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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load till
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Joe's legacy of accomplishment over the past three and a
half years is unmatched in modern history. In one term,
he has already surpassed the legacy of most presidents who
served two terms in office.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
They wor as.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
You are when it comes to the economy, do you
believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
So I was raised as a middle class kids. How
he lied to me, not the way you see. An
undocumented immigrant is not a criminal. And have to correct
course in this conversation. Buona persona sis no escreminale.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I will snatch their cap so that we will take over.
And yes we can do that. Yes, yes we can
do that, Yes we can do that. It's what it's.
The question is do you have the will to do it?
I have the.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Will to do it.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
We are going to the border. We've been to the border.
So this whole, this whole, this whole thing about the border.
We've been to the border. We've been to the border.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
You haven't been to the border, and I.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Haven't been to Europe. And as there's a balance to.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Be struck between being tough and being a bitch.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Turn that off.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
This sky is a.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Sky. Oh yes you are.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Sky, Oh yes you.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Are well after a pretty big Monday, not a record Monday.
Early voting turnout for first day, very solid second day
one hundred and fifteen thousand Harris County voters in person,
which is a drop off of about ten thousand, but
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a very solid day. I would like to see I
don't have them, but I'd like to see what we're
getting in four been in chambers in Galveston and Montgomery.
But I don't have that in front of me right now,
but I will, and I'd love to be able to
see those numbers, if somebody could compare those Rachel or
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Sandy particularly to see what we're getting out of our
more reliable counties, shall we say, compared to twenty two,
twenty eighteen, and sixteen, because it would be interesting to
see if our voters are showing up or not, if
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our voters are showing up. The people who are going
to vote correctly, the people who are a real human
being are going to go to the poll and actually
cast a poll, cast a ballot, and that are a
person who is eligible to vote and that's you know,
not everybody, not everything will qualify as that. Sandy Peterson,
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our research director, said, a bit of a drop off
from Monday, which I think was skewed from a chunk
of mail in ballots, so you know what, that's probably true,
but still one hundred and fifteen thousand in person, still
showing strong in traditional GOP areas. She voted with her
husband at Jurgens. I think that's pronounced Jurgen j u
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e r ge n Jurgens dance halls. He said, look
at my Jurgens dance hall people. They had a good turnout.
When Eric and I went to vote yesterday, we got
in line at eleven. Thirty minutes later we were signing
in and we were walking out fifteen minutes after voting.
Plenty of voting machines about seventy and lots of poll
workers of all ages. Reminder, please, wherever you are in
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the sound of my voice, please don't just vote for
President Trump, vote for Ted Cruz and go all the
way down the ballot, because boy, oh boy, does it
matter all the way down the ballot. And I'll give
you an example. Tom Ramsey's on.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
The ballot.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
A few years ago. You have four county commissioners and
the county judge, which makes a commissioner's court of five,
and you had four Republicans in one Democrat, Ol FRANKO.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Lee.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
He'd been there since eighty four, been there a long time.
And Rodney comes in, Rodney Ellis, and he manages, to
his credit, he manages to flip that court from four
to one Republican to now four to one Democrat, and
Harris County will never be the same. The inefficiency, the corruption,
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the pettiness, the ineptitude. It's become like the city of Houston.
It's terrible.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
It's horrible.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
But they got their way. The George Sorows, the John Arnold,
the crowd that wanted to control Harris County. They've got that.
They'll have their district attorney if they win. They've got
their share, They've got their people. The last Republican down
there is Tom Ramsey. So if you go all the
way down to vote for Tom Ramsey, you're voting for
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more than a commissioner. I will tell you that if
Tom Ramsey were not on Commissioner's Court, it would be
ten times worse than it is, by which I mean
they can't do things. There's a lot of things they
can't do without a vote. In order to have a vote,
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Tom Ramsey gets to put eyeballs on it. And when
he puts eyeballs on, he can't beat him with a vote.
He doesn't have the votes. There's five, he's only one.
You got to have a three to two majority. So
he can't win a vote. He can't rally Adrian Garcia
or Brioni's. Brioni's was put there by Rodney. He can't
get Lena to vote with him, obviously she's in the nuthouse.
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But he can't win a vote, so he can't stop
something there. But what he can do blow the whistle.
He can say, hey they're raising the taxes, Hey they're
giving away these contracts. Without him there, and he's pretty
far down your ballot. Without him there, Harris County goes
to hell. And that's going to be true in a
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lot of these down ballot races. The Court of Appeals
with Susannah doccu Pill and the good Republicans we've got
out there. So court of Appeals is what is it
fourteen counties. That's where when you get a bad ruling,
at least You've got a court that is a multi
county court. So even if we lose Harris County, hopefully
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we won't, but there's a good chance then that court
is I believe, of fourteen county Court of Appeals. So
you can win with Washington and Fayett and Walker and
Anderson and you get those counties Waller to Negate. What's
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happening in Harris County. All by way of saying, Ramon,
vote all the way to the bottom. Please, My endorsement
list is as follows. If they have an R after
their name, vote for him all the way down. Please
don't be lazy, Please don't just vote for Trump, because
even if the only thing you care about is Trump,
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you came into this process because of Trump, and you'll
leave when he's gone. Even if you're that person, let
me appeal to you on this level. Trump needs people
at every level because everyone who's not a Republican is
going to be a menace to him, an absolute menace.
We had an officer involved shooting this morning. The good
news is the bad guy is dead and the officers
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are okay. Lots of messages from my HPD officers this morning,
including two really good chiefs. This police chief is putting
good people in it at chief, which is good. I'm
a knucklehead at times. Remember Summer Fest. Did you ever
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go One year the Flaming Lips were headlining. I mean,
I knew who they were, but I could not have
named three of their songs. And I remember thinking, Omar
Afra ran the Summerfest. And I knew him because I'd
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had a real estate company while he had a magazine
newspaper down the street, and so I knew him. And
I called him and I said, I just saw the
poster on your on your Summerfest, which had exploded. This
thing had come out of nowhere and it was the
biggest festival in town. And that's not an easy thing
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to do. And I said, but why the Flaming Lip
hips as the headliners? And he said, people love the
Flaming Lips. I am the first one to tell you.
I like music. I like the stories behind the music.
I like the you know, interplay between this artist and
that across the genres and you know who's paying tribute
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to who and all of that. And I try to
get outside of my comfort zone and know something about
at least a little something about everybody. I just didn't
see that as being a band that would be that
big a draw for by the way, for a lineup
that had Willie Neilson and Snoop Dogg that year, and
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it's pretty impressive lineup. And he said, just watch, I'm
not telling you you're an idiot. You're good at this.
I'm not, don't. I don't program for festivals. I don't
even the people that come to your festival. I don't
even know those kind of people. You know, they're late
teens and twenty somethings that go to music festivals. I
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don't know anybody who does that, So what do I know?
But it was their biggest year. They killed it, They
absolutely killed it, So obviously there are a lot of
flaming lips fans. Fernando Valezuela has passed at sixty three
years old, and we don't know. We didn't know Fernando personally,
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but we do have a minor connection to Fernando Valezuela.
Do you want to guess who on our team Ramon
has a connection to Fernando Valenzuela, Chad Nakanishi, that's correct.
Why did you guess, Jim? You don't think. You don't
think of Jim is sporty. You don't think of Jim
as knowing a Mexican baseball player that had one amazing year. Yeah,
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our minor connection to Fernando Valenzuela. And I'm not saying
it's the biggest, but it is. It's our It's the
closest thing we got. Because we're talking about this morning.
Is that Chad to this day has a rent. My
grandfather said a rent arm. Chad's arm was ruined by uh,
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learning to throw a screwball. Which, what are you doing? Oh?
Amy's here? What's the namey doing? Oh my goodness, you's
just a running around. It's always weird when family members
show up at the studio. It's like this is our
little place, and it's like when you see the teacher
outside of school, Wait, what are you doing here? You
can't just come in, can you? Is that allowed?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
So Chad learned to throw a screwball and did throw
it and rent his arm and says, to this day
his arm is still ruined. That's I'm not I'm not bragging,
but that's the closest we got to Fernando Venezuela. But
we were talking about the fact that it is really
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surprising when you think about it. You know, Fernando had
that one season. Was it eighty two, eighty three? One? Okay,
Fernando had that one season. And even though I was
all in for the Astros, he was fun to watch,
and partly because he had a pot belly and he
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had that really weird delivery, and his face was all
Manuel Noriega pock marked up, and he kind of looked
like Babe Ruth, who if you go back and watch
video and like a nerd geek, I do, Babe Brute
does not look like an athlete. You know, that guy
was was carousing at night and drinking and smoking and
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not looking like a fit athlete, big old belly. But boy,
look John Daily a perfect example, except I think John
Daly looks downright fit athletic compared to Fernando. Fernando had
those little skinny legs and then that that pooched out
pot belly and h he didn't speak good English. He
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just stood in there with this crazy pitch of screwball
and had one hell of a year and it fell
off after that. You know, I guess they watched Tay.
I don't know what happened, but he was never the
same again. But he has passed at sixty three, and
that year I just remember being really into Fernando Vealezuela,
even though he was against the Astros, and I didn't
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want him to beat the Astros. I don't know why
that is so. Chad and I were talking about the fact.
I said, chat, isn't it weird you got all these
Puerto Ricans, all these Dominicans and considering the size I
think Panama. This was years ago, Panama had the most
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players in Major League Baseball per capita for the size
of your country. Like, they only have about fifty people
that live in Panama, but five of them are playing
in Major League Baseball. You think I'm laughing, you think
I'm lying because I shield you from this. I'm going
to get tenam Michael. There's more than fifty people in Panama.
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I looked it up. There's more than fifty people. But
you get these players, particularly from Dominican d R, Puerto Rico, Panama, Venezuela,
but you almost don't get any Major League Baseball players
from Mexico. And my problem with that, aside from the
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fact that it's surprising, it's sort of like, y'all are
gonna send all these people here that we don't want,
and what we could use are some good baseball players.
And Chad immediately took offense and said what about Jose Orkty?
And then we argued over how orchedy is pronounced, and
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I'm positive it's urchiedy. Chad had it something else like
orinoca overflow or so he had the name slaughtered, just slaughtered.
Chad is really better in the Asian family of languages.
As you know. He is fluent in Japanese, pretty good
in English, and can probably pick up scripts from other countries.
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But I'm going to take over Spanish because his Workidi
was awful. Did you know we're Kitty's Mexican. So that's
my question, why don't we have I mean, I know
why we don't. The short answer is there's not a
baseball infrastructure in Mexico to support launching players to come
to the United States. But that's a damn shame. I mean,
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if you're in Mexico this close to the United States
and you figure and by the way, Mexico is not
as dominant in soccer as they should be either. If
you think about the size of the country and that
that is their sport. These are just random thoughts that
are going through my mind. I don't have a thesis.
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There's no thrust to this argument, just a couple of
things that I've been thinking about. I think about this
one a lot. Why is it that we don't have
Mexican Major League Baseball players because it's not easy to
get from DR here. It's not now. I know that
the scouts are going down there, but think about this.
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If you were, let's say an astro scout, and you're
looking for an outfielder who hits for power, you're looking
for whatever, you could pop down to Mexico a bunch
of times you go to DR You gotta go there,
and you know, kind of like do a showcase, and
then it just doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Happy birthday came, I get her in the Caadito saved
Michael Barry.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Maybe I'll get her some fries.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
A.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I'm proud of our people. I love reading my messages
on a daylight today. Michael, I'm over here. I've brought
my eighty eight year old mom. Michael, I'm over here.
My wife took off work. I took off work so
we could vote together and then we're gonna eat breakfast together.
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I don't get to eat breakfast because I'm intermittent faster,
and if I ate in the morning, I think I'd
get depressed, because then that would mean I don't get
to and you know, when you eat in the morning
on a workday, you tend to kind of rush. You're
not getting you know, food for me is a big deal.
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So if I just you know, filled up on my
fuel in the morning and then I knew I couldn't
eat the rest of the day, then I would feel
like I was on a diet. But I can deny
myself all day and then get to eat in the
evening that I can, I can. I'm okay to do,
and I do. That's what I do. I'm okay with that.
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But sometimes, like this weekend on Sunday nothing, I were
leaving Austin and coming back. So we had a big
meal at a place called Maudie's text Mechs in Austin,
and it was I was in the mood for breakfast.
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Dare I say brunch. I know some people don't like
that word. I've embraced it because I like breakfast. I
like breakfast. I don't have to get up early for
and because we have to be up early, my treat
on the weekend is to sleep until I'm through sleeping,
because we don't get to do that obviously. We have
to get out of bed like you every day when
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we still want to be in the bed. And I sleep,
like many of you, in a cave of cold. It
is so cold that it's painful to get out of bed,
because that's I enjoy sleeping like that. I have fans
directly on me. So you're kind of going out into
the wild to get out of the comfort and warmth
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of the bed. Whereas my wife is a morning person.
She the days started, and then George, George is so excited. No,
nothing is exciting for George is in the morning. Hey
you're up, and I okay, girl, calm down, I'm not
into this yet. And then she's got if any of
you have a German shepherd, she's got a tail, which
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she doesn't mean to, but she's so happy that that
he's whipping you, just whipping you. Anyway, we got folks
to tell us about their voting experience. Let's start with
Jerry in San Antone. You're up.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Yeah, the website said poles open at seven, got there
about six fifty and then the signs at eight. So
luckily I had my coffee air pods and I got
the best part was I got to see everybody walk up,
so you can judge them and here they're going to
vote for Oh yeah it would That's how the fun
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and it makes the time fly. I did see a
couple of blue hair. I saw a lady with green
hair on top and then her head was shaved underneath,
so I think we already know where they're going.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Saw a lot of old people, a lot of parents
with small kids kind of using them as a pawn
cut the line. So it was a pretty good turnout.
Like I said, I was in the in and out
eighteen minutes from when I walked in, and the very
nice young ladies check my ID super smooth. I brought
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the little, the little yellow voter registration card in the
ID and they said they prefer the little yellow card
because they can just scan it.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah, so that's my experience. Where in San Anton did
you vote north side?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
I was just twenty one air north.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
And you said eighteen minutes was eighteen minutes from the
eight o'clock, Tommy, because you said you got there at
six fifty.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Yes, sir, eighteen minutes from when the gentleman came out
and said have your IDs, polls are open to when
I was done and I got my sticker. Eighteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Pretty good. I have heard from people and this is
rare because people like to complain. I've heard from people
who and this is not the norm, So I on
wantbody get scared. But I've heard from people in really
busy spots that were as much as two and a
half hours and it went like this took two and
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a half hours. I didn't mind. Those are all our voters.
I'm so excited. This was on the first day, So
that tells you a lot about the mindset of our people.
They're locked in. When somebody tells me they waited and
this won't be for anybody else, so please go vote.
But that first day they wait at a busy polling
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place in two and a half hours and did not
mind at all. That tells you people are ready to
take back their country. This is it, This is the
final stand, and you want to see. You want to
see why it's important. You look at those people in
line and see how many of them are not going
to be here much longer, and realize those are all
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our voters. And when we lose that wave, we better,
we better, we better have a better farm team than
we have now that we're bringing up young people to vote.
Because woo, it's yeah, Robert, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
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Go ahead, sir, Hey Michael.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
I voted late last night.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
And and Katie at the uh you send a library
or act. Yeah, the Katie Library then next to the
police station, and uh, it was really pretty nonchalant. I
did have to fill out the residence thing because I
moved between last year and this year about three miles,
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but I went from Waller County to Harris County, so
they made me do that and took about, you know,
five extra minutes.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
But I was in and.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Out of there, no problem. And most of the people
in there, I mean, it was full.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
And I looked at the counters on machines machines and
they said it was about a half a day and
it was like twenty five hundred people had voted on
the two machines that I glanced at. But also I
mailed in both my daughter's absentee ballots because one's a
freshman at LSU and a member of the Young College Republicans.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
So that was pretty awesome as well.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Later in your political career, did you change your position wide?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Mister Michael Berry had become friends with school shooters.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Keep them coming. Our folks are out there voting all over.
I've heard from Orange County, Jefferson County, Liberty County, Chambers, Montgomery, Walker, Waller, Anderson, Washington, Fayette, Galveston,
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a lot of Galveston. Where else? From? Where else?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Have I heard?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Newton?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Buna? What county? If Buna there probably going to be
Newton County. I'm guessing that's Newton County. I'll find out
here in a minutecause about to tell me veryme on.
I'm going to read you a report before we get
back to the calls. But I'm not going to read
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you the email. Okay that this is the subject of czar.
This is from an email account called Pasadena Concerned Citizen. Okay,
you know, and they sign it at the end, thank
you Concerned Pasadena Citizen. Well, I thought it was passing. Okay.
I want to make you aware of an incident that
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occurred at a Pasadena city council meeting on ten fifteen
where Councilman Emmanuel Guerrero Guerrero was called out by a
citizen Robert Jeter or cyber bullying him over a Facebook
Messenger group chat. What are the chances that the person
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that sent me his email is Robert Jeter himself? I
don't know. Okay. It's a city council meeting on ten
to fifteen where a councilman, Emmanuel m Monuel Guerrero was
called out by a citizen, Robert Jeter for cyber bullying
him over a Facebook Messenger group chat, while Guerrero's fellow
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colleague Slash from mayoral candidate, Councilman Ornaldo Evara, no relation
to Russell, by the way, instigated the situation and didn't
do anything to stop it. Below is one of the
messages since sent by Counselman Guerrero and read aloud at
council by mister Jeter. So we have the accusation that
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Guerrero has bullied Jeter over the Facebook machine in a
group chat and said some mean things. You want to
hear the email reenact it? Well, let me read it
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for you first, because it's kind of a treat all right,
So this is this is allegedly Emmanuel Guerrero cyber bullying
as it was described Robert Jeter. Jeter, your daddy is
a paralegal, the lawyer's bitch strong start. Okay, and we
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all know, just like how you can't afford a dentist,
you can't afford a legal team. Okay, that's pretty good.
My attorneys will bury you and your gingivitis. That was
the line that got me and your alcoholic paper pushing bitch. Daddy.
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Don't worry, though, if you want, I can issue a
search for your mommy. Would you like that? Would that
bring closure to all your trauma? Probably not. She'd run
away from you even faster. You know. That's the kind
of thing that gets somebody that loses an election when
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it gets out. I would like to see a time
stamp on that statement, because I'm gonna bet you it's
not before eight PM, and I'm gonna guarantee you he
is not sober when he writes that. So concern Pasadena
citizen who does not put their name, which, by the way,
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I judge harshly as a resident of Pasadena. I am
embarrassed by these two elected officials and feel this needs
some serious attention by our local media and community members.
The screenshots of the Facebook chait chat have been circulating
and I can send them to you upon request, But
here is the YouTube link where the message is read
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to counsel and followed by another citizen appalled by this
childish act. I'd appreciate your consideration in this manner. Thank you,
concerned Passidina citizen. Well, I've now read it out and
I'm going to give you some advice. Stop being a
little sissy chicken and write emails under a name that
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it's not a human being. If this is such a
bad thing in your community, and I would argue it's
not good, then put your name behind it. If you're
Robert Jeter, then say hey, I'm Robert Jeter. This is
what this guy said to me. If you're the person
behind the scenes who is so scandalized that you need
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to bring it to my attention and you want others
to cover it and put your name behind it, how
awful is that you're telling me you've witnessed something that
brings extreme shame upon the city of Pasadena that you
live in and claim to care about. Just not enough
shame that you're willing to say my name is and
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then tell what happened. So you want to put it
out there, but run back. Here's this bit of information
I'm gonna leave in the town square. I'm run away
and scurry away like a little mouse. I consider that
to be awful. Man up, stand up. Stop being a
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person that wants everybody else to solve your problem. So
maybe Emmanuel Guerrero's right. I mean, you can argue that
what he's doing is classless and that he should be
defeated at the ballot box. That's the public admonition for
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his behavior. But at least I have to admire he
signs his name to what he says. When he's insulting
somebody's gingivitis, you pass it in a concerned citizen. You
don't I know your type, and I don't like it.
Stand up, write your name, say who you are, and
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then we can judge. Are you an eight time felon?
Are you a mom or your grandmother? Or what you
got gingerbitis? I mean it's very high school to throw gingivitis.
And now I want to meet Robert. I mean I
want to hey RaRo and meet you, and then you
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know check it, like, is it one of these deals
where you're looking at like, are there any gums up
there at all? I don't know. It's piqued my curiosity.
I want to see. I mean, what if it's one
of those things that everybody thinks and nobody says. I
don't even really know what gingivitis looks like. I just
remember being at the dentist and then have picture and
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you go ooh, I don't want that. But what we
didn't know is you were too young to ever get
You're going to be our age before you have that
stuff
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load till
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Joe's legacy of accomplishment over the past three and a
half years is unmatched in modern history. In one term,
he has already surpassed the legacy of most presidents who
served two terms in office.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
They wor as.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
You are when it comes to the economy, do you
believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
So I was raised as a middle class kids. How
he lied to me, not the way you see. An
undocumented immigrant is not a criminal. And have to correct
course in this conversation. Buona persona sis no escreminale.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I will snatch their cap so that we will take over.
And yes we can do that. Yes, yes we can
do that, Yes we can do that. It's what it's.
The question is do you have the will to do it?
I have the.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Will to do it.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
We are going to the border. We've been to the border.
So this whole, this whole, this whole thing about the border.
We've been to the border. We've been to the border.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
You haven't been to the border, and I.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Haven't been to Europe. And as there's a balance to.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Be struck between being tough and being a bitch.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Turn that off.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
This sky is a.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Sky. Oh yes you are.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Sky, Oh yes you.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Are well after a pretty big Monday, not a record Monday.
Early voting turnout for first day, very solid second day
one hundred and fifteen thousand Harris County voters in person,
which is a drop off of about ten thousand, but
(02:51):
a very solid day. I would like to see I
don't have them, but I'd like to see what we're
getting in four been in chambers in Galveston and Montgomery.
But I don't have that in front of me right now,
but I will, and I'd love to be able to
see those numbers, if somebody could compare those Rachel or
(03:14):
Sandy particularly to see what we're getting out of our
more reliable counties, shall we say, compared to twenty two,
twenty eighteen, and sixteen, because it would be interesting to
see if our voters are showing up or not, if
(03:37):
our voters are showing up. The people who are going
to vote correctly, the people who are a real human
being are going to go to the poll and actually
cast a poll, cast a ballot, and that are a
person who is eligible to vote and that's you know,
not everybody, not everything will qualify as that. Sandy Peterson,
(03:58):
our research director, said, a bit of a drop off
from Monday, which I think was skewed from a chunk
of mail in ballots, so you know what, that's probably true,
but still one hundred and fifteen thousand in person, still
showing strong in traditional GOP areas. She voted with her
husband at Jurgens. I think that's pronounced Jurgen j u
(04:18):
e r ge n Jurgens dance halls. He said, look
at my Jurgens dance hall people. They had a good turnout.
When Eric and I went to vote yesterday, we got
in line at eleven. Thirty minutes later we were signing
in and we were walking out fifteen minutes after voting.
Plenty of voting machines about seventy and lots of poll
workers of all ages. Reminder, please, wherever you are in
(04:43):
the sound of my voice, please don't just vote for
President Trump, vote for Ted Cruz and go all the
way down the ballot, because boy, oh boy, does it
matter all the way down the ballot. And I'll give
you an example. Tom Ramsey's on.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
The ballot.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
A few years ago. You have four county commissioners and
the county judge, which makes a commissioner's court of five,
and you had four Republicans in one Democrat, Ol FRANKO.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Lee.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
He'd been there since eighty four, been there a long time.
And Rodney comes in, Rodney Ellis, and he manages, to
his credit, he manages to flip that court from four
to one Republican to now four to one Democrat, and
Harris County will never be the same. The inefficiency, the corruption,
(05:40):
the pettiness, the ineptitude. It's become like the city of Houston.
It's terrible.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
It's horrible.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
But they got their way. The George Sorows, the John Arnold,
the crowd that wanted to control Harris County. They've got that.
They'll have their district attorney if they win. They've got
their share, They've got their people. The last Republican down
there is Tom Ramsey. So if you go all the
way down to vote for Tom Ramsey, you're voting for
(06:09):
more than a commissioner. I will tell you that if
Tom Ramsey were not on Commissioner's Court, it would be
ten times worse than it is, by which I mean
they can't do things. There's a lot of things they
can't do without a vote. In order to have a vote,
(06:31):
Tom Ramsey gets to put eyeballs on it. And when
he puts eyeballs on, he can't beat him with a vote.
He doesn't have the votes. There's five, he's only one.
You got to have a three to two majority. So
he can't win a vote. He can't rally Adrian Garcia
or Brioni's. Brioni's was put there by Rodney. He can't
get Lena to vote with him, obviously she's in the nuthouse.
(06:54):
But he can't win a vote, so he can't stop
something there. But what he can do blow the whistle.
He can say, hey they're raising the taxes, Hey they're
giving away these contracts. Without him there, and he's pretty
far down your ballot. Without him there, Harris County goes
to hell. And that's going to be true in a
(07:16):
lot of these down ballot races. The Court of Appeals
with Susannah doccu Pill and the good Republicans we've got
out there. So court of Appeals is what is it
fourteen counties. That's where when you get a bad ruling,
at least You've got a court that is a multi
county court. So even if we lose Harris County, hopefully
(07:37):
we won't, but there's a good chance then that court
is I believe, of fourteen county Court of Appeals. So
you can win with Washington and Fayett and Walker and
Anderson and you get those counties Waller to Negate. What's
(08:01):
happening in Harris County. All by way of saying, Ramon,
vote all the way to the bottom. Please, My endorsement
list is as follows. If they have an R after
their name, vote for him all the way down. Please
don't be lazy, Please don't just vote for Trump, because
even if the only thing you care about is Trump,
(08:22):
you came into this process because of Trump, and you'll
leave when he's gone. Even if you're that person, let
me appeal to you on this level. Trump needs people
at every level because everyone who's not a Republican is
going to be a menace to him, an absolute menace.
We had an officer involved shooting this morning. The good
news is the bad guy is dead and the officers
(08:45):
are okay. Lots of messages from my HPD officers this morning,
including two really good chiefs. This police chief is putting
good people in it at chief, which is good. I'm
a knucklehead at times. Remember Summer Fest. Did you ever
(09:09):
go One year the Flaming Lips were headlining. I mean,
I knew who they were, but I could not have
named three of their songs. And I remember thinking, Omar
Afra ran the Summerfest. And I knew him because I'd
(09:35):
had a real estate company while he had a magazine
newspaper down the street, and so I knew him. And
I called him and I said, I just saw the
poster on your on your Summerfest, which had exploded. This
thing had come out of nowhere and it was the
biggest festival in town. And that's not an easy thing
(09:55):
to do. And I said, but why the Flaming Lip
hips as the headliners? And he said, people love the
Flaming Lips. I am the first one to tell you.
I like music. I like the stories behind the music.
I like the you know, interplay between this artist and
that across the genres and you know who's paying tribute
(10:18):
to who and all of that. And I try to
get outside of my comfort zone and know something about
at least a little something about everybody. I just didn't
see that as being a band that would be that
big a draw for by the way, for a lineup
that had Willie Neilson and Snoop Dogg that year, and
(10:40):
it's pretty impressive lineup. And he said, just watch, I'm
not telling you you're an idiot. You're good at this.
I'm not, don't. I don't program for festivals. I don't
even the people that come to your festival. I don't
even know those kind of people. You know, they're late
teens and twenty somethings that go to music festivals. I
(11:01):
don't know anybody who does that, So what do I know?
But it was their biggest year. They killed it, They
absolutely killed it, So obviously there are a lot of
flaming lips fans. Fernando Valezuela has passed at sixty three
years old, and we don't know. We didn't know Fernando personally,
(11:23):
but we do have a minor connection to Fernando Valezuela.
Do you want to guess who on our team Ramon
has a connection to Fernando Valenzuela, Chad Nakanishi, that's correct.
Why did you guess, Jim? You don't think. You don't
think of Jim is sporty. You don't think of Jim
as knowing a Mexican baseball player that had one amazing year. Yeah,
(11:46):
our minor connection to Fernando Valenzuela. And I'm not saying
it's the biggest, but it is. It's our It's the
closest thing we got. Because we're talking about this morning.
Is that Chad to this day has a rent. My
grandfather said a rent arm. Chad's arm was ruined by uh,
(12:07):
learning to throw a screwball. Which, what are you doing? Oh?
Amy's here? What's the namey doing? Oh my goodness, you's
just a running around. It's always weird when family members
show up at the studio. It's like this is our
little place, and it's like when you see the teacher
outside of school, Wait, what are you doing here? You
can't just come in, can you? Is that allowed?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
So Chad learned to throw a screwball and did throw
it and rent his arm and says, to this day
his arm is still ruined. That's I'm not I'm not bragging,
but that's the closest we got to Fernando Venezuela. But
we were talking about the fact that it is really
(12:52):
surprising when you think about it. You know, Fernando had
that one season. Was it eighty two, eighty three? One? Okay,
Fernando had that one season. And even though I was
all in for the Astros, he was fun to watch,
and partly because he had a pot belly and he
(13:13):
had that really weird delivery, and his face was all
Manuel Noriega pock marked up, and he kind of looked
like Babe Ruth, who if you go back and watch
video and like a nerd geek, I do, Babe Brute
does not look like an athlete. You know, that guy
was was carousing at night and drinking and smoking and
(13:35):
not looking like a fit athlete, big old belly. But boy,
look John Daily a perfect example, except I think John
Daly looks downright fit athletic compared to Fernando. Fernando had
those little skinny legs and then that that pooched out
pot belly and h he didn't speak good English. He
(14:00):
just stood in there with this crazy pitch of screwball
and had one hell of a year and it fell
off after that. You know, I guess they watched Tay.
I don't know what happened, but he was never the
same again. But he has passed at sixty three, and
that year I just remember being really into Fernando Vealezuela,
even though he was against the Astros, and I didn't
(14:21):
want him to beat the Astros. I don't know why
that is so. Chad and I were talking about the fact.
I said, chat, isn't it weird you got all these
Puerto Ricans, all these Dominicans and considering the size I
think Panama. This was years ago, Panama had the most
(14:41):
players in Major League Baseball per capita for the size
of your country. Like, they only have about fifty people
that live in Panama, but five of them are playing
in Major League Baseball. You think I'm laughing, you think
I'm lying because I shield you from this. I'm going
to get tenam Michael. There's more than fifty people in Panama.
(15:02):
I looked it up. There's more than fifty people. But
you get these players, particularly from Dominican d R, Puerto Rico, Panama, Venezuela,
but you almost don't get any Major League Baseball players
from Mexico. And my problem with that, aside from the
(15:24):
fact that it's surprising, it's sort of like, y'all are
gonna send all these people here that we don't want,
and what we could use are some good baseball players.
And Chad immediately took offense and said what about Jose Orkty?
And then we argued over how orchedy is pronounced, and
(15:45):
I'm positive it's urchiedy. Chad had it something else like
orinoca overflow or so he had the name slaughtered, just slaughtered.
Chad is really better in the Asian family of languages.
As you know. He is fluent in Japanese, pretty good
in English, and can probably pick up scripts from other countries.
(16:06):
But I'm going to take over Spanish because his Workidi
was awful. Did you know we're Kitty's Mexican. So that's
my question, why don't we have I mean, I know
why we don't. The short answer is there's not a
baseball infrastructure in Mexico to support launching players to come
to the United States. But that's a damn shame. I mean,
(16:31):
if you're in Mexico this close to the United States
and you figure and by the way, Mexico is not
as dominant in soccer as they should be either. If
you think about the size of the country and that
that is their sport. These are just random thoughts that
are going through my mind. I don't have a thesis.
(16:51):
There's no thrust to this argument, just a couple of
things that I've been thinking about. I think about this
one a lot. Why is it that we don't have
Mexican Major League Baseball players because it's not easy to
get from DR here. It's not now. I know that
the scouts are going down there, but think about this.
(17:12):
If you were, let's say an astro scout, and you're
looking for an outfielder who hits for power, you're looking
for whatever, you could pop down to Mexico a bunch
of times you go to DR You gotta go there,
and you know, kind of like do a showcase, and
then it just doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Happy birthday came, I get her in the Caadito saved
Michael Barry.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Maybe I'll get her some fries.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
A.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I'm proud of our people. I love reading my messages
on a daylight today. Michael, I'm over here. I've brought
my eighty eight year old mom. Michael, I'm over here.
My wife took off work. I took off work so
we could vote together and then we're gonna eat breakfast together.
(18:08):
I don't get to eat breakfast because I'm intermittent faster,
and if I ate in the morning, I think I'd
get depressed, because then that would mean I don't get
to and you know, when you eat in the morning
on a workday, you tend to kind of rush. You're
not getting you know, food for me is a big deal.
(18:29):
So if I just you know, filled up on my
fuel in the morning and then I knew I couldn't
eat the rest of the day, then I would feel
like I was on a diet. But I can deny
myself all day and then get to eat in the
evening that I can, I can. I'm okay to do,
and I do. That's what I do. I'm okay with that.
(18:50):
But sometimes, like this weekend on Sunday nothing, I were
leaving Austin and coming back. So we had a big
meal at a place called Maudie's text Mechs in Austin,
and it was I was in the mood for breakfast.
(19:12):
Dare I say brunch. I know some people don't like
that word. I've embraced it because I like breakfast. I
like breakfast. I don't have to get up early for
and because we have to be up early, my treat
on the weekend is to sleep until I'm through sleeping,
because we don't get to do that obviously. We have
to get out of bed like you every day when
(19:35):
we still want to be in the bed. And I sleep,
like many of you, in a cave of cold. It
is so cold that it's painful to get out of bed,
because that's I enjoy sleeping like that. I have fans
directly on me. So you're kind of going out into
the wild to get out of the comfort and warmth
(19:56):
of the bed. Whereas my wife is a morning person.
She the days started, and then George, George is so excited. No,
nothing is exciting for George is in the morning. Hey
you're up, and I okay, girl, calm down, I'm not
into this yet. And then she's got if any of
you have a German shepherd, she's got a tail, which
(20:19):
she doesn't mean to, but she's so happy that that
he's whipping you, just whipping you. Anyway, we got folks
to tell us about their voting experience. Let's start with
Jerry in San Antone. You're up.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Yeah, the website said poles open at seven, got there
about six fifty and then the signs at eight. So
luckily I had my coffee air pods and I got
the best part was I got to see everybody walk up,
so you can judge them and here they're going to
vote for Oh yeah it would That's how the fun
(21:00):
and it makes the time fly. I did see a
couple of blue hair. I saw a lady with green
hair on top and then her head was shaved underneath,
so I think we already know where they're going.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Saw a lot of old people, a lot of parents
with small kids kind of using them as a pawn
cut the line. So it was a pretty good turnout.
Like I said, I was in the in and out
eighteen minutes from when I walked in, and the very
nice young ladies check my ID super smooth. I brought
(21:40):
the little, the little yellow voter registration card in the
ID and they said they prefer the little yellow card
because they can just scan it.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah, so that's my experience. Where in San Anton did
you vote north side?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
I was just twenty one air north.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
And you said eighteen minutes was eighteen minutes from the
eight o'clock, Tommy, because you said you got there at
six fifty.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Yes, sir, eighteen minutes from when the gentleman came out
and said have your IDs, polls are open to when
I was done and I got my sticker. Eighteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Pretty good. I have heard from people and this is
rare because people like to complain. I've heard from people
who and this is not the norm, So I on
wantbody get scared. But I've heard from people in really
busy spots that were as much as two and a
half hours and it went like this took two and
(22:40):
a half hours. I didn't mind. Those are all our voters.
I'm so excited. This was on the first day, So
that tells you a lot about the mindset of our people.
They're locked in. When somebody tells me they waited and
this won't be for anybody else, so please go vote.
But that first day they wait at a busy polling
(23:01):
place in two and a half hours and did not
mind at all. That tells you people are ready to
take back their country. This is it, This is the
final stand, and you want to see. You want to
see why it's important. You look at those people in
line and see how many of them are not going
to be here much longer, and realize those are all
(23:23):
our voters. And when we lose that wave, we better,
we better, we better have a better farm team than
we have now that we're bringing up young people to vote.
Because woo, it's yeah, Robert, you're on the Michael Berry Show.
(23:45):
Go ahead, sir, Hey Michael.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
I voted late last night.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
And and Katie at the uh you send a library
or act. Yeah, the Katie Library then next to the
police station, and uh, it was really pretty nonchalant. I
did have to fill out the residence thing because I
moved between last year and this year about three miles,
(24:12):
but I went from Waller County to Harris County, so
they made me do that and took about, you know,
five extra minutes.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
But I was in and.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Out of there, no problem. And most of the people
in there, I mean, it was full.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
And I looked at the counters on machines machines and
they said it was about a half a day and
it was like twenty five hundred people had voted on
the two machines that I glanced at. But also I
mailed in both my daughter's absentee ballots because one's a
freshman at LSU and a member of the Young College Republicans.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
So that was pretty awesome as well.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Later in your political career, did you change your position wide?
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Mister Michael Berry had become friends with school shooters.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Keep them coming. Our folks are out there voting all over.
I've heard from Orange County, Jefferson County, Liberty County, Chambers, Montgomery, Walker, Waller, Anderson, Washington, Fayette, Galveston,
(25:25):
a lot of Galveston. Where else? From? Where else?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Have I heard?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Newton?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Buna? What county? If Buna there probably going to be
Newton County. I'm guessing that's Newton County. I'll find out
here in a minutecause about to tell me veryme on.
I'm going to read you a report before we get
back to the calls. But I'm not going to read
(25:56):
you the email. Okay that this is the subject of czar.
This is from an email account called Pasadena Concerned Citizen. Okay,
you know, and they sign it at the end, thank
you Concerned Pasadena Citizen. Well, I thought it was passing. Okay.
I want to make you aware of an incident that
(26:17):
occurred at a Pasadena city council meeting on ten fifteen
where Councilman Emmanuel Guerrero Guerrero was called out by a
citizen Robert Jeter or cyber bullying him over a Facebook
Messenger group chat. What are the chances that the person
(26:38):
that sent me his email is Robert Jeter himself? I
don't know. Okay. It's a city council meeting on ten
to fifteen where a councilman, Emmanuel m Monuel Guerrero was
called out by a citizen, Robert Jeter for cyber bullying
him over a Facebook Messenger group chat, while Guerrero's fellow
(27:02):
colleague Slash from mayoral candidate, Councilman Ornaldo Evara, no relation
to Russell, by the way, instigated the situation and didn't
do anything to stop it. Below is one of the
messages since sent by Counselman Guerrero and read aloud at
council by mister Jeter. So we have the accusation that
(27:27):
Guerrero has bullied Jeter over the Facebook machine in a
group chat and said some mean things. You want to
hear the email reenact it? Well, let me read it
(27:47):
for you first, because it's kind of a treat all right,
So this is this is allegedly Emmanuel Guerrero cyber bullying
as it was described Robert Jeter. Jeter, your daddy is
a paralegal, the lawyer's bitch strong start. Okay, and we
(28:13):
all know, just like how you can't afford a dentist,
you can't afford a legal team. Okay, that's pretty good.
My attorneys will bury you and your gingivitis. That was
the line that got me and your alcoholic paper pushing bitch. Daddy.
(28:36):
Don't worry, though, if you want, I can issue a
search for your mommy. Would you like that? Would that
bring closure to all your trauma? Probably not. She'd run
away from you even faster. You know. That's the kind
of thing that gets somebody that loses an election when
(28:59):
it gets out. I would like to see a time
stamp on that statement, because I'm gonna bet you it's
not before eight PM, and I'm gonna guarantee you he
is not sober when he writes that. So concern Pasadena
citizen who does not put their name, which, by the way,
(29:19):
I judge harshly as a resident of Pasadena. I am
embarrassed by these two elected officials and feel this needs
some serious attention by our local media and community members.
The screenshots of the Facebook chait chat have been circulating
and I can send them to you upon request, But
here is the YouTube link where the message is read
(29:39):
to counsel and followed by another citizen appalled by this
childish act. I'd appreciate your consideration in this manner. Thank you,
concerned Passidina citizen. Well, I've now read it out and
I'm going to give you some advice. Stop being a
little sissy chicken and write emails under a name that
(30:03):
it's not a human being. If this is such a
bad thing in your community, and I would argue it's
not good, then put your name behind it. If you're
Robert Jeter, then say hey, I'm Robert Jeter. This is
what this guy said to me. If you're the person
behind the scenes who is so scandalized that you need
(30:25):
to bring it to my attention and you want others
to cover it and put your name behind it, how
awful is that you're telling me you've witnessed something that
brings extreme shame upon the city of Pasadena that you
live in and claim to care about. Just not enough
shame that you're willing to say my name is and
(30:51):
then tell what happened. So you want to put it
out there, but run back. Here's this bit of information
I'm gonna leave in the town square. I'm run away
and scurry away like a little mouse. I consider that
to be awful. Man up, stand up. Stop being a
(31:12):
person that wants everybody else to solve your problem. So
maybe Emmanuel Guerrero's right. I mean, you can argue that
what he's doing is classless and that he should be
defeated at the ballot box. That's the public admonition for
(31:33):
his behavior. But at least I have to admire he
signs his name to what he says. When he's insulting
somebody's gingivitis, you pass it in a concerned citizen. You
don't I know your type, and I don't like it.
Stand up, write your name, say who you are, and
(31:56):
then we can judge. Are you an eight time felon?
Are you a mom or your grandmother? Or what you
got gingerbitis? I mean it's very high school to throw gingivitis.
And now I want to meet Robert. I mean I
want to hey RaRo and meet you, and then you
(32:16):
know check it, like, is it one of these deals
where you're looking at like, are there any gums up
there at all? I don't know. It's piqued my curiosity.
I want to see. I mean, what if it's one
of those things that everybody thinks and nobody says. I
don't even really know what gingivitis looks like. I just
remember being at the dentist and then have picture and
(32:38):
you go ooh, I don't want that. But what we
didn't know is you were too young to ever get
You're going to be our age before you have that
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