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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air, and frankly,
I think a lot of Republicans look at me as like, oh,
that's a straight, white Christian male son of a cop.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Like everyone else like him looks like me. So when
he comes at me, it's more betrayal to them. Like
I've heard that all from them on their side, that
that's that's why they take it so personally.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
But like, I'm a Christian and I don't want.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
To be defined by what Republicans think of me, Like
I don't wear it on my sleeve in my politics
like they.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Do every you can.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I facing the threat of a pending House Ethics Committee
investigation and expulsion and battle, Congressman Eric Swalwell says he
will leave office. During the call from a wide swath
of both Republicans and Democrats urging him to step down
following allegations of sexual assault and misconduct. Swalwell continuing to
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deny many of the allegations, calling them false, but adding
I must take responsibility and ownership for the mistakes I
did make because I.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Gotta have thing.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
His resignation will end the threat of a congressional probe,
but he is still facing the possibility of a criminal
investigation in New York, where one of the alleged incidents
took place. Multiple women have accused Swalwell of sexual misconduct
and assaults, one woman telling the San Francisco Chronicle that
she had several sexual encounters with the congressman while working
in his office. She also accused him of sexually assaulting
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her twice while she was too intoxicated to consent. NBC
News has not verified her allegations, but it confirmed her
identity and that she worked for Swalwell from twenty nineteen
until twenty twenty one. This accuser sharing her story with Sia, He.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Sets to me, you're right, it's probably not good for
a congressman to be caught with his pants down.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yes, I gotta have, I gotta have.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Eric Walwell announcing he will step down from Congress after
the day before having suspended his gubernatorial campaign. I think
a deal was struck to get Tony Gonzalez to step
down as well, so the net effect would not change
the ratio of the United States Congress. One Republican down,
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one Democrat down. I suspect the Swallwell resignation was also
related to the Manhattan prosecution and the deal being stepped
down from Congress and will eliminate the prosecution. I don't
know that to be the case. I haven't even read
that or heard it, but I suspect it is the
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case that is often done, which is to me the
wrong way to go about that, because a guy who's
a plant worker at Chevron who commits a crime doesn't
get to negotiate. Well, if you'll drop the president, you'll
drop the prosecution. I'll stop being a plant worker at Chevron.
(03:50):
But that is often done with politicians. Man was asked
why did you decide to become a proctologist? His answer,
I guess I saw an opening. How does it take
for a man to put on underwear?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
It's brief.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
On this day in history, April fourteenth, it is a
big day in history. This is the day that President
Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth.
Lincoln would live to the following day, when, of course,
he would pass on this day, that was eighteen sixty five.
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On this day in nineteen eighty, Judas Priest would release
British Steel, a metal landmark containing the tracks Living After
Midnight and Breaking the Law. On this day in twenty sixteen,
at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, Prince would play his
last concert. He would die a week later, his last
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song Purple Ray. On this day in nineteen thirty two,
the coal miner's daughter, Loretta Lynn was born. Thirteen years later,
guitarist Richie Blackmore of Deep Purple, famous for Smoke on
the Water.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Was born in Somerset, England. Brad Garrett born on.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
This day in nineteen sixty American actor and comedian best
known for playing Robert Barone and Everybody Loves Raymond. In
this scene, he thinks Ray's wife, Deborah owes him an
apology for telling his girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
That he's been seeing another gal can I get some
frozen baby pas, deb you know what, Robert, you get
your own damn piece. Well, what do you mat at me?
What did I do? What did you do? Hey?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Look, you're the one who told Amy about to find
you in the first place.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
You should be apologizing to be.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
And what you should have done is tell Amy the
truth about everything, or better yet, not be such a
peg in the first place.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
It's a reci polog you I've ever gotten did you
ever watch that show?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
I never thought Ray Romano was funny as a comedian,
and I never watched the show, but I watched clips
of it.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
But I do respect the fact that a lot of
people did.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
That was a very, very successful show.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Born on this day in nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Brad Ausmus, baseball player and manager, two thousand and five
n LDS Game four, homering to tie the game in
the ninth against the Braves. Two balls and those strikes
fly ball way back in the left center field and
back up into that wall. No, hick, Chrish's back off
the wall, Osmus, who's got it?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
It's a holder to hold. It's gone to holder. A
Delaine ball, get.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Green back around them beside your kind.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It was a plain Oh my gosh, I'm right off
with six.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Six That made it made.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Her good times right there, good times. My wife visited
my dad yesterday. She said he was in a foul
mood and she didn't know why, and she looked at
the screen. It was five nothing. They were town. He's
so adorable. Today is also the birthday of my beloved,
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my sweetheart, Nandita venc Tash.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Wooden Berry turns fifty eight today. Don't worry. She doesn't
mind me telling.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Of course, when you work out twice a day, don't smoke,
don't drink, get eight solid hours of sleep per night,
drink water, and have no vices nor stress. You don't
have to worry about your age. You you just live
life and love life and have no regrets. So if
you know her, reach out to her with a little
happy birthday message, I know she would love to hear
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from you. Is also by pure happenstance that an't coordinated
or anything. The birthday of our trainer friend show sponsor
fitness buff Michael Petruck. Yes, another person who works out
at least twice today. Of course they work out twice
a week together. So wish a happy birthday to my
friend Michael Petrick as well.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And what I see all over the place is people
who care about looking good while doing evil.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
To Michael very Hue, I think my favorite part of
Muscle Shows.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Documentary was that what I can't remember a boy's name,
that was the brains behind that so old country bump
can talks like that, the bed Ons tractor, anything else,
and this guy brings you more what would be considered
black music in this country than anybody but.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Stax Records, which of course was white boys.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Also Steve up Er Percy Sledge.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Passing eleven years ago today.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
But the story of Percy Sledge and being a bellman
at the hotel there in town in them launching this.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Career was quite amazing.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
But we told you a few days ago the Houston
City Council. You've got three members of the Houston City Council.
You've got Abbie Cayman's who is running for County Attorney.
You got Ed Pollard who's running for mayor against John Whitmyer.
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Pollard is playing this little game where he's showing extremely
liberal cards to liberals, extremely conservative cards to the conservatives.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
He's black when he needs to be.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
And using his city council seat to run for mayor
constantly round the clock. And I will tell you, for
everybody who thinks to themselves that Whitmyer may not be
as conservative as you'd like him to be, He's the
best you're going to get. There's no doubt about that.
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He's the best you're going to get. You're not going
to get a more conservative. I'll remind you it was
him or Sheila Jackson Lee.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
So factor that into it.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
So last few days we've had this discussion of Houston
City Council. They had an ordinance that was passed that
allowed any three members of City Council to get an
item on the agenda. And the reason is because in
a strong mayor form of government, and when I was
on City Council, I'm sure it hasn't changed, Houston had
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the most strong of the strong mayor form of government.
The mayor had more power visa the city council than
in any municipality in the country. Now, the mayor does
not run the school district, which in some places does,
and that is an extension of power over the city
and ability to shape the city one way or another.
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But short of that, in terms of how the city
government works, the mayor of Houston is the strongest of
the strong mayor systems. So this ordinance was passed by
a public vote that said any three members of city
Council could put an item on the agenda, and that
was not allowed before. So you get Pollard, Caymans, and
I forget who the third is. The three goofballs came in.
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She's running to be the Democrat County attorney. So she's
trying to burnish her. You know, I'm a good Democrat
credentials for November and so they put it on the
agenda that the Houston Police Department would not coordinate with Ice.
Whitpmeyer threatened them not to do it. He begged them
not to do it. Eventually he voted with him. Now
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I'm not asking you to support what he's done. I'm
going to try to explain it. And again I'm not
saying it makes it okay, but i am going to
try to explain it. There were only four members of
city Council, the Republicans on Council Twilight Carter, Amy Pack,
I forget who the other Willie Davis, and I forget
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who the other one is who were against it. So
it was going to pass one way or another. There
are multiple theories as to why Whitmer voted for it,
because he's now saying he didn't want it, it's a
bad idea. The most likely scenario is that a mayor
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doesn't want to lose a vote. We beat Lee Brown
on a vote on the on the water tax, and
he threatened me out of the deal because I led
the cause. It's almost impossible to meet him to beat
a mayor, it's almost impossible to also gets a vote,
by the way, it's almost impossible. Well, these guys made
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this a big partisan issue and then they were going
to win because all the Democrats controlled the City of
Houston City Council, and so Mayor Whittmeyer went with them
because he didn't want to lose. And now he's pointing
out since the governor has said, hey, you're going to
lose one hundred and ten million dollars in public safety
funding if you don't fix this immediately, and the mayor
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is saying, I told him not to do this.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
ABC thirteen of the story. Not a surprise. You know,
it's a shame, but it's not a surprise.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
City Council Member Twila Carter was one of five members
who voted against a new city ordinance past last week
that clarifies HP's rule with immigration enforcement.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I've knows.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
The ordinance is sponsored by Alejandra Selinas. I became in
an Edward pollard eliminates the thirty minute wait rule for ICE,
protecting civil rights, supporters say, and building trust with immigrant communities.
Within two days, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton notified the
city that the office had launched an investigation into whether
it violates state law, and Monday, the Governor's office sent
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this letter saying that the city is not compliant and
stands to lose one hundred and ten million dollars in
public safety grants. Where does the city find the one
hundred and ten million dollars?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Where do we get the money? I don't know. That's
maybe those who voted in favor.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
Can try to figure that one out.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
In response, Council.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Member Salinas sends a statement that reads, in part, quote
Governor Abbott's threat to strip critical public safety funding from
Houston is an attempt to bully our city for doing
what is right. She says, the ordinance is legal. The
Mirror calling the predicament a quote crisis, adding the potential
loss of state funding poses real challenges for the Houston
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Police and fire departments and will impact public safety service.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Across our city. So why then did he vote for it.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
I'm supporting it because I think it makes a statement
that we've listened and it's following the current practices of HBD.
Respect in the fourth Amendment.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Did give a warning that the legislature would be watching
and could take action.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
There is agreement. The state's move comes as no surprise.
I'll tell you who those five were that voted against it,
because you should call their office. He thanked them coming up.
I was boarded.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
The five members of Houston City Council who deserve a
call and support for their vote against this stupid measure
by the Houston City Council. Reminder what happened. Houston City
Council decided, Hey, compared to the rest of the country,
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Houston government is less political.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Believe it or not.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
It was historically a political You don't run, you don't
run on a particular party. Houston government was relatively nonpartisan
and efficient for a long time, but then the party
crept in because the Democrats said, we want to use
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the Houston City Council to play games. When I was
on Houston City Council, when I was running for mayor,
Sylvester Turner wanted to create awkwardness for me because I
had a lot of black support and he knew there
were four of us running, Bill White, Orlando Sanchez, Me
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and Sylvester, and I was polling ahead of Sylvester in
the black vote and it was making him crazy. So
he goes and get some City Council members to put
on the agenda a resolution non binding.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
There's nothing to it. It's just a vote.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
The whole point of the vote was to cause me problems,
forced me to choose, and the vote was that the
Houston City Council supports the payment of reparations. Well aside
from the fact that this is logistically impossible, would bankrupt
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our country? Did I mention it's logistically impossible. The Houston
City Council has no authority over that. And it isn't
like we'd solved every other problem. But that's what he did.
That's what Sylvester did to get black voters to turn
against me, and to some extent it worked with some
black voters, and so I rallied votes against it, and
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I made it impassioned plea black, white liberal Democrat. This
is not what Houston City Council is about. This is
meant to be a divisive vote. Well, the mayor voted.
There were fourteen members of Congress plus the mayor at
that time, and the mayor gets a vote. They've expanded
council since then, and we beat the mayor eight seven, which.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
You will remember.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Quin Lex at a press conference after that vote, said,
we say to Michael Berry, don't come soliciting votes in
the hood. Your ghetto pass has been revoked because it
was a well known fact among black politicians that I
was very popular among black voters.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Ghetto pass has been revotal.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
And a reason for that was that the pastors all
like me, including Willie Davis who's now a Republican member
of City Council, and many others, And when they needed
something at the City.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Of Houston, it was our office that they called. And
it was a.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Former Sheila Jackson Lee Staffer, former vice chair of the
state Democrat Party, confirmed Labor and Black leader Carl Davis,
who was their go to person. But it was our
office that solved their problems. Well, Sylvester couldn't have that.
He needed that black vote in order to make the
runoff in the mayoral race.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
He didn't.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
But that kind of nonsense, that kind of divisive stuff
at city council is what people who don't care about
the City of Houston push into the agenda. And you're
term limited on Houston City Council. You can do two
four year terms, so they all once you get that
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political bug, they don't want to go back to a
regular job anymore. So they're already looking for the next office.
They're not leaving to go into the private sector. They're
trying to figure out where they can go next. In in
order to go next, you can't go somewhere as a
non partisan individual.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You have to have Democrat credentials.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
And they don't want to hear that you spent eight
years improving trash pick up, lowering taxes, reducing the cost
of paving streets, synchronizing the traffic lights, and making the
city more safe. They want to hear in a Democrat
primary that you called Orange Man bad, that you made
life difficult for Republicans, that you helped illegal aliens stay here,
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that you did everything you could to keep illegal alien
criminals from ever being arrested or locked up. That you
made sure that you did everything possible to get little
boys Wieners cut off. That's the kind of stuff in
a Democrat primary that sells. So now that has been
compressed onto Houston City Council, which used.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
To be pretty nonpartisan.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Literally and in effect, so the five who voted against this,
we don't want HPD to to coordinate with ICE when
we catch an illegal with a detainer on them. By
the way, Houston Police Officers Union, through Doug Griffith, their president,
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has been very vocal, very clear publicly that they need
that measure. They need that measure to keep Houston safe,
which is what they want to do.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
All right.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
The five city councilmen who voted against it and deserve
your support. Just takes you a moment. Just pick one
of them, any of them, call down there and tell
them you support their vote. Alejandra Selenas, Fred Flickinger, Amy Peck,
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Mary Nan Huffman, Willie Davis, and Twila Harter.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
City council and the way I used to, and I'm
almost completely separated from the process. I don't know Alejandra
Salinas at all. Fred Flickinger, I kind of know because
I knew his mother, who was a stalwart for years.
She ran the South Belt Ellington Press, Marie Flickinger, and
she was a community leaders, probably a precinct judge, I
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would assume, but she was one of those people in
the South Belt area that kind of ran the Chamber
of Commerce, the local Republicans. She was a doer and
I loved her and a daughter. She was one of
my very first supporters. One of my probably first five
supporters that I didn't already know, Amy Peck, who does
a great job. She's I think she's in what used
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to be Tony Lawrence's district, which is kind of northwest,
but they've jiggered the districts because they added more districts,
so they're not what they used to be. Mary nan Huffman,
who represents the kind of memorial area Pam home was
the city council and Burt Keller before that when I
was on city council, does a great job, solid, good,
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decent human being. Willie Davis, who was the pastor I
told you about. Willie Davis was well respected in the
black pastor community. Kind of came into the Republican Party
as the guy that would lead the prayer at Republican events,
and people started figuring out, Hey, this guy, this guy
is interested in serving and has done a great job.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
In Twila Carter we've had on the show.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
So I hope you'll take a moment and call their
offices and thank them, or if you know them personally,
call them things.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Plug out. I hate this.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Have you seen this story about baby Jessica, Baby Jessica,
Baby Jessica arrested following domestic disturbance in Midland County.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
That was a story.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Man, Man, you kind of feel like the first time
Baby Jessica gets arrested, like you roll up to the scene,
she just knocked a snot out of him, because women
will do that. They will watch them just knock the
snot out of him. And he's got the good sense.
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He's got cameras up and he's wanting to just bust
her across the jaw, but he's like, nope, I'm gonna
send her to jail. So she's just smacking away. Here
you go ahead, hit me, hit me, hit me. My
brother said there'd be these women they would think they
couldn't be arrested. And the man, he knew, if she
can hit me ten times, if I hit her one time,
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I'm done. So have to just keep taking it, taking it,
taking it. Cops show up the holler away. You got
to figure the first time that happened, you just like
you show up. She been wrapping on his face and
you're like, ma'am, look he's all bruised up.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
You're not.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Let's look at the footage. She says, But I'm baby
Jessica like rescued from Yeah. Is this the first time?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah? Come and give you a pass this one.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Time, because the whole nation was transfixed over your But
if I come back out, you don't.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
This is it, Tiger Woods. You have this. You only
get so many passes, and this is it.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Well for those folks who live on the home sell business.
Zillow's March Market report shows housing market accelerated despite mortgage
rate spike. Pending saleposed to the second largest total since
August of twenty twenty two, two hundred and eighty one
thy five hundred and forty six newly pending listings in March,
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second highest of any month since August of that year.
According to Zilo, Both the four point six percent annual
increase and twenty nine point eight percent monthly increase in
newly pending listings are highest for any March since twenty
twenty one. Home values continued to rise modestly, up point
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eight percent, so almost one percent from a year earlier.
Inventory rose on an annual basis for the twenty eighth
consecutive month. Inventory rows on an annual basis. Trying to
figure out why that would be, First of all, you
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have a net negative population with the deportations, So you
have Cintra. I've noticed, and I'm sure some of you have,
and if you're a small business owner, you certainly have.
I've noticed how the deportations have affected some businesses in
our community, and how it has affected the micro version
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of the macro economy, which is the economy that we
see with our own eyes. But I've noticed that wait
times are longer. I've noticed that certain parts of town
are less populated.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Now.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
I don't know to what extent that is people were
actually deported from those areas and versus people are staying
underground and riding this out. Because the general belief among
the Democrats is that if they win, then the deportations end.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I mean, I don't.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
I don't think there's anyone who doubts that to be
the case. There's no chance that the Democrats would continue
the deportations. That's just not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
So you waited out and you probably never have to
deal with it again. That's their perception.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Harris County Judge Lena at Algo's office was ordered to
release documents related to her so called trade missions by
Ken Paxton's office. After Houston Public Media filed a Freedom
of Information Act request known as a Foyer request, with
Harris County Attorney fighting against the release.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Of course, when it was.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Finally released, the majority of the nearly three hundred and
sixty pages obtained by Houston Public Media.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Were entirely blacked out. There is supposed to be.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
The concept of transparency in American government that you can
file freedom of Information Act. That's what the Freedom of
Information Act was, the idea that our government is owned
by us, not them, funded by us, not them, and
that they are stewards of it. But that at any moment,
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because sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
The public could look at it.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
We could see the documents, we can see what they're doing,
we can see how they're spending, and what we find
in case after case. And this is Ridney Ella is
telling Lena Hidalgo, do not release a single document, because
let's review what's been happening. Lena Hidalgo has gone on
quote unquote trade missions, which are junkets. She's gone to France,
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she's gone all over Europe. She's having a party. She
may be doing more than that based on the photos,
but she's having a party, and then she comes back
and doesn't go to Houston City Council. I mean, he
doesn't go to County commissioner meetings, which is her job. Oh,
but her staff is steady. She's at the women in
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Power lunch. I'll just be honest. I looked at the
women in power, these women in power, women of the.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Future women this.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
First of all, it's never the best and brightest women
leaders in the community, because the best and brightest women
leaders in the community don't go for don't go to
luncheons called.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Sharing our Power, bearing our whatever.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
There's always some stupid cliche term, and what it ends
up being is a bunch of fat, mid level women
sitting around drinking cocktails that some public entity has paid
for and saying, we're.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
The future, We're the leaders.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
Lord.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I hope not. I definitely hope not, because they are.
What do you want to say,
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air, and frankly,
I think a lot of Republicans look at me as like, oh,
that's a straight, white Christian male son of a cop.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Like everyone else like him looks like me. So when
he comes at me, it's more betrayal to them. Like
I've heard that all from them on their side, that
that's that's why they take it so personally.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
But like, I'm a Christian and I don't want.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
To be defined by what Republicans think of me, Like
I don't wear it on my sleeve in my politics
like they.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Do every you can.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I facing the threat of a pending House Ethics Committee
investigation and expulsion and battle, Congressman Eric Swalwell says he
will leave office. During the call from a wide swath
of both Republicans and Democrats urging him to step down
following allegations of sexual assault and misconduct. Swalwell continuing to
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deny many of the allegations, calling them false, but adding
I must take responsibility and ownership for the mistakes I
did make because I.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Gotta have thing.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
His resignation will end the threat of a congressional probe,
but he is still facing the possibility of a criminal
investigation in New York, where one of the alleged incidents
took place. Multiple women have accused Swalwell of sexual misconduct
and assaults, one woman telling the San Francisco Chronicle that
she had several sexual encounters with the congressman while working
in his office. She also accused him of sexually assaulting
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her twice while she was too intoxicated to consent. NBC
News has not verified her allegations, but it confirmed her
identity and that she worked for Swalwell from twenty nineteen
until twenty twenty one. This accuser sharing her story with Sia, He.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Sets to me, you're right, it's probably not good for
a congressman to be caught with his pants down.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yes, I gotta have, I gotta have.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Eric Walwell announcing he will step down from Congress after
the day before having suspended his gubernatorial campaign. I think
a deal was struck to get Tony Gonzalez to step
down as well, so the net effect would not change
the ratio of the United States Congress. One Republican down,
(03:08):
one Democrat down. I suspect the Swallwell resignation was also
related to the Manhattan prosecution and the deal being stepped
down from Congress and will eliminate the prosecution. I don't
know that to be the case. I haven't even read
that or heard it, but I suspect it is the
(03:30):
case that is often done, which is to me the
wrong way to go about that, because a guy who's
a plant worker at Chevron who commits a crime doesn't
get to negotiate. Well, if you'll drop the president, you'll
drop the prosecution. I'll stop being a plant worker at Chevron.
(03:50):
But that is often done with politicians. Man was asked
why did you decide to become a proctologist? His answer,
I guess I saw an opening. How does it take
for a man to put on underwear?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
It's brief.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
On this day in history, April fourteenth, it is a
big day in history. This is the day that President
Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth.
Lincoln would live to the following day, when, of course,
he would pass on this day, that was eighteen sixty five.
(04:37):
On this day in nineteen eighty, Judas Priest would release
British Steel, a metal landmark containing the tracks Living After
Midnight and Breaking the Law. On this day in twenty sixteen,
at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, Prince would play his
last concert. He would die a week later, his last
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song Purple Ray. On this day in nineteen thirty two,
the coal miner's daughter, Loretta Lynn was born. Thirteen years later,
guitarist Richie Blackmore of Deep Purple, famous for Smoke on
the Water.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Was born in Somerset, England. Brad Garrett born on.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
This day in nineteen sixty American actor and comedian best
known for playing Robert Barone and Everybody Loves Raymond. In
this scene, he thinks Ray's wife, Deborah owes him an
apology for telling his girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
That he's been seeing another gal can I get some
frozen baby pas, deb you know what, Robert, you get
your own damn piece. Well, what do you mat at me?
What did I do? What did you do? Hey?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Look, you're the one who told Amy about to find
you in the first place.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
You should be apologizing to be.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
And what you should have done is tell Amy the
truth about everything, or better yet, not be such a
peg in the first place.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
It's a reci polog you I've ever gotten did you
ever watch that show?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
I never thought Ray Romano was funny as a comedian,
and I never watched the show, but I watched clips
of it.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
But I do respect the fact that a lot of
people did.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
That was a very, very successful show.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Born on this day in nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Brad Ausmus, baseball player and manager, two thousand and five
n LDS Game four, homering to tie the game in
the ninth against the Braves. Two balls and those strikes
fly ball way back in the left center field and
back up into that wall. No, hick, Chrish's back off
the wall, Osmus, who's got it?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
It's a holder to hold. It's gone to holder. A
Delaine ball, get.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Green back around them beside your kind.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It was a plain Oh my gosh, I'm right off
with six.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Six That made it made.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Her good times right there, good times. My wife visited
my dad yesterday. She said he was in a foul
mood and she didn't know why, and she looked at
the screen. It was five nothing. They were town. He's
so adorable. Today is also the birthday of my beloved,
(07:28):
my sweetheart, Nandita venc Tash.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Wooden Berry turns fifty eight today. Don't worry. She doesn't
mind me telling.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Of course, when you work out twice a day, don't smoke,
don't drink, get eight solid hours of sleep per night,
drink water, and have no vices nor stress. You don't
have to worry about your age. You you just live
life and love life and have no regrets. So if
you know her, reach out to her with a little
happy birthday message, I know she would love to hear
(07:58):
from you. Is also by pure happenstance that an't coordinated
or anything. The birthday of our trainer friend show sponsor
fitness buff Michael Petruck. Yes, another person who works out
at least twice today. Of course they work out twice
a week together. So wish a happy birthday to my
friend Michael Petrick as well.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And what I see all over the place is people
who care about looking good while doing evil.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
To Michael very Hue, I think my favorite part of
Muscle Shows.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Documentary was that what I can't remember a boy's name,
that was the brains behind that so old country bump
can talks like that, the bed Ons tractor, anything else,
and this guy brings you more what would be considered
black music in this country than anybody but.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Stax Records, which of course was white boys.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Also Steve up Er Percy Sledge.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Passing eleven years ago today.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
But the story of Percy Sledge and being a bellman
at the hotel there in town in them launching this.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Career was quite amazing.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
But we told you a few days ago the Houston
City Council. You've got three members of the Houston City Council.
You've got Abbie Cayman's who is running for County Attorney.
You got Ed Pollard who's running for mayor against John Whitmyer.
(09:40):
Pollard is playing this little game where he's showing extremely
liberal cards to liberals, extremely conservative cards to the conservatives.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
He's black when he needs to be.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
And using his city council seat to run for mayor
constantly round the clock. And I will tell you, for
everybody who thinks to themselves that Whitmyer may not be
as conservative as you'd like him to be, He's the
best you're going to get. There's no doubt about that.
(10:21):
He's the best you're going to get. You're not going
to get a more conservative. I'll remind you it was
him or Sheila Jackson Lee.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
So factor that into it.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
So last few days we've had this discussion of Houston
City Council. They had an ordinance that was passed that
allowed any three members of City Council to get an
item on the agenda. And the reason is because in
a strong mayor form of government, and when I was
on City Council, I'm sure it hasn't changed, Houston had
(10:53):
the most strong of the strong mayor form of government.
The mayor had more power visa the city council than
in any municipality in the country. Now, the mayor does
not run the school district, which in some places does,
and that is an extension of power over the city
and ability to shape the city one way or another.
(11:14):
But short of that, in terms of how the city
government works, the mayor of Houston is the strongest of
the strong mayor systems. So this ordinance was passed by
a public vote that said any three members of city
Council could put an item on the agenda, and that
was not allowed before. So you get Pollard, Caymans, and
I forget who the third is. The three goofballs came in.
(11:37):
She's running to be the Democrat County attorney. So she's
trying to burnish her. You know, I'm a good Democrat
credentials for November and so they put it on the
agenda that the Houston Police Department would not coordinate with Ice.
Whitpmeyer threatened them not to do it. He begged them
not to do it. Eventually he voted with him. Now
(12:03):
I'm not asking you to support what he's done. I'm
going to try to explain it. And again I'm not
saying it makes it okay, but i am going to
try to explain it. There were only four members of
city Council, the Republicans on Council Twilight Carter, Amy Pack,
I forget who the other Willie Davis, and I forget
(12:24):
who the other one is who were against it. So
it was going to pass one way or another. There
are multiple theories as to why Whitmer voted for it,
because he's now saying he didn't want it, it's a
bad idea. The most likely scenario is that a mayor
(12:46):
doesn't want to lose a vote. We beat Lee Brown
on a vote on the on the water tax, and
he threatened me out of the deal because I led
the cause. It's almost impossible to meet him to beat
a mayor, it's almost impossible to also gets a vote,
by the way, it's almost impossible. Well, these guys made
(13:06):
this a big partisan issue and then they were going
to win because all the Democrats controlled the City of
Houston City Council, and so Mayor Whittmeyer went with them
because he didn't want to lose. And now he's pointing
out since the governor has said, hey, you're going to
lose one hundred and ten million dollars in public safety
funding if you don't fix this immediately, and the mayor
(13:29):
is saying, I told him not to do this.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
ABC thirteen of the story. Not a surprise. You know,
it's a shame, but it's not a surprise.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
City Council Member Twila Carter was one of five members
who voted against a new city ordinance past last week
that clarifies HP's rule with immigration enforcement.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I've knows.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
The ordinance is sponsored by Alejandra Selinas. I became in
an Edward pollard eliminates the thirty minute wait rule for ICE,
protecting civil rights, supporters say, and building trust with immigrant communities.
Within two days, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton notified the
city that the office had launched an investigation into whether
it violates state law, and Monday, the Governor's office sent
(14:16):
this letter saying that the city is not compliant and
stands to lose one hundred and ten million dollars in
public safety grants. Where does the city find the one
hundred and ten million dollars?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Where do we get the money? I don't know. That's
maybe those who voted in favor.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
Can try to figure that one out.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
In response, Council.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Member Salinas sends a statement that reads, in part, quote
Governor Abbott's threat to strip critical public safety funding from
Houston is an attempt to bully our city for doing
what is right. She says, the ordinance is legal. The
Mirror calling the predicament a quote crisis, adding the potential
loss of state funding poses real challenges for the Houston
(15:01):
Police and fire departments and will impact public safety service.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Across our city. So why then did he vote for it.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
I'm supporting it because I think it makes a statement
that we've listened and it's following the current practices of HBD.
Respect in the fourth Amendment.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Did give a warning that the legislature would be watching
and could take action.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
There is agreement. The state's move comes as no surprise.
I'll tell you who those five were that voted against it,
because you should call their office. He thanked them coming up.
I was boarded.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
The five members of Houston City Council who deserve a
call and support for their vote against this stupid measure
by the Houston City Council. Reminder what happened. Houston City
Council decided, Hey, compared to the rest of the country,
(16:06):
Houston government is less political.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Believe it or not.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
It was historically a political You don't run, you don't
run on a particular party. Houston government was relatively nonpartisan
and efficient for a long time, but then the party
crept in because the Democrats said, we want to use
(16:31):
the Houston City Council to play games. When I was
on Houston City Council, when I was running for mayor,
Sylvester Turner wanted to create awkwardness for me because I
had a lot of black support and he knew there
were four of us running, Bill White, Orlando Sanchez, Me
(16:51):
and Sylvester, and I was polling ahead of Sylvester in
the black vote and it was making him crazy. So
he goes and get some City Council members to put
on the agenda a resolution non binding.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
There's nothing to it. It's just a vote.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
The whole point of the vote was to cause me problems,
forced me to choose, and the vote was that the
Houston City Council supports the payment of reparations. Well aside
from the fact that this is logistically impossible, would bankrupt
(17:36):
our country? Did I mention it's logistically impossible. The Houston
City Council has no authority over that. And it isn't
like we'd solved every other problem. But that's what he did.
That's what Sylvester did to get black voters to turn
against me, and to some extent it worked with some
black voters, and so I rallied votes against it, and
(18:03):
I made it impassioned plea black, white liberal Democrat. This
is not what Houston City Council is about. This is
meant to be a divisive vote. Well, the mayor voted.
There were fourteen members of Congress plus the mayor at
that time, and the mayor gets a vote. They've expanded
council since then, and we beat the mayor eight seven, which.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
You will remember.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Quin Lex at a press conference after that vote, said,
we say to Michael Berry, don't come soliciting votes in
the hood. Your ghetto pass has been revoked because it
was a well known fact among black politicians that I
was very popular among black voters.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Ghetto pass has been revotal.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
And a reason for that was that the pastors all
like me, including Willie Davis who's now a Republican member
of City Council, and many others, And when they needed
something at the City.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Of Houston, it was our office that they called. And
it was a.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Former Sheila Jackson Lee Staffer, former vice chair of the
state Democrat Party, confirmed Labor and Black leader Carl Davis,
who was their go to person. But it was our
office that solved their problems. Well, Sylvester couldn't have that.
He needed that black vote in order to make the
runoff in the mayoral race.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
He didn't.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
But that kind of nonsense, that kind of divisive stuff
at city council is what people who don't care about
the City of Houston push into the agenda. And you're
term limited on Houston City Council. You can do two
four year terms, so they all once you get that
(19:53):
political bug, they don't want to go back to a
regular job anymore. So they're already looking for the next office.
They're not leaving to go into the private sector. They're
trying to figure out where they can go next. In in
order to go next, you can't go somewhere as a
non partisan individual.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You have to have Democrat credentials.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
And they don't want to hear that you spent eight
years improving trash pick up, lowering taxes, reducing the cost
of paving streets, synchronizing the traffic lights, and making the
city more safe. They want to hear in a Democrat
primary that you called Orange Man bad, that you made
life difficult for Republicans, that you helped illegal aliens stay here,
(20:44):
that you did everything you could to keep illegal alien
criminals from ever being arrested or locked up. That you
made sure that you did everything possible to get little
boys Wieners cut off. That's the kind of stuff in
a Democrat primary that sells. So now that has been
compressed onto Houston City Council, which used.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
To be pretty nonpartisan.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Literally and in effect, so the five who voted against this,
we don't want HPD to to coordinate with ICE when
we catch an illegal with a detainer on them. By
the way, Houston Police Officers Union, through Doug Griffith, their president,
(21:31):
has been very vocal, very clear publicly that they need
that measure. They need that measure to keep Houston safe,
which is what they want to do.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
All right.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
The five city councilmen who voted against it and deserve
your support. Just takes you a moment. Just pick one
of them, any of them, call down there and tell
them you support their vote. Alejandra Selenas, Fred Flickinger, Amy Peck,
(22:08):
Mary Nan Huffman, Willie Davis, and Twila Harter.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
City council and the way I used to, and I'm
almost completely separated from the process. I don't know Alejandra
Salinas at all. Fred Flickinger, I kind of know because
I knew his mother, who was a stalwart for years.
She ran the South Belt Ellington Press, Marie Flickinger, and
she was a community leaders, probably a precinct judge, I
(22:40):
would assume, but she was one of those people in
the South Belt area that kind of ran the Chamber
of Commerce, the local Republicans. She was a doer and
I loved her and a daughter. She was one of
my very first supporters. One of my probably first five
supporters that I didn't already know, Amy Peck, who does
a great job. She's I think she's in what used
(23:04):
to be Tony Lawrence's district, which is kind of northwest,
but they've jiggered the districts because they added more districts,
so they're not what they used to be. Mary nan Huffman,
who represents the kind of memorial area Pam home was
the city council and Burt Keller before that when I
was on city council, does a great job, solid, good,
(23:28):
decent human being. Willie Davis, who was the pastor I
told you about. Willie Davis was well respected in the
black pastor community. Kind of came into the Republican Party
as the guy that would lead the prayer at Republican events,
and people started figuring out, Hey, this guy, this guy
is interested in serving and has done a great job.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
In Twila Carter we've had on the show.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
So I hope you'll take a moment and call their
offices and thank them, or if you know them personally,
call them things.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Plug out. I hate this.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Have you seen this story about baby Jessica, Baby Jessica,
Baby Jessica arrested following domestic disturbance in Midland County.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
That was a story.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Man, Man, you kind of feel like the first time
Baby Jessica gets arrested, like you roll up to the scene,
she just knocked a snot out of him, because women
will do that. They will watch them just knock the
snot out of him. And he's got the good sense.
(24:35):
He's got cameras up and he's wanting to just bust
her across the jaw, but he's like, nope, I'm gonna
send her to jail. So she's just smacking away. Here
you go ahead, hit me, hit me, hit me. My
brother said there'd be these women they would think they
couldn't be arrested. And the man, he knew, if she
can hit me ten times, if I hit her one time,
(24:56):
I'm done. So have to just keep taking it, taking it,
taking it. Cops show up the holler away. You got
to figure the first time that happened, you just like
you show up. She been wrapping on his face and
you're like, ma'am, look he's all bruised up.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
You're not.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Let's look at the footage. She says, But I'm baby
Jessica like rescued from Yeah. Is this the first time?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah? Come and give you a pass this one.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Time, because the whole nation was transfixed over your But
if I come back out, you don't.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
This is it, Tiger Woods. You have this. You only
get so many passes, and this is it.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Well for those folks who live on the home sell business.
Zillow's March Market report shows housing market accelerated despite mortgage
rate spike. Pending saleposed to the second largest total since
August of twenty twenty two, two hundred and eighty one
thy five hundred and forty six newly pending listings in March,
(26:09):
second highest of any month since August of that year.
According to Zilo, Both the four point six percent annual
increase and twenty nine point eight percent monthly increase in
newly pending listings are highest for any March since twenty
twenty one. Home values continued to rise modestly, up point
(26:30):
eight percent, so almost one percent from a year earlier.
Inventory rose on an annual basis for the twenty eighth
consecutive month. Inventory rows on an annual basis. Trying to
figure out why that would be, First of all, you
(26:53):
have a net negative population with the deportations, So you
have Cintra. I've noticed, and I'm sure some of you have,
and if you're a small business owner, you certainly have.
I've noticed how the deportations have affected some businesses in
our community, and how it has affected the micro version
(27:16):
of the macro economy, which is the economy that we
see with our own eyes. But I've noticed that wait
times are longer. I've noticed that certain parts of town
are less populated.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Now.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
I don't know to what extent that is people were
actually deported from those areas and versus people are staying
underground and riding this out. Because the general belief among
the Democrats is that if they win, then the deportations end.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I mean, I don't.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
I don't think there's anyone who doubts that to be
the case. There's no chance that the Democrats would continue
the deportations. That's just not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
So you waited out and you probably never have to
deal with it again. That's their perception.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Harris County Judge Lena at Algo's office was ordered to
release documents related to her so called trade missions by
Ken Paxton's office. After Houston Public Media filed a Freedom
of Information Act request known as a Foyer request, with
Harris County Attorney fighting against the release.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Of course, when it was.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Finally released, the majority of the nearly three hundred and
sixty pages obtained by Houston Public Media.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Were entirely blacked out. There is supposed to be.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
The concept of transparency in American government that you can
file freedom of Information Act. That's what the Freedom of
Information Act was, the idea that our government is owned
by us, not them, funded by us, not them, and
that they are stewards of it. But that at any moment,
(29:13):
because sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
The public could look at it.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
We could see the documents, we can see what they're doing,
we can see how they're spending, and what we find
in case after case. And this is Ridney Ella is
telling Lena Hidalgo, do not release a single document, because
let's review what's been happening. Lena Hidalgo has gone on
quote unquote trade missions, which are junkets. She's gone to France,
(29:42):
she's gone all over Europe. She's having a party. She
may be doing more than that based on the photos,
but she's having a party, and then she comes back
and doesn't go to Houston City Council. I mean, he
doesn't go to County commissioner meetings, which is her job. Oh,
but her staff is steady. She's at the women in
(30:06):
Power lunch. I'll just be honest. I looked at the
women in power, these women in power, women of the.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Future women this.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
First of all, it's never the best and brightest women
leaders in the community, because the best and brightest women
leaders in the community don't go for don't go to
luncheons called.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Sharing our Power, bearing our whatever.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
There's always some stupid cliche term, and what it ends
up being is a bunch of fat, mid level women
sitting around drinking cocktails that some public entity has paid
for and saying, we're.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
The future, We're the leaders.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
Lord.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I hope not. I definitely hope not, because they are.
What do you want to say,
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