December 9, 2025 • 31 mins
Michael Berry brings you the wild ride from the streets to the Senate. Texas politics is heating up with big personalities, bold moves, and stories behind the headlines.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air. So Sheila
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Jasmine Lee Crockett as announced she would run for the
United States Senate on the Democrat side, the sea occupied
by John Cornyan on behalf of the swamp, but he
will not win the upcoming primary, despite the fact that
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they will burn through one hundred million dollars. It could
have been used to win other races against actual Democrats.
Why is it so important that they pick their Republican,
a Republican who's running third in the polls. Why is
it so important that DC pick a Republican that is
not popular in the state he is supposed to be
representing after twenty years in office. Well you know the reason.
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But on the Democrat side, Jasmine Crockett has jumped into
the race. Dana Bash did a big, glowing profile. We'll
get into this this evening. But the media loves this
for the same reason we love it. It's an absolute
train wreck. We love it because this shows what happens
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in the Democrat This is the logical conclusion. You start
with your your bill, Clinton's full of emotion, empathy, sweetness,
policy solutions, roll up our sleeves and work hard and
solve the problem. You start there, you end up in
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gulags under the control of Jasmine Crockett. You end up
in the worst possible situation. You end up in a
place where your grandma or grandpa cannot have a funeral
when they died alone in the hospital because you weren't
allowed to visit at the very time they had three
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for Saint George Floyd. This is the logical conclusion. I
couldn't be happier because this force is a Republican's next
November to get out and vote, because this shows the
actual consequences. A Democrat who can hide what they're really
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intending to do and what they're willing to do when
pressed by their party is dangerous. A Beato O'Rourke or
Gavin Newsom who can smile and oh, we're all just
here together. James Talerico yesterday. You know, here's this guy,
white liberal who was the toast of the liberal establishment.
And then a loud mouth Cardi b black woman comes
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sasheing in just mouthing off, spouting off. The crazier the better,
and she knows this. It's not who she was before,
but she's figured out at work just like AOC did,
and they go, oh, well this thing fires. Hey, let
me try this again. Well, now they've all abandoned him
for her. Welcome to the party, James Talerico. This is
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what happens. White liberals are only useful for so long
because if we're going to scream racism, vote for the
Democrat because everybody else is racist. We'd rather have a
black woman doing it than you. Right. So now Taller
Eco's out there wondering why the entirety of the national
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media is covering her as if she's the only candidate running.
Look at me, I'm over here. Everybody has a vested
interest in Jasmine Crockett. The media loves it because they
love a train wreck, because it's great for ratings. The
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Democrats love it because this is how you get black
voters engaged. This is why they propped up Stacy Adams,
which was no small matter as a big girl. That's
why they do these sorts of things, because they're looking
at their slate and they're saying, for us to win
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the midterm, we've got to have some polarizing black candidates
who can just screech racism, racism, racism, black girl power,
and if we don't have that, then we may not
be able to turn out the black voters. And that's
what happened in twenty twenty four. People thought Kamala Harris
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could turn out black voters. She couldn't. Blacks didn't like her.
She has a likability problem. Jasmine Crockett when she started
on the scene, will be playing audio of this in
the coming months. She was attempting to speak in an
educated manner because I have a law degree, you see,
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and I am a black woman who is a strong,
smart Black woman who can represent in DC. She got
there and she figured out sassy black CARDI b that's
loud mouth, filthy mouth. That's what people want more of.
And so that's what she morphed into being once that
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persona took hold. This is a woman who proposed more
bills in her first term as congressman than any other congressman.
Now not one of them was passed, but she did
propose more bills. She La Jackson Lee used to do that.
There's a Houston Press story about it. She would just
keep throwing bills out there and then she would send
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out press releases. She's filed more bills than anyone else.
Anybody can file a bill, doesn't mean it's just walking
outside and screaming, doesn't mean anybody's actually doing anything about it.
But this will become and I would argue it'll be
good for the Republicans. This will become the media moment
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over the next several months until the March primary, and
you know that the CNNs and ms nows and they're
going to get behind this as a historic moment. It's
going to be a movie blockbuster. Does Shila Jackson Lee
wanna be Cardi b Jasmine Crocket.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
This selection season, Texas has a problem. Her name Jazzy
Jasmine Crocket.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
They call me the hoodrat Kindnessman from Texas.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
But Bibby, I'm about to be a hoodrat center from
the hood to the hulls of power. The Queen of
Crass will add her unique flare to the lone Stars State.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I'll put some hood in your neighborhood, Sugar.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
You see her on the evening news and you mistake
her for an eyewitness to a waffle house brawl. In reality,
she's pulling at one hundred percent among dead people.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Democracy's riding with me today.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
From the creators of the leaning Tower of weav at
Revenge of the isle Hog comes Jasmine Crockett Hood to
the Hill in Theaterre's this election season rated? Oh no,
she did?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I want to go back to Why of these women
are chiefs them? Michael Berry? I think that there might be,
because I've got nothing going on down there. Probably Shortly
before Jasmine the Crockett appeared on stage, a so called
rapper and named Cameron McLeod performed his horrible rap song
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about her, which included the line they only trying to
scare her out or running because they think she'd win.
That's it. The Crockett campaign with so proud of this
rap song they posted a recorded version of it with
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Jasmine Crockett sitting next to him. H Okay, I mean
I I guess that appeals to a certain demographic. Would
you like to hear it? Would you like to hear
the rapper at her announcement that they were so proud
of that, they then re recorded it at or recorded
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it and posted it. Well, here you go, and we're
gonna see how this go. All right, it's all ready,
let's get its a.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Okay, she ain't never scared, she ain't never been who
was willing to go toe to toe against the president.
I can't wrap my head around someone who both Republicans
she advocate for for getting kids, they protected both touching
them trumb and baden his own country with our army.
What did show we remember Pearl Harper by iligility Barman boats.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Which I thought we wasn't gonna do.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Nothing, buddy again, they only trying to scare out her
running because.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
They think you'll win.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Listen, thought I told y'all, we ain't never scared.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Now.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
The who name on the docket got two words for
every race is biggot Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah, that might be trued and all that history. The
words I see can I be blue? So which sage
you want to choose? To me?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I hope my money goes decided that isn't trying to
say for them, and of these, I hope she's stand
on business. Austen tost text the soap don't need no
more bad built, bleached blond bush bodies moving forward. So
some of the words messed up when I post it
on Instagram tonight, y'all just gonna.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Listen to y'all hear the words, y'all y'all go hear it.
Y'all gonna hear it. Y'all gonna hear this song makes
a nice for Jasmine Crockett one time. Y'all gonna know
what time it is Jazmine Crockett with this about y'all
gonna hear it when I post it. But y'all gonna know,
y'all gonna know this, wrap this rap hot. Y'all gonna
feel this one. They gonna feel this all the way
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to d C. I'm done. They don't feel it. They
don't feel Jasmine Crockett before I'm done. So Colin Already,
who was the front runner for the Senate seat, got
out of the race because because Jasmin Crockett wields more
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power than he does. And so Colin Already, who liked
to be mister tough guy before all this, has had
to admit that, well, if Jasmine Crockett tells me to
get out, I have to. I have to. I have
to get out here. He is on CNN talking about
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why it is he left the race because Jasmine Crockett
called and told him to.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Can you tell me about the conversation that you had
with your friend Jasmin Crockett how that went down and
how you made the decision to let her take the way.
I assume that's the way that you view this.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Well, I wouldn't say you that way. What it was
a professional, friendly conversation, and you know what I took
from that was that, you know, I needed to try
and decide what I thought would be best for the state,
for the party in a time and in a year
where there is so much at stake, and you know,
this is not a normal time, Dan, and your last
segment covering you know, three or four things that in
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any previous presidency would have been the biggest scandals of
the entire presidency. This is not a normal time. And
there are so many people who have met who are
so afraid, and in Texas we are bearing the brunt
of so many of these of this president's policies, from
the tariffs to the immigration, you know, impacts in so
many different communities, and there are so many people who
place their faith in their trust in me.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
There's literally nobody who places they're trusting you, Colin. There
are so many people out there and they're just they're
just counting on me. Who are you again, Colin all Red?
And I'm all they've got. You know, I'm and they're like,
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please protect us from Trump. There's something these people do.
They're not very smart. Colin al Red's not very smart. Actually,
Jasmine Crockett is five x the intelligence of Colin oil Red.
That's a fact. Colin hal Red's not a very smart guy.
He's kind of like John Kerrey for the Democrats. He
looks good on play paper. He's a ballplayer, but no
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one knew him as a paul player ballplayer, not like
he was a star. This isn't Tony Dorsett or Roger Staubach,
Earl Campbell. And he's very, very willing and eager to
say and do whatever he needs to do. In that sense,
he's he's a real good boy. You know when you
tell your dog, he's a real good boy. That's what
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he does what he's told. He sits when he's told
to sit, stays what he's told to stay. And that's
what Colin all Red was. He was a useful idiot
for the Democrat Party. And it turns out he was
more idiot than useful, and that's why he was cast aside.
Colin Allread. I remember I must have been in school
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back then because I remember him coming. Tony Sanchez was
running for governor. This must have been ninety four, and
he was a rich oil man from mu was it Laredo?
Where was Sanchez from? Anyway, he was a ritual oil
man and he wanted to be governor about five four,
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A little bity fellow, and he put together what was
supposed to be the dream team. They got Ron Kirk,
who was a black law firm partner, former state secretary
of State. They had a woman, they had a Hispanic,
they had a white guy. They had a gay guy,
probably I don't know. But so you had the dream
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team here. You had the United Colors of Benton because
every group was represented, so that would excite that demographic
of voters, except it didn't. Well that's Colin all Red.
He was supposed to be have He's supposed to be
able to draw blacks. He didn't. He didn't farewell with blacks.
He didn't didn't excite anybody black to vote. And sports
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fans nobody really knew who he was or care whatn like.
This guy had a fan following. And the problem is
when you got past the two things that were supposed
to be his assets as a candidate, he wasn't very smart.
That's not a good. It's not a good. He's not
exactly a three to two player there. So now he
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was going to run again because why not. Nobody else
is going to run because a Republican can't win. And
then Jasmine tells him to get out and he has
to say I wanted to avoid a bruising primary with
the ghetto girl. Seriously, we have all your formal where
needs from morning suits to coordinating excessor.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
If I'm did in nineteen eighty nine in Miami with
a distinctive text mechs and country blend.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Maybe some kunjunto thrown in that their collaboration with Flaco Jomenez.
The Mavericks had a smaller but similar following to The
Grateful Dead in that their fans would travel all over
the country to see them. Used to get a lot
of requests for the Mavericks. I couldn't make it make sense.
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They were twenty five thousand dollars and I would I
would float it out there. Who knew who the Mavericks
were and just weren't enough people that I felt we
could we could cover pre tend. Yeah, their music is
fantastic and they're following their consistency for thirty six years.
They have delivered fantastic live shows and they've been on
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the True for fifteen times. No Small Feet. Raul Malow,
their lead singer, has passed. He had been battling cancer
for quite some time. So no idea what that means
for the band, but it's not good. Some drama here
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in Harris County on the Republican side within the party itself,
there have been rumblings for years that the Harris County
Republican Party is under inept leadership. Now, I'll go back
to the early two thousands when I first started paying
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close attention to Harris County Republican Party politics as a party,
Gary Pollard was the party chairman. Gary was interestingly a
Jewish chrome defense attorney who managed, to his credit, men
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who understood that where the sleeping giant was was conservative
Christian Evangelical Christian conservatives. And to his credit, he managed
to push voters to the polls very hard and he
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got turnout. Now, not in city races, but in county races.
City races are during off years. It's why it's very
hard for Republicans to get elected citywide and on the
City of Houston. In the City of Houston, Republicans tend
to vote every quadrenial every four years for president. Hard
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to get Republicans to show up and vote for midterms
was what we have coming up this coming November. It's
even harder to get them to vote in an off
year election in the city. A lot of City of
Houston Republicans don't think of themselves as living in the
City of Houston. I know this, I ran for office.
I'm telling you. You can get folks in clear Laighton
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Kingwood to vote. You can get folks on the west
side of Memorial to vote, but even there, nothing like
you can get them to vote during a presidential election.
So the party under Pollard was actually pretty well organized
and winning a lot of elections. There were some there
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were some big wins, and there was a lot of
excitement around the party. And then Pollard lost his way.
He started getting court appointments from the judges that were
on the bench at the time. I was very involved
in party politics at the time. I had a great
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relationship with Rick Perry. We spoke often, and I had
a group of peers that were coming up and I
would make calls to the governor or he would call
me and ask me about him, and we would talk
about folks that would end up getting put on the
bench that, by the way, turned out to be great judges.
In fact, one of those judges who was a great
judge at the time was Jeff Brown, who was a friend,
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who was a conservative, who was well respected. He's smart.
So Jeff Brown wandering off the reservation on this redistricting
case recently was not only disappointing because it threatened the redistricting,
it was disappointing because I've known the man for so long.
This was very out of character for him to side
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with the Democrat, and Jerry Smith's scathing sent in that
case laid it all bare. He was not going to
allow this to happen without it seeing the light of day.
I don't know what happened to Jeff Smith, to Jeff Brown.
I'm disappointing. I'm angry because it look politics affects other people,
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but this was an issue that affected the entire country,
and for him to do this as some sort of
shot at Donald Trump, the man who by the way,
nominated him, was very disappointing. We were putting good judges
on the bench, guy named Grant Dorfmann, one of the
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smartest guys I've ever known to take the bench. Brilliant guy.
Was not a retail politician type, not a hell fellow,
well met, not a guy that was great at showing
up at events, just a really smart, truly conservative jurist.
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A lot of folks go into a lot of folks
end up serving on the bench. Affects, especially an elected
bench like this, who are not necessarily the sharpest pencil
in the pack, but they glad hand well and remember
names and raise a little money and hopefully the party
wins and they get elected. You had Ken Wise again,
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another true conservative Texas proud constitutionalist judge during this time,
also very smart guy. You had a series of the
Jennifer Walker l Rod who ended up ended up on
the Fifth Circuit, went to the became a federal judge,
and then Fifth sertit. So all of us sort of
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ran together, and I was very happy at that time
to have a little clout with the governor and be
able to push their nominations along with a lot of
other people. I'm not trying to take complete credit for that.
And they were smart people who deserved to be on
the bench and it was a good time. The Harris
County Bench had some really good judges on it, Brock
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Thomas on the on the Criminal Court, judge Stephen Saint James.
I mean there were there were good people in office.
We controlled the District Attorney's office, we had four of
the five on the County Commissioner's Court. And then Pollard.
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In my opinion, Pollard lost his way over trying to
make some money and he started just focusing on getting
appointments from the judges that he had helped get on
the bench. It was a real conflict and a lot
of people were complaining about it. Next in line was
Jared woodfull Well, the Texans for Lawsuit Reformed. People were
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uncomfortable with this because this guy is a planiff's attorney,
so you went from a defense attorney, which to a
planiffs attorney. But again I think Jared did a pretty
good job and the party was in much better shape,
which brings us to where we are now and the
party is absolutely in shambles. To the Michael Berrie, did
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I Hollard? There were people correcting me as Pollen.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
I know.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
If I said Pollard Ramone says, I did say Pollard.
I know it's Gary polland I knew Gary polland very well.
He still does this little pay for play deal where
you apparently pay him money and he writes a nice
article about you and they mail it out to the
UH to the base. They tell you, these are the
conservative candidates that loved Jesus and Texas in America. Sort
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of odd, but okay. Alan Blakemore used to be associated
with polland boy, they thought they had the whole world.
But as bad as things were, we were. We were
winning the races and holding the bench and Commissioner's court.
And then it changed under Jared Woodfull who despite being
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a planning's attorney, which made the tort reformed people very upset,
and she did a pretty good job. And then Paul
Simpson came in and I don't know what happened. I
sort of tuned out from the local party. Paul had
been like the treasurer. Paul always struck me as the
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nicest guy in the world. I later heard from a
lot of people who were very critical of his leadership
of the organization. It's a volunteer position, but it's a
very important position. The party chairman is the one that,
among other things, goes out and recruits candidates to fill
these seats so that we have candidates for every position,
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and the one who kind of mediates arguments over who
should run for this seat and helps candidates find the
right seat for them so that we get the most
folks elected in the right folks in the right positions
can be an important position. But then Cindy Siegel ran.
I didn't know Cindy Siegel. She had run for Congress
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and lost. She's in bel Air. I'd heard she was
a nice lady and a very ethical lady. That's all
i'd heard. I think my friend Tim Belton was the
first person who bring her my attention. I met her,
she appeared to be a very nice lady. I couldn't
say much more than that because I didn't have any
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deep conversations with her. But I started noticing the cracks.
I started noticing, for instance, we weren't filling the judicial seats.
If we have benches for which we don't put a
Republican candidate up, we can't win that seat. Rodney goes
and gets candidates. Rodney is the de facto Democrat party chair,
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and so much more. But he goes and gets candidates.
They might be a real estate agent who's never practiced law,
but he makes sure they win. Then I started hearing
things from people who said that they had wanted to
run for a judicial seat and they were told they
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weren't qualified, and then they were angry when they found
out that no one filed for that seat. Well, you know,
you're more qualified than the Democrat who was a real
estate agent who's never practiced law to be a judge.
Are you kidding me? So I started noticing disgruntled people
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within the party started sending me, Hey, notice how many
of these seats didn't have any filings. And then I
was told, well, Cindy Siegal's defense was that she talked
to you on your show, and I think at that
point we had spoken one time. Nobody told me that
it was my job to go recruit all these candidates.
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Every election season, I'd remind people, this is how you file.
Somebody needs to serve. Why wouldn't it be you? But
that's not my all day, everyday job. You've got a budget,
you've got staff, you've got headquarters, you've got brand. Get
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candidates to recruit other candidates. Now being worse than an
absolute blood bath in the Republican primaries of candidates against
each other. It's not having candidates at all, and that's
what we've ended up doing. All the while we've ended
up losing Commissioner's Court. Where's the party been? I was
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talking to Alex Meeler daily during that race. Wasn't much
coming from the party. I've talked to people about what's
going on with the Commissioner's Court. Where's the party been?
The Harris County Judiciary, the civil courts and criminal courts?
Where are the candidates? Where's the party? I did speak
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in an event at Federal American Grill that I don't
know if that was coordinated by the party or by
the judges. Jessica Cologne reached out. I don't do those
things very often. I did agree to do it, and
I thought it was a very good event. I think
we raised quite a bit of money. It was a
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tough election season. We did pick off a couple of seats.
I'm not angry over that. In fact, I don't take
any of it very personally. However, if we're not getting
the job done, it's time to make a change. This
isn't a social position in a small town. It's a
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very important tactical and execution position. It's a head coaching job.
And it does not appear that Candy Siegel is the candidate.
Is a person who can handle that job. The numbers
speak for themselves. It's nothing personal. The numbers speak for themselves.
Candidates aren't being recruited. I think there are four candidates
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who are running. I know Rachel Palmer Hooper very well.
She's the general counsel of the State Republican Party and
she's one of those people who nobody ever knows their name,
but they get all the work done. To his credit,
Michael quinn Sullivan at Texas Scorecard does a wonderful job.
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He gives an award every year. It's pretty cool award.
He give him like a story. Senate give him a sword.
Mary Tally Boden won it a couple of years ago.
And it's for people who advance advocacy in the name
of Texas values or in the name of liberty, and
it's people like Mary Tally Boden. Well. I had heard
that Mary Tally Boden was going to file for a
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precint chair position. I don't know if she did. I
hope she did. That'd be a whop. But anyway, Rachel
Hooper's husband, Don has filed and that's going to be interesting.
Somebody told me there were four candidates who ran in there.
I saw a picture of Don that I guess Rachel
had put out. That was him pointing at his name,
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but it was a grainy picture. I couldn't tell it.
You couldn't read the board. I don't know if that
means there were four candidates or what. But I would
tell you that the number of people who vote in
the primary goes way down, which makes your vote much
more valuable. So I would ask you to begin slowly.
You don't have to pick a candidate in every race overnight,
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first one that you get mail from, or the first
website you show up on. But we've got to have
a great turnout in this primary, and we've got to
get this right because we've got to win next November.
We have got to win next November.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Very Show is on the air. So Sheila
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Jasmine Lee Crockett as announced she would run for the
United States Senate on the Democrat side, the sea occupied
by John Cornyan on behalf of the swamp, but he
will not win the upcoming primary, despite the fact that
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they will burn through one hundred million dollars. It could
have been used to win other races against actual Democrats.
Why is it so important that they pick their Republican,
a Republican who's running third in the polls. Why is
it so important that DC pick a Republican that is
not popular in the state he is supposed to be
representing after twenty years in office. Well you know the reason.
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But on the Democrat side, Jasmine Crockett has jumped into
the race. Dana Bash did a big, glowing profile. We'll
get into this this evening. But the media loves this
for the same reason we love it. It's an absolute
train wreck. We love it because this shows what happens
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in the Democrat This is the logical conclusion. You start
with your your bill, Clinton's full of emotion, empathy, sweetness,
policy solutions, roll up our sleeves and work hard and
solve the problem. You start there, you end up in
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gulags under the control of Jasmine Crockett. You end up
in the worst possible situation. You end up in a
place where your grandma or grandpa cannot have a funeral
when they died alone in the hospital because you weren't
allowed to visit at the very time they had three
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for Saint George Floyd. This is the logical conclusion. I
couldn't be happier because this force is a Republican's next
November to get out and vote, because this shows the
actual consequences. A Democrat who can hide what they're really
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intending to do and what they're willing to do when
pressed by their party is dangerous. A Beato O'Rourke or
Gavin Newsom who can smile and oh, we're all just
here together. James Talerico yesterday. You know, here's this guy,
white liberal who was the toast of the liberal establishment.
And then a loud mouth Cardi b black woman comes
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sasheing in just mouthing off, spouting off. The crazier the better,
and she knows this. It's not who she was before,
but she's figured out at work just like AOC did,
and they go, oh, well this thing fires. Hey, let
me try this again. Well, now they've all abandoned him
for her. Welcome to the party, James Talerico. This is
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what happens. White liberals are only useful for so long
because if we're going to scream racism, vote for the
Democrat because everybody else is racist. We'd rather have a
black woman doing it than you. Right. So now Taller
Eco's out there wondering why the entirety of the national
(04:14):
media is covering her as if she's the only candidate running.
Look at me, I'm over here. Everybody has a vested
interest in Jasmine Crockett. The media loves it because they
love a train wreck, because it's great for ratings. The
(04:36):
Democrats love it because this is how you get black
voters engaged. This is why they propped up Stacy Adams,
which was no small matter as a big girl. That's
why they do these sorts of things, because they're looking
at their slate and they're saying, for us to win
(04:59):
the midterm, we've got to have some polarizing black candidates
who can just screech racism, racism, racism, black girl power,
and if we don't have that, then we may not
be able to turn out the black voters. And that's
what happened in twenty twenty four. People thought Kamala Harris
(05:21):
could turn out black voters. She couldn't. Blacks didn't like her.
She has a likability problem. Jasmine Crockett when she started
on the scene, will be playing audio of this in
the coming months. She was attempting to speak in an
educated manner because I have a law degree, you see,
(05:41):
and I am a black woman who is a strong,
smart Black woman who can represent in DC. She got
there and she figured out sassy black CARDI b that's
loud mouth, filthy mouth. That's what people want more of.
And so that's what she morphed into being once that
(06:08):
persona took hold. This is a woman who proposed more
bills in her first term as congressman than any other congressman.
Now not one of them was passed, but she did
propose more bills. She La Jackson Lee used to do that.
There's a Houston Press story about it. She would just
keep throwing bills out there and then she would send
(06:31):
out press releases. She's filed more bills than anyone else.
Anybody can file a bill, doesn't mean it's just walking
outside and screaming, doesn't mean anybody's actually doing anything about it.
But this will become and I would argue it'll be
good for the Republicans. This will become the media moment
(06:53):
over the next several months until the March primary, and
you know that the CNNs and ms nows and they're
going to get behind this as a historic moment. It's
going to be a movie blockbuster. Does Shila Jackson Lee
wanna be Cardi b Jasmine Crocket.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
This selection season, Texas has a problem. Her name Jazzy
Jasmine Crocket.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
They call me the hoodrat Kindnessman from Texas.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
But Bibby, I'm about to be a hoodrat center from
the hood to the hulls of power. The Queen of
Crass will add her unique flare to the lone Stars State.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I'll put some hood in your neighborhood, Sugar.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
You see her on the evening news and you mistake
her for an eyewitness to a waffle house brawl. In reality,
she's pulling at one hundred percent among dead people.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Democracy's riding with me today.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
From the creators of the leaning Tower of weav at
Revenge of the isle Hog comes Jasmine Crockett Hood to
the Hill in Theaterre's this election season rated? Oh no,
she did?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I want to go back to Why of these women
are chiefs them? Michael Berry? I think that there might be,
because I've got nothing going on down there. Probably Shortly
before Jasmine the Crockett appeared on stage, a so called
rapper and named Cameron McLeod performed his horrible rap song
(08:44):
about her, which included the line they only trying to
scare her out or running because they think she'd win.
That's it. The Crockett campaign with so proud of this
rap song they posted a recorded version of it with
(09:08):
Jasmine Crockett sitting next to him. H Okay, I mean
I I guess that appeals to a certain demographic. Would
you like to hear it? Would you like to hear
the rapper at her announcement that they were so proud
of that, they then re recorded it at or recorded
(09:29):
it and posted it. Well, here you go, and we're
gonna see how this go. All right, it's all ready,
let's get its a.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Okay, she ain't never scared, she ain't never been who
was willing to go toe to toe against the president.
I can't wrap my head around someone who both Republicans
she advocate for for getting kids, they protected both touching
them trumb and baden his own country with our army.
What did show we remember Pearl Harper by iligility Barman boats.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Which I thought we wasn't gonna do.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Nothing, buddy again, they only trying to scare out her
running because.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
They think you'll win.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Listen, thought I told y'all, we ain't never scared.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Now.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
The who name on the docket got two words for
every race is biggot Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah, that might be trued and all that history. The
words I see can I be blue? So which sage
you want to choose? To me?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I hope my money goes decided that isn't trying to
say for them, and of these, I hope she's stand
on business. Austen tost text the soap don't need no
more bad built, bleached blond bush bodies moving forward. So
some of the words messed up when I post it
on Instagram tonight, y'all just gonna.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Listen to y'all hear the words, y'all y'all go hear it.
Y'all gonna hear it. Y'all gonna hear this song makes
a nice for Jasmine Crockett one time. Y'all gonna know
what time it is Jazmine Crockett with this about y'all
gonna hear it when I post it. But y'all gonna know,
y'all gonna know this, wrap this rap hot. Y'all gonna
feel this one. They gonna feel this all the way
(10:58):
to d C. I'm done. They don't feel it. They
don't feel Jasmine Crockett before I'm done. So Colin Already,
who was the front runner for the Senate seat, got
out of the race because because Jasmin Crockett wields more
(11:21):
power than he does. And so Colin Already, who liked
to be mister tough guy before all this, has had
to admit that, well, if Jasmine Crockett tells me to
get out, I have to. I have to. I have
to get out here. He is on CNN talking about
(11:46):
why it is he left the race because Jasmine Crockett
called and told him to.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Can you tell me about the conversation that you had
with your friend Jasmin Crockett how that went down and
how you made the decision to let her take the way.
I assume that's the way that you view this.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Well, I wouldn't say you that way. What it was
a professional, friendly conversation, and you know what I took
from that was that, you know, I needed to try
and decide what I thought would be best for the state,
for the party in a time and in a year
where there is so much at stake, and you know,
this is not a normal time, Dan, and your last
segment covering you know, three or four things that in
(12:26):
any previous presidency would have been the biggest scandals of
the entire presidency. This is not a normal time. And
there are so many people who have met who are
so afraid, and in Texas we are bearing the brunt
of so many of these of this president's policies, from
the tariffs to the immigration, you know, impacts in so
many different communities, and there are so many people who
place their faith in their trust in me.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
There's literally nobody who places they're trusting you, Colin. There
are so many people out there and they're just they're
just counting on me. Who are you again, Colin all Red?
And I'm all they've got. You know, I'm and they're like,
(13:09):
please protect us from Trump. There's something these people do.
They're not very smart. Colin al Red's not very smart. Actually,
Jasmine Crockett is five x the intelligence of Colin oil Red.
That's a fact. Colin hal Red's not a very smart guy.
He's kind of like John Kerrey for the Democrats. He
looks good on play paper. He's a ballplayer, but no
(13:33):
one knew him as a paul player ballplayer, not like
he was a star. This isn't Tony Dorsett or Roger Staubach,
Earl Campbell. And he's very, very willing and eager to
say and do whatever he needs to do. In that sense,
he's he's a real good boy. You know when you
tell your dog, he's a real good boy. That's what
(13:53):
he does what he's told. He sits when he's told
to sit, stays what he's told to stay. And that's
what Colin all Red was. He was a useful idiot
for the Democrat Party. And it turns out he was
more idiot than useful, and that's why he was cast aside.
Colin Allread. I remember I must have been in school
(14:15):
back then because I remember him coming. Tony Sanchez was
running for governor. This must have been ninety four, and
he was a rich oil man from mu was it Laredo?
Where was Sanchez from? Anyway, he was a ritual oil
man and he wanted to be governor about five four,
(14:37):
A little bity fellow, and he put together what was
supposed to be the dream team. They got Ron Kirk,
who was a black law firm partner, former state secretary
of State. They had a woman, they had a Hispanic,
they had a white guy. They had a gay guy,
probably I don't know. But so you had the dream
(14:58):
team here. You had the United Colors of Benton because
every group was represented, so that would excite that demographic
of voters, except it didn't. Well that's Colin all Red.
He was supposed to be have He's supposed to be
able to draw blacks. He didn't. He didn't farewell with blacks.
He didn't didn't excite anybody black to vote. And sports
(15:19):
fans nobody really knew who he was or care whatn like.
This guy had a fan following. And the problem is
when you got past the two things that were supposed
to be his assets as a candidate, he wasn't very smart.
That's not a good. It's not a good. He's not
exactly a three to two player there. So now he
(15:41):
was going to run again because why not. Nobody else
is going to run because a Republican can't win. And
then Jasmine tells him to get out and he has
to say I wanted to avoid a bruising primary with
the ghetto girl. Seriously, we have all your formal where
needs from morning suits to coordinating excessor.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
If I'm did in nineteen eighty nine in Miami with
a distinctive text mechs and country blend.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Maybe some kunjunto thrown in that their collaboration with Flaco Jomenez.
The Mavericks had a smaller but similar following to The
Grateful Dead in that their fans would travel all over
the country to see them. Used to get a lot
of requests for the Mavericks. I couldn't make it make sense.
(16:36):
They were twenty five thousand dollars and I would I
would float it out there. Who knew who the Mavericks
were and just weren't enough people that I felt we
could we could cover pre tend. Yeah, their music is
fantastic and they're following their consistency for thirty six years.
They have delivered fantastic live shows and they've been on
(16:59):
the True for fifteen times. No Small Feet. Raul Malow,
their lead singer, has passed. He had been battling cancer
for quite some time. So no idea what that means
for the band, but it's not good. Some drama here
(17:23):
in Harris County on the Republican side within the party itself,
there have been rumblings for years that the Harris County
Republican Party is under inept leadership. Now, I'll go back
to the early two thousands when I first started paying
(17:45):
close attention to Harris County Republican Party politics as a party,
Gary Pollard was the party chairman. Gary was interestingly a
Jewish chrome defense attorney who managed, to his credit, men
(18:06):
who understood that where the sleeping giant was was conservative
Christian Evangelical Christian conservatives. And to his credit, he managed
to push voters to the polls very hard and he
(18:27):
got turnout. Now, not in city races, but in county races.
City races are during off years. It's why it's very
hard for Republicans to get elected citywide and on the
City of Houston. In the City of Houston, Republicans tend
to vote every quadrenial every four years for president. Hard
(18:52):
to get Republicans to show up and vote for midterms
was what we have coming up this coming November. It's
even harder to get them to vote in an off
year election in the city. A lot of City of
Houston Republicans don't think of themselves as living in the
City of Houston. I know this, I ran for office.
I'm telling you. You can get folks in clear Laighton
(19:12):
Kingwood to vote. You can get folks on the west
side of Memorial to vote, but even there, nothing like
you can get them to vote during a presidential election.
So the party under Pollard was actually pretty well organized
and winning a lot of elections. There were some there
(19:36):
were some big wins, and there was a lot of
excitement around the party. And then Pollard lost his way.
He started getting court appointments from the judges that were
on the bench at the time. I was very involved
in party politics at the time. I had a great
(19:57):
relationship with Rick Perry. We spoke often, and I had
a group of peers that were coming up and I
would make calls to the governor or he would call
me and ask me about him, and we would talk
about folks that would end up getting put on the
bench that, by the way, turned out to be great judges.
In fact, one of those judges who was a great
judge at the time was Jeff Brown, who was a friend,
(20:21):
who was a conservative, who was well respected. He's smart.
So Jeff Brown wandering off the reservation on this redistricting
case recently was not only disappointing because it threatened the redistricting,
it was disappointing because I've known the man for so long.
This was very out of character for him to side
(20:44):
with the Democrat, and Jerry Smith's scathing sent in that
case laid it all bare. He was not going to
allow this to happen without it seeing the light of day.
I don't know what happened to Jeff Smith, to Jeff Brown.
I'm disappointing. I'm angry because it look politics affects other people,
(21:07):
but this was an issue that affected the entire country,
and for him to do this as some sort of
shot at Donald Trump, the man who by the way,
nominated him, was very disappointing. We were putting good judges
on the bench, guy named Grant Dorfmann, one of the
(21:28):
smartest guys I've ever known to take the bench. Brilliant guy.
Was not a retail politician type, not a hell fellow,
well met, not a guy that was great at showing
up at events, just a really smart, truly conservative jurist.
(21:50):
A lot of folks go into a lot of folks
end up serving on the bench. Affects, especially an elected
bench like this, who are not necessarily the sharpest pencil
in the pack, but they glad hand well and remember
names and raise a little money and hopefully the party
wins and they get elected. You had Ken Wise again,
(22:11):
another true conservative Texas proud constitutionalist judge during this time,
also very smart guy. You had a series of the
Jennifer Walker l Rod who ended up ended up on
the Fifth Circuit, went to the became a federal judge,
and then Fifth sertit. So all of us sort of
(22:32):
ran together, and I was very happy at that time
to have a little clout with the governor and be
able to push their nominations along with a lot of
other people. I'm not trying to take complete credit for that.
And they were smart people who deserved to be on
the bench and it was a good time. The Harris
County Bench had some really good judges on it, Brock
(22:52):
Thomas on the on the Criminal Court, judge Stephen Saint James.
I mean there were there were good people in office.
We controlled the District Attorney's office, we had four of
the five on the County Commissioner's Court. And then Pollard.
(23:13):
In my opinion, Pollard lost his way over trying to
make some money and he started just focusing on getting
appointments from the judges that he had helped get on
the bench. It was a real conflict and a lot
of people were complaining about it. Next in line was
Jared woodfull Well, the Texans for Lawsuit Reformed. People were
(23:37):
uncomfortable with this because this guy is a planiff's attorney,
so you went from a defense attorney, which to a
planiffs attorney. But again I think Jared did a pretty
good job and the party was in much better shape,
which brings us to where we are now and the
party is absolutely in shambles. To the Michael Berrie, did
(24:03):
I Hollard? There were people correcting me as Pollen.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
I know.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
If I said Pollard Ramone says, I did say Pollard.
I know it's Gary polland I knew Gary polland very well.
He still does this little pay for play deal where
you apparently pay him money and he writes a nice
article about you and they mail it out to the
UH to the base. They tell you, these are the
conservative candidates that loved Jesus and Texas in America. Sort
(24:36):
of odd, but okay. Alan Blakemore used to be associated
with polland boy, they thought they had the whole world.
But as bad as things were, we were. We were
winning the races and holding the bench and Commissioner's court.
And then it changed under Jared Woodfull who despite being
(25:03):
a planning's attorney, which made the tort reformed people very upset,
and she did a pretty good job. And then Paul
Simpson came in and I don't know what happened. I
sort of tuned out from the local party. Paul had
been like the treasurer. Paul always struck me as the
(25:24):
nicest guy in the world. I later heard from a
lot of people who were very critical of his leadership
of the organization. It's a volunteer position, but it's a
very important position. The party chairman is the one that,
among other things, goes out and recruits candidates to fill
these seats so that we have candidates for every position,
(25:47):
and the one who kind of mediates arguments over who
should run for this seat and helps candidates find the
right seat for them so that we get the most
folks elected in the right folks in the right positions
can be an important position. But then Cindy Siegel ran.
I didn't know Cindy Siegel. She had run for Congress
(26:12):
and lost. She's in bel Air. I'd heard she was
a nice lady and a very ethical lady. That's all
i'd heard. I think my friend Tim Belton was the
first person who bring her my attention. I met her,
she appeared to be a very nice lady. I couldn't
say much more than that because I didn't have any
(26:33):
deep conversations with her. But I started noticing the cracks.
I started noticing, for instance, we weren't filling the judicial seats.
If we have benches for which we don't put a
Republican candidate up, we can't win that seat. Rodney goes
and gets candidates. Rodney is the de facto Democrat party chair,
(26:55):
and so much more. But he goes and gets candidates.
They might be a real estate agent who's never practiced law,
but he makes sure they win. Then I started hearing
things from people who said that they had wanted to
run for a judicial seat and they were told they
(27:15):
weren't qualified, and then they were angry when they found
out that no one filed for that seat. Well, you know,
you're more qualified than the Democrat who was a real
estate agent who's never practiced law to be a judge.
Are you kidding me? So I started noticing disgruntled people
(27:36):
within the party started sending me, Hey, notice how many
of these seats didn't have any filings. And then I
was told, well, Cindy Siegal's defense was that she talked
to you on your show, and I think at that
point we had spoken one time. Nobody told me that
it was my job to go recruit all these candidates.
(27:58):
Every election season, I'd remind people, this is how you file.
Somebody needs to serve. Why wouldn't it be you? But
that's not my all day, everyday job. You've got a budget,
you've got staff, you've got headquarters, you've got brand. Get
(28:19):
candidates to recruit other candidates. Now being worse than an
absolute blood bath in the Republican primaries of candidates against
each other. It's not having candidates at all, and that's
what we've ended up doing. All the while we've ended
up losing Commissioner's Court. Where's the party been? I was
(28:45):
talking to Alex Meeler daily during that race. Wasn't much
coming from the party. I've talked to people about what's
going on with the Commissioner's Court. Where's the party been?
The Harris County Judiciary, the civil courts and criminal courts?
Where are the candidates? Where's the party? I did speak
(29:07):
in an event at Federal American Grill that I don't
know if that was coordinated by the party or by
the judges. Jessica Cologne reached out. I don't do those
things very often. I did agree to do it, and
I thought it was a very good event. I think
we raised quite a bit of money. It was a
(29:28):
tough election season. We did pick off a couple of seats.
I'm not angry over that. In fact, I don't take
any of it very personally. However, if we're not getting
the job done, it's time to make a change. This
isn't a social position in a small town. It's a
(29:50):
very important tactical and execution position. It's a head coaching job.
And it does not appear that Candy Siegel is the candidate.
Is a person who can handle that job. The numbers
speak for themselves. It's nothing personal. The numbers speak for themselves.
Candidates aren't being recruited. I think there are four candidates
(30:11):
who are running. I know Rachel Palmer Hooper very well.
She's the general counsel of the State Republican Party and
she's one of those people who nobody ever knows their name,
but they get all the work done. To his credit,
Michael quinn Sullivan at Texas Scorecard does a wonderful job.
(30:35):
He gives an award every year. It's pretty cool award.
He give him like a story. Senate give him a sword.
Mary Tally Boden won it a couple of years ago.
And it's for people who advance advocacy in the name
of Texas values or in the name of liberty, and
it's people like Mary Tally Boden. Well. I had heard
that Mary Tally Boden was going to file for a
(30:57):
precint chair position. I don't know if she did. I
hope she did. That'd be a whop. But anyway, Rachel
Hooper's husband, Don has filed and that's going to be interesting.
Somebody told me there were four candidates who ran in there.
I saw a picture of Don that I guess Rachel
had put out. That was him pointing at his name,
(31:18):
but it was a grainy picture. I couldn't tell it.
You couldn't read the board. I don't know if that
means there were four candidates or what. But I would
tell you that the number of people who vote in
the primary goes way down, which makes your vote much
more valuable. So I would ask you to begin slowly.
You don't have to pick a candidate in every race overnight,
(31:39):
first one that you get mail from, or the first
website you show up on. But we've got to have
a great turnout in this primary, and we've got to
get this right because we've got to win next November.
We have got to win next November.
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