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How the primaries played out amid Williamson County confusion · Austin Signal

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Election night is over in Texas,
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but we're still figuring out exactly
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what happened yesterday in
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Williamson County.
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Some voters waited in line for
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hours, only to be told they'd
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have to go to an entirely different
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polling site to vote.
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Others made an after-hours trip to
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cast a ballot, only find out that
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their vote may not be counted.
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Our team of county reporters was
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covering the most important races
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here in Central Texas.
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They will be joining us live in
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studio with their latest reporting.
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That's coming up on today's
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show
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The Austin Signal is a production
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of KUT News, hosted by
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Jerry Quijano.
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And the City of Austin is ending a
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rental assistance program,
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a by-product of a trimmed budget.
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More about the help that's going out
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for the last time and the future of
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other assistance programs.
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That's up next, right here on
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Austin Signal.
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Howdy out there, this is Austin
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It is Wednesday, the fourth day
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of March.
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We're glad you're here with us.
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Election night is over, but we're
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still figuring things out and some
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radio hosts are still waking up this
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afternoon.
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So bear with us and thank you for
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tuning in, spending part of the day
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here with us.
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We're going to jump right in.
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I am here live in the studio
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with the gang of KUT County
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reporters. I'm going to go one by
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one. We have Williamson County
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reporter Kaylee Hunt.
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Hi, Kaylee.
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Hi Jerry.
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KUT's Travis County reporter Katie
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McAfee, howdy.
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Hey. And KUT Hayes
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County reporter Lee Walden, howdee.
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Hi!
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All right, Kaylee, I'm going to
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start with you because Williamson
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County was part of the national
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story last night.
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Sure. Why was that the case?
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Yeah, so yesterday's primary
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election basically marked the first
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time in over a decade that
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Williamson County voters had to cast
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their ballots at what
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they call a precinct based polling
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location.
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And that's because the county's
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Republican Party decided that they
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no longer wanted to offer countywide
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voting and because of state law,
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the county is Democratic Party had
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no choice but to follow.
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And so since people had been so used
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to countywide polling over the past
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10 years or so when they showed up
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to vote.
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Yesterday, a lot of folks realized
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they were at the wrong polling
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location.
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And a lot of folks were surprised.
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Were you surprised that there was,
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you know, these kinds of delays,
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these kind of issues?
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You know, I wouldn't say I was
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surprised.
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We knew about this change since
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January, and the county,
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I believe they told me they spent
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about a million dollars just trying
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to communicate all
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of these changes to voters.
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So we knew ahead of time that it was
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going to happen.
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And there were some
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warnings from the county's
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Democratic Party Chair, Kim Gilby.
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She said from the get-go that
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there were going to be issues.
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The county's Republican Party
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chair told me that,
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you know, she wished folks would
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have faith in voters to
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find the right polling location.
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She actually today, you now, I
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finally get a response from her just
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about the events yesterday.
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She acknowledged that there was some
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confusion among voters
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about polling locations, but
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reaffirmed that she's, you know,
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proud of all the election workers
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for helping redirect people to the
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correct places.
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And, uh, she- she-
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pretty much squarely
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blamed that confusion on
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the Democratic Party.
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Okay, well, you were at, in addition
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to all these precinct-specific
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issues that were going on, there
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were also a couple of polling
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locations in Williamson County that
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got extended hours all the way until
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10 o'clock last night, and in fact,
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one of the polling locations, you
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were posted up there the entire day.
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Where was that at?
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That's right, yeah, I was posted
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up at the North
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Star. It's a 55 plus
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senior living community in
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Georgetown, actually just down the
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road where I live.
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Okay, yeah, because you kept
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mentioning like an apartment complex
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where the line was making through
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And was sneaking through, okay, gotcha.
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Right, yeah, so Envision just, you
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know, in apartment complex, they had
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a central courtyard, and
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you know as the night went on and
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the lines just got longer and
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longer, those folks started to wind
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in through the courtyard.
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And so that's why I was posted up
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most of the night, just chatting
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with folks as they
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waited in line.
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Yeah, and what did you hear from the
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people who were waiting in line?
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Well, they were
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frustrated.
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I think that's a nice word to say
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about it.
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That's a radio-friendly word.
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Yes, they were very frustrated
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but also committed,
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you know.
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I asked, you know, there were
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of course people, several people
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that just got up and left at
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some point. They said they, you,
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know, just couldn't stay any longer.
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They had other commitments, children
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to take care of, jobs
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to go to.
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But yeah, a lot of folks were
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very committed to staying in
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line. In fact, one of my favorite
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moments was late at
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night after the polls had actually
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closed, initially at 7 p.m.
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This was before the extension.
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A couple of folks ordered pizza for
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everybody and we're passing around
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pizza slices in line, so.
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Or we had dinner together.
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Yeah, it's not an election night
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without pizza.
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You mentioned that those
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polling locations, the hours were
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extended to 10 o'clock, but
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then you said that you had to tell
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some voters that you have to
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deliver some bad news, basically the
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voters who were at the end of the
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line. Tell us more about that.
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That's right.
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Yeah. So the Texas
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Voting Rights Project,
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they filed a
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lawsuit, they
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filed the lawsuit that extended
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those polling hours at those two
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locations.
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Now, there's a new state law that
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went into effect earlier in
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September of last year, and
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it requires that in
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the event of a lawsuit like this
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during an election, They,
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the parties would need to notify the
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Texas Attorney General's office
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one hour prior
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to the hearing.
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That failed to happen last night.
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And so the Texas attorney general's
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office filed a motion to pause that
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and they were successful.
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So that means people's
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votes may or may not count.
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Yeah, okay.
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Well, that's something that will
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continue to unfold and I'm sure you
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will be following it.
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You did great reporting last night
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Thank you for being on the show.
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That's KUT's Williamson County
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reporter, Kaylee Hunt Thank you
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Kaylee. Gonna move over to KUTs
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Travis County reporter Katie McAfee
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Katie, we were watching a couple of
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precinct races for Travis County
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Commissioner yesterday.
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What ended up happening?
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Yeah, that's right. We were lucky to
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get election results in Travis
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County.
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Took a little while, though.
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It took a little while.
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Certainly, we were better placed
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than Williamson County last night.
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But yeah, I was watching the
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Precinct 2 and Precinked 4 races.
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In Precinced 2, which
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is incumbent Bridget Shay's seat,
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she easily won and
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avoided a runoff.
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I think she ended the night around
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with 57% of the vote.
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Okay.
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Over in Precint 4, which is
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the south, southeast portion
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of Travis County,
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that race is going to run off.
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The two candidates who
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will be going neck
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and neck in May are George Morales.
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He is a former Travis County
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Constable for that precinct,
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and then Susana Ledesma-Woody.
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She is a DelValley ISD
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trustee.
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The two of them finished the night
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pretty much neck and back.
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I think George Morales was
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ahead by less than 500 votes.
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Okay, yeah, so we were watching that
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one. I believe George Morales came
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out to an early lead whenever
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early voting tallies were a
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first release and then the race
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grew closer and closer as
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the night went on.
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Can you remind us of the date of the
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runoff when that's going to take
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place?
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Yeah, that's May 26th.
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I talked to both Susana
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Ledesma-Woody and George Morales
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after the election and they kind of
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said the same exact thing with
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wanting to remind people of when
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this runoff election is
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because people typically,
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voter turnout trails off for
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runoffs.
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It's not usually great for primary
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elections either and then if there's
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a runoff, people get voter fatigue,
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don't even realize that there is a
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run off and they're gonna spend
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these next couple months.
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Knocking on doors, still campaigning
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hard, letting people know that this
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fight is not over.
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Yeah, that's definitely something to
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consider, especially we saw such
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high early voting turnout in
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Travis County as since the highest
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since 2008.
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But yeah, historically, people do
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not vote in those runoff elections.
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So that is something we will
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continue to watch and bring you here
8:39
on Austin Signal.
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That's KUT's Travis County reporter,
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Katie McAfee.
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Katie, thank you.
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Over to our Hayes County reporter,
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Lee Walden.
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Lee, you were watching a Texas
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district race last night that
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had a lot of candidates.
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We were expecting that this might go
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to a runoff when it ended up
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happening there.
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Yeah, District 21 was expected
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to have a runoff, like you said,
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there were 12 Republican candidates
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for the seat, but
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a former Major League Baseball
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player, Mark Teshara,
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managed to come out on top and
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won't have to face a run off at all.
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So he will face Kristen Hook
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in November, which is the Democratic
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primary winner, but
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this is a pretty steady Republican
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seat, so it's expected that he will
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carry it.
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Okay a more locally you were
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watching a race in Hayes
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County I believe it was a Hayes
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county judge what happened there.
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Yeah, the Hays County judge seat.
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It was a, it was, you know, it was
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kind of a tight race.
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The incumbent Ruben Becerra did
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not manage to meet the 50%
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threshold.
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And he will face a runoff
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in May as well against Michelle
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Gutierrez Cohen, who
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is the current Hays county
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commissioner for precinct two.
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Okay, well, we will have more
9:52
from these great county reporters,
9:54
and it is our membership drive right
9:55
now. So I will just say, if you
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appreciate the reporting they bring
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to you, help us keep it going.
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Lee Walden, Katie McAfee,
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and Kaylee Hunt here with us on
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Austin Signal. Thank you all for
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being here.
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The Texas Senate race has been in
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the national zeitgeist, and last
10:19
night it came to a head in the party
10:21
primaries.
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The Republican nomination for the
10:23
U.S. Senate seat is going to a
10:25
runoff.
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Incumbent Senator John Cornyn, who's
10:28
held the seat since 2002,
10:30
will face Attorney General Ken
10:32
Paxton. Here is The Texas Newsroom's
10:34
Blaze Gainey with the details.
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The race was expected to go to a
10:38
runoff, that will be held May 26th,
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Cornyn gained majority of the vote
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but not over 50%.
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But the runoff will likely be
10:45
different because they typically
10:46
have a lot less turnout.
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If that holds true, it will likely
10:50
favor Paxton, who in his
10:51
own words has a lot of radicals
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voting for him.
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Well, you know, John Cornyn said he
10:56
was concerned about a bunch of
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radicals who are going to show up to
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vote today. It looks like you all
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showed up.
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This runoff could be what Paxton
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needs to knock Cornyn out of his
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seat. However, Corny is likely
11:09
to run a tough campaign smearing
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Paxton for his 2015 indictment
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for felony securities fraud and
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a 2023 impeachment for alleged
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bribery.
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And in the Democratic primary for
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the U.S. Senate seat, Austin's own
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James Tallarico, a Texas House
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representative, claimed victory this
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morning over Congresswoman Jasmine
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Crockett.
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The win means he will move on to
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face the winner of that Republican
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primary runoff.
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Let's throw it back to Blaise Ganey,
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who was at Tallariko's election
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night watch party.
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Tallarico took the stage right after
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midnight to let his supporters know
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that while every vote must be
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counted, he was confident in the
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outcome.
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That was before he was declared the
11:46
winner. He used that time to drive
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home the reason he ran for the seat.
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This is a people-powered movement
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to take on this
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broken, corrupt
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political system.
11:57
This is truly a
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campaign.
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And for the people.
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Texas Democrats haven't won a
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statewide race in over 30 years,
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but polls show Tallarico could break
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that losing streak, depending on who
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he faces in the primary.
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After he was officially awarded the
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Democratic spot, he sent out a press
12:16
release saying, quote, we're about
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to take back Texas.
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I'm Blaise Gainey in Austin.
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Okay, now we're going to step back a
12:26
bit to election day 2025,
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when Austin voters voted down
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Proposition Q, a proposed rise
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in taxes to bolster the city's
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budget. The money from the proposed
12:36
tax increase was already built into
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the city budget, and now as the
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city looks at what to cut,
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we are beginning to see the
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ramifications on that as programs
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get axed.
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One such program, rental assistance.
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For more about that, we're speaking
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with KUT City Hall reporter Luz
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Moreno Lozano.
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Luz, thanks for being here.
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Hey Jerry, thanks for having me.
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So tell us about the Rental
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Assistance Program, what is
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it, and how long has it been
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happening?
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Yeah, you know, the city started
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offering this assistance
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to pay rent kind of around the
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pandemic. You know, when people
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started losing their jobs and we
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were kind of all shut in at home,
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there started to be this
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ramifications of like people can't
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pay their rent. And so through
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federal funding, the city was able
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to provide this program for people
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in Austin.
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And it's, you now, it's hit some
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snags along the way.
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I think they would run out of
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funding and then more funding would
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come and they would close the
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portal.
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So this has been kind of ongoing
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since about 2021.
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And yeah, and since it started,
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it has provided something like
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$16 million
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to over 3,100
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households.
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OK.
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And what was the recent announcement
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regarding this rental assistance
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program?
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Yeah, so the city has announced that
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it will not be offering
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rental assistance when it is
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supposed to reopen the portal in
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April.
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So there is one last little
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bit of money that
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just became available.
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Just recently, right?
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Yeah.
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Yes, within the last couple of days
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and it's available until the 7th,
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I believe. So just through the end
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of the week.
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After that, they won't have any more
14:07
money to give.
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So they're closing it indefinitely.
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And so that was something like it
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was supposed to be $4
14:15
million. It was going to go toward
14:16
rental assistance and eviction
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prevention.
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And then when the city council had
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to cut in the
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budget that we saw in November, they
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cut $1 million, which essentially
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cut off funding for people who need
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rental assistance.
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Well, we talk a lot about numbers
14:30
when it comes to the money, right?
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But what do we know about the
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numbers of people who were applying
14:34
for this assistance and what
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kind of options do they have now?
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Yeah. I heard from
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El Buen Samaritano this morning,
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they are the nonprofit that helps
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distribute the money.
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I hear from their CEO that
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they would receive 2,000
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applications a month for
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rental assistance.
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And with the money that they're able
14:53
to give, they would maybe be able to
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reach between 150 and 180
14:57
families. So that's not even like
14:59
10% of the need.
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Um, so right now
15:03
they, the city is still offering
15:05
eviction settlements, meaning that
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when the resident finally
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gets to a point where they have to
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negotiate with their landlord to
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stay in their home, the city is able
15:14
to provide some kind of back rent
15:15
funding for that.
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And so that's still part of this,
15:19
but it isn't soon enough in the
15:21
pipeline, right?
15:22
If people are applying for rental
15:23
assistance, it's way up at the top.
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And by the time, if action
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settlements coming down, they've
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already missed.
15:29
You've already been evicted, it
15:30
sounds like, right?
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Several months of rent and
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so this funding does help keep them
15:34
in the house because the
15:36
city is negotiating with the
15:37
landlord directly.
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So that'll still be available but
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I think there's a lot of concern
15:42
about like what families do have
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available now.
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Rosa Moria was basically telling me
15:48
like we're still encouraging people
15:49
to call us because there are still
15:51
other options out there and our
15:53
job is to connect people with those
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services the best that they can.
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This is a result of the city
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cutting things from the budget for
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this year. Is it possible that this
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kind of assistance could come back
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in the future?
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I think it is.
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I talked to a couple of council
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members last week who basically
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told me like, this is the end and
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we're going to look at how we can
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try to put this in another budget.
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It does mean, you know, with a lot
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of cuts that we're seeing and very
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little wiggle room that the city is
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going to have to make priorities and
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they're going have to make some
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tough decisions.
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And so it's possible could come
16:23
back. I don't know if
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that'll happen this budget
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session or next, but it is something
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that I think council members are
16:31
aware of and definitely keeping top
16:32
of mind.
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All right, and we will continue to
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follow that here in the KUT
16:36
newsroom. We have been speaking with
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Luz Moreno Lozano.
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She is KUT's City Hall reporter.
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Luz, thanks for coming on the show.
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Thanks, Jerry.
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And thank you out there for tuning
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in. This is listener powered
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Feeling good.
17:25
Still, I mean, honestly, I was very
17:27
surprised. I've been nominated for
17:29
it a few times,
17:31
but being nominated and winning
17:33
are two different things.
17:36
No electronic music show has ever
17:37
won this award
17:39
before, so we're
17:42
breaking new ground here.
17:43
Yeah, that's very cool.
17:44
You know, how long have you been
17:45
doing the show here at KUTX and how
17:47
long have you've been doing it
17:48
before, maybe elsewhere?
17:50
Uh, well, I, um,
17:52
started at KTX in 2019.
17:55
Okay.
17:56
Um, they gave me the 1 a.m.
17:58
On Saturday night slot.
17:59
Oh, ho ho ho!
18:00
So I think they were definitely
18:01
seeing like how long of
18:03
a leash to keep me on at first to
18:05
see how weird I was going to get.
18:06
But it worked out and people liked
18:08
it. And then they bumped me to
18:09
Wednesday nights and then they
18:11
extended it to two hours and it's
18:12
just been going well ever since.
18:15
But yeah, I mean, I
18:17
wanted to get into radio for a long
18:18
time. I actually, I actually did a
18:21
handful of segments with Art
18:23
Levy.
18:23
Oh, yeah.
18:24
I mean, I'm thinking like it was
18:26
2012 or something when he was like
18:28
a student, maybe.
18:30
So we did, I kind of
18:32
helped a little project
18:34
called The Loop that was on KUT.
18:36
And I was always like, man, I want
18:37
my own show.
18:38
How do I do it?
18:39
And I had thought about it for years
18:40
and years. And finally,
18:42
after, you know,
18:44
really getting it all together, I
18:46
kinda did a Hail Mary pass and
18:48
pitched it to KUTX and they just
18:49
happened to be open to it at that
18:51
moment and it worked out.
18:53
Cool, well shout out to our friend
18:55
Art Levy, wherever he is out there
18:56
in the world. We definitely miss
18:58
you, Art.
18:59
So tell us a little bit about your
19:00
show. When does it air and how weird
19:02
do you get with it?
19:04
Uh, well, it airs
19:06
Wednesdays from eight to 10 and,
19:08
um, I mean, it really,
19:10
I think the threshold of weirdness
19:12
is so hard to gage in the
19:14
age of the internet, like what I
19:16
think is weird. And then I listened
19:17
to what an 18 year old is listening
19:19
to and it's just completely,
19:21
it's such a vast spectrum
19:23
of like, what is weird that,
19:25
uh, it's, it'd be hard to even, I
19:27
don't even think of it in that way.
19:28
I just try to think of things that
19:29
are.
19:30
Stimulating and interesting really
19:31
the the premise of the show is like
19:33
the full spectrum of creativity
19:35
in electronic music So that could
19:37
be anything from on
19:39
the energy scale It could be
19:40
Anything from ambient with
19:42
barely any drums or anything all
19:44
the way up to like intense glitchy
19:47
stuff and everything in between so
19:50
try to really just think
19:52
of the think of The
19:54
Electronic Music World as like
19:56
as a set of tools
19:58
and an interesting...
20:00
Uh, you know, a new kind of horizon
20:02
that's being explored and pushed
20:04
constantly.
20:05
I believe you told me earlier you've
20:06
been in Austin since 2005,
20:08
and Austin is known for many
20:11
scenes, live music scenes.
20:12
We had the Any Medals, the KUTX,
20:15
February Artists of the Month, we
20:16
were talking to them about the Latin
20:17
music scene.
20:19
What have you seen, how have you see
20:20
the Austin electronic scene evolve
20:22
over the last two decades.
20:25
Uh, well, I would say when I came
20:27
here, uh, electronic
20:28
music was still pretty
20:31
underground, definitely most
20:33
of the music industry here
20:35
seems pretty focused on guitars
20:38
and stuff still.
20:39
And, uh little by little that's
20:41
been something that's so interesting
20:43
is, uh you know,
20:45
little by a little they've, you
20:47
see, um, kind of
20:49
pillars of the, music industry,
20:51
here open up to like, like when KTX
20:53
first got the and start introducing
20:56
healthy amount of hip hop.
20:57
I was like that, okay, they're
20:58
trying new stuff.
20:59
Then they took my show on.
21:00
It was like, wow, they really, uh,
21:02
you know, going down new avenues
21:04
here.
21:05
So, um, yeah, I've seen,
21:07
I mean, electronic music worldwide
21:09
has really just grown and
21:11
become more and more intertwined
21:13
with other music as it's become
21:15
easier to make.
21:17
I mean, when I was in high school, I
21:19
graduated in 2003 in San Antonio.
21:21
When I was a
21:24
dollar sampler.
21:26
To begin making electronic music.
21:28
Now you can just open
21:30
up your laptop and start
21:32
experimenting with stuff.
21:34
So the, I mean,
21:36
most musicians are electronic
21:38
musicians at this point in some
21:39
capacity, like even if it's just,
21:41
you know, recording and manipulating
21:43
sound in one way or another.
21:45
But so yeah, seeing the electronic
21:47
music world evolve worldwide
21:49
and then kind
21:51
of focusing on that
21:54
in Austin has really been
21:55
the main.
21:57
Mission of everything that I work
21:59
on, I think.
22:00
Well, you're bringing the Austin
22:01
electronic scene to the forefront
22:03
with your show, and so we asked you
22:05
to bring us a couple of
22:06
recommendations that we could share
22:07
here on the show with our listeners.
22:10
Tell us about the first one you
22:11
wanted to share with us.
22:13
Okay, so the first one is
22:15
from an Austin producer named
22:16
Brainwave, and
22:18
it's actually a track with
22:21
a Austin musician
22:24
who experiments with
22:26
electronic stuff, but he does all
22:27
kind of... Bayonne, actually.
22:28
There was a photo of him on the wall
22:30
in the
22:33
green room, I just noticed, but
22:34
yeah. So this is Brainwave the
22:36
electronic producer collaborating
22:38
with Bayonne and it is a It's
22:40
a song called Bloom that's really
22:41
good.
22:58
Okay cool, we got that, what else do
23:00
you have?
23:01
Uh, another artist that's really
23:03
been gaining a lot of traction is
23:05
flowbomba.
23:06
He's, uh, um,
23:08
a beat maker.
23:09
He produces, uh what jungle music.
23:11
If you're not familiar, you've heard
23:13
the sound probably it's that really
23:15
sped up kind of breakbeat type
23:16
music, but He actually
23:18
got a release on his music was
23:20
discovered by a UK jungle
23:22
legend named Fracture and
23:24
Fractured ended up putting out his
23:25
album on vinyl in the UK and
23:28
then Obama has just been going viral
23:30
with doing these jungle remixes
23:31
and he recently just last week
23:33
did a remix of a Janet Jackson song
23:36
and she shared it.
23:37
Oh, OK, cool. Her eight million
23:39
followers on Instagram.
23:40
And so I love seeing stuff like
23:42
that break out of the Austin bubble.
23:44
I mean, getting your music shared by
23:45
Janet Jackson, that's crazy.
23:49
All right, cool.
23:49
Well, we have a little bit of
23:51
recommendations. Again, the show you
23:52
can hear it Wednesdays from 8 to
23:54
10 before we let you
23:56
get out of here,
23:58
you were telling me earlier that,
23:59
you know, your show used to be
24:01
played on some other stations, but
24:02
they were saying, you know, it's a
24:03
little too Austin centric for you
24:05
and you were thinking about, well,
24:06
maybe should I change it or should I
24:07
lean into it?
24:08
Now that you've won this Austin
24:09
Music Award for Best Radio Show,
24:12
how vindicated are you feeling in
24:13
that and how proud are you to be
24:15
that representative, be the first
24:17
electronic show?
24:18
How proud are of the
24:20
scene in general, the electronic
24:21
music scene here?
24:22
I feel great.
24:24
Honestly, I think, yeah,
24:26
it's been such a joy in
24:28
my life to just be a part of the
24:30
music scene as a whole in Austin,
24:32
but really cultivating and growing
24:34
the electronic music scene here.
24:36
I obviously can't take the credit
24:37
for it because it's a community
24:39
thing that we're doing.
24:41
But getting to bring that to KUTX
24:43
and present it to the listeners here
24:45
and not only have that, but to be
24:47
accepted and to the point where.
24:49
Uh, you know, winning awards and
24:51
such, I did not expect it
24:53
to go, I, I honestly thought I would
24:54
be met with more resistance,
24:57
but introducing it to KUTX, but it's
24:59
been nothing but love from the,
25:00
from the KUTx,
25:02
uh, family.
25:04
So, um, and, uh
25:05
yeah, no.
25:06
Very cool.
25:07
Well, my partner, who I'll be
25:09
pitching with on all things
25:10
considered later, Trey Shar, he
25:11
said, I'm not really a big
25:13
electronic music fan, but I like
25:15
Sound Founder. I like listening to
25:16
his show. And he's a tough nut to
25:18
crack. So if you've got him, you got
25:19
everyone. We've been speaking with
25:20
Sound Founders, the
25:22
winner of the best radio
25:24
show of the year from the Austin
25:25
Music Awards.
25:26
You can tune in and hear Sound
25:28
Founded Wednesdays.
25:29
From eight to 10 on KUTX,
25:31
and you can always stream at
25:32
kutx.org.
25:34
Sound founder, thank you very much.
25:35
Have a great day.
25:36
Thank you. And thank you out there
25:38
for tuning in.
25:39
It has been a busy three days here
25:41
in Austin, Texas, and we are doing
25:43
our best to cover it as much as
25:45
we possibly can.
25:46
And that means we're coming back
25:47
tomorrow, one o'clock, same place,
25:49
same time.
25:50
I'm Jerry Quijano, your host.
25:52
We'll talk to you then.
25:53
Have a good day.