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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Luck and load. So Michael very Show is on.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
The air, speaking of grapefruits. If you put that pink
grapefruit juice in there with some vodka, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
They call that a Greyhound cocktail.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Some people like that, and they put little their cough
syrup up in there.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
That's called the Continental Trailways, honey, because you will be
gold and black and red all over. What do you
call prune juice and vodka? Oh, that's a pile driver.
You tell so alcoholic. Why are you gonna try to
bust my game?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I'm not sure I'm even supposed to announce that I
am in possession of it, because that might violate the
arc of the covenant.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
But I have received the email from Richard as of
eight point forty this morning, I have received the email with.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
The note that there will be in addition to that,
more to come. I don't know if I don't believe
I am. I don't think I am authorized to share
the contents at this point. If ever, this may be
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one of those things like the Kennedy assassination that sixty
years later, we're still arguing over how much can be released.
But because many of you were concerned. I wanted you
to know that, Yes, I am in possession of the email.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I am in fact.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
So let's say your Spring Independent School District. Sure you've
had your problems, Sure you're not performing at the level
you should. Sure you've got some idiots in charge. But
how can you tell the community. Hey, listen, we're the
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biggest bunch of dumb asses around. Is there one thing.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
We can do? Well?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I suppose you could all go stand naked in the
middle of the freeway. No, that's been done before. We
need need something that will really enshrine our dumb assery,
something that makes people say, how long is that? Wait,
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this is into posterity. Yeah, well they've done it. The
Spring Branch Independent School District Board of Trustees has voted
unanimously to rename the Family and Community Engagement Center the
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Sheila Jackson Lee Center. That happened at their August August
board meeting. The superintendent, Lupita Henojosa says, regardless if it
was a celebration or if it was a disaster, Sheila
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Jackson Lee was always by our here at Spring Id
like a good dog, always there by your side. She
said that she La jacksonally was instrumental during hard times
with support during disasters and pandemics. The district plans to
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have a dedication for the renamed building after planned renovations.
This fall a great honor for a great leader, not
only in America, but right here in Spring ISD. She
La Jacksonlee, and it calls to mind one of her
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greatest speeches that.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
He could keep favorite from that woman regarding something at
least good by.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Doctor jail, Where is it what we're going to see
for helping all from you.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
To leave what I told you about here.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
I don't want you really, I want you to have
a brain.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I want you to get read it.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I want you to be congressman. It was such in
such states.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
That's what I want you.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
That's the kind of app that I want to have.
So some stupid other money did it, and you and
I don't have the information.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Nobody's sent me.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
The information I need to ensure my experience schedule and
uh you know it.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Google did it?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
App did it?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Face did it?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
And nobody knows what being in my office great nothing.
I gave it to you. Your job was to get
it on the calendar imprinted in your brain wants to
send me the information back, saying Congressman, I made sure
that the old ye dunc in teal event that you
gave me for so and so date at seven is
on the account not to hold your home happen. Okay,
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So when I called Jerome, pelet me sit up there
like a fat app stupid idiot talking about what he doesn't.
Thank y'all, cap we're I could have an ass put
together as the idiot were of No for me, I
ain't managing nobody.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Nobody's respecting them.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Nobody give you what you're doing, and you ain't doing
r me.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
And this is an example of me. I gave it
to Jerome, This is that child's work.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Than Jerome would take his own life three days after
that audio was made public.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I remember when I remember, I remember when I lost
my must I die, must my child died.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
That even your emotions have an act. Homicide is the
leading cause of death. And when you're out there without there, yeah,
out about all the time. Specific, but it wasn't because
I just knew to let my people go. Does that
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make me cry?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Where's the beef?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Does that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I stand here as a free slag? Does that me
c I know diabetes.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Ar I am outraged.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Would think c that's moly clans the greatest record. Mm
hmm come home now, who do you go ass grow?
Who do you think you go ass grows? Go at?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Let's show so mister speaker, a madam speaker.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
These children speak Chinese and Spanish.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well, I make your cries.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
I'm a problem fall. I believe in texting things, helping metro,
keeping pools open when they need to be opened.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
If you look, you will.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
See a picture of Leda Pelosi and myself and my
colleague from Alabama, Missouves. And how well it is that
we have lasted some four hundred years operating under constitution.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
This is Congresswoman Shila Jackson Lee. Vote a straight Democratic
ticket which.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Would include the president and all of us.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
Do not after voting the straight Democratic ticket.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Vote individually.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It will cancel your vote.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Vote a straight Democratic ticket. Who paid for that trip
for you to go to that memorial service?
Speaker 9 (08:48):
Well that those resources are resources that I have, and
therefore they are in a way that does not interfere
with anything that has to do with serving the United
States Conquerctor Mike understricts.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Those resources or resources.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
That I have.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
The k h o Us.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Jeremy Rayowski has a story on the use of government assets,
in this case planes to travel around the state and
live like kings.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
You know, there is a.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
A seductive nature to the private plane that has taken
down a number.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Of people over the years. The concept of.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Driving right up to the FBO, right up to the
plane where the pilot it's out, grabs your bags and
puts them in the back, closes them up, and you
walk right up. No tsa, no public no parking, no hassle,
no nothing. You get on the plane that is waiting
for you, and they close it up, and your little
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capsule goes up into the air and lands and repeats
the process on the other end. And if someone chooses
to pay for that, so be it. But to use
government resources to do that, which, as you will see
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in this case Dade Feelin did, is grotesque and disgusting,
but not in any way surprising. In fact, it's exactly
what you would expect. It is exactly what you would
expect from a guy who won reelection when he was
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losing the first round of the primary, and in the
primary runoff, fourteen hundred Democrats who had never voted Republican
before show up in the Republican primary and vote for him. Now,
how do you think that happened. That's exactly what they
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did for Nicki Haley. It's the same group of people.
They are undermining the Republican process, the Republican party process
using Democrats, and these are blue blood Republicans. These are
the best names in the business, the top names.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Of Karl Roves literally Carl.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Row the guys who were paid the big money to
bring you, George Bush Incorporated. And Dick Cheney and now
surprised Dick Cheney is supporting Kamala Harris. These people don't
just hate Trump, they hate you. Never forget that very
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well done story from Khou's Jeremy Rogowski.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Texas politicians are flying on private jets.
Speaker 10 (12:17):
The tech dot owns four jets that are supposed to
be used for official state business, but invesigative reporter or
Jeremy Rigalski found some lawmakers using the travel perk or
personal or political game.
Speaker 11 (12:29):
We went through hundreds of flight logs and social media
posts and found state leaders who flew to attend family
graduations and one high profile lawmaker who took a trip
and raised thousands for his own political campaign. Speaker of
the Texas House Date Feelin, didn't tell the whole story
when he hopped aboard a state jet after a conference.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
In Austin sellout crowd.
Speaker 11 (12:53):
As we found, he caught a college football game and
love it, writing beautiful day for Ruckham versus hook Them,
and he held a political fundraiser, pumping at least thirty
seven thousand dollars into his campaign.
Speaker 12 (13:06):
The main concern here is that you would want just
greater transparency to the public.
Speaker 11 (13:10):
Beyond transparency, there's Texas law which says the state may
not provide aircraft transportation to someone who has attended an
event at which money is raised for private or political purposes.
Speaker 12 (13:22):
A public official should serve the public interests.
Speaker 11 (13:25):
UH Professor Dan Angster is an expert on ethics and leadership.
Speaker 12 (13:29):
The ethical thing to do is to use public aircraft
for public purposes and to follow these regulations.
Speaker 11 (13:34):
Feeling's office told us he always makes every good faith
effort to remain in compliance with state Wait.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
You're right there all on, so we've busted you. Here's
the details.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
You flew on a state plane to a private fundraiser,
and so you could go to a football game. How
do you respond to the commission of this crime. Oh,
we would like you to know that that uh, mister
Fieland he always makes every effort to to stay in compliance.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
With the laws. Okay, but but that that's yeah, he
always he always does. Just just say no. He always
makes every effort to stay in complete compliance.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
He uh he he uh he.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
He's a he's a good person and he always does
good things. What if you what if you walk up
on some black dude gang banging with his buddies and
you catch him on body cam and they've just fired
into a house and all the cops draw down on him,
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and he says, they say, drop your gun. Hey, So
y'all know I always make every effort. I always make
every effort to comply with with the law and be
very peaceful. Ah okay, uh all right, well pick your
gun up and go about your business. What kind of
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answering He always makes every effort. I guess that's what
his new high powered team around him has taught him
to say. They are attempting to will Daid Feeling to
be the speaker no matter what, no matter what he's done.
And this is why even in the state of Texas.
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We have had a breakdown in our laws regarding a
legal immigration. It's why we have been unable to get
school vouchers because they own Dad, feeling absolutely positively own him.
And I've set it for years. The only thing more
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dangerous than Democrats are the Republicans who are owned by them,
because there are still in our midst tea of people
who can't see through what they're doing. Plenty of people.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Well you know, we we were in college together.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
You know, we were in the same fraternity, so I mean,
I don't really keep up with how they vote and
all that. Well, let me let me tell you exactly. Well,
I mean his wife and my wife are friends, and
you know, he we grew up in the same church group,
and you know, we went same elementaries, and you know
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we live in the same neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Or you know, he and I used to be in
this group together.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
You know, he and I did this together, and you know,
I mean he's uh, I mean, yeah, I'm bothered, you
know when I actually looked at it, you know, helping
the Democrats with this this and this, and the Democrat Committee.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Chairman and all that. But uh, but our families go
way back, I mean they go away.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Okay, So literally he could assassinate Trump and you'd still
be with him. Well, I mean I I wouldn't go
that far. Okay, Well where is the line? Because assassinating
Trump is too far? But everything he's done, which is
destroying your state, why don't.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
We have a Republican majority?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
That wasn't enough? Tell me where on that spectrum you
are accountable. We know what drunk Day's been up to.
That's well documented. Now now the question is are you
personally accountable? Are you willing to say, hey, you can
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be a nice guy. We had some beers together thirty
years ago, because apparently this is what some people do.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You're a nice guy.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
We had beer thirty years ago together. But now I
can no longer support you. And by the way, for
every state Rep who is not the speaker, the most
important vote they will cast is who will be the speaker.
So for those of you out there who say drunk
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Day's got to go, but you've got a state rep
voting for him all while he's over meeting with the Democrats.
Because he can't get a majority of Republicans, but if
he can get one hundred percent of Democrats, he can
get just a few Republicans to be the speaker again.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Well, I mean we used to be next door neighbors,
you know. I mean our kids are key, Our kids
are together.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Show.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Center Pointless Energy has opened their emergency preparedness and please
forget how bad we treated you during the last storm.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Center.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Oh yes, it is open, they are telling the media. Yeah,
it's it's a yep. It's sprinkling out way out in Atlantic. Yeah,
we're we're on it. We're uh, we're we got this
center over here open. Just so y'all know, y'all, just y'all,
just y'all, just go about your day, nothing to worry about.
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Just know we're over here at center Point.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
We already yep.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Pep up, yep. We're doing inspections, yep, yep. Everybody line up, yep,
all right, we got it. Okay, all right, okay, center
Point right here, we are ready.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
We whatever happens, we're we're on it.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
We just we just want y'all know we didn't do
everything it seemed like y'all did that last storm. And
please don't take away all this money we're making. Please
don't take away the CEO's eight million dollars a year.
Please don't take away all this cash we're collecting. Look,
if we got to dance around and tell you, dumb
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ass peasants that we care about you while you're out
of power, if Waterburger can put up a power grid
faster than we can, and we tell you to piss
off because we're center point and you can't do anything
about it. And we have to dance a little for
the state government to make everybody feel like, ah, we
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cracked the whip.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
We'll do it.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
We got this emergency center over here, and just so
y'all know we're serious, because y'all are not gonna have
any power because it's years that we haven't invested. Just
so y'all know, we're gonna put donuts out and if
anybody wants donuts, you can come have donuts. And we're
gonna put maybe a case or two of water out
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and y'all can come even if you don't have any power,
you can get donuts.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Shipley ooh good supporting the local folks. Y'all should support
the local folks too.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
We put some donuts out and some water and that
is our emergency preparedness. And please forget how crappy we
treated you during the last storm center.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Indeed, meanwhile back to drunk Dad, the Speaker of the
House and the scandal of him using the state plane,
and he just wants you to know started over from
the beginning of them. He just wants you to know
that his staff that normally, I mean they their answer
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to whether they did this or not, is they really
he really follows.
Speaker 11 (21:16):
The law oggs and social media posts and found state
leaders who flew to attend family graduations and one high
profile lawmaker who took a trip and raised thousands for
his own political campaign. Speaker of the Texas House Date
Feelin didn't tell the whole story when he hopped aboard
a state jed after a conference in Austin sellout crowd.
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As Yet we found he caught a college football game
and love it, writing beautiful Day for Ruckham versus hook Home,
and he held a political fundraiser pumping at least thirty
seven thousand dollars into his campaign.
Speaker 12 (21:53):
The main concern here is that you would want just
greater transparency to the public.
Speaker 11 (21:57):
Beyond transparency, there's Texas law which says the state may
not provide aircraft transportation to someone who has attended an
event at which money is raised for private or political purposes.
Speaker 12 (22:09):
A public official should serve the public interest.
Speaker 11 (22:11):
UH Professor Dan Angster is an expert on ethics and leadership.
Speaker 12 (22:15):
The ethical thing to do is to use public aircraft
for public purposes and to follow these regulations.
Speaker 11 (22:21):
Feelin's office told us he always makes every good faith
effort to remain in compliance with state law and ethics rules.
But it's not just political. We found other flights that
were more family affairs than official state business, like State
Representative Jay dean'strip for a meeting it was a relative's
high school graduation. On Facebook, Dean posted so grateful to
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get home for my grandson.
Speaker 13 (22:45):
It was stunning to see this level of the boring
of the line between public and private.
Speaker 11 (22:51):
What's more, Dean paid for the flight with campaign funds,
which cannot be spent for personal use. His office defended
the trip, saying tax payer did not bear the travel costs,
and at the graduation many constituents and local officials were
on hand. This does not pass the sniff test, something
kgU political analyst Brandon Rodinghouse doesn't buy.
Speaker 13 (23:13):
There are always going to be other constituents around, but
the fact that he had family that was there, there's
definitely a crossing of that line.
Speaker 11 (23:21):
After the graduation, the flight log shows Representative Dean rushed
back to Austin the same night. Why he and his
colleagues were needed on the House floor the next day
for an historic event, the impeachment proceedings of Attorney General
Ken Poxton. But we found another Texas lawmaker who flew
out of town on a state jet. Didn't make it
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bet State Rep. Kol Hefner said he was going on
state business when he flew from Austin to Mount Pleasant
that afternoon.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
The how's come to order?
Speaker 11 (23:51):
But oddly enough, the official record shows him on the
House floor at one oh three while he was still
in the air. So how could he be in two
places at once?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I ask you, if you're a quier in it, we are.
Speaker 11 (24:03):
Hefner's office never gave us an explanation, but we found
that supposed state business flight landing in time for his
daughter's graduation.
Speaker 13 (24:12):
This was a historic impeachment vote. This was something where
you wanted to have members on hand, being on the ground.
It was critical in this period.
Speaker 11 (24:22):
Perhaps that's why Representative Hefner tried to return to the Capitol.
He's a registered pilot, and record show Hefner's single engine
plane took off from Mount Pleasant just after three o'clock
and didn't arrive in Austin until four forty five, the
same time as the impeachment vote.
Speaker 13 (24:39):
Given these records, there's simply just no way he could
have been there.
Speaker 11 (24:44):
But even Moro odd, the record shows Hefner did vote,
so what gives.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Take a look.
Speaker 11 (24:50):
Another lawmaker reaches over to Hefner's empty desk to cast
his vote. Here it is again Hefner's not there, so
his colleague punches the button.
Speaker 13 (25:00):
This is called ghost voting.
Speaker 11 (25:01):
Ghost voting, Yeah, Riding House says it's actually a common practice,
but usually when lawmakers need to take a call or
bathroom break and briefly step away.
Speaker 13 (25:11):
The rules are clear that the person the member has
to be in the building.
Speaker 11 (25:16):
Would ghost voting in European ever be acceptable for a
vote of this importance.
Speaker 13 (25:21):
This was definitely the biggest vote of that session, if
not the decade, and to miss it is obdication of
your duties period period.
Speaker 11 (25:31):
Now. Records show taxpayers paid for Heffner's state operated flight,
the cost more than one thousand dollars and back to
Speaker Dade Feelin, A spokesperson told us his flight was
paid by Texas Tech University donors, and while in Lubbock,
the lawmaker discussed the university's legislative priorities. But again, the
law says, if you take a state plane and raise
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campaign funds on the trip, that is a non as in.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
A violation of campaign finance laws by the Speaker of
the House. Yet again, then again, he's already crapped all
over the people of the state of Texas. Well, when't
you crap all over our laws?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
The Michael Berry Show, how about beat my children?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
And I don't bear killing us without killing you.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Can talk to you about seventy four years ago today
Anthony Joseph Perry. He would become Aerosmith's lead guitarist. Joe
Perry was born.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
In Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
He would leave the band in nineteen seventy nine when
they were in the throes of a pretty nasty drug culture,
but five years later he would return, and so too
would the band three years later with their nineteen seventy
I'm Sorry nineteen eighty seven album Permanent Vacation, from which
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this song would return them to glory.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
The following year. On this day, September tenth, so what
would that be Joe Perry's thirty eighth birthday.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
September tenth, nineteen eighty eight, Aerosmith would be touring to
support the album Permanent Vacation, and the opening act on
that tour was Guns N' Roses.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
And on this day in nineteen eighty eight, as they.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Opened for Guns N' Roses, that night, they would hit
number one in America for the first of two weeks
with one of the greatest songs of all time.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
As an as, I'm sure you know about.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Axel Rose's relationship with Don Everley of the Everly Brothers Daughter,
a relationship that would entail a four year dating, courtship, marriage,
and then divorced nine months later. You know, some people
just better off kind of.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Let's take a call from the people.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Ramon, Let's start with Todd Todd, if you're all on,
Michael Berry, shall we welcome you to the program.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Sir, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Hey just calling in about the Centerpoint energy stuff. You know,
our electricity is a forty six percent from a year
ago to now, you know to today. How do your
new contract.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
How do you figure that.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Just by the rates? You know, So you know, you
have a contract that you get into, whether it's a
one year, two year contract, and so our contract was renewing,
and so we had to turn around and renew a contract.
So you know, our costper kill a lot was around
seven and a half you know, cents. Well, so now
you know we're up in the twelve and a half
cent for range. And then we just got the notice
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from the PUC yesterday that the September increase, which comes
from Centerpoint, is now going up another cent.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
And a half or kill a lot.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
So we're all in now around fifteen and a half cents,
which you know, historically we've paid around nine cents, right,
and you know, for the state of Texas be paying
these types of rates for electricity on resident it's just crazy.
Aside from all the other issues with Centerpoints.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
How do you know all this? You just look at
your bill?
Speaker 6 (30:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
I also use one of those uh you know those
groups that you know, I use one of those those
companies that actually broker year energy, right, and so they're
out there researching, you know, the figures. But I keep
a really close eye on this stuff.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
Just because it's dollars that are going out of our household,
of course. And you know when you sit there and say, hey,
my electricity bill is going from one hundred and fifty
dollars a month to you know, two hundred and twenty
five to two hundred and seventy.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Five dollars a month, whatever it is. I'm blessed to
be able to afford all that, you know, because I've
got a good job. But when I think about people
like my mom, you know, who's living on Social Security,
and just people that are on fixed incomes, and you see,
all of a sudden, your electricity bill goes up, whatever
it is, fifty percent, seventy five. You know that's not
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to mention car insurance. It's not to mention homeowners insurance.
This is all unsustainable and it's really really troubling.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Todd.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Let me add, Let me add to your point.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Harris County is about to raise our property taxes eight
percent without a vote, a loophole in a state law,
after a after a natural disaster, and.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
You've got a four point four billion dollar.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
HISD bond proposal when our schools are already failing. So
you've got an eight percent property tax increase, a four
point four billion dollar bond proposal, as you noted, yet
another increase in our electric bill.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
It is unsustainable.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
You you are absolutely eating at the core of our
people in a way that that I wonder how many
people will will sit by for it. And you know,
I think of the old line that mice die and
mouse traps because they don't understand why the cheese is free,
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and the same thing happens with socialism.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I wonder how many people realize.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
That all of the giveaway goodies, all of the self dealing,
whether it's the state government, the city government, the county government,
at some point the bill has to get paid.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
And that's I think that's where we are. What do
you do for living, Todd?
Speaker 6 (32:31):
I'm a business owner. I owned an industrial services company.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
What kind of industrial services?
Speaker 6 (32:38):
We work on trains? Primarily we clean them and maintain them.
All the cars, well, we don't work on the locomotives.
We work on the cars that actually take products to market.
So from the manufacturers to the you know, to the
distributors and so on.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
How did you get into that.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
I'm driving around one day and I thought somebody's got
to work on those things. That was thirty years ago.
Come on, no, seriously, Yeah, I'm just you know, I yeah,
I didn't go to school for anything. I'd just been
out there hustling. And we just celebrated thirty years in business, you.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Know, this past may.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
All right, I've got a drill down. What were you
doing when you were driving around? Did you have a job?
Speaker 6 (33:33):
You know, my partner and I we had started this
small business with a little pressure washer in the back
of a pickup truck.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Okay, I love it, I love you know.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
We were out there like, yeah, we were washing trucks,
we were washing houses, we were washing fences, you know.
And then you know, we got this idea to start
washing shopping carts at grocery.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Stores and that never worked out, that's okay.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
But and then we yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, absolutely.
You know, a lot a lot of ten times of
not taking paychecks or employees could.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
And how many employees do you know?
Speaker 6 (34:07):
But it's it's been sitting around sixty employees right now.
And no college, no, no, none, barely graduated high school.
But you know, I get up every day and I
go to work.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
What's the name of your business.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
Ems management man or you can find us at railcar
cleaning dot com.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
I love this story so much, Todd. I love this
story so much. Can you hang on for a second.
Sure this should give people hope. Now it's fast. Have
works his ass off. I guarantee you.
Speaker 10 (34:47):
But
It's that time time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Luck and load. So Michael very Show is on.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
The air, speaking of grapefruits. If you put that pink
grapefruit juice in there with some vodka, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
They call that a Greyhound cocktail.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Some people like that, and they put little their cough
syrup up in there.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
That's called the Continental Trailways, honey, because you will be
gold and black and red all over. What do you
call prune juice and vodka? Oh, that's a pile driver.
You tell so alcoholic. Why are you gonna try to
bust my game?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I'm not sure I'm even supposed to announce that I
am in possession of it, because that might violate the
arc of the covenant.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
But I have received the email from Richard as of
eight point forty this morning, I have received the email with.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
The note that there will be in addition to that,
more to come. I don't know if I don't believe
I am. I don't think I am authorized to share
the contents at this point. If ever, this may be
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one of those things like the Kennedy assassination that sixty
years later, we're still arguing over how much can be released.
But because many of you were concerned. I wanted you
to know that, Yes, I am in possession of the email.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I am in fact.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
So let's say your Spring Independent School District. Sure you've
had your problems, Sure you're not performing at the level
you should. Sure you've got some idiots in charge. But
how can you tell the community. Hey, listen, we're the
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biggest bunch of dumb asses around. Is there one thing.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
We can do? Well?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I suppose you could all go stand naked in the
middle of the freeway. No, that's been done before. We
need need something that will really enshrine our dumb assery,
something that makes people say, how long is that? Wait,
(03:13):
this is into posterity. Yeah, well they've done it. The
Spring Branch Independent School District Board of Trustees has voted
unanimously to rename the Family and Community Engagement Center the
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Sheila Jackson Lee Center. That happened at their August August
board meeting. The superintendent, Lupita Henojosa says, regardless if it
was a celebration or if it was a disaster, Sheila
(03:57):
Jackson Lee was always by our here at Spring Id
like a good dog, always there by your side. She
said that she La jacksonally was instrumental during hard times
with support during disasters and pandemics. The district plans to
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have a dedication for the renamed building after planned renovations.
This fall a great honor for a great leader, not
only in America, but right here in Spring ISD. She
La Jacksonlee, and it calls to mind one of her
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greatest speeches that.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
He could keep favorite from that woman regarding something at
least good by.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Doctor jail, Where is it what we're going to see
for helping all from you.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
To leave what I told you about here.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
I don't want you really, I want you to have
a brain.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I want you to get read it.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I want you to be congressman. It was such in
such states.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
That's what I want you.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
That's the kind of app that I want to have.
So some stupid other money did it, and you and
I don't have the information.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Nobody's sent me.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
The information I need to ensure my experience schedule and
uh you know it.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Google did it?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
App did it?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Face did it?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
And nobody knows what being in my office great nothing.
I gave it to you. Your job was to get
it on the calendar imprinted in your brain wants to
send me the information back, saying Congressman, I made sure
that the old ye dunc in teal event that you
gave me for so and so date at seven is
on the account not to hold your home happen. Okay,
(05:49):
So when I called Jerome, pelet me sit up there
like a fat app stupid idiot talking about what he doesn't.
Thank y'all, cap we're I could have an ass put
together as the idiot were of No for me, I
ain't managing nobody.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Nobody's respecting them.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Nobody give you what you're doing, and you ain't doing
r me.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
And this is an example of me. I gave it
to Jerome, This is that child's work.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Than Jerome would take his own life three days after
that audio was made public.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I remember when I remember, I remember when I lost
my must I die, must my child died.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
That even your emotions have an act. Homicide is the
leading cause of death. And when you're out there without there, yeah,
out about all the time. Specific, but it wasn't because
I just knew to let my people go. Does that
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make me cry?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Where's the beef?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Does that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I stand here as a free slag? Does that me
c I know diabetes.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Ar I am outraged.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Would think c that's moly clans the greatest record. Mm
hmm come home now, who do you go ass grow?
Who do you think you go ass grows? Go at?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Let's show so mister speaker, a madam speaker.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
These children speak Chinese and Spanish.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well, I make your cries.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
I'm a problem fall. I believe in texting things, helping metro,
keeping pools open when they need to be opened.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
If you look, you will.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
See a picture of Leda Pelosi and myself and my
colleague from Alabama, Missouves. And how well it is that
we have lasted some four hundred years operating under constitution.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
This is Congresswoman Shila Jackson Lee. Vote a straight Democratic
ticket which.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Would include the president and all of us.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
Do not after voting the straight Democratic ticket.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Vote individually.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It will cancel your vote.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Vote a straight Democratic ticket. Who paid for that trip
for you to go to that memorial service?
Speaker 9 (08:48):
Well that those resources are resources that I have, and
therefore they are in a way that does not interfere
with anything that has to do with serving the United
States Conquerctor Mike understricts.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Those resources or resources.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
That I have.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
The k h o Us.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Jeremy Rayowski has a story on the use of government assets,
in this case planes to travel around the state and
live like kings.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
You know, there is a.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
A seductive nature to the private plane that has taken
down a number.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Of people over the years. The concept of.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Driving right up to the FBO, right up to the
plane where the pilot it's out, grabs your bags and
puts them in the back, closes them up, and you
walk right up. No tsa, no public no parking, no hassle,
no nothing. You get on the plane that is waiting
for you, and they close it up, and your little
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capsule goes up into the air and lands and repeats
the process on the other end. And if someone chooses
to pay for that, so be it. But to use
government resources to do that, which, as you will see
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in this case Dade Feelin did, is grotesque and disgusting,
but not in any way surprising. In fact, it's exactly
what you would expect. It is exactly what you would
expect from a guy who won reelection when he was
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losing the first round of the primary, and in the
primary runoff, fourteen hundred Democrats who had never voted Republican
before show up in the Republican primary and vote for him. Now,
how do you think that happened. That's exactly what they
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did for Nicki Haley. It's the same group of people.
They are undermining the Republican process, the Republican party process
using Democrats, and these are blue blood Republicans. These are
the best names in the business, the top names.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Of Karl Roves literally Carl.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Row the guys who were paid the big money to
bring you, George Bush Incorporated. And Dick Cheney and now
surprised Dick Cheney is supporting Kamala Harris. These people don't
just hate Trump, they hate you. Never forget that very
(12:10):
well done story from Khou's Jeremy Rogowski.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Texas politicians are flying on private jets.
Speaker 10 (12:17):
The tech dot owns four jets that are supposed to
be used for official state business, but invesigative reporter or
Jeremy Rigalski found some lawmakers using the travel perk or
personal or political game.
Speaker 11 (12:29):
We went through hundreds of flight logs and social media
posts and found state leaders who flew to attend family
graduations and one high profile lawmaker who took a trip
and raised thousands for his own political campaign. Speaker of
the Texas House Date Feelin, didn't tell the whole story
when he hopped aboard a state jet after a conference.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
In Austin sellout crowd.
Speaker 11 (12:53):
As we found, he caught a college football game and
love it, writing beautiful day for Ruckham versus hook Them,
and he held a political fundraiser, pumping at least thirty
seven thousand dollars into his campaign.
Speaker 12 (13:06):
The main concern here is that you would want just
greater transparency to the public.
Speaker 11 (13:10):
Beyond transparency, there's Texas law which says the state may
not provide aircraft transportation to someone who has attended an
event at which money is raised for private or political purposes.
Speaker 12 (13:22):
A public official should serve the public interests.
Speaker 11 (13:25):
UH Professor Dan Angster is an expert on ethics and leadership.
Speaker 12 (13:29):
The ethical thing to do is to use public aircraft
for public purposes and to follow these regulations.
Speaker 11 (13:34):
Feeling's office told us he always makes every good faith
effort to remain in compliance with state Wait.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
You're right there all on, so we've busted you. Here's
the details.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
You flew on a state plane to a private fundraiser,
and so you could go to a football game. How
do you respond to the commission of this crime. Oh,
we would like you to know that that uh, mister
Fieland he always makes every effort to to stay in compliance.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
With the laws. Okay, but but that that's yeah, he
always he always does. Just just say no. He always
makes every effort to stay in complete compliance.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
He uh he he uh he.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
He's a he's a good person and he always does
good things. What if you what if you walk up
on some black dude gang banging with his buddies and
you catch him on body cam and they've just fired
into a house and all the cops draw down on him,
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and he says, they say, drop your gun. Hey, So
y'all know I always make every effort. I always make
every effort to comply with with the law and be
very peaceful. Ah okay, uh all right, well pick your
gun up and go about your business. What kind of
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answering He always makes every effort. I guess that's what
his new high powered team around him has taught him
to say. They are attempting to will Daid Feeling to
be the speaker no matter what, no matter what he's done.
And this is why even in the state of Texas.
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We have had a breakdown in our laws regarding a
legal immigration. It's why we have been unable to get
school vouchers because they own Dad, feeling absolutely positively own him.
And I've set it for years. The only thing more
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dangerous than Democrats are the Republicans who are owned by them,
because there are still in our midst tea of people
who can't see through what they're doing. Plenty of people.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Well you know, we we were in college together.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
You know, we were in the same fraternity, so I mean,
I don't really keep up with how they vote and
all that. Well, let me let me tell you exactly. Well,
I mean his wife and my wife are friends, and
you know, he we grew up in the same church group,
and you know, we went same elementaries, and you know
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we live in the same neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Or you know, he and I used to be in
this group together.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
You know, he and I did this together, and you know,
I mean he's uh, I mean, yeah, I'm bothered, you
know when I actually looked at it, you know, helping
the Democrats with this this and this, and the Democrat Committee.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Chairman and all that. But uh, but our families go
way back, I mean they go away.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Okay, So literally he could assassinate Trump and you'd still
be with him. Well, I mean I I wouldn't go
that far. Okay, Well where is the line? Because assassinating
Trump is too far? But everything he's done, which is
destroying your state, why don't.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
We have a Republican majority?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
That wasn't enough? Tell me where on that spectrum you
are accountable. We know what drunk Day's been up to.
That's well documented. Now now the question is are you
personally accountable? Are you willing to say, hey, you can
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be a nice guy. We had some beers together thirty
years ago, because apparently this is what some people do.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You're a nice guy.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
We had beer thirty years ago together. But now I
can no longer support you. And by the way, for
every state Rep who is not the speaker, the most
important vote they will cast is who will be the speaker.
So for those of you out there who say drunk
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Day's got to go, but you've got a state rep
voting for him all while he's over meeting with the Democrats.
Because he can't get a majority of Republicans, but if
he can get one hundred percent of Democrats, he can
get just a few Republicans to be the speaker again.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Well, I mean we used to be next door neighbors,
you know. I mean our kids are key, Our kids
are together.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Show.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Center Pointless Energy has opened their emergency preparedness and please
forget how bad we treated you during the last storm.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Center.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Oh yes, it is open, they are telling the media. Yeah,
it's it's a yep. It's sprinkling out way out in Atlantic. Yeah,
we're we're on it. We're uh, we're we got this
center over here open. Just so y'all know, y'all, just y'all,
just y'all, just go about your day, nothing to worry about.
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Just know we're over here at center Point.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
We already yep.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Pep up, yep. We're doing inspections, yep, yep. Everybody line up, yep,
all right, we got it. Okay, all right, okay, center
Point right here, we are ready.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
We whatever happens, we're we're on it.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
We just we just want y'all know we didn't do
everything it seemed like y'all did that last storm. And
please don't take away all this money we're making. Please
don't take away the CEO's eight million dollars a year.
Please don't take away all this cash we're collecting. Look,
if we got to dance around and tell you, dumb
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ass peasants that we care about you while you're out
of power, if Waterburger can put up a power grid
faster than we can, and we tell you to piss
off because we're center point and you can't do anything
about it. And we have to dance a little for
the state government to make everybody feel like, ah, we
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cracked the whip.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
We'll do it.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
We got this emergency center over here, and just so
y'all know we're serious, because y'all are not gonna have
any power because it's years that we haven't invested. Just
so y'all know, we're gonna put donuts out and if
anybody wants donuts, you can come have donuts. And we're
gonna put maybe a case or two of water out
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and y'all can come even if you don't have any power,
you can get donuts.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Shipley ooh good supporting the local folks. Y'all should support
the local folks too.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
We put some donuts out and some water and that
is our emergency preparedness. And please forget how crappy we
treated you during the last storm center.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Indeed, meanwhile back to drunk Dad, the Speaker of the
House and the scandal of him using the state plane,
and he just wants you to know started over from
the beginning of them. He just wants you to know
that his staff that normally, I mean they their answer
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to whether they did this or not, is they really
he really follows.
Speaker 11 (21:16):
The law oggs and social media posts and found state
leaders who flew to attend family graduations and one high
profile lawmaker who took a trip and raised thousands for
his own political campaign. Speaker of the Texas House Date
Feelin didn't tell the whole story when he hopped aboard
a state jed after a conference in Austin sellout crowd.
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As Yet we found he caught a college football game
and love it, writing beautiful Day for Ruckham versus hook Home,
and he held a political fundraiser pumping at least thirty
seven thousand dollars into his campaign.
Speaker 12 (21:53):
The main concern here is that you would want just
greater transparency to the public.
Speaker 11 (21:57):
Beyond transparency, there's Texas law which says the state may
not provide aircraft transportation to someone who has attended an
event at which money is raised for private or political purposes.
Speaker 12 (22:09):
A public official should serve the public interest.
Speaker 11 (22:11):
UH Professor Dan Angster is an expert on ethics and leadership.
Speaker 12 (22:15):
The ethical thing to do is to use public aircraft
for public purposes and to follow these regulations.
Speaker 11 (22:21):
Feelin's office told us he always makes every good faith
effort to remain in compliance with state law and ethics rules.
But it's not just political. We found other flights that
were more family affairs than official state business, like State
Representative Jay dean'strip for a meeting it was a relative's
high school graduation. On Facebook, Dean posted so grateful to
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get home for my grandson.
Speaker 13 (22:45):
It was stunning to see this level of the boring
of the line between public and private.
Speaker 11 (22:51):
What's more, Dean paid for the flight with campaign funds,
which cannot be spent for personal use. His office defended
the trip, saying tax payer did not bear the travel costs,
and at the graduation many constituents and local officials were
on hand. This does not pass the sniff test, something
kgU political analyst Brandon Rodinghouse doesn't buy.
Speaker 13 (23:13):
There are always going to be other constituents around, but
the fact that he had family that was there, there's
definitely a crossing of that line.
Speaker 11 (23:21):
After the graduation, the flight log shows Representative Dean rushed
back to Austin the same night. Why he and his
colleagues were needed on the House floor the next day
for an historic event, the impeachment proceedings of Attorney General
Ken Poxton. But we found another Texas lawmaker who flew
out of town on a state jet. Didn't make it
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bet State Rep. Kol Hefner said he was going on
state business when he flew from Austin to Mount Pleasant
that afternoon.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
The how's come to order?
Speaker 11 (23:51):
But oddly enough, the official record shows him on the
House floor at one oh three while he was still
in the air. So how could he be in two
places at once?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I ask you, if you're a quier in it, we are.
Speaker 11 (24:03):
Hefner's office never gave us an explanation, but we found
that supposed state business flight landing in time for his
daughter's graduation.
Speaker 13 (24:12):
This was a historic impeachment vote. This was something where
you wanted to have members on hand, being on the ground.
It was critical in this period.
Speaker 11 (24:22):
Perhaps that's why Representative Hefner tried to return to the Capitol.
He's a registered pilot, and record show Hefner's single engine
plane took off from Mount Pleasant just after three o'clock
and didn't arrive in Austin until four forty five, the
same time as the impeachment vote.
Speaker 13 (24:39):
Given these records, there's simply just no way he could
have been there.
Speaker 11 (24:44):
But even Moro odd, the record shows Hefner did vote,
so what gives.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Take a look.
Speaker 11 (24:50):
Another lawmaker reaches over to Hefner's empty desk to cast
his vote. Here it is again Hefner's not there, so
his colleague punches the button.
Speaker 13 (25:00):
This is called ghost voting.
Speaker 11 (25:01):
Ghost voting, Yeah, Riding House says it's actually a common practice,
but usually when lawmakers need to take a call or
bathroom break and briefly step away.
Speaker 13 (25:11):
The rules are clear that the person the member has
to be in the building.
Speaker 11 (25:16):
Would ghost voting in European ever be acceptable for a
vote of this importance.
Speaker 13 (25:21):
This was definitely the biggest vote of that session, if
not the decade, and to miss it is obdication of
your duties period period.
Speaker 11 (25:31):
Now. Records show taxpayers paid for Heffner's state operated flight,
the cost more than one thousand dollars and back to
Speaker Dade Feelin, A spokesperson told us his flight was
paid by Texas Tech University donors, and while in Lubbock,
the lawmaker discussed the university's legislative priorities. But again, the
law says, if you take a state plane and raise
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campaign funds on the trip, that is a non as in.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
A violation of campaign finance laws by the Speaker of
the House. Yet again, then again, he's already crapped all
over the people of the state of Texas. Well, when't
you crap all over our laws?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
The Michael Berry Show, how about beat my children?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
And I don't bear killing us without killing you.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Can talk to you about seventy four years ago today
Anthony Joseph Perry. He would become Aerosmith's lead guitarist. Joe
Perry was born.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
In Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
He would leave the band in nineteen seventy nine when
they were in the throes of a pretty nasty drug culture,
but five years later he would return, and so too
would the band three years later with their nineteen seventy
I'm Sorry nineteen eighty seven album Permanent Vacation, from which
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this song would return them to glory.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
The following year. On this day, September tenth, so what
would that be Joe Perry's thirty eighth birthday.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
September tenth, nineteen eighty eight, Aerosmith would be touring to
support the album Permanent Vacation, and the opening act on
that tour was Guns N' Roses.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
And on this day in nineteen eighty eight, as they.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Opened for Guns N' Roses, that night, they would hit
number one in America for the first of two weeks
with one of the greatest songs of all time.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
As an as, I'm sure you know about.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Axel Rose's relationship with Don Everley of the Everly Brothers Daughter,
a relationship that would entail a four year dating, courtship, marriage,
and then divorced nine months later. You know, some people
just better off kind of.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Let's take a call from the people.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Ramon, Let's start with Todd Todd, if you're all on,
Michael Berry, shall we welcome you to the program.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Sir, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Hey just calling in about the Centerpoint energy stuff. You know,
our electricity is a forty six percent from a year
ago to now, you know to today. How do your
new contract.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
How do you figure that.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Just by the rates? You know, So you know, you
have a contract that you get into, whether it's a
one year, two year contract, and so our contract was renewing,
and so we had to turn around and renew a contract.
So you know, our costper kill a lot was around
seven and a half you know, cents. Well, so now
you know we're up in the twelve and a half
cent for range. And then we just got the notice
(29:42):
from the PUC yesterday that the September increase, which comes
from Centerpoint, is now going up another cent.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
And a half or kill a lot.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
So we're all in now around fifteen and a half cents,
which you know, historically we've paid around nine cents, right,
and you know, for the state of Texas be paying
these types of rates for electricity on resident it's just crazy.
Aside from all the other issues with Centerpoints.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
How do you know all this? You just look at
your bill?
Speaker 6 (30:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
I also use one of those uh you know those
groups that you know, I use one of those those
companies that actually broker year energy, right, and so they're
out there researching, you know, the figures. But I keep
a really close eye on this stuff.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
Just because it's dollars that are going out of our household,
of course. And you know when you sit there and say, hey,
my electricity bill is going from one hundred and fifty
dollars a month to you know, two hundred and twenty
five to two hundred and seventy.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Five dollars a month, whatever it is. I'm blessed to
be able to afford all that, you know, because I've
got a good job. But when I think about people
like my mom, you know, who's living on Social Security,
and just people that are on fixed incomes, and you see,
all of a sudden, your electricity bill goes up, whatever
it is, fifty percent, seventy five. You know that's not
(31:01):
to mention car insurance. It's not to mention homeowners insurance.
This is all unsustainable and it's really really troubling.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Todd.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Let me add, Let me add to your point.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Harris County is about to raise our property taxes eight
percent without a vote, a loophole in a state law,
after a after a natural disaster, and.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
You've got a four point four billion dollar.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
HISD bond proposal when our schools are already failing. So
you've got an eight percent property tax increase, a four
point four billion dollar bond proposal, as you noted, yet
another increase in our electric bill.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
It is unsustainable.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
You you are absolutely eating at the core of our
people in a way that that I wonder how many
people will will sit by for it. And you know,
I think of the old line that mice die and
mouse traps because they don't understand why the cheese is free,
(32:05):
and the same thing happens with socialism.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I wonder how many people realize.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
That all of the giveaway goodies, all of the self dealing,
whether it's the state government, the city government, the county government,
at some point the bill has to get paid.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
And that's I think that's where we are. What do
you do for living, Todd?
Speaker 6 (32:31):
I'm a business owner. I owned an industrial services company.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
What kind of industrial services?
Speaker 6 (32:38):
We work on trains? Primarily we clean them and maintain them.
All the cars, well, we don't work on the locomotives.
We work on the cars that actually take products to market.
So from the manufacturers to the you know, to the
distributors and so on.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
How did you get into that.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
I'm driving around one day and I thought somebody's got
to work on those things. That was thirty years ago.
Come on, no, seriously, Yeah, I'm just you know, I yeah,
I didn't go to school for anything. I'd just been
out there hustling. And we just celebrated thirty years in business, you.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Know, this past may.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
All right, I've got a drill down. What were you
doing when you were driving around? Did you have a job?
Speaker 6 (33:33):
You know, my partner and I we had started this
small business with a little pressure washer in the back
of a pickup truck.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Okay, I love it, I love you know.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
We were out there like, yeah, we were washing trucks,
we were washing houses, we were washing fences, you know.
And then you know, we got this idea to start
washing shopping carts at grocery.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Stores and that never worked out, that's okay.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
But and then we yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, absolutely.
You know, a lot a lot of ten times of
not taking paychecks or employees could.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
And how many employees do you know?
Speaker 6 (34:07):
But it's it's been sitting around sixty employees right now.
And no college, no, no, none, barely graduated high school.
But you know, I get up every day and I
go to work.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
What's the name of your business.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
Ems management man or you can find us at railcar
cleaning dot com.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
I love this story so much, Todd. I love this
story so much. Can you hang on for a second.
Sure this should give people hope. Now it's fast. Have
works his ass off. I guarantee you.
Speaker 10 (34:47):
But
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