March 10, 2025 • 42 mins
This podcast edition of Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness features journalist Holly Hansen and author Corey DeAngelis. ( @KennethRWebster )
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
A death row inmate in South Carolina was executed by
firing squad. Now, I know that's concerning. It sounds a
little alarming, but I'm just lad Alec Baldwin has found
another job. Hi, everybody, thanks for turning on your radio
this afternoon. Who's stopping by? Corey Dangelis. He's one of
the leading advocates for school choice in the country, and
we've got news about school choice to stick around for that.
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Also stopping by this afternoon, Holly Hansen from the Texan
Dot News. There are lawmakers in Texas, from the Houston area,
as a matter of fact, trying to close what they
call the affordable housing tax exemption loophole. It's not as
boring as it sounds. I probably stick around. It'll be interesting.
I promise we will make it interesting. So hang around
for that. Before we get to any of that stuff.
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I had heard over the weekend that there was trouble
in Syria Syria. I know, Syria sounds like a nice
place to live. What could possibly be happening in Syria
that would be so bad? Back before Joe Biden left office,
we heard they got rid of that terrible dictator they had, Bashirasad.
He was a mean guy, apparently using chemical weapons on
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his own people, according to the liberal media, and of
course you can trust them, right wing wink. Well, now
that he's out and al Qaeda controls the country, you're
not going to believe this, But things are not going
well in Syria. I wanted to learn about it. So
I went to my favorite news search engine today and
I typed in Syria and there it was really shocking
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and concerning headline right out of Syria Endangered brown bears
are in trouble. The Syrian brown Bears apparently almost extinct.
They say, wait, what what does that have to do
with the Syrian Nothing, It turns out no, it's just
one example of how the liberal media here in the
United States is gaslighting you, trying to make you think
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everything's fine. In Syria, Muslims are going around rounding up
all the Christians and murdering them. There's actually a pretty
detailed report about it today at townhall dot com. This
has been a real issue for about the past fourteen years.
Syria has been engulfed in the civil war, and three
months ago Dictator Bashirasad was overthrown by a Jahandist group
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called Hayat's Tariir al scham hts and as it turns
out al Qaeda affiliated terrorist groups. So not great, right,
But I'm gonna just climb out on a limb here
and guess we've probably been giving them weapons and supplying
them with all their resources. Well not you and I
the CIA, but still it's your money. So while Asad
had many faults, one thing he did do was protect
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the Christian minority in Syria. But he's gone now. So
as the civil war progressed, the percentage of Christians in
Syria went from ten percent to two percent. Where do
they go? Did they move away? No, it turns out
they're being murdered. Neo khons here in the United States
in the western half of the world celebrated the removal
of Bashi Asad. These are the same ones who work
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to overthrow Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and Libyan dictator Mumar Gaddafi.
Momar whatever, and those are all brutal dictators. I'm not
at all suggesting that just because the person they got
rid of is bad, that what we replaced him with
was good. Nor am I suggesting that just because what
we replaced him with was bad that he was good.
Sometimes a bad thing replaces another bad thing, and that
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certainly seems to be the case here today. Iraq is
an ally of Iran, the world's foremost benefactor of terrorism,
while Libya has been splintered into regions controlled by rival
Jahannist organizations. They even have slave markets in North Africa.
So what about Assad? He's in Russia now and a
group called well a gentleman named Ahmed al Sharra seized
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control of Syria's new and Assyria's new interim president. He
is the former head of HTS, the al Qaeda affiliated group,
and previously the United States offered a ten million dollar
reward for his capture, but Biden removed it in December,
just in time for him to become the leader of Syria. Now.
At the end of last week, things went from weird
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to weirder when predictable revenge killing started in the coastal
areas of Syria. There were towns like Benayas, and these
people are still loyal to Assad. So when these Islamic
extremist group showed up, they just started murdering all the Christians.
You know, it's really tragic here. One of the victims
was Marwan Shahada, mayor of the Syrian Christian village of
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Mazra in the Hams countryside. He was found dead. He
was killed by a machete. How'd you like to be
murdered by a machete. How'd you like to be murdered
by anything much less a large blake God? That sounds terrible. Meanwhile,
in Latakia, drinking water and electricity have been suspended. It's
creating a very disastrous situation. The residents there have faced
to tacked from helicopters. The helicopters controlled by the Islamic
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extremist group are there to kill Assad loyalists. Well look,
it's not like these people are spending their whole life
supporting Asad. But as bad as Basad was, one thing
he did right, as I just pointed out, is protected
those Christians. So now that he's gone, all the Christians
need to die. According to this Islamic extremist group, throughout
the region. Instance of villa pavilions were killed by Sunni
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Muslim gunmen affiliated with the group, and the victims mostly
include Christians. Christian holy sites have been desecrated. Ali Shaha
is a Benias resident and one of the witnesses to
the slaughtering. He had to flee in order to protect
his family. Didn't go very well for him. He spoke
to the Associated Press about what was happening there, with
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the residents being shot in their homes, in the streets
and even in their businesses. Residences were looted, they were
lit on fire. The port gentleman said that Jahannist murderers
asked for residents for their IDs, to check their religion
and their sect before killing them, literally a genocide.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Said.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
The gunman also stole cars and robbed homes to avoid execution.
Some of the refugees here fled to Lebanon, while others
went to Russia or to a Russian air base nearby
in Syria. In response to the carnage, Marco Rubio, your
current Secretary of State, said that our country stands with
Syria's religious and ethnic minorities, including the Christians and the
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Drus and the Kurdish people and the Allo whites, and
you don't have to know what all of those people are,
just know that they're not members of al Qaeda. So
right now they're getting murdered. Unfortunately, much of the international
community has been silent about the atrocities there. The real
goal was just to get rid of somebody vaguely aligned
with Putin or you know, not so much vague, but
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let's just say aligned with Putin. A very truthful view
has been presented by the new US v of National Intelligence,
a woman named Tulsey Gabbard, who predicted these problems in
Syria back in twenty seventeen. She had a meeting with
Assad and she was accused of being a Russian spy,
but she said at the time, if Asad's not in power,
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they're going to murder Christians, and that appears to be
exactly what they're doing. These attacks are troubling signs about
the future of Syria. Instead of rewarding the Islamic extremist
regime there, it would be better for US Western countries
to condemn and sanction them, maybe stop giving them money
and weapons and power. But I don't know that's just
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me talking because I don't want to get murdered for
being a Christian.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
They see, whenever you lose sight of the enemy, look
behind you. Yeah, that's a bad paranoia right there. Probably
brought on by a bong ripper too, Kenny Webster's pursuit
of happiness.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Today is National Napping Day, and I suppose a lot
of you could observe that by watching pre season baseball. I'm,
like a lot of you, somebody that's been paying attention
to what's going on in Austin, Texas and what's happening
in this current legislative session. We've been told over and
over again, we've been promised school choice, and in my
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humble opinion, this is so overdue. I know a lot
of you agree, it's probably why you listen to this show.
But school choice is so simple. School choice essentially says
we investigate, we invest in the student. We don't invest
in the institution. We invest in the child's education, not
in the educational institute itself. Now that sounds pretty good
to me, but you can't help but notice there's so
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much misinformation about what school choice is. I'll give you
an example of what I'm talking about. Randy Winegarden is
just a very unhappy person, and she looks like a miserable,
miserable person every time you see around the news. She
is the National Teachers' Union boss, the czar of the teachers,
if you will. But her power does not lend itself
to private education institutions, the Catholic schools of America, the
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private the homeschooling programs. They don't listen to Randy Winegarden
or what she wants. If we get our way, if
we get school choice, we're going to be able to
help people from low income school districts have the same
opportunities that rich people have, or at least their children.
And that's true, right, That's how the system is supposed
to work, which is part of the reason why comments
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like this are so confusing.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Why so many people are so mad about it, because
they're just taking opportunity.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Away from kids at all.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Have it.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
So billionaires kids and billionaires they have it. They go
to private schools.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Everyone else, ninety percent go to public schools.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Don't take away their opportunity.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
So let's stay on the fast.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Sorry, I'm really angry about this.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Because they're really angry.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I taught kids in Clara Barton High school in Brooklyn,
New Uik. I'm gonna posit it right here, Okay, I
mean she may have taught kids in Brooklyn, New York.
I don't know if that's true or not, but I
know the first half of it's not true. Billionaires kids
already get to go to private school. They don't need
a school voucher. That's insane, Billionaire, You think billionaires need
a schoo will voucher to send their kid to some
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private school that costs thousands of dollars. No, that's the
opposite of what's happening. Doctor Corey de'angelis is a Senior
Fellow at the American Culture Project. He is an author
and has been instrumental in helping to help spread awareness
about what school choice actually is. He describes himself as
a school choice of Angelis Cary, I'll let you respond
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to what Randy Weingarten just said. I feel like she's
misleading us with that statement.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
So she's angry about school choice, She's angry about a
ball in the Department of Education. Why wasn't she angry
when the schools were closed for two years in union
dominated districts like in Chicago, where they were voting to
strike in twenty twenty two because it was too unsafe.
But they had their board members vacation in Puerto Rico,
thousands of miles away. Why wasn't she angry about the
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nation's report card score showing decades of learning loss. Why
wouldn't she angry about the international assessment showing we dropped
by more than any other country except for Iran, Kazakhstan
and one another. She's angry because her gravy train is
coming to an end. The jig is up. She overplayed
her hand by fighting to keep the schools closed. She
woke up parents, particularly conservative parents, who saw the boat
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garbage in the government run school system. And she can't
help freak out right now. And it's very obvious in
her voice and her expressions. She knows her power is
she's losing it. She's losing control over the minds of
other people's children. Has bad news for her, you know,
she makes over five hundred thousand dollars a year to
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trap other people's kids and her failure factories. But that's
fantastic news for Texas parents and parents all across the country.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, I mean, you make a lot of good points there,
and I want to get back to the thing about
the Department of Education in a second. But you know,
a little side detour here to this whole controversy is
an equally unconnected controversy that have trans athlete's in girls
in women's sports. It's just as controversial in public high
schools as it is in colleges, and not surprisingly, Randy
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Winegarden is on the wrong side of this argument. I'd wondered,
you know, you don't have to hear her talk about it,
but she has offered her opinions on this subject. Eighty
percent of adults, according to the latest polling. According to
polling published by CNN and Harvard and not exactly right
wing idealogues, eighty percent of Americans are against trans athletes
competing with teenage girls in public high school sports. Weirdly,
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Randy Winegarden is against that. I would if I was
Randy Winegarden right now and I was out trying to
convince people not to take my power and influence away
by making it so it'll be easier for more average,
working class, middle class families to get their kids out
of public school, I would think that would be an
issue I would want to lean conservative on, or even
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it's not even like a conservative position. When eighty percent
of people believe in something Corey, doesn't that make it
the centrist position exactly.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Look at the breakdowns ideologically, and Randy Winingarten's on the
wrong side of history of this issue. The thing is, Kenny,
is that they've been so drunk on power for so
long they think if they just screech and repeat the
same thing over and over again, that the rest of
the population is going to follow. But they're not listening
anymore because we have social media now, we have alternative
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forms of media, and people can think for themselves. So
if I were Randy wine Guard and I focus on
the basics, I'd stop all this political indoctrination in the schools,
focus on math, reading, and writing, and then people want
to want school choice as much as they do now.
They want to abolish the Department of Education as much
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as they do now. But the thing is, she thinks
that she's just got used to this. She's been in
this for decades and she's been able to control every
single thing. So the teacher unions are the bosses are
a bunch of control freaks who think that the ultimate
stay should should come out of their mouths. They think
that they should be able to circumvent the will of
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the parents, the will of the population, and they think
that they can control all of the politicians. And they
do for the most part on the Democrat side. But
in states like Texas, the jig is up. The Rhinos
can't go along with the with the leftist teacher unions anymore.
The school choice has become a litmus test issue for
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Republicans in particular, and I think the Democrats in the
US Senate they're going to lose seats over this. They
in Unison voted against the Protecting Women's and Girls in
Sports Act. I mean, this, like you said, is an
eighty twenty issue, crosses party lines. The more that they
do this, the unions aren't going to be able to
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control them as much, and they're going to lose seats,
and they're going to have to start to listen to
the kids union, the parents, and not just the teacher junion.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I live in a liberal city, you know. I live
in Houston. There's plenty of liberals here, there's plenty of Democrats.
I interact with them. I work out at a gym
with them. We talk, We have very civil conversations. And
this is anecdotal, but I've never met anybody, even on
the left, that wants trans athletes to compete with teenage girls.
That seems like such an easy position for her to
agree with in order to sway people because she's associated
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with that, I got to think she's pushing people away
from the anti school choice movement. But I digress. Let's
talk about the Department of Education here before we run
out of time. The common arguments I hear against getting
rid of or dismantling the Department of Education, or it's
one of the following three things. It's something to do
with funding, right, Like, Wow, without the Department of Education,
how will we fund public schools? As my understanding, less
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than eleven percent roughly eleven to thirteen percent of funding
that we get for public schools comes from the federal government.
Most of it comes from county wide property taxes. But okay,
without the Department of Education, theoretically you could still get
that funding. And then the other two things I hear
people say, Oh, without the Department of Education, who will
collect data from testing? Like what, it's twenty twenty five.
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I gotta think a software program could figure that out.
You don't need the department. We don't need the federal
government to tell us about test scores around the country.
You can just have people at each public school enter
that information into a database and it'll be available instantly.
What on earth would we need a bloated federal another
department of our government. Why would we need them to
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do that? And then the last thing is this, And
I just saw this on CNN. I'd love your reaction
to all three of those talking points, but this one,
especially at CNN dot com today, just a few moments ago,
publish this article Dismantling the Education Department puts trillions of
dollars in student loans in question. What I mean, isn't
this exactly the reason why there's so much student debt
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in this country In the first place, We're supposed to
be getting student loans from banks, not from the federal government.
A bank would probably wouldn't give you a loan to
go study African American history or gender lit, or you know,
lesbian poetry from the seventeen high hundreds. Why on earth
do we need them to handle that.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
We don't need the federal government involved in the lending business.
And this is why college tuition prices have skyrocketed over
time as well because of the federal meddling in the
student loan business. But all these things that they're arguing,
all that aside, these are straw man arguments. If you
look at the actual bill in Congress right now, it's
by Senator Mike Browns, a Republican out of South Dakota.
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It's called the Returning Education to Our States Act. First
of all, the money's block granted back to the states,
and so you would have more money to spend on
education than you do now because you want to be
wasting as much of it on the useless bureaucrats pushing
paper in DC. Forty four hundred people at that unconstitutional
Department of Education right now, that's feeling money away from
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your kids. That money could go into the classroom. You'd
have more local control of that funding if you returned
education to the states. And that's what Linda McMahon called for.
This is what Trump has been calling for. This is
what in the actual legislation in Congress. And if you
think about they always argue that, oh, well, what about
the kids with special needs? Well, guess what those programs
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would move under the Department of Health and Human Services,
and so you don't need the general Department of Education
for any of the stuff. The proposal also moves the
student loans to the Department of Treasury. Any You and
I can can argue all day about whether we should
have those at all, but the actual proposal moves that
somewhere else. Tell grants for low income kids to go
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to college that moves into the Department of Treasury, any
civil rights protections that moves under the Department of Justice.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
And so the actual.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Proposal is not as destructive as what the lunatic left
will have you believe with their fear mongering on MSNBC
and other news outlets right now. They're just trying to
use this to invoke fear mongering as a political tool
to fight against Republicans. They're using their they're having their
Trump derangement syndrome come out in full force to try
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to win votes on the issue. But it's all a
strong man's fallacy, and the actual proposal is not as
disruptive as they'd like you to believe. So it's a
fantastic idea. Trump ran on the issue. He won the
parent vote by nine points. Lenny McMahon got confirmed the
other day by a fifty one to forty five vote
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with all Republicans in favor, and the linen pig left
can continue to fear monger and stump their feet because
they're losing power. But that's just too bad, because parents
are finally going to be in the driver's seat of
their own kids' education.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Corey, something people often criticize you about. They'll say, this guy,
Corey DeAngelis, he's not even a dad and he doesn't
live in Texas. But you are a dad, you have
a child, and you do live. You do live in Texas.
And another dad who lives in Texas who supports school choice,
Elon Musk. Elon Musk probably doesn't need a voucher to
send his kids to private school. He's the richest guy
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on earth, but he does support school choice. And I
can't help but notice his social media platform x has
been down for several hours today, depending on how you
view the website. Could Randy Winingarten be behind it?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
It's probably that has something to do with it, Kenny,
because my video is going viral right now, over a
million views of her having a temper tantrum on MSNBC
about the Boste the apartment. But if she's angry about it,
if she's mad about the department going away, that's free
advertising to get rid of it. Because again, she's on
the wrong side of history of every single political issue,
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and parents are pissed off at her right now. So
this is inadvertent advertising for a Bollste department and empowering
families with a school choice. There's also another video where
she's going viral because she says, we can't a Balliste
department because, oh my goodness, the states might keep that
money to parents for school choice. Oh the horror. She's
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not going to be able to control the money anymore.
Her gravy train is coming to an end. It has
left the station. She's not going to make over five
hundred million dollars a year anymore to track your kids
and her failing schools. It's a glorious day to be
an American and a Texan. We have all the votes
we need in the House to pass universal school choice
finally in the great state of Texas. It'll be the
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biggest day one victory of a school choice program this
nation has ever seen. It's fantastic. We should all feel
great today.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
You know a very interesting thing about that I noticed.
I'm trying to see if I could find it. I
saw earlier today our ranking of all the states in
America on who's best for crime, cost of living, education,
and that sort of thing. I thought it was interesting,
the best state in the nation for education, And according
to this poll that just came out in the past
twenty just today, Florida, Florida's a school choice state. Isn't
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that amazing?
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Exactly? That universal school choice? Ten out of eleven studies
in Florida have found rigorously linking school choice expansion to
improvements in the public schools. Competition is a rising tide
that lifts all boats. I also saw a separate ranking
from US News and Wolverport also finding Florida at number one.
And guess what it's not because they throw more money
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at the problem. They spend twenty seven percent less than
the national average in Florida per student per year in
their public schools, and they're still knocking it out of
the park. Because families know best for their own kids.
And when the school boards have to listen to parents
as opposed to labeling them as domestic terrorists, well, guess
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what things get better when you have more choice. That
give the public schools an incentive to scratch their head
and say, let's treat them as customers. Yeah, treat the
parents as a partner in the relationship, not an enemy.
So it's a win win solution.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
All right. Corey is supposed to be at the Texas
House Education Hearing Committee meeting this week in Austin, Texas,
which just so happens to be happening at the same
time as a Flaming Lips concert at south By Southwest. Corey,
some people have speculated that that's not a coincidence, that
you plan that on purpose. I don't know what the
truth is. I do know this, I happen to agree
with everything Corey said. Contact your local lawmakers, let them
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know you want school choice in the state of Texas.
It's your money. You should be able to decide how
it's spent, not the government.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
America, the land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I never watched Friends when it was on TV. I mean,
I've seen clips of it. I just don't think I
was ever the demo for this TV show, Friends, who
was obviously very popular iconic in the nineties, and I
think the early two thousands, Courtney Cox, Jennifer Lawrence. Of course,
that guy who died whatever his name was a sad story.
Matthew Perry was at his name. But a little news
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we have today about the TV show Friends isn't necessarily
what you'd think it would be about, especially in the
wake of Matthew Perry's death. There's been a lot of
discussion about that ever since he died, and rich famous
celebrities hiring doctors to feed them drugs they probably shouldn't
be taking. There's a report today from John Nolty and
it talks about how an Asian actor named Stephen Park
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was a guest star on two episodes a Friend. This
was thirty years ago, and he says, as a matter
of fact, it was a very chummy, racist environment. Well
klubby was the term used in the report. He did
an interview recently pod meets World, and I don't know
what that podcast is. I'm just reading the news about
it here, but he says, quote it was at the time,
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I felt it was kind of a toxic environment. James
Hong was the actor who was also on the episode
with me and the assistant director was calling him to
the set and you know, essentially saying, where the f
is the oriental guy? Get the oriental guy. There's some
more here from the transcript. It says, this isn't the
first time that happened, but this is the environment where
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this is business as usual in Hollywood in nineteen ninety seven,
and nobody felt the need to correct this or say
anything about it, so this was normal behavior. End quote.
This gentleman Park says he took his complaint to the
Screen Actors Guild, who told him to take it to
the Los Angeles Times. The Los Angeles Times. He says,
the Los Angeles Times sent out a couple of reporters,
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but the story never ran. Now he was unwilling to
let it go, so on October seventh, nineteen ninety seven,
in the spirit of Jerry maguire, he published a mission
statement to the Hollywood community titled Struggling for Dignity, and
it was available online at the time. He talked about
being a Korean actor. He said, you could see my
work in one of the most highly acclaimed movies of
nineteen ninety six, one of the most talked about scenes
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of that year, I played the destruct Japanese American ex
schoolmate of Marge Gunderson in the Academy Award winning movie Fargo. Wow.
Fargo came out that long ago. Can you believe? Is
that true? Fargo? Is that old? I no, yeah, I
guess it was nineteen Wow. Boy, that makes me feel
old anyway. Continuing on here, he said that you know,
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it is a brilliant movie, brilliant artist, but being an
Asian American actor, he felt the struggle to find roles
for himself that were not insulting or stereotypical. His career
started with Do the Right Thing. He was on the
TV show in Living Color. He says he finished working
as a guest star on the highest rated show of
the time, Friends, which brings him to his next point.
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Working with those people was extremely painful. It was a
painful experience, a disturbing lack and generosity of spirit and
basic human courtesy. He goes on to make the point
they were all racist against the quote unquote oriental guy
end quote. The fact that this was documented in detail
at the time and with the actor's real name validates
it at least to me one hundred percent. Of course,
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he has a point. Everyone deserves to be treated with
respect in a work environment and on a film set,
especially with a guest actor. This is especially important so
you don't undermine the actor's confidence. You want to be
as welcoming. You want to be as reassuring as possible
when you're making a film with someone, or a TV
show or acting in a play. No one should be
made to feel like an outsider. I will say this.
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I know you're not expecting this from me, because I
often point out how when people say something's racist racist,
it's usually not. Stephen Park deserves a lot of credit
in respect for speaking out publicly as he did against
what was at the time the most popular sitcom on
the planet. I commend him for this, criticizing Hollywood for
being a little This might be a bit of a
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I forgot all about Fargo came out in nineteen ninety six.
I know that's besides the point, but boy, that was
such a long time ago. I forgot all about that.
Fargo was such a good movie, wasn't it. And then,
of course, like a lot of things, they made a
TV show about it, and the TV show wasn't quite
as good Like the TV show. It's safe to say
it kind of sucked. Usually when they make a TV
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show about a movie, it's not very good.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Today's show is brought to you by Daylight Saving Time.
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Speaker 3 (27:49):
Oh boy. Okay, So there's a lot of news today
about how supposedly Elon Musk and Marco Rubio got into
a fight and they got into an argument last week.
Supposedly this is one of those things kind of like
third hand conjecture. We heard from a friend who heard
from a friend who heard from a friend who claims
that Elon Musk and Rubio were arguing over cuts at
(28:12):
the state Department. There's a report about it today at
town hall dot com, and what they explain here is
this knee jerk reaction from many on our side of
the political spectrum toward what billionaire Elon Musk's Department of
Government Efficiency DODE should be doing, and has tended to
be less about restraint and more about cut anything and
everything possible and let God sort it out, you know.
(28:34):
That whole approach. It seems like they're not really doing that.
They're going to walk that one back. Instead of cutting
things with a hatchet or a chainsaw, they're going to
start to do it with a scalpel. Now, the federal government,
for the record, has grown to seemingly uncontrollable size and scope,
so any attempt to rein it in, in my opinion,
is admirable. This was the camp I was in for
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the first few weeks of the Trump term. If the
house you want to reclaim is completely covered and you
know manure, does it really matter where you start cutting? No,
it doesn't. We knew that Democrats and neocons and all
the deep state types were against DOJE because they didn't
want money that was being handed to their friends as
a free meal tick to be cut off. And I
(29:16):
largely still believe that, although I did rethink some of
those things last week. I heard a story last week
from a young woman at my gym who tells me
she works in a woman's home here in the Houston area,
and she told me that they're cutting off funding to
the woman's home because it was money they were getting
from the federal government. Now, to be clear, she didn't
have a lot of details about that. I asked her
when those cuts would kick in. She didn't really seem
(29:37):
to know. I asked her if they'd lost any money
so far. She didn't seem to know. But all that
being said, I will admit, you know, as someone that
generally would answer the question should the government do anything
with a no afterwards? If we're making cuts to things
foreign aid, I'd like to cut money off to a
woman's shelter. Maybe not so much. I'm curious what you
all think about that. I'm just trying to be objective here.
(30:01):
So a lot of budget hawks have responded to the
news about Doge cutting things like Usaid and immigration as
being good. You know, Immigrant, We're not cutting money off
to the border patrol. We're cutting money off to people
that were getting free lunchables and kool aid at the border.
But all that being said, does that make Secretary of
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State Marco Rubio, who apparently had an argument with Elon
Musk over cuts to the State Department. Does that make
him a deep state collectivist? Does it make him a
member of the fourth branch of government? We only know
about this whole thing of a New York Times article.
They revealed Friday that Rubio and Musk went toe to
toe in front of Trump and an explosive Oval office
(30:44):
meeting that ended with Trump reigning and Musk and ultimately
Doge losing the ability to just fire people willy nilly
without the approval of the department heads. So should any
us be worried about this sort of palace intrigued? Do
you think it's even true? I would say not at all.
I mean, there's probably some truth to it, but it's
being vastly exaggerated. Contrary to Trump's first term, when many,
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if not most, of his cabinet and staff seem to
be actively working against him, all the people in his
office right now seem like they are trying to achieve
the same goal. Elon Musk may have his ego bruised
for a few minutes if this story's even true, But
this arrangement is the way things should be. Doade should
always be looking to cut waste and fraud, and you know,
(31:27):
the president should be the one to oversee whether or
not it's the right thing to do. Putting every decision
in their hands, the hands of DOGE or the heads
of each cabinet misses the point. Because we want the
president to do it given that the federal government workforce
is made up of real people, real people who tend
to vote Democrat. I'm still in favor of making massive
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cuts to the federal government. But since we've already made
some huge cuts, if from here on out we start
moving by making tiny slices here and there, that's probably,
at this point in the game, the strategy that makes
the most sense.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Kenny has always thought the best things in life are free, free,
plus tax. Of course, Kenny Webster's Pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
If you haven't heard yet, Sylvester Turner's corpse is on tour.
It's traveling from Washington, d C. Right now to Houston,
and if you can get tickets, it'll be appearing tomorrow
at the Houston City Hall. And then if you miss
it there, don't worry. You'll have a couple of days
to catch it at the State Capitol. And then finally
it's going to come back to Houston for a funeral.
(32:35):
And it's hard to get tickets to this kind of
like nine inch Nails or Wu Tang Clan tickets. It's
you know, a hot item ticket there. I am told
that Holly Hanson of the Texan Dot News you're scalping
tickets to the funeral.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
No, of course not no, she's not no no.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
But you did have an article about the now deceased
former mayor of Houston that went viral from several years ago.
Could you tell us a little about that.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Yeah, well, you know, it's interesting. When Turner was about
to leave office, he served as mayor for two terms
in the city of Houston, there were a lot of
scandals that were just you know, kind of coming to
the forefront. There were a lot of indictments and investigations,
and I wrote a piece about, you know, new scandals
emerging in the final days of this administration. I wrote
(33:20):
that in November of twenty twenty three, and that is
one of our top trending articles on our website this week.
So yeah, it's it's kind of interesting. I think people are,
you know, looking for information about Turner and his basically
his legacy in Houston and Texas.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Look, I'm not trying to dump on the guy, but
he was not a great mayor. I mean, this guy
had a lot of scandals when he was on office,
and you know, I just to be one thing I
liked about him is that while he was here he
was not the worst Democrat mayor of a big city
in during the pandemic. I think there was like a week.
Do you remember you had a board where he was
shaming bars that wouldn't close. There's like a chalkboard or something.
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But that didn't last.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
How long the wall of shame? Yeah, it didn't last
very long. And you know, Texans are a little more
resistant to some of the more extreme COVID protocols that
we saw take place in other parts of the country.
But yeah, they didn't they didn't take to it very well.
But you know, when Turners administration, you know, he tried
(34:26):
to stay towards the end that he was leaving office
with a four hundred and twenty million dollar surplus. Well,
you know, of course, we now know we have a
new mayor and he's been grappling with the ways that
they managed finances in the City of Houston, the way
they they spent money that didn't necessarily address those core
functions like public safety and infrastructure. You know, there's a
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lot of free repairs. We had scandals where you had,
you know, the former Housing director accusing Turner administration of
rigging bids to favor a company with ties to Turner's
longtime law partner.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
There were, you know, some.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Problems with the Houston Housing Authority. We're still waiting to
find out what exactly happened that caused the city to
put a housing project on contaminated land. That project has
been halted, they're not moving people into it, and they
were plugging budget holes with COVID relief fund, but spending
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money on things that you know, a lot of people
would say are not core functions of the city, such
as art and bands at the airport and so forth. So,
you know, there's I think there's still a lot that's
coming out to the public about what happened during the
Turner administration. And we can't forget the ongoing feud with
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the firefighters that you know, now there's this settlement that
taxpayers will be on the hook for to do right
by the firefighters in the city of Houston.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Do you remember this one there way a sex offenders group,
a sex offender rights group, came to an airport hotel
and this happened like about a year ago, and a
lot of people were shocked to learn that they were
coming and doing a convention here in town. And then
as people started to dig around and look into it.
We realized not only had they been to Houston before,
(36:21):
but Mayor Turner welcomed them with a public like, with
a letter saying welcome to Houston, kind of like Joe
Biden using auto sign for a lot of his executive orders.
It looked like Mayor Turner didn't actually welcome them. It
was just one of those generic letters they give to
any group that books the thing at the convention center.
But still, you got to admit having your signature on
a letter welcoming a pedophile rights group to a hotel
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over by the airport. Not a good look for the
now deceased politician.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Not a good look. And I actually wrote an article
about that at the time because it wasn't just one year,
it was twice. I believe that Turner's office sent this
this letter, and it had some pretty you know, significant
details praising this group. They're called Narsol. They're pretty controversial.
(37:12):
They want journalists to stop using the word pedophile, and
they wanted you know, their scheduled uses terms like minor
attracted persons and things like that. Uh So that was,
you know, that was one of the many controversies that erupted.
Uh during the Turner administration. But yes, that one, that
one was pretty shocking. And his letter said Mayor Turner
(37:35):
believes in diversity and inclusion, so you know we would
not deny any group without or I'm sorry, that's not
the letter. That was the statement we got from the
from the office, but it was. You know, it was
quite the scandal at the time.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
All Right, we'll make a deal with you, Narsol. Instead
of calling them pedophiles, we'll just call them child rapists.
Agree to agree to agree on that one.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Here.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
But I know this is making you uncomfortable. This is
not why Holly called the show. This is not why
she's on hold right now. Actually, Holly just published a
story talking about I did not know this was still happening.
What is being called the affordable housing tax exemption loophole
and how a couple of Texas lawmakers are trying to
get rid of it. First, can you explain the loophole
(38:20):
and then we'll talk about who's getting rid of it
or how.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
Yeah, so we have this program in Texas that allows
these apartment developers or even owners of existing properties to
get a one hundred percent property tax exemption as long
as they supposedly set aside some of their units for
affordable housing, as they call it. But what they found
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out is that some of these apartments, you know, weren't
actually reducing rents. They only set aside some of their
apartments for in a large part, not even for people
who are truly low income, but what they call.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Them moderate income individuals.
Speaker 5 (39:02):
And what started they tried to do some reforms, but
what's started happening is is these uh, these owners developers
found another part of the Texas code where they could
continue to exploit this. And here's the crazy thing. You
have some of these authorization groups you know, in other
parts of the state, for example, out in Cameron County
(39:24):
and in Pacos, Texas and Pleasanton, Texas, who are authorizing
these deals in Houston. So, for example, we have some
apartments in Houston that don't pay any property taxes to
their county, city, their school district, and they're supposed to be,
you know, creating this affordable housing. But all those entities
(39:47):
have to provide services to the residents here. And what's
come out is that these developers don't actually lose any revenue,
and in some cases they can even try charge more
rent than they were before because of the way this
law is structured. So yeah, there's still a lot of
consternation about this, but we have a couple of lawmakers
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looking at it and saying, wait a minute. You know,
this is a legitimate way to create affordable housing. And
it's taking about two hundred and seventy seven million dollars
a year of tax revenue away from these local governments.
About half of that is for school districts. So are
(40:30):
you know, often complaining that they don't have enough money
since the state has to make sure every school district
has enough fun it doesn't just affect the people of Houston,
the locals and these areas, but everyone in the state
ends up paying for these things. And you have some
of these owner developers, you know that really it's a
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lucrative deal for them, but maybe not such a great
deal for residents.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
How about that? It feels like every single election they
tell we're going to do something to fix the cost
of housing, fix the tax loopholes, bring back school choice,
lower crime, and yet every single legislative session I want
to talk about it, it doesn't feel like it ever
gets done.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
Holly, you know, and it's amazing because they did, you know,
pass this reform in our last session in twenty twenty three,
but they apparently didn't address this little loophole that's another
part of the stake code.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
That's crazy. That's why I missed Sylvester Turner. If he
was still alive, he would have fixed this for us.
Speaker 5 (41:31):
You know, well he's yeah, I'm sure he would have
had something to say about it.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Holly, I love you. You are a fantastic journalist, one of
my favorites. Follow Holly S. Hanson on x dot com
and check out her work at the Texan dot News.
I'd also like to thank Corey DeAngelis for stopping by
this afternoon to discuss school choice. To the rest of you,
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
A death row inmate in South Carolina was executed by
firing squad. Now, I know that's concerning. It sounds a
little alarming, but I'm just lad Alec Baldwin has found
another job. Hi, everybody, thanks for turning on your radio
this afternoon. Who's stopping by? Corey Dangelis. He's one of
the leading advocates for school choice in the country, and
we've got news about school choice to stick around for that.
(00:42):
Also stopping by this afternoon, Holly Hansen from the Texan
Dot News. There are lawmakers in Texas, from the Houston area,
as a matter of fact, trying to close what they
call the affordable housing tax exemption loophole. It's not as
boring as it sounds. I probably stick around. It'll be interesting.
I promise we will make it interesting. So hang around
for that. Before we get to any of that stuff.
(01:04):
I had heard over the weekend that there was trouble
in Syria Syria. I know, Syria sounds like a nice
place to live. What could possibly be happening in Syria
that would be so bad? Back before Joe Biden left office,
we heard they got rid of that terrible dictator they had, Bashirasad.
He was a mean guy, apparently using chemical weapons on
(01:25):
his own people, according to the liberal media, and of
course you can trust them, right wing wink. Well, now
that he's out and al Qaeda controls the country, you're
not going to believe this, But things are not going
well in Syria. I wanted to learn about it. So
I went to my favorite news search engine today and
I typed in Syria and there it was really shocking
(01:46):
and concerning headline right out of Syria Endangered brown bears
are in trouble. The Syrian brown Bears apparently almost extinct.
They say, wait, what what does that have to do
with the Syrian Nothing, It turns out no, it's just
one example of how the liberal media here in the
United States is gaslighting you, trying to make you think
(02:08):
everything's fine. In Syria, Muslims are going around rounding up
all the Christians and murdering them. There's actually a pretty
detailed report about it today at townhall dot com. This
has been a real issue for about the past fourteen years.
Syria has been engulfed in the civil war, and three
months ago Dictator Bashirasad was overthrown by a Jahandist group
(02:30):
called Hayat's Tariir al scham hts and as it turns
out al Qaeda affiliated terrorist groups. So not great, right,
But I'm gonna just climb out on a limb here
and guess we've probably been giving them weapons and supplying
them with all their resources. Well not you and I
the CIA, but still it's your money. So while Asad
had many faults, one thing he did do was protect
(02:52):
the Christian minority in Syria. But he's gone now. So
as the civil war progressed, the percentage of Christians in
Syria went from ten percent to two percent. Where do
they go? Did they move away? No, it turns out
they're being murdered. Neo khons here in the United States
in the western half of the world celebrated the removal
of Bashi Asad. These are the same ones who work
(03:13):
to overthrow Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and Libyan dictator Mumar Gaddafi.
Momar whatever, and those are all brutal dictators. I'm not
at all suggesting that just because the person they got
rid of is bad, that what we replaced him with
was good. Nor am I suggesting that just because what
we replaced him with was bad that he was good.
Sometimes a bad thing replaces another bad thing, and that
(03:36):
certainly seems to be the case here today. Iraq is
an ally of Iran, the world's foremost benefactor of terrorism,
while Libya has been splintered into regions controlled by rival
Jahannist organizations. They even have slave markets in North Africa.
So what about Assad? He's in Russia now and a
group called well a gentleman named Ahmed al Sharra seized
(03:58):
control of Syria's new and Assyria's new interim president. He
is the former head of HTS, the al Qaeda affiliated group,
and previously the United States offered a ten million dollar
reward for his capture, but Biden removed it in December,
just in time for him to become the leader of Syria. Now.
At the end of last week, things went from weird
(04:19):
to weirder when predictable revenge killing started in the coastal
areas of Syria. There were towns like Benayas, and these
people are still loyal to Assad. So when these Islamic
extremist group showed up, they just started murdering all the Christians.
You know, it's really tragic here. One of the victims
was Marwan Shahada, mayor of the Syrian Christian village of
(04:40):
Mazra in the Hams countryside. He was found dead. He
was killed by a machete. How'd you like to be
murdered by a machete. How'd you like to be murdered
by anything much less a large blake God? That sounds terrible. Meanwhile,
in Latakia, drinking water and electricity have been suspended. It's
creating a very disastrous situation. The residents there have faced
to tacked from helicopters. The helicopters controlled by the Islamic
(05:04):
extremist group are there to kill Assad loyalists. Well look,
it's not like these people are spending their whole life
supporting Asad. But as bad as Basad was, one thing
he did right, as I just pointed out, is protected
those Christians. So now that he's gone, all the Christians
need to die. According to this Islamic extremist group, throughout
the region. Instance of villa pavilions were killed by Sunni
(05:26):
Muslim gunmen affiliated with the group, and the victims mostly
include Christians. Christian holy sites have been desecrated. Ali Shaha
is a Benias resident and one of the witnesses to
the slaughtering. He had to flee in order to protect
his family. Didn't go very well for him. He spoke
to the Associated Press about what was happening there, with
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the residents being shot in their homes, in the streets
and even in their businesses. Residences were looted, they were
lit on fire. The port gentleman said that Jahannist murderers
asked for residents for their IDs, to check their religion
and their sect before killing them, literally a genocide.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Said.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
The gunman also stole cars and robbed homes to avoid execution.
Some of the refugees here fled to Lebanon, while others
went to Russia or to a Russian air base nearby
in Syria. In response to the carnage, Marco Rubio, your
current Secretary of State, said that our country stands with
Syria's religious and ethnic minorities, including the Christians and the
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Drus and the Kurdish people and the Allo whites, and
you don't have to know what all of those people are,
just know that they're not members of al Qaeda. So
right now they're getting murdered. Unfortunately, much of the international
community has been silent about the atrocities there. The real
goal was just to get rid of somebody vaguely aligned
with Putin or you know, not so much vague, but
(06:53):
let's just say aligned with Putin. A very truthful view
has been presented by the new US v of National Intelligence,
a woman named Tulsey Gabbard, who predicted these problems in
Syria back in twenty seventeen. She had a meeting with
Assad and she was accused of being a Russian spy,
but she said at the time, if Asad's not in power,
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they're going to murder Christians, and that appears to be
exactly what they're doing. These attacks are troubling signs about
the future of Syria. Instead of rewarding the Islamic extremist
regime there, it would be better for US Western countries
to condemn and sanction them, maybe stop giving them money
and weapons and power. But I don't know that's just
(07:34):
me talking because I don't want to get murdered for
being a Christian.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
They see, whenever you lose sight of the enemy, look
behind you. Yeah, that's a bad paranoia right there. Probably
brought on by a bong ripper too, Kenny Webster's pursuit
of happiness.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Today is National Napping Day, and I suppose a lot
of you could observe that by watching pre season baseball. I'm,
like a lot of you, somebody that's been paying attention
to what's going on in Austin, Texas and what's happening
in this current legislative session. We've been told over and
over again, we've been promised school choice, and in my
(08:09):
humble opinion, this is so overdue. I know a lot
of you agree, it's probably why you listen to this show.
But school choice is so simple. School choice essentially says
we investigate, we invest in the student. We don't invest
in the institution. We invest in the child's education, not
in the educational institute itself. Now that sounds pretty good
to me, but you can't help but notice there's so
(08:30):
much misinformation about what school choice is. I'll give you
an example of what I'm talking about. Randy Winegarden is
just a very unhappy person, and she looks like a miserable,
miserable person every time you see around the news. She
is the National Teachers' Union boss, the czar of the teachers,
if you will. But her power does not lend itself
to private education institutions, the Catholic schools of America, the
(08:55):
private the homeschooling programs. They don't listen to Randy Winegarden
or what she wants. If we get our way, if
we get school choice, we're going to be able to
help people from low income school districts have the same
opportunities that rich people have, or at least their children.
And that's true, right, That's how the system is supposed
to work, which is part of the reason why comments
(09:16):
like this are so confusing.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Why so many people are so mad about it, because
they're just taking opportunity.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Away from kids at all.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Have it.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
So billionaires kids and billionaires they have it. They go
to private schools.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Everyone else, ninety percent go to public schools.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Don't take away their opportunity.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
So let's stay on the fast.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Sorry, I'm really angry about this.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Because they're really angry.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I taught kids in Clara Barton High school in Brooklyn,
New Uik. I'm gonna posit it right here, Okay, I
mean she may have taught kids in Brooklyn, New York.
I don't know if that's true or not, but I
know the first half of it's not true. Billionaires kids
already get to go to private school. They don't need
a school voucher. That's insane, Billionaire, You think billionaires need
a schoo will voucher to send their kid to some
(10:02):
private school that costs thousands of dollars. No, that's the
opposite of what's happening. Doctor Corey de'angelis is a Senior
Fellow at the American Culture Project. He is an author
and has been instrumental in helping to help spread awareness
about what school choice actually is. He describes himself as
a school choice of Angelis Cary, I'll let you respond
(10:25):
to what Randy Weingarten just said. I feel like she's
misleading us with that statement.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
So she's angry about school choice, She's angry about a
ball in the Department of Education. Why wasn't she angry
when the schools were closed for two years in union
dominated districts like in Chicago, where they were voting to
strike in twenty twenty two because it was too unsafe.
But they had their board members vacation in Puerto Rico,
thousands of miles away. Why wasn't she angry about the
(10:52):
nation's report card score showing decades of learning loss. Why
wouldn't she angry about the international assessment showing we dropped
by more than any other country except for Iran, Kazakhstan
and one another. She's angry because her gravy train is
coming to an end. The jig is up. She overplayed
her hand by fighting to keep the schools closed. She
woke up parents, particularly conservative parents, who saw the boat
(11:16):
garbage in the government run school system. And she can't
help freak out right now. And it's very obvious in
her voice and her expressions. She knows her power is
she's losing it. She's losing control over the minds of
other people's children. Has bad news for her, you know,
she makes over five hundred thousand dollars a year to
(11:38):
trap other people's kids and her failure factories. But that's
fantastic news for Texas parents and parents all across the country.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, I mean, you make a lot of good points there,
and I want to get back to the thing about
the Department of Education in a second. But you know,
a little side detour here to this whole controversy is
an equally unconnected controversy that have trans athlete's in girls
in women's sports. It's just as controversial in public high
schools as it is in colleges, and not surprisingly, Randy
(12:07):
Winegarden is on the wrong side of this argument. I'd wondered,
you know, you don't have to hear her talk about it,
but she has offered her opinions on this subject. Eighty
percent of adults, according to the latest polling. According to
polling published by CNN and Harvard and not exactly right
wing idealogues, eighty percent of Americans are against trans athletes
competing with teenage girls in public high school sports. Weirdly,
(12:32):
Randy Winegarden is against that. I would if I was
Randy Winegarden right now and I was out trying to
convince people not to take my power and influence away
by making it so it'll be easier for more average,
working class, middle class families to get their kids out
of public school, I would think that would be an
issue I would want to lean conservative on, or even
(12:54):
it's not even like a conservative position. When eighty percent
of people believe in something Corey, doesn't that make it
the centrist position exactly.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Look at the breakdowns ideologically, and Randy Winingarten's on the
wrong side of history of this issue. The thing is, Kenny,
is that they've been so drunk on power for so
long they think if they just screech and repeat the
same thing over and over again, that the rest of
the population is going to follow. But they're not listening
anymore because we have social media now, we have alternative
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forms of media, and people can think for themselves. So
if I were Randy wine Guard and I focus on
the basics, I'd stop all this political indoctrination in the schools,
focus on math, reading, and writing, and then people want
to want school choice as much as they do now.
They want to abolish the Department of Education as much
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as they do now. But the thing is, she thinks
that she's just got used to this. She's been in
this for decades and she's been able to control every
single thing. So the teacher unions are the bosses are
a bunch of control freaks who think that the ultimate
stay should should come out of their mouths. They think
that they should be able to circumvent the will of
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the parents, the will of the population, and they think
that they can control all of the politicians. And they
do for the most part on the Democrat side. But
in states like Texas, the jig is up. The Rhinos
can't go along with the with the leftist teacher unions anymore.
The school choice has become a litmus test issue for
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Republicans in particular, and I think the Democrats in the
US Senate they're going to lose seats over this. They
in Unison voted against the Protecting Women's and Girls in
Sports Act. I mean, this, like you said, is an
eighty twenty issue, crosses party lines. The more that they
do this, the unions aren't going to be able to
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control them as much, and they're going to lose seats,
and they're going to have to start to listen to
the kids union, the parents, and not just the teacher junion.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I live in a liberal city, you know. I live
in Houston. There's plenty of liberals here, there's plenty of Democrats.
I interact with them. I work out at a gym
with them. We talk, We have very civil conversations. And
this is anecdotal, but I've never met anybody, even on
the left, that wants trans athletes to compete with teenage girls.
That seems like such an easy position for her to
agree with in order to sway people because she's associated
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with that, I got to think she's pushing people away
from the anti school choice movement. But I digress. Let's
talk about the Department of Education here before we run
out of time. The common arguments I hear against getting
rid of or dismantling the Department of Education, or it's
one of the following three things. It's something to do
with funding, right, Like, Wow, without the Department of Education,
how will we fund public schools? As my understanding, less
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than eleven percent roughly eleven to thirteen percent of funding
that we get for public schools comes from the federal government.
Most of it comes from county wide property taxes. But okay,
without the Department of Education, theoretically you could still get
that funding. And then the other two things I hear
people say, Oh, without the Department of Education, who will
collect data from testing? Like what, it's twenty twenty five.
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I gotta think a software program could figure that out.
You don't need the department. We don't need the federal
government to tell us about test scores around the country.
You can just have people at each public school enter
that information into a database and it'll be available instantly.
What on earth would we need a bloated federal another
department of our government. Why would we need them to
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do that? And then the last thing is this, And
I just saw this on CNN. I'd love your reaction
to all three of those talking points, but this one,
especially at CNN dot com today, just a few moments ago,
publish this article Dismantling the Education Department puts trillions of
dollars in student loans in question. What I mean, isn't
this exactly the reason why there's so much student debt
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in this country In the first place, We're supposed to
be getting student loans from banks, not from the federal government.
A bank would probably wouldn't give you a loan to
go study African American history or gender lit, or you know,
lesbian poetry from the seventeen high hundreds. Why on earth
do we need them to handle that.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
We don't need the federal government involved in the lending business.
And this is why college tuition prices have skyrocketed over
time as well because of the federal meddling in the
student loan business. But all these things that they're arguing,
all that aside, these are straw man arguments. If you
look at the actual bill in Congress right now, it's
by Senator Mike Browns, a Republican out of South Dakota.
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It's called the Returning Education to Our States Act. First
of all, the money's block granted back to the states,
and so you would have more money to spend on
education than you do now because you want to be
wasting as much of it on the useless bureaucrats pushing
paper in DC. Forty four hundred people at that unconstitutional
Department of Education right now, that's feeling money away from
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your kids. That money could go into the classroom. You'd
have more local control of that funding if you returned
education to the states. And that's what Linda McMahon called for.
This is what Trump has been calling for. This is
what in the actual legislation in Congress. And if you
think about they always argue that, oh, well, what about
the kids with special needs? Well, guess what those programs
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would move under the Department of Health and Human Services,
and so you don't need the general Department of Education
for any of the stuff. The proposal also moves the
student loans to the Department of Treasury. Any You and
I can can argue all day about whether we should
have those at all, but the actual proposal moves that
somewhere else. Tell grants for low income kids to go
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to college that moves into the Department of Treasury, any
civil rights protections that moves under the Department of Justice.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
And so the actual.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Proposal is not as destructive as what the lunatic left
will have you believe with their fear mongering on MSNBC
and other news outlets right now. They're just trying to
use this to invoke fear mongering as a political tool
to fight against Republicans. They're using their they're having their
Trump derangement syndrome come out in full force to try
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to win votes on the issue. But it's all a
strong man's fallacy, and the actual proposal is not as
disruptive as they'd like you to believe. So it's a
fantastic idea. Trump ran on the issue. He won the
parent vote by nine points. Lenny McMahon got confirmed the
other day by a fifty one to forty five vote
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with all Republicans in favor, and the linen pig left
can continue to fear monger and stump their feet because
they're losing power. But that's just too bad, because parents
are finally going to be in the driver's seat of
their own kids' education.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Corey, something people often criticize you about. They'll say, this guy,
Corey DeAngelis, he's not even a dad and he doesn't
live in Texas. But you are a dad, you have
a child, and you do live. You do live in Texas.
And another dad who lives in Texas who supports school choice,
Elon Musk. Elon Musk probably doesn't need a voucher to
send his kids to private school. He's the richest guy
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on earth, but he does support school choice. And I
can't help but notice his social media platform x has
been down for several hours today, depending on how you
view the website. Could Randy Winingarten be behind it?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
It's probably that has something to do with it, Kenny,
because my video is going viral right now, over a
million views of her having a temper tantrum on MSNBC
about the Boste the apartment. But if she's angry about it,
if she's mad about the department going away, that's free
advertising to get rid of it. Because again, she's on
the wrong side of history of every single political issue,
(20:29):
and parents are pissed off at her right now. So
this is inadvertent advertising for a Bollste department and empowering
families with a school choice. There's also another video where
she's going viral because she says, we can't a Balliste
department because, oh my goodness, the states might keep that
money to parents for school choice. Oh the horror. She's
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not going to be able to control the money anymore.
Her gravy train is coming to an end. It has
left the station. She's not going to make over five
hundred million dollars a year anymore to track your kids
and her failing schools. It's a glorious day to be
an American and a Texan. We have all the votes
we need in the House to pass universal school choice
finally in the great state of Texas. It'll be the
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biggest day one victory of a school choice program this
nation has ever seen. It's fantastic. We should all feel
great today.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
You know a very interesting thing about that I noticed.
I'm trying to see if I could find it. I
saw earlier today our ranking of all the states in
America on who's best for crime, cost of living, education,
and that sort of thing. I thought it was interesting,
the best state in the nation for education, And according
to this poll that just came out in the past
twenty just today, Florida, Florida's a school choice state. Isn't
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that amazing?
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Exactly? That universal school choice? Ten out of eleven studies
in Florida have found rigorously linking school choice expansion to
improvements in the public schools. Competition is a rising tide
that lifts all boats. I also saw a separate ranking
from US News and Wolverport also finding Florida at number one.
And guess what it's not because they throw more money
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at the problem. They spend twenty seven percent less than
the national average in Florida per student per year in
their public schools, and they're still knocking it out of
the park. Because families know best for their own kids.
And when the school boards have to listen to parents
as opposed to labeling them as domestic terrorists, well, guess
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what things get better when you have more choice. That
give the public schools an incentive to scratch their head
and say, let's treat them as customers. Yeah, treat the
parents as a partner in the relationship, not an enemy.
So it's a win win solution.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
All right. Corey is supposed to be at the Texas
House Education Hearing Committee meeting this week in Austin, Texas,
which just so happens to be happening at the same
time as a Flaming Lips concert at south By Southwest. Corey,
some people have speculated that that's not a coincidence, that
you plan that on purpose. I don't know what the
truth is. I do know this, I happen to agree
with everything Corey said. Contact your local lawmakers, let them
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know you want school choice in the state of Texas.
It's your money. You should be able to decide how
it's spent, not the government.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
America, the land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I never watched Friends when it was on TV. I mean,
I've seen clips of it. I just don't think I
was ever the demo for this TV show, Friends, who
was obviously very popular iconic in the nineties, and I
think the early two thousands, Courtney Cox, Jennifer Lawrence. Of course,
that guy who died whatever his name was a sad story.
Matthew Perry was at his name. But a little news
(23:35):
we have today about the TV show Friends isn't necessarily
what you'd think it would be about, especially in the
wake of Matthew Perry's death. There's been a lot of
discussion about that ever since he died, and rich famous
celebrities hiring doctors to feed them drugs they probably shouldn't
be taking. There's a report today from John Nolty and
it talks about how an Asian actor named Stephen Park
(23:58):
was a guest star on two episodes a Friend. This
was thirty years ago, and he says, as a matter
of fact, it was a very chummy, racist environment. Well
klubby was the term used in the report. He did
an interview recently pod meets World, and I don't know
what that podcast is. I'm just reading the news about
it here, but he says, quote it was at the time,
(24:19):
I felt it was kind of a toxic environment. James
Hong was the actor who was also on the episode
with me and the assistant director was calling him to
the set and you know, essentially saying, where the f
is the oriental guy? Get the oriental guy. There's some
more here from the transcript. It says, this isn't the
first time that happened, but this is the environment where
(24:40):
this is business as usual in Hollywood in nineteen ninety seven,
and nobody felt the need to correct this or say
anything about it, so this was normal behavior. End quote.
This gentleman Park says he took his complaint to the
Screen Actors Guild, who told him to take it to
the Los Angeles Times. The Los Angeles Times. He says,
the Los Angeles Times sent out a couple of reporters,
(25:00):
but the story never ran. Now he was unwilling to
let it go, so on October seventh, nineteen ninety seven,
in the spirit of Jerry maguire, he published a mission
statement to the Hollywood community titled Struggling for Dignity, and
it was available online at the time. He talked about
being a Korean actor. He said, you could see my
work in one of the most highly acclaimed movies of
nineteen ninety six, one of the most talked about scenes
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of that year, I played the destruct Japanese American ex
schoolmate of Marge Gunderson in the Academy Award winning movie Fargo. Wow.
Fargo came out that long ago. Can you believe? Is
that true? Fargo? Is that old? I no, yeah, I
guess it was nineteen Wow. Boy, that makes me feel
old anyway. Continuing on here, he said that you know,
(25:45):
it is a brilliant movie, brilliant artist, but being an
Asian American actor, he felt the struggle to find roles
for himself that were not insulting or stereotypical. His career
started with Do the Right Thing. He was on the
TV show in Living Color. He says he finished working
as a guest star on the highest rated show of
the time, Friends, which brings him to his next point.
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Working with those people was extremely painful. It was a
painful experience, a disturbing lack and generosity of spirit and
basic human courtesy. He goes on to make the point
they were all racist against the quote unquote oriental guy
end quote. The fact that this was documented in detail
at the time and with the actor's real name validates
it at least to me one hundred percent. Of course,
(26:27):
he has a point. Everyone deserves to be treated with
respect in a work environment and on a film set,
especially with a guest actor. This is especially important so
you don't undermine the actor's confidence. You want to be
as welcoming. You want to be as reassuring as possible
when you're making a film with someone, or a TV
show or acting in a play. No one should be
made to feel like an outsider. I will say this.
(26:48):
I know you're not expecting this from me, because I
often point out how when people say something's racist racist,
it's usually not. Stephen Park deserves a lot of credit
in respect for speaking out publicly as he did against
what was at the time the most popular sitcom on
the planet. I commend him for this, criticizing Hollywood for
being a little This might be a bit of a
(27:12):
I forgot all about Fargo came out in nineteen ninety six.
I know that's besides the point, but boy, that was
such a long time ago. I forgot all about that.
Fargo was such a good movie, wasn't it. And then,
of course, like a lot of things, they made a
TV show about it, and the TV show wasn't quite
as good Like the TV show. It's safe to say
it kind of sucked. Usually when they make a TV
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show about a movie, it's not very good.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Today's show is brought to you by Daylight Saving Time.
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Speaker 3 (27:49):
Oh boy. Okay, So there's a lot of news today
about how supposedly Elon Musk and Marco Rubio got into
a fight and they got into an argument last week.
Supposedly this is one of those things kind of like
third hand conjecture. We heard from a friend who heard
from a friend who heard from a friend who claims
that Elon Musk and Rubio were arguing over cuts at
(28:12):
the state Department. There's a report about it today at
town hall dot com, and what they explain here is
this knee jerk reaction from many on our side of
the political spectrum toward what billionaire Elon Musk's Department of
Government Efficiency DODE should be doing, and has tended to
be less about restraint and more about cut anything and
everything possible and let God sort it out, you know.
(28:34):
That whole approach. It seems like they're not really doing that.
They're going to walk that one back. Instead of cutting
things with a hatchet or a chainsaw, they're going to
start to do it with a scalpel. Now, the federal government,
for the record, has grown to seemingly uncontrollable size and scope,
so any attempt to rein it in, in my opinion,
is admirable. This was the camp I was in for
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the first few weeks of the Trump term. If the
house you want to reclaim is completely covered and you
know manure, does it really matter where you start cutting? No,
it doesn't. We knew that Democrats and neocons and all
the deep state types were against DOJE because they didn't
want money that was being handed to their friends as
a free meal tick to be cut off. And I
(29:16):
largely still believe that, although I did rethink some of
those things last week. I heard a story last week
from a young woman at my gym who tells me
she works in a woman's home here in the Houston area,
and she told me that they're cutting off funding to
the woman's home because it was money they were getting
from the federal government. Now, to be clear, she didn't
have a lot of details about that. I asked her
when those cuts would kick in. She didn't really seem
(29:37):
to know. I asked her if they'd lost any money
so far. She didn't seem to know. But all that
being said, I will admit, you know, as someone that
generally would answer the question should the government do anything
with a no afterwards? If we're making cuts to things
foreign aid, I'd like to cut money off to a
woman's shelter. Maybe not so much. I'm curious what you
all think about that. I'm just trying to be objective here.
(30:01):
So a lot of budget hawks have responded to the
news about Doge cutting things like Usaid and immigration as
being good. You know, Immigrant, We're not cutting money off
to the border patrol. We're cutting money off to people
that were getting free lunchables and kool aid at the border.
But all that being said, does that make Secretary of
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State Marco Rubio, who apparently had an argument with Elon
Musk over cuts to the State Department. Does that make
him a deep state collectivist? Does it make him a
member of the fourth branch of government? We only know
about this whole thing of a New York Times article.
They revealed Friday that Rubio and Musk went toe to
toe in front of Trump and an explosive Oval office
(30:44):
meeting that ended with Trump reigning and Musk and ultimately
Doge losing the ability to just fire people willy nilly
without the approval of the department heads. So should any
us be worried about this sort of palace intrigued? Do
you think it's even true? I would say not at all.
I mean, there's probably some truth to it, but it's
being vastly exaggerated. Contrary to Trump's first term, when many,
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if not most, of his cabinet and staff seem to
be actively working against him, all the people in his
office right now seem like they are trying to achieve
the same goal. Elon Musk may have his ego bruised
for a few minutes if this story's even true, But
this arrangement is the way things should be. Doade should
always be looking to cut waste and fraud, and you know,
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the president should be the one to oversee whether or
not it's the right thing to do. Putting every decision
in their hands, the hands of DOGE or the heads
of each cabinet misses the point. Because we want the
president to do it given that the federal government workforce
is made up of real people, real people who tend
to vote Democrat. I'm still in favor of making massive
(31:50):
cuts to the federal government. But since we've already made
some huge cuts, if from here on out we start
moving by making tiny slices here and there, that's probably,
at this point in the game, the strategy that makes
the most sense.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Kenny has always thought the best things in life are free, free,
plus tax. Of course, Kenny Webster's Pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
If you haven't heard yet, Sylvester Turner's corpse is on tour.
It's traveling from Washington, d C. Right now to Houston,
and if you can get tickets, it'll be appearing tomorrow
at the Houston City Hall. And then if you miss
it there, don't worry. You'll have a couple of days
to catch it at the State Capitol. And then finally
it's going to come back to Houston for a funeral.
(32:35):
And it's hard to get tickets to this kind of
like nine inch Nails or Wu Tang Clan tickets. It's
you know, a hot item ticket there. I am told
that Holly Hanson of the Texan Dot News you're scalping
tickets to the funeral.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
No, of course not no, she's not no no.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
But you did have an article about the now deceased
former mayor of Houston that went viral from several years ago.
Could you tell us a little about that.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Yeah, well, you know, it's interesting. When Turner was about
to leave office, he served as mayor for two terms
in the city of Houston, there were a lot of
scandals that were just you know, kind of coming to
the forefront. There were a lot of indictments and investigations,
and I wrote a piece about, you know, new scandals
emerging in the final days of this administration. I wrote
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that in November of twenty twenty three, and that is
one of our top trending articles on our website this week.
So yeah, it's it's kind of interesting. I think people are,
you know, looking for information about Turner and his basically
his legacy in Houston and Texas.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Look, I'm not trying to dump on the guy, but
he was not a great mayor. I mean, this guy
had a lot of scandals when he was on office,
and you know, I just to be one thing I
liked about him is that while he was here he
was not the worst Democrat mayor of a big city
in during the pandemic. I think there was like a week.
Do you remember you had a board where he was
shaming bars that wouldn't close. There's like a chalkboard or something.
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But that didn't last.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
How long the wall of shame? Yeah, it didn't last
very long. And you know, Texans are a little more
resistant to some of the more extreme COVID protocols that
we saw take place in other parts of the country.
But yeah, they didn't they didn't take to it very well.
But you know, when Turners administration, you know, he tried
(34:26):
to stay towards the end that he was leaving office
with a four hundred and twenty million dollar surplus. Well,
you know, of course, we now know we have a
new mayor and he's been grappling with the ways that
they managed finances in the City of Houston, the way
they they spent money that didn't necessarily address those core
functions like public safety and infrastructure. You know, there's a
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lot of free repairs. We had scandals where you had,
you know, the former Housing director accusing Turner administration of
rigging bids to favor a company with ties to Turner's
longtime law partner.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
There were, you know, some.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Problems with the Houston Housing Authority. We're still waiting to
find out what exactly happened that caused the city to
put a housing project on contaminated land. That project has
been halted, they're not moving people into it, and they
were plugging budget holes with COVID relief fund, but spending
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money on things that you know, a lot of people
would say are not core functions of the city, such
as art and bands at the airport and so forth. So,
you know, there's I think there's still a lot that's
coming out to the public about what happened during the
Turner administration. And we can't forget the ongoing feud with
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the firefighters that you know, now there's this settlement that
taxpayers will be on the hook for to do right
by the firefighters in the city of Houston.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Do you remember this one there way a sex offenders group,
a sex offender rights group, came to an airport hotel
and this happened like about a year ago, and a
lot of people were shocked to learn that they were
coming and doing a convention here in town. And then
as people started to dig around and look into it.
We realized not only had they been to Houston before,
(36:21):
but Mayor Turner welcomed them with a public like, with
a letter saying welcome to Houston, kind of like Joe
Biden using auto sign for a lot of his executive orders.
It looked like Mayor Turner didn't actually welcome them. It
was just one of those generic letters they give to
any group that books the thing at the convention center.
But still, you got to admit having your signature on
a letter welcoming a pedophile rights group to a hotel
(36:44):
over by the airport. Not a good look for the
now deceased politician.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Not a good look. And I actually wrote an article
about that at the time because it wasn't just one year,
it was twice. I believe that Turner's office sent this
this letter, and it had some pretty you know, significant
details praising this group. They're called Narsol. They're pretty controversial.
(37:12):
They want journalists to stop using the word pedophile, and
they wanted you know, their scheduled uses terms like minor
attracted persons and things like that. Uh So that was,
you know, that was one of the many controversies that erupted.
Uh during the Turner administration. But yes, that one, that
one was pretty shocking. And his letter said Mayor Turner
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believes in diversity and inclusion, so you know we would
not deny any group without or I'm sorry, that's not
the letter. That was the statement we got from the
from the office, but it was. You know, it was
quite the scandal at the time.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
All Right, we'll make a deal with you, Narsol. Instead
of calling them pedophiles, we'll just call them child rapists.
Agree to agree to agree on that one.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Here.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
But I know this is making you uncomfortable. This is
not why Holly called the show. This is not why
she's on hold right now. Actually, Holly just published a
story talking about I did not know this was still happening.
What is being called the affordable housing tax exemption loophole
and how a couple of Texas lawmakers are trying to
get rid of it. First, can you explain the loophole
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and then we'll talk about who's getting rid of it
or how.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
Yeah, so we have this program in Texas that allows
these apartment developers or even owners of existing properties to
get a one hundred percent property tax exemption as long
as they supposedly set aside some of their units for
affordable housing, as they call it. But what they found
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out is that some of these apartments, you know, weren't
actually reducing rents. They only set aside some of their
apartments for in a large part, not even for people
who are truly low income, but what they call.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Them moderate income individuals.
Speaker 5 (39:02):
And what started they tried to do some reforms, but
what's started happening is is these uh, these owners developers
found another part of the Texas code where they could
continue to exploit this. And here's the crazy thing. You
have some of these authorization groups you know, in other
parts of the state, for example, out in Cameron County
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and in Pacos, Texas and Pleasanton, Texas, who are authorizing
these deals in Houston. So, for example, we have some
apartments in Houston that don't pay any property taxes to
their county, city, their school district, and they're supposed to be,
you know, creating this affordable housing. But all those entities
(39:47):
have to provide services to the residents here. And what's
come out is that these developers don't actually lose any revenue,
and in some cases they can even try charge more
rent than they were before because of the way this
law is structured. So yeah, there's still a lot of
consternation about this, but we have a couple of lawmakers
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looking at it and saying, wait a minute. You know,
this is a legitimate way to create affordable housing. And
it's taking about two hundred and seventy seven million dollars
a year of tax revenue away from these local governments.
About half of that is for school districts. So are
(40:30):
you know, often complaining that they don't have enough money
since the state has to make sure every school district
has enough fun it doesn't just affect the people of Houston,
the locals and these areas, but everyone in the state
ends up paying for these things. And you have some
of these owner developers, you know that really it's a
(40:51):
lucrative deal for them, but maybe not such a great
deal for residents.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
How about that? It feels like every single election they
tell we're going to do something to fix the cost
of housing, fix the tax loopholes, bring back school choice,
lower crime, and yet every single legislative session I want
to talk about it, it doesn't feel like it ever
gets done.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
Holly, you know, and it's amazing because they did, you know,
pass this reform in our last session in twenty twenty three,
but they apparently didn't address this little loophole that's another
part of the stake code.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
That's crazy. That's why I missed Sylvester Turner. If he
was still alive, he would have fixed this for us.
Speaker 5 (41:31):
You know, well he's yeah, I'm sure he would have
had something to say about it.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Holly, I love you. You are a fantastic journalist, one of
my favorites. Follow Holly S. Hanson on x dot com
and check out her work at the Texan dot News.
I'd also like to thank Corey DeAngelis for stopping by
this afternoon to discuss school choice. To the rest of you,
be safe out there, Drive safe, don't forget. New merch
now available at I Love WJ dot com. As always,
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Speaker 2 (42:17):
You are listening to the pursuit of happy this radio
tell
Speaker 4 (42:23):
The government to kiss your ass when you listen to
this show.
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