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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Very Show is on the air. Hey, come on, man,
wake up.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I've said it for years now.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
He's cogent, but I undersold him when I said he
was coaching. He's far beyond cogent.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
In fact, I think he's better than he's ever been.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And f you if you can't handle the truth.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
This version of Biden intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever,
not a close second.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And I've known him for years. The Prezienskis have known
him for fifty years.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
One of my great regrets.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Is that I do not have as much time to
study elections where I could make a choice and make
an indorsement or make a statement about an election and
hopefully make a difference, because there are so many. I
was asked yesterday in an email when I point out
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the Republicans who voted for Dustin Burroughs to be Speaker,
and now Burroughs is as we expected because all the
Democrats were with him, and then a few Republicans giving
him the majority, making the others fall in line. The
question was, why do you always call out Mono, Della
Lacey Hall and the ones you do and not doctor Bonnin.
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And I said, well, the truth is because I know
Mono and have known Mono for many years, and I
think he could do better. I don't know Greg Bonnon,
Dennis Bonnon's brother. I know who he is. I know
he and I don't agree on very much of anything.
I know that he's a Republican who sides with the
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lobbyists and the Democrats, all while calling himself a Republican.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I know all of those things.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
But as I said to that person, he's not in
my backyard, so I don't think of him. That being said,
I was asked who I would be supporting in the
Sugarland mayor election, and I said, I don't have a
choice because I haven't studied it. There is a runoff.
I called several people who I trust in the area
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with different sort of perspectives, and all of them were
going with William Ferguson. I said, if you'd like to
come on the show for a few moments and talk
about the race. So William Ferguson is our guest. He
is a candidate in the runoff to be the next
mayor of the City of Sugarland, voting May twenty seventh
through May third, with election day on June seventh. William Ferguson,
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Welcome to the program.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Or a hello Michael, Good morning, my friend.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Now, as I understand it, Joe Zimmerman is term limited,
he's been on since twenty sixteen, and it's you and
Keryl McCutcheon as the two candidates who are vying to
be the mayor.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Tell me a little bit first about you.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Got okay, Michael, You and I have a lot of
mutual friends, one of which you and I met in
your studio before twenty seventeen. And I know you'll remember
when I tell you the name Matt Patrick. Another Michael Ryan.
So Michael's are all around me. Michael Garfield is Sugarland,
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and Michael Garfield says he is the real Michael. He
told me to tell you that.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
There you go, so.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Hey, So Michael, I've been a police officer here in
Fortman County since Goodness nineteen ninety two, started with City
of Stafford, been with my wife, my high school sweetheart,
for forty years, since graduating in a Leaf. We've been
married thirty five years. I'm an entrepreneur. I have been
on council since twenty twenty, and I absolutely adore this
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city and I adore this county. So it's pretty much
who I am. I'm very conservative. I've always been that way,
and that's why I'm such a fan of yours.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I'm not asking you to criticize your opponent, but I
would like to get a sense. Do you think she
votes in Republican or Democrat primaries?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I believe historically she's voted in Republican primaries.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
What would you say would differentiate her administration from yours.
Doesn't mean that she has to be terrible for people
to vote for you, but what would be a difference.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Well, I like to say this because I think it's fair. Once.
She's nice, she's smart. He's simply not decisive. I am
very decisive. I do not blow with the political wind.
I go the way that people needs. We represent one
hundred and fifteen thousand people and I will all do that,
and so simply being decisive matters and leadership, and you
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know that I do.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Sugarland has seen a lot of growth and development and success,
but with it eventually some of the problems that came
from Houston to be a little more like Houston. What
do you see as the biggest challenges for Sugarland going forward.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Well, right now, we are missing our thirty and forty
year olds. And as you may or may not know,
I'm sure you do. If you want to drive your economy,
you need to have consumers, and our thirty year olds
are missing, and so we're bringing them back through jobs, destinations, housing.
You may or may not know. MD Anderson's building in
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our city right now. They're largest building four hundred and
sixty two thousand square feet at University in fifty nine.
That alone is two thousand new high paying jobs. So
our city's really starting to thrive, bringing back our young
people to our city and that's where we're going to shine.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
And how do you do that, Well, the key piece.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Is working with our regional partners to bring in these
new jobs. And we do that well. Mayor Zimmerman is
really I mean, he's a great partner to our state
and our nation. So he's been able to really adapt
those relationships and so our corporate partners and trends are
coming back to our city. Our developers are working now
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on their plans for Lake Point. You may remember Floria Daniel.
They've moved out of our city and so Lake Point
Green is now in development. It's been presented to the city.
It's a fabulous development. It's probably a six hundred million
dollar add to our value of our city. Plus we're
in the process of saving to ourhouse the Imperial property
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off of Highway ninety that is our history and historically,
based on plans we've discussed, that could be a value
add to our city of nearly one billion dollars. It's
really really a good time to be in the sweet
city of Sugarland.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
It is, and I think one advantage is as the
city of Houston's crime rate and the judges keep putting
the bad guys back out on the street, people are
simply going to vote with their feet and they're going
to go to Magnolia and they're going to go to
the Woodlands, and they're going to go to Sugarland. And
we've seen it happen. They're going to go to League
City in Texas City. We've seen it in friends with
We've seen it happen. We're going to see it continue
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to happen more and more and more. And I think
it denures to your benefit It is interesting you make
the point of thirty and forty year olds, because I
know so many people who move to sugar Land for
the purpose of raising kids.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
But I guess if the numbers are not there, then
the numbers are not there. That's interesting.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Well, you know, and Michael, you probably again you know
all this. But our consumer, you and I, we're about
the same age. I'm fifty seven, so the evening time
you and I are probably eating at the house. Right
all these thirty year olds I've gotten you families, they've
got your jobs, they're out thriving, and when they're not around,
our economy suffers.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
William Ferguson, candidate for Sugarland. It is coming Monday, because
I'm sure you know is Memorial Day again. Since nineteen
seventy one, the holiday has fallen on the last Monday
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of May, so it moves around year to year, and
like say Christmas, which is set at December twenty fifth.
I use the term holiday because I went and looked
at a list of holidays coming from the Holyday origin
is not a holiday in that sense. It is a
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holiday in the sense that many businesses will be closed.
Banks because they're always closed and schools and a lie.
But of course it is a day of remembrance for
those who died.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
In battle.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Now many people will expand Memorial Day to the veterans
or active that's we have days for all of those.
Memorial Day is a specific day for a specific thing.
It is also a marker on the calendar rather loosely
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for after Memorial Day. The people who love to say,
you know, you don't wear white, or you do wear white,
or what, I never followed their stupid rules. It always
amuses me when I'm violating one of their rules. People
love to have rules, and they know the rule, and
they love to tell you the rule. You're not supposed
to wear is it? Do you supposed to?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
You know, I guess you're not supposed to wear white
after Memorial You're not supposed to wear white after Memorial Day.
And you know it's the week or two after. Okay, yeah,
you're not supposed to, don't you know. I've heard set
stupid statement made before. You're making it again. Now, Yeah,
you're not.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Supposed to, it says who who're not supposed to?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Everybody knows. Everybody knows, and you're not supposed to. But
why well, yeah, you small minded peon. You heard that,
and you repeat it because it somehow gives you some
sense of belonging to the to the bigger stratosphere that
you repeat.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
The things that you don't even know why they're there.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
You're just repeating what Versace or some other goofball said that.
If you ever met that person, you'd think, what an idiot.
And then you're just repeating it. But I don't know
why I got off on that. Monday, May twenty sixth,
Memorial Day is also a date in the marking of
a president's You've got your first hundred days, and then
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you've got the things that are accomplished by Memorial Day.
President Trump meeting today with some members of Congress Republicans
in Congress to hold the ranks to get a spending
cut in a tax cut bill done by Memorial Day.
Congress will be in recess next week. Some of you
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will be attending events where your congressman who is back
in town wants to make the most of it, so
they will be appearing at different events and showing up
at Memorial Day events. That is because they will be
in recess next week. President Trump is trying very hard
to impress upon the members of the Republican members of
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Congress that he needs their vote because we've got such
a slim majority. Now, there is an interesting thing happening
here that is easy to reduce to, well, that guy's
an idiot. But you've got Chip Roy and Thomas Massey
and a couple of guys who are holding out and
threatening to vote against it. From a purely principled perspective,
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the bill is not what they want, and I agree
with that. From a real politique perspective of Trump's getting
more than he otherwise would. He expects them to vote
for him with him for this package, which he wants.
He doesn't need, but he wants. I say he doesn't need,
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because it's not that his administration is going to be
a failure without it. But this would certainly be a
feather in his cap, and he would like to get
it going into Memorial Day, and so he's putting the
squeeze today. The art of the deal is not limited
to tariff threats on China or meetings in Saudi Arabia
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and investments. This morning, he said that he would like
someone to run against and beat Thomas Massey. Look if
Massey comes around and votes for the bill. Trump will
endorse him the following day. And again, when you watch
Trump for a period of time, you notice this is
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a tactic that he uses. He punches you in the face,
and then you know, you think of the Christopher Walking
and Dennis Hopper in true romance. He punches you in
the face and he says, you want, You're gonna get.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
More of that. You go, no, no, no, no, you.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Can have my wallet, you can have whatever you want. Oh,
thank you, you're a really nice person, and he hugs
it out. I think the thought that he has the
hope is to threaten Massy that I'm going to get
involved in your congressional district and I'm going to run
somebody against you, and I'm gonna raise money for them,
and I'm gonna work hard to defeat you. And Massy
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can say, all right, I've got my problems with this bill.
It's too big, it's too fat. I'm opposed to that.
But I can work a deal. And he works the deal,
and he brings his his vote on Chip Roy, same thing,
and he's going to put the pressure on them. He's
not going to lightly or take lying down them, not
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voting with him. But that is I don't know how
well how much that will be covered today, but that
is a major domestic political development going on today, and
it is the talk of DC. It is a big,
big deal and Trump, I say, wants, not needs, but
Trump wants to get that deal done. The Trump tax cut.
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At the end of his first year in Trump one
point zero. So in December of twenty seventeen, some of
you will remember that tax cut was said to be
about six hundred dollars. It ended up being about two
thousand dollars on average per person. And if you'll remember
what the Democrats said, because they had whatever he does,
they have to criticize, so they said it was peanuts.
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You remember we talked about this a lot. Oh, it
wasn't a big deal. That was just peanuts. That's not
real money to people, which was a little surprising working
class people that Trump got them a tax cut.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
When we were told all he wants to do is
help rich people.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Trump got them a tax cut of two thousand dollars.
And the Democrats were saying, that's peanuts. Well maybe for you,
Nancy Pelosi who's gotten rich with insider trading information, but
not for us.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I asked William Ferguson, candidate from mayor Shogland.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
And the folks I've asked they were all behind him.
But I asked him to tell me the difference between
Hi and Carol McCutcheon, because I don't know her. And
I made the point, Carol McCutchen does not have to
be the devil or Joe Biden, or stupid or a
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criminal in order for you to believe that you would
make a better mayor. So what would separate the two
of y'all? And he said, I believe I am more
decisive and that that is an important skill in a leader.
And that is absolutely true. I watch when people when
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I talk to candidates who will ask for my support
for a particular office, I will ask them to assess
their opponent. And if it's in a runoff and you're running,
I mean, if it's in a general and you're running
against a Democrat, that's one thing. But if you're running
against a Republican, it is possible that both of you
are good candidates. And I'm always interested how often someone
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will say that their opponent is the worst human being
in the history of mankind. It shows a certain lack
of sophistication.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
For them.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
But it also shows a lack of respect for my
or your intelligence to think that person's got to be
the absolute worst for you to think that I would
be better, It's possible to say that other person is
professionally accomplished, loves their family, is a good person with
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good intentions. I think I would be better for this reason.
And to his credit, William Ferguson took that approach, and
I was trying to guide him toward that because I
didn't need him to trash his opponent. I just think
that's a good standard to use, particularly in a Republican primary.
It is a good standard to use that you should
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be able to say something nice about the other person
you are running against. Otherwise I have to question your
veracity when you tell me the other person's the worst person.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Ever.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
The Democrats couldn't tell you that Kamala Harris was a
good candidate, so they just went all in on Trump's
the devil work. But that was their approach because they
knew they had a bad horse and they couldn't get
you to bet on her. So Jim Mudd informs me
with the White issue that from the Farmer's Almanac quote
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in the early nineteen hundreds, those who were well to
do often favored lightweight, bright clothing, white linen suits, and
breezy dresses. Wearing white after Labor Day meant you were
someone who had the means to have end of summer vacations.
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Wearing your whites beyond Labor Day was just well showing off. Okay,
interesting chance. McClain is one of the wackiest human beings
I've ever met. He is. He's not crazy per se,
but he is extraordinarily artistic in the sense that he
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will make up and has made up hundreds and hundreds
of songs in his head.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
He'll make up a song.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
About a mosquito metamorphosizing Kafka esque into an automobile and
flying driving along and hitting other mosquitoes in the windshield,
and he'll, you know, some of us will think, well,
that'd be a funny concept. He will actually record it
in a three part harmony, and he'll create interesting music
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to go with for literally nobody to ever hear.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Ever, And what is the band? Ramon? Is it?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Ramstein? Is am I pronouncing it right? Ramstein? Ramstein? Okay,
he did a Santa Claus is coming to Town as
if Ramstein had sang it for nobody to ever hear.
In One day, that band's name came up and he said, oh,
I did a tribute to them. I did Santa Claus's
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Come to Town as that Why just to do it?
And I guess that's kind of his therapy. But I'm
glad to have a friend like that, because otherwise you don't.
It makes life more interesting. So he sends me a
song he wrote. He said, you don't need to ever
play this.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I start.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You get a kick out of it because you were
talking about the other day that the phrases young people
use today and like, for instance, young well people in
their twenties and thirties, they don't know the word very
v e r y, not va ry, not to change course,
but to mean a lot. They simply don't use that word.
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If they say he was super strong, I mean he
was very strong. Everything is super now super is the
replacement for very. But they have all these other as
every generation does. They have their own you know, gag
me with the spoon was the eighties. They have their
own little phrases. And so we were talking about God
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bless the USA, and he imagine what that would sound
like if the current youth generation sang it and it
was in their lingo, and so with apologies, here it is.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
If tomorrow all my grind and gates got fenosnaffed and
I'm left with just my kids.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
And Queen, I wouldn't be trapped.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I'd still be vibing hard legit ate down no cap
because the flag still pop and off.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Ain't nobody joinking that.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Bad.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
I'm straight up proud to be an American where I
know three no yikes and props to the ogs who.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Went he road mode and died and not too flex.
But I go pist mode for this land because I'm
all in for the USA.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
One hundred full sent from Lakes of Minnesota.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
I'm friving, no cringe energy.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Texas.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
HiT's different, no sus, straight fire g.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
From Hotown down to h Town, the Apple to La
La Land, not gonna lie. We got that bride, no
skipity fast. I'm proud to be an American where I'm
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free and that straight fat respect to.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I'm gonna get emails. When we were going, Michael, that
was terrible. Yes, that's the point it's supposed to be terrible.
I realize that's not for everybody.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
That's it's hilarious one of those worst did you catch
remone six or moments from ABC thirteen.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Someone's interesting that government has.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
No money to maintain things until there's going to be
uh an Olympics, a World Cup, a Super Bowl, and
then all of a sudden everything looks needs to look nice.
In other words, things don't need to look nice for
the taxpayers who live here. They just need to look
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nice and other people come to town. So City of
Houston's Public Works department is launching big projects to tear
down blighted buildings and fix the roads.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Huh in that someone, But.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
It'll probably be like Marion Barry when he was mayor,
the path from his home to City Hall was perfectly paved.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Everything else was a pothole that looked like Beirut.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
So I'm sure the streets that will get the best
repair will be those nearest where the World Cup matches
will be played. Isn't it interesting that we can't seem
to find the money. Look, I know it's one of
those things it's hard to quantify, and I know it
sounds like such a grump. You know, there are certain
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guys out there Bob Shot.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Is one of them. Bill King is one of.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Them, These old white guys that are on the internet
all day pointing out how the government is wasting money,
local government is wasting money, self dealing, and then something
will happen and they'll go, well, this is just like
twenty seventeen, in twenty twelter.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
And I know people kind of write them off.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Because the idea is, well, that grumpy old white guy,
he just looking at data all day. But thank god
for them, because if they didn't point it out, the
journalists in town are not going to They don't have
the bandwidth to be studying you know what's happening on
the agenda of you know, the mud districts and things
like that. You need the old white guy retiree was
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he called sense himself common sense Bob. Bob showed c Hoate.
He's a good follow on Twitter. Marissa Hanson. Every time
I mentioned Marissa Hanson's name, I get people who criticize
me because they don't they don't like her, they don't
know her. I met her one time for twenty minutes
when I was going with Ramon somewhere and their buddies.
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But I will tell you this. She posts very very
interesting things. Is she right one hundred percent of the time?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
No, who is?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
But she is fearless Mary Tally Boden. I have people
who don't like her. She's not allowed in polite company
because she's deterred in the punch bowl that's pointing out
spike proteins and hospital systems that overstep their bounds. Well,
everybody knows some socialite who's on a hospital system board.
So you can't be around Mary Tally Boden because well
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that's not polite society, and on and on and on.
I don't you know, Bob Schult would probably get all
my last nerve. What's the guy's named the flooding guy
in Kingwood?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Bill King?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Arrogant beyond all belief. I mean, I don't know that
I've ever met a person who thinks more of themselves
than Bill King. Obnoxious, I mean, unbearably obnoxious. But he
does good work, and it's important that people like that
are out there doing that important work because the rest
of us, myself included, are not going to I'm not
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going to sit and pour over appropriations and budgets and
expend to try I'm just not going to do it.
I will take what they write and I will talk
about it. And they don't have the outlet I do,
and I don't have the research they do. Thank goodness
for Rachel Rachel Palmer Hooper because she does all that
in the legal perspective, or Josh Blackman, who'll do it
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with Supreme Court cases.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
You need these kind of people.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
These nerdy, can of quirky people, because they're gonna do
the heavy lifting that no one else is gonna do.
The problem is most of what they find and report
and they're going.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Hey, look over here, this crazy thing is happening, and
nobody cares. Nobody pays attention. No crazy guy, he just but.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
What they're talking about the Harrison County tax increase, for instance,
nobody even noticed that was happening anyway. So here is
the story ABC thirteen about the City of Houston doing
the things they should have been doing, but now they'll
do it because companies come in to town.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
We're hosting the World Cup.
Speaker 9 (27:58):
The City of Houston is respect consible for maintaining freeway
lights in the city limits. Houston Public Works told us
in a statement that they've dealt with wire theft aging
infrastructure unreported damage and electrical issues. Good news is they're
fixing them ahead of the World Cup next summer. It's
one of their major projects as the city gears up
to host what they're calling seven Super Bowl level events
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in a month's time. We wondered what other projects Houston
Public Works was prioritizing, so thirteen investigates requested their emails.
You know this building in downtown, it's been abandoned since
at least nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 10 (28:36):
The GK is catching bats, nets, rats, vultures, insects, and diseases.
Speaker 9 (28:44):
Well, what about the old Greyhound bus station in Midtown.
Both buildings have been the topic of many discussions in
the city. According to an email from the city's legal
department in November, the administration wants to take action against
two properties in advance of the World Cup in twenty
twenty six. It's those buildings, So the city sent out
inspectors to both properties so they can consider their options
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and perhaps reach out to the owners to take down
the buildings. And they say there are quote several other
properties the city administration would like inspected. ABC thirteen has
reported on the city's dangerous Buildings list in the past,
and the long drawn out process to get these eyesores demolished.
What else are they doing? Cleaning up graffiti, landscaping, restriping roads,
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fixing sidewalks, and building a park on the east side
of downtown where a month long FanFest party will be
hosted for the World Cup next summer. If you've lived
in Houston any period of time, you know road closures
from construction and popholes are favorite topics of conversation.
Speaker 10 (29:45):
It's always nice to have a vehicle when you go
in and get your tires rotated and they're like, hey,
your suspensions a little off. I'm like, yeah, I made
a couple trips into downtown.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Not for long.
Speaker 9 (29:52):
The city is repaving these highlighted streets in downtown for
the games. Plus, this Houston public Works email put other
departments on a alert to quote ensure all possible travel
lanes are open mid May through mid July twenty twenty six.
What you see in these emails over and over among
public works leaders is that projects should be phased for
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completion or to be cleaned up by May of twenty
twenty six. Ahead of the Games. Projects are on an
expedited schedule. City leaders are addressing and fixing things that
concern Houstonians in their everyday lives. A recent study from
the University of Houston's Hobby School of Public Affairs found
that bad road conditions are actually Houstonian's top concern for
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the city.
Speaker 10 (30:35):
We should probably care a little bit more about the
people living here on a day to day basis and
those who traveled.
Speaker 9 (30:39):
These streets, and Mayor Whitmeyer said something similar in our
recent council meeting during an update about preps for the Games.
Speaker 11 (30:46):
Not regularly tell our working groups that we need to
act like every day is a World Cup day for Houstonians.
So we don't need to just clean up and make
Metro safe for major events.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
We need to do it on a daily base.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
We wanted to ask the mayor about that, so we
requested an interview granted. Mayor Whitmeyer only took office in
January of twenty twenty four and Houston was announced as
a host city in twenty twenty two, But we wanted
to know if these city infrastructure projects can be deemed
high priority and aggressive like we saw in emails, why
is that not how they're always operating to provide the
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best quality of life for people who live here? His
office declined our request.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Promote.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Let's open the phone line, shall we? Seven one three,
nine nine nine one thousand. Dave in the parking lot
behind Yalleri Furniture.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
You can hang up.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
You call too often. We're not putting you on. You're
taking a bline. Seven one three nine none nine one
thousand
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Very Show is on the air. Hey, come on, man,
wake up.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I've said it for years now.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
He's cogent, but I undersold him when I said he
was coaching. He's far beyond cogent.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
In fact, I think he's better than he's ever been.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And f you if you can't handle the truth.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
This version of Biden intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever,
not a close second.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And I've known him for years. The Prezienskis have known
him for fifty years.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
One of my great regrets.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Is that I do not have as much time to
study elections where I could make a choice and make
an indorsement or make a statement about an election and
hopefully make a difference, because there are so many. I
was asked yesterday in an email when I point out
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the Republicans who voted for Dustin Burroughs to be Speaker,
and now Burroughs is as we expected because all the
Democrats were with him, and then a few Republicans giving
him the majority, making the others fall in line. The
question was, why do you always call out Mono, Della
Lacey Hall and the ones you do and not doctor Bonnin.
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And I said, well, the truth is because I know
Mono and have known Mono for many years, and I
think he could do better. I don't know Greg Bonnon,
Dennis Bonnon's brother. I know who he is. I know
he and I don't agree on very much of anything.
I know that he's a Republican who sides with the
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lobbyists and the Democrats, all while calling himself a Republican.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I know all of those things.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
But as I said to that person, he's not in
my backyard, so I don't think of him. That being said,
I was asked who I would be supporting in the
Sugarland mayor election, and I said, I don't have a
choice because I haven't studied it. There is a runoff.
I called several people who I trust in the area
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with different sort of perspectives, and all of them were
going with William Ferguson. I said, if you'd like to
come on the show for a few moments and talk
about the race. So William Ferguson is our guest. He
is a candidate in the runoff to be the next
mayor of the City of Sugarland, voting May twenty seventh
through May third, with election day on June seventh. William Ferguson,
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Welcome to the program.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Or a hello Michael, Good morning, my friend.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Now, as I understand it, Joe Zimmerman is term limited,
he's been on since twenty sixteen, and it's you and
Keryl McCutcheon as the two candidates who are vying to
be the mayor.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Tell me a little bit first about you.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Got okay, Michael, You and I have a lot of
mutual friends, one of which you and I met in
your studio before twenty seventeen. And I know you'll remember
when I tell you the name Matt Patrick. Another Michael Ryan.
So Michael's are all around me. Michael Garfield is Sugarland,
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and Michael Garfield says he is the real Michael. He
told me to tell you that.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
There you go, so.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Hey, So Michael, I've been a police officer here in
Fortman County since Goodness nineteen ninety two, started with City
of Stafford, been with my wife, my high school sweetheart,
for forty years, since graduating in a Leaf. We've been
married thirty five years. I'm an entrepreneur. I have been
on council since twenty twenty, and I absolutely adore this
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city and I adore this county. So it's pretty much
who I am. I'm very conservative. I've always been that way,
and that's why I'm such a fan of yours.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I'm not asking you to criticize your opponent, but I
would like to get a sense. Do you think she
votes in Republican or Democrat primaries?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I believe historically she's voted in Republican primaries.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
What would you say would differentiate her administration from yours.
Doesn't mean that she has to be terrible for people
to vote for you, but what would be a difference.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Well, I like to say this because I think it's fair. Once.
She's nice, she's smart. He's simply not decisive. I am
very decisive. I do not blow with the political wind.
I go the way that people needs. We represent one
hundred and fifteen thousand people and I will all do that,
and so simply being decisive matters and leadership, and you
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know that I do.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Sugarland has seen a lot of growth and development and success,
but with it eventually some of the problems that came
from Houston to be a little more like Houston. What
do you see as the biggest challenges for Sugarland going forward.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Well, right now, we are missing our thirty and forty
year olds. And as you may or may not know,
I'm sure you do. If you want to drive your economy,
you need to have consumers, and our thirty year olds
are missing, and so we're bringing them back through jobs, destinations, housing.
You may or may not know. MD Anderson's building in
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our city right now. They're largest building four hundred and
sixty two thousand square feet at University in fifty nine.
That alone is two thousand new high paying jobs. So
our city's really starting to thrive, bringing back our young
people to our city and that's where we're going to shine.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
And how do you do that, Well, the key piece.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Is working with our regional partners to bring in these
new jobs. And we do that well. Mayor Zimmerman is
really I mean, he's a great partner to our state
and our nation. So he's been able to really adapt
those relationships and so our corporate partners and trends are
coming back to our city. Our developers are working now
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on their plans for Lake Point. You may remember Floria Daniel.
They've moved out of our city and so Lake Point
Green is now in development. It's been presented to the city.
It's a fabulous development. It's probably a six hundred million
dollar add to our value of our city. Plus we're
in the process of saving to ourhouse the Imperial property
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off of Highway ninety that is our history and historically,
based on plans we've discussed, that could be a value
add to our city of nearly one billion dollars. It's
really really a good time to be in the sweet
city of Sugarland.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
It is, and I think one advantage is as the
city of Houston's crime rate and the judges keep putting
the bad guys back out on the street, people are
simply going to vote with their feet and they're going
to go to Magnolia and they're going to go to
the Woodlands, and they're going to go to Sugarland. And
we've seen it happen. They're going to go to League
City in Texas City. We've seen it in friends with
We've seen it happen. We're going to see it continue
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to happen more and more and more. And I think
it denures to your benefit It is interesting you make
the point of thirty and forty year olds, because I
know so many people who move to sugar Land for
the purpose of raising kids.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
But I guess if the numbers are not there, then
the numbers are not there. That's interesting.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Well, you know, and Michael, you probably again you know
all this. But our consumer, you and I, we're about
the same age. I'm fifty seven, so the evening time
you and I are probably eating at the house. Right
all these thirty year olds I've gotten you families, they've
got your jobs, they're out thriving, and when they're not around,
our economy suffers.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
William Ferguson, candidate for Sugarland. It is coming Monday, because
I'm sure you know is Memorial Day again. Since nineteen
seventy one, the holiday has fallen on the last Monday
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of May, so it moves around year to year, and
like say Christmas, which is set at December twenty fifth.
I use the term holiday because I went and looked
at a list of holidays coming from the Holyday origin
is not a holiday in that sense. It is a
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holiday in the sense that many businesses will be closed.
Banks because they're always closed and schools and a lie.
But of course it is a day of remembrance for
those who died.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
In battle.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Now many people will expand Memorial Day to the veterans
or active that's we have days for all of those.
Memorial Day is a specific day for a specific thing.
It is also a marker on the calendar rather loosely
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for after Memorial Day. The people who love to say,
you know, you don't wear white, or you do wear white,
or what, I never followed their stupid rules. It always
amuses me when I'm violating one of their rules. People
love to have rules, and they know the rule, and
they love to tell you the rule. You're not supposed
to wear is it? Do you supposed to?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
You know, I guess you're not supposed to wear white
after Memorial You're not supposed to wear white after Memorial Day.
And you know it's the week or two after. Okay, yeah,
you're not supposed to, don't you know. I've heard set
stupid statement made before. You're making it again. Now, Yeah,
you're not.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Supposed to, it says who who're not supposed to?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Everybody knows. Everybody knows, and you're not supposed to. But
why well, yeah, you small minded peon. You heard that,
and you repeat it because it somehow gives you some
sense of belonging to the to the bigger stratosphere that
you repeat.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
The things that you don't even know why they're there.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
You're just repeating what Versace or some other goofball said that.
If you ever met that person, you'd think, what an idiot.
And then you're just repeating it. But I don't know
why I got off on that. Monday, May twenty sixth,
Memorial Day is also a date in the marking of
a president's You've got your first hundred days, and then
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you've got the things that are accomplished by Memorial Day.
President Trump meeting today with some members of Congress Republicans
in Congress to hold the ranks to get a spending
cut in a tax cut bill done by Memorial Day.
Congress will be in recess next week. Some of you
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will be attending events where your congressman who is back
in town wants to make the most of it, so
they will be appearing at different events and showing up
at Memorial Day events. That is because they will be
in recess next week. President Trump is trying very hard
to impress upon the members of the Republican members of
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Congress that he needs their vote because we've got such
a slim majority. Now, there is an interesting thing happening
here that is easy to reduce to, well, that guy's
an idiot. But you've got Chip Roy and Thomas Massey
and a couple of guys who are holding out and
threatening to vote against it. From a purely principled perspective,
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the bill is not what they want, and I agree
with that. From a real politique perspective of Trump's getting
more than he otherwise would. He expects them to vote
for him with him for this package, which he wants.
He doesn't need, but he wants. I say he doesn't need,
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because it's not that his administration is going to be
a failure without it. But this would certainly be a
feather in his cap, and he would like to get
it going into Memorial Day, and so he's putting the
squeeze today. The art of the deal is not limited
to tariff threats on China or meetings in Saudi Arabia
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and investments. This morning, he said that he would like
someone to run against and beat Thomas Massey. Look if
Massey comes around and votes for the bill. Trump will
endorse him the following day. And again, when you watch
Trump for a period of time, you notice this is
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a tactic that he uses. He punches you in the face,
and then you know, you think of the Christopher Walking
and Dennis Hopper in true romance. He punches you in
the face and he says, you want, You're gonna get.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
More of that. You go, no, no, no, no, you.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Can have my wallet, you can have whatever you want. Oh,
thank you, you're a really nice person, and he hugs
it out. I think the thought that he has the
hope is to threaten Massy that I'm going to get
involved in your congressional district and I'm going to run
somebody against you, and I'm gonna raise money for them,
and I'm gonna work hard to defeat you. And Massy
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can say, all right, I've got my problems with this bill.
It's too big, it's too fat. I'm opposed to that.
But I can work a deal. And he works the deal,
and he brings his his vote on Chip Roy, same thing,
and he's going to put the pressure on them. He's
not going to lightly or take lying down them, not
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voting with him. But that is I don't know how
well how much that will be covered today, but that
is a major domestic political development going on today, and
it is the talk of DC. It is a big,
big deal and Trump, I say, wants, not needs, but
Trump wants to get that deal done. The Trump tax cut.
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At the end of his first year in Trump one
point zero. So in December of twenty seventeen, some of
you will remember that tax cut was said to be
about six hundred dollars. It ended up being about two
thousand dollars on average per person. And if you'll remember
what the Democrats said, because they had whatever he does,
they have to criticize, so they said it was peanuts.
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You remember we talked about this a lot. Oh, it
wasn't a big deal. That was just peanuts. That's not
real money to people, which was a little surprising working
class people that Trump got them a tax cut.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
When we were told all he wants to do is
help rich people.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Trump got them a tax cut of two thousand dollars.
And the Democrats were saying, that's peanuts. Well maybe for you,
Nancy Pelosi who's gotten rich with insider trading information, but
not for us.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I asked William Ferguson, candidate from mayor Shogland.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
And the folks I've asked they were all behind him.
But I asked him to tell me the difference between
Hi and Carol McCutcheon, because I don't know her. And
I made the point, Carol McCutchen does not have to
be the devil or Joe Biden, or stupid or a
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criminal in order for you to believe that you would
make a better mayor. So what would separate the two
of y'all? And he said, I believe I am more
decisive and that that is an important skill in a leader.
And that is absolutely true. I watch when people when
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I talk to candidates who will ask for my support
for a particular office, I will ask them to assess
their opponent. And if it's in a runoff and you're running,
I mean, if it's in a general and you're running
against a Democrat, that's one thing. But if you're running
against a Republican, it is possible that both of you
are good candidates. And I'm always interested how often someone
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will say that their opponent is the worst human being
in the history of mankind. It shows a certain lack
of sophistication.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
For them.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
But it also shows a lack of respect for my
or your intelligence to think that person's got to be
the absolute worst for you to think that I would
be better, It's possible to say that other person is
professionally accomplished, loves their family, is a good person with
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good intentions. I think I would be better for this reason.
And to his credit, William Ferguson took that approach, and
I was trying to guide him toward that because I
didn't need him to trash his opponent. I just think
that's a good standard to use, particularly in a Republican primary.
It is a good standard to use that you should
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be able to say something nice about the other person
you are running against. Otherwise I have to question your
veracity when you tell me the other person's the worst person.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Ever.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
The Democrats couldn't tell you that Kamala Harris was a
good candidate, so they just went all in on Trump's
the devil work. But that was their approach because they
knew they had a bad horse and they couldn't get
you to bet on her. So Jim Mudd informs me
with the White issue that from the Farmer's Almanac quote
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in the early nineteen hundreds, those who were well to
do often favored lightweight, bright clothing, white linen suits, and
breezy dresses. Wearing white after Labor Day meant you were
someone who had the means to have end of summer vacations.
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Wearing your whites beyond Labor Day was just well showing off. Okay,
interesting chance. McClain is one of the wackiest human beings
I've ever met. He is. He's not crazy per se,
but he is extraordinarily artistic in the sense that he
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will make up and has made up hundreds and hundreds
of songs in his head.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
He'll make up a song.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
About a mosquito metamorphosizing Kafka esque into an automobile and
flying driving along and hitting other mosquitoes in the windshield,
and he'll, you know, some of us will think, well,
that'd be a funny concept. He will actually record it
in a three part harmony, and he'll create interesting music
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to go with for literally nobody to ever hear.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Ever, And what is the band? Ramon? Is it?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Ramstein? Is am I pronouncing it right? Ramstein? Ramstein? Okay,
he did a Santa Claus is coming to Town as
if Ramstein had sang it for nobody to ever hear.
In One day, that band's name came up and he said, oh,
I did a tribute to them. I did Santa Claus's
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Come to Town as that Why just to do it?
And I guess that's kind of his therapy. But I'm
glad to have a friend like that, because otherwise you don't.
It makes life more interesting. So he sends me a
song he wrote. He said, you don't need to ever
play this.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I start.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You get a kick out of it because you were
talking about the other day that the phrases young people
use today and like, for instance, young well people in
their twenties and thirties, they don't know the word very
v e r y, not va ry, not to change course,
but to mean a lot. They simply don't use that word.
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If they say he was super strong, I mean he
was very strong. Everything is super now super is the
replacement for very. But they have all these other as
every generation does. They have their own you know, gag
me with the spoon was the eighties. They have their
own little phrases. And so we were talking about God
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bless the USA, and he imagine what that would sound
like if the current youth generation sang it and it
was in their lingo, and so with apologies, here it is.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
If tomorrow all my grind and gates got fenosnaffed and
I'm left with just my kids.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
And Queen, I wouldn't be trapped.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I'd still be vibing hard legit ate down no cap
because the flag still pop and off.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Ain't nobody joinking that.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Bad.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
I'm straight up proud to be an American where I
know three no yikes and props to the ogs who.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Went he road mode and died and not too flex.
But I go pist mode for this land because I'm
all in for the USA.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
One hundred full sent from Lakes of Minnesota.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
I'm friving, no cringe energy.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Texas.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
HiT's different, no sus, straight fire g.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
From Hotown down to h Town, the Apple to La
La Land, not gonna lie. We got that bride, no
skipity fast. I'm proud to be an American where I'm
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free and that straight fat respect to.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I'm gonna get emails. When we were going, Michael, that
was terrible. Yes, that's the point it's supposed to be terrible.
I realize that's not for everybody.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
That's it's hilarious one of those worst did you catch
remone six or moments from ABC thirteen.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Someone's interesting that government has.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
No money to maintain things until there's going to be
uh an Olympics, a World Cup, a Super Bowl, and
then all of a sudden everything looks needs to look nice.
In other words, things don't need to look nice for
the taxpayers who live here. They just need to look
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nice and other people come to town. So City of
Houston's Public Works department is launching big projects to tear
down blighted buildings and fix the roads.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Huh in that someone, But.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
It'll probably be like Marion Barry when he was mayor,
the path from his home to City Hall was perfectly paved.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Everything else was a pothole that looked like Beirut.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
So I'm sure the streets that will get the best
repair will be those nearest where the World Cup matches
will be played. Isn't it interesting that we can't seem
to find the money. Look, I know it's one of
those things it's hard to quantify, and I know it
sounds like such a grump. You know, there are certain
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guys out there Bob Shot.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Is one of them. Bill King is one of.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Them, These old white guys that are on the internet
all day pointing out how the government is wasting money,
local government is wasting money, self dealing, and then something
will happen and they'll go, well, this is just like
twenty seventeen, in twenty twelter.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
And I know people kind of write them off.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Because the idea is, well, that grumpy old white guy,
he just looking at data all day. But thank god
for them, because if they didn't point it out, the
journalists in town are not going to They don't have
the bandwidth to be studying you know what's happening on
the agenda of you know, the mud districts and things
like that. You need the old white guy retiree was
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he called sense himself common sense Bob. Bob showed c Hoate.
He's a good follow on Twitter. Marissa Hanson. Every time
I mentioned Marissa Hanson's name, I get people who criticize
me because they don't they don't like her, they don't
know her. I met her one time for twenty minutes
when I was going with Ramon somewhere and their buddies.
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But I will tell you this. She posts very very
interesting things. Is she right one hundred percent of the time?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
No, who is?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
But she is fearless Mary Tally Boden. I have people
who don't like her. She's not allowed in polite company
because she's deterred in the punch bowl that's pointing out
spike proteins and hospital systems that overstep their bounds. Well,
everybody knows some socialite who's on a hospital system board.
So you can't be around Mary Tally Boden because well
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that's not polite society, and on and on and on.
I don't you know, Bob Schult would probably get all
my last nerve. What's the guy's named the flooding guy
in Kingwood?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Bill King?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Arrogant beyond all belief. I mean, I don't know that
I've ever met a person who thinks more of themselves
than Bill King. Obnoxious, I mean, unbearably obnoxious. But he
does good work, and it's important that people like that
are out there doing that important work because the rest
of us, myself included, are not going to I'm not
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going to sit and pour over appropriations and budgets and
expend to try I'm just not going to do it.
I will take what they write and I will talk
about it. And they don't have the outlet I do,
and I don't have the research they do. Thank goodness
for Rachel Rachel Palmer Hooper because she does all that
in the legal perspective, or Josh Blackman, who'll do it
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with Supreme Court cases.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
You need these kind of people.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
These nerdy, can of quirky people, because they're gonna do
the heavy lifting that no one else is gonna do.
The problem is most of what they find and report
and they're going.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Hey, look over here, this crazy thing is happening, and
nobody cares. Nobody pays attention. No crazy guy, he just but.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
What they're talking about the Harrison County tax increase, for instance,
nobody even noticed that was happening anyway. So here is
the story ABC thirteen about the City of Houston doing
the things they should have been doing, but now they'll
do it because companies come in to town.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
We're hosting the World Cup.
Speaker 9 (27:58):
The City of Houston is respect consible for maintaining freeway
lights in the city limits. Houston Public Works told us
in a statement that they've dealt with wire theft aging
infrastructure unreported damage and electrical issues. Good news is they're
fixing them ahead of the World Cup next summer. It's
one of their major projects as the city gears up
to host what they're calling seven Super Bowl level events
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in a month's time. We wondered what other projects Houston
Public Works was prioritizing, so thirteen investigates requested their emails.
You know this building in downtown, it's been abandoned since
at least nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 10 (28:36):
The GK is catching bats, nets, rats, vultures, insects, and diseases.
Speaker 9 (28:44):
Well, what about the old Greyhound bus station in Midtown.
Both buildings have been the topic of many discussions in
the city. According to an email from the city's legal
department in November, the administration wants to take action against
two properties in advance of the World Cup in twenty
twenty six. It's those buildings, So the city sent out
inspectors to both properties so they can consider their options
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and perhaps reach out to the owners to take down
the buildings. And they say there are quote several other
properties the city administration would like inspected. ABC thirteen has
reported on the city's dangerous Buildings list in the past,
and the long drawn out process to get these eyesores demolished.
What else are they doing? Cleaning up graffiti, landscaping, restriping roads,
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fixing sidewalks, and building a park on the east side
of downtown where a month long FanFest party will be
hosted for the World Cup next summer. If you've lived
in Houston any period of time, you know road closures
from construction and popholes are favorite topics of conversation.
Speaker 10 (29:45):
It's always nice to have a vehicle when you go
in and get your tires rotated and they're like, hey,
your suspensions a little off. I'm like, yeah, I made
a couple trips into downtown.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Not for long.
Speaker 9 (29:52):
The city is repaving these highlighted streets in downtown for
the games. Plus, this Houston public Works email put other
departments on a alert to quote ensure all possible travel
lanes are open mid May through mid July twenty twenty six.
What you see in these emails over and over among
public works leaders is that projects should be phased for
(30:13):
completion or to be cleaned up by May of twenty
twenty six. Ahead of the Games. Projects are on an
expedited schedule. City leaders are addressing and fixing things that
concern Houstonians in their everyday lives. A recent study from
the University of Houston's Hobby School of Public Affairs found
that bad road conditions are actually Houstonian's top concern for
(30:34):
the city.
Speaker 10 (30:35):
We should probably care a little bit more about the
people living here on a day to day basis and
those who traveled.
Speaker 9 (30:39):
These streets, and Mayor Whitmeyer said something similar in our
recent council meeting during an update about preps for the Games.
Speaker 11 (30:46):
Not regularly tell our working groups that we need to
act like every day is a World Cup day for Houstonians.
So we don't need to just clean up and make
Metro safe for major events.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
We need to do it on a daily base.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
We wanted to ask the mayor about that, so we
requested an interview granted. Mayor Whitmeyer only took office in
January of twenty twenty four and Houston was announced as
a host city in twenty twenty two, But we wanted
to know if these city infrastructure projects can be deemed
high priority and aggressive like we saw in emails, why
is that not how they're always operating to provide the
(31:21):
best quality of life for people who live here? His
office declined our request.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Promote.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Let's open the phone line, shall we? Seven one three,
nine nine nine one thousand. Dave in the parking lot
behind Yalleri Furniture.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
You can hang up.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
You call too often. We're not putting you on. You're
taking a bline. Seven one three nine none nine one
thousand
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