Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, I think Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick thinks right now
is the time to seize the moment. And when it
comes to Turning Point, USA, Lieutenant Governor Joyce us here
in Houston's Morning News a million bucks, Good morning. If
you have an extra million laying around, I'd be happy
to talk to you about that, if you've got looking
for other ways to invest it. But I think this
is a terrific idea. What made you decide that this

(00:21):
is something you really wanted to do?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
So I've known Charlie for a long long time, going
back to when he started because he came to Texas.
We were conservative bred state, placed to raise a lot
of money and we helped this young man. And I
was on a call with the top executive team last
week talking about my goal to put a Turning Point
a chapter on every high school campus, at every college campus.

(00:47):
I was at U of H last night speaking to
their chapter. And you know, Jimmy, since that sad day
that we lost Charlie, they've had requests for one hundred
and thirty five thousand. Imagine that, chapters from around the world,
all across the country, and turning Point is you know,
they teach values That's what Charlie did. He taught values
about his faith, about free markets, about capitalism, about America,

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about our history. And that's what he did. And while
I was on the call with him for about an hour,
I remember a story that I shared with them. Back
in twenty sixteen, when President Trump was first elected. I
was at the Trump Hotel at the celebration party in Washington,
and as I walked in, Charlie was walking at the
same time, and we knew each other, and we just

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had a conversation and he told me about this dream,
and he said, I want to go to places where
there aren't many conservatives. I want to go and talk
to young people because he felt peer to peer he
could reach them and he wanted to listen to them
and talk to them. And as I told that story
to them the first real time we sat down and
talked about his dream, I just thought I needed to

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pay it forward. I felt like I owed it to him.
He gave his life for the things he believed in,
and I've been blessed. I've raised a lot of money
and uh and I have I use my campaign money
for to help other people get elected. We use it
for things like helping. Uh. You know, we go to
women's groups. You know, you buy a table at the event.
We can use it for any type of political purpose

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or any purpose that that deals with this. So I
just thought that it was It just struck me when
I met him, not met him, when I talked with
him that night so many years ago, that he did it,
He made it happen. He started with nothing, and and
I just felt like, I want to do that because
I want to put I want to put this campus

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on every on every chapter, on every school campus. It's
Stratford High School by the way. You know that they
just started one and they only have several hundred students involved,
and they had a lot of pushback. Do you realize
these these these kids that at Stratford they got docks
by by democrats and socialists just because they stood up
and they wanted to do that. And now they have

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the biggest club in the entire state. So I want
to do that on every campus. Once. You know, we
passed to build this session center, built ten that I'm
proud of that put the Ten Commandments in every classroom
and to bring prayer back. It's okay in America to
stand up for your faith, no matter what it is,
It's okay to stand up for your values in America,
it says.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
It says a lot about Charlie Kirk that he had
that profound impact on you and just about everybody else
that he met in his life. You mentioned the violence.
I mean, we've seen a lot of violence out of Well,
I guess what would you expect out of cal Berkeley
other than you know what we've seen there. We won't
have it to that extent here in Texas, but there
will be places that won't be welcoming. How do you
handle that?

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Uh? You know the a as a as a Christian myself,
and as a politician. Look, you're always going to run
to people that don't agree with you. You're not going
to convert every person to believing your views. I don't
get one hundred percent of the vote, No one does.
And so you you but you have to, you have to.

(03:52):
You have to talk to people. I told I told
the college students yesterday, be willing to talk to anyone,
any time, at any place, and are your views. It's
what you do on talk radio. Think about it. Maybe
they can't get in your face because they're on the
other side. Of the speaker in the car. But it's
okay for people to disagree. And Charlie was so good
at that, these turning point missions that he had and

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when people just disagree, if someone ratchets it up to
a higher level, just move on. But there will be
people who will listen and want to know, particularly young
people who are looking at their future in it. And
the big thing that Charlie said, and I'm the chair
of the Present's commissional really delibert and after the assassination,
we had our top executive on for education and we

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played the clip of Charlie. One of the things that
Charlie said that our education system fails in and I
think this is going back to taking prayer to public
school a long time ago, in the sixties. But the
question in all of us, at any age have to
ask ourselves is where did we come from? Why are
we here? Where are we going? And for everybody's that
could be a different answer, same answer. We are basically

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a Christian nation, but we respect all face and that's
what Charlie did, But well, where did we come from?
Why are you here? Where you're going? And that's what
Charlie said that we don't teach in the education system.
So he was about values. And you know, all these
things that people say about the it just was all
it's just the left saying things that just weren't true.

(05:17):
Charlie was the least hateful person you'd ever want to meet.
He loved everybody. And again the people, a lot of
people came and said, oh, Charlie's a bad guy. I'm
going to bring him down. You know when I come
and I'm gonna ask him questions he can't answer. We
would give him this answer, and a lot of people
changed their mind after talking. That's right. They found good
to visit with.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
They found out, they found out hurly, how you know, hurry,
how smart that guy was. Lieutenang, It was very very smart.
Thank you for what you're doing. Appreciate you joining us
this morning. That is Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick.