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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
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So Michael Very Show.
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Is on the air.
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Good morning, El Casina. Good morning, Michael, Hello, Hello, are
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Tomorrow Money? Good morning Texas. Listen to Good Morning Texas.
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Morning, your car, Good morning Texas. Honesty and we're happy
here to talk about everything.
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Good morning.
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We're not wearing pants. Good morning, Texauri.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
The kids from Richmond Lamar Little League have punched their
ticket to the Little League World Series with a five
to two victory over East Bank of Louisiana, a team
that had beaten them over the weekend. Lamar's third baseman
Lucas Sontag with an incredible, incredible web Jim in the
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sixth inning, diving to his left and throwing from his
knees to get the lead runner out at second, a
play the ESPN announcers declared as the best defensive play
of the tournament, and he makes it to save and
win the game. They will open play in Williamsport a
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week from today. Here was the final out of the
game to send the Boys to Williamsport.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Here's Christiano window.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
Six to two.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
To left.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Trendy Cole has to play and so you have to wait.
I ain't going back to school yet. Party time from
the more little.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
League on to Williams two. Good Lamar little going to
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Williamsport for the first time since All three and All
four when Randall Critchet put the way look as Sontag,
we may be talking about him the same way as we.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Do Randall in the big leagues one. Just an outstanding
player on a ball. Invite at him.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Congratulations to Lucy had a back up.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
They played very well as well.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Gritchick playing for the Royals now, I'm told, and into
a twelve year career in the pros. Here was Lamar
third baseman, Lucas Sontag with the best defensive play of
the tournament, eleven.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Years old, one of four eleven year olds on this
East paink team.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Tag kids. That's the best defensive player of the tournament.
What's the best player in the tournament? Diving to his.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Thomas Knees got an accurate throw to get it out.
This is not good, this is outstanding. Brooks Robinson's time
lun the lid of the play.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Well, we have high drama as democrats have fled the state.
We'll talk about that in the next segment. A peeping tom,
armed with a hammer and a butcher knife enough to
kill you and clearly evincing the intention to do so,
broke windows at a Southwest Houston apartment complex around five
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a m.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Friday morning.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
The peeping tom was shot by a man defending his
family in what appears to be a rather clear cut
case of self defense. However, the man who shot the
peeping tom was arrested and charged with aggravated assault.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
ABC thirteen with the story.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
We told a man's in trouble for shooting the accused peeper,
who we're told was armed with a butcher knife at a hammer. Now,
police aren't confirming that at the moment, only telling us
there's one person potentially facing charges to that man's relatives,
though they say he shouldn't be. It's a clearcut case
of self defense. Handcuffed and limping, the man, Keonte Davis
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says she saw peering through her bathroom window this morning
and the life of Jackson Square apartments. We're not showing
his face since he hasn't yet been charged.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
With a crime.
Speaker 8 (05:24):
He's asking me do I have a cigarette?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Her brother in law scares him off.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
She says, you can't stare through people's windows.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That's weird.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
But hours later, when Davis is already at work, a
relative say, the man reappeared smashing the window with a hammer.
Speaker 8 (05:39):
My mom was in the bathroom ass he bustled.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
She thought somebody was shooting. That's how bad.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
Like she said, she just dropped to the ground.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
And started crawling.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
This time, she says, her brother in law runs outside
to confront the man, who family members say was also
armed with a butcher.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Knife and shot just went off.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Derrian Davis says her husband shot the vandal in the
legs that they called police. They weren't expecting what happened next.
Her husband arrested, She claims, told he'll be charged with
aggravated assault.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I definitely think that he deserved that.
Speaker 8 (06:12):
I think he deserves self defense because that's what that was.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
He accused. Peeper went to the hospital.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Police haven't said if he'll face charges blood like here.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Davis hopes he does.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
She says he's been squatting in this vacant apartment and
others tell us They've caught it peering in their windows too.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
I'm literally I'm scared to actually be in these apartments
or in this area anymore because HBD doesn't take anything serious,
like they just let everything.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Go around here.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You know, when you see you do a police ride along,
it's amazing what clusters of crime these apartment complexes like
this are. And you do a daytime ride along, and
you think to yourself, Man, I'm glad I'm with the cops.
I wouldn't I want to I wouldn't want to get
out at this place. I wouldn't feel comfortable walking through
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the court. And the way a lot of these were
built is the parking is on the perimeter and then
looks like like.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
The old colleges.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
You have, you know, the buildings around the perimeter, and
then you have the internal courtyard. And when they were built,
it wasn't the intention that it would shield the criminals
in the inside of it as the cops drive by,
But that's what it has the effect of doing. You
think to yourself, you got to pity the people who
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can't afford to get out of that. You know, the
single mom, she's a nurse's aide or a teacher's aid
or whatever else, and she's stuck living in this squalor,
and she's she's stuck having to walk past this every
single day. You can blame the cops, but they don't
exactly have an easy job, and nobody ever compliments them
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on the job they do. If they had pulled the
peeping tom out of their half, the people that live
there would have said that they were racists, because we
happen to now know what.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
His race is.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
It's it's an unfortunate situations. It's a life and a
subculture that you wouldn't want to have to live.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
That's for sure. You come and join us. It'll be
like old times.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
With Texas could single handedly be the reason Republicans hold
the House of Representatives in the mid terms next November.
That's a big thing to say, and it's true. It's
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not a foregone conclusion. And if we get our five
congressional seats, that we win them because people still have
to show up vote Demmocrats are still going to contest them,
no doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
But just as.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
We have seen, when a district is drawn for a purpose,
it tends to end up in that way. I remember
I was in college, and I was watching these races
pretty closely back then, and there was a seat drawn
on the east side of Houston for a Hispanic congressman,
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and it was expected that it would be Ben Reyes,
and then Ben Reyes had a lot of legal problems,
and so then Raman Martinez was running and probably would
have made a pretty good state senator. Raman Martinez was running,
and yet Jean Green ended up winning the seat, and
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the seat which he held was working class Hispanic and working
class white Democrat folks that would later vote Trump in
twenty sixteen, and in bigger numbers for Trump in twenty
twenty four and probably Trump in twenty twenty for that matter.
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But what we have now is the national Democrats putting
the local Democrats through this performative process of pretending to
fight redistricting. They know they can't win. They're aware, they
don't intend to win. It's not a fight they intend
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to win at all. They think they'll get some concessions
out of this, they'll get Republicans, Hey, come on, come
on back, don't make us fight this thing out, and
we'll give you these things over here. That's where we
are right now. But it's also the case that Democrats
strategists know that they have to show their voters that
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they're fighting the Republicans or else their Republican their voters
will do what many Republicans have done over the years,
especially after the Bush McCain years, and say, what if
you're not if you're not going to disagree with the
Democrats in this case, if you're not going to disagree
with the Republicans, if you're not going to try to
stop them from what they're doing, then want to should
I support you?
Speaker 6 (11:14):
All?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Just stay home? So they have to put on this show.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
So on August fifth, yesterday, actually yes it was yesterday.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I just feel like I was on riding now.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
At one o'clock, the Speaker, Dustin Burroughs, called the Texas
House to order.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
But you got to have two thirds of the House.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Mean, you've got to have one hundred members, well out
of one hundred and fifty members, sixty some odd or Democrats,
so they can break a quorum by simply on Moss
not showing up, and they didn't. So the speaker announced
that he has met with the leadership of the Texas
Department of Public Safety on the arrest warrants issued on Monday,
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so arrest warrants were issued to bring them in. That
is a power the government has, and the Democrats are saying, okay,
arrest us.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Here. We are where we knew where they were for
the last two nights.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
They're doing national TV interviews, they're able to be reached. Then,
the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a public statement
with the support of the Speaker of the House Ken Burroughs,
that he would take legal action if the Democrats failed
to appear in the Texas House on Friday. So we've
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had arrest warrants issued on Monday. They don't show up Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
That's where we are today.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
It is today Wednesday, removed. Yeah, and we're going to
give them till Friday. We don't have them on Friday,
We're going to arrest them.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Right then.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
At four forty yesterday, President Trump was asked about the
quorum break, what's going on down there in Texas. He
cares deeply about this because this affects the House, and
he said it almost looks like they've abandoned the state.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
It looks very bad, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Then he's asked if the FBI should get involved because
here's the performative art all around. John Cornyan has become involved.
Oh yes, John Cornyn has stepped up and said, we
need to get the FBI involved here, to get them involved. Okay,
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John Wayne mccorny, we're real glad you've jumped up and
want to play tough.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
We haven't seen you for years. So John Wayne mccornyn
is trying to insinuate himself into the issue. See if
he can't because see Ken Paxton's getting all the pub
because Paxton is taking on the role of I'll go
get him and bring them back. And Corny's over here
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going well, well, well, well they're not good Paopa. And
also I I work cowboy hat in my ads.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You probably saying, I'm.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
So President Trump says on if the FBI should go
should get involved.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
They may have to.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I know they want them back, not only the attorney general,
the governor wants them back.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I don't want to go too far on this.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I'm going to flag it for you to review, but
there's something going on here with President Trump not being
as pro Ken Paxton perhaps as he has been in
the past. And I hear a lot of things and
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I don't know The thing I hear that has the
most credibility is that they're pushing Corning to get out
of the race. The big money boys in DC are
pushing Corning to get out of the race because Cornyn
cannot win the primary everybody knows it but him, and
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that they would bring in a candidate to replace Cornyan
against Paxton. The President seems to be pulling back on
his pro paston positioning. I don't want to read too
much on that, but just watch as this development I
found wives.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
So here is President Trump.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
When asked, do you want the federal government to get
involved with bringing back the Texas legislators? Would you like
the FBI to help locate and arrest these Texas Democrats?
Speaker 9 (15:48):
And this is what he said, Texas Senator John Cornyn
is asking for your help to force Democrats back to
the state and hold them accountable. Do you want the
federal government and the FBI to help locate and arrest
these Texas Democrats who've the state?
Speaker 10 (16:00):
Well, I think they've abandoned the state. Nobody's seen anything
like it, even though they've done it twice before, and
in a certain way, it almost looks like they've abandoned
the state looks very bad.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
Yeah, go ahead, PLEASEI get involved. Should the FBI get involved, Well,
they may have to.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
They may have to.
Speaker 10 (16:15):
No, I know they want them back, not only the
attorney general, the governor wants them back. If you look,
I mean the governor of Texas is demanding they come back.
So a lot of people are demanding they come back.
You can't just sit it out.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
You have to go back. You have to fight it out.
Speaker 10 (16:30):
That's what elections are all about.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
So that happens.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
At four forty Central at five h six pm, Governor
Greg Abbott announced that he had filed a lawsuit in
the Texas Supreme Court to take emergency action to begin
the removal from office of Texas House Representative Jeen Wu.
The lawsuit is called an emergency petition for writ of
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quo quileronto wileronto. Let me stop for a second and
say what you're seeing right now. Remember, there's polling being
done every day. It's a very expensive process and it
is not shared with the public, but it is shared
with public officials who pay for it or who are
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the golden ones to help inform their decisions. And they're
polling everything that that person could be taking action on
and the polls are showing that the Democrats look very
bad out of this, and that the person who looks
like Youford tea pusser that walks tall into Illinois grabs
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them by the hair of their neck and pulls them
back to Texas as sit down for.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Two minutes while we gabble in.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Take our action, and then you run off to Illinois
and get mugged if you want. But you're gonna sit
here and do your job like you're supposed to do.
Stop the nonsense. You're acting like a child. Everybody wants
to be seen in that capacity Ken Paxton does.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
He's the attorney general.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
He's running for the US and this looks great, and
it's kind of naturally his job. Historically it's been the
Attorney General who would sink their teeth into this thing
and go after it.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Right then he got dustin Boroughs. He's in an.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Odd position because these are all the people who put
him in the speaker seat. See all these Democrats and
him and drunk Dad. They sit over here in the
corner and scheme before the session begins, and they start.
There are just a few votes shy of a majority,
with just the Democrats. They know they can't put a
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Democrat up as their leader because then the Republicans wouldn't
be able to vote for it her, they'd all be
voted out. So they cut a deal with a Republican.
That's Dustin Borroughs. It was drunk day before that. It's
it's been Joe Strauss before that. This has been going
on for a long time. These Democrats that are on
the run now they're the ones that chose a speaker,
not the rest of the House. So they get close
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enough to get in seventy six out of one hundred
and fifty that all they have to do is go, hey, Bob,
come here, if you'll go with us, we'll put you
in charge of this committee. Hey, Sam, come over here.
You'll go with us, We'll put you in charge of
this committee. Oh well, I wasn't going to get a
committee chairmanship. I was just going to be one out
of one hundred. Yeah, I'll do that'd be good for
my district. So you get enough to get to seventy six.
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Once you got seventy six commitments, then you've got seventy
four guys over there, and you go, hey, you can
come along with us and make it look like we
have a bigger majority, or we can punish you because
we've got our seventy six here's our names.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
We've counted the votes. You go count them.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
So now you're in the minority as the majority party,
and you start cutting deals. A lot of them do,
and they go, all right, if you'll let me chair this,
let me do this, if you let me do this.
So before you know it, you end up with one
hundred or more votes for the speaker, and the folks
back home they don't know any better. And then you
got the Karl Rove consultants and they write the letters
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and say, don't let it be said that these aren't
good conservatives.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
They are. We got over one hundred votes for this candidate.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
You did.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Where'd you get those votes? Who cast those votes? How
come you put the Democrats as vice chairman of all
the committees? How come the chairman of the committees don't
show up at the committees, so the vice chairman, the
Democrats like Anne Johnson, can run the committees.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Problem is, if.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
You're actually watching what's going on, it'll make you crazy
because back home you got people who go, you say, hey,
Mono Diallas selling us down the river.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Mono Kiki's brother.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
That's a good dude, right there, he's good. He's Hispanic Republican.
On July fourth, he sends out a nice note every year.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
He not he no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
No no.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
He's a good dude. Here's what he's doing here, here's
exactly what he's doing. Well about old cecil Cecil's a
good fellow, is it? Cecil Bell say it's a good dude.
What about Sam Harris?
Speaker 10 (21:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Sam, Sam, good, solid, solid guy. Go to church for me. Yeah,
wife's there.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Good people.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
But they're selling you down the river. They don't announce
that they're doing it, to do it very very cleverly.
So the governor now has taken action and he goes
straight to the Supreme Court. It's a very rare thing.
By the way, well, warnto is a Latin term meaning
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by what authority, by what warrant, And it's essentially it's
a legal action that challenges a person's right to hold
a public office.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
So it's a pretty powerful move.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Apparently, from what I'm hearing, Abbott did not consult with
the Attorney General or the Speaker of the House. He
doesn't get along with Dustin Burroughs. Typically, and I don't
know who's driving this action, because this might look like
he's doing an end around on Ken Paxton. And remember
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we've got a US Senate seat in the offering in
the spring, so everybody's trying.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
To look like they're in charge here.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
The lawsuit that Abbot filed is filed by Abbot and
his legal team, Trevor Ezel, his general counsel, Joseph Bink,
his deputy general counsel, Jason Bramow, his associate general counsel,
and Caleb Gunnelds, whose assistant general counsel.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
And I am.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Told these are a very very smart, capable crew of lawyers.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Ezel's a former clerk for a Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsis.
All right, we'll talk more about this.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Connery lifeless isis take a dost.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Just go a little deeper into the weeds.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Normal.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
How can the governor remove a state representative from his
duly elected position. It's kind of a nuclear option. Why
it doesn't happen very often? The Texas Constitution, the Governing
Document Article five, section three, and Texas Government Code twenty
two point two sub a says the justices thereof.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
That's of the state.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Supreme Court may issue the writs of mandamus, procedendo cerciori,
and such other writs as may be necessary to enforce
its jurisdiction. The legislature may confer original jurisdiction on the
Supreme Court to issue writs of quot war unti, and
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mandamus in such cases as may be specified, except as
against the governor of the state. No, No, that's not
where you sleep with the wayfady minute. That's a different deal.
That's what piss wayam Wallace off. Texas Government Code Section
twenty two point zero two sub a. The Supreme Court
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or a justice of the Supreme Court may issue wits
writs of procedendo and cirtuary, and all writs of quohornto
and mandamus agreeable to the principles of law regulating those
writs against any officer of state government, except the governor,
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the Court of Criminal Appeals, or a judge of the
Court of Criminal Appeals. So the lawsuit the governor has
filed posits that Jane Wu and I'll read just directly
quote deliberately fled the state to abandon his official duties indefinitely.
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The problem for the Democrats is they can't wake up
and go, my goodness, we've got tomselitis and you're gonna
steal our seat.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
This isn't right.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
This could happen to anybody. They're out there doing interviews saying, yeah,
we've fled the state. Look at us, send us money,
Send us money, we fled the state. Well, now that
puts you at risk that when you say we can
stay away longer if you'll send us money, is being
equated to selling your vote. Hey, don't want us to
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vote for redistricting. Don't want us to vote in a
way that would help the Republicans. We don't have enough
votes to kill the action the redistricting that came out
of committee already, by the way the committe approved it.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
We don't have enough.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Folks to do that, But we do have enough votes
to keep a quorum minimum number of people in order
to conduct official business from occurring if we all stay together.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Abbott's case quote seeks.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
To address ongoing abuses of public office by ousting the
non user, and that's gene Wu, who has abdicated his
official responsibilities by avowedly repudiating them. So in legal terms,
you would say time is of the essence. Time is
of the essence is a legal term, not just a
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term you might have said when you're trying to get
your kids to hurry up. Because in this case, the
delay increases the injury. Because the special session ends August twentieth.
I heard Dan Patrick say August nineteenth when he was
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talking to Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
He's dealing with this all day every day.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I'm not so either way, time is over the essence
of this special session ends by operation of law on
August twenty and twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
In any case, you've got two weeks.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
So the point of the emergency action is we need
you to take action to reduce the injury because time
is against us. After the lawsuit was filed by the
governor directly to the Supreme Court, you don't have to
go to the lower courts because there is an urgency.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Time is of the essence here.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
The Attorney General separately filed a letter in the Texas
Supreme Court explaining that authority found in Chapter sixty six
of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code to bring a
quoo ronto proceeding rests in the Attorney General or a
district or county attorney. The Court should not dismiss the
Governor's petition until the Speaker's Friday deadline passes and the
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Attorney General can be heard on these weighty issues.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
So now you have a very subtle power play.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
The Governor goes directly to the Supreme Court without consulting
the Speaker or the Attorney General. The Attorney General says, wait, Court,
let me y'all hold on. Don't rule just yet until Friday,
when the action that I and the Speaker of the
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House have taken can run its course. This is more
than just procedural. But what's doubly interesting about this is
Burrows is in a very odd position. Burrows and Leech
were right there with drunk Dad drinking the kool aid
while he was impeaching Ken Paxton. That impeachment of Paxton
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is what caused Drunk cost Drunk Day the gavel.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
So drunk Dad is now just a regular little state Rep.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Trying to pass laws to make it criminal for us
to make memes and make fun of him. The worst
thing about being picked on is when you draw attention
to being picked on. So drunk Dad is left as
a nobody state Rep. And now there are accusations that
in Jasper, one of his family properties is being funded
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by the local.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Government. Is some sort of quid pro quote. We don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
That's why he stays in government, presumably so drunk Daid's aid.
His right hand man, Dustin Burrows, becomes Speaker of the House. Well,
that is a very very tense relationship between Burroughs and Paxton.
And now Burrows is scared to death because he's lost
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control of the house. But he's This level of palace
intrigue would make for a good TV movie because you
always put your protagonist in a situation where he's got
to do something dramatic because the stakes are so high
and everything is closing in. This is Michael Corleone having
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to go off his opponent for revenge at the Italian
restaurant and they plant the gun in the toilet and
you're thinking, no, no, no, you have a chance to
go straight. But no, he's got to do this, and
now they keep sucking him back in.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Well, here we are.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Dustin Burrows has got a real problem because he deals
with those Democrats in order to be speaker, and now
those Democrats are making him look like a fool and
his leadership of the House is in jeopardy. And if
he's not the.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Speaker, he's not anything.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
If you ain't first your last Ricky Bobby was right
when it comes to state reps. And so Dustin Burrows
is now trying to jump up and do something. And
I'll guarantee you when he's not making these tough statements
in public, he's going behind.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Guys, Guys, you've got to come back. You don't understand
this looks bad. Y'all want me to be a speaker
or you want a real Republican. You got to get back.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Y'all are gonna end up costing me in the speakership
and all you gots me, Jeff Lees and drunk Dad,
you about run out of people. You're gonna end up
with a real Republican over there, and then what are
you gonna do. Y'all made your point, Now come on back,
make me look good. We'll hold hands and it'll be good.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
And that's where we are.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Good morning, Michael, Good mornings are Good morning, Michael Zay Sailing.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Good morning, El Casina. Good morning, Michael, Hello, Hello, are
you there? Good money, Michael Bear, How you learned?
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Did I read it?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Tomorrow Money? Good morning Texas. Listen to Good Morning Texas.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Morning, your car, Good morning Texas. Honesty and we're happy
here to talk about everything.
Speaker 6 (00:54):
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
We're not wearing pants. Good morning, Texauri.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
The kids from Richmond Lamar Little League have punched their
ticket to the Little League World Series with a five
to two victory over East Bank of Louisiana, a team
that had beaten them over the weekend. Lamar's third baseman
Lucas Sontag with an incredible, incredible web Jim in the
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sixth inning, diving to his left and throwing from his
knees to get the lead runner out at second, a
play the ESPN announcers declared as the best defensive play
of the tournament, and he makes it to save and
win the game. They will open play in Williamsport a
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week from today. Here was the final out of the
game to send the Boys to Williamsport.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Here's Christiano window.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
Six to two.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
To left.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Trendy Cole has to play and so you have to wait.
I ain't going back to school yet. Party time from
the more little.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
League on to Williams two. Good Lamar little going to
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Williamsport for the first time since All three and All
four when Randall Critchet put the way look as Sontag,
we may be talking about him the same way as we.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Do Randall in the big leagues one. Just an outstanding
player on a ball. Invite at him.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Congratulations to Lucy had a back up.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
They played very well as well.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Gritchick playing for the Royals now, I'm told, and into
a twelve year career in the pros. Here was Lamar
third baseman, Lucas Sontag with the best defensive play of
the tournament, eleven.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Years old, one of four eleven year olds on this
East paink team.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Tag kids. That's the best defensive player of the tournament.
What's the best player in the tournament? Diving to his.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Thomas Knees got an accurate throw to get it out.
This is not good, this is outstanding. Brooks Robinson's time
lun the lid of the play.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Well, we have high drama as democrats have fled the state.
We'll talk about that in the next segment. A peeping tom,
armed with a hammer and a butcher knife enough to
kill you and clearly evincing the intention to do so,
broke windows at a Southwest Houston apartment complex around five
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a m.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Friday morning.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
The peeping tom was shot by a man defending his
family in what appears to be a rather clear cut
case of self defense. However, the man who shot the
peeping tom was arrested and charged with aggravated assault.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
ABC thirteen with the story.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
We told a man's in trouble for shooting the accused peeper,
who we're told was armed with a butcher knife at a hammer. Now,
police aren't confirming that at the moment, only telling us
there's one person potentially facing charges to that man's relatives,
though they say he shouldn't be. It's a clearcut case
of self defense. Handcuffed and limping, the man, Keonte Davis
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says she saw peering through her bathroom window this morning
and the life of Jackson Square apartments. We're not showing
his face since he hasn't yet been charged.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
With a crime.
Speaker 8 (05:24):
He's asking me do I have a cigarette?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Her brother in law scares him off.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
She says, you can't stare through people's windows.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That's weird.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
But hours later, when Davis is already at work, a
relative say, the man reappeared smashing the window with a hammer.
Speaker 8 (05:39):
My mom was in the bathroom ass he bustled.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
She thought somebody was shooting. That's how bad.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
Like she said, she just dropped to the ground.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
And started crawling.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
This time, she says, her brother in law runs outside
to confront the man, who family members say was also
armed with a butcher.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Knife and shot just went off.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Derrian Davis says her husband shot the vandal in the
legs that they called police. They weren't expecting what happened next.
Her husband arrested, She claims, told he'll be charged with
aggravated assault.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I definitely think that he deserved that.
Speaker 8 (06:12):
I think he deserves self defense because that's what that was.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
He accused. Peeper went to the hospital.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Police haven't said if he'll face charges blood like here.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Davis hopes he does.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
She says he's been squatting in this vacant apartment and
others tell us They've caught it peering in their windows too.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
I'm literally I'm scared to actually be in these apartments
or in this area anymore because HBD doesn't take anything serious,
like they just let everything.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Go around here.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You know, when you see you do a police ride along,
it's amazing what clusters of crime these apartment complexes like
this are. And you do a daytime ride along, and
you think to yourself, Man, I'm glad I'm with the cops.
I wouldn't I want to I wouldn't want to get
out at this place. I wouldn't feel comfortable walking through
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the court. And the way a lot of these were
built is the parking is on the perimeter and then
looks like like.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
The old colleges.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
You have, you know, the buildings around the perimeter, and
then you have the internal courtyard. And when they were built,
it wasn't the intention that it would shield the criminals
in the inside of it as the cops drive by,
But that's what it has the effect of doing. You
think to yourself, you got to pity the people who
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can't afford to get out of that. You know, the
single mom, she's a nurse's aide or a teacher's aid
or whatever else, and she's stuck living in this squalor,
and she's she's stuck having to walk past this every
single day. You can blame the cops, but they don't
exactly have an easy job, and nobody ever compliments them
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on the job they do. If they had pulled the
peeping tom out of their half, the people that live
there would have said that they were racists, because we
happen to now know what.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
His race is.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
It's it's an unfortunate situations. It's a life and a
subculture that you wouldn't want to have to live.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
That's for sure. You come and join us. It'll be
like old times.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
With Texas could single handedly be the reason Republicans hold
the House of Representatives in the mid terms next November.
That's a big thing to say, and it's true. It's
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not a foregone conclusion. And if we get our five
congressional seats, that we win them because people still have
to show up vote Demmocrats are still going to contest them,
no doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
But just as.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
We have seen, when a district is drawn for a purpose,
it tends to end up in that way. I remember
I was in college, and I was watching these races
pretty closely back then, and there was a seat drawn
on the east side of Houston for a Hispanic congressman,
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and it was expected that it would be Ben Reyes,
and then Ben Reyes had a lot of legal problems,
and so then Raman Martinez was running and probably would
have made a pretty good state senator. Raman Martinez was running,
and yet Jean Green ended up winning the seat, and
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the seat which he held was working class Hispanic and working
class white Democrat folks that would later vote Trump in
twenty sixteen, and in bigger numbers for Trump in twenty
twenty four and probably Trump in twenty twenty for that matter.
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But what we have now is the national Democrats putting
the local Democrats through this performative process of pretending to
fight redistricting. They know they can't win. They're aware, they
don't intend to win. It's not a fight they intend
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to win at all. They think they'll get some concessions
out of this, they'll get Republicans, Hey, come on, come
on back, don't make us fight this thing out, and
we'll give you these things over here. That's where we
are right now. But it's also the case that Democrats
strategists know that they have to show their voters that
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they're fighting the Republicans or else their Republican their voters
will do what many Republicans have done over the years,
especially after the Bush McCain years, and say, what if
you're not if you're not going to disagree with the
Democrats in this case, if you're not going to disagree
with the Republicans, if you're not going to try to
stop them from what they're doing, then want to should
I support you?
Speaker 6 (11:14):
All?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Just stay home? So they have to put on this show.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
So on August fifth, yesterday, actually yes it was yesterday.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I just feel like I was on riding now.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
At one o'clock, the Speaker, Dustin Burroughs, called the Texas
House to order.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
But you got to have two thirds of the House.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Mean, you've got to have one hundred members, well out
of one hundred and fifty members, sixty some odd or Democrats,
so they can break a quorum by simply on Moss
not showing up, and they didn't. So the speaker announced
that he has met with the leadership of the Texas
Department of Public Safety on the arrest warrants issued on Monday,
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so arrest warrants were issued to bring them in. That
is a power the government has, and the Democrats are saying, okay,
arrest us.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Here. We are where we knew where they were for
the last two nights.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
They're doing national TV interviews, they're able to be reached. Then,
the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a public statement
with the support of the Speaker of the House Ken Burroughs,
that he would take legal action if the Democrats failed
to appear in the Texas House on Friday. So we've
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had arrest warrants issued on Monday. They don't show up Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
That's where we are today.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
It is today Wednesday, removed. Yeah, and we're going to
give them till Friday. We don't have them on Friday,
We're going to arrest them.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Right then.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
At four forty yesterday, President Trump was asked about the
quorum break, what's going on down there in Texas. He
cares deeply about this because this affects the House, and
he said it almost looks like they've abandoned the state.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
It looks very bad, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Then he's asked if the FBI should get involved because
here's the performative art all around. John Cornyan has become involved.
Oh yes, John Cornyn has stepped up and said, we
need to get the FBI involved here, to get them involved. Okay,
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John Wayne mccorny, we're real glad you've jumped up and
want to play tough.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
We haven't seen you for years. So John Wayne mccornyn
is trying to insinuate himself into the issue. See if
he can't because see Ken Paxton's getting all the pub
because Paxton is taking on the role of I'll go
get him and bring them back. And Corny's over here
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going well, well, well, well they're not good Paopa. And
also I I work cowboy hat in my ads.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You probably saying, I'm.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
So President Trump says on if the FBI should go
should get involved.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
They may have to.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I know they want them back, not only the attorney general,
the governor wants them back.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I don't want to go too far on this.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I'm going to flag it for you to review, but
there's something going on here with President Trump not being
as pro Ken Paxton perhaps as he has been in
the past. And I hear a lot of things and
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I don't know The thing I hear that has the
most credibility is that they're pushing Corning to get out
of the race. The big money boys in DC are
pushing Corning to get out of the race because Cornyn
cannot win the primary everybody knows it but him, and
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that they would bring in a candidate to replace Cornyan
against Paxton. The President seems to be pulling back on
his pro paston positioning. I don't want to read too
much on that, but just watch as this development I
found wives.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
So here is President Trump.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
When asked, do you want the federal government to get
involved with bringing back the Texas legislators? Would you like
the FBI to help locate and arrest these Texas Democrats?
Speaker 9 (15:48):
And this is what he said, Texas Senator John Cornyn
is asking for your help to force Democrats back to
the state and hold them accountable. Do you want the
federal government and the FBI to help locate and arrest
these Texas Democrats who've the state?
Speaker 10 (16:00):
Well, I think they've abandoned the state. Nobody's seen anything
like it, even though they've done it twice before, and
in a certain way, it almost looks like they've abandoned
the state looks very bad.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
Yeah, go ahead, PLEASEI get involved. Should the FBI get involved, Well,
they may have to.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
They may have to.
Speaker 10 (16:15):
No, I know they want them back, not only the
attorney general, the governor wants them back. If you look,
I mean the governor of Texas is demanding they come back.
So a lot of people are demanding they come back.
You can't just sit it out.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
You have to go back. You have to fight it out.
Speaker 10 (16:30):
That's what elections are all about.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
So that happens.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
At four forty Central at five h six pm, Governor
Greg Abbott announced that he had filed a lawsuit in
the Texas Supreme Court to take emergency action to begin
the removal from office of Texas House Representative Jeen Wu.
The lawsuit is called an emergency petition for writ of
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quo quileronto wileronto. Let me stop for a second and
say what you're seeing right now. Remember, there's polling being
done every day. It's a very expensive process and it
is not shared with the public, but it is shared
with public officials who pay for it or who are
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the golden ones to help inform their decisions. And they're
polling everything that that person could be taking action on
and the polls are showing that the Democrats look very
bad out of this, and that the person who looks
like Youford tea pusser that walks tall into Illinois grabs
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them by the hair of their neck and pulls them
back to Texas as sit down for.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Two minutes while we gabble in.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Take our action, and then you run off to Illinois
and get mugged if you want. But you're gonna sit
here and do your job like you're supposed to do.
Stop the nonsense. You're acting like a child. Everybody wants
to be seen in that capacity Ken Paxton does.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
He's the attorney general.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
He's running for the US and this looks great, and
it's kind of naturally his job. Historically it's been the
Attorney General who would sink their teeth into this thing
and go after it.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Right then he got dustin Boroughs. He's in an.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Odd position because these are all the people who put
him in the speaker seat. See all these Democrats and
him and drunk Dad. They sit over here in the
corner and scheme before the session begins, and they start.
There are just a few votes shy of a majority,
with just the Democrats. They know they can't put a
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Democrat up as their leader because then the Republicans wouldn't
be able to vote for it her, they'd all be
voted out. So they cut a deal with a Republican.
That's Dustin Borroughs. It was drunk day before that. It's
it's been Joe Strauss before that. This has been going
on for a long time. These Democrats that are on
the run now they're the ones that chose a speaker,
not the rest of the House. So they get close
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enough to get in seventy six out of one hundred
and fifty that all they have to do is go, hey, Bob,
come here, if you'll go with us, we'll put you
in charge of this committee. Hey, Sam, come over here.
You'll go with us, We'll put you in charge of
this committee. Oh well, I wasn't going to get a
committee chairmanship. I was just going to be one out
of one hundred. Yeah, I'll do that'd be good for
my district. So you get enough to get to seventy six.
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Once you got seventy six commitments, then you've got seventy
four guys over there, and you go, hey, you can
come along with us and make it look like we
have a bigger majority, or we can punish you because
we've got our seventy six here's our names.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
We've counted the votes. You go count them.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
So now you're in the minority as the majority party,
and you start cutting deals. A lot of them do,
and they go, all right, if you'll let me chair this,
let me do this, if you let me do this.
So before you know it, you end up with one
hundred or more votes for the speaker, and the folks
back home they don't know any better. And then you
got the Karl Rove consultants and they write the letters
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and say, don't let it be said that these aren't
good conservatives.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
They are. We got over one hundred votes for this candidate.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
You did.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Where'd you get those votes? Who cast those votes? How
come you put the Democrats as vice chairman of all
the committees? How come the chairman of the committees don't
show up at the committees, so the vice chairman, the
Democrats like Anne Johnson, can run the committees.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Problem is, if.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
You're actually watching what's going on, it'll make you crazy
because back home you got people who go, you say, hey,
Mono Diallas selling us down the river.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Mono Kiki's brother.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
That's a good dude, right there, he's good. He's Hispanic Republican.
On July fourth, he sends out a nice note every year.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
He not he no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
No no.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
He's a good dude. Here's what he's doing here, here's
exactly what he's doing. Well about old cecil Cecil's a
good fellow, is it? Cecil Bell say it's a good dude.
What about Sam Harris?
Speaker 10 (21:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Sam, Sam, good, solid, solid guy. Go to church for me. Yeah,
wife's there.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Good people.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
But they're selling you down the river. They don't announce
that they're doing it, to do it very very cleverly.
So the governor now has taken action and he goes
straight to the Supreme Court. It's a very rare thing.
By the way, well, warnto is a Latin term meaning
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by what authority, by what warrant, And it's essentially it's
a legal action that challenges a person's right to hold
a public office.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
So it's a pretty powerful move.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Apparently, from what I'm hearing, Abbott did not consult with
the Attorney General or the Speaker of the House. He
doesn't get along with Dustin Burroughs. Typically, and I don't
know who's driving this action, because this might look like
he's doing an end around on Ken Paxton. And remember
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we've got a US Senate seat in the offering in
the spring, so everybody's trying.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
To look like they're in charge here.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
The lawsuit that Abbot filed is filed by Abbot and
his legal team, Trevor Ezel, his general counsel, Joseph Bink,
his deputy general counsel, Jason Bramow, his associate general counsel,
and Caleb Gunnelds, whose assistant general counsel.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
And I am.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Told these are a very very smart, capable crew of lawyers.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Ezel's a former clerk for a Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsis.
All right, we'll talk more about this.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Connery lifeless isis take a dost.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Just go a little deeper into the weeds.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Normal.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
How can the governor remove a state representative from his
duly elected position. It's kind of a nuclear option. Why
it doesn't happen very often? The Texas Constitution, the Governing
Document Article five, section three, and Texas Government Code twenty
two point two sub a says the justices thereof.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
That's of the state.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Supreme Court may issue the writs of mandamus, procedendo cerciori,
and such other writs as may be necessary to enforce
its jurisdiction. The legislature may confer original jurisdiction on the
Supreme Court to issue writs of quot war unti, and
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mandamus in such cases as may be specified, except as
against the governor of the state. No, No, that's not
where you sleep with the wayfady minute. That's a different deal.
That's what piss wayam Wallace off. Texas Government Code Section
twenty two point zero two sub a. The Supreme Court
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or a justice of the Supreme Court may issue wits
writs of procedendo and cirtuary, and all writs of quohornto
and mandamus agreeable to the principles of law regulating those
writs against any officer of state government, except the governor,
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the Court of Criminal Appeals, or a judge of the
Court of Criminal Appeals. So the lawsuit the governor has
filed posits that Jane Wu and I'll read just directly
quote deliberately fled the state to abandon his official duties indefinitely.
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The problem for the Democrats is they can't wake up
and go, my goodness, we've got tomselitis and you're gonna
steal our seat.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
This isn't right.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
This could happen to anybody. They're out there doing interviews saying, yeah,
we've fled the state. Look at us, send us money,
Send us money, we fled the state. Well, now that
puts you at risk that when you say we can
stay away longer if you'll send us money, is being
equated to selling your vote. Hey, don't want us to
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vote for redistricting. Don't want us to vote in a
way that would help the Republicans. We don't have enough
votes to kill the action the redistricting that came out
of committee already, by the way the committe approved it.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
We don't have enough.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Folks to do that, But we do have enough votes
to keep a quorum minimum number of people in order
to conduct official business from occurring if we all stay together.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Abbott's case quote seeks.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
To address ongoing abuses of public office by ousting the
non user, and that's gene Wu, who has abdicated his
official responsibilities by avowedly repudiating them. So in legal terms,
you would say time is of the essence. Time is
of the essence is a legal term, not just a
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term you might have said when you're trying to get
your kids to hurry up. Because in this case, the
delay increases the injury. Because the special session ends August twentieth.
I heard Dan Patrick say August nineteenth when he was
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talking to Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
He's dealing with this all day every day.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I'm not so either way, time is over the essence
of this special session ends by operation of law on
August twenty and twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
In any case, you've got two weeks.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
So the point of the emergency action is we need
you to take action to reduce the injury because time
is against us. After the lawsuit was filed by the
governor directly to the Supreme Court, you don't have to
go to the lower courts because there is an urgency.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Time is of the essence here.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
The Attorney General separately filed a letter in the Texas
Supreme Court explaining that authority found in Chapter sixty six
of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code to bring a
quoo ronto proceeding rests in the Attorney General or a
district or county attorney. The Court should not dismiss the
Governor's petition until the Speaker's Friday deadline passes and the
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Attorney General can be heard on these weighty issues.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
So now you have a very subtle power play.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
The Governor goes directly to the Supreme Court without consulting
the Speaker or the Attorney General. The Attorney General says, wait, Court,
let me y'all hold on. Don't rule just yet until Friday,
when the action that I and the Speaker of the
(28:24):
House have taken can run its course. This is more
than just procedural. But what's doubly interesting about this is
Burrows is in a very odd position. Burrows and Leech
were right there with drunk Dad drinking the kool aid
while he was impeaching Ken Paxton. That impeachment of Paxton
(28:50):
is what caused Drunk cost Drunk Day the gavel.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
So drunk Dad is now just a regular little state Rep.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Trying to pass laws to make it criminal for us
to make memes and make fun of him. The worst
thing about being picked on is when you draw attention
to being picked on. So drunk Dad is left as
a nobody state Rep. And now there are accusations that
in Jasper, one of his family properties is being funded
(29:18):
by the local.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Government. Is some sort of quid pro quote. We don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
That's why he stays in government, presumably so drunk Daid's aid.
His right hand man, Dustin Burrows, becomes Speaker of the House. Well,
that is a very very tense relationship between Burroughs and Paxton.
And now Burrows is scared to death because he's lost
(29:45):
control of the house. But he's This level of palace
intrigue would make for a good TV movie because you
always put your protagonist in a situation where he's got
to do something dramatic because the stakes are so high
and everything is closing in. This is Michael Corleone having
(30:06):
to go off his opponent for revenge at the Italian
restaurant and they plant the gun in the toilet and
you're thinking, no, no, no, you have a chance to
go straight. But no, he's got to do this, and
now they keep sucking him back in.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Well, here we are.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Dustin Burrows has got a real problem because he deals
with those Democrats in order to be speaker, and now
those Democrats are making him look like a fool and
his leadership of the House is in jeopardy. And if
he's not the.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Speaker, he's not anything.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
If you ain't first your last Ricky Bobby was right
when it comes to state reps. And so Dustin Burrows
is now trying to jump up and do something. And
I'll guarantee you when he's not making these tough statements
in public, he's going behind.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Guys, Guys, you've got to come back. You don't understand
this looks bad. Y'all want me to be a speaker
or you want a real Republican. You got to get back.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Y'all are gonna end up costing me in the speakership
and all you gots me, Jeff Lees and drunk Dad,
you about run out of people. You're gonna end up
with a real Republican over there, and then what are
you gonna do. Y'all made your point, Now come on back,
make me look good. We'll hold hands and it'll be good.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
And that's where we are.
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