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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Are you the guys on the beach who hate everything?
Is this some sort of hYP music that I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I just want to say for the record, since we
heard President Trump say in the Oval Office that CNN
hates our country, CNN does not hate our country.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
And here's here's a breaking news. We live in a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic,
anti Semitic country.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Everything they're doing runs against making America great.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
It was never great.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
So I'm not gonna say the agampart, but making America great.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Taking off the Independence Day weekend, President Trump will be
at Mount Rushmore, where he'll be standing in front of
a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled
away from Native Americans. Told that UH be focusing on
the effort to quote tear down our country's history everything.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
They strongly believe, these human smugglers, that this is their
chance to enter the United State, this is their chance.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Of the American dream. That's why they risk everything only
to find out that it's all alie.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
And when we got our freedom, our quote unquote freedom,
we were never restored whole, which is why you hear
about reparation. So until the United States it tones for that,
it makes good on that we're still living in a
racist country.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Well, Greg Abbott will get a notch on his belt
because out of the House yesterday came a school voucher
bill which passed eighty five sixty three. It'll pass the Senate,
they'll go into reconciliation, they'll work the bill out, it'll
go to the governor, and that will be his crowning
achievement of the session. I'd love to tell you that
it's a perfect bill. I'd love to tell you that
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it's a one hundred percent win, but it's a pyrrhic
victory of sorts because it's sort of like winning the
first round of the playoffs but losing your quarterback. The
bill should have taken money it's currently going to public
education and redirected some of that for school vouchers. It
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did not, because at the end of the day, the
public school lobby is more powerful than any other interest
in the state of Texas. That's why teacher pay raises
is an issue in every single election section and Republicans
are as keen to call for teacher pay raises as
the Democrats are. Nobody knows what the teachers are getting paid,
which is all. No teachers need to get paid more.
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And then we see videos of what's going on in
the schools, and we see the schools that are failing.
Why should all teachers be paid more? And God help
you if you're Mike Miles and you are the HISD
superintendent sent down by the state to fix the state,
and you dare say some teachers are overpaid and some
teachers are underpaid because some teachers are overperformers and some
teachers are underperformers. The school district and their friends at
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the Houston Chronicle, who've made nothing but hell for Mike Miles,
spend all their times and this is awful. Every teacher
needs to be paid more, more and more more, And
you can't have merit pay. If you have merit pay,
you'll have some teachers who are getting paid more than
other teachers. And that's not fair. It's not nice. Remember
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what kind of people are teaching. And you also have
to realize that the public schools aren't about teaching anyway,
just like the universities, the public schools are not about
tuition of your children in a classroom instruction, learning development
haven't been for a long time. Now, you don't have
to tell me that you're a teacher or your wife's
a teacher, and that you care about it. And every
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year before the school year starts you go and buy
school supplies. You're a hero. Love it, Love you for it,
Appreciate you for it. I understand that there are good people.
When I tell you that the Democrats were destroying our military,
that's not to say that your son is not serving
with bravery in the Middle East. That is to say
that the people who've taken over these institutions have surreptitiously, continuously,
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seditiously undermined the goal of what was happening, all while
sucking up more money. They're good at it. This is
what they do. It's what they do all day, every day.
They're very, very good at it. So what the Republican
legislature has done is they vallocated more money so that
the public schools still get all the money they want.
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And now you give a voucher to the kids that
basically aren't in the public schools, because God forbid, the
public schools have to compete. Public schools do not want
to compete. They do not want to compete with folks
doing and they'll have all the reasons in the world
that they don't want to compete, but make no mistake,
they don't want to compete because if they had to compete,
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people wouldn't go to schools where there's knifings and shootings
and principal beatings and teacher beatings and all of the
things that go with that.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
They'd go to schools that were taught by the Catholic Church,
or that we're taught by charter schools and the like,
and that they would not farewell against that, because you
have some people that went into education because they actually
care about it, and they'll start targe schools.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Lots of dog lovers in our crowd. That's a good thing.
Blessed be the dog lovers. And now a message from
Ramon Roblis, the King of Dan.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
Fifteen years ago, the quiet one picked us while the
others in the litter were all yap yap, yap, and
the quiet one just sat there still watching. He wasn't
any more adorable than the rest, but he had something else,
something steady, so we picked him. The quiet one for
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fifteen years longer than our boys have even been alive.
That little kabapoo, the size of a shoe box, brought
us joy, frustration, belly laughs, and all the messy emotions
you never expect to get from a dog until it's
too late to imagine life without him. Our boys came
along in twenty fifteen and twenty eighteen, and the quiet
one was there standing sentry like an old soul who
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knew his job before anyone told him. The boys took
to him right away. So many memories, too many to remember,
and that's the deal you make with your best friend.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
He barely ever barked.
Speaker 9 (07:12):
We could count, literally on two hands, the number of
times we heard his voice, but always he watched, he cuddled,
or he just sat alone, content in the silence. Today
we say goodbye to the quiet little cavapoo. So tonight,
drink the good whiskey, bite the good cigar, Take ten seconds,
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and in your softest whisper, say, that's a good boy, Harrison,
that's a good boy.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Very to understand. When it comes to political issues that
are intentionally very complicated. Over the years, John Cornyan has
done things to undermine an initiative we wanted accomplished setting
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up the votes to kill it, deciding which Republicans would
vote against it, and those Republicans would be the safest
Republicans because in a six year Senate term, you wouldn't
be up for election that time, and your polling was
pretty good, so you could afford to take one for
the team, the team being the Swamp, not the Republican base.
While at the last minute holding out, he's still studying it.
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He wasn't sure what he was going to do. He
was going to give it a good study. You know me,
Old Wayne mccorny, and I'm gonna study it real hard.
I'm gonna look at both sides. I'm gonna keep an
open mind. Into the last minute, he'd vote for it,
and the base would say yay, John Wayne mccorn and
he voted for it. What you didn't know is that
behind the scenes he was killing it. And so if
you say John Wayne mccorny sold us out. Folks that
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got the email from the consultants that are paid a
lot of money by the Swamp to tell you that
John WAYN mccorny is a good conservative, they'd say, no, no,
you're what's wrong with you? He fought for us and
he got it passed out of committee or he got
it whatever. But it never actually wins, never actually passes.
And these people don't notice because there are a lot
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of people who my boy, god, I'm Republican, I ain't Democrat,
I ain't a woe from debtorck Burnberg Democrats, and you
keep messing around, We're gonna lose our Senate. See TM, Democrats,
what you're gonna do? I get this, you know, I
know cornn ain't perfect, he ain't, but you know what,
at least he's Republican. I'm telling you a Democrat could
do us less harm. I'm not for a democrat. I'm
telling you if you don't have, have you ever noticed
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that you got Republicans controlling government And it isn't till
Trump gets there that they actually do anything. Give the
Democrats credit when they take control of something, they run things,
they get things done. Then you take the case of
the State House in the state of Texas. We've had
a Republican majority for years, but it's always been controlled
by the Democrats. It's a very complicated strategy executed beautifully
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by the Democrats and the swamp because remember the swamp's
paying the bills, and the swamps a lot of people
who you would think were Republicans. You got lawyers with
big law firms. Everybody knows who I'm talking about, little
sought off fellows that claimed that, you know, they're the
Republican but actually they're working with the swamp, which means
using the Democrats. And that's the people running the state.
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That's some big donors, and they have absolute control over
the Republicans that are put in there because they don't
want Republicans that are controlled by you. Those people are dangerous.
Those people are like Trump. And a lot of the
people controlling this and the car Rove sphere are people
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that supported Nicki Haley, not because Nikki Haley would be great,
because they don't like Trump. They cannot control Trump and
that upsets them. But I guess I'd rather the bill
pass than not because it puts the state of Texas
in a school voucher movement. I just wish I could
see Republicans one time cut expenses, just one time, just
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one time cut expenses. And remember this if you're sitting
and looking at the at the invoices you've sent, if
you're in accounts receivable for the State of Texas government.
You don't have to raise taxes to see. I think
it's a five percent tax increase, a five percent revenue increase.
Come in, When is the last time the tax assessor
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collect through the local appraisal board has lowered the value
of your home. Your home has supposedly gone up in
value every year for decades, never ever going down in value.
It's hell to keep it the same. Well, I guess
you can fight the tax increase. You can conveniently hire
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Paul Bettancourt, Republican state senator, to fight the tax increase.
That's a good racket if you can get it. Let's see,
I'm in the state Senate. Should I fight to lower
the overall property taxes? Or should I leave the property
taxes how they are and get paid in my private
business when I get your taxes lowered and I get
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a percentage of it. If that was a Democrat, we'd
call that a conflict. But because it's a Republican, nobady
says anything, isn't that weird? I mean, do we stand
on principle or we just stand on our inships and
sit quietly. There's no way that's not noticed. If a
Democrat had a property tax protest firm a Democrat did,
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we'd say, well that that's kind of weird. We went
after Democrats who were representing cities and counties that were
trying to get more money when they were elected state officials,
and doing that on the side, seems like it matters.
No a hairdcounting public party loves Paul bencourse, so it's great,
it's fine, and hey that of course one of the
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best senators up there. There's no doubt he's probably more
effective than most of the other Republican senators, if not
all of them. I just needed to say that so
that it's on the record, because there's no way nobody
else has noticed that. Every single person notices that. Well,
then you get to drunk date. Drunk Day's going to
drunk date. He just can't help himself. He goes against
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the school voucher bill because he went against Greg Abbott,
and Greg Abbot beat him, and this was his attempt.
He and his little buddy Gary van Daver of New Boston,
both who were almost defeated last time. Their big win
was to fight against the school voucher bill. They're the
only Republicans that voted against at KPRCTV.
Speaker 10 (14:11):
Governor Greg Abbott is calling this quote an extraordinary victory.
He posted that on x and as we've reported, this
was one of the governor's top legislative priorities. The House's
voucher plan would funnel one billion dollars in taxpayer dollars
towards education savings accounts that families could then use for
school tuition or things like textbooks, therapy, or transportation. Earlier
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on Wednesday, as you mentioned, the House also passed this
week being eight billion dollar proposal to boost public school funding.
And this could increase the base amount that school districts
receive poor student It could potentially boost teacher pay as
well as improve the quality of special education services. Texas
lawmakers who back the bill say that it was crafted
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to avoid mistakes that have been made by other states
with voucher programs. One local counselor tells KPRC too that
they've been receiving more calls from parents looking to move
from public to private schools.
Speaker 11 (15:10):
Yes, our inquiries have taken off. Families are calling just
really concerned and once again because of that unknown not knowing,
you know, family submit inquiries through our website, and we
have seen a huge influx in those Now.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
As far as what happens next in this process, it's
a bit of a formality, but the House is now
going to cast a final vote to approve the voucher
and school spending bill.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
From there, those.
Speaker 10 (15:35):
Measures then head back to the Senate, which approved its
own version back in February, and from there the two
chambers are going to have to iron out any differences.
Speaker 12 (15:44):
And as the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Houston City Council has named Terminal E at Intercontinental Airport
after Sheila Jackson Lee. I'm going to tell you if
you were to take points on a continuum in a decline,
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this is one of the major ones. You go to
a museum and you can look at a thousand years
of history, and you know, about one hundred and eighty years,
they'll mark one thing happened. This was the Reformation, this
was the abdication, this was you have and then I
think nothing happened for one hundred and fifty years. You
could look at this one factor, Sheila Jackson Lee, and
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there it is. Harris County beat him to the punch
and named an administration officer after her. So we have.
We have two buildings the airport people will have to
come through, which is which is rather appropriate because Sheila
Jackson Lee was nationally famous for her abuse of airline staff.
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She would demand a first class ticket, she didn't have it.
She get on the plane and she'd demand that somebody'd
be removed. She would belittle and scold airline staff for
the kind of stuff that would cause a mere commoner
to be kicked off. I remember when the Congressional Black
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Caucus was meeting and Continental Airlines was trying to get
some concession for they wanted to add more more markets,
I think, and FA was holding it up. And the
Congressional Black Caucus had a meeting, and in the meeting
there was discussion and they went to Sheila and said,
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you know what, do you think this is your local airline?
She said, absolutely not. We tell them no, I want
them to come grovel. She did that to more people.
She was abuse. You got uh, you got her cussing
out the staffer. One of her staffers. You'll remember in
an undercover recording, one of her staffers got her calling
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another staff for a fat ass, and he he killed
himself three days later. Maybe I don't know put you know,
journalism likes balance, Sheila Jackson Lee terminal e and we
put his name underneath there and Princess fat ass.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
But he took a piece of tables from that woman
regarding something that we god like Dounte pair. Where is
it what they were helped call from.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
What I talked about.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
I don't want to do I want you to have
a brain. I want you to get read it. I
want to say, congres Woman, it was such and such state.
That's what I want you. That's the kind of stay
that I want to have. So some stupid other did
it you and I don't have the information. Nobody sent
me informs that I need to ensure my experience schedule
and uh, you know if if Google did it, did
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it did it? And nobody knows what being in my
office gat nothing. I gave it to you. Your job
was to get it on the calendar, imprinted in your brain.
Speaker 12 (19:35):
What sent me the information?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Back ing congress Woman, I made sure that the old
duncan tell Evans that you gave me for so and
so date at seven is on accountant not to spoke
Jerome ass. Okay, So when I called Jerome, he golet
me sit up there like a fat ass to an
idiot talking about what.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
He doesn't know.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Dank promote, y'all up.
Speaker 13 (19:56):
It.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
We're not gonna have a hand put together to They
asked committee for the manage nobody nobody's respecting them if
I give them not what you're doing to mean the
ad This is an example of a I gave it
to if I'm not child's working.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Okay, I want to be very clear. She was not
in an executive position, an administrative position. She was going
from event to event trying to be announced so that
she could give a speech. They never let her chair
an actual committee. They would give her a subcommittee. Toward
the end, she tried to put forward a bill when
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Nancy Pelosi was a Speaker of the House to honor
that pedophile Michael Jackson, and Nancy Pelosi wouldn't let it
come to the floor. She didn't have that clout. She
never chaired a committee. She never got a meaningful bill passed.
They're quoting that she brought all this money to the
airport system in Houston. By that measure, every congressman can
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count every dollar they received for the airport in their
congressional district. She had nothing to do with that right, Nobody,
nobody had any reason to give her anything, because even
the Democrats never gave her the clout because they knew
what a clown she was. They knew better than most
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people in Houston. Do I die? She stayed in Congress
for thirty years? Is that an accomplishment? How is that
an accomplishment?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Maybe he is no better than the immigrant that came
in shackles like myself.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
How is that something you're going to say is important
when in thirty years you never actually did anything? Shut
it down, Shut it down. This was a racist, This
person was corrupt, This person was mean, This person was evil, nasty.
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There is there's nothing good to say of her. I
am outraged, and now you've got to do you know
what this is about. Sheila was black. It's very important
we honor someone who was black. What did Sheila do
other than scream about being black? What did she actually accomplish?
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But I guess at some point, what does she ever
do other than stand in front of a camera and
try to get her ugly mug And let's be honest,
try to get her ugly mug in every news story
I could, if they would talk I could have every
news reporter I've ever known, which is a lot in
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the last almost thirty years, tell you stories of things.
She would do, things, she would say, things, she would do,
little little games she would play. All she wanted was
to be on TV. That's the sitting eight hours. They
had to change the rule at the State of the
Union address because she would send a stafford and they said, no,
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you gotta sit your own fat ass there, Jerome. You
got to sit there. Sheila just so she could be
seen on TV, hoping the idiots back home would think
that meant she had cloud.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
Someone now quoted by Sila Jackson Lee us I.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Die the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
I'm Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and I hailed from Houston, Texas.
Speaker 14 (23:36):
I've never seen a clap so hard as you did tonight.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I never seen you in the Secret Service.
Speaker 14 (23:42):
Fight for congresswommm. I've never seen so many men laugh
at you win. You stand catching the camera.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
When it panned, giving half a chance.
Speaker 14 (24:00):
And I've never seen that jacket bloss of red think
that you're wearing with a crowd wig on your head.
That stuns my eyes. Where does she get that?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
The Congress woman in red. He's standing with me.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
When the president speaks.
Speaker 15 (24:24):
Nobody else stands.
Speaker 13 (24:30):
It's just you and me, Nancy Pelosi, But I hardly
know this congresswoman by my side.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
I'll never forget.
Speaker 14 (24:52):
How many times you who stood to li.
Speaker 15 (25:00):
The Congresswoman in red, the congresswoman in red, the congresswoman
in red.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
The congresswoman in red. Tim Fleck, who was at the Chronicle,
who was at the Houston Press at the time, later
went to the Chronicle editorial board wrote a piece that
was often quoted in Houston political circles, and it was
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entitled What's driving Miss Sheila. This was nineteen ninety seven.
It was only two years after she went to Congress.
This was before she was as imperious, blustery, rude, and
corrupt as she would grow to be. Only five days
into her first term as a member of Congress, Shila
Jackson Lee hurried into her small office in the Longworth Building.
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Back home. While serving on the Houston City Council, Lee
had forged reputation as a brusque and imperious boss, and
her short time in Washington hadn't changed her. I want
that asap seemed to be her favorite phrase. And on
this day she had a rush order for her Legislative director,
Meredith Jones. In January nineteen ninety five to one hundred
and fourth Congress was fizzing with the arrival of Newt
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Gingrich's freshman Warriors. Lee, one of the relatively few new Democrats,
was determined to make a splash on the House floor.
She coolly informed Jones that the staff had thirty minutes
to craft an amendment to a piece of legislation that
neither they nor Lee had ever seen. Unlike Lee, Jones
was an old hand on Capitol Hill, a ten year
veteran who had worked for Congressman Mike Andrews. She had
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a reputation as a nuts and bolts operative and seemed
the perfect navigator for a freshman legislator unfamiliar with Washington
dos and don'ts. Clearly, what Lee was requesting was a
don't don't waste the time of the other four hundred
and thirty four members of the House with a frivolous,
ill considered amendment. A former Lee stafford explains the absurdity
of the congresswoman's demand. Look, you're a freshman, you're in
the minority. You don't even know what the gd bill
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is that's being offered. How are you going to offer
an amendment to it when you don't even know where
the ladi's bathroom is. Jones tried not to offend her
new employer as she gently explained that rushing to the
floor with a slipshot amendment would only damage her credibility.
Give the staff more time. Pleaded Jones to do some
research and come up with them amendments that had a
chance of attracting respectful discussion, if not passage in the
Republican control Chamber. Lee glared when Jones finished, the congress
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woman bark, you now have twenty nine minutes That incident
reveals much about Sheila Jackson. Lee Jones did produce an amendment,
but like a myriad of others, the congresswoman offered in
her first ternament, went nowhere while alienating the very few
people who could make it possible for her to represent
her district effectively. It's a cost Lee has been willing
to bear as she pursues other imperatives. Speak, be seen,
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be quoted. You know this article's pretty good. You can
find it on lines called What's driving Miss Sheila? Houston
City Council voted to named Terminal E after Shila Jackson Leee.
Last week Harris County at one of their buildings, the
Administration Building named at the Shila Jackson Lee Administration Building,
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You've got.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
The Lee P.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Brown Doctor Lee P. Brown. She guy has a PhD
in one of the softest subjects you can possibly get.
Lee Brown. Metro building a department that should be eliminated.
Named for a guy who was put there because he
was the black place filler so that you could have
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a black first Portland Sheriff, Houston Police Chief, Houston mayor,
New York Police Chief, Atlanta Police Chief. Drugs are a
guy who screwed up everywhere he went by the time
he came to Houston. Didn't just screw up. He's extraordinarily corrupt.
I saw it firsthand. I served on city council while
he was mayor. You keep naming these buildings after politicians,
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making gods of them, as if there is nobody but
a politician for whom a building could be named. But
if you think about it, movie makers make movies about
making movies. Writers write books about writing books, songwriters write
songs about writing songs, and other singers it's the ultimate vanity.
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It's a vain, glorious masturbation. If we honor other politicians,
maybe we too will one day be honored. We will
be the keepers of the flame. We will build our
own reputation. There's no public servant involved in it. But
if you were going to pick somebody to choose to
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name Houston's airport for a woman who a cursory superficial
search engine request would yield, had an embarrassing history with
abuse of staff at the airports, a woman who was
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known own for screw ups, idiotic statements, and embarrassing the
city of Houston. Never once did she make us proud.
And the only people they'll end up naming something for Silvester.
Just go ahead and know that's coming. Wet Meyer will
end up naming something at the city for Sylvester Turner
for the political trades that were made. They will name
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something for Sylvester Turner, even though half his staff were
in prison by the time he left the Mayor's office.
All of this nonsense, and no one speaks out against it.
You know, internal black politics, because you notice they're not
naming anything for anybody way Black Democrat politics by very
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corrupt officials like Sheila Jackson, Lee Rodney, Ella, Sylvester Turner.
Speaker 13 (30:50):
This is.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
This is the most destructive thing for communities and it yields.
It's a story in the news today. This punk who
stabbed the white kid at the school event, plunged a
knife into his chest. The family, see if I can
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find this. The family received a huge fortune Carmelo Anthony's
name when his bond was reduced by a DEI black
woman judge from a million to two hundred and fifty.
Carmelo Anthony moves. Carmelo Anthony family moves into nine hundred
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thousand dollars home engated community after teens one million dollar
bond on murder charge cut to two hundred and fifteen
thousand dollars. That's ghetto fabulous right there. They raised a
million dollars for his defense because he's the new George Floyd.
Oh we don't need it. Well, let's buy a new house,
all right, goodness, and a new car, because how better
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to celebrate that we got our And you wonder why
people are moving out of cities. It's an attempt to
flee the corruption, the crime, and the
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Are you the guys on the beach who hate everything?
Is this some sort of hYP music that I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I just want to say for the record, since we
heard President Trump say in the Oval Office that CNN
hates our country, CNN does not hate our country.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
And here's here's a breaking news. We live in a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic,
anti Semitic country.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Everything they're doing runs against making America great.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
It was never great.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
So I'm not gonna say the agampart, but making America great.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Taking off the Independence Day weekend, President Trump will be
at Mount Rushmore, where he'll be standing in front of
a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled
away from Native Americans. Told that UH be focusing on
the effort to quote tear down our country's history everything.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
They strongly believe, these human smugglers, that this is their
chance to enter the United State, this is their chance.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Of the American dream. That's why they risk everything only
to find out that it's all alie.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
And when we got our freedom, our quote unquote freedom,
we were never restored whole, which is why you hear
about reparation. So until the United States it tones for that,
it makes good on that we're still living in a
racist country.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Well, Greg Abbott will get a notch on his belt
because out of the House yesterday came a school voucher
bill which passed eighty five sixty three. It'll pass the Senate,
they'll go into reconciliation, they'll work the bill out, it'll
go to the governor, and that will be his crowning
achievement of the session. I'd love to tell you that
it's a perfect bill. I'd love to tell you that
(02:44):
it's a one hundred percent win, but it's a pyrrhic
victory of sorts because it's sort of like winning the
first round of the playoffs but losing your quarterback. The
bill should have taken money it's currently going to public
education and redirected some of that for school vouchers. It
(03:06):
did not, because at the end of the day, the
public school lobby is more powerful than any other interest
in the state of Texas. That's why teacher pay raises
is an issue in every single election section and Republicans
are as keen to call for teacher pay raises as
the Democrats are. Nobody knows what the teachers are getting paid,
which is all. No teachers need to get paid more.
(03:27):
And then we see videos of what's going on in
the schools, and we see the schools that are failing.
Why should all teachers be paid more? And God help
you if you're Mike Miles and you are the HISD
superintendent sent down by the state to fix the state,
and you dare say some teachers are overpaid and some
teachers are underpaid because some teachers are overperformers and some
teachers are underperformers. The school district and their friends at
(03:49):
the Houston Chronicle, who've made nothing but hell for Mike Miles,
spend all their times and this is awful. Every teacher
needs to be paid more, more and more more, And
you can't have merit pay. If you have merit pay,
you'll have some teachers who are getting paid more than
other teachers. And that's not fair. It's not nice. Remember
(04:10):
what kind of people are teaching. And you also have
to realize that the public schools aren't about teaching anyway,
just like the universities, the public schools are not about
tuition of your children in a classroom instruction, learning development
haven't been for a long time. Now, you don't have
to tell me that you're a teacher or your wife's
a teacher, and that you care about it. And every
(04:31):
year before the school year starts you go and buy
school supplies. You're a hero. Love it, Love you for it,
Appreciate you for it. I understand that there are good people.
When I tell you that the Democrats were destroying our military,
that's not to say that your son is not serving
with bravery in the Middle East. That is to say
that the people who've taken over these institutions have surreptitiously, continuously,
(04:53):
seditiously undermined the goal of what was happening, all while
sucking up more money. They're good at it. This is
what they do. It's what they do all day, every day.
They're very, very good at it. So what the Republican
legislature has done is they vallocated more money so that
the public schools still get all the money they want.
(05:17):
And now you give a voucher to the kids that
basically aren't in the public schools, because God forbid, the
public schools have to compete. Public schools do not want
to compete. They do not want to compete with folks
doing and they'll have all the reasons in the world
that they don't want to compete, but make no mistake,
they don't want to compete because if they had to compete,
(05:39):
people wouldn't go to schools where there's knifings and shootings
and principal beatings and teacher beatings and all of the
things that go with that.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
They'd go to schools that were taught by the Catholic Church,
or that we're taught by charter schools and the like,
and that they would not farewell against that, because you
have some people that went into education because they actually
care about it, and they'll start targe schools.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Lots of dog lovers in our crowd. That's a good thing.
Blessed be the dog lovers. And now a message from
Ramon Roblis, the King of Dan.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
Fifteen years ago, the quiet one picked us while the
others in the litter were all yap yap, yap, and
the quiet one just sat there still watching. He wasn't
any more adorable than the rest, but he had something else,
something steady, so we picked him. The quiet one for
(06:35):
fifteen years longer than our boys have even been alive.
That little kabapoo, the size of a shoe box, brought
us joy, frustration, belly laughs, and all the messy emotions
you never expect to get from a dog until it's
too late to imagine life without him. Our boys came
along in twenty fifteen and twenty eighteen, and the quiet
one was there standing sentry like an old soul who
(06:58):
knew his job before anyone told him. The boys took
to him right away. So many memories, too many to remember,
and that's the deal you make with your best friend.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
He barely ever barked.
Speaker 9 (07:12):
We could count, literally on two hands, the number of
times we heard his voice, but always he watched, he cuddled,
or he just sat alone, content in the silence. Today
we say goodbye to the quiet little cavapoo. So tonight,
drink the good whiskey, bite the good cigar, Take ten seconds,
(07:36):
and in your softest whisper, say, that's a good boy, Harrison,
that's a good boy.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Very to understand. When it comes to political issues that
are intentionally very complicated. Over the years, John Cornyan has
done things to undermine an initiative we wanted accomplished setting
(08:34):
up the votes to kill it, deciding which Republicans would
vote against it, and those Republicans would be the safest
Republicans because in a six year Senate term, you wouldn't
be up for election that time, and your polling was
pretty good, so you could afford to take one for
the team, the team being the Swamp, not the Republican base.
While at the last minute holding out, he's still studying it.
(08:56):
He wasn't sure what he was going to do. He
was going to give it a good study. You know me,
Old Wayne mccorny, and I'm gonna study it real hard.
I'm gonna look at both sides. I'm gonna keep an
open mind. Into the last minute, he'd vote for it,
and the base would say yay, John Wayne mccorn and
he voted for it. What you didn't know is that
behind the scenes he was killing it. And so if
you say John Wayne mccorny sold us out. Folks that
(09:19):
got the email from the consultants that are paid a
lot of money by the Swamp to tell you that
John WAYN mccorny is a good conservative, they'd say, no, no,
you're what's wrong with you? He fought for us and
he got it passed out of committee or he got
it whatever. But it never actually wins, never actually passes.
And these people don't notice because there are a lot
(09:41):
of people who my boy, god, I'm Republican, I ain't Democrat,
I ain't a woe from debtorck Burnberg Democrats, and you
keep messing around, We're gonna lose our Senate. See TM, Democrats,
what you're gonna do? I get this, you know, I
know cornn ain't perfect, he ain't, but you know what,
at least he's Republican. I'm telling you a Democrat could
do us less harm. I'm not for a democrat. I'm
telling you if you don't have, have you ever noticed
(10:02):
that you got Republicans controlling government And it isn't till
Trump gets there that they actually do anything. Give the
Democrats credit when they take control of something, they run things,
they get things done. Then you take the case of
the State House in the state of Texas. We've had
a Republican majority for years, but it's always been controlled
by the Democrats. It's a very complicated strategy executed beautifully
(10:30):
by the Democrats and the swamp because remember the swamp's
paying the bills, and the swamps a lot of people
who you would think were Republicans. You got lawyers with
big law firms. Everybody knows who I'm talking about, little
sought off fellows that claimed that, you know, they're the
Republican but actually they're working with the swamp, which means
using the Democrats. And that's the people running the state.
(10:53):
That's some big donors, and they have absolute control over
the Republicans that are put in there because they don't
want Republicans that are controlled by you. Those people are dangerous.
Those people are like Trump. And a lot of the
people controlling this and the car Rove sphere are people
(11:15):
that supported Nicki Haley, not because Nikki Haley would be great,
because they don't like Trump. They cannot control Trump and
that upsets them. But I guess I'd rather the bill
pass than not because it puts the state of Texas
in a school voucher movement. I just wish I could
see Republicans one time cut expenses, just one time, just
(11:38):
one time cut expenses. And remember this if you're sitting
and looking at the at the invoices you've sent, if
you're in accounts receivable for the State of Texas government.
You don't have to raise taxes to see. I think
it's a five percent tax increase, a five percent revenue increase.
Come in, When is the last time the tax assessor
(11:59):
collect through the local appraisal board has lowered the value
of your home. Your home has supposedly gone up in
value every year for decades, never ever going down in value.
It's hell to keep it the same. Well, I guess
you can fight the tax increase. You can conveniently hire
(12:24):
Paul Bettancourt, Republican state senator, to fight the tax increase.
That's a good racket if you can get it. Let's see,
I'm in the state Senate. Should I fight to lower
the overall property taxes? Or should I leave the property
taxes how they are and get paid in my private
business when I get your taxes lowered and I get
(12:46):
a percentage of it. If that was a Democrat, we'd
call that a conflict. But because it's a Republican, nobady
says anything, isn't that weird? I mean, do we stand
on principle or we just stand on our inships and
sit quietly. There's no way that's not noticed. If a
Democrat had a property tax protest firm a Democrat did,
(13:10):
we'd say, well that that's kind of weird. We went
after Democrats who were representing cities and counties that were
trying to get more money when they were elected state officials,
and doing that on the side, seems like it matters.
No a hairdcounting public party loves Paul bencourse, so it's great,
it's fine, and hey that of course one of the
(13:31):
best senators up there. There's no doubt he's probably more
effective than most of the other Republican senators, if not
all of them. I just needed to say that so
that it's on the record, because there's no way nobody
else has noticed that. Every single person notices that. Well,
then you get to drunk date. Drunk Day's going to
drunk date. He just can't help himself. He goes against
(13:54):
the school voucher bill because he went against Greg Abbott,
and Greg Abbot beat him, and this was his attempt.
He and his little buddy Gary van Daver of New Boston,
both who were almost defeated last time. Their big win
was to fight against the school voucher bill. They're the
only Republicans that voted against at KPRCTV.
Speaker 10 (14:11):
Governor Greg Abbott is calling this quote an extraordinary victory.
He posted that on x and as we've reported, this
was one of the governor's top legislative priorities. The House's
voucher plan would funnel one billion dollars in taxpayer dollars
towards education savings accounts that families could then use for
school tuition or things like textbooks, therapy, or transportation. Earlier
(14:35):
on Wednesday, as you mentioned, the House also passed this
week being eight billion dollar proposal to boost public school funding.
And this could increase the base amount that school districts
receive poor student It could potentially boost teacher pay as
well as improve the quality of special education services. Texas
lawmakers who back the bill say that it was crafted
(14:57):
to avoid mistakes that have been made by other states
with voucher programs. One local counselor tells KPRC too that
they've been receiving more calls from parents looking to move
from public to private schools.
Speaker 11 (15:10):
Yes, our inquiries have taken off. Families are calling just
really concerned and once again because of that unknown not knowing,
you know, family submit inquiries through our website, and we
have seen a huge influx in those Now.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
As far as what happens next in this process, it's
a bit of a formality, but the House is now
going to cast a final vote to approve the voucher
and school spending bill.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
From there, those.
Speaker 10 (15:35):
Measures then head back to the Senate, which approved its
own version back in February, and from there the two
chambers are going to have to iron out any differences.
Speaker 12 (15:44):
And as the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Houston City Council has named Terminal E at Intercontinental Airport
after Sheila Jackson Lee. I'm going to tell you if
you were to take points on a continuum in a decline,
(16:24):
this is one of the major ones. You go to
a museum and you can look at a thousand years
of history, and you know, about one hundred and eighty years,
they'll mark one thing happened. This was the Reformation, this
was the abdication, this was you have and then I
think nothing happened for one hundred and fifty years. You
could look at this one factor, Sheila Jackson Lee, and
(16:54):
there it is. Harris County beat him to the punch
and named an administration officer after her. So we have.
We have two buildings the airport people will have to
come through, which is which is rather appropriate because Sheila
Jackson Lee was nationally famous for her abuse of airline staff.
(17:20):
She would demand a first class ticket, she didn't have it.
She get on the plane and she'd demand that somebody'd
be removed. She would belittle and scold airline staff for
the kind of stuff that would cause a mere commoner
to be kicked off. I remember when the Congressional Black
(17:42):
Caucus was meeting and Continental Airlines was trying to get
some concession for they wanted to add more more markets,
I think, and FA was holding it up. And the
Congressional Black Caucus had a meeting, and in the meeting
there was discussion and they went to Sheila and said,
(18:06):
you know what, do you think this is your local airline?
She said, absolutely not. We tell them no, I want
them to come grovel. She did that to more people.
She was abuse. You got uh, you got her cussing
out the staffer. One of her staffers. You'll remember in
an undercover recording, one of her staffers got her calling
(18:33):
another staff for a fat ass, and he he killed
himself three days later. Maybe I don't know put you know,
journalism likes balance, Sheila Jackson Lee terminal e and we
put his name underneath there and Princess fat ass.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
But he took a piece of tables from that woman
regarding something that we god like Dounte pair. Where is
it what they were helped call from.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
What I talked about.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
I don't want to do I want you to have
a brain. I want you to get read it. I
want to say, congres Woman, it was such and such state.
That's what I want you. That's the kind of stay
that I want to have. So some stupid other did
it you and I don't have the information. Nobody sent
me informs that I need to ensure my experience schedule
and uh, you know if if Google did it, did
(19:25):
it did it? And nobody knows what being in my
office gat nothing. I gave it to you. Your job
was to get it on the calendar, imprinted in your brain.
Speaker 12 (19:35):
What sent me the information?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Back ing congress Woman, I made sure that the old
duncan tell Evans that you gave me for so and
so date at seven is on accountant not to spoke
Jerome ass. Okay, So when I called Jerome, he golet
me sit up there like a fat ass to an
idiot talking about what.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
He doesn't know.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Dank promote, y'all up.
Speaker 13 (19:56):
It.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
We're not gonna have a hand put together to They
asked committee for the manage nobody nobody's respecting them if
I give them not what you're doing to mean the
ad This is an example of a I gave it
to if I'm not child's working.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Okay, I want to be very clear. She was not
in an executive position, an administrative position. She was going
from event to event trying to be announced so that
she could give a speech. They never let her chair
an actual committee. They would give her a subcommittee. Toward
the end, she tried to put forward a bill when
(20:40):
Nancy Pelosi was a Speaker of the House to honor
that pedophile Michael Jackson, and Nancy Pelosi wouldn't let it
come to the floor. She didn't have that clout. She
never chaired a committee. She never got a meaningful bill passed.
They're quoting that she brought all this money to the
airport system in Houston. By that measure, every congressman can
(21:05):
count every dollar they received for the airport in their
congressional district. She had nothing to do with that right, Nobody,
nobody had any reason to give her anything, because even
the Democrats never gave her the clout because they knew
what a clown she was. They knew better than most
(21:25):
people in Houston. Do I die? She stayed in Congress
for thirty years? Is that an accomplishment? How is that
an accomplishment?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Maybe he is no better than the immigrant that came
in shackles like myself.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
How is that something you're going to say is important
when in thirty years you never actually did anything? Shut
it down, Shut it down. This was a racist, This
person was corrupt, This person was mean, This person was evil, nasty.
(21:59):
There is there's nothing good to say of her. I
am outraged, and now you've got to do you know
what this is about. Sheila was black. It's very important
we honor someone who was black. What did Sheila do
other than scream about being black? What did she actually accomplish?
(22:19):
But I guess at some point, what does she ever
do other than stand in front of a camera and
try to get her ugly mug And let's be honest,
try to get her ugly mug in every news story
I could, if they would talk I could have every
news reporter I've ever known, which is a lot in
(22:40):
the last almost thirty years, tell you stories of things.
She would do, things, she would say, things, she would do,
little little games she would play. All she wanted was
to be on TV. That's the sitting eight hours. They
had to change the rule at the State of the
Union address because she would send a stafford and they said, no,
(23:04):
you gotta sit your own fat ass there, Jerome. You
got to sit there. Sheila just so she could be
seen on TV, hoping the idiots back home would think
that meant she had cloud.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
Someone now quoted by Sila Jackson Lee us I.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Die the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
I'm Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and I hailed from Houston, Texas.
Speaker 14 (23:36):
I've never seen a clap so hard as you did tonight.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I never seen you in the Secret Service.
Speaker 14 (23:42):
Fight for congresswommm. I've never seen so many men laugh
at you win. You stand catching the camera.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
When it panned, giving half a chance.
Speaker 14 (24:00):
And I've never seen that jacket bloss of red think
that you're wearing with a crowd wig on your head.
That stuns my eyes. Where does she get that?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
The Congress woman in red. He's standing with me.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
When the president speaks.
Speaker 15 (24:24):
Nobody else stands.
Speaker 13 (24:30):
It's just you and me, Nancy Pelosi, But I hardly
know this congresswoman by my side.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
I'll never forget.
Speaker 14 (24:52):
How many times you who stood to li.
Speaker 15 (25:00):
The Congresswoman in red, the congresswoman in red, the congresswoman
in red.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
The congresswoman in red. Tim Fleck, who was at the Chronicle,
who was at the Houston Press at the time, later
went to the Chronicle editorial board wrote a piece that
was often quoted in Houston political circles, and it was
(25:40):
entitled What's driving Miss Sheila. This was nineteen ninety seven.
It was only two years after she went to Congress.
This was before she was as imperious, blustery, rude, and
corrupt as she would grow to be. Only five days
into her first term as a member of Congress, Shila
Jackson Lee hurried into her small office in the Longworth Building.
(26:02):
Back home. While serving on the Houston City Council, Lee
had forged reputation as a brusque and imperious boss, and
her short time in Washington hadn't changed her. I want
that asap seemed to be her favorite phrase. And on
this day she had a rush order for her Legislative director,
Meredith Jones. In January nineteen ninety five to one hundred
and fourth Congress was fizzing with the arrival of Newt
(26:24):
Gingrich's freshman Warriors. Lee, one of the relatively few new Democrats,
was determined to make a splash on the House floor.
She coolly informed Jones that the staff had thirty minutes
to craft an amendment to a piece of legislation that
neither they nor Lee had ever seen. Unlike Lee, Jones
was an old hand on Capitol Hill, a ten year
veteran who had worked for Congressman Mike Andrews. She had
(26:44):
a reputation as a nuts and bolts operative and seemed
the perfect navigator for a freshman legislator unfamiliar with Washington
dos and don'ts. Clearly, what Lee was requesting was a
don't don't waste the time of the other four hundred
and thirty four members of the House with a frivolous,
ill considered amendment. A former Lee stafford explains the absurdity
of the congresswoman's demand. Look, you're a freshman, you're in
the minority. You don't even know what the gd bill
(27:06):
is that's being offered. How are you going to offer
an amendment to it when you don't even know where
the ladi's bathroom is. Jones tried not to offend her
new employer as she gently explained that rushing to the
floor with a slipshot amendment would only damage her credibility.
Give the staff more time. Pleaded Jones to do some
research and come up with them amendments that had a
chance of attracting respectful discussion, if not passage in the
Republican control Chamber. Lee glared when Jones finished, the congress
(27:29):
woman bark, you now have twenty nine minutes That incident
reveals much about Sheila Jackson. Lee Jones did produce an amendment,
but like a myriad of others, the congresswoman offered in
her first ternament, went nowhere while alienating the very few
people who could make it possible for her to represent
her district effectively. It's a cost Lee has been willing
to bear as she pursues other imperatives. Speak, be seen,
(27:49):
be quoted. You know this article's pretty good. You can
find it on lines called What's driving Miss Sheila? Houston
City Council voted to named Terminal E after Shila Jackson Leee.
Last week Harris County at one of their buildings, the
Administration Building named at the Shila Jackson Lee Administration Building,
(28:10):
You've got.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
The Lee P.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Brown Doctor Lee P. Brown. She guy has a PhD
in one of the softest subjects you can possibly get.
Lee Brown. Metro building a department that should be eliminated.
Named for a guy who was put there because he
was the black place filler so that you could have
(28:33):
a black first Portland Sheriff, Houston Police Chief, Houston mayor,
New York Police Chief, Atlanta Police Chief. Drugs are a
guy who screwed up everywhere he went by the time
he came to Houston. Didn't just screw up. He's extraordinarily corrupt.
I saw it firsthand. I served on city council while
he was mayor. You keep naming these buildings after politicians,
(28:54):
making gods of them, as if there is nobody but
a politician for whom a building could be named. But
if you think about it, movie makers make movies about
making movies. Writers write books about writing books, songwriters write
songs about writing songs, and other singers it's the ultimate vanity.
(29:18):
It's a vain, glorious masturbation. If we honor other politicians,
maybe we too will one day be honored. We will
be the keepers of the flame. We will build our
own reputation. There's no public servant involved in it. But
if you were going to pick somebody to choose to
(29:39):
name Houston's airport for a woman who a cursory superficial
search engine request would yield, had an embarrassing history with
abuse of staff at the airports, a woman who was
(29:59):
known own for screw ups, idiotic statements, and embarrassing the
city of Houston. Never once did she make us proud.
And the only people they'll end up naming something for Silvester.
Just go ahead and know that's coming. Wet Meyer will
end up naming something at the city for Sylvester Turner
for the political trades that were made. They will name
(30:23):
something for Sylvester Turner, even though half his staff were
in prison by the time he left the Mayor's office.
All of this nonsense, and no one speaks out against it.
You know, internal black politics, because you notice they're not
naming anything for anybody way Black Democrat politics by very
(30:44):
corrupt officials like Sheila Jackson, Lee Rodney, Ella, Sylvester Turner.
Speaker 13 (30:50):
This is.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
This is the most destructive thing for communities and it yields.
It's a story in the news today. This punk who
stabbed the white kid at the school event, plunged a
knife into his chest. The family, see if I can
(31:17):
find this. The family received a huge fortune Carmelo Anthony's
name when his bond was reduced by a DEI black
woman judge from a million to two hundred and fifty.
Carmelo Anthony moves. Carmelo Anthony family moves into nine hundred
(31:39):
thousand dollars home engated community after teens one million dollar
bond on murder charge cut to two hundred and fifteen
thousand dollars. That's ghetto fabulous right there. They raised a
million dollars for his defense because he's the new George Floyd.
Oh we don't need it. Well, let's buy a new house,
all right, goodness, and a new car, because how better
(32:02):
to celebrate that we got our And you wonder why
people are moving out of cities. It's an attempt to
flee the corruption, the crime, and the
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