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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Out looking into Mica week. You gotta feed a bead.
I don't plan to shave, and it's a good thing,
but I just gotta see. I'm doing all right. Will
come make me some boot. Its beating ready done and
that's the truth. It's neither drinking a drug injuice, noool,
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I'm just doing all right.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's a great.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Dad, bet Nor sun still shining of clothes.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Now you stay in Texas.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
It will be tomorrow when all the work you've put
in to elect a majority of Republicans in the state
House will go toward electing a speaker. The problem is
some of those individuals that you voted for to go
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up there and enact the legislation the agenda that you support,
will campaign to your faith on that promise and will
support a candidate so that they can have a position
of authority, so that they can be the darling of
the lobby, so that they can personally benefit. Will Metcalf,
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perfect example, Lacey Hall, perfect example. We have eighty eight
Republicans in the state House, sixty two Democrats. Drunk Dad
will not be seeking the speakership because drunk Dad put
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Democrats in position of committee chairmanships. Because drunk Dad dragged
the entire House into a personal vendetta that a few
big donors have with Ken Paxton, the attorney general, who's
the most effective attorney general in my lifetime, doing what
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he does, battling the Biden administration, battling bad laws. Nobody
can doubt that he has been incredibly successful. But drunk
Dad took his orders from the big donors who don't
like Paxton and haven't since he first ran against their
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candidate for State Senate over ten years ago, and beat them.
So you've got the Will Metcalfs, and you've got the
Lacy Halls. So you've got eighty eight out of one
hundred and fifty. You need seventy six votes to win
the speaker's race. So, as they always do, they had
a Republican Caucus meeting of the eighty eight, the vast
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majority of them went with David Cook, but Dustin Burroughs,
who was drunk Dad's BENI me is number two. Dustin
Burroughs that since drunk Dad isn't running, Dustin Burroughs stepped
forward as his many me number two, that he would
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be the guy. They'd really just as soon put a
Democrat up because the point here is to give the
Democrats committee chairmanships. And the Democrats are saying, well, we
don't know if we're going to vote for Boroughs or not.
He's got to commit to this, this and this. Now
here's where it's going to get interesting. This is the
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scuttle butt over the weekend that if the republic if
a minority of Republicans team up with the Democrats to
elect Dustin Burroughs, Boroughs would have been elected by the Democrats.
If that happens, those Republicans are going to have a
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target on them. But that's okay. They lost a bunch
of their members this last time for what they did
for drunk Dad and the impeachment. They're figuring, as is
the case, they'll all become lobbyists, because that's how that works.
Paul Ryan when he lost out in Washington, what did
he do? Became a lobbyist. It's what they all do.
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But here's where this gets very interesting. If the Democrats
don't go with Boroughs and they're holding out, the Democrats
want a commitment that there will be Democrat committee chairmanships,
and they want it. They want that public Republicans can't
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do that. The Republican Caucus wants a vote before they
vote for speaker that there will not be Democrat committee chairmanships.
The Democrats want it to say there will be Democrat
committee chairmanships. If that vote is held before the speakers vote,
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then the folks voting for Burroughs, the drunk Day loyalists,
they would have to vote in favor of Democrat committee
chairmanships instead of just waiting until there are Democrat committee
chairmanships and say, well, that's what the speaker did. I
don't agree, but that's what the Speaker did, but he
was your speaker when that was known all along. Which
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of those two happens is going to have a big
effect on the speaker's race. Now, before a speaker is elected,
when the House meets, when the session opens the first day,
first moment, the Secretary of State presides. That is now
Jane Nelson, who used to be a state senator that's
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appointed by the governor. There are a handful of people
who suspect that there won't be a speaker chosen tomorrow,
which would mean that Jane Nelson would preside over the
entire meeting, and that that could even continue for some
period of time, that she would be sort of a
compromise candidate. Jane Nelson is no conservative. Let me be
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very clear on this. She might have been a Republican,
but like many Abbot appointees, she's a squish. But let's
leave that there for a moment. If in fact, that happened,
and I don't think that's going to happen. If that happened,
you probably wouldn't get much done other than a budget
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in a couple of little you know, the kind of
things that make everybody happy that they passed a bill
and we really really really really love the flag. I
thought we had a bill last session that said we like,
we love the flat Yeah, but we didn't have all
the varies in there. We really really really we didn't
have all the realies.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
We really really really really really loved the flag.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
And then Will Metcalf can come back to Montgomery County
and say, I went to Austin and I fought for you,
and I fought for the flag, And people who don't
know any better, they're like, yeah, and I fought for God,
and I fought for the veterans, and I fought for
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the great state of Texas. And I fought for you
and your families and hard working people. And I fought
for grit An American spirit, for Paul Revere, Mickey mantle
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reperto Clementine, the Yankee Clipper, Joe Demasha. I fought for
Astra World. Anybody like Astra Yeah, give it that brast World.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
I fought for good work Boots America.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I fought for having all the playoff games back to
back to back staggered so you wouldn't have to flip
back and forth. I fought for games on Prime and
the networks send me back again.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
From Levisians to librarians, everyone listens to Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
Readings and welcome.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Great to have you here.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
It's Rush Limbaugh, the.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
EiV Networking Hi, this is Amy from Ohio, and I
want to give a shout out to my adoptive dad,
Rush Limbaugh. He taught me more about my civic duty
than anyone ever could, and for that I'm grateful.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Conservatives are not opposed to regulation, but regulation has to
be based on the fact that the individual is best
left alone to take care of himself in the pursuit
of daily aspects of life, education, job, or whatever. We
don't make the assumption we look at some people because
of their race, sex, cretor what. We don't say that
person can't do it, that person needs us, that person
needs a government program, that person needs somebody helping them,
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because that's not really what those people are after. They're
after a power and control over those people's lives, making
them as dependent as possible. The reason why this matters
to me is I want a greater country. A country
is made up with great people pursuing excellence, doing the
best they can. It is the people who makes the
country work, not government programs.
Speaker 9 (09:39):
Hey, Michael, this is Rusty from San Antonio out here.
I'm a trucker with my German shepherd river Man. I
really love that guy and miss him, miss him steel,
And I'm glad that you get it, and I'm glad
that you honor him, which we could build a statue
or some kind of monument to him.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
Ex cept except the exception to the rule is what
American exceptionalism is. And because of this liberty and freedom
that our country exists, because the founders recognized it comes
from God. It's part of the natural yearning of the
human spirit. It is not granted by a government. It's
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not granted by Putin, it's not granted by Obama or
any other human being. We are created with the natural
yearning to be free, and it is other men and
leaders throughout human history who have suppressed that and imprisoned
people for seeking it. The US is the first time
in the history of the world where a government was
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organized with a constitution laying out the rules that the
individual was supreme dominant, and that is what led to
the US becoming the greatest country ever because it unleashed
people to be the best they could be, unlike it
had ever happened. That's American exceptionalism.
Speaker 10 (10:57):
Hey, Michael, it's Michael in the Geen, Texas. I remember
listening to that final Christmas Eve of Rushes, and I
remember the tears of the throat, Dona face. I was vacant.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
This is those the last time I ever get to
hear the great Rush.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Has anybody ever heard of Barack Hussein Obama?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Do you remember Rush Limbaugh?
Speaker 9 (11:21):
He used to call it.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Kids, say, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
Today we'll be talking about.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Barack Hussein Obama.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
That was Rush we miss Rush, we miss Rush.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
We got the Presidential Medal of Freedom that beautiful night.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
Do you remember that playing mass J Rush? We need you.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Rush folks, thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
I wish there were a way to say it other
than thank you.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
You're just the best.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
My family is just the best.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Yesterday was he's seventy fourth birthday of the great Rush Limbaugh.
I've learned from folks like Marcus Latrell the greatest honor
you can pay to those no longer with you is
to remember to never forget, and we never forget. Later
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in the show, I will ask you to call, so
be thinking about it. Don't call yet, you can email.
Later in the show, we will do a lightning round
of your favorite Rush memory, where you listen how you
found the show. One of the things I enjoy the
most is folks telling me that they would listen in
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the back seat and didn't want to hear Rush necessarily,
but mom or dad did. Mom or dad was taking
you back and forth to school and ball practice, or
if you had shared custody, or on the way to
the grandparents, or on the way to the doctor's office,
or whatever else, and Rush would be on the middle
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of the day, and they found that once they grew
up and left the house, they didn't listen to Rush. Well,
would they focused on school, military, or work. Then a
few years later they found themselves coming back to their
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core beliefs, and lo and behold, a few years later,
once they got grown up a little bit, they would
listen to Rush themselves. We called them Rush babies. We've
been at it long enough now that I have people
who will tell us that they were listening as a kid,
often against their wishes, and now they've come back to
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the show after these years, and some of them kept
listening through school and beyond. We will be talking about
the speaker's race a bit more later in the program.
Since we're on the subject of scuttle butt. The rumor
has it that the that being considered for US Attorney
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just a presidential appointment. Alamdar Hamdani, who was the current
US Attorney, appointed by nominated and approved by Joe Biden,
that he's stepping down knowing that the US Attorney would
that he would be replaced, and that in high consideration
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is former District Attorney Kim Ogg. That's what I'm hearing.
That's not final, but that is definitely what I'm hearing.
And there is further credibility to what I shared with
you a week or two ago, and that is that
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count Commissioner's Court rumor is that Lena Hidalgo will be
stepping down. It's being worked out exactly the date and
how to happen, but that she will resign because she's
she's at her wits ends. She's had enough mental health
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episodes that I think she has come to realize that
she can't do the job any longer and that it's
not good for her, and I don't think she's enjoying it.
She's been on an extended honeymoon of some sort or
another for most of the last year. Anyway, she just
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got married, and my understanding is that their financial situation
and her mental situation are such that she can afford
to step down, and that he wants her to step down,
and that she is now at the point where she
doesn't want to do the job anymore, so she will
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be resigning. The expectation is that Rodney has chosen Rodney,
Ellis has chosen Ed Gonzalez, and Rodney's the one coordinating
all this, that he has chosen Ed Gonzalez. But the
wild card in there is that he's going to talk
to Erica Lee Carter Shela Jackson, Lee's daughter, and if
she wants it, that's who he's going to push.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
And I'm not joking.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
The King of King continues on The Michael Berry Show,
SAT Representative Brian Harrison is one of the good guys, Okay,
one of the very very good guys.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
One of about five guys that is in our corner
that is a MAGA guy, that's a Tea party guy,
that's a grassroots guy that's actually fighting for the agenda
that we voted for and that all the Republicans campaigned on.
They just get there and go, well, you have to
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understand governing is different than campaigning, and you know it's
a lot harder once you get up here. Well, then
stop campaigning on what you knew wasn't true. But Brian
Harrison does good work. Former HHS Director Brian Harrison. Representative
Brian Harrison, Welcome to the program.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
Michael Berry. Good morning. Always great to be with you,
my friend.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
So tell me where we are for tomorrow. I've had
a number of conversations and well, you know what, I
won't go into what I believe, where I believe we are,
and what I believe is going to happen. If you
were to handicap, Now, what do you think happens?
Speaker 11 (17:42):
You know what, If anybody tells you with any real certainty,
I'm not sure you should trust them on too many
other things. There's a lot of moving pieces right now.
And let me tell you what is happening. And it's
perhaps the most disconcerting and upsetting aspect of this whole thing.
It appears that a horrible, embarrassing, disgusting tradition in the
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Texas House is likely to continue tomorrow no matter who wins,
and that a group of Democrats is likely to be
the deciding voice and vote on who selects the next
Republican speaker of the Republican dominated Texas House are representatives.
And I'm just very concerned with what kind of deals
Mary may not be being discussed right now to win
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over these twenty or thirty five Democrats.
Speaker 10 (18:28):
And you mentioned that you're opening there, Michael, I got
to be honest. I was laughing here.
Speaker 11 (18:31):
You almost gave me PTSD for my freshman orientation. After
I got elected after working for Trump, I was sat
down and told now, listen here, governing is a lot different.
Speaker 10 (18:39):
You got to sit down.
Speaker 11 (18:40):
And be quiet, and if you want to be effected,
you got to love the Democrats and give the Democrats
what they want. That's the only way to this place works.
And obviously that didn't take with me. But I've never
seen anything in my life, Swampy or Michael, than candidates
for office put the word Republican by their name, go
out and campaign in primary seasons saying vote for me.
I'm going to stand up to the radical left that
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wants to indoctrinate the next generation.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
Vote for me.
Speaker 11 (19:04):
I'll fight against the Democrats. They are going to deprive
your kids and grandkids of liberty. And then as soon
as they get in office, they go to the floor
of the Capitol and they vote to put those various
same Democrats in position of power. And I fear we
might be seen a repeat of that right now.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
So my understanding is you've got about thirty Democrats holding
out that will end up with Boroughs, but they're holding
out for now, and obviously without those Democrats, Boroughs can't win.
He has to have the Democrats to win because he
doesn't have a majority of Republicans and he doesn't have
seventy six of the eighty eight Republicans. What exactly those
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Democrats holding out for? Is it purely Democrat committee chairmanships
or what is it?
Speaker 11 (19:50):
Well, that's what some of us are not very clear
to us, Michael.
Speaker 10 (19:55):
And let me make the story a little bit worse
for you.
Speaker 11 (19:59):
Because of the walk out, the temper tantrum by the
pro Democrat elements and the Republican caucus down here, going
and sitting storming out of our caucus meeting and sitting
down and cutting a deal with the Democrat caucus led
by liberal Democrat Dustin Burroughs.
Speaker 10 (20:14):
The reality is that for either.
Speaker 11 (20:17):
Candidate to win right now, it looks like they need
those thirty plus Democrat votes. And so again I'm really
concerned with who on which team is potentially promising what
liberal concessions to get.
Speaker 10 (20:31):
Them, because this is the point.
Speaker 11 (20:32):
If we want to reform the Texas House and turn
it from what it's been since I got here three
years ago, which is it? And I make no bones
about this. The Texas House under the failed liberal leadership
of Bonning and Feeling has become a corrupt den of
liberal dysfunction.
Speaker 10 (20:47):
But the only way to.
Speaker 11 (20:48):
Really fix that we have got to get the liberal
Democrats out of being part of the governing coalition in
the Texas House. Democrat Committee chairman and I one of
the allowed us to it. It's a problem, but it's
not the problem. It's just a symptom of the bigger problem,
which is the deal that is cut to secure Democrat
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votes for a Republican speaker. All kinds of other things
are promised, like conservative bills are going to die, liberal
pro socialist bills are going to sail through. That's the
core that's got to stop. We have got to have
a Republican House that is governed by Republicans. And you
know what, Michael, I don't think it's too much to ask,
and I think your listeners would agree with me. I
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don't think the Democrats should have a darn thing to
do with selecting the Republican speaker of the Republican tause
of representatives in the Republican state of Texas.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
And I don't think any voter that voted for you
or Will Metcalf or Lacey Hull or David Cook or
any other Republican believes they should either. And that's what's infuriating.
Speaker 11 (21:55):
Correct, when voters go into the ballot box and they
list to what Republicans say during the primary.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
And you know what, Michael, You've been watching this a
long time.
Speaker 11 (22:04):
Every one of my Republican colleagues, they go out to
the voters and campaign is a small government, pro liberty
conservative that's going to fight the radical left. But the
problem is way too many of them when they get
an office. So you have to make a choice. I'm
gonna tell you this, every politician at every level you
get elected, you got to.
Speaker 10 (22:23):
Make a choice.
Speaker 11 (22:24):
You can either be popular in the swamp or you
can do what's right in fight for the liberty of
the next generation of Texans.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
It is just that simple. I saw it when I
was elected to Houston City Council, which is very similar
to what y'all are going through. And some of the
lobbyists are the same exact people. And I realize you
go from being out at at neighborhood association meetings and
various association meetings and voters to going into city council
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and the voters go back to their jobs and their work.
Now all of a sudden, there's a swarm of these
people and they've got checks for you now that the
election's over, and some of them give you checks before that,
but they want to have lunch at this and dinners
at these nice steakhouses, and all of a sudden your
life changes, and the only people you're around is not
those people that sent you there. It's this new group
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of friends who are telling you how smart and clever
you are and that are going to help you in
your re election. And some of those folks go up
to Austin as you know, a lot of them, including Republicans,
and they fall prey to it.
Speaker 11 (23:31):
You know what, Michael, you hit the nail on the
head because when you run, so all of us in
the Texas House, we have the high honor and privilege
of representing two hundred thousand Texans, give or take. And
the problem is, even when some of these folks run
for office, maybe they've got good intentions, maybe they really
were a conservative at one point, but the problem is
they go from being around their friends and their neighbors
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and people with like, you know, minds and like visions
of the world, and all of a sudden they're peer
group is the Austin swamp, the lobbyists, the bureaucrats, who,
by the way, really run government. I mean the elected official,
that's the whole side thing. But we've got to clip
the wings of the unelected bureaucrats and our liberal state
agencies down here as a total asside. Every state agency
in Texas should be run by a real conservative. That's
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not the case today. But the problem is they start
forgetting that it's the folks back home that punch their
name on a ballot card that is their ultimate boss.
It's them, it's their kids, it's their grandkids, it's the
liberty of those people that they should be making every
decision based on in Austin. But instead you hit the
nail on the head, Michael. They get down here and
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their new peer group, all these new friends that can
take them out if they want to, because there's no
limits in Austin.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
It's the wild West.
Speaker 11 (24:42):
You can go have a lobbyist take you out to
one thousand dollars dinner every night. You can get on
junkets paid for by the liberal special interests. You can
have the media in Austin and across Texas right glowing
profiles on what a statesman you are. But the only
thing you got to do is let them control how
you vote. As far as I'm concerned, that's an ante
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that I was not willing to pay. I got four
kids under ten, and I'm going to be damned if
I let them grow up in a state that does
not prioritize their liberty.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
They Representative Brian Harrison. Good luck tomorrow.
Speaker 11 (25:13):
Great to be with you, my friend.
Speaker 10 (25:15):
God bless you, and God bless Texans, all.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Great cities in between. The Michael Berry Show is nationwide.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
Revel rain.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
For over twenty years, back when I was on Houston
City Council, we have had problems with the drug lab
in the city of Houston. When HPDE officers arrest somebody
and it may not even be a drug crime. Primarily
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it might be that they go into a home and
a guy's beating us not out of his woman, or
they're here illegal aliens. A lot of the illegal aliens
are actually just mules and traffickers of drugs. So when
they they take possession, do the officers of those drugs
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because they're going to be used in court. You've seen
the forensic TV shows, they're close enough to reality. And
what was happening under Lee P. Brown, who was horrible.
I mean horrible. Mayor Lee Brown was elected in nineteen
ninety seven because Sylvester Turner hadn't been elected in nineteen
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ninety one in the City of Houston believed. Voters believed, well,
or the powers that be believe, the downtown interest believed
you got to have a black mayor. Can't be a
major American city if you haven't had a black mayor.
All the major cities we're having black mayors had already
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had one. Now, interestingly, it didn't have to be this way,
but all those black mayors not orders. Many of those
black mayors were horrible. And the problem is, it's because
they're chosen by the same process that Sila Jackson Lee
came out of to be a congressman and then Sylvester
Turner replaced her. They're chosen by a power structure of
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inside dealers who are the Black Affirmative Action Program directors.
The Rodney ellisis that's why you get black elected officials
that are so bad. It's not that there aren't good
black leaders, it's that those people are frozen out of
the black political power structure of the Democrat Party that
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doesn't want good Black elected officials. No way, no how
uh huh. We don't want those guys around here. Those
guys are ethical, that'd blow the whistle on us. Those
guys are like Trump to the Bush Republican Party to
the Romney Republican Party. We can't have them that make
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us look bad.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
So Lee P.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Brown was chosen and Lee P. Brown was made mayor
nineteen ninety seven, and it was an inside deal. All
the lobby money got behind him, ran against Rob Mossbacker,
and under his tenure continued a policy of underfunding the
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crime lab, which meant that evidence in crimes. In fact,
we had this come up last year. We're rape kits.
Can you imagine your wife, your daughter, your sister, your
mother is raped and you want to catch that son
of a bitch so bad you wish instead of sending
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him to prison, just give you ten minutes with him
and a crowbar, or maybe you could do it with
your own hands. I'd need a crowbar do the kind
of damage I'd want to do, and maybe a lighter
in some gasoline. But that's a different story. And there
were leaks in the crime lab that allowed the evidence
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to be destroyed, and that evidence is what enables you
to win in court when you finally catch the guy.
So you can imagine how frustrating this is. Way back
then we funded a crime lab redo that was going
to protect the evidence. And by the way, this isn't
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the Houston police officer's fault. This is much bigger than
the officers themselves, not even their issue anymore. So now
we find out that after all all this, and this
happened with the rape kits and all, now we've got
a drug addicted rat infestation in the property room that
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is raising questions about the integrity of criminal cases. It'd
be funny if it was. No it's funny. Doctor Peter
Stout of the Houston Forensic Science Center says, it's hard
getting rid of the rodents. They're drug addicted rodents. They're
tough to deal with. You don't say the story from
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ABC thirteen, a.
Speaker 12 (30:34):
Short tour of the HPD property room shows a cramped
space bursting at the seams, with one point two million
pieces of evidence, thousands of bikes, rows of old tires,
case files, old safes and luggage, and thousands of pounds
of drugs.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
We got four hundred thousand pounds of marijuana in storage
that the rats are the only ones that join it.
Speaker 13 (31:02):
So let's go to work.
Speaker 12 (31:05):
The mayor seemingly cracking a joke but really revealing a problem.
Speaker 13 (31:09):
They've had professional exterminators involved. But this is difficult getting
these rodents out of there. I mean, think about it.
They're drug addicted rats. They're tough to deal with.
Speaker 12 (31:21):
The Houston Forensic Science Centers doctor Peter Stout saying it's
an issue. Many property rooms face.
Speaker 13 (31:27):
Rodents, bugs, and fungus, all kinds of things love drugs.
Speaker 12 (31:31):
Houston Police chief no idea as it says they first
discovered rodents among drug evidence in October, but says the
problem is confined.
Speaker 14 (31:40):
We don't have an issue with current evidence. It is
the old evidence that's being stored near the current evidence
that's still pending the legal process.
Speaker 15 (31:54):
How do the rats know what is a new case
and an old case.
Speaker 12 (31:57):
Joe Venus is the president of the Harris Only Criminal
Lawyers Association, So they don't.
Speaker 15 (32:03):
Can they read the labels on the boxes and say, oh,
you know, they don't need these drugs anymore. Let's go
have a party.
Speaker 12 (32:09):
Venus has seen numerous crime lab and property room issues
over the years. This, he says, is just one more,
could cases be compromised.
Speaker 15 (32:20):
Sure, anytime evidence is compromised and the case is potentially compromised.
Speaker 12 (32:24):
The District Attorney's office going through old cases to see
what can be purged and providing funds to destroy old drugs.
Speaker 13 (32:31):
We will be destroying any narcotics evidence that has been
obtained prior to twenty fifteen.
Speaker 12 (32:36):
Venus wonders if this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 15 (32:39):
When you find a rat hole, you know where they've
chewed a hole in the wall, They could be anywhere
in the interior of that building.
Speaker 13 (32:48):
See.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
It's moments like this that I wish my mother was
alive so I could call and say, Mom, did you
see this story? In Houston? They got rats, Eat up
with the dope, Just eat up with the dope. And
she wouldn't get the joke, and I would just.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Laugh and laugh and laugh.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Eat up with the dope. Dim rats are m m M. So,
just so you know, when you look at Los Angeles
and go, gosh, all those Democrats they've elected over all
those years, that's how come they have a fire spread
and task the results of your elections. People, that's what
you're living through. You see this right here, You see,
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you see what's going on in the county. Let's not
get too proud, because I'm not sure our local Democrat
officials are any better. They got Karen Bass, we got
Sylvester Turner, Mitchello, Ultra
It's that time time time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Arry Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Out looking into Mica week. You gotta feed a bead.
I don't plan to shave, and it's a good thing,
but I just gotta see. I'm doing all right. Will
come make me some boot. Its beating ready done and
that's the truth. It's neither drinking a drug injuice, noool,
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I'm just doing all right.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's a great.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Dad, bet Nor sun still shining of clothes.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Now you stay in Texas.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
It will be tomorrow when all the work you've put
in to elect a majority of Republicans in the state
House will go toward electing a speaker. The problem is
some of those individuals that you voted for to go
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up there and enact the legislation the agenda that you support,
will campaign to your faith on that promise and will
support a candidate so that they can have a position
of authority, so that they can be the darling of
the lobby, so that they can personally benefit. Will Metcalf,
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perfect example, Lacey Hall, perfect example. We have eighty eight
Republicans in the state House, sixty two Democrats. Drunk Dad
will not be seeking the speakership because drunk Dad put
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Democrats in position of committee chairmanships. Because drunk Dad dragged
the entire House into a personal vendetta that a few
big donors have with Ken Paxton, the attorney general, who's
the most effective attorney general in my lifetime, doing what
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he does, battling the Biden administration, battling bad laws. Nobody
can doubt that he has been incredibly successful. But drunk
Dad took his orders from the big donors who don't
like Paxton and haven't since he first ran against their
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candidate for State Senate over ten years ago, and beat them.
So you've got the Will Metcalfs, and you've got the
Lacy Halls. So you've got eighty eight out of one
hundred and fifty. You need seventy six votes to win
the speaker's race. So, as they always do, they had
a Republican Caucus meeting of the eighty eight, the vast
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majority of them went with David Cook, but Dustin Burroughs,
who was drunk Dad's BENI me is number two. Dustin
Burroughs that since drunk Dad isn't running, Dustin Burroughs stepped
forward as his many me number two, that he would
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be the guy. They'd really just as soon put a
Democrat up because the point here is to give the
Democrats committee chairmanships. And the Democrats are saying, well, we
don't know if we're going to vote for Boroughs or not.
He's got to commit to this, this and this. Now
here's where it's going to get interesting. This is the
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scuttle butt over the weekend that if the republic if
a minority of Republicans team up with the Democrats to
elect Dustin Burroughs, Boroughs would have been elected by the Democrats.
If that happens, those Republicans are going to have a
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target on them. But that's okay. They lost a bunch
of their members this last time for what they did
for drunk Dad and the impeachment. They're figuring, as is
the case, they'll all become lobbyists, because that's how that works.
Paul Ryan when he lost out in Washington, what did
he do? Became a lobbyist. It's what they all do.
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But here's where this gets very interesting. If the Democrats
don't go with Boroughs and they're holding out, the Democrats
want a commitment that there will be Democrat committee chairmanships,
and they want it. They want that public Republicans can't
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do that. The Republican Caucus wants a vote before they
vote for speaker that there will not be Democrat committee chairmanships.
The Democrats want it to say there will be Democrat
committee chairmanships. If that vote is held before the speakers vote,
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then the folks voting for Burroughs, the drunk Day loyalists,
they would have to vote in favor of Democrat committee
chairmanships instead of just waiting until there are Democrat committee
chairmanships and say, well, that's what the speaker did. I
don't agree, but that's what the Speaker did, but he
was your speaker when that was known all along. Which
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of those two happens is going to have a big
effect on the speaker's race. Now, before a speaker is elected,
when the House meets, when the session opens the first day,
first moment, the Secretary of State presides. That is now
Jane Nelson, who used to be a state senator that's
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appointed by the governor. There are a handful of people
who suspect that there won't be a speaker chosen tomorrow,
which would mean that Jane Nelson would preside over the
entire meeting, and that that could even continue for some
period of time, that she would be sort of a
compromise candidate. Jane Nelson is no conservative. Let me be
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very clear on this. She might have been a Republican,
but like many Abbot appointees, she's a squish. But let's
leave that there for a moment. If in fact, that happened,
and I don't think that's going to happen. If that happened,
you probably wouldn't get much done other than a budget
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in a couple of little you know, the kind of
things that make everybody happy that they passed a bill
and we really really really really love the flag. I
thought we had a bill last session that said we like,
we love the flat Yeah, but we didn't have all
the varies in there. We really really really we didn't
have all the realies.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
We really really really really really loved the flag.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
And then Will Metcalf can come back to Montgomery County
and say, I went to Austin and I fought for you,
and I fought for the flag, And people who don't
know any better, they're like, yeah, and I fought for God,
and I fought for the veterans, and I fought for
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the great state of Texas. And I fought for you
and your families and hard working people. And I fought
for grit An American spirit, for Paul Revere, Mickey mantle
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reperto Clementine, the Yankee Clipper, Joe Demasha. I fought for
Astra World. Anybody like Astra Yeah, give it that brast World.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
I fought for good work Boots America.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I fought for having all the playoff games back to
back to back staggered so you wouldn't have to flip
back and forth. I fought for games on Prime and
the networks send me back again.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
From Levisians to librarians, everyone listens to Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
Readings and welcome.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Great to have you here.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
It's Rush Limbaugh, the.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
EiV Networking Hi, this is Amy from Ohio, and I
want to give a shout out to my adoptive dad,
Rush Limbaugh. He taught me more about my civic duty
than anyone ever could, and for that I'm grateful.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Conservatives are not opposed to regulation, but regulation has to
be based on the fact that the individual is best
left alone to take care of himself in the pursuit
of daily aspects of life, education, job, or whatever. We
don't make the assumption we look at some people because
of their race, sex, cretor what. We don't say that
person can't do it, that person needs us, that person
needs a government program, that person needs somebody helping them,
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because that's not really what those people are after. They're
after a power and control over those people's lives, making
them as dependent as possible. The reason why this matters
to me is I want a greater country. A country
is made up with great people pursuing excellence, doing the
best they can. It is the people who makes the
country work, not government programs.
Speaker 9 (09:39):
Hey, Michael, this is Rusty from San Antonio out here.
I'm a trucker with my German shepherd river Man. I
really love that guy and miss him, miss him steel,
And I'm glad that you get it, and I'm glad
that you honor him, which we could build a statue
or some kind of monument to him.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
Ex cept except the exception to the rule is what
American exceptionalism is. And because of this liberty and freedom
that our country exists, because the founders recognized it comes
from God. It's part of the natural yearning of the
human spirit. It is not granted by a government. It's
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not granted by Putin, it's not granted by Obama or
any other human being. We are created with the natural
yearning to be free, and it is other men and
leaders throughout human history who have suppressed that and imprisoned
people for seeking it. The US is the first time
in the history of the world where a government was
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organized with a constitution laying out the rules that the
individual was supreme dominant, and that is what led to
the US becoming the greatest country ever because it unleashed
people to be the best they could be, unlike it
had ever happened. That's American exceptionalism.
Speaker 10 (10:57):
Hey, Michael, it's Michael in the Geen, Texas. I remember
listening to that final Christmas Eve of Rushes, and I
remember the tears of the throat, Dona face. I was vacant.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
This is those the last time I ever get to
hear the great Rush.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
Has anybody ever heard of Barack Hussein Obama?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Do you remember Rush Limbaugh?
Speaker 9 (11:21):
He used to call it.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Kids, say, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
Today we'll be talking about.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Barack Hussein Obama.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
That was Rush we miss Rush, we miss Rush.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
We got the Presidential Medal of Freedom that beautiful night.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
Do you remember that playing mass J Rush? We need you.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Rush folks, thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
I wish there were a way to say it other
than thank you.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
You're just the best.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
My family is just the best.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Yesterday was he's seventy fourth birthday of the great Rush Limbaugh.
I've learned from folks like Marcus Latrell the greatest honor
you can pay to those no longer with you is
to remember to never forget, and we never forget. Later
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in the show, I will ask you to call, so
be thinking about it. Don't call yet, you can email.
Later in the show, we will do a lightning round
of your favorite Rush memory, where you listen how you
found the show. One of the things I enjoy the
most is folks telling me that they would listen in
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the back seat and didn't want to hear Rush necessarily,
but mom or dad did. Mom or dad was taking
you back and forth to school and ball practice, or
if you had shared custody, or on the way to
the grandparents, or on the way to the doctor's office,
or whatever else, and Rush would be on the middle
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of the day, and they found that once they grew
up and left the house, they didn't listen to Rush. Well,
would they focused on school, military, or work. Then a
few years later they found themselves coming back to their
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core beliefs, and lo and behold, a few years later,
once they got grown up a little bit, they would
listen to Rush themselves. We called them Rush babies. We've
been at it long enough now that I have people
who will tell us that they were listening as a kid,
often against their wishes, and now they've come back to
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the show after these years, and some of them kept
listening through school and beyond. We will be talking about
the speaker's race a bit more later in the program.
Since we're on the subject of scuttle butt. The rumor
has it that the that being considered for US Attorney
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just a presidential appointment. Alamdar Hamdani, who was the current
US Attorney, appointed by nominated and approved by Joe Biden,
that he's stepping down knowing that the US Attorney would
that he would be replaced, and that in high consideration
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is former District Attorney Kim Ogg. That's what I'm hearing.
That's not final, but that is definitely what I'm hearing.
And there is further credibility to what I shared with
you a week or two ago, and that is that
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count Commissioner's Court rumor is that Lena Hidalgo will be
stepping down. It's being worked out exactly the date and
how to happen, but that she will resign because she's
she's at her wits ends. She's had enough mental health
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episodes that I think she has come to realize that
she can't do the job any longer and that it's
not good for her, and I don't think she's enjoying it.
She's been on an extended honeymoon of some sort or
another for most of the last year. Anyway, she just
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got married, and my understanding is that their financial situation
and her mental situation are such that she can afford
to step down, and that he wants her to step down,
and that she is now at the point where she
doesn't want to do the job anymore, so she will
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be resigning. The expectation is that Rodney has chosen Rodney,
Ellis has chosen Ed Gonzalez, and Rodney's the one coordinating
all this, that he has chosen Ed Gonzalez. But the
wild card in there is that he's going to talk
to Erica Lee Carter Shela Jackson, Lee's daughter, and if
she wants it, that's who he's going to push.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
And I'm not joking.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
The King of King continues on The Michael Berry Show,
SAT Representative Brian Harrison is one of the good guys, Okay,
one of the very very good guys.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
One of about five guys that is in our corner
that is a MAGA guy, that's a Tea party guy,
that's a grassroots guy that's actually fighting for the agenda
that we voted for and that all the Republicans campaigned on.
They just get there and go, well, you have to
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understand governing is different than campaigning, and you know it's
a lot harder once you get up here. Well, then
stop campaigning on what you knew wasn't true. But Brian
Harrison does good work. Former HHS Director Brian Harrison. Representative
Brian Harrison, Welcome to the program.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
Michael Berry. Good morning. Always great to be with you,
my friend.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
So tell me where we are for tomorrow. I've had
a number of conversations and well, you know what, I
won't go into what I believe, where I believe we are,
and what I believe is going to happen. If you
were to handicap, Now, what do you think happens?
Speaker 11 (17:42):
You know what, If anybody tells you with any real certainty,
I'm not sure you should trust them on too many
other things. There's a lot of moving pieces right now.
And let me tell you what is happening. And it's
perhaps the most disconcerting and upsetting aspect of this whole thing.
It appears that a horrible, embarrassing, disgusting tradition in the
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Texas House is likely to continue tomorrow no matter who wins,
and that a group of Democrats is likely to be
the deciding voice and vote on who selects the next
Republican speaker of the Republican dominated Texas House are representatives.
And I'm just very concerned with what kind of deals
Mary may not be being discussed right now to win
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over these twenty or thirty five Democrats.
Speaker 10 (18:28):
And you mentioned that you're opening there, Michael, I got
to be honest. I was laughing here.
Speaker 11 (18:31):
You almost gave me PTSD for my freshman orientation. After
I got elected after working for Trump, I was sat
down and told now, listen here, governing is a lot different.
Speaker 10 (18:39):
You got to sit down.
Speaker 11 (18:40):
And be quiet, and if you want to be effected,
you got to love the Democrats and give the Democrats
what they want. That's the only way to this place works.
And obviously that didn't take with me. But I've never
seen anything in my life, Swampy or Michael, than candidates
for office put the word Republican by their name, go
out and campaign in primary seasons saying vote for me.
I'm going to stand up to the radical left that
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wants to indoctrinate the next generation.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
Vote for me.
Speaker 11 (19:04):
I'll fight against the Democrats. They are going to deprive
your kids and grandkids of liberty. And then as soon
as they get in office, they go to the floor
of the Capitol and they vote to put those various
same Democrats in position of power. And I fear we
might be seen a repeat of that right now.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
So my understanding is you've got about thirty Democrats holding
out that will end up with Boroughs, but they're holding
out for now, and obviously without those Democrats, Boroughs can't win.
He has to have the Democrats to win because he
doesn't have a majority of Republicans and he doesn't have
seventy six of the eighty eight Republicans. What exactly those
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Democrats holding out for? Is it purely Democrat committee chairmanships
or what is it?
Speaker 11 (19:50):
Well, that's what some of us are not very clear
to us, Michael.
Speaker 10 (19:55):
And let me make the story a little bit worse
for you.
Speaker 11 (19:59):
Because of the walk out, the temper tantrum by the
pro Democrat elements and the Republican caucus down here, going
and sitting storming out of our caucus meeting and sitting
down and cutting a deal with the Democrat caucus led
by liberal Democrat Dustin Burroughs.
Speaker 10 (20:14):
The reality is that for either.
Speaker 11 (20:17):
Candidate to win right now, it looks like they need
those thirty plus Democrat votes. And so again I'm really
concerned with who on which team is potentially promising what
liberal concessions to get.
Speaker 10 (20:31):
Them, because this is the point.
Speaker 11 (20:32):
If we want to reform the Texas House and turn
it from what it's been since I got here three
years ago, which is it? And I make no bones
about this. The Texas House under the failed liberal leadership
of Bonning and Feeling has become a corrupt den of
liberal dysfunction.
Speaker 10 (20:47):
But the only way to.
Speaker 11 (20:48):
Really fix that we have got to get the liberal
Democrats out of being part of the governing coalition in
the Texas House. Democrat Committee chairman and I one of
the allowed us to it. It's a problem, but it's
not the problem. It's just a symptom of the bigger problem,
which is the deal that is cut to secure Democrat
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votes for a Republican speaker. All kinds of other things
are promised, like conservative bills are going to die, liberal
pro socialist bills are going to sail through. That's the
core that's got to stop. We have got to have
a Republican House that is governed by Republicans. And you
know what, Michael, I don't think it's too much to ask,
and I think your listeners would agree with me. I
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don't think the Democrats should have a darn thing to
do with selecting the Republican speaker of the Republican tause
of representatives in the Republican state of Texas.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
And I don't think any voter that voted for you
or Will Metcalf or Lacey Hull or David Cook or
any other Republican believes they should either. And that's what's infuriating.
Speaker 11 (21:55):
Correct, when voters go into the ballot box and they
list to what Republicans say during the primary.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
And you know what, Michael, You've been watching this a
long time.
Speaker 11 (22:04):
Every one of my Republican colleagues, they go out to
the voters and campaign is a small government, pro liberty
conservative that's going to fight the radical left. But the
problem is way too many of them when they get
an office. So you have to make a choice. I'm
gonna tell you this, every politician at every level you
get elected, you got to.
Speaker 10 (22:23):
Make a choice.
Speaker 11 (22:24):
You can either be popular in the swamp or you
can do what's right in fight for the liberty of
the next generation of Texans.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
It is just that simple. I saw it when I
was elected to Houston City Council, which is very similar
to what y'all are going through. And some of the
lobbyists are the same exact people. And I realize you
go from being out at at neighborhood association meetings and
various association meetings and voters to going into city council
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and the voters go back to their jobs and their work.
Now all of a sudden, there's a swarm of these
people and they've got checks for you now that the
election's over, and some of them give you checks before that,
but they want to have lunch at this and dinners
at these nice steakhouses, and all of a sudden your
life changes, and the only people you're around is not
those people that sent you there. It's this new group
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of friends who are telling you how smart and clever
you are and that are going to help you in
your re election. And some of those folks go up
to Austin as you know, a lot of them, including Republicans,
and they fall prey to it.
Speaker 11 (23:31):
You know what, Michael, you hit the nail on the
head because when you run, so all of us in
the Texas House, we have the high honor and privilege
of representing two hundred thousand Texans, give or take. And
the problem is, even when some of these folks run
for office, maybe they've got good intentions, maybe they really
were a conservative at one point, but the problem is
they go from being around their friends and their neighbors
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and people with like, you know, minds and like visions
of the world, and all of a sudden they're peer
group is the Austin swamp, the lobbyists, the bureaucrats, who,
by the way, really run government. I mean the elected official,
that's the whole side thing. But we've got to clip
the wings of the unelected bureaucrats and our liberal state
agencies down here as a total asside. Every state agency
in Texas should be run by a real conservative. That's
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not the case today. But the problem is they start
forgetting that it's the folks back home that punch their
name on a ballot card that is their ultimate boss.
It's them, it's their kids, it's their grandkids, it's the
liberty of those people that they should be making every
decision based on in Austin. But instead you hit the
nail on the head, Michael. They get down here and
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their new peer group, all these new friends that can
take them out if they want to, because there's no
limits in Austin.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
It's the wild West.
Speaker 11 (24:42):
You can go have a lobbyist take you out to
one thousand dollars dinner every night. You can get on
junkets paid for by the liberal special interests. You can
have the media in Austin and across Texas right glowing
profiles on what a statesman you are. But the only
thing you got to do is let them control how
you vote. As far as I'm concerned, that's an ante
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that I was not willing to pay. I got four
kids under ten, and I'm going to be damned if
I let them grow up in a state that does
not prioritize their liberty.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
They Representative Brian Harrison. Good luck tomorrow.
Speaker 11 (25:13):
Great to be with you, my friend.
Speaker 10 (25:15):
God bless you, and God bless Texans, all.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Great cities in between. The Michael Berry Show is nationwide.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
Revel rain.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
For over twenty years, back when I was on Houston
City Council, we have had problems with the drug lab
in the city of Houston. When HPDE officers arrest somebody
and it may not even be a drug crime. Primarily
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it might be that they go into a home and
a guy's beating us not out of his woman, or
they're here illegal aliens. A lot of the illegal aliens
are actually just mules and traffickers of drugs. So when
they they take possession, do the officers of those drugs
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because they're going to be used in court. You've seen
the forensic TV shows, they're close enough to reality. And
what was happening under Lee P. Brown, who was horrible.
I mean horrible. Mayor Lee Brown was elected in nineteen
ninety seven because Sylvester Turner hadn't been elected in nineteen
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ninety one in the City of Houston believed. Voters believed, well,
or the powers that be believe, the downtown interest believed
you got to have a black mayor. Can't be a
major American city if you haven't had a black mayor.
All the major cities we're having black mayors had already
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had one. Now, interestingly, it didn't have to be this way,
but all those black mayors not orders. Many of those
black mayors were horrible. And the problem is, it's because
they're chosen by the same process that Sila Jackson Lee
came out of to be a congressman and then Sylvester
Turner replaced her. They're chosen by a power structure of
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inside dealers who are the Black Affirmative Action Program directors.
The Rodney ellisis that's why you get black elected officials
that are so bad. It's not that there aren't good
black leaders, it's that those people are frozen out of
the black political power structure of the Democrat Party that
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doesn't want good Black elected officials. No way, no how
uh huh. We don't want those guys around here. Those
guys are ethical, that'd blow the whistle on us. Those
guys are like Trump to the Bush Republican Party to
the Romney Republican Party. We can't have them that make
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us look bad.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
So Lee P.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Brown was chosen and Lee P. Brown was made mayor
nineteen ninety seven, and it was an inside deal. All
the lobby money got behind him, ran against Rob Mossbacker,
and under his tenure continued a policy of underfunding the
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crime lab, which meant that evidence in crimes. In fact,
we had this come up last year. We're rape kits.
Can you imagine your wife, your daughter, your sister, your
mother is raped and you want to catch that son
of a bitch so bad you wish instead of sending
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him to prison, just give you ten minutes with him
and a crowbar, or maybe you could do it with
your own hands. I'd need a crowbar do the kind
of damage I'd want to do, and maybe a lighter
in some gasoline. But that's a different story. And there
were leaks in the crime lab that allowed the evidence
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to be destroyed, and that evidence is what enables you
to win in court when you finally catch the guy.
So you can imagine how frustrating this is. Way back
then we funded a crime lab redo that was going
to protect the evidence. And by the way, this isn't
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the Houston police officer's fault. This is much bigger than
the officers themselves, not even their issue anymore. So now
we find out that after all all this, and this
happened with the rape kits and all, now we've got
a drug addicted rat infestation in the property room that
(30:11):
is raising questions about the integrity of criminal cases. It'd
be funny if it was. No it's funny. Doctor Peter
Stout of the Houston Forensic Science Center says, it's hard
getting rid of the rodents. They're drug addicted rodents. They're
tough to deal with. You don't say the story from
(30:31):
ABC thirteen, a.
Speaker 12 (30:34):
Short tour of the HPD property room shows a cramped
space bursting at the seams, with one point two million
pieces of evidence, thousands of bikes, rows of old tires,
case files, old safes and luggage, and thousands of pounds
of drugs.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
We got four hundred thousand pounds of marijuana in storage
that the rats are the only ones that join it.
Speaker 13 (31:02):
So let's go to work.
Speaker 12 (31:05):
The mayor seemingly cracking a joke but really revealing a problem.
Speaker 13 (31:09):
They've had professional exterminators involved. But this is difficult getting
these rodents out of there. I mean, think about it.
They're drug addicted rats. They're tough to deal with.
Speaker 12 (31:21):
The Houston Forensic Science Centers doctor Peter Stout saying it's
an issue. Many property rooms face.
Speaker 13 (31:27):
Rodents, bugs, and fungus, all kinds of things love drugs.
Speaker 12 (31:31):
Houston Police chief no idea as it says they first
discovered rodents among drug evidence in October, but says the
problem is confined.
Speaker 14 (31:40):
We don't have an issue with current evidence. It is
the old evidence that's being stored near the current evidence
that's still pending the legal process.
Speaker 15 (31:54):
How do the rats know what is a new case
and an old case.
Speaker 12 (31:57):
Joe Venus is the president of the Harris Only Criminal
Lawyers Association, So they don't.
Speaker 15 (32:03):
Can they read the labels on the boxes and say, oh,
you know, they don't need these drugs anymore. Let's go
have a party.
Speaker 12 (32:09):
Venus has seen numerous crime lab and property room issues
over the years. This, he says, is just one more,
could cases be compromised.
Speaker 15 (32:20):
Sure, anytime evidence is compromised and the case is potentially compromised.
Speaker 12 (32:24):
The District Attorney's office going through old cases to see
what can be purged and providing funds to destroy old drugs.
Speaker 13 (32:31):
We will be destroying any narcotics evidence that has been
obtained prior to twenty fifteen.
Speaker 12 (32:36):
Venus wonders if this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 15 (32:39):
When you find a rat hole, you know where they've
chewed a hole in the wall, They could be anywhere
in the interior of that building.
Speaker 13 (32:48):
See.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
It's moments like this that I wish my mother was
alive so I could call and say, Mom, did you
see this story? In Houston? They got rats, Eat up
with the dope, Just eat up with the dope. And
she wouldn't get the joke, and I would just.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Laugh and laugh and laugh.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Eat up with the dope. Dim rats are m m M. So,
just so you know, when you look at Los Angeles
and go, gosh, all those Democrats they've elected over all
those years, that's how come they have a fire spread
and task the results of your elections. People, that's what
you're living through. You see this right here, You see,
(33:34):
you see what's going on in the county. Let's not
get too proud, because I'm not sure our local Democrat
officials are any better. They got Karen Bass, we got
Sylvester Turner, Mitchello, Ultra
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