Nick Lindquist - Political Strategist Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, Lee Greenwood's proud to be an American. You're proud
to be an American. I'm proud to be American, But
Illinois represented Daliah Ramirez is not. She's proud to be
a Guatemalan, not proud to be an American. That linguist
joins thos political strategist. You know, even if you're a progressive,
that doesn't strike me as the smartest thing to say.
If you're if you're so proud to be a Guatemalan

(00:21):
and you're not proud to be an American, why are
you not in Guatemala? Oh?

Speaker 2 (00:27):
I totally agree, and UH, number one, why aren't you
in Guatemala? Number two? Why are you a member of
Congress that swore an oath to the United States? If
you see yourself as a Guatemalan first, I mean that
that completely negates the idea that you should be in Congress.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
You know, that's that's an interesting point. Could somebody say,
could could the president say that you that she has
broken her oath? In what happens if you break your
oath as a congress person?

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Well, I think it's an interesting thing to look at.
The White House House came UH made a pretty strong
statement about this, as did DHS and several other members
of Congress like Mike Lee. You know that there are
a lot of people very mad about this, and rightfully so.
I mean, you know, this statement isn't just uh, you know,
something we can move past quickly, especially when you also

(01:20):
look at her background. Her mother was an illegal alien,
she's married to DOCA recipient right now, and she sits
on the subcommittee for Border Security right now? Why why
is that the case? If she has loyalty to another country?

Speaker 1 (01:41):
So is her was her father a citizen.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
That I don't know?

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Because of it? If her mother is an illegal alien
and she's married to a DOCTA, resembly are potentially looking
at somebody who's elected who was not a citizen in
the United States.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
I think that is that is a very strong possibility
to be looked into, because this is not okay. I mean,
I think at the very least she should be strict
of her committee assignments and maybe censored by the House,
but we should look into that. I know that her
mother came over first and then her father, so there's

(02:17):
a very strong possibility that there's a citizenship issue here.
And I also think that you know, members of Congress,
like the President should have to be national born citizens
to be in the House.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Absolutely. I want to ask you too. You might have
heard during our headlines here before our interview began about
Jolanda Jones from Houston, one of the runaway Texas Democrats,
saying comparing Texas redistricting to the Holocaust. What do you
think it is about these progressive Democrats that they want

(02:51):
to compare everything to Nazi Germany.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
It's because they've gone to such extremes that there's really
no other pathway for them. They have to keep going
to extremes. Now they've backed themselves into a corner. And
it's also ridiculous to say that I was talking about
this the other day. It's ironic that they use this
language and they're making a big deal out of this
when they all fled to Illinois, most of them, which

(03:18):
is if you look at Illinois congressional district map, it
looks like a five year old druid. It just it's
such a mess. It's clearly extremely gerrymandered, and Texas's map
rightfully represents Texas. So they really have no leg to
stand on with this, and they just need to lean
on the extreme rhetoric, because that's all they know how

(03:38):
to do.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
I'm glad you mentioned that because JB. Pritzker was on
Colbert last night and he admitted that their map, the
Illinois map, looks like a kindergartener druid.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yes, yes, it looks ridiculous. I mean, and Illinois is
a state where I think forty percent of it or
something like that, voted for Trump and they have all close,
medium not even close to that representation in the House.
So if Democrats want to criticize Republicans for their maps,
they should draw some good maps themselves first.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
H too funny, all right, Nick, Good to hear from you,
so I appreciate it. Nick Lindquist, Political Strategists, six twenty
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