January 27, 2025 • 38 mins
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- Courtney Trevino on being a republican in Houston
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 4 (00:32):
We are ready to rock and roll today on a Monday.
Slowly but surely ready to rock and roll on a Monday.
I saw a story I'm kind of wondering here, maybe
we should do a talk back on KPRC about this.
But I did it this morning a little bit anyway
on our morning show and kat R h and Uh.
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I thought I thought it was kind of, uh, kind
of amazing. And then the more I thought about the
or an amazing, I thought it was It's funny. I'll
tell you what I'm talking about. A saw a survey
survey said that ninety five percent of gen Z and
millennials had slept on the job and thought that it
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was perfectly okay. They does some other things too. As
it turns out, they they took vacation time that they
shouldn't have taken that they weren't entitled to. Maybe a
half day here or a half day there, but you know,
they would take some time off. They would not necessarily
be truthful, but how many hours they were spending on
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the job. Quite a few things they wouldn't you get
right down to it. Are you a little bit on
the dishonest side? But the one that really stuck out
with so many people was the ninety five percent who
said they had slept on the job. And of course,
when you think of sleeping on the job, you think
of you think of bad things, right, you think that
you know people are you're thinking of an episode of
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Seinfeld where George Costanza is underneath his death with an
alarm clock take taking a nap in his office, right
and hoping not to get caught as he spends the
time he should be working, you know, sleeping. But in reality,
sometimes people have a fairly good reason for sleeping on
the job. And in fact, one of our one of
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our callers this morning kind of illustrated that to me.
She's a teacher.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Good morning from the real Grande Valley. My name is Dora.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yes, I have slept on the job.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I'm a teacher and if I go into work and
I'm sick, so instead of eating during my lunch hour,
I'll just take a little nap, just put my head
down on the table desk, and just try to get
in some theees before the kids come back to class.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
You know, I don't see anything wrong with that, do you.
I mean, she's not doing it on quote unquote company time.
She's doing it during her lunch hour. She's you know,
she's doing it to try, I think, to be a
better teacher, or at least to stay awake for her students.
I mean, I can get that one. I mean, teaching
is an exhausting job. It takes a tremendous amount of energy.
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It's it's not it's not for the faint of heart.
Let's put it that way. And I can see where
she might need to recharge your battery. Although I will
say this, I'm a little little jealousy. Maybe that's maybe
the reason why the ninety five percent surprised me so much.
Is I get to get the feeling that the vast
majority of us can do that. You can you can
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kind of just sleep wherever I And I guess I'm
a little jealous of people like that. I can't do that.
I can't sleep on a plane, I can't sleep in
the car. I can't think of anywhere other than at
home in bed. I can't even sleep in a chair
at home. I have to be in bed in order
to really go to sleep. So I've never had the ability.
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There's some people who can do that. They can just
fall asleep just about anywhere. I guess I'm not one
of those people. Here's another guy who, evidently I had
kind of a funny story about, you know, falling asleep
on the job.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Several years ago.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I was starting a new job and I had shown
up way too early, so I decided to take a
nap in the parking lot, and I didn't wake up
till noon. So I missed my first day of work
because I took a very long nap.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I don't know what time he got there, but didn't
wake up till noon. See, that's a that's a deep sleep.
That's the other thing. Can you sleep but the external
noises going on?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
You know?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I maybe one of the reasons why I can't sleep
on the plane is because the noise of the plane.
No I get it. I think I think for some
people who would lull them off to sleep. It doesn't
with me. I need quiet. Just like some people can
fall asleep with the TV on, I can't do that.
Maybe I'm maybe I'm the one that's unusual, you know.
Maybe maybe I'm the one who has an inability to
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to take I could take a nap during the day
when I'm home, I could, in fact, to one hour
and a half is my sweet spot, you know. But
that's after work is done for the day. I'm done
for the day when I take that dawn amazing. Anyway,
I thought that was interesting. Here's here's something else that's
kind of interesting, and we'll get into this in our
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next segment. Here President Trump, I am so impressed by this.
You know, he's he's just taken office, and he went
to Asheville, North Carolina to kind of do a you know,
a FEMA type of you know, I want to see
what kind of job FEMA's done. And of course he
doesn't think much of the job that FEMA's done. Can't
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blame him for that. And then he want to went
to Los Angeles, where he was welcome with open arms.
Now he was welcome with open arms for two different reasons.
I think the residents there. At least some of them
were actually glad to see him because they wanted to
see him tour what was going on, to see the
devastation for themselves, and then they wanted to be able
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to talk to him about how difficult it was going
to be for them to rebuild. And many of them,
despite the high taxes and in the progressive politics, many
of them who are Native Californians, want to remain there.
They want that's their home. They want to rebuild their home,
even though they was just devastated by a wildfire, and
a wildfire could happen again anytime, especially when California has
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not done anything to try to prevent the conditions that
made that wildfire spread so profusely. But he was there
to listen to them, and he found out from them that,
you know, there's a lot of regulations, as you can imagine,
and a lot of red tape that people have to
go through to rebuild. And they California and Los Angeles
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are talking about, well, we're going to cut the red tape,
We're going to get rid of the bureaucracy, We're going
to make it possible for people to rebuild. And I
understand that that's what they're saying, and they might even
they might even be believe it to a certain extent,
but I will I will personally believe it when I
see it. It will be frustrating. Now as far as why,
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that's why the people welcomed him, because they wanted him
to hear what they're likely to have to go through
to try to rebuild their lives. The politicians like Karen Bass,
the mayor of Los Angeles, she's glad to have him
there because she knows that in order to be able
to get some big federal aid, she's going to have
to have Trump support. Trump is supporting her. As far
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as the idea, yeah, we'll help you get those building
permits taken care of right away. Now, No, no, we
want your money. She made it quick to point out
that she wanted the money. So we'll share some of
that with you coming up in our next segment. Stand
by for more, Jimmy Barrett Show. You're on AM nine
fifty KPRC. All right, did you hear about all the
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all the immigration raids over the weekend? All the deep
mass deportations are underway. Almost a thousand people were apprehended
yesterday alone, So it's that's making some progress. And by
the way, this is just the criminal element. This is
this is that's who they're spending their time going after. Now.
I saw Governor Greg Abbott was on yesterday morning on
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Sunday Morning Futures on Fox Business with Maria bartar Roma,
and she's asking him about how much different it is
working with the Trump administration versus working against the Biden administration.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
I don't think there's ever been a more sudden and
swift change in any government operation than under President of Trump.
When he took the oath of office, I would say,
over and I've been on the first hour of his
tenure as president, we saw the change where there were
military sent of the border. The military we're blocking people
from crossing the border illegally.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
The numbers of people.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Who crossed on the nineteenth of January dropped dramatically.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
On the twentieth of.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
January, they have continued to drop in every single day
President of Trump, working with Tom Homan, they've been deporting
people to the countries that came from. But to show
how Texas is a partner in all this process, on
the hour that President Trump took office, Texas was deploying
more buoys in the real grand to deter and deny
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illegal entry into the country. The change, Maria is this,
we suddenly now have a commander in chief who cares
about national security, who cares about securing the border, who's.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Going to enforce the law.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
And importantly, he has a governor in a state in
Texas that will be a partner with the Trump administration.
We will assist in the arrest, the detention, and the
deportation of people coming across.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
The border illegally.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Hundreds up too close to one thousand are being sent
back across the border on a daily basis under the
Trump administration. Some are going to Mexico, others you will
see flights that are going to Guatemala and some other
Central American countries, and the Trump administration is going to
be sending them back to their home countries and demanding
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compliance by these countries that they take back the people
who crossed the border illegally.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
And know this and that is right now.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Always say there's two categories of people that the Trump
administration is sending back. One they're trying to go after
those who are public safety threats, who are criminals, as
well as national security thrusts. Remember, under Joe Biden, they
allowed into the United States people who are on the
terrorist What's List, and the Trump administration is seeking out
and trying to find them and deport them. And then
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the other that they're sending back is that listen, those
people who think they can cross the border and stay
here in the country illegally. Now those days are gone.
And so if anybody apprehendive coming across the border is
going to be sent back immediately.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
So night and day. That's the difference right between the
Bide administration and immigration and the Trump administration is just
night and day. I noticed too that if here's something,
let me throw this into the mix. Here, here's something
we could probably go back and forth on. It's from
the New York Post headline Texas teacher invites ice to
raid his school. I have many students who don't even
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speak English. Here's the story. Texas substitute teacher has come
under fire after inviting immigration and Customs enforcement officers to
raid his school because his students don't even speak English. Well,
first of all, I don't think I don't think we're
going to see any raids on schools. I don't think.
I don't think this administration is interested in sending in
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people to scare these students in any way, shape or form,
or to round students up just because they're not English
proficient by stretch of the imagination. However, I will say
this that there are probably gang members operating in some
of these schools, selling drugs in some of these schools.
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Would you have a problem if I went into grab them.
I'm not talking about you know, normal, average, everyday kids
who aren't doing anything. I'm talking about the ones who
are criminals. Here's the other thing I want to know them.
This Fort Worth Infentis School District officials say they've launched
an investigation. They already know that they are educating plenty
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of illegal kids. They know that. They don't they don't care.
They don't ask. They don't ask about immigration status. And
that's from the federal government. The federal government said, if
you want federal fundy, you don't ask. That's got to change.
In fact, that might change. Why are we spending money
educating people who are here illegally. Well, every child deserves
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an education. Well maybe every child deserves an education, but
they don't deserve an education at the public expense. If
they're not supposed to be here, then they should not
be working here. They should not have they should not
have an educational opportunity here. The teacher was not publicly identified,
but it used the ex user name hook him two
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three to two. Well, there's probably a University of Texas
graduate who's conservative. He called for agents to come to
Fort Worth, Texas to North Side High School. At least
that's what's being reported into the Dallas Morning News. Meanwhile,
officials have not named the substitute teacher, but the instructor
will not be teaching while the posts are investigated. Oh okay,
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we're gonna punish him. The interim superintendent sent out the
message the district would be supporting all families. We don't
care about immigrant I'm filling into blanks now that they
don't care about immigration, says we want to serve all families.
They also went on to say, we are aware of
a social media posts referencing Northside High School which was
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allegedly made by a substitute teacher and has caused concern
among our Fort Worth ISD community. We take this matter
very seriously and are conducting a thorough investigation and understand
the circumstances and ensure appropriate actions are taken. As for
district protocol, the employee will not be on campus during
the investigation. We are committed to maintaining a positive, supportive
environment for all students. We appreciate your patients and understanding
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as we address this matter. They're not addressing it. They're
not addressing at all. The only investigation that's going to
happen is who is this substitute so we can fire
them and not have them back anymore. It's not going
to be an investigation into how many kids are being taught,
how many illegals are being taught in their schools, how
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many kids don't speak English, how much is costing the
taxpayers of Fort Worth. There'll be none of that investigation.
Just about the substitute teacher, so we can make sure
he doesn't show up and cause more problems. That's the
only thing that's going to happen with that, all right, Oh,
last segment. I did promise, didn't I did? I promised
that I was going to share some audio with the
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president's visit to Let's start with North Carolina. President Trump
went to North Carolina, asheville to be exact to see
what was going on, kind of see where the issues
are and whether or not FEMA has done a decent job.
Although I think you already knew the answers to that.
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So here's President Trump talking about FEMA in North Carolina.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
FEMA has been a very big disappointment. They cost a
tremendous amount of money, is very bureaucratic, and it's very slow.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Other than that, we're very happy with them.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
Okay, if FEMA goes away, disaster relief becomes a lot
more efficient. And I say that as someone who grew
up on the Gulf Coast. I remember Hurricane Andrew nineteen
ninety two, all of us waiting for the power to
come back, for the supplies to arrive, and the only
thing that could those things, Shannon, we're local people. FEMA
is in microcosm. What's wrong with the federal government. It's bloated,
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it's bureaucratic, it's inefficient, it is outdated. And I applaud
President Trump for doing this on behalf of disaster relief
for everyday Americans.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
It would be a great update to the federal government.
That is Kevin Roberts, by the way, from the Heritage Foundation,
following up on that. So Trump's not impressed with FEMA,
so he went That's what he did with part of
his weekend. The other part of the weekend he went
to Los Angeles. He was at in North Carolina and Friday.
On Saturday, he was in Los Angeles with the mayor
Karen Bass, who was just, Oh, We're just so happy
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you're here. But if you listen carefully, you can see
why she's you know, she's trying to be so nice
to President Trump. She's counting on some big time checks
being written for disaster relief. Here's how that went.
Speaker 9 (16:50):
First of all, let me just take the opportunity to
officially welcome you to Los Angeles. Really appreciate you coming,
and especially you come just a few days after your
so I want you to know that your presence here
is very much appreciated. Let me also say that I
know you had an opportunity to see the devastation. You've
seen the extreme loss, the grief that people are going
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through here, and we are one hundred percent committed to
getting this neighborhood rebuilt again.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
You mentioned a couple of things in terms of.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
Us expediting, so I signed executive directives right away so
that we could cut the red tape, we could get
people back building as fast as possible, and we're going
to continue doing that.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
We have the one thing you say, are saying they.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Will not be allowed to start for eighteen months.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
No, that will not be the cast. Okay, I just
hope you can hold me to it.
Speaker 10 (17:43):
This.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
Four groups said that, No, that would be They should
be able to do it. They should be able to
start tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
That will not be the case.
Speaker 9 (17:50):
You know, First we have to take care to make
sure that there's not the getting rid of the hazardous waste,
cleaning things up so that people can start right away.
And just like you said, somebody had their house was
destroyed and they're going to rebuild essentially the same, maybe
a little bit longer, a little bit higher. They really
shouldn't have to go through much of a process. So
I want you to know that we are expediting that
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we absolutely need your help.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
We need the federal health You've got it.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
I told you you will have no permit problem. There
will be zero delay. And as far as I'm concerned,
you already have the permit stuff right.
Speaker 10 (18:24):
And I am more where because I met.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
I met at least eight groups of homeowners. And I'm
much more word about the fact that they said it's
eighteen months exactly and they were devastated. They want to
start now, they want to start removing things they're not
allowed to do it now. And you mentioned hazard is waste, Well,
the hazard is waste.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
What's hazard is waste?
Speaker 7 (18:48):
I mean you're going to have to define that. We're
going to go through a whole series of questions on
determining what's hazard.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Nope, nope.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
I just think you have to allow the people to
go on this site and start the problem, says tonight,
And we will, Okay, we will.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Sure you will. Yeah, I'm don't hold your breath on
that one. But again, you know, uh, you know, that's
that's what that's what so many people in Los Angeles
voted for. So you know, it's hard. I feel sorry
for people who live there that they're living with that
kind of government, but they're the ones that put the
government in there. Smart ones just said well this isn't
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going to change. We got to leave, and they got out.
And but you know, if you're still there and you
still want to stay there, hey, yeah, this is what
you got to deal with, all right, quick will break
back with more in a moment. Jimmy Parratchow ninety KRC.
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All right, I wanted to have the longer conversation with
our next guest. Her name is Courtney Trevino. She's president
of Young Republicans of Houston, which first of all puts
her in a minority because a she's young, she's a Republican,
and see she's in the city of Houston, which of
course you know is not exactly known for being a
Republican stronghold. Courtney, thanks for coming back on so we
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could talk to you a little bit more. We established
this morning you're thirty four years old, so I don't
have to ask your age again. We talked. We talked
about where you went to college. What I did to
ask you about was high school were you Did you
go to a public school or were you homeschool I did, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (20:39):
I went to public my whole life, graduated Styles in
the city Brownsville, and then moved to Houston my third
year in Houston for a job opportunity.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Okay, well, the reason why you asked about the homeschooling
thing is is I suspected that maybe your homeschool because
I meet a lot of the young people I meet,
especially the eighteen to twenty four crowd, A lot of
them that are conservative were homeschooled, usually by their mother
or at least one of their parents, and didn't go
to public schools. But that's not the case with you.
Speaker 10 (21:17):
No, not the case with me. But I do know
you know a lot of my friends who have kids now,
I think that's something that they're considering more. I feel
like homeschool was farm between when I was growing up,
and now I feel like it's become a more common
thing now.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I know.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
You told me this morning that you have a relatively
large amount in college surprisingly fairly conservative teachers. Was it
the same way in high school? Your teachers in high
school fairly conservative? Or were they kind of liberal?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
No?
Speaker 10 (21:50):
Actually, it's funny that you asked that, because I knew
I had. I just knew my values at an early age.
Nobody had to tell me my dad's marine, and you know,
just grew up loving the country. And so I was
in history class and I remember the teacher me to
comment about Bush and Daddy Bush, and I remember, I
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don't know what came up in me, but I asked them, like,
is that a fact? We did that actually happen or
is that your opinion? And then I ended up deciding
to just like move classes because I was like, I
just ousted myself. But yeah, I mean she was very
much just giving her opinion to a history class, where
I feel like history you should be teaching kids the
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facts of what really happened, and we clearly weren't you know,
alive during that time, so we don't know any.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Different, right, So it sounds like it sounds like obviously
your your your parents, and maybe the military background had
a huge impact on you as a young person.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
I think so.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
I mean, I just.
Speaker 10 (22:51):
There was never a conversation or we were never that down,
but I just I think I was just aware of it,
and I knew what was felt right. I knew I
knew what did is go right, And so I think
I just always had this like boldness in me that
I wasn't afraid to have those tough conversations, especially growing
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up in South Texas, which has completely transformed now, and
I think that people are starting to just communicate more
and talk about what's really going on and the issues
really at hand, and especially young people, I think they
face issues that they've never had to in the past.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Well, and for South Texas with a very large Hispanic population,
you know, it was traditional that you voted Democrats just
what you did, and there weren't didn't seem like there
were a lot of really in depth conversations about yes,
but they the Democrats stand for this, and we don't
believe that, or they stand for that, and that's not
what we believe, but that that has happened more and
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more over the last ten years right now.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
So I'm if people remember last cycle, It's Texas, we
had a special election and if a congresswoman myras Ftus
and they slipped one hundred plus year Democrats stronghold, and
I was fortunate enough to be her campaign manager for
that race, and just how we got connected was just
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very got ordained and feel super honored to be able
to help lead that you instrumental time in South Texas history.
But it really just came down to having conversations and
Republicans investing and President Trump speaking on the border, and
nobody who lived on the border was un defended by
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you know, anything that was said. It's it is true.
Myra's husband was a border patrol, my dad is an
ice agent, and I don't think that's by coincidence. It's
just how common. You know, that's how people support their families.
We live in It's right in our backing art every
single day.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Sure, all right, So tell you live in Houston. Now
you're president of the Young Republicans of Houston. How many
members do you have and how? I mean? Litten I said,
Houston is generally speaking of blue city. Is it hard
to define like minded people in a blue city like Houston?
Speaker 10 (25:12):
You know, surprisingly, we haven't really faced a lot of backlash,
Like we're regular people. You know, we have attorneys and
you know, people that work in yeah, and just a
range of professions, and so I think everybody kind of
involves their friends or they come to meet friends. Right now,
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our club is currently at one hundred and fifty members.
I know, uh, during COVID they were at double of that.
So we're definitely before COVID they were double double that.
So we're definitely working to get back to that, you know,
three hundred plus roster. And the way we're doing that
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is we're just having events. We have three events schedule,
it'd be, and just giving people opportunities to come out
after work. The girls getting together, and then we have
an amazing speaker wind up in February that's kind of
cofully give us some insight on what's going on in
the Texas House. So we just try to keep them
engaged on what's current. We also started a newsletter of
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all the issues going on federally and all the stuff
going on in the state House, and so just doing
stuff that I guess hasn't been before to really engage
young people well.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
And I'm guessing too that there are probably a lot
more conservative young people leaving in a city like Houston
than you might think because a lot of times, and
you were telling me this morning that when you were
in college that you know, or when you go to
visit college campuses, you kind of find that there are
fair amount of conservative young people who kind of try
to keep a low profile because they're going to a
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liberal school in a liberal town and they're trying not
to doubt themselves.
Speaker 10 (27:00):
Since my uber driver the other day was going to
I was going to Rockets game and he was saying
stuff and I could kind of tell he was like tiptoeing,
and I ended up telling him it's okay, Like we're
Republican and he's like, oh, he was like, I never know,
I've got myself in trouble sometimes without you know, engaged,
you know, testing the waters to see, you know, how
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someone believes. But I think there's people and we end
up inviting him lives to come out to our club.
So I think there's a lot of people that are
fit seeing for that engagement. We're just trying to stay
very active and involved to give people, you know, through
our social medias, and get people a place that they
know that they can be around like minds people and
have those conversations that to stay informed and educated.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Yeah, I want to ask you a little bit about
your experience on college campuses. One of the things that
we've heard is that young women are much more liberal
right now than young men. We've got a lot of
conservative young men out there who are surrounded by young
women who are very liberal compared to themselves. And one
of the reasons why these young men perhaps are more
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conservative is they they feel the progressive left is is
picking on them, picking on their gender, picking on their stereotypes,
u picking on what it means to be a young man,
trying to feminize them as young men when they really
don't want to be feminized, they want to be young men.
M hmm, would you agree with that?
Speaker 10 (28:27):
I agree, Yeah, I think that seem to be a
lot more liberal in sense, like Verry stuck on that
there a lot of like the social issues that get
very emotional about that. I think that the men, I mean,
(28:50):
we have a lot of variety members in our club now,
I mean talked about diversity. I'm a female from all
tax our vice president isn't it an attorney like from
(29:10):
another state? His parents were in law enforcement. I just
think that we are the party that reflects diversity, and
for some reason, I don't know what it is about
the at this day and age, are just like absolutely
not open to those conversations.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm kind of curious where you think the
direction is going for for young people here. Do you
think that, I mean, every generation is different from the past.
I mean, I'm I'm I'm guilty as much as next guy.
When I was, when I was in college, I was
I was kind of liberal, certainly more liberal than my
parents were. But the only is life goes on and
you pay taxes, and you have different priorities for raising
(29:52):
a family and living a better life for yourself and
your family, your your your priorities change become different, and
you have a tendency to become more conservative. Do you
do you do you think there's going to be a
more conservative trend about young people here in the next
generation or so are we in other words, are we trending?
Do you think in that direction?
Speaker 6 (30:10):
I think so.
Speaker 10 (30:11):
One of my closest friends in college he left. We
laught like looking back, how far you know, not just him,
but people that we know have gone to the other side.
And he was a huge Bernie supporter. We even have
a picture on Halloween. He justed a Obama for Halloween.
(30:34):
He is a frack engineer and works in the oil field,
and as soon as he graduated and started working, he's
just become increasingly more Republican. Now he we've your a
Republican chapter in San Antonio, and I think that happens
to a lot of young people, especially men. Once they
start working, they realizes, well, they realize all these actually
(30:56):
aren't the policies that I thought I wanted to support. Wow,
all of our pockets.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
That's a pretty big conversion, going from social democrat Bernie
Sanders to Republican. That's about that's a that's a complete
one eighty there.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
I know.
Speaker 10 (31:11):
I mean all the time he's like, look if I
could do it, like y'all could do it. And he
said he's he's very active and consciousness that he does interviews.
He's also from the Virgin Islands, so he's yeah, very
just unapologetic and I'm in the men could be a
(31:32):
lot more for not very not as easily wavered. That's
made me in the past. So yeah, totally continues.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Well, that's amazing. Keep keep spreading the word, Courtney, and
thank you for coming on the show today. I sure
do appreciate it. Good to talk to you. Hope to
talk to again someday.
Speaker 10 (31:49):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
You Take care. Courtney Trevino, President of Young Republicans of Houston,
back with more in a moment Jimmy Verir Show a
nine fifty KPRC. All right, Tom, I'm not I'm going
(32:15):
to ask you a question out loud that I don't expect. Well,
you can answer it if you want. I want to
hear the answer, and that is where do you bank?
Do you do you haven't accounted a big corporate bank.
Are you more into a local bank? Do you do
you feel that the bank you're at is neutral as
(32:40):
it relates to politics, or the very least neutral as
far as your politics. Do you feel like you've been
d banked? Do you feel like you've been denied an
account or denied alone because of your politics. I don't
think that's happened to average every day people like you
and me, the d banking part. But I think it
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has happened to people who are high profile, people who
are well known, people who run conservative organizations as well
known that they run that conservative organization, or people who
are are in the news quite a bit as being conservatives.
I can see. Or or if you have a conservative cause,
(33:22):
for example, let's say, or you have a business, for example,
that deals in something that the progressive left doesn't like,
like guns. You know, your your gun dealer, you'll have
a gun shop or shooting range, and you want to
get a small business loan for your gun shop or
your shooting range, and you've been denied, not because there's
(33:45):
anything wrong with your credits or any of that, but
you've been denied because because of the type of business
that you have. We know that that's been going on,
and we know that's been going on with with you
know some of these bigger name banks. Evidently, Congress is
right need to investigate this. They're ready to take a
look at this, and now that President Trump is in power,
(34:05):
they're much more ready to take a look at this.
We need to find out if banks are debanking people
because of their politics, and that needs to stop. I
mean Trump made a big point of that in that
the videotape speech that he gave at Davos, but he
also has Representative James Colmer working on the same issue
in Congress. Here is Representative Comber.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Yes, we are.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
We've heard numerous instances of conservatives being dbanked, and what
we want to know is is this a process of
the banks, isg policy is this or is this our
government stepping in like what we found with Twitter and
Facebook where the government stepped in and said they wanted
certain conservatives deplatformed and censored and certain conservative content removed.
(34:52):
We want to know again, is this the government involvement,
another dirty trick by Joe Biden administration or is this
just bad liberal policy that discriminates against conservatives by the banks.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Wow, so you have evidence of some banks de banking conservatives.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Yes, especially people that were involved in different energy type
businesses and things like that, as well as very well
spoken or outspoken conservative activists. So there are numerous interances
enough to open an investigation.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Again, is this ESG policy which is discriminatory?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
And ironically the Democrats have passed all this banking legislation
that prohibits discrimination.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Is this discriminatory because of ESG? Or is it the government?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Are the bank examiners, as President Trump hinted in his
remarks you played earlier, are these bank examiners with a
wink and a nod saying don't let this person bank
at your bank?
Speaker 3 (35:46):
What will be the impact of these banks? What should
these banks expect in the coming months from your office.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Well, they're going to be asked a lot of questions.
And I will say this for the banks. During the
Biden influenced pelling investigation, the banks were the one into
that did cooperate with us. So I expect that the
banks will cooperate with our questions and hopefully we can
get some answers to one find out if our government
was involved in this, if this is another side operation
(36:14):
by the Biden administration where they were attacking conservatives. At
the very least, we want to change this. You know,
we're not talking about dbanking, meaning they denied alone. That
happens every day in the banking work. This is just
opening up savings accounts and checking accounts.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
I mean, this is unheard of.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
To do this, and it's against the law, the laws,
ironically that the Democrats created against discrimination.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Okay, well, enforce the law, then, right, enforce the law.
If you're going to deny somebody the ability to have
a checking account or a savings account, you better have
a dog one good reason.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
Right.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
And here's the thing. Is it happening to average every
day people? I doubt it because they don't know that
much about your politics. You know, it's never happened to me.
I mean, where my politics on sleeve. I'm pretty dog
on conservative. It's never happened to me. But you know,
I'm not super high profile. Few folks in Houston might
(37:11):
know who I am, but I don't think anybody the
federal government really knows who I am, nor do they
really care who I am. I'm not I'm not that
high on their pecking order. I'm not that high on
their list. But if you are somebody who's very high profile,
then yeah, they don't. They don't want to do business
with you. In fact, did I say, I thought I
saw where where Milania Trump had had she had been
(37:34):
debanked because of who her husband is. You know, bank
that didn't want to do business with her because she
was a Trump, you know. And it's not like it.
I mean, the guys, it's not like they don't have
any money. It's not like they don't have a credit rating,
a very good credit writing, I might add, And yet
they won't do business with them because they're Trump. Yeah,
(37:56):
that's not right. You know, if you're in business, you're
especially in a public business like banking, then you should
be expected to do business with everybody at least based
on not based on politics, but based on credit worthiness.
You know, what reason would you have for denying somebody
a savings account or checking account or even alone, as
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long as they're credit worthy. That's what banks supposedly do.
All right, Listen, y'all have a great day, Happy Monday.
Thanks for listening. It's gonna be kind of cloudy and gloomy,
but at least be warm this week. Don't have to
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We are ready to rock and roll today on a Monday.
Slowly but surely ready to rock and roll on a Monday.
I saw a story I'm kind of wondering here, maybe
we should do a talk back on KPRC about this.
But I did it this morning a little bit anyway
on our morning show and kat R h and Uh.
(00:54):
I thought I thought it was kind of, uh, kind
of amazing. And then the more I thought about the
or an amazing, I thought it was It's funny. I'll
tell you what I'm talking about. A saw a survey
survey said that ninety five percent of gen Z and
millennials had slept on the job and thought that it
(01:15):
was perfectly okay. They does some other things too. As
it turns out, they they took vacation time that they
shouldn't have taken that they weren't entitled to. Maybe a
half day here or a half day there, but you know,
they would take some time off. They would not necessarily
be truthful, but how many hours they were spending on
(01:36):
the job. Quite a few things they wouldn't you get
right down to it. Are you a little bit on
the dishonest side? But the one that really stuck out
with so many people was the ninety five percent who
said they had slept on the job. And of course,
when you think of sleeping on the job, you think
of you think of bad things, right, you think that
you know people are you're thinking of an episode of
(01:56):
Seinfeld where George Costanza is underneath his death with an
alarm clock take taking a nap in his office, right
and hoping not to get caught as he spends the
time he should be working, you know, sleeping. But in reality,
sometimes people have a fairly good reason for sleeping on
the job. And in fact, one of our one of
(02:18):
our callers this morning kind of illustrated that to me.
She's a teacher.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Good morning from the real Grande Valley. My name is Dora.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yes, I have slept on the job.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I'm a teacher and if I go into work and
I'm sick, so instead of eating during my lunch hour,
I'll just take a little nap, just put my head
down on the table desk, and just try to get
in some theees before the kids come back to class.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
You know, I don't see anything wrong with that, do you.
I mean, she's not doing it on quote unquote company time.
She's doing it during her lunch hour. She's you know,
she's doing it to try, I think, to be a
better teacher, or at least to stay awake for her students.
I mean, I can get that one. I mean, teaching
is an exhausting job. It takes a tremendous amount of energy.
(03:11):
It's it's not it's not for the faint of heart.
Let's put it that way. And I can see where
she might need to recharge your battery. Although I will
say this, I'm a little little jealousy. Maybe that's maybe
the reason why the ninety five percent surprised me so much.
Is I get to get the feeling that the vast
majority of us can do that. You can you can
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kind of just sleep wherever I And I guess I'm
a little jealous of people like that. I can't do that.
I can't sleep on a plane, I can't sleep in
the car. I can't think of anywhere other than at
home in bed. I can't even sleep in a chair
at home. I have to be in bed in order
to really go to sleep. So I've never had the ability.
(03:56):
There's some people who can do that. They can just
fall asleep just about anywhere. I guess I'm not one
of those people. Here's another guy who, evidently I had
kind of a funny story about, you know, falling asleep
on the job.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Several years ago.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I was starting a new job and I had shown
up way too early, so I decided to take a
nap in the parking lot, and I didn't wake up
till noon. So I missed my first day of work
because I took a very long nap.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I don't know what time he got there, but didn't
wake up till noon. See, that's a that's a deep sleep.
That's the other thing. Can you sleep but the external
noises going on?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
You know?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I maybe one of the reasons why I can't sleep
on the plane is because the noise of the plane.
No I get it. I think I think for some
people who would lull them off to sleep. It doesn't
with me. I need quiet. Just like some people can
fall asleep with the TV on, I can't do that.
Maybe I'm maybe I'm the one that's unusual, you know.
Maybe maybe I'm the one who has an inability to
(05:02):
to take I could take a nap during the day
when I'm home, I could, in fact, to one hour
and a half is my sweet spot, you know. But
that's after work is done for the day. I'm done
for the day when I take that dawn amazing. Anyway,
I thought that was interesting. Here's here's something else that's
kind of interesting, and we'll get into this in our
(05:23):
next segment. Here President Trump, I am so impressed by this.
You know, he's he's just taken office, and he went
to Asheville, North Carolina to kind of do a you know,
a FEMA type of you know, I want to see
what kind of job FEMA's done. And of course he
doesn't think much of the job that FEMA's done. Can't
(05:43):
blame him for that. And then he want to went
to Los Angeles, where he was welcome with open arms.
Now he was welcome with open arms for two different reasons.
I think the residents there. At least some of them
were actually glad to see him because they wanted to
see him tour what was going on, to see the
devastation for themselves, and then they wanted to be able
(06:04):
to talk to him about how difficult it was going
to be for them to rebuild. And many of them,
despite the high taxes and in the progressive politics, many
of them who are Native Californians, want to remain there.
They want that's their home. They want to rebuild their home,
even though they was just devastated by a wildfire, and
a wildfire could happen again anytime, especially when California has
(06:26):
not done anything to try to prevent the conditions that
made that wildfire spread so profusely. But he was there
to listen to them, and he found out from them that,
you know, there's a lot of regulations, as you can imagine,
and a lot of red tape that people have to
go through to rebuild. And they California and Los Angeles
(06:51):
are talking about, well, we're going to cut the red tape,
We're going to get rid of the bureaucracy, We're going
to make it possible for people to rebuild. And I
understand that that's what they're saying, and they might even
they might even be believe it to a certain extent,
but I will I will personally believe it when I
see it. It will be frustrating. Now as far as why,
(07:14):
that's why the people welcomed him, because they wanted him
to hear what they're likely to have to go through
to try to rebuild their lives. The politicians like Karen Bass,
the mayor of Los Angeles, she's glad to have him
there because she knows that in order to be able
to get some big federal aid, she's going to have
to have Trump support. Trump is supporting her. As far
(07:35):
as the idea, yeah, we'll help you get those building
permits taken care of right away. Now, No, no, we
want your money. She made it quick to point out
that she wanted the money. So we'll share some of
that with you coming up in our next segment. Stand
by for more, Jimmy Barrett Show. You're on AM nine
fifty KPRC. All right, did you hear about all the
(08:16):
all the immigration raids over the weekend? All the deep
mass deportations are underway. Almost a thousand people were apprehended
yesterday alone, So it's that's making some progress. And by
the way, this is just the criminal element. This is
this is that's who they're spending their time going after. Now.
I saw Governor Greg Abbott was on yesterday morning on
(08:37):
Sunday Morning Futures on Fox Business with Maria bartar Roma,
and she's asking him about how much different it is
working with the Trump administration versus working against the Biden administration.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
I don't think there's ever been a more sudden and
swift change in any government operation than under President of Trump.
When he took the oath of office, I would say,
over and I've been on the first hour of his
tenure as president, we saw the change where there were
military sent of the border. The military we're blocking people
from crossing the border illegally.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
The numbers of people.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Who crossed on the nineteenth of January dropped dramatically.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
On the twentieth of.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
January, they have continued to drop in every single day
President of Trump, working with Tom Homan, they've been deporting
people to the countries that came from. But to show
how Texas is a partner in all this process, on
the hour that President Trump took office, Texas was deploying
more buoys in the real grand to deter and deny
(09:38):
illegal entry into the country. The change, Maria is this,
we suddenly now have a commander in chief who cares
about national security, who cares about securing the border, who's.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Going to enforce the law.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
And importantly, he has a governor in a state in
Texas that will be a partner with the Trump administration.
We will assist in the arrest, the detention, and the
deportation of people coming across.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
The border illegally.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Hundreds up too close to one thousand are being sent
back across the border on a daily basis under the
Trump administration. Some are going to Mexico, others you will
see flights that are going to Guatemala and some other
Central American countries, and the Trump administration is going to
be sending them back to their home countries and demanding
(10:23):
compliance by these countries that they take back the people
who crossed the border illegally.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
And know this and that is right now.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Always say there's two categories of people that the Trump
administration is sending back. One they're trying to go after
those who are public safety threats, who are criminals, as
well as national security thrusts. Remember, under Joe Biden, they
allowed into the United States people who are on the
terrorist What's List, and the Trump administration is seeking out
and trying to find them and deport them. And then
(10:53):
the other that they're sending back is that listen, those
people who think they can cross the border and stay
here in the country illegally. Now those days are gone.
And so if anybody apprehendive coming across the border is
going to be sent back immediately.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
So night and day. That's the difference right between the
Bide administration and immigration and the Trump administration is just
night and day. I noticed too that if here's something,
let me throw this into the mix. Here, here's something
we could probably go back and forth on. It's from
the New York Post headline Texas teacher invites ice to
raid his school. I have many students who don't even
(11:29):
speak English. Here's the story. Texas substitute teacher has come
under fire after inviting immigration and Customs enforcement officers to
raid his school because his students don't even speak English. Well,
first of all, I don't think I don't think we're
going to see any raids on schools. I don't think.
I don't think this administration is interested in sending in
(11:52):
people to scare these students in any way, shape or form,
or to round students up just because they're not English
proficient by stretch of the imagination. However, I will say
this that there are probably gang members operating in some
of these schools, selling drugs in some of these schools.
(12:13):
Would you have a problem if I went into grab them.
I'm not talking about you know, normal, average, everyday kids
who aren't doing anything. I'm talking about the ones who
are criminals. Here's the other thing I want to know them.
This Fort Worth Infentis School District officials say they've launched
an investigation. They already know that they are educating plenty
(12:35):
of illegal kids. They know that. They don't they don't care.
They don't ask. They don't ask about immigration status. And
that's from the federal government. The federal government said, if
you want federal fundy, you don't ask. That's got to change.
In fact, that might change. Why are we spending money
educating people who are here illegally. Well, every child deserves
(12:59):
an education. Well maybe every child deserves an education, but
they don't deserve an education at the public expense. If
they're not supposed to be here, then they should not
be working here. They should not have they should not
have an educational opportunity here. The teacher was not publicly identified,
but it used the ex user name hook him two
(13:20):
three to two. Well, there's probably a University of Texas
graduate who's conservative. He called for agents to come to
Fort Worth, Texas to North Side High School. At least
that's what's being reported into the Dallas Morning News. Meanwhile,
officials have not named the substitute teacher, but the instructor
will not be teaching while the posts are investigated. Oh okay,
(13:42):
we're gonna punish him. The interim superintendent sent out the
message the district would be supporting all families. We don't
care about immigrant I'm filling into blanks now that they
don't care about immigration, says we want to serve all families.
They also went on to say, we are aware of
a social media posts referencing Northside High School which was
(14:03):
allegedly made by a substitute teacher and has caused concern
among our Fort Worth ISD community. We take this matter
very seriously and are conducting a thorough investigation and understand
the circumstances and ensure appropriate actions are taken. As for
district protocol, the employee will not be on campus during
the investigation. We are committed to maintaining a positive, supportive
environment for all students. We appreciate your patients and understanding
(14:25):
as we address this matter. They're not addressing it. They're
not addressing at all. The only investigation that's going to
happen is who is this substitute so we can fire
them and not have them back anymore. It's not going
to be an investigation into how many kids are being taught,
how many illegals are being taught in their schools, how
(14:46):
many kids don't speak English, how much is costing the
taxpayers of Fort Worth. There'll be none of that investigation.
Just about the substitute teacher, so we can make sure
he doesn't show up and cause more problems. That's the
only thing that's going to happen with that, all right, Oh,
last segment. I did promise, didn't I did? I promised
that I was going to share some audio with the
(15:07):
president's visit to Let's start with North Carolina. President Trump
went to North Carolina, asheville to be exact to see
what was going on, kind of see where the issues
are and whether or not FEMA has done a decent job.
Although I think you already knew the answers to that.
(15:27):
So here's President Trump talking about FEMA in North Carolina.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
FEMA has been a very big disappointment. They cost a
tremendous amount of money, is very bureaucratic, and it's very slow.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Other than that, we're very happy with them.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
Okay, if FEMA goes away, disaster relief becomes a lot
more efficient. And I say that as someone who grew
up on the Gulf Coast. I remember Hurricane Andrew nineteen
ninety two, all of us waiting for the power to
come back, for the supplies to arrive, and the only
thing that could those things, Shannon, we're local people. FEMA
is in microcosm. What's wrong with the federal government. It's bloated,
(16:07):
it's bureaucratic, it's inefficient, it is outdated. And I applaud
President Trump for doing this on behalf of disaster relief
for everyday Americans.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
It would be a great update to the federal government.
That is Kevin Roberts, by the way, from the Heritage Foundation,
following up on that. So Trump's not impressed with FEMA,
so he went That's what he did with part of
his weekend. The other part of the weekend he went
to Los Angeles. He was at in North Carolina and Friday.
On Saturday, he was in Los Angeles with the mayor
Karen Bass, who was just, Oh, We're just so happy
(16:37):
you're here. But if you listen carefully, you can see
why she's you know, she's trying to be so nice
to President Trump. She's counting on some big time checks
being written for disaster relief. Here's how that went.
Speaker 9 (16:50):
First of all, let me just take the opportunity to
officially welcome you to Los Angeles. Really appreciate you coming,
and especially you come just a few days after your
so I want you to know that your presence here
is very much appreciated. Let me also say that I
know you had an opportunity to see the devastation. You've
seen the extreme loss, the grief that people are going
(17:12):
through here, and we are one hundred percent committed to
getting this neighborhood rebuilt again.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
You mentioned a couple of things in terms of.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
Us expediting, so I signed executive directives right away so
that we could cut the red tape, we could get
people back building as fast as possible, and we're going
to continue doing that.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
We have the one thing you say, are saying they.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Will not be allowed to start for eighteen months.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
No, that will not be the cast. Okay, I just
hope you can hold me to it.
Speaker 10 (17:43):
This.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
Four groups said that, No, that would be They should
be able to do it. They should be able to
start tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
That will not be the case.
Speaker 9 (17:50):
You know, First we have to take care to make
sure that there's not the getting rid of the hazardous waste,
cleaning things up so that people can start right away.
And just like you said, somebody had their house was
destroyed and they're going to rebuild essentially the same, maybe
a little bit longer, a little bit higher. They really
shouldn't have to go through much of a process. So
I want you to know that we are expediting that
(18:12):
we absolutely need your help.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
We need the federal health You've got it.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
I told you you will have no permit problem. There
will be zero delay. And as far as I'm concerned,
you already have the permit stuff right.
Speaker 10 (18:24):
And I am more where because I met.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
I met at least eight groups of homeowners. And I'm
much more word about the fact that they said it's
eighteen months exactly and they were devastated. They want to
start now, they want to start removing things they're not
allowed to do it now. And you mentioned hazard is waste, Well,
the hazard is waste.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
What's hazard is waste?
Speaker 7 (18:48):
I mean you're going to have to define that. We're
going to go through a whole series of questions on
determining what's hazard.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Nope, nope.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
I just think you have to allow the people to
go on this site and start the problem, says tonight,
And we will, Okay, we will.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Sure you will. Yeah, I'm don't hold your breath on
that one. But again, you know, uh, you know, that's
that's what that's what so many people in Los Angeles
voted for. So you know, it's hard. I feel sorry
for people who live there that they're living with that
kind of government, but they're the ones that put the
government in there. Smart ones just said well this isn't
(19:26):
going to change. We got to leave, and they got out.
And but you know, if you're still there and you
still want to stay there, hey, yeah, this is what
you got to deal with, all right, quick will break
back with more in a moment. Jimmy Parratchow ninety KRC.
(20:00):
All right, I wanted to have the longer conversation with
our next guest. Her name is Courtney Trevino. She's president
of Young Republicans of Houston, which first of all puts
her in a minority because a she's young, she's a Republican,
and see she's in the city of Houston, which of
course you know is not exactly known for being a
Republican stronghold. Courtney, thanks for coming back on so we
(20:23):
could talk to you a little bit more. We established
this morning you're thirty four years old, so I don't
have to ask your age again. We talked. We talked
about where you went to college. What I did to
ask you about was high school were you Did you
go to a public school or were you homeschool I did, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (20:39):
I went to public my whole life, graduated Styles in
the city Brownsville, and then moved to Houston my third
year in Houston for a job opportunity.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Okay, well, the reason why you asked about the homeschooling
thing is is I suspected that maybe your homeschool because
I meet a lot of the young people I meet,
especially the eighteen to twenty four crowd, A lot of
them that are conservative were homeschooled, usually by their mother
or at least one of their parents, and didn't go
to public schools. But that's not the case with you.
Speaker 10 (21:17):
No, not the case with me. But I do know
you know a lot of my friends who have kids now,
I think that's something that they're considering more. I feel
like homeschool was farm between when I was growing up,
and now I feel like it's become a more common
thing now.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I know.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
You told me this morning that you have a relatively
large amount in college surprisingly fairly conservative teachers. Was it
the same way in high school? Your teachers in high
school fairly conservative? Or were they kind of liberal?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
No?
Speaker 10 (21:50):
Actually, it's funny that you asked that, because I knew
I had. I just knew my values at an early age.
Nobody had to tell me my dad's marine, and you know,
just grew up loving the country. And so I was
in history class and I remember the teacher me to
comment about Bush and Daddy Bush, and I remember, I
(22:12):
don't know what came up in me, but I asked them, like,
is that a fact? We did that actually happen or
is that your opinion? And then I ended up deciding
to just like move classes because I was like, I
just ousted myself. But yeah, I mean she was very
much just giving her opinion to a history class, where
I feel like history you should be teaching kids the
(22:33):
facts of what really happened, and we clearly weren't you know,
alive during that time, so we don't know any.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Different, right, So it sounds like it sounds like obviously
your your your parents, and maybe the military background had
a huge impact on you as a young person.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
I think so.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
I mean, I just.
Speaker 10 (22:51):
There was never a conversation or we were never that down,
but I just I think I was just aware of it,
and I knew what was felt right. I knew I
knew what did is go right, And so I think
I just always had this like boldness in me that
I wasn't afraid to have those tough conversations, especially growing
(23:12):
up in South Texas, which has completely transformed now, and
I think that people are starting to just communicate more
and talk about what's really going on and the issues
really at hand, and especially young people, I think they
face issues that they've never had to in the past.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Well, and for South Texas with a very large Hispanic population,
you know, it was traditional that you voted Democrats just
what you did, and there weren't didn't seem like there
were a lot of really in depth conversations about yes,
but they the Democrats stand for this, and we don't
believe that, or they stand for that, and that's not
what we believe, but that that has happened more and
(23:51):
more over the last ten years right now.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
So I'm if people remember last cycle, It's Texas, we
had a special election and if a congresswoman myras Ftus
and they slipped one hundred plus year Democrats stronghold, and
I was fortunate enough to be her campaign manager for
that race, and just how we got connected was just
(24:15):
very got ordained and feel super honored to be able
to help lead that you instrumental time in South Texas history.
But it really just came down to having conversations and
Republicans investing and President Trump speaking on the border, and
nobody who lived on the border was un defended by
(24:36):
you know, anything that was said. It's it is true.
Myra's husband was a border patrol, my dad is an
ice agent, and I don't think that's by coincidence. It's
just how common. You know, that's how people support their families.
We live in It's right in our backing art every
single day.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Sure, all right, So tell you live in Houston. Now
you're president of the Young Republicans of Houston. How many
members do you have and how? I mean? Litten I said,
Houston is generally speaking of blue city. Is it hard
to define like minded people in a blue city like Houston?
Speaker 10 (25:12):
You know, surprisingly, we haven't really faced a lot of backlash,
Like we're regular people. You know, we have attorneys and
you know, people that work in yeah, and just a
range of professions, and so I think everybody kind of
involves their friends or they come to meet friends. Right now,
(25:34):
our club is currently at one hundred and fifty members.
I know, uh, during COVID they were at double of that.
So we're definitely before COVID they were double double that.
So we're definitely working to get back to that, you know,
three hundred plus roster. And the way we're doing that
(25:56):
is we're just having events. We have three events schedule,
it'd be, and just giving people opportunities to come out
after work. The girls getting together, and then we have
an amazing speaker wind up in February that's kind of
cofully give us some insight on what's going on in
the Texas House. So we just try to keep them
engaged on what's current. We also started a newsletter of
(26:19):
all the issues going on federally and all the stuff
going on in the state House, and so just doing
stuff that I guess hasn't been before to really engage
young people well.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
And I'm guessing too that there are probably a lot
more conservative young people leaving in a city like Houston
than you might think because a lot of times, and
you were telling me this morning that when you were
in college that you know, or when you go to
visit college campuses, you kind of find that there are
fair amount of conservative young people who kind of try
to keep a low profile because they're going to a
(26:53):
liberal school in a liberal town and they're trying not
to doubt themselves.
Speaker 10 (27:00):
Since my uber driver the other day was going to
I was going to Rockets game and he was saying
stuff and I could kind of tell he was like tiptoeing,
and I ended up telling him it's okay, Like we're
Republican and he's like, oh, he was like, I never know,
I've got myself in trouble sometimes without you know, engaged,
you know, testing the waters to see, you know, how
(27:21):
someone believes. But I think there's people and we end
up inviting him lives to come out to our club.
So I think there's a lot of people that are
fit seeing for that engagement. We're just trying to stay
very active and involved to give people, you know, through
our social medias, and get people a place that they
know that they can be around like minds people and
have those conversations that to stay informed and educated.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Yeah, I want to ask you a little bit about
your experience on college campuses. One of the things that
we've heard is that young women are much more liberal
right now than young men. We've got a lot of
conservative young men out there who are surrounded by young
women who are very liberal compared to themselves. And one
of the reasons why these young men perhaps are more
(28:05):
conservative is they they feel the progressive left is is
picking on them, picking on their gender, picking on their stereotypes,
u picking on what it means to be a young man,
trying to feminize them as young men when they really
don't want to be feminized, they want to be young men.
M hmm, would you agree with that?
Speaker 10 (28:27):
I agree, Yeah, I think that seem to be a
lot more liberal in sense, like Verry stuck on that
there a lot of like the social issues that get
very emotional about that. I think that the men, I mean,
(28:50):
we have a lot of variety members in our club now,
I mean talked about diversity. I'm a female from all
tax our vice president isn't it an attorney like from
(29:10):
another state? His parents were in law enforcement. I just
think that we are the party that reflects diversity, and
for some reason, I don't know what it is about
the at this day and age, are just like absolutely
not open to those conversations.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm kind of curious where you think the
direction is going for for young people here. Do you
think that, I mean, every generation is different from the past.
I mean, I'm I'm I'm guilty as much as next guy.
When I was, when I was in college, I was
I was kind of liberal, certainly more liberal than my
parents were. But the only is life goes on and
you pay taxes, and you have different priorities for raising
(29:52):
a family and living a better life for yourself and
your family, your your your priorities change become different, and
you have a tendency to become more conservative. Do you
do you do you think there's going to be a
more conservative trend about young people here in the next
generation or so are we in other words, are we trending?
Do you think in that direction?
Speaker 6 (30:10):
I think so.
Speaker 10 (30:11):
One of my closest friends in college he left. We
laught like looking back, how far you know, not just him,
but people that we know have gone to the other side.
And he was a huge Bernie supporter. We even have
a picture on Halloween. He justed a Obama for Halloween.
(30:34):
He is a frack engineer and works in the oil field,
and as soon as he graduated and started working, he's
just become increasingly more Republican. Now he we've your a
Republican chapter in San Antonio, and I think that happens
to a lot of young people, especially men. Once they
start working, they realizes, well, they realize all these actually
(30:56):
aren't the policies that I thought I wanted to support. Wow,
all of our pockets.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
That's a pretty big conversion, going from social democrat Bernie
Sanders to Republican. That's about that's a that's a complete
one eighty there.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
I know.
Speaker 10 (31:11):
I mean all the time he's like, look if I
could do it, like y'all could do it. And he
said he's he's very active and consciousness that he does interviews.
He's also from the Virgin Islands, so he's yeah, very
just unapologetic and I'm in the men could be a
(31:32):
lot more for not very not as easily wavered. That's
made me in the past. So yeah, totally continues.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Well, that's amazing. Keep keep spreading the word, Courtney, and
thank you for coming on the show today. I sure
do appreciate it. Good to talk to you. Hope to
talk to again someday.
Speaker 10 (31:49):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
You Take care. Courtney Trevino, President of Young Republicans of Houston,
back with more in a moment Jimmy Verir Show a
nine fifty KPRC. All right, Tom, I'm not I'm going
(32:15):
to ask you a question out loud that I don't expect. Well,
you can answer it if you want. I want to
hear the answer, and that is where do you bank?
Do you do you haven't accounted a big corporate bank.
Are you more into a local bank? Do you do
you feel that the bank you're at is neutral as
(32:40):
it relates to politics, or the very least neutral as
far as your politics. Do you feel like you've been
d banked? Do you feel like you've been denied an
account or denied alone because of your politics. I don't
think that's happened to average every day people like you
and me, the d banking part. But I think it
(33:00):
has happened to people who are high profile, people who
are well known, people who run conservative organizations as well
known that they run that conservative organization, or people who
are are in the news quite a bit as being conservatives.
I can see. Or or if you have a conservative cause,
(33:22):
for example, let's say, or you have a business, for example,
that deals in something that the progressive left doesn't like,
like guns. You know, your your gun dealer, you'll have
a gun shop or shooting range, and you want to
get a small business loan for your gun shop or
your shooting range, and you've been denied, not because there's
(33:45):
anything wrong with your credits or any of that, but
you've been denied because because of the type of business
that you have. We know that that's been going on,
and we know that's been going on with with you
know some of these bigger name banks. Evidently, Congress is
right need to investigate this. They're ready to take a
look at this, and now that President Trump is in power,
(34:05):
they're much more ready to take a look at this.
We need to find out if banks are debanking people
because of their politics, and that needs to stop. I
mean Trump made a big point of that in that
the videotape speech that he gave at Davos, but he
also has Representative James Colmer working on the same issue
in Congress. Here is Representative Comber.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Yes, we are.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
We've heard numerous instances of conservatives being dbanked, and what
we want to know is is this a process of
the banks, isg policy is this or is this our
government stepping in like what we found with Twitter and
Facebook where the government stepped in and said they wanted
certain conservatives deplatformed and censored and certain conservative content removed.
(34:52):
We want to know again, is this the government involvement,
another dirty trick by Joe Biden administration or is this
just bad liberal policy that discriminates against conservatives by the banks.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Wow, so you have evidence of some banks de banking conservatives.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Yes, especially people that were involved in different energy type
businesses and things like that, as well as very well
spoken or outspoken conservative activists. So there are numerous interances
enough to open an investigation.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Again, is this ESG policy which is discriminatory?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
And ironically the Democrats have passed all this banking legislation
that prohibits discrimination.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Is this discriminatory because of ESG? Or is it the government?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Are the bank examiners, as President Trump hinted in his
remarks you played earlier, are these bank examiners with a
wink and a nod saying don't let this person bank
at your bank?
Speaker 3 (35:46):
What will be the impact of these banks? What should
these banks expect in the coming months from your office.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Well, they're going to be asked a lot of questions.
And I will say this for the banks. During the
Biden influenced pelling investigation, the banks were the one into
that did cooperate with us. So I expect that the
banks will cooperate with our questions and hopefully we can
get some answers to one find out if our government
was involved in this, if this is another side operation
(36:14):
by the Biden administration where they were attacking conservatives. At
the very least, we want to change this. You know,
we're not talking about dbanking, meaning they denied alone. That
happens every day in the banking work. This is just
opening up savings accounts and checking accounts.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
I mean, this is unheard of.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
To do this, and it's against the law, the laws,
ironically that the Democrats created against discrimination.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Okay, well, enforce the law, then, right, enforce the law.
If you're going to deny somebody the ability to have
a checking account or a savings account, you better have
a dog one good reason.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
Right.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
And here's the thing. Is it happening to average every
day people? I doubt it because they don't know that
much about your politics. You know, it's never happened to me.
I mean, where my politics on sleeve. I'm pretty dog
on conservative. It's never happened to me. But you know,
I'm not super high profile. Few folks in Houston might
(37:11):
know who I am, but I don't think anybody the
federal government really knows who I am, nor do they
really care who I am. I'm not I'm not that
high on their pecking order. I'm not that high on
their list. But if you are somebody who's very high profile,
then yeah, they don't. They don't want to do business
with you. In fact, did I say, I thought I
saw where where Milania Trump had had she had been
(37:34):
debanked because of who her husband is. You know, bank
that didn't want to do business with her because she
was a Trump, you know. And it's not like it.
I mean, the guys, it's not like they don't have
any money. It's not like they don't have a credit rating,
a very good credit writing, I might add, And yet
they won't do business with them because they're Trump. Yeah,
(37:56):
that's not right. You know, if you're in business, you're
especially in a public business like banking, then you should
be expected to do business with everybody at least based
on not based on politics, but based on credit worthiness.
You know, what reason would you have for denying somebody
a savings account or checking account or even alone, as
(38:17):
long as they're credit worthy. That's what banks supposedly do.
All right, Listen, y'all have a great day, Happy Monday.
Thanks for listening. It's gonna be kind of cloudy and gloomy,
but at least be warm this week. Don't have to
worry about any freezing stuff. I'll see you tomorrow morning,
bright and early at five am. Over on news Radio
seven forty KTRH. We are back here at four on
AM nine fifty KPRC.
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