September 12, 2025 • 38 mins
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Erin Anderson is a Senior Journalist for Texas Scorecard. She's based in DFW but reports on local and state issues across Texas.
Erin Anderson is a Senior Journalist for Texas Scorecard. She's based in DFW but reports on local and state issues across Texas.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello, I'm you happy.
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People, Neil Smith and old Buck Buddy.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Down by breaking a major story.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
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Speaker 1 (00:42):
I think I played this for you before, folks. This
is CNN talking about the voter registration problem for Democrats.
Democrats have a lot of problems. They're pro crime, they're
pro criminal, illegal alien, they are anti America first, they're
anti President Trump. And everything that President Trump is doing,
most everything he's doing is being warmly received by the
(01:02):
American people, including standing up against crime, massive crime going
on in blue cities. So CNN is going over the
polling and instead of any of this crap, and it's
all it is, folks, that the Democrats are flinging a
whole bunch of crap and hoping something sticks. None of
it is because President Trump is actually doing something Democrats
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have never conceived of doing before, delivering for the American people.
Democrats are busy delivering for foreign nationals, busy for delivering
for criminals, busy delivering for themselves, and they've forgotten the
American people, and the American people know it and their
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voter registration reflects that listen to.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
This Democratic brand right now has about the appeal with
the American voter as the crack o barrel rebrand has
with the American consumers. Bad, bad, bad. What are you doing?
Oh my goodness, gracious, what do we talking about here?
In terms of big party registration changes in the key
swing states. Let's look at the key for swing states
that in fact do keep tract of registration by party. Look,
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the Republican Party is in their best position at this
point in the cycle since at least two thousand and five,
and all four of these key battleground states. We go
out to the southwest, Arizona, how about Nevada, Republicans haven't
done this well since two thousand and five. Oh my goodness, grace,
at this point of cycle. North Carolina, I couldn't find
a point at which Republicans were doing better at this
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point in the cycle. It's at least this century. It
probably goes way back in the last century. And Pennsylvania
very similar. Republicans doing better at this point than at
any point at any point this century, at least as
far as I could find.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Okay, So, folks, what do you think or who do
you think is the credit for that. I mean, you
may see some bright spots Conservative Senator Ted Cruz, you
might see some of the other high pro file individuals
and the Republican Party in the House of Representatives, maybe
Jim Jordan, maybe James Comer. But can you point to
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the Republican Party in general and their ways of doing
business in the House and the Senate as the majority.
Can you point to anything specifically that they've actually done well,
big beautiful bill, Well, yes, a lot of good things
in it, but it was massively expensive. They spent more
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money than to the Democrats. They doubled down on Democrat
massive overspending. So really, the only person that is out
there really taking it to leftists, really trying to put
America first, trying to get money back for the American taxpayer,
and being opposed by certain Republicans all the way, every
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step of the way. It's President Trump. He's responsible for this.
He's also respec responsible for what's happening on the other side.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Now, what types of gains are we talking about here
for the Republican Party. Well, let's compare it to this
point during their first Trump administration, all the way back
in twenty seventeen. Look at this the Republican party gains
and party registration compared to this point back in twenty
seventeen during the Trump first administration. In Arizona, you got
a Republican gain of three points. Okay, how about Nevada
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up the hill we go, even though we're sticking in
the Southwest, a gain of six points. How About again
we come to the east coast, North Carolina, a gain
of eight points for the Republicans. And in the Keystone State,
in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, again we're talking about a
gain of eight points. My goodness, gracious for Republicans. They
are converting old former Democrats to their side of the
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ledger as well as picking up new voters, registering new voters,
and it absolutely paid off for them back in the
twenty twenty four election. Now, of course, Donald Trump has
been president since January. Are there any bright spots for Democrats?
Have they picked up any ground since January one in
terms of party registration? Uh? Ah? None? These these key
(05:04):
swing states, these four key swing states. What are we
talking about? Party registration margin gains since January one, twenty
twenty five? Which party is gained in Arizona the GOP.
How about Nevada the GOP, North Carolina the GOP. How
about in Pennsylvania. We'll make it four for four the GOP.
The bottom line is this, Jessica Dean. When it comes
to party registration, Republicans have made massive gains compared to
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eight years ago. They are in their best position in
these key four swing states dating back at least twenty years.
You have to go back at least twenty years, at
least in the case of Nevada, longer in North Carolina
and Pennsylvania. So Republicans looking pretty gosh darn good at
least when it comes to party registration. And we'll see
what happens down the road. But at this point, as
they said at the beginning, the Democratic brand isn't about
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as good a position as the Cracker Bower rebrand. It
is bad, bad, bad.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
For the Democrats, bad, bad, bad for the Democrats. And
why President Trump says I'm against crime, the Democrats say
we're for crime. President Trump says, I don't want any
more illegal immigration like the majority of the American people.
And what do the Democrats say we want more illegal immigration?
Illegal aliens have a right to be in America, say
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the Democrats. It's it is Trump's ability. I don't know
how the hell he does it, but it's his ability
to make the Democrats take the twenty position on eighty
twenty positions. I will give you one example, and I
think it's a self preservation more than anything else, of
a Democrat seeing the light, folks. And her name is
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Muriel Bowser. Now, she doesn't want Trump to completely eradicate
the civilian government inside which, by the way, my understanding
is legally he could do get rid of all the
local control inside of Washington, DC and just have the
federal government take it over. She doesn't want that, so
she has commanded her government that after President Trump's the
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emergency is over in the nation's capital, that her administration
is to coordinate with the Trump administration indefinitely, indefinitely. So
and the first example of a Democrat that I've seen
since twenty sixteen, the first example of a Democrat putting
America first, putting American citizens first, it's maryel Bowser, and
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she seems to be the only one. So no wonder
the Democrats are desperate to stop giving the American people
more representation and more accurate representation in the district layouts
in the various states. We talk about the big beautiful
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Speaker 1 (11:22):
All right, folks, let's welcome in our guest, Aaron Anderson,
Senior journalist for the Texas Scorecard based in DFW, reports
on local and state issues all across the big beautiful
state of Texas. Aaron, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Thanks for having me. Chris went a great lead into
you to our topic.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Right, That's exactly what I was saying. I was setting
up the discussion about the big beautiful maps that were
signed into law by by Governor Grey Gabbett. I suppose
one of the big headlines coming out of these district
maps is what it did to these left wing extremists
Al Green and to Jasmine Crockett and their ability to
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hold on to their districts. Tell the folks what happened.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Well, Chris, what the new, big, beautiful map, as Greg
Abbott tauted it as he signed it off, is adding
five GOP leaning districts out of our total of thirty
eight US House districts that we have in Texas. So
currently twenty five are held by Republicans. After this, it
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looks like heading into twenty twenty six, we have a
shot at thirty. So they are varying degrees of more
Republican leaning than they were before. And you mentioned to
specific districts. Now, the districts that are held currently by Democrats,
Jasmine Crockett and Al Green, they are different than they
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were before in their shape. Yes, but let me just
say that some of the the reports of their political
demise are somewhat premature. And I'll start with Jasmine Crockett.
She's in CD thirty, She's up in my area in
the metroplex Dallas Fort Worth, and her district is different,
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but it is still seventy five percent Democrat. Is still
a majority minority district. It just has different lines than
it did before. So she has not been she has
not been drawn away by any means. Now, there was
talk that her particular residence is no longer in her district. However,
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as your listeners may not know, you do not have
to live in your district to run for Congress. That's
different than our state lawmakers. So you don't have to
actually live there to run there. And of course she
can go down and rent herself an apartment in the
new district lines, which is what many a politician does
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when running for office. So Jasmine still has she still
has a big base, She's still in a district that's
very favorable to her. She's just mad because she no
longer has the airport Dallas love Field was drawn out
of her district, and for some reason she has been
making a squawk about that that was drawn out of
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quote her district. You know, she no longer has her airport,
and it's it's really kind of strange how how many
people she got talking about that for her, uh and
you know they wanted to put it back in somehow anyway.
So she's mad that that's not the same district. And
she lost, she lost the airport. I don't I don't
know what that was about. Now Al Green is down
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in the Houston area and his district is very different
now as far as the number goes, So the numbers
kind of switch. He used to be. He was in
he represents the current CD nine, which is more toward
Fort Bend. CED nine got moved and we're where he
now lives. This is confusing. Is Congressional District eighteen. So
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he's been basically renumbered. Now eighteen happens to be vacant,
right now. That was the district held for years by
Shila jacks Actionally, yes, right and so, but so CD eighteen,
where he now lives, is still still a Democrat district.
It's still a majority minority district. It's just a different
number for him, and he's certainly nothing stopping him from
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now running for that and in twenty twenty six. Now
the thing is we're having a special election coming up
this November to fill the seat temporarily because that was
a long story, right, it was Sheila Jackson Lee for
many years. So Vessel Turner, the Houston mayor, got in
for five minutes and he too passed away, and so
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it's been empty. It's been sitting empty as this redistricting
process went on. So both both Al Green and Jazzmin
Crockett have ample opportunities to get re elected in twenty
twenty six. Should they choose to run, it'll just their
districts will look a little different than what they did before.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
What are you hearing about?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Don't celebrate too soon that they're that they're out.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, well, what are you hearing about Al Green? Because
you know he's not getting around very very well lately,
and you know he's been a pain in freedom lover's
rear end for so many years that.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
What are you hearing is? Is is he going to
try to run? And is brand spanking new district thinking
that he might? You know, just just if you have
a D in front of your name, it's a fade
of complete.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Well, he's not really wrong about that, but he won't
be the only D that wants that seat. So I,
like you, I would think that you know, he's he's
getting on. Clearly his health is not the best, He's
not such. But what we have witnessed time and again
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is that these politicians are not deterred I mean, Sheila
Jackson Lee was in the same position. Her health was failing,
but it doesn't prevent them from running over and over again.
This is what I call the bitter clingers. Remember that expression, Yeah,
to me, that's the that's the politicians who simply won't
retire gracefully. Right, But he's free to run. Really, what's
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gonna depend on I think Chris is who ends up
in this CD eighteen seat in this special election. Rarely
whether it's somebody who's a strong candidate who's willing to
challenge him and look him in the eye and say, hey,
Al Green, thanks for your service, but it's time to retire.
You know, more than one politician could use that talk, right, okay,
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or if they feel like they have to defer to
seniority and allow him to have it if he wants it.
So that's going to be up to the you know,
the Democrats there to fight it out. But he's certainly
signaled that he's willing to run again, and he's willing
to do it in CD eighteen, as is his only
option at this point. So there's an interesting cast of
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characters running in that special election. So we'll see who
ends up with that spot. I think there's there's like
one hundred people running right in time, there's an open seat,
so we'll see.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, the bitter clingers that you mentioned, it's not just
it's a left wing trait, but it's not just a
Democrat trait. As we all remember Kay Granger. Kay Granger's
staff was so committed to continuing to run the district
and vote the district in her name. They didn't tell
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anybody that she was in a facility. There was four
individuals who had succumbed to a mental disability, succumbed to
I'm tiptoeing because I don't know the official diagnosis, some
form of dementia. But they thought it's so appropriate that
(19:07):
that she uh that nobody know, and that they continue
to run things in her name. It was a slap
in the face. I thought it was criminal what they did,
but there, of course nothing ever came of it.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
So, right, it's certainly it's certainly very sad and kind
of a sad commentary on what politics does to people.
And you're right, it's not it's not just one party
or the other. It's the it's it's it's the swampiness, right,
it's the sa. Once you're once you're so entrenched, you
just feel like you cannot give up that that power
position for anything, even that even that the dignity and
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what's best for the actual the actual office holder. Yeah,
well that was a sad situation.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Sure was, and you know, like like life couldn't go
on without them. It's a it's a it's a special
case of hubrist. Folks were talking to Aaron Anderson, senior
journalist after the Texas scorecard based in the Dallas Fort
Worth met troplex, but covers all state issues, local and
state issues. So let's discuss the further fallout for the
new Republican districts. What are some of the individuals of
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note who are declaring for new Republican districts.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Well, speaking of Al Green's district, Congressional District nine, because
that's one that's been you know, completely changed. So CD
nine used to be a Democrat district. Now it's not.
It's a Republican district and it's still in sort of
the Houston area, but more more more northward, and state
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Representative Briscoe Caine jumped on that one lickety quick and
is running for CD nine and didn't take long for
him to draw some competitors though. The people aren't just
letting people you walk right into these races, which I
think is smart. Right, let's have let's have some competition,
let's talk about it. So Alex Mueller, who people in
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the Harris County area are familiar with, she ran against
Lena Hidalga for county judge. She did not win, sadly
as we know, but she she she had a fear
showing considering, you know, kind of how how democrat the
voters have become there, and so she has launched a
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bid for the CD nine seat as well. And for
those from Houston, I'm from Houston. I live in Dallas now,
but I'm from Houston, grew up there. Mattress mac mac
mcindale is backing Alex Meeler.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yes, and you know what, she came very close. And
you know that there was a lot there was a
lot of uh shall we say, consternation about some of
the vote tallies because you remember the problems that they
were having in Houston with election integrity that, oh yes,
I do that they called into question the legitimacy of
Lena Adalgo's win, and in my opinion, Alexander Alexander Mieler
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should have been should have won that race. But she
There was.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Certainly quite a few shenanigans in the elections. It was,
it was. It was such a mess though for in fact,
for a few election cycles in a row. It became
such a mess. It's honestly very difficult to even suss
out what had happened, right, because the records were such
a mess and it was so poorly done, you couldn't
hardly tell what had happened. They got one of the
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one of those challenged races did get contested and overturned.
They had the goods on that. The rest they just
couldn't they couldn't make kensertail of it. But I think
alex is a strong, a strong contender there. You know,
she's she's well known. So there's uh, there's two people
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for that one. The the ones, the ones in the
valley I haven't heard yet. So that's that's where some
of the changes were, right that after.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
These conservative Latino districts, these Republican Latino districts.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yes, so actually four the five you know, flip from
Democrat to Republican districts are Hispanic majority.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Is isn't that great to point out though, that the
fact that Democrats are opposing Hispanics because they happen to
be conservative slash right leaning, and that type of activity
is what Democrats normally call racist, right, even though it's like,
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and this is what I've always said, it's always ideology, right, ideology.
Trump's everything is a mantra of the Salcedo Show in
the podcast, So that the Democrats have had it so long,
so so distorted, this whole idea of race distorted for
so long that they can't stand up to their own standards.
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And right now they're being confronted with that that they've
been a post using latinos in these districts because they
don't have act.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
They've been taking it, taking it for granted, really, And
so what happened when they decided to redraw and some
court cases contributed to this, and one of them being
the Supreme Court saying that yes, it's okay to draw
your lines based on party affiliation, right, yep, when you're
the party in power, it's okay to to redraw your
lines based on that. And so, given how Trump performed
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in Texas in twenty twenty four and especially in a
lot of these you know, South Texas districts. They were
able to put together these new districts you know in
South Texas that were like Trump by ten That was
kind of the that was kind of the scale. We're Trump. God,
you know, we put together a district that if Trump,
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you know, Trump would have won by ten points. And
uh so that change in voting patterns was you know,
one of the drivers here. It's like, look, this isn't
you know, this isn't the this is a the Texas
of even you know, four years ago. Right, we're taking
advantage of this. We're going for it. And then as
it turned out, you know, because it's just just they're
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just strongly Hispanic areas. They're still just strongly Hispanic districts.
They just happen to be now Republican leaning instead of Democrats.
The Democrats aren't mad that, you know, it's not it's
not as they say their termed black and brown people.
It's just not they're black and brown people.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Right.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
And Adam he no Josa, a state senator, had a
great he had a great little speech at at the
end of the the Senate debate on the big beautiful
map as they were getting ready to vote it out
and pass it in the Senate. And he talked about
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this very thing because he's like, oh, I you know,
he goes, I won my district and there hasn't been
a Republican you know, in that seed since reconstruction, but
here I am a Hispanic Republican and these are you know,
this is how people are switching, you know. There again
he said, it's not it's not race, it's it's.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Values, ideology exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
People are people are voting their values. And then he said,
if you don't, if you don't, if if you don't
like how how it's going it goes, stop blaming the
maps and look in the mirror. Indeed, so he was
really he really was. It was a it was really strong,
just a recap of what, you know, what's been going
on and the changes that have happened in Texas that
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are now reflected in these new maps. And Democrats don't
like it. They're sewing, they they're they're they're free to sue.
We knew they would, they said they would. They've done it.
We'll we'll see how that plays out and if we're
able to use these maps in fact, in twenty twenty six.
I suspect we.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Will be.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
And we'll see how that goes. But Chris, you may know,
but some of your listeners may not are current. The
maps we're using now that we're enacted in twenty twenty
after the very sad twenty twenty census that do a
terrible job, but we still we had to use it.
That's all we had, and we do the maps. Those
maps are still in court, so the Democrats challenged those
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that has not yet been resolved. And then so we
have these new maps and they were arguing, don't take
away the old maps with these new maps. It's like,
but wait, y'all, are y'all are fighting these those maps too?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
It was all very confusing, but we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Right, And you know what, folks, the rise of the
liberty loving Latino. That's I just wrote a book about it.
It's out in December, so check that out. We chronicle
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about about the demographic shift not only in Texas where
President Trump captured the majority of the Latino vote, but
across the entire country. We're talking to Aaron Anderson, Senior journalist,
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for the Texas Scorecard based in DFW and reports on
state wide issues and on local issues as well. So
any other things of note for the remandering slash a
big beautiful map that we need to know before we
ask what else you're been working on.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Well, we'll just be watching to see what happens with
these these lawsuits. Pretty much every every left leaning alphabet
organization uh IS has has thrown in their their two
cents on this lawsuit, as you said, claiming that they're
they're racist, even though race was not used as the
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as the basis here. It was you know, party politics,
which drives the world, and there's at least one was
trying to claim you can't do you can't do mid
census redistricting, which is which is blowney. But they're just
they're trying it. They're throwing things out there, so so
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we'll be watching that. But in the meanwhile, UH as
you say, candidates are eyeing the new the new lines
and seeing where they might might run again, keeping in
mind that you do not have to live in the
precise boundaries of your district, although voters do prefer someone
(29:09):
that actually lives in the area and knows them and
understands their issues right. The so called carpetbagger that tries
to come in from outside and represent people is get
it gets a bit of stink eye in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Well among Republicans Democrats, they don't care anybody with a
D in front of their name. That's all they care about. So, Aaron,
what have you been working on. What's the most recent
article published at Texas Scorecard that you have detailed?
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Well, Chris, I'm glad you ask, although you may not
be glad at the answer. As you know, one of
the things I write upon on a regular basis is
the educator misconduct, teachers sexually abusing students and sadly the
last I think the last four articles good to you
(30:00):
in two days, we're on that very topic. We had
a slight kind of loll over the summer, but schools
back in session and so are uh uh, you know,
school employees behaving badly with students. So there's several of those,
and the one that just published today and very it
was very It's a very interesting topic to me. So
(30:22):
this was actually a follow up to a a case
earlier this year where a teacher coach had been arrested
for uh, sexually abusing and grooming a young student, a
middle school girl, and now the parents have to The
girl's mother just filed a lawsuit last week and against
(30:46):
the the purp as well as the school district, and
you know, is alleging, of course that they that the
school district themselves, you know, turned a blind eye, did
not have you know, any kind of proper policies in place,
kind of failed to really vet this guy because they
would have found that there was some other complaints and whatnot. Anyway,
(31:08):
the laundry list of failings on the part of the
district to keep this guy from getting access to young
girls like this woman's daughter and sexually abusing them. And
it was interesting to me because I've been following several
of these cases over really the past couple of years,
(31:31):
and so it just put me in mind to kind
of revisit these cases and where they are. And so
not only you know, do I talk about this case
that's in Lockhart is s D, a smaller district. Everybody
might not be familiar with Lockhart, but it's just emblematic
of a series of cases that are happening because of
(31:53):
this this thing, this grooming and sexual abuse of the
kids in our schools is a chronic thing that's going on,
you know, a crisis if you will. And in fact,
it did spark some legislation this session that took effect
September first, So September first is the magic date that
(32:13):
a lot of that a lot of new laws will
take effect after a regular legislative session. Of course, they're
still working on some other stuff. So this new law
makes it a bit easier for families to sue school
districts in these cases because right right now, or up
until now, they enjoyed a very high level of immunity
(32:37):
from prosecution. In fact, that's why all these cases in
the past have been tried in have been in federal court.
There are federal civil liability cases, which also has a
high bar, but not as high as the state. So
the state has now made it not easy, but easier
for families to overcome this this absolute wall of ammun
(33:00):
unity that our government, schools and employees have enjoyed up
until now, so that every time, every time we have
one of these cases come out and I started quoting
it in my articles, I used to leave it out
because I thought it was so smarmy. But now I'm
quoting it so people see every single press release from
every single school district says student safety is our high
(33:22):
But you know what every court filing as soon as
they go to court and they say, okay, why didn't
you protect my kid? You know what they say, student
safety is not our responsibility. We have immunity. You can't
hold us liable for it. I'm like, wow, that's a
real different message than what you're telling people to their
(33:42):
faces when it comes to court. You don't want any
part of it. You're not liable. It's not your fault,
it's not your responsibility, it's not your deal. But parents
need to know as soon as you put your kid
on that bus, the school considers itself not responsible if
that driver sexually molests your kid. As soon as that
kid walks into that school building, your school officials, your
(34:04):
superintendent that you think is so nice, says it's not
her responsibility. If one of the teachers grooms and sexually
abuses and molests your kid in the locker room, it's
not their responsibility. That's that's what they're going to tell you.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
So and because the reason they need to know, they
were the reason why they were able to do that
is because of the legislature, because of their deference to gov.
Ed into government decided to sacrifice our children, uh, to
to make sure that people inside of government never get punished.
And that's why I find that's why I find our
legislature to be well because one when these laws were passed,
(34:41):
Democrats ran this state, so it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
But I was, I was, I was really shocked that
the that they I say aloud, and that sounds terrible,
but that's the way it is in the legislature. As
you know, you have to be allowed to put your
legislation forward and get it passed. So Mitch Little, who's
a freshman, UH, championed this bill to to to kind
(35:05):
of take down some of this level of immunity from
prosecution that these government schools have enjoyed. And he was
quote allowed, you know, to put it forward, and now
it was it was he started out much stronger, So
kudos to him. He started its strong as dirt as
he could get it, so that even as they pulled
it back some, it's still it's still had some teeth.
So we'll see how that starts getting enacted. But the
(35:31):
legislature has definitely been and continues to be a really
strong protector of the government education system and so doing
almost all the legislation, almost all the legislation is is
weak that that purports to put any sort of limits
on them.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Yes, and in so doing they are failing to protect
our children, is the legislature, which I find it absolutely disgusting.
And by the way, what you're talking about some an
awful lot like what happened in Loudun County where a
young man, because of their policies, who claimed to be
trans got access to girls. He raped, not one, he
raped one girl, and the school district tried to cover
(36:12):
it up, didn't notify police, and then they shipped him
to another school district, passing the trash, literally passing the trash,
where he raped another girl and was found in court
to have Yeah, he wasn't He really wasn't trans. He
just wanted access to girls, which Gov. Ed gave him,
which is the big sick part of this. Now, what
should folks be looking out for in the future. From
(36:35):
one Aaron Anderson, senior journalist for Texas Scorecard, Well, I.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Regret to inform you that the the parade of what
we euphamistically call bad apples, teachers behaving badly towards students
and often being accommodated by the by the system. Those
will continue, but it also happens to be tax setting season,
(37:00):
so we are covering the local governments as they raise
our taxes in varying degrees. That's happening as we speak.
Mid September will be the deadline when they when a
lot of them will, you know, the ones that haven't already,
will take their final votes of just how high they're
going to raise your property taxes. And then after that
(37:23):
it'll be those November elections before we know it, and
a number of school districts especially are having school bond
elections and elections to raise your taxes so high that
you have to vote on it, which is a pretty
high bar, but they're willing to ask for it, so
we will see. We will once again be covering the
(37:45):
huge amounts of property tax dollars that our local school
systems are asking from people and what they're getting for
their money. So, Mike, you the shiny new stadium, but
still only thirty percent some of your kids are reading
at grade level, So I'm not I'm not sure the
value proposition here.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Yeah, exactly that. And of course, if you can keep
your kids from being molested insight of schools because of
their lackluster hiring practices, you know, that's also a consideration
for parents and as they're contemplating approving tax increases because
you're getting such a great gov Ed system at this point.
Aaron Anderson, senior journalist for Texas Scorecard based in Dallas,
(38:27):
for Worth and North Texas folks reporting on those local
and state issues. Always appreciate having.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
It, Thanks Chris. Always good to talk with you.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
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Speaker 1 (00:42):
I think I played this for you before, folks. This
is CNN talking about the voter registration problem for Democrats.
Democrats have a lot of problems. They're pro crime, they're
pro criminal, illegal alien, they are anti America first, they're
anti President Trump. And everything that President Trump is doing,
most everything he's doing is being warmly received by the
(01:02):
American people, including standing up against crime, massive crime going
on in blue cities. So CNN is going over the
polling and instead of any of this crap, and it's
all it is, folks, that the Democrats are flinging a
whole bunch of crap and hoping something sticks. None of
it is because President Trump is actually doing something Democrats
(01:24):
have never conceived of doing before, delivering for the American people.
Democrats are busy delivering for foreign nationals, busy for delivering
for criminals, busy delivering for themselves, and they've forgotten the
American people, and the American people know it and their
(01:44):
voter registration reflects that listen to.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
This Democratic brand right now has about the appeal with
the American voter as the crack o barrel rebrand has
with the American consumers. Bad, bad, bad. What are you doing?
Oh my goodness, gracious, what do we talking about here?
In terms of big party registration changes in the key
swing states. Let's look at the key for swing states
that in fact do keep tract of registration by party. Look,
(02:09):
the Republican Party is in their best position at this
point in the cycle since at least two thousand and five,
and all four of these key battleground states. We go
out to the southwest, Arizona, how about Nevada, Republicans haven't
done this well since two thousand and five. Oh my goodness, grace,
at this point of cycle. North Carolina, I couldn't find
a point at which Republicans were doing better at this
(02:31):
point in the cycle. It's at least this century. It
probably goes way back in the last century. And Pennsylvania
very similar. Republicans doing better at this point than at
any point at any point this century, at least as
far as I could find.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Okay, So, folks, what do you think or who do
you think is the credit for that. I mean, you
may see some bright spots Conservative Senator Ted Cruz, you
might see some of the other high pro file individuals
and the Republican Party in the House of Representatives, maybe
Jim Jordan, maybe James Comer. But can you point to
(03:10):
the Republican Party in general and their ways of doing
business in the House and the Senate as the majority.
Can you point to anything specifically that they've actually done well,
big beautiful bill, Well, yes, a lot of good things
in it, but it was massively expensive. They spent more
(03:31):
money than to the Democrats. They doubled down on Democrat
massive overspending. So really, the only person that is out
there really taking it to leftists, really trying to put
America first, trying to get money back for the American taxpayer,
and being opposed by certain Republicans all the way, every
(03:53):
step of the way. It's President Trump. He's responsible for this.
He's also respec responsible for what's happening on the other side.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Now, what types of gains are we talking about here
for the Republican Party. Well, let's compare it to this
point during their first Trump administration, all the way back
in twenty seventeen. Look at this the Republican party gains
and party registration compared to this point back in twenty
seventeen during the Trump first administration. In Arizona, you got
a Republican gain of three points. Okay, how about Nevada
(04:22):
up the hill we go, even though we're sticking in
the Southwest, a gain of six points. How About again
we come to the east coast, North Carolina, a gain
of eight points for the Republicans. And in the Keystone State,
in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, again we're talking about a
gain of eight points. My goodness, gracious for Republicans. They
are converting old former Democrats to their side of the
(04:43):
ledger as well as picking up new voters, registering new voters,
and it absolutely paid off for them back in the
twenty twenty four election. Now, of course, Donald Trump has
been president since January. Are there any bright spots for Democrats?
Have they picked up any ground since January one in
terms of party registration? Uh? Ah? None? These these key
(05:04):
swing states, these four key swing states. What are we
talking about? Party registration margin gains since January one, twenty
twenty five? Which party is gained in Arizona the GOP.
How about Nevada the GOP, North Carolina the GOP. How
about in Pennsylvania. We'll make it four for four the GOP.
The bottom line is this, Jessica Dean. When it comes
to party registration, Republicans have made massive gains compared to
(05:27):
eight years ago. They are in their best position in
these key four swing states dating back at least twenty years.
You have to go back at least twenty years, at
least in the case of Nevada, longer in North Carolina
and Pennsylvania. So Republicans looking pretty gosh darn good at
least when it comes to party registration. And we'll see
what happens down the road. But at this point, as
they said at the beginning, the Democratic brand isn't about
(05:48):
as good a position as the Cracker Bower rebrand. It
is bad, bad, bad.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
For the Democrats, bad, bad, bad for the Democrats. And
why President Trump says I'm against crime, the Democrats say
we're for crime. President Trump says, I don't want any
more illegal immigration like the majority of the American people.
And what do the Democrats say we want more illegal immigration?
Illegal aliens have a right to be in America, say
(06:14):
the Democrats. It's it is Trump's ability. I don't know
how the hell he does it, but it's his ability
to make the Democrats take the twenty position on eighty
twenty positions. I will give you one example, and I
think it's a self preservation more than anything else, of
a Democrat seeing the light, folks. And her name is
(06:38):
Muriel Bowser. Now, she doesn't want Trump to completely eradicate
the civilian government inside which, by the way, my understanding
is legally he could do get rid of all the
local control inside of Washington, DC and just have the
federal government take it over. She doesn't want that, so
she has commanded her government that after President Trump's the
(07:00):
emergency is over in the nation's capital, that her administration
is to coordinate with the Trump administration indefinitely, indefinitely. So
and the first example of a Democrat that I've seen
since twenty sixteen, the first example of a Democrat putting
America first, putting American citizens first, it's maryel Bowser, and
(07:23):
she seems to be the only one. So no wonder
the Democrats are desperate to stop giving the American people
more representation and more accurate representation in the district layouts
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Speaker 1 (11:22):
All right, folks, let's welcome in our guest, Aaron Anderson,
Senior journalist for the Texas Scorecard based in DFW, reports
on local and state issues all across the big beautiful
state of Texas. Aaron, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Thanks for having me. Chris went a great lead into
you to our topic.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Right, That's exactly what I was saying. I was setting
up the discussion about the big beautiful maps that were
signed into law by by Governor Grey Gabbett. I suppose
one of the big headlines coming out of these district
maps is what it did to these left wing extremists
Al Green and to Jasmine Crockett and their ability to
(12:00):
hold on to their districts. Tell the folks what happened.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Well, Chris, what the new, big, beautiful map, as Greg
Abbott tauted it as he signed it off, is adding
five GOP leaning districts out of our total of thirty
eight US House districts that we have in Texas. So
currently twenty five are held by Republicans. After this, it
(12:28):
looks like heading into twenty twenty six, we have a
shot at thirty. So they are varying degrees of more
Republican leaning than they were before. And you mentioned to
specific districts. Now, the districts that are held currently by Democrats,
Jasmine Crockett and Al Green, they are different than they
(12:54):
were before in their shape. Yes, but let me just
say that some of the the reports of their political
demise are somewhat premature. And I'll start with Jasmine Crockett.
She's in CD thirty, She's up in my area in
the metroplex Dallas Fort Worth, and her district is different,
(13:15):
but it is still seventy five percent Democrat. Is still
a majority minority district. It just has different lines than
it did before. So she has not been she has
not been drawn away by any means. Now, there was
talk that her particular residence is no longer in her district. However,
(13:35):
as your listeners may not know, you do not have
to live in your district to run for Congress. That's
different than our state lawmakers. So you don't have to
actually live there to run there. And of course she
can go down and rent herself an apartment in the
new district lines, which is what many a politician does
(13:56):
when running for office. So Jasmine still has she still
has a big base, She's still in a district that's
very favorable to her. She's just mad because she no
longer has the airport Dallas love Field was drawn out
of her district, and for some reason she has been
making a squawk about that that was drawn out of
(14:19):
quote her district. You know, she no longer has her airport,
and it's it's really kind of strange how how many
people she got talking about that for her, uh and
you know they wanted to put it back in somehow anyway.
So she's mad that that's not the same district. And
she lost, she lost the airport. I don't I don't
know what that was about. Now Al Green is down
(14:41):
in the Houston area and his district is very different
now as far as the number goes, So the numbers
kind of switch. He used to be. He was in
he represents the current CD nine, which is more toward
Fort Bend. CED nine got moved and we're where he
now lives. This is confusing. Is Congressional District eighteen. So
(15:05):
he's been basically renumbered. Now eighteen happens to be vacant,
right now. That was the district held for years by
Shila jacks Actionally, yes, right and so, but so CD eighteen,
where he now lives, is still still a Democrat district.
It's still a majority minority district. It's just a different
number for him, and he's certainly nothing stopping him from
(15:27):
now running for that and in twenty twenty six. Now
the thing is we're having a special election coming up
this November to fill the seat temporarily because that was
a long story, right, it was Sheila Jackson Lee for
many years. So Vessel Turner, the Houston mayor, got in
for five minutes and he too passed away, and so
(15:51):
it's been empty. It's been sitting empty as this redistricting
process went on. So both both Al Green and Jazzmin
Crockett have ample opportunities to get re elected in twenty
twenty six. Should they choose to run, it'll just their
districts will look a little different than what they did before.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
What are you hearing about?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Don't celebrate too soon that they're that they're out.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, well, what are you hearing about Al Green? Because
you know he's not getting around very very well lately,
and you know he's been a pain in freedom lover's
rear end for so many years that.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
What are you hearing is? Is is he going to
try to run? And is brand spanking new district thinking
that he might? You know, just just if you have
a D in front of your name, it's a fade
of complete.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Well, he's not really wrong about that, but he won't
be the only D that wants that seat. So I,
like you, I would think that you know, he's he's
getting on. Clearly his health is not the best, He's
not such. But what we have witnessed time and again
(17:04):
is that these politicians are not deterred I mean, Sheila
Jackson Lee was in the same position. Her health was failing,
but it doesn't prevent them from running over and over again.
This is what I call the bitter clingers. Remember that expression, Yeah,
to me, that's the that's the politicians who simply won't
retire gracefully. Right, But he's free to run. Really, what's
(17:25):
gonna depend on I think Chris is who ends up
in this CD eighteen seat in this special election. Rarely
whether it's somebody who's a strong candidate who's willing to
challenge him and look him in the eye and say, hey,
Al Green, thanks for your service, but it's time to retire.
You know, more than one politician could use that talk, right, okay,
(17:49):
or if they feel like they have to defer to
seniority and allow him to have it if he wants it.
So that's going to be up to the you know,
the Democrats there to fight it out. But he's certainly
signaled that he's willing to run again, and he's willing
to do it in CD eighteen, as is his only
option at this point. So there's an interesting cast of
(18:12):
characters running in that special election. So we'll see who
ends up with that spot. I think there's there's like
one hundred people running right in time, there's an open seat,
so we'll see.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, the bitter clingers that you mentioned, it's not just
it's a left wing trait, but it's not just a
Democrat trait. As we all remember Kay Granger. Kay Granger's
staff was so committed to continuing to run the district
and vote the district in her name. They didn't tell
(18:45):
anybody that she was in a facility. There was four
individuals who had succumbed to a mental disability, succumbed to
I'm tiptoeing because I don't know the official diagnosis, some
form of dementia. But they thought it's so appropriate that
(19:07):
that she uh that nobody know, and that they continue
to run things in her name. It was a slap
in the face. I thought it was criminal what they did,
but there, of course nothing ever came of it.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
So, right, it's certainly it's certainly very sad and kind
of a sad commentary on what politics does to people.
And you're right, it's not it's not just one party
or the other. It's the it's it's it's the swampiness, right,
it's the sa. Once you're once you're so entrenched, you
just feel like you cannot give up that that power
position for anything, even that even that the dignity and
(19:43):
what's best for the actual the actual office holder. Yeah,
well that was a sad situation.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Sure was, and you know, like like life couldn't go
on without them. It's a it's a it's a special
case of hubrist. Folks were talking to Aaron Anderson, senior
journalist after the Texas scorecard based in the Dallas Fort
Worth met troplex, but covers all state issues, local and
state issues. So let's discuss the further fallout for the
new Republican districts. What are some of the individuals of
(20:11):
note who are declaring for new Republican districts.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Well, speaking of Al Green's district, Congressional District nine, because
that's one that's been you know, completely changed. So CD
nine used to be a Democrat district. Now it's not.
It's a Republican district and it's still in sort of
the Houston area, but more more more northward, and state
(20:41):
Representative Briscoe Caine jumped on that one lickety quick and
is running for CD nine and didn't take long for
him to draw some competitors though. The people aren't just
letting people you walk right into these races, which I
think is smart. Right, let's have let's have some competition,
let's talk about it. So Alex Mueller, who people in
(21:05):
the Harris County area are familiar with, she ran against
Lena Hidalga for county judge. She did not win, sadly
as we know, but she she she had a fear
showing considering, you know, kind of how how democrat the
voters have become there, and so she has launched a
(21:27):
bid for the CD nine seat as well. And for
those from Houston, I'm from Houston. I live in Dallas now,
but I'm from Houston, grew up there. Mattress mac mac
mcindale is backing Alex Meeler.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yes, and you know what, she came very close. And
you know that there was a lot there was a
lot of uh shall we say, consternation about some of
the vote tallies because you remember the problems that they
were having in Houston with election integrity that, oh yes,
I do that they called into question the legitimacy of
Lena Adalgo's win, and in my opinion, Alexander Alexander Mieler
(22:05):
should have been should have won that race. But she
There was.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Certainly quite a few shenanigans in the elections. It was,
it was. It was such a mess though for in fact,
for a few election cycles in a row. It became
such a mess. It's honestly very difficult to even suss
out what had happened, right, because the records were such
a mess and it was so poorly done, you couldn't
hardly tell what had happened. They got one of the
(22:29):
one of those challenged races did get contested and overturned.
They had the goods on that. The rest they just
couldn't they couldn't make kensertail of it. But I think
alex is a strong, a strong contender there. You know,
she's she's well known. So there's uh, there's two people
(22:50):
for that one. The the ones, the ones in the
valley I haven't heard yet. So that's that's where some
of the changes were, right that after.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
These conservative Latino districts, these Republican Latino districts.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yes, so actually four the five you know, flip from
Democrat to Republican districts are Hispanic majority.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Is isn't that great to point out though, that the
fact that Democrats are opposing Hispanics because they happen to
be conservative slash right leaning, and that type of activity
is what Democrats normally call racist, right, even though it's like,
(23:36):
and this is what I've always said, it's always ideology, right, ideology.
Trump's everything is a mantra of the Salcedo Show in
the podcast, So that the Democrats have had it so long,
so so distorted, this whole idea of race distorted for
so long that they can't stand up to their own standards.
(23:57):
And right now they're being confronted with that that they've
been a post using latinos in these districts because they
don't have act.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
They've been taking it, taking it for granted, really, And
so what happened when they decided to redraw and some
court cases contributed to this, and one of them being
the Supreme Court saying that yes, it's okay to draw
your lines based on party affiliation, right, yep, when you're
the party in power, it's okay to to redraw your
lines based on that. And so, given how Trump performed
(24:28):
in Texas in twenty twenty four and especially in a
lot of these you know, South Texas districts. They were
able to put together these new districts you know in
South Texas that were like Trump by ten That was
kind of the that was kind of the scale. We're Trump. God,
you know, we put together a district that if Trump,
(24:48):
you know, Trump would have won by ten points. And
uh so that change in voting patterns was you know,
one of the drivers here. It's like, look, this isn't
you know, this isn't the this is a the Texas
of even you know, four years ago. Right, we're taking
advantage of this. We're going for it. And then as
it turned out, you know, because it's just just they're
(25:10):
just strongly Hispanic areas. They're still just strongly Hispanic districts.
They just happen to be now Republican leaning instead of Democrats.
The Democrats aren't mad that, you know, it's not it's
not as they say their termed black and brown people.
It's just not they're black and brown people.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Right.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
And Adam he no Josa, a state senator, had a
great he had a great little speech at at the
end of the the Senate debate on the big beautiful
map as they were getting ready to vote it out
and pass it in the Senate. And he talked about
(25:47):
this very thing because he's like, oh, I you know,
he goes, I won my district and there hasn't been
a Republican you know, in that seed since reconstruction, but
here I am a Hispanic Republican and these are you know,
this is how people are switching, you know. There again
he said, it's not it's not race, it's it's.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Values, ideology exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
People are people are voting their values. And then he said,
if you don't, if you don't, if if you don't
like how how it's going it goes, stop blaming the
maps and look in the mirror. Indeed, so he was
really he really was. It was a it was really strong,
just a recap of what, you know, what's been going
on and the changes that have happened in Texas that
(26:29):
are now reflected in these new maps. And Democrats don't
like it. They're sewing, they they're they're they're free to sue.
We knew they would, they said they would. They've done it.
We'll we'll see how that plays out and if we're
able to use these maps in fact, in twenty twenty six.
I suspect we.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Will be.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
And we'll see how that goes. But Chris, you may know,
but some of your listeners may not are current. The
maps we're using now that we're enacted in twenty twenty
after the very sad twenty twenty census that do a
terrible job, but we still we had to use it.
That's all we had, and we do the maps. Those
maps are still in court, so the Democrats challenged those
(27:12):
that has not yet been resolved. And then so we
have these new maps and they were arguing, don't take
away the old maps with these new maps. It's like,
but wait, y'all, are y'all are fighting these those maps too?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
It was all very confusing, but we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Right, And you know what, folks, the rise of the
liberty loving Latino. That's I just wrote a book about it.
It's out in December, so check that out. We chronicle
a lot of everything that just Aaron was just talking
about about the demographic shift not only in Texas where
President Trump captured the majority of the Latino vote, but
across the entire country. We're talking to Aaron Anderson, Senior journalist,
(27:50):
for the Texas Scorecard based in DFW and reports on
state wide issues and on local issues as well. So
any other things of note for the remandering slash a
big beautiful map that we need to know before we
ask what else you're been working on.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Well, we'll just be watching to see what happens with
these these lawsuits. Pretty much every every left leaning alphabet
organization uh IS has has thrown in their their two
cents on this lawsuit, as you said, claiming that they're
they're racist, even though race was not used as the
(28:27):
as the basis here. It was you know, party politics,
which drives the world, and there's at least one was
trying to claim you can't do you can't do mid
census redistricting, which is which is blowney. But they're just
they're trying it. They're throwing things out there, so so
(28:48):
we'll be watching that. But in the meanwhile, UH as
you say, candidates are eyeing the new the new lines
and seeing where they might might run again, keeping in
mind that you do not have to live in the
precise boundaries of your district, although voters do prefer someone
(29:09):
that actually lives in the area and knows them and
understands their issues right. The so called carpetbagger that tries
to come in from outside and represent people is get
it gets a bit of stink eye in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Well among Republicans Democrats, they don't care anybody with a
D in front of their name. That's all they care about. So, Aaron,
what have you been working on. What's the most recent
article published at Texas Scorecard that you have detailed?
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Well, Chris, I'm glad you ask, although you may not
be glad at the answer. As you know, one of
the things I write upon on a regular basis is
the educator misconduct, teachers sexually abusing students and sadly the
last I think the last four articles good to you
(30:00):
in two days, we're on that very topic. We had
a slight kind of loll over the summer, but schools
back in session and so are uh uh, you know,
school employees behaving badly with students. So there's several of those,
and the one that just published today and very it
was very It's a very interesting topic to me. So
(30:22):
this was actually a follow up to a a case
earlier this year where a teacher coach had been arrested
for uh, sexually abusing and grooming a young student, a
middle school girl, and now the parents have to The
girl's mother just filed a lawsuit last week and against
(30:46):
the the purp as well as the school district, and
you know, is alleging, of course that they that the
school district themselves, you know, turned a blind eye, did
not have you know, any kind of proper policies in place,
kind of failed to really vet this guy because they
would have found that there was some other complaints and whatnot. Anyway,
(31:08):
the laundry list of failings on the part of the
district to keep this guy from getting access to young
girls like this woman's daughter and sexually abusing them. And
it was interesting to me because I've been following several
of these cases over really the past couple of years,
(31:31):
and so it just put me in mind to kind
of revisit these cases and where they are. And so
not only you know, do I talk about this case
that's in Lockhart is s D, a smaller district. Everybody
might not be familiar with Lockhart, but it's just emblematic
of a series of cases that are happening because of
(31:53):
this this thing, this grooming and sexual abuse of the
kids in our schools is a chronic thing that's going on,
you know, a crisis if you will. And in fact,
it did spark some legislation this session that took effect
September first, So September first is the magic date that
(32:13):
a lot of that a lot of new laws will
take effect after a regular legislative session. Of course, they're
still working on some other stuff. So this new law
makes it a bit easier for families to sue school
districts in these cases because right right now, or up
until now, they enjoyed a very high level of immunity
(32:37):
from prosecution. In fact, that's why all these cases in
the past have been tried in have been in federal court.
There are federal civil liability cases, which also has a
high bar, but not as high as the state. So
the state has now made it not easy, but easier
for families to overcome this this absolute wall of ammun
(33:00):
unity that our government, schools and employees have enjoyed up
until now, so that every time, every time we have
one of these cases come out and I started quoting
it in my articles, I used to leave it out
because I thought it was so smarmy. But now I'm
quoting it so people see every single press release from
every single school district says student safety is our high
(33:22):
But you know what every court filing as soon as
they go to court and they say, okay, why didn't
you protect my kid? You know what they say, student
safety is not our responsibility. We have immunity. You can't
hold us liable for it. I'm like, wow, that's a
real different message than what you're telling people to their
(33:42):
faces when it comes to court. You don't want any
part of it. You're not liable. It's not your fault,
it's not your responsibility, it's not your deal. But parents
need to know as soon as you put your kid
on that bus, the school considers itself not responsible if
that driver sexually molests your kid. As soon as that
kid walks into that school building, your school officials, your
(34:04):
superintendent that you think is so nice, says it's not
her responsibility. If one of the teachers grooms and sexually
abuses and molests your kid in the locker room, it's
not their responsibility. That's that's what they're going to tell you.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
So and because the reason they need to know, they
were the reason why they were able to do that
is because of the legislature, because of their deference to gov.
Ed into government decided to sacrifice our children, uh, to
to make sure that people inside of government never get punished.
And that's why I find that's why I find our
legislature to be well because one when these laws were passed,
(34:41):
Democrats ran this state, so it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
But I was, I was, I was really shocked that
the that they I say aloud, and that sounds terrible,
but that's the way it is in the legislature. As
you know, you have to be allowed to put your
legislation forward and get it passed. So Mitch Little, who's
a freshman, UH, championed this bill to to to kind
(35:05):
of take down some of this level of immunity from
prosecution that these government schools have enjoyed. And he was
quote allowed, you know, to put it forward, and now
it was it was he started out much stronger, So
kudos to him. He started its strong as dirt as
he could get it, so that even as they pulled
it back some, it's still it's still had some teeth.
So we'll see how that starts getting enacted. But the
(35:31):
legislature has definitely been and continues to be a really
strong protector of the government education system and so doing
almost all the legislation, almost all the legislation is is
weak that that purports to put any sort of limits
on them.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Yes, and in so doing they are failing to protect
our children, is the legislature, which I find it absolutely disgusting.
And by the way, what you're talking about some an
awful lot like what happened in Loudun County where a
young man, because of their policies, who claimed to be
trans got access to girls. He raped, not one, he
raped one girl, and the school district tried to cover
(36:12):
it up, didn't notify police, and then they shipped him
to another school district, passing the trash, literally passing the trash,
where he raped another girl and was found in court
to have Yeah, he wasn't He really wasn't trans. He
just wanted access to girls, which Gov. Ed gave him,
which is the big sick part of this. Now, what
should folks be looking out for in the future. From
(36:35):
one Aaron Anderson, senior journalist for Texas Scorecard, Well, I.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Regret to inform you that the the parade of what
we euphamistically call bad apples, teachers behaving badly towards students
and often being accommodated by the by the system. Those
will continue, but it also happens to be tax setting season,
(37:00):
so we are covering the local governments as they raise
our taxes in varying degrees. That's happening as we speak.
Mid September will be the deadline when they when a
lot of them will, you know, the ones that haven't already,
will take their final votes of just how high they're
going to raise your property taxes. And then after that
(37:23):
it'll be those November elections before we know it, and
a number of school districts especially are having school bond
elections and elections to raise your taxes so high that
you have to vote on it, which is a pretty
high bar, but they're willing to ask for it, so
we will see. We will once again be covering the
(37:45):
huge amounts of property tax dollars that our local school
systems are asking from people and what they're getting for
their money. So, Mike, you the shiny new stadium, but
still only thirty percent some of your kids are reading
at grade level, So I'm not I'm not sure the
value proposition here.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Yeah, exactly that. And of course, if you can keep
your kids from being molested insight of schools because of
their lackluster hiring practices, you know, that's also a consideration
for parents and as they're contemplating approving tax increases because
you're getting such a great gov Ed system at this point.
Aaron Anderson, senior journalist for Texas Scorecard based in Dallas,
(38:27):
for Worth and North Texas folks reporting on those local
and state issues. Always appreciate having.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
It, Thanks Chris. Always good to talk with you.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
That right there puts a wrap on this Salsado Storm
Podcast two. We visit again, my friends. Remember this, society's
worth isn't measured by how much power is stolen by government.
Society's worth is measured by how much power is reserved
for you and me, we the people. You keep fighting
for freedom out there, my friends,
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