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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, lucking load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Very Show is on the air. Here's Johnny. I
am the danger. I am the one who knocks.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
We'll do it lit, and we'll do it live.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Last year I spent more money on spilled liquor in
fires from one side of this world to the other
than you may. You're talking to the rolics wearing diamond
ring wearing jet stealing, who wheeling, daling, livings in.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Right jet, flying set of a gun, and.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I'm having a hard time. Hold me elegantors this book,
salive this one alwful.
Speaker 6 (00:54):
She could tell that a weight, that I was bad
at the ball, aad of the bowl, bad of the bowler.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Bad of the bowl.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Let my dogter.
Speaker 7 (01:14):
So now that will be the end of it. I
will not look for you. I will not pursue you,
but if you don't I will look for you. I
will find you, and I will kill you.
Speaker 8 (01:28):
A minute day, I half that I'm bad of the bowl,
bad of the ball, bad of the ball.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I ray, what again, I get you?
Speaker 9 (01:49):
I double day.
Speaker 10 (02:04):
The Mayor of Rosenberg will be our guest, coming up
in about nine minutes to discuss his anti solicitation order
that being door to door not prostitution, although I guess
technically it will cover that too.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
If you were knocking on the door, y'all.
Speaker 11 (02:25):
Ain't hookers inside, Herbert, there's a man at the door,
so listening prostitution, Well, that's two problems.
Speaker 12 (02:36):
Shake their hands at you.
Speaker 10 (02:37):
Number one, you can't come knocking on people's doors. Number two,
you can't ask for prostitutes. So we got a double
wami on this one. This is the say oh, by
the way, he'll be our guests in the next segment.
This is the segment where we play you Lena ad
All go insulting three of her fellow commissioners in only
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fifty three seconds.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
This is a big deal.
Speaker 13 (03:04):
At least register my vote, Judge, if I could.
Speaker 14 (03:08):
Yes my colleague here when he's silent, it's so yes.
And when I asked to clarify, I get a glare.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
So I just what he does.
Speaker 14 (03:14):
That's what I can't care to tell you one of them.
So I'm going to keep asking you for your vote. Clear,
commissioner stops.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I'm going to support this.
Speaker 14 (03:24):
I assumed you had, because that's what I'm going to
start asking you, Garcia, without the.
Speaker 13 (03:28):
Glare, I am resting my vote for it.
Speaker 14 (03:33):
Thank you, question, Thank you continue asking commission Garcia. So
if he glares back, I'm sorry, Commissioner, but I'm going to.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Ask you please. I don't want please get.
Speaker 15 (03:41):
Back to the people's work point point of order from
our county attorneys.
Speaker 14 (03:44):
Don't you instead of helping your colleague when somebody else
is attacking her personally? Commissioner, of course, I assumed you'd
voted yes. That's why I want to say unanimously, because
that's what I do.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
With Garcia order.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
The vote has been called oh my wow, that's ugly there.
Speaker 13 (04:07):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (04:11):
And the best part is two of those three are Democrats.
They want her out. They all want her out. The
calls that are being made the Republican primary or a
candidate to challenge for the seat. I don't believe Lena
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will be a candidate. In fact, I'm certain she won't.
But the Republican candidates are the mayor of the little
hamlet of Piney Point, which is one of the villages,
Eliza Dutt I think is her name. She was just elected.
I don't think she has the broad support at this point.
She seems like a nice lady. She's an attractive lady.
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It does help to be attractive as a candidate. I
know people get upset when I say it, but it does.
It's not the only thing, but it certainly helps. And
Marty Langton the head of the fire Union, and Marty
would have obviously an automatic base to go in a
lot of Republicans for lining up behind him. We'll get
to that moment talk to the mayor in just a moment.
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But first, first, today is the birthday, the seventy fifth
birthday of my best friend in the whole wide world,
Uncle Jerry, Jerry Gerald Davis McGill. And in his honor
I can think of no greater tribute because he just
got his pinky toe cut off. It he just woke up,
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woke up from surgery to have the underside of his
foot cut up.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Did you start before we were ready?
Speaker 10 (05:47):
I can think of no better way to pay tribute
than the monster hit we wrote in his honor for
waking up having lost his toe far too soon, his
tenth toe, his pinky toe.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
This is Uncle Jerry's pinky toe. Love you, brother. This
is just a little tune.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Little Biggie went to market.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
About things lost fought too soon. The Little Biggy stay home, so.
Speaker 11 (06:09):
Join me as about those we missed.
Speaker 16 (06:18):
Kurt Cobain left us in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 9 (06:22):
Jimmy Hendricks changed the world.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
That set fire to the store.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Janice Joplin left.
Speaker 9 (06:27):
A little piece of her hard at Heaven's door. The
Gemmine with the angels now and Uncle Jerry's dinky too,
who fought climbed and Biggie Rose They no longer standing.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
The days music died still hurts like.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
John Denver's landing.
Speaker 16 (06:49):
Selena's dreams were stolen by a fan's obsessive woes.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
The shining up in Goree with Uncle Jerry's pinky toe.
Speaker 16 (07:05):
Rufley kicked the bucket, a dragon in the night. Sharon
Tate so young and sweet that helter skelter fight. Chris
Harley went too hard, too fast with all.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
They went in too.
Speaker 9 (07:20):
They're in event down by the river with Uncle Jerry's
pinky too. Otis sweet, Otis on the.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Duck of the bay.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
Imagine a world where John Then never went away. River Phoenix,
Amy One House, Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
They're dancing in the cosmos.
Speaker 9 (07:46):
Weird Uncle Jerry's pinky.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Toe in come.
Speaker 13 (08:00):
You would just.
Speaker 9 (08:03):
Now you're all alone, y'all.
Speaker 10 (08:12):
Remember when we had all go wore the cloven hoof
shoes to Paris?
Speaker 14 (08:17):
All this kind of thing in a public storm by
a public official.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
My good baby, shaw, are we allowing?
Speaker 10 (08:30):
You have a distinctive knock when you like, you know,
you go out to get ice in the hotel room,
and everybody knows when that knock, you know it's you.
I got a buddy named Ernie Cockrell, and Ernie has
the most distinctive whistle. I think it's a family thing.
I think his dad we call Big Ernie. I think
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he did this before him. But I have seen this.
His kids and my kids are friends. We've been like
you know, Texas State Fair, kind of place where a
bunch of people right and you see your kid across
the way and you can't scream out like a crock ad.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
They won't hear you.
Speaker 10 (09:08):
But he will rip into that whistle and it's a
real short, precise, sharp whistle and tomb. The kids will turn,
and all of the kids in their friend group now
turn because they know that that means mister Cockrell has
it needs their attention. It really is something to behold
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because they're trained like dogs. I mean even my own kids,
my own kids. If Ernie's kids, Ellie and Harris are
not around, and we're somewhere a mall or a sporting event,
and he does that whistle. Michael t could be twenty
yards over there and Crockett thirty yards over and they
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will both turn and look. Nobody else does because you
don't know what this thing is. You don't even know
it's a human whistle. It might be like a Freddie
her everything. He might have had something implanted into his mouth,
like a retainer that gives him a whistling sound.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 10 (10:08):
And he does that thing, and he's he's trained it
on his business partner, Brian mc mackenn and he does it,
and so his son will, my son, Michael, Crockett, Harris, Ellie,
all the kids that run that played ball together, all
these kids. It Earnie's the one that can do it, though,
and he'll fire off that thing and it's like a
it's like a dog whistle, and nobody will turn except
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for our kids, and.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
They know, oh, okay, I'm needed for something. It's important.
Speaker 10 (10:34):
And it's almost not even conscious the way they did it.
Billy Benton is the mayor of Rosenberg. The story that
was brought to our attention this.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I think it's dangerous.
Speaker 17 (10:48):
It's dangerous for the citizen, it's dangerous for the solicitor,
and I think it invites deaths and burglaries.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That's what Rosenberg Mayor William Benson says is the reason
behind his proposal to ban door to door salespeople in
the city.
Speaker 17 (11:02):
They'll come in as a group, they'll go to a neighborhood,
then they'll go to another neighborhood, then they may go
to another town.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
It tells ABC thirteen.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
On top of complaints from residents, there was an incident
where former council member's father was a victim of theft.
Speaker 17 (11:14):
I think they were selling electricity plans and they use
that as a pretext to distract the homeowner and went
and stole his safe out of his closet. It's twelve
thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
The currency law allows door to door sales as long
as a person has a permits, but if his proposal
goes into law, there would be a total ban.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Going to be up to the council.
Speaker 17 (11:35):
But I would suggest to avoid the loopholes and make
it easier for enforcement. It would be easier if you
just had a total prohibition.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
One Rosenberg residence and business owner doesn't feel a ban
is needed.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I don't think a ban is necessary.
Speaker 13 (11:51):
I don't think it's it's not been something so prevalent
here for me anyway that we need to put that.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Much concern in field. The decision should be left.
Speaker 10 (12:01):
To guarantee you that woman right there. Yeah, I don't
see any need. No, No, I hadn't. I don't know
why we need rape laws. I never been raped. Why
we got murder laws. I don't want anybody been murdered.
I think it's just much you do about nothing. That's
the woman that the first time some thug drives out
from Houston and starts banging on her door, she's calling
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and wondering how come the cops aren't there in twelve seconds?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Same one apparently Lago Vista. Uh was it League City?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (12:32):
Jimmy pappas the mayor of Bunk was it Bunker Village Valley?
He said that in their in their hamlet, uh, they
have a you have to go to the to the
city hall and get a permit and get strip searched.
I guess by him, before you can go door to
door all of those things. All that you're really doing
is making it difficult. Somebody does go door to door,
and you're giving the cops the ability to go up there.
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Billy Benton, the mayor of Rosenberg, is our guest. I'm
a little mad at him because I said it a
message yesterday to be on the show and he didn't
call intel after the show.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
We'll get past that. Billy, Thank you so much, Mayor.
Speaker 10 (13:08):
I got to tell you I heard some really nice
things about you from the people of Rosenberg.
Speaker 12 (13:13):
That's nice. Yeah, appreciate it. Appreciate the kind words.
Speaker 10 (13:17):
So eurepe. So you have a real estate brokerage, there's
like you have like ten side hustles going like you
Daniel Dean or something.
Speaker 12 (13:26):
Well, but but I'm a volunteer for the city, and
so I appreciate. H Oh. I'm not mad at the opportunity.
Speaker 10 (13:34):
I think those experiences make you a better mayor. What
made you want to do this.
Speaker 12 (13:40):
Uh, it's just public service.
Speaker 10 (13:42):
I mean, what made you want to do the anti
solicitation stuff?
Speaker 12 (13:48):
Well, frankly, we're at our wits end. We ten years ago,
ten or twelve years ago, we passed a permitting process
because we had nothing on the books at that time.
I propose that I actually I proposed total prohibition at
that time, but the council that I was working with
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at that time didn't didn't want total prohibition, so we
passed a permitting process. And really that has not been
that effective. When these folks are are confront are asked
by a citizen if you have a permit, they claimed
they didn't know they needed a permit, and perhaps they
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don't know, but I think it just has provided loopholes
for folks uh to to continue to door to door pedal. Frankly,
and when when folks are asked about to go get
a permit, they simply go around the corner or go
down the street and continue their their door to door pedaling.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Do you think you'll get this passed?
Speaker 12 (14:59):
I I hope so, I don't know, you know, it'll
be a group decision. Hopefully folks will come and express
their view. This was actually this last time. The current
time we're talking about, some of our constituents are requesting this,
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so hopefully I'll have a little help. I didn't have
much help last time, So if we can get some
folks to show up Yeah, it's likely or hopeful to pass,
but you know other folks may show up and speak
against it. So it's just democracy, Yes.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
It is.
Speaker 10 (15:38):
Well, we think it's a great idea. Good luck we
happen to Love Rosenberg and good luck to Lamar Littley.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I'm the thirteenth in the national championship.
Speaker 14 (15:49):
Well think that the integrity of elections threatens our Democrats.
Speaker 17 (15:52):
Fortunately, today's Democratic Party stands for a government that is
of by and for.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
The powerful community. The Michael Berry Show, can you count
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to three? One, two, three?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Okay?
Speaker 14 (16:21):
So I'm one, So we need two and three.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
We need three votes.
Speaker 14 (16:25):
So that we can can we can we can put
this on the ballot.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Okay, So so you guys help me count right now?
We have one?
Speaker 13 (16:31):
One?
Speaker 14 (16:31):
Okay, say one, one, two three, one, Come on down
number here, Come on, come on, come on, come on,
come on, because.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
This is none of that plants is about kids. Come
on down.
Speaker 15 (16:40):
Excuse part of education is respect Travis County, they spent
two years working with subject matter experts, sent four years.
Excuse me, judge, please be respectful.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
At least education is behazy, helling.
Speaker 14 (16:56):
Don't give the kids this example of.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Making things up.
Speaker 18 (17:02):
When I look your rise, I still go Prigsy, knew
my heart dustin high battle feeling inside we be found inside?
Do you know when I'm your rides side, Pigsy.
Speaker 10 (17:32):
If you've ever met Commissioner Tom Ramsey, I knew him.
I've known him for twenty five years, back when he
was a professional engineer providing engineering services as a third
party expert for the City of Houston, and he was
extraordinarily well respected there. He was a prominent member of
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Second Baptists. He was a guy that everybody liked and respected.
And I didn't know, oh his politics per se. I
just respected him as a person and in his position
on engineering and city issues. But if you ever met
Tom Ramsey, he's a very literal person. He's not a
grab He's not a play and grab ask kind of guy.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
And Ramon is so.
Speaker 10 (18:17):
Commissioner Ramsey calls in at ten thirty as planned, and
he says this Commissioner Tom Ramsey, or might have just said,
this is Tom Ramsey. Ramon said, Commissioner, you won't believe
what happened at County Commissioner's Score yesterday. And I think
Tom Ramsey was thinking, well, okay, he had no idea.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
How to take that? Am I right? Commissioner?
Speaker 13 (18:39):
Well, you know when you when you are in the
middle of it and you send in the zoo and
you see all the animals, and then Ramona asked you, Hey,
did you see this or that is a zoo yesterday?
I know it's really hard to understand how to take that.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah, no, there's no context. I got that.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
So so let's step back for a moment. You know
that Lena is all joking aside. She is unstable and
it's a problem. We start with that promise, and we've
seen some pretty wacky stuff, but yesterday what happened?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Could you walk me.
Speaker 10 (19:13):
Through what you're thinking, because this might have been the
craziest she has behaved.
Speaker 13 (19:18):
Yeah, and it's really a sad commentary on her. She's
very passionate about a particular program, early childhood program, which
the county has no business doing, but we're doing it,
and she's made it her number one mission in life
to fund this program. We said when this program started
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Early Childhood Program with URPA money four years ago, that
at some point we're going to have to end it
because it's only going to run as long as we
have URP of money. The money runs out next year,
and so she wanted to have a vote. Asked the
court to vote to establish a penny tax, which is
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sixty million dollars a year for a thirty million dollar program.
That's pretty consistent with her the math part. And then
she makes it like everybody is going to come to court,
we're going to vote, you know, to get people to
support whatever initiatives. You don't insult them, you don't make
fun of them. And for over an hour before we
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ever got to the point of trying to vote, she
insulted everybody in the room, from Adan Garcia to Commissioner Brionis.
She has such a poor relationship with her Democrat colleagues.
The only one that, occasionally, I think, frankly feel sorry
for her and votes with her, it's Commissioner Ellis. But
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she is so ostracized herself from the other two Garcia
and Brionis, that it's to a point it's embarrassing. So
she could probably get three votes, but she doesn't know
how to do that.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
I'll say it so you won't have to. I don't
believe Anielais feels sorry for her. That's the reason he
votes for her. He owns her, and he runs the
county through her. She is the puppet he used as
much as as Clean and Company did with Joe Biden,
and now he's worried whether he'll be able to control
her replacement because there's so much egg on his face
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for what all she has done in public. It's embarrassing
and it has splashed on him.
Speaker 13 (21:28):
Yeah, it has become a problem for the county that
she goes through what she did yesterday, and both Commissioner
Brionas and commission Garcia are on the ballot next year.
I would think the one thing they don't want to
be is on the ballot with her because of her
incredibly poor leadership and how she has created issues when
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sometimes there are aren't any issues. So that's why I
think we need to look at at her tenure, look
at what's being done, because right now it's a problem
in serving Harris County by the fact that she is
responsible for just a simple act of leading a meeting
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and running a meeting, and Michael, she didn't know how
to do that.
Speaker 10 (22:15):
Well, she didn't know how to do it when she started,
and I think her instability has gotten the better of her.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
It is.
Speaker 10 (22:26):
It really is all kidding aside. It's not good for her.
A person like her, who has had a lifetime by
her own admission of institutionalization, should not be in a
high stress position like this. It is unhealthy and it's dangerous,
and a lot of people around her know that and
could have prevented this. I think I think she will
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be much better off when she's out of office because
it will bring her less. The woman is ill. I mean, look,
I can disagree with Rodney Ellis. He's not ill. He's smart, whip,
I mean, he's controlling everything. I think he's crooked. I
think he's a bad person. I think he's all these
other things. But with her, I genuinely believe she is
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mentally ill.
Speaker 13 (23:16):
Well when we have to try to go through a
court meeting under her leadership, the just the going through
there was five hundred and forty items of the agenda.
We pulled roughly ten percent of them for discussion. And
normally that's a pretty transparent, easy process, you get through
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get input from the public. But she makes it so
difficult to even function. So we need to look at
just out of respect for who we are responsible for.
We did vote yesterday. That's one of the last things
we did was to vote to censor her based on
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her decorum. She was dropping f bombs in front of
little children three meetings ago, so we can't have that.
That that's just not that's just not what leaders should do.
And people that tell me, oh, well, you know she
just been No, you can't do that. That is inappropriate behavior.
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What she did yesterday was not appropriate. Commission Garcia even
apologized to whoever was left at the court for her behavior.
So when we're having my colleagues, my Democrat colleagues apologizing
for her behavior, we got we can do better.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Can you hold just a moment, sure?
Speaker 10 (24:40):
Commissioner Tom Ramsey is our guest of the Harris County
Commissioners Court.
Speaker 19 (24:44):
More, that's will break my intermittent fast scheduled time after
the evening show today and eat afternoon.
Speaker 10 (25:01):
And I'm going to take Uncle Jerry because it's his
birthday and he's already agreed he's going to take all
the bandageing off his foot looks like a mummy and
take it.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
All off and let me see. He authorized me.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
To post a picture of his foot to Facebook. But
I'm afraid they'll ban us. And the reason is Renee
told me, oh, I forgot Tom Rasey.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Just one second. I'll be real quick.
Speaker 10 (25:33):
Renee told me his wife when he came out, I'm
on the phone trying to make sure he's okay, trying
to make sure he's okay.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
She said.
Speaker 10 (25:40):
The doctor came out, he's doing great. The doctor said,
he's going to be very happy with his surgery. Well,
he's had a bone sticking out of the bottom of
his foot for years. He's been in a boot for
almost just short of five years. So the boot became
who he was. And so finally this was this was
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to fix the bone spurs that he's had since he
was a teenager just got worse and worse that were
literally poking through the bottom of his foot, and his
foot was like not quicksand but his foot was just oozing. No,
you're going to hear this, you asked, would just start
oozing and it was split open and it was painful,
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and so he'd go back in the damn boot. So
he'd had enough. He does competitive shooting. So the competitive
shooting deal is you shoot and you move down the line,
and you shoot and you move down the line. Well,
he wasn't able to do his competitions and that was
caused him to go crazy. So he does the surgery.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Okay, fine.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
He had a toenail on this same foot that had
a fungus, which a lot of people do. My dad
has fungus on every single one of his nails. He's
treated every day. And you see guys that have this
and it just gets real thick, and it was causing
a lot of problems. That doctor made the decision while
she was in there. She probably had a mortgage due
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and she decided to take that nail off. So when
she took that nail off, it is absolutely brutal. I mean,
it's just brutal. And in fact, Renee Jerry's wife said,
I'm more worried about this big toenail that I am
the underside of his foot, well, the underside of his foot.
She split that foot open. She went in there and
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she's grinding and cutting off trees like tree limbs. You know,
you ever had a big oak tree room on We
lived in westy We had a big oak tree. It
was growing underneath our house and they had to come
in and they put these uh barriers. I forget what
they're called. I bet Tom Ramsey'll know. We'll ask him
in a minute. And why they put these barriers in
root barriers to keep it from growing any further. Well,
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that's what they did here. And they did all that,
and his foot, the underside of his foot, is just
I mean, they put staples the cut. They had to
go in with such a wide deal. You saw the staples.
I sent it to Ramon. He wasn't expecting it, but
lost his mind anyway. So that there's the big toenail,
which Renee said, is that their biggest concern? And then
there's the bottom of the foot. So I counted. There
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were twenty three text messages between me and Renee until
the twenty fourth one where she sends me a message
and says, Oh, don't worry, I need to tell you
one other thing. Well, now I'm worried. They had to
take off his pinky toe. Well, Renee, you buried the lead.
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I knew he was going to have a surgery. I
had seen his I'd seen his big toenail for years.
I wasn't shocked they took his big toenail off. Let's
get that thing out of Let's get all this done
while we got in because he won't sit still to
have any procedures done in the first place, and that's
half the problem. My wife fusses at him, Jerry, let's
just get this thing fixed and be done with it.
You've been dragging this thing out. And that's what Renee says,
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That's what I says.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
But he's very hard headed.
Speaker 10 (28:53):
Oh and by the way, they just decided he didn't
need his pinky toe, I said, Renee, we're twenty three
text messages into this. She said, well, they had to
cut the bone all the way to there so it
wouldn't have any structure, so it would just be flapping around.
I said, well, that had been kind of funny for
a little while. She agreed, but it would get annoying
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because then, you know, sometimes you go, oh, shoot, I
got a stone in my Oh, I said, it's my
pinky toe up there, you cuddling up underneath my my
big toe. You know, it got right underneath there in
the crevice. Anyway, I'm not going to post it, he
told me. I could. It looks like death. But if
you email me through the website, I will send you
a picture of Uncle Jerry's pinky toe. That's what I'll do.
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And if you know Uncle Jerry. I want you to
text him now and wish him a happy birthday. He's
my best friend in the whole wide world, and he
turns seventy five today and I love him dearly. He
came to be known uncle as Uncle Jerry because he's
my kids. He's like their uncle and he's just a
great guy. He's a company called Liquid Assets, and what
he does is like Tillman, and different people will call
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him and say, I want a particular penia colada at
Sant Louis and I want to have the only pinia
colada of that flavor. I want a particular margarita at
Cadillac Bar. I want a particular And he does that
for Tillman and a lot of a lot of people.
He makes their specialty cocktails. He's known as Doctor Drinks
and he imports a gave from Mexico, and so if
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you don't have a liquor license, you only have beer
and wine. He can take that wine license and make
you a margarita because you don't have tequila. But he
makes a gave that's kind of his his think. Now
he's doing pre mixed drinks, but anyway, it's it's his birthday.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
And we love him.
Speaker 10 (30:36):
Tom Ramsey, I'm curious, Commissioner Tom Ramsey, when Lena left yesterday,
did y'all realize she wasn't coming back?
Speaker 13 (30:48):
Well, there's always a bit of unknown. It's kind of
like coming on to Michael Berry and you think you're
gonna talk about the county. You end up talking about feet.
But somehow, somehow the foot story really ties into I
figured it would. I think that was good. Yeah, that
was a good tie. So no, we not sure every
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time when she leaves if she's gonna come back. So
there's an unknown. She at some point she left and
she did not come back.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
So what did y'all do?
Speaker 13 (31:28):
Well? We we do very well, thank you. I mean
we we function really well. We get through the agenda.
We we actually talk about things. I get to vote
know on a lot of stuff that that's put out there.
So it does actually run a lot better because we're
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not distracted by unusual rants or talking about things that
don't have anything to do with the topic. She hardly
ever prepares for a meeting and we're sitting there, uh uh,
fully prepared. I will give my colleagues book credit. They
come to court, they're prepared. We have good, short, effective conversations.
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We agree, disagree, we vote and move on. But it's
just very unpredictable what what might what she might do
or might say. And that's the that's the sad part
about it. In terms, that's the embarrassing part of it.
She had children in there yesterday at Commissioner's court doing
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these antics, and it's just it's just really really a
shame that that's what uh, that's what uh we're we
have to experience, not just as commissioners, but it's embarrassing
the third largest county in America as that type of leadership.
Speaker 10 (32:54):
Well, you're the last hold out Republican commissioner. They jerrymandered
Cactus Jack Cale, your buddy in mine, out of his seat.
We've got elections coming up next year. Let's hope we
can bring a change. But you keep doing the good
work you're doing. It reminds me of Ted Cruz when
he first got to the Senate in January twenty thirteen.
Sometimes it was ninety nine to one, but his vote
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was the one vote that was the logical one. We
appreciate your true public service
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Tom Ramsey, thank your Bible
It's that time, time, time, time, lucking load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Very Show is on the air. Here's Johnny. I
am the danger. I am the one who knocks.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
We'll do it lit, and we'll do it live.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Last year I spent more money on spilled liquor in
fires from one side of this world to the other
than you may. You're talking to the rolics wearing diamond
ring wearing jet stealing, who wheeling, daling, livings in.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Right jet, flying set of a gun, and.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I'm having a hard time. Hold me elegantors this book,
salive this one alwful.
Speaker 6 (00:54):
She could tell that a weight, that I was bad
at the ball, aad of the bowl, bad of the bowler.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Bad of the bowl.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Let my dogter.
Speaker 7 (01:14):
So now that will be the end of it. I
will not look for you. I will not pursue you,
but if you don't I will look for you. I
will find you, and I will kill you.
Speaker 8 (01:28):
A minute day, I half that I'm bad of the bowl,
bad of the ball, bad of the ball.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I ray, what again, I get you?
Speaker 9 (01:49):
I double day.
Speaker 10 (02:04):
The Mayor of Rosenberg will be our guest, coming up
in about nine minutes to discuss his anti solicitation order
that being door to door not prostitution, although I guess
technically it will cover that too.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
If you were knocking on the door, y'all.
Speaker 11 (02:25):
Ain't hookers inside, Herbert, there's a man at the door,
so listening prostitution, Well, that's two problems.
Speaker 12 (02:36):
Shake their hands at you.
Speaker 10 (02:37):
Number one, you can't come knocking on people's doors. Number two,
you can't ask for prostitutes. So we got a double
wami on this one. This is the say oh, by
the way, he'll be our guests in the next segment.
This is the segment where we play you Lena ad
All go insulting three of her fellow commissioners in only
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fifty three seconds.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
This is a big deal.
Speaker 13 (03:04):
At least register my vote, Judge, if I could.
Speaker 14 (03:08):
Yes my colleague here when he's silent, it's so yes.
And when I asked to clarify, I get a glare.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
So I just what he does.
Speaker 14 (03:14):
That's what I can't care to tell you one of them.
So I'm going to keep asking you for your vote. Clear,
commissioner stops.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I'm going to support this.
Speaker 14 (03:24):
I assumed you had, because that's what I'm going to
start asking you, Garcia, without the.
Speaker 13 (03:28):
Glare, I am resting my vote for it.
Speaker 14 (03:33):
Thank you, question, Thank you continue asking commission Garcia. So
if he glares back, I'm sorry, Commissioner, but I'm going to.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Ask you please. I don't want please get.
Speaker 15 (03:41):
Back to the people's work point point of order from
our county attorneys.
Speaker 14 (03:44):
Don't you instead of helping your colleague when somebody else
is attacking her personally? Commissioner, of course, I assumed you'd
voted yes. That's why I want to say unanimously, because
that's what I do.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
With Garcia order.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
The vote has been called oh my wow, that's ugly there.
Speaker 13 (04:07):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (04:11):
And the best part is two of those three are Democrats.
They want her out. They all want her out. The
calls that are being made the Republican primary or a
candidate to challenge for the seat. I don't believe Lena
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will be a candidate. In fact, I'm certain she won't.
But the Republican candidates are the mayor of the little
hamlet of Piney Point, which is one of the villages,
Eliza Dutt I think is her name. She was just elected.
I don't think she has the broad support at this point.
She seems like a nice lady. She's an attractive lady.
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It does help to be attractive as a candidate. I
know people get upset when I say it, but it does.
It's not the only thing, but it certainly helps. And
Marty Langton the head of the fire Union, and Marty
would have obviously an automatic base to go in a
lot of Republicans for lining up behind him. We'll get
to that moment talk to the mayor in just a moment.
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But first, first, today is the birthday, the seventy fifth
birthday of my best friend in the whole wide world,
Uncle Jerry, Jerry Gerald Davis McGill. And in his honor
I can think of no greater tribute because he just
got his pinky toe cut off. It he just woke up,
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woke up from surgery to have the underside of his
foot cut up.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Did you start before we were ready?
Speaker 10 (05:47):
I can think of no better way to pay tribute
than the monster hit we wrote in his honor for
waking up having lost his toe far too soon, his
tenth toe, his pinky toe.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
This is Uncle Jerry's pinky toe. Love you, brother. This
is just a little tune.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Little Biggie went to market.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
About things lost fought too soon. The Little Biggy stay home, so.
Speaker 11 (06:09):
Join me as about those we missed.
Speaker 16 (06:18):
Kurt Cobain left us in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 9 (06:22):
Jimmy Hendricks changed the world.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
That set fire to the store.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Janice Joplin left.
Speaker 9 (06:27):
A little piece of her hard at Heaven's door. The
Gemmine with the angels now and Uncle Jerry's dinky too,
who fought climbed and Biggie Rose They no longer standing.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
The days music died still hurts like.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
John Denver's landing.
Speaker 16 (06:49):
Selena's dreams were stolen by a fan's obsessive woes.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
The shining up in Goree with Uncle Jerry's pinky toe.
Speaker 16 (07:05):
Rufley kicked the bucket, a dragon in the night. Sharon
Tate so young and sweet that helter skelter fight. Chris
Harley went too hard, too fast with all.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
They went in too.
Speaker 9 (07:20):
They're in event down by the river with Uncle Jerry's
pinky too. Otis sweet, Otis on the.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Duck of the bay.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
Imagine a world where John Then never went away. River Phoenix,
Amy One House, Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
They're dancing in the cosmos.
Speaker 9 (07:46):
Weird Uncle Jerry's pinky.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Toe in come.
Speaker 13 (08:00):
You would just.
Speaker 9 (08:03):
Now you're all alone, y'all.
Speaker 10 (08:12):
Remember when we had all go wore the cloven hoof
shoes to Paris?
Speaker 14 (08:17):
All this kind of thing in a public storm by
a public official.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
My good baby, shaw, are we allowing?
Speaker 10 (08:30):
You have a distinctive knock when you like, you know,
you go out to get ice in the hotel room,
and everybody knows when that knock, you know it's you.
I got a buddy named Ernie Cockrell, and Ernie has
the most distinctive whistle. I think it's a family thing.
I think his dad we call Big Ernie. I think
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he did this before him. But I have seen this.
His kids and my kids are friends. We've been like
you know, Texas State Fair, kind of place where a
bunch of people right and you see your kid across
the way and you can't scream out like a crock ad.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
They won't hear you.
Speaker 10 (09:08):
But he will rip into that whistle and it's a
real short, precise, sharp whistle and tomb. The kids will turn,
and all of the kids in their friend group now
turn because they know that that means mister Cockrell has
it needs their attention. It really is something to behold
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because they're trained like dogs. I mean even my own kids,
my own kids. If Ernie's kids, Ellie and Harris are
not around, and we're somewhere a mall or a sporting event,
and he does that whistle. Michael t could be twenty
yards over there and Crockett thirty yards over and they
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will both turn and look. Nobody else does because you
don't know what this thing is. You don't even know
it's a human whistle. It might be like a Freddie
her everything. He might have had something implanted into his mouth,
like a retainer that gives him a whistling sound.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 10 (10:08):
And he does that thing, and he's he's trained it
on his business partner, Brian mc mackenn and he does it,
and so his son will, my son, Michael, Crockett, Harris, Ellie,
all the kids that run that played ball together, all
these kids. It Earnie's the one that can do it, though,
and he'll fire off that thing and it's like a
it's like a dog whistle, and nobody will turn except
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for our kids, and.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
They know, oh, okay, I'm needed for something. It's important.
Speaker 10 (10:34):
And it's almost not even conscious the way they did it.
Billy Benton is the mayor of Rosenberg. The story that
was brought to our attention this.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I think it's dangerous.
Speaker 17 (10:48):
It's dangerous for the citizen, it's dangerous for the solicitor,
and I think it invites deaths and burglaries.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That's what Rosenberg Mayor William Benson says is the reason
behind his proposal to ban door to door salespeople in
the city.
Speaker 17 (11:02):
They'll come in as a group, they'll go to a neighborhood,
then they'll go to another neighborhood, then they may go
to another town.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
It tells ABC thirteen.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
On top of complaints from residents, there was an incident
where former council member's father was a victim of theft.
Speaker 17 (11:14):
I think they were selling electricity plans and they use
that as a pretext to distract the homeowner and went
and stole his safe out of his closet. It's twelve
thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
The currency law allows door to door sales as long
as a person has a permits, but if his proposal
goes into law, there would be a total ban.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Going to be up to the council.
Speaker 17 (11:35):
But I would suggest to avoid the loopholes and make
it easier for enforcement. It would be easier if you
just had a total prohibition.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
One Rosenberg residence and business owner doesn't feel a ban
is needed.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I don't think a ban is necessary.
Speaker 13 (11:51):
I don't think it's it's not been something so prevalent
here for me anyway that we need to put that.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Much concern in field. The decision should be left.
Speaker 10 (12:01):
To guarantee you that woman right there. Yeah, I don't
see any need. No, No, I hadn't. I don't know
why we need rape laws. I never been raped. Why
we got murder laws. I don't want anybody been murdered.
I think it's just much you do about nothing. That's
the woman that the first time some thug drives out
from Houston and starts banging on her door, she's calling
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and wondering how come the cops aren't there in twelve seconds?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Same one apparently Lago Vista. Uh was it League City?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (12:32):
Jimmy pappas the mayor of Bunk was it Bunker Village Valley?
He said that in their in their hamlet, uh, they
have a you have to go to the to the
city hall and get a permit and get strip searched.
I guess by him, before you can go door to
door all of those things. All that you're really doing
is making it difficult. Somebody does go door to door,
and you're giving the cops the ability to go up there.
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Billy Benton, the mayor of Rosenberg, is our guest. I'm
a little mad at him because I said it a
message yesterday to be on the show and he didn't
call intel after the show.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
We'll get past that. Billy, Thank you so much, Mayor.
Speaker 10 (13:08):
I got to tell you I heard some really nice
things about you from the people of Rosenberg.
Speaker 12 (13:13):
That's nice. Yeah, appreciate it. Appreciate the kind words.
Speaker 10 (13:17):
So eurepe. So you have a real estate brokerage, there's
like you have like ten side hustles going like you
Daniel Dean or something.
Speaker 12 (13:26):
Well, but but I'm a volunteer for the city, and
so I appreciate. H Oh. I'm not mad at the opportunity.
Speaker 10 (13:34):
I think those experiences make you a better mayor. What
made you want to do this.
Speaker 12 (13:40):
Uh, it's just public service.
Speaker 10 (13:42):
I mean, what made you want to do the anti
solicitation stuff?
Speaker 12 (13:48):
Well, frankly, we're at our wits end. We ten years ago,
ten or twelve years ago, we passed a permitting process
because we had nothing on the books at that time.
I propose that I actually I proposed total prohibition at
that time, but the council that I was working with
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at that time didn't didn't want total prohibition, so we
passed a permitting process. And really that has not been
that effective. When these folks are are confront are asked
by a citizen if you have a permit, they claimed
they didn't know they needed a permit, and perhaps they
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don't know, but I think it just has provided loopholes
for folks uh to to continue to door to door pedal. Frankly,
and when when folks are asked about to go get
a permit, they simply go around the corner or go
down the street and continue their their door to door pedaling.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Do you think you'll get this passed?
Speaker 12 (14:59):
I I hope so, I don't know, you know, it'll
be a group decision. Hopefully folks will come and express
their view. This was actually this last time. The current
time we're talking about, some of our constituents are requesting this,
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so hopefully I'll have a little help. I didn't have
much help last time, So if we can get some
folks to show up Yeah, it's likely or hopeful to pass,
but you know other folks may show up and speak
against it. So it's just democracy, Yes.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
It is.
Speaker 10 (15:38):
Well, we think it's a great idea. Good luck we
happen to Love Rosenberg and good luck to Lamar Littley.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I'm the thirteenth in the national championship.
Speaker 14 (15:49):
Well think that the integrity of elections threatens our Democrats.
Speaker 17 (15:52):
Fortunately, today's Democratic Party stands for a government that is
of by and for.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
The powerful community. The Michael Berry Show, can you count
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to three? One, two, three?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Okay?
Speaker 14 (16:21):
So I'm one, So we need two and three.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
We need three votes.
Speaker 14 (16:25):
So that we can can we can we can put
this on the ballot.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Okay, So so you guys help me count right now?
We have one?
Speaker 13 (16:31):
One?
Speaker 14 (16:31):
Okay, say one, one, two three, one, Come on down
number here, Come on, come on, come on, come on,
come on, because.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
This is none of that plants is about kids. Come
on down.
Speaker 15 (16:40):
Excuse part of education is respect Travis County, they spent
two years working with subject matter experts, sent four years.
Excuse me, judge, please be respectful.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
At least education is behazy, helling.
Speaker 14 (16:56):
Don't give the kids this example of.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Making things up.
Speaker 18 (17:02):
When I look your rise, I still go Prigsy, knew
my heart dustin high battle feeling inside we be found inside?
Do you know when I'm your rides side, Pigsy.
Speaker 10 (17:32):
If you've ever met Commissioner Tom Ramsey, I knew him.
I've known him for twenty five years, back when he
was a professional engineer providing engineering services as a third
party expert for the City of Houston, and he was
extraordinarily well respected there. He was a prominent member of
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Second Baptists. He was a guy that everybody liked and respected.
And I didn't know, oh his politics per se. I
just respected him as a person and in his position
on engineering and city issues. But if you ever met
Tom Ramsey, he's a very literal person. He's not a
grab He's not a play and grab ask kind of guy.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
And Ramon is so.
Speaker 10 (18:17):
Commissioner Ramsey calls in at ten thirty as planned, and
he says this Commissioner Tom Ramsey, or might have just said,
this is Tom Ramsey. Ramon said, Commissioner, you won't believe
what happened at County Commissioner's Score yesterday. And I think
Tom Ramsey was thinking, well, okay, he had no idea.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
How to take that? Am I right? Commissioner?
Speaker 13 (18:39):
Well, you know when you when you are in the
middle of it and you send in the zoo and
you see all the animals, and then Ramona asked you, Hey,
did you see this or that is a zoo yesterday?
I know it's really hard to understand how to take that.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah, no, there's no context. I got that.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
So so let's step back for a moment. You know
that Lena is all joking aside. She is unstable and
it's a problem. We start with that promise, and we've
seen some pretty wacky stuff, but yesterday what happened?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Could you walk me.
Speaker 10 (19:13):
Through what you're thinking, because this might have been the
craziest she has behaved.
Speaker 13 (19:18):
Yeah, and it's really a sad commentary on her. She's
very passionate about a particular program, early childhood program, which
the county has no business doing, but we're doing it,
and she's made it her number one mission in life
to fund this program. We said when this program started
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Early Childhood Program with URPA money four years ago, that
at some point we're going to have to end it
because it's only going to run as long as we
have URP of money. The money runs out next year,
and so she wanted to have a vote. Asked the
court to vote to establish a penny tax, which is
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sixty million dollars a year for a thirty million dollar program.
That's pretty consistent with her the math part. And then
she makes it like everybody is going to come to court,
we're going to vote, you know, to get people to
support whatever initiatives. You don't insult them, you don't make
fun of them. And for over an hour before we
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ever got to the point of trying to vote, she
insulted everybody in the room, from Adan Garcia to Commissioner Brionis.
She has such a poor relationship with her Democrat colleagues.
The only one that, occasionally, I think, frankly feel sorry
for her and votes with her, it's Commissioner Ellis. But
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she is so ostracized herself from the other two Garcia
and Brionis, that it's to a point it's embarrassing. So
she could probably get three votes, but she doesn't know
how to do that.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
I'll say it so you won't have to. I don't
believe Anielais feels sorry for her. That's the reason he
votes for her. He owns her, and he runs the
county through her. She is the puppet he used as
much as as Clean and Company did with Joe Biden,
and now he's worried whether he'll be able to control
her replacement because there's so much egg on his face
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for what all she has done in public. It's embarrassing
and it has splashed on him.
Speaker 13 (21:28):
Yeah, it has become a problem for the county that
she goes through what she did yesterday, and both Commissioner
Brionas and commission Garcia are on the ballot next year.
I would think the one thing they don't want to
be is on the ballot with her because of her
incredibly poor leadership and how she has created issues when
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sometimes there are aren't any issues. So that's why I
think we need to look at at her tenure, look
at what's being done, because right now it's a problem
in serving Harris County by the fact that she is
responsible for just a simple act of leading a meeting
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and running a meeting, and Michael, she didn't know how
to do that.
Speaker 10 (22:15):
Well, she didn't know how to do it when she started,
and I think her instability has gotten the better of her.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
It is.
Speaker 10 (22:26):
It really is all kidding aside. It's not good for her.
A person like her, who has had a lifetime by
her own admission of institutionalization, should not be in a
high stress position like this. It is unhealthy and it's dangerous,
and a lot of people around her know that and
could have prevented this. I think I think she will
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be much better off when she's out of office because
it will bring her less. The woman is ill. I mean, look,
I can disagree with Rodney Ellis. He's not ill. He's smart, whip,
I mean, he's controlling everything. I think he's crooked. I
think he's a bad person. I think he's all these
other things. But with her, I genuinely believe she is
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mentally ill.
Speaker 13 (23:16):
Well when we have to try to go through a
court meeting under her leadership, the just the going through
there was five hundred and forty items of the agenda.
We pulled roughly ten percent of them for discussion. And
normally that's a pretty transparent, easy process, you get through
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get input from the public. But she makes it so
difficult to even function. So we need to look at
just out of respect for who we are responsible for.
We did vote yesterday. That's one of the last things
we did was to vote to censor her based on
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her decorum. She was dropping f bombs in front of
little children three meetings ago, so we can't have that.
That that's just not that's just not what leaders should do.
And people that tell me, oh, well, you know she
just been No, you can't do that. That is inappropriate behavior.
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What she did yesterday was not appropriate. Commission Garcia even
apologized to whoever was left at the court for her behavior.
So when we're having my colleagues, my Democrat colleagues apologizing
for her behavior, we got we can do better.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Can you hold just a moment, sure?
Speaker 10 (24:40):
Commissioner Tom Ramsey is our guest of the Harris County
Commissioners Court.
Speaker 19 (24:44):
More, that's will break my intermittent fast scheduled time after
the evening show today and eat afternoon.
Speaker 10 (25:01):
And I'm going to take Uncle Jerry because it's his
birthday and he's already agreed he's going to take all
the bandageing off his foot looks like a mummy and
take it.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
All off and let me see. He authorized me.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
To post a picture of his foot to Facebook. But
I'm afraid they'll ban us. And the reason is Renee
told me, oh, I forgot Tom Rasey.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Just one second. I'll be real quick.
Speaker 10 (25:33):
Renee told me his wife when he came out, I'm
on the phone trying to make sure he's okay, trying
to make sure he's okay.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
She said.
Speaker 10 (25:40):
The doctor came out, he's doing great. The doctor said,
he's going to be very happy with his surgery. Well,
he's had a bone sticking out of the bottom of
his foot for years. He's been in a boot for
almost just short of five years. So the boot became
who he was. And so finally this was this was
(26:00):
to fix the bone spurs that he's had since he
was a teenager just got worse and worse that were
literally poking through the bottom of his foot, and his
foot was like not quicksand but his foot was just oozing. No,
you're going to hear this, you asked, would just start
oozing and it was split open and it was painful,
(26:21):
and so he'd go back in the damn boot. So
he'd had enough. He does competitive shooting. So the competitive
shooting deal is you shoot and you move down the line,
and you shoot and you move down the line. Well,
he wasn't able to do his competitions and that was
caused him to go crazy. So he does the surgery.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Okay, fine.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
He had a toenail on this same foot that had
a fungus, which a lot of people do. My dad
has fungus on every single one of his nails. He's
treated every day. And you see guys that have this
and it just gets real thick, and it was causing
a lot of problems. That doctor made the decision while
she was in there. She probably had a mortgage due
(27:00):
and she decided to take that nail off. So when
she took that nail off, it is absolutely brutal. I mean,
it's just brutal. And in fact, Renee Jerry's wife said,
I'm more worried about this big toenail that I am
the underside of his foot, well, the underside of his foot.
She split that foot open. She went in there and
(27:20):
she's grinding and cutting off trees like tree limbs. You know,
you ever had a big oak tree room on We
lived in westy We had a big oak tree. It
was growing underneath our house and they had to come
in and they put these uh barriers. I forget what
they're called. I bet Tom Ramsey'll know. We'll ask him
in a minute. And why they put these barriers in
root barriers to keep it from growing any further. Well,
(27:40):
that's what they did here. And they did all that,
and his foot, the underside of his foot, is just
I mean, they put staples the cut. They had to
go in with such a wide deal. You saw the staples.
I sent it to Ramon. He wasn't expecting it, but
lost his mind anyway. So that there's the big toenail,
which Renee said, is that their biggest concern? And then
there's the bottom of the foot. So I counted. There
(28:02):
were twenty three text messages between me and Renee until
the twenty fourth one where she sends me a message
and says, Oh, don't worry, I need to tell you
one other thing. Well, now I'm worried. They had to
take off his pinky toe. Well, Renee, you buried the lead.
(28:28):
I knew he was going to have a surgery. I
had seen his I'd seen his big toenail for years.
I wasn't shocked they took his big toenail off. Let's
get that thing out of Let's get all this done
while we got in because he won't sit still to
have any procedures done in the first place, and that's
half the problem. My wife fusses at him, Jerry, let's
just get this thing fixed and be done with it.
You've been dragging this thing out. And that's what Renee says,
(28:50):
That's what I says.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
But he's very hard headed.
Speaker 10 (28:53):
Oh and by the way, they just decided he didn't
need his pinky toe, I said, Renee, we're twenty three
text messages into this. She said, well, they had to
cut the bone all the way to there so it
wouldn't have any structure, so it would just be flapping around.
I said, well, that had been kind of funny for
a little while. She agreed, but it would get annoying
(29:14):
because then, you know, sometimes you go, oh, shoot, I
got a stone in my Oh, I said, it's my
pinky toe up there, you cuddling up underneath my my
big toe. You know, it got right underneath there in
the crevice. Anyway, I'm not going to post it, he
told me. I could. It looks like death. But if
you email me through the website, I will send you
a picture of Uncle Jerry's pinky toe. That's what I'll do.
(29:36):
And if you know Uncle Jerry. I want you to
text him now and wish him a happy birthday. He's
my best friend in the whole wide world, and he
turns seventy five today and I love him dearly. He
came to be known uncle as Uncle Jerry because he's
my kids. He's like their uncle and he's just a
great guy. He's a company called Liquid Assets, and what
he does is like Tillman, and different people will call
(29:59):
him and say, I want a particular penia colada at
Sant Louis and I want to have the only pinia
colada of that flavor. I want a particular margarita at
Cadillac Bar. I want a particular And he does that
for Tillman and a lot of a lot of people.
He makes their specialty cocktails. He's known as Doctor Drinks
and he imports a gave from Mexico, and so if
(30:22):
you don't have a liquor license, you only have beer
and wine. He can take that wine license and make
you a margarita because you don't have tequila. But he
makes a gave that's kind of his his think. Now
he's doing pre mixed drinks, but anyway, it's it's his birthday.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
And we love him.
Speaker 10 (30:36):
Tom Ramsey, I'm curious, Commissioner Tom Ramsey, when Lena left yesterday,
did y'all realize she wasn't coming back?
Speaker 13 (30:48):
Well, there's always a bit of unknown. It's kind of
like coming on to Michael Berry and you think you're
gonna talk about the county. You end up talking about feet.
But somehow, somehow the foot story really ties into I
figured it would. I think that was good. Yeah, that
was a good tie. So no, we not sure every
(31:12):
time when she leaves if she's gonna come back. So
there's an unknown. She at some point she left and
she did not come back.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
So what did y'all do?
Speaker 13 (31:28):
Well? We we do very well, thank you. I mean
we we function really well. We get through the agenda.
We we actually talk about things. I get to vote
know on a lot of stuff that that's put out there.
So it does actually run a lot better because we're
(31:48):
not distracted by unusual rants or talking about things that
don't have anything to do with the topic. She hardly
ever prepares for a meeting and we're sitting there, uh uh,
fully prepared. I will give my colleagues book credit. They
come to court, they're prepared. We have good, short, effective conversations.
(32:13):
We agree, disagree, we vote and move on. But it's
just very unpredictable what what might what she might do
or might say. And that's the that's the sad part
about it. In terms, that's the embarrassing part of it.
She had children in there yesterday at Commissioner's court doing
(32:34):
these antics, and it's just it's just really really a
shame that that's what uh, that's what uh we're we
have to experience, not just as commissioners, but it's embarrassing
the third largest county in America as that type of leadership.
Speaker 10 (32:54):
Well, you're the last hold out Republican commissioner. They jerrymandered
Cactus Jack Cale, your buddy in mine, out of his seat.
We've got elections coming up next year. Let's hope we
can bring a change. But you keep doing the good
work you're doing. It reminds me of Ted Cruz when
he first got to the Senate in January twenty thirteen.
Sometimes it was ninety nine to one, but his vote
(33:14):
was the one vote that was the logical one. We
appreciate your true public service
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Tom Ramsey, thank your Bible
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