October 7, 2025 • 36 mins
Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:
- National Taco Day
- Would you ever run for office?
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hey, Happy National Taco Day. Did you have tacos for
lunch today? How about how about for dinner? How about
yes to both? How about yes to both?
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Isn't that funny? National Taco Day falls on Tuesday? Does
it always fall on Tuesday? You'd be smart if it dead.
I mean, after all, there's nothing like Taco Tuesday. Right Anyway,
this National Taco Day. So we got into a discussion
on the Morning Show today and Kat r h about tacos.
You know taco rules. Do you have rules about tacos?
I mean, some people have, you know, very very distinctive
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taco taste. For example, you can get hardshell tacos and
you can get soft tacos. Soft tacos being the traditional taco,
maybe with either corn or flower tortillas. I wouldn't say
no to any of those things. I do like the
crunch I must have been. I do like the crunch.
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I do prefer a hard taco versus a soft tacos.
So put me now as a hard taco guy. And
if that means that I'm not really Hispanic, that's okay,
because I'm not really Hispanic. I just like the food.
So if I eat like a gringo, okay, I'm meeting
like a gringos, so be it. I'll have my tacos
exactly how I want them. Bigger topic of discussion actually
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is what do you like in and on your tacos?
What kind of meat? I normally it's a taco purest,
at least in my mind, as a taco purest, I'd
rather have ground beef. Is this is the meat sauce.
I'm not really interested in a chicken taco. I'm not
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interested in a fish taco. I would be interested in
a shrimp taco. I do like shrimp tacos, and in
that case I would want to I'd want a soft
tortilla shell. I wouldn't want a hard shell for shrimp tacos.
That that would be wrong, at least in my mind,
that would be wrong. I don't mind, you know, steak tacos.
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Although once you start getting into into uh, you know, carbone,
then you're then you're then you start getting into to
me more along the lines of if the heat is
and that kind of thing. So yeah, I've got a
specific idea in my mind of what what the taco
should be as far as what you put on there.
I don't need cilantro, thank you very much. Black olives
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are okay, but I don't need them to me that something.
I'll take the black owls more on the nachos that
I would on the tacos. Lettuce, Uh doesn't have to
have lettuce, but yes, I would like some lettuce, as
long as it's not wilted lettuce, as long as it's
nice and crispy. Cheese. Of course, you gotta have cheese.
And I'm not talking like cheddar cheese. I'm talking like,
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you know, Mexican cheese. I'm talking about you know, maybe
a little pepper jack. You know, a variety of different
Mexican cheese is all mixed together. Sour cream, yes, yes, yes, yes,
I would definitely take sour cream on it. Pineapple, who
hang on, who has pineapple on a taco? I mean,
I can't even accept that on a pizza let alone
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on a taco. Radish, Well, you know I wouldn't. I wouldn't,
you know, throw the taco out because I had bradish
on it. Broccoli really, that's that's who has tacos with broccoli?
I wouldn't eat. I'm sorry, not Gonda Dad. Not interested
in broccoli in any form. Onion, Yes, I would like onion,
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raw onion or cooked onion, but the cooked on would
be more in the fajetas right, it'd be the raw
onion that you would have in the taco. What else, Tomatoes, Yeah,
as long as they're not mushy. Salsa, A little bit
of salsa, nothing too hot, nothing too crazy spicy, I
don't I don't mind. It's got a little bit of
kick to it, but nothing too crazy hot. Jalapenos. I
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don't particularly care for halapenos. I'm not a real spicy
kind of guy. Hot sauce, No, I'm not a hot
sauce person. To me. To me, if you are putting
a lot of hot sauce on something, especially I know
people put hot sauce on eggs, and I know that's
a thing, especially here in Texas. Hot sauce and eggs.
I don't quite understand that to me. To me, that
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sounds like somebody who might actually not really like the
taste of something, so they're trying to drown out the
taste with spice, at least in my mind. Then again,
I know other people who who hotter the better. They
just love hot. You know that the heat is the
most important thing. Rice Again, I'm thinking, I'm thinking burrito now,
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I'm not thinking tacos with rice. I'm thinking of burrito.
Same thing with the beans side dish with a taco.
Great in the taco itself. No, and avocado or guacamole. Yeah,
I'm not so much the whole avocado, although the whole
lot avocado might be nice with the shrimp taco, but
more than guacamole. And as long as it's not you know,
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heated up too much by being in the tacos. See
got I've got rules. I've got taco rules. And turns
out some of our listeners have taco rules as well.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
This morning, guys, Rick from the East Side, my mother
in law had a tradition every Tuesday of taco Tuesdays,
and my wife and I have carried it on nice
corn Your tea fried on this top stove, wrapped around
meat cheese that is tomato, and that meat being ground
(06:03):
beat nothing better.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Good morning, Jimmy.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
This is Atlanta and Stafford. You can make tacos with anything, peanut,
butter and tortillas. You can put tacos anything you can
put in tacos. If you want eggs today, you can
put eggs in them. If you want I hate does today,
you can put my hatim whatever you want.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
You can put.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
Morning Jimmy, this is Andy from Spring. I think a
shrimp taco with a homemade pineapple piko de gyo or
a mango piko gyo on corn tortillas with avocado is
pretty tasty.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Hey, good morning, Jimmy.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
Okay, hands down, the best taco taca to get is
if you're like even out in the country, and Mike knows.
I'm talking about the little gas stations that have the
taco place and if that lion, if there's a line there,
definitely stuck because those things are freaking good.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
And Mike, can we do tacos?
Speaker 9 (07:02):
Today's the bananas because most of those guys prefer tacos.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Wait, I can see that right, all right, y'all have your.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Day by Yeah, Mike didn't have any any taco stickers.
You know, there's a couple of interesting points in there.
Number one, Yes, I agree. You can find some great
hole in the wall places to get tacos that are
by gas stations. I think even the better choices of
food truck. If you see a taco stand food truck
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and there's a line of people waiting to get the tacos,
they're worth they're worth checking out, they're worth trying. But
what was with Atlanta with a peanut butter? I know, theoretically,
you know, tacos are kind of like they're kind of
like a Mexican sandwich right to a certain extent. You know,
it's like, you know, the the tortilla shell, soft tortilla shell,
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can it's like a piece of bread.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
You can put anything in there. And I've done that before.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I've made it like a roast beef sandwich using a
tort he a soft tortillashell, flower tortilla. Sheell it tastes great.
But peanut butter, I don't know that, just that this
kind of strikes me as being wrong.
Speaker 10 (08:10):
Hey, my daughter was shoesing golf tournaments as a teenager.
Always had flower tortillas with peanut butter in them. Gave
me a lot of energy. Easy to carry, and we're
tasteful a hot afternoon.
Speaker 8 (08:24):
Hey, Jants, I will tell you something great for breakfast
from a good taco shop is charizo and egg.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
It's amazing.
Speaker 10 (08:33):
Hi, this is Debby from Baytown Burger king his tacos.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Try it you might like them. See it from Webster again.
One taco I won't eat taco John's.
Speaker 10 (08:43):
I'm sure Jimmy knows all about it because it's kind
of a Midwest up north thing.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
They put tater tots in the tacos. No, no, no.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
No one in Jimmy. It's Steven Spring.
Speaker 10 (08:53):
One rule for the taco, the traditional crispy beef taco.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Don't make it greasy.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Don't want the shell falling apart.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Thanks. A little bit of Greece is good. Too much
grease is not so much?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Right, quick little break back with more in a moment,
Jimmy Barrett show in this National Taco Day. You're on
AM nine fifty KRC. All right, let's steak in this by.
(09:30):
I'm mentioning the Supreme Court is back in session.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Just a moment.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
We're going to hear from Carrie Sevalino, who is an
extually she was actually a clerk for a judge, Clarence Thomas.
She's president of the Judicial Crisis Network. But before we
do that, let's talk a little bit and I'll ask
her about this as well. The sentence handed down against
the I don't remember his or her name. I can't
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remember if she's if it's a she, he trans you know,
transgendering into a he or a he transgendering into she
is just another confused transgender individual who you know, stalked
several members of the Supreme Court and was on his
or her way to murder Brent Kavanaugh, and I guess
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there were a couple other potential Supreme Court justices that
were targeted as well. She got a Biden appointed judge
who gave her eight years an eight year sentence. The
recommendation was thirty years. The judge went with eight years,
and the judge seemed to be concerned about whatever living
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conditions this transgender prisoner was going to be in because
of Trump's rules of you having to go to a
prison based on your birth gender who you were born as,
born a male, you go to a male prison. Born
a female, go to a female prison, not what you
are transitioned into. Oh, by the way, speaking of transitioning,
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I mentioned something on the show yesterday. I'd like to
correct the record here because I clearly the woman involved
and we'll maybe talk more about it before the end
of the show. But the woman involved in the in
the killing of her four children, the woman from Porter
who did this in Brazoria County, shot all four of
them in the car. She is a she. She's clearly
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a she. I mentioned yesterday because I was confused based
on what the sheriff Brasoria County sheriff has said, had
made a very interesting phrase saying that she identifies as
and I think what as it turns out, I think
what he meant to say was her identity is not
she identifies as that. I don't think he realized what
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he was saying. It's a whole different world when you
say somebody identifies as that means that, Okay, that is
not necessarily what they are. They just identify as that person,
like a male identifying as a female or female identifying
as a male. But I think what he really meant
to say was her identity is and that little slip
up caused little confusion. So anyway, I stand correctly on
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that anyway back to back to this transgender would be assassin.
They were talking about it yesterday on aut numbered about
this prison sentence and how unjust this prison sentence was.
Speaker 11 (12:22):
The idea that you had someone deranged like this trying
to take out and murder a Supreme Court justice and
this is all that individual gets is ridiculous. I think
the grounds for repeal are strong.
Speaker 12 (12:32):
So the DOJ was seeking a thirty year sentence for this,
so why the leniency.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
How did it get down to eight?
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Well?
Speaker 12 (12:40):
Judge Debrah Boardman, a Biden appointee, says that she factored
into the sentence her concern about Trump's executive order requiring
transgender inmates to be detained in prisons that correspond to
their sex at birth. That rationale shocking legal experts.
Speaker 13 (12:57):
It's really disturbing that his mental health concerns and his
concern of gender dys for you was given as a
literal get out of jail free card here. That's not
how our system should work, and it's going to create
a lot of bad incentives for people claiming genderness for
you in the future. If they think that's going to
get them off of prison. This sets a bad example
in a time of rising political violence. There's not the
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deterrence that there needs to be from all sides in
our society. Democratic lawmakers who haven't said enough on all
of these issues we've been talking about right all the
way down. Judges absolutely need to be holding that line
so people understand political violence is outlet a line.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Okay, that last voice you just heard Carrie Sevarino of
the she's president of the Judicial Crisis Network. We had
on our morning show today and kat r h here's
a little bit of my conversation with her. Eight years,
eight years. I guess the judge used the excuse of
the assassin himself for herself. I'm not sure which being
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a transgender in which concerned because of the Trump ruling
on prison segregation based on sex, that somehow this transgender
individual be in danger.
Speaker 14 (14:10):
Absolutely, I mean, this is not a normal sentencing factor
that you consider.
Speaker 15 (14:15):
There's a lot of calculation that.
Speaker 14 (14:17):
Goes into the recommended sentence, which was thirty years, by
the way, not eight years.
Speaker 15 (14:22):
Thirty years.
Speaker 14 (14:22):
The defendant himself asked for just eight years, and that's
effectually what he got thanks to this judge, and she
talked about how he had accepted responsibility. That's all great,
that's part of that calculation. That's why it was only
thirty years, because otherwise he could have gotten up to
life in prison.
Speaker 15 (14:40):
So this is really outrageous that.
Speaker 14 (14:43):
She's giving that in a time of rising political violence,
giving such a slap on the wrist level sentence for
someone who wanted to assassinate not even just one Supreme
Court justice, but said he wanted to get three Supreme
Court justices that day. And I think it sets a
really bad example apparently, if you, if you want to
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bargain down for a better sentence, claiming that your transgender
is now get out a.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Jail free card literally or at least claiming you're a
progressive or proving yourself to be a progreservator in front
of a Biden judge.
Speaker 14 (15:16):
Well yeah, I mean it's I hope that that didn't
factor into it.
Speaker 15 (15:21):
Her own proposition to this, but it was.
Speaker 14 (15:24):
It was really disturbing. I mean, she was sort of celebrating, well,
I'm so wonderful that this has been at least an
opportunity for you to come out to your family and
have some closure on this issue. I'm like, oh my gosh,
this is not a therapy session. This is this is
a sentencing here, and for someone who tried to kill
a Supreme Court justice, it's really it's really disturbing. It's
something that I know the government is going to be
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appealing this sentence, but you know, the Fourth Circuit is
a pretty liberal circuit.
Speaker 15 (15:49):
Will see how successful they are. I think people need.
Speaker 14 (15:52):
To realize how important it is to have sound.
Speaker 15 (15:56):
Judges at all levels.
Speaker 14 (15:57):
It's great that the Supreme Court is so conservative and
so originalists at this point, but all the way down
there's a lot of mischief that can be done by
a district court judge, and unfortunately, these last year or so.
Speaker 15 (16:10):
We've seen a lot of that. This is just the
latest example.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
You're so all right about that. All right, let's get
into the session itself. What do you see as the
top let's say, the top two cases that could have
an impact on the Trump administration going forward.
Speaker 14 (16:23):
Well, so there, he already has a couple big cases
dealing with his particular agenda items, and that is one
on the.
Speaker 15 (16:32):
Date, actually maybe three.
Speaker 14 (16:33):
This is a tariff's case having to do with whether
he can implement tariffs under the emergency provisions in that Act.
And then also whether he has the ability to fire
members of supposedly independent commissions. These have long been assumed
to be oh, well, you know, Congress said they have
such and such terms, so the president can't kick them
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out before that term unless they have actual cause there.
Speaker 15 (16:57):
But there's a lot of constitutional problems with that, where if.
Speaker 14 (17:00):
They're part of the executive brands, and I think that's
what stendiablows they are, they're surely not judges, they're not
members of Congress, then he has to be able to
have the authority over that branch and so, and that's
an issue that's been percolating for a long time. Biden
fired a lot of people under this assumption, and now
Trump we're going to get the final call on can
Trump do the same thing as well? And I think
it's also you know, they're also going to probably have
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a hearing on the birthright citizenship issue and that that's
going to be really important. So big issues, and that's
just the ones that deal with to Trump administration.
Speaker 15 (17:30):
There's also important issues dealing.
Speaker 14 (17:32):
With other things, including men and women's sports, and including
the case that we're hearing about today with free speech
attacks within Colorado having to do with it's so called
conversion therapy.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Well, you know, you're right. I mean, there's some amazing
social issues that are at work here. You were a
clerk for Clarence Thomas. How does this process work? How
does the Supreme Court make us decisions on which cases
they're going to first? I there's an order. I know
they hear them in. I don't think that though, that
the rulings, the ultimate rulings, necessarily come out in that order,
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do they.
Speaker 15 (18:08):
No, They gets them done as they can.
Speaker 14 (18:11):
So typically the first case is that you'll get the
decisions from each year are going to be the unanimous cases.
Speaker 15 (18:18):
The easier the case is, the faster quickly.
Speaker 14 (18:20):
They can get it done. So you know, they obviously
started start hearing them. They started hearing them yesterday, and
they'll hear them throughout the year. So the earlier ones
are going to often come out first. But if you
have a really controversial case the first day of the term,
it might take until the end to get it because
what happens is the person who's assigned the case, they
vote on who what the outcome is. Then someone gets
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assigned to write the opinion. You know, that might take
them longer on a more complicated case or on a
more controversial case. And then after that opinion is circulated,
the other justices in descent have to reply, so they'll
they'll write their dessense.
Speaker 15 (18:52):
Then they might have stuff.
Speaker 14 (18:53):
In the majority opinion they need to respond to, and
then that gets circulated.
Speaker 15 (18:57):
Then the majority says, now, wait a minute, we're not
going to leave that as it is. We need to
respond to the response.
Speaker 14 (19:02):
And so that back and forth Tinselm has take a
long time on these really big, really complicated cases, and
that's why sometimes so get out of order. Some justices
are also known to be faster writers or an other.
Speaker 15 (19:13):
So you get.
Speaker 14 (19:13):
Assigned to a faster justice, your case might come out earlier.
If you get assigned to one of the justices it
takes his or her time, then you might have to
wait a little longer for the decision.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Again. That is Kerrie Sevarino, President of the Judicial was
a judicial crisis effort.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
That's her.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, all right, quick, low break back with more in
a moment. Hey, would you like to run for a
Republican office in Harris County, Cindy? Sigal who's the head
of the GOP in Harris County. She'd love to have
you do that one thing though, she'd like you to
come to their boot camp. They're going to have a
boot camp to try to get people ready to run
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for office as a Republican in Harris County. Back with
more in a moment, Jimmy Parrett, you're a NAM nine
fifty KPRC. It takes strategy to run for political office.
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It also takes time, it takes effort, and for a
lot of us who have ever ever thought, and I
would have to admit that there was probably a time
in my life where I thought for nano second about
running for political office, But I always talk myself out
of it, because at the end of the day, I
don't want I would want to be going to all
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these pot lucks in town halls and doing all the things,
kissing all the babies and shaking all the hands that
you have to do in order to run for political
office so that people know who you are. There's a
right way to run for office, and there's a not
so right way to run for office. And we'll get
into that in just a second. With Cindy Siegel from
the Harriskin GOP. But first, here's another thing. Right now,
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with the political discourse being what it is, I don't
think I would want to want I certainly would not
want to be a candidate on the Democrat ticket. I
don't know how you begin to defend some of the
things have been done. Of course, I wouldn't be a
candidate as a Democrat. I'd only be a candidate as
a Republican. But I thought this was very interesting because
I think, you know, you take a look at what's
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going on in politics right now, and you make the
assumption that everybody running on the left is is alone.
They're crazy. You know that the progressive wing of the
party has taken over and they're all the same. Well,
the progressive wing of the party has taken over, but
there are still some Democrats out there, more of the
old school style Democrats. There's still some of them out there.
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One of them is a Democrat strategist, And as you
listen to him talk about what the Democrats have been
doing wrong, you'll swear to yourself, well, hang on, he
sounds like a Republican and he's that's not a Democrat.
He sounds more like a Republican. Well he's I don't
know why he's still sticking with a D next to
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his name, but he is a Democrat. He is a strategist.
I don't know that anybody's hiring him right now. Maybe
a John Fetterman would hire him to be a strategist
for him, but most Democrats wouldn't because they have just
decided that they're in bed with the Parisia wing of
the party. But this guy has some interesting observations on
what is going wrong from a strategy standpoint. Julian Epstein
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is his name, and he says he starts by saying,
this whole thing, let's start with the government shutdown. What
a hopelessly narcissistic thing to do.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Well.
Speaker 16 (22:40):
I think it was a little bit of a narcissistic
move on the part of the Democrats, given that they
lost the election, the House, the Senate, and the presidency.
I think the reality is, and I've been through a
lot of these shutdowns in the past, the public doesn't
seem to care that much about it or be that
aware of it. Neither of the two parties feel that heat.
I think probably what will happen in the end is
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that there will be a kicker that will extend the
subsidies for maybe a year after the election. But the
big picture, Maria, is that the Democrats needed a game
changer here. They're going into the second half of this
election cycle being far behind the Republicans on nearly every issue,
mostly because they are far to the left of the
median voter on every single issue, immigration, crime, you name it,
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and people don't like the street theater and the name
calling that have been very characteristic of the Democrats since
the last election. So the Democrats really need a major
game change moment here, and this is not going to
give it to them. Until the Democrats start building, fixing
the pathetic performance of our public schools, for example, or
getting our workers ready for the Ai Revolution, they're just
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going to be stuck playing these small ball politics and
it's not going to change their situation, which is pretty
bad right now if you look at their approval numbers,
and I think if you want to see the evidence
of the growing violence on the left, just look at
the Yukov poll a couple weeks ago. Twenty five percent
of progressives think that violence can be justified to achieve
political ends. Another fourteen percent are on the fence of it.
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That's almost half of young progressives. If you look at
what's happening on college campuses and elsewhere, we've had over
ten thousand incidents a year of anti semitism, mostly coming
from leftist ideology.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
If you look at all the.
Speaker 16 (24:17):
Attacks on ice officials going on all over the country,
this again is all leftist anti law enforcement ideology. And
I think the culture on the left is becoming very dangerous.
When you keep calling people a fascist and a Nazi.
One is not just an illiterate use of the term
and it's an insult to any family who's ever had
to live through the horrors of Nazism, but it is
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inviting fringe elements of the left to take action, and
we've seen plenty of evidence of this occurring. But secondly, Maria,
there is a nihilism on the left. There is a
deep skepticism, for example, of borders of police, of gender,
categories of energy dumps, all of the things that have
built the left aggressive.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Ideology is deeply skeptical.
Speaker 16 (25:02):
Well, when you don't believe in the institutions that have
made the West so great, you begin to go into
a place of sort of spiritual meaninglessness, and I think
this is happening, particularly with a lot of young people
on the fringes. On the left, there is a despair,
there's a sense of meaninglessness.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
The loss of faith.
Speaker 16 (25:19):
In the country I think has contributed to this. I
think there's a deeper cultural problem that's going on here
that the left and democratic politicians just seem completely out
of touch with.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
That's some pretty amazing stuff. No, no, no, I don't
mean amazing from the standpoint of how his student is
because nobody understood that until he said it. We all
understand that from our political perspective, but the progressive left
doesn't seem to and or at least are willing to
admit it. But at least there's somebody on the left
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who seems to understand exactly what is wrong. All right, now,
let's worry about running people for office, good people for office.
From the rights. Cindy Siegels, the Harris County GOP chair.
We talked to her this morning on kat rh about
this political boot camp, if you will, a Republican boot
camp that she's going to be running. So exactly what
is campaign boot camp? How does this work?
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Well, it's a camp that we actually as a seminar
we provide for our candidates and also campaign workers, people
who want to help run campaigns, covering everything from you know,
the legal side of it, how do you appoint a
treasure what reports you file with the Texas Election Ethics
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Commission or the Federal Elections Commission to you know, how
do you message, how do you do your social media?
How do you give your thirty second to two minute
campaign speech? Everything you want to know about running and
being a candidate?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
All right, So no push ups, no pull ups, no
revelry at five point thirty in the morning, none of
that stuff.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
But they may feel like that after it's over.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
It's just it's an intense it's an intense I guess
it's just an intense seminars what you're talking about here, right,
It's a chance for people who maybe have thought about
running for public office, would like to run for public office,
but have no idea how to do it, to give
them a prepper on exactly how you go about doing it.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Right, So this is actually the third class of that
type we've offered. The idea behind it is that if
we can make all of our candidates as strong as possible,
whomever comes out of that primary is going to be
in a better position to win and be you know,
the leftist progressive next November.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You know, we've talked to the past two Cindy Siegel,
that there are just some political positions out there that
go unopposed. That we don't have Republican candidates for us.
It's also maybe a way to try to recruit people
to run in those races that right now are on posed.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Yes, it is. We had earlier this year what we
called our info sessions, and we targeted your partisan races,
like your judicial candidates. We've had a couple of those.
We also had one that was targeted towards other partisan
races other than just the judges. But you know, we've
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really put a big emphasis this year in trying to
get a full slate, and I would encourage people that
this is a great time that if they've ever thought
about running for office, now is the time to run.
We think we've got a really good shot next year.
We're putting a lot of resources into winning and continuing
(28:47):
to win. We've won some races, but we want to
take back the county and make it read again.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
All right for somebody who's ever thought about running for
political office. What is the typical skill set do you
think that makes it for a good Republican? So you
could look right in the mirror and say, yeah, that's me.
I would be good at this.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Well.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Obviously from the party's standpoint, and as a Republican, we
want people who believe in our values, that believe in
our way of governing principles. They don't have to agree
with us all the time. It's like Ronald Reagan said
that if they agree with me eighty percent of the time,
they're my friends, and you know, have a nose. I
don't agree with my husband one hundred percent of the
(29:28):
time and we've been married almost thirty five years. But
from there, I tell candidates three things. I look for
someone who's got the fire in the belly, who really
wants to win and understands that it is going to
be a twenty four to seven job until they get
through the election. I look for someone who has a
(29:50):
good support network, because it is twenty four to seven
and it tends to at times be the high of
the highs and the low of the lows when you're
running for up. And then more importantly, I look for
someone who has a paths of victory, who's thought about
their campaign and knows where they're going to go after
the votes, what their message is going to be, how
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they're going to persuade voters, how they're going to turn
out our base. That they really put some thought into it.
They didn't just wake up one morning and say, oh,
I think I'll run for office today. And that in
part is why we're helping host this boot camp campaign
boot camp because it helps people, I think, put that
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plan together for their campaign.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Again that Cindy Siegel. Yeah, we take way too much
time out of my world in order to be able
to do something like that. Plus I couldn't be on
the radio anymore. Yeah, I have to give that up.
Not worth it to me. The guy who replaced me
in Richmond, Virginia, interestingly enough, though, did decide it was worthwhile.
He is running for lieutenant governor. Last I heard, I
(31:02):
think he's a couple three points behind. They have their
election coming up in November. But yeah, he had to
give up doing the morning show where I used to
work in order to be able to run for political office.
All right, back with Boring and Mom with Jimmy Barrett
show Here on AM nine fifty k PRC. All Right,
(31:36):
to wrap it up for today, let's tackle this mom again.
This mother who shot her four children in the car
close range at a gas station right off of two
to eighty eight in Brazoria County. She's from Porter, well,
I probably shouldn't say she's from Porter, she's lived there
(31:57):
for a couple of months. She's from Georgia. And i'd
heard before that Haiti, which might explain the Haitians have
a because you're going to hear a lot of talk
about the devil here in the second The Haitians kind
of have a strange relationship, at least in my mind,
with religion and with voodoo and all those types of things.
So I don't know if that played into any of
(32:18):
this at all or not. But I do know that
the devil will be blamed for what happened. And I
also know that we're dealing with a woman who might
have been under a great deal of stress. She has
just moved to Texas from Georgia. We don't know why
she moved here, at least that's not public knowledge at
this point. We know that she has four children, all
(32:41):
with different last names, so we've got four kids, with
four different baby daddies, and supposedly not a man involved
in her life, at least at this point. That can
create a lot of stress. A single mom with four kids,
especially one of them being a thirteen year old teenager,
that can be highly stressful for a whole variety of
(33:03):
different reasons. So I'm guessing there's a lot of stress
in her life. I don't know what the mental health
aspect of this is going to be. Clearly, if you
are shooting your own children in your car, you're not
in your right mind. But here is the report on
what we've learned about the devil in the details from
Khou eleven.
Speaker 17 (33:19):
We've been working to learn more about Romilus, who is
in jail, and any motive for the shooting. Meanwhile, a
newly obtained court documents were learning about what Ramalas told
investigators after she was arrested, but a motive for the
shooting is still unclear. New details are beginning to emerge
after four children were found shot in a car at
an Angleton gas station. A thirteen year old boy and
(33:42):
three year old girl died. An eight year old boy
a nine year old girl still recovering.
Speaker 9 (33:47):
Brasooria County deputies responded to an unthinkable, unimaginable tragedy.
Speaker 18 (33:52):
The kid's mom, thirty one year old ownin To Romilus,
is now in custody, charged with murder, and, according to
charging documents, gave disturbing statements to the Brassoria County Sheriff's
Office investigators who spoke with her after the shooting. Court
documents obtained by k j o U eleven share, Romalis
told investigators her children were with the devil. According to
(34:13):
the affidavit, law enforcement says surveillance video shows Romalus drove
to this gas station off Highway two eighty eight in Angleton,
where she called nine to one one. When asked during
her interview why she called authorities, Romalis told investigators quote,
instead of them doing it to me, I'm going to
do it to them and continued saying kill them all.
(34:34):
Romalis lived at this home and porter for just a
few months with her four children, identified in court documents
as Okario Covington, Amoris Chappelle, Kylie Romilis, and Trevial Downer.
Neighbors telling our orc Omanna the children were happy and
they saw them just a few days ago.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
He always wasted in New Telling High and they come
back by and I have little Yorky and sometimes she'll
stop and ask if she can pitch the puppy. Seeing
them Friday, and they were happy and on their way,
telling us hi, and by and figure and I would
see him again, Mendy.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
The home is in the New Caney d.
Speaker 18 (35:10):
We reached down to the district asking if the kids
attend school, and they replied stating, while they're deeply saddened,
out of respect for the investigation, the district wouldn't provide
information about the individuals or their connection to our schools.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Meanwhile, today Romalus's dad told.
Speaker 18 (35:26):
Me on the phone from his home in Georgia, he's
trying to understand what happened.
Speaker 17 (35:31):
Ramalis is still being held on a fourteen million dollar bond.
The surviving children are still recovering in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah, the one the issue I'll take with that story. Motive.
Still trying to figure out the motive. I think the
motive was that she evidently thought those kids were going
to kill her in her mind. Somewhere in her mind
she thought it's either them or me. Either I get
rid of them or they're going to kill me. Is
(36:01):
it rational. No, nothing, There's got nothing to do with rational.
Rational people don't shoot their children in a car in
a parking lot of a gas station. Who knows. Maybe
the thirteen year old was slipping off. I don't know
what could have set this off. I don't know what
the answer to the whole thing is. But again, I
think it'll come down to mental health at some point.
(36:23):
All Right, that's it for today. You'll have a great day.
Thank you for listening. We will see you tomorrow morning
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Now here's Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hey, Happy National Taco Day. Did you have tacos for
lunch today? How about how about for dinner? How about
yes to both? How about yes to both?
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Isn't that funny? National Taco Day falls on Tuesday? Does
it always fall on Tuesday? You'd be smart if it dead.
I mean, after all, there's nothing like Taco Tuesday. Right Anyway,
this National Taco Day. So we got into a discussion
on the Morning Show today and Kat r h about tacos.
You know taco rules. Do you have rules about tacos?
I mean, some people have, you know, very very distinctive
(01:07):
taco taste. For example, you can get hardshell tacos and
you can get soft tacos. Soft tacos being the traditional taco,
maybe with either corn or flower tortillas. I wouldn't say
no to any of those things. I do like the
crunch I must have been. I do like the crunch.
(01:27):
I do prefer a hard taco versus a soft tacos.
So put me now as a hard taco guy. And
if that means that I'm not really Hispanic, that's okay,
because I'm not really Hispanic. I just like the food.
So if I eat like a gringo, okay, I'm meeting
like a gringos, so be it. I'll have my tacos
exactly how I want them. Bigger topic of discussion actually
(01:50):
is what do you like in and on your tacos?
What kind of meat? I normally it's a taco purest,
at least in my mind, as a taco purest, I'd
rather have ground beef. Is this is the meat sauce.
I'm not really interested in a chicken taco. I'm not
(02:12):
interested in a fish taco. I would be interested in
a shrimp taco. I do like shrimp tacos, and in
that case I would want to I'd want a soft
tortilla shell. I wouldn't want a hard shell for shrimp tacos.
That that would be wrong, at least in my mind,
that would be wrong. I don't mind, you know, steak tacos.
(02:32):
Although once you start getting into into uh, you know, carbone,
then you're then you're then you start getting into to
me more along the lines of if the heat is
and that kind of thing. So yeah, I've got a
specific idea in my mind of what what the taco
should be as far as what you put on there.
I don't need cilantro, thank you very much. Black olives
(02:56):
are okay, but I don't need them to me that something.
I'll take the black owls more on the nachos that
I would on the tacos. Lettuce, Uh doesn't have to
have lettuce, but yes, I would like some lettuce, as
long as it's not wilted lettuce, as long as it's
nice and crispy. Cheese. Of course, you gotta have cheese.
And I'm not talking like cheddar cheese. I'm talking like,
(03:19):
you know, Mexican cheese. I'm talking about you know, maybe
a little pepper jack. You know, a variety of different
Mexican cheese is all mixed together. Sour cream, yes, yes, yes, yes,
I would definitely take sour cream on it. Pineapple, who
hang on, who has pineapple on a taco? I mean,
I can't even accept that on a pizza let alone
(03:39):
on a taco. Radish, Well, you know I wouldn't. I wouldn't,
you know, throw the taco out because I had bradish
on it. Broccoli really, that's that's who has tacos with broccoli?
I wouldn't eat. I'm sorry, not Gonda Dad. Not interested
in broccoli in any form. Onion, Yes, I would like onion,
(04:02):
raw onion or cooked onion, but the cooked on would
be more in the fajetas right, it'd be the raw
onion that you would have in the taco. What else, Tomatoes, Yeah,
as long as they're not mushy. Salsa, A little bit
of salsa, nothing too hot, nothing too crazy spicy, I
don't I don't mind. It's got a little bit of
kick to it, but nothing too crazy hot. Jalapenos. I
(04:25):
don't particularly care for halapenos. I'm not a real spicy
kind of guy. Hot sauce, No, I'm not a hot
sauce person. To me. To me, if you are putting
a lot of hot sauce on something, especially I know
people put hot sauce on eggs, and I know that's
a thing, especially here in Texas. Hot sauce and eggs.
I don't quite understand that to me. To me, that
(04:47):
sounds like somebody who might actually not really like the
taste of something, so they're trying to drown out the
taste with spice, at least in my mind. Then again,
I know other people who who hotter the better. They
just love hot. You know that the heat is the
most important thing. Rice Again, I'm thinking, I'm thinking burrito now,
(05:10):
I'm not thinking tacos with rice. I'm thinking of burrito.
Same thing with the beans side dish with a taco.
Great in the taco itself. No, and avocado or guacamole. Yeah,
I'm not so much the whole avocado, although the whole
lot avocado might be nice with the shrimp taco, but
more than guacamole. And as long as it's not you know,
(05:32):
heated up too much by being in the tacos. See
got I've got rules. I've got taco rules. And turns
out some of our listeners have taco rules as well.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
This morning, guys, Rick from the East Side, my mother
in law had a tradition every Tuesday of taco Tuesdays,
and my wife and I have carried it on nice
corn Your tea fried on this top stove, wrapped around
meat cheese that is tomato, and that meat being ground
(06:03):
beat nothing better.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Good morning, Jimmy.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
This is Atlanta and Stafford. You can make tacos with anything, peanut,
butter and tortillas. You can put tacos anything you can
put in tacos. If you want eggs today, you can
put eggs in them. If you want I hate does today,
you can put my hatim whatever you want.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
You can put.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
Morning Jimmy, this is Andy from Spring. I think a
shrimp taco with a homemade pineapple piko de gyo or
a mango piko gyo on corn tortillas with avocado is
pretty tasty.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Hey, good morning, Jimmy.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
Okay, hands down, the best taco taca to get is
if you're like even out in the country, and Mike knows.
I'm talking about the little gas stations that have the
taco place and if that lion, if there's a line there,
definitely stuck because those things are freaking good.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
And Mike, can we do tacos?
Speaker 9 (07:02):
Today's the bananas because most of those guys prefer tacos.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Wait, I can see that right, all right, y'all have your.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Day by Yeah, Mike didn't have any any taco stickers.
You know, there's a couple of interesting points in there.
Number one, Yes, I agree. You can find some great
hole in the wall places to get tacos that are
by gas stations. I think even the better choices of
food truck. If you see a taco stand food truck
(07:29):
and there's a line of people waiting to get the tacos,
they're worth they're worth checking out, they're worth trying. But
what was with Atlanta with a peanut butter? I know, theoretically,
you know, tacos are kind of like they're kind of
like a Mexican sandwich right to a certain extent. You know,
it's like, you know, the the tortilla shell, soft tortilla shell,
(07:52):
can it's like a piece of bread.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
You can put anything in there. And I've done that before.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I've made it like a roast beef sandwich using a
tort he a soft tortillashell, flower tortilla. Sheell it tastes great.
But peanut butter, I don't know that, just that this
kind of strikes me as being wrong.
Speaker 10 (08:10):
Hey, my daughter was shoesing golf tournaments as a teenager.
Always had flower tortillas with peanut butter in them. Gave
me a lot of energy. Easy to carry, and we're
tasteful a hot afternoon.
Speaker 8 (08:24):
Hey, Jants, I will tell you something great for breakfast
from a good taco shop is charizo and egg.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
It's amazing.
Speaker 10 (08:33):
Hi, this is Debby from Baytown Burger king his tacos.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Try it you might like them. See it from Webster again.
One taco I won't eat taco John's.
Speaker 10 (08:43):
I'm sure Jimmy knows all about it because it's kind
of a Midwest up north thing.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
They put tater tots in the tacos. No, no, no.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
No one in Jimmy. It's Steven Spring.
Speaker 10 (08:53):
One rule for the taco, the traditional crispy beef taco.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Don't make it greasy.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Don't want the shell falling apart.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Thanks. A little bit of Greece is good. Too much
grease is not so much?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Right, quick little break back with more in a moment,
Jimmy Barrett show in this National Taco Day. You're on
AM nine fifty KRC. All right, let's steak in this by.
(09:30):
I'm mentioning the Supreme Court is back in session.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Just a moment.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
We're going to hear from Carrie Sevalino, who is an
extually she was actually a clerk for a judge, Clarence Thomas.
She's president of the Judicial Crisis Network. But before we
do that, let's talk a little bit and I'll ask
her about this as well. The sentence handed down against
the I don't remember his or her name. I can't
(09:57):
remember if she's if it's a she, he trans you know,
transgendering into a he or a he transgendering into she
is just another confused transgender individual who you know, stalked
several members of the Supreme Court and was on his
or her way to murder Brent Kavanaugh, and I guess
(10:18):
there were a couple other potential Supreme Court justices that
were targeted as well. She got a Biden appointed judge
who gave her eight years an eight year sentence. The
recommendation was thirty years. The judge went with eight years,
and the judge seemed to be concerned about whatever living
(10:40):
conditions this transgender prisoner was going to be in because
of Trump's rules of you having to go to a
prison based on your birth gender who you were born as,
born a male, you go to a male prison. Born
a female, go to a female prison, not what you
are transitioned into. Oh, by the way, speaking of transitioning,
(11:01):
I mentioned something on the show yesterday. I'd like to
correct the record here because I clearly the woman involved
and we'll maybe talk more about it before the end
of the show. But the woman involved in the in
the killing of her four children, the woman from Porter
who did this in Brazoria County, shot all four of
them in the car. She is a she. She's clearly
(11:25):
a she. I mentioned yesterday because I was confused based
on what the sheriff Brasoria County sheriff has said, had
made a very interesting phrase saying that she identifies as
and I think what as it turns out, I think
what he meant to say was her identity is not
she identifies as that. I don't think he realized what
(11:46):
he was saying. It's a whole different world when you
say somebody identifies as that means that, Okay, that is
not necessarily what they are. They just identify as that person,
like a male identifying as a female or female identifying
as a male. But I think what he really meant
to say was her identity is and that little slip
up caused little confusion. So anyway, I stand correctly on
(12:07):
that anyway back to back to this transgender would be assassin.
They were talking about it yesterday on aut numbered about
this prison sentence and how unjust this prison sentence was.
Speaker 11 (12:22):
The idea that you had someone deranged like this trying
to take out and murder a Supreme Court justice and
this is all that individual gets is ridiculous. I think
the grounds for repeal are strong.
Speaker 12 (12:32):
So the DOJ was seeking a thirty year sentence for this,
so why the leniency.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
How did it get down to eight?
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Well?
Speaker 12 (12:40):
Judge Debrah Boardman, a Biden appointee, says that she factored
into the sentence her concern about Trump's executive order requiring
transgender inmates to be detained in prisons that correspond to
their sex at birth. That rationale shocking legal experts.
Speaker 13 (12:57):
It's really disturbing that his mental health concerns and his
concern of gender dys for you was given as a
literal get out of jail free card here. That's not
how our system should work, and it's going to create
a lot of bad incentives for people claiming genderness for
you in the future. If they think that's going to
get them off of prison. This sets a bad example
in a time of rising political violence. There's not the
(13:20):
deterrence that there needs to be from all sides in
our society. Democratic lawmakers who haven't said enough on all
of these issues we've been talking about right all the
way down. Judges absolutely need to be holding that line
so people understand political violence is outlet a line.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Okay, that last voice you just heard Carrie Sevarino of
the she's president of the Judicial Crisis Network. We had
on our morning show today and kat r h here's
a little bit of my conversation with her. Eight years,
eight years. I guess the judge used the excuse of
the assassin himself for herself. I'm not sure which being
(13:58):
a transgender in which concerned because of the Trump ruling
on prison segregation based on sex, that somehow this transgender
individual be in danger.
Speaker 14 (14:10):
Absolutely, I mean, this is not a normal sentencing factor
that you consider.
Speaker 15 (14:15):
There's a lot of calculation that.
Speaker 14 (14:17):
Goes into the recommended sentence, which was thirty years, by
the way, not eight years.
Speaker 15 (14:22):
Thirty years.
Speaker 14 (14:22):
The defendant himself asked for just eight years, and that's
effectually what he got thanks to this judge, and she
talked about how he had accepted responsibility. That's all great,
that's part of that calculation. That's why it was only
thirty years, because otherwise he could have gotten up to
life in prison.
Speaker 15 (14:40):
So this is really outrageous that.
Speaker 14 (14:43):
She's giving that in a time of rising political violence,
giving such a slap on the wrist level sentence for
someone who wanted to assassinate not even just one Supreme
Court justice, but said he wanted to get three Supreme
Court justices that day. And I think it sets a
really bad example apparently, if you, if you want to
(15:04):
bargain down for a better sentence, claiming that your transgender
is now get out a.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Jail free card literally or at least claiming you're a
progressive or proving yourself to be a progreservator in front
of a Biden judge.
Speaker 14 (15:16):
Well yeah, I mean it's I hope that that didn't
factor into it.
Speaker 15 (15:21):
Her own proposition to this, but it was.
Speaker 14 (15:24):
It was really disturbing. I mean, she was sort of celebrating, well,
I'm so wonderful that this has been at least an
opportunity for you to come out to your family and
have some closure on this issue. I'm like, oh my gosh,
this is not a therapy session. This is this is
a sentencing here, and for someone who tried to kill
a Supreme Court justice, it's really it's really disturbing. It's
something that I know the government is going to be
(15:44):
appealing this sentence, but you know, the Fourth Circuit is
a pretty liberal circuit.
Speaker 15 (15:49):
Will see how successful they are. I think people need.
Speaker 14 (15:52):
To realize how important it is to have sound.
Speaker 15 (15:56):
Judges at all levels.
Speaker 14 (15:57):
It's great that the Supreme Court is so conservative and
so originalists at this point, but all the way down
there's a lot of mischief that can be done by
a district court judge, and unfortunately, these last year or so.
Speaker 15 (16:10):
We've seen a lot of that. This is just the
latest example.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
You're so all right about that. All right, let's get
into the session itself. What do you see as the
top let's say, the top two cases that could have
an impact on the Trump administration going forward.
Speaker 14 (16:23):
Well, so there, he already has a couple big cases
dealing with his particular agenda items, and that is one
on the.
Speaker 15 (16:32):
Date, actually maybe three.
Speaker 14 (16:33):
This is a tariff's case having to do with whether
he can implement tariffs under the emergency provisions in that Act.
And then also whether he has the ability to fire
members of supposedly independent commissions. These have long been assumed
to be oh, well, you know, Congress said they have
such and such terms, so the president can't kick them
(16:53):
out before that term unless they have actual cause there.
Speaker 15 (16:57):
But there's a lot of constitutional problems with that, where if.
Speaker 14 (17:00):
They're part of the executive brands, and I think that's
what stendiablows they are, they're surely not judges, they're not
members of Congress, then he has to be able to
have the authority over that branch and so, and that's
an issue that's been percolating for a long time. Biden
fired a lot of people under this assumption, and now
Trump we're going to get the final call on can
Trump do the same thing as well? And I think
it's also you know, they're also going to probably have
(17:22):
a hearing on the birthright citizenship issue and that that's
going to be really important. So big issues, and that's
just the ones that deal with to Trump administration.
Speaker 15 (17:30):
There's also important issues dealing.
Speaker 14 (17:32):
With other things, including men and women's sports, and including
the case that we're hearing about today with free speech
attacks within Colorado having to do with it's so called
conversion therapy.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Well, you know, you're right. I mean, there's some amazing
social issues that are at work here. You were a
clerk for Clarence Thomas. How does this process work? How
does the Supreme Court make us decisions on which cases
they're going to first? I there's an order. I know
they hear them in. I don't think that though, that
the rulings, the ultimate rulings, necessarily come out in that order,
(18:07):
do they.
Speaker 15 (18:08):
No, They gets them done as they can.
Speaker 14 (18:11):
So typically the first case is that you'll get the
decisions from each year are going to be the unanimous cases.
Speaker 15 (18:18):
The easier the case is, the faster quickly.
Speaker 14 (18:20):
They can get it done. So you know, they obviously
started start hearing them. They started hearing them yesterday, and
they'll hear them throughout the year. So the earlier ones
are going to often come out first. But if you
have a really controversial case the first day of the term,
it might take until the end to get it because
what happens is the person who's assigned the case, they
vote on who what the outcome is. Then someone gets
(18:40):
assigned to write the opinion. You know, that might take
them longer on a more complicated case or on a
more controversial case. And then after that opinion is circulated,
the other justices in descent have to reply, so they'll
they'll write their dessense.
Speaker 15 (18:52):
Then they might have stuff.
Speaker 14 (18:53):
In the majority opinion they need to respond to, and
then that gets circulated.
Speaker 15 (18:57):
Then the majority says, now, wait a minute, we're not
going to leave that as it is. We need to
respond to the response.
Speaker 14 (19:02):
And so that back and forth Tinselm has take a
long time on these really big, really complicated cases, and
that's why sometimes so get out of order. Some justices
are also known to be faster writers or an other.
Speaker 15 (19:13):
So you get.
Speaker 14 (19:13):
Assigned to a faster justice, your case might come out earlier.
If you get assigned to one of the justices it
takes his or her time, then you might have to
wait a little longer for the decision.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Again. That is Kerrie Sevarino, President of the Judicial was
a judicial crisis effort.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
That's her.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, all right, quick, low break back with more in
a moment. Hey, would you like to run for a
Republican office in Harris County, Cindy? Sigal who's the head
of the GOP in Harris County. She'd love to have
you do that one thing though, she'd like you to
come to their boot camp. They're going to have a
boot camp to try to get people ready to run
(19:53):
for office as a Republican in Harris County. Back with
more in a moment, Jimmy Parrett, you're a NAM nine
fifty KPRC. It takes strategy to run for political office.
(20:16):
It also takes time, it takes effort, and for a
lot of us who have ever ever thought, and I
would have to admit that there was probably a time
in my life where I thought for nano second about
running for political office, But I always talk myself out
of it, because at the end of the day, I
don't want I would want to be going to all
(20:38):
these pot lucks in town halls and doing all the things,
kissing all the babies and shaking all the hands that
you have to do in order to run for political
office so that people know who you are. There's a
right way to run for office, and there's a not
so right way to run for office. And we'll get
into that in just a second. With Cindy Siegel from
the Harriskin GOP. But first, here's another thing. Right now,
(21:02):
with the political discourse being what it is, I don't
think I would want to want I certainly would not
want to be a candidate on the Democrat ticket. I
don't know how you begin to defend some of the
things have been done. Of course, I wouldn't be a
candidate as a Democrat. I'd only be a candidate as
a Republican. But I thought this was very interesting because
I think, you know, you take a look at what's
(21:25):
going on in politics right now, and you make the
assumption that everybody running on the left is is alone.
They're crazy. You know that the progressive wing of the
party has taken over and they're all the same. Well,
the progressive wing of the party has taken over, but
there are still some Democrats out there, more of the
old school style Democrats. There's still some of them out there.
(21:46):
One of them is a Democrat strategist, And as you
listen to him talk about what the Democrats have been
doing wrong, you'll swear to yourself, well, hang on, he
sounds like a Republican and he's that's not a Democrat.
He sounds more like a Republican. Well he's I don't
know why he's still sticking with a D next to
(22:08):
his name, but he is a Democrat. He is a strategist.
I don't know that anybody's hiring him right now. Maybe
a John Fetterman would hire him to be a strategist
for him, but most Democrats wouldn't because they have just
decided that they're in bed with the Parisia wing of
the party. But this guy has some interesting observations on
what is going wrong from a strategy standpoint. Julian Epstein
(22:30):
is his name, and he says he starts by saying,
this whole thing, let's start with the government shutdown. What
a hopelessly narcissistic thing to do.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Well.
Speaker 16 (22:40):
I think it was a little bit of a narcissistic
move on the part of the Democrats, given that they
lost the election, the House, the Senate, and the presidency.
I think the reality is, and I've been through a
lot of these shutdowns in the past, the public doesn't
seem to care that much about it or be that
aware of it. Neither of the two parties feel that heat.
I think probably what will happen in the end is
(23:00):
that there will be a kicker that will extend the
subsidies for maybe a year after the election. But the
big picture, Maria, is that the Democrats needed a game
changer here. They're going into the second half of this
election cycle being far behind the Republicans on nearly every issue,
mostly because they are far to the left of the
median voter on every single issue, immigration, crime, you name it,
(23:20):
and people don't like the street theater and the name
calling that have been very characteristic of the Democrats since
the last election. So the Democrats really need a major
game change moment here, and this is not going to
give it to them. Until the Democrats start building, fixing
the pathetic performance of our public schools, for example, or
getting our workers ready for the Ai Revolution, they're just
(23:43):
going to be stuck playing these small ball politics and
it's not going to change their situation, which is pretty
bad right now if you look at their approval numbers,
and I think if you want to see the evidence
of the growing violence on the left, just look at
the Yukov poll a couple weeks ago. Twenty five percent
of progressives think that violence can be justified to achieve
political ends. Another fourteen percent are on the fence of it.
(24:05):
That's almost half of young progressives. If you look at
what's happening on college campuses and elsewhere, we've had over
ten thousand incidents a year of anti semitism, mostly coming
from leftist ideology.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
If you look at all the.
Speaker 16 (24:17):
Attacks on ice officials going on all over the country,
this again is all leftist anti law enforcement ideology. And
I think the culture on the left is becoming very dangerous.
When you keep calling people a fascist and a Nazi.
One is not just an illiterate use of the term
and it's an insult to any family who's ever had
to live through the horrors of Nazism, but it is
(24:41):
inviting fringe elements of the left to take action, and
we've seen plenty of evidence of this occurring. But secondly, Maria,
there is a nihilism on the left. There is a
deep skepticism, for example, of borders of police, of gender,
categories of energy dumps, all of the things that have
built the left aggressive.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Ideology is deeply skeptical.
Speaker 16 (25:02):
Well, when you don't believe in the institutions that have
made the West so great, you begin to go into
a place of sort of spiritual meaninglessness, and I think
this is happening, particularly with a lot of young people
on the fringes. On the left, there is a despair,
there's a sense of meaninglessness.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
The loss of faith.
Speaker 16 (25:19):
In the country I think has contributed to this. I
think there's a deeper cultural problem that's going on here
that the left and democratic politicians just seem completely out
of touch with.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
That's some pretty amazing stuff. No, no, no, I don't
mean amazing from the standpoint of how his student is
because nobody understood that until he said it. We all
understand that from our political perspective, but the progressive left
doesn't seem to and or at least are willing to
admit it. But at least there's somebody on the left
(25:50):
who seems to understand exactly what is wrong. All right, now,
let's worry about running people for office, good people for office.
From the rights. Cindy Siegels, the Harris County GOP chair.
We talked to her this morning on kat rh about
this political boot camp, if you will, a Republican boot
camp that she's going to be running. So exactly what
is campaign boot camp? How does this work?
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Well, it's a camp that we actually as a seminar
we provide for our candidates and also campaign workers, people
who want to help run campaigns, covering everything from you know,
the legal side of it, how do you appoint a
treasure what reports you file with the Texas Election Ethics
(26:33):
Commission or the Federal Elections Commission to you know, how
do you message, how do you do your social media?
How do you give your thirty second to two minute
campaign speech? Everything you want to know about running and
being a candidate?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
All right, So no push ups, no pull ups, no
revelry at five point thirty in the morning, none of
that stuff.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
But they may feel like that after it's over.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
It's just it's an intense it's an intense I guess
it's just an intense seminars what you're talking about here, right,
It's a chance for people who maybe have thought about
running for public office, would like to run for public office,
but have no idea how to do it, to give
them a prepper on exactly how you go about doing it.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Right, So this is actually the third class of that
type we've offered. The idea behind it is that if
we can make all of our candidates as strong as possible,
whomever comes out of that primary is going to be
in a better position to win and be you know,
the leftist progressive next November.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You know, we've talked to the past two Cindy Siegel,
that there are just some political positions out there that
go unopposed. That we don't have Republican candidates for us.
It's also maybe a way to try to recruit people
to run in those races that right now are on posed.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Yes, it is. We had earlier this year what we
called our info sessions, and we targeted your partisan races,
like your judicial candidates. We've had a couple of those.
We also had one that was targeted towards other partisan
races other than just the judges. But you know, we've
(28:24):
really put a big emphasis this year in trying to
get a full slate, and I would encourage people that
this is a great time that if they've ever thought
about running for office, now is the time to run.
We think we've got a really good shot next year.
We're putting a lot of resources into winning and continuing
(28:47):
to win. We've won some races, but we want to
take back the county and make it read again.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
All right for somebody who's ever thought about running for
political office. What is the typical skill set do you
think that makes it for a good Republican? So you
could look right in the mirror and say, yeah, that's me.
I would be good at this.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Well.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Obviously from the party's standpoint, and as a Republican, we
want people who believe in our values, that believe in
our way of governing principles. They don't have to agree
with us all the time. It's like Ronald Reagan said
that if they agree with me eighty percent of the time,
they're my friends, and you know, have a nose. I
don't agree with my husband one hundred percent of the
(29:28):
time and we've been married almost thirty five years. But
from there, I tell candidates three things. I look for
someone who's got the fire in the belly, who really
wants to win and understands that it is going to
be a twenty four to seven job until they get
through the election. I look for someone who has a
(29:50):
good support network, because it is twenty four to seven
and it tends to at times be the high of
the highs and the low of the lows when you're
running for up. And then more importantly, I look for
someone who has a paths of victory, who's thought about
their campaign and knows where they're going to go after
the votes, what their message is going to be, how
(30:12):
they're going to persuade voters, how they're going to turn
out our base. That they really put some thought into it.
They didn't just wake up one morning and say, oh,
I think I'll run for office today. And that in
part is why we're helping host this boot camp campaign
boot camp because it helps people, I think, put that
(30:36):
plan together for their campaign.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Again that Cindy Siegel. Yeah, we take way too much
time out of my world in order to be able
to do something like that. Plus I couldn't be on
the radio anymore. Yeah, I have to give that up.
Not worth it to me. The guy who replaced me
in Richmond, Virginia, interestingly enough, though, did decide it was worthwhile.
He is running for lieutenant governor. Last I heard, I
(31:02):
think he's a couple three points behind. They have their
election coming up in November. But yeah, he had to
give up doing the morning show where I used to
work in order to be able to run for political office.
All right, back with Boring and Mom with Jimmy Barrett
show Here on AM nine fifty k PRC. All Right,
(31:36):
to wrap it up for today, let's tackle this mom again.
This mother who shot her four children in the car
close range at a gas station right off of two
to eighty eight in Brazoria County. She's from Porter, well,
I probably shouldn't say she's from Porter, she's lived there
(31:57):
for a couple of months. She's from Georgia. And i'd
heard before that Haiti, which might explain the Haitians have
a because you're going to hear a lot of talk
about the devil here in the second The Haitians kind
of have a strange relationship, at least in my mind,
with religion and with voodoo and all those types of things.
So I don't know if that played into any of
(32:18):
this at all or not. But I do know that
the devil will be blamed for what happened. And I
also know that we're dealing with a woman who might
have been under a great deal of stress. She has
just moved to Texas from Georgia. We don't know why
she moved here, at least that's not public knowledge at
this point. We know that she has four children, all
(32:41):
with different last names, so we've got four kids, with
four different baby daddies, and supposedly not a man involved
in her life, at least at this point. That can
create a lot of stress. A single mom with four kids,
especially one of them being a thirteen year old teenager,
that can be highly stressful for a whole variety of
(33:03):
different reasons. So I'm guessing there's a lot of stress
in her life. I don't know what the mental health
aspect of this is going to be. Clearly, if you
are shooting your own children in your car, you're not
in your right mind. But here is the report on
what we've learned about the devil in the details from
Khou eleven.
Speaker 17 (33:19):
We've been working to learn more about Romilus, who is
in jail, and any motive for the shooting. Meanwhile, a
newly obtained court documents were learning about what Ramalas told
investigators after she was arrested, but a motive for the
shooting is still unclear. New details are beginning to emerge
after four children were found shot in a car at
an Angleton gas station. A thirteen year old boy and
(33:42):
three year old girl died. An eight year old boy
a nine year old girl still recovering.
Speaker 9 (33:47):
Brasooria County deputies responded to an unthinkable, unimaginable tragedy.
Speaker 18 (33:52):
The kid's mom, thirty one year old ownin To Romilus,
is now in custody, charged with murder, and, according to
charging documents, gave disturbing statements to the Brassoria County Sheriff's
Office investigators who spoke with her after the shooting. Court
documents obtained by k j o U eleven share, Romalis
told investigators her children were with the devil. According to
(34:13):
the affidavit, law enforcement says surveillance video shows Romalus drove
to this gas station off Highway two eighty eight in Angleton,
where she called nine to one one. When asked during
her interview why she called authorities, Romalis told investigators quote,
instead of them doing it to me, I'm going to
do it to them and continued saying kill them all.
(34:34):
Romalis lived at this home and porter for just a
few months with her four children, identified in court documents
as Okario Covington, Amoris Chappelle, Kylie Romilis, and Trevial Downer.
Neighbors telling our orc Omanna the children were happy and
they saw them just a few days ago.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
He always wasted in New Telling High and they come
back by and I have little Yorky and sometimes she'll
stop and ask if she can pitch the puppy. Seeing
them Friday, and they were happy and on their way,
telling us hi, and by and figure and I would
see him again, Mendy.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
The home is in the New Caney d.
Speaker 18 (35:10):
We reached down to the district asking if the kids
attend school, and they replied stating, while they're deeply saddened,
out of respect for the investigation, the district wouldn't provide
information about the individuals or their connection to our schools.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Meanwhile, today Romalus's dad told.
Speaker 18 (35:26):
Me on the phone from his home in Georgia, he's
trying to understand what happened.
Speaker 17 (35:31):
Ramalis is still being held on a fourteen million dollar bond.
The surviving children are still recovering in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah, the one the issue I'll take with that story. Motive.
Still trying to figure out the motive. I think the
motive was that she evidently thought those kids were going
to kill her in her mind. Somewhere in her mind
she thought it's either them or me. Either I get
rid of them or they're going to kill me. Is
(36:01):
it rational. No, nothing, There's got nothing to do with rational.
Rational people don't shoot their children in a car in
a parking lot of a gas station. Who knows. Maybe
the thirteen year old was slipping off. I don't know
what could have set this off. I don't know what
the answer to the whole thing is. But again, I
think it'll come down to mental health at some point.
(36:23):
All Right, that's it for today. You'll have a great day.
Thank you for listening. We will see you tomorrow morning
bright nearly five tight am on news Radio seven forty KTRH.
Hope to see you back here at four on Am
nine fifty KPRC.
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