Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Joins Houston's Morning News - Reaction to Runaway Democrats

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, still trying to get their runaway Democrats back
in Austin seven to fifty our time. Here in Houston's
Boy News. We are joined by Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick.
Welcome back to the show. Good morning, Good morning, Hey Matt.
Heard that I heard from President Trump, not directly, but
I heard him say that maybe there might be a
little FBI involvement in trying to extradite some of these
Texas Democrats.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'll let the legal work say in the hands of
those pursue that for a living. For me, as President
of the Senate, my job is to pass bills, and
that's what we're going to do. We're going to pass
the redistricting map sometime early next week. We will power
it through because it's legal, it's the right thing to do.
You know, when you look at these numbers, and I

(00:44):
was with the Hannity last night, Laura the night before.
We talked about these national numbers, and I think people
are stunned when they see the jerrymandering that the Democrats
have created over decades. For example, Massachusetts, the President got
thirty six percent of the vote. They don't have one
rep Public and not one for Congress. In Illinois, where
the Democrats from Texas have fled with Pritzker, they have

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seventeen congressional seats, fourteen Democrats, three Republicans, even though the
president got forty three percent of the vote. In fact,
if you take the five biggest blue states or five
of the bigger ones New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Washington State,
in California, the president averaged forty two percent of the vote.
And yet of the one hundred and seventeen congressmen and women,

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ninety are Democrats and only twenty seven Republicans. They they
are emperors with no clothes. Trust me, They've been doing
this forever. All we're doing is fighting back to be
sure our red state is represented as our voters indicate of.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
JB. Pritzker was on Colbert last night, and Colbert, even
Colbert liberal as he is, was giving him a hard time,
and he finally said, yeah, our map kind of looks
like was drawn by a kindergartner.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yes it was. You know, this goes back to that's
the vice President of the United States got named l
Bridge Gary, and he was the first to draw a
map like the Democrats have drawn for decades, a map
that someone said looked like a salamander, and they said, well,
it's really gerrymander. That's where the word came from from
our fifth vice president. And that's what the Democrats have

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done for decades. You know, when you see the elections,
and you know the election maps on election nineteenth, looks
at the whole country and it's all red, like Texas,
and you say, how could Congress be so close because
of that? And all we're doing. All we're doing is
drawing districts in Texas, five districts that Donald Trump won,

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And all we're doing is just making sure that our
red state that And by the way, Jimmy, in the
last two and a half years, we've batted about three
million people in the state, two and a half to
three million just in the last few years, about eleven
to twelve men in the last twenty. The state has changed.
We're much more Republican than we've ever been. And it's
perfectly legal what we're doing. We're just drawing maps to

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make sure we have the right representation in Congress on
behalf of a red state.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
I had State Senator Paul Bettencourt on a little bit
earlier on our show, and I asked him if Senate
Democrats were still in Austin, Are they still around, you
would no better than anybody else.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yes. In fact, I'm on the road right now to Austin.
We go in at nine o'clock this morning, and we'll
start our redistricting hearings later today than tomorrow and Friday
and bring them after the floor soon. If the House
comes back and gets a quorum, they need four or
five more Democrats to come back. They're very close right now.
They're in the mid nineties. They need one hundred total votes,
two thirds of the House to have a quorum. We

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have a quorum in the Senate. But right now I
have a number of Democrats who have left and gone
to various cities. I don't know if they're coming back
or not. Here's a question. Are the Democrats going to
stay out of state? Are they going to stay out
of state and kill the bills that we're going to
address the flooding, this terrible tragic storm that we had

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on July fourth? Are they going to stay out and
not do that and kill those bills? Now in the
Senate again, I have a quorum. I'll keep a chorum.
I have enough Democrats with my Republicans to stay so
we'll pass these bills. The question is in the House,
what are they going to do in the House. Are
all of these Democrats going to stay out and kill
another property tax bill? Are they going to kill the

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THHC band? Are they going to kill getting rid of
the Star Test? Are they going to kill all these bills?
There's no endgame here, you mean, there's no endgame. They
have to come back at some time. So the question
is do they want to get back before session ends?
A special session is thirty days. We're halfway through. It
ends on August nineteenth, in two weeks, a little less
than two weeks. And if they don't come back, then

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we come back for another thirty days and do it again.
And if they stay out, we do it again, and
we do it again. There is no endgame here. And meanwhile,
the people of Texas are not getting their true representation
and on these bills, they could all die because the
Democrats and they ought to be ashamed of themselves. Quite frankly,
with all this focus on the flooding issues, and that's
our number one priority is to address that we lost

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lives here in Houston. And look, you've got almost all
the hues Democrats, almost all of them to my knowledge,
have fled the state, all of them. They're the same ones,
by the way, that won't pass Bell Reform to keep
murders behind bars. The Democrats in Harris County and Houston
in general. They are a disgrace to our city and
by the way, to Republicans, Democrats and independence. For example,

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in Ball Reform, everybody wants to keep people who have
committed murder or been charged with murder in jail. Not
these democrats. These are the same people that have taken
off for these other states. They ought to be ashamed
of themselves. And if you get back to work and do.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Their job, all right, sir, thanks as always, appreciate your
time and thank you appreciate it. You bet. That's Lieutenant
Governor Dan Patrick. You all have a great day. We'll
see tomorrow morning bright early five am. I'll see you
this after the four on em nine to fifty KPRC