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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Seven, twenty one, our time here in Houston's Warning News.
So we get a new DA starting tomorrow this. You know,
elections have consequences, and this may be one of them.
Jared Woodfild joins US attorney in former Harris County GOP chair.
We know he's We certainly know he's not Kim Ogg.
We know that Kim Ogg lost the support of George Soros.
Sean Tierry is a Sorows back candidate. Is there anything
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else we really need to know about him? When you
get right down to it?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, yeah, Well you're right, Jimman. We've got the past
two district attorneys were individuals that were supported by George Sorows.
But I think what's interesting about this last election is
was the margin of difference between the Republican candidate and
the Democratic candidate was about one percentage point. So this
particular DA, Sean tierre goes in knows that he is
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representing a county that's equally divided, and the question becomes
what model will he approach or cake will he take
the Alvin Bragg Donnie Willis model and use his office
in an attempt to go after his political opponents, or
will be someone who administers law and justice and goes
after violent criminals and cop killers and prosecutes them to
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the full extent of the law. So that remains to
be seen. But receiving a whole lot of money from
George Soros is not a good thing.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
No, it's not. And you have to the reason why
kim Ogg lost George soros support is because she was
tougher on crime than he wanted her to be. So
you've got to think that Shaun Tier understands that if
he loose and he'll get primary next time out. If
he goes if he goes hard justice, then he's going
to get primary.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, and that's the question. What you know, will he
have the fortitude to stand up against his base and
do the right thing or not?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
And that remains to be seen.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I mean, in kim Og, I was no fan of
kim Ogg. I mean she was an individual who went
after her political opponents too, And we represent an individual
right now where she's prosecuting them for standing up for
election integrity and well at the same time, an im
a voter brought to occur on her watch. So you know,
I always even giving somebody a chance, but I am
concerned about the backing that he had, but hopefully the
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election results that one percent margin will speak to him
very loudly and clearly and let him know that he's
not a district attorney who's there only for Democrats, but
he's a district attorney there for all residents of Harris County,
regardless of party affiliation.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Well, I would say that we probably are going to
get an indication fairly quickly, don't you think, because there's
some high profile cases that came on put out there
just in the last month, you know, seeking the death penalty.
If he decides either not to prosecute some of her
cases or decides to pull the death penalty off the table,
that'll probably tell us a little bit more about where
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he's going to be going.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
That's exactly right. I mean, the cases that you're referring
to are coming up in the new year, and he
will have to make decisions with respect to those cases
very quickly. And so you know, if someone is killed
a police officer and the death pennies on the table,
he needs to use the death penalty to the full
extent of the law.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
And so that's a great point you made.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Let's just see how he handles the cases up there
in his first term, but I think that'll give us
a very clear perspective.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
As to what kind of DA he's going to be
for the next four years.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Well, the other thing we found he's very good at
he's very good at punting. I don't know if he
ever played football, but he's pretty good at punting. If
he has the case, like an election fraud case, for example,
involving Democrats, that he doesn't want to bring, he'll punt
it off to you know, he'll punt it off to
another jurisdiction is so that he doesn't have to deal
with it.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, you know, in that particular case. And I know
Rodney Allis is very beholden to Lena Hidalgo. And I'm
actually thankful that Harris County is not handling that case
now and that it looks like the aid has been
handed over to the Attorney General's office and a Ken
Pacton's office and may end up being with another district
attorney's office.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
But the reality is we cannot use that office. We
can't weaponize that office in an effort to go after
political opponents. We've seen that on the national level with
President Trump. We saw with Fannie Willis, and we're seeing
we saw with Alvin Bragg and so many others. And
that's when the DA's office loses its credibility, It loses
its integrity when people look and say, hey, that office
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is only being used as a tool to go after
one's political opponents. That's got to change and that can't
happen here in Harris County.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Okay, well, I'm gonna put you down. Is realistically hopeful?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well, you know, I believe in giving everybody a chance,
and so I'll be able to give you a very
clear comment within the first six months.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I can tell you that much.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
That much, I'm sure too. All Right, Thanks Jared Jared Woodfield, attorney, farmer,
Harris County GOP chair