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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now the line has been drugged. We have a new
redistricting plan. The Governor will end up signing it this week,
and that'll be that that we can move on to
something else in this special session. Joining US Representative Brian Harrison,
what I was wondering last hour, Representative, because I know
the governor in this second session is asking for new
penalties for lawmakers who break the quorum, and I'm thinking
(00:24):
to myself, hang on a second, did we even bother
to enforce the penalties we already had in place?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
You know, it's a good question. A lot of people
are asking that. Okay, so the governor last night calls
for new penalties to be concocted and thought about so
that maybe in the future, if another Democrat group thinks
about breaking KORM, they'll know we're going to be serious
with them that time. Well, come on, give me a break.
(00:54):
This is a little bit late, I mean the old
thing day late and a dollar short. I mean, it's
at least that here. I mean, good grief. The real
punishments would have been things that really would have hurt
the Democrats, primarily adding more seats to the map. Okay,
that would have hurt them. On number two. Remember when
Speaker of Boroughs made a big deal photo ops about
signing those arrest warrants. Yeah, zero arrest or what about
(01:17):
the governor's own threat, I mean, Governor Abbott said two
almost three weeks ago. Now, if they don't show up
by Monday at three, their seats are going to be vacated. Yeah,
zero seats have been vacated. Zero Democrats were ever arrested.
There were not any more Republican seats added to the map,
and as we speak, not one single Democrats parking spot
(01:38):
was even taken away. They're all going to get paid.
They're going to get paid in full.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
There is no.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Fines even been charged against them that they will be
forced to pay. Absolutely nothing. So what I would expect,
and we'll see if I'm right on this, who knows.
My guess is we'll have some kind of like bad
Kabooki punishment theater, you know, in a couple of days
where the Democrats will have some of their you know,
committee reassigned or committees reassigned, or maybe some chairmanships or
(02:05):
vice chairmanships taken away. But don't fall for that, because
once the special sessions over, the committees are irrelevant, there's
no bills to hear, so there's a chance. My guess
is they're gonna come up with some kind of fake
non punishments that they think they can use to snowball
and gaslight the people of the state of Texas who
actually want real, tangible things to be done to these
(02:26):
rogue Democrats. But if yesterday was any indication where Republicans,
almost all of them at the beginning of the day,
until myself in the grassroots, rate such hell about this,
Almost every Republican in the Texas House went out of
their way to vote with the Democrats to give Democrats
even more time to continue delaying, and almost doubled the
time that we were on the floor yesterday. It's completely outrageous.
(02:47):
By what it proves is that the Republican leadership and
the so called Republican dominated Texas House or Representatives cares
more about appeasing the extremist liberal social Democrats then they
do livering for the Republican conservative voters of the great
State of Texas. And it's time for that to change.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Explain to me, if you can, why this need for appeacement.
They have the power, if they're willing to use it.
What are they worried about, who are they worried about upsetting?
What are they afraid that Texas Democrats will do to
them if they punish them? Well?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And number one, I mean, most of these Republicans are
actually very liberal themselves, So it's not like they're they
want to be conservative, but they're fearful of the Democrats,
so they're fearful of consequences. I mean, I bet close
to a full third of these Republicans of the Texas
House would be Democrats, okay, if they could be, if
they could be honest about it. So it's not like
we have very many conservative Republicans in the Texas House.
(03:41):
Because in the state of Texas, it's a great thing
about living here, you can't you don't really have good
luck getting elected if you run as a Democrat. So
pretty much everybody who runs for office runs pretending to
be a conservative Republican is going to take the fight
to those liberal Democrats. But the reality is they're every
bit as liberal as the Democrats that they pretend to fight.
(04:02):
And so that's what I've been trying since I got
elected four years ago. After serving in the first Trump administration,
I could nothing could have prepared me for the shock
of learning that Texas is actually not run by real Republicans.
Texas is run by a coalition of Democrats and Rhinos.
And I tell people all the time that the sooner
you've learned and in Texas government, Republicans and Democrats are
not actually on different sides, the sooner Texas makes sense
(04:25):
to you the government, because what we have down here
is we have two factions in the Texas government. We
have big government liberals who call themselves Democrats, and we
have big government liberals who call themselves Republicans. And that's
the paradigm that we've got to change.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Texas.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Texans re elected President Trump on a fourteen point landslide.
We need to get real Republicans down here who will
actually stand up to the left and make and prioritize
protecting liberty for the next generation of Texas their top priority.
And that's why as soon as we passed the maps yesterday,
I tweeted the very second the map past got it
plus five seats. Let's go now on to the one
thing we've got to do that we haven't done yet
(05:04):
and focus all of our efforts and attention on eliminating
property taxes in the state of Texas because never ending,
unethical property taxes have got to be abolished. Not one
single Texan is allowed to own their home. And it's
wreaking havoc on lives across our country. And it's the
biggest failure of the regular sessions that we did absolutely
nothing to eliminate or even cut property taxes. And the
(05:28):
reality is, unless something changes, unless the grassroots rise up,
I think the Austin Uniparty is going to do their
usual tricks and pass quote property tax relief bills that
will do nothing more than increase your property tax bill
at the end of the year. And I'm trying to
get ahead of that right now out and let the
leadership of the state of Texas know that their usual
song and dance and gaslighting about fake property tax relief
(05:50):
bills is not good enough any more. Texas want a
property taxes cut and they want them gone.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Got to go. Thank you so much for your time.
As always, that is representative. Brian Harrison
Now the line has been drugged. We have a new
redistricting plan. The Governor will end up signing it this week,
and that'll be that that we can move on to
something else in this special session. Joining US Representative Brian Harrison,
what I was wondering last hour, Representative, because I know
the governor in this second session is asking for new
penalties for lawmakers who break the quorum, and I'm thinking
(00:24):
to myself, hang on a second, did we even bother
to enforce the penalties we already had in place?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
You know, it's a good question. A lot of people
are asking that. Okay, so the governor last night calls
for new penalties to be concocted and thought about so
that maybe in the future, if another Democrat group thinks
about breaking KORM, they'll know we're going to be serious
with them that time. Well, come on, give me a break.
(00:54):
This is a little bit late, I mean the old
thing day late and a dollar short. I mean, it's
at least that here. I mean, good grief. The real
punishments would have been things that really would have hurt
the Democrats, primarily adding more seats to the map. Okay,
that would have hurt them. On number two. Remember when
Speaker of Boroughs made a big deal photo ops about
signing those arrest warrants. Yeah, zero arrest or what about
(01:17):
the governor's own threat, I mean, Governor Abbott said two
almost three weeks ago. Now, if they don't show up
by Monday at three, their seats are going to be vacated. Yeah,
zero seats have been vacated. Zero Democrats were ever arrested.
There were not any more Republican seats added to the map,
and as we speak, not one single Democrats parking spot
(01:38):
was even taken away. They're all going to get paid.
They're going to get paid in full.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
There is no.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Fines even been charged against them that they will be
forced to pay. Absolutely nothing. So what I would expect,
and we'll see if I'm right on this, who knows.
My guess is we'll have some kind of like bad
Kabooki punishment theater, you know, in a couple of days
where the Democrats will have some of their you know,
committee reassigned or committees reassigned, or maybe some chairmanships or
(02:05):
vice chairmanships taken away. But don't fall for that, because
once the special sessions over, the committees are irrelevant, there's
no bills to hear, so there's a chance. My guess
is they're gonna come up with some kind of fake
non punishments that they think they can use to snowball
and gaslight the people of the state of Texas who
actually want real, tangible things to be done to these
(02:26):
rogue Democrats. But if yesterday was any indication where Republicans,
almost all of them at the beginning of the day,
until myself in the grassroots, rate such hell about this,
Almost every Republican in the Texas House went out of
their way to vote with the Democrats to give Democrats
even more time to continue delaying, and almost doubled the
time that we were on the floor yesterday. It's completely outrageous.
(02:47):
By what it proves is that the Republican leadership and
the so called Republican dominated Texas House or Representatives cares
more about appeasing the extremist liberal social Democrats then they
do livering for the Republican conservative voters of the great
State of Texas. And it's time for that to change.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Explain to me, if you can, why this need for appeacement.
They have the power, if they're willing to use it.
What are they worried about, who are they worried about upsetting?
What are they afraid that Texas Democrats will do to
them if they punish them? Well?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And number one, I mean, most of these Republicans are
actually very liberal themselves, So it's not like they're they
want to be conservative, but they're fearful of the Democrats,
so they're fearful of consequences. I mean, I bet close
to a full third of these Republicans of the Texas
House would be Democrats, okay, if they could be, if
they could be honest about it. So it's not like
we have very many conservative Republicans in the Texas House.
(03:41):
Because in the state of Texas, it's a great thing
about living here, you can't you don't really have good
luck getting elected if you run as a Democrat. So
pretty much everybody who runs for office runs pretending to
be a conservative Republican is going to take the fight
to those liberal Democrats. But the reality is they're every
bit as liberal as the Democrats that they pretend to fight.
(04:02):
And so that's what I've been trying since I got
elected four years ago. After serving in the first Trump administration,
I could nothing could have prepared me for the shock
of learning that Texas is actually not run by real Republicans.
Texas is run by a coalition of Democrats and Rhinos.
And I tell people all the time that the sooner
you've learned and in Texas government, Republicans and Democrats are
not actually on different sides, the sooner Texas makes sense
(04:25):
to you the government, because what we have down here
is we have two factions in the Texas government. We
have big government liberals who call themselves Democrats, and we
have big government liberals who call themselves Republicans. And that's
the paradigm that we've got to change.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Texas.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Texans re elected President Trump on a fourteen point landslide.
We need to get real Republicans down here who will
actually stand up to the left and make and prioritize
protecting liberty for the next generation of Texas their top priority.
And that's why as soon as we passed the maps yesterday,
I tweeted the very second the map past got it
plus five seats. Let's go now on to the one
thing we've got to do that we haven't done yet
(05:04):
and focus all of our efforts and attention on eliminating
property taxes in the state of Texas because never ending,
unethical property taxes have got to be abolished. Not one
single Texan is allowed to own their home. And it's
wreaking havoc on lives across our country. And it's the
biggest failure of the regular sessions that we did absolutely
nothing to eliminate or even cut property taxes. And the
(05:28):
reality is, unless something changes, unless the grassroots rise up,
I think the Austin Uniparty is going to do their
usual tricks and pass quote property tax relief bills that
will do nothing more than increase your property tax bill
at the end of the year. And I'm trying to
get ahead of that right now out and let the
leadership of the state of Texas know that their usual
song and dance and gaslighting about fake property tax relief
(05:50):
bills is not good enough any more. Texas want a
property taxes cut and they want them gone.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Got to go. Thank you so much for your time.
As always, that is representative. Brian Harrison
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