks ago to get toss and.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
Then what do they do?

Speaker 10 (21:07):
They ran away?

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Do men run away? Is this how you get men back?

Speaker 10 (21:14):
Did the men at the Alamo in Texas run away? No?

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Yeah, love the Alamo reference that from Jesse Waters on
the five. Okay, all right, so yeah, Well they complain
about redistricting and jerrymandering. It's what they're guilty of. You
look at Illinois map which Jesse Waters are just talking about.
There you can the majority of the state is red.
We don't think of Illinois as a red state, but

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the majority of the state is red. But the way
the lines are drawn up, they pull enough blue voters
from major states like Chicago into the mix and put
them in in these mix them up with these other
red districts so that they end up with a Democrat
being elected out of sheer numbers. At the end of
the day, your your US representation should have something to

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do with how your state voted. You know, in California,
more than thirty five percent of California's voted for Trump,
but a far smaller percentage of Republicans represent the state
in Congress because of the way the lines are drawn up.
It's it's it's it's every state that does this. Every

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party that's in power does this. They set the lines
that are going to end up helping them the most.
That it's how it works. Elections have consequences, and this
is one of the consequences.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
All right.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
Now, As far as dealing with the runaway Democrats, yeah,
that's that's an issue. Here's Governor Greg Abbott last night
on Fox.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Well so on.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
First of all, Texas is doing what we are allowed
to by the law. And one reason why that law
exists the way that it does is because the Democrats
brought a lawsuit after are last redistricting and that decision,
and that lawsuit came out last year, and that lawsuit
recognized that coalition districts are not required, and so Texas
has a right to redraw these lines to fully represent

(23:13):
the desires of every voter in the state.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
But Sean, that misses the point here.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
The point here is that Democrats have done something that's
very Untexan. They've turned their backs on their fellow Texans.
When it came to a fight, they turn and run away.
Not just from this redistricting fight, they ran away from
dealing with the flooding issues that are still echoing across
the Kerrville area. Families desperately need results from the state

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legislature in this thirty day special session that are not
going to be delivered because Democrats are hanging out in
Chicago and New York and other places. Another thing, and
that is what Texas is doing. Under these new maps.
Four of the five new seats will be a majority
Hispanic seats. One of the seats is going to restore
the Barbara Jordan's seat over in the Houston area. And

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so these are seats where Democrats are having to come
to grips with the reality, and that is they are
now losing the votes of Hispanics and Black voters in
the state of Texas. And these districts are going to
show that Hispanics and Blacks as well as others are
voting for Republican and Republican is their candidate of choice,
and we will ensure that will be achieved at the

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congressional level in the state of Texas.

Speaker 11 (24:23):
What is your response to Kathy Hochel who says that
we are at war over Texas and the redistricting push
that's going on in Texas.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
There's a bunch of crazy bluster.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
Democrats are freaking out because they are realizing Texas has
the authority to redistrict and we're going to do so
in a way that's going to lead to these additional
seats that will vote Republican and they will be serving
in Congress in the next session. And so Democrats are
freaking out about it, engaging in rhetoric, but I don't
think they have the capability of actually living up to
it and doing anything about it.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
Well, we'll see the hold out probably as long as
they can. We do know this.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Governor Abbitt has authorized the arrest of Democrats who are
not showing up in Austin, not all of them. I
think thirty three did go to Illinois, but that was
just enough to make sure they Democrats who show up
in Austin will not be able to achieve a big
enough number to have a quorum. So we'll see. We'll
see what happens with this. And the governor was talking

(25:27):
about charging them potentially with bribery, you know, charging them
with a felony because they're taking money from outside sources
in order to leave the state and not do their job.
If they're not paying their own way, then they then
the governor says, we can charge them with bribery. Maybe

(25:48):
we'll see what happens with that. I'm gonna save Katrina
Pearson to our next segment. I talked to her this morning.
If she's a state representative Republican state representative from District
thirty three, we'll we'll save that for our next sepend here, Joy,
don't run too far over on time, but we do
have time to get this in. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick,
also commenting on the redistricting message.

Speaker 12 (26:11):
Laura, this is laughable when I hear Pritzker and Hokal
speak of the five states Laura, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, California,
and Washington State. Donald Trump received on average forty two
percent of the vote, but in Congress in those states,
the Democrats have ninety representatives and Republicans only have twenty seven.

(26:35):
In Prinsker's state, the President got forty three percent of
the vote and fourteen of seventeen are Democrats. Now, we
are doing what is legal, We're doing what is right
on behalf of Texans. We've had over two million people
move here in the last couple of years. They're voting
more and more Republican, and they deserve and want Republican
representation in Congress.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
The Democrats problem.

Speaker 12 (26:59):
It's not redistrict lines, it's the voter's minds that they've lost,
because this is a party that believes men should be
in ladies rooms, men should play girls sports, the voter
should be open, taxes should be higher, we should weaken
our military, We should be fund police. They have just
been rejected by Texans. President Trump won the state by
a million and a half votes last November. We are

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a red state, and we are redrawing the lines, which
is perfectly legal under the courts, to give Republicans representation
in the state of Texas that they deserve. And the
numbers I gave you in those five states where the
Democrats are ninety and Republicans are only twenty seven in Congress,
in states where the president average forty two percent of

(27:41):
the vote, this is a joke. This is a game
that they've been playing a long time, and we're fighting back.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Finally, finally, finally, Republicans are fighting back. And maybe that's
what upsets Democrats the most, is there They're used to
Republicans just rolling over. Not happening this time, at least
not here in Texas. All right, A quick little break
will continue the conversation about the redistricting mess in just
a moment. Jimmy Bairtt Show here on AM nine fifty KPRC.

(28:27):
All right, I'm back and earlier this morning, you know,
we spent a lot of time obviously talking about runaway
Democrats and what the governor can or maybe can't do
about it, what's going on in the Texas House. They're
going to reconvene that they did reconvene today. I haven't
heard whether they had a quorum. I'm assuming they didn't

(28:48):
have a quorum. I'm sure, I'm sure those runaway Democrats
have not come back that quickly, and maybe and maybe
actually they aren't gonna They're probably gonna avoid coming back
for quite some time if there's a surest Warren out
for him. Right, But I had State Representative Katrina Pearson
on the show this morning talking about the situation in Austin.

(29:08):
Here's that conversation. Well, I guess, to be fair to
Texas Democrats, they didn't all run away, just enough of
them right away to make sure they couldn't get a quorum.
Joining US Texas State Representative Katrina Pearson, she's in Austin.
I'm pretty sure you're in Austin, right, Katrina, you didn't
run away anywhere.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Good morning.

Speaker 9 (29:25):
I am in Austin here serving the greatest district in
the state of thirty.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Three excellent, and just out of curiosity, any idea how
many Democrats stayed behind, didn't go off to Illinois or
where else they may be going.

Speaker 9 (29:39):
You know, it's a great question when you look at
some of their press conferences thirty thirty five. But I'm
pretty sure there are some here in the state. As
you mentioned, there were a few that stayed behind. But
I guess we're about to find out.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
Okay, So will there be a session today? Will there
be an attempt to see if there's a quorum today?

Speaker 9 (30:00):
Absolutely, we will be there at one o'clock to find
out if we have a quorum. There's different discussions on that.
Some think we may, some think we may not. After
the actions taken yesterday by Governor Abbots and Speaker Boroughs,
some of those may be enticed to show up today.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Yeah, I would think they probably would, because if they
are in the state and they don't show up, then
DPS is going to be looking for.

Speaker 9 (30:23):
Them, aren't they DPS rangers, you name it. I love
the fact that the speaker said all options are on
the table. I love the boldness of Governor Abbott who said,
you know, we're going to vacate your seeds or try to.
And I think that's going to get a lot of attention.
The reality is the Democrats fled the state because they
didn't like what was happening, and that is not representing

(30:45):
your districts. And think about this, It's not like they're
going to tell their voters the truth. The simple fact
that minorities in the state of Texas have been trending
Republican in their performance, and that's just not something.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
They can sell well, especially considering where they went. They
went to Illinois. If you take a look at the
map for districting map in Illinois, it's about as jerry
mandard as you could possibly get. Most of these states,
most of these so called blue states, had a minimum
of a thirty five percent vote in favor of President
Trump in the last election. Yet the US representatives representing

(31:22):
that particular state has a percentage far, far, far less
than that of Republicans who are representing those particular states.
So there's guilty the party that's in power is always
guilty of trying to set this up to their best benefit.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
That's just how this works well.

Speaker 9 (31:41):
And that's the irony when you look at Illinois, California,
in New York. I mean, you could argue the fact
that it's not worse. Is their constitution prohibited. So we'll
see if they tried to nail GOO and change their
constitution to quote unquote compete. But Texas needs to be
more competitive. The voters here have spoken. The Democrats don't
like the results, and that's really unfortunate to them. But

(32:03):
I will tell you the maps will get passed. You know,
when you talk about the timeline for a minute, because
I've heard so many things that I think it's important
to correct the record. This is something that would not
have been done during regular session because some of the
trials didn't even get started until May. Such an ended
in June. Proclamation came until July. So we're absolutely on
track to do redistricting right now, all right, Just.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
Out curious the Representative Pearson, is anybody checked. I mean,
it's interesting that the governor has threatened not only the
arrest but the expulsion of these Democrats who have fled
the state. Is anybody checked the legality of what the
governor's proposing Legally? Can these Democrats be expelled from their
seats for leaving the state.

Speaker 9 (32:46):
Well, I don't think the governor would have mentioned it
if it wasn't possible. It is a legal situation. How
long that would take, I'm not sure, but it is
a possibility, and they would have to go through the
courts in order to do so. And I don't think
the govern the governor is joking. I think he's absolutely
serious about pursuing this.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
Yeah, I know that.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
When I saw the governor last night on Fox, he
said something about they could potentially also be charged with
bribery for taking money from from certain entities in order
to flee the state. In other words, they are allowed
to accept money to do something like that.

Speaker 9 (33:20):
Well, I mean that's what all options on the table means.
I mean, it's quite serious that Republicans are looking at
all options on the table, including bribery and vacating their seats.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
And rightly so.

Speaker 9 (33:30):
I mean, this is a very serious issue. We have
flood legislation to take care of. We cannot let these
people who have been hurt by the flood to get
stuck in the crossfire because the Democrats are whining that
they don't like how the state is trending.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Well, I'll say this, it certainly is nice to see
Republicans fighting back for change. Thanks for joining me today.
Good to talk to you.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Great, Thank you.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
Texas State Representative Katrina Pearson YEP. Fighting back, I'd like
to fight and back part. By the way, is anybody
is anybody confronted Dustin Burroughs, the Speaker of the House.
You know, he's the one that you know, called the
Texas Legislature, the Texas House to order and then promptly

(34:13):
let them go. He basically, you know, gabbled in and
gabbled out. He gave Democrats an opportunity to leave. And
I'm I'm sure, I'm sure he made some sort of
a deal with that. I'll tell you what i'm gonna do.
I'm gonna make it so you guys can leave. That
and what happens after that's on you. But I'm gonna
get I'm gonna make it so you can leave. He
didn't have to do that. He could have kept the
Texas House in session and forced them to stay, and

(34:38):
he didn't do that. So that was at the very
least poor preparation on his part, if not purposeful, ippen
to think it's purposeful what he did. Nobody's calling him
out for it. But but I'll be happy to call
him out for it, because again, I just think that
was completely you know, within his realm, he could have
he could have prevented all that from happening. All right, listen,

(34:59):
enough politics today, y'all have a great day. Thank you
for listening. I do appreciate it. I'll see you tomorrow morning,
bright and early, starting at five am over on news
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