Are Leftist public-school teachers encouraging more school shootings?

This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalist Ethan Buchanan and Houston Firefighter Union President Marty Lantcon. ( @KennethRWebster )

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:21):
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naughty librarian porn. Why would people even watch it? Hi,
I'm Kenny Webster, Thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Turn on your radio.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Marty Langton here this afternoon. He'll be joining us shortly.
He's the firefighter union president. He is running for county judge.
He's going to be reacted to the fact that Lena
had Dalgo just announced she is not running again. She
is leaving office next year, so hooray for that. The
question is who replaces her? And I don't know.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
It's good.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
It's My prediction is it's going to be a Nist Parker,
the former mayor of Houston, in a race against Marty Langton,
the firefighter union president, and that is to be That
is gonna be a contentious race that anyway, Marty will
be here in a short time to talk about it
and also stopping by my good buddy, Christian Collins. This weekend,
we are speaking at the Texas Youth Summit at the
Marriotte in the Woodlands.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
It's going to be a huge event.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
All Governor Abbott was just booked, Ted Cruz is going
to be there, Wesley Hunt, so many people. We want
you to be a part of it. Tickets available right
now at Texas Youth Summit dot com. Before we get
to any of that, let's talk about this right now.
I cannot help but wonder why the left wants to
make a hero out of a villain. They're doing it

(01:34):
with Luigi Mangione, the guy that killed the United Healthcare CEO.
They're doing it with the two would be Trump assassins.
They're certainly doing it with the guy that killed Charlie Kirk.
They're trying to make him seem awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
But it's not.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
That wasn't the first time they did it, none of
those now the first time in recent history, I remember
them propping up someone on the far left, someone that
was clearly bad. It was Rolling Stone magazine, but the
Boston marathon bomber on the front cover of their magazine
and trying to make them look sexy do y'all remember
that braypart dot com today reporting that Rolling Stone Magazine.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Oh, this is sad.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
They've been hit with a series of high profile layoffs,
which we can only hope means the magazine will get
what it deserves. Either they turn it back into a
music magazine or they get a slow, painful, humiliating death.
The report today is that an unknown number of Rolling
Stone staff members, including some of the storied publication's most
prominent voices, were laid off yesterday.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Wow. That's sad. Look.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
I don't celebrate people losing their job, but you guys
are supposed to be music journalists and you're out pushing
communist propaganda. Those schlonged included executive digital director Lisa Tazi,
chief television critic Alan Sepinwall.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
I don't know any of these people.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Copy chief Steve Pearl learn to coal mine, I guess, guys,
go learn to code. It's time time to learn how
to code. You know, these guys are nothing more than
ray posers, and they certainly are because we know what
they do. The Raye poksers at Rolling Stone Magazine actually
at a narrative movie exposing the truth about the Biden family,

(03:08):
my son Hunter, Remember that they have woke raped themselves
into a dull, conformist, preachy, prim and oh so proper
far left news publication. Rolling Stone was never a great
magazine under founder Jan Winner. It was always a horror
for big music. But it had its moments of brilliance
and its height of its powers. Big music still had

(03:29):
a healthy streak of individualism, and that's as American as
it gets.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Today.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Jan Wenner is gone. Rolling Stone has become an insufferable
print version of Frank Burns. Look him up, kids. The
outlet's hate streak is undeniable, and they shared it their
part to motivate and incite the Democrat Party's assassination culture.
Rolling Stone is dying because it's not cool anymore. It's
a preachy drag promoting an insufferable and stifling conformity over

(03:57):
individual freedom. It's garbage. There's no room anymore for Hunter S. Thompson,
rolling Stone's most famous writer, to go interview The Hell's Angels.
He would be blacklisted for being a gun nut today,
not holding the accepted opinions about women, not using the
accepted terms when discussing race. Rolling Stone isn't fun. It's

(04:19):
not sexy. There's nothing surprising about it. It's very predictable.
Rolling Stone Magazine is dying because the music industry is
a shell of itself. You know, back in the day,
you remember, as I remember as a young kid, there
was that we are the world roster of superstars on
Rolling Stone's cover. Roster of superstars who weren't there, you know,

(04:41):
Tom Petty, Bob Seeger, led Zeppelin, Supertramp, some of the
greatest musicians ever. They don't exist anymore. So who are
they writing about today? Today they're writing about Taylor Swift
and Beto O'Rourke. Today they're writing about Jasmine Crockett and
you know, some water down pop star that you don't
care care about. What are their five music superstars today?

(05:04):
Some of that due to balkanization of the music industry
through the Internet. Some of it due to Rolling Stone
slow motion suicide. Rolling Stone once created superstars while telling
us how to vote. Now they just tell us how
to vote. Rolling Stone is a left wing blog now,
no one will miss it when it's gone. By the way,
I don't know if you remember this. Several years ago
Rolling Stone was suffering for money. They were suffering for funding,

(05:26):
so they sold access to their website. If you were
willing to pay thousands of dollars, you could have become
a Rolling Stone blogger. Weirdly, no one wanted to do that.
That business model failed, and now Rolling Stone is going
away slowly.

Speaker 4 (05:39):
Hopefully we could certainly slow the aging process if aging
had to pass its way through. Slow ass Congress, take
another vacation. Why don't you Kenny Webster's pursuit of happiness?

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Oh, we're live greeting's kids. Thanks for turning us on.
It is what the heck day is? It's a Tuesday.
I'm sure it's Tuesday. We just got news. This is terrible.
I mean, this is terrible news.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Today is National Sit with a Stranger Day, and here
I am here. I am sitting with Marty Langton, the
fire union president. You're not a stranger. I need strangers
in here. This isn't gonna work.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Also in the.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Studio right now, Ethan Buchanan is here from k TH
News Evening host on Sundays on KPRC Radio. Marty, a
lot going on at the moment. This is gonna be
a very Houston centric broadcast. If you're just tuning in
This is all about Harris County and Southeast Texts. A
lot going on coming up in a little bit. Christian
Collins is joining us shortly. He is the organizer at
the Texas Youth Summit, and for those who do not know,

(06:38):
I've spoken there many times over the past few years,
and Charlie Kirk joined us more than once. I've shared
a stage with the legend now a martyr for Christian
Conservativism and Marty. Before we get even started with the
latest news about Lena Hidalgo dropping out, you're running for
Harris County Judge. You are right now considered to be
the Republican front runner for Harris County Judge primary candidacy,

(07:01):
and as a conservative, it's it's a weird.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Time to be alive, isn't it. It is?

Speaker 5 (07:05):
You know, everything we have seen the last week or
so is when you have disagreements about policy issues, you
talk to people, you have a discussion, you can have
a difference of opinion.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
But what we have seen is.

Speaker 5 (07:19):
Just outright yeah, not only dangerous, but it's unacceptable. And
our thoughts and prayers go out to Charlie's wife and
his kids.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
We have dialogue.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
Somebody that's willing to go and have a dialogue that's
different than yours and go sit in front of people.
That's what America is about. And I'll tell you what
it is. It's chilling to think about the effect that
the polarizing left has when they disagree with somebody's position.
It's unacceptable. It's not American, and we're not going to
stand for it.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Here in Harrison County, Here in Houston, not long ago,
we had a music festival called Astro World.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
And look Astro.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
World in the Texas youth I mad or Turning Point
usay might not seem like they have anything in common,
but they certainly do. It's a lot of young people
getting together. And you know, as we saw that college
in Utah the other day, these can be very dangerous
places when large people gather together.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
We you know, we wonder if we're safe all the time. Crime.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
We've been told over and over again not to worry
about crime. Crime is down right now. But a lot
of people that study this stuff a little more closely
than I do have pointed out to me part of
the reason why crime is technically down right now isn't
because we're any safer. It's because of the way they're
calculating crime statistics. Would you agree with that? I would listen.

Speaker 5 (08:33):
I think if you go ask any Harris County resident
out there right now and say do you feel like
crime is an issue in Harris County one hundred percent,
they will tell you it is. And if you don't
feel safe, nothing else matters. Which is why unless you
have been on the streets serving the citizens of Houston
and Harris County and taking care of the people when
they need it the most, I don't listen to talking

(08:54):
heads and politicians that I've never been on the streets
in the communities and trying to make them safer. We
need a safe, strong, Harris County, and I'm going to
tell you we're not there. And so crime is absolutely
the highest issue. Public safety is something that we should
live and as taxpayers, that should be the absolute priority

(09:16):
in government to make sure that the citizens are safe.
And we know that that's not happening under this current administration.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
All right, So a lot of people do blame local
political leaders or how that music festival went a few
years back. Suddenly, to me, it seems like it's a
relevant discussion to have again.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
You talked about it the last time you were here
in this studio.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
If we had a big music festival today in Houston, Texas,
if we had a big political summit for young conservatives
today in Houston, Texas, what would we do differently than
what they did a few years ago when all those
people died.

Speaker 5 (09:47):
Well, I mean, for first of all, you all know
and if you don't, after the Astruould incident, children should
not die at a concerto. Absolutely, and Governor Abbott put
me appointed me on his task for and I was unapologetic.
On the national level, we can no longer hide behind
saying things we should be doing this. We need to

(10:08):
be acting. We need to be taking care of the community,
taking care of the people, and ensuring we have the
proper things in place if we're having a mass gathering.
That's why I fought forward at the legislature. That's why
it's different here. Majority of the municipalities and even in
Harris County, by state law has to have a permit

(10:29):
and you need to have a plan. But really the
broader question here is is where have we come to
in society when we can no longer have a disagreement
or have a discussion about our policy issues. That is
what I think people are most tired of. They are
tired of people that are virtue signaling all the time
and the people that are willing to have these dialogues

(10:51):
and conversations. That is what the heartbeat of America is.
And that's what we saw Charlie do all around the
US and engage younger demographic to say, listen, challenge your ideas,
challenge your thoughts. Here's what the Republican Party stands for.
Here's what we can do. And by the way, where
it comes at the local level. I've always said I
believe politics one hundred percent is local. I think it's

(11:13):
the most important. It's the things that impact the citizens
every day, their day to day lives, and they're tired
of the noise and the bs. What they want is
good government, somebody that when they speak up, words matter,
and that trust is earned. It's not something that should
be given because somebody got one more vote than the
other person.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
All right, let's talk about this for a minute. So
your opponent is no longer your opponent. Lena Hidalgo is
arguably the most powerful Democrat Party elected official in the
state of Texas. Sure, we have lawmakers. Obviously, Jasmine Crockett.
You know, obviously these people exist al Green, but they
don't really have the influence or the power that the
executive of the largest county in the state has.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
That is Lena Hidalgo.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Lena Hidalgo skipped out of work last week to go
to a Hans Zimmer concert.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
I didn't even know what that was. I guess.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
It's like a hospital music or something like that. She
raised taxes. She wanted to raise taxes again, I might
remind you she made that point about raising property taxes
or raising taxes in general, right after arguing or trying
to get pity from all of us by telling us
she couldn't afford to own a home here.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Which I'm shocked at that comment.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
First of all, is somebody that lived, born, raised, and
I raised my son here in Harris County. I come
from the working class and I've worked three and four
jobs to support my family. And for somebody to say
that they can't live off the salary of the Harris
County judge is mind blowing. And it just shows you
where the priorities are and how she deals with her budget.
And we see the budget deficits, we see money being

(12:43):
spent where it's not supposed to. And public safety crime
number one issue. If you're not solving that and you're
not lowering the crime rate, you're not making families feel
safer when they're walking on the streets, nothing else is
going to matter. And you have to deal with other
things that are the responsibility of government, which is infrastructure,
disaster mitigation. We got a lot of natural disasters, a

(13:04):
lot of floods.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (13:05):
You need people that are gonna lead during an emergency. Uh,
and we're gonna do that. And so we look forward
to having these dialogues and discussions. But at the end
of the day, Harris County is ready for a change.
They're ready for responsible leadership. And that's what my campaign
is going to be about. And that's what we're gonna do,
uh when we take back Harris County in November.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
All right, bottom line, Mey Marty Uh. Lena Hidalgo dropping
out right now. The rumor is there's something wrong with
Sylvia Garcia. Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia is sick. Uh supposedly now
we hear that's not true. I'm told I Look, I
don't know. I don't have a direct line of contact
with prominent Democrats, so they don't talk to me. Do
you know who is supposed to be here today, James
Tellerico is supposed to do this show today, and I

(13:44):
would have been you're gonna have him.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
On the show? He blew it off.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
He was fun, he called us, He called us and
asked to do the show, and then he blew it out.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Fine, whatever, I don't care about.

Speaker 5 (13:53):
I mean, but you know that goes to your point, though, Kenny,
the fact that you'd be willing to reach out to
somebody that had possibly a different point of view and
be willing to have them in the studio. That's the
difference between what's happening in America right now between the
right and the left. You are seeing people that are
not worried about what their positions are, or their beliefs are,
or they're not worried about actually listening to somebody that
may have a different opinion. My feelings don't get hurt

(14:15):
because somebody doesn't agree with me. It's pretty ridiculous that
people won't have a dialogue and discussion. There's never a
time in the nearly decade that I've had the honor
of serving as the president of the firefighters here in
Houston and the third largest department in the nation, where
I am worried about sitting in front of anybody and
talking to them about the real issues. So the fact

(14:36):
that you do it is exactly to the point of
what we said earlier, Kenny, and.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
The credit sho go to you. Look. I like talking
to people. I don't care if people hate me. I'm
a pilot.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
I'm an aging punk rocker who got into right wing
talk radio. I don't like I don't mind if people
hate me. By all that being said, you know, I
don't think Lena Hidalgo likes IZ. She never agreed to
do this show. Why do you think she dropped out.

Speaker 5 (14:57):
I think people are scared of what it is that
they don't know, and they're scared of being able to
have an open dialogue because you can't stand on your record.
I'll stand on my record and what I've done for
the community, what I continue to do for the community,
because it's about working together and it's not about polarizing
social issues that people want to make County government about.
I'll sit with anybody and have an open and honest

(15:18):
dialogue because that's how you fix problems. If you don't
admit that there's a problem, you can't fix it. And
so rational leadership being calm in the face of a
disaster and leadership that matters.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah, so I tend to agree.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Look, if you just turn it on your radio or
just getting connected to us on social media, obviously.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
You know who I am.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
I'm here right now with Marty Langton, the fire union president,
and Ethan Buchanan's in the room right now, one of
our reporters from KTRH Zoomer, young man in his twenties,
from our newsroom down the hall, Ethan.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Anything you want to ask.

Speaker 6 (15:51):
Marty here before we run to break It kind of
goes to public safety. And I live in the city.
I spent a lot of time downtown and I think
anyone who's even so much has gone to an ASTROS
game have seen the homeless, and it's a big issue
that kind of stands at the crossroads of how do
we balance compassion with public safety and then is it

(16:12):
really compassionate to just let people live on the streets, etc. Etc.
There's a million different facets of that issue, and I
think one of the biggest things that people are going
to be looking for in the next kind of set
of leadership in the city and the county.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Is what are we doing about that?

Speaker 5 (16:26):
That's a great question something that we get all the time.
Homelessness is a huge problem. I can tell you that
unlike previous mayors, this mayor has not only put his
money where his mouth is, but he is working with
all stakeholders to address those people, the homeless encampments, and
there is I mean listen for you know, people being
free people. You can't take away somebody's rights. However, rights

(16:49):
should not infringe upon the safety of the citizens that
are walking around downtown, and so bringing in the experts
and having these dialogues, I can tell you that is
something that he has focused on. But under my administration,
we are not going to have and should not have
families walking down the street that feel unsafe. That is
not the county that I want to leave for my son,

(17:10):
and that's not the county that we're going to do.
But it takes a strong relationship. It takes a strong
ties with the community and also with those that are
putting their lives in line every day, the police officers,
the constables, the sheriffs, the firefighters, the paramedics. I've been
on the streets for twenty five years. You have to
understand how that kind of world works and where can

(17:32):
we put best the resources for the people that need
it the most. But most importantly, you have to have
a safe community. If you don't, nothing else matters. Tell
you what Marty Langton here right now.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
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Speaker 4 (17:55):
Everything you've heard is a lie, well unless you heard
it from the mouth of Kenny Webster. All facts, even
the bit about is little Kenny. Oh sorry, hey, I
mean Big Kenny. You're listening to Kenny Webster's Pursuit of happiness.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
According to a report I just saw reading in math,
scores for high school seniors have hit record lows. I
thought that class of twenty twenty six was their year.
It turns out that's their IQ range. That's a little frustrating.
I know people don't like to hear it, but I
don't know if smart people and young people are synonymous
with each other.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Marty, you hate children, tell us about that.

Speaker 7 (18:35):
I do not.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
The same. Children is absolutely paramount.

Speaker 5 (18:39):
If we're not doing anything else in this world, making
sure the kids are safe is a one hundred percent
our priority.

Speaker 7 (18:44):
All right.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
If you're just turning on the radio, I'm Kenny Webster.
I'm here with Ethan Buchanan from KTRH. Marty Langdon fire
union president is here. Marty, I have endorsed you. This
is a biased interview. I know most of our listeners
know that we are living at a very different time.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Ten years ago.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
I don't think the union president for a group of
government workers would be the lead candidate in a Republican primary.
You are right now, you know ten years ago, I
know it was a very different time.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Right.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
Ten years ago, blue collar union guys weren't voting Republican.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
Now they are right now.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
Ten years ago, public school teachers weren't praising a school
shooter on social media. Now they are. It's a crazy
time to be alive. And of course now Lena had Dalgo.
Nobody thought she was going to leave on I mean,
I thought when she tried to raise taxes for the
second time that she was going to drop out. Why
do you think she did it? Does she have higher ambitions?
Why is the Harris County judge stepping down?

Speaker 5 (19:35):
Well, you know, listen, our team, at least I've been
told they didn't really want to go up against me
and our campaign in the general. They know that we
have developed the ties within the community. And to your
point earlier, you're right, we hear it all the time.
I love when people try to give like it's a
bad thing that the blue collar, middle class workers believe

(19:56):
in the ideas of what the Republican Party stands for
a whole a lot of them and what the community
is looking for as people that work within the community
and work with the people to get things done, to
identify the problems and to stop the nonsense. And so
what you've seen from President Trump at the national level,
you had the team's resunion speak at the RNC. I

(20:17):
would argue that there is no closer labor group to
this president than our International Association of Firefighters. We work
with his team to identify the issues because safety of
the citizens of the US and of Harris County and
of this state are one hundred percent of the most
critical piece to what we do with your tax dollars

(20:40):
and if we're not doing that and nothing else.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
Matters, you are obviously, But most people learn who you
are because of Hurricane Harvey. They learn who you are
because of our former mayor, Mayor Sylvester Turner. Fortunately, you
guys and the cops all get along great with the
current mayor. John Whitmeyer's a Democrat. Weirdly, a lot of
conservatives seem to like him compared to what the other option, wise,
the other option with shield je Lee look rest in peace.

(21:01):
We're not like the other side. I'm not going to
bad mouth a dead person. I'm not going to bad
mouth Sylvester Turner. But we do remember what happened. We
remember that you guys had an election. People wanted to
give the firefighters a raise. He didn't want that, so
he started threatening to fire people and lay people off.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
Lot's changed since then.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
Things are very different now, But weirdly, things are kind
of going back to the way they were because now
that Lenahadal goes out. I mean, your opponent is probably
going to be an East Parker. I'm gonna guess she
wins the primary. I'm just this is a pretty much
I knows who else is going to be in there.
I tell people all the time, for us, it does
not matter who it is that's running on that side.
What we're running on is to fix Harris County and

(21:38):
to move it forward and to deal with the issues
that matter the most. And I would tell you that
I don't think anybody on that side wants the fight
that we're going to give them come November, because this
is about fixing the problems, not creating more problems. And
the person that you speak of is part of the
political retread establishment that has continued to make this county,

(22:01):
in this city worse off. And if you go look
at the record, it'll tell you there's a reason why
firefighters have had to go through a decade of fighting
and getting legislation at the state level and at the
Texas Supreme Court in order to get first responders taken
care of. It's because you have people that have no
experience or just continue to run for elections with no results.

(22:25):
And what we're focused on is getting to the people.
There is nobody more grassroots, to your point than firefighters.
And what we were able to do in the community,
we won every single precinct in every single district because
our focus is actually about fixing the problems that matter
to the Harris County residents, not talking about things that
have nothing to do with the Royal County government. All Right,

(22:47):
So in East Parker it doesn't feel like it was
that long ago, but I guess to new residence of
Houston it was. I don't remember her being real controversial
right up until the Hero.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Ord, and it's happened. For the most part, nobody was
ever talking about in East Parker.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
I mean, obviously they were to some extent locally, but
and then came this national news story about how she
wanted transgender bathrooms, and.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
And she lost that argument.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
She lost that fight, but then eventually we got them
under Lena Hidalgo. When you go to the parks now
you go to Memorial Park and you run around, they
have this weird photo on the door of like a
man with half a dress.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
I don't know if you've.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Ever I don't know why that was a priority for them,
but it clearly was till Sylvester Turner helping out his
You know, I'm not going to bad mount the guy,
but I think a lot of people would argue that
to him helping out his former WAW partner. Getting some
of these contracts was the most important thing moving forward.
Now you know you're if you're the county judge, what
do you think is the next big priority.

Speaker 5 (23:39):
The next big priority is to cut out the waste,
the fraud, abuse, and the corruption. I took on the
previous city administration that was not utilizing your tax dollars
the way they expect and I was unapologetic about it,
and I'm gonna continue to do that. And that's exactly
what I'm gonna do in Harris County. People talk about
how there's no money, Well, the reason why there's no
money is because there's no accountability of where the money
is in where it's supposed to go. When you pay

(24:01):
a dollar in taxes, you should know where it's going too.
There shouldn't be a question. There shouldn't be hidden slush funds.
There shouldn't be your friends and family getting contracts that
does not benefit Harris County residents and people that use your.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Tax dollars like a slush fund.

Speaker 5 (24:16):
That is bar none going to be the very first
thing that we deal with, and transparency is going to
be something that we bring back to Harris County Court.
All right, you're not going to be able to win
this election without getting some Democrats.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
It's Harris County, it's Houston.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Obviously, four years ago, Alex Mueller almost won by one percent.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
I would argue to this point.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
I would argue that that something weird happened in that election.
Every polling location in a conservative part of town opened,
lay closed early, not enough paper ballots. We've all heard
that before. Democrats still control the county. Democrats control the
elections here. Even if it is a fair fight, it's
still not going to be a fair fight. How do
you get Democrats and independence to vote for a Republican
primary win?

Speaker 5 (24:56):
First of all, you have to speak the truth, and
you have to have relationships, and you have to work
with community. I can tell you whether you're in the
middle or you're middle leading on the left. People are
tired of the status quo. They're tired of the same
retreaded politicians on both sides, and what they want is
somebody that's going to work with the community. There is
nobody in this race on either side that has a

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better relationship with the mayor of the largest city in
the county than myself. There's nobody that has a better
relationship with the land Commissioner who has endorsed me. There's
nobody to have a better relationship with the Lieutenant Governor,
the Speaker's office, and the governor.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
What does that mean.

Speaker 5 (25:29):
That means that when we have a problem in Harris County,
you pick up the phone and you ask for and
you leverage every resource you have to take care of
the residence of Harris County. That's what Harris County residents want.
They want things addressed, they want things fixed, and they
want people when they say things for there to be trust.
So my history of being in the community in every

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direction in Harris County is critical to ensuring that people
have trust in the leadership and especially when they're leading
during an emergency.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Hearing in the building right now. Ethan Buchanan from k
tr H News.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
Ethan, he's in his early twenties, he's a news reporter,
he's got a podcast. You cover a lot of local stories.
What do you think about what Marty is saying? What
do you want to ask of Ethan?

Speaker 6 (26:13):
I love all of it, first of all, but I
think just to kind of circle back to something we
talked about in the last segment was Lena Hidalgo mentioned
that even she couldn't afford a home because of property taxes.
I'm a younger person. I'm working on starting a family myself.
I'm looking at things like, am I going to be
able to buy a home in the next ten years,
in the next ever, and one of the big factors

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is property taxes. I've kind of told myself and my wife,
I don't think we're ever going to buy a home
just because I don't want to pay any property taxes.
But what's your message to the young people that are
kind of looking at that and saying, yeah, I don't
think I'll be able to get a home because of
the property taxes.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Even if I could maybe.

Speaker 6 (26:50):
Afford a home, it's gonna be a maybe because of
the property taxes. And at the same time, these young
people are also i think, increasingly looking at the nitty
gritty details of politics and noticing, Okay, we do have
a big budget, we do have a lot of things
that we need to spend money on. At the same
time we're saying we have to cut the budget, we're
also saying we have to spend more on public safety.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
How do we balance those two things?

Speaker 6 (27:12):
How do you convince young voters that you can balance
those things without turning around in jacking up property taxes.

Speaker 5 (27:19):
Well, what I said clearly about a month ago, and
I'll say it again, hold my beer and watch this.
We did the same thing in the city of Houston
when they said that there was no money. Look at this,
for instance, the fight that the firefighters in Houston had
to go through. They said, we don't have any money.
The last two previous mayoral administrations lied to the public.
They lied to the public, so we can't do it.

(27:41):
They used buzzwords. And guess what. This mayoral administration had
the biggest budget deficit in history and didn't have to
raise at tax one and took care of the first responders.
That's exactly what you have to do. You have to
cut out the waste, broaden abuse. You have to get
in there and you have to cut all the bs
and then focus on what it is that the role
accounting of is. And I guarantee you there's waste. All right,

(28:02):
let's talk about this before we get out of here.
For those that don't know, bail bond reform.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Has been a huge issue all over the country, especially
in big cities.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Certainly the case here.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
The twenty nineteen O'Donnell Consent Decree covers misdemeanor bail practices
in Harris County, and it's supposed to make sure that
defendants are not jailed simply because they're too poor to
pay cash bill Like that's the way the Left makes
it sound. Now, obviously it's a little more complicated than that,
because you have a situation sometimes where dangerous criminals are
arrested immediately released, they go kill, murder, or hurt the

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very person that they were arrested for hurting or attacking
in the first place. I think there was one case
with a pregnant woman getting stabbed by the very guy
that he was arrested for hurting her, got out, went back,
and everybody knows that story. At this point, Holly Hanson
of the Texan Dot News reached out and she said
the question she had was, you know what ought to

(28:54):
be done about the O'Donnell Federal Consent Decree and you
know what is your pathway to victory?

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Well, you know, just left an event with.

Speaker 5 (29:03):
This Senator Huffman, and she was talking about the very
thing that they passed in the legislature, which was about
the bond issue in judges and holding judges accountable. What
I can tell you is that two cycles ago there
was a pack Stop Houston Murders pack that focused on
changing out the judges and about turning flipping Harris County
read we had sensible judges when we had Republican judges

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in and that's exactly what we have to do next November.
And we've got to flip this county, good sensible, fair judges,
to flip this county and to hold the criminals accountable. Listen,
I'm tired of excuses. There's a reason why the police
have endorsed me. We do not sit here and advocate
for the people that are perpetrating the crimes. Bad people

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repeatedly doing bad things do not serve as a safeguard
in a safety environment for the community. They should not
be released, and we've seen it far too often. And
that is why during this campaign we are going to
be helping the judges down Bellot because Harris County is
tired of this.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
All right, I'm glad you brought up the thing about
the police union because a few years ago a lot
of people thought Sylvester Turner, our former mayor, was pitting
you guys against you specifically. You know that the fire
union was trying to get funding that the cops wanted,
and the cop union was trying to get funding that
the firefighter union wanted. I think in the wake of
all that that's proven to be a lie, that that
wasn't actually what was happening, and grateful for that. I'm

(30:28):
glad you guys are getting along now. And obviously with
all that going on right now, there are other issues
in the city, stuff that's not getting addressed. I feel
that one of them is this. Right now, the Astros
are down one loss to the Mariners. We are no
longer in the lead in the American League West Marty.
You know, maybe another trash can strategy. What do we
do about this?

Speaker 5 (30:48):
Well, let's go find some Mariners I guess, maybe get
corcabtte for him and then call it out. I don't know, listen,
I believe in the Astros. We always come back and
rooting for the team. I'm just looking at it just
like you are.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Right now. I guess we are one down.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
You know I told you this the last time you
were I was at an Astros game a month ago.
I saw your buddy, I like him too. Mayor John
Whitmyer walking around with no security, walking around without in
a bodyguard, just watching a baseball game by himself, Willy
and Nelly, Lena had Dalgo spent what eight hundred thousand
dollars on security?

Speaker 2 (31:22):
What does she spend on security? It was a lie? Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
How much security will you require to at ten an
Astros game?

Speaker 2 (31:27):
How many millions of dollars?

Speaker 5 (31:28):
I mean, I think you can probably kin me much
to what whit Meyer says. I'm going to try to
duck as much security as possible. I don't listen. Here's
the thing. If you're not talking to the people on
the streets, if you're not accessible, then what is it
that we're doing. We're making ourselves feel like we're way
more important than what we really are, and what we
are are servants. We have to have a servants attitude.

(31:50):
I can tell you I'm not going to be doing
this job because somehow it's anything other than a life
of service that I believe in as instilled in that
growing up. So I think I am one hundred percent
confident telling you it won't be that. So what we
have to deal with is real issues affecting the community.
And if you have that much security for one person,

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how do you think the rest of the residents of
Harris County that don't feel safe?

Speaker 2 (32:15):
How do you think they feel? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (32:16):
No, Kenning, the people that can't afford eight hundred thousand
dollars for security. I'm Kenny Webster. I want to thank
my guests. Ethan Buchanan. You can hear them Sunday nights
on KPRC. You can hear them every day on Kterry
h Neeers Marty. If people want to learn more about
your campaign, where do they go?

Speaker 5 (32:29):
Www dot linctin Forharris County dot com.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
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Speaker 2 (32:59):
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Speaker 3 (32:59):
Don't forget tune in KPRC nine fifty obviously we're on
HDFM as well, ninety four to five to three. Christian
Collins joining me this afternoon in a lot more. Don't
change a channel. More on the way, Thanks so much
for tuning in this afternoon. If you're watching this live.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
Stream late last night, after a few beers, we discovered
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Speaker 3 (33:25):
It's going to be a very bittersweet weekend in the
Woodlands at the Woodlands Marriotte on Friday night and Saturday,
well really starting Friday afternoon at three pm and beginning
again Saturday morning as the Texas Youth Summit twenty twenty
five takes place. The lineup for this is just fantastic,
the biggest lineup yet, with more acts being booked, more

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speakers being booked by the day. The current schedule, the
current lineup is very impressive. I mean people that you
absolutely do not want to miss, people like Wesley Hunt,
for example. Ken Paxton is going to be thereven Or
Abbott just added Senator Ted Cruz densh Tsuza. Obviously, Christian
Collins organizing at d C Dreno yours truly, my buddy

(34:09):
Alex Bruzowitz is going to be there. Senator Mays Middleton
is going to be there. Angela packs in The lineup
is fantastic, and yet at the same time, it's impossible
to ignore the fact that this is happening in the
wake of just a terrible tragedy. There's no way we
can have the event on Friday night or Saturday without
acknowledging the fact that one of the most important people

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to ever exist, if not the most important person in
the youth movement the twenty first century Young Conservative movement,
was taken from us a week ago.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
The story is just horrible. You all know what happened.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
And of course, my friend Christian Collins, organizer at the
Texas Youth Summity, is on the line right now. He
is the guy organizing this whole event. Christian, I got
to imagine, with everything that's taken place over the last week,
some of the plans for this weekend have obviously changed
from what we were really intending to do correct.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Well.

Speaker 7 (35:04):
Thank you so much for having me on Kennedy. This
has been a real tragedy and I've been devastated by it,
as many of you and all of your listeners I'm
sure have been. And I'm just really really distraught by
it and probably haven't slept in about a week, and
you know, just trying to do our due diligence to

(35:25):
move forward in the midst of this tragedy. But we're
praying for Erica Kirk and her children and the family
and the movement of Turning Point USA. And it's just
a worldwide phenomenon. I've never seen anything like this where
you have all these countries people, you know, a million
men march in England, just so upset and distraught by

(35:50):
what happened to Charlie Kirk. And Charlie Kirk is a hero,
he's a martyr more than that for Christian and conservative values,
and we're just grateful for the impact that he's made
and he's having an even bigger impact after his death.
So we're going to continue to honor him, and Friday
nights we're going to have a worship service and we're

(36:12):
going to pray our respects to Charlie Kirk and remember him.
Alex Clark, she works for Turning Points. She's a contributor.
We have Ali Bethstucky, we have Senator Ted Cruz. I'll
be there talking about how we can pick up Charlie's
bloody mike and continue to fight the good fight that
he would want us to do. And we're going to

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fight hard for these values that he stood so strong for.
Charlie would want us to do that, and we're going
to do that. Turning Point USA is an official sponsor
of this event. We're just proud to partner with him.
And we're expecting an overflow crowd of twenty five hundred
people and you know it's going to be a really

(36:56):
impactful event at a two day conference, and you mentioned
some of the names. Get there early though, we're going
to have really tightened security. It starts at six pm
the programming, but doors open at two pm for VIP
and three pm for everyone else. So make sure you're
there early to get through security because there's a process

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that you'll.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Have to go through.

Speaker 7 (37:20):
Just like nine to eleven change the way we fly airplanes,
Charlie Kirk's situation has changed the way we have to
do events, and so we're taking all the precautions, so
we'd look forward to seeing you there.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Well, you know what, it's refreshing to hear you say that, Christian.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
I would I'm not surprised at all that you're handling
it that way. But of course, you know, the young
people attending this event, their parents, they want them to
be safe.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
That's so important. So I'm so grateful to hear you're
doing that. Now.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
On that note, let's not pretend how Charlie Kirk was
taken from us. Charlie Kirk was killed in a school shooting.
Isn't it interesting, Christian that the very people you know,
left wing political activists that you know, so many of
these people that have told this for years, we need
to get rid of the guns because school shootings are
so terrible, are now the people telling us, well, it's

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okay that Charlie Kirk died. And as disturbing as that is,
when you hear it from a healthcare professional, a doctor
whose job it is to save someone's life basically admitting
out loud that they don't respect all life, or you know,
prosecutors who investigate murder at the Harris County DA's office
telling their social media following that it's you know, Charlie
Kirk deserved to die. In so many words, it's disturbing

(38:28):
when they do it, but I find it the most
shocking the public school teachers are celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder.
I mean, they're basically encouraging more school shooters.

Speaker 7 (38:36):
Would you disagree, I don't disagree. And look, you have
the freedom of speech here in America, but you are
not free from the consequences of your speech. And if
you're inciting violence by the things that you say, in
the case of this situation with the teachers, you know
you could encourage more students to go out there and

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do that sort of thing. So, look, you know this
is unacceptable that they would encourage or celebrate the death
of Charlie Kirk. And we can have no unity with
people like that, people that lie about his life and
the things that he said and call him racist and misogynists,
that's seen all these things. They're liars. We will have

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no unity with them. If they're lying about who he was,
we will have no unity with them. And we cannot
have unity with leftist lunatics who celebrate the death of
Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 3 (39:33):
I hear a lot of people on I totally agree,
and I hear a lot of people throwing around the
words cancel culture. They say, aren't you right wingers, you
know you Republicans and conservatives and liberty minded people, aren't
you against cancel culture.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
This is not cancel culture.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
Cancel culture was when Kevin Hart got canceled at the
Oscars because of a joke he made on Twitter fifteen
years earlier.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
That's not what this is.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
This is people right now today who are responsible for
young people in publica schools, or you know, people today
celebrating death on social media. That's not cancel culture. That's
consequence culture. We just got this headline just across my
desk here. Karen Attaia is a columnist at Washington Push
had been there for eleven years. She was fired over

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the weekend, in her words, for speaking out against political violence,
racial double standards, America's apathy towards guns. Then then she says,
this is really why the Post accused her measured blue
Sky accounts of being an unacceptable gross misconduct endangering the
physical safety of her colleagues. She rejects at as completely false.
Now I have the post here, she says, part of

(40:38):
what keeps America so violence is the insistence that people
perform care, empty goodness and obsolution for white men who
espouse hatred and violence.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Oh, I get it.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
So it sounds like you're basically saying that, you know,
Charlie Kirk's death should be treated differently because he's white
and conservative and pro gun. Karen just lost her job.
I got to tell you, I don't. I don't think
that's cancel could sure. I think that's consequence culture. Do
you see a difference here?

Speaker 7 (41:04):
I absolutely see a difference, because when you're celebrating the
death of someone, those are consequences. But I mean if
you say something that is politic politically incorrect, but it's
not to the magnitude of death, I mean, that's a
totally different situation. And this is not cancel culture. I
absolutely think that they deserve the consequences of their actions.

(41:28):
And it's unfair to say such because you know, this
is just inhumane the way that they're treating Charlie Kirk.
They're dehumanizing him. You know, this man was gunned down
in front of his wife and his two small children,
and they do not have the humanity, the humanity to
see the difference. These are very sick people.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
Yeah, I mean, I completely agree with you, And you know,
it reminds me of George Floyd.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
I remember after George Floyd.

Speaker 3 (41:56):
There's all these sound bites and videos circulating around right
now of you know, people like Governor Abbott saying respectful
things about George Floyd after he died, and some are saying,
look at this, these Republicans praising George Floyd as if
to make the Republicans look bad.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
I think it makes them look good.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
Even if George Floyd was a flawed individual, even if
he was a criminal, even if he was a drug user,
he was still a human being. And in the wake
of his death, prominent Republicans, even Republicans I don't necessarily
agree with on a lot of issues, were at least
respectful about that for some period of time before they
went out and criticized the guy because he went and
committed armed robbery against a pregnant woman. And isn't it

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crazy that we're even comparing the life of George Floyd,
a criminal, to Charlie Kirk, a guy who went out
and empowered young people and improved their lives.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
I mean, Christian, how weird are things right now?

Speaker 7 (42:45):
Well, Charlie Kirk lived as a boy scout, and you know,
I think that, you know, that's just an unfair parallel.
But I understand the sentiment because, you know, just like
there was a huge outcry over George Floyd, there's a
huge outcry over Charlie Kirk. But the difference is, Charlie
Kirk did nothing wrong. George Floyd, by most people's standards,

(43:07):
arguably did something wrong. Charlie Kirk did not deserve to
die for his free speech, you know, and they took
that right away from him. And you know, look, he's
being attacked because he's so effective, and it wasn't because
he was speaking, but it was because so many people
were listening.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 7 (43:27):
There's really no one that can replace him. But we've
all got to fight back and stand strong together in
this hour to leave his you know, to continue his
lasting legacy.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
Yeah, cancel Culture is getting fired for a joke you
made fifteen years ago. Consequence Culture, he's basically getting fired
for pissing on the grave of a murder victim from
last week. I mean, this is it's just not the
same thing, and it's sick and disgusting. I will tell
you why, Christian. I'm grateful to have you as a friend.
I'm very proud of you and the work that you do.
You know, I made this point before, I said here

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in Texas, I think Christian Collins is you know, he's
our version of Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
He's the creator of the Texas Youth Summit. He's a
college professor, you know's.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
We need people on our side to go out and
become educators. We need people on our side to get
into media, to get into entertainment, to become musicians. For
far too long, people on the left have dominated culture.
I mean, Andrew Breitbart, one of my heroes, said that
politics is downstream from culture. That's exactly what he was
talking about, Christian. He was talking about people like you

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who go out and mobilize young people. He was talking
about people on the right who get jobs in the
media as newsmakers, people on the right who go out
and create entertainment or media companies to share our values
with people.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
People are shocked at the fact that.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
Someone like Mark Wahlberg has been so successful with his
with his outside of Hollywood movie company or even Tyler
Perry is considered very conservative by black people standards. In
a place like Atlanta, It's not shocking at all. What
shocking is that Hollywood and the media have gone so
far to the left. You know, Christian, I'll just I'll
end on this note. I say, I salute you. I'm

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excited for the event this weekend. I'll end where I started.
I think it's bittersweet, and I'll let you get the
last word about this weekend.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Brother.

Speaker 7 (45:17):
Well, look, you know what happened to Charlie Kirk is
absolutely reprehensible to tragedy in saying that, I believe that
God is going to do something really good through it.
He already is. And we're seeing young people go to
church all across the country. I know, churches all across
the country were full this weekend. And that's what we
need to see is revival here in America. We need

(45:39):
a renewal, a spiritual renewal, and of course, a political wakening.
We need to crush the leftist ideology. I mean, I
think Republicans are going to win the midterms this year
and all that. I'd rather have Charlie Kirk here, by
the way, than win the midterms. I'd rather lose the
midterms and have Charlie Kirk here and in saying that,
I believe that something good will come because more than
just a political wakening, I believe that God is going
to move throughout our country and He's already doing it

(46:02):
throughout our world. And I'm excited about this conference because
I believe that God is going to touch the hearts
and minds of our young people. We'll see revival, and
the way that we fight back is with our worship.
The way that we fight back is to continue to
carry on his legacy and fight the good fight as
happy warriors. Treat people with respect, but stand up for

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our values and do it as Ronald Reagan did what
he referred to as happy warriors. Fight the good fight
and don't give up.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Amen to that.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
My brother, Christian Collins, Texas Youth Summit, I am excited
for this weekend. We're going to make history this weekend
at the Woodlands Marriotte. You can be a part of it.
College kids, high school kids are young people. Young conservatives
always welcome for free at the Texas Youth Summit. Adults
you want to get tickets, it's not expensive. Go to
Texas Youth Summit dot commerce. Reserve your seats. You want

(46:53):
to be a sponsor. It is a great investment. It
will change lives. Texas Youth Summit dot com. Christian, I
thank you for your time and to the We'll be
back Bray early tomorrow morning for more of what you
bought a radio for.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
I love you all, I pray for you. Have a
great afternoon.

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