James Dickey - Former Texas GOP Chairman Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, Well, that's kind of standard operating procedure here in
Texas for Democrats when it comes to something like redistricting,
run for your lives, run to the hills. If they
can't get a quorum, they can't take a vote. James
Sticky joins us former Texas GOP chairman. Here we go
with redistricting again, mister Dickie. Do you think the Democrats
run for the hills?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Boy? Unfortunately, lately Democrats have been way too predictable, and
I would I think there's a lot of money on
them trying, which is why we're hearing things like the
Attorney General yesterday saying that he would push for he
would push for arrest if they did so. And of

(00:41):
course we all know the Ranger wh would be spending
some time going after them if they if they try
this foolish thing that doesn't work again and again.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well, and that's the bottom line, isn't it. I mean,
if that's your strategy, it's never worked before. All it
has done is delay things so and giving you had prs.
So what's the point of doing it the same old
thing again?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, but you look at National Democrats and they're the
ones putting the pressure on Texas Democrats and Texas Democrats,
they just keep pushing for policies and plans that eighty
ninety one hundred percent of the voters hate. And so sadly,

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the fact that it's a terrible idea and doesn't work
isn't necessarily going to mean that Democrats aren't going to
try it. Sadly.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well, here's the part I don't understand. If I were
a Texas Democrat, I think I'd be saying to the
National Party, hey, listen, look in the Texas House, we
pretty much get our way. We've got this little system
worked out with some of the rhinos so that you know,
we can avoid these issues that we really don't want
to deal with. Let's just go ahead and play that game,
because that game's working. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
And yet in this session we did get a lot.
In this regular session, we got a lot of fantastic
conservative things through, and this special session the governor who's
put amazing things on the call not redistricting is on
because the Department of Justice said, we'll as sue you
if you don't put it on there. But the flood relief,

(02:21):
the disaster relief that we all know we need, that's there,
but also banning taxpayer funded lobbying that's on there, which
we have needed for a long time, and the Governor
made sure was on that call. Making sure that the
Attorney General has right to prosecute election fraud, that's on

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the call. So there's a lot of great conservative stuff
that will happen when this session happens. And I say
win because it's only it's only a question to win.
And don't forget that the House actually passed new rules
that the members who do flee now, for the first
time ever, could face the reprimands, censor, expulsion, even and

(03:07):
five hundred dollars per day fine for their absence. So
the penalties that the House is imposing on House members
who would do such a thing, it's much bigger than
it's ever been before. And that may be the one
thing that prevents them from from doing this and allows
us to actually get these great conservative policies.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
All righty, sir, we will soon see. Thank you for
your time. James Dickey Forward, Texas GOP Chared