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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time time, lucking load. The Michael
Verry Show is on the air, cooking into micro week.
Gotta feed a beard.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I don't plan to shave, and it's good the thing,
but I just gotta see I'm doing.
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It all right? Will we im make me support?
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It's I'm beating ridictu and.
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That's the true. It's neither drinking, no drug and just snoop.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I'm just doing all right.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
It's a great dad, be alive.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
I know the sun's still shining in a close my eyes.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It's five times in the neighborhood.
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Good bye, can't.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
April fourteen eight is a big day in our household
because it is my wife's birthday. She turns fifty seven today,
which means I have enjoyed thirty six. This will be
the thirty sixth birthday I've shared with her because we
met in the fall of eighty nine. Of course, she
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had her first birthday in the spring April fourteenth of
nineteen ninety, which would have been the first year, which.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Was the year ding and zero, so add one.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
This is twenty twenty five, so this is the thirty
sixth of her birthdays. I've been able to share with her.
If you are a friend of my bride and you
know how to reach her, feel free to send her
a very very happy birthday. She was, I try to
change it up every year, so this year I did
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the I pretended I didn't know it was her birthday
coming up. She's not as into birthdays as I am,
because she's not as narcissis tic and self centered as
I am.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
But she had no idea.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And as I was leaving this morning, and I think
she was probably pretty well convinced that I had just
absolutely blown her birthday, I presented the present sweetly wrapped
from a Corey Diamonds, So she was She was very
happy with with her gift. The beauty of Connie is
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Connie already knows what your wife wants anyway, and so
which it feels like insider trading or something, but at
least you know, at least you know that what you
got her she's going to love, because at some point
Connie has said, what do you think about this?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
What do you think about this? What do you think
about this?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And Connie has you know, Connie has has that mind
like a steel trap. So she has kept that away,
you know, locked away for later.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Use inst you.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
So in any case, if you are acquainted with my bride,
feel free to wish her happy birthday. It is also
my trainer, Michael Petru's birthday, and he is I'm fifty four,
so I think he's let's see, so he and I
are the same age as in we came out of
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high school in eighty nine together.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I don't know if this would mean that he turns.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Fifty four today or if he turns fifty five because
we were both fifty four yesterday, or we were both
same age, but this may mean that he's catching up
with me because I was an early birthday, because I
was a November birthday, and it is sam El Sadi's birthday,
who owns Big City Wings, so a lot of birthdays
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in the family.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Today.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
It is also a day that we celebrate the life
of Houston, a Houston legend, but an American. He wrote
an international story, an aspiring, inspiring story, and that is
the life of the chap George Foreman, who will be
remembered this morning at Wortham Theater.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
From the Boxing Ring to the Bayou City, George Foreman's
legacy lives on in the lives that he touched, and
today's memorial service is set to be a reminder that
he was more than a champion, he was also a
hero in our community.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Now.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
The memorial service is set to begin at ten forty
five this morning. The service will include remarks from Mayor
John Whitmeyer, music from the University of Houston Choir and
the Houston Symphony. Now, because of limited space, tickets are
needed to attend, and all tickets have been distributed, but
folks can watch online if they were not able to
get a ticket to attend in person. Foreman was raised
in the fifth Ward and his commitment to Houston has
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been felt and seen by so many for decades, like
the George Foreman Youth and Community Center in Al Dean.
For nearly four decades, it served as a space for
local kids just like him.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
It's keep kids off the streets in this I help
a lot of youth around this area.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Who's a good people person.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
He's not one of those.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
How can I say bad person?
Speaker 7 (05:06):
I go, I'm richer than y'all, Like I've got my bodyguards, know,
like you would interact with people like he would.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Now that community center was a staple and all Dean,
both of My parents grew up in the Aldan area.
My dad worked near that center. He brought it up
to me this weekend, and that really just shows how
rooted George Foreman was in the community. Now for today,
the Foreman family is asking for donations instead of flowers,
and those donations can be made to the Church of
the Lord Jesus Christ or the George Foreman Charitable Foundation.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Well maybe they crowned too many millionaires with those giant checks.
Publishers Clearing House has filed for Chapter eleven bankruptcy. You
didn't know they were still around.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
This is a day I will never forget. You think
about your days and let you do.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You know, we talked about this a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Remember there was a story about they still made money.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You know that whole I mean, there's still scams going
on every day, but that whole setup of.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Man, I'm slogging. My life's miserable.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
But maybe I'll win the lottery here, maybe I'll win
the Publisher's clearing House. It's it's all in the category
of the Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
What was the deal we did?
Speaker 6 (06:52):
You know?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
You get ten CDs for a penny each. What was
that called Columbia House? I am imagine they were all
run out of you know, adjoining warehouses. That was you know,
that was before the internet, scalability and everything else, and somehow,
some way they figured out how to run a scam
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on a scalable.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Level.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
A Houston woman missing in Mexico has been found dead.
Houston attorney and businesswoman Jessica Rossman, who had been reporting
miss reported missing in Mexico for several days, was found
dead there, according to loved ones and media reports, Rossman
died April first, after experiencing an undisclosed health issue while
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visiting her home in Preto Bayarta, Mexico. Her friend Edward
Sanchez wrote on Instagram, Jessica was loved by so many
and we know everyone will want.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
To reach out.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
We ask everyone to be patient while plans are made
to celebrate her life in a proper way. Rossman's partner
reported her missing this month when she didn't return home
from a scheduled appointment at the doctor Carlos Das Health
and Beauty Clinic. Rossmun's family had struggled to get answers
as her body remained inside a morgue at a forensic
science institute. Rossbin's a graduate University of Texas at Austin
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and California, Bolt Hall School of Law co chaired the
Bearing Omega Gala and started as Honeray Chair of the
Planned Parenthood Young Leaders.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Out that.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Long long forty five years ago today April fourteenth, nineteen
eighty Jus Priests these British steel metal landmark in the
tracks Living after Midnight and of course breaking the law?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Ramon, would you describe that as Judas Priest really, as
in it's a group and made up of a number
of people, so that number of people release it, or
would you say Judas Priest releases as in one person,
one band. I do one person one band. Now it
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is accepted in music journalism that you would refer to
that as a group of people, So you would say.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Judas Priest are.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
This or that, whereas I would say Judas Priest is
because I think of the group as one. I've noticed
the convention that has been established, and that is that
you use that silly term or you use it in
that way, and I don't really care for it.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
And then there will be somebody. It will always be
a woman who will email me and she'll say no, Michael.
The proper way is this, lady. The proper way is
established by a person.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I know that you need that rule to hang on
to because someone else said it before you did.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
But the proper way is simply.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
What someone says that this will be how we will
do it, and then you're so eagerly holding onto it.
A brother and sister have an issue with a Southwest
Houston funeral home that is handling the body of their mother.
They show up there on Friday and find her body
and a number of others kept in horrific conditions. They
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post videos to social media, which leads to a confrontation
with staffers at the home.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Who then end up stabbing the brother. They sounded like
a high end mortuary.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
The sister said her mother's body was in an advanced
state of decomposition with gnats on it. Oh my, the
story from KHOU.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
A disturbing discovery.
Speaker 9 (11:00):
It's hurtfuls I knew something wasn't right.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Houston Police investigating two scenes.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Getting stabbed A disturbing discovery.
Speaker 9 (11:09):
It's hurtfuls I knew something wasn't right.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
Houston Police investigating two scenes at the South Houston mortuary.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
There were bodies laid out uh on the ground and
on the cardboard.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
Bodies of people who were already deceased to be cremated
or prepared for funerals.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
I feel hard because I have not one, but they
have two of our family members, my mother and my uncle.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Tamara Magruder Crooks, had a bad feeling ahead of her
mother's funerals set for tomorrow. She says, after repeated issues
with the owner of Richardson Mortuary, she and her brother
went to see for themselves. That's when they discovered their
mother's body, along with others in unacceptable conditions.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
And I said, I'm not gonna leave without my mom's body,
and he said, you're gonna leave.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
She described conditions as deplorable, recording this video and posting
it to social media.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
They on stretchers, they have nets, They're in boxes. It
smells horrible.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
They inside of caskets. They uncovered their naked.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
A confrontation broke out with a mortuary worker. Tamara's brother
was stabbed and rushed to the hospital. Video showing the
bodies quickly spread online, and soon more families began showing
up in shock.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I saw on video that there was a lot of
bodies over here.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Dimitri Sylvester says her brother passed away in February and
she's been waiting on his ashes since.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
No respect for the dead and no respect for the family.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
She's not the only one. Marita Brown says she recognized
her late grandmother in the videos circulating on social media.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
It's a shock because he took care of my grandfather
in twenty thirteen, and he did an awesome job, but
to fail us now.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
The bodies were moved to other locations due to the
conditions at the request of a mortuary owner, according to
the Texas Funeral Service Commission. The agency says the building
suffered damages from Hurricane Beryl, this leaving grieving families to
relive their loss all over again.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
Portray lied to scam Angry Upset Heart.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
HB.
Speaker 8 (13:03):
Tell is a worker here who was accused of the
stabbing clean.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I don't think we needed to do synonyms there, because
we're kind of doing the same ones.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I think we could have. I think one or two
would have done.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
It felt like we were just it's almost an academic
exercise play that.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
In Damned Angry Upset Heart, hbd Tell is a worker
here who was accused of the stabbing clean self defense,
and that the owner is at the hospital dealing with
medical issues.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
No charges at this time.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Now.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
The victim of the stabbing I heard from his sister
not that long ago, and he has been in surgery
for hours now. As for the families, they are now
left trying to figure out what to do next.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You know, it's one of those things that white people
don't know about, but black mortuaries is. It's big business,
and it's a very political business. I can remember I
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would be at political events and she La Jackson Lee
would be there when someone died. I think she was
getting a cut from the mortuary. I do, and I
have reason to believe that. I cannot say why, but
I believe she was getting a cut and she first
first question she would ask is who's got the body.
I'd never heard that before, and I came to learn
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that on the east side of Maine, so third ward,
fifth ward, those acres homes there was it was a
big deal who would have the body? And it was
kind of like joining a country club. It was very
connection oriented, so you would find people that were involved
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in politics and socially involved locally would be affiliated with
a funeral home. And my guess is there was a
more than a guess. My suspicion is, my belief is
that there was there was some money changed in hands
as to who got the body. It's it's an interesting thing.
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I'm just trying to figure out how it works. So
you go in there and you start raising hell that
they are not taking care of your mother's body in
preparing her for the funeral. Where is the point where
someone pulls out a knife? It is twenty twenty five.
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Where was the knife? Did he go in the back
and get the knife? Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, you want to fight me or I'm gonna stab you?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
And guess what when you die, your family's punishment is we're.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Going to do the funeral.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
No, not that too.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
The Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
The breakout star of the kN Paxton impeachment debacle was
a lawyer who was representing Ken Paxton, who was making
a very methodical and persuasive case that this case was ridiculous.
Drunk Dade was out of control, This would set a
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horrible precedent. This was a petty. It was big donors
who wanted Ken Paxton out of the way for the
very reason we now see playing out. kN Paxton is
running against John Cornyn, and he's leading in the polls.
But the breakout star was a fellow named Mitch Little,
who was a lawyer living in a small town, smart
as he could be, who was now exposed to a
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statewide audience that we're paying attention, and he ends up
running for state rep himself and joins this new breed
of reformers in Austin trying to take back the state House,
not from Democrats, but from the Republican swamp that has
run us off a cliff. He is not one for hyperbole,
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so when I read something this morning that he posted
last night, God is my witness. Before this session is over,
I'm going to make certain every grassroots Republican in this
state understands how House leadership made a deal with the
Democrats to sell us down the river Thursday night. Well,
State Representative Mitch Little, let's get started on that effort.
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Let's tell quite a few of them right now. Yeah,
good mornings are Yeah. I wouldn't have believed if I
hadn't seen it with my own eyes. So the conservatives
in the Texas House that I'll you know, the true conservatives,
I'll probably number about twenty four we spent weeks preparing
different amendments to the budget trying to deliver property tax
relief back to the voters. And one of the sources, well,
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we had several tactics.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
To do that. One we were going to take money
out of the Lottery Commission. We're going to take money
out of the Enterprise Fund. We were going to take
money in the budget out of out of several different sources,
including unbalances that a number of agencies had. So for
your listeners who may not be aware of this, we
appropriate money and these state agencies don't spend it all,
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and it just accruise over time, and it's literally billions
of dollars that's just sitting there and accounts waiting to
be spent. Some of them are fund balances, but a
lot of them are not. So we were putting amendments
together to the budget as it was going to come
to the House floor, got them all ready to go,
and then we find out from the leadership team that
they're going to sweep. They're going to ask for a
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vote to suspend the rules to sweep most of our
amendments to article eleven. Article eleven is like the graveyard
in the budget. So if amendments end up in Article eleven,
it's basically like the circular file. So the House Republican leadership,
combined with the Democrats, obtained over one hundred votes sweep
most of our amendments to Article levin. We still had
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several good ones left, including for property tax relief. I
was carrying one to give an increase to salaries for
the office of the Attorney General and to restore the
Attorney general's back pay from the impeachment. Well, right out
of the gate, in about thirty seconds, Mary Gonzalez, a
Democrat who is the You remember we don't have Democrat
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committee chairs anymore. Well, she's in charge of the subcommittee
of the budget. On article one she makes, she makes
she offers an amendment to her own amendment that strips
out from the budget all of the governor's enterprise fund,
all of his movie fund, movie subsidies, and defunds the lottery.
And you're like, why would a Democrat do that? Because
Mary Gonzalez, a Democrat, got together with Greg Vaughn and
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a Republican out of Galveston who runs the budget to
remove all the sources for our amendments. So just a
little bit of inside baseball. The under the House rules
when you put when you want to move money to
some something else like property tax relief, you have to
take it from a source. So what Mary Gonzalez did
in working with Craig Bonn is she removed all the
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sources for our put intakes under the budget, so we
didn't have money to grab to move over to property
tax relief anymore. She just completely took it out of
the budget. She and Greg Bonnon did that together, and
they had one hundred votes in the Texas House, including
from a lot of Republicans who represent your listeners who
weren't paying attention.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
So I do this silly little thing on Facebook, called
and asked me anything, and it's people have the opportunity
to ask you a question and you give an immediate
answer to that, and at least one person may be more.
Asked if we'll see property tax relief in the state
of Texas or will we ever eliminate and I said
absolutely not. And the reason is it's not the Democrats.
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They don't want it, but the Republican leadership doesn't want
to do away with this honey hole, this huge pit
of money which they give out to the people who
then keep them in all very frustrated. I can't imagine
I served on Houston City Council and I would be
frustrated going in every day knowing that I was in
the minority and that I couldn't stop anything from happening.
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All I could do was raise us think about it,
and that kind of pressure would help me in some
cases to mold an issue here or there, but I
could never actually win. I didn't have the Trump executive authority.
I can't imagine what it's like to go in there
every day knowing that your real problem is not the Democrats,
it's the Republican leadership they control, and the consultants, lobbyists,
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operatives who are churning out material to tell you what
a great job they're doing and what a good Republican
and they love Jesus and they love America and they
wear a flag pin and July fourth is a sacred
holiday to them, and all the while they're selling us
down the river. I can't imagine how awful that is
every day to have to do that and realize you
can't convince people how bad they are.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
So if there are one hundred and fifty members Michael
in the Texas House one hundred. If you just sorted
them along the ideological spectrum, the one hundred people in
the middle are indistinguishable from one another. They are tax
and spend Republicans, they are tax and spent Democrats. And
so you said, oh, we'll never eliminate property tax, Well
you're partially right. We're trying. There are prior House priority
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bills brought by the leadership team to eliminate forms of
property tax for certain of their special interests and vendors.
So over the last three weeks, we had a vote
on a bill and actually passed a bill out of
the House to exempt exotic game animals from sales tax.
We had a vote in the House to we're going
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to have a vote in the House today to exempt
animal feed inventory from business personal property tax. So there
are special interests that are getting their needs serviced. There
are special interests that are getting their need service, while
regular Texans are essentially getting no meaningful, properit pretty tax relief.
And you're right that Republicans and Democrats are both drunk
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on your money. There's no way they're ever going to
push away from the bar. The only thing that you
can do is on electum and try to start over.
But they're not going to push away from the bar.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
And that means defeating them in Republican primaries because by
November you don't want a Democrat in the time to
do that is a year from now. In that primary.
The question on the eliminating the sales tax on the
sale of exotic animals, I have to think I can't
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imagine that affects very many people.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
We could probably run.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
To ground who was behind that basic and then who
carried it and what kind of internal relationship is there.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
And I like exotic animals much as the next.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Okay, if they don't pay sales taxes on it, but
that that's the kind of pay for play government.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Mitch Little, state representative is our guests more common?
Speaker 8 (24:06):
Michael Berry's not your.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
State representative.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Mitch Little making waves in Austin in only his.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
First term there.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Mitch, you post, you reposted something that Michael quinn Sullivan
put up, said.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
New Wall Street Journal article reveals that children in.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Texas were used as part of a Texas Lottery Commission
approved scheme in twenty twenty three to steal the largest
jackpot in state history. A massive violation of state law,
apparently with the knowledge of the lottery vendor officials. So
we keep hearing there was this scandal at the lottery.
Can you explain what happened there?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Yeah, they were using My understanding is there was somebody
in some foreign citizen who was buying literally millions of
dollars worth of lottery tickets, which you're not supposed to
be able to do.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
He was using.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Runners or remote remote purchase lottery services to obtain them,
which is supposed to be impermissible and against the law.
The lottery services aren't supposed to be doing that, but
they're doing it anyway. My understanding is that the lottery
commissioner has possibly gone to Mexico and is unavailable for
commet It appears to be totally rife with corruption. This
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isn't what I think the Texas taxpayers bargained for when
they allowed it to be created. Certainly hasn't achieved the
desired end of helping fund our public schools. My understanding
is it also is supposed to fund veterans organizations, which
it in part does. But man government is not good
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at running and monitoring systems like this. They're just they're
not not qualified, they're not competent to do it, and
yet we've done it year after year after year.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
We need to get out of lottery.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
It's altogether money.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
We can't have gambling in Texas because it violates God's
ordinances and leads to corruption unless the state handles it,
in which case it's the most corrupt form of gambling possible.
So help me understand how the scheme works. So let's
say there's one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Lottery.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
What do you call it the price that's up for grabs?
Is it the case that keeps rolling? Is he buying
up all the tickets? Because there's only going to be
ten million this round, and so the real profit is
the earlier rounds that didn't have a winner.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
How does that work?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Because if you spend millions of dollars, how do you
even know you're getting the right ticket?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I think you're just it's pure mathematics. You're buying every
possible permutation of the successful outcome.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Okay, So you don't do that on the first round.
You do it after it builds and there are fewer
tickets sold for that round or dollars sold than there
are the overall prize. It's pretty clever. I saw a
thing Dan Patrick did. It was his own video. He
made it himself. He went over to the place and
he showed the front of the place was like a
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cell phone store and the back of the place was
a lottery store or vice versa. And apparently, the way
the license works, you're not supposed to be able to
do that. But it seemed to suggest that that was
one of the violators. Was that one, and I guess
that's who won it.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
It's certainly the source of the individual ticket, but not
the only participant in the scheme. And what really bothers
me and I think should bother your listeners, is we
know all this is going on. There's no dispute about it.
There's no dispute that the environment is corrupt, and yet
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the discussion in the legislature is about reforming it, not
removing it. This is how addicted government is to your
money and making sure that it gets to the right
government program or assist these people and their special interest.
This is this is not what most people think they're
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signing up for when they run for office.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
You're a student of Texas political history. I don't know
if you remember the name Ben Barnes. Sure Ben Barnes
was in the sixties and early seventies on a projection
to be president.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
He was the guy. He knew everybody.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
He was the Golden Child, he was the Democrat star,
and he knew from his early early from lateeen in
early twenties years. Somehow Ben Barnes ended up with some
sort of controlling interest, either officially or unofficially, in the
lottery and got into some pretty serious problems that he
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was in some way stealing money or steering money. The
whole thing is an absolute and utter scam. It's an
utter scam, and I think it probably always has been.
When we get back to the issue of property taxes,
and I'm telling you something I know you've heard one
hundred times, but I just want to say it so
people hear me say it, because I think it feels
better to know that somebody cares or that people realize.
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The number one issue I hear from people that I
talk to face to face, if I'm at a cocktail
party or wherever else is property taxes. And it is
across the board what property taxes have done, how they
have shot up, and it never ends, and so people
will say things like I paid off all my debts
and I retired, and then all of a sudden, there's
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this creeping property I have to have a job to
pay my property taxes to the state for a house
that I own, and there's seemingly no end in sight.
And I don't get the sense that Republicans in Austin
give a damn that they will occasionally pay lip service
to it, but by and large it is not on
the agenda at all.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Is that fair to say?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Here's what everybody who listens to your show needs to understand.
You are going to see state representatives. And I'm aware
of this because I'm the one I'm actually getting copies
of these talking points. The Republicans who really do not
care about meaningful property tax relief are going to be
sending out messaging to you saying they just passed a
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budget that that secures fifty one billion dollars in property
tax relief. Here's the thing, it's a complete lie. It's
an absolute fabrication. And here's what they're doing. They're calculating
cumulatively all the money that has been contributed to property
tax relief ever over time that is now built into
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the budget and is permanent unless you remove it, and
then they're doubling it for the biennium? Are you tracking
with me? So they're going to So the sales pitch
back on to you is yes, I know you're getting
a property tax ill that doesn't seem to be going down.
But don't believe the evidence of your eyes and ears.
Listen to me, your your duly elected state representative, and
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believe that we have truly worked on solving the problem
super hard. Well, this is truly a corrupt environment of Republicans.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
I mean, the Democrats are who they are.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
The problem is that they have they control the Republican Party.
When Dustin Burroughs was chosen as drunk Dade's replacement, who
was basically just drunk data all over again, what was
the point of you know, throwing drunk data out if
you're just can replace him with Dustin Burrows. But once
that happened, the state reps in Houston that voted with
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the that were there were more Democrats than Republicans in
this thing, they voted with the Republican with the Democrats
to put the Democrats choice in as speaker. And when
that happened, I got the text that everybody else did.
That was the same package text. They just replaced the
picture from the lobbyists and consultants in Austin on what
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a conservative choice they had made, and what a great
job Sam Harlst had done, and what a great job
Will Metcalf had done, and what a great job Lacey
Hull had done. And it's so cynical, and I have
to say it's frustrating. It's debilitating because good people are
out here working their tails off and for that nonsense
to happen and for us to have to fight against them,
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it's frustrating. I filibustered your time, Mitch a little, but
I appreciate you listening, my man.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
God bless you. Go and see if you're state rep
voted for SB won the budget.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Thank you, brother.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
It's not really good talk radio fundamentals to have somebody
on and then you answer all of the questions yourself.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
And I just did
It's that time time time time, lucking load. The Michael
Verry Show is on the air, cooking into micro week.
Gotta feed a beard.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I don't plan to shave, and it's good the thing,
but I just gotta see I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
It all right? Will we im make me support?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
It's I'm beating ridictu and.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
That's the true. It's neither drinking, no drug and just snoop.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I'm just doing all right.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
It's a great dad, be alive.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
I know the sun's still shining in a close my eyes.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It's five times in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Good bye, can't.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
April fourteen eight is a big day in our household
because it is my wife's birthday. She turns fifty seven today,
which means I have enjoyed thirty six. This will be
the thirty sixth birthday I've shared with her because we
met in the fall of eighty nine. Of course, she
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had her first birthday in the spring April fourteenth of
nineteen ninety, which would have been the first year, which.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Was the year ding and zero, so add one.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
This is twenty twenty five, so this is the thirty
sixth of her birthdays. I've been able to share with her.
If you are a friend of my bride and you
know how to reach her, feel free to send her
a very very happy birthday. She was, I try to
change it up every year, so this year I did
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the I pretended I didn't know it was her birthday
coming up. She's not as into birthdays as I am,
because she's not as narcissis tic and self centered as
I am.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
But she had no idea.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
And as I was leaving this morning, and I think
she was probably pretty well convinced that I had just
absolutely blown her birthday, I presented the present sweetly wrapped
from a Corey Diamonds, So she was She was very
happy with with her gift. The beauty of Connie is
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Connie already knows what your wife wants anyway, and so
which it feels like insider trading or something, but at
least you know, at least you know that what you
got her she's going to love, because at some point
Connie has said, what do you think about this?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
What do you think about this? What do you think
about this?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And Connie has you know, Connie has has that mind
like a steel trap. So she has kept that away,
you know, locked away for later.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Use inst you.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
So in any case, if you are acquainted with my bride,
feel free to wish her happy birthday. It is also
my trainer, Michael Petru's birthday, and he is I'm fifty four,
so I think he's let's see, so he and I
are the same age as in we came out of
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high school in eighty nine together.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I don't know if this would mean that he turns.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Fifty four today or if he turns fifty five because
we were both fifty four yesterday, or we were both
same age, but this may mean that he's catching up
with me because I was an early birthday, because I
was a November birthday, and it is sam El Sadi's birthday,
who owns Big City Wings, so a lot of birthdays
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in the family.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Today.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
It is also a day that we celebrate the life
of Houston, a Houston legend, but an American. He wrote
an international story, an aspiring, inspiring story, and that is
the life of the chap George Foreman, who will be
remembered this morning at Wortham Theater.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
From the Boxing Ring to the Bayou City, George Foreman's
legacy lives on in the lives that he touched, and
today's memorial service is set to be a reminder that
he was more than a champion, he was also a
hero in our community.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Now.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
The memorial service is set to begin at ten forty
five this morning. The service will include remarks from Mayor
John Whitmeyer, music from the University of Houston Choir and
the Houston Symphony. Now, because of limited space, tickets are
needed to attend, and all tickets have been distributed, but
folks can watch online if they were not able to
get a ticket to attend in person. Foreman was raised
in the fifth Ward and his commitment to Houston has
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been felt and seen by so many for decades, like
the George Foreman Youth and Community Center in Al Dean.
For nearly four decades, it served as a space for
local kids just like him.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
It's keep kids off the streets in this I help
a lot of youth around this area.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Who's a good people person.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
He's not one of those.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
How can I say bad person?
Speaker 7 (05:06):
I go, I'm richer than y'all, Like I've got my bodyguards, know,
like you would interact with people like he would.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Now that community center was a staple and all Dean,
both of My parents grew up in the Aldan area.
My dad worked near that center. He brought it up
to me this weekend, and that really just shows how
rooted George Foreman was in the community. Now for today,
the Foreman family is asking for donations instead of flowers,
and those donations can be made to the Church of
the Lord Jesus Christ or the George Foreman Charitable Foundation.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Well maybe they crowned too many millionaires with those giant checks.
Publishers Clearing House has filed for Chapter eleven bankruptcy. You
didn't know they were still around.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
This is a day I will never forget. You think
about your days and let you do.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You know, we talked about this a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Remember there was a story about they still made money.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You know that whole I mean, there's still scams going
on every day, but that whole setup of.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Man, I'm slogging. My life's miserable.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
But maybe I'll win the lottery here, maybe I'll win
the Publisher's clearing House. It's it's all in the category
of the Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
What was the deal we did?
Speaker 6 (06:52):
You know?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
You get ten CDs for a penny each. What was
that called Columbia House? I am imagine they were all
run out of you know, adjoining warehouses. That was you know,
that was before the internet, scalability and everything else, and somehow,
some way they figured out how to run a scam
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on a scalable.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Level.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
A Houston woman missing in Mexico has been found dead.
Houston attorney and businesswoman Jessica Rossman, who had been reporting
miss reported missing in Mexico for several days, was found
dead there, according to loved ones and media reports, Rossman
died April first, after experiencing an undisclosed health issue while
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visiting her home in Preto Bayarta, Mexico. Her friend Edward
Sanchez wrote on Instagram, Jessica was loved by so many
and we know everyone will want.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
To reach out.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
We ask everyone to be patient while plans are made
to celebrate her life in a proper way. Rossman's partner
reported her missing this month when she didn't return home
from a scheduled appointment at the doctor Carlos Das Health
and Beauty Clinic. Rossmun's family had struggled to get answers
as her body remained inside a morgue at a forensic
science institute. Rossbin's a graduate University of Texas at Austin
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and California, Bolt Hall School of Law co chaired the
Bearing Omega Gala and started as Honeray Chair of the
Planned Parenthood Young Leaders.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Out that.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Long long forty five years ago today April fourteenth, nineteen
eighty Jus Priests these British steel metal landmark in the
tracks Living after Midnight and of course breaking the law?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Ramon, would you describe that as Judas Priest really, as
in it's a group and made up of a number
of people, so that number of people release it, or
would you say Judas Priest releases as in one person,
one band. I do one person one band. Now it
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is accepted in music journalism that you would refer to
that as a group of people, So you would say.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Judas Priest are.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
This or that, whereas I would say Judas Priest is
because I think of the group as one. I've noticed
the convention that has been established, and that is that
you use that silly term or you use it in
that way, and I don't really care for it.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
And then there will be somebody. It will always be
a woman who will email me and she'll say no, Michael.
The proper way is this, lady. The proper way is
established by a person.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I know that you need that rule to hang on
to because someone else said it before you did.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
But the proper way is simply.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
What someone says that this will be how we will
do it, and then you're so eagerly holding onto it.
A brother and sister have an issue with a Southwest
Houston funeral home that is handling the body of their mother.
They show up there on Friday and find her body
and a number of others kept in horrific conditions. They
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post videos to social media, which leads to a confrontation
with staffers at the home.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Who then end up stabbing the brother. They sounded like
a high end mortuary.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
The sister said her mother's body was in an advanced
state of decomposition with gnats on it. Oh my, the
story from KHOU.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
A disturbing discovery.
Speaker 9 (11:00):
It's hurtfuls I knew something wasn't right.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Houston Police investigating two scenes.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Getting stabbed A disturbing discovery.
Speaker 9 (11:09):
It's hurtfuls I knew something wasn't right.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
Houston Police investigating two scenes at the South Houston mortuary.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
There were bodies laid out uh on the ground and
on the cardboard.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
Bodies of people who were already deceased to be cremated
or prepared for funerals.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
I feel hard because I have not one, but they
have two of our family members, my mother and my uncle.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Tamara Magruder Crooks, had a bad feeling ahead of her
mother's funerals set for tomorrow. She says, after repeated issues
with the owner of Richardson Mortuary, she and her brother
went to see for themselves. That's when they discovered their
mother's body, along with others in unacceptable conditions.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
And I said, I'm not gonna leave without my mom's body,
and he said, you're gonna leave.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
She described conditions as deplorable, recording this video and posting
it to social media.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
They on stretchers, they have nets, They're in boxes. It
smells horrible.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
They inside of caskets. They uncovered their naked.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
A confrontation broke out with a mortuary worker. Tamara's brother
was stabbed and rushed to the hospital. Video showing the
bodies quickly spread online, and soon more families began showing
up in shock.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I saw on video that there was a lot of
bodies over here.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Dimitri Sylvester says her brother passed away in February and
she's been waiting on his ashes since.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
No respect for the dead and no respect for the family.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
She's not the only one. Marita Brown says she recognized
her late grandmother in the videos circulating on social media.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
It's a shock because he took care of my grandfather
in twenty thirteen, and he did an awesome job, but
to fail us now.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
The bodies were moved to other locations due to the
conditions at the request of a mortuary owner, according to
the Texas Funeral Service Commission. The agency says the building
suffered damages from Hurricane Beryl, this leaving grieving families to
relive their loss all over again.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
Portray lied to scam Angry Upset Heart.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
HB.
Speaker 8 (13:03):
Tell is a worker here who was accused of the
stabbing clean.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I don't think we needed to do synonyms there, because
we're kind of doing the same ones.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I think we could have. I think one or two
would have done.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
It felt like we were just it's almost an academic
exercise play that.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
In Damned Angry Upset Heart, hbd Tell is a worker
here who was accused of the stabbing clean self defense,
and that the owner is at the hospital dealing with
medical issues.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
No charges at this time.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Now.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
The victim of the stabbing I heard from his sister
not that long ago, and he has been in surgery
for hours now. As for the families, they are now
left trying to figure out what to do next.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
You know, it's one of those things that white people
don't know about, but black mortuaries is. It's big business,
and it's a very political business. I can remember I
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would be at political events and she La Jackson Lee
would be there when someone died. I think she was
getting a cut from the mortuary. I do, and I
have reason to believe that. I cannot say why, but
I believe she was getting a cut and she first
first question she would ask is who's got the body.
I'd never heard that before, and I came to learn
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that on the east side of Maine, so third ward,
fifth ward, those acres homes there was it was a
big deal who would have the body? And it was
kind of like joining a country club. It was very
connection oriented, so you would find people that were involved
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in politics and socially involved locally would be affiliated with
a funeral home. And my guess is there was a
more than a guess. My suspicion is, my belief is
that there was there was some money changed in hands
as to who got the body. It's it's an interesting thing.
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I'm just trying to figure out how it works. So
you go in there and you start raising hell that
they are not taking care of your mother's body in
preparing her for the funeral. Where is the point where
someone pulls out a knife? It is twenty twenty five.
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Where was the knife? Did he go in the back
and get the knife? Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, you want to fight me or I'm gonna stab you?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
And guess what when you die, your family's punishment is we're.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Going to do the funeral.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
No, not that too.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
The Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
The breakout star of the kN Paxton impeachment debacle was
a lawyer who was representing Ken Paxton, who was making
a very methodical and persuasive case that this case was ridiculous.
Drunk Dade was out of control, This would set a
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horrible precedent. This was a petty. It was big donors
who wanted Ken Paxton out of the way for the
very reason we now see playing out. kN Paxton is
running against John Cornyn, and he's leading in the polls.
But the breakout star was a fellow named Mitch Little,
who was a lawyer living in a small town, smart
as he could be, who was now exposed to a
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statewide audience that we're paying attention, and he ends up
running for state rep himself and joins this new breed
of reformers in Austin trying to take back the state House,
not from Democrats, but from the Republican swamp that has
run us off a cliff. He is not one for hyperbole,
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so when I read something this morning that he posted
last night, God is my witness. Before this session is over,
I'm going to make certain every grassroots Republican in this
state understands how House leadership made a deal with the
Democrats to sell us down the river Thursday night. Well,
State Representative Mitch Little, let's get started on that effort.
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Let's tell quite a few of them right now. Yeah,
good mornings are Yeah. I wouldn't have believed if I
hadn't seen it with my own eyes. So the conservatives
in the Texas House that I'll you know, the true conservatives,
I'll probably number about twenty four we spent weeks preparing
different amendments to the budget trying to deliver property tax
relief back to the voters. And one of the sources, well,
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we had several tactics.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
To do that. One we were going to take money
out of the Lottery Commission. We're going to take money
out of the Enterprise Fund. We were going to take
money in the budget out of out of several different sources,
including unbalances that a number of agencies had. So for
your listeners who may not be aware of this, we
appropriate money and these state agencies don't spend it all,
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and it just accruise over time, and it's literally billions
of dollars that's just sitting there and accounts waiting to
be spent. Some of them are fund balances, but a
lot of them are not. So we were putting amendments
together to the budget as it was going to come
to the House floor, got them all ready to go,
and then we find out from the leadership team that
they're going to sweep. They're going to ask for a
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vote to suspend the rules to sweep most of our
amendments to article eleven. Article eleven is like the graveyard
in the budget. So if amendments end up in Article eleven,
it's basically like the circular file. So the House Republican leadership,
combined with the Democrats, obtained over one hundred votes sweep
most of our amendments to Article levin. We still had
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several good ones left, including for property tax relief. I
was carrying one to give an increase to salaries for
the office of the Attorney General and to restore the
Attorney general's back pay from the impeachment. Well, right out
of the gate, in about thirty seconds, Mary Gonzalez, a
Democrat who is the You remember we don't have Democrat
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committee chairs anymore. Well, she's in charge of the subcommittee
of the budget. On article one she makes, she makes
she offers an amendment to her own amendment that strips
out from the budget all of the governor's enterprise fund,
all of his movie fund, movie subsidies, and defunds the lottery.
And you're like, why would a Democrat do that? Because
Mary Gonzalez, a Democrat, got together with Greg Vaughn and
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a Republican out of Galveston who runs the budget to
remove all the sources for our amendments. So just a
little bit of inside baseball. The under the House rules
when you put when you want to move money to
some something else like property tax relief, you have to
take it from a source. So what Mary Gonzalez did
in working with Craig Bonn is she removed all the
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sources for our put intakes under the budget, so we
didn't have money to grab to move over to property
tax relief anymore. She just completely took it out of
the budget. She and Greg Bonnon did that together, and
they had one hundred votes in the Texas House, including
from a lot of Republicans who represent your listeners who
weren't paying attention.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
So I do this silly little thing on Facebook, called
and asked me anything, and it's people have the opportunity
to ask you a question and you give an immediate
answer to that, and at least one person may be more.
Asked if we'll see property tax relief in the state
of Texas or will we ever eliminate and I said
absolutely not. And the reason is it's not the Democrats.
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They don't want it, but the Republican leadership doesn't want
to do away with this honey hole, this huge pit
of money which they give out to the people who
then keep them in all very frustrated. I can't imagine
I served on Houston City Council and I would be
frustrated going in every day knowing that I was in
the minority and that I couldn't stop anything from happening.
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All I could do was raise us think about it,
and that kind of pressure would help me in some
cases to mold an issue here or there, but I
could never actually win. I didn't have the Trump executive authority.
I can't imagine what it's like to go in there
every day knowing that your real problem is not the Democrats,
it's the Republican leadership they control, and the consultants, lobbyists,
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operatives who are churning out material to tell you what
a great job they're doing and what a good Republican
and they love Jesus and they love America and they
wear a flag pin and July fourth is a sacred
holiday to them, and all the while they're selling us
down the river. I can't imagine how awful that is
every day to have to do that and realize you
can't convince people how bad they are.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
So if there are one hundred and fifty members Michael
in the Texas House one hundred. If you just sorted
them along the ideological spectrum, the one hundred people in
the middle are indistinguishable from one another. They are tax
and spend Republicans, they are tax and spent Democrats. And
so you said, oh, we'll never eliminate property tax, Well
you're partially right. We're trying. There are prior House priority
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bills brought by the leadership team to eliminate forms of
property tax for certain of their special interests and vendors.
So over the last three weeks, we had a vote
on a bill and actually passed a bill out of
the House to exempt exotic game animals from sales tax.
We had a vote in the House to we're going
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to have a vote in the House today to exempt
animal feed inventory from business personal property tax. So there
are special interests that are getting their needs serviced. There
are special interests that are getting their need service, while
regular Texans are essentially getting no meaningful, properit pretty tax relief.
And you're right that Republicans and Democrats are both drunk
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on your money. There's no way they're ever going to
push away from the bar. The only thing that you
can do is on electum and try to start over.
But they're not going to push away from the bar.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
And that means defeating them in Republican primaries because by
November you don't want a Democrat in the time to
do that is a year from now. In that primary.
The question on the eliminating the sales tax on the
sale of exotic animals, I have to think I can't
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imagine that affects very many people.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
We could probably run.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
To ground who was behind that basic and then who
carried it and what kind of internal relationship is there.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
And I like exotic animals much as the next.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Okay, if they don't pay sales taxes on it, but
that that's the kind of pay for play government.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Mitch Little, state representative is our guests more common?
Speaker 8 (24:06):
Michael Berry's not your.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
State representative.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Mitch Little making waves in Austin in only his.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
First term there.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Mitch, you post, you reposted something that Michael quinn Sullivan
put up, said.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
New Wall Street Journal article reveals that children in.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Texas were used as part of a Texas Lottery Commission
approved scheme in twenty twenty three to steal the largest
jackpot in state history. A massive violation of state law,
apparently with the knowledge of the lottery vendor officials. So
we keep hearing there was this scandal at the lottery.
Can you explain what happened there?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Yeah, they were using My understanding is there was somebody
in some foreign citizen who was buying literally millions of
dollars worth of lottery tickets, which you're not supposed to
be able to do.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
He was using.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Runners or remote remote purchase lottery services to obtain them,
which is supposed to be impermissible and against the law.
The lottery services aren't supposed to be doing that, but
they're doing it anyway. My understanding is that the lottery
commissioner has possibly gone to Mexico and is unavailable for
commet It appears to be totally rife with corruption. This
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isn't what I think the Texas taxpayers bargained for when
they allowed it to be created. Certainly hasn't achieved the
desired end of helping fund our public schools. My understanding
is it also is supposed to fund veterans organizations, which
it in part does. But man government is not good
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at running and monitoring systems like this. They're just they're
not not qualified, they're not competent to do it, and
yet we've done it year after year after year.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
We need to get out of lottery.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
It's altogether money.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
We can't have gambling in Texas because it violates God's
ordinances and leads to corruption unless the state handles it,
in which case it's the most corrupt form of gambling possible.
So help me understand how the scheme works. So let's
say there's one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Lottery.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
What do you call it the price that's up for grabs?
Is it the case that keeps rolling? Is he buying
up all the tickets? Because there's only going to be
ten million this round, and so the real profit is
the earlier rounds that didn't have a winner.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
How does that work?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Because if you spend millions of dollars, how do you
even know you're getting the right ticket?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I think you're just it's pure mathematics. You're buying every
possible permutation of the successful outcome.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Okay, So you don't do that on the first round.
You do it after it builds and there are fewer
tickets sold for that round or dollars sold than there
are the overall prize. It's pretty clever. I saw a
thing Dan Patrick did. It was his own video. He
made it himself. He went over to the place and
he showed the front of the place was like a
(27:15):
cell phone store and the back of the place was
a lottery store or vice versa. And apparently, the way
the license works, you're not supposed to be able to
do that. But it seemed to suggest that that was
one of the violators. Was that one, and I guess
that's who won it.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
It's certainly the source of the individual ticket, but not
the only participant in the scheme. And what really bothers
me and I think should bother your listeners, is we
know all this is going on. There's no dispute about it.
There's no dispute that the environment is corrupt, and yet
(27:53):
the discussion in the legislature is about reforming it, not
removing it. This is how addicted government is to your
money and making sure that it gets to the right
government program or assist these people and their special interest.
This is this is not what most people think they're
(28:15):
signing up for when they run for office.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
You're a student of Texas political history. I don't know
if you remember the name Ben Barnes. Sure Ben Barnes
was in the sixties and early seventies on a projection
to be president.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
He was the guy. He knew everybody.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
He was the Golden Child, he was the Democrat star,
and he knew from his early early from lateeen in
early twenties years. Somehow Ben Barnes ended up with some
sort of controlling interest, either officially or unofficially, in the
lottery and got into some pretty serious problems that he
(28:58):
was in some way stealing money or steering money. The
whole thing is an absolute and utter scam. It's an
utter scam, and I think it probably always has been.
When we get back to the issue of property taxes,
and I'm telling you something I know you've heard one
hundred times, but I just want to say it so
people hear me say it, because I think it feels
better to know that somebody cares or that people realize.
(29:19):
The number one issue I hear from people that I
talk to face to face, if I'm at a cocktail
party or wherever else is property taxes. And it is
across the board what property taxes have done, how they
have shot up, and it never ends, and so people
will say things like I paid off all my debts
and I retired, and then all of a sudden, there's
(29:40):
this creeping property I have to have a job to
pay my property taxes to the state for a house
that I own, and there's seemingly no end in sight.
And I don't get the sense that Republicans in Austin
give a damn that they will occasionally pay lip service
to it, but by and large it is not on
the agenda at all.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Is that fair to say?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Here's what everybody who listens to your show needs to understand.
You are going to see state representatives. And I'm aware
of this because I'm the one I'm actually getting copies
of these talking points. The Republicans who really do not
care about meaningful property tax relief are going to be
sending out messaging to you saying they just passed a
(30:24):
budget that that secures fifty one billion dollars in property
tax relief. Here's the thing, it's a complete lie. It's
an absolute fabrication. And here's what they're doing. They're calculating
cumulatively all the money that has been contributed to property
tax relief ever over time that is now built into
(30:45):
the budget and is permanent unless you remove it, and
then they're doubling it for the biennium? Are you tracking
with me? So they're going to So the sales pitch
back on to you is yes, I know you're getting
a property tax ill that doesn't seem to be going down.
But don't believe the evidence of your eyes and ears.
Listen to me, your your duly elected state representative, and
(31:09):
believe that we have truly worked on solving the problem
super hard. Well, this is truly a corrupt environment of Republicans.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
I mean, the Democrats are who they are.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
The problem is that they have they control the Republican Party.
When Dustin Burroughs was chosen as drunk Dade's replacement, who
was basically just drunk data all over again, what was
the point of you know, throwing drunk data out if
you're just can replace him with Dustin Burrows. But once
that happened, the state reps in Houston that voted with
(31:43):
the that were there were more Democrats than Republicans in
this thing, they voted with the Republican with the Democrats
to put the Democrats choice in as speaker. And when
that happened, I got the text that everybody else did.
That was the same package text. They just replaced the
picture from the lobbyists and consultants in Austin on what
(32:03):
a conservative choice they had made, and what a great
job Sam Harlst had done, and what a great job
Will Metcalf had done, and what a great job Lacey
Hull had done. And it's so cynical, and I have
to say it's frustrating. It's debilitating because good people are
out here working their tails off and for that nonsense
to happen and for us to have to fight against them,
(32:25):
it's frustrating. I filibustered your time, Mitch a little, but
I appreciate you listening, my man.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
God bless you. Go and see if you're state rep
voted for SB won the budget.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Thank you, brother.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
It's not really good talk radio fundamentals to have somebody
on and then you answer all of the questions yourself.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
And I just did
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