Silvio Canto Jr. - American Thinker Contributor Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, still no quorum and the special session ends on Friday.
In Democrats supposedly going to be coming back or will
they be coming back because the Governor's going to call
second session almost immediately. So I would think that if
they come back, are they going to come back and stay?
Are they going to come back and leave again? Who knows.

(00:22):
Sylvia Kento Junior joins US political commentator and also American
Thinker contributor where a piece called Abbot breaks the Democrats again.
You know, from our perch here, the Democrats have been
successful in preventing a vote so far. So how do
you think that they've been broken?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Well, good morning, guys, and thank you for the invitation. Well,
the point I was trying to make in my article
is that Governor Abbot for the second time. He did
it with immigration, and now he did it with the maps.
What he's been able to do is change the national conversation.
And the reason I say he's broken them is because
what we're talking about today is the maps, the maps

(01:00):
from other states, you know, the jerry mandering going on
in Illinois and Massachusetts and so on, and that's what
we're talking about. And the only reason we're talking about
that is because the governor has done it the way
he did it. So that's why I'm talking about breaking
the Democrats in the center. We're not talking about the
map of Texas. We're talking about the maps in other states.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Guys, even a lot of Democrats understand how hypocritical this is.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Oh absolutely. I mean all you have to do is
look at the map of Illinois. I mean, that map
looks like it was drawn up by somebody who was
smoking something that they shouldn't have I mean, and then you
look at Massachusetts. I mean there's not a single GOP
representative in their congressional delegation. And then you look at California.
So I think the only reason we're talking about these

(01:49):
maps in other states is because the governor basically put
this issue on the front page. So that's what I
mean about breaking them. We're talking about their maps, talking
about the Texas map anymore, guys.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Well, states like California, though, we're talking about. Well, if
you redistrict in Texas, we will readistick in California and
we'll make up for the five lost seats. Do you
take them seriously that they would do something like that
or has the light been shown on this issue enough
where they would be afraid to do something like that.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Well, I mean, I'm sure I take them seriously, But
the problem they have in the Golden State is that
their process is extremely complicated in order to draw off
more seats. The beauty of Texas is that the governor
could do it the way he did it. He calls
the session, he puts the issue on this as the
lead issue in the session, and then we draw the maps.

(02:41):
They cannot do it that way in California or New York.
They have their own local state restrictions that make it
a lot more complicated. I was listening to an expert
on California politics who was saying that even if they
changed the maps, it wouldn't be effective until twenty eight,
which of course defeats the purpose of doing it in
twenty six. So, you know, the governor in California. You

(03:02):
have to understand something about many of these Democrats. They
have to beat up on Trump because that's the only
way they can stay relevant. They want to talk about
the issues in their states. I mean, California is a mess.
As I always say, the busiest highway in California is
people moving out. It's a terrible mess, what they've done
to that beautiful state. So you know, they can say
all that they want, but I think Abbott has clearly

(03:25):
won this fight. And I understand that the Democrats are
coming back to Texas. Well. I hope they stay in
Texas because they're not winning public opinion. Public opinion is.
You don't win public opinion by talking to the media
in Chicago. You win it by coming back here and
making your arguments right here in Texas so that you
can explain to Texans why these maps are bad. But

(03:47):
you don't do that in Chicago or New York City.
That's not where you reach people in Texas. Guys, good
point Selville.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Thank you. Sevill Kento, Junior contributor to American Thinker,