What Happens When Public Officials Feel Entitled

A sold-out concert, a premium ticketed section, and a public official who refuses to take “no” for an answer, that’s the spark that lights up today’s biggest Houston politics conversation. We walk through the Houston Rodeo dispute involving Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, compare her public statements with the rodeo’s response, and react to the audio that puts the whole “manhandled” narrative under a microscope. If you care about accountability, the real question isn’t party or personality, it’s whether the rules apply equally when someone powerful shows up at NRG Stadium.

Then we shift to election integrity after a British green card holder is accused of illegally voting in Harris County in the 2024 general election. We connect the case to the SAVE Act, voter ID debates, and the uncomfortable reality that investigations can take years to surface while confidence in the system keeps dropping. A listener even asks the question most people wonder but rarely say out loud: if a vote is illegal, does it still stay private?

The second hour turns to Texas school choice and public schools. We break down a lawsuit against the Texas Comptroller tied to Texas Education Freedom Accounts and Islamic schools seeking voucher access, including the state’s argument about due diligence and contracting limits. We’re also joined by Denise Bell from Moms for Liberty Harris County to discuss the Ramadan display at Bunker Hill Elementary in Spring Branch ISD, what neutrality policies actually mean, and why parents should know their rights, especially around comprehensive sex education and Texas opt-in rules.

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From deep in the heart of Texas, it's Houston's God-loving patriot and the voice of reason. This is the Lone Star Conservative, Michael Wilson.

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Hidalgo Asked To Leave Rodeo

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you are listening to the Lone Star Conservative brought to you by Texellent AC Service. Hicking off the show this morning, we did get quite a bit of rain yesterday, or at least some of us did. The area that I am actually in, I watched as the line of storms that went from middle of Texas all the way up to Canada, largely. I know there's some splits, but it was one long line, was going to dodge my house by a matter of miles. So take that with with you know what you will. We did not get much rain here, but a lot of people got a lot more rain than I did. Nevertheless, uh, with all of that rain and all of the grass pollen counts being high, et cetera, et cetera, I just want to let you guys know if the audio goes out. If you randomly hear it cut out, there's a chance it could be a technical difficulty, but there's a significantly higher chance that it's me muting the mic so I can sneeze. I just wanted to let you get that out there in the open. If you hear kind of like pausing and then continuing, but my words are still coming out, it's just kind of pausing in between words longer than normal and the you know kind of goes muted for a second. I'm probably sneezing my way through the sentence. Or or or I'm taking a really long sniff. That's also a valid option. And so I just want to let you guys know about that before we start the show, so you can be well aware of what to expect with this this sort of weather. And it doesn't the weather going all over the place also does not help. Going from a high in the 80s to a high in the you know to lows in the forties is not a phenomenal change that my, you know, body was used to or prepared for. So again, just putting that out there in the open and the other thing I want to put out there is, you know, even on a slow, quote unquote slow news day, where there's not a lot of big stuff happening in the local area, there wasn't a big meeting where they made any big decisions, there's plenty of stuff to go around, uh, from the violence, the criminality, statewide decisions that are being made, right? Just kind of talking. And so there's always stuff to talk about if you live in Houston. But then there are other days. Days like today, where a lot actually has happened. And maybe, you know, it's over the past couple days and some stuff that wasn't reported on yet, stuff that wasn't out there that we didn't know about. But I I was looking through uh things that were going on last night and this morning, because I I do prep for this show, you know, in the evening time the night before, and then I refresh all of that in the morning to make sure that there's, you know, not updates to those stories or new things that happened overnight or got reported on overnight. And so I was looking through stories last night and this morning, and a shocking number of them. You know, you can you can kind of tell which I'm kind of giving you the little background behind the scenes here, but you can usually kind of tell which kind of story is going to be an important one. Just by the headline. You you can read the headline and you can tell, okay, that's gonna be a big story, right? And then I was looking through, and there are some days where you get maybe one of those, sometimes there are days where you get zero of them, and you think, oh, all right, we'll just talk about, you know, run-of-the-mill stuff and we'll we'll make it entertaining. But there are days like today where the number of stories you get that seem pretty wild is is pretty significant. And so I I think we've got to kick it off. Just I'm gonna just gonna tease the show so you guys kind of know what's on the general agenda. Yeah, I never know how many stories I'm gonna get to, so some that I tease, we may not actually get to. So I'm sorry if that happens. If you want, if you hear one of them and that one really piques your interest, text in, let me know. Because I'm happy to go out of order. Uh, but the number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779 KYST. If you'd like to text in, let me know if there's any of these stories that you really, really want to hear about. We're gonna get to as many as possible. We're gonna talk about Harris County judge, Lena Hidalgo, uh, who apparently got kicked out of the rodeo uh by security, which is as crazy as it sounds. And of course, she put out a like a two-page statement on how she felt unempowered as a woman. It was it was a wild turn of events. And by the time you end hearing it, as always, or as almost always, you're gonna realize that Lena Dalgo is probably not in the right yet again. Uh, we're also gonna jump over and talk about a guy, a British man, who has now been accused of illegally voting in the 2024 U.S. presidential election in Harris County. Um, we also are gonna jump over and talk about how you have Islamic schools and parents adding a second lawsuit to the Texas Comptroller over his block uh from private school vouchers going to Islamic vendors. So that's another another large story. We're also gonna jump over and talk about Houston Police, which the police chief announced they're making a major shift in their immigration cooperation policy. So that's another very large goings on. Up in Montgomery County, the detectives found missing minor and arrested two women for child trafficking. Uh, we also have Austin, um, Austin ISD, which is hiding the specifics of their planned LGBT celebration, school choice applications. Speaking of the Islamic lawsuit, school choice applications are up even higher than they were before, which is expected, right? It doesn't close, I think, until March 17th. So people still have five days uh to apply for school choice to be a school choice uh if they're eligible uh to be a school choice receive. And so that number has has gone up. KP George, we'll talk a little bit about his trial, when it's starting, what we're expecting out of that. Um, and a Texas man who was executed for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her eight-year-old son back in 2013. So, like I said, a lot of stuff going on. If we have time, we also have a cyber truck crash that happened where the guy is suing Tesla for the crash, blaming them for the crash that happened. And we're gonna have Denise Bell, uh, she's the Harris County chapter president for Moms for Liberty, uh, who's gonna come on and give us some more details in what happened in Bunker Hill when you had a Ramadan display put up by the PTA on religious committee, whatever, uh, that came in and put up a Ramadan display over in Bunker Hill. So very, very busy day for us this morning. Uh, and we gotta, if we're gonna get into it, we gotta, we gotta go ahead and kick it off. Harris County Judge Lena Dalgo was asked to leave the Houston rodeo on Tuesday after she was denied entry to a concert in Energy Stadium, according to a post that she made on social media. Now, of course, she didn't give the full details, but it's great because the rodeo actually did come out and give the full details. They said, No, no, no, no, no, we're disputing this. This is not what she's saying happened. She's actually being a little bit, shall we say, a little bit dishonest. They didn't say that, but you can tell from her statements and their statements that somewhere along the line in the game of telephone, which it's not telephone because it's two accounts, somewhere, someone's not being fully transparent about what transpired. Right? You can tell just by reading the comments from both. She said she was physically shoved and threatened with arrest by security staff at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo after they released a response. This is what's really interesting. After they released a response, she then deleted the original post and published a two-page letter addressed to rodeo executives surrounding the situation. So it was originally just a post, and then the rodeo officials replied and said, uh, no, actually. And then she deleted it and she was like, Oh, well, here's here's a two-page letter addressing it instead. Now, Hidago's allegations sparked a public dispute after the Houston L Police Officers Union posted a s uh satirical comment referencing the incident. They posted like a meme about how she was being thrown out of the rodeo. And so last night, a source from the Houston Rodeo confirmed the following information regarding her participation in the rodeo. So, for some background, uh, I I want to actually read a little bit of her letter before we we get in to the situation that the rodeo is saying happened, because I think it's nice to sort of parallel what she says happened and then go over and talk a little bit about what actually happened, because her claim is a little bit different from maybe what actually happened. And by the way, since that came out in the last six hours, so at around midnight, eleven to midnight, she's made like eight posts. Let me count them. She's made one, two, three. No, she's made, she's made four or five posts since around midnight uh with with videos and captions and and voicemails, voice recordings. And so it's it's absolutely a wild turn of events. But let me read some of her letters. She says, Dear Chairman Phillips and Mr. Bullman, last night I heard to bring a fellow elected official and her two children, and the parents of recently deceased U.S. Air Force first sergeant David Saravia to the Houston Rodeo performance. They are also the parents of an active duty military service member. When I tried to walk on to the shoot area, the dirt, as I have always done, including earlier this week, rodeo committee members told me we weren't able to enter because I didn't have a wristband. Now I have always been allowed on the dirt based on the county's relationship with the rodeo, regardless of wristband. Nobody has ever told me I needed a special pass to access the dirt. I don't remember I or my guests ever wearing one, and pictures show that. Nobody ever told me those seats were four hundred and twenty-five dollars. I assumed the area was for friends of rodeo leaders or for rodeo leaders or such. When I tried to ask that my guests be let in, the rodeo committee members first said the kids could stand in the back, but then proceeded to block the kids and mom from entering, grabbed me, shoved me, and threatened to arrest me. Even after I offered to leave, it meant that my guest and her kids were allowed to stay. Which is, by the way, just highlighting. That's a crazy negotiation. If tickets are$425 a day, I'll leave if you let other people stay. No, no one gets to stay because no one has tickets to be in this area, regardless of who you are. She had the rodeo removed her and the kids from the dirt entirely. At one point, a man in the crowd uh was heckling some of our some of our group, at which point her mom asked a rodeo official to please tell the man to stop heckling her daughter. And the man's response was, Well, I told you to leave. I I I don't know what you're expecting here. People in the crowd are not happy that you're trying to fraudulently get into part of the rodeo that you did not pay to enter. Uh in my role as Harris County judge, I have never accepted anything inappropriately or used my role to personally enrich myself, even though many others have. I understand the rodeo committee members have a job to do. They are trying to keep thousands of people safe at the largest rodeo in the world. I did not want to prevent the committee members from doing their jobs, nor was I trying to take advantage of privileges or call in favors. I was not even interested in seeing the concert. I was only interested in helping community members enjoy an important event. Harris County has always enjoyed a collaborative relationship with the rodeo. The county owns and leases an RG Stadium to HSHLSR, and by virtue of my position, I am ex officio director of the rodeo. The Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation in RG Park provides Harris County with tickets to the rodeo every night so that community leaders can bring partners and stakeholders and celebrate an important event together as a community. Let it be known that when she said they give you tickets, it was not tickets, it was not the$425 tickets to the shoot area that she wanted to be in. It was different tickets. She said it means so much. Uh the rodeo means so much to the Houston and Harris County community. In addition to the community pride it brings to our region, it also brings an incredible economic impact and provides millions of dollars in scholarships to local students. Some of my favorite memories during my time in office are riding into the stadium on horseback during Grand Entry, celebrating at the Black Heritage Day annual gala, and talking with folks in the community before the concerts. I am bringing this to the public's attention because last night was not reflective of the spirit of the rodeo, and I hope it doesn't ever happen to anyone again, where you're escorted off the area that you try to fraudulently enter. I hope that never happens again. It's crazy. I, along with all of Harris County, was thrilled when Pat Mann Phillips was elected as the first female chair of HLSR after decades of male leadership. So of course it has to be feminist. You can't skip that part. I have fought against good old boys' clubs since I was first elected, and it's important to me that the rodeo be a safe space for everyone in Harris County. No one should be treated the way we were treated, whether they are an elected official or not. Where when you refuse to leave, they escort you off and push you because you're not listening to what they tell you to do. I felt disrespected, threatened, and physically unsafe, as did my guests and the kids. While I appreciate the work that the rodeo staff and volunteers do to manage such a large event, I cannot be complacent. I wonder, if I had been a male county executive, would they have reacted the same way? Would they have thrown a male Harris County executive's guest with their young daughter and son out of the Harris County stadium? Would they have gone up to a male guest children and yanked them out of a seat? Uh probably, yes. I I certainly think so. I can tell you it's not just executives. If I tried to take kids into the rodeo and get into an area that I did not pay for, I also would be promptly escorted out of the premises. The same as literally anybody else. She said, I will not go near that area again, but I have never felt so unempowered as a woman as I did yesterday. These days, not only are we fighting a war abroad, but some people, mostly white men, have felt emboldened to treat others, particularly Hispanics, with physical force. I don't travel without my passport anymore, and while many of us do, especially those of us who are not white passing, I want the HLSR leadership to know that constituents of color and women like me deserve to be physically safe and to be treated with dignity. I hope nobody else experiences behavior like this. So that's her two-page letter that she put out addressed to the rodeo, posted on social media as well as with videos and voice recordings of the ordeal. And so, by her testimony, right, the way that she paints this whole situation. Well, I was doing the thing I always do that I just thought I was allowed to do. And I'll give you a very good analogy of sort of the claim here. I'll give you an analogy so that we understand how ridiculous this claim is. If it hasn't already clicked, how ridiculous the claim is. So I go into Walmart, and every time I go into Walmart, I only scan half of the items that I want to purchase. And the other half I just throw in the bags. I say, Well, I thought you only had I thought I thought Walmart was automatically you pay for 50%, and the other 50% is free. I thought that, because no one's ever told me otherwise. I just assumed that. And then one day, Walmart Security stopped me and said, You have to pay for all that, or we're going to arrest you. And I said no and started trying to leave, and so they start trying to handcuff me or push me or whatever. And the police are called, all this sort of stuff. They try to ban me from Walmart, and I say, I've never felt so unempowered in my life. How was I supposed to know that you were supposed to pay for every item that you purchased? They had never had a problem with it before. I just assumed I've always been allowed to go into Walmart and to get items. So who was I to know that this wasn't the right way to do things? And everyone rightfully would say, You're a moron. Of course you're not allowed to do that. And so I want to highlight in the next segment, since we're coming up on a break, and there's plenty left to this story, because of course we have to talk about the rodeo's response to our county judge. I mean, this is the end of an era when this lady is gone. And it and by end of an era, I mean end of a really, really bad era that we need to be ending, right? That's that's where we're at as a county. We'll talk about the response from the rodeo and how they say, yeah, this isn't completely what happened. Like, yes, was she told that she had to leave? Yeah. But there's some reality going on here that is obviously not been made clear in what happened on Tuesday night. We'll talk more about the details of the response that the response from the rodeo gave yesterday. When we get after this break, as always, if you would like to text into the show, and you can do that for a variety of reasons. If you, again, have a story that you want to hear me report on, you can text in. If you have a disagree with something that I'm saying, or you have a clarifying question, or just an encouragement, feel free to text in. Let us know here on the show. The number, as always, is 713-779-5978. One more time. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. I'll be right back after this short break.

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So, of course, Lena Dalgo has been saying all this stuff. You guys heard the two page letter she put out about how she was unempowered as a woman, how this is somehow related to white men, how white men would never be treated this way, how there's already ongoing issues with white men being safe, but especially Hispanic women, women of color, are in jeopardy right now. Which is By the way, as about as unrelated from what actually happened as is humanly possible because it had nothing to do with the fact that she was Hispanic, it had nothing to do with her executive position, it had nothing to do with some good old boys' club that she's referencing. None of that. No, instead, as rodeo officials have confirmed, there's a couple things to be true. First of all, Lena Hidalgo had suite tickets to the concert, Megan Moroni. Now, suite tickets are very nice, they're very pricey, they're very expensive, they're very good tickets. Um, and so she had these these nice tickets that she could have used to get into the suite and to watch the concert from there and participate in all the rodeo stuff. Since shoot seats, which are seats on the dirt, were sold out, officials asked her to return to the suite multiple times. They didn't want to kick her out. They just said, Can you go back to the seats that you actually have tickets to? Can you just go sit in the area where executives are allowed to sit? You can take your guests, not a big deal. Eventually, when she just completely refused to comply or tried to negotiate instead, well, I'll I'll leave if you let them stay, otherwise I ain't going nowhere. Right. When all that happened, uh, they eventually asked her to leave altogether because she refused to return to her assigned suite. They said that Lena Hidalgo is the only elected official to ask for shoot tickets in the entirety of the 2026 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo season. Meaning it had nothing to do with male or woman. You're the only one. You can't, I mean, you could try to guess. Well, what if it had been a guy? I don't know, but I could tell you no other person tried to do this because they all understand when they're given suite tickets as Harris County executives, they go to the suite if they want to go attend a concert at Energy Stadium during the rodeo. You're the only one who asked for different tickets, nicer tickets, to be on the dirt participating in the concert. Uh, they also said that Lena Hidalgo has visited the rodeo at least three other times and has been given twenty one shoot tickets for free, which have a total value of nearly$9,000. Right. So she said, I've never done anything inappropriate. Well, we gave you these free shoot tickets because you asked for them and they were sold out on Tuesday night. So we literally couldn't let you be there. Well, I've gotten in before. Yeah, we've we've let you in before because you've asked nicely, we had extra tickets, so out of the graciousness that the Using Livestock Show and Radio decided to have, you were allowed to be there. That was not the case Tuesday night, and they let you know that they were sold out and they asked you to return to your suite. That should not be a difficult conversation, by the way. Any normal human being, if you're down there and they ask you, hey, we're sold out of tickets down here. We actually need you to uh to go back up to your area, would say, Okay, of course. No worries. Not a big deal, no problem. Thanks for the other times where I got to be down here. And that obviously was not the response from Lean Hidalgo. She also, by the way, the in a now deleted Facebook post, uh, she kind of described it. Uh she said uh stuff about how she tried to get in, but she was physically threatened, physically shoved, uh, and and you know, they they were threatening her and being rude, all this sort of stuff. They all said in a statement that Hidalgo and a group tried to access the dirt area without valid tickets, and they were directed back to their original seating. She also, of course, said that she serves as the ex officio director because of her political position as county judge, which talk about inappropriate. Anybody who tries to abuse their power to get things or to say they have more power than they do, that should immediately be, well, that that is actually inappropriate. And so in the in the original post, she said the head of security for the entire rodeo was also there blocking us. She said when she disputed the order, which I is just a funny little that's just a side thing, right? That's not the big deal, is that I refuse the order from the head of security. No, no, no, that doesn't matter. Ignore that part. No, no. When she refused the order, uh, she said she was physically shoved and threatened with arrest by security. Which of course you were. As anyone else would be if they're in a seat they're not allowed to be in and they're asked to move. They didn't even say, I mean, like, you're banned, or goodbye, or get out of here. It was literally it started with, hey, can you go back to the seats that you have? We have you tickets that you were given for free, which we didn't have to give you. I know that we have a collaboration, but it's still kindness to give you free, nice tickets. You have them. Can you go back to the seats that you actually have? And when you refuse in a variety of different ways, you start off with direct refusal, and then you move into, well, let's negotiate. There's no negotiating here. We're in charge, and we're telling you these tickets are sold out. We need you to go back to your own seat. And so then, of course, when she said, I'm not gonna do it, okay, then then we'll have you arrested. Like you can't be here. Uh we're not trying to be rude to you, but you you you simply cannot stay. And so uh they said they they took to physically grabbing and pushing the county executive of the lur third largest county in the nation. Yeah, I'd hope they'd do the same thing in the first largest county in the nation, and the second, and every county in the nation. If someone tried to come into the rodeo and fraudulently eke their way with into areas that they don't have tickets for. That's how everyone should be treated. Um When the director arrived, Hidalgo said officials would not let her find witnesses to the alleged shoving, and she was asked to leave the stadium. Hidalgo said she had to leave her guests to watch the concert elsewhere. She added that she has a footage of officials escorting two children in her entourage out as well. And by the way, I have not watched through all of the videos, but I would wager a guess that at worst, like worst case scenario, like the most right she can be is that she frustrated county security. If she frustrated the people that were working who were like, you're not listening, please just get out. And maybe they were they got loud or I mean you're you're in a stadium where stuff is going on. Maybe they said you need to leave right now. We don't care who you are, we don't care. Like maybe they got rude. Worst case, by the way. Like if her argument is as true as it could be with the information we have, in a best case for her, in a most honest sense, the worst thing that probably happened, worst case, is that they got loud and and got frustrated with her, which I I think is a reasonable reaction, by the way, if someone is not listening and is trying to, again, fraudulently stay in an area they're not allowed to be. Of course, she said that security personnel were influenced by political differences and sexism in their efforts to keep a county leader out, which is of course where the uh the whole, well, if I was a man, would they have done this? Probably. I I can't imagine they wouldn't have if the tickets were sold out and you were refusing to leave. I can imagine, regardless of who you were or what your name was, you probably would have been asked to leave. And so, again, rodeo officials put out a statement. Here's the statement quote On March 10th, during the sold-out Megan Moroney concert, Judge Lena Dalgo attempted to access the dirt area without a valid shoot seat ticket. Additionally, she attempted to bring several guests also without shoot seat tickets. Rodeo security advised that dirt access is limited to shoot seat ticket holders only, a premium ticket priced at$425, and the group was directed back to their ticketed seating. Which is, of course, when she put out the letter. Uh, you also had the Houston Police Officers Union uh that they put out a Facebook post, which was captioned saying, disclaimer, satire, any resemblance to real persons, actual events from last night, alleged officials, or people who believe the rules would apply to them is purely coincidental. The post featured a comic where you had uh a a woman that is very obviously supposed to be Lena Hidalgo, with uh I'm the county judge speech bubble for good measure being led away from the rodeo by an officer. And the comic was titled, The Face You Make When You Get Kicked Out of the Rodeo. I'm the county judge, I'm allowed to be here, right? That that sort of thing, as she's being escorted out. And so, of course, that was offensive to her, why she then put up this Facebook post in the first place, then deleted it, then put out a two-page letter instead. But again, people get in these positions and they think the rules don't apply to them. They get into these positions where they believe they have ultimate authority. I'm the ex officio director, I'm the county judge of the largest, I'm the county executive for the large third largest county in the nation. You can't treat me like this. Yes, everyone actually would get treated like this. You are trying to commit fraud. Really, you're trying to commit theft. Those tickets cost$425, they were sold out, you didn't pay for one, so you don't get to be there. That should be as simple as it gets. Did you pay for a ticket to be here? No. Did we offer you a free ticket to be here, as we've so graciously done before? No. Are we asking you to leave and to go back to the area where you do have a ticket? Yes. And you won't do it. No, I won't do it. So then we're gonna ask you to leave entirely and we'll have you arrested if you don't. Well, it's because I'm a woman of color, isn't it? It's because you have political differences and you're all sexists. No, it's actually because you're trying to commit theft. As it turns out, actually, it's because you're committing fraud, and that's not acceptable, regardless of who you are. In fact, what's really interesting is Lena Hidalgo, if there's anybody that's on this social drug justice train for people who are low income or whatever, it's Lena Hidalgo. She's she's big on the, well, everyone needs to be treated fairly, and everyone deserves diversity, equity, and inclusion. So, so explain to me then why it matters that you're the Harris County executive. Why does that matter? Shouldn't you be treated the same as literally everyone else? I thought that was your whole point. I thought that was your whole political position was that regardless of who you are, you get treated the same. Do you think anyone who's anybody, anybody who's not an executive of the third county in the nation would be treated the same? Do you think anybody who's just a normal person would probably face the same repercussions if they were trying to steal a seat they didn't pay for and then got told to leave and go back to their ticketed seat? Do you think anybody would be treated any better? No, of course not. Of course they would be asked to leave, but if they didn't, they would be threatened with arrest. Because you're not listening to the people who are running the thing. You're not listening to the security personnel. And so, yet again, an instance you have where you have this person who thinks they're all that. They think because by nature of being an elected official, they are allowed to do whatever they want, whenever they want, with whomever they want, without any repercussions whatsoever. And that's simply not true. And so this has been a a massive story, by the way. It's been blowing up on social media, hence why she's now felt the need to release four or five new posts with videos and voice recordings, which at some point during today I'm gonna get the opportunity to actually go and and watch and listen to. I I hadn't seen him until I checked her Facebook again. But it is it is absolutely bizarre what has gone on here. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we're gonna jump over and talk about that guy, that British man, who's been accused of illegally voting in the 2024 presidential election, the U.S. presidential election in Harris County. Samuel James Hall, of course, has entered a not guilty plea in federal court. Uh he's a man uh who is accused again of illegally voting as a case is is kind of being you know going on right now with, you know, the SAVE Act, trying to make sure that we have voter ID, trying to make sure that there's good qualifications if you're going to vote in an election that you're actually allowed to do so. This guy is a U.S. green card holder. He lives, again, in Harris County, but he's a U.S. green card holder from Green Britain. And he pleaded not guilty during his first appearance in federal court back on Tuesday afternoon to the federal misdemeanor charge of voting by an alien. And so we'll talk more about the details of that when we get back. As always, if you would like to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. We'll talk all about that guy who maybe illegally voted when we get back from this short break.

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So no cameras are allowed inside the federal courthouse, but there was a crew present from KPRC for the hearing when Hall told the judge he is employed and lives in Harris County. According to Hall's defense attorney, James Alston, Hall has lived in the Houston area for several years and holds a green card, but is not a U.S. citizen. Despite that, federal prosecutors allege he cast a ballot in Harris County in the 2024 general election, voting for president, vice president, and members of Congress, according to criminal information filed against him earlier this month. Now the charge that he faces carries a penalty of up to one year in federal prison. His case comes at a time of, of course, intense national debate over the ongoing SAVE Act, voter ID laws, all that sort of stuff. And so, of course, you also have Tax Attorney General Ken Paxton, who's come out and has publicly tied his own political future to the bill's passage. He said, and this is where a lot of people are saying, well, Paxton to uh agreed to drop out, maybe, where he said the Save America Act is the most important bill the U.S. Senate could ever pass, and I'm committed to helping President Trump get it done. I would consider dropping out of this race if Senate leadership agrees to lift the filibuster and passes the Save America Act. And so going back to this guy, kind of connecting to all this save stuff, connecting to voter ID laws, FBI Houston confirms the case against this guy originated from an investigation involving Homeland Security investigations and the Texas Attorney General's Office Election Integrity Unit. And so this is the statement from the Office of the Harris County Tax Assessor and Voter Registrar, quote, in June of 2025, the Harris County Tax Office was made aware of this individual's presence on the voter roll. At that time, our office sent the individual in question the appropriate notification. In response to that notification, the individual self-canceled their registration. The voter registrar removed them from the voter rolls accordingly, and this individual is not registered to vote in Harris County. As this is an ongoing investigation, we are unable to share more at this time and remain committed to ensuring that the voter registration rolls are up to date and that only eligible citizens are enrolled and part of the process. Since taking office in 2025, I said so Ramirez has taken a step to ensure the integrity of the voter registration process. And so just gonna highlight here real quick uh that yes, we all understand their allegations because we believe in due process for sure. But when even the Harris County Tax Assessors Office says we were made aware of this individual's presence on the voter roll, and when we called him out for it, of course, he self-canceled, but he was on the voter rolls. So it almost, almost says, yeah, he he did the thing he's being accused of. Like he he was on the voter rolls. Like they didn't say he voted in the 2024 election, but this guy who's been here several years was on the voter rolls, uh, which again when you talk about the SAVE Act and how they say, oh, there's there's no fraud going on and we don't need to worry about it. It's totally fine. People will, you know, have integrity. We're able to tell all of this, anyways. There's no need for voter ID. Just remind them that stuff like this is going on, where you you have people who are on the voter rolls who are not citizens of the U.S. That is an ongoing problem. We have it here in Harris County. You have another guy who's now been accused who is not a citizen, uh, but has allegedly voted in past elections. And so he is currently free on bond while his case is going to move through federal court. And you never know how long a case like this can take. I mean, it can be anywhere from a couple months when it starts to a few years before it kicks off. What we do have information on is that he was on the voter rolls, that he's being accused of voting in the 2024 election for president, vice president, and members of Congress, uh, that he somehow registered himself to vote, and and that all of this is somehow coexisting with the fact that we don't need voter ID, that we don't need a more secure election system to make sure that fraudulent votes like this one are not cast. Now, what's shocking to me, because usually if you're willing to enter a guilty plea, you can negotiate, right? That's kind of the power that you hold because what the prosecutors don't want to happen is that they go through the whole trial and you just never know with juries and all that how it's going to go. And so nine times out of ten, if there's a good offer on the table for a guilty plea, both parties should be open to it. Because both sides are putting it in someone else's hands if they don't reach a plea deal, if they don't negotiate some sort of settlement. If you don't do that, then you have to just hope beyond hope that you end up being chosen to be right. That that's the reality. And if you're on the voter rolls and they're accusing you of doing this thing, I'm kind of shocked that you enter a not guilty plea. Unless they're just unwilling to negotiate because they think they've got you. In in which case, you're just you're just done either way. So I guess fight it out till the very end. But usually, you know, if it's if the if the punishment is up to one year in in federal prison, usually what federal prosecutors or any prosecutors will do, by the way, will be to come in and say, hey, we'll get you, you know, three months instead. Or we'll or we'll get you probation if you sign this thing saying you did it, right? And then they could use that as political fodder for the ongoing conversation. Hey, we have a s a signature from a guy who admits he voted illegally in the 2024 election. Right? I I'm just I'm shocked that there's that that there's a guilt a non guilty plea that's been entered from his lawyer. Uh, because all of the evidence is pointing, I mean, bare minimum, you were fraudulently on voter rolls, that you you registered yourself fraudulently. That's that's the bare minimum, and already that. Is illegal. And so I I'm not sure what the thought process is. I guess I'm not his lawyer, so I can't I can't speak to what is what's going through his head, but I can't imagine this is a great idea. But let that be a reminder to everybody. Because the left wants you to believe wholeheartedly that this never happens. And then of course they go, well, maybe it happens sometimes, but it's very, very rare. I don't know how rare this is. Again, this happened two years ago, and we're just now hearing about it. This is this is not something this takes time. And if it takes that long to track down one person, imagine how many there could be that we just don't have the time to track down or don't have the resources to track down. And so it's frustrating that we continually have a le uh the leftist position telling us that voter ID laws are are racist, that you can't pass them. You're not allowed to do that because that would disenfranchise people from voting. Which, of course, as I've always said, anyone that's disenfranchised from voting by just requiring an ID to vote is the kind of person that I'm probably glad they're not voting, as it turns out. Uh, but again, this is happening. They can lie all they want. It's happening. It's very clear that it's happening. And with that being said, we can get back from the break. We're gonna talk about this next lawsuit. Actually, I lied. I lied, we're not talking about any lawsuit. We come back from the break because it's the last segment of the first hour. 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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative brought to you by Textellant AC Service. So Houston is turning noticeably cooler today after strong midweek storms pushed a cold front through Southeast Texas. Now, the week's temperature swings, I think, are a good reminder to all of us that anytime you think that the weather is set in stone and we're already set and we're not going to get cool again, you never you never really know. And so gusterly gusty northerly winds are gonna help drag in cool and less humid air to Southeast Texas. He temperatures today are only gonna reach the upper 60s after a chilly start with morning temperatures starting near fifty degrees. On top of today's slightly below normal temperatures, it'll also be a little bit breezy outside. Wind gusts could reach speeds of twenty-five to thirty miles per hour. So of course, when you're driving, especially, be aware of that. And so when atmospheric pressure moves overhead late today and winds should calm down, our chilly weather begins to change by Friday afternoon, but not before another cold start tomorrow. Whether you're enjoying spring break, uh, or you're going into the office again, Friday morning is gonna bring in temperatures in the mid and upper 40s, average temperatures in mid-March range from the lower and mid-50s in the mornings. So temperatures Friday is gonna be again about 10 degrees below normal. Sunny skies and the return of southerly winds are gonna bring temperatures back into the mid-70s by the afternoon. Each day through the upcoming weekend will get warmer, both in the morning and during the afternoon. Saturday morning temps in the mid-50s are gonna become muggy 60-degree weather by Sunday morning, as peak daytime temperatures climb into the 80s ahead of our next cold front. Now, after Thursday's brief spring pause, a second cold front is gonna remind us again why we are known here in Houston for being moodier than just about anybody you've ever met, including Lena Hidalgo. A second cold front is poised to drop temperatures from Sunday's afternoon's temps, which are gonna be in the eighties, to Monday's afternoon temps in the mid-60s. The front is expected to move across Southeast Texas Sunday night into Monday morning, and while we don't know exact timing on the cold front's arrival, it could move any over any in the next day or two. The overall changes are are not gonna differ. Early next week is gonna feature again temperatures several degrees below normal, significantly cooler than what we've been used to, and then it's gonna heat up by mid-next week again. But that being said, before we go to the break, real quick here, we got a text in from one of our listeners. It says, When someone votes illegally, is his vote still private? And so I I I'll give you the clearest answer I can. I would imagine that it is. Like from a legal perspective, I imagine we're probably never going to find out. Now, what could hypothetically happen, just by nature of it being a trial with details coming out in trial that usually wouldn't come out, is that we may find out where what his vote was cast for in in the trial, though it wouldn't be revealed, you know, n by by necessity to the people in general. It may come out as as part of the trial, just going through all the stuff and revealing all the evidence. Uh, but generally I would say his vote is still private, even if even if done illegally. Uh but again, this highlights the important need to make sure that our elections are secure because people are gonna do this. And I could guess who he voted for. You know, he's coming from Europe and voting in Harris County and living in Harris County. I could probably wager a guess as to who he voted for, especially given the fraudulent part. I think we know who likes to vote fraudulently. Either way, that'll do it for the first hour of the show. We get back at the top of the next hour. We're gonna jump over and uh we're gonna talk about this lawsuit against the Houston Com or against the Texas com troller from Islamic schools wanting to be vendors and receive taxpayer money for school choice. Text in 713-779-5978. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. I'll be right back at the top of the next hour.

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Hidalgo Audio Clip And Power Claims

SPEAKER_12 53:18

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative brought to you by Textellent AC Service. I just had the time to listen to one of the audio clips uh from the from the of course post that Lean Hidalgo uploaded to her Facebook page. And I mean, it's just the most insane thing you've ever heard. Uh she's she's being confronted by the head of it sounds like the head of security who said he's missing the concert with his wife to have to deal with this. He said, So can we please just move on? Can we please can you just go back to your seats? I I I just really don't want to deal with this. And so she came out and she's this is again an audio recording. She took like this voice memo, and uh she says, Are you okay with me being shoved and pushed? And he said, I I don't have any proof that even happened. I I just want to move on. She says, I can get you proof. I'll go talk to people. And she tries to walk away to go talk to people in the area to, you know, of course, to get proof. He goes, No, no, no, we're not gonna do that. I I just want you to go back to your seat. She says, But you told me to get proof. And he's like, No, I was just saying I don't have the proof of the shoving. And she's like, Well, I have to get proof. She's like, You guys are manhandling, are you gonna grab me again? And it's just you, it's just the most insane, like, feminist outburst. It's like a toddler throwing a tantrum. It's just emotional virality. I mean, it's just insane, the most insane thing. Um, and if you've ever had to deal with the kind of person that has no emotional self-control whatsoever, if you if you have to deal with that, the let this let me remind you, this is not surprising to those of us who've had to deal with these sorts of people. If you've ever had to deal with the kind of person who has no emotional self-control and who doesn't know how to deal with things when they don't get their way, if you've dealt with that, then you know exactly what this is like. In fact, I'm gonna go ahead and try to play the audio clip because I I I just I just think it's worth you guys hearing this outburst. So you guys know, like you can hear her talk. I want you guys to know what this sounds like, so you understand what I'm saying. Here we go. Let's let's try it out. We're gonna play it, let's see how it goes.

SPEAKER_20 55:21

Let me be real clear. You didn't have a ticket tonight. And but I got a message today from some security person that said you're coming the next five nights with up to five.

SPEAKER_06 55:29

Well no, I'm not coming anymore.

SPEAKER_20 55:31

Are you gonna let me finish now? Can I finish or not?

SPEAKER_06 55:34

You heard the manhandle me, so you say that's okay?

SPEAKER_20 55:37

I didn't I I don't I don't have any proof of it.

SPEAKER_06 55:39

Oh, let me give you some proof. Let me ask somebody what they saw. Why are you are you gonna grab me again? I'm I'm asking them what they saw. Are you gonna grab me look at this? Look at look at the proof.

SPEAKER_03 55:52

This is manhandle.

SPEAKER_06 55:53

She just said I could go I could go look at the proof. Letting me get proof. We're going to prove that they push me.

SPEAKER_03 56:00

We are going to prove it. Now you're gonna leave. You're gonna leave.

SPEAKER_06 56:03

He wants proof that you push me.

SPEAKER_03 56:05

And I'm letting me push you.

SPEAKER_06 56:07

Yes, you did. So if you want if you're not letting me look at the proof. Are you letting me walk to get the proof? Yes, you're paused and let me say something. Yes or no?

SPEAKER_20 56:14

Can you possibly let me say something? That's that's got accelerated energy right now and pointing fingers at people and acting disrespectfully. The only one else.

SPEAKER_06 56:32

I said let me go that way. You said let me go that way. Yes, but then why are you guys blocking my way to the people that saw it? If you're if you're blocking evidence, you're blocking evidence! You're blocking to the show tonight. Again, it's your channel. I don't want to see the show. I I'm I'm happy to not see it. You're blocking me. You're being recorded. You're blocking me from people. You are blocking me from people who who saw what happened. You're not letting me see them. You're not letting me see the people that saw what happened.

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SPEAKER_12 57:08

So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. They were blocking her from gathering evidence as if she is the police performing an investigation. Um this is again the sort of po the abuse of power that we see from people who are in positions of authority all the time. I I mean, we see it all the time in different ways, depending on who the person is, but we see this all the time for people that think that they don't have to be held to the same standards as everyone else. That they do not have an obligation to behave respectfully, they do not have an obligation to perform the most basic acts, the most basic asks acts of complying with people who are in charge of you. And so when she's in there and she says, You're blocking me, yeah, because you don't have where are your tickets? I don't have tickets, I don't even want to see the show. That's not relevant. Okay, then don't see the show. But that area where you're trying to get to to talk to people, you're not a police officer conducting a legitimate investigation where you're allowed to go get proof. Um, if there is some sort of police investigation where you were being man-handled, right, which you use that term because it's charged, emotional verbiage, where you say I was being man-handled as as if it's different than you were being escorted off the premises. It's different than you were, you know, of course, being escorted out without being willing to comply. But you use the term manhandled. What does that mean? This is the problem with the left, is they use these words all the time. You're a racist. Well, what is can you actually like debate my arguments, or do you just want to call me a name? I was being manhandled, and I have to go get proof. Well, was it a criminal violence? Were you assaulted? Was it was it criminal violence, or or you just didn't like that they were trying to escort you out? Because it was criminal violence, then then I'm sure there assertedly, given that you have a lot of authority, I'm sure there will be a police investigation pursued against the people who the security personnel who did that. And the police have a lot of access. Uh, they can find out who was ticketed to actually be in that area, and they can get witness statements from the people who were in the shoot area that night. But for you to come in and say you're blocking me from getting evidence, from gathering legitimate evidence. They're like, no, there's no evidence over there. The point is not even whether or not you weren't grabbed and told to leave and tried to escort it out. The question is, were you told to leave? Do you have tickets to be here? And did you comply? And if not, I'm sure you were. They did try to escort you out. I don't know what what word you could say manhandled, violated. You could use whatever emotionally charged wording you'd like to use to describe the course of events, but that's a normal course of events. I can promise you. If I go into the rodeo, the rodeo's still going on. If I go to the rodeo today, I I'm not going to, but if I went to the rodeo today and I show up and I decide that I'm gonna go sit in an area that I'm not ticketed to sit in, right, which people do all the time, just just for reference, people do it all the time, she does it all the time. The only reason it was different was because they were sold out for this particular concert. So she just got unlucky there. But if if if I go sit in an area where there's already people who purchase tickets in that area and I'm not supposed to be there, they're going to escort me out. And if I refuse to comply, they're gonna ask, they're gonna ask me to go back to my seats. If I refuse to comply with that, then I'm probably going to get grabbed by security because I'm not allowed to be there and I'm taking someone else's spot. That's that's that's literally theft. And so of course I'm gonna get escorted away. This has nothing to do with being a white male. I know that's what Lena Dalgo wants to paint it as. Oh, well, you're a white male, so you wouldn't undergo the same sort of issue that I would. You're not gonna understand what I went through. Um, and and so here's her most recent post. She said, I made four posts back to back on here and on Instagram with the receipts. I added two videos and two recordings. This is not about a wristband or a ticket or a concert. It is about the mentality of some people and the way they treat others. Please look at the post where I had the letter I sent to the chairman and to the director of HSHLSR. Since I sent that letter, I learned that not only did they pull the two children that came with me out of their assigned seats during their favorite song as they asked to stay, but they also pulled my other two guests, the both parents of U.S. Air Force Sergeant David Saravia, who died December 31st at 29. They're also the parents of an active duty military member. This was the first event the parents had attended since first Sergeant Saravia's death. So of course, this is almost like stolen valor. Like uh like you have any relation to these people and like some sort of semblance where, well, I have gone through this ordeal. My son died. Therefore, they shouldn't enforce the rules on me. My son died, so just let me steal. I it doesn't it again, it doesn't make any sense. She said they went and found them in the dirt and yanked them out. Yanked them out. Yeah, you mean they escorted them away from where they didn't have tickets to be? This is all against my request. Yeah, your request means nothing in lieu of the rules, as it turns out. She said, I've requested the security footage of everything that transpired last night from every angle, of any time I was in or near the shoot, of when they pulled the little kids out of the suite, or when they escorted me out of Harris County Stadium. I was promised the footage in the morning tomorrow, Thursday. That's today. I hope it is provided without funny business in terms of missing or blocked angles or important timestamps. This recording is of Chris Bowman, the CEO and president of HLSR, asking me for proof that I was manhandled, and then him and his men blocking me from speaking to the people who saw the incident, which is the clip I just played. If this is how they treat me, by virtue of my position, the again, the ex officio director of the rodeo, landlord, because NRG Stadium belongs to Harris County and leases to the rodeo. How do they treat everybody else? Actually, you're not the landlord. I know this is confusing because you don't understand a representative republic. You know who the landlord is? It's us. It's we, the people of Harris County. Right? It's actually not you at all. You were elected to serve maybe as like the manager at best. You're like a mid-level manager for the actual people you represent. And I can almost guarantee you the people you represent are not on your side. The people that you're supposed to represent are not going to sit there and agree with you and nod their heads and say, Oh yeah, I I can't believe that someone could be treated this way. I can't believe that someone who breaks the rules and is still kindly asked to return to their seats. There's no violence, nothing like that. You're asked to return to your seats, and then you refuse to comply, is then physically escorted out. I I just can't believe that would ever happen in my Harris County. Again, this is this is the exact abuse of power that I've been talking about all day, where you have people who think by virtue, and she literally says that by virtue of my position. As if that's sort some sort of grandiose claim that entitles her to extra benefits. That's the way she views the office. And unfortunately, that's the way a lot of the people in our politics view their position. They they see that they get elected and all of a sudden they're all that. They're in charge of you. You bow down to them. And anyone who doesn't, anyone who says, actually, that's against the rules, you can't do that, well, now they're manhandling you and they're yanking you. And they're not letting you get evidence. They're not letting you get proof. Uh no, they're just saying you're not allowed to be there, and we're not gonna let you go back over there. If you want to come later with a police investigation and you want to deal and you want to go that route rather than just admit maybe you were being you know, maybe you were being a little bit of a jerk, and and maybe you were being a little bit in the wrong here. Rather than just admit that, because I I can guarantee you, this is what's so surprising me. It's the same thing I said when when the whole thing with Tony Gonzalez came out, when it turned out he just straight up lied about never having an affair, and everyone was like, that's just obviously not true. Then the text messages got late. He said, Okay, maybe that maybe there was an affair. Okay, maybe there was. Here's the crazy thing the left never seems to understand about personal responsibility. You actually earn respect by just being responsible for the things that you do wrong. Because everyone makes mistakes. Everyone, myself included, we all make mistakes. And the difference between a good leader and a bad leader is not who makes the mistakes, it's which leader is willing to own up and take responsibility for them. Because I can almost guarantee you this is gonna come out either way, because it happened. People were there, it was gonna be in the news. If you'd come out and you'd said, I I behaved inappropriately, I was confused. Like you could even try to give yourself a little excuse. I was confused. I'd always been allowed there before. I thought I was being targeted, I didn't really understand the situation. I mean, you're telling on yourself by releasing the audio clips that nobody else had. You could have just kept those private and and and you could have just said, Look, I was in the wrong. I was I was clearly acting disrespectfully because I was confused, but I acted in the wrong and I should have just left when they asked me to. I was trying to have a debate rather than listen to the security personnel, and I'm sure I made their job harder, and I apologize. Do you know how much people would have respected that, including me, by the way? I would have come out and said, This is surprising. And I'm proud of the person who did that. That that would have got that would have garnered applause from people if they would have seen you taking. Responsibility for poor actions. If you'd have come out and said, you know, I I acted erratically, I was frustrated, I felt entitled because I've always been allowed to be in there. I didn't understand why I wasn't being allowed in there at this time. It didn't really make sense to me. And so I was having a debate and we got into it, and so that they they escorted me out, and I deserved that. And I apologize for my behavior to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Do you know, do you understand that people would have had enormous respect for that? That there would have been actually quite a high level of understanding for you, actually. Uh I'm sure there still would have been the conversation about, well, yeah, but I mean I just can't believe how you were confused or this or that. But we would have we would have all been forced to say, good on you for for owning up to that. And good on you for being honest about it, and good on you for taking responsibility for your actions and admitting that you made a mistake, as we all do. But you didn't do that. Instead, you tried to weasel your way out of it. You tried to appear like the good guy who was standing up for women of color in your post, who tried to act like you were violated and manhandled and yanked, and you released all these audio clips that, by the way, it's it's i I saw a video on social media the other day where this person was saying, confrontation with a racist. And it's this black woman who's recording this white guy who had said she was she was behaving inappropriately. And she said he must have been racist. That's why he was doing it. So she recorded this interaction between them, and I don't remember the full contents of the interaction, but all of the comments on social media were, why would you upload this? Like if you just made a post where you talked about it and said this happened, people might have been on your side. But then you added in the audio clips, you added in the video recording of what you actually said and did and what the other guy said, and now he seems completely reasonable. He seems like he's certainly in the right, and you were behaving. If you were behaving anything like you were in the video, you were almost certainly behaving inappropriately. You're signing your own death warrant. And so when she posts all this stuff, expecting, oh, people will certainly hear this and think that I'm not behaving erratically, which by the way, the guy who runs the thing literally in the vid in the audio recording, as you heard him say, the only one behaving like in an accelerated energy, pointing fingers at people and being disrespectful is you. No one else here is doing that. Like, yeah, maybe they did grab you. Maybe they did try to forcefully escort you out because you weren't leaving. But no one else here is acting disrespectful and high energy and rude. It it's it's just you. And the audio clip makes that incredibly clear. And so she can get all the video footage she wants from the from the security cameras, and she can perform whatever investigation she wants. I have a feeling, I have a very, very deep entrenched feeling that yet again it's going to highlight the same thing that we already know from all of the details, which is that Lena Hidalgo behaved erratically, that she tried to take seats that were not hers at a sold-out concert, that she then tried to use the victim status of parents of a deceased uh of a deceased military member as some sort of basis for committing the fraud that she wanted to commit. And it just doesn't make any sense. Because I can promise you right now, the people that were the parents, the parents of the the parents who lost their son in the military and had another active duty military member would not have been upset uh uh getting to be in the suite at the livestock show and rodeo. I I don't think if you were to ask them, would you been upset with being in the suite that night? Would that have bothered you if you'd been taken by the Harris County judge and gotten to sit in the suite and watch the concert? I I have a very deep feeling they're gonna say, no, it wouldn't have been a big deal at all. She is using them, as she does all the time, the same that she did on that uh quote unquote field trip where she tried to use the kids to bully the commissioner's court into voting for her childcare program. She's using people, right? She can't just do it by base of her own virtue, even though she adds that in there. It's well, I was just trying to be kind to the people who've served, whose children are in the military and who've died. I I was trying to do a good thing and they manhandled me. And no one's, I'm sorry to let you know, no one's buying it. With that being said, uh you know what, instead of going to the break, I'm just gonna go ahead and go through this because I promise we get to it in this segment, and I don't want to go back on that. Let's go ahead and jump over real quickly uh to this story. A group of Islamic schools and Muslim parents are suing the Texas Comptroller's office. This lawsuit came out yesterday, accusing state leaders of religious discrimination for blocking Islamic schools from Texas's$1 billion private school voucher program, which marks now the second lawsuit to come out this month against the voucher program uh that was pitched last year as a an affordability measure for families to choose the education that works best for their students. This latest lawsuit challenges the ComTroller's decision to pause accepting or inviting Islamic schools to the program while state leaders review whether the schools have ties with the Council of American Islamic Relations or other organizations that have been labeled foreign terrorist organizations. A claim, of course, that the Muslim advocacy group disputes. And it's so interesting that I just got to have John Guandolo on the other day because this was all highlighted as being a sham. He said, look at what they teach in Islamic schools. You want your and again, you connect this back to school choice. Do you want your taxpayer dollars to fund teaching children that their goal is to make sure Sharia law is the law of the land in America? Is that, even if they weren't connected to foreign terrorist groups, is that a rightful use of our tax dollars? Absolutely not. Well, religious freedom. Yeah, Christianity is not teaching them to enforce Sharia law, right? We're not being taught in Christian schools. I promise you. I I knew a lot of people who went to Christian school. And Christian schools are not nearly as radical as a Christian political commentator. They're not teaching kids that their goal in life through their education is to take over America. That that's not a goal in Christian school. And so it's not even a religious discrimination argument. It's a discrimination against anti-American values and anti-American ideology. And what it really is, revolutionary ideology. It is a it is a measure to protect the Texas taxpayers. And so the lawsuit, which was again filed yesterday, calls the exclusion of Islamic schools unlawful. Uh Bayon Academy, one of the one of the plaintiffs, is a law is an Islamic virtual school with a business location in Galveston County. It was previously the only Islamic school approved for state-funded vouchers. However, the lawsuit states that after they were named as the only Islamic school, it was immediately removed from the state's website. The school never received an explanation why from the controller's office, other than, you know, you're an Islamic school and we didn't think about it at the time. And so the filing reads: there is no secular non-discriminatory criterion that would explain the blanket exclusion of every eligible Islamic school generally, or the school plaintiffs particularly, while schools of other religious affiliations have been approved through the same process under the same statutory criteria. So Texas families, as we're all well aware, have until March 17th to apply for the state funded vouchers called Texas Education Freedom Accounts, which provides uh like$2,000 for homeschool families, like$10,000 for regular students of a public school,$30,000 uh for families of children with disabilities. I think the average is expected to be about$10,400 for tuition, uh, which will prioritize, of course, students with disabilities, low to middle income families, and it'll be a sort of lottery system for those students. And of course, you also have acting Texas controller Kelly Hancock, who said that his office is investigating the funding sources of all Islamic schools that have applied for the program. Uh, he said, depending on what we find out, we may have to ask for more information. There are statutes that limit us from entering into contracts with foreign adversaries for those connected to terrorist organizations. So this is a contract. And when they come in and sign up, they're signing a contract to do business with the state. That's why we have to make sure we look at all legislation and all statutes and comply within those. But of course, the group that is suing the state disagrees with that. Three Islamic schools, including again one of the Houston area, and three parents with children in Islamic schools, have come together to accuse the controller's office of religious discrimination, arguing the investigation of Islamic schools is not mere administrative delay. It is, in practical effect, a denial. Which is probably true, by the way. That actually I do agree with. Since they only have five days until the end of the application period, if you want your child to attend an Islamic school, if that's your goal, and by March 17th, there's no eligible Islamic schools they can apply to with the voucher program, then you're not going to apply and you were discriminated against. So I do actually agree that ends up being a denial uh through the investigation. But that doesn't actually change the merits of the investigation whatsoever. That doesn't actually change that we have an obligation to make sure that wherever we're sending taxpayer dollars is worthy of receiving taxpayer dollars. And when you talk about Islamic schools and what they teach, and this is again what John was saying, former FBI special agent John Guandolo, who led the counterism counter-terrorism task force, who has done 20 years of research into Islam and into jihad, what he will tell you, without reasonable doubt, is that every single legitimate Muslim has the same goal, whether they achieve that through violence or they achieve that through, in this case, lawsuits, by saying, well, well, this is religious discrimination. They're trying to use our own constitution against us in order to overtake us, to invade and to take us over. That's their end goal. We all understand that. That's not even controversial. They literally admit this. Like their imams are honest and say, this is our end goal. We weren't able to do it through violence, it wasn't working, they were stronger or whatever. And so now we have a new method, and this method is working out much better. We weren't able to take Vienna by the sword for hundreds of years, but now look at the Muslim population there. We're winning. So they all admit this. This is this is well known. And the fact of the matter is that when you when you take a look at what's happening in these schools and what they're teaching, there is no justification for my money going to those schools. It does not make any sense. It's actually evil, it's a huge misuse of taxpayer dollars. And at the end of the day, the harsh reality is that this is the argument they have to make if they want to have the influence that they've had for years now, where they just get to come in and they get to take your money to continue to indoctrinate children into anti-American ideology with the end goal of destroying Western and Christian civilization. Fully admitted. With that being said, after the break, we're gonna come back, and I teased this earlier, but after this break, in the next segment, we're gonna come back, we're gonna have Denise Bell on the chapter, Harris County Chapter Chair for Moms for Liberty to talk about, speaking of Islam and all this stuff going on, this Ramadan display that was put up over in Bunker Hill ISD, right outside of Houston, and talk a little bit about what happened there, how that was allowed to happen, all the details surrounding it, all of that when we get back from the break. As always, if you would like to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. 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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative brought to you by Textellent AC Service. On the line, as I teased in the last segment, we have Denise Bell from Harris County Moms for Liberty coming on to talk with us a little bit about Bunker Hill ISD. Welcome to the show, Denise. Good morning, Michael. Thanks so much for having me. And thanks so much for giving us your time. I know it's early, especially with the time change. Things have been all out of whack, uh, but I appreciate you coming on. I want to kick it off talking a little bit about Bunker Hill ISD, this sort of PTA committee and and what they are and kind of what went on. So full, full kind of like background going into what happened here.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:19

So it's actually Spring Branch ISD, and it was Bunker Hill Elementary, which is a school in the memorial area. And that school has a committee that I think is fairly new. I want to say it's this is the first year for it. I could be wrong on that, but I think I read that it was a new committee called the Cultural Awareness Committee. Um and this person is or the person that chairs that committee is a Muslim. And um she is the one that put up the display that I posted about uh regarding Ramadan.

SPEAKER_12 1:22:54

Right. I mean, by the way, just a just a side note for our listeners, I don't even understand why we need a cultural awareness committee for our public schools. I don't even know what that entails, much less why it would be good for students to be aware of various cultures. We have a culture, actually, as it turns out here in America, and uh you're pretty aware of it if you just live here. Like we have Go Texas Day, for instance.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:15

Exactly. And so this display, I guess Ramadan this year falls between February and April, and um this person had decided to put up a display that was very religious in nature in the lobby of Bunker Hill Elementary, but it was also in other parts of the school, and I was not aware of the um prolificness of that display until I saw a different article with um a photo that you can see different pictures than I had um when you look at the photo you can see religion um have a blinking remedy. Um we don't think anything with any other religion that might be decorating the whole like I've never seen have a belief or have a blink according to one part of the problematic religion. Um you do see different decorated with those symbols, and while you may argue that um it's not an official symbol of it is still very prolific in the architecture of worship, right? So that's that's a problem. You don't usually see for Easter in public schools, you would see something more secular, um, something that's been commercialized, like Easter eggs, Easter bunny, right? Springtime decor, like um flowers and chicks and things like that. You don't see overtly religious displays at school.

SPEAKER_12 1:25:19

Right. You see the secular versions of them, which I I I think there's two issues I have with this. One, it's the whole culture thing in general. Here in America, I know that the left hates this. I know that those of us, uh those, those who are explicitly anti-American hate this and anti-Christian. But America actually is a Christian nation. So even if there were certain Christian religious themes, that would be part of American culture, and I would argue it would be entirely acceptable as different to any other religion. But even on the basis of the fact that this is religious discrimination, even if that stuff weren't true and we didn't have the right to put up crosses and and what have you, even if that weren't the case, how many times I I know that I didn't attend public school, I was homeschooled. Denise, how many times have you seen in a public school them put up an empty tomb on Easter?

SPEAKER_04 1:26:03

Never. Never. And I've been a parent for 20 years. I have four kids and they've all gone through the public school system. My youngest is in middle school, so we're still in the thick of it. And I have never seen an overtly Christian display out of school. I don't think I've ever seen a nativity. And quite honestly, the law in Texas, to your point, does allow that. Um you can have a nativity, you can have traditional winter symbols, according to the Merry Christmas law that we have, that I think was um have in maybe 2013. Don't quote me on that, I could be wrong. But the Merry Christmas Law does say that you can have a nativity or a menorah or other traditional winter symbols as long as you are not promoting a particular religion with them. So if you have them together as an example like a menorah and a nativity, I think that's what the law is saying. But those are traditional cultural celebrations in the United States because the United States is founded on traditional Christian principles. And another thing, Michael, if I may, that you were you mentioned, the fact that this display is what greeted the parents when they came onto the campus to participate in Go Texan Day, which you and I know is a very important day here in Houston culturally because it's what takes off the rodeo. And all the crossens will often celebrate it with line dancing and floor dancing, and the parents are a lot of the times invited to come and participate in that and watch it. Um and so the kids are all checked out and left room here. It's a very it's a fun day. And you know what? It's a it's a day that unite Newtonians together, regardless of your religious background, because the rodeo is for everybody, right? So it would be very appropriate to walk into a pool and expect to be like left room decorations, right? You would expect You you would expect to see all of that, and instead this was like kind of a a flap in a phase to the culture that we celebrate here in Houston, in my opinion. It just wasn't appropriate at all for a number of reasons. And this is nothing against anyone that is, you know, for celebrating Ramadan, it's just not appropriate in the school. And the other thing is the school district has a neutrality policy, and that policy um it does prevent religious symbols from being displayed in the school. And a lot of that pertains to the teachers, you know, not being able to display their religion on the wall in their classroom. Um they also have a neutrality policy that uh speaks to political symbols, so you can't wear, you know, something on your lanyard or a button that that says a particular political ideology. And you can you can think about what that might be, right? Like a particular flag that might have been prevalent on lanyards in the past, but those can't be displayed anymore. So the fact that this school has that political and religious neutrality is really important. Um and then again with the state laws and the traditional symbols, this display just violated all of that.

SPEAKER_12 1:29:15

Right. And I think one of the things to me that that sticks out with this particular story is of course that the district itself and the school itself kind of wants to play this sort of move the monkey over here game where they say, well, that that wasn't us, that was the cultural committee, we've taken it down. They kind of want to come in as the heroes of the story, saying, Yeah, we do have a neutrality policy, don't worry. Uh it's been taken down. It's like, yeah, but how did it get approved in the first place? How was it put up? And why did it only come down after it was reported on? What why why was it waited until people started asking questions about it?

SPEAKER_04 1:29:47

Right. I and I don't have the answers to that, Michael. I I don't know what happened here. And um maybe this particular principle is new-ish, I've heard. And so maybe they weren't completely aware of the policy. But I will say this, and I'm I'm not accusing anyone of this in this situation, but we do see oftentimes in education boundary pushing um to see how far you can get with something to make a point, even. Um, and there are plenty of activists in education who will push those boundaries, right? So um parents always have to stay aware and vigilant and understand policies and what their rights are. It's so important for parents to pay attention. And if something doesn't seem right, speak out about it, right? Don't be afraid um about you can you can confront something in a nice way and be respectful, but still point out that this doesn't seem to be accurate or appropriate in a public school. Remember, public schools are funded by your tax dollars, right? So we pay for this and um things better be by the book of the law.

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Right. And and again, what's crazy to me is we live at a time in American culture where, for the most part, we're actually very, very tolerant at as a country in terms of what you believe. And and so like the the things that we've legalized, we have Islamic schools, which is a whole nother conversation. We have Islamic schools all over the state where if you want Ramadan displays and you want you want religious literature and you want religious, you know, not not extremism, but you want religious ideology prevalent in your school, you're more than welcome to have that uh as a private institution. But the fact of the matter is that you're coming in to an overtly public school funded by tax dollars, you're serving on the this this PTA, you're serving on this committee, this cultural awareness committee, which means your obligations are no longer to your religion, they're no longer to your ideology. Your obligations as a public school is to the people of that school, not to your religious institution as it would be if you wanted. Same with me. If I want if I want my kids to have, you know, uh overtly Christian things taught, I can send them to a Christian school or I can homeschool. But why in the world would I pick a public school that I know has these neutrality policies and try to push the boundaries on it rather than just say, well, that's not what that's for. And so the fact that they're doing this, I think, is is a point in and of itself. But again, as as Monster Liberty has frequently pointed out, this is one of so many different issues going on inside our public schools. And I I wanna segue this for a moment as we're getting close to wrapping up here. I want to segue this over and talk with you just for a moment about you guys' upcoming meeting because I'm hearing that you're gonna go over what's called comprehensive sex ed and how it's just another on the list of things the public school is doing uh with our children. Can we talk a little bit about that for a moment?

SPEAKER_04 1:32:40

Absolutely. So this is a really important topic, and parents do need to be much more informed. Um, comprehensive sex ed is not just sex ed. So, you know, when I was growing up, we had a biology lesson basically that taught us how the human body functions, what to expect during puberty, um, what to expect, you know, what what sexual reproduction is and how a baby is created and all those things. And I would argue that that those are important things to know. Um, however, comprehensive sex ed is above and beyond a biology lesson in a very negative way. Um comprehensive sex ed teaches things like media, pleasure, gender ideology. It's it's a whole um lot of things that is beyond just reproduction and it's completely inappropriate for schools. In Texas, we don't usually have full-on comprehensive textbooks, but we're going that direction, and parents need to understand what it is so that they can fight back against it and understand that they're called with it. We have a wonderful speaker coming in, Monica Klein. She used to work for Planned Parenthood. Um, now she has an organization called It Takes the Family, and she has tremendous knowledge on what the left is basically pushing in this arena. And so she's gonna talk about the dark history um behind those organizations like Planned Parenthood and just you know some other brilliant favorite characters in history, like Alfred Kinsey and John Money, which I'm not gonna go into right now, but these were very, very evil thick men that did atrocious things to children. And unfortunately, they have greatly influenced um in our country. So she's gonna talk about the history, she's gonna talk about what comprehensive effect is, all the things that I just mentioned once more, and then also understanding your rights um as a parent. In the state of Texas, we have um a new law that was kind of in effect before, but it wasn't it wasn't codified, it wasn't a law in the state. Um, and that is that parents have the right to opt in to check ed. And this is a really important distinction between opt-in and opt out. Opting out means a permission flip to go home with my child and stay in the backpack, and I would never see it about that, potentially. And then the kid wouldn't go back to school with an opt-out form signed by me, and they would receive sex ed because I didn't opt them out. And that happened a lot in the past, okay. But now with the the new law, um parents are required to opt in to sex education, and that's an important parent empowerment point because your child is not going to receive sex ed unless you actually intend for them to, and you find the permission form. So it's an important distinction that parents should understand. Um, but then secondly, understanding that you have the right to review that curriculum ahead of time, you have a right to go through it and tools need to make it available to you so that if they don't, you you know that you can go to the district and say, This is this is my right. I have the right to be able to see this curriculum ahead of time that I'm opting into. So just informing parents of the rights is of a lot of what we do, we are always trying to educate and empower and unite parents as part of our mission statement.

SPEAKER_12 1:36:16

Of course. So, how can our listeners keep up to date not only of that event, but all the events you have coming up to make sure they're they're in the know and can learn all this information?

SPEAKER_04 1:36:25

So if you just Google us um at moms for liberty Harris, you should be directed to our portal. And from there, you can email me. Uh my email is is right on the page. You just click message to me. But then also I usually post all of our upcoming events on the portal. And our current meeting is on there. If you just scroll down, you can um see the graphic that I have about our March 25th meeting. It will be at 12 p.m. On March 25th. We do not post our meeting location for various reasons because we really care about our participants and we want to make sure everybody is safe. Um, so that is something that you will receive once you register. I usually send the meeting location out a couple of days in advance. But the registration is right on the website there.

SPEAKER_12 1:37:10

Perfect. Well, Denise, I appreciate you for coming on again. Uh, this has been Denise Bell from Harris County Moms for Liberty. I appreciate you giving us your time. Uh and more importantly, for making sure that everyone is well aware of the things that are going on in public school, from comprehensive sex ed to Ramadan displays, whatever it may be. I appreciate you and Moms for Liberty for keeping everyone informed and for keeping our government accountable to what they're actually supposed to teach our children. Thanks so much, Denise, for giving us your time this morning. Thanks so much, Michael. It was my pleasure. Absolutely. With that being said, ladies and gentlemen, when we get back from the break, we're gonna wrap up the show this morning talking about ICE, because Houston police have now announced uh that ICE agents are going to kind of be changing the way that Houston police cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. If you want to text in, this is your last chance to do so. The number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. Don't go anywhere, because I will be right back to wrap up the show after the break.

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I've got a couple texts in, uh, which if I know anything about myself, as I as I think that I do, I know that the responding to these is probably going to take the rest of the segment. So if you are excited about hearing how Houston police is changing their cooperation with ICE, with Federal Immigration Enforcement, um, and what that shift sort of looks like, I'm i it's a big enough thing that just has happened over the past day or so with this big announcement from the Houston police chief. So I'm sure that this will get covered on the show. Depending on what comes out today, you just never know. If there's like a hundred stories that drop today about things that Harris County is doing and whatnot, it could change. But I I will I will highly encourage everyone to tune in tomorrow from 6 to 8 a.m. I'll be here on the air, and I'm sure that that will certainly come up. But um, you know, the I I got a couple decks in that I I want to cover, and this is far more important than me covering all the stories that I wanted to get to. So let me answer all the questions to get in. The first says, Good morning, Lone Star Conservative. I heard you on air this past Tuesday afternoon, and I was excited that you were back in the afternoons again. I must have missed something. I hoped to hear you again on Wednesday afternoon before Dana comes on, but not so blessed. We love your show, my friend. I I greatly appreciate that. Yeah, we did two two Tuesday one-hour specials. That was uh this this past Tuesday, two days ago, and the Tuesday before. We did from 5 to 6 p.m. We called it Telgi Tuesday. We had Telgee Roofing come on to start off the show and then cover some of the updated news there in the afternoon. Um we're gonna have Telgee Roofing on again this upcoming Tuesday morning at 7 a.m. and the following Tuesday morning at 7 a.m. Uh but I will be sure to keep you guys updated on any changes with the show, on any updates with the show. If I'm gonna be on in the afternoon, I'll make sure that I I you know promote that during the morning show uh so that you guys are aware and can tune in anytime that we are gonna be on at any point that is not on my normal morning show. So if we have a Saturday event or I'm gonna be on any afternoon, I'll let you guys know and keep you updated with any changes coming to the station. But again, I greatly appreciate you guys' encouragement in that. The next deck says, Is there a podcast or recording with the interview you spoke of with John Guandolo? I've invited his team to conduct trainings about stopping Islamization of Harris County. And the answer to that question is yes. We now have a podcast of every episode on Spotify and Apple by just searching for the Lone Star Conservative on Spotify and Apple podcasts. You can find every day. I don't know exactly when it goes live. I I I published it sometime within about 15 to 30 minutes after the show. So I'm I'm sure by some time this morning or this afternoon, today's episode will be up, but that was on Tuesday, so you can go check that out. The last one says, Thank you for another good news story. Hopefully, we are beyond Lena Hidalgo news. I really cannot wait until she's just gone. I know she'll she's not gonna run for reelection, so she's not in, but I can't wait until she's officially out of any sort of authority. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks everyone to the Textins for the tune ins. You've been listening to Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. Enjoy the rest of your Thursday and Godspeed.