How much waste is there in Harris County?

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• How much waste is there in Harris County?

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Speaker 2 (00:31):
All right.

Speaker 5 (00:31):
We are going to start the show today by something
that just is chapping my butt today, and that is
this story. And I guess we can thank First of all,
I appreciate what Texas Scorecard does and some of the
things they bring to our attention. I really do. Sometimes
I wish it wasn't brought to my attention so I
didn't have to be outraged by it. And quite honestly,

(00:54):
I don't think this story is really going to surprise
a whole lot of people, But it is discuss how
much money we are wasting in Harris County on salaries
for some of the executives who run the county. Not
so much the judge. I don't have a problem with
paying that. I have a problem with our judge, Lena Hildago.

(01:17):
I don't have a problem with paying the judge about
one hundred and ninety thousand dollars a year. I believe
that's what the judge's salary is. I don't even have
a problem paying our commissioners one hundred and eighty thousand
dollars a year. That's approximately what their salaries are. But
some of the other things that we're spending money on,
there's just no logical explanation for why we're doing this.

(01:38):
Let me give you some examples. Harris County has officials
that are being paid among the highest compensated government employees
in the entire country. Nine department heads earn more than
the president. The president makes four hundred thousand dollars a year.
Forty five County employees now receive compensation that surpasses the

(01:59):
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year made by
a US Cabinet secretary. I mean, those are good livings, right,
and I don't have a problem competing with the cabinet
secretaries for some categories. But it some of this payroll data,
which was by the way, was obtained through a public

(02:19):
information request for the twenty twenty four to twenty five
fiscal year, shows not just how much money we're paying
these people, but even more so how big their races were.
There's just no logical explanation for how big these races are.
The guy making the most amount of money in Harris

(02:40):
County is doctor Lewis Arturo Sanchez, who's the chief medical
Examiner and executive director of the Institute of Forensic Sciences.
His salary is now five hundred and thirty six thousand,
one hundred and forty one dollars a year. That is
up ninety thousand dollars. The guy got a ninety thousand
dollar dollar year raise from last year. Who gets raises

(03:03):
that size. That's not a ten percent raise, that's like
a twenty percent raise for a guy who's who is
already making you know, over four hundred thousand dollars a year.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Now.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
I took a look, Yeah, am I being cheap about this?
I took a look. The average medical examiner in the
United States makes about one hundred and sixty thousand dollars
a year. Even in big cities, they don't pay their
medical examiner this kind of a salary, five hundred and
thirty six thousand dollars a year. Here's some of the

(03:38):
other ones. Leah Barton, who's the interim Director of Public
Health Services. Interim director doesn't even have the job permanently.
Got a one hundred and eighty four thousand dollars raise
to four hundred and fifty six thousand, nine hundred and
seventy six dollars. K Sephora Rahman, County Engineer makes four

(03:59):
hundred seventy nine, eight hundred and thirty five dollars. That's
a one hundred and twenty eight thousand dollars increase. Christina
Marie Peterson, Flood Controlled District Director, four hundred thirty four thousand,
one hundred thirty eight dollars. That's up eighty three thousand
dollars over the previous year. Shall I continue? Why not?
Sindu Mennon, Director of Universal Services. I don't even know

(04:22):
what they do. Four hundred and fifty six thousand, nine
hundred and seventy six dollars. That's up seventy two grand
from the previous year. Robert Trevino, Executive director of the
Toll Road Authority, this is the one that we knew
about because this was part of a public meaning, which
I think is what got the Texas Scorecard. People interested
in doing a deeper dive into this Robert Trevino, the

(04:46):
Toll Road Authority four hundred eighty five thousand, fourteen dollars
a forty two thousand dollars increase. Why did he get
such a small raise? Supposedly somebody was trying to steal him.
I'm surprised they only gave him a forty two thousand
dollars raise, So that tells me these other raises it
doesn't really have anything to do. I think with people
trying to steal, you're paying more than anybody else in

(05:09):
the country. Why would somebody try to steal these people? Jesse,
are any of our departments in Arias County so well
wrung run that we couldn't find somebody else at a
cheaper rate to do the same job. Jesse Dickerman, the
interim county administrator four hundred eleven thousand, nine hundred and
sixty five dollars following the departure of Diana Ramirez. This

(05:30):
is the position again added on because Lena Hildago can't
do the job that the way that the job was
really originally written, she had she had to have somebody
come in and run the county on a day to
day basis. So I guess you know, linas Well paid
one hundred ninety thousand dollars a year to do basically nothing.
Ten commissioners, court meetings every now and again, I guess,
and to try to figure out ways to get socialist

(05:51):
programs through Harris County. Danielle Ramos, Santana budget Director. He
makes four hundred eleven, two hundred and seventy at a year.
Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Promade gum Penny four hundred two,
two hundred and fifty one. Well, I guess if we
paid the deputy director four hundred two thousand, that explains

(06:12):
why we have to pay the actual chief medical examiner
well over half a million, right, Assistant Deputy Chief Hannah
Claire Jarvis three hundred and fifty four thousand, seven hundred
and sixty five dollars. County now has twenty four hundred
and fourteen employees and an annual payroll of one point
four to seven billion dollars, And we are in debt.

(06:36):
We are in a situation where we are spending more
than we're bringing in. Is there any way we can
justify the types of salaries that we're paying these people,
And if so, I'd love to hear Why what is
it about these people that they are so special that

(06:58):
they deserve to make more than the president of the
United States. You think the job is tougher being the
chief medical Examiner. No, I wouldn't think. I'm not to
say that they are busy. There's plenty of people getting
shot and killed in Houston, so I'm sure the Medical
Examiner's office is plenty busy. But I don't think we
need to spend quite that much money in order to

(07:20):
be able to figure out what's going on. So anyway,
I don't know how outraged this makes you feel. Makes
me feel outraged. What are we going to do about it?
I guess at the end of the day, probably nothing, right,
I mean, is there any at this point you're not
going to be able to take the money back. It's
just that there needs to be a serious discussion here.
How much money do we need to spend on these

(07:42):
types of salaries to get good quality people? All right,
quick little break back with Warner moment Jimmy Part Show.
You're on AM nine fifty KPRC. All right, I have

(08:09):
a COVID update today. We haven't had a COVID update
in a long time, and for very good reason, because
what is their update about COVID. COVID it continues to evolve,
if you will, COVID is you know, it's become basically
like the common cold, you know, less, less and less

(08:30):
like the flu, and more and more like the common cold.
At least that's the way I've heard it described. These
you know, these variances. This continues to evolve each and
every year. They seem to be doing what the common
cold does, which is it is more, it's easier to
get it, but it's it's it's milder than it used
to be, certainly milder than the way COVID was when
it first appeared on the scene. So as a result

(08:53):
of this, as a result of the fact that there
are some concerns over the vaccines and who's taking the
vaccines and and whether or not, you know, these vaccines
are being unnecessarily pushed on the American people, there has
been a backing off if you will, as well there
should be in this new administration on recommending the COVID
vaccine shot, the MMR shot. For one thing, you can

(09:18):
only keep up with the variants, you know, It's difficult,
I guess, to keep up with the different variants. It's
like getting the flu shot. The flu shot, same reason
why I don't normally get the flu shots, but maybe
twenty a good year, it's about twenty five percent effective
because same thing. The flu is constantly changing and evolving,
and the vaccines are generally behind the times. So the

(09:41):
CDC has and Health in Human Services doctor McCarey has
said that along with the surge in general, that they
are pulling back their recommendation to get the COVID vaccine
for young children and for pregnant women. That's the only
thing they've decided they're going to there's going to stop

(10:03):
recommending the vaccine for them. And as you can imagine,
the progressive left, which has been convinced, has become completely
convinced that the COVID vaccine is necessary, that people will
continue to die from COVID if they don't take the shot,
that in their world, they'd still like us to all
wear a mask. I mean, those people are still around,

(10:24):
and one of them evidently works for Face the Nation.
Margaret Brennan, who's the host on Faced the Nation, she
had doctor Marty McCarey on and proceeded to want to
get into a bit of an argument with him about
this latest recommendation that young children and pregnant women no
longer need to get the COVID vaccine shot.

Speaker 6 (10:43):
It's been about four years since the original randomized trials,
so we'd like an evidence faced approach. Doctor Posada and
I published this in the New England Journal of Medicine
last week and we're basically saying we'd like to bring
some confidence back to the public around this repeat booster
strategy theory, because.

Speaker 7 (11:02):
Your statement was not about repeat boosters. It says the
vaccine is not recommended for pregnant women, the vaccine is
not recommended for healthy children. That's seventh on annual booster.

Speaker 6 (11:09):
Yeah, at this point we're dealing. You know, it is
a booster strategy. People would be getting the updated shot,
so whether or not a young healthy show So we'd
love to see the data. We'd love to see that.
No data does makes a level.

Speaker 7 (11:23):
For a parent at home hearing you trying to make sense.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
We're saying, take it abouck to your guy.

Speaker 7 (11:28):
Their child has not been vaccinated. Are you recommending that
their first encounter with COVID be an actual infection.

Speaker 6 (11:34):
We're not going to push the COVID shot in young,
healthy kids without any clinical chriald data supporting it. That
is a decision between a parent and their doctor. And
just so, I don't know if you know these statistics,
but for eighty eight percent of American kids, their parents
have said no to the COVID shot last season. So America,
the vast majority of Americans are saying no. Maybe they

(11:56):
want to see some clinical data as well. Maybe they
have concerns.

Speaker 7 (11:59):
About pres source my health guidance. I want a clear thing.
We go with popularity were as you're saying, data and
when we rest satday.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (12:08):
So the CDC data said forty one percent of children
aged six months to seventeen years hospitals with COVID between
twenty twenty two and twenty twenty four did not have
a known underlying condition. In other words, they looked healthy,
so COVID was serious for them.

Speaker 6 (12:24):
So, first of all, we know the CDC data is
contaminated with a lot of false positives from incidental positive
COVID tests, with routine testing of every kid that walks
in the hospital, when I go to the ICU, when
I walked to the p we know that data historically
under the Biden administration did not distinguish being sick from
COVID or an incidental positive COVID test. When you go

(12:46):
to an ICU in America and you ask how many
people are in the ICU that are healthy that are
sick with COVID, the answer I get again and again
is we haven't seen that.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
In the year or years? What what an argumentative? There's
a word to describe a female dog. I would like
to throw in there, but I'm going to I'm going
to avoid doing that. Let me. Did you hear her?

Speaker 7 (13:14):
I don't want my healthcare crowd stars just because eight
percent of people don't want to give their kid a shot.

Speaker 5 (13:22):
You know, what's that got to do with anything? Basically
I'm paraphrasing, of course. So she's basically saying, well, it
doesn't matter what people want or what parents think is
the right thing to do. What do you gurus in healthcare?
What are you telling us to do? Because that's what
I want to know. He's trying to tell you, honey,

(13:44):
that he's advising you don't need to get the shot. Okay,
You're lucky. He hasn't said that about all categories. You know,
wouldn't be surprised if they just said anybody other than
a senior said, who has you know, has massive health risks.

(14:05):
The rest of y'all don't need to be taking that
COVID vaccine. That's what he probably should have said. You're
lucky he left it where he did. Good god, y'all.
I mean, do you want to do you want to
know or not? I don't think they do. I don't
They don't want to hear. They became so convinced during
the whole COVID pandemic that that everything that the government

(14:29):
was telling them to do was absolutely necessary to do.
They became so convinced of that that they can't backtrack
from it. And that last point was great by McCarey.
You know, Margaret, you are looking at flawed data. Okay,
this and this is not new news. You just refuse
to believe this. The Biden demonstration in collecting data would

(14:52):
attribute in hospitals were happy to play along because of
all the money they made by doing it this way,
with the idea that you know, if you had COVID,
you died from it, you had a heart attack, but
you tested positive for COVID, you didn't die from a
heart attack. You died from COVID and that's just not reliable.

(15:14):
So those numbers are all skewed and flawed, and they
need to all be taken with a grain of salt.
And finally, I think we have an administration it's willing
to take a look at this on a realistic basis.
Now one of the other things going on, and we
had some fun with this this morning, and this is

(15:35):
this kind of ties into health and human services, and
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Who evidently supports the idea of
putting warning labels on packaging for certain foods and drinks
that we have here in the United States that may
contain dyes that are banned in other countries, or ingredients
that have warning labels or are banned in other countries. Because,

(15:59):
after all, is we have found through the years of smoking, right,
all you have to do to get people stop doing
something is to slap a warning label on it. Not
Dorrito's would have a warning label. And by the way,
a law passed here in Texas. I'm not sure how
it got through the state legislature, but it did. Law
passed that would require warning labels here in Texas on

(16:21):
things like Derrito's and other products that contained again these
dies that have been banned in other countries or have
other ingredients that are questionable, they would to require a
warning label on the product, and of course it don
already to be able to comply one of two things.
Either these companies would have to put the warning label
on all of the products sold around the country that
meet this criteria, or stop selling in Texas. And they're

(16:44):
not going to stop selling in a big state like Texas,
so that means that effectively the warning labels would appear
all around the country because they're not going to spend
the extra money just to comply with the packaging here
in Texas. They do it for the entire country, at
least I think they would. Lacey Hall, who's a Houston
A Democrat, was the one who came up with this
idea and somehow got through the state legislature. Now I

(17:07):
have a sneaking suspicion the governor's going to veto this,
who's not going to sign the bill. Hopefully that's the case.
But I asked our listeners this morning, do you support
the idea of a warning label on things like Dorito's
at Mountain Dew that might be bad for you, or
have some of these dies or other ingredients that have
been banned in other countries.

Speaker 8 (17:27):
Hey, Jimmy Brick from the East Side. Yeah, let's don't
ban all those ingredients in those snack foods, you know,
because the warning labels on cigarettes and pates and all
that other craft would work so well. Don't they think
we know that it dorito's not good for us? Or
a skittle?

Speaker 9 (17:45):
Come on, man, Hey Jimmy, this is why from Porter
generally speaking, I think people already have a pretty good
idea about what's good for him and what's not good
for him. I think warning labels would be a complete
waste of time. And I think warning label would put
us one step closer to being the socialist People's Republic
of California. I vote against. That's all I got. Y'all

(18:07):
have a good dat.

Speaker 5 (18:08):
Yeah, but but but but but if there's a warning label,
if you knew it's dangerous, you wouldn't do it, would you. Right,
here's a few more, Hey, Jimmy, we the people are
tired of the many state.

Speaker 9 (18:21):
What happened to freedom and liberty?

Speaker 4 (18:23):
Now they want to.

Speaker 10 (18:23):
Tell us what we can eat, smoke?

Speaker 4 (18:26):
Great ridiculous hypocrites skip from Webster. We already have to
put prop sixty five labels on everything we ship from
Houston to California. That warning label would be right up
there with the warning label says don't put your hands
in the rotating blade of your lawnmower.

Speaker 10 (18:43):
Eh.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
Yeah, I love those, or don't or the warning on
an oven door don't use this as step ladder. Of course,
a lot of those warning labels are the results of lawsuits, right,
not because not because anybody thought it was a good idea,
just because they got sued for it. All right, back
with mourning moment, all right, I like to spend a

(19:19):
little time here talking about what happened in Boulder, Colorado.
More about not so much about what happened, but the
person responsible for doing it is an Egyptian here illegally. Evidently,
we're finding out, attempted to buy a gun not that
long ago, but was prevented from buying a gun because

(19:41):
of his immigration status. In other words, he's in a
gun store, he's going through the process of trying to
qualify for the gun, and his immigration status comes up,
and his immigration status is he's here illegally, So I
guess my question would be how long ago was this
and did anybody make an attempt to contact ICE or

(20:06):
any other government agency about this guy trying to buy
a gun who's overstated his visa and is here illegally?
Or is this something the gun owner? Is this something
the gun owner ignored? Is this something that government ignored?
When did this happen? And thank god, you know, by
the way, he didn't get his hands on the gun,
or it would have been a shooting yesterday or the
other day in Boulder, Colorado, And says this guy, you know,

(20:28):
with his homemade flamethrower, you know, trying to take people
down that way. We're also finding out he'd been planning
this for for a year. Really doesn't seem very well
thought out if you're planning it for a year. Also,
did you see the guy he you know, he's shirtless.

(20:49):
He's wearing jeans and no shirt, which you know, I
think there's there's something about crazy people and going shirtless,
and so I'm pretty pretty sure that this guy is
going to be sofiable in some way, shape or form anyway.
Greg Guttfeld on his show and his panel talked about
what happened in Boulder and actually tried to find a
little bit of humor. Hard to find humor in this

(21:09):
situation like that, because this is gonna be a major
problem going forward. But here's Gutfeld in his panel's taking
all this on this.

Speaker 11 (21:19):
Grave attack, incredibly violent attack upon Americans.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
I think a couple things are worth noting.

Speaker 11 (21:23):
First is that Americans need to be armed, but particularly
Jewish Americans. Right this is a very unfortunate wri I
think reminder of that stark reality. But secondly that Biden's
open border, leaving the front door of America wide open
four years, has incredibly intense consequences that may last unfortunately
four years. How many more Cretans like him are there

(21:45):
in America who came in, unvetted, unwelcome, but nonetheless present
in our country. Thankfully, President Trump has gotten to work
immediately on this, and the border is already under control
just weeks into this new term. So as awful as
this situation is, we can also celebrate that it's unlikely
more jerks like this are coming in right now.

Speaker 12 (22:04):
In a Trump well said, Jamie, you are unwelcome and unvetted.
I cannot wait to hear your finely crafted jokes on
this topic.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Go ahead, starts.

Speaker 13 (22:18):
Well, first of all, I don't trust anybody with no
shirt and jeans. I know no no one without a
shirt and jeans has ever.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Showed up and done a good deed. That is true.
That is true.

Speaker 13 (22:33):
I heard them, well done. I heard when Kamala heard
this story, she was like, Maltov cocktail. I'll have one,
and then she goes U, she goes it's nine am somewhere.

Speaker 5 (22:47):
Well, it's nice to try to find some humor in
humorless situations. But at the end of the day, I mean,
this is this is serious. Tom Holman warning us, this
is the tip of the iceberg. This is this is
the end result of the Biden administration and all these
unvetted people from countries that have terrorism, anti Semitism. This

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is ultimately what happens when you don't vet people and
you just let them into the country and then allow
them to overstay their Visas I had on a morning
show today, I had a woman on by the name
of Rosalie Jerome, president of the Holocaust Remembrance Association, to
talk to about a whole variety of things having to
do with this incident. Here's how that interview went. We

(23:32):
are joined by Rosalie Jerome, president of the Holocaust Remembrance Association,
and Rosalie, just another tragedy that you would like to
you would hope to think could have been avoided with
better planning or better monitoring, or for whatever reason we
want to come up with. But I think what Tom
Homan the Borders Are had to say yesterday was rather startling,

(23:53):
and quite frankly, it is quite quite likely the truth,
which is this is the tip of the iceberg. We
have a lot of unvetted people in this country who
mean harm to Jewish citizens and are not afraid to
carry out attacks. How does the local community reacting to this?
Are we concerned here in Houston about potential soft targets?

Speaker 10 (24:13):
Of course we're concerned. The Jewish community is very, very
upset worldwide and especially in America. You know, I'm not
only the founder and president of Holocaust Memboritis Association, but
I'm also the descendant of Holocaust survivors, and most of
my relatives were turned in by their neighbors. I'm talking

(24:34):
about the rest of my family were burned in the
ashes of Auschwitz, and in October seventh and twenty twenty three.
I was in Israel with my daughter and grandchildren running
from rockets, and I saw the fear in their eyes.
We experienced firsthand the terror that day, and unfortunately the
silence of many in the world that followed it, and

(24:54):
the loud anti Jewish, anti Israel rhetoric that has exploded
in our camp and worldwide. And what happened in Boulder
where a coward used a flame thrower of all things,
considering Holocaust means burnt offering, I mean the fires of
the crematoria to attack elderly Jewish people walking in prayer,

(25:18):
one of them even a Holocaust survivor. This is not
a random I act. It's part of a growing violent
pattern of hate. And yes, there's sleeper cells all over
our city and all over our country. Since you're talking
about this refugee or this immigrant situation. You know, I
have a friend who's Egyptian, and she told me that

(25:40):
there are signs in Egypt that's on the stores, some
of the stores that say no dogs and no Jews allowed,
you know. Following the murders in d C, pro Palestinian
social media accounts celebrated for years, some of these groups
have called for a global intifada, and this is the result.
And we say again, this is not activism, it's hate,

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and the West has to wake up before it's too late.
And the Holocaust Remembrance Association strongly condemned, and of course
everyone in post the Jewish community worldwide and especially in
our country, this rise in anti condemned the rise in
anti Semitism and anti Israel rhetoric across the Western world,
and are especially disturbed by the, of course, the violent

(26:24):
rhetoric and celebratory social media posts following the murder of
innocent people.

Speaker 5 (26:30):
I don't know about you, but I find particularly horrifying
the inability of some people, mainly on the progressive left,
to call this what it was, a terrorist attack. They
didn't want to use the word what else would you
use to describe it?

Speaker 10 (26:45):
I mean, it took the FBI to finally say it,
and even to use the man's first name, sorry to say,
you know. Over nine three hundred anti Semitic incidents were
reported in twenty twenty four in the US, the highest
ever recorded. This is post October seventh. In fact, right
after October seventh, anti Semitic incidents in our country surged

(27:09):
three hundred and sixty one percent. This is ADL research
and you know at the Holocaust Remembered Association, I want
to give hope somewhere too. You know, we have to remember, reconcile,
and take a stand against anti Semitism. We have a
Holocaust Garden of Hope here. It's free for the public
for our community to come to. It's on Lake on

(27:32):
Lake Easton. We're still focusing. We're still raising funds to
build the rest of the garden, but there's plenty to
see right now in King's Harbor. We also have marches
of remembrments on the Texas Director where we bring peaceful
walks publicly standing against anything anti Israel and making a

(27:54):
clear statement for the Jewish State, for Israel on our campuses.
We've done it at Rice, We've done it Texas, A
and M, Galveston and A and M. We are hopefully
maybe doing it at Rice this year January or April,
so which we're part of a larger group of Nazi descendants.
I'm a Texas Director and we're just improved. There was yesterday, Rosalie.

Speaker 5 (28:16):
We're way over on time, but I want to give
you a chance to put your website out there for
people who would like to find out more.

Speaker 10 (28:22):
I'm sorry, yeah, Holocaust Remembered Association. Our website is h
r A one eight dot org.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
Rosalie, thank you for your time today. Sure do appreciate it.
Birslely Jerome, yep, Birsley Jerome, thank you. It's disturbing, you know,
we are. It feels like in some ways, it kind
of feels like the days before World War Two. Not
that I was around in the days before World War Two,
but if you read your history books, you know this
is kind of like how everything started, you know, before

(28:51):
the you know, when the Nazis were first taking over
in Germany, and you know, we swore we would never
make those mistakes again. But here we go. All right,
we're back with Morning Moment Jenny bar Show here on
AM nine fifty k PRC. So Governor Greg Abbot evidently

(29:24):
he's in Houston today, supposedly signing some bills. I'm not sure.
I'm guessing whatever bills he's signing. And there, I mean,
hundreds and hundreds of bills got passed. I can't even
there's a handful of them that I know. We're off
the top of my head. Plenty more. I don't, and
I'm not sure what bills he's signing here today. I'm
guessing if he's doing it in Houston. They're kind of

(29:44):
Houston centric or have a direct impact on Houston. One
of the bills I'm wondering. There's a couple of bills
I'm worrying about. First of all, I am curious because
after all these years, the state legislature did pass a
daylight saving time bill, and the bill would make daylight

(30:06):
saving time permanent year round. We wouldn't switch back to
standard time in the fall. And I don't know if
the Governor's going to sign that. I haven't heard it.
I haven't heard anything from this office about that. I
haven't heard the governor say anything about it directly or
even indirectly about it. I would not be surprised if
he doesn't sign it, and his excuse will probably be

(30:27):
that he doesn't want Texas to be on a different
time zone than other states around us, and when the
reality is where we were, we're close to Arizona, they're
on a different time zone. You know, we have a
lot of people under different time zones. It would be
an easy adjustment. It would be fine, it wouldn't be
any big deal if we made that change here in Texas.
But I'm just going to guess that might be his excuse.

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The other bill that I'm guessing is not going to
get signed is the THCHC bill, and that's going to
be very interesting if that's the case. If the governor
decides he's going to veto that, then that's going to
put him up in direct opposition to Look at Lieutenant
Governor Dan Patrick, who is all over this thing, and

(31:13):
I'm still trying to figure out why he's so adamant
about it. He seems to think that we have a
huge THHC problem or vaping problem involving THC, involving kids.
He also seems to think that using THC makes you crazy,
it makes you want to kill people, which.

Speaker 10 (31:35):
You know.

Speaker 5 (31:35):
I'm gonna be honest, I've used THC in my distant past.
I have no need for it right now. But if
I did have need for it right now, I would
not hesitate to use that versus using some of the
prescription medications out there, which can be highly addictive and
be much more dangerous for your health and your mental

(31:57):
health than THC ever could be. But that doesn't seem
to be the opinion of the Lieutenant governor. So I
found it particularly moving that we have so many Texas
veterans that are speaking out against Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick.
I don't know if the Lieutenant governor thought he was
going to get the kind of opposition on this that
he's getting. I don't know this changed his mind in

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the least about it. He managed to convince the state
legislature to pass this bill basically banning THC products, you know,
gummies here in Texas. So here is a Texas veteran
testifying about how important THHC has been in his life,

(32:41):
in his survival. He is a PTSD survivor. So let's
take a listen to what this veteran has to say
about why he deems that to be so important to him.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
My wife once went to the store, came home with
a friend, only to find me two blocks from my
house standing on the sidewalk holding my cane hit to
low ready like a rifle, completely lost in a fog
due to prescription drugs.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
I didn't know who I was, I didn't know where
I was. All this was at a time where I
could barely walk.

Speaker 14 (33:10):
Now the good news. I was moving so slow, I
didn't make it that far. I was only two blocks
from the house. But let's be honest, that's not funny,
that's terrifying.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
That was the moment I realized the so called solution
the government.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Gave me was killing me slowly.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
This right here, legal him Deride consumable THC gummies brought
me back. One man, a coast Guard veterer, started accompany
that saved my life and the life of thousands of
other veterans in Texas and across the country. I'm not

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going to call him out by name, but he's here
today and he knows who he is. These gummies are
clearly labeled right there on the back say it regulated
and effective. Since twenty eighteen, I haven't touched a single
opioid or any of the other drugs that I mentioned above.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
I've rebuilt my life.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
I've become a better leader, a better husband, a better father,
and ultimately a better man. But now sending Bill three
wants to turn this into contraband. It wants to turn
me and thousands of other veterans into criminals.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
For choosing an alternative that works for us. And if
that hypocrisy wasn't bad enough.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Let's talk about the false narrative these politicians are spinning.
We've seen Lieutenant Governor Patrick and then stand up and
paint this as a fight to protect children, but that
is not the truth. Let's be clear. This is not
a loophole in the industry. It's not a wild West market.

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Consumable HIMP has been legal from the start. It is
in the original legislation, not a loophole.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
It's as plain as day.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
Consumable him products for human consumption are legal under regulation.
Let's stop pretending that this is about public safety. This
is about power, This is about control, and veterans are
caught in the crossfire.

Speaker 5 (35:24):
Okay. I've been trying to figure out what this is
all about, because in most things I find the Lieutenant
Governor to be a practical, logical human being. He's not
being the least bit logical about THHC, and I just
don't quite understand why. And there's only two things I
can think of. Either, he is completely misinformed about THC

(35:52):
and its benefits, and this somehow bought into the narrative
that alcohol it's okay, that opioids are okay, prescription drugs
are okay, but THHC isn't because it'll drive you crazy
and cause you to kill people. He actually either actually
believes that or and I would haate to think this

(36:14):
is the case. There's a financial incentive for him to
be against THC but not be against those other things.
And I don't know where that might be coming from,
because I mean, I know, you know, every politician in Austin,
including the Lieutenant governor, getst lobbied, So maybe there's a
very powerful lobby out there that's making damn sure that

(36:37):
they can keep this competition away and therefore have managed
to convince financially speaking, the Lieutenant Governor is in his
best interest to oppose it. That would make a lot
more sense than the other things I'm hearing coming out
of the Lieutenant governor. I just don't quite get it.
But we'll see what the Governor's going to do here,
and if he vetos it, we'll also see what that

(36:59):
does to the relationship between the governor and the Lieutenant governor,
all of which could be very very interesting stuff. Hey, listen,
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