April 17, 2025 • 38 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- Texas Scorecard's Joseph Trimmer on Harris County's Climate Justice Plan
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
All right, let's talk about a couple of things I
think are kind of related to each other.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
First, FIGHTO score. Do you know what your Fyco score is?
I know what mine is. I'm not gonna say what
mine is because I don't want to sound like I'm bragging.
No really, I mean, I'm very proud of my Fyco score.
I definitely I didn't have a great Fico score when
I was a young person because, like a lot of
young people, I took too much credit out and you know,
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I had a couple of late bills and that kind
of thing. And I'm going to say that probably my
average FIGHTO score was somewhere in the you know, seven fifteen,
seven to twenty range, you know, somewhere around then. You know,
FIGHTO score is going to go anywhere from like four
in the four hundreds on up to the perfect scores
eight to fifty. You know, that's if you have perfect credit.
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I don't have. I have had eight to fifty before,
I don't currently have eight to fifty. I'm I'm let's
put this way, I'm pretty close and manner range where
once you get to the point where you have excellent credit,
you know, you're getting up around the eight hundred range.
It really doesn't matter at that point whether it's eight
hundred or eight fifty, if it doesn't help you anymore
to or hurt you anymore, you know, depending upon where
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that score is in an eight hundred, eight to fifty range.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Ya, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Probably again, I'm very proud of it because I worked
really hard to get that. But we're seeing the average
American FIGHTO score has been dropping, not dropping by a ton,
but dropping some from somewhere in the neighborhood of I
think seven to fifteen was the last one that I saw,
and it was it was probably seven seventeen, seven nineteen,
within the last couple of years for the average American.
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So if you want to compare yourself to the average American,
the average American has a FICO score of about seven fifteen.
One of the reasons why it's been dropping is because
of school loans.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Again.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
We've got people who who didn't have their lack of
reporting on school loans that was pretty much suspended. I
mean we're going back, like better part five years to
twenty twenty where they suspended, you know, you having to
make a school loan payment while they litigated in court
whether or not the student loan forgiveness program from President
Biden would work or would not work. That is no
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longer an effect, of course, So now you guys start
you know, repaying on your student loans. And as soon
as the repayment started creeping up again, we had people
who are falling delinquent on the student loans. Same thing.
I mean, people got off free and clear there for
a number of years during the Biden administration. And I
don't know if they didn't think that they thought it
was always to be that way, or they counted on
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their student loan being forgiven, but you know, fair amount
of people have fallen behind on their student loans and
that is what has led to that drop. And of
course that kind of ties into what's going on now
with home sales and home loans. It's it's, you know,
they're a little bit more difficult to get, not just
because the interest rates are higher, but because lending institutions
want to see that you have a good payment history.
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If you're defaulting on student loans, they're probably going to
be a little fearful about giving you a home loan, because,
after all, why why would you pay the bank back
for you the home if you're not willing to pay
the bank back for your for your student loan. There's
one guy at least who thinks that there should be
a home emergency, a national emergency declared for homes in
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real estate, in the home market. And I guess the
reason why he feels this way is not just because
we have, you know, higher interest rates, which we do obviously,
but we don't have a lot of home building going
on right now. The home building that we have going
on has more to do with building rental properties than
it has to do with building homes for sale. For
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the rest of us that he sees a lot more
adjustable rate mortgages. Adjustable rate mortgages are a great way
to get into trouble because in order to get a
lower interest rate to begin, that interest rate will fluctuate
over the course of time, depending upon what the current
interest rate is. So depending on how high interest rates get,
that interest rate is not locked in, and you could
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end up paying a whole lot more for that home
loan than what you had planned for. So here is
a guy by the name of his last name is Pompilamo. Pompilamo,
first name Aaron. Aaron Pompilamo on the need to have
a what he thinks a national emergency. As relates to
real estate and homes.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
The median asking home price is up six percent to
four un and twenty four thousand dollars. That's fifty thousand
dollars increases the start of the year. The median sales
price in America is up three percent to three hundred
and eighty three thousand. But I think even more importantly,
the typical home buyer monthly mortgage payment is up five
percent year of a year to twenty one hundred dollars
per month. And so if you think about those numbers,
basically what you have is you have homes becoming more expensive,
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you have debt becoming more expensive. We're not building enough homes,
and so naturally you have this squeeze that's occurring. But
people also forget at that same time, you have real
wages falling, and so people basically can't figure out how
to buy a home or keep up with what is
ultimately the real inflation that they're experiencing. And so the
reason why I say it to national emergency is because
the federal government really has to step in here and
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go and you look at the housing problem. We can't
build houses in America not because of the federal government.
It's because we're being held hostage by local city councils
that are basically, you know, parading around or masquerading around
as politicians. But at the end of the day, what
do they know about housing zoning?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
What do they know about housing? What do you mean
when you say you want the government to get in,
I think that the federal government ad messages it. I
think that the.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Federal government should step in and say that we are
going to create either some sort of sandbox, some sort
of safe zone, or we are going to actually put
some sort of guidance out for these city councils, because
what ends up happening is, if you want home prices.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
To stop going up so fast, build more housing.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
But what you can't do is you can't have people
who they are not experienced, and frankly, they have a
lot of times very big conflicts. Right if you go
to the local city council, who sits on the city
council usually people who are real state developers or are
sitting there they own real state in the jurisdiction.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
There's tons of conflicts of interest.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
And so if you want the housings actually crooks, there
are those housing rules to change. What you have to
do is you have to create some sort of guidance.
And so the local rules that are in place right
now are not taking into account the fact that there
is a national emergency in terms of housing prices, and
so let's have some sort of framework that we can
go and actually implement and allow people to build houses
in America so that these house prices stop going up.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I don't think we have that same kind of regulation
problem here. We don't really have zoning laws here in Houston,
not the way that a lot of areas that the
country do. I don't know what other regulations home builders
potentially face, but I would think fewer here than in
most places, and we still don't see a tremendous amount
of homes being built. Most of the homes that I
see being built. They're really out in the boonies at
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this point, and I think there's a sense that there's
a demand, for example, for areas adjacent to Harris County
for people who want to get out of Harris County.
One of the reasons why you might want to get
out of Harris County is something we were talking about
on the show yesterday. We're going to talk about it
for the detail and segment number three today, and that
is the Harris County Climate Justice Plan, where they are
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going to propose a new greenhouse gas tax, promote DEI,
and recommend income based property taxes and rent controls. Yeah,
who wants to live under that? Even more people leaving
Harris County as a result of that. Anyway, we're back
with more in a moment. Jimmy Barchow here an AM
nine fifty kh PRC. One of the stories that I've
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personally been following, maybe you have to that I have
found it very very hard to figure out is why
we have so many Democrats who seem to want to
hang their hat on illegal immigration and want to defend
people who are in this country illegally and defend people
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who are in this country illegally, who are far from
perfect people. It just just rous me to no end
that we have all these people who are taking a
look at this so called Maryland man from Al Salvador
who got to ported Dal Salvador quote unquote accidentally, even
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though it would appear that he is even though his
lawyer claims he is, and it appears by all indications
he is indeed an MS thirteen gang member, And even
if he isn't an MS thirteen gang member, where he's
coming to light that he's a wife beater. Yeah, it
turns out he's got an arrest record having to do
with domestic abuse. Dude's a wife beater. So what we
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want to protect illegal immigrants who are wife beaters to
keep them in this country. And we want to do
that because why well, if you're Democratic, guess you want
to do that because you want the vote or you
think you're going to get the vote, which may or
may not be true. So this guy got deported. United
States senator from Maryland, one of their two United States senators,
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went down to El Salvador yesterday to try to meet
with this guy. He was not allowed to meet with him.
He's in a maximum security prisondent El Salvador. He wants
to get this guy released back to US custody. And
basically what the president of L Salvador is saying is, hey, listen,
this guy is not a United States citizen. Okay, he's
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a citizen of L. Salvador. He is in El Salvador.
He's under our control. He's you know, we've determined he
needs to be in this person that's where he's going
to be. So there you go. I mean, he's not
a United States citizen. He's not entitled to protection from
the United States. I don't know what, if any crimes
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he may have committed in L. Salvador, but you know
he's going to have to work it out with the
government of L. Salvador, not with the government of the
United States. Greg Guttfeld, by the way, went on a
nice little rant on his show last night about the
portrayals of trying to make this guy. Oh, he's just
a family man, he's got three kids. You know, he
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shouldn't have been deported. He didn't do anything illegal, you
mean other than being here. He didn't do anything illegal,
I mean, other than domestic abuse, beating up your wife.
He didn't do anything illegal. Here's great gut field from
last night show.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
So apparently this entire week has been about one guy,
you know, the Maryland dad with three kids, who also
happens to be an illegal, likely a gang member, and
perhaps a domestic abuse or his name, don't know, don't.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Care, all right.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
I gotta family, a new baby, a dog, a job,
a neighborhood plagued by violent creeps.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
I don't need this. Here's what I do know.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
He's here illegally, and like Joe Biden after a three
bean burrito.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
He has to go. But based with an adult solution.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
To a real problem, the media yet again creates an
imaginary concern from the same playbook that they always use.
You worry about voter fraud, they say voter ideas racist.
You worry about government fraud and abuse they claim doses
cutting social security.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
You worry about crime. They claim all cops are racist.
You worry about medical monsters experimenting on children. They claim
trans kids are killing themselves. Once you see this grift,
he can't unsee it.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
When we try to solve a real problem, they create
the imaginary concern to manipulate public opinion. But this time
it's not working.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Overwhelmingly, the American.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Public favorite deportations of illegals, no matter what book you
conjure up.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
So kids are not he's illegal, he goes.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Suddenly we're all social workers. Oh he has kids, he
works so hard. Time for them to leave us. But
now it's time for them to leave. Suddenly we're all
social workers.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Oh he has kids, he works so hard.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Well, Pale, maybe don't pick a country you're illegally in
to start a family. It sounds harsh, not when it's
compared to the arrogant indifference of Democrats when women got
raped and murdered by illegals that they let in. Not
to mention the relentless violence in cities they ignored for
years because it was under their watch. A Democrat congressman say,
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they want to fly to El Salvador to retrieve this
scum who is an Al Salvador citizen.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
By the way, not an American one.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Corey Booker wants to visit the prisoners in Al Salvador.
That makes sense, it's the only place where people can't
get up and leave when he starts yapping. But do
the Dems realize they have no authority in Al Salvador.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Al Salvador is a little.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Different than the green room at the View. For one,
the tattoos on the View were branded by Farmers.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yeah I've seen it. Yeah, I've seen it.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
But really, the Maryland Dad is just the latest awful
prop for the latest awful narrative, a diversion to make
you forget what the Biden regime chose to import. With
the media cheering them on the crime, the fentanyl, the
overwhelmed schools, the raped and murdered women. Joe did killer job,
and by that I mean he actually got people killed.
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The media wants us crying over this, dude. Sorry, I'm
saving my outrage for the Americans that Biden, Harris and
New York is burdened, hurt and betrayed.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Amen. Amen.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
By the way, I'm gonna mention this right here real
quickly before I forget to, because I'll forget to if
I don't. City Council evidently voted Tuesday night this one
slipped by me to rename a terminal at Bush Intercottinental
Airport after Shila Jackson Lee, which in my mind will
never be referred to as is the is the lead
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terminal or the Shila Jackson lead terminal, at least it
won't in my mind. You know it's going to be.
It's going to be. I don't know which terminal is
gonna be. Is it gonna be which one is the
worst one? Which which one is the biggest pain in
the ass?
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I guess if you're gonna name a terminal after that,
make sure you pick the worst terminal, not the one
they just did redid okay?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Back to to the Maryland thing here again. You know, firstly,
not everybody in Maryland, you know, would agree with their
Senator Chris van holland, the one that in several of
their congressmen that made their way down to El Salvador,
that bought a great use of taxpayer money right to
fly down to l Salvador to try to meet with
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somebody that they're not going to allow you to meet with.
That's money well spent. Here is Maryland Sheriff Jeff Gaylor
talking about this case and how many Marylanders really feel
about it.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
We concluded the trial here this week. Our state's attorney
did a great job presenting that case. In a forty
six minute deliberation by the jury, you put that killer
behind bars. I don't want him going back to El Salvador.
I want him to die in Maryland prison. We don't
have the death penalty here, but I want him to
die in Maryland prison.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
That he came here and committed this horrific act.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
But what do we see, Senator Van Holland flying to
El Salvador to bring an MS thir team member back.
You think it can't get more insane, but this is
the state of Maryland and obviously it can.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
You know, we don't want him to bring him back.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
If he came into my jail, we went him screened
MS thirteen ties. We want to deport him and that's
where he is. And I'm glad I heard just before
we went on air that he did not get an
opportunity to meet with this prisoner, that he was turned
down by Alf Salvador's president or vice president.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The Senator was.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
Are we surprised by what the mainstream media, you know,
the far and left media will report. They will report
anything that serves their own purposes, But it makes no
sense to me, you know, public safety.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
There was a recent pole here in Maryland.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
Sixty five percent of Democrats want us working with our
federal partners. They want immigration enforcement. And that's the majority
of the Democrat Party and even their leaders, if you
want to call him that, even their leaders failed to
live up to their oath of office and want to
stand up and defend criminals instead of our citizens here
in this country. It's insanity, is the only way you
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can look at it.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
If the majority of the people who vote for you
disagree with what you're doing, how does that help you
win an election next time around? If you are you know,
a far left Democrat. You know, what do you think
is going to happen? Do you think that if you
do this long enough that people's opinions will be changed
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and they'll they'll take the other side on the issue.
Because I got news, I don't think that's going to happen.
In fact, I feel pretty confidence thing is not going
to happen. So I think I would come up with
something else if I were, if I were Democrats, I
find it. I think I would find some causes that Americans,
actually the majority of Americans actually do support and adopt those.
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The problem is is that Donald Trump is already adopted
virtually every one of those policies, and Democrats are not
going to support anything they're supported by Donald Trump, they
will do the opposite of whatether Donald Trump does, even
if that means they have to go against the things
that they have traditionally been in favor of. Just again,
just because it's Donald Trump, all right, I should do
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this story too, because it's Texas. And we talked about
school choice on the show yesterday the wee hours of
the morning. Two am. This morning, the Texas House passed
school choice. Here's how it sounded.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
They're being eighty five eyes and sixty three days.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Spe too.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
His pastor engrossment.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I'm Dustin Burrows, and I'm not really excited about this.
Of course it was too I guess I should give
him a break. It was two o'clock in the morning.
Of course. Why they had to wait until two o'clock
in the morning in order to do it is beyond me.
Steve Tothu's been on our program many times. Here he
is his reaction to the Texas House finally getting the
job done.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
It's a monumental day in Texas. It was sixty years
ago when Democrats stood the doorways keep done up schools,
and sixty years later we have democrats blocking minorities and
children of color from the Upper comunity to get out
of failed schools and to have freedom and liberty in
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this bill is this bill is the House version, and
it's going to go over to the Senate and it's
going to be heard and voting on over there, and
then it's going to head the governor habits desk, and
we're just ecstatic for the opportunity the kids are going
to have now for the last red state, one of
the last red states in the nation to adoptable choice.
It's been wildly successful wherever it's gone. Florida went from
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thirty third to number one, Arizona went from fortieth to
like number three. It works. It's a proven track record
competition that has always worked. It's always worked, and it
works in education. Especially ever since I came into the
House in twenty thirteen, this has been one of my
top priorities. It's so exciting to see the opportunity it's
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going to mean for future generations.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
That is again Steve Bilth all right to take a
little break coming up. Reporter Joseph Tremmor. Joseph Trimmer wrote
a story for Texas Scorecard that we talked a little
bit about on the show. Yesterday Harris County's Climate Justice
Plan and the proposal to use NGOs to work around
Texas law and their desire to have greenhouse gas taxes,
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DEI and income based property taxes. Well more from reporter
Joseph Trimmer on that coming up next Jimmy Part show
here on the nine fifty KDRC. All right, well we've
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been talking about this for a couple of days. Now,
let's talk to the reporter on this story, Harris County's
Climate Justice Plan, where they're going to propose using NGOs,
non government organizations to work around Texas law so they
can implement their own DEI plan, greenhouse gas tax, income
based property taxes, rent controls. There's a laundry list of
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things that they want to do that are I guess
just sort of the ultimate dream of the far progressive left.
Joining us to talk about it from his perch over
there at the Texas Scorecard is Joseph Trimmer. Joseph, what
alarned you to this story?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Good morning or good afternoon, and thank you for having
me on listen. I pay attention to what's going on
with the Commissioner's Court every week, and when I saw
that they voted on this climate justice plan. I thought
it was very interesting that they didn't provide any specific details.
They just kept talking about this and a plan, this
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vision that they had. They voted to approve this. So
I made it a point to actually find the written plan.
It wasn't easy to find, but on the Office of
the Administrator's website you actually have a link to it,
and it breaks down what can only be described as
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an extensive far left agenda that the county now has
agreed this is what we are going to do.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
And the reason, part of the reason why they're doing
it is clearly they are looking at different income mechanisms,
are they not. I mean a lot of this involves
raising taxes through a variety of ways that would be
considered illegal in Texas. For example, the property tax thing.
How how would it could it possibly be legal to
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have somebody charge property taxes based not on the value
of the property, but based on your income.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Yeah, it's a strange proposal, not doubt. In fact, in
the document itself it says that the county is aware that,
you know, parts of this plan are uh, you know,
banned by Texas laws, and you know, not something that
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they could legally achieve. They suggest using things like NGOs
to kind of work around some of the legal restrictions
that they're going to face. But yes, you know, I
it's likely that some of this will will end up
in court.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Well, no doubt, I, as a homeowner in Harris County,
would be happy to sue on the income based property
tags that you can put me first on the list
for that. Rent controls is another area and I never
really have understood, you know, why Democrats, at least the
far leve Democrats are so in favor of rent controlled
At the end of the day, when you institute rent
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controls and you end up, you know, having landlords not
being able to charge uh the worth of that particular
apartment in the city, then you discourage developers from building
more apartments. It leads to how to housing shortage, and
then that leads to higher prices.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Yeah, no doubt. Critics are very concerned that this is
going to distort the real estate market here in the
county further and result in a housing crisis for local citizens.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
What have you been able to find out about what
they want to do with the greenhouse tax? How would
a greenhouse tax work? And who would be paying this
greenhouse tax? How would they implement it?
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Yes, so the plan doesn't include any detailed or any
real details or specifics on how they are going to
implement this. What this means is that the Commissioner's Court
is likely to take additional votes as this five year
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plan moves forward to kind of make some of these
things happen where they can. It is not quite clear
exactly how they are going to do that at this point.
I assume there's going to be a lot of debate
and push back from the community and and from you know,
potentially even the Attorney General's office. The planet. It says
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on it that it you know, that it doesn't that
it conflicts with state law, and so it's not not
clear how they can actually move this forward.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Well, I'm pretty sure they don't want to make it
clear that this is very convoluted, and I would guess
they would want to make it convoluted on purpose, right,
because if if you don't know exactly how they're going
to try to implement this stuff, then you can't block them.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Yes, it's it's very important that the citizens of the
community here stay vigilant and really informed because some of
the things that are that there are proposed proposing here
are going to have very real impacts on the community.
The greenhouse tax is meant to target business, but that's
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not the only tax. They're also talking about additionally allowing
communities that are allegedly impacted by pollution to also force
companies to pay for projects and in those communities, And.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Of course what does that do. That just drives business
away right again, you know, there's there's pretty good track
records showing what happens when, you know, different communities try
to do things like this. They've they've tried doing similar
things in California and there's been an exodus from that state.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Yeah, no doubt. The The plan also is also calling
for DEI policies to be expanded. Despite kind of the trendnation,
what's kind of going in the opposite direction. Harris County's
plan calls for extended UDI in purchasing, So the county
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plans to favor contractors based on sex or their race,
which is also something that's kind of interesting that's included
in this plan.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Well, you know, there's always been the accusation too, and
this is the part that I think that may scare
me the most.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
About using NGOs.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I mean, we've already seen at the federal level, you know,
an attempt to pass money along to NGOs that are
headed up by you know, politicians or former politicians or
friends friends of that particular political party, in order to
be able to spread the wealth around, so to speak.
And we've seen a little spreading of the wealth in
Harris County. Is this just another attempt to allow certain
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people to make a whole lot of money off this stuff.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Well, what I can tell you is that the plan
helpfully labels everything that it considers to be outside of
the power of Harris County and constrained by state laws
with a helpful asterisk uh. And the disclosure here in
the plan says that the plan the county plans to
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work with NGOs where the county where where it would
be illegal for the county to take some action. It's
open to supporting NGOs to fulfill that agenda, but if
the NGOs are aligned with the ideology of the county.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
But I don't quite maybe explain this to me, I
don't quite understand how that works. If it's illegal for
the county to do it, why wouldn't it be illegal
for an NGO to do it.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Yeah, that's uh, that's something that probably requires some somebody
to look at it from maybe the Attorney General's office.
But this is a known strategy, like you mentioned earlier. Government, uh,
you know, the federal government, uh for sure, and uh
(28:53):
you know are known to you uh for using NGOs
and funding them at incredible levels, just millions and billions
of dollars for all kinds of causes where you don't
have state personnel working directly on accomplishing something, but certainly
(29:15):
the agenda is carried out. I guess the perfect example
is the migrant crises that was enabled by NGOs.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Well, yeah, you're right about that, that's for certain. And
this is a great way for people making one hundred
thousand dollars year to become millionaires.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Yeah. If you look at some of the salaries of
some of these state funded NGOs, they are pretty astronomical
and certainly a lot of the money that they received
doesn't go to actually furthering any any cause, you know,
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you know, other than enriching some people.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Exactly right. Joe Trimmer, Hey, thank you for following this
story and thanks for talking to us. Please keep us
supposed to as we get closer to them, trying to
implement this in some way, shape or form. Thanks for
your time today, appreciate.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
It, my pleasure. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
You bet.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Joseph Trimmer, he's with Texas Scorecard. Back with Moore in
a moment, Jimmy Bart show here a name of nine
fifty KPRC. All right, have you ever used twenty three
(30:41):
and meters? You know the DNA people that they take
a look at your health as far as what diseases
based on your DNA, what diseases you might contract. You
know what the risk factor is for things like Alzheimer's,
that kind of stuff, and of course along with that
(31:03):
they take a look at your ethnticity and identify based
on your DNA, you know where your ancestors are from,
so you can get an idea of what your heritage is,
which sometimes sometimes surprises people. You know, true reporting here.
Elizabeth and I both did twenty three and me. So
(31:23):
when I hear warnings about twenty three and mean their
bankruptcy and what might happen to that DNA information, it's
a little bit scary. Maybe I should start with that.
James Comer Representative James Comer evidently is calling in the
people at twenty three and me, the ones that are
still there which declared bankruptcy, and wants to question them
(31:44):
about where that information is. In other words, are you
are you still holding on to all this DNA information?
Is this DNA information secure? Have you sold or are
planning to sell this information to anybody for marketing purposes,
insurance purposes? Are you are you offering this at all
(32:08):
to the Chinese government, for example, who probably paid big
money to get it? In other words, where's this information stored?
And how secure is or isn't it? Here's Representative James
Comer with his recommendations on what you should do. He's
again he's concerned.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
I fear the worst.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
We know China has a reputation for stealing our intellectual property,
stealing our patents, and stealing our data. Data like this
that twenty three and Me possessed could be very harmful
to a lot of Americans. Do you think about what
China could do with that with their advanced AI technology.
They could sell the data to insurance companies. They could
(32:46):
sell the data to people wanting to blackmail Americans that
were customers of twenty three and me. I mean the
potential list of crimes that could be committed by China
or any other country, or even a a bad actor
in America is endless. So we want to make sure
that twenty three and meter are complying with protecting the
(33:08):
privacy and protecting the data of their customers through this
bankruptcy court. And that's why we're going to bring in
executives and have them under oath, and we strongly encourage
people who have used twenty three and me to go
in if they can and delete all their data on
that platform. The data that twenty three and meters possess
is worth more than the company probably, and it's worth
(33:29):
a lot to bad actors around the world.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
So this is a very serious investigation.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I think everyone that's used twenty three and me should
should take this very seriously and do everything in their
ability to try to get in and delete that data.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
But we want to make sure that nothing's already.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Happened with that data and that nothing happens throughout the
bankruptcy process.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Okay, now here's my quot How do you get into
twenty three meters? How do you delete the data?
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
I mean, is that even possible for you to do?
To delete it. I would know the first thing to
do about deleting the data. I'll just talk to Elizabeth
about that maybe, seems how we're both in there and
see if there's a way to do it. I know
at the time that we did it. I didn't do
it just because of the the health thing. I also
did it, at least in my case, because I was
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curious about my authenticity. We had been told as children
that we were French, or primarily French, maybe not one
hundred percent of French, French and a little bit German.
So we thought, okay. I thought, well, let me put
that to the test. And when the results came back,
(34:40):
my mom was still alive at the time. I said, hey, Mom,
I hate to tell you this, but we're not French.
What do you mean? Of course we are, no, mom.
See my mom named my sisters Suzanne and Denise because
she thought we were French, and as it turns out,
(35:02):
we're not. Mine came back twenty twenty was it twenty
it's either twenty five is evenly split pretty much between
Irish and Scandinavian, about twenty five twenty six percent of each.
The rest of it was just you know this that
and the other with no real you know, no real
(35:26):
big you know areas that there was a little German
in there. There was a little Spanish in there, I think,
but you know, the majority of it was Scandinavian and Irish,
which of course is not the least but French. So
so I don't think my mom appreciated finding out that
(35:47):
she named, you know, gave her her two daughters French
names when we weren't French to begin with. But hey,
it happens, you know, a lot of And I wonder too,
how many, how many strange things have resulted. How many
people have found out by getting this test that their
biological parents weren't their biological parents, or their biological father
who they thought was their biological father wasn't their biological father.
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How many people had to go back and explain family
secrets by having this stuff done. I mean, it really
seems to be like they kind of opened up a
can of worms here and then now we got that
DNA that's out there, or at least the results of
that DNA. Now, why would China want our DNA? What
would they they? I guess they could if what you
(36:32):
want to do is design a some sort of a
virus I don't know, like a COVID style virus that
could do the maximum amount of damage to the majority
of American people. If you had enough DNA information, you
could probably take that and and you know, concocted. I
think it's a little bit more difficult though, I mean,
be a lot easier for the Chinese to do that
(36:53):
against the French, or the English or the German. Well
maybe not diseases used to be, because there's a lot
more pure DNA there. Yeah, they have, they have immigrants
from other countries, just like we do. But but our
gene pools have been so watered down by by mixing
ethnicicities over the course of you know, the two hundred
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and fifty years this country has been around. You know
that it's it's pretty hard to find people that are
you know, majority anything. You know, maybe you get twenty
five or thirty percent hit on something, but most of
the time you're you're unless you're from the old country.
You know, chances are pretty good you're a good old
American mutt. And that's about it. All right, Well enough
on DN eight. Listen, you all have a great day.
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Thank you for listening. I'll see you tomorrow morning, bright
early at five AM over our news radio seven forty
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
All right, let's talk about a couple of things I
think are kind of related to each other.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
First, FIGHTO score. Do you know what your Fyco score is?
I know what mine is. I'm not gonna say what
mine is because I don't want to sound like I'm bragging.
No really, I mean, I'm very proud of my Fyco score.
I definitely I didn't have a great Fico score when
I was a young person because, like a lot of
young people, I took too much credit out and you know,
(00:58):
I had a couple of late bills and that kind
of thing. And I'm going to say that probably my
average FIGHTO score was somewhere in the you know, seven fifteen,
seven to twenty range, you know, somewhere around then. You know,
FIGHTO score is going to go anywhere from like four
in the four hundreds on up to the perfect scores
eight to fifty. You know, that's if you have perfect credit.
(01:20):
I don't have. I have had eight to fifty before,
I don't currently have eight to fifty. I'm I'm let's
put this way, I'm pretty close and manner range where
once you get to the point where you have excellent credit,
you know, you're getting up around the eight hundred range.
It really doesn't matter at that point whether it's eight
hundred or eight fifty, if it doesn't help you anymore
to or hurt you anymore, you know, depending upon where
(01:41):
that score is in an eight hundred, eight to fifty range.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Ya, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Probably again, I'm very proud of it because I worked
really hard to get that. But we're seeing the average
American FIGHTO score has been dropping, not dropping by a ton,
but dropping some from somewhere in the neighborhood of I
think seven to fifteen was the last one that I saw,
and it was it was probably seven seventeen, seven nineteen,
within the last couple of years for the average American.
(02:07):
So if you want to compare yourself to the average American,
the average American has a FICO score of about seven fifteen.
One of the reasons why it's been dropping is because
of school loans.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Again.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
We've got people who who didn't have their lack of
reporting on school loans that was pretty much suspended. I
mean we're going back, like better part five years to
twenty twenty where they suspended, you know, you having to
make a school loan payment while they litigated in court
whether or not the student loan forgiveness program from President
Biden would work or would not work. That is no
(02:40):
longer an effect, of course, So now you guys start
you know, repaying on your student loans. And as soon
as the repayment started creeping up again, we had people
who are falling delinquent on the student loans. Same thing.
I mean, people got off free and clear there for
a number of years during the Biden administration. And I
don't know if they didn't think that they thought it
was always to be that way, or they counted on
(03:01):
their student loan being forgiven, but you know, fair amount
of people have fallen behind on their student loans and
that is what has led to that drop. And of
course that kind of ties into what's going on now
with home sales and home loans. It's it's, you know,
they're a little bit more difficult to get, not just
because the interest rates are higher, but because lending institutions
want to see that you have a good payment history.
(03:25):
If you're defaulting on student loans, they're probably going to
be a little fearful about giving you a home loan, because,
after all, why why would you pay the bank back
for you the home if you're not willing to pay
the bank back for your for your student loan. There's
one guy at least who thinks that there should be
a home emergency, a national emergency declared for homes in
(03:47):
real estate, in the home market. And I guess the
reason why he feels this way is not just because
we have, you know, higher interest rates, which we do obviously,
but we don't have a lot of home building going
on right now. The home building that we have going
on has more to do with building rental properties than
it has to do with building homes for sale. For
(04:10):
the rest of us that he sees a lot more
adjustable rate mortgages. Adjustable rate mortgages are a great way
to get into trouble because in order to get a
lower interest rate to begin, that interest rate will fluctuate
over the course of time, depending upon what the current
interest rate is. So depending on how high interest rates get,
that interest rate is not locked in, and you could
(04:31):
end up paying a whole lot more for that home
loan than what you had planned for. So here is
a guy by the name of his last name is Pompilamo. Pompilamo,
first name Aaron. Aaron Pompilamo on the need to have
a what he thinks a national emergency. As relates to
real estate and homes.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
The median asking home price is up six percent to
four un and twenty four thousand dollars. That's fifty thousand
dollars increases the start of the year. The median sales
price in America is up three percent to three hundred
and eighty three thousand. But I think even more importantly,
the typical home buyer monthly mortgage payment is up five
percent year of a year to twenty one hundred dollars
per month. And so if you think about those numbers,
basically what you have is you have homes becoming more expensive,
(05:13):
you have debt becoming more expensive. We're not building enough homes,
and so naturally you have this squeeze that's occurring. But
people also forget at that same time, you have real
wages falling, and so people basically can't figure out how
to buy a home or keep up with what is
ultimately the real inflation that they're experiencing. And so the
reason why I say it to national emergency is because
the federal government really has to step in here and
(05:36):
go and you look at the housing problem. We can't
build houses in America not because of the federal government.
It's because we're being held hostage by local city councils
that are basically, you know, parading around or masquerading around
as politicians. But at the end of the day, what
do they know about housing zoning?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
What do they know about housing? What do you mean
when you say you want the government to get in,
I think that the federal government ad messages it. I
think that the.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Federal government should step in and say that we are
going to create either some sort of sandbox, some sort
of safe zone, or we are going to actually put
some sort of guidance out for these city councils, because
what ends up happening is, if you want home prices.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
To stop going up so fast, build more housing.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
But what you can't do is you can't have people
who they are not experienced, and frankly, they have a
lot of times very big conflicts. Right if you go
to the local city council, who sits on the city
council usually people who are real state developers or are
sitting there they own real state in the jurisdiction.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
There's tons of conflicts of interest.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
And so if you want the housings actually crooks, there
are those housing rules to change. What you have to
do is you have to create some sort of guidance.
And so the local rules that are in place right
now are not taking into account the fact that there
is a national emergency in terms of housing prices, and
so let's have some sort of framework that we can
go and actually implement and allow people to build houses
in America so that these house prices stop going up.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I don't think we have that same kind of regulation
problem here. We don't really have zoning laws here in Houston,
not the way that a lot of areas that the
country do. I don't know what other regulations home builders
potentially face, but I would think fewer here than in
most places, and we still don't see a tremendous amount
of homes being built. Most of the homes that I
see being built. They're really out in the boonies at
(07:13):
this point, and I think there's a sense that there's
a demand, for example, for areas adjacent to Harris County
for people who want to get out of Harris County.
One of the reasons why you might want to get
out of Harris County is something we were talking about
on the show yesterday. We're going to talk about it
for the detail and segment number three today, and that
is the Harris County Climate Justice Plan, where they are
(07:35):
going to propose a new greenhouse gas tax, promote DEI,
and recommend income based property taxes and rent controls. Yeah,
who wants to live under that? Even more people leaving
Harris County as a result of that. Anyway, we're back
with more in a moment. Jimmy Barchow here an AM
nine fifty kh PRC. One of the stories that I've
(08:15):
personally been following, maybe you have to that I have
found it very very hard to figure out is why
we have so many Democrats who seem to want to
hang their hat on illegal immigration and want to defend
people who are in this country illegally and defend people
(08:39):
who are in this country illegally, who are far from
perfect people. It just just rous me to no end
that we have all these people who are taking a
look at this so called Maryland man from Al Salvador
who got to ported Dal Salvador quote unquote accidentally, even
(08:59):
though it would appear that he is even though his
lawyer claims he is, and it appears by all indications
he is indeed an MS thirteen gang member, And even
if he isn't an MS thirteen gang member, where he's
coming to light that he's a wife beater. Yeah, it
turns out he's got an arrest record having to do
with domestic abuse. Dude's a wife beater. So what we
(09:23):
want to protect illegal immigrants who are wife beaters to
keep them in this country. And we want to do
that because why well, if you're Democratic, guess you want
to do that because you want the vote or you
think you're going to get the vote, which may or
may not be true. So this guy got deported. United
States senator from Maryland, one of their two United States senators,
(09:48):
went down to El Salvador yesterday to try to meet
with this guy. He was not allowed to meet with him.
He's in a maximum security prisondent El Salvador. He wants
to get this guy released back to US custody. And
basically what the president of L Salvador is saying is, hey, listen,
this guy is not a United States citizen. Okay, he's
(10:10):
a citizen of L. Salvador. He is in El Salvador.
He's under our control. He's you know, we've determined he
needs to be in this person that's where he's going
to be. So there you go. I mean, he's not
a United States citizen. He's not entitled to protection from
the United States. I don't know what, if any crimes
(10:31):
he may have committed in L. Salvador, but you know
he's going to have to work it out with the
government of L. Salvador, not with the government of the
United States. Greg Guttfeld, by the way, went on a
nice little rant on his show last night about the
portrayals of trying to make this guy. Oh, he's just
a family man, he's got three kids. You know, he
(10:51):
shouldn't have been deported. He didn't do anything illegal, you
mean other than being here. He didn't do anything illegal,
I mean, other than domestic abuse, beating up your wife.
He didn't do anything illegal. Here's great gut field from
last night show.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
So apparently this entire week has been about one guy,
you know, the Maryland dad with three kids, who also
happens to be an illegal, likely a gang member, and
perhaps a domestic abuse or his name, don't know, don't.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Care, all right.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
I gotta family, a new baby, a dog, a job,
a neighborhood plagued by violent creeps.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
I don't need this. Here's what I do know.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
He's here illegally, and like Joe Biden after a three
bean burrito.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
He has to go. But based with an adult solution.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
To a real problem, the media yet again creates an
imaginary concern from the same playbook that they always use.
You worry about voter fraud, they say voter ideas racist.
You worry about government fraud and abuse they claim doses
cutting social security.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
You worry about crime. They claim all cops are racist.
You worry about medical monsters experimenting on children. They claim
trans kids are killing themselves. Once you see this grift,
he can't unsee it.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
When we try to solve a real problem, they create
the imaginary concern to manipulate public opinion. But this time
it's not working.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Overwhelmingly, the American.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Public favorite deportations of illegals, no matter what book you
conjure up.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
So kids are not he's illegal, he goes.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Suddenly we're all social workers. Oh he has kids, he
works so hard. Time for them to leave us. But
now it's time for them to leave. Suddenly we're all
social workers.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Oh he has kids, he works so hard.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Well, Pale, maybe don't pick a country you're illegally in
to start a family. It sounds harsh, not when it's
compared to the arrogant indifference of Democrats when women got
raped and murdered by illegals that they let in. Not
to mention the relentless violence in cities they ignored for
years because it was under their watch. A Democrat congressman say,
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they want to fly to El Salvador to retrieve this
scum who is an Al Salvador citizen.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
By the way, not an American one.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Corey Booker wants to visit the prisoners in Al Salvador.
That makes sense, it's the only place where people can't
get up and leave when he starts yapping. But do
the Dems realize they have no authority in Al Salvador.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Al Salvador is a little.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Different than the green room at the View. For one,
the tattoos on the View were branded by Farmers.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yeah I've seen it. Yeah, I've seen it.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
But really, the Maryland Dad is just the latest awful
prop for the latest awful narrative, a diversion to make
you forget what the Biden regime chose to import. With
the media cheering them on the crime, the fentanyl, the
overwhelmed schools, the raped and murdered women. Joe did killer job,
and by that I mean he actually got people killed.
(14:03):
The media wants us crying over this, dude. Sorry, I'm
saving my outrage for the Americans that Biden, Harris and
New York is burdened, hurt and betrayed.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Amen. Amen.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
By the way, I'm gonna mention this right here real
quickly before I forget to, because I'll forget to if
I don't. City Council evidently voted Tuesday night this one
slipped by me to rename a terminal at Bush Intercottinental
Airport after Shila Jackson Lee, which in my mind will
never be referred to as is the is the lead
(14:37):
terminal or the Shila Jackson lead terminal, at least it
won't in my mind. You know it's going to be.
It's going to be. I don't know which terminal is
gonna be. Is it gonna be which one is the
worst one? Which which one is the biggest pain in
the ass?
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I guess if you're gonna name a terminal after that,
make sure you pick the worst terminal, not the one
they just did redid okay?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Back to to the Maryland thing here again. You know, firstly,
not everybody in Maryland, you know, would agree with their
Senator Chris van holland, the one that in several of
their congressmen that made their way down to El Salvador,
that bought a great use of taxpayer money right to
fly down to l Salvador to try to meet with
(15:19):
somebody that they're not going to allow you to meet with.
That's money well spent. Here is Maryland Sheriff Jeff Gaylor
talking about this case and how many Marylanders really feel
about it.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
We concluded the trial here this week. Our state's attorney
did a great job presenting that case. In a forty
six minute deliberation by the jury, you put that killer
behind bars. I don't want him going back to El Salvador.
I want him to die in Maryland prison. We don't
have the death penalty here, but I want him to
die in Maryland prison.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
That he came here and committed this horrific act.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
But what do we see, Senator Van Holland flying to
El Salvador to bring an MS thir team member back.
You think it can't get more insane, but this is
the state of Maryland and obviously it can.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
You know, we don't want him to bring him back.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
If he came into my jail, we went him screened
MS thirteen ties. We want to deport him and that's
where he is. And I'm glad I heard just before
we went on air that he did not get an
opportunity to meet with this prisoner, that he was turned
down by Alf Salvador's president or vice president.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The Senator was.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
Are we surprised by what the mainstream media, you know,
the far and left media will report. They will report
anything that serves their own purposes, But it makes no
sense to me, you know, public safety.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
There was a recent pole here in Maryland.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
Sixty five percent of Democrats want us working with our
federal partners. They want immigration enforcement. And that's the majority
of the Democrat Party and even their leaders, if you
want to call him that, even their leaders failed to
live up to their oath of office and want to
stand up and defend criminals instead of our citizens here
in this country. It's insanity, is the only way you
(16:54):
can look at it.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
If the majority of the people who vote for you
disagree with what you're doing, how does that help you
win an election next time around? If you are you know,
a far left Democrat. You know, what do you think
is going to happen? Do you think that if you
do this long enough that people's opinions will be changed
(17:16):
and they'll they'll take the other side on the issue.
Because I got news, I don't think that's going to happen.
In fact, I feel pretty confidence thing is not going
to happen. So I think I would come up with
something else if I were, if I were Democrats, I
find it. I think I would find some causes that Americans,
actually the majority of Americans actually do support and adopt those.
(17:36):
The problem is is that Donald Trump is already adopted
virtually every one of those policies, and Democrats are not
going to support anything they're supported by Donald Trump, they
will do the opposite of whatether Donald Trump does, even
if that means they have to go against the things
that they have traditionally been in favor of. Just again,
just because it's Donald Trump, all right, I should do
(17:58):
this story too, because it's Texas. And we talked about
school choice on the show yesterday the wee hours of
the morning. Two am. This morning, the Texas House passed
school choice. Here's how it sounded.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
They're being eighty five eyes and sixty three days.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Spe too.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
His pastor engrossment.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I'm Dustin Burrows, and I'm not really excited about this.
Of course it was too I guess I should give
him a break. It was two o'clock in the morning.
Of course. Why they had to wait until two o'clock
in the morning in order to do it is beyond me.
Steve Tothu's been on our program many times. Here he
is his reaction to the Texas House finally getting the
job done.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
It's a monumental day in Texas. It was sixty years
ago when Democrats stood the doorways keep done up schools,
and sixty years later we have democrats blocking minorities and
children of color from the Upper comunity to get out
of failed schools and to have freedom and liberty in
(19:05):
this bill is this bill is the House version, and
it's going to go over to the Senate and it's
going to be heard and voting on over there, and
then it's going to head the governor habits desk, and
we're just ecstatic for the opportunity the kids are going
to have now for the last red state, one of
the last red states in the nation to adoptable choice.
It's been wildly successful wherever it's gone. Florida went from
(19:28):
thirty third to number one, Arizona went from fortieth to
like number three. It works. It's a proven track record
competition that has always worked. It's always worked, and it
works in education. Especially ever since I came into the
House in twenty thirteen, this has been one of my
top priorities. It's so exciting to see the opportunity it's
(19:51):
going to mean for future generations.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
That is again Steve Bilth all right to take a
little break coming up. Reporter Joseph Tremmor. Joseph Trimmer wrote
a story for Texas Scorecard that we talked a little
bit about on the show. Yesterday Harris County's Climate Justice
Plan and the proposal to use NGOs to work around
Texas law and their desire to have greenhouse gas taxes,
(20:16):
DEI and income based property taxes. Well more from reporter
Joseph Trimmer on that coming up next Jimmy Part show
here on the nine fifty KDRC. All right, well we've
(20:41):
been talking about this for a couple of days. Now,
let's talk to the reporter on this story, Harris County's
Climate Justice Plan, where they're going to propose using NGOs,
non government organizations to work around Texas law so they
can implement their own DEI plan, greenhouse gas tax, income
based property taxes, rent controls. There's a laundry list of
(21:03):
things that they want to do that are I guess
just sort of the ultimate dream of the far progressive left.
Joining us to talk about it from his perch over
there at the Texas Scorecard is Joseph Trimmer. Joseph, what
alarned you to this story?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Good morning or good afternoon, and thank you for having
me on listen. I pay attention to what's going on
with the Commissioner's Court every week, and when I saw
that they voted on this climate justice plan. I thought
it was very interesting that they didn't provide any specific details.
They just kept talking about this and a plan, this
(21:45):
vision that they had. They voted to approve this. So
I made it a point to actually find the written plan.
It wasn't easy to find, but on the Office of
the Administrator's website you actually have a link to it,
and it breaks down what can only be described as
(22:08):
an extensive far left agenda that the county now has
agreed this is what we are going to do.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
And the reason, part of the reason why they're doing
it is clearly they are looking at different income mechanisms,
are they not. I mean a lot of this involves
raising taxes through a variety of ways that would be
considered illegal in Texas. For example, the property tax thing.
How how would it could it possibly be legal to
(22:37):
have somebody charge property taxes based not on the value
of the property, but based on your income.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Yeah, it's a strange proposal, not doubt. In fact, in
the document itself it says that the county is aware that,
you know, parts of this plan are uh, you know,
banned by Texas laws, and you know, not something that
(23:07):
they could legally achieve. They suggest using things like NGOs
to kind of work around some of the legal restrictions
that they're going to face. But yes, you know, I
it's likely that some of this will will end up
in court.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Well, no doubt, I, as a homeowner in Harris County,
would be happy to sue on the income based property
tags that you can put me first on the list
for that. Rent controls is another area and I never
really have understood, you know, why Democrats, at least the
far leve Democrats are so in favor of rent controlled
At the end of the day, when you institute rent
(23:46):
controls and you end up, you know, having landlords not
being able to charge uh the worth of that particular
apartment in the city, then you discourage developers from building
more apartments. It leads to how to housing shortage, and
then that leads to higher prices.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Yeah, no doubt. Critics are very concerned that this is
going to distort the real estate market here in the
county further and result in a housing crisis for local citizens.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
What have you been able to find out about what
they want to do with the greenhouse tax? How would
a greenhouse tax work? And who would be paying this
greenhouse tax? How would they implement it?
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Yes, so the plan doesn't include any detailed or any
real details or specifics on how they are going to
implement this. What this means is that the Commissioner's Court
is likely to take additional votes as this five year
(24:53):
plan moves forward to kind of make some of these
things happen where they can. It is not quite clear
exactly how they are going to do that at this point.
I assume there's going to be a lot of debate
and push back from the community and and from you know,
potentially even the Attorney General's office. The planet. It says
(25:16):
on it that it you know, that it doesn't that
it conflicts with state law, and so it's not not
clear how they can actually move this forward.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Well, I'm pretty sure they don't want to make it
clear that this is very convoluted, and I would guess
they would want to make it convoluted on purpose, right,
because if if you don't know exactly how they're going
to try to implement this stuff, then you can't block them.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Yes, it's it's very important that the citizens of the
community here stay vigilant and really informed because some of
the things that are that there are proposed proposing here
are going to have very real impacts on the community.
The greenhouse tax is meant to target business, but that's
(26:01):
not the only tax. They're also talking about additionally allowing
communities that are allegedly impacted by pollution to also force
companies to pay for projects and in those communities, And.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Of course what does that do. That just drives business
away right again, you know, there's there's pretty good track
records showing what happens when, you know, different communities try
to do things like this. They've they've tried doing similar
things in California and there's been an exodus from that state.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Yeah, no doubt. The The plan also is also calling
for DEI policies to be expanded. Despite kind of the trendnation,
what's kind of going in the opposite direction. Harris County's
plan calls for extended UDI in purchasing, So the county
(26:59):
plans to favor contractors based on sex or their race,
which is also something that's kind of interesting that's included
in this plan.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Well, you know, there's always been the accusation too, and
this is the part that I think that may scare
me the most.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
About using NGOs.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I mean, we've already seen at the federal level, you know,
an attempt to pass money along to NGOs that are
headed up by you know, politicians or former politicians or
friends friends of that particular political party, in order to
be able to spread the wealth around, so to speak.
And we've seen a little spreading of the wealth in
Harris County. Is this just another attempt to allow certain
(27:40):
people to make a whole lot of money off this stuff.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Well, what I can tell you is that the plan
helpfully labels everything that it considers to be outside of
the power of Harris County and constrained by state laws
with a helpful asterisk uh. And the disclosure here in
the plan says that the plan the county plans to
(28:06):
work with NGOs where the county where where it would
be illegal for the county to take some action. It's
open to supporting NGOs to fulfill that agenda, but if
the NGOs are aligned with the ideology of the county.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
But I don't quite maybe explain this to me, I
don't quite understand how that works. If it's illegal for
the county to do it, why wouldn't it be illegal
for an NGO to do it.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Yeah, that's uh, that's something that probably requires some somebody
to look at it from maybe the Attorney General's office.
But this is a known strategy, like you mentioned earlier. Government, uh,
you know, the federal government, uh for sure, and uh
(28:53):
you know are known to you uh for using NGOs
and funding them at incredible levels, just millions and billions
of dollars for all kinds of causes where you don't
have state personnel working directly on accomplishing something, but certainly
(29:15):
the agenda is carried out. I guess the perfect example
is the migrant crises that was enabled by NGOs.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Well, yeah, you're right about that, that's for certain. And
this is a great way for people making one hundred
thousand dollars year to become millionaires.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Yeah. If you look at some of the salaries of
some of these state funded NGOs, they are pretty astronomical
and certainly a lot of the money that they received
doesn't go to actually furthering any any cause, you know,
(29:57):
you know, other than enriching some people.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Exactly right. Joe Trimmer, Hey, thank you for following this
story and thanks for talking to us. Please keep us
supposed to as we get closer to them, trying to
implement this in some way, shape or form. Thanks for
your time today, appreciate.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
It, my pleasure. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
You bet.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Joseph Trimmer, he's with Texas Scorecard. Back with Moore in
a moment, Jimmy Bart show here a name of nine
fifty KPRC. All right, have you ever used twenty three
(30:41):
and meters? You know the DNA people that they take
a look at your health as far as what diseases
based on your DNA, what diseases you might contract. You
know what the risk factor is for things like Alzheimer's,
that kind of stuff, and of course along with that
(31:03):
they take a look at your ethnticity and identify based
on your DNA, you know where your ancestors are from,
so you can get an idea of what your heritage is,
which sometimes sometimes surprises people. You know, true reporting here.
Elizabeth and I both did twenty three and me. So
(31:23):
when I hear warnings about twenty three and mean their
bankruptcy and what might happen to that DNA information, it's
a little bit scary. Maybe I should start with that.
James Comer Representative James Comer evidently is calling in the
people at twenty three and me, the ones that are
still there which declared bankruptcy, and wants to question them
(31:44):
about where that information is. In other words, are you
are you still holding on to all this DNA information?
Is this DNA information secure? Have you sold or are
planning to sell this information to anybody for marketing purposes,
insurance purposes? Are you are you offering this at all
(32:08):
to the Chinese government, for example, who probably paid big
money to get it? In other words, where's this information stored?
And how secure is or isn't it? Here's Representative James
Comer with his recommendations on what you should do. He's
again he's concerned.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
I fear the worst.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
We know China has a reputation for stealing our intellectual property,
stealing our patents, and stealing our data. Data like this
that twenty three and Me possessed could be very harmful
to a lot of Americans. Do you think about what
China could do with that with their advanced AI technology.
They could sell the data to insurance companies. They could
(32:46):
sell the data to people wanting to blackmail Americans that
were customers of twenty three and me. I mean the
potential list of crimes that could be committed by China
or any other country, or even a a bad actor
in America is endless. So we want to make sure
that twenty three and meter are complying with protecting the
(33:08):
privacy and protecting the data of their customers through this
bankruptcy court. And that's why we're going to bring in
executives and have them under oath, and we strongly encourage
people who have used twenty three and me to go
in if they can and delete all their data on
that platform. The data that twenty three and meters possess
is worth more than the company probably, and it's worth
(33:29):
a lot to bad actors around the world.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
So this is a very serious investigation.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I think everyone that's used twenty three and me should
should take this very seriously and do everything in their
ability to try to get in and delete that data.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
But we want to make sure that nothing's already.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Happened with that data and that nothing happens throughout the
bankruptcy process.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Okay, now here's my quot How do you get into
twenty three meters? How do you delete the data?
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
I mean, is that even possible for you to do?
To delete it. I would know the first thing to
do about deleting the data. I'll just talk to Elizabeth
about that maybe, seems how we're both in there and
see if there's a way to do it. I know
at the time that we did it. I didn't do
it just because of the the health thing. I also
did it, at least in my case, because I was
(34:18):
curious about my authenticity. We had been told as children
that we were French, or primarily French, maybe not one
hundred percent of French, French and a little bit German.
So we thought, okay. I thought, well, let me put
that to the test. And when the results came back,
(34:40):
my mom was still alive at the time. I said, hey, Mom,
I hate to tell you this, but we're not French.
What do you mean? Of course we are, no, mom.
See my mom named my sisters Suzanne and Denise because
she thought we were French, and as it turns out,
(35:02):
we're not. Mine came back twenty twenty was it twenty
it's either twenty five is evenly split pretty much between
Irish and Scandinavian, about twenty five twenty six percent of each.
The rest of it was just you know this that
and the other with no real you know, no real
(35:26):
big you know areas that there was a little German
in there. There was a little Spanish in there, I think,
but you know, the majority of it was Scandinavian and Irish,
which of course is not the least but French. So
so I don't think my mom appreciated finding out that
(35:47):
she named, you know, gave her her two daughters French
names when we weren't French to begin with. But hey,
it happens, you know, a lot of And I wonder too,
how many, how many strange things have resulted. How many
people have found out by getting this test that their
biological parents weren't their biological parents, or their biological father
who they thought was their biological father wasn't their biological father.
(36:10):
How many people had to go back and explain family
secrets by having this stuff done. I mean, it really
seems to be like they kind of opened up a
can of worms here and then now we got that
DNA that's out there, or at least the results of
that DNA. Now, why would China want our DNA? What
would they they? I guess they could if what you
(36:32):
want to do is design a some sort of a
virus I don't know, like a COVID style virus that
could do the maximum amount of damage to the majority
of American people. If you had enough DNA information, you
could probably take that and and you know, concocted. I
think it's a little bit more difficult though, I mean,
be a lot easier for the Chinese to do that
(36:53):
against the French, or the English or the German. Well
maybe not diseases used to be, because there's a lot
more pure DNA there. Yeah, they have, they have immigrants
from other countries, just like we do. But but our
gene pools have been so watered down by by mixing
ethnicicities over the course of you know, the two hundred
(37:13):
and fifty years this country has been around. You know
that it's it's pretty hard to find people that are
you know, majority anything. You know, maybe you get twenty
five or thirty percent hit on something, but most of
the time you're you're unless you're from the old country.
You know, chances are pretty good you're a good old
American mutt. And that's about it. All right, Well enough
on DN eight. Listen, you all have a great day.
(37:35):
Thank you for listening. I'll see you tomorrow morning, bright
early at five AM over our news radio seven forty
k t r H. We are back here at four
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