November 5, 2025 • 32 mins
Michael Berry discusses Houston’s mayoral race, national election fallout, and the madness of Prop Q.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, luck and load. So Michael
Berry Show is on the air. I'm all jaked up
on Mountain Dew. This is the Thornton Finch wishing you
(00:26):
a good morning. Good morning, Michael Berry. You, good morning,
Michael Berry. Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Zar,
Good morning, Michael, Zay Sailor, Good morning, El Casino, Good morning, Michael. Hello,
Hello are you there? Good morning you, Michael Berry. How
you learned that?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I read it?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Tomorrow money, good mornay.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Listen to.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Good morning, Tex, Morning, your car, good mornings, his day.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
We're happy to be here to talk about everything.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Good morning, We're not wearing this. Good morning Tex. Good already, Tex,
Good by Tex. Good morning. Wake, Let's speak content. Good morning.
(01:39):
Oh do we have a lot to talk about?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Well, I got my automatic staple is not working. I
was going to stable one thing right before the show started,
and they can't get to work. What's that I'm out
of bullets. I be out of bullets. It might be
out of bullets. That might just be the problem. That's
exactly the point. What do we make of the mayoral
race in Minneapolis, in New York? What do we make
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of the terrible losses in Virginia, New Jersey. We'll talk
about all of that. There was a race for Sheila
Jackson Lee's old seat the eighteenth Congression and Christian Minefie
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is Rodney Ellis's puppet, his boy, and they put him
in that seat. And the field didn't have well, you
had Jolanda Jones, who's been a city councilman and a
state rep. Some thought maybe she would make the runoff
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with him, but instead it was Amanda Edwards. Amanda Edwards
is a very well spoken She is as white people
are wont to say of black people. She is articulate.
She served on city council. She was running for mayor
and made the mistake of getting out of the race
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when Sheila jacksonally offered to endorse her for congress if
she would get out of the race and help and
thereby opening the lane for Shila to win the mayor's race. Then,
of course, the minute she did and Sheila lost, Sheila
jumped back into the congressional rate race, betraying that promise,
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leaving Amanda Edwards in the lurch. Well, Amanda Edwards has managed,
which is quite impressive actually, to make the runoff against
Christian Menefee, but something was brought to my attention that
I had not noticed. I don't live in that district,
so it didn't show up on my ballot. For those
of you who did, or you can see it on Aline,
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Christian Menefee does not appear on the ballot as just
Christian Menifee. No, Christian Menefee chose to use all three
of his names, which is odd. I've never seen all
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three of his names in print before. I don't believe
he used all three of his names when he ran
for county attorney, but he may have, and I didn't
notice it then, but I definitely realize now what he
has done in his congressional race, or what Rodney has
told him to do. Christian Menefee used all three names,
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which are Christian Dashawn Benefite.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
You can't make this up. You got kind of white,
You got kind of white dude's name, Christian Christian Minifee.
That sounded like some white dude live it over at Montrose.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Well, my middle name DeShawn, that's the ticket, or maybe
they added that later Christian Dushon Menifee. Isn't that interesting?
I mean, that would be racist. If a white people
made a joke to that effect. I don't know if
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Christian Menifee can win a black congressional seat with a
name like Christian Menefee weighing in at about a buck
twenty eight, with little wiry glasses, even if Rodney Ellis
is indoor and Lord knows, doing what else? Christian Menifee,
little little little frail fella, little light skin fella, Christian
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What a white name that is? I guess we're gonna
have to go get him something that'll selling the hood.
How about DeShawn Christian Dashawn Menifee. You have to kind
of say it right. You can't just be Christian Dashaun Menefee.
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Oh no, no, no, Christian Dashawn Menefee. But he didn't
win as big as was expected. The results clip number
sixteen mister Robliss from Khou.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Yesterday at the Acres Home Multi Service Center, one of
several polling locations in District eighteen. The two frontrunners in
this race, Christian Menafie and Amanda Edwards, were both there
speaking to dozens of voters before they were casting their ballots.
And now this congressional race will go back to voters
early next year. Let's talk more about that. So voters
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will decide between Christian Menafie and Amanda Edwards, who have
gotten a lot of voter support in polls leading up
to election date yesterday, and now the focus shifts to
round two. Last night, kto U eleven was at both
candidates watch parties. Menifee thinked supporters and talked about community
and accountability. Edwards also thinks supporters. She also spoke about
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early vote totals and staying focused on momentum.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
This campaign has been about the communities like akers homes,
where you see little kids walking in the middle of
the street to a corner store because they have no
sidewalks and no grocery.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Stores in their communities.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
There's something to be said about seeing people and the
issues that they're facing and basing your campaign around them
and not around yourself.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
It has always been about making that we create an
eighteenth Congressional district where each and every single person, no
matter what their background, no matter where they live, has
the opportunity not just to get by day to day,
but our goal is to truly have people thrive.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
And so far we do know that more than sixty
eight thousand ballots were capped in District eighteen.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
This is Tracy Baird and welcome to the lifestyles of
the not so rich and famous are as. I call
it the Michael Berry Show. What do you make? What
if we two make what we saw last night? And
let's consider the context, shall we? That's an off year contest.
It's not even a midterm It's an off year contest
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held amid a prolonged government shutdown. The government shutdown matters
more to earwellers than rural dwellers, not surprising, the more
likely to work for the government, they're more likely to
live off the government. So you're going to hear that
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this was a referendum on President Trump's second term. Not true.
We'll get to that. You had key races in Virginia,
New Jersey, New York City, That's where all the attention was.
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Turnout was not high, but it it could have been lower.
I would call it moderate. You had early voting that
was strong in Virginia. I went back and checked because
I thought Trump had won Virginia and he did not.
Kamala Harris won it by six percentage points, but tells
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you a lot. So analysts are describing what happened as
they used the world word thermostatic backlash against Republicans, which
is the party in power, which is typical Democrats. They're
claiming gained momentum for twenty twenty six mid terms. They'll
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claim it. I don't think they necessarily have it. I
think what you saw was painful. Reality is that without
Trump running, the Republican Party is not fielding candidates who
can win. The Republican Party does not have a good infrastructure,
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and unlike the Democrats, the Republican Party does not have
any force to recruit and promote its candidates. Trump is
a one off, and when Trump is gone, I fear
you will see the gains we've made evaporate. Let's not
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forget who our Republican Party candidates have been, going back
to nineteen ninety two. George HW. Bush, a former CIA director,
a wealthy psion of a US senator, a guy with
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no charisma, an absolute insider who headed the party. Clinton
beat him nineteen ninety six, the Senate Majority leader, a
guy that's been cutting deals for decades. Nuke Gingrich called
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him the tax collector for the welfare state. Bob Dole.
Bob Dole did not represent America's Hopes and Dreams two thousand.
George H. W. Bush's son, handpicked by the establishment that
brought you. George HW. Bush worried that he won't be
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able to govern. We'll put Dick Cheney in there. We
know we can trust him. He's the former chief of
staff to to Presidents, Cabinet secretary and chairman and CEO
of Halliburton, a reliable warmonger. Re election two thousand and four,
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two thousand and eight, John McCain. John McCain's entire resume
was war veteran. Then he came home, joined the United
States Senate and proceeded to cut deals like Nan Crenshaw,
John Cornin or Mitch McConnell, absolutely selling us out. This
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was a man who was part of the Keeping Five,
remember those. Remember that's This was an open borders establishment
Republican who left Arizona and never came back. His role
was to be the Washington generals to Barack Obama's Harlem globetrotters.
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Twenty twelve. Mitt Romney would win between fifteen and twenty
eight percent of any given States Republican primary voters, but
he just kept chugging along with the establishment behind him,
and he became our nominee, the former governor of Massachusetts,
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mister sellout, you learned a lot about who he was.
When Trump was elected. Romney Kare preceded Obamacare. Romney's top
people were secretly coming in and out of the White
House to help the Obama administration draft Obamacare because they'd
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done it in Massachusetts first, the single most unpopular thing
Obama had done. Romney had done in Massachusetts. There's your
Republican Party again, twenty sixteen, Jeb Bush with an esclamation.
Don't forget to clap. He's your nominee because we need
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yet another Bush, because between the Bushes and Clinton's, we've
had him on almost every ballot now for twenty five years.
Jeb Bush, there's your choice. But it didn't happen. Trump
was an outlier. People saw something. Trump wins with a
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unique moment in the American electorate's mind and a candidate
the likes of which we've never seen before and I
don't think we'll ever see again, not with that skill set.
Trump gets elected. They steal it from him in twenty twenty.
In twenty twenty four, he comes back despite the fact
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that they tried to put him in prison, and worse,
there has not been a Republican on the national scene
since the twenty sixteen election that anyone is looking at
and saying that's a leader for our party. Well, jd
Vance Michael, that's just because Donald Trump blessed him. That's
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not Cot Taps Barishaw. That's only been four years, but
it's largely been forgotten. It was on this day in
twenty twenty one that ten fans were killed and hundreds
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injured during Travis Scott's performance at his Astrold festival in Houston,
when the crowd of fifty thousand surged towards the stage,
killing victims. The story from ABC thirteen, Yeah I started.
Everything was cool for a split second.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Now his dad held Ezra high on his shoulders, but
when the crowd started pushing, Tristan lost consciousness and Ezra
fell to the ground and was trampled. When Blunt came
to he went to the medical tent to try and
find his son. An officer later showed Tristan a photo.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
The pigeon that they sent me.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Was a.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Was him in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Turn heer sharing this sympathy to the family this evening,
writing I am satin to learn of Ezra's death this
evening our city tonight. Praise for his mom, dad, grandparents,
other family members and classmates. At this time, they will
need all our support in the months and years to come.
Make God give them strength.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Rest in peace, Ezra.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Ezra becomes the tenth and youngest victim of the Astralt
Festival tragedy. Bharti Shashawane, a Texas A and M student,
passed away just last Wednesday. The other eight victims were
pronounced dead at the hospital just hours after the tragedy.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
State of Virginia carried the trifecta winning governor, lieutenant governor,
and Attorney general, with the governor winning by eleven percent,
lieutenant governor by ten and the Attorney general only winning
by three percent, but winning nonetheless. Nonetheless, Jay Jones was
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confirmed to have sent a text to a friend and
fellow Democrat that he wanted the children of his opponent
to be murdered in front of him and his wife
so they would have to suffer. The Democrats didn't back
away from him. There were calls for his resignation. Republicans
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love to do this. We call for his resignation. He's
not going to resign. He's got nothing else to do.
These people make so much money off of government. He
needs to resign. And so now they all look like
they've done something, but he doesn't, and he wins. Democrat
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voters don't care. I've watched friends who've had a daughter
who dates a turd, and they just wring their hands
over this. They don't know what to do. She's dating
this turd. He's a terrible person. Bad people are bad people.
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You can talk yourself into some other explanation. You can
try to love them to but when they get across
the way, they're still going to turn and stand you.
It's who they are. That's what Democrat voters are. They're
very low information. Many of them are racists. In fact,
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racism drives a Democrat party, followed closely by jealousy. That's
what that party is. And as frustrating as that might seem,
however prescient, the argument is that sways your vote. They
don't get swayed. They just vote Democrat. Our voters love
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to think through the forty five different ways they can
perhaps maybe not vote for our candidate. Democrats don't do that.
They show up and vote how they're told, and that's it.
And that's all they have. Discipline, it is their livelihood,
it's what they do. The Virginia House of Delegates Democrats gained.
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They're now up eighteen seats, fifty nine to forty one.
The New Jersey Governor's race, despite the fact that there
was incontrovertible evidence that Democrat Cheryl had traded stocks like
Dan Crenshaw, that she'd enriched herself for seven million dollars,
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the Republican candidate still could not win. He had Trump's endorsement,
but every county trended more Democrat than in twenty twenty four.
The gains of Trump did not carry to his candidate
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of choice, Rick Chitdarelli. New Jersey General Assembly Democrats held
on to their majority with a two point hold. With
a plus two seat gain and a Democrat hold. Of course,
you got the New York City Mayor's race where you
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had Zorn Mumdani. Last numbers I saw had him up
by twenty six percent over Cuomo and then Sliwa. It's
a great example. I had Houston's had Democrats coming to
be in Houston and said, what are we going to
do about Sheila Jackson Lee. She's going to win the
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mayor's race. You're a Democrat, I know, but I'm worried
about her. Sheila Jackson Lee is your party. You're not
white liberal. They let you have your moment because you
were useful as they clawed and scratched. This is Ridney
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Elysis party. This isn't your party. This is Zorn Mumdani's party.
This is Baracco Alma's party. The white liberals played with
fire and now it is consuming them. I'm actually surprised
that Jacob Fry held on in Minneapolis. I thought Faute
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might end up beating him. He didn't, but I thought
he would. Bruce Harral, the incumbent, will remain the Democrat
mayor there. Pretty low drama campaign, didn't get a lot
of attention. Pennsylvania Supreme Court not much, not much to
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say there. California Proposition fifty a sixty to forty win
for Democrats, which would mean they stand to gain five
congressional seats. I read where Fox was saying that that
means that Republican states will now do away with the
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jerry mandering that was created to elect more Democrats. But
they won't. They won't. At the pick your Fighter phase
of this game. We're not picking well, we're not drafting
a good team. Our people don't fight their people do period.
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End of story. Six states had statewide measures California, New Jersey, Virginia, Maine, Texas,
and Pennsylvania. Every proposition on the Texas ballot, all seventeen passed.
That is the power of the process. You write them
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in a way that a voter goes in art I'm
going to read this and I'm going to cast a
good vote. More money for dementia research. Well, heck yeah,
I think that's a good idea. How much more I
don't know, but my Eastern law had dementia. Even the
liberal voters in Austin want some fiscal restraint, and that's
saying So Prop Q, the largest tax hike in the
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city's history, was defeated sixty three point thirty seven. I'd
say that's handily soundly. Would have raised property taxes on
the average homeowner by three hundred dollars, with nearly half
of the one hundred and ten million in new revenues
going to more homeless initiatives. So I got two really
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exciting things to offer you. Number one, we're going to
raise your property taxes way you think of that. And
number two, we're going to use the money to attract
more homeless people to throw pooh at you while you're
walking around. City's already spent more than three hundred million
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dollars on homeless initiatives since twenty nineteen. Golly gee whizz.
Of course you'd want to spend more. It's going swimmingly.
Fox seven at Austin.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
Here we had a broad bipartisan coalition that start off,
they'd said no, we are not standing up for this.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
And when the words are mad, enough is enough.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
The spending must stop. We do not need more taxes
and this city council needs to get the message to
get their house in order.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Austin City Mayor Kirk Watson released a statement about thirty
minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
It starts Swiss quote.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
When the council put Proposition Q on the ballot, I
said it's time to trust the voters. Tonight the voters
spoke by rejecting Prop Q. Austin voters made their decision,
and they did so clearly. I trust their decision and
I hear them.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
End quote.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Prop Q included a huge amount of funding for a
lot of different things. So here's how the city wanted
to spend your taxpayer dollars. Proposition Q aims to put
about one hundred and ten million dollars towards public safety
and social services. However, the potential for a property tax
increase to foot the bill is something mini voters are
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not on board with.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
We should continue to make Austin affordable for everyone, and
prop to you is just going to make it more expensive.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
If pass, the average homeowner would be paying an additional
three hundred and three dollars annually on a half a
million dollar home. Opponents argue that the city already has
enough revenue and say they can't afford higher taxes, especially
senior citizens.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
Part to all the ones I had to do with
and or on property taxes because as they go up
and incomes don't go up, that affects us all.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
The city wants to spend the largest chunk of that
money on expanding homeless programs, allocating thirty five and a
half million dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Prop Q is about allowing this work to continue so
we can.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Reach more of the people suffering on our streets and
prevent struggling Austin residents for becoming homeless.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Close to twenty three million would.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Go to improving public safety by adding EMS positions for
mental health response and paying more support services for victims
of crime. Than ten million dollars is allotted on climate
change response projects, as well as improving and maintaining public
parks and recreation facilities.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
We live in a time when the federal government and
the state government others deny all about the realities of
climate change.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Plus another seven point seven million dollars on public health services,
including delivery of HIV or STI testing. Lastly, one point
three million first City of Austin employee benefits.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Will it was defeated. I guess there's that sixty three
thirty seven. There is something about liberal white people and
the causes that they take up global warming. Kamala Harris
said the other day that we should drop the voting
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age to sixteen because teenagers are suffering climate change anxiety.
You know, when I was growing up, this was the
kind of stuff that adults and especially men, would say,
stop being such a little sissy. What in the world
are you doing. We need more of that. We need
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fewer men acting like women. We need more men to
buck up and stand up and say no, we're not
going to do that stupid thing here at the office. No,
we're not going to do that stupid thing at the house.
No we're not going to do that stupid thing at
the school district. I'm on the board. No we're not
going to do that stupid thing in the government. I
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don't know when Dylan mulvaney took over running things in
this country, but that's what it feels like. It's ridiculous.
And the whole deal the obsession with homelessness. First of all,
there is the idea that somehow this is an expression
of empathy. It's not if at eight years old your
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kid says he wants to stay out all night or
sleep at Michael Jackson's house in his bed. As a parent,
you say, no, you don't keep empowering and funding this nonsense.
But what nobody seems to recognize is when you create
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a fund for will use homelessness here. There are a
lot of other things. This is true. For you create
a market for it, there will never be an end
to homelessness because you will create all these agencies and
social programs and they live off of homelessness. Well, that
means that homelessness has to keep growing and the more
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it grows, the more they say, oh my god, we
need more money. And so what you are really doing
is subsidizing the accelerated growth of homelessness. The white liberal
obsession with homelessness because it's not a black thing. The
white liberal obsession with homelessness is akin to the global
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warming and drag Queen's story hour in kindergarten. It is
really weird. There has been an explosion in homelessness in
the urban cities of this country. Part of the reason
is funding it more. We're about to do it in
Houston too. And the second reason is this is this
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EmPATH mentality that somehow, in some odd way, we're celebrating
the homeless because there's nothing the white liberal loves more
than the celebrated victim. They absolutely love the celebrated victim
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and that guy staggering around like a zombie, wearing no clothes,
screwing in the tent, feet hanging out or under the overpass,
laid out, passed out with some dog, smelling like ass,
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committing petty crimes all day long. White liberals love that guy.
Love it. That to them is the best thing ever.
Needles everywhere, crime filth more. Let's throw more money at
it because what we've done's work so well.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
H
It's that time time, time, luck and load. So Michael
Berry Show is on the air. I'm all jaked up
on Mountain Dew. This is the Thornton Finch wishing you
(00:26):
a good morning. Good morning, Michael Berry. You, good morning,
Michael Berry. Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Michael, Good morning, Zar,
Good morning, Michael, Zay Sailor, Good morning, El Casino, Good morning, Michael. Hello,
Hello are you there? Good morning you, Michael Berry. How
you learned that?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I read it?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Tomorrow money, good mornay.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Listen to.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Good morning, Tex, Morning, your car, good mornings, his day.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
We're happy to be here to talk about everything.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Good morning, We're not wearing this. Good morning Tex. Good already, Tex,
Good by Tex. Good morning. Wake, Let's speak content. Good morning.
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Oh do we have a lot to talk about?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Well, I got my automatic staple is not working. I
was going to stable one thing right before the show started,
and they can't get to work. What's that I'm out
of bullets. I be out of bullets. It might be
out of bullets. That might just be the problem. That's
exactly the point. What do we make of the mayoral
race in Minneapolis, in New York? What do we make
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of the terrible losses in Virginia, New Jersey. We'll talk
about all of that. There was a race for Sheila
Jackson Lee's old seat the eighteenth Congression and Christian Minefie
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is Rodney Ellis's puppet, his boy, and they put him
in that seat. And the field didn't have well, you
had Jolanda Jones, who's been a city councilman and a
state rep. Some thought maybe she would make the runoff
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with him, but instead it was Amanda Edwards. Amanda Edwards
is a very well spoken She is as white people
are wont to say of black people. She is articulate.
She served on city council. She was running for mayor
and made the mistake of getting out of the race
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when Sheila jacksonally offered to endorse her for congress if
she would get out of the race and help and
thereby opening the lane for Shila to win the mayor's race. Then,
of course, the minute she did and Sheila lost, Sheila
jumped back into the congressional rate race, betraying that promise,
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leaving Amanda Edwards in the lurch. Well, Amanda Edwards has managed,
which is quite impressive actually, to make the runoff against
Christian Menefee, but something was brought to my attention that
I had not noticed. I don't live in that district,
so it didn't show up on my ballot. For those
of you who did, or you can see it on Aline,
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Christian Menefee does not appear on the ballot as just
Christian Menifee. No, Christian Menefee chose to use all three
of his names, which is odd. I've never seen all
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three of his names in print before. I don't believe
he used all three of his names when he ran
for county attorney, but he may have, and I didn't
notice it then, but I definitely realize now what he
has done in his congressional race, or what Rodney has
told him to do. Christian Menefee used all three names,
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which are Christian Dashawn Benefite.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
You can't make this up. You got kind of white,
You got kind of white dude's name, Christian Christian Minifee.
That sounded like some white dude live it over at Montrose.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Well, my middle name DeShawn, that's the ticket, or maybe
they added that later Christian Dushon Menifee. Isn't that interesting?
I mean, that would be racist. If a white people
made a joke to that effect. I don't know if
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Christian Menifee can win a black congressional seat with a
name like Christian Menefee weighing in at about a buck
twenty eight, with little wiry glasses, even if Rodney Ellis
is indoor and Lord knows, doing what else? Christian Menifee,
little little little frail fella, little light skin fella, Christian
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What a white name that is? I guess we're gonna
have to go get him something that'll selling the hood.
How about DeShawn Christian Dashawn Menifee. You have to kind
of say it right. You can't just be Christian Dashaun Menefee.
(06:34):
Oh no, no, no, Christian Dashawn Menefee. But he didn't
win as big as was expected. The results clip number
sixteen mister Robliss from Khou.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Yesterday at the Acres Home Multi Service Center, one of
several polling locations in District eighteen. The two frontrunners in
this race, Christian Menafie and Amanda Edwards, were both there
speaking to dozens of voters before they were casting their ballots.
And now this congressional race will go back to voters
early next year. Let's talk more about that. So voters
(07:12):
will decide between Christian Menafie and Amanda Edwards, who have
gotten a lot of voter support in polls leading up
to election date yesterday, and now the focus shifts to
round two. Last night, kto U eleven was at both
candidates watch parties. Menifee thinked supporters and talked about community
and accountability. Edwards also thinks supporters. She also spoke about
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early vote totals and staying focused on momentum.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
This campaign has been about the communities like akers homes,
where you see little kids walking in the middle of
the street to a corner store because they have no
sidewalks and no grocery.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Stores in their communities.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
There's something to be said about seeing people and the
issues that they're facing and basing your campaign around them
and not around yourself.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
It has always been about making that we create an
eighteenth Congressional district where each and every single person, no
matter what their background, no matter where they live, has
the opportunity not just to get by day to day,
but our goal is to truly have people thrive.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
And so far we do know that more than sixty
eight thousand ballots were capped in District eighteen.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
This is Tracy Baird and welcome to the lifestyles of
the not so rich and famous are as. I call
it the Michael Berry Show. What do you make? What
if we two make what we saw last night? And
let's consider the context, shall we? That's an off year contest.
It's not even a midterm It's an off year contest
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held amid a prolonged government shutdown. The government shutdown matters
more to earwellers than rural dwellers, not surprising, the more
likely to work for the government, they're more likely to
live off the government. So you're going to hear that
(09:09):
this was a referendum on President Trump's second term. Not true.
We'll get to that. You had key races in Virginia,
New Jersey, New York City, That's where all the attention was.
(09:30):
Turnout was not high, but it it could have been lower.
I would call it moderate. You had early voting that
was strong in Virginia. I went back and checked because
I thought Trump had won Virginia and he did not.
Kamala Harris won it by six percentage points, but tells
(09:52):
you a lot. So analysts are describing what happened as
they used the world word thermostatic backlash against Republicans, which
is the party in power, which is typical Democrats. They're
claiming gained momentum for twenty twenty six mid terms. They'll
(10:14):
claim it. I don't think they necessarily have it. I
think what you saw was painful. Reality is that without
Trump running, the Republican Party is not fielding candidates who
can win. The Republican Party does not have a good infrastructure,
(10:39):
and unlike the Democrats, the Republican Party does not have
any force to recruit and promote its candidates. Trump is
a one off, and when Trump is gone, I fear
you will see the gains we've made evaporate. Let's not
(11:04):
forget who our Republican Party candidates have been, going back
to nineteen ninety two. George HW. Bush, a former CIA director,
a wealthy psion of a US senator, a guy with
(11:25):
no charisma, an absolute insider who headed the party. Clinton
beat him nineteen ninety six, the Senate Majority leader, a
guy that's been cutting deals for decades. Nuke Gingrich called
(11:47):
him the tax collector for the welfare state. Bob Dole.
Bob Dole did not represent America's Hopes and Dreams two thousand.
George H. W. Bush's son, handpicked by the establishment that
brought you. George HW. Bush worried that he won't be
(12:09):
able to govern. We'll put Dick Cheney in there. We
know we can trust him. He's the former chief of
staff to to Presidents, Cabinet secretary and chairman and CEO
of Halliburton, a reliable warmonger. Re election two thousand and four,
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two thousand and eight, John McCain. John McCain's entire resume
was war veteran. Then he came home, joined the United
States Senate and proceeded to cut deals like Nan Crenshaw,
John Cornin or Mitch McConnell, absolutely selling us out. This
(12:55):
was a man who was part of the Keeping Five,
remember those. Remember that's This was an open borders establishment
Republican who left Arizona and never came back. His role
was to be the Washington generals to Barack Obama's Harlem globetrotters.
(13:17):
Twenty twelve. Mitt Romney would win between fifteen and twenty
eight percent of any given States Republican primary voters, but
he just kept chugging along with the establishment behind him,
and he became our nominee, the former governor of Massachusetts,
(13:40):
mister sellout, you learned a lot about who he was.
When Trump was elected. Romney Kare preceded Obamacare. Romney's top
people were secretly coming in and out of the White
House to help the Obama administration draft Obamacare because they'd
(14:04):
done it in Massachusetts first, the single most unpopular thing
Obama had done. Romney had done in Massachusetts. There's your
Republican Party again, twenty sixteen, Jeb Bush with an esclamation.
Don't forget to clap. He's your nominee because we need
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yet another Bush, because between the Bushes and Clinton's, we've
had him on almost every ballot now for twenty five years.
Jeb Bush, there's your choice. But it didn't happen. Trump
was an outlier. People saw something. Trump wins with a
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unique moment in the American electorate's mind and a candidate
the likes of which we've never seen before and I
don't think we'll ever see again, not with that skill set.
Trump gets elected. They steal it from him in twenty twenty.
In twenty twenty four, he comes back despite the fact
(15:10):
that they tried to put him in prison, and worse,
there has not been a Republican on the national scene
since the twenty sixteen election that anyone is looking at
and saying that's a leader for our party. Well, jd
Vance Michael, that's just because Donald Trump blessed him. That's
(15:36):
not Cot Taps Barishaw. That's only been four years, but
it's largely been forgotten. It was on this day in
twenty twenty one that ten fans were killed and hundreds
(15:56):
injured during Travis Scott's performance at his Astrold festival in Houston,
when the crowd of fifty thousand surged towards the stage,
killing victims. The story from ABC thirteen, Yeah I started.
Everything was cool for a split second.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Now his dad held Ezra high on his shoulders, but
when the crowd started pushing, Tristan lost consciousness and Ezra
fell to the ground and was trampled. When Blunt came
to he went to the medical tent to try and
find his son. An officer later showed Tristan a photo.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
The pigeon that they sent me.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Was a.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Was him in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Turn heer sharing this sympathy to the family this evening,
writing I am satin to learn of Ezra's death this
evening our city tonight. Praise for his mom, dad, grandparents,
other family members and classmates. At this time, they will
need all our support in the months and years to come.
Make God give them strength.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Rest in peace, Ezra.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Ezra becomes the tenth and youngest victim of the Astralt
Festival tragedy. Bharti Shashawane, a Texas A and M student,
passed away just last Wednesday. The other eight victims were
pronounced dead at the hospital just hours after the tragedy.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
State of Virginia carried the trifecta winning governor, lieutenant governor,
and Attorney general, with the governor winning by eleven percent,
lieutenant governor by ten and the Attorney general only winning
by three percent, but winning nonetheless. Nonetheless, Jay Jones was
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confirmed to have sent a text to a friend and
fellow Democrat that he wanted the children of his opponent
to be murdered in front of him and his wife
so they would have to suffer. The Democrats didn't back
away from him. There were calls for his resignation. Republicans
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love to do this. We call for his resignation. He's
not going to resign. He's got nothing else to do.
These people make so much money off of government. He
needs to resign. And so now they all look like
they've done something, but he doesn't, and he wins. Democrat
(18:29):
voters don't care. I've watched friends who've had a daughter
who dates a turd, and they just wring their hands
over this. They don't know what to do. She's dating
this turd. He's a terrible person. Bad people are bad people.
(18:53):
You can talk yourself into some other explanation. You can
try to love them to but when they get across
the way, they're still going to turn and stand you.
It's who they are. That's what Democrat voters are. They're
very low information. Many of them are racists. In fact,
(19:16):
racism drives a Democrat party, followed closely by jealousy. That's
what that party is. And as frustrating as that might seem,
however prescient, the argument is that sways your vote. They
don't get swayed. They just vote Democrat. Our voters love
(19:40):
to think through the forty five different ways they can
perhaps maybe not vote for our candidate. Democrats don't do that.
They show up and vote how they're told, and that's it.
And that's all they have. Discipline, it is their livelihood,
it's what they do. The Virginia House of Delegates Democrats gained.
(20:02):
They're now up eighteen seats, fifty nine to forty one.
The New Jersey Governor's race, despite the fact that there
was incontrovertible evidence that Democrat Cheryl had traded stocks like
Dan Crenshaw, that she'd enriched herself for seven million dollars,
(20:23):
the Republican candidate still could not win. He had Trump's endorsement,
but every county trended more Democrat than in twenty twenty four.
The gains of Trump did not carry to his candidate
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of choice, Rick Chitdarelli. New Jersey General Assembly Democrats held
on to their majority with a two point hold. With
a plus two seat gain and a Democrat hold. Of course,
you got the New York City Mayor's race where you
(21:08):
had Zorn Mumdani. Last numbers I saw had him up
by twenty six percent over Cuomo and then Sliwa. It's
a great example. I had Houston's had Democrats coming to
be in Houston and said, what are we going to
do about Sheila Jackson Lee. She's going to win the
(21:30):
mayor's race. You're a Democrat, I know, but I'm worried
about her. Sheila Jackson Lee is your party. You're not
white liberal. They let you have your moment because you
were useful as they clawed and scratched. This is Ridney
(21:52):
Elysis party. This isn't your party. This is Zorn Mumdani's party.
This is Baracco Alma's party. The white liberals played with
fire and now it is consuming them. I'm actually surprised
that Jacob Fry held on in Minneapolis. I thought Faute
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might end up beating him. He didn't, but I thought
he would. Bruce Harral, the incumbent, will remain the Democrat
mayor there. Pretty low drama campaign, didn't get a lot
of attention. Pennsylvania Supreme Court not much, not much to
(22:38):
say there. California Proposition fifty a sixty to forty win
for Democrats, which would mean they stand to gain five
congressional seats. I read where Fox was saying that that
means that Republican states will now do away with the
(23:00):
jerry mandering that was created to elect more Democrats. But
they won't. They won't. At the pick your Fighter phase
of this game. We're not picking well, we're not drafting
a good team. Our people don't fight their people do period.
(23:25):
End of story. Six states had statewide measures California, New Jersey, Virginia, Maine, Texas,
and Pennsylvania. Every proposition on the Texas ballot, all seventeen passed.
That is the power of the process. You write them
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in a way that a voter goes in art I'm
going to read this and I'm going to cast a
good vote. More money for dementia research. Well, heck yeah,
I think that's a good idea. How much more I
don't know, but my Eastern law had dementia. Even the
liberal voters in Austin want some fiscal restraint, and that's
saying So Prop Q, the largest tax hike in the
(24:11):
city's history, was defeated sixty three point thirty seven. I'd
say that's handily soundly. Would have raised property taxes on
the average homeowner by three hundred dollars, with nearly half
of the one hundred and ten million in new revenues
going to more homeless initiatives. So I got two really
(24:31):
exciting things to offer you. Number one, we're going to
raise your property taxes way you think of that. And
number two, we're going to use the money to attract
more homeless people to throw pooh at you while you're
walking around. City's already spent more than three hundred million
(24:52):
dollars on homeless initiatives since twenty nineteen. Golly gee whizz.
Of course you'd want to spend more. It's going swimmingly.
Fox seven at Austin.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
Here we had a broad bipartisan coalition that start off,
they'd said no, we are not standing up for this.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
And when the words are mad, enough is enough.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
The spending must stop. We do not need more taxes
and this city council needs to get the message to
get their house in order.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Austin City Mayor Kirk Watson released a statement about thirty
minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
It starts Swiss quote.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
When the council put Proposition Q on the ballot, I
said it's time to trust the voters. Tonight the voters
spoke by rejecting Prop Q. Austin voters made their decision,
and they did so clearly. I trust their decision and
I hear them.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
End quote.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Prop Q included a huge amount of funding for a
lot of different things. So here's how the city wanted
to spend your taxpayer dollars. Proposition Q aims to put
about one hundred and ten million dollars towards public safety
and social services. However, the potential for a property tax
increase to foot the bill is something mini voters are
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not on board with.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
We should continue to make Austin affordable for everyone, and
prop to you is just going to make it more expensive.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
If pass, the average homeowner would be paying an additional
three hundred and three dollars annually on a half a
million dollar home. Opponents argue that the city already has
enough revenue and say they can't afford higher taxes, especially
senior citizens.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
Part to all the ones I had to do with
and or on property taxes because as they go up
and incomes don't go up, that affects us all.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
The city wants to spend the largest chunk of that
money on expanding homeless programs, allocating thirty five and a
half million dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Prop Q is about allowing this work to continue so
we can.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Reach more of the people suffering on our streets and
prevent struggling Austin residents for becoming homeless.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Close to twenty three million would.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Go to improving public safety by adding EMS positions for
mental health response and paying more support services for victims
of crime. Than ten million dollars is allotted on climate
change response projects, as well as improving and maintaining public
parks and recreation facilities.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
We live in a time when the federal government and
the state government others deny all about the realities of
climate change.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Plus another seven point seven million dollars on public health services,
including delivery of HIV or STI testing. Lastly, one point
three million first City of Austin employee benefits.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Will it was defeated. I guess there's that sixty three
thirty seven. There is something about liberal white people and
the causes that they take up global warming. Kamala Harris
said the other day that we should drop the voting
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age to sixteen because teenagers are suffering climate change anxiety.
You know, when I was growing up, this was the
kind of stuff that adults and especially men, would say,
stop being such a little sissy. What in the world
are you doing. We need more of that. We need
(28:30):
fewer men acting like women. We need more men to
buck up and stand up and say no, we're not
going to do that stupid thing here at the office. No,
we're not going to do that stupid thing at the house.
No we're not going to do that stupid thing at
the school district. I'm on the board. No we're not
going to do that stupid thing in the government. I
(28:51):
don't know when Dylan mulvaney took over running things in
this country, but that's what it feels like. It's ridiculous.
And the whole deal the obsession with homelessness. First of all,
there is the idea that somehow this is an expression
of empathy. It's not if at eight years old your
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kid says he wants to stay out all night or
sleep at Michael Jackson's house in his bed. As a parent,
you say, no, you don't keep empowering and funding this nonsense.
But what nobody seems to recognize is when you create
(29:38):
a fund for will use homelessness here. There are a
lot of other things. This is true. For you create
a market for it, there will never be an end
to homelessness because you will create all these agencies and
social programs and they live off of homelessness. Well, that
means that homelessness has to keep growing and the more
(30:00):
it grows, the more they say, oh my god, we
need more money. And so what you are really doing
is subsidizing the accelerated growth of homelessness. The white liberal
obsession with homelessness because it's not a black thing. The
white liberal obsession with homelessness is akin to the global
(30:25):
warming and drag Queen's story hour in kindergarten. It is
really weird. There has been an explosion in homelessness in
the urban cities of this country. Part of the reason
is funding it more. We're about to do it in
Houston too. And the second reason is this is this
(30:50):
EmPATH mentality that somehow, in some odd way, we're celebrating
the homeless because there's nothing the white liberal loves more
than the celebrated victim. They absolutely love the celebrated victim
(31:17):
and that guy staggering around like a zombie, wearing no clothes,
screwing in the tent, feet hanging out or under the overpass,
laid out, passed out with some dog, smelling like ass,
(31:43):
committing petty crimes all day long. White liberals love that guy.
Love it. That to them is the best thing ever.
Needles everywhere, crime filth more. Let's throw more money at
it because what we've done's work so well.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
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