What can be done about the runaway Democrats?

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• Texas AG Ken Paxton on the runaway Democrats

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, what we need is more common sense.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
The.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Breaking down the world's nonsense about.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
How American common sense will.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
See us through with the common sense of Houston. I'm
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Speaker 4 (00:31):
Right.

Speaker 5 (00:31):
So we have a federal takeover of Washington, d C,
which I personally am a big fan of right now
because and by the way, I saw that the mayor
of Washington, d C, Muriel Bowser, says, this is why
we need d C statehood. Yeah, that's just what we need.
A Democrat little tiny corner of the world that is

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its own state that it gets to United States senators
plus members of the House of Representatives. That clearly Democrats
want to see Washington d C become its own state,
just as they'd like to see Puerto Rico become a state,
because they believe that that ensures that they will have
control in Congress and probably the White House forever. At

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least that's what they're thinking in their minds is going
to happen. But Washington d C is the perfect example
of what's gone wrong in many of our Blue cities.
I'd like to think we've seen a certain amount of
it here in Houston, but I've not nearly to the
extent that we see in other Blue cities, mainly because

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we have a mayor. At least now we have a
mayor who's a moderate Democrat, an old school Democrat who
cares about crime. Muriel Bouser, the mayor of Washington, DC,
clearly doesn't care about crime because it's rampant carjackings, murders
through the roof, the crime and the grime in Washington,

(02:00):
d C. It's an embarrassment, especially for those of us
who remember what Washington d C. Used to be. Like,
I'll never forget, you know, the best vacation that my
family ever took when I was a kid, because I
always used to go, you know, to the lake for
two weeks every summer, but one summer we didn't. We
went to Gettysburg because I've always been a Civil War
buff and we went to Washington, d C. And this

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is when the buildings were all clean and pristine, and
the grass was always mowed and flowers were planted. It
was beautiful, absolutely beautiful, vibrant city, our nation's capital, something
we could all as Americans be proud of. That is
not the Washington d C that exists anymore. In fact,
President Trump, you know, in announcing what he was planning

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on doing in Washington, d C, went over some of that.
Here is the President talking about that, with some reaction
at the other end from a Washington d C resident
and guest host on the Five, Charlie Hurt.

Speaker 6 (02:59):
This is day in DC, and we're going to take
our capital back. Here reporters, and I understand a lot
of you tend to be on the liberal side, but
you don't want to get You don't want to get
mugged and raped and shot and killed. And you all
know people and friends of yours that happened. This dire
public safety crisis stem is directly from the abject failures

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of the city's local leadership. The radical left city Council adopted.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
No cash bail.

Speaker 6 (03:29):
We will bring in the military of data. We're going
to restore the city back to the gleaming capital that
everybody wants it to be.

Speaker 7 (03:36):
The idea that you're going to hide behind this notion that, oh,
this is an impossible problem that can never be fixed,
and politicians that's kind of like the last place they
go when they don't want to face accountability for something
and they don't have any solutions for anything, They just
say it's a problem that cannot be fixed. And we've
heard this for years, for decades about the Middle East.

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We've heard this for decades from both parties about the border.
And Donald Trump came along and said, well, I'm not
going to look at it the way you look at
it and say that this is a problem that cannot
be fixed. I'm going to actually try to fix it.
And so then what did we wind up with in
the Middle East? We wind up with Abraham Accords, which
I think are the most important steps towards actual piece
in the Middle East that we've ever seen, and if

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he is able to extend them, they could become even
more powerful in that in that regard, and then of
course the border, he manages to walk in and fix
the border in one day.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
So I'm kind of open.

Speaker 7 (04:33):
Minded to the idea that, yeah, you know, DC is
a kind of a cesspool in a lot of ways.
It's a dangerous city in a lot of ways. But
I don't know, maybe thinking about it from a totally
different approach might fix it.

Speaker 5 (04:47):
That's sources to try. It's a lot better than throwing
up your heads say well, we can't fix that. There's
no cure for that. It's just the way it is,
which is pretty much what if you're lucky. That's what
Democrats will say. They've created this, The progressive left has
created this with no cash bail and and and getting
George Sorows and his crew getting all these judges elected

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that don't believe incarceration for people of color or much
of anybody else as far as that goes. So these
these criminals, they you know, go into the system, come
right back out again. You can't blame the police are
being frustrated by it all. One of the favorite moments
from the Trump you know, the Trump press conference on
this because I appreciate a good analogy. I was brought

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up with analogies. My dad was the king of analogies.

Speaker 8 (05:34):
You know.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
His favorite His favorite saying was thought thought he led
a fart and actually pooped his fans don't assume anything.
And I'd always go, what what does that even mean?
He'd say, what else do you say? Oh, son, you're
going to find that the older you get, the smarter
I get another one of his favorites. I don't think
I did all the analogies with my own kids. I

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think I broke the cycle on that, but I but
I do remember it all very very fondly, and evidently
President Trump does too. He brought up an analogy that
his dad used and he applied that analogy to Washington DC.

Speaker 6 (06:08):
You know, my father always used to tell me had
a wonderful father, very smart, and he used to say, son,
when you walk into a restaurant and you see a
dirty front door, don't go in because if the front
door is dirty, the kitchen is dirty. Also, same thing.

Speaker 5 (06:26):
With the capital.

Speaker 6 (06:28):
You are capitals dirty. Our whole country is dirty.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Now.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
I don't know if he met by dirty as an
actual grime or if he met dirty Listen, you know
all the bad politicians. Maybe just meant all of it
under one term. That could very well be it. But
what a great analogy. That is, What a great analogy.
So we started getting calls from some of you with

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your own analogies. Here's an analogy from one of our
listeners about Washington, d C.

Speaker 9 (06:57):
This is Brady in Cleveland, Texas, and one of my
favorite analogies for Washington would be an armed society is
a polite society. Let's make it easier for our citizens
to arm themselves in self defense. That would help to
turn things around.

Speaker 5 (07:17):
Thanks you're welcome, sir, Thank you for participating in our program.
Any more analogies from our listeners that don't have anything
to necessarily do with Washington, DC or politics.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Good morning, It's Stephen Spring. I've got two It ain't
out of the way if that's where you're going, and
experiences what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

Speaker 6 (07:38):
This decision from Parland.

Speaker 8 (07:40):
The grass may be greener on the other side, but
you still got to cut it.

Speaker 5 (07:45):
That's good. I like that. That's a good one. All right,
quick little break. We're back with more of them on
a Jimmy Bair show. You're on nine fifty kighth yerc.

(08:09):
All right, we accident coming up in the segment number
three of our show today. Just want to give you
a little heads up. That'll be in about another fourteen
to fifteen minutes from now, and it's from this morning
show on KTRH. We talked to him about the Runway
Democrats in our disappointment in the fact that the Texas
State legislature that, namely the House in Dustin Burroughs, hasn't

(08:32):
really done anything to punish them when you get right
down to it. Nobody's had their committee memberships or their
chairs you know, pulled out from from underneath them as
far as I know, No nobody's tried to collect any fines.
As far as I know, nobody's been arrested. So despite
all the tough talk about this, we really haven't made
a whole lot of progress. So we'll we'll talk to
him about that because they're going to try again today

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to get another quorum and unlikely to happen until this
special session is over and done. But it'll leave more
about what happens once this special session comes to an
end as far as trying to gauge whether or not
we're really serious about punishing the Democrats who are are

(09:15):
preventing a quorum for redistricting or any other issues. A
lot of other issues are on the table now too,
but that's all they really care about, all right. I'm
going to start with this one on this segment though.
This is a KPRC two report about a former Harris
County jailer who evidently is involved in the luxury vehicle

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theft ring. Here's the report that we'll comment after.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
This former detention officer is one of two people charged.
She resigned during an internal affairs investigation for getting too
friendly with an inmate earlier this year, and a law
enforcement source tells me that same inmate is now her
co defendant in this theft scheme. From this garage to
a Facebook marketplace post to the Katie f Way, this
white Lexus ES three hundred has taken quite a ride

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and is now at the center of a theft scheme
involving a former employee of the Harris County Sheriff's office.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
It was a whole fiasco.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Top tier fleet owner Christopher Orgy posted this video of
the twenty twenty two Sedan in late July, one of
many cars that his company rents out on behalf of owners.

Speaker 5 (10:19):
He didn't have anything wrong with her record, so everything
really checked out.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
The car got rented quickly.

Speaker 5 (10:23):
I wasn't worried at first until the tracker went there.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
But the renter stopped responding and got to work even quicker,
posting this ad on Facebook marketplace using what appears to
be an AI profile photo under a different name to
sell the car for ten grand.

Speaker 10 (10:38):
It looks like a very good deal. I mean like,
I mean, of course it looks you know, I'm a
liu bit too, gootu be true.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
The buyer, who didn't want to be identified, met the
women who rented the Lexus, and, while skeptical, even testrove
the dream.

Speaker 10 (10:52):
Car also trusty cops, and she kept saying, I'm law
enforcing it, you know, in a uniform.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Now charged his twenty three year old Stevie mose, who
presented this official badge to the buyer while wearing her
HCSO uniform and armored vest, according to records that built
the buyer's trust, he says. But four months earlier, Mosley
resigned from HCSO while under investigation for getting too close
with inmate Andrea Johnson, according to a law enforcement source,

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and she too is charged in the fraudulent sale to
just trick.

Speaker 10 (11:22):
Maybe some uniform. Well it's a real uniform, you know,
so it'sundly like I'm a Shane.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 10 (11:29):
I don't think this is something that anyone should be
dealing with.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
The rental company triggered a kill switch on the car,
so the buyer had it towed to this dealership on
the West Side. After losing eighteen grand to the women,
he realized the car was still owned by someone not
with a Badger uniform, someone he hadn't even met.

Speaker 5 (11:47):
Oops. What there's so many aspects of that story. Think
about that. You've got You've got a Harris County jailor
who was under investigation for quote unquote getting too close
to an inmate. What does that mean? What do you
mean got too close? I mean, like you know, they
were face to face. Was there like some sort of

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like a romantic relationship between them? What does that mean?
Get too close? So she resigns, but evidently she gets
she gets to keep the uniform and the vest and everything.
Was that like a going away present? Don't they don't
they collect that stuff? Maybe not the uniform, but you
would think, I mean, she was also wearing like one

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of those official vests, or maybe they didn't realize that
one was missing.

Speaker 8 (12:35):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
So she obviously there's questions about her character to begin with,
which which of course makes you wonder, you know, what
kind of background checks do they do on people are
working for the Harris Kunty Sheriff's Office or at least
for the jail. What kind of background checks do they
do or do they have a hard time, hard enough

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time finding people to come work for them that they
don't really do that as far as background checks, that
that would be one of the many questions I would
have about this story.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
Then.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
The other aspect about the story, if I'm fascinating, is
that people make available to a rental company their personal vehicle.
Now I've heard of this before. I know there are
people who do it, and I know that rental cars
are expensive. Is there like good money? Do you know
anything about this? Is there like any good money to
be made by doing this? How much? How much money

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could you make a month by I guess it depends
on how uh how often the car gets rented out? Right?
That that that that's that's a strange one to me.
And uh And then there's the guy, of course, who
bought this vehicle. Maybe it's too good to the price,
Maybe it's too good to be true. If it is
too good to be true, it's too good to be true.

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I would definitely require a little bit more evidence of ownership.
I mean, after all, you're you're selling this guy your car.
How did you produce a bill of sale. How did
you produce a Texas license for the vehicle? You know,
the Texas tag? How did you how did you produce that?
That the title? You know you got to have the

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title to the vehicle to sell it. Did he not
know that? Or did she fake a title? There's a
lot of there's a lot of missing information flut that
way in this story. I'd like to know more about.
But you know, I hate to say it is we
as we all continue down this path of life, there's
no wonder we all get more cynical. You know, as
you see more and more stories of things like this happening,

(14:35):
it just you know, it makes you cynical. It has
to make you cynical, all right. This is kind of
related to what we talk about in our next segment
with Ken Paxton, the Runaway Democrats. Did you see that
Betel o'urark whirred is ugly little loser head. This guy
is a serial loser. He has lost I think other
than the one Texas congressional race that he won, he

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should have just stuck in Congress. He has lost every
other race he's been a part of, and he clearly
is not done running. I think I made the comment
the other day, is I feel sorry for his father
in law? Well, actually, I shouldn't feel sorry for his
father in law, because evidently his father in law's got
enough money and is progressive enough that he doesn't care that.
You know, his son in law keeps losing elections. But

(15:21):
what if you had to tell somebody, what, Hey, what
does your son in law do? Oh? He runs for
political office?

Speaker 4 (15:28):
No?

Speaker 1 (15:29):
What does he?

Speaker 5 (15:29):
What does he do if he's not running for political office? Nothing? Nothing.
He goes to rallies every now and again, tries to
get people fired up, which evidently is what he did
the other day when he got up and basically said
that Democrats don't need to follow the rules when it
comes to this, I don't think. I think when it

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comes to anything, he believes the Democrats don't have to
follow the rules, But certainly when it comes to redistricting,
he doesn't believe that Democrats should follow the rules. Here's
Beto from the other night, and some wonderful reaction on
Fox's The Five from Greg Guttfeld.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
You may say to yourself, well, those aren't the rules.
There are no reps in this game for the rules.
We are gonna win, whatever it takes. We're gonna take
this to him in every way that we can.

Speaker 11 (16:15):
I look at Beta or work and that there's just
one feeling and I don't I can only explain it
is I would hate to be his father in law,
do you.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Know what I mean?

Speaker 11 (16:24):
He's like the one that just doesn't do anything but
tells you all these big stories about how he's gonna
make sure your daughter's fine.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
But he's just a load of orse Fleuy.

Speaker 11 (16:34):
Just doesn't he look like the kind of son in
law you don't want anyway? So the big complaint, and
Harrow points it out, is the mid streaming, which is
like a card cheat saying it's not fair that you
caught him cheating. So let's stop the game. Not you, Harold,
I'm talking about the damse who manipulated the census by
flooding districts with illegals.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
They broke the rules, and so don't get.

Speaker 5 (16:56):
Mad when we catch you. We decide to fix it.

Speaker 11 (16:58):
The era of the free punch is over, and the
Dems were always the masters of the chief shot, manipulating
the census. They made their districts look like a smurf
bled out with all the blue splatter. Now Trump is
back and it's not fair. They say it's a threat
to democracy. No, it's just a threat to Democrats. There

(17:19):
is a difference. I like how Dems are now saying
that this is a revenge tour. That was a narrative
they started before the election. I don't know if you
guys remember they're going if Trump gets elected, He's going
to go after everybody. I remember saying why do they
think that? It's because they know they've been doing bad stuff,
they know it's coming, and they.

Speaker 5 (17:40):
Know they deserve this.

Speaker 11 (17:42):
I've never thought about retribution when I've done nothing, but
when I do something, I definitely think, oh, Harold's coming
after me. So jeremandering is Trump and the Republicans finally
taking appropriate action against those who warrant it.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
Yeah, President Trump is doing that. But again, hey, I
hate to keep going back to Texas Republicans, what are
we doing about It's where's our retribution against against the
runaway Democrats? When are they going to pay their price?
My conversation from this morning with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
We'll share that with you next here on AM nine

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fifty KPRC and the Jimmy Barrett Show. So earlier this

(18:42):
morning on kat rh we had Attorney General Ken Paxton
on the show. Had a chance to talk to him
about the runaway Democrats and Texas law and what they
can do versus what the state legislature can do, and
then a little bit about the race against John Cornyn.
So here's that conversation from earlier this morning with Texas
Attorney General Ken Paxton. Well, Texas Democrats are still on

(19:04):
the run, and where's the punishment. We're still waiting on
the punishment joining us as Attorney General Ken Paxson. I
know that, you know, there's talk of charges against these
runaway Democrats, there's talk about taking away their committee chairs
and those types of things. But last I heard, nothing
had happened yet. Why so, Well, well, actually a lot's happened.

(19:24):
It's all in the courts right now. So for instance,
we have filed.

Speaker 8 (19:30):
Actions in Illinois and California courts, so trying to hold
them in contempt for not being here and hold them
accountable for the laws of Texas. But that's within the
courts of those two states. And then of course we've
got the US, the Texas Preme Court action that the
Governor and I are both a part of trying to
remove He filed an action to remove geen Wu. I

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find an action to remove thirteen legislators. We have expedited
opportunity to to I think within two weeks get something
else in front of the court. And they are the
ones driving the timeline, and they are the ones driving
the decision. But we are doing everything we can when
we don't have the authority to make the decisions. We

(20:14):
only have the authority to make the filings. The court,
the text Supreme Court on these out of state courts
are the ones that actually make the decisions.

Speaker 5 (20:23):
And you say there's been a request for an expedited
ruling on some of these cases. Let me let me
ask you about these states. I know that the FBI
is cooperating as far as trying to find where these
people are in all hard they are to find them,
to be calling a lot of news conferences, But are
you getting any cooperation at all from any of these
blue states as far as trying to extradite these democrats.

Speaker 8 (20:45):
No, I mean that's why they went to democratic states.
I mean we know where they are for the most part.
I mean it's not like some secret they're not hiding. Really,
they're in plain sight in most of these states. It's
just that we don't have the jurisdiction to go arrest
them unless we have the participation of the other states.
So I don't think the FBI has authority to go

(21:06):
arrest them because they haven't commitate federal crime. So that's
the problem. So we're forward in court. We're asking the
court to honor under the Full faith and Credit clause
of our US Constitution. Other states are supposed to honor
the laws of other states, and that's what we're trying
to get these other states to do. Whether we can
get a judge or judges in these liberal states to

(21:27):
actually follow law, well that's all we can do. We
can ask the courts in those states please follow our
laws just as we would follow your laws.

Speaker 5 (21:36):
Yeah, I know that. The governors basically said, if you
want to get paid, you're going to have to come
pick up your paycheck in person, which is a is
a great tactic, I guess, although the paycheck for a
Texas lawmaker is not very high. But I'm a little
bit surprised that the House itself hasn't been done a
few more draconian moves I've not heard about any effort yet. Anyway,

(21:58):
There's been a threat of taking committee co chairs away
from Democrats, but I don't think it's actually happened.

Speaker 8 (22:04):
Yeah, that's I mean, that's completely up the speaker. That's
an inside you know, the House kind of decision. That
would be to Dustin Burroughs to make that call. Craig
Abbott couldn't make that happen. I can't make that happen.
Those those those decisions are up to Dustin Burroughs, and
I'd certainly encourage them to start exercising that power over
these people, to put more pressure on them to come back.

Speaker 5 (22:28):
As far as the ability of the state to remove
them from office, what does what does state law say
about removing a member of the state legislature. What sort
of rules have to be broken in order for that
to happen and to stand up in court.

Speaker 8 (22:42):
Well, so this is a you know, and this has
never happened before. We're in uncharged territory. This was an
idea that my office put together in a legal opinion
three years ago. When the four years ago when the
members left for the same reason. So, you know, as
I said, we don't really know how all this works.
We just know that they are applicating their responsibility. We

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filed against the thirteen members that were the most open
and notorious about their reasons for being gone and put
it out in public so that we would have the
best possible argument with the Supreme Court. Hey, these people
have said they're applicating in their own words. Please give
us an opportunity to get legislators in there that will
actually show up, do their jobs and vote.

Speaker 5 (23:24):
Before I let you go, i'd like to ask you
a little bit about your attempt to win the Senate
seat away from John Cornyn in the primary. I know
that you've got a lot of support. You're a true conservative.
I don't think the same thing can be said for
John Cornyn, although he's running. I'm sure you've seen the
television ads he's running right now, where it makes it
looks like he sides with Donald Trump on virtually every issue.

Speaker 8 (23:48):
Well, look, that's what I call the fake John Cornyn
that started appearing on April the eighth, when I got
into the race. We all know that he didn't like
Donald Trump, he didn't support him in two thousand and six,
that he was an albatross around twenty sixteen, said he
was an albus trust around her neck and in the
last election would not support him, basically insinuated that he
had committed crimes, that this whole Russian hoax was a

(24:10):
real thing. He was antagonist to Trump on the border wall,
did not want to build a boarderwall, was antagonist to
Trump on many issues, and now suddenly he's a massive
support of Donald Trump. It's all fake, and that he's
doing it because he knows he's way behind. He can't
win without being dishonest about his positions because they don't match.

(24:33):
I've got you know, many many clips that anybody can
go look at on the internet where he has been
very disparaging towards Trump and very disparaging towards many of
his policies, and including you know, joining Joe Biden and
restricting the Second Amendment, which was a big win for
Joe Biden and a loss for Texans. But John Cornyn

(24:55):
is more on that side and making Democrats happy than
he is making happy.

Speaker 5 (25:00):
And you can beat with the deep pockets. He's got
a lot of money in the bank, your donor money.

Speaker 8 (25:05):
Well, look, we outraised him in my first quarter of
fundraised only at two months. We raised two point nine million.
Max contribution was seven thousand dollars. He raised eight hundred
and three thousand, So I outraised him, who was four
run out raised every single US senator, a Republican US
senator in the country. I will admit Washington will spend
a lot of money. They have the special committees that

(25:26):
I don't have access to. They have sort of a
rigged fundraising system. So yes, he's going. He's already spent.
I think they said eight million dollars in the last month.
But guess what, he doesn't have anything to talk about
other than making up this stuff about Trump and making
up stuff about me. He doesn't have a record that
he can go be proud of and go tell the

(25:46):
voter here's what I did over the last you know,
four decades of my career, in the last two and
a half decades in the Senate, I do have that record.
And I think the voters, at least in the primary
I know, are smart enough to see the difference and
no when somebody's not telling them the truth.

Speaker 5 (26:01):
All right, mister turney jail, thank you for your time.
As always, do appreciate it, sir. You take care that
is Attorney General Ken Paxton from this morning. Not that
it matters, but in that race between John Cornyn and
Ken Paxton, I overwhelmingly support Ken Paxton. Now, is Ken
Paxton perfect? No, you know there's marital issues there, but

(26:23):
I don't listen, We've all had marital issues. I'm not
going to judge somebody based on their marital track record,
but I am going to judge them based on their
conservative credentials. John Cornan is not in any way, shape
or form a Conservative, and it didn't take long after
coming to Texas to figure that out. The last time
he ran for Senate in statewide election, his ads didn't

(26:47):
even mention him as a Republican. He completely avoided the
idea that he was affiliated with any particular political party.
He now, I listen, I understand. You know that we've
got some major cities that are blue, and he's trying
to court those voters as well, So he avoids, he
avoids being a Republican. He's only a Republican or promotes

(27:12):
himself as a Republican when it suits him somehow, and
it suits him right now. He's running these ads. They
make it look like he and Donald Trump are buddies
like he votes with Donald Trump ninety nine point five
percent of the time or something like that. And Ken
Paxton was much closer to the truth in that interview
about you know, the relationship between Cornyn and Trump. Now

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President Trump I think is kept John Cornyn at a
safe distance, hasn't had anything disparaging to say about him.
He knows how John Cornon really feels about him, but
he hasn't come out and made a recommendation or an
endorsement in the in the Texas primary. But it'll be
interesting to see if he does, because all by all rights,

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he should be endorsing Ken Paxton versus endorsing John Cornick.
All right, quick, will break back with more in a moment.
Jimmy Barrett show here on a M nine fifty KPRC.

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All right, coming, thanks to wrap up our show today.
First of all, Happy Middle child Day and if any
all middle children. I am the oldest in our family.
By the way, I'm a big believer in the birth order.
The birth order rule is that relates to marriage. Are
you familiar with this birth order rule? The birth order

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rule says that you should not marry. Well, I'll give
you an example. I am the oldest. You should not
marry somebody else who's the firstborn in the other family.
And the reason being is that they'll always be control
issues because the firstborn generally is in charge of a

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lot of things, and they're used to being in charge,
and if you put a firstborn male with a firstborn female,
both of them are going to be wrestling for control.
That's kind of the story of my first marriage. She
was the oldest, I was the oldest. I didn't know
anything about the birth order rule. By the same token,

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babies should not marry babies. The lastborn should not marry
another last born because they're used to being spoiled. They're
used to being the center of attention, and so they're
always going to be looking to be the center of attention,
and there's conflict. You can't both be the center of attention,
so that causes conflict. So babies should not marry babies.

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Middle children, however, Happy Middle child day. Middle children generally
can get along with anybody. They can generally get along
with anybody. They're used to negotiating. They're used to not
being the center of attention. They're used to preventing fights
between siblings, getting in the middle of it and settling things.

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They're more diplomatic for the most part. So middle kids,
unlike the oldest child and the baby, they can virtually
get along with anybody. And I've kind of found that
to be the case. It's pretty true now in my
second marriage, I've married a baby, firstborn and a baby.
It works. And the other thing about the baby is

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is they get along with people of all ages because
they're used to everybody being older than them, so they're
used to getting along with other people regardless of age.
I thought that's very interesting. All right, What else do
I want to talk to you about? Oh huh, I
saw this story. I didn't get to it this morning.
I'm gonna share it with you this afternoon because I

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find this very interesting. Here there's an app now that
allows couples to sell tickets to their wedding to friends
or family, but to strangers. First of all, there's two
things about that. First of all, why would you want
to have a bunch of strangers at your wedding who
paid to be there? And second of all, who's going

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to buy a ticket to a wedding? I mean, are
there people who are so gung ho to go to
weddings that they would pay to go to somebody's wedding
that they don't know that person. It's this app is
taking off in Europe. It allows you to sell tickets
to the wedding, not intended for your loved ones, You're
selling it to strangers. You can choose how many tickets

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on the app that you want to make available. So
if you want to have a let's say you've always
wanted to have a big wedding, right, but you only
have about I don't know, fifty to one hundred people
you actually know, or you have a small family, don't
have a big circle of friends, so you want to
but you want to have a big wedding, you want
to have two hundred people, So you could sell one
hundred tickets to the wedding and these are all people

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who would pay for the privilege of coming. Now, the
other thing that's kind of strange about it is, I mean,
is this an opportunity to meet people? You know? Is
this like wedding crashers? You know where if you're a guy,
hey listen, I'm gonna buy a ticket to this wedding
because there's gonna be a lot of good looking women

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there and I may be able to get you know,
I might be able to get together with one of
these good looking women. The couples can choose how much
to charge, but generally take its cost between one hundred
and two hundred dollars and maybe even more if you
have a special venue. Couples can also approve sales after
first seeing the profiles of the perspective guests. So you
have and by the way, you can lay down some

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rules dress code. For example, you got you got formal
wear or suit and tie or whatever it is you
want people to wear. You could also make sure that
they arrive on time. You can also stipulate drinking and
moderation and also not sharing photos without permission. But I

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would think the toughest job for anybody in that circumstance
is going to be the wedding photographer, right. I mean,
do you want to have a bunch of pictures from
your wedding of people you don't know or do you
not care? If you care, then you'd have to let
the photographer know who the real people are that are

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friends and family, so they take pictures of them and
they don't take pictures of the guests. I'm just trying
to figure out why somebody would buy a ticket to
a wedding. I mean, unless they're having a really good
band play and really really top notch food, then maybe
you could just make an evening out of it, like
you're going out for dinner and dancing. Right The app

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is called Inviting I N V I T I N.
It's a small startup in France for right now, but
it continues to get traction could become a big thing
in the United States down the road. Unbelievable. I don't
even particularly like going to weddings of people I know,
let alone going to the weddings of a stranger. All right, listen,

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it's been fun, you'all have a great day. Thank you
for listening. I'll see you tomorrow morning, bright and early,
starting at five am over on news Radio seven and
forty k t r H. We are back here at
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