Lina Hidalgo's Meltdown

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• Lina Hidalgo's meltdown

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Speaker 3 (00:31):
All right, welcome to the show.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
We are going to just you know, we are going
to get to Lena Hildago's epic meltdown and segment number
two today we'll play We'll play a little bit of
it of the meltdown, and then we will talk with
the Harris County Commissioner, Tom Ramsey about what happened yesterday.
We had him on our morning show today and kat

(00:53):
r h and this is an interview well worth repeating.
I'm just trying to decide it was a weird combination.
You know, she has well documented mental health issues and
you could really tell that she was unstrung, I mean,
or highly stuff, however you want to put it. She
was coming undone during the course of this attempt to

(01:16):
get a property tax voted on, to put a property
tax measure on the on the upcoming ballot to try
to get approval for twenty million dollars for childcare. They
had a childcare program funded by the federal government, and
like anything else, you know, the federal government when it
was Democrat run, they're giving them money for all kinds

(01:36):
of things, coveted relief and all kinds of things. When
that money ran out, you know, they want to keep
doing the program. They just want the rest of US
taxpayers to pay for it. And they wanted to provide
free childcare, and it was going to be an additional
she called it the penny tax. But at the end
of the day, it was it's going to be like
twenty four dollars per one hundred dollars of a praise value.

(02:01):
So we're all going to It's not a huge sum,
but it's the principle of the thing. At this point,
they have forty percent more revenue now than they had
four years ago when they when they originally took the
federal money in order to do this. If if it's
deemed by the county commissioners to be important enough, get

(02:21):
it out of get it out of some other fund,
you know. But but but I don't believe that either,
because that's not their job. They're not. Their job in
Harris County is not to provide childcare. It's to maintain
the roads. It provide for public safety. You know, we
know what their job is. Just do your job. And
Lena Hill Dago just had a complete meltdown again. Coming

(02:42):
up in segment two. H Let's start with this one
because I found this very very interesting. They're going through
another bit of what I would call kind of a
COVID calamity in China. In the southern part of China,
they have a mosquito born illness that's being spread. It's

(03:04):
kind of like it's not a little bit like West Nile.
It's not fatal. It is you know, aches and pains,
and it can last for a long period of time.
It sounds like kind of like a slightly tamer version
of West Nile virus, very very similar kind of thing.
And like West Nile, it's born by mosquitoes. So they're

(03:25):
doing a big mosquito eradication program. But that's not all
they're doing. They're doing all kinds of crazy things. We'll
get into some of the crazy things here in just
a second. But first I thought, well, maybe this is
like COVID where it can be human to human But
as you listen to doctor Nicole Sapphire on Thoughts, you
find out that no, it's not human to human contact

(03:47):
that can spread this.

Speaker 5 (03:48):
It's summertime, so tis the season for vector borne illness,
whether it's from tick bites or mosquito bites. It's not
uncommon to see a rise in doctor born illness in
the summer. Why is making headlines right now is Mainland
China having one of the biggest outbreaks that's ever had,
specifically in the Guandong province. That's why the CDC has
issued a Level two travel alert. And what it is

(04:08):
is the chicken guia virus is really concentrated in this area. Now,
Mainland China has had a lot of flooding. It's had
a lot of rain, and that stagnant water and the
warm weather is where you see breeding grounds for mosquitoes.
So the Chinese officials, from what they are telling us,
they are taking drastic measures to decrease the mosquito populations
using pesticides. They're also using drone technology to identify standing

(04:30):
areas of water. Now, the good news is data that
this virus is not transmitted from person to person it's
when you are infected by a mosquito. Within a week,
you can get high fevers, you can get joint pain.
Now that joint pain can last weeks to even months. Now,
this virus, it's not a new virus, not a novel
virus like coronavirus. In fact, it's been around since at
least the nineteen fifties. And it's not just in mainland China.

(04:52):
It's in Bolivia, Indian Ocean island nations. You see it
in Central America, South America. In the United States, we
have actually had several hundred cases. But the differences in
the cases here in the United States, they were all
travel related, meaning someone who has traveled has gotten bit
by a mosquito and then they've come back to the
United States and they have been infected.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
Okay, sounds pretty simple, right, But I'm watching a video
of the story and all the all the all the
Chinese people in the story are wearing masks, and I'm
thinking to myself, Hang, why are you wearing a mask?

(05:34):
It it's it's you can't get it from another person.
What's the mask for? And then I just realized we're
talking China here, right. I So another story in the
Guardian and the first line of the story wanted to know,
you know why so many personal rights are being taken
away from the Chinese over this? And I'm laughing is

(05:57):
I'm thinking, how naive is the person writing this story.
Chinese citizens have no personal rights. It's a communist country.
Everything is dictated by the state. The Chinese government doesn't
care about any privacy concerns. The Chinese government doesn't care
about coming into your home. In one case, I guess,
health officials came into a Chinese families home and took,

(06:21):
without parental permission, took blood samples from the two children
because a neighbor had reported that the boy had a fever. Okay,
what's said about that is that doesn't sound too far
off from where we were at during COVID nineteen. You know,
with the government making all these dictates and where you

(06:43):
can go and where you can't go, and you have
to stay home, and you have to wear a mask
and you have to do all these dictates. That's exactly
what you know communists China. That's what communist countries do
to keep control of their citizens. There's no need for
wearing a mask over this particular virus. It's not transmitted

(07:04):
by a human, it's by a mosquito. It's not fatal,
and you're not You can't give it to anybody else
other than trying to eradicate mosquitos to hopefully keep it
under control. What else, There's no other there's no other
response the Chinese officials really need to do other than
making sure the mosquitoes don't continue to spread. That's the
number one part of all this crazy. All right, quick

(07:27):
little break coming up, my conversation with Commissioner Tom Ramsey
and the Lena Hildago epic meltdown that earned her a censor,
Not that that means anything or that story coming up
next here on AM nine fifty KPRC and the Jimmy
Barrett Show.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
All right, I think about everybody.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
I've hope he's heard about the leading the dogo story
by now. She had a complete meltdown in front of
the Commissioner's court. She wanted to get a property tax increase,
which he thinks is just a pittance of money to
continue this very important daycare program. So in order to
try to strong arm the other commissioners who were not

(08:24):
in the mood to raise property taxes, in order to
try to strong arm them. She brings all these kids,
you know, these daycare aged kids to the commissioner's meeting
and then proceeds to put on a dog and pony
show and trying to involve the kids, and and and
and and try to bully I guess the other commissioners

(08:45):
to going along with this, and she did it in
a highly disrespectful way, a very inappropriate way, a very
unprofessional way, a very unparliamentary sort of way. It was
just it was trying to decide if this was just
a mental illness episode, or if this is just immature behavior,

(09:12):
or this is just somebody who's not very bright, or
maybe a combination of all three. So here's how the
conversation went with Tom Ramsey. I'll share that with you now,
along with a little clip here of Lena Hildago doing
her act. Yeah, that's how it all started. One, two, three,
Lena Hildago in front of a bunch of school children.
You know, hey, we have one, we have one vote

(09:33):
in favor of this. I need two, two, I need three.
Anyway before we bring on Tom Ramsey. Just in case
you haven't heard it yet, just a little bit of
Lena Hildago's mental meltdown yesterday.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
So kids, we're trying to see can you guys come
to three one, two three?

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (09:52):
So I'm one, So we need two and three.

Speaker 6 (09:55):
We need three.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Votes so that we can can we can we can
put this on the bellet.

Speaker 6 (09:59):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
So so you guys help me count right now? We
have one?

Speaker 7 (10:03):
One?

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Okay, say one, one two three one okay. So well, okay,
so let's see who's going to be number two?

Speaker 8 (10:11):
Who took the time to come and all the educators.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Kids, come on down.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Let's see if she says yes or no. Come come
on down over here, Come on, come on, come on,
come on, because this is.

Speaker 6 (10:19):
Not about politics, about kids.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
George, come on down, George.

Speaker 8 (10:22):
Excuse part of education is respect Travis County. They spent
two years working with subject matter experts for years. Excuse me, judge,
please be respectful. At least education is hazy helling.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Don't give the kids this example of making things up.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
We just went it went south from there. You get
the idea. At the end of the day, she ended
up censored, and for good reason. I mean, I don't
know how to describe Commissioner Ramsey. What happened with Lena
Hildago yesterday. The only thing I know for sure is
I'm praying for her husband.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, I've said it before.

Speaker 7 (11:03):
This isn't the first time we've seen this. Fortunately, it
probably won't be the last time we've seen this. What
she did yesterday in front of children, where you should
be setting an example of how adults should behave she
did everything, But I thought, commissioners, we've maintained.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Decorum as she ranted for.

Speaker 7 (11:24):
An hour, bringing people after people up there that are
already working for the county. She had to get people
advocating for her. But at the end of the day,
it's a program we knew we were going to end
after three years.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
So this is something that was begun three four years ago.
We knew we were going to stop it. So it
comes time to stop it.

Speaker 7 (11:48):
And she goes through this ranting and raving, and it's
just really sad that she feels like that's how you
get things done. And she says, that's how you get
your three votes. That's really not how you get you
three bucks.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
No, maybe that worked for as a child, throwing temper taprooms.
Maybe that's how she got her mom to give in
but that that doesn't seem to work really well in
the adult world. What this was all about really was
free childcare, and I thought some of the comments from
people in the audience were very interesting trying to point
out to Leading Hilldago that's not the function of the
Harris County Commissioner's Court to provide free child care.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 7 (12:25):
I mean, this is a twenty million dollars a year program,
and we're gonna do childcare. We're gonna do these other
summer activities. Hid got a billion dollars of arf of money.
They get two and a half times the tax revenue
we do in the county. If anybody should be doing

(12:47):
anything like this, it should be done, It should be them.
This is not our core responsibility, and so it's no
wonder that we have a deficit problem at the county
when you're doing in programs that you have no business doing.
So I think our budget's going to be easy this year.
We're gonna cut things, stop things that we shouldn't be doing,

(13:09):
and focus on our core responsibility of public safety, infrastructure
and taking care of our basic facilities.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
What does that say do you think for Lena Hildago's future,
that all the Democrats voted against her. I think they've
had enough of her too, don't you.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Well.

Speaker 7 (13:26):
Even the chronicle posted after the meeting Jimmy that this
was just a sad display lack of leadership, and it
may be time for her to go. So I'll be
investigating how we take people out of office. That's gonna
be my focus, that's gonna be my mission. We need
to remove her from office. There is a procedure in

(13:49):
protocol whether this meets all the requirements of that, but
we need to get better leadership. We don't have time
for this. The four commissioners on court, we don't agree.
I'm the Republican, but we don't all agree. But we
do agree that we have to get some things done.
We can't do it with her involved in her as

(14:10):
a part of it.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
Well, and her whole thing was and the main point
of this that this argument was over raising property taxes.
She didn't want to do it with existing dollars. She
wanted to raise everybody's property taxes in order to pay
for this.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
That's right. We're our our budget.

Speaker 7 (14:26):
Our current revenue level is two point seven billion dollars.
We're spending five hundred million dollars on things that we.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
Don't have to. It's a choice.

Speaker 7 (14:36):
We've got plenty of areas that we can cut. And
when they say, well, we hadn't raised taxes and we
our rate is lower than it was five years ago,
I can add and subtract. We are collecting seven hundred
and fifty million more dollars over the last five years

(14:57):
than we did before.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Increase exactly a tax increase. Up standing down in sae
co million.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
All right, Tom, thanks as always. Thanks, I appreciate your time.
The Harris kint of Commissioner Tom Ramsey, yep, I think
he made some news there, don't you. No, I think
he did. Did you notice what he said about looking
into finding out how they can get her out of office.
I would also think in addition to looking at the
possibility of getting her out of office, that they would

(15:24):
also take a look at well, democrats have to be
taking a look at at making sure that she does
not run. You know, we have had no official announcement,
but maybe that's part of her frustration here, is that
she's being you know, eased out, basically telling no, you're
not going to be No, we don't think you should
run again, Lena for for Harris County Judge. She's become

(15:49):
not just a liability, she's become an embarrassment. I mean,
I would be not be surprised if this story turns
out to be a national story, that this gets coverage
in other places, in other news organizations, that they end
up showing this because this is this was world class.

(16:09):
It really was. I mean, I didn't play the longer cut.
Maybe actually I think I'm gonna go ahead and do
that at the risk of being repetitive. Here, I want
you to get the full effect here. Here, here's the
long version of Lena Hildago's mouthdown.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
So, kids, we're trying to see can you guys count
to three? One, two, three?

Speaker 6 (16:26):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (16:27):
So I'm one, so we need two and three. We
need three votes so that we can can we can
we can put this on the ballot. Okay, So so
you guys help me count right now? We have one one? Okay,
say one, one, two three one okay. So well, okay,
so let's see who's going to be number two.

Speaker 8 (16:46):
Who took the time to come and all the educators, kids,
come on down.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Let's see if she says yes or no, come come
on down over here, come on, wait on, come on,
come on, come on.

Speaker 8 (16:53):
Because this is not about playtations about kids.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
George, come on down, George.

Speaker 8 (16:57):
Excuse me, hard that you pation is respect Travis County,
they spent two years working with subject matter experts, spent
four years. Excuse me, judge, please be respectful at least education.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
If if you're helling, don't give the kids this example
of making things up. This has been going on.

Speaker 6 (17:18):
For four years.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Excuse me, for your children.

Speaker 8 (17:20):
Are hearing the truth is? Is this half baked proposal?
Four years not have not have a detailed budget.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
Four years design your office.

Speaker 8 (17:29):
The evaluation done by a third party will be available
next year in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
Is that correct?

Speaker 5 (17:35):
Right page?

Speaker 3 (17:36):
Evaluation?

Speaker 6 (17:37):
That's correct? Doctor is an annual?

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Is this an evaluation?

Speaker 3 (17:40):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Or to judge right, it's the first two years. Judge,
we have to wait twenty years to college. A good
example for the children.

Speaker 8 (17:49):
The Golf Coast Workforce Board is on first for early
childhood education. We're working with a need excuse me, and
scaled and they are on first to set up a
new program without a detailed we were to desne Excuse me, please.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Falsehoods are not appropriate in front of children.

Speaker 8 (18:08):
Region need to be maxim So that's the way. The
two year Travis County efforts were incredibly for our years.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
They did not play Culture Engagement been running the programs
for four years, they.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
Judge.

Speaker 7 (18:19):
Judge, our rules don't generally apply to the five of
you because.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
They need to have there's so many and kids are
here listening.

Speaker 8 (18:27):
Your program ran for forty years.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Your Travis County.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Did not have their program.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
No, sir, yes, sir, commission man, Judge.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Oh kids, Let let me ask Commission Bones, she yes
or no? Does she yes or no?

Speaker 6 (18:42):
Are you yes or no?

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Commission Bones, here's the eighty page of evaluation.

Speaker 6 (18:45):
Our program has been.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Running successfully for four years. Travis County didn't even join
a program.

Speaker 9 (18:49):
Judge, I'm sorry to interrupt you, but a.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Question has been called.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
You made a motion.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
We have to call for a.

Speaker 8 (18:56):
Second for that motion.

Speaker 9 (18:57):
Took a book and then and then a boat house.
We take so disappointed.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Obviously, we have been working with the.

Speaker 6 (19:02):
Texasport for us.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Others and we have someone not okay, I'm recognizing the rules.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Let's let's just move on to the next You want
to know in front of the kids. That's sure, I didn't.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
I didn't make emotions.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
I heard you make emotion.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
No, I said, actually I didn't make emotion.

Speaker 8 (19:18):
Okay, sure, are you pulling a motion?

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Bacts emotion.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
I did not make the motion. I'm asking if my
colleagues are yes or no for just asking the voters commission.

Speaker 10 (19:25):
I'm yes, commissioner, this is.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
No commission rams.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yes, no commissioner, yes, no commission elisis no Georgia eleven
fifty one. I'd like to call it ten minute breaks,
thank you.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
Yeah, you need more than a ten minute break. Honey,
Oh my goodness, I pray for her husband. Cannot imagine
being married to that. That is just that is just
crazy personified. All right, quick will break back with Bode
moment Jimmy Barrett show, You're a name, nine fifty kh PRC.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
All right, there's something starting.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
Next week when the kids go back to school that
if you're not aware of it, you should be aware
of it. There is going to be a lot of
upset soccer moms next week here in the Greater Houston area.
A state wide ban on cell phones in schools. Well,
that's not quite right. A state wide ban on your
child's ability to have their cell phone out and in

(20:35):
use during the school day. Anytime during the school day
goes into effect. They cannot have it, even at lunch
or recess. They're not allowed to. They can bring it
in a bag, they may even be able to keep
it on their person, but they're not allowed to take
it out and they're certainly not allowed to use it.
It has been identified as the biggest probably deep well,

(20:59):
I don't think it's saying the biggest distractor when it
comes to your child getting a good education, But there
are a lot of upset soccer moms about this one.
They are really concerned. The helicopter parents are really upset
at the idea that somehow they might not be able
to contact their child at any given moment of the day.

(21:22):
Here's a report from our television partner KPRC too, and
I want you to pay particular attention to the moms
in this particular case, especially the first mom in particular,
she is the quintessential helicopter parent. And then listen to
the dad with the second set of parents, who had
it right initially but clearly has been browbeaten by his

(21:44):
wife to change his opinion.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Here we go.

Speaker 10 (21:46):
Are you going to send them to school first, say
school with a smart watch? Yes, I am.

Speaker 8 (21:50):
Until we're going to protect kids more than guns.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
My children are always going to be able to contact
me in an emergency.

Speaker 10 (21:56):
Mom to two Houston IIC students, Christine Hurley, is pushing
on the new Texas Personal Electronics Band that starts September first.
Christine has a fourth and second grader, both distracted with
smart watches now to track and message when she wants.
We wanted to be able to communicate with them during
the day, like mostly if there's an emergency at school.

(22:18):
We wanted them to be able to contact us. A
statewide band includes personal cell phones, tablets, smart watches, headphones,
and earbuds. House built fourteen eighty one gives school districts
power to set limits on device use during class to
help curb the constant distractions and disruptions to learning.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
My initial reaction was, well, good, you know, I understand
I didn't have a.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
Phone when I was in school and we did just fine.

Speaker 9 (22:43):
But after I thought about it more, I am against it.

Speaker 10 (22:46):
I want to be able to speak with our child
if we've got to them around the dinner table. Russell
and Aaron Piper told me they just got their sixth
grader lady a new phone two months ago, specifically for
her to take to her new middle school across town.

Speaker 9 (23:02):
I don't disagree that phones are an issue and they
need to like not be out during school. The kids
should not have access to them, but how to address
that issue should be up to the schools and the
school districts.

Speaker 10 (23:14):
And while many schools have not said how they will
enforce his new law, two of the largest districts in
our area just release their policies and enforcement plans. HISD
says the first offense, the device will be confiscated and
return to parents after school. The same goes for the
second and third offense, except the device will be held
a longer period of time. The policy is similar for

(23:37):
forp and ISD students, except the district says parents have
to pay a fee to this school when the device
is retrieved. The ban includes no devices during lunch and recess,
and although it can be tough to adjust at first,
some students say they now see the benefits after experiencing
the no device's rule last year at their school.

Speaker 6 (23:58):
There was a change during lunch and times because most
people would just be staring at their phones during launching
community time, and now people are having more interactions and
talking others.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
Cool figure. We have so many kids who have are
a socially immature. They don't really know how to communicate
with each other outside of texting. They don't know how
to they don't know how to interact with each other
in a one on one you know, personal basis a

(24:29):
lot that's been lost thanks to the cell phone generation.
But you know, they don't need this during the school day. Now,
I realize that that there may be a little bit
of distrust to public schools involved in this. In other words, parents, parents,
I would say, you know, why does your child need
a cell phone? You have an emergency, you call the
school office. The problem is is that if the school

(24:49):
is under lockdown for whatever reason, some sort of safety
issue or reason, everybody's gonna be busy. The phone is
not going to get answered. You're not going to get through.
That's where and that's where I think it's a matter
of do you trust your child's school or you don't.
What this tells me is is that there's some parents
who don't trust their school. They don't trust that they're

(25:10):
going to get the information that they need in a
timely way, and so what respond What is that happening
in that case is they all get in their cars
and they head straight for the school. Is if somehow
they're going to be able to interact with their child
or pull their child. I don't know what they're thinking, honestly,
to be honest with you. Most of the time, though,

(25:33):
if you need to get a hold of your child
for some reason, you could do one or two things.
You can either call the school and they'll take them
out of class and you can pick them up, or
you can just go directly to the school if you
deem it that big of an emergency, at least a
personal emergency to do it. Your child does not need
to be getting text or respond to text from you

(25:55):
during the day when they're supposed to be studying in class.
But there's some parents that cannot possibly stand the idea
of that, and you've just heard a couple of them
right there. This is gonna end up being a big deal.
This is going to be talked about a lot this
next week because I'm sure there's some parents who are
not overly involved that haven't found out about it yet.

(26:15):
But are gonna find out about it, especially the first
time their job gets their cell phone confiscated. By the way,
do you find it interesting like I do? The Fort
Bend is going to charge you a fee to return
that cell phone? Are they looking at this as a
revenue opportunity. Were going to have more about this next
week on KTRH as the kids all go back to school.
You all have a great weekend. We'll see Monday morning,
bright and early at five AM on KTRH. Hope to

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see you Monday at four You're on Am nine fifty KPRC.