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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air. With today being
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the Veterans Day, the city of Houston will host a
Veterans Day parade called Houston Salutes American Heroes Parade, which
will begin at eleven thirty am today in downtown Houston.
Of course, right well, I'll remind you that during the
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Silvester Turner administration, it was not uncommon to simply refuse
to host a parade for our veterans. We found out
and within forty eight hours had at the RCC a
veterans parade. It wasn't the biggest, it wasn't the Macy's
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Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, but in less than
forty eight hours we pulled together a parade in front
of the RCC. Lauren Cole, who was running the RCC
for us, absolutely without sleep, put together. I bet you
we had. I don't want to exaggerate how many, how
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many vehicles, floats or the like in their six million ramon.
I don't want to exaggerate. I don't know. It was
a lot, and in order for full effect, made it
about three blocks long and we looped them about three times.
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It was the kind of thing you'd make fun of
in a small town where they really don't have enough
going on in a small town to host a parade
or I remember when when my kids were in elementary school,
that have a parade, the Transportation Day parade, and that
have the local police department and the fire department bring
out a fire truck and a police department, bring out
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a swat truck, and maybe a garbage truck and a
public works truck, and some other guy would have an
eighteen wheeler or whatever. They'd make the loop in front
of the school. It was the cutest darn thing you've
ever seen. Well, this was like that, but bigger, believe
it or not. It was such a pent up interest,
and the local news stations ran a story that because
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city of Houston that year had decided to spit in
the face of veterans, that we were throwing something together.
So all these people reached out and wanted to help,
and we did it at night. I don't know why
the well, no, I don't know why we did. We
did it before a concert because then we knew we
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had an audience. Because you don't want to host a
parade and you got nobody on the sidewalks, so we
did it before and it was a big show, and
I think we ended up if you had a ticket already, great,
If you didn't, you could if you came to the
parade to get into the show, and it was it
was like a Jamie Johnson level show and it ended
up being something special. You know, the energy behind something
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like that is something special. I do want to note
we lost a firefighter, the eighty third Houston firefighter to
die in the line of duty, Marcelo Garcia. The third
only forty two years old. It was an empty warehouse
on Polk near Waystside on the East End. The woman
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who is now charged with felony. The charge at this
point is a first degree arson charge, which means she
intentionally set the fire. Yesenia Espinosa, thirty eight years old.
There is a public viewing tomorrow from five to nine
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at Forest Park Lawndale Funeral Home. That's a beautiful part
of Houston, the kind of old what is that Glen
View whatever that's called right there where Forest Park is.
That's one of the neighborhood has kind of gone down
over the years, but it's one of the naturally beautiful
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and kind of historic parts of Houston. I like it
a lot. The funeral itself will be Wednesday at nine
am at the Sacred Heart Co Cathedral, which is at
the edge of downtown. If you are a firefighter, firefighter
family member, or just a member of the public who
wants to a tend if you're going to go to
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a firefighter's funeral, I would tell you and you're available
on Wednesday morning to be there to support the family.
Get there early and stay late. That Co Cathedral, the
Sacred Heart Co Cathedral, it's at eleven eleven Saint Joseph Parkway.
That is See, this is a problem when an idea
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pops into your head and then you don't have time
to think about it. I dare say that is the
most beautiful, glorious house of worship in our region. And
let me confirm that that's true. Grace is large until
their credit. Grace always opens up for firefighters, police officer funerals.
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Second Baptist does the same. Second Baptist is the original
campus at Woodway and Voss is a beautiful, beautiful campus,
especially if you pull back and you see the couple
on top where the bushes go That's a pretty one.
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Is that Saint Martin right there on is that wood
way that is? That is a very very beautiful house
of worship. Yes, Yes, and an architectural style looks like
you're walking on the campus of Yale. Saint Martin's. Is
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that what I said? Did didn't I say? Saint Martin's. Yeah,
Saint Martin's is. I'll tell you one that people don't
seem to know about. It never comes up is christ
Church downtown. It's not much to look at outside, but
when you walk inside it is all wood all the
way up and down. That is an exquisite, exquisite. Sure,
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I'm not sure you really need a church to be
a beautiful thing to honor God. I really don't. But
in terms of houses of worship that are beautiful, that
Sacred Heart Co Cathedral is is something special that was
being built while I was on city Council and it
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was I remember the fundraising drive for that, and I
would look at the names of the people who were
donating to see who was and it was Hoi POLLOI
of Houston Catholic families, most of them Italian, you know,
Carabas and and those I don't know if the Carobas
were involved, but it was a lot of the the
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the old Catholic families, most of which were of his
of Italian herodage. Probably some Irish thrown in there too.
The other one that's very pretty is the one that
is Tim Belton goes there. What's it called Holy Rosary.
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Holy Rosary is a much smaller scale, but that's a pretty,
very pretty church in the Midtown area. Michael Petru's daughter
el got married there. That is a that's a beauty.
But that Sacred Heart, that is a that is a
that will be a beautiful send off to Marcelo Garcia
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the third, only forty two years old. This Yosinnia Espinosa,
who's set this fire, she should burn in hell. She
really should burn in hell for setting a fire. Allegedly
that led to the death of this this ten year
firefighting veteran. When President Trump is back in office the
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Michael Verry Show, He's gonna wipe you off the face
of the earth. Your daughter and a letter from home.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I hold it up and shown my buddies like we
ain't scared enough.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Same body, and they all.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Like like or something funny about the way I all
Harris County is moving more and more Republican. In twenty sixteen,
Hillary took Harris County seven hundred seven thousand to five
forty five for Trump. In twenty twenty, when they cheated,
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it was nine hundred and eighteen thousand to seven hundred
thousand for Trump. In twenty twenty four, where it's harder
to cheat, it was eight oh two to seventy two.
So Trump got four forty seven percent this time, up
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from forty one percent back in sixteen and forty two
percent in twenty twenty. In fact, there were some big
wins in Harris County. I will endeavor to announce when
ballot positioning is open. It's one of those kind of
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weird things because the general public doesn't think about elections
as far out from the election as you need to
to file, and that's just the nature of the business.
You don't think about, you know, running for a seat
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unless you were a person. And there's just a sort
of cabale of people who they just keep running, and
you'll see people they're on the this time, they're on
the bout last time. There are people that I ran against,
and I ran in one to three to five, winning
all three times. There are people who I ran against
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for city council that are still running to this day
and have never won a seat. They're just perennial candidates.
They don't raise any money. They drive around to all
the debates, which, by the way, going to debates for
down ballot races is the biggest waste of time. You
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can do it. It's not going to hurt, but it's
not going to help. I tell candidates this, and they
never listen. You've got to raise money. You got to
keep it out of the hands of the consultants because
they will waste it on themselves. They got a house
note too. Like the guy that comes back from the doctor.
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Doctor says, I gotta have surgery. Did he even bother
to see you before that? Don't laugh, Michael. He says
I got to have her. They gotta have it. They
gonna rush me right into surgery. I bet they are
his mortgages. Do don't say that, Michael, doctor said it's bad.
Let me ask you this. If you were a doctor
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and you had people coming to you, do you think
you might have a financial incentive to rush them into surgery.
If you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I'm
an extreme capitalist, but I know good and well that
if I drive into the car dealership and say, hey,
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you think I need to trade this car in and
get another one, or you think this car will be
just fine since it's paid off and has been for
five years, that it'd be good for another five years.
Oh I do. Oh honey, I'm gonna be a little while.
They said, I gotta buy a new car right now.
This car ain't gonna last ten minutes. They've agreed take
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it off my hand and everything. But they said, whoa,
that's a good thing. I came in right now. If
I hadn't to come in right now, I probably wouldn't
have made it home to see you, baby. So I'm
gonna stay right here, and I'm gonna go ahead and
get me a new car. They said it'd be better
if I financed it rather than pay cash. They said
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it'd be better it lasts longer and run better. They
said it'd be better if I financed it, and if
I got Scotch Guard, and if I got all the
upgrades they said. Car dealer said, I have to, yeah,
And then I got my surgery tomorrow because I went
and saw doctor and he said, I gotta have it.
Me wanted me to have it today. He said, we
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don't have time for second opinion. We've got to get
in there and do it. Yep. I went to the
dentist and he said he's got to do like. That's
good thing. I got into there. My teeth were gonna
fall out tomorrow. They were, they were. And then at lunch,
you won't believe what happened. I went in there. I
was just gonna have a little soup and they said,
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absolutely not. You have got to have the most expensive wine,
a magnum of it. It was twelve hundred dollars. But
thank god I went in there. They said I was
gonna starve if I didn't walk in there right now,
right now, if I didn't do that. It just amazes
me how people, how people get suckered into that. I
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love my doctors, I really do, and I trust their judgment.
But even with my own doctors, even with my own doctors,
you should be a touch skeptical. I think I think
it's important to be a touch skeptical. Back to Harris County.
I want you to notice the different pference when a
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famous rapper is not the victim because listen, thugs, all
the thugs out there, don't shoot a famous rapper or
you'll go to prison. But otherwise, this average black dude,
white dude, single bond, shoot away Democrat Judge Josh Hill, boy,
he is awful. Gosh, he is awful, just a devil
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of a human being, has sentenced a man to probation.
Three months later, that man picks up new felony charges.
So this time he grants him a low bond because
we've got to get him back out on the street
shooting again. Now that man is third times the charm
is charged with murdering a woman. This is the same
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judge that imposed a two million dollar bond on the
man who was arrested for murdering the rapper takeoff. See
when you murder rapper. The powers that be that are
buds with the rappers because they need their endorsement. They
tell you send that guy away forever. Oh, but just
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shoot and kill some average woman. Man. We don't care
about that, even if she's black. The story from Fox twenty.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Six at twenty twelve, thirty one year old Sirdarian Thompson
was sentenced to eight years in prison for multiple home invasion,
robberies in.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
The seis, in my school home invisions.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I mean he he beat up the residents, he beat
up women. I mean he pulled a gun in their head.
I mean this was pretty bold and brazen.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
March twenty twenty two, two hundred to thirty second Criminal
Court Judge Josh Iill sentences Thompson to deferred probation after
he pleads guilty to fellon in possession of a weapon.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Within three months, he gets charged again with more violent felonies,
another aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in which he's
alleged to have shot the victim as well.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Instead of revoking his probation and sending Thompson back to prison,
Judge Hill sets his bond at just seventy grand Here's
his signature on the bail order.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
He gets out on a really paltry, minuscule bond considering
his violent history.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Judge Hill's decision to give Thompson his freedom may have
cost twenty two year olds Keambra Bibbs her life. According
to court documents, she knew Thompson on September fourth. Police
say Thompson shot Caiambra multiple times and then dumped her
body in the garage at this medical center office building.
Get this. Thompson apparently wanted to stay in good graces
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with Judge Josh Hill. He appeared in court September seventeenth,
thirteen days after he allegedly murdered Chiambra. Thompson was charged
with murder. On October thirty, first Tuesday, he turned himself in.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
This was a tragedy, but it was so utterly preventable
because you've had him multiple times, but we continue to
put him back out and now you have a young
lady dead.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Is there a way to care out mass deportation without
separating families the Michael Arry Show.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Of course, families can be deported together.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Everyone up ben that on Briderly. I got a message
from my CPA's the partners many of you qualified for
in the Greater Houston area or Gulf Coast, actually all
the Gulf Coast. If you were hit by Beryl, which
I still think was a dumb name for a hurricane,
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did that did that qualify for one of Sheila Jackson
Lee's black names. If we was to put an apostrophe
and a dash in there, barrel dash ya. If you
qualified to extend your deadline, to February third. And remember
we told you if you were affected by Hurricane Beryl,
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and you've got to do the work to determine if
you were a fan, that would mean that your tax
return could have been delayed until February third. And I
heard from a number of you sent you to Deuroche
Partners to see if you qualified. Here is the important
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thing to note if you're planning on filing February third,
because you're a procrastinator, and any deadline extension you're grateful for,
not because it's in your strategic best interest, but because yeah,
and I don't have to worry about that. Let me
go see what fishing trip I'm going on, or maybe
I'll go with Robbie down to Argentina with exciting outdoors.
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So if you qualified for that and extended it to
February third, there's something important to note. The IRS E
file system is going to be shut down November thirtieth,
and they say they've shut it down from they'll be
shutting it down for maintain until sometime mid or late January. Well,
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it's the government. Everyone in the industry knows it won't
be up by February third. So Droche Partners is telling
folks you should file before November thirty so that you
get your efile in. Why is that important? If you don't,
you have to pay per file your return and paper
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filing is legal, but I'm told it's a lot more hassle.
This is the Darroche Partner's folks telling me this and
that you're more likely to get an audit. It is
believed if you are a paper filer. Look, I'm not
suggesting you're doing anything wrong, but you don't want to
be auditive six one a half does the other. You
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don't want to be pulled over by a cop, even
if you're not speeding. You just don't. They're saying that
the system should be up by February third, but it
is believed it may not be, so this might be
the kick in the rear. You needed to get your
tax return filed by November thirtieth, including your corporate tax return.
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And he says, just to give you an idea. With
our clientele, about twenty percent of our twenty twenty three
year end so last fiscal year are still open because
folks are putting their information together and they got to
get all their information to Duroch before de Roche can
put together the return and say are you good with
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this and then file it. So just just a little
deadline to think about. There. We're seeing resignations of Democrat
Party officials like you would not believe. Let me see
if I can find this. Yeah, the party chair for
the state Democrat Party party, Gilberto Hinojosa, has resigned because
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Democrats got trounced in state of Texas. The Collin County
Democrat Party chairman, which is Sheena King, has retired has resigned.
The Bear County Democrat Party, which of course is San
Antonin and surrounding areas, has resigned. Her name is Monica Alsindetara,
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and Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson has announced a
post election audit of the November fifth election. I'm being
told by Rachel Hooper, the General Council of the state
Party's Republican State Party, that this is expected to be
a very expansive and broad post election audit. Audits are good.
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You have to inspect what you expect, you know, like
when you ask your kid do you clean your room? Yes, ma'am,
and you go okay, all right, okay, Well then you
can go out with your friend. Wait a minute, wait
right there, let me go check. And you walk in
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and you feel like you've just interrupted two lovers. Wait, whoa,
what's going on in here? Well, I'll clean it up
right No, No, you just told me you cleaned up
your room before you left. And if I didn't go
and check, then I wouldn't have known. So the Texas
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Secretary of State's office will audit presidential and the US
Senate races, so the Ted Cruz versus Colin all right,
and each county will be required to randomly select a
county level race. Well, I'll just tell you right now,
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I don't have one ounce of confidence that Harris County
will select a race where a Democrat won and it
was really close, like the DA's race. I can tell
you that the person's pulling the strings at Harris County
that kicked kim Ogg out of the Democrat primary and
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are ensuring that Sean Tier is a district attorney and
not Dan Simons. And there's a good reason for that,
because the people pulling the strings at Harris County government
are themselves the subject of state and federal investigations and
they know that and the last thing they want is
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the Harris County District attorney snooping around and that was
kim Ogg's crime. That's why she's not the district attorney.
When the Texas Rangers brought her the evidence of what
was going on with Lena Hidalgo's top three people, that
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was when the decision was made that kim Ogg was
no longer the Democrat nominee to be Harris County District Attorney.
And that's what happened. The Soros money.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Kicked her out to demands of illegal amas that Joe
Biden's released in our country and violation of federal law.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
You better start packing now. The Michael Berry Show such
You're going home.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Side about school.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Choice in Texas. One of the things we have not
discussed is the statewide results in Texas. The Court of
Appeals instead of Texas has moved decidedly more conservative, more republican.
In Dallas, a twelve to one court with the big wins,
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is now an eight to five Republican court that did
not get enough attention, and it will in the coming days.
But I'm going to ask you to lend me your
ear for just a moment. I want to talk about
school choice, and I know that a lot of people
go into this discussion, much like with the death penalty,
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abortion and a number of other things, with the preconceived notion,
and you are welcome to come to the same conclusion
you would have otherwise after we have this conversation. But
let me start with a story out of Houston. ABC
thirteen ten pro voucher candidates endorsed by Greg Abbott, and
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he says he has seventy nine votes to pass this
through the House. I remember there's one hundred and fifty
members of the Texas House, so you need seventy six members.
He says he has seventy nine. Here's the story when
it comes to education.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
When it comes to most things in life, one size
does not always fit all.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Governor Greg Abbott this week saying thanks to the election outcomes,
he now has seventy nine hardcore school choice proponents in
the Texas House that he believes will pass the school
voucher initiative.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Chers are a bad idea. They've always been a bad idea,
and there's still a bad idea regardless of how many
votes the governor claims he now has. We're going to
continue to fight it and we'll see how many votes
he has when the vot's taken in a few months.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
The program would offer a taxpayer money to families that
qualify to pay for some of their child's private schooling
or other educational expenses. The governor doubling down that public
education funding would not take a hit, saying the money
comes from two separate pots. He says, one focuses on public.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Schools and raises, and the other on.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
This school choice program. Some union representatives don't buy it.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Well, there's only one pot of money. It's the state
budget and the only money coming from the state budget.
For ks who twelve, education should go to public schools,
not private schools.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Political expert Mark Jones says the legislation will be robust
and will pass next.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Year, and the governor is likely to try to tone
down some of the opposition simultaneously pass the school choice
legislation with legislation that increases funding for public schools across
the board and holds many public schools harmless if they
lose students to the school choice program.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Representatives with the Texas Teachers' Union say only time will tell,
as discussions, decisions, and session are still weeks away.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
If all you cared about was kids and the best
education you could possibly provide for them by building the
best system. There is no question you would be for
school choice. But this has never been about the kids.
I'll tell you who this is about. It's about school
teachers and administrators who are scared to death of competition.
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Let me explain. And the problem with this particular political
issue is you lose a lot of rural Republicans over
this issue. And here is why. An education at a
public school in HISD, in some of the lowest performing
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schools within the district is very different than Orangefield High
School or Gettings High School, or Woodville or Harden Jefferson
or any of the other districts where you're going to
get a good quality education. Right, you can never fix
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the inner city schools of the State of Texas by
reforming the public school system. The State of Texas took
over HISD that was huge, disbanded HISD, which was Phase two.
Remember North Forest Independent School District. Remember Sheila Jackson Lee
would fight, the State's not going to take it over.
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Do you know why, because, damn it, those kids were failing.
But her people were stealing a lot of money. She
had all her people placed as principals and vice principals
and superintendents and vice superintendents and assistant to the superintendent,
and diversity consultants and more diversity consultants, and more diversity
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consultants and more diverse. She was running that district like
her personal little honeypot all the while the kids were failing.
They couldn't take a state wide test. That's why they
don't want state wide tests. Now, I understand the whole
concept of teaching to the test, right, But see again,
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you have two completely different sets of people. You have
kids that are getting a good education from their friend's
mom who teaches at the school, which is how I
grew up at a rural school where the teachers cared
Miss Hardy and Miss Lee and Miss Martin and Miss
Evans and Miss Talley and mister Welch, mister Donnard, mister Gentry.
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I kept up with those teachers some am I still
keep up with to this date. I love them, they
loved me. They were great. It was a poor country
school where I got a great education. Now compare that
to the kids in the urban school districts. It's violent.
The facilities are terrible because guess what. The same people
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that are stealing from the Houston Housing Authority, same people
that is stolen from Metro over the years, the same
people that we're stealing from public works. They're all under
the direction and giving kickbacks to the same people running
HISD unless you give a voucher to a kid. So
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the rural school districts are so afraid that all the
teachers are going to lose their jobs and the local
school will go away. Nobody's going to open a rival
school in Gettings or Orangefield. You don't need to. The
public school is the public spirit. Friday night football, everybody
went there. You'll be fine. But the teachers' unions in
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the corrupt, bribing, fraudulent urban school districts like HISD, in
the Dallas Independent School District and in San Anton and
in Austin those frauds, the same people, just like in
Harris County, just like City of Houston. It's like the
housing Authority to all of it. They are scaring the death,
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scaring the death out of people because they don't want
to be reformed.
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air. With today being
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the Veterans Day, the city of Houston will host a
Veterans Day parade called Houston Salutes American Heroes Parade, which
will begin at eleven thirty am today in downtown Houston.
Of course, right well, I'll remind you that during the
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Silvester Turner administration, it was not uncommon to simply refuse
to host a parade for our veterans. We found out
and within forty eight hours had at the RCC a
veterans parade. It wasn't the biggest, it wasn't the Macy's
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Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, but in less than
forty eight hours we pulled together a parade in front
of the RCC. Lauren Cole, who was running the RCC
for us, absolutely without sleep, put together. I bet you
we had. I don't want to exaggerate how many, how
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many vehicles, floats or the like in their six million ramon.
I don't want to exaggerate. I don't know. It was
a lot, and in order for full effect, made it
about three blocks long and we looped them about three times.
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It was the kind of thing you'd make fun of
in a small town where they really don't have enough
going on in a small town to host a parade
or I remember when when my kids were in elementary school,
that have a parade, the Transportation Day parade, and that
have the local police department and the fire department bring
out a fire truck and a police department, bring out
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a swat truck, and maybe a garbage truck and a
public works truck, and some other guy would have an
eighteen wheeler or whatever. They'd make the loop in front
of the school. It was the cutest darn thing you've
ever seen. Well, this was like that, but bigger, believe
it or not. It was such a pent up interest,
and the local news stations ran a story that because
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city of Houston that year had decided to spit in
the face of veterans, that we were throwing something together.
So all these people reached out and wanted to help,
and we did it at night. I don't know why
the well, no, I don't know why we did. We
did it before a concert because then we knew we
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had an audience. Because you don't want to host a
parade and you got nobody on the sidewalks, so we
did it before and it was a big show, and
I think we ended up if you had a ticket already, great,
If you didn't, you could if you came to the
parade to get into the show, and it was it
was like a Jamie Johnson level show and it ended
up being something special. You know, the energy behind something
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like that is something special. I do want to note
we lost a firefighter, the eighty third Houston firefighter to
die in the line of duty, Marcelo Garcia. The third
only forty two years old. It was an empty warehouse
on Polk near Waystside on the East End. The woman
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who is now charged with felony. The charge at this
point is a first degree arson charge, which means she
intentionally set the fire. Yesenia Espinosa, thirty eight years old.
There is a public viewing tomorrow from five to nine
(04:21):
at Forest Park Lawndale Funeral Home. That's a beautiful part
of Houston, the kind of old what is that Glen
View whatever that's called right there where Forest Park is.
That's one of the neighborhood has kind of gone down
over the years, but it's one of the naturally beautiful
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and kind of historic parts of Houston. I like it
a lot. The funeral itself will be Wednesday at nine
am at the Sacred Heart Co Cathedral, which is at
the edge of downtown. If you are a firefighter, firefighter
family member, or just a member of the public who
wants to a tend if you're going to go to
(05:03):
a firefighter's funeral, I would tell you and you're available
on Wednesday morning to be there to support the family.
Get there early and stay late. That Co Cathedral, the
Sacred Heart Co Cathedral, it's at eleven eleven Saint Joseph Parkway.
That is See, this is a problem when an idea
(05:29):
pops into your head and then you don't have time
to think about it. I dare say that is the
most beautiful, glorious house of worship in our region. And
let me confirm that that's true. Grace is large until
their credit. Grace always opens up for firefighters, police officer funerals.
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Second Baptist does the same. Second Baptist is the original
campus at Woodway and Voss is a beautiful, beautiful campus,
especially if you pull back and you see the couple
on top where the bushes go That's a pretty one.
(06:11):
Is that Saint Martin right there on is that wood
way that is? That is a very very beautiful house
of worship. Yes, Yes, and an architectural style looks like
you're walking on the campus of Yale. Saint Martin's. Is
(06:32):
that what I said? Did didn't I say? Saint Martin's. Yeah,
Saint Martin's is. I'll tell you one that people don't
seem to know about. It never comes up is christ
Church downtown. It's not much to look at outside, but
when you walk inside it is all wood all the
way up and down. That is an exquisite, exquisite. Sure,
(07:01):
I'm not sure you really need a church to be
a beautiful thing to honor God. I really don't. But
in terms of houses of worship that are beautiful, that
Sacred Heart Co Cathedral is is something special that was
being built while I was on city Council and it
(07:25):
was I remember the fundraising drive for that, and I
would look at the names of the people who were
donating to see who was and it was Hoi POLLOI
of Houston Catholic families, most of them Italian, you know,
Carabas and and those I don't know if the Carobas
were involved, but it was a lot of the the
(07:45):
the old Catholic families, most of which were of his
of Italian herodage. Probably some Irish thrown in there too.
The other one that's very pretty is the one that
is Tim Belton goes there. What's it called Holy Rosary.
(08:12):
Holy Rosary is a much smaller scale, but that's a pretty,
very pretty church in the Midtown area. Michael Petru's daughter
el got married there. That is a that's a beauty.
But that Sacred Heart, that is a that is a
that will be a beautiful send off to Marcelo Garcia
(08:33):
the third, only forty two years old. This Yosinnia Espinosa,
who's set this fire, she should burn in hell. She
really should burn in hell for setting a fire. Allegedly
that led to the death of this this ten year
firefighting veteran. When President Trump is back in office the
(08:55):
Michael Verry Show, He's gonna wipe you off the face
of the earth. Your daughter and a letter from home.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I hold it up and shown my buddies like we
ain't scared enough.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Same body, and they all.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Like like or something funny about the way I all
Harris County is moving more and more Republican. In twenty sixteen,
Hillary took Harris County seven hundred seven thousand to five
forty five for Trump. In twenty twenty, when they cheated,
(09:41):
it was nine hundred and eighteen thousand to seven hundred
thousand for Trump. In twenty twenty four, where it's harder
to cheat, it was eight oh two to seventy two.
So Trump got four forty seven percent this time, up
(10:02):
from forty one percent back in sixteen and forty two
percent in twenty twenty. In fact, there were some big
wins in Harris County. I will endeavor to announce when
ballot positioning is open. It's one of those kind of
(10:28):
weird things because the general public doesn't think about elections
as far out from the election as you need to
to file, and that's just the nature of the business.
You don't think about, you know, running for a seat
(10:53):
unless you were a person. And there's just a sort
of cabale of people who they just keep running, and
you'll see people they're on the this time, they're on
the bout last time. There are people that I ran against,
and I ran in one to three to five, winning
all three times. There are people who I ran against
(11:14):
for city council that are still running to this day
and have never won a seat. They're just perennial candidates.
They don't raise any money. They drive around to all
the debates, which, by the way, going to debates for
down ballot races is the biggest waste of time. You
(11:39):
can do it. It's not going to hurt, but it's
not going to help. I tell candidates this, and they
never listen. You've got to raise money. You got to
keep it out of the hands of the consultants because
they will waste it on themselves. They got a house
note too. Like the guy that comes back from the doctor.
(12:00):
Doctor says, I gotta have surgery. Did he even bother
to see you before that? Don't laugh, Michael. He says
I got to have her. They gotta have it. They
gonna rush me right into surgery. I bet they are
his mortgages. Do don't say that, Michael, doctor said it's bad.
Let me ask you this. If you were a doctor
(12:23):
and you had people coming to you, do you think
you might have a financial incentive to rush them into surgery.
If you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I'm
an extreme capitalist, but I know good and well that
if I drive into the car dealership and say, hey,
(12:45):
you think I need to trade this car in and
get another one, or you think this car will be
just fine since it's paid off and has been for
five years, that it'd be good for another five years.
Oh I do. Oh honey, I'm gonna be a little while.
They said, I gotta buy a new car right now.
This car ain't gonna last ten minutes. They've agreed take
(13:08):
it off my hand and everything. But they said, whoa,
that's a good thing. I came in right now. If
I hadn't to come in right now, I probably wouldn't
have made it home to see you, baby. So I'm
gonna stay right here, and I'm gonna go ahead and
get me a new car. They said it'd be better
if I financed it rather than pay cash. They said
(13:31):
it'd be better it lasts longer and run better. They
said it'd be better if I financed it, and if
I got Scotch Guard, and if I got all the
upgrades they said. Car dealer said, I have to, yeah,
And then I got my surgery tomorrow because I went
and saw doctor and he said, I gotta have it.
Me wanted me to have it today. He said, we
(13:53):
don't have time for second opinion. We've got to get
in there and do it. Yep. I went to the
dentist and he said he's got to do like. That's
good thing. I got into there. My teeth were gonna
fall out tomorrow. They were, they were. And then at lunch,
you won't believe what happened. I went in there. I
was just gonna have a little soup and they said,
(14:16):
absolutely not. You have got to have the most expensive wine,
a magnum of it. It was twelve hundred dollars. But
thank god I went in there. They said I was
gonna starve if I didn't walk in there right now,
right now, if I didn't do that. It just amazes
me how people, how people get suckered into that. I
(14:40):
love my doctors, I really do, and I trust their judgment.
But even with my own doctors, even with my own doctors,
you should be a touch skeptical. I think I think
it's important to be a touch skeptical. Back to Harris County.
I want you to notice the different pference when a
(15:02):
famous rapper is not the victim because listen, thugs, all
the thugs out there, don't shoot a famous rapper or
you'll go to prison. But otherwise, this average black dude,
white dude, single bond, shoot away Democrat Judge Josh Hill, boy,
he is awful. Gosh, he is awful, just a devil
(15:23):
of a human being, has sentenced a man to probation.
Three months later, that man picks up new felony charges.
So this time he grants him a low bond because
we've got to get him back out on the street
shooting again. Now that man is third times the charm
is charged with murdering a woman. This is the same
(15:47):
judge that imposed a two million dollar bond on the
man who was arrested for murdering the rapper takeoff. See
when you murder rapper. The powers that be that are
buds with the rappers because they need their endorsement. They
tell you send that guy away forever. Oh, but just
(16:09):
shoot and kill some average woman. Man. We don't care
about that, even if she's black. The story from Fox twenty.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Six at twenty twelve, thirty one year old Sirdarian Thompson
was sentenced to eight years in prison for multiple home invasion,
robberies in.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
The seis, in my school home invisions.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I mean he he beat up the residents, he beat
up women. I mean he pulled a gun in their head.
I mean this was pretty bold and brazen.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
March twenty twenty two, two hundred to thirty second Criminal
Court Judge Josh Iill sentences Thompson to deferred probation after
he pleads guilty to fellon in possession of a weapon.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Within three months, he gets charged again with more violent felonies,
another aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in which he's
alleged to have shot the victim as well.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Instead of revoking his probation and sending Thompson back to prison,
Judge Hill sets his bond at just seventy grand Here's
his signature on the bail order.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
He gets out on a really paltry, minuscule bond considering
his violent history.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Judge Hill's decision to give Thompson his freedom may have
cost twenty two year olds Keambra Bibbs her life. According
to court documents, she knew Thompson on September fourth. Police
say Thompson shot Caiambra multiple times and then dumped her
body in the garage at this medical center office building.
Get this. Thompson apparently wanted to stay in good graces
(17:33):
with Judge Josh Hill. He appeared in court September seventeenth,
thirteen days after he allegedly murdered Chiambra. Thompson was charged
with murder. On October thirty, first Tuesday, he turned himself in.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
This was a tragedy, but it was so utterly preventable
because you've had him multiple times, but we continue to
put him back out and now you have a young
lady dead.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Is there a way to care out mass deportation without
separating families the Michael Arry Show.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Of course, families can be deported together.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Everyone up ben that on Briderly. I got a message
from my CPA's the partners many of you qualified for
in the Greater Houston area or Gulf Coast, actually all
the Gulf Coast. If you were hit by Beryl, which
I still think was a dumb name for a hurricane,
(18:31):
did that did that qualify for one of Sheila Jackson
Lee's black names. If we was to put an apostrophe
and a dash in there, barrel dash ya. If you
qualified to extend your deadline, to February third. And remember
we told you if you were affected by Hurricane Beryl,
(18:56):
and you've got to do the work to determine if
you were a fan, that would mean that your tax
return could have been delayed until February third. And I
heard from a number of you sent you to Deuroche
Partners to see if you qualified. Here is the important
(19:18):
thing to note if you're planning on filing February third,
because you're a procrastinator, and any deadline extension you're grateful for,
not because it's in your strategic best interest, but because yeah,
and I don't have to worry about that. Let me
go see what fishing trip I'm going on, or maybe
I'll go with Robbie down to Argentina with exciting outdoors.
(19:41):
So if you qualified for that and extended it to
February third, there's something important to note. The IRS E
file system is going to be shut down November thirtieth,
and they say they've shut it down from they'll be
shutting it down for maintain until sometime mid or late January. Well,
(20:06):
it's the government. Everyone in the industry knows it won't
be up by February third. So Droche Partners is telling
folks you should file before November thirty so that you
get your efile in. Why is that important? If you don't,
you have to pay per file your return and paper
(20:31):
filing is legal, but I'm told it's a lot more hassle.
This is the Darroche Partner's folks telling me this and
that you're more likely to get an audit. It is
believed if you are a paper filer. Look, I'm not
suggesting you're doing anything wrong, but you don't want to
be auditive six one a half does the other. You
(20:53):
don't want to be pulled over by a cop, even
if you're not speeding. You just don't. They're saying that
the system should be up by February third, but it
is believed it may not be, so this might be
the kick in the rear. You needed to get your
tax return filed by November thirtieth, including your corporate tax return.
(21:16):
And he says, just to give you an idea. With
our clientele, about twenty percent of our twenty twenty three
year end so last fiscal year are still open because
folks are putting their information together and they got to
get all their information to Duroch before de Roche can
put together the return and say are you good with
(21:37):
this and then file it. So just just a little
deadline to think about. There. We're seeing resignations of Democrat
Party officials like you would not believe. Let me see
if I can find this. Yeah, the party chair for
the state Democrat Party party, Gilberto Hinojosa, has resigned because
(22:06):
Democrats got trounced in state of Texas. The Collin County
Democrat Party chairman, which is Sheena King, has retired has resigned.
The Bear County Democrat Party, which of course is San
Antonin and surrounding areas, has resigned. Her name is Monica Alsindetara,
(22:35):
and Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson has announced a
post election audit of the November fifth election. I'm being
told by Rachel Hooper, the General Council of the state
Party's Republican State Party, that this is expected to be
a very expansive and broad post election audit. Audits are good.
(23:03):
You have to inspect what you expect, you know, like
when you ask your kid do you clean your room? Yes, ma'am,
and you go okay, all right, okay, Well then you
can go out with your friend. Wait a minute, wait
right there, let me go check. And you walk in
(23:23):
and you feel like you've just interrupted two lovers. Wait, whoa,
what's going on in here? Well, I'll clean it up
right No, No, you just told me you cleaned up
your room before you left. And if I didn't go
and check, then I wouldn't have known. So the Texas
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Secretary of State's office will audit presidential and the US
Senate races, so the Ted Cruz versus Colin all right,
and each county will be required to randomly select a
county level race. Well, I'll just tell you right now,
(24:11):
I don't have one ounce of confidence that Harris County
will select a race where a Democrat won and it
was really close, like the DA's race. I can tell
you that the person's pulling the strings at Harris County
that kicked kim Ogg out of the Democrat primary and
(24:35):
are ensuring that Sean Tier is a district attorney and
not Dan Simons. And there's a good reason for that,
because the people pulling the strings at Harris County government
are themselves the subject of state and federal investigations and
they know that and the last thing they want is
(24:59):
the Harris County District attorney snooping around and that was
kim Ogg's crime. That's why she's not the district attorney.
When the Texas Rangers brought her the evidence of what
was going on with Lena Hidalgo's top three people, that
(25:19):
was when the decision was made that kim Ogg was
no longer the Democrat nominee to be Harris County District Attorney.
And that's what happened. The Soros money.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Kicked her out to demands of illegal amas that Joe
Biden's released in our country and violation of federal law.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
You better start packing now. The Michael Berry Show such
You're going home.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Side about school.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Choice in Texas. One of the things we have not
discussed is the statewide results in Texas. The Court of
Appeals instead of Texas has moved decidedly more conservative, more republican.
In Dallas, a twelve to one court with the big wins,
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is now an eight to five Republican court that did
not get enough attention, and it will in the coming days.
But I'm going to ask you to lend me your
ear for just a moment. I want to talk about
school choice, and I know that a lot of people
go into this discussion, much like with the death penalty,
(26:31):
abortion and a number of other things, with the preconceived notion,
and you are welcome to come to the same conclusion
you would have otherwise after we have this conversation. But
let me start with a story out of Houston. ABC
thirteen ten pro voucher candidates endorsed by Greg Abbott, and
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he says he has seventy nine votes to pass this
through the House. I remember there's one hundred and fifty
members of the Texas House, so you need seventy six members.
He says he has seventy nine. Here's the story when
it comes to education.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
When it comes to most things in life, one size
does not always fit all.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Governor Greg Abbott this week saying thanks to the election outcomes,
he now has seventy nine hardcore school choice proponents in
the Texas House that he believes will pass the school
voucher initiative.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Chers are a bad idea. They've always been a bad idea,
and there's still a bad idea regardless of how many
votes the governor claims he now has. We're going to
continue to fight it and we'll see how many votes
he has when the vot's taken in a few months.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
The program would offer a taxpayer money to families that
qualify to pay for some of their child's private schooling
or other educational expenses. The governor doubling down that public
education funding would not take a hit, saying the money
comes from two separate pots. He says, one focuses on public.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Schools and raises, and the other on.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
This school choice program. Some union representatives don't buy it.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Well, there's only one pot of money. It's the state
budget and the only money coming from the state budget.
For ks who twelve, education should go to public schools,
not private schools.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Political expert Mark Jones says the legislation will be robust
and will pass next.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Year, and the governor is likely to try to tone
down some of the opposition simultaneously pass the school choice
legislation with legislation that increases funding for public schools across
the board and holds many public schools harmless if they
lose students to the school choice program.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Representatives with the Texas Teachers' Union say only time will tell,
as discussions, decisions, and session are still weeks away.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
If all you cared about was kids and the best
education you could possibly provide for them by building the
best system. There is no question you would be for
school choice. But this has never been about the kids.
I'll tell you who this is about. It's about school
teachers and administrators who are scared to death of competition.
(29:20):
Let me explain. And the problem with this particular political
issue is you lose a lot of rural Republicans over
this issue. And here is why. An education at a
public school in HISD, in some of the lowest performing
(29:46):
schools within the district is very different than Orangefield High
School or Gettings High School, or Woodville or Harden Jefferson
or any of the other districts where you're going to
get a good quality education. Right, you can never fix
(30:08):
the inner city schools of the State of Texas by
reforming the public school system. The State of Texas took
over HISD that was huge, disbanded HISD, which was Phase two.
Remember North Forest Independent School District. Remember Sheila Jackson Lee
would fight, the State's not going to take it over.
(30:30):
Do you know why, because, damn it, those kids were failing.
But her people were stealing a lot of money. She
had all her people placed as principals and vice principals
and superintendents and vice superintendents and assistant to the superintendent,
and diversity consultants and more diversity consultants, and more diversity
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consultants and more diverse. She was running that district like
her personal little honeypot all the while the kids were failing.
They couldn't take a state wide test. That's why they
don't want state wide tests. Now, I understand the whole
concept of teaching to the test, right, But see again,
(31:13):
you have two completely different sets of people. You have
kids that are getting a good education from their friend's
mom who teaches at the school, which is how I
grew up at a rural school where the teachers cared
Miss Hardy and Miss Lee and Miss Martin and Miss
Evans and Miss Talley and mister Welch, mister Donnard, mister Gentry.
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I kept up with those teachers some am I still
keep up with to this date. I love them, they
loved me. They were great. It was a poor country
school where I got a great education. Now compare that
to the kids in the urban school districts. It's violent.
The facilities are terrible because guess what. The same people
(32:01):
that are stealing from the Houston Housing Authority, same people
that is stolen from Metro over the years, the same
people that we're stealing from public works. They're all under
the direction and giving kickbacks to the same people running
HISD unless you give a voucher to a kid. So
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the rural school districts are so afraid that all the
teachers are going to lose their jobs and the local
school will go away. Nobody's going to open a rival
school in Gettings or Orangefield. You don't need to. The
public school is the public spirit. Friday night football, everybody
went there. You'll be fine. But the teachers' unions in
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the corrupt, bribing, fraudulent urban school districts like HISD, in
the Dallas Independent School District and in San Anton and
in Austin those frauds, the same people, just like in
Harris County, just like City of Houston. It's like the
housing Authority to all of it. They are scaring the death,
(33:04):
scaring the death out of people because they don't want
to be reformed.
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