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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Conroe ISD had four mommies when school board, making a
total of seven on that board, all mommies. I love it. Reformers.
Bruise writes, these ladies pounded the payment for votes. I
talked with them and they were in line with my values.
Being retired with no children in school, I felt the
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future of our countries in jeopardy with what's being taught
in our schools. That is the reason these ladies got
my vote. Laurie writes, I voted early at the scene
I'm Your Citizen center in South County and one of
the school board ladies was there talk to me quite
a bit. Two days later, I took a church member
on the other side of forty five to early vote,
and another of them was there on just a Thursday
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afternoon election day. I always do election inspecting for Secretary
of State, focused on Conroe in East County. This year
one of them was in the parking lot in Conroe
in the rain. They really put in the work to
get our support. Tony says of Misty Odenweiler Odin Weller Ramon,
I coached her son Carter years ago. Tell her I said, hello,
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Rusty says, I just heard Lindsay Dawson's name on your show.
That's my niece, my brother's daughter. All sorts of nice
stories that I have heard about these ladies. I'm very
hopeful and excited. This is part of the bigger movement.
As I've said all along, Donald Trump will not live forever,
none of us will. But the idea that we are
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inspiring a movement of people, this is what you have
to see. So who do we have? We have Melissa missing, Nicole, Lindsay,
and Marianne, and do you have the other Melissa as well?
What about Tiffany? She's finally softened on what was she doing?
What was she doing so busy she couldn't call in?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I was trying, I was stuck. He wouldn't let me in.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Oh okay, all right, Tiffany, Since you're the last in,
why did you run? Give me the thirty second?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I had six kids in the district and just was
really seeing what I had been seeing. Came from a
small private school in Ohio and really just opened my eyes.
So a lot of things that were going on. My
husband's a pastor at a large church in the area.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And which church.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Just really just seeing the absence of God. Great Church
in the Woodlands are off of forty five there next
to the Lexus dealership.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
All Right, I'm going to ask each one and Ramon's
gonna You're gonna have forty five seconds. I want you
to give me your full name, including your maiden name. Okay.
Want you to tell me where you graduated high school.
I want you to tell me one thing about It
can be professional, whatever else, it could be whatever. And
then I want you to tell me one quirky thing
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about you, like if you were the guy out in
front of the tank at Tenneman Square. Okay, and don't
give me the I can't think of anything. You come
up with something. It can be silly. You might like
bananas and peanut butter and you're excited about the Elvis
movie coming out today. I don't care what it is.
It has to be something, Okay, y'all got the rules, ladies, Yes, okay, Yeah,
call out your name. Tiffany your first, because you were
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last to call. That's your punishment.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Go yes, there, Tiffany Molman Nelson, And I'm timed at
Seminal High School in Sanford, Florida. Something about me, I
have twenty five years of nonprofit leadership as president, CEO, founder,
and uh something quirky. I'm a former Miss Ohio America.
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Oh wow, that's quirky. Okay, there you go, Trailer Parker
on the stage of Miss America.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So the Trailer park girls went round the outside. I
love it. Melissa, you're up, well done.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Tip America.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Melissa, you're up.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Oh got it. So Melissa Gregory Dungan graduated Forrest High
School in Forest, Louisiana. Graduated with thirty five students total
in my high school class, my senior class. I'm a
proud mom of two boys married to like I said,
former educator. And what was the force thing?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Something quirky?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Oh, I have a quirky have a mysterious smile.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Oh yeah, I noticed that in the thing. I need
your full name, including the middle name in there.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
So what is your middle name, Melissa Gregory Dungan.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, but Gregory is your maiden name. Do you have
a middle name?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Right?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Lee, Okay, Misty, you're up.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Okay, goodness Ian Joanes Okay, Misty Anne Jones Odin Weller
grown up in the area, graduated find Forrest High School
in class of eighty three, cheered, and became an educator.
Raised two children, a son and a daughter, Megan and Carter.
I'm Mimi to two littles, my grand and I. I
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guess the quirky thing about me is I make homecoming
Moms in the few hours I have left over, and
I've been on all three and I've been on all
three news stations for it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
So couldn't you just hug them?
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Ramon?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Could you just grab them all up and just hug them? Nicole,
you are up, sweetheart? And Nicole the Blinker.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Yeah, Nicole renee Monty May. And let's see, I graduated
from Chokahackchee High School in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and
I exist in this space because the system was very
difficult to navigate for my two struggling readers that are
my I helped to right run and pass one of
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the most comprehensive dyslexia bills in the country. Super proud
about that. And something quirky about me is I used
to be in competitive guard in high school and I
still have my practice rifle from a million years ago.
And I still got my skill set.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Wow. You know there's a whole trend of women in
competitive shooting at the collegiate level, and it's not uncommon
now for you know, in the top three for women
to be in the Oze forty. Oh, I took some
of her time. I'm sorry. Okay, my bad, I took
some of your time. Lindsey Europe sweetheart.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Lindsay renee Nicole. I didn't realize we have the same
middle name, renee Dawson. My maiden name is fits And
some fun facts about me. I used to work for
the CIA and was also a diplomat with Department of States.
And a weird quirk so my my dad used to
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play professional foodsball. So I have been playing foosball since
I could stand, and I could be just about anyone
out there.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Well, I'm just going to tell you so you can
get over it. I'm one of those people that when
I spin it, my hand's coming off.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
There.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I cheat. I got just enough time, Melissa, you can't sit,
I know, do you have the other Melissa on there?
We weren't able to all right, Mary Anne go good.
That gives me time to close.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
Mary Anne go Okay, Well, my name's Marianne Horton made
a name Hudson, middle name Elaine. I was a journalist
who turned into a teacher, and something quirky about me.
I'm I'm a seventh generation Texan and I don't think
there's a lot of us, and also a third generation Houstonian.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Ladies, you have made my day. First of all, you
have inspired I hope a lot of other people, including mommies,
to realize, hey, these are these are normal people. I mean,
if they can do it, I can do it, and
you can do it. Be awesome. And when all else
looks dark and you think, well we got to make
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this compromise, vote just remembered. People hoisted all of their
hopes and dreams on you. Standing tall, even if in
front of administrators or teachers, or regulators or anyone else
they tell you you cannot do it, be as awesome
as people hoped you would be. I'm so proud of you.
But this is just the beginning. This you've You've made
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my day. Ladies. I adore you. You're fantastic, wonderful, awesome,
thank thank you. Cute is that Ramona? You just couldn't
he just oh, don't forget Honor Cafe today on Thompson
Street in Conroe at noon, my treat and take a
picture and send it to us so we can post it.
Couldn't you just grab them all up and hug them,
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Not in a weird way, I mean like in a
sweet mommy you know your sister in law kind of
waerish show. I got an email saying, why do you
refer to the women as mommy callers when you don't
refer to the dads or to the sorry to the
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men as daddy callers. Listen. If you want politically correct
but meaningless superficial conversation, you go somewhere else, because this
isn't where that happens. Let me speak in absolute truths now,
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if you go to the school. I never miss an
event at my kid's school, either one of them, and
I take a lot of pride in that, and oddly
enough because it wasn't done back then. Not oddly enough,
directly because of my own father, who never missed an event.
Here's the difference. Eddie Martinez gives me complete latitude. I
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can do whatever I want whenever I want. If I
got an event to be at at eleven, I can
pre record something at ten thirty pre record an interview
that I've been dying to do, and we play it,
and you never know the difference. It's still the show.
It's still the same thing. My dad had to take
time off, pick up extra shifts, he had to do
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all sorts of things. When I traveled for sports to
other cities. He never ever missed. I never looked up
in the stands. He wasn't there. I never looked out
in the audience. Every academic award, every you name it.
He never missed a thing. Now, I'm not trying to
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compromise anybody out there or convict anybody out there who can't.
I understand it. You're a long haul driver. You can't
be there for every Everybody has to do what they
can do. So because of that, I go to every
event for my kids, right and I watch, and I
can tell you there is a difference. There is a
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difference between being a mommy and a daddy. I don't
care what you think, and I don't care if you're a
single dead I don't care. There's a difference. And let
me tell you what it is. It's like the difference
between the nurse and the doctor.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
There is.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
There is God has given to women. So we have
to understand how many things are completely natural that are
outside our control. God instilled in women a caring nature
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that men are just not capable of, not to that extent.
I believe every child needs a mother and a father,
and I believe the roles are different at different part
different points in their lives. But there is something about
the way women look at child rearing that is so
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different and so deep. Does every school board need to
be all mommies across the state. Yes, no, I don't
know that that's necessary. But I will tell you that
the old days of some guys in the community who
were using that hisd's board, you know what HISDS board
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has been people that wanted to then run for state
repor state senate, People that were stealing from the district,
taking bribes from people with engineering contracts. Half of them
don't have kids or haven't had kids in a long time.
They don't give a damn about the school. They're there
to self deal and build a political career. And that's
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what was wrong with HISD for so many years, is
it was a political post for people to feather their nest.
Same of HCC, same of metro board. That's what it
was for years and years and years. And you know
where all this happened. You can trace all this, folks,
you can trace this to COVID. And a thing happened,
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which was the schools said you can't come to school.
Everybody go home. Okay, But I thought that people who
learned at home were creepy. Remember the homeschoolers, they're not socialized.
They're all so creepy. By the way, that's a lie.
Some of the most well adjusted kids I've ever met
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in my life homeschooled. Chance McLean's wife homeschooled their kids
for several years. Some of the best adjusted kids you'll
ever meet in your life. And I've seen this again
and again and again and again. But back to the
mommy issue. During COVID, you had the kids at home
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on their laptop, and so mom stay at home. Moms,
we're still doing their things. So they're doing the laundry,
keeping one ear on what's going on, and they're realizing
you've got complete freak shows in some of these classes.
Some of you understand this, not all of you do.
So let me state what I shouldn't need to state.
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I don't think every teacher is a whack job. I
don't think they're all lesbians that want to murder men.
I don't think they're all men that want to be women.
I don't think they're all you know, left wing progressive nuts.
There are plenty of wonderful teachers in the classroom, men
and women. I do know that, Okay, I'm talking about
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those that don't qualify as that and the terrible effect
they can have on our children. Teachers and administrators. And
I look, it's just like deportation, nothing personal, but you
got to go. This is our chill room we're talking about.
So the mommies started while they're cooking and doing laundry
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and cleaning and doing the things they do around the
house to keep the house running. And that is sacred
to me. My wife works harder at home now being
retired than she did as a lawyer at a downtown
office building. And she'll tell you that because it never stops. Well,
they started overhearing what was going on, and then they
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started going to the schools and going, hey, my kids
in fourth grade. Well, first they went to the school
and said, miss Smith has assigned a book about why
Cindy has two daddies, and it has a paragraph in
here on butt sex and how butt secks between people.
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And then Cindy's half getting involved, and then we got
this going on and this going in, and then there's
another book about drag Queen's coming to the library, and
then there's this and I have a problem with that,
And they said, go home, bitch, this is the school.
You don't belong here. And mommies were all of a
sudden going, wait a minute, you can't talk to me.
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You can't treat me this way. So they said, all right,
your bosses, administrators and teachers are the school board. I'll
go to the school board. That's parents like me. When
the parents find out what's happening, they'll have a problem
with this. Do I sound stuffed up? Ramo, I do.
You weren't gonna say anything. I feel like I sound
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stuffed up. I don't want people to have to hear
me sounding stuffed up. No, I don't want you to
get in here and look. So these mommies and daddies
at this point, but mostly mommies, went to the school
board and they said, hey, two problems. Number one, my
wife was disrespected at the school. Number Two, here's this book.
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I'm going to read to you from this book. And
the school boards would shut them down, they would direct
the police officer take them out. And then the National
school Board Association, led by this crazy Randy Winegarden, the
Biden administration opened FBI files on parents that had gone
to the school board. This is January sixth all over again.
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So now you're making criminals out of mommies and daddies.
And this is just brewing and brewing and brewing and brewing.
And you know what, if it was a job, they
would have walked away from it. If it was a neighborhood,
they would have moved. But the hill these parents, particularly women,
will die on is their children. You want to know
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why we need school vouchers because these people should be
able to get out of the school and go somewhere
else if they want. But what happened is this has
been brewing for four years now, and I man, I'm
so fired up and I'm so excited about this. The
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Senate Majority leader vote is going on as we speak.
You may know before I do. We're not a breaking
news show for a number of reasons, one of which is,
while we're doing the show, I have to receive emails
from our team of researchers and contributors, and I can't always.
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I am not. Some of you are, and that's fine.
I'm not a person who gets excited to be the
first to get the news of anything. I've never been.
In fact, I think local news stations could get over
this exclusive on our station tonight. This happened. By tomorrow,
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everybody will have it. And that's why I don't get
news alerts all day long, because you could never have.
You never be able to stop and process and think.
And I think a higher level of thinking requires that
you can't have a chiron scrolling in your brain at
all times. But in any way, Politico is reporting. Let's
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see if I can find this that Political reports that
Republican senators are quite upset at the effort on social
media to promote Rick Scott for Senate Republican leadership. Quote.
Senators do not take kindly to having an army of
social media trolls attack them. All right, let me just
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say this in as clear as terms as I can.
I've said it a million times, but I want you
to hear it. Now that we've won the path to
rebuilding our republic does not just mean we're going to
have to trample Democrats. I want you to understand this.
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There are a lot of Republicans in the way, and
one of the greatest challenges is the naivete of your neighbor,
the niceness of your neighbor. Well, Michael, what has John
Cornyn done wrong? I thought he was a Republican. Well
he claims to be. Well, I just don't understand you're
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so angry at him. Yeah, he sells us down the river.
He ensures that Obamacare and bad bills, the Green New
Deal get passed, and at the last minute, once the
vote is assured that the Democrats have their majority, he
authorizes a few Republicans who are not up or they're retiring.
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It's a big deal. You'll get a Republican who's retiring,
like an Adam Kinsinger or Liz Cheney, and they'll go
act like Democrats because they're not up for vote. Again.
You don't see Democrats becoming conservative Republicans once they're on
their way out. But boy, you other than Mansion, you
will see Republicans who will show their true colors. Hey,
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you bastards can't vote me out office anymore. So, guess what.
I'm going to give the government all your money and
tax you into bankruptcy because that's what I've wanted to
do all along. And besides, I'm taking all your money
to give it to special interests because that's who's going
to hire me the second I walk out the door.
Truth be told, they got a handshake agreement long before that,
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and they, by the way, the special interests have already
hired their children, their wife, their campaign manager. You just
keep an eye on a congressman or a senator when
they leave office where they land, who hires them, Defense industry,
big AG, big pharma. You look at who pays their
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bills once they're gone, and it will answer for a
lot of things. But the path to restoring the Republic
means we're going to have to trample some Republicans as well.
Nice enough people, they're people we worked for. I mean, hell,
I busted my bunt to get the Bush family elected.
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But let's be honest. They're part of the problem and
people are onto them. That's why George W. Bush got
his ass kicked multiple times riding on his four wheeler
on the canyons. I'm gonna be attorney general, but mostly
I'm gonna be out here on my four wheeler patrolling
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the border. Oh we believe you, w we believe that
Jeb's son is going to be out of here on
his four wheeler. And they had him all made up.
He had his flannel shirt and his jeans. They hadn't
weathered his jeans. If they had had had time, they
would have acid washed them or something. And they had
the boots that they had just bought for him, but
they were low boots. I'm fired up about Trump's selections.
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Pete he Seth is the most excited I've ever been
about a cabinet secretary in my life period. End of story.
Christy know him at Department of Homeland Security. Look, I'm
not criticizing Trump personally. It is our job, even with Trump,
to question, be critical, offer suggestions. When you don't do that,
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he can't be the best president he can be. Am
I going to help him succeed? Yeah, you better believe it.
Don't ever worry about that. Christy know him is in
over her head. Department of Homeland Security is Customs and
Border Patrol. You talking about the border, You're talking about
the airports. Is she going to be able to step
in and gut tsa and tell him to stop button
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diddling us. Is she gonna be able to step in
with the border That's why Tom Holman is the borders are,
which is not a cabinet official. It's just a you know,
bully pulpit. He's going to get the work done. Do
I think Christy know Him is the right choice for that?
Absolutely not. Do I think she should be traveling the
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country with Corey Lewandowski from the campaign leading everyone in
the country to think they're banging.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
No.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I think it's terrible optics. I think it's horrible. I
think it may be worse than optics. Do I think
Little Marco should be Secretary of State? No, I think
it's a horrible choice. And mark my words, I know
y'all are all fired up. Y'all are all fired up
about Rex Tillerson. You were all fired up about Pompeo,
and you were all fired up about Millie Millie. Oh, Michael,
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you can't criticize Millie. He's an American patriot. Milli worked
harder to keep Donald Trump from getting re elected than
probably anybody in this country. And MILLI worked harder as
the insidious little cancer that he is from within the administration.
John Bolton. I told you I don't trust John Bolton then,
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and I don't trust John Bolton now, and most of
you came to understand why that was the case. He's
a backstabber, oh, Michael, John Bolton's he's a warmonger. John
Bolton and Lindsey Graham get together in a circle, jerk
and wank off to the idea of your son's being
murdered in Afghanistan in Iraq. Fact, little Marco is a
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terrible choice for Secretary of State there. I said it. Now,
we got to replace the Senate seat, which DeSantis is
going to put an anti Trump person in there. Watch this,
it's coming. He's got his pick already.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Well.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Today is today. It is Wedness Day, November thirteenth. The
Astrodome Conservancy is rolling out their new plan for the
Astrodome today. I don't know what it is, but I
can guarantee you it will be a bunch of boosterism.
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We'll hear tale of Judge Hawphin's how he had the
vision for the Astrodome. Awesome. I love that. I love
Houston's history. I traveled all around Houston speaking for years
at business groups to tell the history of Houston and
how I came to be in a position of leadership
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because I loved the history and I wanted to continue. Now.
That wasn't the Sheila Jackson, Lee Rodney Ellis, Sylvester Turner Houston.
That was a Houston of people who were selfless, who
loved the city, who were pioneers, who were entrepreneurs and
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risk takers, but who had an incredible sense of no
bless obliege. That was downtown interests who cared deeply about
the region and people who came here from all over
and were welcomed into the social, financial, religious institutions and
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never expected to stay. You ask a lot of people
I came here in eighty nine. I always asked me,
when'd you come to Houston. Nobody planned to come to Houston.
People planned to go to la or New York because
that was glamorous, they thought. Turns out they got mugged.
But nobody planned to come to Houston from Bogalusa. They
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came here because there was a job. And once they
got here and they started the job because nowhere else
was hiring. None of the other great cities were hiring.
And once they got to Houston, and they got hired,
and they realized, wait a second, on my income, I
can afford a little house close enough to work that
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I can get to. And then they met a nice
Houston girl with Southern values, or maybe she was a
Louisiana girl or Mississippi girl or Alabama girl or Florida
girl who came here, and then they start Dayton and
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guess what. Back then, anyway, you could move around. It
was the only big city in America you could. You
could travel around. The traffic wasn't crippling, you weren't paralyzed
at all times, and you could afford a home. And
then you start moving up in your job. Before you
know it, you got a kid. You could put them
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in the good public schools and before and then and
then you kind of move out to the suburbs and
you sort of leave Houston, Houston behind, but you tell
people you live in Houston, but really you live in
Cyprus because then you don't get shot at, you don't
fall asleep to gunshots every night. Or the Woodlands or
Conroe or Spring or Texas City or League City or
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friends would or Crosby or Katie Fullsher because that's where
people really live. Nobody wants to live in the City
of Houston. You live in the villages or one of
these communities. Somebody says they live in Houston and they're
inside the loop. If they're not getting shot at every day,
they'd live in bel Air and West u which are
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their own communities. And that's just the way it is.
It's not good, but that's the way it is. I've
seen the belly of the beast from inside, and it's ugly.
It's nasty. I mean, the fact that Sylvester Turner was
elected to the eighteenth Congressional district is all you need
to know. What are we going to follow Sheila Jackson
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Lee up with? Could we possibly do worse? Yep, they're
more scandals being covered up at the City of Houston.
Then you could lead the evening news with daily Think
about how many of that's a cute little blonde girl
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that does those reports Amy Davis, Amy Davis reports, Mario Diaz,
dol Chaffino, Just one after the other, after the other
after the other. The Housing Authority, public Works, Oh, just terrible.
There's a bunch of stories that were covered up in
the police department from the upper echelons of the police department.
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That if half of what officers tell me, and some
of those guys I've known come to know and known
who fed me information that were on the executive staff
under Turner, some of the things that were covered up.
If you knew some of the things that were covered
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up within that department, Well, Michael, how come you don't
tell us? Because unless I can personally verify it, I
can't say it out loud. And that's not a complete
idiot and it wouldn't be fair. We have a big audience.
I can't just go off willy nilly screaming stuff. Okay,
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I do, but not all the time. I like to
I like to keep it limited a little bit. So
what we're seeing right now is a Senate majority leader
vote between Rick Scott and let me pull up my numbers.
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You've got fifty three senators that are going to be voting,
but you only have Ted. By the way, Ted Cruz
came out this morning and said he's supporting Rick Scott.
They are peeling away votes from John Thune to go
to Rick Scott, and that's what I want. Don't get
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me wrong, But you've got to beat corner. The number
one job is to beat Corny. The number two job
is to get Rick Scott in. But you cannot let
Cornyan win. And I will tell you what scares me,
because this is the way they operate. What scares me
is Thoon had the lead, so they peel away his
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votes and give them to Scott. Cornan was only six
votes behind. So you get this race where you have
Thun and Scott with parody and Cornyan Harry's to day.
Cornn is an evil, devious bastard who is responsible for
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why he's responsible for the problems in government. It's people
like him and Paul Ryan that are the neighbors Dick Cheney.
This is that whole deal. They are clever enough to
peel some voters off of Thune, give them to Scott,
to get Thune out of the lead, and put John Corny.
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He doesn't care how he wins. Understand that if he
comes out the winner. And see, by the way, this
is not transparent. This should all be done in public.
You're elected officials.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Conroe ISD had four mommies when school board, making a
total of seven on that board, all mommies. I love it. Reformers.
Bruise writes, these ladies pounded the payment for votes. I
talked with them and they were in line with my values.
Being retired with no children in school, I felt the
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future of our countries in jeopardy with what's being taught
in our schools. That is the reason these ladies got
my vote. Laurie writes, I voted early at the scene
I'm Your Citizen center in South County and one of
the school board ladies was there talk to me quite
a bit. Two days later, I took a church member
on the other side of forty five to early vote,
and another of them was there on just a Thursday
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afternoon election day. I always do election inspecting for Secretary
of State, focused on Conroe in East County. This year
one of them was in the parking lot in Conroe
in the rain. They really put in the work to
get our support. Tony says of Misty Odenweiler Odin Weller Ramon,
I coached her son Carter years ago. Tell her I said, hello,
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Rusty says, I just heard Lindsay Dawson's name on your show.
That's my niece, my brother's daughter. All sorts of nice
stories that I have heard about these ladies. I'm very
hopeful and excited. This is part of the bigger movement.
As I've said all along, Donald Trump will not live forever,
none of us will. But the idea that we are
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inspiring a movement of people, this is what you have
to see. So who do we have? We have Melissa missing, Nicole, Lindsay,
and Marianne, and do you have the other Melissa as well?
What about Tiffany? She's finally softened on what was she doing?
What was she doing so busy she couldn't call in?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I was trying, I was stuck. He wouldn't let me in.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Oh okay, all right, Tiffany, Since you're the last in,
why did you run? Give me the thirty second?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I had six kids in the district and just was
really seeing what I had been seeing. Came from a
small private school in Ohio and really just opened my eyes.
So a lot of things that were going on. My
husband's a pastor at a large church in the area.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And which church.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Just really just seeing the absence of God. Great Church
in the Woodlands are off of forty five there next
to the Lexus dealership.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
All Right, I'm going to ask each one and Ramon's
gonna You're gonna have forty five seconds. I want you
to give me your full name, including your maiden name. Okay.
Want you to tell me where you graduated high school.
I want you to tell me one thing about It
can be professional, whatever else, it could be whatever. And
then I want you to tell me one quirky thing
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about you, like if you were the guy out in
front of the tank at Tenneman Square. Okay, and don't
give me the I can't think of anything. You come
up with something. It can be silly. You might like
bananas and peanut butter and you're excited about the Elvis
movie coming out today. I don't care what it is.
It has to be something, Okay, y'all got the rules, ladies, Yes, okay, Yeah,
call out your name. Tiffany your first, because you were
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last to call. That's your punishment.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Go yes, there, Tiffany Molman Nelson, And I'm timed at
Seminal High School in Sanford, Florida. Something about me, I
have twenty five years of nonprofit leadership as president, CEO, founder,
and uh something quirky. I'm a former Miss Ohio America.
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Oh wow, that's quirky. Okay, there you go, Trailer Parker
on the stage of Miss America.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So the Trailer park girls went round the outside. I
love it. Melissa, you're up, well done.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Tip America.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Melissa, you're up.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Oh got it. So Melissa Gregory Dungan graduated Forrest High
School in Forest, Louisiana. Graduated with thirty five students total
in my high school class, my senior class. I'm a
proud mom of two boys married to like I said,
former educator. And what was the force thing?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Something quirky?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Oh, I have a quirky have a mysterious smile.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Oh yeah, I noticed that in the thing. I need
your full name, including the middle name in there.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
So what is your middle name, Melissa Gregory Dungan.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, but Gregory is your maiden name. Do you have
a middle name?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Right?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Lee, Okay, Misty, you're up.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Okay, goodness Ian Joanes Okay, Misty Anne Jones Odin Weller
grown up in the area, graduated find Forrest High School
in class of eighty three, cheered, and became an educator.
Raised two children, a son and a daughter, Megan and Carter.
I'm Mimi to two littles, my grand and I. I
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guess the quirky thing about me is I make homecoming
Moms in the few hours I have left over, and
I've been on all three and I've been on all
three news stations for it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
So couldn't you just hug them?
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Ramon?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Could you just grab them all up and just hug them? Nicole,
you are up, sweetheart? And Nicole the Blinker.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Yeah, Nicole renee Monty May. And let's see, I graduated
from Chokahackchee High School in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and
I exist in this space because the system was very
difficult to navigate for my two struggling readers that are
my I helped to right run and pass one of
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the most comprehensive dyslexia bills in the country. Super proud
about that. And something quirky about me is I used
to be in competitive guard in high school and I
still have my practice rifle from a million years ago.
And I still got my skill set.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Wow. You know there's a whole trend of women in
competitive shooting at the collegiate level, and it's not uncommon
now for you know, in the top three for women
to be in the Oze forty. Oh, I took some
of her time. I'm sorry. Okay, my bad, I took
some of your time. Lindsey Europe sweetheart.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Lindsay renee Nicole. I didn't realize we have the same
middle name, renee Dawson. My maiden name is fits And
some fun facts about me. I used to work for
the CIA and was also a diplomat with Department of States.
And a weird quirk so my my dad used to
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play professional foodsball. So I have been playing foosball since
I could stand, and I could be just about anyone
out there.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Well, I'm just going to tell you so you can
get over it. I'm one of those people that when
I spin it, my hand's coming off.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
There.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I cheat. I got just enough time, Melissa, you can't sit,
I know, do you have the other Melissa on there?
We weren't able to all right, Mary Anne go good.
That gives me time to close.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
Mary Anne go Okay, Well, my name's Marianne Horton made
a name Hudson, middle name Elaine. I was a journalist
who turned into a teacher, and something quirky about me.
I'm I'm a seventh generation Texan and I don't think
there's a lot of us, and also a third generation Houstonian.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Ladies, you have made my day. First of all, you
have inspired I hope a lot of other people, including mommies,
to realize, hey, these are these are normal people. I mean,
if they can do it, I can do it, and
you can do it. Be awesome. And when all else
looks dark and you think, well we got to make
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this compromise, vote just remembered. People hoisted all of their
hopes and dreams on you. Standing tall, even if in
front of administrators or teachers, or regulators or anyone else
they tell you you cannot do it, be as awesome
as people hoped you would be. I'm so proud of you.
But this is just the beginning. This you've You've made
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my day. Ladies. I adore you. You're fantastic, wonderful, awesome,
thank thank you. Cute is that Ramona? You just couldn't
he just oh, don't forget Honor Cafe today on Thompson
Street in Conroe at noon, my treat and take a
picture and send it to us so we can post it.
Couldn't you just grab them all up and hug them,
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Not in a weird way, I mean like in a
sweet mommy you know your sister in law kind of
waerish show. I got an email saying, why do you
refer to the women as mommy callers when you don't
refer to the dads or to the sorry to the
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men as daddy callers. Listen. If you want politically correct
but meaningless superficial conversation, you go somewhere else, because this
isn't where that happens. Let me speak in absolute truths now,
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if you go to the school. I never miss an
event at my kid's school, either one of them, and
I take a lot of pride in that, and oddly
enough because it wasn't done back then. Not oddly enough,
directly because of my own father, who never missed an event.
Here's the difference. Eddie Martinez gives me complete latitude. I
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can do whatever I want whenever I want. If I
got an event to be at at eleven, I can
pre record something at ten thirty pre record an interview
that I've been dying to do, and we play it,
and you never know the difference. It's still the show.
It's still the same thing. My dad had to take
time off, pick up extra shifts, he had to do
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all sorts of things. When I traveled for sports to
other cities. He never ever missed. I never looked up
in the stands. He wasn't there. I never looked out
in the audience. Every academic award, every you name it.
He never missed a thing. Now, I'm not trying to
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compromise anybody out there or convict anybody out there who can't.
I understand it. You're a long haul driver. You can't
be there for every Everybody has to do what they
can do. So because of that, I go to every
event for my kids, right and I watch, and I
can tell you there is a difference. There is a
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difference between being a mommy and a daddy. I don't
care what you think, and I don't care if you're a
single dead I don't care. There's a difference. And let
me tell you what it is. It's like the difference
between the nurse and the doctor.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
There is.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
There is God has given to women. So we have
to understand how many things are completely natural that are
outside our control. God instilled in women a caring nature
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that men are just not capable of, not to that extent.
I believe every child needs a mother and a father,
and I believe the roles are different at different part
different points in their lives. But there is something about
the way women look at child rearing that is so
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different and so deep. Does every school board need to
be all mommies across the state. Yes, no, I don't
know that that's necessary. But I will tell you that
the old days of some guys in the community who
were using that hisd's board, you know what HISDS board
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has been people that wanted to then run for state
repor state senate, People that were stealing from the district,
taking bribes from people with engineering contracts. Half of them
don't have kids or haven't had kids in a long time.
They don't give a damn about the school. They're there
to self deal and build a political career. And that's
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what was wrong with HISD for so many years, is
it was a political post for people to feather their nest.
Same of HCC, same of metro board. That's what it
was for years and years and years. And you know
where all this happened. You can trace all this, folks,
you can trace this to COVID. And a thing happened,
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which was the schools said you can't come to school.
Everybody go home. Okay, But I thought that people who
learned at home were creepy. Remember the homeschoolers, they're not socialized.
They're all so creepy. By the way, that's a lie.
Some of the most well adjusted kids I've ever met
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in my life homeschooled. Chance McLean's wife homeschooled their kids
for several years. Some of the best adjusted kids you'll
ever meet in your life. And I've seen this again
and again and again and again. But back to the
mommy issue. During COVID, you had the kids at home
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on their laptop, and so mom stay at home. Moms,
we're still doing their things. So they're doing the laundry,
keeping one ear on what's going on, and they're realizing
you've got complete freak shows in some of these classes.
Some of you understand this, not all of you do.
So let me state what I shouldn't need to state.
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I don't think every teacher is a whack job. I
don't think they're all lesbians that want to murder men.
I don't think they're all men that want to be women.
I don't think they're all you know, left wing progressive nuts.
There are plenty of wonderful teachers in the classroom, men
and women. I do know that, Okay, I'm talking about
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those that don't qualify as that and the terrible effect
they can have on our children. Teachers and administrators. And
I look, it's just like deportation, nothing personal, but you
got to go. This is our chill room we're talking about.
So the mommies started while they're cooking and doing laundry
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and cleaning and doing the things they do around the
house to keep the house running. And that is sacred
to me. My wife works harder at home now being
retired than she did as a lawyer at a downtown
office building. And she'll tell you that because it never stops. Well,
they started overhearing what was going on, and then they
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started going to the schools and going, hey, my kids
in fourth grade. Well, first they went to the school
and said, miss Smith has assigned a book about why
Cindy has two daddies, and it has a paragraph in
here on butt sex and how butt secks between people.
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And then Cindy's half getting involved, and then we got
this going on and this going in, and then there's
another book about drag Queen's coming to the library, and
then there's this and I have a problem with that,
And they said, go home, bitch, this is the school.
You don't belong here. And mommies were all of a
sudden going, wait a minute, you can't talk to me.
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You can't treat me this way. So they said, all right,
your bosses, administrators and teachers are the school board. I'll
go to the school board. That's parents like me. When
the parents find out what's happening, they'll have a problem
with this. Do I sound stuffed up? Ramo, I do.
You weren't gonna say anything. I feel like I sound
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stuffed up. I don't want people to have to hear
me sounding stuffed up. No, I don't want you to
get in here and look. So these mommies and daddies
at this point, but mostly mommies, went to the school
board and they said, hey, two problems. Number one, my
wife was disrespected at the school. Number Two, here's this book.
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I'm going to read to you from this book. And
the school boards would shut them down, they would direct
the police officer take them out. And then the National
school Board Association, led by this crazy Randy Winegarden, the
Biden administration opened FBI files on parents that had gone
to the school board. This is January sixth all over again.
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So now you're making criminals out of mommies and daddies.
And this is just brewing and brewing and brewing and brewing.
And you know what, if it was a job, they
would have walked away from it. If it was a neighborhood,
they would have moved. But the hill these parents, particularly women,
will die on is their children. You want to know
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why we need school vouchers because these people should be
able to get out of the school and go somewhere
else if they want. But what happened is this has
been brewing for four years now, and I man, I'm
so fired up and I'm so excited about this. The
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Senate Majority leader vote is going on as we speak.
You may know before I do. We're not a breaking
news show for a number of reasons, one of which is,
while we're doing the show, I have to receive emails
from our team of researchers and contributors, and I can't always.
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I am not. Some of you are, and that's fine.
I'm not a person who gets excited to be the
first to get the news of anything. I've never been.
In fact, I think local news stations could get over
this exclusive on our station tonight. This happened. By tomorrow,
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everybody will have it. And that's why I don't get
news alerts all day long, because you could never have.
You never be able to stop and process and think.
And I think a higher level of thinking requires that
you can't have a chiron scrolling in your brain at
all times. But in any way, Politico is reporting. Let's
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see if I can find this that Political reports that
Republican senators are quite upset at the effort on social
media to promote Rick Scott for Senate Republican leadership. Quote.
Senators do not take kindly to having an army of
social media trolls attack them. All right, let me just
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say this in as clear as terms as I can.
I've said it a million times, but I want you
to hear it. Now that we've won the path to
rebuilding our republic does not just mean we're going to
have to trample Democrats. I want you to understand this.
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There are a lot of Republicans in the way, and
one of the greatest challenges is the naivete of your neighbor,
the niceness of your neighbor. Well, Michael, what has John
Cornyn done wrong? I thought he was a Republican. Well
he claims to be. Well, I just don't understand you're
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so angry at him. Yeah, he sells us down the river.
He ensures that Obamacare and bad bills, the Green New
Deal get passed, and at the last minute, once the
vote is assured that the Democrats have their majority, he
authorizes a few Republicans who are not up or they're retiring.
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It's a big deal. You'll get a Republican who's retiring,
like an Adam Kinsinger or Liz Cheney, and they'll go
act like Democrats because they're not up for vote. Again.
You don't see Democrats becoming conservative Republicans once they're on
their way out. But boy, you other than Mansion, you
will see Republicans who will show their true colors. Hey,
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you bastards can't vote me out office anymore. So, guess what.
I'm going to give the government all your money and
tax you into bankruptcy because that's what I've wanted to
do all along. And besides, I'm taking all your money
to give it to special interests because that's who's going
to hire me the second I walk out the door.
Truth be told, they got a handshake agreement long before that,
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and they, by the way, the special interests have already
hired their children, their wife, their campaign manager. You just
keep an eye on a congressman or a senator when
they leave office where they land, who hires them, Defense industry,
big AG, big pharma. You look at who pays their
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bills once they're gone, and it will answer for a
lot of things. But the path to restoring the Republic
means we're going to have to trample some Republicans as well.
Nice enough people, they're people we worked for. I mean, hell,
I busted my bunt to get the Bush family elected.
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But let's be honest. They're part of the problem and
people are onto them. That's why George W. Bush got
his ass kicked multiple times riding on his four wheeler
on the canyons. I'm gonna be attorney general, but mostly
I'm gonna be out here on my four wheeler patrolling
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the border. Oh we believe you, w we believe that
Jeb's son is going to be out of here on
his four wheeler. And they had him all made up.
He had his flannel shirt and his jeans. They hadn't
weathered his jeans. If they had had had time, they
would have acid washed them or something. And they had
the boots that they had just bought for him, but
they were low boots. I'm fired up about Trump's selections.
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Pete he Seth is the most excited I've ever been
about a cabinet secretary in my life period. End of story.
Christy know him at Department of Homeland Security. Look, I'm
not criticizing Trump personally. It is our job, even with Trump,
to question, be critical, offer suggestions. When you don't do that,
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he can't be the best president he can be. Am
I going to help him succeed? Yeah, you better believe it.
Don't ever worry about that. Christy know him is in
over her head. Department of Homeland Security is Customs and
Border Patrol. You talking about the border, You're talking about
the airports. Is she going to be able to step
in and gut tsa and tell him to stop button
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diddling us. Is she gonna be able to step in
with the border That's why Tom Holman is the borders are,
which is not a cabinet official. It's just a you know,
bully pulpit. He's going to get the work done. Do
I think Christy know Him is the right choice for that?
Absolutely not. Do I think she should be traveling the
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country with Corey Lewandowski from the campaign leading everyone in
the country to think they're banging.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
No.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I think it's terrible optics. I think it's horrible. I
think it may be worse than optics. Do I think
Little Marco should be Secretary of State? No, I think
it's a horrible choice. And mark my words, I know
y'all are all fired up. Y'all are all fired up
about Rex Tillerson. You were all fired up about Pompeo,
and you were all fired up about Millie Millie. Oh, Michael,
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you can't criticize Millie. He's an American patriot. Milli worked
harder to keep Donald Trump from getting re elected than
probably anybody in this country. And MILLI worked harder as
the insidious little cancer that he is from within the administration.
John Bolton. I told you I don't trust John Bolton then,
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and I don't trust John Bolton now, and most of
you came to understand why that was the case. He's
a backstabber, oh, Michael, John Bolton's he's a warmonger. John
Bolton and Lindsey Graham get together in a circle, jerk
and wank off to the idea of your son's being
murdered in Afghanistan in Iraq. Fact, little Marco is a
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terrible choice for Secretary of State there. I said it. Now,
we got to replace the Senate seat, which DeSantis is
going to put an anti Trump person in there. Watch this,
it's coming. He's got his pick already.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Well.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Today is today. It is Wedness Day, November thirteenth. The
Astrodome Conservancy is rolling out their new plan for the
Astrodome today. I don't know what it is, but I
can guarantee you it will be a bunch of boosterism.
(25:42):
We'll hear tale of Judge Hawphin's how he had the
vision for the Astrodome. Awesome. I love that. I love
Houston's history. I traveled all around Houston speaking for years
at business groups to tell the history of Houston and
how I came to be in a position of leadership
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because I loved the history and I wanted to continue. Now.
That wasn't the Sheila Jackson, Lee Rodney Ellis, Sylvester Turner Houston.
That was a Houston of people who were selfless, who
loved the city, who were pioneers, who were entrepreneurs and
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risk takers, but who had an incredible sense of no
bless obliege. That was downtown interests who cared deeply about
the region and people who came here from all over
and were welcomed into the social, financial, religious institutions and
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never expected to stay. You ask a lot of people
I came here in eighty nine. I always asked me,
when'd you come to Houston. Nobody planned to come to Houston.
People planned to go to la or New York because
that was glamorous, they thought. Turns out they got mugged.
But nobody planned to come to Houston from Bogalusa. They
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came here because there was a job. And once they
got here and they started the job because nowhere else
was hiring. None of the other great cities were hiring.
And once they got to Houston, and they got hired,
and they realized, wait a second, on my income, I
can afford a little house close enough to work that
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I can get to. And then they met a nice
Houston girl with Southern values, or maybe she was a
Louisiana girl or Mississippi girl or Alabama girl or Florida
girl who came here, and then they start Dayton and
(28:02):
guess what. Back then, anyway, you could move around. It
was the only big city in America you could. You
could travel around. The traffic wasn't crippling, you weren't paralyzed
at all times, and you could afford a home. And
then you start moving up in your job. Before you
know it, you got a kid. You could put them
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in the good public schools and before and then and
then you kind of move out to the suburbs and
you sort of leave Houston, Houston behind, but you tell
people you live in Houston, but really you live in
Cyprus because then you don't get shot at, you don't
fall asleep to gunshots every night. Or the Woodlands or
Conroe or Spring or Texas City or League City or
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friends would or Crosby or Katie Fullsher because that's where
people really live. Nobody wants to live in the City
of Houston. You live in the villages or one of
these communities. Somebody says they live in Houston and they're
inside the loop. If they're not getting shot at every day,
they'd live in bel Air and West u which are
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their own communities. And that's just the way it is.
It's not good, but that's the way it is. I've
seen the belly of the beast from inside, and it's ugly.
It's nasty. I mean, the fact that Sylvester Turner was
elected to the eighteenth Congressional district is all you need
to know. What are we going to follow Sheila Jackson
(29:28):
Lee up with? Could we possibly do worse? Yep, they're
more scandals being covered up at the City of Houston.
Then you could lead the evening news with daily Think
about how many of that's a cute little blonde girl
(29:48):
that does those reports Amy Davis, Amy Davis reports, Mario Diaz,
dol Chaffino, Just one after the other, after the other
after the other. The Housing Authority, public Works, Oh, just terrible.
There's a bunch of stories that were covered up in
the police department from the upper echelons of the police department.
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That if half of what officers tell me, and some
of those guys I've known come to know and known
who fed me information that were on the executive staff
under Turner, some of the things that were covered up.
If you knew some of the things that were covered
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up within that department, Well, Michael, how come you don't
tell us? Because unless I can personally verify it, I
can't say it out loud. And that's not a complete
idiot and it wouldn't be fair. We have a big audience.
I can't just go off willy nilly screaming stuff. Okay,
(30:52):
I do, but not all the time. I like to
I like to keep it limited a little bit. So
what we're seeing right now is a Senate majority leader
vote between Rick Scott and let me pull up my numbers.
(31:12):
You've got fifty three senators that are going to be voting,
but you only have Ted. By the way, Ted Cruz
came out this morning and said he's supporting Rick Scott.
They are peeling away votes from John Thune to go
to Rick Scott, and that's what I want. Don't get
(31:33):
me wrong, But you've got to beat corner. The number
one job is to beat Corny. The number two job
is to get Rick Scott in. But you cannot let
Cornyan win. And I will tell you what scares me,
because this is the way they operate. What scares me
is Thoon had the lead, so they peel away his
(31:58):
votes and give them to Scott. Cornan was only six
votes behind. So you get this race where you have
Thun and Scott with parody and Cornyan Harry's to day.
Cornn is an evil, devious bastard who is responsible for
(32:19):
why he's responsible for the problems in government. It's people
like him and Paul Ryan that are the neighbors Dick Cheney.
This is that whole deal. They are clever enough to
peel some voters off of Thune, give them to Scott,
to get Thune out of the lead, and put John Corny.
(32:40):
He doesn't care how he wins. Understand that if he
comes out the winner. And see, by the way, this
is not transparent. This should all be done in public.
You're elected officials.
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