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October 7, 2025 • 44 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalist Brandon Waltens and political candidate Alex Mealer. ( @KennethRWebster )

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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good to you guys.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
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hundred tampons onto her ex boyfriend's front yard. And I'm
not going to ask how the cops determined they were hers.
I don't want to know that yuk yuk yuk yukudy
one hundred of them.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
What did you save them? Was there a bud? Now?
I don't want to know. I don't want to know.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
You know who's here this afternoon. Alex Miheler is going
to be here in just a short moment. She will
be joining us in just a little bit. She is
running for Congress against Dwight Dwayne Stoval and brisk Ocaine
stay represented over on the east side of the Houston
area and the brand new Congressional District nine. And it

(01:12):
is getting it is already become a pretty salacious, uh
maybe silatious not.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
The right word. Sorry, I'm doing too many things at
once here in the studio.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
I'm not supposed to multitask while I'm on the air,
but I am someone's I'm talking to you while I
send a text to a guest, and it made me
say the word silatious, which means which is like a
fancy word for sexy, and there's nothing sexy about it.
I think the word I was looking for was nefarious.
It's a nefarious pull, a controversial, contentious political campaign. They're
all these are all local Republicans, just slinging mud at

(01:45):
each other, getting dirty. So Alex Mieler is going to
be here in just a little bit, and Brandon Waltons
from Texas scorecard dot Com he's also joining us shortly,
so stick around for all that. But before we get
to any of that, I want to talk about Jay Jones.
This is a Virginia and what is happening in Virginia
right now is like a microcosm of what's happening all

(02:05):
over the country. There's a mainstream political candidate running as
a Democrat, and he openly admits that he fantasizes about
killing his political opponents and their family members. In twenty
twenty two, he sent a bunch of texts where he
said things like three people, two bullets, Gilbert, Hitler and

(02:25):
pol Pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head. Spoiler
put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people
you know, and he received both bullets every time. By
the way, that's was the House speaker of Virginia at
the time, Todd Gilbert. Yikes, what a thing to fantasize about.
He invoked violence against Gilbert's family, suggesting it might change.

(02:46):
He said, if someone would just kill his children, maybe
he changes gun views. He called Gilbert and his wife
breeding little fascists. He said he would relieve himself on
the graves of his political opponents. He mocked tributes to
a deceased Democrat. He scoffed at glowing Republican tributes to
the late Joe Johnson Junior, a Democrat from the state, saying,

(03:09):
damn that was for mar indicating a misdirected message and
making fun of dead people.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
And then there was the thing about cops.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Breitbart dot Com today reporting on how Virginia Democrat candidate
for Attorney General j Jones reportedly said it would be
a good thing if more police officers were murdered or died.
After this latest revelation, the Virginia Fraternal Order of Police
is calling on him to withdraw from the race. Spoiler alert, guys,
he's not going to withdraw. Why would he, This doesn't

(03:40):
hurt him. He's a Democrat. Do you think fantasizing based
on what you've experienced so far over the last couple months,
over the last couple of years, what with the attempted
assassination of Trump and the successful assassination of Charlie Kirk,
do you think that Democrats voting in a primary care
if this guy fantasizes about killing Republicans.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Not even a little bit. Guys.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
They put out a statement saying, let's see, they said,
we support everyone's right to respectful and peaceful discussions of
the political figure. However, calling for any type of violence
is unacceptable, and they're absolutely right. But it's still not
going to matter. During a Monday interview with Virginia Scope,
it's a news outlet, Republican state delegate Carry Coiner said

(04:26):
during a twenty twenty phone call discussion about qualified immunity
for cops that Jones told her, well, maybe if a
few of them died, they would move on, not shooting people,
not killing people. When Jones was a Virginia House Delicate,
he sponsored a bill that would end qualified immunity for cops.
He claims he never said these things or the text message,

(04:48):
the sociopathic text. He had to admit to that, there's
proof of it. Coinery is the lawmaker who received Coinery
is the lawmaker that received the sociopathic text. And he's
saying that, you know, it's very shame that Jay Jones
is like this. They're all calling them to resign. Does
anyone doubt that Jones said this about cops? Does anyone

(05:08):
doubt that this is what democrats believe? Nothing has changed
since Democrats launched the Civil War to hold on to
their slaves.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Sorry, h true. When Democrats lose, they become dangerous and violent.
That's what they do. Their hate for anyone not like them,
for anyone who does not pledge their support to the
left wing cause, consumes them and turns them into political terrorists,
or those who champion the terrorists, or.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Those who are perfectly happy to share a political party
with terrorists and say nothing about it. Remember what happened
to Charlie Kirk, the man accused of the murder is
a leftist in some bizarre sexual relationship with a furry transsexual.
It's so crazy it doesn't sound real. After the assassination,
you had countless thousands of Democrats celebrating the assassination. During

(05:54):
the six celebration, Democrats and their allies and corporate media
either defended the people celebrating or part nobody was celebrating.
None of them spoke out about it. Now, ten years
after unrelenting violence and corporate media affection, Antifa is waging
a hot war complete with violence against ICE officers, and

(06:14):
the response from the Democrats pretty much the same thing.
Blame Ice, ignore the violence, or claim Antifa doesn't exist.
These people are sociopaths. They are a physical danger to us,
and you could really only imagine what would happen if
one of them became the chief prosecutor for the state
of Virginia. Thus foreign not any single elected Democrat has
called on Jones to withdraw from the race. To Democrats

(06:38):
in the legacy media, all Jones has done and wishing
to see small children killed in pursuit of the cause
is to prove how loyal he is to the cause.
Democrats probably like him more now Democrats in their media
allies want violence. Power is all they care about. If
violence is the only way to achieve power, so be it.
They're very comfortable with that. My friend Jesse says, stop

(06:59):
saying Democrats are soft on crime. They're not soft on crime.
They're empty on crime. Soft on crime would mean that
they don't want to have as strict to punishments. These
guys don't want to prosecute criminals. It's part of their ways,
it's part of the means to an end. It's how
they get the revolution. You're not going to want to
change the system if everything's hunky dory.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Fine.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
They need people rioting in the streets. They need people
burning down your homes. They need innocent people getting killed,
because when you're scared, you're willing to change to something else.
That's why they deny the existence of the Democrat parties,
brown shirts and Antifa, the sam brown shirts who currently
terrorize Chicago and Portland and Seattle with the blessing of

(07:39):
the Democrats who run those cities. That's why they're so
gleeful over Charlie Kirk's brutal murder, and that's why they
want to disarm us. Unfortunately, It's probably only going to
get worse as we get into midterms. The difference between
a politician and a snail. A snail leaves its slime behind.
You're listening to Kinny Webster at there's a new reality

(08:03):
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It's gonna be on Hulu. Why would you want to
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Speaker 1 (08:11):
Hi?

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Everybody, welcome back. I'm Kenny Webster, Thanks so much for
being here. Coming up real soon. Alex Mieler, you may remember,
ran against Lena Hidalgo for County Judge, and now she
is running in the brand new congress CD nine TXCD
nine Congressional District nine. She's running against Dwayne Stoval and
Briscocaine and an older gentleman named Mimes.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Dan Mimmes. I don't know him.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
I know three of these people, I don't know the
other one, and I've not endorsed anybody yet in that race.
We'll talk with her about it real soon and see
what she has to say. In the meantime, before we
get to any of that, I'd actually love to ask
him about that race. But before we do one of
my favorite journalists. I love talking to Brandon Waltons from
texascorecard dot com.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
We have him here every week.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
He's one of the most informed people in Texas political media.
There is no doubt about that. And right now the
thing that everybody is talking about is this case in Texas.
Robert Roberson is on death row. He's supposed to get
executed next week for the death of his daughter Nikki
back in two thousand and two. And I'm I'm not

(09:14):
an attorney, I'm not a you know, I didn't perform
an autopsy on the child or anything. But every report
I've read, every story I've read about this really makes
it sound like he's guilty. He maintains his innocence. In fact,
you remember there's a group called the Innocence Project. Remember
there was a documentary about them on Netflix. Making a
Murderer I think is what it was called, and they
contest that he's innocent. Now, a lot of people point

(09:36):
out that the guy in making a Murderer probably wasn't innocent,
But that's besides the point. This isn't about that shaken
baby syndrome theory, the conviction new evidence that's supposed to
change the case, Brandon Waltons is nothing if not objective. Brandon,
before we begin the interview, you don't want to see
an innocent man get executed, right.

Speaker 5 (09:56):
No, certainly not. And that's why I'm confident after looking
at at this, after're talking to people who have really reviewed, right,
gotten deep in the trenches of these court documents, and
just looking at the fact, right, which is that every
court up to the Supreme Court over the last twenty
years has upheld this, I think that I think the

(10:17):
justice is being served when Robert Roberson is put to
death next week.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
My position on the death penalty always disappoints everyone because
it's circumstantial.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
I'm not an all or nothing guy.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Obviously, the person's got to be guilty, but then after
that's over with, I wouldn't execute someone just to make
their less murderers in the future. Statistically, there's no proof
that capital punishment lowers the murder rate or that it
saves taxpayers money. It's very expensive to execute people. It's
much more expensive. But all that being said, if it
makes the family members, if it makes the loved ones

(10:51):
of the victims victim, feel better, yeah, then that guy's
got to die. If we could prove overwhelmingly that he's guilty,
and the loved ones of the victims would feel better
knowing this guy's not walking around earth anymore. That to
me is the most important thing. A lot of us
will forget about Robert Robertson in a month or two,
but they won't forget Brandon.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
You talk to members of the family, right, Yes.

Speaker 5 (11:13):
I spoke actually with Matthew Bowman, who was Nicky Curtis's.
Nicky is the the girl that Robert Roberson killed. Matthew
is her half brother. They were, you know, growing up together,
and he wants to see justice enacted in this case.
He's pushing back against these claims of innocence. He says
that essentially there's not a day goes by that they

(11:36):
don't think about this case. And him and several members
of this family have been have been very strong in saying, look,
Robert Roberson is guilty and they won't see the sentence
carried out. And as fortunate, unfortunately, as you can imagine,
a lot of media outlets have have essentially ignored some
of those family members. We've got an interview up you
can follow it on my ex atde Walton's or you

(11:57):
can go to Texas scorecard dot com. We'll putting out
some more clips from that. But what we spoke with them,
you can hear from somebody who is really really impacted
by the crime, and certainly a different take than what
you're seeing on some of the other outlets.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, I think that's really interesting. The brother, I mean,
come on, that's the most important thing right there. Like
I said, we're going to forget about this by this
time next year, I'll have forgotten this case took place,
and so well everybody listening.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
But the brother's not going to forget. That's a big deal.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
In the meantime, some state lawmakers are weighing in on
this Brandon, who's for it, who's against it? Which any
local Republicans or lawmakers that are trying to defend this
person that our listeners would.

Speaker 5 (12:37):
Know well, certainly in the Houston area, I think one
of the more vocal people has been Representative Lacy Hull,
who has been pushing for Roberson not to be executed.
But she's hardly alone. You've got other members, a lot
of Democrats, as you can imagine, people like Joe Moody,
who's a far left Democrat from Male Past area, but

(13:01):
also you know some some people who wouldn't necessarily expect,
you know, represent Brian Harrison has been strongly aligned with
people like Jeff Leach and Lacey Hull and the Democrats
and trying to say that Roberson is innocent. At the
same time though, you have a strong contingent of Republican
lawmakers who are who are saying the opposite. I actually

(13:21):
spoke as well yesterday with Representative Mitch Little, somebody who's
very smart attorney, who laid out essentially, you know, the
legal case here, saying that you know, every step of
the process that this has gone through, it's been upheld,
and that essentially you know, in his view that this
case is very air tight. And again it's like it's
a perspective that not a lot of people are getting

(13:43):
right now.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
That is man, I'd love to get Brian and Mitch
on the show to talk about it. I think that
is to those two guys get along. I'm told that
Brian doesn't. I like Brian, I agree with him most
of the time, probably not on this one thing. But
do these guys get along with each other? Brandon, what's
the word on that.

Speaker 5 (13:59):
You know, I think a lot of times people are
you know, you can imagine the legislatures a lot like
a school sometimes, and so they spend a lot of
time together. And I think even people who are allies
most of the time, you know, occasionally occasionally have slayups
with each other.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
For those that don't follow Brandon on X, I just
shared one of his videos on the Robert Robertson Case,
and it's a little longer than what we're going to
have time for in this segment, So go watch that
if you want, I mean, and follow Brandon on X.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
He's a great journalist. I really love his work.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
As I mean, I love I hate the topics you're
covering because they may they make me, they make me
fear for humanity, but I'm glad you're covering them.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
All right, let's talk about this.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
Houston has announcing, Oh this is so exciting, Brandon, a
sixteen million dollar low barrier homeless super hub. What is
a low barrier homeless super What does that even mean?

Speaker 5 (14:50):
Super hub? So essentially, super hub doesn't necessarily refer to
the size, although you know it probably will be fairly large,
and this is you know, a multimillion dollar project here,
but eventually it's expected to include one hundred and fifty
to two hundred and twenty five beds. But it's described
as a super specifically because it'll serve as a central gateway,

(15:11):
they say, where people can enter and then be directed
to other either homeless shelters, drug treatment centers, or permanent
housing options across the city. You know, obviously, we know
the city of Houston has been struggling, like many other
large cities with a homeless problem. Whether or not this,
this sixteen million dollars super hub, is the answer that

(15:32):
remains to be seen.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, gosh, I wonder what's going to happen? Boy? How
do you guys?

Speaker 3 (15:39):
For some reason, a group of people that just want
to do drugs all the time. And has anyone out
there listening to me ever gone out and tried to
give a job to a homeless guy? What do you think, Hey, brother,
you looking for work? Nope, they're not. They don't want help.
They want to do drugs all night. We have Star
of Hope. I'm sorry. The only humane solution for homeless
people is to make life difficult for them. I know

(16:01):
people don't want to hear that you publicly camp over
by a public school. You're leaving syringes and hypodermic needles
and big greasy doochies out on the sidewalk. I'm sorry.
That's bad for the society. You've got to go, guys,
I apologize. The best thing for city politics is to
have very few regulation on housing and building stuff, and
very strict regulation about where a homeless person could go.

(16:23):
Libertarian when it comes to building stuff, build whatever you
want anywhere, make it easy. Authoritarian on homeless people. Get
them the hell out of here. Hey, before we go, Brandon,
You're look, you're a friend, and your INSIGHT's always really helpful.
Here in Houston, Real Contentions, Texas CD nine, District nine.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
This is the new district. I mean they're all new.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
They just redrew ra all of the maps. Mims. So
you have who's running, Alex Mueller. She's joining us. In
the next statement segment, state Representative Brisco Caine is running.
Political activist Dwight Stovell Dwayne stove Excuse me, some people
might not know him if they're not on X. And
then the guy that wrote the rap song this is
why I'm hot, Mims. Apparently he's running. I didn't expect

(17:04):
that at all. That was a big surprise.

Speaker 5 (17:06):
Brandon, Yes, shaping up to be quite a race. And look,
full disclosure, I used to work for bris Cocaine.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
I like him.

Speaker 5 (17:15):
I also know Alexneeler is somebody who certainly has a
supportive of people I like, including a Mattress Macithink has
been out there Jim mcindale supporting her. I think that,
you know, it'll be interesting to see what happens over
the next few months in this race. And don't forget,
because of these redrawn congressional maps, We've got a number
of these now open Republican seats, so you're going to

(17:35):
see a lot of people running for Congress in this
next cycle.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
I am so excited for Steve Toath yesterday he was
on with Tucker Carlson. And the rumor is the reason
why Tucker Carlson had Steve Toath State Representative Steve Toath
on his show yesterday, which was a pretty big damn deal,
is because supposedly Donald Trump's going to endorse Dan Crenshaws.
Tucker's trying to get behind Steve to help him out. Obviously,

(18:01):
you and I don't know, but what are your thoughts
on that.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
You know, I don't know, you know, I wouldn't be
surprised either way. I know I listened to the interview
and you know, was really amazed. I think Representative Steve
Toat that did a great job on there, really laying
out the case. And you know, it's not every day
that someone from Texas gets that sort of a platform,
and so certainly appreciate that Tucker Carlson is opening up

(18:29):
the dialogue on that race.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Yeah, dude, good good on Tucker. Good for Texas, certainly
good for Houston. And then finally, I'll ask your opinion
about this Wesley Hunt jumping in. A lot of people
question Who's Trump gonna endorse Cornyn Paxton or Hunt. A
lot of people wonder who does Hunt take votes away from.
I think it's a little of both of them. To
be honest, we all live in this bubble. We think

(18:50):
like Twitter is real life or whatever. There's a lot
of people that don't like Paxton. There's a lot of
people that don't like Cornn and we'll vote for the
other guy just because Hunt seems to be the protest vote.
I don't think Trump endorses anybody in this race. I
don't see how it benefits him.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
What do you think?

Speaker 5 (19:07):
Well, and there's there's another group of people too, which
is there's a group of people that don't know who
any of these people are, right, or maybe they know
John Cornyon right because they they've seen his name on
the ballot for so long. I think, you know, just
like these congressional races, I think the Senate race obviously
is set up to be the biggest race in Texas,
in the country, at least, you know, in the primary. Certainly,
I think that, yeah, certainly the biggest Senate race in

(19:30):
the country in this primary election. And you know, I
think there's a I think there's a lot of time.
It was interesting to see the way that different campaigns
reacted to Hunt's announcement yesterday, Cordon getting very, very defensive. So,
you know, I think I think we'll find out. It'll
be interesting to see once we get some polling now
that Hunt is in the race, and see where where

(19:52):
the money and where the support seems to go to.
But either way, it's certainly set up to be a
big showdown.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
Brandon I thought this the exact same thing. Can Axton's
reaction was nothing but classy. He welcomed Wesley Hunt to
the race. John Cornyn was like, you're a moron. I'm paraphrasing.
Here is not what he said. John Cornyn's so desperate,
so scared. Right now with Wesley Hunt entering the race,
I don't really see a scenario where Cornyn can win.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
But anyway, we got to run. Follow.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
Brandon Walton's on AXI is an awesome follow. He's a
great guy. And while you're at it, check out Texas
scorecard dot com. They have an email list you could
subscribe to. Coming up next, Alex Mueller's here. She is
running against briscocaine. We're going to talk about that.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Screw you.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
I'm going to Texas and thank our lucky stars, sorry,
our lucky lone star we did. This is Kitty Webster's
pursuit of happiness.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
I can't believe this just happened. Eric Canada just made
a huge announcement. You know, it's my favorite Canadian airlines.
Eric Canada now offers complimentary alcohol to passengers. You know, Alex,
if Spirit did that, there would be no survivors.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
That would be the end. That would be the end
of Spirit as we know it. There would be no more.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
This is the Walmart of the sky, United Airline, the
TMU of United.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
What is your airline of choice?

Speaker 6 (21:12):
I was Southwest, but uh, it's pretty much on United.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
They changed the business model exactly. Does that start this month?

Speaker 6 (21:20):
I believe so. So anyway, that's why I'm moving over
to you.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Well, that mic a little closer in your mouth if
you don't mind. Hey, everybody, it's Kenny Webstair.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
We are live.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
Obviously, we're on the radio if you're listening to us,
and you already knew you're listening to a radio, but
we're also live streaming on the internet. So to those
you listening to us on the radio, sometimes we will
reference things that we're looking at and it won't make
any sense to you. Ah, that's really are bad. So
I apologize in advance for the U for I do that.
I am very interested in what's going on with your
race right now, Alex Mieler. You are taking on Lena

(21:50):
Hidalgo to be County Judge different one.

Speaker 6 (21:53):
Oh, I'm sorry, she's broken. She's done, so you can
think me later.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
People are running, people are gonna think this is a rerun. No, actually,
did you probably get credit at least partial credit?

Speaker 6 (22:02):
I definitely got to take owner. He can thank you.

Speaker 7 (22:05):
So if you want to, you know, have some justice
in the world. She should be out of office. I
should be in the one step to you know, fixing
twenty two.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Keep talking your camera.

Speaker 6 (22:15):
Well, as most of you.

Speaker 7 (22:15):
Know, Kenny and I are friends. Thought we weren't friends
for a little bit here, so I was glad he
invited me on the show. Since he endorse my opponent, thanks.

Speaker 6 (22:23):
For that one.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
I didn't endorse anyone in your race. I haven't endorsed anyone.
It's you, Stoveall, Dwayne Stoveall, or Dwight. I don't know
if it's Dwight or Dwayne. It's Dwayne, and then brisk
Ocaine and.

Speaker 6 (22:34):
Then Dan, Mimmes and Mims the guy ten more people, the.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Guy who created the hit rap song this is why
I'm Hot.

Speaker 6 (22:40):
It's a pretty good song. I like that, so I
think we allow to play it.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
I may have to endorse him. I love that song
He's but he's a one hit wonder. He never wrote
another rap song after that.

Speaker 6 (22:50):
Yeah, that is questionable.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
This conversation won't make any sense to baby boomers. They're like,
what the effort you guys talked no, why did you
think I endorsed someone?

Speaker 2 (22:57):
I mean, pull the website so Wes Briscoe. Oh, I
have not endorsed anyone in this race.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
Now, I'm telling you right now, and I look, I'm
cool with you, I'm cool with Stovell, I'm cool with
brisco I didn't obviously I didn't agree with him in
peaching Paxton.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
But I don't think we should judge someone for one vote.
But I didn't like that.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
I mean, you know, I'm during Paxton's impeachment. I was
fervently defending Paxton. It's always like people always pick these
little microcosms of politics and they assume that's your whole perspective.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
Uh, you know, it's not. I don't think so. But
that's just the way people are, isn't it. I don't know.
But no, I didn't know I was on Brisco's website.

Speaker 6 (23:35):
This.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
I'm just learning that now right now for the first time.

Speaker 7 (23:37):
That's good because you know, obviously I would like to
stay friends with you, and i'd have to murder you,
so you know you might want to you can lower
that life insurance policy.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Now, Republican political candidate murders right wing talk show host comedian.
You were, well, you were at our event on Sunday
to help raise money for wheelchairs for warriors. Not the
first time you've supported one of these, so I'm grateful
for that. You're a real one. That is very cool.
We do these events to raise a Chad Pray through.
It was a really fun show, wasn't it.

Speaker 7 (24:04):
And I thought it was pretty cool just to see
over the years how it's really grown, right, and that
was a packed house on a Sunday night for an
incredible cause and you know, great people, good cause. I mean,
that's nice when you can use your platform, whatever it
is in this case the comedy show, to really bring
attention to a needed cause. Pretty sad that private citizens

(24:24):
have to fill this gap that you can sacrifice for
your country and you know, can't get a decent wheelchair.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
It is unbelievable and I hate to point it out,
but it's a wheelchair charity and we've never been able
to get Governor Abbott to support it. I'm just saying, guys,
I'm just you know, I know there's an irony level palpable,
but whatever, we'll leave that one alone.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
But why don't more people care about this? It's an
obvious cause.

Speaker 6 (24:47):
For anybody, they're probably just not aware. It's a gap people.

Speaker 7 (24:50):
I think that's the problem is if you're a high
level official, I'm sure was aware, would take action, but
there's probably five thousand issues. Yeah, so it's just why
it's really good that you've saw this need and are
being aggressive about it. I don't think it's a fault
to anybody else for not I think it's just more
of how do you try to bring attention when you can.

(25:10):
And that's what I like with a lot of the
you know, being in office, as you learn or you know,
politically active, hope to be in office, most you learn
about issues that people don't know, you know what I mean,
that are a big deal, and so then you know
it's that ability to quickly fix it.

Speaker 6 (25:24):
And even you know, being bomb squad.

Speaker 7 (25:26):
A lot of things that I hated about Afghanistan, certainly
thought it was a waste of time and resources. But
I love that you go out, there's an id when
you come back, there's not right, I don't come back,
but there's some sense of you know, moving fast, reacting, accomplishing.
And that's what I saw with your wheelchair charity is Hey,
there was a need right to change it through policy.
Probably slow, horrible, bureaucratic, but you and your friends could

(25:48):
do something very quickly to have a positive impact.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
Everybody's got one cause that got them into politics, I
mean political people, and then after that they began to
form opinions about other stuff. For me, I was I've
always been fervently anti funding both sides of every war.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Call me crazy. That always pissed me.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
Twenty years ago, when I was a young college kid,
I could not have been a Republican. Today I could
not be a Democrat for the exact same reason the
Democrats are all in on the military industrial complex. And
then after that I started a form offenias about big pharma.
Gun rights thing. I grew up in Chicago, so there
are no guns in Chicago, as.

Speaker 7 (26:22):
You know, so we never had, so we never And
as long as you keep passing those strict gun rights
I mean gun laws to take them away from law
buying citizens, and you've no worries.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
That's exactly that seems to really workst.

Speaker 6 (26:33):
People don't know.

Speaker 7 (26:34):
I worked on Gitmo prosecutions my first summer in law
school in DC, and it was terrifying because just being
I just got out of the army. So I was
carrying around inn Ar fifteen every day, you know, in
support of our defense.

Speaker 6 (26:46):
And then I go to d C.

Speaker 7 (26:48):
I'm living with a bunch of twenty year olds and
all I can have is a pocket knife. We're not
allowed to have a firearm. I was living in the
neighborhoods called Shaw It's rightened by Howard University. Yeah, nice now,
but it was very transitioning.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
And I was like, you can't say that on the radio.

Speaker 6 (27:04):
There's a thirty minute response time for law enforcement.

Speaker 7 (27:07):
So I'm very glad that we you know, as part
of why I'm always like more boots on the time.

Speaker 6 (27:11):
But I'm like, what am I supposed to do?

Speaker 7 (27:13):
I got two like twenty year old like kids with me, right,
and I can go be a bomb tech. I'm working
on Gittmo prosecutions, but I'm not trusted to carry a
firearm because I was like, sure, wasn't stopping everyone around
that neighborhood from having firearms?

Speaker 3 (27:25):
Or There's so many of these stories right, like Pensacola,
there's a military base where there was a shooting there.
It was an Islamic extremist, Nadal Hassan where was that
Fort Bragg fort one of them. Then more of these
things and we're allowed to carry them on campuses and
you know, on college campuses in Texas, but you can't
carry it on a military base. But to get back
to the point, that's why I got into the wheelchair charity.

(27:47):
And so what's the one issue that got you into politics?

Speaker 7 (27:51):
When I got into politics was based on local and
it wasn't at first. One is one I saw it
was an intentional choice to take a part our criminal
justice system in Harris County. And that's when I saw
crime up in my neighborhood. There's a store and everyone
kind of remembers it. But a woman got dragged like
five pm walking her dog down my street Jesus, and

(28:14):
that's where I walk with my kids, and my kids
at that point were only eighteen months old. And I
in my neighborhood a lot of Democrats while I'm glad
to be moving, and I remember, for the first time,
they weren't blaming the victim because that's typically the progressive stance.
Everyone started talking about all the local crime in our neighborhood.
And what I saw was the city of Houston hasn't
changed but the county did, and that was when Lena

(28:35):
Beta waven. The final straw, which is that kind of
mama bear instinct, is when Lena was masking my daughter.
So my daughter was trying to learn to speak, and
the county had oversight over all of our daycare.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
So you wouldn't have ran in twenty twenty one if
not for the fact that in twenty twenty Lena hadalgo
was trying to put masks on toddlers.

Speaker 6 (28:55):
Beyond that, it was the combination criminal justice was huge.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
I mean, it's just amazing how quickly that happened. You
just running for county judge isn't nothing. That's a big deal.

Speaker 7 (29:05):
But I just saw that these were intentional choices and
the short answers. I've always been on the liberty spectrum,
and these were very key liberty issues. I mean, we
had a government where it was nowhere we wanted it
to be right, it was unsafe because of intentional policies.
We still have the most aggressive bail reform in the
country and it was everywhere I didn't want it to be,

(29:25):
to the point of telling my eighteen month old child
she had a mask, which is actually causing harm. Percent
start going to you know, Kingwood High School without parent consent.
They were trying to jab the kids. I mean, these
are big, these aren't theoretical down and so I wasn't
planning to get into politics, and nobody in that race
when I got into it was talking about those issues.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Does it bother you how quickly the pandemic ended and
everybody forgot what they were mad about, Like in twenty
you know, four years ago, Alan West, Shad prayther Don haffeins,
here's three great candidates. People are furious at Governor Abbott,
and rightfully he arrested hairdressers and people for sitting at
a picnic table outside of a bar. And those are

(30:06):
good reasons to be No one's mad about that stuff anymore.
Everyone's forgotten running for governor now. It's like God bless
anybody that does it. But it's like, man, we couldn't
get people outraged then with three great candidates, what are
we supposed.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
To do now?

Speaker 6 (30:18):
Well, like I said, I'm not familiar on the Abbot side.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
You don't have an opinion on it.

Speaker 7 (30:23):
That's well, No, I just wasn't tracking at what I
was tracking was Lena Hidalgo. It was well outside of
anybody's standards, right like she led the country.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Do you think you're the reason why she had to
go to supposedly purportedly go to drug rehab in three months?

Speaker 7 (30:36):
So I think the campaign certainly broke her, and I'm
proud of that fact. I mean they were hiding it.
So during that campaign, amongst many issues, they were calling
food poison, you know, issues when we knew she was
having mental.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Health, Alex, how could you bully a Hispanic woman?

Speaker 6 (30:50):
As a Hispanic woman, I'm the whitest Hispanic person, but yes.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
What are you Cuban or what kind of Hispanic are
you from?

Speaker 4 (30:57):
Spain?

Speaker 1 (30:57):
I did?

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Okay, I guess I knew, I guess, I guess.

Speaker 7 (31:00):
So the privilege hispantic is that the landowner elite, that's
the dell is a means you're a landed gentry.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
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Speaker 2 (31:16):
So stick around.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
If you can hear my voice, you're still above ground, alive.
In listening to Kenny Webster on KPRC nine point fifty plus.
You don't smell like a dead person.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
All right, everybody, it's getting real in here, real stupid.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
Happy birthday today to Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has
just turned seventy three years young and apparently lock. I'm
not gonna make a joke about that. I don't want
to get fall out of a window. Could you imagine that?
Alex Mieler, you're a politician. Have any of your enemies
ever fallen out of windows? How many of them are
falling out of wind?

Speaker 6 (31:55):
I don't think I'm actually a politician. I've never held office.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Tell you wouldn't you say that running for office? Does that?

Speaker 5 (32:02):
Not?

Speaker 2 (32:03):
That doesn't make you a politician? Running for office?

Speaker 7 (32:05):
I think?

Speaker 6 (32:07):
I don't know. I'm obviously politically very active, but I
just mean it's different.

Speaker 7 (32:10):
One.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
You're three words nobody wants to be called, even though
everybody wants the job politician, lawyer, And then what's the
other one?

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Journalist? Right, nobody wants to be called a journalist or
a journalist.

Speaker 7 (32:23):
Not a lawyer working oil gas finance? Right, but very active?
Care about where I live?

Speaker 3 (32:27):
After you ran for a county judge. A lot of
people were encouraging you to get back into politics, and
you chose to run in this race. Now, this is
they redistrict. Why did you choose this particular part of
the city to run in.

Speaker 7 (32:39):
Yeah, when I think about it, the issues that matter more.
Who I knew generally very familiar with Harris County, but
my entire general election was East Harris County, right, and
it's one of those districts where kind of say, right
skill set right seat. So for me, it wasn't about
any congressional district. I know there's been a lot of talk,

(33:01):
well why don't you go to this one or that
One's like, you know, working with people I have relationships with,
So this district heavily overlaps Commissioner ramsays for at Flickinger,
Deer Park, mayor these are all obviously passing a police
union helped me a lot with the Court of Appeals
that these were people that, like you've stayed in touch,
been good friends for for a lot of years. Where

(33:25):
would want to at the end of the day is
a job, who are you going to work with? But
then separately putting the ship channel into a district where
they consolidated. This whole district was so neglected under the
Biden administration. This was really largely Sylvia Garcia's district, right,

(33:45):
And so the idea that this area that's been such
an economic growth engine, it's roughly the GDP of Saudi Arabia,
so a trillion in GDP a year, but it needs
to be protected and advocated for. And one thing that
I think we can all is that Texas should be
leading right. So, and that's in Pasadena, that's from the
county judge, but where I launched with their law enforcement.

(34:08):
So a lot of the issues too that matter the
most in that district are things Obviously, there's very significant
infrastructure challenges, so Sylvia didn't do her job. That port
that's creating three million jobs nationally, a million and a
half in Texas. Almost everything that comes out of the
port stays in the Golden Triangle, about seventy percent in Houston.
So if you wanted to fight for Houston and fight

(34:28):
for Texas, and I would say even fight for America,
there's no better district than this one. Uh And I've
got plenty of proof to support that. But it's also
hyper candidate specific. So out of anyone that ran in
twenty two. I led the vote in this district. It
doesn't matter how you cut it. And it's because these
are all first time Trump voters. And it's really and

(34:49):
so yeah, massive landmass's plainly.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
That means first time Trump vart like they did not
use to be republic exactly.

Speaker 6 (34:54):
And so when I was running in twenty two, these
were all of our swing voters that we thought we
could target. So I actually beat Lena ten points.

Speaker 7 (35:00):
In the Harris County portion of this district, it's roughly
eighty five percent Harris County, fifteen percent Liberty based on
voting in the general Liberty County two. What's fun is
there's so many big infrastructure challenges. So you've got Colony
Ridge in Liberty. What's insane is that this has been
allowed to grow. It's already roughly half the population of

(35:21):
this rural county. Is this you know community, Not sure
the percentage that's illegal, but it's significant. Almost everything's in Spanish.
That's completely overwhelmed this rural community. And what they want
to do is keep it the rural community that it is.
And so the scary problem outside of Okay, there's not

(35:41):
enough law enforcement. There's like four officers on shift for
eighty thousand people, so crime statistics, we don't know.

Speaker 6 (35:47):
All of the stray dogs. That was a big issue
to me.

Speaker 7 (35:49):
County Judge was dealing with all the stray dogs in
the Greater Harris County. Our local nonprofits are being overwhelmed
by all the dogs in Colony Ridge.

Speaker 6 (35:57):
They say stray dogs are the mascot. And what's really scary.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Wait, wait, wait, I've heard this before too.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
So the Colony Ridge mascot is packs of roaming dogs
and when you go there. For those that don't know,
and I sure most people do, but Colony Ridge is
this It's supposed to be the largest housing development for
illegal immigrants in the United States. And of course it's
just northeast of Houston, which would put it in your district.

Speaker 6 (36:20):
Right smacking it.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
And so obviously you're not a fan of Colony Ridge.
This makes you differ from your opponents of that.

Speaker 7 (36:26):
What's great about it is so you know, I don't
have dirty hands on this because I'm not a politician
or haven't held office, obviously been politically active, but I'm
not compromised on it, right, I don't have any hurt feelings.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
About it as opposed to what exactly who's compromised.

Speaker 7 (36:42):
Well, there's just a lot of office holders that turned
a blind eye to it. I talked about Colony Ridge
in twenty two.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
I think Crenshaw got money from them. Is that what
you're referring to.

Speaker 7 (36:50):
No, I mean pretty much most office holders of some
sort and different ones accepted and move forward on fixing it.
But it's a real point of contention. And what I
can say is just because I have good law enforcement
at this point almost I have just about every law
enforcement endorsement you can get. I've got the statewide down
to all the regional that when I'd ask law enforcement,

(37:12):
I was running for county judges like, hey, is this
a real problem?

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Yes, it is.

Speaker 7 (37:16):
So to me, there's no excuse for if you're in
the Houston area and not having good visibility on it,
because all you had to do was drive around or
ask an officer that this is not the American dream.
In fact, it's now a generational problem and for us
in Houston. Why I like I wrote the white paper,
advocated for creating taking flood control away from Harris County

(37:38):
and making it a multi county doing it based on
the watershed. And one of the problems for us is
everything that's draining out of Colony Ridge, they're raw sewage.
In particular, that's going into our Lake Houston drinking water.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
Colony Ridge is a raw sewage issue.

Speaker 6 (37:54):
Yes, there's no standards. Is development gone wrong?

Speaker 5 (37:57):
So take it.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
I guess part of what bugs me about there's everybody
knew about Holiy Radge at first, and it hasn't improved,
It hasn't been stept now people just don't talk.

Speaker 6 (38:04):
About it, and so that's something I'm being unambiguous about.

Speaker 7 (38:07):
Hey, guys, it happened. Whoever you know should have done better.
That's sort of in the past. But who do you
trust to fix it? Because it's growing at at least
ten percent of clip so it's gonna be probably two
hundred and fifty thousand in the next few years. And
because others have dirty hands about it in my race,
they're hiding from it. So I've got a very clear
record over time saying calling you Ridge is a huge problem,

(38:31):
and it is key. It is so big that it's
not just a Liberty problem. So I actually like how
they drew Liberty and Harris County together because I think
there's ways with this being such a powerful economics seat
that can use the power from the port and ship
channel to help better advocate for Liberty that if it
was just on its own as a rural county, could
be forgotten about.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
All right.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
So for those that I haven't been keeping up with this,
Texas District nine CD District CDO nine, I don't mean
to be redundant. Used to be South Houston and now
it's going to be far East Houston, which means it's
going to go from being a deep blue district to
a deep red one.

Speaker 6 (39:07):
I would say deep red. I think it's about an
R plus.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
Ten, okay, but it's not. Al Green is not going
to be the district. He's not gonna be the congression.

Speaker 6 (39:13):
He's running in Texas eighteen. So it's super confusing.

Speaker 7 (39:16):
The easiest way to think about it is they took
Sylvia Garcia's portion of East Harris County and then they
tacked on some of Babin's district, which was all of
Liberty County and some of Laport Deer Park to make
it a red seat.

Speaker 6 (39:30):
So not deep red.

Speaker 7 (39:32):
But if you focus on the right issues, and in
this it's largely Hispanic largely blue collar, so public safety
in jobs matter a lot.

Speaker 6 (39:42):
It's a seat we don't have to worry about.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
But they I think that the Houston public media for that.
We're on social media, so this will be useless to
people on the radio. But I think we have a
map of it here.

Speaker 7 (39:53):
I've got a map on my website with all the roads,
which is nice to see if you go to Alexandra
Mueller dot com.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Is this the new one the old one? It must
be the old? Yeah, this is it?

Speaker 3 (40:02):
Right, So that's CD nine is going to go from
there to there. Okay, so we're looking at it right now.
To those of you on the radio, I apologize, but
we're just comparing here that what was once the most
famously jerrymandered district in Texas, Sylvester Turner and Shila Jackson
Lee's district that moves down to South Houston, and now
Sylvia Garcia's district becomes the whole Sylvester Turner, Shila Jackson Lee,

(40:25):
Sylvia Garcia that basically all becomes just twenty nine. What
do you think happens with Al Green? Does he stick around?
Do you think so this is the you think he
gets reelected.

Speaker 6 (40:34):
Yees, so what's funny and he'll talk about it.

Speaker 7 (40:36):
So Texas eighteen got moved to the geography of Texas
old Texas nine.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
All right, so what about some of these people like
Isaiah Martin is the progressed? Do you know who that is?

Speaker 6 (40:46):
No, of course he always attacks me.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
She intended to hold a town hall in gestor.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
Right, He got arrested at a congressional redistricting meeting at
the Austin State the Texas State Capitol, and then he
claimed after he went to jail that he held a
town hall, and then all the inmates agreed they were
really worried about childcare. Now, I don't want to sound racist,
but I am pretty sure if you got together a
group of men who have just been arrested and you

(41:11):
asked him what they were the most worried about while
they're sitting in a holding cell, childcare is not the
first thing they're gonna mention.

Speaker 6 (41:17):
Isia.

Speaker 7 (41:18):
Martin first ran against Shila, then he took his orders
from King Rodney Ellis dropped out where he'sed a ton
of money, ironically complaining about elections in Harris County.

Speaker 6 (41:28):
Yeah, so grifters are gonna grift. He's not a serious candidate.

Speaker 7 (41:32):
I don't know what Katari's funding him because he put
all of his money from Act Blue.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
I never got paid for a tweet. I never got
any Katari money. I never got the jew money from Israel.
I never got any of this stuff. Where's my check?
If I'll vote for you if you give me some
of this Katar money.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
Now I know.

Speaker 7 (41:49):
Unfortunately Republicans do not have a good money filtering thing
like at this guy that pulls below the margin of
air somehow is raising you know, hundreds of thousands of
dollars across the country.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
We got to wrap this up. Alex.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
You are a friend, and for the record, I've not
endorsed you. I've not endorsed Dwayne Stovall. I've not endorsed
brisco Caine. No offense to Briscoe. I've not endorsed him.
I endorsed him two elections ago, and then I didn't
endorse anybody in the last couple of races. And I
don't know why it says that, but I want to
let you get the last remark here.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
Go ahead.

Speaker 7 (42:19):
No, I just say I'm running for this seat because
I think it should be one of the most powerful
seats in Congress. When you're talking about Houston and Texas,
we should be leading. And that's what I want to
do is use this seat work with our local leaders.
That's why I'm proud. Got just about every law enforcement
endorsement behind me and most of your local leaders, Commissioner Ramsey,

(42:40):
Fred Flickinger, mayors from Laporte, your park former mayors. That
everyone's raising their hand and saying I want to work
with Alex because it's not about you know, obviously you
need to be a good person somebody get along with,
but it's about having skill set. I'm the only person
with the oil and gas private sector, and I've always
been in the fight. You know, I've raised my hand
for the toughest battles. I don't remember a lot of

(43:01):
people when we were fighting for our elections, fighting against
Lena Hidalgo, help fighting for our judges. And this is
a chance that I think that I can move the
needle to really make our region a better, safer place.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
If we had a debate with you, Stove, all Mems
and Kine, would you participate if.

Speaker 7 (43:16):
We you we get that, and what I would say
is listen, I think we're all excited about the opportunity
support President Trump's agenda. We have a great president, an
amazing speaker, and where I think the more the differentiator
works is going to be well, what can you do
for this district as well? And also you know, how
can you work with other colleagues? And that should matter,

(43:36):
your ability to work well with others.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
All right, one more question? What is your position on
Thailand all during Pregnancygo? All right, we'll leave that one alone.
We'll leave that one alone.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
I'm Kundy Webster.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
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