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Save The Museum District; Talarico in Houston; Homeless Into Home-Owners; Blue Ohio? - TPN 10/25/26 · The People's News

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  Speaker 1: It's the week of October 25th, 2026, and this is
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  Speaker 1: what's on the People's News. Proposed street closure raises the
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  Speaker 1: anger for those in the Museum District. Tallarico brings the
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  Speaker 1: Senate race to Houston. Out of homelessness and into homes.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio turning blue. All that and more on the People's News.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Steve Gallington. This is the People's News. And the
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  Speaker 1: People's News starts now. It's Fund Drive time at KPFT.
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  Speaker 1: We love the People's News. In what is shaping up
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  Speaker 1: to be a battle of David versus Goliath, Museum District
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  Speaker 1: residents are at battle with Dr. Paul Michael Mann over
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  Speaker 1: his attempt to close Palm Street. The street is between
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  Speaker 1: Main and Fannin, and its closure threatens the 30-year-old Nehemiah Center,
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  Speaker 1: a nonprofit that has served underserved Houston children and families. Mann,
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  Speaker 1: who has plans to build a hotel and luxury private residences,
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  Speaker 1: wants the street to provide access for his property alone.
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  Speaker 1: Residents have said the street belongs to the public and
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  Speaker 1: is a public safety issue. The fight over denying public
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  Speaker 1: access to the street is still a long way from happening,
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  Speaker 1: but the group will be talking to city council members
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  Speaker 1: and addressing city officials on the plan and what it
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  Speaker 1: will do to the neighborhood. Council resident delegate Kathleen O'Reilly
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  Speaker 1: addressed the audience about what is going on.
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  Speaker 4: You all heard me again and again reiterating what Tanya
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  Speaker 4: just reflected on.
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  Speaker 5: This is not just about Palm Street, it's about the.
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  Speaker 4: Ability of this community to thrive and to continue to grow.
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  Speaker 5: It's not against development.
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  Speaker 4: It's allowing the destinations that are housed within Museum Park,
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  Speaker 4: the churches, the museums, the cultural institutions, the schools, the healthcare,
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  Speaker 4: the residents, the businesses, We have lost 50% of our
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  Speaker 4: east-west streets due to light rail, which has been wonderful,
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  Speaker 4: to institutional use, which has also been. And we just
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  Speaker 4: simply cannot afford to lose one more inch.
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  Speaker 5: Of public right-of-way.
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  Speaker 4: And I do wonder, historically, the city of Houston has
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  Speaker 4: had a policy of abandonment as a last resort. And
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  Speaker 4: with this proposed project, my understanding from what Dr. Mann
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  Speaker 4: has said at previous meetings is there is no plan,
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  Speaker 4: there is no concept, but this was apparently.
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  Speaker 5: Submitted with the application as something.
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  Speaker 4: But when this occurred 10 years ago, we had traffic engineers,
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  Speaker 4: land use planners, architects, look at this.
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  Speaker 5: And they said, this is not feasible.
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  Speaker 4: And the other aspect of this, this green space is not,
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  Speaker 4: it's just truly not workable.
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  Speaker 3: There's not enough room.
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  Speaker 5: There to do what Dr. Mann is contemplating.
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  Speaker 4: But I think the most important way to take away
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  Speaker 4: from that is Dr. Mann doesn't control the property. Once
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  Speaker 4: he has an investor, it's controlled by the investor. So
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  Speaker 4: whatever he's presenting, whatever is being presented.
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  Speaker 5: May or may not come to fruition. So I want
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  Speaker 5: people to understand that.
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  Speaker 4: And the vote that Representative Jones spoke about, the museum
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  Speaker 4: park Supermaker, they're not familiar with it.
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  Speaker 5: We have stakeholder groups, and those stakeholder.
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  Speaker 4: Groups include faith, education, residence, health care, business, something else.
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  Speaker 4: But to a, and so those stakeholder groups that the
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  Speaker 4: leadership is on super neighborhood council. And the role of
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  Speaker 4: those leaders is to reach out to their constituents, to
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  Speaker 4: their stakeholders, and understand what are your needs. So it's
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  Speaker 4: not just these ten people sitting around in a circle.
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  Speaker 4: It's ten people with a magnitude of reach into the community.
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  Speaker 3: The vote, as.
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  Speaker 4: Representative Jones said, was seven stakeholders who were council members
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  Speaker 4: who were against it, one abstained, and one was absent.
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  Speaker 4: And those were stakeholders throughout the community, not just right here.
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  Speaker 5: It's the museums, it's the businesses, it's all the way
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  Speaker 5: down to Hunter Park, Texas Medical Center. So it's not just.
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  Speaker 4: The access right here is access throughout the community, and
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  Speaker 4: we are so development. I think we'd all like to
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  Speaker 4: see these blocks redeveloped, but not at the.
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  Speaker 5: Expense of putting away public property.
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  Speaker 1: State Representative Boris Mills also added that this is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a long fight.
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  Speaker 6: I like to shoot straight shots and tell you how
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  Speaker 6: it is. I'm not going to sugarcoat anything. One thing
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  Speaker 6: I do know, we are in museum history and I
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  Speaker 6: couldn't think.
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  Speaker 3: Of a better and a stronger organization and people to.
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  Speaker 6: Take on this fight to preserve their community than museum history.
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  Speaker 3: So give yourselves a round of applause. But let me
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  Speaker 3: make it clear.
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  Speaker 6: Let me make it clear today. This ain't gonna be easy.
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  Speaker 6: This ain't gonna be no sugar-coated wall. And it's not
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  Speaker 6: going to happen without the strength of all of y'all
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  Speaker 6: in here. How many of y'all remember the Ashton, the
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  Speaker 6: Ashton Golden, the Ashton Highwaters?
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  Speaker 3: That's something very similar that we're up against right now.
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  Speaker 6: Look, y'all at DMI, y'all have done a great job for.
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  Speaker 7: Over 30 years.
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  Speaker 3: Is it 30 years?
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  Speaker 6: 31 years.
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  Speaker 3: But the ball is rolling. And the only people that
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  Speaker 3: can stop it are the people in this room.
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  Speaker 6: Jelani and I can't wait on the magic wand and
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  Speaker 6: stop it.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't happen like that. Reality, that's not reality. No
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  Speaker 3: matter what she tells you, no matter.
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  Speaker 6: How excited she gets, she gets excited, and she's a fighter.
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  Speaker 6: And I can't think of another representative that I don't
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  Speaker 6: want fighting for me in a foxhole than Jelani Jones.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all give it up for her too. And the reality
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  Speaker 3: of it.
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  Speaker 6: Is, she and I put together can't stop this problem.
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  Speaker 6: It's gonna have to be the people.
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  Speaker 3: Along with me. I'm gonna make that plain. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: make that clear. She and I are doing everything we
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  Speaker 3: can do.
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  Speaker 6: When you're playing something, it's up to everybody in the room,
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  Speaker 6: for those who are living as residents for our people.
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  Speaker 7: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: It's not going to be easy. It's going to be messy.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be a street fight. Somebody's going to
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  Speaker 3: get hit. Bigger TV speakers.
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  Speaker 8: Bigger TV speakers.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I've seen situations where, you know, I want y'all to
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  Speaker 6: know that, but I do want you to know where
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  Speaker 6: I stand as your state senator. I stand where you stand.
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  Speaker 6: I'm elected because you allow me to serve. So anybody
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  Speaker 6: that's wondering where state senator Rose Miles is going to be,
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to be with my community and my constituents.
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  Speaker 6: To the bloody end, to the end fight, with all
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  Speaker 6: the resources that comes with.
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  Speaker 3: It, that's where I will be.
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  Speaker 6: So if there's anybody in here from the man clinic,
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  Speaker 6: please understand right now, I stand with my community.
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  Speaker 3: If there's anybody else or anybody who's close to you.
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  Speaker 6: From the man clinic, please let them know, I'm standing
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  Speaker 6: with my community.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the plan simple.
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  Speaker 6: If anybody knows me, They know.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we got a problem.
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  Speaker 6: Because now you don't just have Delilah, who is something
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  Speaker 6: of her own.
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  Speaker 3: You got Delilah Ambrose, who is going to stand with everybody. So,
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  Speaker 3: as I was saying.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to turn the beat back over to the line.
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  Speaker 3: I want to make it clear. Crystal clear. Now please.
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  Speaker 8: So we long.
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  Speaker 7: Longing.
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  Speaker 8: Longing.
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  Speaker 3: Only y'all can stop it. Don't let it dust you.
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  Speaker 3: The Museum Park.
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  Speaker 9: Super Neighborhood Council voted 7-1.
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  Speaker 3: Against the proposed street.
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  Speaker 6: Closure. They will continue with this fight.
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  Speaker 1: And we at the People's News will keep you updated.
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  Speaker 1: 713-526-5738. We love the People's News! James Tallarico brought his
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  Speaker 9: We are building a movement to take back our state
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  Speaker 10: That is how we change the politics of this state
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  Speaker 10: and of this country. We forget that politics is supposed
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  Speaker 10: to be about service. Elected officials aren't supposed to serve themselves.
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  Speaker 10: They're not supposed to serve their elected donors. They're supposed
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  Speaker 10: to serve us. They're supposed to serve the people.
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  Speaker 9: I first learned the meaning of public service from my great-grandfather,
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  Speaker 9: my Papi. He was a barber in Port O'Connor, Texas,
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  Speaker 9: on the Gulf Coast. And he served this country in
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  Speaker 9: World War II, in the Pacific theater. Papi was a
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  Speaker 3: And that's how my poppy lived his life.
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  Speaker 10: My poppy came not to be served, but to serve.
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  Speaker 9: And that's what inspired me to go into public service. First,
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  Speaker 9: as a public school teacher on the west side of
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  Speaker 9: San Antonio, where I taught sixth grade language arts. I
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  Speaker 9: always say that teaching middle school is the best preparation
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  Speaker 9: for politics. I entered the classroom in the fall of 2011,
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  Speaker 9: right after the Texas legislature cut more than $ 5 billion
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  Speaker 9: to public education.
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  Speaker 3: I saw the impact of those cuts firsthand.
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  Speaker 9: I had 45 students in one classroom.
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  Speaker 3: There weren't enough desks for all my students, so I
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  Speaker 3: had kids sitting on the air conditioning unit. In the
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  Speaker 3: 21st century, children sitting on the air conditioning unit. And
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  Speaker 3: that made me mad.
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  Speaker 9: I ended up leading an education nonprofit in Central Texas
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  Speaker 9: that was helping students like mine, schools like mine.
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  Speaker 3: And then when a seat in that very.
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  Speaker 9: Same legislature opened up in my hometown of Round Rock, Texas,
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  Speaker 9: I threw my hat in the air.
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  Speaker 11: I was....
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  Speaker 3: I was 28 years old. I had never run for
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  Speaker 3: office before.
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  Speaker 9: I was a Democrat running in a Trump district in
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  Speaker 9: a county that was so bad it hadn't voted for
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  Speaker 9: a Democrat for president since Jimmy Carter. I was told
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  Speaker 9: by the powers that be in the Democratic Party that
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  Speaker 9: that race was a lost cause. I was told that
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  Speaker 9: even if it was possible to win a seat like that,
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  Speaker 9: I was too young, I didn't have the money, I
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  Speaker 9: didn't have the political connections to pull off an upset
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  Speaker 9: of that kind. But my neighbors and I, we ran
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  Speaker 9: an aggressive, authentic, at times unorthodox campaign that brought people together.
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  Speaker 9: And on election night, we flipped that district with 51%
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  Speaker 9: of the vote.
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  Speaker 1: People in attendance at University of Houston felt that Tallarico
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  Speaker 1: spoke for them.
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  Speaker 12: I'm Ruby, and I'm here to support James Tallarico.
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  Speaker 8: Why do you support him, and what makes you to
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  Speaker 8: the point.
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  Speaker 7: Of coming out?
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  Speaker 12: Because I want Texas to change for the better.
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  Speaker 8: My name is Baylor Hong.
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  Speaker 3: My name is Tobias Wheatley.
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  Speaker 7: And what brings you out here?
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  Speaker 1: Meet James Tallarico.
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  Speaker 3: We wanted to meet Big James.
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  Speaker 7: You call him Big James?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: That's funny. He's a powerful man. That's Big James.
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  Speaker 7: What about him do you like?
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  Speaker 3: He's not Republican. What's his say about that? I think
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  Speaker 3: he caters.
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  Speaker 1: More towards the common man.
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  Speaker 13: I think a lot more people feel seen by his ideals.
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  Speaker 3: And taxing him seems.
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  Speaker 7: Kind of what?
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  Speaker 1: Seems more focused on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, corrupts. More centralized money companies.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. Healthcare.
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  Speaker 6: We're music majors. We're music majors.
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  Speaker 3: That's my biggest problem.
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  Speaker 5: He's a hypocrite.
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  Speaker 4: Huh?
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  Speaker 7: He's a hypocrite. Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: You see all these ads talking about, you know, oh,
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  Speaker 10: you won't take money from billionaires, but he already has.
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  Speaker 9: He was impeached by his own party, like, for corruption.
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  Speaker 14: One of his biggest things is that he wants, what,
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  Speaker 14: sex traffickers, like, put him away, but he's like, who's.
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  Speaker 7: Not doing that? Like, you know?
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  Speaker 3: I was, I was, That's not a bragging point, you know?
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  Speaker 3: That should just be what you do.
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  Speaker 8: Exactly.
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  Speaker 15: You know?
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  Speaker 6: Like, that's not cool.
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  Speaker 8: He put away sex, I was just like, okay. That's
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  Speaker 8: what's expected from you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're the AG.
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  Speaker 11: What's your name, and what brings you out here? Tanya,
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  Speaker 11: and I'm here to see James Tallarico.
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  Speaker 8: What about him that you like?
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  Speaker 14: I like how he is involving healthcare and, like, free healthcare,
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  Speaker 14: increasing taxes for millionaires, you know, and, like, just helping
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  Speaker 14: our economy go better.
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  Speaker 8: Do you feel he's better for the youth?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: And what way?
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  Speaker 3: Health care.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, I feel like we're really struggling in health care
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  Speaker 14: right now. So I think it's really important that we
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  Speaker 14: focus on that because it's super expensive to buy anything
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  Speaker 14: these days, like medication that we need to survive.
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  Speaker 3: And I support his way of that.
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  Speaker 7: Former U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Adam Kinzinger, Republican, Illinois, was there and spoke to
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  Speaker 1: the People's News.
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  Speaker 13: I think Democrats have a great shot at the governor's race.
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  Speaker 13: I think they clearly have a good shot at the
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  Speaker 13: Senate race. This is a year like very few others.
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  Speaker 13: I was elected as a Republican in 2010, that.
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  Speaker 11: Big wave year.
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  Speaker 13: This feels like that in reverse. And so I think
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  Speaker 13: there if there's ever been a time in modern history
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  Speaker 13: to win the state of Texas, it's clearly not.
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  Speaker 7: Ann Richards may be coming up.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, I guess she was the last.
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  Speaker 7: Right. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, look, like I said, this is. You know,
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  Speaker 13: every year there's always talk of maybe Texas this year,
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  Speaker 13: maybe Texas this year, and it always gets let down.
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  Speaker 13: This is not going to be that year.
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  Speaker 7: I feel pretty good about it.
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  Speaker 16: How do you get over, because Tallarico has Houston, Austin,
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  Speaker 16: just like Beto, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas. How do
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  Speaker 16: you get to Katy and the Grange and those states,
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  Speaker 16: those cities and those areas that are traditionally strong Republican?
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, and they'll still stay strong Republican, but the key is, Turnout, obviously,
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  Speaker 13: in the blue cities. And so, I mean, all you
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  Speaker 13: have to do is go into a rally like we
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  Speaker 13: were just in compared to Ken Paxton's and say, look,
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  Speaker 13: there's clearly more energy on the Democratic side. So that
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  Speaker 13: means there's going to be more Democratic turnout. Republicans are
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  Speaker 13: feeling very depressed right now. I mean, I used to
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  Speaker 13: have only Democrats that came up to me and said,
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  Speaker 13: thanks for speaking out against Trump. Now there's more Republicans
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  Speaker 13: doing it. And so does that mean that they're going
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  Speaker 13: to vote for Tallarico? Maybe, maybe not. I think there's
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  Speaker 13: going to be a higher number, certainly. But even if
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  Speaker 13: they just stay home, that's the difference. And, you know, look,
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  Speaker 13: Beto came, what, within three or four points in the state.
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  Speaker 13: It's not hard to see a slight variance from that
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  Speaker 13: to where you get a victory.
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  Speaker 16: How do you get the Latinos to vote? Because, A,
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  Speaker 16: you get the machismo, and changing that type of vote,
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  Speaker 16: and also the fear that a lot of Latinos feel
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  Speaker 16: about going to the polls.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, look, first off, I hope they don't
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  Speaker 13: feel that fear. I understand it, but this is a
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  Speaker 13: time to have courage to stand up, right? And, you know,
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  Speaker 13: if you're obviously a legal U.S. citizen and voting, you
• 20:37
  Speaker 13: have nothing to fear. And so just do that. I
• 20:41
  Speaker 13: think we're seeing the, you know, last year Latinos went
• 20:44
  Speaker 13: pretty significantly Republican. I think that was a group that
• 20:48
  Speaker 13: the Republicans at the time were renting. They thought they
• 20:51
  Speaker 13: had them, and now they've been clear who they are.
• 20:54
  Speaker 13: You know, it's not the deportations. It's not the border
• 20:58
  Speaker 13: security issues. It's the celebration of the misery of it.
• 21:02
  Speaker 13: That's what's one thing. Nobody's against border.
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: Security, right?
• 21:05
  Speaker 13: People understand that there have to be deportations, particularly of criminals.
• 21:10
  Speaker 13: But giggle, laugh, joke about it, talk about breaking apart
• 21:13
  Speaker 13: families with a sense of humor, that's what people understand
• 21:16
  Speaker 13: as evil.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Tallarico had two more rallies in Houston before continuing to
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Beaumont and Galveston for rallies there, as he holds a
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: slight lead in the polls. Hi, this is Steve Gallington,
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• 23:08
  Speaker 1: There are many in the Houston area that are homeless
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: or on the verge of being homeless. Even with a
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: good paying job, the increasing cost of getting a home
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: or renting an apartment has priced more and more people
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: out of the market. A Houston housing development backed by
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Beyonce and Kelly Rowland is helping people transition out of
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: homelessness and into permanent housing, thanks in part to a $ 500, 000
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas. FHLB Dallas,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: and member institution Home Bank. Developed by Bread of Life
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Incorporated and Tomenos CDC, the project received critical funding through
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: the FHLB Dallas' Affordable Housing Program, which supports the development
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: and rehabilitation of affordable housing across Texas and four neighboring states.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: An example of this would be taking a former gymnasium
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: and converting it into 31 permanent, supportive housing apartments that
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: helps individuals exit homelessness. We talked to Steve Makovich with
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas, which provided funding
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: for the project. He administers the program.
• 24:21
  Speaker 17: This project came about is we do our annual outreach
• 24:27
  Speaker 17: about the Affordable Housing Program. And then, too, we did
• 24:34
  Speaker 17: a previous project.
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: TO PREVIOUS PROJECTS WITH BREAD OF LIFE.
• 24:41
  Speaker 17: AND SO WHEN THEY WERE PLANNING THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT, YOU KNOW,
• 24:46
  Speaker 17: THEY REACHED OUT SAYING, WE HAVE A POTENTIAL APPLICATION, YOU KNOW,
• 24:52
  Speaker 17: SERVING THE POPULATION. AND THEY SPOKE TO US ABOUT, YOU KNOW,
• 24:58
  Speaker 17: THE UPDATED REQUIREMENTS, WHAT INFORMATION.
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: THEY WOULD NEED TO PROVIDE.
• 25:03
  Speaker 17: And then we just had a few phone calls just
• 25:05
  Speaker 17: to discuss the technical requirements.
• 25:08
  Speaker 15: This program is awesome in a lot of ways because.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: A lot of people right now, they aren't homeless, but
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: they can't afford housing because it's gone up tremendously. And
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: so this program benefits people in that predicament.
• 25:25
  Speaker 17: Yes, we would characterize it as permanent supportive housing where–
• 25:32
  Speaker 17: It's just not housing, but it's housing with a lot
• 25:35
  Speaker 17: of wraparound services.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: Like health care, behavior care, life skills.
• 25:44
  Speaker 17: So it's really not so much providing someone a house,
• 25:47
  Speaker 17: but it's empowering them to, I would say, rebuild their lives.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: And I guess financial education is also part of that.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: How do you get the– how does one find out
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: about the program and then, you know, the people that
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: you want to help in the community?
• 26:05
  Speaker 17: When you say to find out about the project, do
• 26:07
  Speaker 17: you mean the Nose Terminals building or the Portable Housing Program?
• 26:12
  Speaker 16: About the housing program.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: If it's a person who's looking for housing, how do
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: they find out and how do they apply?
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: And what's the criteria? This is Jamie.
• 26:24
  Speaker 18: I'm just saying, Stephen, we'll pick up on this, but
• 26:27
  Speaker 18: for the Affordable Housing Program, we share what we call
• 26:34
  Speaker 18: a member bulletin at the beginning of the year with
• 26:36
  Speaker 18: all of our members. Everyone who applies for funds for
• 26:39
  Speaker 18: the Affordable Housing Program has to be a member of
• 26:42
  Speaker 18: the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas.
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: And so we share at the top of the year information.
• 26:47
  Speaker 18: Both a member bulletin and a press release about the program.
• 26:51
  Speaker 18: But all of our members are also very familiar with
• 26:53
  Speaker 18: the AHP program.
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: We publish the.
• 26:55
  Speaker 18: Dates, the timeline, when funding will be available, and really
• 27:00
  Speaker 18: that timeline for getting your application in.
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: And then Stephen and his.
• 27:04
  Speaker 18: Group do a lot of additional outreach throughout the year.
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: Stephen, you can jump on in and talk about that. Yeah,
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: we do a lot of outreach. Like, we have, like, six.
• 27:15
  Speaker 17: workshops throughout our five-state district where we educate both sponsors
• 27:22
  Speaker 17: like the Bread of Life and the members, which are
• 27:26
  Speaker 17: members for this project. And then we also host a webinar,
• 27:31
  Speaker 17: you know, a webinar on the program. And then throughout
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  Speaker 17: the year, we're invited to other affordable housing conferences, where
• 27:42
  Speaker 17: we speak about the program, its benefits, its uses, and,
• 27:47
  Speaker 17: you know, where it could be applied or the best fit.
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: And then, too, we do receive.
• 27:56
  Speaker 17: Inquiries about the program because people do read, you know,
• 27:59
  Speaker 17: the press releases or they do hear about the trainings. So,
• 28:03
  Speaker 17: we do have a lot of, like, one-on-one consultations.
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: Is this just being done here in the Houston area, or.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Is this a statewide program that you guys are working on?
• 28:16
  Speaker 17: Yeah, this form of supportive housing, it's all of rural Texas,
• 28:22
  Speaker 17: and we also cover four other states, which is in Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana,
• 28:27
  Speaker 17: and New Mexico.
• 28:29
  Speaker 15: And I know about the Knowles-Royal House and what the
• 28:34
  Speaker 15: Brand Life is doing there.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Talk about financial responsibility.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 17: Well, for our programs, from the financial standpoint, like the organizations,
• 28:48
  Speaker 17: when they apply for our funds, we do look at
• 28:52
  Speaker 17: the financial feasibility and we do look at their experience,
• 28:58
  Speaker 17: you know, working with our programs or, you know, other funders,
• 29:04
  Speaker 17: like from a state or from a federal level. And
• 29:08
  Speaker 17: then the one thing that factored in was Bread Alive.
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  Speaker 17: You know, this project was the third project we did
• 29:15
  Speaker 17: with them, so they have a good track record. Now,
• 29:19
  Speaker 17: I would say Bread Alive, and you would, you know,
• 29:23
  Speaker 17: need to get more information from them, but they do specialize...
• 29:28
  Speaker 17: in permanent supportive housing and in working with the homeless,
• 29:33
  Speaker 17: like they're known.
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: In Houston.
• 29:37
  Speaker 17: And most cities like Houston, they have what they call
• 29:41
  Speaker 17: a continuum.
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: Of care, which is funded by like HUD.
• 29:46
  Speaker 17: And what that continuum of care does, like it will
• 29:50
  Speaker 17: do like homeless counts. And then organizations like Bread of
• 29:55
  Speaker 17: Life and others, they're all part of it. And so...
• 30:00
  Speaker 17: So when a homeless person is, you know, identified, they
• 30:06
  Speaker 17: take that data and they put them into this continuum
• 30:09
  Speaker 17: of care. So if they show up at different places,
• 30:12
  Speaker 17: you know, it's like, you know, they're in the system
• 30:18
  Speaker 17: and that's kind of the way they're able to, you know,
• 30:22
  Speaker 17: begin the assistance.
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  Speaker 1: That was Steve Matkovich with the Federal Home Loan Bank
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: of Dallas. If you would like more information on the project,
• 30:31
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  Speaker 1: We love the people's news! As is true for a
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: growing number of states in the Union, Ohio has been
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: a bright red state, which is shifting a shade of
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: blue in the current election cycle. The upcoming midterm elections
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: in November might be when things change. The governor's race
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: there is a big example, as Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: running behind Democrat Amy Acton by more than three percentage points.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: This polling is before he put out an awful video
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: of Acton's estranged mother, who she has not seen since
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: her mother lost custody of her when she was 12
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: years old because her husband at the time, husband number two,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: had been convicted of raping Amy Acton when she was
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: 12 years old. The Ramaswamy campaign initially declined to take
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: explicit responsibility for the spot before Ramaswamy confirmed on Tuesday
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: that it was produced by his team. Both parties have
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: shown outrage for the video, but the current Vice President J.D.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Vance and Donald Trump have doubled down and stood behind it.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: We hear from independent candidate for the Ohio House, Craig Schwartz.
• 32:12
  Speaker 11: What's happening on the ground is that you finally are
• 32:15
  Speaker 11: seeing that the Republican brand is going down. Now in
• 32:18
  Speaker 11: Ohio in particular, separate the two out from the country
• 32:22
  Speaker 11: and from the states, The state, mind you, has been
• 32:25
  Speaker 11: in Republican one-party control effectively for 30 years. And where
• 32:29
  Speaker 11: 30 years ago, Ohio was ranked at the top in
• 32:31
  Speaker 11: nearly every index from healthcare, education, infrastructure.
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: Manufacturing, now we're at the bottom. We're at the bottom quartile.
• 32:38
  Speaker 11: And so it is for a state of our size
• 32:43
  Speaker 11: in terms of economic strength, we are in the top
• 32:46
  Speaker 11: 10 always. We were like number six or seven in
• 32:48
  Speaker 11: terms of– and the size of the GDP and everything else,
• 32:52
  Speaker 11: where has all the wealth gone? And when you drive
• 32:54
  Speaker 11: around Ohio, particularly my district in Northwest Ohio, North Central Ohio,
• 32:58
  Speaker 11: District 87, it is just a sea of depleted towns,
• 33:03
  Speaker 11: ghost towns that once had vibrant economic drivers, you know,
• 33:07
  Speaker 11: main manufacturing centers that employed people, you know, sometimes mom
• 33:11
  Speaker 11: and pops, but they still employed 50 to 100 people.
• 33:13
  Speaker 11: And sometimes even bigger, you know, say, subsidiaries of bigger manufacturing,
• 33:18
  Speaker 11: all gone. In its place now, what you're seeing is
• 33:21
  Speaker 11: And what has just been revealed several months ago is
• 33:24
  Speaker 11: that Ohio is leading the country in data centers. And
• 33:27
  Speaker 11: unbeknownst to the people of Ohio, John Kasich in 2014
• 33:30
  Speaker 11: signed a secret deal that allowed these companies to come
• 33:34
  Speaker 11: in and not pay any sales tax effectively. So hundreds
• 33:38
  Speaker 11: of millions of dollars have left these communities, or not
• 33:42
  Speaker 11: gone to the communities in the first place, they should have,
• 33:44
  Speaker 11: or benefited the people whatsoever. So all of these things
• 33:46
  Speaker 11: are forming a perfect storm, turning the Republican brand downward.
• 33:51
  Speaker 11: And people are, of course, not going back to the
• 33:53
  Speaker 11: Democrats necessarily because they're not offering anything, you know, substantive
• 33:58
  Speaker 11: at a state level. There's no vision. And people, young
• 34:02
  Speaker 11: people here are rebelling. You're seeing it across the world,
• 34:06
  Speaker 11: but you're seeing it here in this country where there's
• 34:10
  Speaker 11: the biggest demographic group that has left, let's say, the
• 34:13
  Speaker 11: Republican brand are the 18- to something like 30-year-olds because
• 34:17
  Speaker 11: they're not– and up to the 40s because they're not
• 34:20
  Speaker 11: seeing any kind of plan here. What's going on for us?
• 34:24
  Speaker 11: You guys, you boomers have taken everything. So it is
• 34:27
  Speaker 11: a rising resentment. The Republican brain is going down. And
• 34:32
  Speaker 11: at a national level, obviously, you're seeing some real despicable stuff.
• 34:35
  Speaker 11: So I think that the Democrats will win the state
• 34:40
  Speaker 11: back in terms of the gubernatorial election. I think the
• 34:44
  Speaker 11: statewide offices. You're going to see some new Congress people
• 34:48
  Speaker 11: coming in and hopefully at the state level, you're going
• 34:52
  Speaker 11: to reduce that Republican majority that has controlled our politics
• 34:55
  Speaker 11: for so long. I get elected as an independent and
• 34:58
  Speaker 11: there's two other people running in Ohio as independents. This
• 35:02
  Speaker 11: is the first time in memory for people around here
• 35:05
  Speaker 11: that we've had a three-way race. We've never had an independent.
• 35:07
  Speaker 11: Here in District 87, there's two other candidates in Ohio.
• 35:11
  Speaker 11: If we form, if we win, we will be forming
• 35:14
  Speaker 11: what is called a fulcrum coalition. We could hold the
• 35:17
  Speaker 11: balance of power between the Dimes and Republicans in the House.
• 35:21
  Speaker 11: So we could start getting some things done.
• 35:23
  Speaker 15: If the Trump administration goes along as they want to
• 35:26
  Speaker 15: plan and put more tariffs on Canada.
• 35:32
  Speaker 16: That's going to hurt the auto industry there even more.
• 35:35
  Speaker 11: This is, yeah, it's, it's sad to see a lot of,
• 35:38
  Speaker 11: we lost just 65 union jobs last month here in Auburn, Sandusky.
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: Our town is only 7,000 people.
• 35:45
  Speaker 11: And 65 high paying jobs is still a dramatic loss
• 35:51
  Speaker 11: for this small community. And I'm a realtor when I'm
• 35:56
  Speaker 11: not doing this, I do other things. And, Rich, I've
• 36:00
  Speaker 11: never seen so many for sale signs in this tiny community.
• 36:02
  Speaker 11: And they're up all over when I drive all over
• 36:04
  Speaker 11: the district. And people can't sell because the rates are
• 36:08
  Speaker 11: too high.
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Yep. Yep. And so we are stuck.
• 36:12
  Speaker 11: The housing industry has been stuck for years, for three
• 36:16
  Speaker 11: or four years. And you're not seeing, again, any policies
• 36:20
  Speaker 11: at the state level or at the federal level to
• 36:24
  Speaker 11: get things going. And the tariffs, going back to what
• 36:26
  Speaker 11: you're saying, all you've done is exacerbated. When buying was
• 36:29
  Speaker 11: coming in or leaving, rates were expected to come down.
• 36:34
  Speaker 11: As a realtor, it's like, oh, yeah, man, if we
• 36:35
  Speaker 11: get down to 5% again, the.
• 36:37
  Speaker 7: Market's going to really get moving again.
• 36:39
  Speaker 11: And you're going to have all those ancillary businesses, the trades,
• 36:43
  Speaker 11: follow suit. You're going to raise those guys up. Man,
• 36:47
  Speaker 11: it's bad.
• 36:48
  Speaker 7: It's bad.
• 36:49
  Speaker 11: And that's why public banking, you need that capital injection
• 36:53
  Speaker 11: with the state public bank. And that's why I pushed
• 36:55
  Speaker 11: that so hard for the Bank of Ohio. This past
• 36:58
  Speaker 11: year as political director of the Ohio Public Banking Coalition,
• 37:00
  Speaker 11: I've managed to get legislation in the hands of two
• 37:03
  Speaker 11: state senators, a Democrat and a Republican, and a guy
• 37:06
  Speaker 11: in the House, Dem, ready to, they can, this year,
• 37:10
  Speaker 11: you know, after the election, they can still introduce it
• 37:13
  Speaker 11: and just get me a bill number and a committee assignment.
• 37:17
  Speaker 11: And then next year we can just re introduce it
• 37:20
  Speaker 11: at least be a lot easier to do that way.
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: And I'm upon election.
• 37:24
  Speaker 11: I'm going to be like the lead sponsor on this thing,
• 37:27
  Speaker 11: because if we can get a public bank, like the
• 37:30
  Speaker 11: bank of North Dakota and given Ohio size in time,
• 37:35
  Speaker 11: the bank of Ohio could inject a hundred billion dollars
• 37:37
  Speaker 11: of capital throughout the state for business development, for infrastructure,
• 37:42
  Speaker 11: for education, for a variety of reasons that will really
• 37:47
  Speaker 11: boost productivity, get people back employed, and get them out
• 37:52
  Speaker 11: of poverty.
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: That's what we need to be doing.
• 37:55
  Speaker 15: The state still holds a still grasp of Republicans.
• 38:02
  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah, but the Republicans like this idea. I spent
• 38:06
  Speaker 11: the last year, before running for office again, interviewing... Republican
• 38:12
  Speaker 11: House members on the House Financial Institutions Committee, which is
• 38:15
  Speaker 11: where the.
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: Bank bill would probably go.
• 38:17
  Speaker 11: And I got about halfway up that list, and they
• 38:20
  Speaker 11: were all on board, but they would not pull the
• 38:23
  Speaker 11: trigger and sign as a co-sponsor last year. They still
• 38:26
  Speaker 11: got that mentality, oh, it's a government thing. I said,
• 38:31
  Speaker 11: it's not. You're forming a bank, and then I want
• 38:33
  Speaker 11: you to step away and let the bank be run
• 38:36
  Speaker 11: by professionals. That's how North Dakota does it. I said,
• 38:39
  Speaker 11: that's how we should do it. He says, you don't
• 38:41
  Speaker 11: want politicians involved. I just need you to form it
• 38:44
  Speaker 11: as a legislator and then back off. So, again, I
• 38:48
  Speaker 11: think we are at this stage now, Rich, economically, this
• 38:53
  Speaker 11: state is in the toilet, as is the country. And
• 38:58
  Speaker 11: on the advisory board of the National Infrastructure Bank, H.R. 5356,
• 39:02
  Speaker 11: we have 65 co-sponsors in Congress. to create a national
• 39:08
  Speaker 11: infrastructure bank that could raise up to $ 5 trillion. The
• 39:12
  Speaker 11: last time we did this was during Roosevelt's time. It
• 39:16
  Speaker 11: was called the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. And Jesse Jones from Houston, Texas,
• 39:22
  Speaker 11: one of the most famous people of all, right there
• 39:25
  Speaker 11: Houston Texas ran that reconstruction finance corporation for Roosevelt and
• 39:30
  Speaker 11: if we did that if we did that we could
• 39:32
  Speaker 11: really improve this whole national economy and do it like
• 39:35
  Speaker 11: China's doing because China is employed the American system for
• 39:38
  Speaker 11: the past 40 years and has brought 400 some million
• 39:42
  Speaker 11: people out of poverty using public.
• 39:44
  Speaker 15: Banking they've taken over a lot of industry in that
• 39:48
  Speaker 15: in that Isn't that in Cleveland, in Ohio?
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: Oh, I know, I know, I know. Intel, yeah, Intel, Anduril.
• 39:57
  Speaker 11: Hey, that scares me, to tell you the truth, because
• 40:03
  Speaker 11: you're taking over biotech, defense industries, AI, stuff like that.
• 40:09
  Speaker 7: What are we building here? What's going on here?
• 40:14
  Speaker 11: And nobody seems to know, and Anduril hasn't even developed.
• 40:17
  Speaker 11: This is what I love about Anduril. This could be
• 40:19
  Speaker 11: another big con job, as far as I'm concerned. Another Enron.
• 40:24
  Speaker 11: And you're familiar with that. Where, in the end, they
• 40:26
  Speaker 11: didn't produce anything. It was like the whole thing was
• 40:29
  Speaker 11: a shell game. I don't think these guys were even
• 40:32
  Speaker 11: going to produce anything. Supposed to be some kind of drone,
• 40:35
  Speaker 11: you know, drone aircraft and everything else. This stuff, there's
• 40:39
  Speaker 11: just no transparency. And that's what everybody is scared about.
• 40:44
  Speaker 11: It's like, you guys aren't even... On the one hand,
• 40:48
  Speaker 11: you're telling us openly what you're going to do, which
• 40:51
  Speaker 11: is terrifying enough. But on the other hand, we're not
• 40:55
  Speaker 11: finding out about all the different things, the entrails that
• 40:59
  Speaker 11: are extending outward through this.
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: Whole complex web of corruption. And corruption is number one now.
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: Can you believe it? Finally. Finally. It's like, God damn it.
• 41:12
  Speaker 19: We had HB6 back in 2019, and I was the
• 41:17
  Speaker 19: lone siren sounding the alarm saying, that was a $ 60
• 41:22
  Speaker 19: million bribe.
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: Biggest bribe in Ohio history.
• 41:26
  Speaker 16: So what are unions doing there as far as Trump
• 41:30
  Speaker 16: administration still has support from the unions?
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: So what's going on with that?
• 41:34
  Speaker 11: Oh, I know.
• 41:35
  Speaker 7: I know.
• 41:36
  Speaker 11: So When I was a Democrat and I would go
• 41:41
  Speaker 11: to all these rallies, I'd be right there with Sherrod
• 41:44
  Speaker 11: Brown and a bunch of other ones, the bigwigs and everything,
• 41:47
  Speaker 11: and we'd be at these union halls and we'd have
• 41:49
  Speaker 11: all the union bigwigs and everything and everybody's stomping their
• 41:52
  Speaker 11: feet and clapping and supporting everybody else. And there were times, though,
• 41:56
  Speaker 11: when I was on the trail on myself with maybe
• 41:59
  Speaker 11: one or two of the candidates, lower candidates, and we'd
• 42:01
  Speaker 11: be talking to union rank and file. And I would
• 42:05
  Speaker 11: address that group a lot differently. I would be like, okay,
• 42:10
  Speaker 11: if I asked all you guys to close your eyes
• 42:13
  Speaker 11: and raise your right hand and tell me who, you know,
• 42:17
  Speaker 11: raise your right hand to all those who voted for
• 42:19
  Speaker 11: Trump in the last two cycles. And I said, I
• 42:23
  Speaker 11: guarantee I'd get everybody in this room. I need to
• 42:27
  Speaker 11: have sheepish.
• 42:29
  Speaker 7: Grins or not poker faces. And because that's the truth.
• 42:37
  Speaker 11: The unions lost the rank and file because the Democratic
• 42:42
  Speaker 11: Party lost them, as you know this, decades ago. When
• 42:46
  Speaker 11: Clinton signed that deal, that was pushed forward by the
• 42:49
  Speaker 11: previous Bush administration to start outsourcing.
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: All of our industries. That's what goes back to what
• 42:55
  Speaker 7: I was saying about.
• 42:56
  Speaker 11: All of these towns that were interconnected, their own small
• 43:00
  Speaker 11: supply chains, trade crafts in Ohio, are desolate because you
• 43:05
  Speaker 11: This Democratic Party, when they were in power, just, oh, yeah.
• 43:09
  Speaker 11: Let's become a service industry. That's where we're supposed to be.
• 43:12
  Speaker 11: We're not supposed to be manufacturing anything anymore. That doesn't
• 43:15
  Speaker 11: have anything to do with national security.
• 43:17
  Speaker 8: Bad mistake.
• 43:19
  Speaker 11: Well, let's not do universal health care or Medicare program
• 43:23
  Speaker 11: that will take millions of guys, millions of people off
• 43:27
  Speaker 11: of the private care that was going to end up
• 43:30
  Speaker 11: decimating the unions in the end. with UAW and all
• 43:35
  Speaker 11: this other stuff, Detroit would be a lot more competitive
• 43:38
  Speaker 11: right now if they weren't paying for the fucking health,
• 43:40
  Speaker 11: excuse me, the healthcare costs. I mean, that's how Germany,
• 43:43
  Speaker 11: that's how Germany is still a net exporter in expensive
• 43:48
  Speaker 11: automobiles because they.
• 43:50
  Speaker 7: Do the insurance right.
• 43:52
  Speaker 11: Yeah, that's where, so the unions, when they got duped
• 43:55
  Speaker 11: into believing, this is what starts with Reagan, even though
• 43:58
  Speaker 11: Reagan bashed them and crushed the unions, And we went
• 44:02
  Speaker 11: from 34% participation in the 80s union down to what?
• 44:06
  Speaker 11: We're in single digits now. And yet these guys vote
• 44:10
  Speaker 11: against their own interests since that time because their belief
• 44:14
  Speaker 11: was that the Democrats can't do anything. And they abandoned us.
• 44:19
  Speaker 11: That's pretty significant. That's going to take a whole other generation.
• 44:23
  Speaker 11: And I'm running in, Rich, and I don't mean to
• 44:27
  Speaker 11: go on, but I'm running in the 10th reddest district
• 44:29
  Speaker 11: in Ohio. And I found that once I lost that D,
• 44:34
  Speaker 11: and as I told you before, I've got 693 people
• 44:37
  Speaker 11: out of 1,000 to sign my petition. I'm 70% because
• 44:40
  Speaker 11: they're tired of both parties. They're tired of the partisan.
• 44:42
  Speaker 11: They're tired of the attacks. Ramaswamy just went really below
• 44:48
  Speaker 11: gutter with the ad against Amy Acton using her estranged mom.
• 44:53
  Speaker 7: You heard about that. Despicable. Despicable. And yet J.D.
• 44:58
  Speaker 11: Vance doubled down on it. Bram was finally doubled down
• 45:01
  Speaker 11: on it. Dumped $ 4 million he got from donors. This demonization,
• 45:09
  Speaker 11: that's what I'm saying. Once I lost that label, I
• 45:12
  Speaker 11: was able to have civil conversations about policies.
• 45:15
  Speaker 7: And what we could be doing.
• 45:16
  Speaker 15: How can people find out more about you and your campaign?
• 45:21
  Speaker 11: SwartzforOhio.com S-W-A-R-T-Z forOhio.com Easy to remember. Just say, may the
• 45:31
  Speaker 11: Swartz be with you, but don't put the CH in there.
• 45:33
  Speaker 11: May the Swartz be with you.
• 45:36
  Speaker 7: And I'm on Facebook. I'm on Twitter.
• 45:40
  Speaker 11: You can follow me, learn more from me, support me,
• 45:43
  Speaker 11: give me money. I don't care if it's the last
• 45:46
  Speaker 11: week or not. But no, we're seeing a really dramatic
• 45:54
  Speaker 11: rise in people. I think of the youngsters, you know,
• 45:58
  Speaker 11: finally saying, hey, man, we got to do something. And
• 46:01
  Speaker 11: as a boomer, I'm here to tell you that I've
• 46:04
  Speaker 11: always felt like it's incumbent upon our generation to hand
• 46:08
  Speaker 11: it off better to the next. And that's what we
• 46:11
  Speaker 11: got to do. That's my old boy scout in me, man.
• 46:13
  Speaker 11: When we were patrolling our camps at the end of
• 46:17
  Speaker 11: the weekend and policing them and picking up every bit
• 46:20
  Speaker 11: of trash or anything and making sure that we left
• 46:22
  Speaker 11: that campsite better than the way we found it. That's
• 46:26
  Speaker 11: my underlying value, maybe. Anybody can grab onto that and
• 46:31
  Speaker 11: say that's how we should do it.
• 46:32
  Speaker 7: We've got to leave it better.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: That was independent candidate for the Ohio House.
• 46:37
  Speaker 7: Craig Schwartz.
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• 46:45
  Speaker 1: We love the people's news. Starbucks has been accused of
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: union busting, with their many attempts to stop shop's coffee
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: workers from unionizing. This has been well documented in the past.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Now there is a new concern, as the environmental advocacy
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: group Beyond Plastics conducted a nationwide tracker investigation to test
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Starbucks' public claim that its single-use polypropylene No. 5 plastic
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: cold beverage cups are recycled when they are placed in
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: recycling bins inside the store. After placing Bluetooth-enabled trackers inside
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: dozens of Starbucks in-store recycling bins, Beyond Plastics could not
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: confirm that a single tracked cup ended up at a
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: recycling facility, despite Starbucks' claims that the cups are widely recyclable.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: There was a recent protest in the Montrose area as
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: part of a nationwide week of events in 11 states
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: that are calling on Starbucks CEO Brian Nicole to stop
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: deceiving customers about plastics recycling, switch from plastic cups to
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: fiber cups, and follow their own existing policy of providing
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: reusable mugs and glasses for customers who are dining.
• 48:07
  Speaker 7: At the store.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: We talked to Malachi, key climate justice coordinator with Airlines Houston.
• 48:14
  Speaker 20: Well, Really, it's a couple of different things. I work
• 48:17
  Speaker 20: as our plastic programs manager. You know, plastic is something
• 48:23
  Speaker 20: that can be harmful environmentally and health-wise at basically every
• 48:30
  Speaker 20: stage of it from production to disposal. So essentially because
• 48:37
  Speaker 20: of our concerns around air emissions and general pollution, We're
• 48:42
  Speaker 20: trying to look at reducing plastic usage. It's a core
• 48:45
  Speaker 20: part of our principles. And we are also partners with
• 48:49
  Speaker 20: Beyond Plastics, which is an organization that seeks to call
• 48:53
  Speaker 20: for accountability relating to plastic. And they recently published a
• 48:58
  Speaker 20: report in which they tracked a large amount of Starbucks
• 49:03
  Speaker 20: supposedly recyclable cups, which in February they announced were essentially
• 49:08
  Speaker 20: 100% going to be recycled. And they tracked them using
• 49:12
  Speaker 20: air tags, and they found that the vast majority of
• 49:15
  Speaker 20: these cups ended up being landfilled or incinerated instead of activated.
• 49:20
  Speaker 20: being recycled. So that's the main gist of what we're
• 49:24
  Speaker 20: confronting Starbucks about is both that we want them to
• 49:28
  Speaker 20: be more honest about the recycling claims, and we want
• 49:31
  Speaker 20: them to fave out plastic as much as possible.
• 49:35
  Speaker 7: What is Starbucks saying about all this?
• 49:39
  Speaker 20: Starbucks, for the most part, has said that while they
• 49:43
  Speaker 20: did use the language that their cups are 100% recyclable,
• 49:47
  Speaker 20: they've said this does not refer to every cup being recycled. Essentially,
• 49:52
  Speaker 20: that this would depend on each store's individual relationship with
• 50:01
  Speaker 20: the local municipal recycling. Not every city has recycling. So
• 50:06
  Speaker 20: Starbucks has said that this was... They weren't saying that
• 50:10
  Speaker 20: every cup was recyclable. However, we maintain that if you're
• 50:17
  Speaker 20: saying something is recyclable or is going to be recycled,
• 50:21
  Speaker 20: it's generally the consumer that sells the message that if
• 50:25
  Speaker 20: I put it in that bin and there's a recycling
• 50:27
  Speaker 20: logo on it, it's going to get recycled.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's another thing also.
• 50:31
  Speaker 15: Starbucks is supposed to be an environmentally conscious company, and
• 50:37
  Speaker 15: when they're saying that, people have the idea that this
• 50:42
  Speaker 15: is a platform that you guys are going by.
• 50:46
  Speaker 20: Yeah, and that's something that we... In a perfect world,
• 50:54
  Speaker 20: I would like more of these cups to be recycled,
• 50:57
  Speaker 20: but there's only... If I recall, at scale, two polypropylene
• 51:01
  Speaker 20: recycling plants in the U.S. that are capable of handling
• 51:05
  Speaker 20: these kinds of cups. So it's not something that's really
• 51:08
  Speaker 20: achievable right now. So we are trying to ask Starbucks
• 51:12
  Speaker 20: to implement switches to other options such as paper-to-go cups,
• 51:17
  Speaker 20: which they've already done in about 14 different states.
• 51:19
  Speaker 15: And what do they say about that?
• 51:21
  Speaker 20: What Starbucks has said about this is that it's– It's
• 51:25
  Speaker 20: a slower implementation, and essentially it's more related to store-by-store,
• 51:31
  Speaker 20: so it would require longer time to do rollout around this,
• 51:37
  Speaker 20: depending on regional store managers and how they feel about
• 51:41
  Speaker 20: that switch. But we think that's something that they can
• 51:43
  Speaker 20: and should do and commit to doing at all of
• 51:45
  Speaker 20: their stores.
• 51:47
  Speaker 15: This goes in also some of the other problems that
• 51:51
  Speaker 15: Starbucks has garnered in recent months. People know about the
• 51:59
  Speaker 15: issues with the workers at Starbucks. Also, the corporate manner
• 52:06
  Speaker 15: that Starbucks is operating right now is not the same
• 52:08
  Speaker 15: as it as one would gather when they first started.
• 52:14
  Speaker 20: Yes, we'll have representatives from the Starbucks Workers Union at
• 52:21
  Speaker 20: the event today. And I mean, it's very similar. I
• 52:27
  Speaker 20: would say these are connected struggles. We've seen multiple stores
• 52:31
  Speaker 20: in Houston become unionized. Kingwood, for example, is one of
• 52:35
  Speaker 20: the medical center. And there was one in Montrose. And
• 52:38
  Speaker 20: this is key. The Starbucks Workers Union has alleged, you know,
• 52:43
  Speaker 20: potential union busting on the part of Starbucks and efforts
• 52:47
  Speaker 20: to make sure that workers don't have a voice. And
• 52:50
  Speaker 20: we think that workers having more of a voice will
• 52:52
  Speaker 20: actually lead to better environmental outcomes as that allows for
• 52:56
  Speaker 20: each store to make decisions and connect with community with
• 53:01
  Speaker 20: more worker input.
• 53:03
  Speaker 15: And how hard is that to do when you have
• 53:05
  Speaker 15: individual owners and individual store owners?
• 53:09
  Speaker 20: Yeah, I mean, it can be challenging, to the very least.
• 53:12
  Speaker 20: Each of these stores has their own unique relationship with
• 53:18
  Speaker 20: their store owners and with their employees. But in many cases,
• 53:23
  Speaker 20: that just means that Starbucks workers should have the right
• 53:30
  Speaker 20: to have input on their individual stores. If you're organizing
• 53:34
  Speaker 20: alongside of a more regional or individual store-based system, I
• 53:38
  Speaker 20: don't think there's a reason to say workers should have
• 53:42
  Speaker 20: more of a say, in my opinion, because then you
• 53:44
  Speaker 20: can't just say, well, corporate says such and such, so
• 53:46
  Speaker 20: it can't be that way.
• 53:48
  Speaker 15: How much does corporate have a say in this versus
• 53:51
  Speaker 15: the individual store?
• 53:53
  Speaker 20: So I'm not 100% an expert on Starbucks policy. I'm
• 53:57
  Speaker 20: happy to also give you some quotes from the Starbucks
• 53:59
  Speaker 20: union on this one, as I'm not a union organizer.
• 54:03
  Speaker 20: But as I understand it, You know, stores, there's nationally
• 54:08
  Speaker 20: set policies. There's policies that comply with different state laws.
• 54:12
  Speaker 20: But how each store is run, if it's a locally
• 54:15
  Speaker 20: managed store, there is the capacity to make certain specific decisions.
• 54:20
  Speaker 20: For example, we are asking Starbucks to hold more to
• 54:24
  Speaker 20: their policy of using reusables. Every Starbucks has a nationwide
• 54:30
  Speaker 20: policy called a better cup for all. which says that
• 54:34
  Speaker 20: customers should be able to use reusable ceramic cups or glasses.
• 54:38
  Speaker 20: That's a nationwide policy, so each store should be following it,
• 54:42
  Speaker 20: but you do see some differences just depending on how
• 54:45
  Speaker 20: much stores adhere to national policy.
• 54:48
  Speaker 15: And this is an 11-state protest, am I correct on this?
• 54:53
  Speaker 11: That's correct, yes.
• 54:54
  Speaker 20: We've... We have 11 states. A large portion of these
• 54:59
  Speaker 20: were held the last weekend of September, the week of
• 55:03
  Speaker 20: the 28th. And this was organized through Beyond Plastics, which
• 55:07
  Speaker 20: is a nationwide network. So while Airlines Houston happens to
• 55:12
  Speaker 20: be partnering with them on this, a lot of other
• 55:15
  Speaker 20: protests were held in conjunction with different organizations. We're just
• 55:19
  Speaker 20: speaking for the Houston community in this case.
• 55:21
  Speaker 15: How bad is the plastic industry as far as the
• 55:24
  Speaker 15: environment here in Houston?
• 55:26
  Speaker 20: Starbucks nationally, they're responsible for using nearly 8 million plastic
• 55:32
  Speaker 20: cups a day. Houston's a huge market, of course, being,
• 55:35
  Speaker 20: I believe, the fourth biggest city in the U.S. So
• 55:38
  Speaker 20: you can imagine how much burden that puts on specifically
• 55:44
  Speaker 20: our waste management in Houston. We're big supporters of reform
• 55:48
  Speaker 20: for waste management. We work closely with the City Workers Union,
• 55:51
  Speaker 20: HOPE 123. And one of our bigger concerns is around
• 55:56
  Speaker 20: the disposal of plastic in Houston. A lot of it
• 56:00
  Speaker 20: gets landfilled just because of inadequate recycling systems. So that's
• 56:06
  Speaker 20: got serious environmental concerns. You see microplastics over time from
• 56:10
  Speaker 20: plastic that's disposed of incorrectly or is sitting in landfills.
• 56:15
  Speaker 20: that leaches into food, that leaches into our water systems.
• 56:20
  Speaker 20: You know, it ends up in the bayou somehow. It's
• 56:22
  Speaker 20: not every bit of plastic to dispose of. And of course,
• 56:25
  Speaker 20: you're seeing all the reports about microplastics ending up in
• 56:29
  Speaker 20: human tissue. And we don't fully know the health implications
• 56:32
  Speaker 20: of that, but they are concerning.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: That was Malachi, key climate justice coordinator with Airlines Houston.
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