Matt Locke - Host & Republican Strategist Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joins to talk about Matt Locke, host of Republican Strategist.
I've heard some of the things coming out of the
mouth of Marjorie Taylor Green. Are these just you know,
far right women who are having a hissy fad or
do they have a legitimate gripe here? Matt Well, I think.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
A lot of us have a legitimate gripe when it
comes to both sides of the aisle. And currently we're
watching as a Republican party isn't following through on all
of the things they said that they wanted to do
in midterms and all that stuff. So folks are getting upset,
and now you're seeing people like Marjorie Taylor Green, Nancy
Mays who are out, you know, putting that out on

(00:36):
the air, and I guess letting you know they're frustrated
as well.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Okay, well, what do you think the results are of this? Clearly,
I think they're probably trying to spur Republican leadership to action,
to shame them into getting something done. But do they
run the risk of having the effect of people saying, well,
it doesn't matter if I bothe for a Republican they
won't get anything done.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
It does it does, And I don't know if this
is the appropriate way to be going out and shaving anything.
We know what our politicians are doing, we know what
they're not doing. Maybe pull them aside behind closed doors
and say, hey, look, you know this is not what
my constituents want. Maybe we go a different direction. If
that doesn't work, I'm not for sure if it's I

(01:19):
don't know. I don't know if it's worth saving or
if it is capable of being saved.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
You know, I wonder too, we've had a couple of
Texas Republicans who have pulled out and are not running
for re Electionship Roy comes to mind. He's running for
state wide office. There are others who have decided that
they're not going to run for reelection. They give the
rationale to be either spending more time with family or
coming back to their home state. But I wonder how
many of them are just as frustrated as Nancy maces Well.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
I think there's a couple things within that frustration is
probably one of them. But Trump has turned off the
money spickt that you used to make more money in Congress.
She saw Nancy Pelosi's now retiring, but she's like ninety
five thousand years old, but she did what six thousand
percent better than the stock market in all of these things.
But I think the money is starting to dry up
a little bit with USAID going away. You've got all

(02:09):
the stuff for PBS and NPR and Parenthood and all
of these corporations that were kicking money back. I think
lobbyists and special interest have less hold onto these people now,
and so a lot of them are like, well, the squeeze,
you know, the juices or the squeeze.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, I'm not I'm not making enough money and I'm
not getting anything done. Bad combination. All right, man, before
we let you go. I know you have a new
book out called I See. What's what's the book all about?

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Well? I wrote a book that is the Matrix, Big
Brother and Atlas shrugg all kind of combined in the
one where folks are being controlled by disinformation.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Is a feel good story.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah yeah, it really has some underpinnings of what is
taking place today with social media, with corporations selling you
a bag of goods that my main character figures out. Hey, look,
he gets the gift of site from what's called the optalink,
but he has given the site that they want him
to see, so he figures that out those after them,

(03:10):
and it's a little bit story in the end.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Okay, sounds good, Thank you, sir, appreciated Matt Locke, host
and Republican strategist and the author of renewed book called
I C spelled E y E s E E I
See