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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six, twenty two, So our time we welcome an East
Parker Democrat candidate for Harris County judge. Former Houston mayor.
May recall, during her tenure the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance
was a big deal for her. That was one of
her pet projects. What would she bring to the table
if she were to be elected Harris County Judge. Well,
let's ask her. First of all, Anie, welcome to the program.
Nice to meet you.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Thank you. It's nice to meet you as well.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
First of all, let's start with the decision. We haven't
heard anything from Lena Hildago yet about whether she intends
to run or not to run. I'm wondering if maybe
you think she doesn't intend to run, and that's one
of the reasons why you're running.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I have no idea whether she's going to run or not.
I made my own decisions. I mean, obviously, as a candidate,
I hope that she doesn't. But I think that's one
of the one of the issues. There ought to be certainty.
And if you want a job, you ought to say,
Sam that's say you want the job, say it publicly
(01:01):
and privately and stand in your record.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, it's a stressful job at least it's very stressful
to her over the course of the last few years.
Maybe maybe that'll have something to do with their decision.
You've been to the world of politics, You've been out
for a while. Get why jump back in?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Are you looking for trouble?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
You know three months of retirement that probably allowed me
to consider mischief, But no, I actually contemplated. I left
the I left my office's mayor at the end of
twenty fifteen and went working in nonprofit sector. And I
intended to run for county judge in twenty eighteen. Adam
(01:42):
it was not going to run for re election and
had already started putting a campaign together, and Ed changed
his mind. He announced that he was going to run again.
And I, you know, Ed and I have a working relationship.
I don't know if you know. We actually teach a
class together at Rice and I said, I, how did
(02:03):
you do in a fine job? I will wait. And
that is the year that Lena he died, took him out.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well, as you know this, And I'm just gonna say,
as you know, there's I went off and I can
see to do with this. Yeah, big difference between the
way Ed Emmett ran Harris County and the way Lena
Hildago is sort of kind of trying to run Harris County.
One of the great criticisms, of course, is that she
spends a lot of time on social programs and doesn't
seem to really spend that much time preparing for things
(02:29):
like hurricanes. I guess the first question I would really
have if you were elected Harris County judge in THEES,
how would you be different than Lena Hildago.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So I understand the job of Harris County judge. It
is not the same as job of mayor. And one
of the primary differences is as mayor, you can make law,
pass ordinances, but county government he is a creature of
the state and you enforce state laws. But the primary
(03:03):
responsibilities public safety, public health, floodwater management, roads and bridges. Uh.
And then there's some other smaller aspects of county government,
and for the county judge, the biggest thing is emergency management.
If you look at my first priority in my first
term as mayor of Houston, it was infrastructure, the drainage
(03:25):
the litigation that just completed, UH, that was my drainage
fee that I that I passed because I thought we
needed to put more money into floodwater management here in
Harris County. I agreed with the engineers who sued the
(03:46):
City of Houston it was being it was being diverted.
I also launched the major initiative to overhaul the water
and sewer lines in the City of Houston. Still needs
to be done. So infrastruct sure was my highest priority
when I came in. But I also came in in
the middle of the Great Recession in two thousand and
(04:08):
eight two thousand and nine, so most of what I
did in my first term as mayor was slash budgets,
laid off more than seven hundred city employees. So I
know how to make tough decisions and I know what
the priorities are. I know you guys on the on
the right like to talk about the hero wor.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
We're attle conservative. We're a little conservative, but we do
like hearing a message about it. Yeah, we do like
hearing a message. We do like hearing a message about
infrastructure in public safety because that's what we also believe
is the job of the judge, and we don't believe
that job is being done by our current judge. So
we would like to see a judge in there who
would do the job. We've also been very supportive, by
(04:51):
the way, just you know a mayor John Whipmyer, because
he's a Democrat who seems to understand that.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You know, we have we worked on the same we
have worked on the same issues. Now, I did disagree
with John in his effort at the state to pull
money out of the toll roads to shift over to
the City of Houston. I don't think toll road money
(05:19):
should be spent on anything but roads frankly and management
of the toll roads. But generally I think John's doing
a good job.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Well, listen, I want to thank you for your time
this morning. We appreciate you calling in and hope to
talk again here pretty soon. Thank you. Niece Sure Democratic
candidate for Harris County judge a niece Parker
Six, twenty two, So our time we welcome an East
Parker Democrat candidate for Harris County judge. Former Houston mayor.
May recall, during her tenure the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance
was a big deal for her. That was one of
her pet projects. What would she bring to the table
if she were to be elected Harris County Judge. Well,
let's ask her. First of all, Anie, welcome to the program.
Nice to meet you.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Thank you. It's nice to meet you as well.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
First of all, let's start with the decision. We haven't
heard anything from Lena Hildago yet about whether she intends
to run or not to run. I'm wondering if maybe
you think she doesn't intend to run, and that's one
of the reasons why you're running.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I have no idea whether she's going to run or not.
I made my own decisions. I mean, obviously, as a candidate,
I hope that she doesn't. But I think that's one
of the one of the issues. There ought to be certainty.
And if you want a job, you ought to say,
Sam that's say you want the job, say it publicly
(01:01):
and privately and stand in your record.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, it's a stressful job at least it's very stressful
to her over the course of the last few years.
Maybe maybe that'll have something to do with their decision.
You've been to the world of politics, You've been out
for a while. Get why jump back in?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Are you looking for trouble?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
You know three months of retirement that probably allowed me
to consider mischief, But no, I actually contemplated. I left
the I left my office's mayor at the end of
twenty fifteen and went working in nonprofit sector. And I
intended to run for county judge in twenty eighteen. Adam
(01:42):
it was not going to run for re election and
had already started putting a campaign together, and Ed changed
his mind. He announced that he was going to run again.
And I, you know, Ed and I have a working relationship.
I don't know if you know. We actually teach a
class together at Rice and I said, I, how did
(02:03):
you do in a fine job? I will wait. And
that is the year that Lena he died, took him out.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Well, as you know this, And I'm just gonna say,
as you know, there's I went off and I can
see to do with this. Yeah, big difference between the
way Ed Emmett ran Harris County and the way Lena
Hildago is sort of kind of trying to run Harris County.
One of the great criticisms, of course, is that she
spends a lot of time on social programs and doesn't
seem to really spend that much time preparing for things
(02:29):
like hurricanes. I guess the first question I would really
have if you were elected Harris County judge in THEES,
how would you be different than Lena Hildago.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So I understand the job of Harris County judge. It
is not the same as job of mayor. And one
of the primary differences is as mayor, you can make law,
pass ordinances, but county government he is a creature of
the state and you enforce state laws. But the primary
(03:03):
responsibilities public safety, public health, floodwater management, roads and bridges. Uh.
And then there's some other smaller aspects of county government,
and for the county judge, the biggest thing is emergency management.
If you look at my first priority in my first
term as mayor of Houston, it was infrastructure, the drainage
(03:25):
the litigation that just completed, UH, that was my drainage
fee that I that I passed because I thought we
needed to put more money into floodwater management here in
Harris County. I agreed with the engineers who sued the
(03:46):
City of Houston it was being it was being diverted.
I also launched the major initiative to overhaul the water
and sewer lines in the City of Houston. Still needs
to be done. So infrastruct sure was my highest priority
when I came in. But I also came in in
the middle of the Great Recession in two thousand and
(04:08):
eight two thousand and nine, so most of what I
did in my first term as mayor was slash budgets,
laid off more than seven hundred city employees. So I
know how to make tough decisions and I know what
the priorities are. I know you guys on the on
the right like to talk about the hero wor.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
We're attle conservative. We're a little conservative, but we do
like hearing a message about it. Yeah, we do like
hearing a message. We do like hearing a message about
infrastructure in public safety because that's what we also believe
is the job of the judge, and we don't believe
that job is being done by our current judge. So
we would like to see a judge in there who
would do the job. We've also been very supportive, by
(04:51):
the way, just you know a mayor John Whipmyer, because
he's a Democrat who seems to understand that.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You know, we have we worked on the same we
have worked on the same issues. Now, I did disagree
with John in his effort at the state to pull
money out of the toll roads to shift over to
the City of Houston. I don't think toll road money
(05:19):
should be spent on anything but roads frankly and management
of the toll roads. But generally I think John's doing
a good job.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Well, listen, I want to thank you for your time
this morning. We appreciate you calling in and hope to
talk again here pretty soon. Thank you. Niece Sure Democratic
candidate for Harris County judge a niece Parker
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