Texas is Fighting Back Against Soros

George Soros funded organizations have made an unprecedented investment in Texas to turn the State towards Democrats. This effort has been ongoing for nearly a decade, at the local level in Texas. Large Counties in Texas that include the Cities of San Antonio, Houston, and Austin have progressive prosecutors. Their campaigns were largely funded by Soros backed organizations. These Cities have experienced an increase in crime and disorder because of these progressive prosecutors.
The Lone Star State is fighting back. One of the organizations leading the fight for common sense is the Consolidated Law Enforcement Association of Texas, CLEAT. I will be joined by Jennifer Szimanski the Executive Director of CLEAT. We will discuss CLEAT’s efforts in the States Capital in Austin to reduce the prosecutorial discretion of these rogue prosecutors.

Episode Transcript

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about Texas. Now, we've talked about Texas several times before,

(01:41):
and my guests that I'm gona have a little on
a little bit is Jennifer. Jennifer Schumanski. She's from cleat
the Consolidated Law Enforcement Association of Texas and they're they're
doing some good work there to rein in the progressive
prosecutors there and to fight back against some of the foolish,
foolish notion of the progressive left as it relates to

(02:02):
law enforcement and some of the other stuff going on
in their state. But before before we talk to Jennifer,
I got to talk about some stuff that's going on
here in LA and it hit the nationwide that we
have a vice mayor from the city of Cutahee Cynthia Gonzalez,
that she called out to Florencia thirteen and eighteenth Street.

(02:22):
These are two very violent, historic street gangs in the
city of Los Angeles and the County of Los Angeles
to fight ice. She made a call out for them
to do that. Of course, she's under investigation now by
the FBI, but this is the kind of craziness that
is going on in Los Angeles's let's roll. Let's roll
what she posted on social media so you can see

(02:43):
what I'm talking.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
About in Los Angeles. Eighteenth Street, Florentia, and where's the
leadership bent?

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Because you know, the vice mayor of Cudahey is under
federal investigation tonight for this controversial video obtained exclusively by
Fox News, and.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
She appears to call several times for local gang members
to defend their territory from Ice.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Hooks up.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
As Matthew Seedorf joins us now long from Cutahey with
the shocking video.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
Matthew, Yeah, the vice mayor today not answering any of
our text calls or emails as her video gains national attention.

Speaker 6 (03:23):
Whoever's the leadership over there, just get your members in order.

Speaker 5 (03:27):
An explosive TikTok video now the center of a possible
FBI investigation in La County.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Don't be trying to claim no black, no nothing if
you're not showing up right now.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
For about ninety seconds, City of Katagey Vice Mayor Cynthia
Gonzalez calls on gang members to defend their territory from Ice.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
You guys are all about territory and this is eight
Street and this is sort anthony.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
You They tag everything.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Up claiming hood and now that your hood's being invaded
by the biggest gang there is, there ain't a peep value.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
The controversial video was shared last week in a sent
It's been deleted, along with these Facebook posts obtained by
Fox before they were also taken down. The vice mayor writing,
I need a lawyer. The FBI just came to my
house saying it was about a TikTok video that I
made that when viral, literally a TikTok, adding she believes
this is a First Amendment rights.

Speaker 6 (04:17):
Issue and they're using our brown bodies to avoid the
conversation that this administration is a failure.

Speaker 5 (04:24):
Gonzalez seen earlier this month at a press conference with
La area mayors.

Speaker 7 (04:28):
She's a personal friend. I know her, and I know
that she wouldn't call for a violence nearby.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
Huntington Park mayor or Turo Flores condemns Gonzalez's video.

Speaker 7 (04:37):
Words are important, and so you have to be very
careful about what you say and how you say it well.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Now urging local police to verify identities of those believed
to be federal agents.

Speaker 7 (04:48):
So now am I able to operate it with impunity.
Am I able to tackle you right now?

Speaker 5 (04:52):
Telling officers to pull over those without license plates for
possible immigration operations.

Speaker 7 (04:58):
If a caravan's coming in to our community, four or
five vehicles, what I expect is for a vetting to
happen of who those individuals are.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
That's good, that's good. A manager, let's.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Say, protecting, protecting URP.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, so I mean you're getting you're getting this the
idea what she's doing, and this is crazy. This is
an elected official in the city of Cutday, which is
just in the southeast of the city of Los Angeles,
just outside of Los Angeles. It is policed by the
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. It's one of the contract
cities that we do policing for my old alma mater,
I should say, since I'm not working anymore. And this

(05:33):
is the kind of rhetoric that has been used to
describe ice and to call to arms. This is a
call to arms for violent street gangs. You know MS thirteen.
I'm not MS thirteen, but eighteenth Street and Florence A.
Thirteenth are truer. They're old gangs that have been in
Los Angeles for generations. They operate here. They're violent, they
commit obviously murderers, they sell drugs, and they extort people.

(05:58):
These these are violent, These are not good people. And
she's she's calling, she's doing a call to arms for
these guys to attack Ice. This is the kind of
rhetoric that is being used by our politicians in Los Angeles.
We heard Mark Karen Bassia, we have to resist, we
have to obstruct. She's since changed her tune now that

(06:18):
Trump sent the National Garden here. But this is the
kind of lunacy that is going on in the County
of Los Angeles, in the city of Los Angeles. You
can have a different opinion about immigration, but you cannot
call people to arms and expect that, expect that to
not be addressed by the federal government. And thankfully they're
they're they're looking into her. They're going to see what

(06:39):
the heck is going on. And she's taken any other steps.
I called somebody personally to get them out there, which
would be conspiracy. Yeah, maybe she will go to jail,
who knows, who knows, But this is this is the
outrageous stuff that's going on. This is this is this
is inappropriate and and this is as you saw doctor
Cynthia Gonzalez. She's got two degrees, one from a bachelor's

(07:01):
degree from UC Santa Barbara, one of the best niver
Beautiful University, been there many times, right on the water Beautiful.
She's received some of the best privileges that we have
in California. She's got a degree from UCLA, advanced degrees
from UCLA. She's got a leadership program degree from UC Berkeley.
She's been to the best universities that we have in California.

(07:23):
And she, an educated person, is calling people to arms
to fight Ice. This is despicable, This is inappropriate. But
you know, this is not the only thing that's happening.
In addition to these politicians calling out the gangs to
attack ICE because and she called the ICE a gang,
the biggest gang. You know this, this, this is unbelievable.

(07:45):
But they also are now targeting the LAPD for criticism.
And I think we got a video. Let's roll the
video and then I'll comment.

Speaker 8 (08:00):
Emergency rally just now breaking up.

Speaker 9 (08:01):
They got about one hundred people out here at his
peak on just two hours notice in response to what
happened this morning.

Speaker 8 (08:14):
This is video from ninth and Spring.

Speaker 9 (08:16):
This morning, and it sure looks to the layman that
those LAPED officers on scene are at least helping the
operation as those federal agents took people into custody. The
LAPD has just come out with a statement saying that
is not true. They were simply there on the call
of a kidnapping, and once they realized that was not
taking place, they were there for crowd control. A lot

(08:37):
of these people say, are in this group are calling
these kidnappings and not people being taken into custody by
these federal agents.

Speaker 8 (08:43):
And so what apparently happened today was when those.

Speaker 9 (08:45):
Agents came in here unmarked with no labels on them
what department they were from, and masks over their face,
there was a call to nine to one one for
a kidnapping.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
There we go, so they called it, said it was
a kidnapping by ice. LAPD got there and they ended
up realizing this federal law enforcement, and then they provided
crowd control to keep the piece, which is what their
job is. That's their job. This is what they're going
to have to do. I saw a clip that the
La County Shares Apartment was doing exactly the same thing

(09:16):
that got called to an area what is going on
in Los Angeles is they have a quick action network
of these leftists that they communicate. When they find out
something's going on, they communicate it and then these leftists,
who obviously don't have jobs, jump in their cars and
go there and start protesting and creating problems. That is
how the very first riot, i'll call it what it was,
riot occurred in Los Angeles. These people showed up, they

(09:39):
started attacking ICE. Ice retreated back to their buildings. It
got violent there and LPD finally rolled. And I will
say after that first day, the LPD and the La
County Sharrifes Apartment have done a pretty balanced and capable
job and trying to keep the piece in the face
of a great deal of violence riots as a call

(10:00):
to arm by Mihrabaths that caused that stuff. So the
l a PD, as they said, are not helping ICE,
but they have to, per their mandate, per their mission,
per their oath, keep the peace, and they are obligated
to detect everybody in the community and that includes that includes
federal authorities if they're getting attacked. You may not like it,

(10:21):
but that's their obligation and the responsibility. And you know,
what that's the morally the right thing to do, you know,
but I did want to say, you know, I I
got I have to I have to address the definition
of rebellion, just so you know, we throw this language
out there, right, but what does the language mean? Because this,
this is the definition of rebellion, because what we're seeing
here is a call to arms by a local official

(10:43):
to attack ICE. And then this this this narrative that
l a PD is assisting ICE. But let me, let
me explain what a rebellion is. An act of violence
or open resistance to an established government. Act of violence,
open resistance. We've seen that in LA. We've seen that LA.

(11:05):
Now is it going to return the country. No, but
it is technically a rebellion per the definition in Webster. Right.
That's what's going on in Los Angeles and local officials
are stoking the flames. This is outrageous. So hey, that's
my leading segment today. But hey, we're gonna we're gonna
talk to Jennifer Schamanski from CLEAT and I think I

(11:29):
have before we start that, I think I have a
I have a headline. Let's show the Soros back group. No,
that's not it. The Soro's backgroup, and s see Soro's
back group. There we go, Soros backgroup. Democrats pour money
into Texas ahead of twenty twenty six, and they are
pouring a ton of money into Texas to try and

(11:50):
flip Texas blue or at least make it more purple.
And a pack the Texas Majority pack as working with
the Texas Democratic Party to eight figures. So what's that.
That's ten million dollars, right, that's the low end of
that eight figures, right, eight figures to turn Texas, to
turn Texas blue. And the majority of the funding is

(12:12):
coming from George Soros or foundations that he has funded.
And the thing about it is this has been going
on in Texas for a long time. I mean it
started with the funding of these progressive prosecutors in Texas.
And I think we have a clip. Let's roll the clip. First,
we'll talk about how A. G. Paxson is trying to
hold back the tide or rein in these progressive prosecutors,

(12:34):
and then we'll get with our guests.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
Well, this week at Travis County, judge blocked Texas Attorney
General Ken Paxon from enforcing new rules and reporting requirements
for prosecutors in large counties. The rules require DA's offices
in counties with populations of four hundred thousand people or
more to submit performance reports to the AG's office and
provide certain case files on.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
A regular basis.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
Prosecutors in Travel, Dallas, Bear, and Harris County's follow lawsuit
to block those requirements, saying Paxton is overstepping his authority
and the rules will overburden attorneys. The requirements have been
in effects since April second now. When the rules were
first announced, Paxton said they were meant to reign in
rogue district attorneys and ensure the prosecution of violent crimes.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, what's happening. There is a lot of these das
that are funded by Soros, and this is going on
across the country. We saw it with George Gascoon. We
saw it with Fox in Cook County, Illinois, where they're
not filing cases. They're not filing him in a timely way,
and so they just want to report, well, what are
you filing, how soon are you filing? Why aren't you
filing them? That kind of thing. That's all packs are

(13:43):
trying to do so they can shine the light on
these progressive prosecutors of what they're doing with that. Let's
bring on our guests, Jennifer Schimansky, and she's from the
Consolidated Law Enforcement Association of Texas who advocates for law
enforcement in the state of A. So they service as
the union essentially our association for a lot of police officers. Hey, Jennifer,

(14:05):
how are you doing?

Speaker 4 (14:06):
Hi?

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Chief doing well?

Speaker 1 (14:07):
How are you good? And you can see we got
a little on the page we have around the link
or the podcast. We have clete dot org, the Police
Officers Moral Fund, So go to their go to their
website and make a donation to CLEETE today and to
help the organization out. At least they're a moral fund.
So hey, so you heard what I led with. I
led with the crowd control stuff, the crazy rhetoric using

(14:30):
used by politicians to stoke the flames, and to some degree,
I think local law enforcement gets put in the middle.
I imagine that's happening in Texas as well. Would you agree?

Speaker 6 (14:40):
Absolutely, We've been in the middle of this for several
years now, and I agree they're they're going to be
pouring money into the upcoming elections, not just the district
attorney races, but other political seats that we need to
keep our eye on.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
We absolutely cannot allow that to happen.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, you know, you said, we've been dealing with this
for a long time. It certainly is the incursion of
Soro's backed organizations into Texas, but also the rhetoric that
I call it propaganda, dehumanize the law enforcement to justify
the violence against them. We've seen that probably for fifteen
years for local law enforcement. I think ICE and the

(15:21):
FBI are just now getting a taste of it now
that Trump has mobilized them to deal with this immigration issue.
But it's the same game, right that they used against
local cops, they're now using against fettle cops.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah, that's a valid point.

Speaker 6 (15:34):
I hadn't really thought about it that way, but I
agree with you. You know, I think fifteen years yeah,
you know, in Texas, I think you know, I used
to work for the Austin Police Department, and I know
that it was really triggered here locally after Ferguson, you know,
obviously less than fifteen years ago, but then immediately or
what felt like immediately followed by the George Floyd incident,

(15:57):
and I mean it's just progressively gotten worse. And you know,
just when we think there's a light at the end
of the tunnel, you know, we really can't trust any
of that until we get accountability in place, as you mentioned,
or you know, elected officials that support law enforcement.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah, I agree, it's got to be fashionabed to support
law It was you saw what was going on in
La with all the riots, and it was really an
interesting thing. So because I ended up commenting on on
on some shows that so when Trump brought in the
National Guard here in La, put it put the mayor,
mayor Bash and Newsome in a spot where they actually

(16:39):
had to support the local law enforcement to suppress the
riots without calling them riots and let them do their job.
And and and they did their job. They did it
very effectively once they were allowed to do it. But
had Trump not done that, they would not have done that.
It's a crazy thing. They had to be successful to
just so that they could so their political narrative, which

(17:01):
was we don't need the National Guard would be accurate, right,
otherwise they would not have given that authority to their
local law enforcement to it. That's just that's just my opinion.
But let's get into you heard the clip about a
g Pact, and so he passed some rules to rein
in the progressive prosecutor where they have to provide a
report to show filings what's going on and they're getting blocked.

(17:24):
Are you familiar with that legislation? Can you talk about that?

Speaker 6 (17:27):
Yes, So that was something he did by rule not
legislation a while back, and it's just now he was
immed promptly sued by several of those counties.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
And now this ruling came out.

Speaker 6 (17:40):
It's an initial ruling, so there's still you know, time
to rebut that however, yes, as you stated, I mean
the purpose of this. Prior to him doing that, we
had passed legislation in the previous session to try to
hold these district attorneys accountable. It was somewhat limited and
skill and also require the accumulation of data in order

(18:05):
to have a valid petition to remove a district's attorney.
So this was kind of his answer to do something
a little more immediate, and you know, really the purpose
of it was to provide transparency for the voters, so
they understand, because one of the big issues here is
that these voters don't many of them do not vote.

(18:26):
That's one problem the ones you do simply do not
understand what is going on inside of these DA's office
these you know, the Travis County which is Austin District's
attorney's office. For example. We actually have some local liberal
media who have been running stories, interestingly enough, over the
last couple of weeks, trying to dig into some of

(18:50):
the just incredible miscarriage of justice on murderers that have
been let go, and even liberal media is starting to
so for whatever reason, I'm sure there's more to it
than we know. But this district attorney, this gars or
this Jose Garza Soros funded district attorney, is extremely you know,

(19:13):
incompetent is the word I would use. Others just say
it's completely intentionally, you know, and I think it's a
little bit of both. Regardless, there's miss deadlines that are
resulting in murders walking free.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Out of the Travis County jail. So you know, the
media is picking up on some of it.

Speaker 6 (19:31):
But as I stated, you can't trust any of this,
and we absolutely are going to have to work against
the funds that you mentioned, and we can't take anything
for granted.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, it sounds like they got a full court press.
I think just to clarify, so, I think Texas has
the second largest number of electoral votes in the country
in terms of states, so California is number one. California
is going to lose I think three in the next
census is the projection. I think two of those will
go to Texas, and so so they have to find
a big state that they can count on that will

(20:03):
vote for them because they're losing ground elsewhere. So this
is what this is about. This isn't about empathy for
you know, people that were putting in prison. This isn't
about any of that. This is all political. It's about disruption,
and they will the thing about these guys, hopefully. I
got to go back to my original thought it let's
talk about build tax thing. So the very first thing
ag Pact is trying to do is get transparency. Now,

(20:26):
what we know with the Soros plind days, whether it's
Travis County, Texas, bayhar Texas or now Harris County. Right,
they got one in Hairs count now, right, they all
talk about transparency for police officers. We have to have
transparency for police officers. We need to make sure we
know everything they're doing. We need to examine their training,
we need to do all this stuff, but when it

(20:46):
comes to them the light being shining on their practices,
they don't want it. I mean, that's the hypocrisy of
the sort. And you saw that in Illinois, Cook County, Illinois,
with in Maryland, with Mosby and Maryland. You saw it
with Kim Gardner in Saint Louis County. You saw with
Pamlin Price up in Oakland. Certainly saw that with George

(21:08):
guests going here in Los Angeles. This is their play.
First they do this thing, they destroy their offices, they
stop doing their job, and then they don't want anybody
to know what they're doing. They don't want transparency for them,
only for the cops. And you represent cops. So this
is the hypocrisy of this thing. Drives me crazy.

Speaker 6 (21:24):
Oh, absolutely. One of our biggest bills of the session.
You know, we were very successful this session, but we
had a bill that did not pass that involved, you know,
some confidentiality right on some law enforcement.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
Records.

Speaker 6 (21:41):
May do in part to the fact, if not mostly
due in part to the fact that these this narrative,
this false narrative that's out there over the last you know,
ten years or so, has really changed the game in
terms of in terms of what the media and anti
police activists are requesting from law enforcement person files, which
is absolutely should not be in the hands of the public,

(22:04):
the large majority of it. And you would be shocked
at some of the opposition that came out on that.
And yes, you know, the district attorneys do not want
the general public to know how they are dismissing cases.
How are they going about doing that. It's not just
missed deadlines. There's plenty of other things that they are

(22:27):
doing or not doing in order to justify in their
minds dropping violent crime charges, including weapons charges, where when
the same breath they're doing press conferences about gun control
at the same time they're dropping cases that involve handguns.
I mean, it makes absolutely no sense and they know it.

(22:49):
And like you said, if we were able to, if
the Attorney General was able to aggregate this data and
understand the number of cases that are being dropped violent crime.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Cases, that would that would.

Speaker 6 (23:05):
Really put a damper on, you know, their agenda and
how they're able to get the votes. At the end
of the day, we have open records for a laws
that prevent for example, that prevent anyone in the public
from getting access to why a case was or anything

(23:27):
about a case if it was dismissed. Right, So I
can't go find out anything about a murder and how
it happened, and what's the evidence and what was the
confession even in some cases can't find any of that
out if the case was dismissed. So I mean, and
again going back to Paxson, he needed this to expose

(23:47):
it because we simply don't have it. And again Open
Records Act is another way to potentially expose some of
that in something that we've been looking at as well.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, and I think you can. You could talk about
a variety of subjects when it comes to no filing,
when you're when you don't file, and how it has
an impact that public policy has an impact overall. And
one I've talked about a lot is overdose desks because
you know, when you think about overdose desks, particularly when
it's related to fentanyl and meth amphetamine, it is it

(24:18):
is an area that law enforcement can pay play a
positive role in reducing the amount of drugs that are
in the community, reducing usage, pushing people into treatment. And
I believe the whole model. Let's arrest low level people,
get them in treatment. I believe in that model. I've
worked on models like that. Yet when you stop filing
like they did in LA with George Gascon stop filing anything,

(24:39):
we stop pushing people into treatment, and we saw our
overdose rates skyrocket. So and I'm a data nerd, I
admit it, I'm a nerd. I look at this stuff
and I can see the correlations, and I have to
I have to search high and low for that stuff
to find it and then lay out the correlations right.
And so when Paxson does something like this, it is
to high the failed policies or the policies within that

(25:03):
DA's office or multiple day's office. With increase in crime,
increase in overdose deaths, you know obviously suicides using where
people are under the influences also increasing when you start
looking at them, and then you can tie directly to
our failures. Because the other thing in Oregon, when they
stopped prosecuting all narcotic crime, gets what they saw. They
saw an increase in overdose desks, same kind of dynamic.

(25:27):
But you're not going to see that when they hide
the data. You're not going to get that kind of correlation.
When they hide the data. Let's bring up let's talk
about one of Jose garzol. We've got a headline here's
from Crime and Consequences. So here he is. It's thanks
to Soro's funded DA murder suspect released on a two
hundred dollars bail. So this kind of goes to two

(25:47):
different things that are going on in Texas. So he
failed to file a charge against this guy for ninety days,
and I guess there's a mechanism in Texas law that
allows you. The debail was originally eight hundred that thousand,
they dropped it down to two hundred dollars, and and
and then this guy got out and it led to
more problems, right, this guy committed more crimes and this

(26:11):
so this is holding hose. So you got two issues. First,
the one issue is Jose Jose Garza did not file
any charges against these guys. And whether it's a tactically
thing legally or not, I don't know. But we won't
know that if we don't call data. And the second
thing is the lowering of the bond to an incredibly
low amount of two hundred dollars. Can you address both

(26:31):
of those things?

Speaker 6 (26:32):
Yeah, I mean, the first thing is, you know, like
I said, we can we don't know exactly why all
of these cases have been dropped. I do know on
a few cases that the justification used by the district
attorney or the assistant district attorney to law enforcement because again,
remember all this an enormous negative impact on morale for

(26:55):
law enforcement as they're trying to work.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
These sides, these detectives and other types of crimes.

Speaker 6 (27:01):
One of the things that has been pulled to several
detectives in many of these serious cases is, for example,
we can't locate a witness. Okay, well, there's a myriad
of other evidence in the case, including a confession and
one homicide, but because they can't locate one. And remember
we have a huge immigrant population, you know, non they

(27:24):
don't speak English. These are families that are not going
to come forward, absolutely not, and they know this. They're
victimizing their own voters. And this is you know, this
is how this stuff brushed under the rug. So in
terms of why he and how he's justifying or missing
deadlines or all these things are, you know, we'll never

(27:46):
know exactly again, especially if we don't get the Paxton
deal done. We'll never know exactly, but we have we
and many other stakeholders have been attempting to expose this
as much as possible in the legislation. Sure, we're trying
to fix things as well as best we can, and
we have a conservative legislature for the most part still,

(28:08):
and we were able to get some bail reform to
the finish line, although we still have a couple more
that we would like that involve constitutional amendment.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
We got some bail reform bills through and.

Speaker 6 (28:22):
We also got some bills I think we talked about
this last time potentially where you know, we're having these
charitable groups come in and bail people out of jail
for lan offenses, and so we got some legislation to
prevent that as well. In fact, we uncovered that in
Harris County, those charitable groups were actually receiving millions of

(28:44):
dollars in county funds, so it was it was the
actual county at the end of the day that was
bailing these people.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Out on violent offenses.

Speaker 6 (28:54):
So we got some legislation to that end as well,
but I expect we may see some more. We just
got called back into us but we were done with
Session June second. However, the governor Governor Abbitt just called
a special session and we'll be back on July twenty
first to contemplate a few more items.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
And I believe bail or form you might see on there.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Well, let's let's lush out what you said here. So
they're saying, because of one small one piece of the case,
it might be small, may be big, they can't they
can't hold the guy in custody because they can't move
forward the case, is the argument, right, And to put
people in custody and give them a bail, you just
need proper cause to indicate that a crime occurred and
they committed it. Right, So what you're saying that's still there.

(29:41):
They can still keep them in custody if they do,
and they can still file and move forward if they
want to. And here's the thing I think I need
to clarify, because I've been following these Sorels fund of
days around the country as you could Krasner and Philly,
Moseby and Baltimore and Fox and Cook County, Illinois. It's
the same fricking pattern. Anything that they can point to

(30:01):
and say, oh, the case is a little more weak.
So we can't move forward with it, or you know,
oh my god, this think doesn't hold up on review.
So we got to get this guy out of prison.
And in the past, prosecutors used to look at well,
do they still have a strong case. Yes, I still
got a strong case. I'm moving forward right. They don't
look for a reason to dismiss. They look for a
reason to prosecute, particularly if they are convinced it's the guy.

(30:23):
And this guy, Stephen Martin Merrison, was accused of shooting
a twenty year old in the back of the head.
So it clearly isn't a self defense issue. This guy
is a bad dude, and he was released on two
hundred dollars bail and he went out to do some
bad stuff. And this is in Travis County, Texas. Yeah.
So this is a pattern with these soilss and we

(30:43):
got a national audience, so I gotta explain this. This
is a pattern where they look for a reason not
to file instead of looking at the strength of the
case to file, which I think is a violation of
their constitution. Low, do you agree with that absolutely?

Speaker 6 (30:55):
Or in some cases they take a lesser charge. And
when I say a lesser charge, I'm talking a much
lesser charge than homicide. We had a homicide here in
Travis County where the suspect killed and buried his girlfriend
in her backyard. Okay, that was discovered, he was arrested,
went to jail, and at the end of the day

(31:17):
they dropped the murder charge and went ahead and just
charge them with the tampering charge. So he's going to
be out of prison here in a few years. And
that's something I want to mention too that I think
is really important that I think has lost a lot
of people here. The results of a lot of these
district attorneys, these Soros funded district attorneys. We're not going

(31:38):
to see the results until these people start getting out
that took these sweetheart plea deals. So really the results,
the negative impact is going to really hit hard in
a few years because these people took sweetheart plea deals.
I'm murderers, you know, kidnapping, all kinds of charges, cartels,
and they got sweet deals and they're going to be
walking around in a few years. So we have any

(32:00):
seen really the impact of soft on crime policies.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Well, here's the deal, and you're right to fight. Soorrow's
tooth and nail because if he gets in the state
legislature like he did in California, there'll be so many
poison pills in the criminal justice system that you can't
really be tough on crime. We passed Prop. Thirty six here,
which toughened or reform Prop forty seven, which was, you know,
weakened all our laws. We strengthened him, but the governor
didn't fund. He didn't fund necessary the building of jails

(32:28):
or prisons or anything like that so that we can
put people in prison. But here's that we got a
senior senior citizen discount in our state. If you do
twenty five years on a charge, even if it was
life without possibly a parole, and you're fifty years old
or over, you can get paroled. So they just ignored

(32:48):
what the court said. So here's what I mean by that,
was is so now the DA's CROs fenty to days.
Oh I put him away for life, knowing full well
it's only twenty five years. If he gets if he's
over fifty, right, he gets to get out again. And
you know, guess what, fifty year olds can commit crimes
again too. So it drives me. Let's by the way,
Garza is a democratic socialist. I just need to point

(33:09):
it down. It's in his bio. I got one more.
I got to do another headline here and this is
from this is from Harris County, Texas, because we got
to do all your crazy das right Seawan terror and
he's uh, Harris County, Texas stopped processed, prosecuting, trust passing.
I think as I read the articles, so they're they're
treating it as a kind of a mental illness thing.

(33:30):
Go ahead, take this sound. So these these low level
crimes that we used to prosecute were key towards reducing
social disorder. And now this new Sorrow's Fund of DA
who replaced a progressive day who wasn't progressive enough. Kim
ogg I had her on my show. She explained, Yeah,
I wasn't progressive enough for me. They so they primaried me.

(33:53):
They primaried me, and uh and uh, and they brought
him in and now he's not But these these these
low level crimes, what people don't understand, they are key
towards reducing social disorder in your community. And he's choosing
not to file any of them no matter what.

Speaker 6 (34:10):
Absolutely, and he's you know he's he's newer. You know,
not a whole lot of data or trend patterns yet
on him because he hasn't been around that long. But
of course he's Soros funded. He's going to do what
he has to do to stay there. That's proven, and
you know, it's it's a lot like you haven't mentioned

(34:33):
Dallas County, but we have Crisoe there.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Now.

Speaker 6 (34:36):
He came in a little bit before the Soros movement,
but now that Soros money is available, he's he's in
it right, you know, he he has been. He originally
was doing things like more around the Ferguson time he
started doing things like announcing that he wasn't going to
prosecute any theft at all. Okay, oh under one thousand

(34:57):
dollars or whatever it was, right, and again same thing.
I mean, at that point, you know, we were all
over him. Our organization was all over him. All of
the you know, small businesses in the city of Dallas,
even walmarts, I mean, the targets, all the places that
are constantly getting hit. We were on them in the

(35:18):
legislature in the interim back back when this was going
on several years ago, and he rescinded the policy, but
it took two years. Now fast forward a little bit.
You know, we've only gotten more progressive since then. And
so these these types of blanket statements about not prosecuting
things are extremely irresponsible and dangerous because, like you said,

(35:41):
it just perpetuates crime of all kinds.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Yeah, let's let's let's talk about trust passing. I know
you've arrested a trust pass before. I've rested my first ship. Right. So,
somebody goes into a business and he's creating a disruption,
and you get the you know, four or fifteen business
business a few. That's our code here we use in
LA and you go there and business order says, yeah,
the guy's not buying anything, he's making noises, he's not
doing anything here. I want him out, And okay, sir,

(36:08):
you gotta leave. I don't want to leave, Sir, you
got to leave. I'm not going to leave. Okay, sir,
I've given you a legitimate order. You got to leave.
If you don't leave, you'll be arrested for trustpassing. Arrest me,
boom taking jail. Problem is solved, if you know, sometimes
you'd say that the business owner, Hey, if you wrestling
for trustpassing, out of citizens arrest, I'll take them jail too. Now,
this DA won't file any of that stuff, which means

(36:30):
that person can now create mayhem wherever they want, in
whatever business they want, with no repercussions, none, zero repercussions.
What about trustpassing in an elementary school? What about trustpassing
in a church? You know, let's let's put the businesses aside.
What about trust passing in a place that you individually

(36:51):
hold sacred?

Speaker 6 (36:53):
Yeah, I mean this is about law and order, you know,
I mean law and order. It's about the public trust
and law enforcement. They're trying to shatter that as well,
and that's one of the things that that does. You know,
when you're a business owner and there's someone on your
property who you don't want there for whatever reason, but
let's just say it's because you think they're going to
steal something, because they're intoxicated, because they're you know, doing

(37:15):
something suspicious, you have every right as a property owner
to issue that criminal trespass and for a law enforcement
officer to go in there and say, sorry, but I
can't do that, even though it's in state law. So yes,
you can't, you know, as a business owner, Yes, officer,
you can do that because I'm reading it right here
in state law and it says you can't. Well no, sorry,
but DA so and so says I can't. I mean,

(37:37):
it's just it's it really impacts and by design, right,
it impacts relations between community and law enforcement.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
They are there. It's my opinion they do not want
law enforcement to be used to control social disorder issues.
They want the social workers to come in. They want
all of us, but they do not want us to
be used as a tool in the future. But here's
the problem, right, it is still on the books. And
this this leads back to A. G. Paxson's issue. So
if I'm the sheriff, you know, if I'm the sheriff,

(38:08):
I'm going to say, hey, make those arrests because it's
on the books. We're going to file them with the
d A. The DA can reject them and not file him.
That's up to him. That'll go up to a G
packs and he'll he'll document all of them that were
that were that were submitted, and how many he rejected.
And now we start getting good, a good picture. Because
I have to tell you're right, if law enforcement knows
that they it's nothing's going to happen. Obviously, they're gonna

(38:30):
they're gonna some of the fallback personal things will be
I'm not going to make that arrest because it's a
waste to tell it right.

Speaker 6 (38:35):
Well, and they're being told not to, I can tell
you right now, they're being mandated. They're being told they
are not making those arrests.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Yeah, that happened in l A. You're right, that did happen.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
They don't have a choice.

Speaker 6 (38:48):
And and again remember too and you know this, but
people need to remember, we're not self initiating these calls, right.

Speaker 8 (38:56):
We're not.

Speaker 6 (38:56):
We're not going up to transiend and arresting them for
this is the public, the people believe in law and order,
who pay our salaries. Right, they're asking us for help.
I mean, this isn't perpetuated by law enforcement. We're enforcing
the law. It's law and order. The public wants it.
And you know, the public that's going to work every day.

(39:16):
That's the public I'm talking about, not the other side.
And you know these business owners and it's just and
that the trustpath typically is it's going to be your businesses,
whether it's small mom and pop or whether it's the
seven eleven or the convenience store, you know, and they're
up to no good.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Let's be honest.

Speaker 6 (39:35):
I mean, have you ever arrested somebody for criminal trust
us who was doing nothing wrong?

Speaker 8 (39:39):
Probably?

Speaker 1 (39:40):
Not. Yeah, they know exactly what they're doing when they're
disrupting stuff, right, you know, they're they're just giving people
a hard time because they can, right, because they can't.
And that's that's what's going on. But you know, we
got another headline for this. One's from Bahart, Texas. This
is Joe Gonzalez. Let's hear here we go, Sarah's back
prosecutor in hot water after man released on bond goes

(40:03):
on shooting spree. And this was This is Brandon Powlus.
He previously was ar wrestled for assaulting a couple of
senior citizens, was released on bond, and then he took
a bunch of shots at the San Antonio cops, right,
and a seven cops were fired at. But he shouldn't
even been out of prison.

Speaker 6 (40:20):
I mean, yeah, he actually And I take this one personally,
not just because they were all Pleet members, these officers,
but because one of them who was shot, one of
the officers who was shot in the arm was my
academy classmate. And yeah, absolutely he assaulted his parents. Those
are the And then he got out of jail and

(40:41):
guess what he was bailed out by tops a charitable
organization bailed him out. His parents didn't want him out.
This charitable organization bailed him out. He goes straight to
the house, kills his parents, drives to Austin and proceeds
to shoot at an isd AS school police officer. Luckily
he didn't get in the school and luckily the officer

(41:01):
survived his injuries.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
Then he goes to.

Speaker 6 (41:04):
A neighborhood and shoots a woman and her child who's
in a stroller.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
Then he goes to.

Speaker 6 (41:15):
A different part of Austin and shoots randomly at someone
on a bicycle. Then he ends up later that night
where my classmate was shot in the arm. He walked
into the backsliding glass door of a nice well to
do neighborhood, shoots a mother and her daughter, kills them.
My buddy responds to that call by himself and gets

(41:35):
shot in the backyard. Suspect proceeds and eventually he's caught
right but this guy he literally killed.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
I want to say it was six or seven innocent.
These are just completely.

Speaker 6 (41:45):
Random shootings other than his parents, right, who wanted him
in jail, by the way, absolutely should have never been
been out. I mean it's just the social you know,
in the name of social justice. The victims of these
things many times are you know, from lower economic socioeconomic status.

(42:09):
It's their own it's in how we expose that really
has been the difficulty here.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
And you know we're talking about his parents were like
eighty one and eighty, They were older folks, and they
could not defend themselves. They turned to government to help
solve this problem, and government let them down. And these
radical leftist crazy people who donated these funds left them down.
They got them out. He went and killed them, and
then he killed multiple other innocent people on this rampage

(42:41):
and shot it out with cops. They're calling out Jose Garza.
Now he's the DA And I think it is a
Bayheart Texas. Is that how we say it? Bayheart?

Speaker 2 (42:49):
Well, Joe Gonzalez is bear.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
Bear, Okay, san Antonio all right, it's San Antonio, right,
and and it's his his progressive pologies. Now there is
a little bit of hope. I think I heard that
Joe Gonzalez is not going to run again, is that
act that's true?

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Yes, he announced he's not going to run again.

Speaker 6 (43:08):
But again, you know, this is one prime example of
a seat we have to keep our eye on because
they are going to pour probably if I had to
guess more money into that seat potentially than any other
seat I can think.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
Of right now. Wow, Yeah, because they want to hold that.

Speaker 6 (43:23):
They want to hold that, and I think there's going
to be some good hopefully anecdotally some good candidates. But
you know, at the end of the day, the other
horrible thing about these Soros funded das is that many
of them start out kind of moderate, right, and that,
like I was mentioning with the Dallas, they start out
moderate and that's truly who they are.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
But then just like you know.

Speaker 6 (43:48):
This is not uncommon obviously, but it's it's uncommon in
the fact that the links that they're willing to go
for this funding is just so detrimental to public safety.
And so I'm definitely that is going to be on
our priority list when it comes to the campaign season.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
Now. See, I don't know how anybody who let this guy,
this Brandon Poulos out, how they could sleep sleep at night.
I don't know how they can sleep at night. Six
people blood on their hands. I don't know how. Joe gonzalees,
I'm assuming he's had enough because he's he's feeling the heat.
I mean, some of these guys got to have a
conscience there, and he's like, yeah, okay, I got to

(44:28):
get out of this. I did my time.

Speaker 6 (44:29):
Well, you know, I'll tell you this because this is interesting.
I just found this out the other day through somebody
who knows him apparently, and you can read about this too.
I just didn't realize that he actually when he announced
he was not going to run, he then supported the
bail reform bill.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
It's almost like the Kim Ogg situation.

Speaker 6 (44:51):
That you describe, where it's like maybe he's just done
and he's like, I'm going to do the right thing, right,
knowing that if he supported it he would not be
re elected.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
But he wanted to. I don't know. Again, I'm speculating,
but that is interesting, right.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
Well, it's uh. When I interviewed Kim aug it was
interesting because she told me she goes, you know, yeah,
I believe in doing some progressive things, but I still
believed in protecting women who are getting abused. I didn't
like that they were getting released, so I was against
that for bail reform, and I had so many, I
had cases stacking on.

Speaker 8 (45:21):
Like she was.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
She had been a prosecutor for ten years, went on
to do public policy stuff, came back, and so she
was she was essentially a prosecutor, but she was kind
of a left of center prosecutor. And but she didn't
go along with that. And she got a call from
an organization called the Fair and Just Prosecution who are
why I call it the policing arm of the of
the Progressive Prosecutors, funded by George Sorows. The person who

(45:45):
ran it up until September, somebody that I knew who
was in La Miriam Krinsky. And these are a bunch
of radical leftists that I mean. They did their damage
on the La County Shares Room and we still haven't recovered.
And so I tracked their whole organization and she said,
bo said, they called me up and yelled at me
because I demanded more money so I could do more prosecutions.

(46:07):
She did exactly what a prosecutor should do, right they're
supposed to do, and she was shocked at the response,
and of course the primary and she's out. And so yeah,
these guys who want power are willing to sell their
souls and they look at the body count. They're okay
with the body count as long as they stay in office.
And that's why AG's pactions. That's why his legislation is important.

(46:30):
That's why what you guys are doing in the legislature
is important. Now, you guys did a cleet on this one.
You did a cle judicial accountability issue, So can you
explain it is actually the judges who are dropping the bail, right,
do they have leverage in there and keeping the guy
in or keeping a higher bail? And when you say

(46:51):
just judicial accountability, is that what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Yeah, I mean, so they do have leverage.

Speaker 6 (46:57):
But one of the other things that we have been
brought up of the Soreres Fund of das in these
locations is that the district attorney also has the ability
to make their claim, you know, to state their case
I guess.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
In terms of the bail, and they've never done that.

Speaker 6 (47:10):
So while the judges are very guilty of this, they're
also the das. Don't get off the hook on this issue.
They're definitely guilty of not pursuing crypt justice in these cases.
And you know, the bail reform issues were really centered
around holding them accountable in terms of ensuring that they
are able to deny bail in these violent crime situations.

(47:34):
Because we've got in Harris County, you know, people being
let out on bail when they're sitting on six violent
felonies and they're being let out on low, low, sometimes
no bail.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
I mean, it's incredible what's going on in Harris County.

Speaker 6 (47:49):
And if you ever get a chance to talk to
Houston Crime Stoppers they've been.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
Really big in all this, and reach out to them, they're.

Speaker 6 (47:57):
Great, great, they can really give you some background on
Harris County specifically because they they have their next level
when it comes to this, uh, letting these people out
after multiple felony offenses and the lack of communication between
the courts and law enforcement the jails. It's just they've

(48:19):
done a really good job. They're exposing more than most
of our our large counties.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Yeah, it's let me clarify for our audience. So when
you go into an avid serial process and a criminal court,
the obviously the public defender is going to say, oh,
we should he should be let out. You know, there's
no bail, and the opponent to that would be the DA,
and the DA should say no. Given his record, given
the violent crimes, we still think he's a danger to
the public. And in fact, we don't even take he'll

(48:45):
stay in the state. You know, he'll run back across
the border if it's a it's a if it's a migrant,
you know, so we need to keep this guy in jail.
And and they're they're just are choosing and this is
a pattern for all sorls das across the country not
to make those bail hearings and not to make those requests.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Yes, right, absolutely, that is.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
We're talking about it. Okay, So you've had we got
five minutes, so you've had some victories in the legislature.
One of them is a protecting civil service, which is critical.
Talk about your your efforts there.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
Yeah, we're super proud of that.

Speaker 6 (49:18):
And it really does come back again to Soros funded
issues that we're facing. And for example, same Soros funded
groups here, we're circulating a petition late last year trying
to get on the ballot to repeal In Texas, we
have Chapter one forty three Local Government Code, which is
civil service for law enforcement. I'm sure you're familiar with

(49:41):
someone's California historically has had some really good, you know,
law enforcement protections in place, and so that's what this is.
We have about eighty plus thousand law enforcement officers in
the state currently, about twenty thousand of them have a
pretty robust working rights under Chapter one.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
Forty three, which is civil service.

Speaker 6 (50:06):
One of our smaller cities outside of Austin, so last
session we passed the bill to protect civil service for
the city of Austin because we were under major you know,
they were threatening the source groups to repeal the civil service.
We protected that for them at the population bracket. Well,
that same source funded group then shifted down to the

(50:26):
city close to us called San Marcos. They also have
civil service. They did circulate a petition, they didn't read
the law properly, didn't get enough signatures, but we knew
they would be back, so we asked the legislature to
pass again, dropping that population bracket all the way to
fifty thousand. So if it's a city of fifty thousand

(50:47):
or more, you cannot repeal civil service via petition. So
we essentially protected working rights for law enforcement officers across
the entire state, which was a huge one for us.
You know, we were happy to get Austin last session,
but now we've got a large number of cities that
will be forever protected in terms of their working conditions.

(51:07):
And yeah, we're here. We had to do that because
of these groups. So it kind of comes full circle.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
Yeah, and you got to keep an eye on them
because we're going to keep trying to put a thumb
on the scale on the civil surface process which are
administrative processes. And it is the proponners of the evidence
to prove or disprove the officer. So it really doesn't
take a lot to sway that for ponners evidence against
the officer. If you have a corrupted system, so you
have to you know, you have to main and take

(51:33):
it because I believe the system is being corrupted here
in California purposely, particularly in Los Angeles and uh and
and so hopefully our unions will fight back and keep
those strong. But you have another one. There's there's there's
a statute, the misuse of deadly conduct statute, and this
was related to a case in Austin. Right, talk about
your success there.

Speaker 6 (51:51):
Absolutely same thing, Soros funded District Attorney Jose Garza and
Crizo in Dallas both brought charges on law enforcement office
who some of them were involved in the riots, but
another one high profile. Here we represented at cleat officer
who literally was doing his job.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Exactly the way he was trained.

Speaker 6 (52:11):
If you and I walked into a simulator right now
and we were presented with a subject coming toward us
with a knife, we would have to shoot them or
we would fail. Right, That's exactly what happened in this case.
He initially tried to charge them with murder, realized that
wasn't going to happen.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
Kept going down the totem pole.

Speaker 6 (52:30):
We have a statute called deadly conduct in Texas, and
I can read for you. Part of this statute says,
recklessness and danger are presumed if the actor knowingly pointed
a firearm at or in the direction of another, whether
or not the actor believed the firearm is loaded. So
basically every cop in Texas is guilty of this statute.
Every single day, I mean anytime that you pull your firearm,

(52:53):
which is every day, I mean alarm calls, right everything.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
We had to fix that.

Speaker 6 (52:58):
Why it's ever been weaponized in the past but here
we go. And not to mention if you haven't seen
the case he was convicted, because look at this. If
the jury's sitting here looking at this deadly conduct charge, yep,
what are they gonna do? And now we're appealing and
it's it's horrible. I mean, he was sent us to
two years in prison as a family and kids, and

(53:19):
so this was a big one for us as well.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
I saw that. And what they're doing is they're weaponizing
law to restrain law enforcement. We got thirty seconds. So
I want to thank you Jennifer for coming on my show.
I'd appreciate you stick around for a few minutes. Maybe
I can get that contact him from for Houston Crime
Stoppers so I can bring them on. And you got
a lot going on, sexist and I appreciate the work
that you guys are doing at CLEET. I would appreciate

(53:41):
encourage you guys to look up Cleet and make a
donation to their police officer for Moorial Fund. And you know,
good luck out there. Remember we got rid of three
of our Soros fund at DA here in California, at Jennifer,
So that's my challenge to you. You guys got to
do the same thing. It's working on Yeah, working on
it right. Well, any more words before you get we go, No, thank.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
You for having me. I really appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
All right. That is Jennifer Shamanski and welcome our thank
you for being with briefing with the chief folks. We
will see you next week will our interview a candidate
for the sheriff of Los Angeles County. Please stick around
for debrief Jennifer, Amanda, you can take it away.