Abbott Halts Data Center Permits As Surveillance Tech Spreads

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The voice of reason.
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Dutch eyes dark and serve Michael Wilson.
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative here on Patriot Talk 920.
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Good to be with you this fine Tuesday morning.
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And by the way, joining us at 7 o'clock will be none other than David Gibson coming on from Gun Owners of America, specifically the Hunters Division, talking about something that we have not talked about in regards to the Second Amendment before.
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You know, the left will often go, it's for the people to go hunting.
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Well, what's interesting is that, yeah, of course it is.
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Of course, the right to keep and bear arms would also include those who want to use it to provide food for their family.
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Of course that would be included.
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And the interesting thing is that what a lot of those people that are going out hunting having a good time, what they don't understand is that their rights are also in jeopardy.
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And that what affects all of us also affects them.
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And many of those guys, you know, they just want to be out there hunting and having a good time.
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They don't want to be involved in politics.
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They don't want to go, you know, have to do research into candidates, all those sorts of things.
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So we're going to talk all about the importance of appealing to hunters, what that looks like, what GOA's doing on that front, why that's so crucial, and so much more coming up at the top of the second hour.
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Of course, that is the 2A Tuesday segment brought to you by Collectors Firearms.
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You will not want to miss it.
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Now, in the meantime, we do have a lot of stories to get into.
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And a lot of the stuff going on right now that I think people have a big problem with is I I mean, there's a couple things.
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Flock, we know, has been has been, you know, all over the place.
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We've got multiple investigations here in just the Houston area.
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I mean, you don't even get out throughout the rest of the state and start talking about all the investigations that have gone on everywhere else.
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You just look at Pasadena, Houston, uh, Deer Park, and you start to notice there's a pattern of potential abuse of the system.
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And of course, you kind of expect that, right?
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With and and and really the argument that a lot of these departments are making is, well, with any good tech, with anything, you'll find that there could be some abuse of it, but that doesn't make the thing bad, right?
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The the problem is, is the thing good or is the thing bad?
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And when it comes to flock, I think a lot of people are I I would say slowly, but it's not happening slowly, I think very quickly recognizing that no, flock is actually very dangerous.
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Flock is actually in just in principle, an incredibly dangerous technological leap.
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Especially when you have it contracted by a for-profit company and it's the government teaming up.
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And we already have, by the way, massive concerns, many of us, uh, about corporatism, about oligarchy, about the fact that a lot of these massive companies have far too much political say in our country.
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They've they've gained far too much power with their money.
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And so we already have those sorts of concerns, and now you've got a whole host of other technological concerns.
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You've you've got a lot of them.
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A lot of people are worried about AI, and I think for good reason.
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And I don't think it's going to take everybody's job away and whatever.
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Every technological leap has come with some level of, yeah, you have to pivot, you have to find a new job, right?
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There are things that I think that AI will be good at in the next couple of years that they may be good at in the next 20 years, and things that regardless of how good they get, they probably will never be great at.
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And you just have to be competitive enough to find those things out.
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And it depends on how old you are, what job you work, and what industry you're in, all those sorts of things are important.
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The bigger concern with AI to me, the much bigger concern is the culture decay that's come as a result of AI.
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In just a short few years, when AI was at its worst, it got bad.
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So imagine when AI is at its best and it continues to it continues to exponentially get better, the inability of young people to write papers, the inability of young people to do their own research without AI doing the research for them.
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And I understand it's a tool and it's useful and it's helpful, but the problem is that when you replace your ability to create and to think critically, and when you do that in any way, it's bad.
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I I warned about that before people were worried about AI.
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I worned about that when I talked just about listening to radio hosts or to podcasters or to social media influencers, that if you outsource your critical thinking to someone else, there's a problem.
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It's good you should listen to people, right?
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It's good to have people that you trust in positions that you can listen to.
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It's good to have people that are intelligent speaking on issues.
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It's good to have people who are politically informed that can educate and in and keep you informed.
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All right.
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A lot of people don't have time to put together all these stories, find out what's going on all across the state of Texas, what's going on here in Houston.
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So it's good that you have somebody you can listen to that tells you those things.
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But if you just take anybody, including myself, at face value and you don't analyze the claims, there's a problem.
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If you just take it as gospel truth, it's not inspired by God, right?
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It's it's not divinely inspired.
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If you just take it as automatically true, there's an issue.
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And that's why I leave the text line open throughout the show.
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If you have a disagreement, I want to hear it.
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I want to address it.
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And I want you to challenge me, me to challenge you back so that we can grow together, we can think.
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We can, we can, you know, determine what the truth is through logic and through evidence and through claims and through good-hearted debate, right?
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Good-hearted disagreements.
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We've had disagreements on the show, and I don't I can't think of a single disagreement that we've had that wound up with people being angry at each other that doesn't have to go that way.
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We can just disagree.
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And maybe we'll agree by the end, maybe we won't, but that's a good thing because it forces us to think about why we believe what we believe, forces us to defend why we believe what I believe, which challenges us, and it's a good thing to be challenged.
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It's a bad thing if you say things and you go unchallenged forever and you just get to believe whatever you want, you can wind up in a lot of trouble.
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And AI has exacerbated that issue to the nth degree.
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The issues that I warned about with listening to radio hosts and whatever else, that's bad enough when you're doing it with a person.
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When you're doing it with a machine that has no ethical obligations, that has no determination of right and wrong, that has no concept of why lying would be wrong in the first place and will lie to you.
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And it doesn't even know what lying is, it considers it just saying what it needs to say to get the user experience good.
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When you have that, and you have a lot of people, especially young people, that are not fully developed in their ability to think and their ability to reason and their ability to write, and those things are supposed to be developed, it turns into a massive crisis.
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On top of all the other crazy things that are happening because of AI, uh, with you know fake photos, fake claims, you know, there's there's the constant concern of government intervention, right?
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You know, it used to be somebody gets caught doing any number of things.
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And uh it used to be that you know, you get caught and you have due process, and we trust all of that.
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Well, with AI, there's so many claims out there with pictures attached that seem legitimate, and you find out, is that really true?
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Do do can we even trust that?
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Did they do the thing they're being accused of doing?
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There's so many issues like that when it comes to just AI.
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And that's just one concern before you get into all of the other concerns contained within just AI, and then you look out at the technological spectrum, you start thinking, maybe this isn't for the best.
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Maybe there are a lot of concerns that we need to address.
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You start talking about data centers, you start talking about flock, you start talking about any the amount of social media usage, the effects of social media on people, and you walk away thinking, is the world getting better because we're progressing?
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Is all progress inherently good?
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And we know the answer to that as Christians, of course not.
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Uh-uh.
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Moving in a dire moving uh I've I've used the you know analogy before, but if you drive a car, driving forward does not necessarily mean that you're going the right direction.
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You may be progressing to a new location, but if straight in front of you in 100 miles, there's the edge of a cliff, you don't want to drive 101 miles.
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You don't want to you don't want to drive over the edge of the cliff in the name of driving forward.
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You need to know when to make a turn.
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You need to know when to make a U-turn.
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You need to know when to say, hey, I'm going the wrong way.
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I wanted to go to New Mexico, but I'm actually hanging out towards Florida.
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I'm clearly on the I'm clearly on the wrong, on the wrong side of I-10, right?
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You have to make those determinations with any progress.
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And data centers is a big one of those because there's a lot of people, myself included, who are concerned about the effects of data centers, not only on their grid, but on people's quality of life, on the priority prioritization of corporate welfare, on the burden on ratepayers and taxpayers.
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A lot of times it's the same people just being charged twice, but there's a lot of concerns there.
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And so Governor Abbott has now ordered a halt on data center permits during a state audit that's going on.
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He says that data centers must complete these state audits and protect Texas's power and water resources before the permits can move forward, which again, this should have been happening months and months ago.
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This is happening now.
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And I'm not gonna come out and try to, you know, counter-signal and say this is bad because it should have already happened.
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Sure.
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Governor Greg Abbott has ordered the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to halt permitting for data centers until an ongoing state audit of the industry is complete.
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In a letter that he sent yesterday to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Executive Director, Kelly Keel, he directed the agency to, quote, halt all permits sought by data centers.
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He went further saying that no state agency should move forward with regulatory approvals related to data centers until the information being sought by the Public Utility Commission of Texas, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, ERCOT, and the Texas Water Development Board is obtained.
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Specifically, they must pause the issuance of permits related to data center projects until that review is completely done, until they've found out all the info that they need.
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We don't need to permit anybody else.
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And Abbott said this quote, simply put, Texans must come first.
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Data centers must pay their own way, protect our grid and water, and complete the ERCOT and TWDB audits.
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Until they do, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will issue no permits sought by data center projects, which of course is the latest in a whole list of escalation tactics in his scrutiny of the rapidly expanding data center industry, which already has over 300 facilities here just in the state of Texas.
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And I remind everybody, just a little note that's worth knowing, that I don't think that any of this would have happened had people, individual people, just citizens, not politicians, raised these alarms.
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I I don't think we ever would have ended up here.
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Which again goes back to the importance of being informed, being able to critically think, and more than just that, being willing to take action is a really important step in being in a constitutional republic, is that you take action.
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It is uh the and you can't just do one of those and not the others.
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If you take action but you have no information, you're a fool.
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If you have all the information but you take no action, you're a coward, right?
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You have to combine them, they have to work together.
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You have to be informed and you have to take action.
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They're they're they're not mutually exclusive.
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In fact, it's the opposite.
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They have to work together.
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And so back last month, we know that Abbott ordered the Public Utility Commission as well as ERCOT to audit data centers seeking to connect to the electric grid here in Texas.
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At the time, ERCOT was considering approximately 474 gigawatts of new connection requests, with roughly 90% of those new connection requests belonging specifically to data centers.
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And last week he directed the TWDB to enforce water use reporting requirements against data centers, including through potential criminal referrals and permit disqualifications, permanent ones.
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Sourcers indicated, and this was at this was some of the craziest news we got, that roughly 80% of data centers literally weren't reporting.
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This was a requirement in order to maintain your permits and do the work that you want to do.
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And something like 80% of them weren't doing it.
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And so he announced that he plans to work with lawmakers during the next legislative session to eliminate financial incentives for data centers.
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There shouldn't be any in the first place.
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Again, there should be no financial incentives other than potentially being a more pro-business state.
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But pro-business should not mean anti-taxing.
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And that's something that I think our government has gotten wrong, is that in the pursuit of building good businesses and producing a good economy here in the state, I think we've deprioritized the whole point of the economy in the first place, which was the protection of the people.
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The whole reason that the economy flourishing is a good thing is because it's a good sign that the people in your state are flourishing.
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And if your economy is flourishing, so-called, but the people aren't, they're not happy, they're not having a better quality of life, then your your economics, you know, whole standpoint is is useless.
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The only reason we even use that at all is because, at least historically, it's been pretty good evidence of a flourishing people.
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If you separate the people from the economy and you just view the economy as its own abstract concept, and you you don't care about how it affects the people in your state or in your country, by the way, at the federal level, then it's not good.
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It defeats the whole purpose of even tracking the economy.
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If it's just line goes up, that's that means good things happening.
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And you don't pause to say, well, can the line go up and people not be benefited?
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If you don't ask that question and you don't you don't answer that question, then it's pointless to even look at the economy.
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Who cares?
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If the economy shows massive upticks while poverty grows and unemployment grows, and people's ability to afford a home on uh in a one income family with an ability for a mother to stay home and to look after her children and to keep the home, if that can't happen, but you say the economy's doing great, then it's a useless metric.
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And so we never should have had this in the first place, these these tax incentives for businesses, other than to say that Texas is a pro-business state in the sense that, hey, taxes are lower here.
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Hey, we're more open to business.
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Those things are fine.
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Those things are good.
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We don't want to tax you out into oblivion.
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There's a lot of states that do.
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We're not one of them.
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But we also don't want to shift the burden in order to do that.
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We're gonna do that by our spending, by our ability to be pro-business.
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We don't want to do that by requiring the taxpayers to take on the burden for the businesses.
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That's not pro-business, that's anti-Texan, is what that is.
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That's corporate welfare.
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It is a form of socialism that's arguably worse because at least in socialism, the concept is that the people that are being protected are actually the people in this oligarchial form of socialism.
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It's not even about the people.
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You're doing welfare, but it's for the the people that are already wealthy.
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It's for the people that are already making a lot of money and subjecting those who aren't to the welfare.
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It's it's completely backwards.
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It's like socialism on steroids.
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It's really bad.
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But we've been doing that.
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Um we know that that there have been concerns about them not covering their own electricity costs and their infrastructure costs that has resulted in potentially higher residential electric bills.
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Um so part of that process to find out what that looks like is to complete an audit.
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We have to have some sort of study analyzing that.
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And again, this this whole audit process should have been done before we had any data centers here.
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That this should have been done as priority number one.
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And yet here we are, years into it, where you now have requests for hundreds of gigawatts more power.
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You have 80% of facilities not reporting the things that are required to report.
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Well, now at least it's finally recognized as an issue.
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And again, I remind everyone this was only really recognized as an issue in the first place because people stood up and said, Hey, Governor Abbott, there's a problem.
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And they made they made their influence matter.
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I've said it over and over and over again.
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I know that because of how politics has been presented, and because a lot of the focus, and this is part of my issue with all of the radios that only focus on national news, it's not bad.
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We need to know national news.
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We have to also hold our federal government accountable.
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I understand all of that.
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But if you don't have someone that is explicitly reporting on what's going on in your city, in your county, in your community, in your geographical region, and then in your state, your barrier of influence degrades the higher it goes.
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And so by the time you get to the federal government or maybe the executive branch, and that's what 95% of the reporting is on, well, it leaves a lot of people saying, Well, what can I even do?
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There's there's very little I can do.
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And I want to remind everybody by doing these local things, saying, No, no, no, there's actually a lot that you can do.
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Because we've made waves, we've made influence, we've changed the culture, and we're going to continue doing that, but it requires that people be informed on where they can do that, on what that actually looks like.
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And by the way, it's really good for morale when you see that it works.
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And when you get into local conversations and you get into statewide conversations, you can see the effects of it working.
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You can directly see it.
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And so when you have a lot of these homeowners that are raising concerns about this, by the way, a lot of the stuff that happened with the transmission line project, you guys know all about the transmission line project that was basically forced through by a company pressuring the Public Utility Commission.
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When that happens, what's the only thing standing in the way?
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Well, now you have legislators that are saying, hey, we need to put a pause on this.
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You have administrative law judges that are saying that.
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But where did it start?
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Well, I can tell you, we all know it started with people that were very upset, reasonably so, who were willing to come out and say so.
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So willing to say, hey, I'm really upset by this.
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This is frustrating.
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This is no good.
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This isn't going to work for me.
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And you had enough people willing to do that, that now there's a broader conversation.
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Now it's actually a political conversation taking place that they say, hey, one of the priorities of our next legislative session is discussing this thing that probably never would have even been mentioned had you not had independent reporting and journalists and people willing to put in the work to get us to that point.
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I'm glad we can hear that.
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Now, with that being said, and we can get back from the break.
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Speaking of things that affect people, three former Houston private school students, uh, these athletes, have now been charged in an alleged locker room uh sexual assault case.
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And this is just a wild turn of events.
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It was at the Briarwood School.
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They say that all three students got removed from campus when allegations came to light.
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative Court Records detail allegations that at least two students at the Briarwood School, a Houston private school that serves children with learning differences, were sexually assaulted and harassed in locker rooms and other school-related settings during the 2025 to 2026 school year.
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Sexual assault of a child charges were filed against 18-year-olds Landon Bennett and Jace Burrell, as well as 19-year-old Liam Mishner.
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Prosecutors described their behavior in one court filing as terrorizing.
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Bennett is currently in jail with a$75,000 bond.
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Mishner is free on a$50,000 bond, and Burrell has not been taken into custody yet, according to records.
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According to the complaint, the case came to light back in April when a student approached the school's dean of student and athletic director about repeated incidents involving members of the football and basketball teams.
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The dean connected school counselor and several students subsequently described alleged sexual misconduct and harassment by three upperclassmen.
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The students reported incidents that included being pinned against walls, being touched without consent, being threatened and targeted in locker rooms before practices and games.
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Some students also reported avoiding the locker room or shower areas because they knew of the alleged conduct and they didn't want anything to do with it.
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One student identified court records as a fifteen-year-old told investigators that the alleged abuse happened repeatedly during the school year.
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The complaint says the student described being held down by their students and sexually assaulted while in the locker room.
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The student also reported repeated threats and sexually explicit harassment.
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Another student told investigators that he was held against a locker room wall and assaulted while changing for practice.
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Other witnesses described alleged incidents involving nudity, unwanted sexual contact, and students being pushed onto or against other students in the locker room and shower areas.
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Some witnesses even told investigators they were scared to shower or change at school because of the abuse.
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Lisa Landy, interim head of the school, would not share whether any policies or procedures have changed, but she did say this quote, we have notified our community about the recent arrests of two former students.
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These charges are in connection with allegations that they were reported to the school last spring.
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We have cooperated fully with law enforcement throughout their investigation and continue to do so.
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The accused students were removed from campus last spring and were not permitted to return to campus.
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Given that this is an ongoing case, we cannot provide additional information at this time because we don't want to interfere with the current work of law enforcement.
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Russ assured that safety and well-being of our students remain our highest priority.
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We do not tolerate behavior by any student that compromises the safety and well-being of another student, and we take these issues very seriously.
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During his probable cause hearing, a public defender said that Bennett is supposed to leave for the Army in the coming weeks, so we'll see how that kind of plays into all of this.
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Carrie McCracken, executive director at the Children's Assessment Center, said the abuser takes advantage of the difference in power.
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These upperclassmen use that to torment these other children into not commenting.
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And so this particular woman, again, who deals with these sorts of issues, said that these were important advice for parents.
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Maintain open dialogue with your children, use the time in the car strategically, ask specific questions, follow up, watch for behavioral changes, and hold adults accountable.
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She said that this type of alleged abuse can create lifelong trauma without proper intervention.
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She said, make sure you've got good dialogue with your children so that they know if there's something that's making them so that you know if there's something that's making them comfortable, if they're in fear, if they're being bullied or abused, that they can can and will come and talk to you.
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But again, let's just highlight this, because this this is interesting because this isn't happening in a public school, it's happening in a private school.
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Again, it it paints the importance of being deeply involved in your child's life.
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And this is something that the government has butted their heads into so many times that the culture has shifted so dramatically that it's become mainstream, really, for you to just take your kid to school or let them ride the bus, drop them off, and then pick them back up that evening.
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And you get to have maybe a short breakfast.
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I a lot of families aren't even doing that, something with them in the morning, maybe, and then maybe a family dinner.
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But it again, at this point, you'd be shocked by how many parents are not having breakfast with their children, will have their children get on the bus, they'll see them again that afternoon, where the kids go to their room to eat their food on their bed and do their homework and watch some TV or scroll some social media and then go to bed.
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And they have basically no relationship with their parents, and their parents have basically no relationship with their child.
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And that is common.
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That is mainstream, and it's incredibly wicked.
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I mean, it is just unbelievably perverted.
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It is completely backwards from the way that we're designed to operate as human beings, it is completely backwards from the things that solve issues in childhood, and it completely delegates your responsibility that God gave you by nature of being a parent to somebody else hoping they do a bang up job.
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And this isn't trying to go after people who send their kids to school, right?
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I understand a lot of the arguments for it, I get it, but it is to say that for those parents who are so uninvolved in their children's lives that they drop them off at school and that's the last they see of them, and they don't spend time dedicated to forming a relationship and to being an involved parent and to being present in their lives and to raising them in the fear and admonition of the Lord, when stuff like this happens, because you have to think, right?
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There's a couple of issues here.
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The first, of course, is the students themselves that did it.
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You have to wonder what is their relationship like with their parents.
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If these are the sorts of things they're doing, they're tormenting younger children in locker rooms, what is their relationship with their parents look like?
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How are they faring at home?
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Right?
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I'm not trying to say that, oh, well, really the only reason they did this.
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No, they're still responsible for their own actions.
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Don't mishear me.
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If you behave this way, you're responsible.
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You don't get to pin the blame somewhere else and say, well, my parent wasn't involved.
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You're you're now becoming an adult.
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You're 17, 18 years old.
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You are fully capable of making decisions.
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You don't get to pin the blame on someone else, even if they failed in their responsibility.
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Right?
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Then that gives us an understanding reason.
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Right.
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It does not grant empathy or us rewriting things or us justifying what these students did.
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But it is to say that a lot of these issues that are entirely preventable are coming because of a lack of parental involvement in the lives of their children.
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And then the children that are being abused, the first place they should go to, the first time it happens, is to their parents.
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This should have been brought up the very first time.
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Instead of finally students saying, okay, this happening to multiple of us, maybe we can band together after it's been repeatedly happening for an entire school year, and now we can go to the dean or to the school counselor.
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That's the wrong order of operations.
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It should be first time it happens, that single student, even if he knows nobody else, should be comfortable going to his father and saying, Dad, I'm being hurt at school.
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Something is happening.
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And that father, of course, should be present enough in his life to hear that and to immediately raise the stakes, to immediately go in and say, This needs to end right now.
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Probably by pulling your child out of school, uh, and then ultimately by by going after the school to fix the problem for all the other students.
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But again, a lot of this ties back into the responsibility of parents.
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And yeah, we can blame the school and say there should have been stricter measures, there should have been an adult at least relatively present or nearby, um, that there should be greater precautions taken.
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We can go into all of that, and those things are all true.
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But again, I try to approach most of the things I talk about from a way of what difference can we make in this?
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And one of the big ways you can make a difference, one of the biggest ways you'll ever make a difference that God has given you explicitly by nature of having children is to be a parent.
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That is one of the biggest influential decisions you'll ever make and continue to make throughout that child's life as you raise them.
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And when you outsource that to a school or to a counselor or to whatever it may be, rather than taking the responsibility yourself and raising your children, these sorts of things are bound to happen on both sides, both the abusers and the abused.
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And a lot of that, again, this isn't to blame or to shift the blame and say, well, if you do love your kids and this and everyone I'm I'm not trying to do that.
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What I am trying to say is that a lot of these cultural problems would be much better if parents were more involved in the lives of their children.
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And we're raising them again in the fear and the admonition of the Lord.
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But that's what's going on here in Houston.
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We'll we'll keep you guys updated uh as the charges progress, if they go to trial, um, and and all the updates on that story uh when it comes to the protection of children.
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With that being said, when we get back, Tallerico, another, I mean, you just think that it's it's over and there's no way anything else could have happened.
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Well, apparently his church minister has also admitted, on top of all the other stuff that this this I mean, it's just the number of things that got admitted is crazy.
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Another admission, and that's that apparently their church admitted admitted to harboring an illegal alien.
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We'll talk all about that when we get back.
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If you would like to text into the show, the number, as always, is 713-779-5978.
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You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative.
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I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord willing, I'll return with the rest of Tal Rico's another church admission after the break.
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So, new undercover footage is showing a Democrat min uh a minister at at Talerico's Church saying that the congregation does not have a lot of people who are religious, they're not a belief-based church, which means they're not a church at all.
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We already know this, it's not an update.
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In the video, Reverend Carol Johnson described St.
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Andrews as a sanctuary church and says that an illegal alien from Guatemala who has worked here for eight years has been living inside the church.
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Johnson said, We don't have a lot of people who are religious here.
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We're a belief-based perch.
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We're not a belief-based church, we're a values-based church.
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We don't spend time on creeds.
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Instead, let's point to the history of activism on LGBT issues, racial justice, immigration.
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And so and by the way, this we know this is his home church, because not only as he said that St.
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Andrews is the church he still goes to really shapes his worldviews, but again, he's used it as a sort of push.
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Hey, I've been involved in church since I was a kid.
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I even preached to this church, I went to seminary, all these things, and then you find out all this stuff about his church and you go, well, this is not a church.
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This is not a church of Christianity.
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They're not a they're not a belief-based church.
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Guess what?
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Christianity is filled with beliefs.
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It's no wonder that Talerico says that he's supposedly a Christian who is Christianity.
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Of course he does, because the Word of God has a lot to say about what Taler Rico's church is doing, and none of it good.
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Regardless, um, it it's pretty interesting because yet again, we see the church coming out and admitting to things that again, I I I can't fathom why in the world you'd say this to somebody.
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I I just if you're gonna do it, and obviously you shouldn't.
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You should not be harboring illegal aliens, but you know, they're gonna compare this to the secret police and how they're just protecting those from from undue harm.
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They're gonna they're gonna do that.
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But if you're gonna do it, coming out and admitting to that in front of somebody you've never met before, because this is an undercover video, there's not for somebody in the church, there's somebody new, that's just there.
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Coming out and admitting that to somebody random is maybe the worst display of just incompetence of all time.
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On top of actually doing it and the evil of that, you throw in, you know what, this new guy showed up.
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Why don't I tell him how we're breaking federal law?
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That's a good idea.
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Why don't I explain to him all of the problems in our social gathering so that he can be aware of how evil we are?
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That's the best op that those are best for optics right now.
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But again, this is exactly the kind of place that Tallerico went, that he still admits that he goes.
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And so, again, we know the church admitted that most of them wouldn't even describe themselves as Christians, they would describe themselves as agnostic or atheistic.
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And at some point, we need to be we need to have clarity as Christians and as conservatives.
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And I know that the phrase, do not judge, has been ingrained in every young person, especially.
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And and old and every old person alike, everybody.
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The the culture is trying to convince you as a Christian that part of Jesus' commandments were that you weren't allowed to judge people.
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And they point to the verse that says, Do not judge, and then they turn and point at the woman who was caught in adultery, uh, who Christ said, Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
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And so you know, you hear all that, and they use that to bludgeon you into refusing to make claims of of values and claims about people.
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Because to do that would be to judge.
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And what they don't do, what's so interesting is they don't actually care about what the Bible says, because again, they've admitted they they retranslated all of the Bible the way that they s that that suits them, and then they try to use the Bible as their basis for going after you.
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And and you know the irony in all of this, right?
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Just as a logical side note, because if somebody tells you don't judge, and then you judge, and they say you can't do that, you say, Well, you're judging me for judging.
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And I know it's a bit of a flip-flop where you say, Well, that doesn't work, well, that's because the phrase do not judge doesn't work without the proper context of the rest of scripture, which tells us explicitly to judge.
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If we're gonna judge, here's how you judge rightly.
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And if we judge rightly, when you look at someone like Talarico and the so-called church that he's attended and continues to attend, the only determination you can make is that you're not a Christian.
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You're not.
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You're not a believer in the Christ that we worship.
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You don't believe in the God of the Bible, you believe in a made-up figurehead uh that that you like.
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And we know that because of how you've had to re-translate the word of God because you think there are some things in there that are, as you quoted, stupid.
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That's not a believer, that's not a Christian.
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And we should have the courage and the clarity to say, James Talerico is not a Christian.
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Do I want him to be saved?
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Yes.
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But and we can't judge the heart, but we're called to judge by action.
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And by all these actions, the thing we have to while we're saying is, hey, look, I know that the the race by Talarico's side has been painted as a Christian versus this guy who did bad things, but Talarico's no better.
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And and he's actually not a Christian, he doesn't actually believe in God at all.
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He's actually worse because he's appointed someone else and judging while sitting there rewriting scripture, saying that he doesn't like Christianity, saying that he learned from Islam and all these things.
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This is not a Christian.
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This is someone trying to run on a Christian platform because you're not gonna win in Texas as a Democrat, really in general, but especially not you know, the the situation where you have this guy who's just legitimately not a Christian at all, which is what Talarico is.
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And we again, uh the most important of this is that we have to be able to say that.
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I've seen a lot of people say, like, oh well, Taler Rico is kinda kinda crazy.
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Yeah, but what does that mean to your average voter?
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Nothing.
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I mean, you could say that about anybody.
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You have to have the courage to come out and say, no, Tylerico is not a Christian.
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He does not follow God.
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He is a false teacher.
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He is a wolf.
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And everything that he espouses about Christ is built on a false Bible, on a false word.
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And this guy actually hates Christ, actually hates everything that Christ stood for.
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He's willing to be in a church that violates federal law.
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He's willing to be in a church that preaches a Bible that has been butchered by them for the purpose of rewriting it only so that their narrative can be achieved, because they view their narrative as more important than God's.
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They want it to be their history instead of his.
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Are Christians going to sin?
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Yes.
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And if your favorite Christian or your favorite pastor gets caught in sin and you say, Well, man, I just can't believe he sinned, I'm I'm shocked.
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I believe it.
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I promise you, every single person sins.
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Now, some sins are more grievous, sure, but every single person sins.
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And if your f your hope is rooted in some guy you know or met or like not sinning, I got really bad news for you.
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He's going to get caught sinning.
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I promise you something's going to come out.
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It's going to happen.
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It's inevitable because people sin.
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But there is a difference in people who sin and repent and show shame and admit they sinned when they get caught, and people who come out and try to defend themselves and justify it and say, well, I I here's the justification, here's a verse I can twist to mean this, that, or the other.
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That's not what you expect from a believer.
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And that's what Talo Rico keeps doing.
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With that being said, we got a text in that's that we're going to respond to.
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It says Happy first day of fall, Michael.
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When do we get a notice the temps cool?
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Well, I actually have great news for you.
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Not really.
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We will talk all about maybe some of that in the final segment of the show.
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When we get back, we'll have our weather report coming up.
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I'll let you know, as far as I can see on the agenda, that's even remotely accurate if we see any temperatures coming down.
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Um, even biomonica would be nice now that we're officially in fault.
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We'll talk about it when we get back from the break.
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If you would like to text in as well, the number is 713-779-5978.
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You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative, and Lord willing, I will return with our weather reports rather than the first hour of the show after this break.
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Going over what we have coming up, especially now that we're in fall.
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Of course, Houston's kicking off the start of astronomical fall with near record heat and elevated ozone levels today.
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Today's high could challenge our daily record of a hundred degrees, though we don't actually expect it to get quite that hot.
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The Tax Commission on Environmental Quality has issued an ozone action day as well for not only Houston, but as for for Galveston and Brisoria counties as well.
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Because ground level ozone can be formed from emissions from gasoline engines.
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They say, oh, you know, today's a good day to carpool, combine your errands, avoid drive-thru lanes, right?
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Those sorts of general things.
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Regardless of that, a milder weather pattern could arrive by later this week, courtesy of a backdoor front, which is a frontal boundary moving in from the northeast instead of the usual northwest, which pushes drier air into our region.
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If current model trends hold up, after temperatures could stay limited in the lower middle nineties, while overnight temperatures could dip into the upper 60s and low 70s, especially north of Houston.
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Now that temperature change may be noticeable, but again, it would not be a fall cold front of any sort.
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The autumnal equinox marks the beginning of astronomical fall.
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In Houston, again, we're writing to that with temperatures in the middle and upper nineties.
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A reminder that, by the way, the calendar, even though we want it to say fall, doesn't always align with our actual meteorology, unfortunately.
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Regardless of that, a meaningful shift may be possible around the first weekend of October when some forecast ensembles show the potential for below normal temperatures.
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That remains a trend right now.
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That's a guess rather than an official forecast.
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But regardless of if it comes then or not, the fact that we even have that pattern on the radar that we're looking at tells us we're headed in that general direction, right?
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The same thing that we get from Space City Weather, they said that next Monday should bring more of the same before we see the high pressure move off.
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Right now, the models are pushing toward Wednesday, having the best chance of rainfall next week, but it's difficult to have this much precision this far out.
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As for temperatures, increased cloud cover and rain should take some of the heat out of daytime highs, possibly pushing us down into the 80s.
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The pattern will also open up the possibility of a real fall front moving into the region.
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But as of now, we don't want to put a firm date on things, but we feel pretty confident saying that we should be done with this mid-upper 90s issue that has characterized much of September coming very soon.
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I'm also looking at the accueather monthly forecast.
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And I'm seeing by the first week of October, those highs may drop down into the mid-80s and those lows may drop down into the sixties, which would be a very different set of temperatures than what we're dealing with right now.
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A massive change.
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Now, with that being said, when we get back from the break, at the top of the next hour, we're gonna have David Gibson from Gun Owners of America Second Amendment hunters coming on to talk about a lesser-known side of the Second Amendment, hunting, and your right to keep and bear arms, which shall not be infringed.
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When we get back, text in 713-779-5978, and I'll be right back at the top of the next hour.
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From deep in the heart of Texas, it's Houston's God-loving patriot, the voice of reason.
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This is Clone Star Conservative, Michael Wilson.
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And we're approaching the Second Amendment from an angle that we really haven't spent much time talking about here on the show.
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You know, we say all the time, and you've probably heard it, the Second Amendment isn't about hunting, right?
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Because they try to say, well, it was it was to protect hunters.
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That's why they just wanted to make sure they could hunt.
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And we just had to say, no, this was much broader than that.
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But something that I think has been lost in translation there is, but it certainly includes hunting.
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And it includes your right to keep and bear arms wherever that's found.
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And so for millions of Americans, hunting is their introduction of firearms.
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It's how firearms are passed from one generation to another.
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It's a huge part of American gun culture.
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And Gunarms America actually has an entire operation dedicated to that community called GOA Second Amendment Hunters.
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Joining me is David Gibson, GOA's national hunting director and chairman of Second Amendment Hunters.
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And so, David, welcome to the show.
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Thanks for joining us.
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Good morning, brother.
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How are you doing?
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I'm doing well.
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I'm doing well.
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I'm very excited because, again, this is uh a part of the Second Amendment that I think is often, I don't want to say let fall by the wayside, but I don't think people are talking about it nearly as much.
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And I think we're gonna see that kind of through some of the numbers that we're gonna get into.
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Um, but can you first kind of give us a broad picture?
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What is GOA Second Amendment hunters?
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Like, why did GOA decide that hunters needed their own dedicated outreach effort?
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Well, we kind of have an epidemic in the hunting community um with 15 million hunters across the United States.
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Only about 50% of them are participating in the political process.
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So if you do the math, that's a staggering number sitting on the sidelines and uh and not having their voice heard.
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Right.
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I know absolutely, and I think it's I think it's crazy to me because again, you think about what all a part of hunting is, and you say, hey, this is actually a really important fight for you guys.
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That this is something that that is directly tied into your way of life.
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And to hear that there's millions upon millions of people who don't understand that and therefore aren't involved, especially with a lot of the fights that you know working with GOA that we have at the state and federal level, it's more important than ever that we have that involvement.
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It it really is.
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And and part of it is like you said earlier, is it's these Some of the good old boys will sit there and say that they're not gonna come after my grandpa's 30-odd six or or or or my hunting rifles, so to speak.
00:55:36.960 --> 00:55:47.679
But you and I both know that uh all firearms are at risk and and on the table for confiscation or just uh being outlawed in general.
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Right.
00:55:48.320 --> 00:56:10.000
And I I also want to remind people that, you know, it's kind of funny because whenever we we look at the way that the the not just the party, but the people that want gun control measures in, and that could be Republicans or Democrats, whoever it is, politicians in general that desire that, they're not very limited in the scope of why they do what they do, in the sense that whatever is politically possible and expedient at the time is what they'll jump on.
00:56:10.159 --> 00:56:15.599
And so if it's expedient for them to go after AR-15, despite the fact that we all know that AR-15s are not a problem, they go after it.
00:56:16.320 --> 00:56:18.960
They title it whatever way they have to in order to go after those things.
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And so if you think your guns are safe today, they may not be literally by tomorrow.
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Right.
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And so I go ahead.
00:56:27.760 --> 00:56:42.719
Well, I mean, they they take it as they come, it just takes one event, one one incident using one of these firearms, a hunting firearms, so to speak, for them to pounce on it and and pile on and and make that their their main focal point, you know.
00:56:43.119 --> 00:56:43.199
Right.
00:56:43.280 --> 00:56:46.400
And a lot of what GOA does, and I want to remind people is very preventative.
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A lot of the way that GOA has operated, and this is a good thing, is that they kind of preempt a lot of those policies by putting these rights into statutes in advance.
00:56:55.360 --> 00:56:57.119
But that requires the support of people.
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And so if you're saying, well, they're not coming for it today, they may come for it tomorrow.
00:57:00.719 --> 00:57:03.519
By tomorrow, it may be too late for us to preempt some of that.
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And so getting involved now is so crucial.
00:57:05.599 --> 00:57:19.519
Now, I do want to point out um, again, we we we often, when we talk about the Second Amendment, we we know that it's broad, but we often try to just boil it down into, well, it's just a tyrannical enforce mechanism to prevent tyranny.
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And that's true.
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Or we say, hey, it's just for self-defense.
00:57:21.760 --> 00:57:22.800
Well, that's also true.
00:57:23.039 --> 00:57:26.400
But when it says to keep and bear arms, that's incredibly broad.
00:57:26.559 --> 00:57:35.039
And I think pushing out one group, one of the biggest groups that uses their firearms, is incredibly dangerous, especially because you mentioned how many are not voting, that they're not super politically engaged.
00:57:35.199 --> 00:57:42.320
And so we talk about gun owners as this political constituency a lot of the time, but we don't necessarily target hunters.
00:57:42.400 --> 00:57:48.559
Um, whether whether they vote or they're contact lawmakers or they pay attention to what's going on in our state legislature and in Washington.
00:57:48.719 --> 00:57:55.920
Um, how how have you kind of seen that play out when you're talking to hunters in terms of, hey guys, this is actually a fight that really impacts you?
00:57:56.000 --> 00:57:58.079
How have those conversations sort of gone?
00:57:59.119 --> 00:58:04.159
Well, I mean, for the non-participants, I I think they just they don't know.
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You know, this day and age, we all kind of have political fatigue in the sense that we are bombarded with this 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
00:58:15.599 --> 00:58:25.599
And a lot of these guys go out to the woods and and participate in this tradition to get away from that and and to unwind and and forget about that.
00:58:25.760 --> 00:58:48.320
But when you start explaining to them what's actually happening and the infringements happening, not just with their gun rights, but with their their rights to use public land or or rights to use certain firearms on those public lands, they have no idea what's going on, you know, and and and they get this big shocked look on their face and have no answers for you.
00:58:49.039 --> 00:58:57.920
And really, I I just don't um I don't understand why it doesn't motivate them.
00:58:58.079 --> 00:59:18.159
They still walk away from the conversation with the attitude of, well, you know, that's crazy, but with no urgency to want to get involved in that's not all of them per se, but a good percentage of them, I think, are just stagnant in a way that they're just tired of being bombarded with the politics.
00:59:18.480 --> 00:59:23.119
And you and I both know these these elections have huge consequences.
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And um, I'm afraid some of them aren't gonna realize that until it's too late.
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Right.
00:59:28.639 --> 00:59:31.920
And I also remind everybody, this is why, and I I often say this about GOA.
00:59:32.079 --> 00:59:42.159
One of the things I really like, but but is dangerous, is that so many people see the work the GOA does, and I can't I think they kind of sit by the sidelines and say, well, they're handling it.
00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:47.679
And it's not just GOA, it's it's a variety of gun groups and people that say, well, that politician's pro-gun, he'll handle it.
00:59:47.760 --> 00:59:50.159
He's in my district, he's got this, I don't need to do anything.
00:59:50.320 --> 00:59:54.079
And I think they forget that in order for the politicians to do anything, they have to have the support of the people.
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We're in a republic, which means that every single one of us has a part to play in that political process, even if we're tired of it.
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One of the ways that I think we can see this, it's a good analogy, is with hunting.
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You mentioned it as a tradition, and it's very true, and it's not just the act itself, it's also the guns you use, right?
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A lot of hunters are getting guns that maybe their great-grandfather used to hunt.
01:00:14.719 --> 01:00:20.960
And so you see families passing down the physical objects, passing down the firearms.
01:00:21.119 --> 01:00:26.480
And one of the big reminders is are you passing down the rights to keep and bear them?
01:00:26.719 --> 01:00:33.039
You may be passing down the guns themselves, but are you fighting to make sure that not only do they get to have the guns, but they have the right to have the guns.
01:00:33.199 --> 01:00:38.000
And that is arguably significantly more important than just the the objects themselves.
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I think that's getting lost.
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I think it's the I want to leave this for my kids, but am I leaving more than just the object itself?
01:00:43.599 --> 01:00:45.519
Am I leaving the basis for it?
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Well, and and are are you leaving the mindset that it is our responsibility to fight for this for the next generation, for their kids, for our grandkids.
01:00:56.400 --> 01:00:59.360
Um it's like like you said, it's not just the object.
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We have to pass down the fighting spirit and the responsibility the the importance of the responsibility to to retain this, you know.
01:01:08.400 --> 01:01:08.559
Right.
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And I also want to point out, you know, when most people hear gun control, you immediately you start the a lot of people will think about AR-15s and concealed carry and magazine restrictions, stuff like that.
01:01:16.880 --> 01:01:19.760
Um, but there are laws and regulations that could affect hunters, right?
01:01:19.840 --> 01:01:32.880
Even today, right, there are regulations on everything from ammunition to suppressors to particular firearms, but you mentioned federal land, you know, transportation, all those sorts of things actually are on the table and do impact hunters.
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Can you walk us through some of those?
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Um yeah.
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Um we both know that that uh well let's go here.
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Trump has uh you know been above board and trying to open up more federal public land, trying to open up more freedoms for the hunters.
01:01:55.760 --> 01:02:14.000
But if you actually read into what he's saying um and his executive orders, he leaves a lot of this up to the state and up to the state agencies to to write these new laws and and open up these these uh lands and opportunities for hunters.
01:02:14.239 --> 01:02:34.320
But if the hunters don't you know raise their voice in their their own state and tell their their politicians what needs to happen and and hold them accountable for what Trump's trying to do, they're just gonna wait waste their time out and uh let all these go by the wayside.
01:02:34.719 --> 01:02:35.280
Absolutely.
01:02:35.440 --> 01:02:44.079
Now, another thing that I think people forget about, and you kind of did touch on it for a moment, but it's also because hunters are often also very involved in conservation, right?
01:02:44.159 --> 01:02:50.159
Yeah, I I think some people, especially when you get into like the vegan mindset, they think that hunters are just these murderous buffoons.
01:02:50.239 --> 01:02:56.960
Um, and I think they forget that there's a whole level of tradition associated with hunting um from conservation and wildlife management.
01:02:57.119 --> 01:03:03.760
I think that's often undersold, but they're directly intertwined with gun rights, and we see those things violated frequently.
01:03:04.639 --> 01:03:05.280
Absolutely.
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I mean, hunters are the original conservationists before before people start eating lettuce and hugging trees.
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That it was the hunters out there managing the wildlife, managing the land.
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Sounding the alarms when when when certain species were being harvested at a higher rate and they could replenish themselves.
01:03:24.480 --> 01:03:35.920
Um it it is our job again to to maintain um what's the words I'm looking for?
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Um just to conserve for the next generation.
01:03:39.039 --> 01:03:42.239
You know, uh if if we don't, it's not gonna be there for them.
01:03:42.480 --> 01:03:45.920
Right, to be good stewards of the resources we've been given is incredibly important.
01:03:46.239 --> 01:03:48.800
Um I want to kind of make this a little more personal for a minute.
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How did you kind of get into hunting?
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What does that look like for you?
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Something that you look forward to.
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Where did that sort of come from?
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You know, I I didn't grow up in a hunting family.
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You know, I always wanted to.
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Um hunting and fishing were were huge to me when I was a kid.
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I didn't get to participate a lot in the hunting access.
01:04:07.440 --> 01:04:15.039
Um, I didn't hunter fish, but I had an uncle that did hunter fish, and he would take me out when he could, and I would just hook on it.
01:04:15.440 --> 01:04:31.440
Um as I got older and more mobile and be able to go play through the line, that's when when I really started um getting obsessed with with their tradition and just from there just never stopped.
01:04:31.599 --> 01:04:49.679
And now you know I originally grew up in California and and it used to be Texas is now, you know, and and slowly waned and and got uh you know legislated to death, so to speak, as far as participating in these opportunities.
01:04:50.480 --> 01:05:01.599
Um so we came to California in 2018, sounding the alarm and uh trying to wake people up to the fact that this is coming to this state as well.
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Right.
01:05:02.079 --> 01:05:10.400
And I remind everybody, and I'm glad you mentioned that because I've said this before, it's easy to point to places like New York and to California and say, well, those people are lost.
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It's just too late for them.
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But here in Texas, it's the good old place, you know, we're the Wild West now.
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And I remind everybody, do you think California was like that a hundred years ago, fifty years ago?
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Do you think New York City, New York City used to put crosses up on their skyscrapers?
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They used to be these these bastions of freedom, and now they're not.
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And you might think to yourself, what happened?
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And the biggest part of this, as I often remind people, being in a republic, is that people didn't stand up.
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And in Texas, we think we have all these freedoms.
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They're not magic.
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They're fought and died for.
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And if we if somebody's not gonna do it, if somebody's not willing to stand up, it's not gonna go anywhere.
01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:49.280
Now, I want to talk a little bit about this detail aspect just for a moment.
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Can you give me some examples of what Second Amendment hunters is actually doing on the ground?
01:05:54.960 --> 01:05:58.719
Like if somebody joins or wants to get involved, what does that process actually look like?
01:07:04.719 --> 01:07:10.960
So, you know, for somebody to do that, you can look us up on Facebook and Instagram at Second Amendment Hunters.
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You can go to gunowners.org and plug in there.
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Um everything that we're doing is on the website and social media.
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So reach out to us if you want to be involved.
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We'd love to have you.
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Excellent.
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And and again, that's David Gibson, National Hunting Director for Gun Owners of America and chairman of GOA Second Amendment Hunters.
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David, we appreciate the time.
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We'd love to have you back sometime to talk more about all of this.
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And we appreciate you, all the work that you're doing in I think uh an often overlooked aspect of the Second Amendment.
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And we appreciate you giving us your time.
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Absolutely, brother.
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Talk to you soon.
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Talk to you soon.
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And again, ladies and gentlemen, this has been 2A Tuesday brought to you by Collectors Firearms.
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That's David Gibson, the National Hunting Director for Gun Owners of America and the chairman of GOA Second Amendment Hunters.
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You know, again, I just want to highlight it because I think it's important.
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We want to pass things down to our children, but the most important thing we pass down is the character and the rights that we're afforded by nature of what our ancestors have fought and died for.
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And those things are incredibly crucial.
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It's phenomenal that you can pass down an inheritance, whether that's your home or your firearms, or maybe you have gold in a safe somewhere from your grandfather.
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It's excellent.
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But those things become irrelevant if we're not also passing down the fighting spirit of America and passing down the rights that we've been afforded.
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If we're not passing that down, what are we passing down at all?
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And I think it's incredibly important that we're involved in this fight.
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So again, you can go check them out on their website or their Facebook or Instagram social media and get involved.
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But it's incredibly important that we're addressing all sides of this issue so that everyone can band together to fight the fight against those who would tyrannically revoke our rights out from underneath us.
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Again, that's two A Tuesday from Collectors' Firearms.
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative nearly three years after Houston voters approved a measure, giving the City Council more power in Houston's strong mayoral system.
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Proposition A has not been used very often.
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It's been used sort of sparingly.
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Proposition A, by the way, is uh limp kind of kind of a way that multiple City Council members can bring a proposition before City Council rather than it being a m mayoral-led effort, uh just to kind of make sure that there's checks and balances on the way that the city operates, which is a good thing in theory.
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But sometimes it's often been used as a way to get around what the people actually want.
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I'll give an example of this.
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Back in April, we know that they had they used Proposition A to get a proposal aimed at limiting how Houston police cooperate with Federal Immigration Authorities, um, which prompted a shutdown, a showdown with Governor Greg Abbott and a dispute over the role of the mayor's administration.
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Uh and last month's split that faced landlords, uh that forced landlords essentially to provide air conditioning and rental units, prompted Mayor John Whitmeyer to question whether proposition A proposals are sufficiently vetted in the first place.
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Again, it was designed and it was proposed and it was presented to the voters as a way to give council members a direct path to bring lawful proposals before the full council with the support of two colleagues.
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Whitmeyer prefers that every proposal first be reviewed by a council committee, however, to prevent what he calls unintended consequences.
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The city attorney, who reports to the mayor, also reviews each proposition A proposal to ensure that it's lawful, which some council members say could undermine a proposal if the mayor opposes it.
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These disagreements have raised a broader question, I think, about how much power Proposition A really gives council members.
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Nancy Sims, a political science lecturer at the University of Houston, said Proposition A has expanded City Council's power to a degree, but you still need the mayor's support.
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And so uh Sims said that Proposition A's use may fluctuate with and dependent on the administration that's in the mayoralship at the time.
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Whitmeyer, meanwhile, says that Proposition A is completely unnecessary during his administration.
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He said if someone's got a good idea that helps Houston, they can walk in my office and propose it any day.
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They don't have to go through that.
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They don't have to get their support of multiple people.
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If they bring it to me and it's a good idea, I'll go forward with it.
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Um council members, since it was adopted, have introduced 18 proposals in the past three years through Proposition A, eleven of which have passed.
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So eleven of our total ordinances over the past three years have been passed through this proposition.
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Some of the proposals involved policy questions, including immigration, policing, the city tax rate, when and how citizens can address their city government.
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Others were narrower, like one of them was renaming terminal E at Bush Intercontinental after Sheila Jackson Lee, um, or requiring nightclubs to post their dress codes.
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Um other proposals made it easier for council members to build speed cushions, you know, we might call them speed bumps in neighborhoods and barred police from using traffic stop quotas.
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Some of those have been good.
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Um you also have it's interesting because Charles Blaine, uh, we all know and love Charles Blaine, uh, who has led a lot of different efforts.
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We know this.
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One of the things that he did was lead a coalition to gather signatures to place the item on the ballot back in 2023.
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He's been in this a long time.
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And he said that council members are using proposition A to look at bigger things, including social issues.
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He said that's their prerogative.
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They are the owners of these ordinances now, which is the underlying point that we're excited about.
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It's another layer of accountability.
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And so, again, these these are the example that I give often.
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The things that are really good in theory need to be used.
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Right?
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This is this is true all of the time.
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And I I want to bring back GOA up to to kind of point this out.
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You have a God-given right to keep and bear arms.
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What's the purpose of that?
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I mean, it's it's broad, right?
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We just talked about hunters, so obviously that's one purpose is that you're actually able to provide food for your family.
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That's kind of important.
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But it's more than that, it also includes the right to defend your family from uh someone trying to break in your home or someone assaulting you on public transportation, whatever that looks like, you have the right to defend yourself and your family.
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It's also the main right that prevents tyrannical government from overstepping its boundaries.
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It is the only enforcement mechanism in the entirety of the Constitution, other than checks and balances themselves, that prevents the federal government from acting in a tyrannical manner.
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It was designed to do that.
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And so those things are all great.
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But if the uh if you separate either of the things out, it fails.
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If you take the rights away, it fails.
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But if you have the right and no one uses it, no one stands up for it, and nobody utilizes that right to defend their family, it's it's pointless.
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You actually have to use the right.
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That means going and getting training.
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It means going to the range, it means being prepared for a life or death situation, knowing your rights, being informed, it requires a lot of involvement.
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Because, you know, in this economy, people wondering, does$25 really go that far?
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It means preparing for the legislative session, often years in advance.
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Uh, we talked to Richard Hayes, he's the chief legislative counsel for Gunner of America.
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He said something that cracked me up one time because he said, you know, the legislative session ended.
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We said we did a good job.
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We gave ourselves a pat on the back.
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He said, and then that night I was already in my office preparing for the next one.
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He said, and people were like, you're crazy.
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He's like, yeah, but we have to prepare.
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We have to be ready for the next one.
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So that$25 goes to them preparing for the next legislative session.
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And for then them lobbying in that legislative session, that also means that if something makes it through the cracks, whether that's a law, an ordinance, an executive order, whatever it may be, uh, an agency prerogative, whatever it is, GOA is there at the rally to take it to court to sue on behalf of the American people to say this is a violation of our rights.
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But again, that requires your support for them to do what they do.
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We can't just sit on the sidelines and hope they do a good job.
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We have to support their mission.
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Now, we also need to talk a little bit about what's going on in this issue down south.
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The former Brizoria County deputy, who shot and killed a reportedly unarmed 18-year-old in Lake Jackson back in June, allegedly fractured a resident's ankle during a traffic stop months earlier, according to the federal lawsuit that was filed last week.
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Kevin Tippett, the ex-deputy who was indicted last month in the killing of John Garrillo Mendoza Jr., was sued in federal court for allegedly using excessive force against Brisouri County resident Justin Parker back in December of last year.
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A 22-page complaint, which was filed a week ago, last Tuesday, I believe, claims that Tippet Tippett kicked Parker's legs out from under him, dug his knee into Parker's back, and shoved his face into the roadway when responding to a deadly conduct call that yielded ultimately no criminal charges.
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A group of bar patrons had assaulted Parker and his friend earlier that night in Damon before police received a report that Parker fired a weapon at the establishment.
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Parker denied the claim and was released again without being excited or charged.
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There was no evidence he actually did that.
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Parker's shirt was turned off, torn off during the assault, and when Tippett drove his knee into Parker's back, he was restrained and unarmed.
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The lawsuit, the filing, reads, quote, Defendant Tippett maintained this position for approximately two or more minutes, even though the plaintiff was handcuffed, prone, unarmed, shirtless, not resisting, not attempting to flee, and had been compliant from the beginning of the stop.
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The lawsuit names Tippett and four other members of the Brizouria County Sheriff's Office as defendants, in addition to the county government.
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An attorney for Tippett and the other Sheriff's Office defendants did not appear in federal court records as of last Monday.
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Spokesman for the Sheriff's Office and County Government did not immediately return a request for comment either.
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Uh, though a spokesman for the Brisouria County District Attorney's Office directed everyone to a webpage for public information act requests where you can go through the formal process.
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Meanwhile, again, we all know this is also on top of the shooting event that happened back in June, that there's still, by the way, a lot of questions surrounding exactly what happened, why it happened, and who was ultimately at fault.
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But one of the big things that I want to talk about is again, this goes back to a conversation we've had to have very frequently, which is frustrating because we shouldn't have to have it, because so many people don't even know what nuance is.
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And it's dangerous to not know what nuance is.
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And I'll give you a very clear example of what nuance is, because this is the topic where you see it displayed all the time against people on the right, is when it comes to what you mean when you say the word Nazi.
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And I'm dead serious about this, right?
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If you want to build gas chambers for Jews, are you a Nazi?
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Well, yeah, we can all acknowledge yes, that's bad, and that's how it associates with the problems we saw in Nazi ideology.
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Okay, sure.
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What if you drink water?
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Are you a Nazi?
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Well, the Nazis drank water, right?
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They they did.
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They breathe air, you breathe air, you breathe air, you drink water.
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Do you walk on your feet instead of your hands?
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Well, the Nazis did that too.
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Do you wear clothes?
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Because usually the Nazis were wearing clothes.
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And you start to list out all the things that every human being does, and you say, well, the Nazis did that, so every human being really is a Nazi.
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Well, nuance would say, no, we can differentiate between what is good and what is evil, what is normal and what is not normal, and use that to make a determination as to what is good and what is wrong.
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And this is the issue you get into with tribal politics.
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There's no longer any room for nuance.
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And it's dangerous.
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If you say that I'm required to support everything that Trump ever does because Trump was a good president, that's insane.
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I should be able to have opinions of my own and say, hey, I think it's really good that Trump puts a people on the Supreme Court that that overruled Roe v.
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Wayne, that overturned.
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That was excellent.
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I don't think it's really bad when Trump comes out and says that there should be uh six weeks for abortion, that that should be totally fine at every state level.
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That's really bad.
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I think it's really good that generally speaking, you know, a variety of the things that Trump has done, I can say these are all good.
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And then I can point to some others and say, hey, these are not so good, and we should hold them accountable for these.
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That's nuance.
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Same thing with law enforcement.
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You'll find a lot of people who say ACAB, which, you know, is the more profane version of all cops are bad.
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And then you have other people that say, you know, no, we support our our boys in blue.
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They have the blue line, you know, on their on their as a bumper sticker.
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And the problem is that the people that are part of the ACAB movement, they can never admit that actually law enforcement serves a legitimate purpose.
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They s they risk their lives every day for your safety.
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But some people on the other side, our side, are so pro-law enforcement that when law enforcement does do something objectively wrong, they're quick to defend them anyways and say, well, no, we have to we have to back them.
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It's like, well, what if they did something that abused their power?
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What about if they use the flock camera system to stalk their ex-girlfriend?
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What if they shot an unarmed, you know, teenager for no reason at all because he was just a little trigger happy?
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We can't, we can't defend now.
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We have to say, no, that's wrong.
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And of course, we don't know that that's the case in this case.
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I'm not trying to go after this particular officer and say he did anything wrong, anything like that.
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What I am saying is we have to, if we're going to be conservatives, if we're gonna be Christians, if we're gonna be involved in politics, we cannot become the tribal monsters that the left has become.
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We have to utilize nuance, we have to utilize critical thinking, and we have to approach things on a policy by policy and case by case basis to address real issues.
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We cannot sit here and play the game where we say, well, if they're on our side, then we always support them, even when they're caught in a massive transgression, even when they've done something absolutely awful, we have to support them.
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No, we have to be we have to be better than that.
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We have to be, or we're nothing at all.
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If we can't hold our own side accountable when there are legitimate issues, and that doesn't mean that it gives you free reign to just go after anybody on your side in the name of, well, see, look, I'm the real based objective guy because I'm going after everybody.
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I'm not saying that.
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You have a lot of those guys out there.
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I'm not going to name names, but in the political space, you have a lot of commentators nowadays who just want to counter signal.
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And so they'll go after every Republican politician and say, he's bad and he's bad and he's bought and paid for.
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And they do this and they think that it makes them cool and makes them different and makes them, oh, look, I'm objective because I'm willing to go after everybody.
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No.
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But it means using your brain.
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I know that's a foreign concept in politics nowadays, right?
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Politicians should be changed out, you know, often for the same reason as diapers.
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We know that.
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It means utilizing your brain and thinking and saying, hey, do I support our law enforcement?
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Absolutely.
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Am I incredibly thankful for the work they do?
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Absolutely.
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Do I think they should have access to flock?
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No.
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Do I think they should be able to shoot anybody and ask questions later and hope for the best?
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No.
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Do I think that their authority is endless?
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No.
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I don't want tyranny.
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But you can use your brain to say, I support law enforcement and don't support these things.
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And it's called nuance, and it's too infrequently used these days, especially in politics.
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With that being said, we get back from the break.
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A federal judge has now paused the Texas GOP lawsuit to close primaries, given that the Texas legislature is expected to close the primaries during the upcoming legislative session, making an immediate ruling unnecessary in the first place.
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative.
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For some background on this case, for those who may not be aware, Texas law requires open primary elections, which again, for those who may not even know what that term means, it means that the Republican Party has to allow any eligible voter to vote in its nominating contest.
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And it does not matter who you're going to vote for in the general.
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So say somebody wanted to vote for James Tallerico.
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They want to take they or a Democrat, because they're not voting in the primary, right?
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They don't know if it's going to be Jasmine Crockett or James Tallerico.
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They just want a Democrat in the seat.
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But they know that being Texas, there is a large chance that the Democrat does not win.
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So what do they do?
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Just strategically to cut their losses, what they'll do is they'll go say, well, if we lose in the general, at least let us lose to someone who's not going to be crazy in their mind.
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And so what they'll do is they'll say, I don't care if it's Crockett or if it's Tallerico or whoever it is, as long as they're on the Democrat platform.
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So I'm going to go in, I'm going to vote in the Republican primary for John Cornyn.
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And then in November I'll go vote for whoever the Democrat candidate ends up being, because I didn't care, but I just wanted to make sure that should we lose, maybe at least we can have John Cornyn and not someone like Ken Paxton in office.
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And they do this frequently, and you can't really blame them.
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It's good political strategy.
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If you don't care who the Democrat is and you think you're going to lose in the general anyways, you might as well flip the vote on the primary and get a more in your mind moderate candidate.
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However, the Republican Party and the people of the Republican Party want a closed primary system, uh, which means that only those who are voting Republican, you have to register.
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That means that if you're gonna if you want to vote in the general for a Republican candidate, that's the only way that you can vote for a primary candidate for the Republican nomination.
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Same with Democrats, by the way, it would apply both ways.
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That if you are planning to vote for Taller Rico or Crockett come November, then you have to vote for either Taller Rico or Crockett in the primary.
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You have to register.
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There's multiple states that do this.
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Texas does not.
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And so the party adopted and ratified Rule 46, which required voters in its primary election to register as Republicans.
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In September of last year, Chip Hunt and the Texas GOP filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S.
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District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Amarillo, asking the court for a consent judgment, declaring the Texas primary election law violates the Republican Party's First Amendment associational rights.
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In other words, we're we are a party.
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And as such, we have the right to determine who can participate in our elections.
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And therefore, it's wrong that when we say we want it done this way, that the state doesn't let us.
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And so they sued over it.
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And so U.S.
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District Judge Matthew Kasmarek acknowledged that this is a difficult question of constitutional law.
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He wrote that the answer to this constitutional question is not simply a matter of applying precedent.
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The most relevant U.S.
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Supreme Court case to consider is the California Democratic primary versus Jones from back twenty-six years ago, in which the court held that California's blanket primaries severely burdened political parties' associational rights by forcing them to affiliate with non-members in the candidate selection process.
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However, in the same case, the court actually said that open primaries may be constitutionally distinct from blanket primaries and expressly left open the question of whether mandatory open primaries are constitutional or not.
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And so over the weekend, Judge Kazmarek decided to stay the case, which means not make a ruling on it.
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Not say I'm ruling in favor, there's no injunction, I'm not ruling in favor of the state or in the favor of the party.
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I'm gonna stay the case until after the culmination of the 2027 legislative session, in which the Texas legislature is expected to amend its primary election law, meaning it wouldn't matter what the question is of whether or not the party has the right, you won't need it if the law changes or if the if the legislation decides that this is a worthy fight.
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Casimaric concluded, quote, legislative developments may resolve this case without the need for judicial intervention.
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For the reasons below, this case has stayed pending the 2027 regular session of the Texas legislature.
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Kazamarik reasoned that rather than ruling on that difficult question, it would be best to wait until the legislature has an opportunity to change the law, because if they do change the law, then his ruling would be irrelevant anyway.
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He wrote the Texas legislature should have an opportunity to choose how it will structure taxes primaries going forward.
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The court can address the constitutional question if necessary.
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Thus, this court chooses to exercise a wise discretion and restrain its authority because of scrupulous regard for the rightful independence of the state governments, which makes sense.
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And let me be clear on this, because there's two competing ideologies here.
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Part of me says I hate it, part of me says I love it, and I want to be honest with you guys, here's why.
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I hate it, because as a party, we've given the state ample chances.
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How many legislative sessions have we been asking for this?
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There have been plenty of people asking for years to do this.
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And I know the party has just recently decided they're gonna take the full fight to the court system, but that was like the straw that broke the camel's back.
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We've been asking for it for much longer than we actually sued over it.
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And so giving them another chance just feels like a waste of time.
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And on top of that, be aware, even if they changed the law, this would have been a great precedent.
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Because every state, you should have the right to do this.
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If a party wants to do this, they should have the right to.
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And this case would have set the precedent for them to do that.
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But here's why I love it.
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And that's because I'm a big states' rights guy.
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I'm a big fan that the way that we have applied the Constitution to the states has been absolutely awful.
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And I want to repeal a lot of it.
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When we talk about the First Amendment, this is one of the clearest examples of it.
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The First Amendment was never intended to apply to the states.
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It was not.
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It was written for the federal government.
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It was a it was a it was a blanket on Congress, the the federal branch.
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And the problem is that when you apply that to the states, there are things the states can no longer do that the founders thought they would be able to do, that they expected them to do, that they they they fought for them to do.
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Things like blasphemy laws, you know, standards, having a specific belief system required for office.
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States had those things.
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They had standards for all those things, and the First Amendment was not a fight for them because the First Amendment was supposed to curtail federal tyranny, not statewide beliefs.
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And so for that reason, I think a state should have the right to do this.
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And so I agree that a federal judge should be very cautious about how he jumps in and tells the state what they're required to do.
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Because it's not that a local judge is voting on this, it's not that a state judge is doing it, this is a federal judge, because it's sued in federal court.
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And it's very dangerous to set a precedent that a federal judge is allowed to have even more authority over the way that a state operates.
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Because what if it was the opposite?
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What what what what if the the left has control of the state or or has control of the party and they want to do something completely perverted?
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Well, the state should be able to stand up to that tyranny and say, no, you're not doing this in our state.
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And if a federal judge says, no, no, no, no, no, no, the state doesn't have that right anymore, it's dangerous.
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And we want states to have those rights.
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And it's it's one of the worst things that we've done that we've revoked those states' rights.
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And so for that reason I love it.
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It's it's, you know, we'll the biggest question I think on everyone's mind is what are they gonna do in the 2027 session?
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That's that's the big question.
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That's coming up before we know it, it's only a few months away.
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That's very dependent on where this case goes.
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And hopefully, Lord willing, we'll actually get some politicians who have a backbone and a spine to come in and to do the right thing and to pass this legislatively.
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Now, with that being said, to wrap up the show, when we return, we're gonna go over Willis High School that have now installed that are now going to install metal detectors after they found a second gun on campus this school year.
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And of course, parents are demanding action because this is insane.
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We'll talk about it when we get back from the break.
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If you would like to text into the show, this is your last chance during the show today.
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The number is 713-779-5978.
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That is 713-779-KYST.
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You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative.
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I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord Willing will talk about Willis High School to wrap up the show after this final very short break.
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Uh which I think is a fair and reasonable response.
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We got a text in also, by the way, it says, Good morning.
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When I read about an officer involved shootings of unarmed civilians, I consider whether it could have been prevented if the officer carried a single action revolver.
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The officer would have to really know the weapon, but it would involve an extra action in time of stress.
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Officers would have to be brave.
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Yeah, a lot of this again is standards and training.
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And it goes back to this.
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You know, when the left started saying we need better training for officers, I saw someone on the right say, No, no, no, just back the blue.
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And I go, What are you talking about?
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What do you mean we don't want extra training and extra standards?
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That's a good thing.
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You are backing the blue.
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In fact, it actually makes the officers safer as well if they're well trained to handle stressful situations.
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Stress is really bad for your ability to handle intense situations.
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And if you're trained to handle them calmly, right?
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Maybe using a different weapon, whatever that looks like, it's incredibly important.
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We should back that as conservatives.
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What are we talking about?
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Of course we want better training.
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Of course it's a good use of our money.
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Of course, we want the people who are tasked with defending us to be good at their job and to be able to handle these situations.
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Same with our schools.
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Of course, we want our kids safe and we want to demand that.
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If that looks like metal detectors, whatever, really there's a there's another cultural issue in tandem with this that's creating the problem of metal detectors.
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You didn't used to need them, and it wasn't just because there were less guns.
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It was because there were less crazy kids.
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And because kids were being raised in the fear and admonition of the Lord, that's changed.
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So we have a lot of problems all kind of working together to create a lot of the variety of issues that we have.
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But I want to thank everybody for texting in.
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I appreciate it a lot.
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Um, and I thank everybody for tuning in as well.
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That'll have to do it for the show today.
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We're coming up on our final break.
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It's not really a break, it's just going to the next show.
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So thanks everybody for being a part of the show today.
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I greatly appreciate it.
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Lord William will be back tomorrow.
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In the meantime, ladies and gentlemen, enjoy the rest of your Tuesday.
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I'll see you tomorrow on Wednesday, and God speed.