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Harris County Tax Increase, Trump vs. the Fed & AI Warnings · ChrisXradio

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  Speaker 4: And, of course, we've got a lot to talk about.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 10: Coming up here at the bottom of the hour, we'll
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  Speaker 10: catch up with the former mayor of Piney Point, financial.
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  Speaker 4: Analyst, community leader, Aliza Dutt. She'll join us. She's very
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  Speaker 4: politically active.
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  Speaker 10: In fact, she was speaking at commissioner's court this morning
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  Speaker 10: railing against this tax increase that, by the way, yeah,
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  Speaker 10: Harris County, they approved it. the largest property tax hike
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  Speaker 10: in county history. So we'll talk with Aliza Dutt about that.
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  Speaker 10: Obviously a taxpayer here in Harris County. So her taxes
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  Speaker 10: are going up. Your taxes are going up. Oh, we'll
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  Speaker 10: see if the lefties care enough about their affordability that
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  Speaker 10: they'll vote. I don't know, Leslie Briones, Adrian Garcia. It
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  Speaker 10: was three to one, by the way. Guess who was
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  Speaker 10: the only one who voted against it?
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  Speaker 4: That's right. The commissioner whom we had on yesterday, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Tom Ramsey.
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  Speaker 10: He's the lone precinct three commissioner. He's the lone Republican
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  Speaker 10: left in Harris County. It was three to one. There's
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  Speaker 10: Rodney Ellis voted for it. You know who didn't vote?
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  Speaker 10: Abstained was Lena Hidalgo. Short term, short term Dora the Explorer.
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  Speaker 10: She's she just abstained. She was against it for other reasons.
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  Speaker 10: But we'll get into that. So Harris County has approved
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  Speaker 10: the largest property tax hike in county history. Means your
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  Speaker 10: taxes are going to go up. Depends how much your
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  Speaker 10: house is worth.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, that's right.
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  Speaker 10: Then, of course, the Harris County Appraisal District, they'll keep raising.
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  Speaker 10: My house is like worth one hundred and fifty thousand
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  Speaker 10: more than I paid for it literally like seven.
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  Speaker 4: Eight years ago.
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  Speaker 10: Call me crazy, but I don't think I could sell
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  Speaker 10: it for that, but that's what they'll tax me on.
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  Speaker 10: So there's a reason why I have Betancourt and Associates or,
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  Speaker 10: you know, Betancourt, their property tax appraisal. I'm sorry, they're fighters.
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  Speaker 10: They go and fight my property taxes, make sure to
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  Speaker 10: try to keep them down and they do a fine job.
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  Speaker 10: So I will continue with Betancourt and Associates as long
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  Speaker 10: as they are Betancourt advisors or what? I can't remember
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  Speaker 10: the name of the company. I just know they save
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  Speaker 10: me money every year. So I will keep fighting my
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  Speaker 10: property taxes, especially now that it's going up.
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  Speaker 4: What is it? I've seen various rates.
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  Speaker 10: They say 7.9% capped at 67 cents per $ 100 of
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  Speaker 10: taxable property value.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 10: Harris County just can't stop raising your taxes because they
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  Speaker 10: can't stop spending. So, like I said, there's an election
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  Speaker 10: coming up. We'll see if Briones or Garcia gets bumped
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  Speaker 10: from their commissioner's court seat.
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  Speaker 4: Also, we'll see if we can at least.
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  Speaker 10: Put Orlando Sanchez above the corrupt communist Muslim Letitia Plummer
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  Speaker 10: for Harris County judge. So, we'll see about that. When
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  Speaker 10: I say corrupt, I'm referring to her business. She ran
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  Speaker 10: a dental practice, and they just kept getting in trouble. So,
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  Speaker 10: we'll get into that. Okay, also today, GOP Representative Andy Ogles.
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  Speaker 10: Says that AI fear-mongering is akin to global warming and
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  Speaker 10: the killer bee scares.
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  Speaker 4: You guys remember that?
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  Speaker 10: Lucas, are you old enough to remember when we were
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  Speaker 10: all worried about killer bees coming and killing us?
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  Speaker 14: Weren't they coming over from Africa or something?
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  Speaker 4: Well, there was that.
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  Speaker 10: And then we had the killer bees back in the
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  Speaker 10: 70s that took over the Astrodome.
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  Speaker 4: I bet you've never seen that movie.
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  Speaker 13: No, I did not.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, look that up. Killer Bees. I don't remember which
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  Speaker 10: iteration it was. But there was one where they came
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  Speaker 10: to Houston and the Astrodome was featured in the movie.
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  Speaker 10: I don't remember if they took it over or we
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  Speaker 10: hid in the Astrodome from the Killer Bees. But that
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  Speaker 10: was the 70s or early 80s. So that was happening.
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  Speaker 10: And then what was it in the last, I don't know, 10.
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  Speaker 4: 20 years?
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  Speaker 10: We had the Murder Hornets, which we got one out
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  Speaker 10: in Pearland. He's already on the line. So we'll get
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  Speaker 10: to the Murder Hornet out in Pearland. But then it
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  Speaker 10: was murder hornets were going to kill us. They're like,
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  Speaker 10: so it's one thing after another. I tend to agree
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  Speaker 10: with Andy Ogles. This is the new global warming.
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  Speaker 4: AI, going to kill us all.
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  Speaker 10: President Trump said interest rates should be 1% or less
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  Speaker 10: after the Federal Reserve unanimously hiked rates by a quarter
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  Speaker 10: of a percent yesterday. We'll dig into what he said
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  Speaker 10: on True Social. And we can get into that. The
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  Speaker 10: number of Americans filing unemployment benefit claims fell below 200,000
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  Speaker 10: for the fifth time this year.
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  Speaker 4: This is according to new government data.
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  Speaker 6: Hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Looks like things are getting better, according to the Department
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  Speaker 4: of Labor.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: That's what's so sad.
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  Speaker 10: I hate to see this because the Trump administration is
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  Speaker 10: really actually doing a lot. Now, I know the war
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  Speaker 10: in Iran has kicked up gas prices, but on every
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  Speaker 10: other level, it's actually doing pretty well.
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  Speaker 4: He does good with the economy.
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  Speaker 10: It just gets drowned out because the media has the
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  Speaker 10: war in Iran to beat over his head every five seconds,
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  Speaker 10: 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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  Speaker 4: 366 days of the year.
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  Speaker 10: So they're going to do that to just really try
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  Speaker 10: to you know, fear monger and out in order to
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  Speaker 10: get Democrats elected. But it's, so it's good news on
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  Speaker 10: the economic front slowly, but surely Trump is once again,
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  Speaker 10: he's offsetting the garbage from the Biden hole. That'll never
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  Speaker 10: be recognized by the propaganda apparatus of the Democrat cult.
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  Speaker 4: Don't even think about it.
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  Speaker 10: Governor Abbott has directed the Texas Water Development Board to
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  Speaker 10: penalize data centers that failed to report their water usage
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  Speaker 10: after state records showed most facilities have ignored the mandatory
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  Speaker 10: survey for years.
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  Speaker 4: Governor Abbott cracking down on the data centers, so.
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  Speaker 4: We'll get into that.
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  Speaker 10: And then from the Chris X-Files kind of, it's not
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  Speaker 10: really Chris X-Files, but it kind of is Chris X-Files,
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  Speaker 10: but it's not really Chris X-Files, but it kind of
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  Speaker 10: is Chris X-Files-ish. I guess nuclear fuel recycling could cut U.S.
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  Speaker 10: waste storage from 100,000 years to hundreds of years.
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  Speaker 9: The U.S.
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  Speaker 10: Aims to add 300 gigawatts of nuclear capacity by 2050
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  Speaker 10: and develop a nuclear fuel recycling strategy that could slash
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  Speaker 10: radioactive waste storage from thousands of years to just hundreds.
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  Speaker 10: So that's a good sign because I do believe nuclear
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  Speaker 10: power will definitely be in our future here in the
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  Speaker 10: United States, but also.
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  Speaker 4: in this world. I think with the UAPs, which is what.
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  Speaker 10: I normally will cover on the Chris X Files and
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  Speaker 10: a lot of other things, whatever is piloting or whatever
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  Speaker 10: these crafts are powered by, I think is either nuclear
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  Speaker 10: or atomic or some sort of anti-gravity. There's another article
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  Speaker 10: I read today about they're trying to work on these
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  Speaker 10: anti-gravity things, these things that have developed their.
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  Speaker 4: Own sort of.
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  Speaker 10: Basically gravitational field. If you can do that, the universe
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  Speaker 10: is the limit. And that's how these objects can travel
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  Speaker 10: from space to the ocean in about a second or two.
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  Speaker 10: And like I said, new videos coming out every day,
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  Speaker 10: people that are filming just regular stuff on their phones.
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  Speaker 10: But the new phones, the new cameras capture so many
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  Speaker 10: more frames per second that they're catching things that you
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  Speaker 10: can't see with the naked eye. And we're getting videos
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  Speaker 10: that they slow down into super slow-mo to where the
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  Speaker 10: person or the animal moving is moving less than, I mean,
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  Speaker 10: just at a very, I mean, isn't even moving. And
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  Speaker 10: then you'll see something jet by and go from one
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  Speaker 10: side of the horizon to the other. there are these
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  Speaker 10: objects that are flying around and we don't know what
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  Speaker 10: they are, but they're going at such a high rate
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  Speaker 10: of speed. That's why we could never really detect.
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  Speaker 4: Them in the past.
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  Speaker 10: There's only one person that I do believe has the
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  Speaker 10: ability to see things like that.
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  Speaker 4: And that's me. I'm just kidding.
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  Speaker 10: No, but when I told people I could see bullets,
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  Speaker 10: they didn't, they didn't believe me, but I've been able
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  Speaker 10: to see bullets since I was a kid. I'm not
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  Speaker 10: talking about just bullets in a gun. When a bullet,
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  Speaker 10: comes out of the end of a gun, depending on
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  Speaker 10: the conditions, you can actually see it. And I remember
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  Speaker 10: as a kid, I've told the story before. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 10: we were, I was hunting up the lease where I
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  Speaker 10: go up to now with my dad and he told
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  Speaker 10: me to stay here and he was going to go
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  Speaker 10: walk around. There was this little meadow and it was
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  Speaker 10: in between two sets of trees. And I just had,
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  Speaker 10: I was kind of moving around. And of course I
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  Speaker 10: didn't know my father had a, it was a 20
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  Speaker 10: gauge shotgun and, at the time so as I walked
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  Speaker 10: around I kind of came up on the meadow but
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  Speaker 10: I was staying back behind the trees in order to
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  Speaker 10: be safe and there was a deer it was a
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  Speaker 10: doe I guess that was right in the middle of
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  Speaker 10: that little meadow and it was leaned its head was
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  Speaker 10: leaning over and was eating and then I saw it
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  Speaker 10: was also a hair a tiny bit foggy not fog
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  Speaker 10: but a slight mist you could see in the air
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  Speaker 10: and And I remember seeing something go, it went right
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  Speaker 10: across the top of her neck.
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  Speaker 4: It missed her.
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  Speaker 10: And then when it did, she felt it and leaned
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  Speaker 10: her head up and the next bullet went right underneath
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  Speaker 10: her neck and missed her.
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  Speaker 4: And then she ran off. And then I hear the boom, boom.
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  Speaker 10: From the shots because he was shooting from probably, I
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  Speaker 10: don't know, 100, 200 yards away. And it was my
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  Speaker 10: dad shooting and I saw the bullets before I heard them.
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  Speaker 10: And then since then, I've had multiple experiences where I'll
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  Speaker 10: go into a gun range and we're shooting and you
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  Speaker 10: get the powder from the gun gets in the air
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  Speaker 10: and you can see the bullet trail. But it's not
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  Speaker 10: just the trail you can see. I can see there's
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  Speaker 10: something making that trail.
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  Speaker 4: I can't make it out. If I didn't know it
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  Speaker 4: was a bullet, I probably wouldn't know what it was.
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  Speaker 4: But I can see that. I've always had really good vision.
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  Speaker 10: Me and my older brother, I think, both had 2010,
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  Speaker 10: 2015 vision forever. And now that I'm older, I have
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  Speaker 10: normal human vision. So we were superhuman vision. I could
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  Speaker 10: have been some sort of a superhero of some sort.
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  Speaker 10: And I have the ability to pick out murder hornets
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  Speaker 10: all the way in Pearland. So there you go. All right. Anyway,
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  Speaker 10: so we got a lot to get into. We'll be
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  Speaker 10: catching up with our guest, Aliza Dutt, former mayor of
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  Speaker 10: Piney Point. She's currently a financial analyst and a community leader.
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  Speaker 10: She ran for office in the primary and lost. We'll
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  Speaker 10: talk a little bit about that, too. But she did
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  Speaker 10: something that so many others don't do. I can't tell
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  Speaker 10: you being in talk radio, I get approached by people constantly.
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  Speaker 10: There are certain people that would reach out every single
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  Speaker 10: time they're running for office.
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  Speaker 4: All of a sudden, they're my best friend again.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, buddy, how's it going?
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  Speaker 4: What's happening there, pal?
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  Speaker 15: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, by the way, I'm running for whatever.
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  Speaker 10: And then soon as they lose, they would disappear and
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  Speaker 10: go away. Well, Lisa Dutt did not do that. Not
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  Speaker 10: that she ever, she'd never reached out to me ever.
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  Speaker 10: So she was running for political office and then I
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  Speaker 10: didn't know her. She's a mayor of Piney Point and
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  Speaker 10: then lost and then became even more politically active. This
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  Speaker 10: is how it should be. If you're going to get involved,
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  Speaker 10: you need to get involved on a level, not just
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  Speaker 10: when it suits you. And she clearly has not only,
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  Speaker 10: you know, hers, but everybody else's interest in mind, especially
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  Speaker 10: the residents of Harris County, Houston, Texas, but also nationally.
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  Speaker 10: She cares.
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  Speaker 4: She's very smart.
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  Speaker 10: Uh, I ran into her, uh, cash. Olene and I
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  Speaker 10: went to go eat a few weeks ago and at a,
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  Speaker 10: at a, what was it? Harris County barbecue place, smokehouse.
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  Speaker 10: And there was a Republican meeting going on.
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  Speaker 4: She was there. So I met her. And then we,
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  Speaker 4: of course we got, it was our friend who works
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  Speaker 4: for governor Abbott. Uh, it was her name, Tracy. It
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  Speaker 4: was Sarah Tracy. That's it.
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  Speaker 10: So Sarah's, Sarah's a hoot. She's cool too. But, uh,
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  Speaker 10: But like I said, once again, to my point, she's
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  Speaker 10: very politically active. And she was at commissioner's court today
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  Speaker 10: speaking out on why, giving them all the logical reasons
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  Speaker 10: why these clowns shouldn't vote to raise our taxes, especially
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  Speaker 10: the largest property tax hike in county history. They ignored her.
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  Speaker 10: which makes me wonder, should she run for office on
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  Speaker 10: something else? Well, we'll ask her. She's coming up here
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  Speaker 10: at the bottom of the hour. You're listening to Chris
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  Speaker 10: X radio. Let's take a very short break.
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  Speaker 4: We'll come back.
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  Speaker 10: Well, uh, I don't know if we'll have time to, well,
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  Speaker 10: now we got Toby on the line. Maybe I'll get
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  Speaker 10: you what? Maybe I'll try to get a phone. We'll
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  Speaker 10: try to get a phone call in maybe in.
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  Speaker 4: The next segment.
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  Speaker 10: And then of course we'll take all your calls after that,
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  Speaker 10: because it's our Friday show on Thursday. And those who
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  Speaker 10: will hold longer will get rewarded with a little extra time.
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  Speaker 10: I'm not going to say what they are, whether they're
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  Speaker 10: run-ons or murder hornets or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to Chris X Radio.
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  Speaker 9: Don't you go anywhere.
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  Speaker 8: The revolution continues after this. Chris X Radio.
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  Speaker 16: Chris X.
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  Speaker 8: And now for the bonus round. Who imposes property taxes?
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  Speaker 8: State government. Nice try, but no.
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  Speaker 11: Local governments.
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  Speaker 18: Correct.
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  Speaker 8: And we have a winner.
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  Speaker 9: Here's Governor Greg Abbott on his plan to control property taxes.
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  Speaker 15: The state of Texas does not impose a property tax.
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  Speaker 15: Only local governments impose property taxes. One of the reasons
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  Speaker 15: why your property taxes are going up is because local
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  Speaker 15: governments are increasing their spending. So the first thing we
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  Speaker 15: got to do is to stop the spending that leads.
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  Speaker 8: To property tax increases.
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  Speaker 15: You should have a say on whether or not your
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  Speaker 15: property taxes go up. It should be a vote that
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  Speaker 5: You can't stop him. You can only hope to contain him.
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  Speaker 8: Chris X Radio.
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  Speaker 10: I don't even think I can be contained. Lucas, do
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  Speaker 10: you think anyone can contain me at this point?
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  Speaker 16: Haven't seen it yet.
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: We've known each other a long time, actually, too. How
• 20:02
  Speaker 10: long have we known each other, Cash O'Lean?
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: It's been a long three months since I got hired.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because I definitely didn't know you before that.
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  Speaker 17: Oh, before this world.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's been a couple years.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, about 20.
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  Speaker 10: About 20, probably maybe 24, 25 years, something like that.
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  Speaker 4: Man, I've known you since you were wet behind the ears.
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  Speaker 4: I won't say why.
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  Speaker 10: You were literally straight out of college.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: When I worked for CBS radio, uh, Mr. Cash O'Lean,
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: I think you, was it, did you intern for the rockets?
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: Is that what it was?
• 20:41
  Speaker 21: Yeah.
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  Speaker 22: Yeah.
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  Speaker 17: With Craig Ackerman.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Oh, Craig Ackerman was cool. Uh, or probably still is
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: very cool. Anyway.
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  Speaker 22: Yeah.
• 20:48
  Speaker 10: I remember you, I seen you over there work for
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: a certain someone that was, was a treat to say
• 20:54
  Speaker 10: the least. And, uh, I remember we ended up hiring
• 20:58
  Speaker 10: you over at the, uh, the business station and I
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: put you to work. It only took me about, what, six, eight,
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: maybe a year or two years to get you trained up,
• 21:06
  Speaker 10: but it took.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: A little while.
• 21:08
  Speaker 16: Slow but steady, man.
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: This is true.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: I still will.
• 21:13
  Speaker 10: Never forget this to this day. I love the fact
• 21:16
  Speaker 10: that you were one of the only employees I've ever
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: had that would bust yourself. Anytime you didn't do something right,
• 21:22
  Speaker 10: you made a mistake. You literally would call me because
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: at the time it was a daytime or station. So
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: if you were late to sign it on or whatever,
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: you literally would call me in the morning and say, Hey.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: I'm late. I'm, I'm getting it done. I'm sorry.
• 21:33
  Speaker 10: I'll be like most everybody else who ever worked for
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: would not.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Work for me at the time. I was running things
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: over there.
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  Speaker 10: Would not let me know. I would have to find
• 21:41
  Speaker 10: out later by someone else.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: It was insane.
• 21:47
  Speaker 10: But anyway, so you don't have a guilty conscience, that's
• 21:50
  Speaker 10: for sure. But that being said, anytime you screwed up,
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: I do believe you're trustworthy.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: I think. I try.
• 21:56
  Speaker 13: I try.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you got real tired of me calling you
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  Speaker 1: at 5 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: In the morning.
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  Speaker 4: I get a phone call at 5.20 in the morning. Hey, boss,
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: I'm almost there, but I'm running a little late.
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: I'm like, okay, just... Just do your job. I'm going
• 22:09
  Speaker 10: back to sleep.
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I started dreading that. Just do your job.
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  Speaker 13: And I was like, oh, God, I'm screwing up.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: But that being said, you always did it.
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: Did it fine.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: And then you've gone on to.
• 22:21
  Speaker 10: Make your way through the world to be all big
• 22:24
  Speaker 10: and famous and amazing and doing amazing graphics and AI and.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Crazy stuff. Anyway, it is our Friday show on Thursday.
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: So.
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: We're reminiscing over here about 20-something years. A lot of
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: people don't realize I've known Lucas for that long. He
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: even gets shout-outs on other radio shows. I won't tell
• 22:43
  Speaker 10: you what show I was listening to, but I may
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: have been listening to another radio show, and they were
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: shouting out your abilities not only as a radio producer,
• 22:52
  Speaker 10: which you're very good at, but also your ability as
• 22:55
  Speaker 10: a video producer slash AI extraordinaire. So does this mean
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: when AI takes over the world and exterminates humanity, are
• 23:04
  Speaker 10: you going to be one of the ones they spare
• 23:05
  Speaker 10: because of your friendly AI relationship?
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: I always say please and thank you. I know it's
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: a robot, but, you know, you never know.
• 23:12
  Speaker 10: Okay. It is a robot, but it seems if you're polite,
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: it seems like it would get you further.
• 23:19
  Speaker 21: So.
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: Anywho, all right, well, it looks like Toby dropped off,
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: by the way. So, all right, Toby, we'll get to
• 23:25
  Speaker 10: you later. We got the murder hornet locked and loaded,
• 23:28
  Speaker 10: but we do need to take a break and then
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: come back and catch up with our guest. There was
• 23:31
  Speaker 10: actually some important stuff happening today. Harris County has approved
• 23:34
  Speaker 10: the largest property tax in county history.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: We knew it was coming.
• 23:38
  Speaker 10: We talked with the commissioner yesterday on the program, Tom Ramsey.
• 23:42
  Speaker 10: He was the only one who voted against it. So
• 23:46
  Speaker 10: that is, as we expected, good. So he's the only
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: one really looking out to pay any economic sense to
• 23:53
  Speaker 10: the taxpayers of Harris County. But we have Aliza Dutt,
• 23:57
  Speaker 10: the former mayor of Piney Point. She's a financial analyst.
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: She'll be joining us here in the next segment. We're
• 24:02
  Speaker 10: going to talk with her about she actually ran for office,
• 24:05
  Speaker 10: didn't win in the primary, and has been as politically active,
• 24:09
  Speaker 10: if not more, than she was before. I can't tell
• 24:13
  Speaker 10: you how many different people I've come in contact with
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: over the years that, once again, they're politically active, and
• 24:18
  Speaker 10: they are the most conservative, and I'm the greatest, Chris.
• 24:20
  Speaker 10: You've got to talk about me on your radio show
• 24:22
  Speaker 10: every day. This woman has never asked me to talk
• 24:24
  Speaker 10: about her. She's never— and like I said, I reached out
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: to get her on the program. Because she actually got
• 24:30
  Speaker 10: as politically active, if not more, after, which means she
• 24:34
  Speaker 10: actually cares about the community that she lives in and
• 24:36
  Speaker 10: other people. And maybe we need more people like her
• 24:39
  Speaker 10: running for office. So we'll talk about that. She also
• 24:41
  Speaker 10: spoke at Harris County Commissioner's Court today. So we can
• 24:44
  Speaker 10: talk about that as well.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 24:45
  Speaker 10: You're listening to Chris X Radio. Let's take a very
• 24:47
  Speaker 10: short break. We'll come back, catch up with Aliza Dutt.
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  Speaker 5: Back to Chris X Radio on The Voice of Texas.
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  Speaker 10: Welcome back to Chris X Radio. It is time to
• 28:31
  Speaker 10: catch up with our guest. Our guest today is Aliza Dutt,
• 28:35
  Speaker 10: former mayor of Piney Point. She's a financial analyst and
• 28:38
  Speaker 10: a community leader, very politically active. In fact, she was
• 28:42
  Speaker 10: at Harris County Commissioner's Court today and actually spoke, was
• 28:47
  Speaker 10: trying to, I guess, encourage Harris County Commissioners not to
• 28:51
  Speaker 10: vote for the largest property tax hike in county history. Well, Well,
• 28:57
  Speaker 10: they ignored her advice and went ahead and did it anyway.
• 29:00
  Speaker 10: So now they've approved the largest property tax hike in
• 29:02
  Speaker 10: county history. So being a Harris County resident and a
• 29:05
  Speaker 10: community leader, she is actively involved. And as I mentioned
• 29:08
  Speaker 10: before the break, she ran for office and then didn't win,
• 29:12
  Speaker 10: but has been at least as politically active, if not more,
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  Speaker 10: since then, which is the exact opposite I've seen with
• 29:18
  Speaker 10: so many people over the years who become my best
• 29:21
  Speaker 10: friend all of a sudden, and then they run for office,
• 29:23
  Speaker 10: they don't win, and they disappear and go away. She,
• 29:26
  Speaker 10: once again, I had to ask her to come on
• 29:28
  Speaker 10: the program. I have never had her on the program.
• 29:30
  Speaker 10: She joins us now. Elisa, thank you so much for
• 29:32
  Speaker 10: being here today. I appreciate your time.
• 29:34
  Speaker 29: Oh, Chris, thanks.
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  Speaker 23: Thank you so much for having me on your program.
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  Speaker 16: Well, I'm glad.
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  Speaker 4: To have you on the show.
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  Speaker 10: One of the things I noticed about you was you
• 29:43
  Speaker 10: ran for office, and Dave, you want to mention the
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  Speaker 10: office or whatever, but you ran in the primary, you
• 29:46
  Speaker 10: lost in the primary, and you did something so many
• 29:50
  Speaker 10: others don't do, which is you didn't disappear. You didn't
• 29:53
  Speaker 10: just go away. You didn't go back to other things,
• 29:56
  Speaker 10: you have stayed not only politically active but very politically
• 29:59
  Speaker 10: active and engaged, which shows that, one, not only are
• 30:02
  Speaker 10: you a community leader, but you've stayed involved and you're
• 30:06
  Speaker 10: actively trying to make this sort of a change when
• 30:09
  Speaker 10: you see that we're at times where you've got these
• 30:11
  Speaker 10: radicals like on commissioners' court that are jacking up our
• 30:14
  Speaker 10: tax rate.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: First of all, I appreciate you.
• 30:17
  Speaker 10: Doing that, because I've seen the opposite so many different times.
• 30:20
  Speaker 10: Were you as politically active always, or is this something
• 30:23
  Speaker 10: that came a little later after being the mayor of
• 30:26
  Speaker 10: Piney Point?
• 30:28
  Speaker 21: Yeah, well, I've.
• 30:28
  Speaker 23: Always been very politically interested and active and, of course,
• 30:34
  Speaker 23: aware of the issues that are going on. And I
• 30:37
  Speaker 23: was on city council and then mayor of Piney Point. And,
• 30:40
  Speaker 23: of course, that increased.
• 30:43
  Speaker 28: I did.
• 30:43
  Speaker 23: I ran for political office, Harris County judge. I'm very,
• 30:47
  Speaker 23: very proud and grateful for the amount of votes I received.
• 30:51
  Speaker 23: But as politicians, I think many tend to forget that
• 30:57
  Speaker 23: the people, the people elect you to represent them. And
• 31:01
  Speaker 23: just because either you win an election or you lose
• 31:05
  Speaker 23: an election, you cannot forget that you are representing the people.
• 31:10
  Speaker 23: They expect you to be active and be their voice.
• 31:15
  Speaker 23: And you can't disappear if then your motives weren't right
• 31:20
  Speaker 23: or pure if you just simply disappear if things don't
• 31:23
  Speaker 23: turn out for you personally.
• 31:25
  Speaker 10: Yeah. And once again, I want to make the point that,
• 31:27
  Speaker 10: first of all, that I didn't have you on the
• 31:29
  Speaker 10: program before. I didn't know you and I hadn't met
• 31:30
  Speaker 10: you and never had you on the program before.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: But so many times, yeah, I've been.
• 31:35
  Speaker 10: Doing this for here on KCV for about eight years now,
• 31:38
  Speaker 10: but I've been doing talk radio for at least 20 years.
• 31:41
  Speaker 10: And over the years, so many times I've had these
• 31:43
  Speaker 10: people that come and run for office. And once again,
• 31:45
  Speaker 10: they're the most conservative.
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: This, that.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: They're going to be there.
• 31:48
  Speaker 10: They care about the community. And then the moment they lose,
• 31:50
  Speaker 10: they disappear. And now not only with that, then now
• 31:54
  Speaker 10: we find ourselves in a time where, you know, maybe
• 31:57
  Speaker 10: John Cornyn could have talked to you a little bit
• 31:59
  Speaker 10: before his latest attempt after... getting beat in his primary,
• 32:03
  Speaker 10: he seems to have turned against those people who voted
• 32:06
  Speaker 10: for him and then now didn't vote for him, which
• 32:08
  Speaker 10: shows that it was clearly more personal than it was
• 32:11
  Speaker 10: about the community. You have shown the exact opposite, which
• 32:14
  Speaker 10: is more like real leadership. And not only that, you know,
• 32:17
  Speaker 10: you've won races. But, you know, as the mayor of
• 32:19
  Speaker 10: Piney Point, but you're a financial analyst, you clearly understand economics,
• 32:24
  Speaker 10: which probably explains why you were at commissioner's court earlier
• 32:28
  Speaker 10: this morning. Let's talk a little bit about what you
• 32:30
  Speaker 10: saw and what you witnessed over there. I know you
• 32:32
  Speaker 10: got up and spoke.
• 32:33
  Speaker 22: Yes.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: I watched the clip of the video.
• 32:35
  Speaker 10: You tried to get them to listen to Reason, but
• 32:38
  Speaker 10: apparently they were more interested in getting more of our
• 32:40
  Speaker 10: tax dollars to stick in their little pockets for their
• 32:43
  Speaker 10: pet projects because they went ahead and voted to raise
• 32:46
  Speaker 10: our property taxes, the largest tax hike in county history.
• 32:49
  Speaker 10: Tell us about what you saw and then, of course,
• 32:51
  Speaker 10: what you told us.
• 32:51
  Speaker 7: Sure.
• 32:53
  Speaker 23: It's remarkable. As Commissioner Ramsey has said so many times,
• 32:58
  Speaker 23: and I absolutely agree with him, we don't have a
• 33:01
  Speaker 23: revenue problem in Harris County. We have a spending problem.
• 33:05
  Speaker 23: And I went there and many of us went there
• 33:08
  Speaker 23: to Commissioner's Court this morning to say, very simply, stop requiring,
• 33:14
  Speaker 23: stop making us dig into our pocketbooks and our wallets
• 33:18
  Speaker 23: to pay for your spending spree. And when I look
• 33:22
  Speaker 23: at this, for example, as you've mentioned, the $ 327 million increase,
• 33:26
  Speaker 23: which is 12% more than last year, I know that
• 33:31
  Speaker 23: the other side argues, well, these are state and federal mandates,
• 33:35
  Speaker 23: unfunded mandates, and blaming Trump and Abbott for the spending
• 33:40
  Speaker 23: tax increase. Well, will the budget increase? Well, No, if
• 33:45
  Speaker 23: you really take a look at the numbers, that's not so.
• 33:47
  Speaker 23: For example, the budget includes, for example, $ 50 million in
• 33:52
  Speaker 23: pay equity raises and new employees. You know, pay increases.
• 33:56
  Speaker 23: That is not mandated by the state or by the
• 33:59
  Speaker 23: federal government. This is very interesting. $ 89 million in increased
• 34:04
  Speaker 23: health care costs, including some individuals who don't even need
• 34:10
  Speaker 23: to pay their monthly employee premiums. I don't know about you,
• 34:14
  Speaker 23: but I would be hard pressed. I don't think I
• 34:16
  Speaker 23: know anyone in the private sector who doesn't pay a
• 34:19
  Speaker 23: premium for their health care. That's unheard of. And for example,
• 34:25
  Speaker 23: another is the $ 58 million to continue those ARPA funds
• 34:31
  Speaker 23: and other special funds that they want to continue on
• 34:35
  Speaker 23: our dime. But one thing I really did know, one
• 34:39
  Speaker 23: area I've been quite active in is the victim, the
• 34:43
  Speaker 23: crime victims' rights in Harris County. As you know, residents
• 34:49
  Speaker 23: have said time and time again, there's nothing more important
• 34:52
  Speaker 23: than raising our families in safe neighborhoods. And so what
• 34:56
  Speaker 23: do we see? We see, for example, in the budget,
• 35:00
  Speaker 23: $ 17 million to expand the public defender's office for the
• 35:05
  Speaker 23: benefit of criminals and offenders. However, we see a minor,
• 35:09
  Speaker 23: a fraction of that for crime victims and their families.
• 35:13
  Speaker 23: You know, I think one million is allocated to domestic
• 35:18
  Speaker 23: violence survivors and protecting them and their identity and some others,
• 35:23
  Speaker 23: some other smaller programs to help offenders stop offending, not
• 35:28
  Speaker 23: to the crime victims and support. So we have it's
• 35:32
  Speaker 23: a topsy turvy world in Harris County. It seems like,
• 35:35
  Speaker 23: you know, we're more focused on defending the criminals than
• 35:38
  Speaker 23: we are than protecting innocent victims.
• 35:41
  Speaker 10: You know, that's become a long party lines here as
• 35:44
  Speaker 10: of late. And back in the old days, it wasn't
• 35:46
  Speaker 10: quite that way. I know you've been around long enough
• 35:48
  Speaker 10: to remember a time when there wasn't a huge portion
• 35:51
  Speaker 10: of society that was rallying around people that are committing
• 35:54
  Speaker 10: these crimes over top of those people that are being victimized,
• 35:57
  Speaker 10: the only unwilling participant in the process of a crime.
• 36:01
  Speaker 10: But unfortunately, that's where we are. I've interviewed Andy Kahn
• 36:04
  Speaker 10: on my program for the last 20 plus years. So
• 36:06
  Speaker 10: he's one of the few victims advocates that works on
• 36:09
  Speaker 10: behalf of the victims. But once again, the city of
• 36:11
  Speaker 10: Houston determined they didn't need somebody like that anymore. So
• 36:14
  Speaker 10: they seem to be far more interested in the offenders
• 36:18
  Speaker 10: than they do the victims.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: So I'm first of all, I'm glad to hear you
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: say that. But it's true. That's where we are now.
• 36:23
  Speaker 10: And then we got people like like said on commissioners
• 36:26
  Speaker 10: court here in Harris County that have determined. And I
• 36:29
  Speaker 10: think you and the commissioner who had on the program
• 36:31
  Speaker 10: yesterday said, absolutely nail it. We don't have a, a, a,
• 36:35
  Speaker 10: a spending problem or, or we don't have a revenue problem.
• 36:39
  Speaker 23: Yes. So that's absolutely right.
• 36:42
  Speaker 18: Yes.
• 36:43
  Speaker 10: Well, we just, we watch them spend and spend and spend.
• 36:46
  Speaker 10: And no matter how much it is, it's never enough.
• 36:49
  Speaker 10: So they continually go back and reach in our pockets
• 36:51
  Speaker 10: for more money.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: I imagine.
• 36:54
  Speaker 23: And they don't seem to understand that every dollar that
• 36:56
  Speaker 23: they take from our pocket, that's, You know, I mean,
• 37:01
  Speaker 23: these are residents. They can't buy as many Christmas presents
• 37:03
  Speaker 23: or have a smaller Thanksgiving dinner or their budget at
• 37:06
  Speaker 23: the end of the month is going to be lower. And,
• 37:08
  Speaker 23: you know, so these are real people, real families. And again,
• 37:13
  Speaker 23: commission to some commissioners, not Tom Ramsey, of course, have
• 37:17
  Speaker 23: forgotten that we are the ones who pay their salaries
• 37:20
  Speaker 23: and fund that budget.
• 37:23
  Speaker 10: Yeah, and I'm hoping because of people that are politically
• 37:25
  Speaker 10: active like yourself and people like me here, that people,
• 37:28
  Speaker 10: we remind those as they come up for re-election that,
• 37:31
  Speaker 10: you know what, maybe it's not a good idea to
• 37:33
  Speaker 10: run on, you know, budgetary things. And while they're giving
• 37:37
  Speaker 10: themselves or their friends or their co-workers raises, that, you
• 37:41
  Speaker 10: know what, when it comes to affordability, you know, we
• 37:43
  Speaker 10: don't get to vote on our own raises. We have
• 37:45
  Speaker 10: to earn them, which is very different because when they
• 37:48
  Speaker 10: do that. So maybe we can remind them. We're talking
• 37:50
  Speaker 10: with Elisa Dutt, former mayor.
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: Of Piney Point.
• 37:53
  Speaker 10: She's a financial analyst, which explains why you're able to
• 37:55
  Speaker 10: go through the numbers. When you were at Commissioner's Court
• 37:59
  Speaker 10: earlier today, were there more people there saying, hey, should
• 38:02
  Speaker 10: we maybe think about this and not raise the taxes,
• 38:05
  Speaker 10: the highest ever in county history? Or were there a
• 38:07
  Speaker 10: lot of people there actually considering saying, hey, let's, yeah,
• 38:10
  Speaker 10: let's raise taxes.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: Let's do this.
• 38:12
  Speaker 23: Well, there was a mix. There were certainly a group
• 38:15
  Speaker 23: of us more on the conservative side and also those
• 38:20
  Speaker 23: on the other side as well. that were protesting the
• 38:25
  Speaker 23: most significant property tax hike in history. And so it
• 38:31
  Speaker 23: was nice. I will be very frank, and I have
• 38:36
  Speaker 23: been in commissioner's court for many times before, and there
• 38:41
  Speaker 23: are very few people, unfortunately, who are providing comment and
• 38:47
  Speaker 23: and giving testimony. So it was great. I know the
• 38:52
  Speaker 23: Harris County Republican Party had a protest outside and then
• 38:55
  Speaker 23: encouraged our base to come out in protest of this
• 38:59
  Speaker 23: property tax increase. Cindy Siegel was there, too, the Harris
• 39:03
  Speaker 23: County Party chair, Republican Party chair, as well as some
• 39:07
  Speaker 23: other candidates and advocates.
• 39:10
  Speaker 10: Well, first of all, I want to thank you for
• 39:12
  Speaker 10: your service in going and doing what you're doing. I'm
• 39:14
  Speaker 10: glad you're out there. I've noticed, like I said, you've
• 39:16
  Speaker 10: stayed very politically active. You're in many of these meetings and,
• 39:19
  Speaker 10: of course, speaking out for a lot of people who
• 39:21
  Speaker 10: don't have time or don't make time for this. Since
• 39:24
  Speaker 10: I know you served as the mayor of Piney Point,
• 39:27
  Speaker 10: do you have aspirations to maybe run for office again
• 39:29
  Speaker 10: one day?
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: Day if the situation is right?
• 39:32
  Speaker 23: Well, you know, this is what I say. You know,
• 39:35
  Speaker 23: my dad gave me some very, you know, I don't
• 39:38
  Speaker 23: know if you know my background. I'm an immigrant. I
• 39:41
  Speaker 23: was natural. I came here when I was very young.
• 39:44
  Speaker 23: I didn't speak a word of English. My brother and
• 39:47
  Speaker 23: I were the first to go to college. And I
• 39:50
  Speaker 23: was naturalized in high school. So I have a great
• 39:53
  Speaker 23: appreciation for the freedom and opportunities of America. And my
• 39:56
  Speaker 23: dad told me, you know, you will succeed in the
• 39:59
  Speaker 23: United States. Three things. One, you do the right thing.
• 40:03
  Speaker 23: You do because you care. You care about what you're
• 40:05
  Speaker 23: doing and it's the right thing. Number two, you have
• 40:10
  Speaker 23: to work hard. There's no getting around working hard. And three,
• 40:13
  Speaker 23: You have to listen to people because people will tell
• 40:16
  Speaker 23: you what they want. And equally important, you have to
• 40:19
  Speaker 23: lead when the opportunity arises and you have to take
• 40:22
  Speaker 23: that opportunity. So that's what I'm doing. I'm taking the
• 40:25
  Speaker 23: opportunity to speak for our constituency, to speak for our
• 40:30
  Speaker 23: people and making sure that our voices are heard. And
• 40:33
  Speaker 23: this is the avenue that I'm taking and it's contingent
• 40:36
  Speaker 23: on all of us. And our voices are the loudest,
• 40:39
  Speaker 23: as you know, at the polls in November.
• 40:42
  Speaker 10: This is true.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: We want to get everybody out and vote.
• 40:44
  Speaker 10: And by the way, if you hadn't told me that
• 40:47
  Speaker 10: you weren't a native English speaker, I would be surprised
• 40:50
  Speaker 10: because you clearly have mastered the English language, unfortunately, far
• 40:55
  Speaker 10: better than many that are born and raised in this country.
• 40:57
  Speaker 10: And it's their own primary language, which has always been
• 41:00
  Speaker 10: a funny thing.
• 41:01
  Speaker 23: Yeah, my parents escaped communism. I mean, I was born
• 41:04
  Speaker 23: in Hong Kong. They were born in China. We knew
• 41:07
  Speaker 23: that Hong Kong was going to be ruled by communists.
• 41:10
  Speaker 23: by communism. So, I mean, you know, we had the
• 41:13
  Speaker 23: wonderful opportunity to come here, and I appreciate this country
• 41:16
  Speaker 23: and what it has to offer, and we must fight
• 41:18
  Speaker 23: these socialist and communist ideals. There's no way around it.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: Well, you're absolutely right.
• 41:24
  Speaker 10: Aliza Dutt, former mayor of Piney Point, financial analyst and
• 41:27
  Speaker 10: a community leader. Aliza, I want to make sure this
• 41:29
  Speaker 10: avenue is always open for you if you ever decide
• 41:32
  Speaker 10: to run for office again.
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: But also, if you ever want to.
• 41:34
  Speaker 10: Get some information on something that we want to get
• 41:36
  Speaker 10: out there, make sure you let me know and then
• 41:38
  Speaker 10: we can get that information out. And like I said,
• 41:41
  Speaker 10: we need more people like you that stay politically active
• 41:45
  Speaker 10: and continue to have an impact because whether you know
• 41:48
  Speaker 10: it or not, which I imagine you do, you already
• 41:50
  Speaker 10: are having an impact and we need more people like
• 41:52
  Speaker 10: you doing this, making people realize what's going on.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: Thanks for being here on the program today. I appreciate
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: your time.
• 41:57
  Speaker 23: Thank you. Thank you. You're so kind. I appreciate it.
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely.
• 42:01
  Speaker 10: Once again, Aliza Dutt, former mayor of Piney Point. She's
• 42:04
  Speaker 10: a financial analyst and you can hear community leader. She
• 42:07
  Speaker 10: was out of commissioner's court today. Unfortunately, the lefties, the
• 42:11
  Speaker 10: Democrats on commissioner's court, which some are up for reelection.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: We need to remind them of this.
• 42:18
  Speaker 10: As we get closer to their election, that in a
• 42:20
  Speaker 10: time of affordability, they chose to raise your property taxes
• 42:24
  Speaker 10: the highest that has ever been in county history. So,
• 42:28
  Speaker 10: and the good thing was Aliza was there at Commissioner's
• 42:30
  Speaker 10: Court talking about this today.
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: So, like I said, I can't say it enough.
• 42:35
  Speaker 10: I appreciate people like her who get out into the
• 42:37
  Speaker 10: avenue and the arena and stay in it and don't
• 42:39
  Speaker 10: run and hide. after they didn't maybe win a particular office. Obviously,
• 42:43
  Speaker 10: she's won political races before, but when you don't win one,
• 42:48
  Speaker 10: that's not when you're supposed to just run and disappear,
• 42:49
  Speaker 10: and far too many do that, or even turn on
• 42:52
  Speaker 10: their constituency to try to punish them for not voting
• 42:55
  Speaker 10: for them, a.k.a.
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: John Cornyn, guys like that. So we want to.
• 42:58
  Speaker 10: Absolutely get more people like Elisa. And isn't it interesting
• 43:02
  Speaker 10: to hear someone who immigrated to this country who has
• 43:05
  Speaker 10: a slightly different perspective than so many of the spoiled
• 43:08
  Speaker 10: brats that are born and raised here? All right, let's
• 43:10
  Speaker 10: take a short break. You're listening to Chris X Radio.
• 43:12
  Speaker 10: I want to thank Elisa Dutt for joining us. We'll
• 43:15
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• 43:16
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• 43:22
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• 43:24
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• 43:25
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• 46:45
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• 46:48
  Speaker 4: Chris X Radio. You know, it's interesting.
• 46:59
  Speaker 10: I hear songs like You Can Still Rock in America,
• 47:01
  Speaker 10: Night Ranger back in the 80s, and then Bullet to.
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: Blue Sky by U2 that talks about the lyrics at
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: the end of the song. Run to the arms of America.
• 47:10
  Speaker 10: Man, it's amazing. The world used to love America. But now,
• 47:14
  Speaker 10: if you listen to certain people, everybody hates America. America's
• 47:18
  Speaker 10: terrible except for the literally terrible. of people that are
• 47:24
  Speaker 10: dying to get here that try to break into our
• 47:25
  Speaker 10: country illegally. For some reason, they like our country. I
• 47:29
  Speaker 10: guess those on the left keep calling them the best thing.
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: I guess I guess I'll do that.
• 47:33
  Speaker 10: Anyway, welcome back to Chris X Radio. You reached the
• 47:35
  Speaker 10: final segment of the first hour. Don't you go anywhere.
• 47:37
  Speaker 10: We've got hour number two coming right back at you.
• 47:39
  Speaker 10: I want to thank Elisa Dutt, former mayor of Piney Point.
• 47:42
  Speaker 10: She was on the program. She was at Commissioner's Court
• 47:44
  Speaker 10: today trying to encourage the commissioners to do the right
• 47:47
  Speaker 10: thing and not vote for the largest property tax hike
• 47:51
  Speaker 10: in county history. Well, unfortunately, they didn't listen to her.
• 47:54
  Speaker 10: So they did, and now your taxes are going to
• 47:57
  Speaker 10: go up. So looking forward to that, huh? All right,
• 48:00
  Speaker 10: let's go ahead and go to the phones. We'll talk
• 48:02
  Speaker 10: about whatever is on your mind today. 281-558-KSEV, 281-558-5738. It
• 48:07
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• 48:12
  Speaker 10: the old murder hornet, run on Robert in Pearland.
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: Robert, thank you for hanging on. Welcome to Chris X Radio.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: A kill bee and a murder hornet, Chris. I'm a
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: little concerned about how now China and Russia are supporting
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: Iran with supplies and weapons. These are autocratic, tyrannical countries
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: with terrible monetary policies. But the good news is at
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: least they're not trying to bring all of that into
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: our upcoming election. A1 is going to kill us all
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: in 10 years. The good news is our laptops will
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: be firing up instantly. It's going to be great.
• 48:52
  Speaker 10: Do you use a laptop a lot when you're out
• 48:54
  Speaker 10: there watching windshields out there on the corner of Pearland
• 48:56
  Speaker 10: and wherever?
• 48:58
  Speaker 33: No, no.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: I usually just work on the bottom. So listen, I
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: need to tell you something. Guess what?
• 49:05
  Speaker 7: What?
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: It's philosophy day on the Cracker Kroger Show.
• 49:09
  Speaker 7: That's right.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: You're listening to the Cracker Kroger Show. It's on me,
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: the Cracker Kroger, and my incorrigible sidekick, Chris X. Hey, Chris,
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: come in here a minute and say hello to the people.
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: Hello, people.
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: Very good. Look, I know you're a bit of a philosopher,
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: a deep thinker, if you will. I put you up
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: there with Plato, Socrates, a dude named Livy, Zeno, Marcus Aurelius, Lucretius,
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: who I believe was a rapper. Hey, Chris, you do
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: some rapping yourself sometimes, don't you, right around Christmas time?
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: And Aristotle, I have good sources that his Twitter handle
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: was A at X, but I'm not sure. Hey, fun fact,
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: Lucretius' real name was Lucretius X. Now for the philosophical question.
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: Mitch McConnell came into the Senate this week and voted
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: and proceeded to pull in his head, front legs, then
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: the back leg, and then the tail. It took a while, finally.
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: And he could no longer be seen. It begs the
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: philosophical question, why did the turtle cross the road?
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: He had to go vote.
• 50:25
  Speaker 10: And by the way, you mentioned philosophers like Plato.
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: Listen, I'm such a philosopher, I usually just play with Play-Doh.
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: I like to make.
• 50:34
  Speaker 10: Things out of it and do things like that.
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: And often, you know, you do that.
• 50:37
  Speaker 10: I would rather do that around children and keep them
• 50:40
  Speaker 10: away from James Tallarico.
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: Yes, that was a related comment you just made. But
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: I'll say this. I don't come on your show and
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: give you a hard time, you know? Wait, that's all
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: I do. Okay, so in the news, Iran is branching out.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: with the help of other Arabian countries, try to shut
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: down other waterways. I guess their plan is to control
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, Oceans 11, Oceans 12
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: and 13, Baked Ocean, Barbecue Ocean, Sauteed Ocean, Ocean Kabobs,
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: Ocean Creole, Ocean Gumbo, Pan-Fried Ocean, Deep-Fried Ocean, Stir-Fried Ocean,
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: Lemon Ocean. Ocean salad, ocean potatoes, ocean sandwich, ocean burger.
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: That's about it.
• 51:31
  Speaker 10: You strike me as a man who was old enough
• 51:33
  Speaker 10: to remember the Ocean Club back in the 90s here
• 51:37
  Speaker 10: in Houston. Did you attend that club on a regular basis?
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: Yes, at the bottom of my laptop. But speaking of jokes,
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: oh my God, Tallarico. I wouldn't let that dude dog
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: sit my cat. In other words, Everybody knows that cats
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: don't need dog study. That may be hunky, but it's
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: not dory. Chris, you have paid attention to my philosophy,
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: Chris Eck's son. When you can snatch the joke from
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: my hand, you will become a man, my son. Also,
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: I went to Walmart to go shopping, and I saw
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: a small box with one cookie in it. One cookie
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: for sale in a box, Chris. That says, that you
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: are not worth a second cookie. That's philosophical. So let
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: me just get this going.
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: Are you out of material yet?
• 52:34
  Speaker 10: How big is this little car? You used to write
• 52:36
  Speaker 10: your stuff on a napkin. Did you get to get
• 52:39
  Speaker 10: bigger napkins or something?
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: I got this somewhere.
• 52:45
  Speaker 10: It's probably under your cowbell.
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: No, I don't have a cowbell today. What did you
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: do with my paper? Here it is. Here it is.
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: So my philosophy nugget for the day is today is
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: a question that does not really seek an answer. Are
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: you ready?
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you better hurry. You've only got about 20 seconds.
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: If an annoying woman falls in the woods, and doesn't
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: make a sound, does that mean you're sighted incorrectly? That's
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: wrong right there. I don't care who you are. That's wrong.
• 53:26
  Speaker 8: Thank you for the call, Mr.
• 53:27
  Speaker 18: Murder Hornet.
• 53:28
  Speaker 10: Run on, Robert.
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: Oh, and the answer is, yeah, that is correct.
• 53:33
  Speaker 10: But the good thing is, when it comes to you,
• 53:36
  Speaker 10: I'll always give you a 20-yard head start.
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: All right, hour number two is up next. Don't you
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: go anywhere. We'll be right back. Thanks for the call, Robert.
• 53:41
  Speaker 34: AM 700, KSCV, Tomball, Houston, and streaming online at kscvradio.com,
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  Speaker 34: the voice of Texas.
• 53:51
  Speaker 35: News this hour from Town Hall. I'm Keith Peters in Washington.
• 53:57
  Speaker 35: Middle East analyst Adam Barron says Saudi Arabia has accused
• 54:00
  Speaker 35: the Houthis of trying to attack Mecca with a drone,
• 54:03
  Speaker 35: which the Houthis deny.
• 54:05
  Speaker 24: What this does show is, regardless of whether it.
• 54:08
  Speaker 11: Was aimed at Mecca or not, you know, the Houthis
• 54:11
  Speaker 11: have denied that that was the aim.
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  Speaker 22: It shows that the Houthis are demonstrating their strategic depth,
• 54:18
  Speaker 22: that is, their ability to target relatively deep inside of
• 54:22
  Speaker 22: Saudi Arabia.
• 54:23
  Speaker 35: The lightning advance of the Iran-backed Houthi rebels has forced
• 54:26
  Speaker 35: tens of thousands of people to flee their homes in Yemen.
• 54:29
  Speaker 35: Many are struggling to find food and shelter. Yemen was
• 54:33
  Speaker 35: the poorest Arab country even before the outbreak of its
• 54:36
  Speaker 35: civil war more than a decade ago. A Russian barrage
• 54:40
  Speaker 35: across Ukraine and its capital as Ukraine attacks targets inside Russia.
• 54:46
  Speaker 35: Correspondent Karen Chama says more on the story.
• 54:49
  Speaker 36: The Kiev city military administration reported attacks at more than
• 54:53
  Speaker 36: 10 locations in the city, with 33 sites damaged in
• 54:57
  Speaker 36: the wider region. Ukraine's emergency service also said a massive
• 55:02
  Speaker 36: Russian attack in Odessa injured seven people, including two children.
• 55:06
  Speaker 36: Firefighters worked overnight to put out blazes caused by the strikes. Meanwhile,
• 55:11
  Speaker 36: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces struck targets in
• 55:16
  Speaker 36: Russia overnight. I'm Karen Shemeth.
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  Speaker 35: The White House says it is withdrawing its nomination of
• 55:21
  Speaker 35: Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper.
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  Speaker 28: To lead U.S.
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  Speaker 35: Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ensuring that an agency at the
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  Speaker 35: forefront of President Trump's domestic agenda will remain without a
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  Speaker 35: Senate-confirmed leader for at.
• 55:35
  Speaker 13: Least a while longer.
• 55:37
  Speaker 35: On Wall Street, a good day as the Dow is
• 55:39
  Speaker 35: up by 316 points, the Nasdaq rose 439, the S
• 55:41
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  Speaker 16: The midterms are almost here, and Republicans could be in
• 55:53
  Speaker 16: deep trouble. Polls show Democrats leading in key races. Tonight,
• 55:57
  Speaker 16: Rob Finnerty on Newsmax reveals the growing threat from the
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  Speaker 16: DSA and the radical left. With less than 60 days
• 56:04
  Speaker 16: to go, Finnerty says it's time for the GOP to
• 56:07
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• 56:10
  Speaker 16: of the Senate is up for grabs. Gas prices, mortgage rates,
• 56:14
  Speaker 16: health care, and out-of-control national debt. Americans are angry, and
• 56:18
  Speaker 16: the progressive left wants total control of Congress. Tallarico, El-Sayed, AOC,
• 56:23
  Speaker 16: Bernie Sanders. Finnerty reveals President Trump's secret plan to fight back,
• 56:28
  Speaker 16: and what you can do to help him. Don't miss
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  Speaker 35: Here's the Wall Street Business Report.
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  Speaker 37: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney embracing the prospect of his
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• 57:01
  Speaker 37: closer ties with the continent would ensure that no other
• 57:03
  Speaker 37: country could try to control its economy. Federal Reserve Board
• 57:06
  Speaker 37: Chairman Kevin Warr says the labor market remains resilient despite
• 57:10
  Speaker 37: severally high inflation.
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: One basic sign of strength is the state of America's
• 57:14
  Speaker 6: labor markets. The jobless rate remains low at around 4.1%,
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: and both job openings and weekly hours have been increasing.
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  Speaker 38: Most polling shows that Republicans are going to have a
• 58:23
  Speaker 38: tough time winning majorities.
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  Speaker 4: In both houses of Congress in November.
• 58:28
  Speaker 38: Voters blame Trump for inflation and believe that many of
• 58:32
  Speaker 38: the necessities they need to purchase have become unaffordable. Two
• 58:36
  Speaker 38: out of three voters don't believe that preventing Iran from
• 58:39
  Speaker 38: building a nuclear weapon is worth the higher gas prices
• 58:43
  Speaker 38: that they are paying. Voters never give a president credit
• 58:46
  Speaker 38: for preventing bad things like a nuclear war from happening.
• 58:50
  Speaker 38: President Trump should realize by now that the Islamic Republic
• 58:54
  Speaker 38: will never agree to a deal that results in a
• 58:57
  Speaker 38: Trump win. The Mullahs read the polls and see the
• 59:00
  Speaker 38: domestic political pressure to end the war. It's part of
• 59:02
  Speaker 38: their strategy. We should stop chasing a bad deal. This
• 59:06
  Speaker 38: does not mean that we should resume unlimited airstrikes. but
• 59:10
  Speaker 38: rather targeted decapitation strikes against their leadership, as the Israelis
• 59:16
  Speaker 38: used effectively. If Iranian leaders won't cut a deal, then.
• 59:20
  Speaker 8: Let's get new ones.
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: The real leverage we.
• 59:22
  Speaker 38: Have against Iran is economic. We destroyed what Iran took
• 59:27
  Speaker 38: decades to build. their defense industrial base used to manufacture drones, missiles,
• 59:33
  Speaker 38: and nuclear weapons. Inflation in Iran is running at 40%.
• 59:38
  Speaker 38: The blockade collapsed the revenue stream used by the Revolutionary
• 59:43
  Speaker 38: Guard Corps, their security services, and all the government infrastructure.
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  Speaker 38: If our blockade is allowed to continue and not stopped
• 59:52
  Speaker 38: by Democrats and a few Republicans, lame-duck Republicans in Congress,
• 59:57
  Speaker 38: we can eliminate.
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  Speaker 13: The mullahs' leverage over its people.
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  Speaker 38: We don't need regime change to pressure them into a
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 38: better deal for us.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 8: Just perseverance.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 38: Intercepting what leaks out via Iran's shadow tanker fleet.
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  Speaker 8: Will speed the process.
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  Speaker 38: The best guess is this pressure will take six months
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 38: to show results, right around.
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  Speaker 10: The time of the elections.
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  Speaker 38: I'm Ben Strewsand, and that's my view.
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  Speaker 4: Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 10: Welcome to GrizzX Radio, second hour of the program. I
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 10: know it probably seems like our third or fourth hour
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 10: after listening to Run On Robert in the last segment.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 4: He tends to run on and on.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 10: People think these nicknames really have no meaning, those who
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 10: came along later but don't quite understand where the nicknames
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 10: come from. Maybe now you have a better gauge. Anyway,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 10: welcome to the program. I'm the aforementioned X-Man. Welcome to
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 10: the second hour of the program. It is our Friday
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 10: show on Thursday, which means we will talk about, which
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 10: is why we allow him to run on and on
• 1:03:02
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• 1:03:05
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  Speaker 31: 281-558-KSCV.
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  Speaker 7: 281-558-5738.
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  Speaker 10: Got a lot going on, so we can actually start
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 10: getting into it, because I really didn't even get into
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 10: hardly any of it. We talked about the Harris County
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 10: Commissioner's Court approving the largest property tax hike.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: In county history.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 10: In fact, we talked to former Piney Point Mayor Aliza
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 10: Dutt in the first hour, and she went and spoke
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 10: at Commissioner's Court today, needless to say, they didn't listen
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 10: to her. It was by a vote of three to one.
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  Speaker 10: They could add, they say, more than $ 190 a year
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 10: to the average homeowner's county property tax bill is according
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 10: to county estimates. which usually means it's probably going to
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 10: be more than that. Harris County homeowners will be paying
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 10: more property taxes after commissioners court approved a higher tax
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 10: rate today, adding another expense to household budgets already dealing
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 10: with the cost of housing, insurance, groceries, and utilities. Yeah,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 10: you know, they're supposedly talking about the Democrats have all
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 10: been saying it's affordability, man. Affordability is where it's at.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 10: So nothing like a time when things are less affordable
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 10: to jack up your property tax rates the highest in
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 10: county history.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: Hmm.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 4: So, yeah, commissioners voted three to one.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 10: The only commissioner that voted against it was Precinct 3
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 10: Commissioner Tom Ramsey. Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo actually abstained,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 10: taking herself out of the final vote, which wouldn't have
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 10: made any difference. The combined rate for Harris County represents
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 10: an increase, I say, of 7.9%, capped at 67 cents
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 10: per $ 100 of taxable property value.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 4: That's what they say.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 10: I do believe when it's all said and done.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 4: It may be a little bit more.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 10: This is also, they just raised taxes on us again, what,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 10: within the last couple of years? So here we are again.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 10: The Harris County Officer of Management and Budget previously estimated
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 10: the increase would add more than $ 190 to the average
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 10: homeowner's annual property tax bill. That actual amount will depend
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 10: on the home's taxable value and exemptions. So that works
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 10: out roughly to $ 16 more a month, at least to
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 10: the average homeowner. Homeowners can check their property taxable value
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 10: and exemptions through the Harris County Central Appraisal District. Harris
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 10: County's new fiscal year begins October 1st, 2026. Will this
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 10: be enough for Adrian Garcia or Leslie Briones to potentially
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 10: lose their seats on commissioner's court? They voted for it.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 10: They're also running a campaign on affordability. Yeah, we can
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 10: vote for us because we're about affordability. And then they've
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 10: jacked up your property taxes because they can't control their spending.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 10: Or maybe we can at least put Orlando Sanchez above
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 10: the corrupt communist Muslim Letitia Plummer who's running for Harris
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 10: County judge. Hopefully, like I said, she's going to get
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 10: in and try to run Harris County probably the way
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 10: she ran her dental practice, which we'll just say there
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 10: was more than.
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  Speaker 4: A few issues.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 10: How do you feel about your taxes in Harris County?
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 10: Do you feel like you're getting more services done? That's
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 10: what Elisa Dett was talking about today at Commissioner's Court. Hey,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 10: you know, we need more services. You're not providing more services.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 10: You're just simply taking the money and spending it. It's
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 10: out-of-control spending. We don't have a revenue problem. We have
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 10: a spending problem in Harris County. And the Rodney Ellis's
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 10: and Adriana, I'm sorry, Adrienne Garcia, that was a slip,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 10: and Leslie Briones, Yeah, they can't get enough of your
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 10: money to keep spending. Does Rodney still have his art collection?
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 10: El Senador, are you listening? If you're listening, can you
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 10: let me know? Remember that warehouse that had millions of
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 10: dollars of art in it that was Rodney Ellis's? He
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 10: had it just in some warehouse somewhere. And then when
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 10: he was confronted and they said, hey, why do you
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 10: have this massive art collection in a warehouse? Did he
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 10: ever explain it? No, he just moved it. If I'm
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 10: not mistaken, doesn't he employ his daughter somewhere? At $ 411, 000
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 10: per year. Maybe that's why they had to raise our taxes.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 10: But don't worry, they're telling you to vote against Republicans
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 10: because of affordability. Anyway, how do you feel about this?
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 10: If you're in Harris County, let me know. If you're
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 10: not in Harris County, how are the other counties faring?
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 10: Did you guys get a property tax hike? Was it
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 10: the largest property tax hike in your county's history? 281-558-KSCV, 281-558-5738.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 10: We've got a GOP representative, Andy Ogles, saying that AI
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 10: fear-mongering is basically the new global warming and the killer
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 10: bee scares. Remember the killer bees? I know you just
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 10: heard from Murder Hornet, but the killer bees, you guys
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 10: remember they did a movie with the Astrodome in it?
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 4: It was Houston, it was Killer Bees.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 10: If I remember correctly, it was the Astros were playing
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 10: in the World Series, which this was many years before
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 10: the Astros actually went to the World Series. And by
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 10: the time they finally made it to the World Series,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 10: if I remember correctly, they had already moved out of
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 10: the Astrodome. So... Anyway, we can kind of get to
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 10: that here in a bit, as well as President Trump
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 10: said interest rates should be at 1% or less after
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 10: the Federal Reserve unanimously hiked rates by a quarter of
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 10: a percent yesterday. Then he took to True Social, calling
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 10: for rates to be lowered fast. Interest rates in the
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 10: United States should be 1% or less because we have
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 10: the best credit in the world by far.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 4: Our country is booming with new investments.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 10: If we stop trading with every other country that we
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 10: have a deficit with, which is most of them, we
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 10: would make at least $ 1. 5 trillion a year. The word
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 10: deficit is nothing more than a fancy word for loss.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 10: We are carrying almost every country in the world, and
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 10: that cannot go on any longer. Lower the interest rate
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 10: for the United States of America, and fast. Trump is
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 10: so hilarious on True Social. Notice I didn't say he's wrong,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 10: because he's not. The federal funds rate now sits between 3.75%
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 10: and 4% after the decision, which is the first rate
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 10: hike since 2023.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 4: Now, Fed Chairman.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 10: Kevin Warsh, it all comes out in Warsh, who was
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 10: sworn into the Post in May, said the hike comes
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 10: at a time when the economy appears to be strengthening.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 4: Trump has long called for the Fed to lower.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 10: Interest rates and famously dubbed former Chairman Jerome Powell too
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 10: late because he did not cut rates quickly enough in
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 10: the president's opinion. Now, the president did end up telling Mr.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 10: Warsh to go ahead and vote for it.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 4: Go ahead. Said because there was nothing he could do
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 4: to stop it. He knew it was coming.
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  Speaker 10: So if the others went, then go ahead. So I
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  Speaker 10: guess we shall see how this all plays out. In
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 10: more economic news, the number of Americans filing unemployment benefit
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 10: claims fell below 200,000 for the fifth time this year,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 10: according to new government data. So jobless claims fell by 10,000
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 10: to 196,000 for the week ending September 12th from 206,000
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 10: the previous week. So according to the Department of Labor
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 10: report released on Thursday or today. This came in below
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 10: the consensus estimate of 208,000, marked the third lowest level
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 10: since 1969. Trump's not going to get credit for that. No,
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 10: we're too busy trying to torch him to make sure
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 10: we can try to get Democrats elected in the midterms.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 10: Governor Abbott has directed the Texas Water Development Board to
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 10: penalize data centers that fail to report their water usage
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 10: after the state records a record of showed most facilities
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 10: have ignored the mandatory survey for years.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 4: So we'll get to that if we get time. And
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 4: I kind of had a Chris X-Files.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 10: Kind of, not really. Nuclear fuel recycling could cut U.S.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 10: waste storage from 100,000 years to 100 years. Now, who's
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 10: going to be around 100,000 years to know of the
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 10: waste storage? I guess, do murder hornets live as long
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 10: as Keith Richards?
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 4: Anyway, it is our Friday show on Thursday.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 10: We'll talk about whatever is on your mind, and that
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 10: includes the largest property tax hike in Harris County history, 281-558-KSEV, 281-558-5738.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 10: Let's go to the phones, pick up with Al, who's
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 10: been patiently holding in West Houston.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 4: Al, thank you for hanging on. Welcome to Chris X Radio.
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  Speaker 18: I'm sitting here, and I'm dripping with tears because of
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 18: the raised tax. So they ignored my pleas, Chris X.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 18: I had asked them not to vote for it, and
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 18: Ramsey listened, but the other members of the court either
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 18: voted for the tax raise or abstained. So we need
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 18: to send all those other ones home come November.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I agree.
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  Speaker 10: Unfortunately, or fortunately, I should say, I live in Precinct 3,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 10: so I get to vote, but I vote for Tom Ramsey.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 10: So we've got the only good one in my area. Now,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 10: Leslie Briones and Adrian Garcia, they're in different... you know, precincts.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 10: So we'll see how this plays out for theirs. But
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 10: Rodney Ellis, I, like I said, I, he made the
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 10: comment at one time, they'll have to, to get him
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 10: out of there in a coffin. So I don't believe
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 10: he's going to be going anywhere. Like I said, he
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 10: tends to, he's, he's the real leader of commissioner's court
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 10: and poor Lena Hidalgo has been nothing but his puppet
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 10: for the last few years. And now he's working on
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 10: getting a new puppet in there. So we'll see if
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 10: we can get, I'm.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 18: Not wishing Rodney Ellis any harm, but, But I'd like
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 18: for him to step, not find his way to the
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 18: commissioner's court. That's for certain. You were talking earlier about
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 18: the Astrodome. That's something that we sure need to do.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 18: We sure need, the general public needs to figure out
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 18: something that they can tell the county commissioners to begin
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 18: to use the Astrodome. I walked by it not long
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 18: ago going to a car show, and it's so regrettable
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 18: to see the eighth wonder of the world.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 10: We need to figure out.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 3: A good use for it.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't agree with you more on that.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 7: They did.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 4: They dedicated it or I'm sorry. What do you call it?
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 10: They made it a it's a historical, you know, it's
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 10: got a historical delegation now. So that means it is
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 10: a historical thing. So they can't really tear it down.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 10: And then they supposedly have repeatedly on multiple occasions approved
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 10: different things to go and do with it to make
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 10: it a viable facility. But it seems like nothing ever happens.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 10: And then they forget that they made that vote and
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 10: then they start all over again every few years. But
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 10: it absolutely makes zero sense why the eighth wonder of
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 10: the world just sits there and slowly falls apart and
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 10: incurs more cost, and they can't figure out what to
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 10: do with it, especially considering their– well, I guess they've
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 10: got other things they want to spend our money on
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 10: instead of things like that.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 18: That's the problem, Chris, is the county commissioners are spending
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 18: lots of money when instead they need to put down
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 18: their pencil and paper– pen and paper and stop trying
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 18: to make a list of where to spend money. Listen
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 18: to the public. The public has some good ideas about
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 18: what to put in the Astrodome.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 10: Well, I agree.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 4: Thanks for the call out. Yeah.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 10: Like I said, there's a crowd out there that wants
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 10: to just tear it down. It was the first indoor
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 10: sporting facility, baseball facility in the world.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 4: It is the eighth wonder of the world. It was amazing.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 10: I know it's a little different now because we've moved
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 10: on and they built other things now. But the reality is,
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 10: like I said, this can be a viable facility. It
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 10: makes no sense to allow it to just sit there
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 10: and fall apart. It's really insane what's happening. And I
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 10: know it's going to cost a.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 4: Lot of money.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 10: And the longer they wait, the more it ends up costing.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 10: So then they use that to justify not doing anything,
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 10: which is crazy. But like I said, it does have
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 10: a historical delegation element. So there's that aspect of it, too.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 10: There's a reason why they call it the eighth wonder
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 10: of the world.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 4: I appreciate your call. All right, let's take a very
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 4: short break. We'll come back. Rick in Cyprus, hold on.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 4: You'll be up next, followed by Mark, also listening in Cyprus.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 4: And we'll get your phone calls.
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  Speaker 10: What do you guys say?
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 4: You're in Cypress.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 10: You're probably in Harris County. So your taxes got raised.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 10: But we'll talk about whatever is on your mind today.
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  Speaker 10: We'll talk about whatever's on your mind today, by the way,
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  Speaker 10: but I imagine some of you will want to talk
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  Speaker 10: about the largest property tax hike in Harris County history.
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  Speaker 4: The three-to-one Democrats.
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  Speaker 10: It's funny, the lone Republican on Harris County Commissioner's Court
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  Speaker 10: voted against it, but the three of the four, well,
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  Speaker 10: the three other commissioners and then Lena Hidalgo voted.
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  Speaker 4: She abstained. She just didn't vote. Okay. Yeah, we got it.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Chris. How are you doing today?
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  Speaker 27: I don't really want to harp on the taxes, man.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 27: I'm so pissed off about that because they're spending most
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 27: of that money on their staff and not anything to
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 27: do with the county. But what I wanted to talk
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 27: about was how disappointed I am in the RNC and
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 27: the Texas Republican Party not giving any funds to Paxton.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 27: I know Paxton, everybody wanted him to come out with
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 27: a good campaign campaign. I think it's one of the
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 27: worst campaigns I've ever seen in my life. That due,
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 27: as I know, is because of the money he does
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 27: not have. So I'm not really blaming it too much
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 27: on Paxton. But what I am blaming it on is
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 27: RNC and the Texas RNC not giving him any money.
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  Speaker 27: And I don't know if they want to turn the
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 27: state blue, but that's what they're planning on doing by
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 27: not giving him funds. I wish they would use the funds.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 27: And I hope the Paxton campaign is listening to your programs.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 27: I wish what they would do with the limited funds
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 27: they have would put a checkboard up on commercials. I'm
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 27: tired of this slandering stuff. I wish they would say
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 27: Paxton voted to shut the border and sued the Biden
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 27: administration 100 times. Talofrico did not do it. He voted
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 27: for open borders. I wish they would say child pornography
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 27: and child transition. Paxton sued the state to get that
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 27: taken out as far as a law. Tallarico did not.
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  Speaker 27: He wanted to pass laws for transitioning kids. I wish
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 27: I would say that, you know, he sued the state
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 27: of Texas from selling land to the Chinese. Tallarico sold
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 27: land to the Chinese. I wish I would come out
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 27: with a scoreboard like that, make it a nice 30
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 27: seconds on what they voted for and what they did
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 27: not vote for. I think it goes a long way
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 27: than just throwing mud at each other.
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  Speaker 10: Well, first of all, I agree with your assessment on that.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 10: I think that's good. But you're a little behind the times.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 10: I guess you don't realize that the RNC, along with
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 10: the Trump campaign, the Elon Musk campaign, and then, of course,
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 10: John Thune's– well, Elon Musk, the PAC, and then John
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 10: Thune's PAC have now pumped over $ 80 million into the
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 10: Paxton campaign. And now we're being flooded with Paxton commercials.
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  Speaker 10: I guess you haven't caught any of those here as
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 10: of yet?
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  Speaker 27: No, sir, because they told me about that, and everybody
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 27: said they got max money in there. But I've only
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 27: seen two or three commercials.
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  Speaker 34: That's it.
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  Speaker 27: I've seen more Tallarico commercials than I've seen Paxton commercials.
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  Speaker 10: Well, because you saw them for the last two months
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 10: that they've been running, and that, of course, I think
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 10: has definitely had an influence on the polling. Now, leading
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 10: into the final 45 days up until the election, we've
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 10: got Paxton in, who is.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 4: At least— we' re.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 10: Looking at $ 80- plus, $ 90 million. They're saying it's going to
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 10: be a $ 200- to $ 300- million race now that the Republican
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 10: funds— have actually finally come through for Paxton. So they're
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 10: finally getting on board.
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  Speaker 4: Is it a little too late, a little too little?
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 10: We'll have to wait and see. But I just want
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 10: to make sure that everybody does know.
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  Speaker 4: And thank you for the call, Rick.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 10: I appreciate it that everybody does know that, yes, the
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 10: cavalry has come in Texas. And we've got, like I said,
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 10: we're dealing with, you know, 80, 90 million dollars at least.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 10: that have come through, and it's from Donald Trump, it's
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 10: from John Thune, it's from Elon Musk. Like I said,
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 10: I can't even count how much.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 4: It was $ 52 million, I do believe, that came from
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 4: the PAC from John Thune.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 10: It was, I think, $ 12 million from the president's fund,
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 10: and then another $ 20 or $ 30 million from Elon Musk's PAC.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 10: So the money has finally come in. Now, I don't
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 10: think it's too late. Literally, the last two months is
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 10: the most important So we will see a flood. We're
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 10: going to be sick of Paxton commercials. But I did
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 10: like your assessment.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 4: Absolutely. The mudslinging, they do that because it's effective.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 10: That's why we're already, for those who have been watching,
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 10: we're getting the good mudslinging now from, you know, he
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 10: was playing good boy from Tallarico in his first month
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 10: of college. of advertising trying to make everybody believe he's
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 10: a nice guy and he's a moderate, and now the
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 10: mud is surely being slung, to say the least.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's get one more call in before we
• 1:24:59
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  Speaker 10: 281-558-KSEV. Let's go to Mark in Cyprus. Mark, thank you
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  Speaker 36: Hey, C.J.
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  Speaker 14: Padwe, Chris.
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  Speaker 28: C.J.
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  Speaker 4: Padwe.
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  Speaker 14: Hey, you know, I normally, there's so many things I
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  Speaker 14: could talk to you about. A couple ideas came into
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 14: my head because of, of our generation back in the
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 14: 80s and 90s with stuff. But, you know, this property
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  Speaker 14: tax thing, I'm sorry, I'm going to have, I got
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 14: a question. And I'm going to run through this, and
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 14: if by any means, correct me if I'm wrong, but
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 14: I'm going to start with, I remember six years ago,
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 14: Paul Bettencourt got on the radio, hooped and hollered about
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 14: the largest property tax bill ever passed in the state
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 14: of Texas, and went on to promote this and everything.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 14: And I remember quite after that, the city of Houston
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 14: tried to post something. And it's like, oh, wait, hold
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 14: my beer. We got something for you. And they found
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 14: some loopholes in that. And then now I hear, you know,
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 14: now you hear Governor Abbott come out with his number
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 14: one thing when he came out promoting it. His number
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 14: one thing was he's trying to go after property taxes.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 14: in Harris County. That's his number one goal. When he,
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 14: when he came out against, promoted the government against Enosa.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 14: And then now I hear ads online going, it's not
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 14: up to the state. It's up to the local government to,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 14: to property taxes. And then he comes out and he
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 14: has a proposal for it. So where are we at that?
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 14: I mean, how is, how is Ben Corr going to
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 14: affect taxes when he's a state Senator, when it's up
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 14: to local government?
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  Speaker 4: Mark.
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  Speaker 10: Okay. Um, Let's start from the very beginning. Do you
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 10: understand the difference between city, county, and state?
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 14: Yeah, they say all property taxes is all local government.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, stop, stop, stop.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 10: We got to stop right there because we're going to
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 10: keep going. Yes, there's a difference between city. There's a
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 10: city of Houston, then there's a county of Harris, and
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 10: then there are multiple other counties, and then there's the
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 10: state of Texas. On the state level, they have gone
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 10: through and voted to reduce our taxes multiple times. And
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 10: every time they have done it, the radical left, the Democrats,
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 10: either by the city of Houston or especially Harris County,
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 10: has gone to institute tax increases where they levy property
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 10: taxes that have absolutely offset what they've done on the
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 10: state level. So then let's go back to the state
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 10: level again. People like State Senator Paul Betancourt. I know
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 10: you're not attacking him directly, but he's a direct line
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 10: that we both have because we listen to him here
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 10: every week. He went through there and had to pass
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 10: a law in the state of Texas. He brought it up,
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 10: I think it was SB4, where they went through and
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 10: had to get rid of this Harris County, who what
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 10: happened is when the Democrats took over in 2018, 2018
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 10: was how many years ago? So that was eight years ago.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 10: The Democrats took over, immediately took away the voting responsibilities
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 10: of duly elected leaders to conduct elections and appointed corrupt
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 10: elections administrators to botch, quote-unquote.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 4: Botch, do illegal elections.
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 10: The state had to come in and stop that from
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 10: happening in the largest county. in the state of Texas,
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 10: third largest in the country. So that's just two little
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 10: things that I'm explaining to you, the difference between what's happening.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 10: The state has repeatedly gone in and worked what they
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 10: can to reduce our property taxes and reduce our taxes,
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 10: and then the county's going through. What Governor Abbott is
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 10: trying to do now, he wants to make sure that
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 10: we go through there and make, before they do these
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 10: sort of property tax hikes, that once again, these are
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 10: also issues that are carryover issues like Harris County, Raised
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 10: our taxes because of an emergency. Because of what happened? Well,
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 10: we had Hurricane Beryl, so they raised our taxes. And
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 10: then what happened now? They went through and raised it
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 10: the maximum amount they possibly can without having the people
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 10: vote on it. So the governor is trying to go
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 10: through there and offset. You understand this is a battle
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 10: between local, county, and state. The Republicans control the county.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 10: I'm sorry, the Republicans control the state. The county and
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 10: the city has been controlled by Democrats forever. Houston for
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 10: I don't know how many years, but Harris County at
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 10: least the last eight years. So now if you can
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 10: explain to me a way how we can get this,
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 10: where we can get rid of these people in Harris
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 10: County so that we now have people that won't offset
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 10: any sort of tax increase with these property tax hikes
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 10: and the tax hikes they're constantly giving us, I'm all ears, brother.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 14: I hear you, brother.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 3: I hear you.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 14: But, you know, like I said, they make it confusing
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 14: sometimes because They.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 3: Don't make it confusing.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 4: It is confusing. It absolutely is 100% confusing.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 14: I mean, unfortunately with Brionis, I mean, Ronnie Ellis, you
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 14: can forget about it. Those people, those morons, his constituents,
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 14: they're going to vote for him all the time, even
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 14: though they're paying more property taxes. They're saying he's a guy,
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 14: just like Sheila Jackson Lee. And so, I mean, I
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 14: heard on the news today that Brionis might be, and
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 14: then all of a sudden, Hidalgo, all of a sudden,
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 14: she's a fiscal conservative. I'm like, really?
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 29: Okay.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 14: Okay, yeah.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 18: All right.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 14: And then, unfortunately, I mean, 15 years ago, this was
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 14: four-to-one Republicans to Democrats. And then slowly, Rodney Ellis, who
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 14: controls everything, you know, slowly turned it and made certain
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 14: people here, certain people there. But, I mean, Chris, I
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 14: also have a question. And like I said, nothing against
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 14: Paul Bedcourt, but If I'm getting maybe $ 500 as a senator,
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 14: my main thing is I'm fighting your taxes, you know,
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 14: and vet court tax services. You know, if you start
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 14: lowering property taxes where nobody's fighting their taxes, it's lower.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 14: Aren't you kind of taking money.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 29: Away from your business?
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 10: Let me ask you this. Has he lowered our property
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 10: taxes from the state level?
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 14: I pay property taxes on Harris County level.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 4: That is true. Okay, tell you what, you've got some
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 4: research to do. I appreciate the call, Rick.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 10: The reality is, and I'm not dogging you, but the
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 10: reality is, yes, there are state property taxes. Well, I'm sorry,
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 10: we don't have a state tax, which is great, which
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 10: James Tallarico voted against to making sure that we, you know,
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 10: purpley put that in our Constitution.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 4: But we're dealing with....
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 10: It is very confusing because I don't have enough time
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 10: on this program to go and explain the difference.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 4: I see what you're saying.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 10: You're saying because he runs a property tax reduction business,
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 10: therefore he goes out of business if we reduce our
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 10: property taxes. First of all, he doesn't control the governor
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 10: who is completely against property taxes. Second of all, he's
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 10: been fighting it. He's lowered my taxes, so I'm going
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 10: to continue to hire him as long as I have
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 10: to pay property taxes that he fights against every single year.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 4: And I would encourage you not only.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 10: To do some research to see the difference between the
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 10: state level and the county level and see who's doing what,
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 10: but then also the city of Houston level, because they're
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 10: raising our taxes as well. But to go and learn
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 10: the difference, there's a drastic difference on the state level.
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 4: They have reduced our tax.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 10: Burden multiple times because Republicans are running it. So the
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 10: point is, I could hear the frustration in your voice.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 10: What you're leading to leads to don't vote for Republicans
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 10: because they're not doing enough. This is blaming the cops
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 10: for the criminals committing crimes.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 4: That's what's happening. Not that Republicans are perfect. There's no
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 4: such thing.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 10: I don't hold them to the standard that the left
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 10: wants me to hold them to so they can continue.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 4: To get elected.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 10: But I know exactly who is raising my property taxes.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 10: It is on the county level. It is in Harris County.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 10: Even in Montgomery County, the Republicans did it there. So
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 10: you actually have more of a legitimate statement for Montgomery
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 10: County if you live in Montgomery County. The difference is
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 10: we're looking at, what, 8% at least here in Harris County.
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 10: I think Montgomery County did like 2%.
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 4: Big difference.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 10: Republicans are very different. Even when they're being fiscally irresponsible,
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 10: in my opinion, they're still better, and there is a
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 10: huge difference, and we need to make sure that we
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 10: point out those differences, and it's hard to do. But
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 10: I encourage you, first of all, to call in and
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 10: talk with Senator Betancourt on the Amigos. He'll explain it
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 10: a hell of a lot better than I can, especially
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 10: in the short amount of time that we're given. But
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 10: that guy's been fighting since he's been around. And hell yeah,
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 10: as long as we have property taxes, I'm going to
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 10: hire his company to do that because, as you mentioned,
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 10: as a state senator, they don't make a whole lot
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 10: of money.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 4: So they have to continue their business. Paul's a pretty
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 4: smart guy.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 10: If property taxes were eliminated tomorrow, pretty sure he'd figure
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 10: out a way to make money, okay? I think the
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 10: guy knows what he's doing. So, but that being said, I.
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 10: Hopefully I explained it to a degree to where not
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 10: only you, but everyone listening can understand to a certain degree.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 10: I'm not an expert, but I do know who's raising
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 10: my property taxes. And as you mentioned, Adrian Garcia or
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 10: Leslie Briones are the ones that are doing it.
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 4: They're up for reelection. If we can get rid of
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 4: those people.
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 10: I mentioned that state senator, it's not just property taxes,
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 10: but state senator Paul Bettencourt also had to go through
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 10: there and get rid of those corrupt elections administrators in
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 10: Harris County to just make sure that we can get
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 10: elections conducted properly because the Democrats stack the deck. I
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 10: hope you're starting to see more of the bigger picture
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 10: here because it is a much bigger picture than we
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 10: can go into in a single show, which is why
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 10: we do it every day.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 4: Anyway, sorry, Lucas.
• 1:34:43
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• 1:34:50
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  Speaker 9: Here's Governor Greg Abbott on his plan to control property taxes.
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  Speaker 15: The state of Texas does not impose a property tax.
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  Speaker 15: Only local governments impose property taxes. One of the reasons
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  Speaker 10: Listen, it's a complex conversation, and that's why we have
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  Speaker 4: There is a direct line right there.
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  Speaker 10: Now, I am one of the people that understands that
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  Speaker 10: without representation in this country, which trickles down to the
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  Speaker 10: the lieutenant governor dealt with them wanting to give their
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  Speaker 10: How do you think Democrats would operate that? The other thing, too,
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  Speaker 10: We look how they're doing throughout the country and everywhere
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  Speaker 10: they're in charge. Needless to say, getting upset and getting angry,
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  Speaker 10: all of a sudden decide that, hey, listen, it doesn't
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 10: do any good to vote for the difference– Well, it does.
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 4: That is a that's a massive mistake. Is it going
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 4: to be perfect?
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 10: Nothing's perfect. Quit expecting perfection. We're never going to get perfection,
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 10: but we can get better than the alternative. And I'll
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 10: take that every day. That was why the whole John
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 10: Cornyn argument. He was still better than a Democrat when
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 10: he was in charge. Now he's a dirtbag. He's still terrible.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 4: He's awful. He's gone.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 10: He's proved what he's you know, his detractors said about him.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 10: But now he's being replaced by someone, and then everyone's complaining, well,
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 10: we're not spending enough money. You're starting to see more
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 10: of the complexities. Politics is nuanced. Anyway, thank you for
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 10: the call, Mark. I appreciate it. Phone lines are still full,
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 10: but when someone drops off, you'll be able to get in. 281-558-KCB.
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 10: Let's go to Chris listening in spring. Chris, thank you
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 10: for hanging on. Welcome to Chris X Radio.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 39: Yes, sir. Let's stay local later here. Let me just
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 39: talk about the Federal Reserve. A very unimpressive institution. Anybody
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 39: with a brain can see that. Chris, in September of 2024,
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 39: right before a general election, they cut the interest rates.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 3: Here we are. Time is a flat circle.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 39: We are two months away from an election, and the
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 39: Fed raises the interest rates. If anybody thinks that the
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 39: apparatus is still not in it or out for Donald J. Trump,
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 39: I am telling you right now, the writing is on
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 39: the wall. I mean, they're trying to assassinate him again
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 39: at this point. This is egregious. And to be very clear,
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 39: we're going to have a divided Congress here in 27.
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 39: There will be no bills getting passed. There will be
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 39: nothing inflationary on the horizon. And we are collecting so
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 39: much money from the tariffs and they raise the rate.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 39: I don't know what it is about those schools in
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 39: the Northeast, but I think they're very, very unimpressive. Now,
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 39: let's keep it back to local here. We have to
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 39: understand something. There are no statutes in the legislature that
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 39: requires these commissioner courts, these leftists, to balance a budget.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 39: And I was very encouraged by Mr. Ramsey yesterday saying
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 39: that might be the next step. But the problem is
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 39: there are 63 Democrats in the House. They will never
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 39: allow that to happen. So we need to get an
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 39: executive order on the books. Let the governor come in here.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 39: If you don't balance the budget with all the revenue
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 39: you have, you're out. We're taking over. One, two, three, ABC.
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 39: You got to do it, Chris. They're going to destroy
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 39: our state. We have to do something.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 4: Thank you for the call, Chris.
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, that's the other, you know, the elephant
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 10: in the room is on the state level and then
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 10: the local level and then the county level is we
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 10: got to deal with Democrats. Have you guys noticed the trend?
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 10: And Chris gets it. anywhere the Democrats are involved. And then,
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 10: of course, you've got the swamp on the national level.
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 10: And those swamp rats, there's the Trump derangement syndrome, which
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 10: is clearly a real thing. And we see it on
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 10: steroids with guys like, you know, John, I'm sorry, not
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 10: John Cornyn, but that kind of stuff. But once again,
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 10: that's a really good point Chris just made. Thank you
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 10: for the call, Chris. I always appreciate your calls. And
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 10: I wish I could be as concise as you are.
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 4: 2-8-1-5-5-8-K-S-E-B.
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 10: Let's go to Alan listening in champions. Alan, thank you
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 10: for hanging on. Welcome to Chris X radio. Thanks.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 29: Hey, so I talked to Paul Bettencourt maybe 10, 12
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 29: years ago, what have you, on what they call the CAFRA.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 29: Are you familiar with that? The comprehensive annual financial report
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 29: on the state or the local governments? Have you ever
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 29: heard of CAFRA?
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 4: I have, but I'm really not real familiar.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 10: With it yet.
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 29: Well, and just basically if your family makes $ 100, 000 and
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 29: you dedicate 10% of your income to your investments, over
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 29: time they add up. So what is the value of
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 29: the state of Texas, Harris County? I mean, there is
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 29: no reason that there should be any type of financial
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 29: tax increase when the value of– it's like Jim Crane
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 29: buying the Astros for $ 100 million and then selling them
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 29: for $ 2 billion. You know what I'm saying? But anyway,
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 29: that was my comment. And just, it would be nice
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 29: to have that report in front of me or all
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 29: of us where we could look at it. And then the,
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 29: you know, when the counselor or the commissioners come up
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 29: and say, oh, we need this for that and everything. Well,
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 29: how about taking the half a percent out of your,
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 29: you know, your investment trough? Anyway, just that's my comment.
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 4: Well, thank you for the call. And I appreciate it.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 10: I'd like to look at that report too, because it's
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 10: been a while and, Man, that's one of those things
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 10: that have just been filed away in the archives of
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 10: my mind because I haven't thought about.
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 4: It in a very long time.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 10: But the other thing, too, is per your comment, take
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 10: it to the commissioner's court. Tom Ramsey, who is on
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 10: commissioner's court, he's precinct three commissioner. He's the lone Republican left.
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 10: They went ahead and redistricted. Cactus Jack Cagle and got
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 10: him out of there as fast as they could the
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 10: moment he exposed Lena Hidalgo's corruption. And then now what's
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 10: she doing? Well, now she's claiming to be a fiscal conservative,
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 10: which she's not. Everybody knows. But she's setting up for
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 10: her next to whatever she's going to do because she's
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 10: not running for a Harris County judge. That's Orlando Sanchez
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 10: running against Letitia Plummer. I hope we can get Orlando
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 10: Sanchez in. He's got a real shot. It's going to
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 10: be tough. Anytime these Democrats come in and get their
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 10: little fingers on power, it is so hard to get
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 10: them out because of, well, the way they operate. They're
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 10: little totalitarians. And that's how we're seeing with Briones and
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 10: Adrian Garcia.
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 4: They get in. It's all about power. And they take
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 4: that money.
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 10: And as you just mentioned, They'll never run out of
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 10: things to spend our tax dollars on. So they always
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 10: keep raising them and keep going and keep going. And
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 10: then all of a sudden, more people are moving to
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 10: Texas than anywhere else in the world, anywhere else in
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 10: the country. And yet Harris County is not growing in population.
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 10: It was growing when illegals were pouring into our country,
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 10: which is also by design of the left, which is
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 10: why you have to keep those monsters out at all costs.
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 10: But other than that, when you cap that, and then what?
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 10: All of a sudden, there are less people moving to
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 10: that area because it costs a ton. It's almost like
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 10: trying to do business in California.
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 4: I know it's in Texas. Oh, go to Travis County.
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 4: It's even worse. But Harris County is a whole lot bigger.
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 4: Good points.
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 10: Let's take a very short break. Bubba, hold on for me.
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 10: We'll get to you on the other side. We'll come
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 10: back and wrap up today's show. This is a very
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 10: good and important conversation. I clearly don't have all the answers.
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 10: But the one thing that I do have control over
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 10: is voting. And I want people to understand that voting
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 10: is important. Are you always going to get everything you want?
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 22: No.
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 4: Quit expecting that.
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 10: Whoever convinced Republicans that if they don't get everything they want,
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 10: I'm done, I'm going to take my toys and go home.
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 10: And that mentality has led to the election of more
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 10: Democrats who then get in, corrupt the process, and then
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 10: get more Democrats, and then there is nowhere on God's
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 10: green earth you can run and hide where they won't
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 10: hunt you down to rule over you. You need to
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 10: understand that is where we're at, folks. understand that that
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 10: is the process now when you understand we're dealing with
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 10: those people and they're very good at what they do
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 10: they're not stupid idiots they're communist and there's a big
• 1:47:38
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  Speaker 10: I dedicate this song to Harris County, the big total losers.
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 10: Voting to the largest property tax hike in county history.
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 10: Once again, we have to stop allowing these Marxists, these
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 10: communists to take over. It's one thing I know Chris
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 10: gets at Chris Out in Spring. He understands that probably
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 10: better than all of us. Anyway, welcome back to Chris
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  Speaker 10: Hicks Radio. You've reached the final segment of the program.
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  Speaker 10: It is our Friday show on Thursday, which means the
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 10: Amigos will take over tomorrow from four to six. I
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 10: encourage you to keep listening, listen to the Amigos, make
• 1:51:46
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• 1:51:49
  Speaker 10: free to call in and ask Senator Betancourt about these
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 10: property taxes and how he feels. And you know, for
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 10: a guy supposedly who's Once again, it wasn't directly accused,
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 10: but somebody that seems to, you know, supposedly is running
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 10: some sort of a subterfuge, I guess, to keep property
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 10: taxes in place.
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 4: He sure brings in a lot of people that would
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 4: like to get rid of them.
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 10: And I, for one, have made it very clear that
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 10: I absolutely don't want any property taxes. And I disagree
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 10: with the senator when it comes to certain things on
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 10: what it would cost to offset that. I don't think
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 10: it would cost nearly as much as people think.
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 4: So, but then again... He's a lot smarter than me.
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 4: There is that, too. All right, so let's.
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 10: Go to Bubba out in the woodlands before we run
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 10: out of time. Bubba, we've only got about 45 seconds,
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 10: but I want to make sure you got it.
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: Chris, another byproduct of this tax increase on your property
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: is when you go to file a claim on your
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: homeowner insurance, it's based on a percentage of the value
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: of your house and not on the damage done to it,
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: like for your roof or whatever. That's going to cost
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: everybody big money. Because, you know, most of us keep
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: the premium low. You go with a higher deductible, right?
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 4: That's what I've done here lately. No, you're right on. Now,
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 4: thanks for the call, Bubba. Listen, there's... The other thing, too,
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 4: is there's a lot to this.
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 10: Getting old and being an adult and having to deal
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 10: with this sort of stuff is already difficult enough.
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 4: But then you throw in.
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 10: Like I said, natural disasters, and then you've got a
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 10: person running against the governor who's a Democrat who wants
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 10: to raid the Rainy Day Fund, something that we clearly
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 10: need here in Texas to go and buy votes. And
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 10: then our side, Donald Trump, does the exact same— well, he
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 10: doesn't do it.
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 4: He proposes the.
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 10: Exact same thing just to throw it back to the Democrats,
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 10: and we get mad at him. We have to know
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 10: what time it is and where it's communism time.
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 8: All right, gang, be safe.
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 4: Have a great weekend. We'll see you Monday.