Free Speech Lawsuits, A Mayor Under Investigation, And A School Choice Showdown

A Texas State University professor praises political violence at an anarchist conference and then argues the First Amendment protects him from being fired. We break down what the Constitution actually says, why “Congress shall make no law” matters, and how state sovereignty changes the analysis when a state-funded university decides it will not subsidize certain ideologies with taxpayer dollars.

Then the tone shifts to a disturbing local government story: the Magnolia mayor faces allegations of assault and sexual harassment from the city secretary, and after an internal process stalls, the Texas Rangers get involved. We talk through the realities of power dynamics at work, what “he said, she said” means for due process, and why transparency is not optional when public trust is on the line.

Charles Blain from Urban Reform joins us for a rapid local recap, including the bizarre reality of a convicted county judge still serving until sentencing, “dead homeowner” homestead exemptions that may be distorting property tax fairness, HISD moves to hand off high-performing schools, and a firefighters arbitration loss the public still can’t fully see. We also dig into the Ken Paxton and Kelly Hancock rift over Texas school choice and Islamic school eligibility, plus the Texas House interim charges that signal where elections, education, immigration enforcement, energy, water, and regulatory fights are headed next.

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and this show is brought to you by Textellent AC Service. Apologies for those technical difficulties. They should be all fixed. Now we got a few texts in letting us know. I appreciate you guys for letting us know. Uh those should be all rectified. Everything should be clear. Feel free at any point, by the way, to text in. If something goes out or something seems a little off, feel free to text in, let us know. It's 713-779-5978. Of course, that's also our text in line for any questions, disagreements, things that you'd like to hear reported on. With that being said, here in this segment, we're going to kick it off talking about a Texas State University professor. Um, his name is Idris Robinson, who has the in he's in termination proceedings right now. I think the termination date that it officially goes through is May 31st, so a couple of months out after he spoke in favor of political violence at an anarchist conference a couple of years ago in 2024. According to a video of that event that was posted to social media in 2025, so about a year after the event, Robinson was talking about the October 7, 2023 attack uh from terrorists in Hamas who went into Israel. And he said that the massacre was a blueprint for humanity. During that same speech, he also stated that he fetishized riots in his academic research, and that an act in which the terrorist takes the life of the oppressor was a form of divine violence. And so Texas State notified Robinson of his impending termination in July of last year after those remarks were brought to its attention. And of course, then it went through all the proceedings and all the proper channels, and it's now slated for May 31st of this year for that termination to become official. Now, the First Amendment lawsuit alleges that Texas State violated his first amendment right to speak as a private citizen on a matter of public concern. Robinson also alleges a series of bureaucratic procedural violations as part of the termination process. The lawsuit further states that Robinson's termination will cause irreparable harm because there is also no demand for academic philosophy in the private sector. Beyond the scope of this lawsuit, Robinson also went to a UK-based website and said that, quote, I definitely do not condemn the violence used in the Palestinian resistance. The website that he spoke to, it just so happens to also have an entire section on their website dedicated to promoting Islamist narratives and violence. Robinson also spoke in favor of insurgency and rebellion at an event held in Seattle in July 2020, which was, of course, shortly after uh Black Lives Matter was allowed in Seattle with their rioters to create a police free autonomous zone in the center of the city. This is, of course, the second recent lawsuit alleging First Amendment violations by Texas State specifically. A previous lawsuit, filed by a professor who's terminated after calling for the overthrow of the U.S. government, remains tied up in the courts. It's still an ongoing lawsuit, still facing litigation. And Texas State has come out and said they don't comment on ongoing litigation, so they're not going to discuss the details of this case. Uh, but one thing that I kind of want to point to is this, as always, this fundamental misunderstanding of our constitution that's allowed a lot of these things to transpire. Because I'm a I'm a big free speech guy. But what I mean by that is different than what a lot of people mean. Right? You'll have what are called free speech absolutists that you can say whatever you want, essentially with no consequences, that speech cannot be a reason for any sort of response at all, at least from a political perspective. Then of course, I can then call out your speech and debate it, but there can't be any sort of repercussions from a government entity regarding your speech, which I personally believe is not only an insane opinion, but is directly in contradiction with what our founders believed and envisioned for our country. I also think it's a massive harm to state sovereignty, and the founders believed that as well. This is why uh you can you can sort of look, right, at two amendments, two in the Bill of Rights, one after the other, one and two, to find out what the founders intended.

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Right.

Why Gun Rights Need Local Defense

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When you look at the First Amendment, they make it very clear, Congress shall shall make no law. Now, if you're gonna stipulate a specific group, why would you do that? If the First Amendment was entitled was was uh designed essentially to apply to all governments, why would you specify that Congress shall make no law relating to blank? And we know that it's not just because they wanted pretty language, because when they get to the Second Amendment, they don't use that. It's not in the rest of the Bill of Rights, right? They specifically say in the Second Amendment these rights shall not be infringed. They make it it's a very different utterance as opposed to the First Amendment. And so we can see just right off the bat, right out of the gate, that there is a a vast cavernous difference between Congress making no law and law and rights not being infringed. And you know this because the very things that are contained in the first amendment, it's not just freedom of speech, it's also freedom of the press, freedom of religion that we pull out of that, freedom of association. And we all understand that freedom of religion is looked at very differently today than it was back then. Because again, back then they had no problem with religious standards in states. The issues they had were largely federal ones, issues of potential tyranny from a centralized federal government. And so they stood strong on that that that concept, on that principle. And you had states that had churches, you had states that had that had denominations, you had states that were definably Quaker, states that were definitely Puritan, Baptist, Presbyterian, you had d numerous different denominations that had their own say in specific states, as opposed to the fact that the federal government didn't have that, because it would have been a violation of the Constitution of the rights of the people. And so those things are different. When you're discussing the sovereign of the state of Texas to say, hey, we're we're subsidizing this university. This university falls under the authority of the state government, and we don't feel comfortable paying a professor to educate our young people, who is essentially a crazy person who is not only content with, but admits that he fetishizes this sort of political violence, sees it as divine violence, sees it as fully justifiable. Right, regardless, by the way, of your position on what's happened over in the Middle East, because I there are plenty of people whose large position, at least, is I don't want to be involved in it at all. It's not really our business. Especially not when I mean maybe if we had zero issues that we were nearly perfect, we didn't have a debt crisis, we didn't have an issue with homelessness or welfare abuse or uh or a criminal justice system issue or mass immigration, right? E if we had fixed all those things, maybe then we could have a conversation about being involved in foreign affairs, we're not there. And so a lot of these foreign entanglements are not our business in the first place. That is a perfectly reasonable position to hold. It's the position I hold, it's the position many of my peers hold. Um not all of them, but many of them. And so when you look at this, this isn't really the question. The question is not, you know, whether or not we should be involved. The question then takes it a step further. Well, do you think it's justified to slaughter human beings for this reason? And again, really regardless of your answer, because the question isn't even whether he's right, it's whether Texas, as a state, has the sovereignty to say you have no authority to teach our young people if you're a lunatic. We do not want lunatics in charge of the education of our young people. You can say, Well, I was speaking as a private citizen. Yes, but you've shown us your character and your ideology. And that's not the sort of character and ideology of what we expect for those that educate our kids, for those that educate our young people, um, into what they will largely believe for the rest of their life. We want better than that. We demand better than that. And that's not a violation of the First Amendment. But of course, people have fundamentally misunderstood the the First Amendment for generations, for decades, and it's been used as a weapon, as a battering ram to force states to comply with a principle they were never supposed to comply with. To force states essentially uh to take positions on things that they were not required to take. We're allowed to fire professors who are not abiding by our standards, or at least we should be. And so it's not even a First Amendment issue at all because it's not related to Congress. It's related to the state government, it's related to a state college. And those are very different things, and that that sort of matters. And again, you can directly contrast that with the Second Amendment, where you concede that it has nothing to do with the federal government or just federal tyranny. It has to do with any government, local, state, federal. And this is why they say the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. And with that contrast, it's also worth me pointing out that this is why you should join with our sponsor, Gun Owners of America. Gun Owners of America understands the Constitution very clearly. And what the Second Amendment, as opposed to other amendments in the Bill of Rights, was supposed to protect. And the Second Amendment was supposed to protect every single person's right here in the U.S., right? Every single citizen's right. Um and that that means the Second Amendment must be defended at the local, state, and federal level. And Gun Owners of America does exactly that. They do that through, of course, campaigns for good candidates, and by nature against bad candidates. They do that through lobbying for good bills, and by contrast, obviously that means fighting against bad bills that would violate your rights. And they're even willing to go uh, you know, through lawsuits against tyrannical policies that violate your rights. But that requires the support of their members. That also requires the support of those who are not yet members but need to be members. And to become a member, you can go to goahhouston.com. It is a$25 annual membership,$25 per year, that goes back to the lawsuits, the campaigns, the lobbyists. Again, that is G-O-Ahouston.com. So with that being said, we'll of course keep an eye on that ongoing, you know, lawsuit, find out where it's gonna go, what the courts are gonna ultimately rule about it, decide on it. But with that being said, after the break, we're gonna jump over and we're gonna discuss this Texas Rangers investigation into the Magnolia mayor after the city secretary is now alleging assault and sexual harassment. The alleged victim's fiance says fear and intimidation prevented an immediate police report, but now all this is coming out. So the Texas Rangers are now involved in this investigation to find out what happened. If you would like to text in, let us know your thoughts on any of the stuff we're talking about, or maybe even things that we're not talking about, things that you want to hear more about, you can always do that at 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and I'll be right back with that investigation into the mayor of Magnolia after the break.

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So the Texas Rangers are investigating bannolia mayor Matthew Donzer after the city secretary alleged he assaulted her with sexual intent while she was pregnant. Donzer has not been formally charged with a crime yet, but there is an ongoing investigation. City Secretary Christian Gable, who is currently on maternity leave, has not publicly spoken about the allegations. Her fiance, Brian Emory, spoke on her behalf, saying his fiance is scared to return to work. He said they've silenced her. She's not allowed to speak. Uh got Gable filed with City Human Resources Department, the alleged assault occurred in October during the Texas Municipal League Conference in Fort Worth. Emory says Gable, who was pregnant at the time, texted him with safety concerns while walking back to the Omni Hotel with Donzer. The complaint states that Donzer commented on her loose pants and to pull them down, she replied saying, Um, you know, I'll kill you. Don't do that. Emory said the situation escalated near the hotel valet area. He grabbed her by the throat and pinned her against the big silver pillar right there in front of the valet and held her. She fought him off and yelled at the valet. According to the complaint, Donzer later texted Gable saying, Didn't mean to be disrespectful. It was good catching up with you. Yeah, when I grabbed your throat and put you up against the pillar after I basically essentially assaulted you, uh, that was na that's my bad. I wasn't trying to be like weird. I was just kind of it was good seeing you again. When asked why Gable did not call the police, Emory said fear and intimidation played a role. He said, I literally think it comes out of the fact that she was in fear that nobody's gonna believe her. Emory said the situation escalated further after Gable returned from the trip when Doncer came into her office alone. He comes in there and slams both his hands down on the desk and just like right over top of her, it was like an intimidation thing. Eventually Gable filed a formal complaint with the city, but Emory says months passed before they learned the investigation had wrapped up. She filed a second complaint in January. They said it was just like he said she said, essentially. There's there's no evidence. So in February last month, Emory and Gable learned the Texas Rangers had launched an investigation into Donzer. The Texas Department of Public Safety released a brief statement on the matter saying, quote, this is an active and ongoing investigation by the Texas Rangers. No additional information is currently available. And so Leonard Schneider, he's the city attorney, was asked about the outcome of the city's investigation, but said the city is not going to comment while the Texas Rangers investigation is ongoing. Emory said he spoke out about how his concerns uh with how the case is being handled during a council meeting last month that Danzer did not attend. And so Donzer basically just responded to the media saying, I'm not a Texas Ranger, so you'd have to contact them or Leonard Schneider. Thank you. Emory addressed City Council earlier this month, but Donzer was absent from that meeting. Record show Donzer is not running for re-election, and his term is ending in less than two months in May. Emory said, I hope he's never allowed to do anything in the sense of power ever again. Meanwhile, Gable is scheduled to return for maternity leave on Monday. Emory says the City Council meeting is set for Tuesday to determine whether she can work remotely until his term concludes in May. But I just want to highlight, right, all these are allegations, and I understand the city's perspective, right? We don't have a lot of evidence to go on, and so you're saying he did it, he's saying he's he didn't do it. So there's not a lot here. But I would imagine if the Texas Rangers are getting involved in a full-scale investigation, you know, there might be more evidence, right? Cameras, witnesses, you know, she said she yelled out to the valet, finding out who was on staff, who was on site at the time, questioning them as to what they may have seen, right? This is going to turn into a full-blown investigation into potential misconduct. And I think I think Emory's perspective on this, her fiance's perspective on this, they're having a kid, should be it should be her husband. Let me just go ahead and say that. Uh but her fiance's position, I think, on this is is pretty straightforward and pretty fair. If you're going to do these sorts of things, if you're going to abuse your position of power, which is what this always is, right? If if you're the mayor and you have the secretary, right, it is very obvious that in any of these cases, there is certainly a level of power structure in that sort of relationship. And so when you have that sort of power dynamic, it does often result in a lot of fear and intimidation, right? It's your boss, someone who ultimately has a level of authority over you who could say, Hey, we're going to make sure that you get fired. Hey, I'm going to make your life miserable if if you come out about this, right? Or not even just saying it, but knowing that that's the case. And because of that nature of the dynamic, if this turns out to be true, which these are allegations, and as of now, as far as we know, it's he said, she said, right? We we have no other evidence than that. He's saying he didn't do it, she said he did. We have to wait for the Texas Rangers to conduct their investigation before we have any further details on the potential reality of these crimes having actually happened. But if it turns out that he did do these things, right, if that comes out to be the case with the investigation, it turns out that he did do what he's being accused of doing by this woman, I think it would I would I think it would certainly be fair to say that he should never be in a position of power ever again. Especially not in the elected position. I understand he's not running for re-election, but that would mean, say the investigation concludes halfway through April, that would mean that his term ends early. They have somebody in the interim position until the next person gets in and he's barred. He's put on a no-fly list, not for flying, but for any office in the state of Texas, bare minimum. That we say, yeah, you're not allowed, you're not eligible to run for office. We have certain standards, right? If you look at the federal government and you look at presidents, there are certain standards you have to qualify with, being a natural-born citizen. Also, the the the reality that you must be above a certain age, 35 years old. We have certain standards that we apply for our offices here in the U.S. I think it's fair to say that Texas should have a standard that you're not someone who committed some sort of assault and you're not a freak. I mean it's a fair standard for us to set as a state to say, hey, turns out you did this, then yeah, you're done. You you you can't be in any sort of political position ever again. Certainly, certainly not. I think that's a fair uh way to go. Uh but we have to wait, and with the Texas Rangers investigation, it could be well beyond May, right? He may be well out of office before any of this comes to light, before they're they've verified any of the facts or proven that, you know, not verified the facts, whatever the case may be. So we'll of course keep you guys updated on that as well as that investigation continues. In the meantime, when we get back from the break at the at the bottom of the hour, that is the last segment this hour, of course, that means we will have our weather segment going over what we expect for today, this weekend, and getting into early next week with some of the weather pattern shifts. In the meantime, if you would like to text in, as always, 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. I'll be right back with the weather to wrap up the first hour of the show after the break.

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So the Houston Metro area is about to get a classic what we'll call a spring fake out, a blast of summertime heat followed by a cold front that shows up and takes a bite out of our warmth, but not for very long. Temperatures this afternoon are going to climb into the upper eighties ahead of that cold front, which is unfortunately arriving rain-free late this evening. A cooler start of the weekend is expected, but warmer and more humid weather arrives by next week. First, we're going to break down today's cold front and look ahead to slightly cooler and less humid weather for tomorrow. We're in the midst of what forecasters like to call a persistent pattern. This simply means whatever weather the previous brought is what we'll experience that day, which is where we've been now for days, possibly even for weeks. It might seem rather boring, but today is actually a cold front day. The day starts with areas of patchy dense fog, especially in areas south of the I-10 corridor. By late this morning, fog should dissipate as temperatures warm through the eighties, mostly to partly sunny skies and ready with temperatures peaking at around eighty-eight or eighty-nine degrees, likely just shy of hitting 90 degrees for the first time this year. This boundary will be starved of moisture, meaning that there's not going to be any showers or thunderstorms expected. Instead, the main feature will be a shift in air mass, trading the sort of humidity coming from the Gulf of America for much drier conditions by tomorrow morning. Behind the front, Saturday is bringing a noticeable drop in humidity. Two-point temperatures, a key indicator of moisture in the air, gonna fall into the upper thirties north of Houston, to the upper fifties close to closer to the coast. Temperatures, however, through the day are not expected to crash. Afternoon highs will still reach the upper 70s to near 80 degrees under mostly sunny skies, but the lack of humidity will make it feel even more pleasant than that compared to our recent weather. So if you've been waiting for leave the windows open kind of day, uh tomorrow is really your best bet. By Sunday, that brief little taste of dry air already begins to kind of fade out. Winds are going to shift back onshore, pulling gulf moisture inland once again. Humidity levels are gonna creep upward, and overnight temperatures will become milder as the atmosphere recharges with moisture. The bigger question, I think, for most people than just a single day cold front drop humidity is when we might finally see meaningful rain. And a pattern more typical of late spring finally begins to shift early next week as the stubborn ridge of high pressure is going to weaken, which opens the door for small disturbances to move through the region, bringing at least a slight chance of rain by next Wednesday. At this point, rain chances look scattered and relatively light, so widespread soaking rainfall is not guaranteed just yet. However, the setup is become more promising toward the end of next week. A stronger system developing out west could increase both moisture and lift across Texas, potentially leading to better rain chances heading into Easter weekend. Still too early for us to pin down the specifics on that, but I want to keep you guys updated that maybe there is a chance for meaningful rainfall coming through the end of next week. And we'll just keep our eyes peeled for that. That'll also come with maybe a drop in temperatures as well. But tomorrow, nevertheless, is going to be a beautiful day. Get outside, enjoy it. With that being said, we go after the break at the top of the next hour, having Charles Blaine from Urban Reform on for the weekly local recap. You will not want to miss that interview. Text in at 713-779-5978. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You are listening to the Lone Star Conservative, and Lord willing, our return of Charles Blaine at the top of the next hour.

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

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Hey, Michael. Good to be with you. It's on Friday.

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Sounds like somebody's not somebody's doing another one. All these pollen almost make my voice sound like that.

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Thanks for having me. Good to be with you. Had to play around a little bit. It's another good Friday.

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No, listen, I tell you what, man, the number of times this week I've had to have my hand just right over the mute button on my microphone because of the amount of sniffling and sneezing has certainly reminded me of where I live. We'll we'll leave it there. But I can't forget the air the region in which I live because of what it does to me. With that being said, I want to kick it off talking about one of our one of one of your best friends, I think.

Convicted County Judge Still In Office

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Kyle. Kyle.

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Our friend Kyle. Uh second name Prasad. I don't know how that works. Is that one name? KP? I don't know. Is that a middle name? It's kind of weird and nobody really knows. But Kyle Prasad George. Uh last week, you and I talked about him. Uh we were waiting for jury deliberations to reach a conclusion. And literally, almost as soon as we we got off the interview, they reached a conclusion. I mean, if if they'd have done it just a couple hours sooner, we could have gone over it. So they're not. I know. They reached a conclusion, and then we heard that sentencing is not happening yet. And then we heard possibly the craziest thing, which is that KP George, I'll let you kind of paint this picture, but despite maybe a conviction, um, is still the county judge. What's so can you just give us this the kind of details here as to what happened over the last week?

SPEAKER_17 31:36

Yeah, I mean, a lot and a whole lot of nothing because he's still the still the county judge. And so he is technically under this provision where if you are a felony, you are not a felon, you are not allowed to uh hold public office. So technically he can, but since he's in office, they're uh they're opting not to remove him or even challenge his removal until at least sentencing. And then people are saying, of course, there's going to be appeals and things like that, so he might just end up serving on the full term. Um and so it's quite interesting that this this individual who has now been convicted is also still serving. And it's one of an interesting question um because he got a letter from the governor to hear from yesterday. Because of his convictions added, and so they're gonna have to do a bit of review to see if they, you know, gotta go back and do different things there, and the commissioners are taking that thing out.

SPEAKER_16 32:32

Yeah, and it's wild to me because and maybe this is just me being an old guy, who knows, but I feel like if you are convicted of these sorts of things, that should be an immediate notice that that's not the person we want in the county judge position in that seat, and we say, hey, you know what, since you've been convicted of this felony charge, uh, we're probably gonna have to have an interim person in until until the the next term.

SPEAKER_17 32:56

Yeah, I don't see why the state law does not say that they immediately vacate their seat upon conviction or something like that. That would make a lot of sense because now you're sitting there stuck with this guy who is convicted, and he is, you know, a a public uh white-collar criminal, and he's gonna be holding office until, I mean, at least May, maybe even longer. And I don't think that freaks public confidence, knowing that he is gonna be running their finances and everything else between now and then.

SPEAKER_16 33:22

Yeah, and I mean this is a wrap-up to a story we've been covering for what, over a year? I mean, we've been talking about this for a long time between Terall Patel, Antonio Scaliwag. It has been long overdue for this trial to finally come up. I I also don't know, uh I believe he's is he I I don't know the details. If he's still ongoing in that other trial for the social media stuff related to Patel separately from this case, I remember reading that those were two distinct cases, and I have not heard any updates from the other one.

SPEAKER_17 33:51

Yeah, so this case kind of came out of that one because it's from information they found out um during that case, but no, that case has not moved yet. So it's still pending, and he's gonna have to face the charges over there too, um, him and Gerald Patel. Uh, and so that's gonna be an interesting one. It's not been yet for him.

SPEAKER_16 34:06

Yeah, and it's just a crazy turn of events um that that you have this county judge who's out here violating campaign law, and it's also kind of wild. I think the wildest part of this to me is not only did he like lose, like I think he got last in the Republican primary, I mean he got like not even close, dead last. Nobody wanted him. Um but that he's now going to stay the county judge. I think the argument is until sentencing, which again is bizarre to me because why does it matter what the sentence is? Like what what relevance does that even? And I guess I'm preaching to the choir asking you this question, but what relevance does whether he's in jail, obviously if he's in jail he can't do the job while he's there, but if they give him probation or whatever they end up giving him, how is that relevant to the conversation of whether or not we want him as our county judge?

SPEAKER_17 34:50

You know, I don't know. I mean, I think there is an argument that they're making regarding that too. I've also heard a different argument from the other side, not from the other side, but uh on the other side of the same uh coin saying that it's only because that's what he's gonna have to you know surrender himself to jail. So therefore he is not technically in jail, he shouldn't be uh he shouldn't have to vacate his office until that day. So I I mean, either way, if you were a public official and it now in a convicted white-collar criminal, you should not still be able to hold public office until it's until you get sent sentenced. That makes no sense.

SPEAKER_16 35:21

This would be like the whatever her name was that had the whole water public works department corruption scandal with bribery charges. And they they take like a year to go to sentencing, which happens all the time in criminal courts. Now it's gonna be a year before we get to sentencing, and she just gets to keep working for the public works department and still handing out these contracts. It just wouldn't make any sense. It'd be crazy.

Dead Homeowner Tax Exemptions Exposed

SPEAKER_17 35:40

Exactly. Exactly. It makes no sense. That's in Fort Bend County right now. I think they should be pushing for a state law change next session, but we'll see.

SPEAKER_16 35:48

With that being said, I want to jump over and talk a little bit about this dead homeowner exemption, what's going on with that, what the policies kind of look like, what the change is. Can you give us some details on that?

SPEAKER_17 35:57

Yeah, so this is an interesting one. I've been playing around with some of the numbers from HCAP, the Heritage Committee appraisal district, and looking at all of the properties with um uh property tax exemptions that are for the over 65 class, for the disabled class, and for veterans. And what you find is when you look through a lot of even matching up with probate records and others, you find hundreds, almost maybe thousands, if confirmed, of dead homers who are still receiving this abatement for their uh their incentive on their home. So this means that they died, the homeless probably pay off, and someone else just like moved in like a child or someone else, and then never changed the name on it, so they've never lost this exemption. And so you can see some gone back decades that have just never had to be adjusted and kind of brought to today's standard. It's really interesting, and I'm it's I think it's gonna be a big deal.

SPEAKER_16 36:42

Yeah, I'm very excited to see what what kind of changes this brings in in practical terms, because obviously the policy itself uh has an intent, but the way that things often end up working out, people get a little concerned with how that will play out in in practical case examples of this actually being applied.

SPEAKER_17 36:57

Right, exactly. And that's the thing, and it really comes down to HCAT. I'm hoping that's all they do is kind of put an enforcement mechanism there because the problem is that right now, HCAT, if you die, you have to, or your family has to proactively like notify them to pull you off of the uh exemption so that the house would stop getting it. And so they don't just, you know, uh pull it if they they don't check the death notices or anything like that and cross-reference it every year. A few counties have started to do that, but not Harris. And so uh this is what we get.

HISD Hands Off Top Schools

SPEAKER_16 37:24

Yeah, I think that might even be better. I think that would be far more verifiable. Um It's like it's kind of the same thing with voter rolls. It's like why in the world? You're like, oh, we don't really know. Why do we not know? What what does that even you can tell it says PO on it? It's a it's a what do you mean you don't know how many people you you saw the mail in bad. What are you talking about? It it just I just don't understand the total lack of any sort of I don't even know any sort of organizational standards whatsoever. You have the database with all the data, you can clearly contrast that by just working with another close department. But no, we just won't do it. Let's pass policies where the homeowners I just don't understand. Yeah, I had a a guy that I I I'm close with who uh he worked for the government, and one of their favorite terms, like in the government, one of the favorite terms because they're you know lower-down employees, they're not politicians, is hurry up and wait is one of the common terms in government. That's that's kind of their position on things. But I want to jump over and talk about uh HISD kind of giving away some of their top-performing schools, how that sort of happened, why that happened. Can you give us some details on that?

SPEAKER_17 38:33

Yeah, so the final it's the final bit that's subject to review by the TEA. But so you've got the Kinder School, excuse me, the Kinder High School for Performing Arts and Visual Arts. Um, the Challenge Early uh high school will be operated by friends of Challenge Early High School. And then there are a couple others that are being shifted to these nonprofit kind of leaders or owners to run the schools. And it's it's because they're doing exceptionally well, according to the superintendent. He's saying that they're doing so good, he doesn't want to hold them back from innovating and and growing and doing everything that they can. So he's gonna kind of charter them out, let them go off on their own. Um, whereas the other side is saying, well, that's an admission that the district can't really build capacity or or is it worthy enough of these really intelligent kids?

SPEAKER_16 39:13

So I don't know how you want to look at it, but it's I don't know how you want to look at it, but I know how I looked at it the moment you said those words. It was just an immediate reaction. You said he doesn't want to hold them back. And my immediate thought was, is he saying that being a public school holds them back? Is is that the claim? Is that is that really the argument we want to make?

SPEAKER_17 39:35

Yeah, it's uh it's not it's not necessarily the best statement. And I and I don't know what the real reason is behind it. I mean, it could be the costs or other things like that as HIC is looking at um closing schools and cutting costs, and so it could be a sum of everything. But uh yeah, these kids are not gonna be held back any longer by HIC.

SPEAKER_16 39:53

Well, I'm glad to hear that, even though I can't believe our superintendent's the one that said it. Um hopefully, and again, I I think a lot of this will change. I think school choice is gonna have a massive impact. Uh, regardless of people's position on school choice, I think it's gonna undeniably have a massive impact on the way that things operate, especially since we had like 230,000 applicants. I'm sure it'll get more funding now. Uh, because that was largely the push was this is just a test. And the fact that we more than doubled it, I think is pretty solid evidence that they're gonna they're gonna call for more funding. So that'll change the entire makeup of where people want to go, what kind of school they want, if they want to go to charter schools or private schools, that'll change the whole dynamic. And as I've said the whole time, like even if like you're the world's biggest public school proponent, which I mean, hopefully you're not, but even if you are, I've said for a long time we understand that to a large degree, like it or not, capitalism and competition works. And when you look at the way that a lot of this is happening, if you want public schools to be the best versions of themselves, even if you're you're a huge supporter of the public school system, you should want them to be in competition, so they're required to get better.

SPEAKER_17 40:56

Right, right, exactly. I mean, that's how you produce the best results. We all know this, we know it inherently, we know it through our lives, and what we've seen is that is how you get the best results. And so it's frustrating to see some people stand against that or at least argue against it, but I think they'll be proven wrong when we finally get kind of through the grown pains of implementation of school choice and then get the results under our belt, and you start to see these changes in these districts that have been stagnant for years.

SPEAKER_16 41:19

Right, right. With that being said, I want to jump over and talk about the this arbitration with firefighters. Uh, can you give us some background? Because I know there's been previous stuff going on with the firefighters. What's what's this about?

SPEAKER_17 41:30

So we don't really know. I mean, there's not much information about it. This grievance was apparently uh filed against the city uh over this new CDA. There were some issues within the new CDA that they felt that the city was not holding their side of the bargain on. And so they filed a grievance, they went into arbitration so they couldn't come to an agreement, and the city lost that arbitration. And I don't know, we don't know for how much. You know, it could be millions of dollars, it could be anything under the sun. We just really don't know. But there has not been a public pronouncement or conversation from the administration, from council, from even the firefighters. And so uh all we know through leaks in the grapevine is that it existed and the city lost.

SPEAKER_16 42:07

Which can I just say for a moment that that is the most frustrating part of this is just this this consistent lack of, and I don't I don't even know that it's always being done with the fairy sentence though. Sometimes I have my suspicions. But the fact that it consistently seems like our elected officials are incapable of just telling everyone what's going on at any given moment. That we should be aware of where the money's going, why it's going there, how you made each decision that you make, each individual decision in the discussion process should be open doors and available for everyone to see. And it seems like consistently we have these issues uh with whether it's Lena saying, Yeah, we don't know how much this stadium's gonna cost, but we're building it. It's it's just consistently a total lack of transparency with the taxpayers.

SPEAKER_17 42:47

It absolutely is. It absolutely is. And they became they've come so used to this because the taxpayers have allowed it to grow, but at the same time, the taxpayers have uh the taxpayers have become accustomed to the um elected officials and the way that they operate. And unfortunately, no one wants to change the status quo, but it is so terrible to see these things over and over and over again where these are big monumental decisions that have an impact on the future generations of folks here in Houston and elsewhere, and they're just not privy to the conversation at all. Not even an update, you know, not a three bullet point rundown, nothing.

Corpus Christi Water Crisis Politics

SPEAKER_16 43:17

Right, right. Well, with that being said, to wrap up here, what is the uh what is going on in Corpus Christi? I'm hearing there's some scandalous stuff going on over there. What what happened?

SPEAKER_17 43:26

Yes, sir. You have not heard yet, but everybody, I'm sure has about uh Corpus Christi's water crisis and how they are 50 days at the bar now from running out of water assuming nothing else happened. Well, they now have fired their mayor because they're alleging that she is corrupt and that she um conducted uh has misconduct and competence and willful neglect of the performance of her duties because she's not against a fixed water crisis that has been inherited in the making, um, and that has grown into a serious, serious potential problem, if it is the way that they're expecting it to.

SPEAKER_16 44:00

I also feel like, and this is not to pawn off responsibility. Of course, the mayor bears a whole lot of that, but city council is directly involved in all spending decisions and policies. So is there not further is this it does this feel like, at least to you, just curiosity, does this kind of feel like pawning off that saying that person's the bad guy, we can get them out and we can all move on as a way to kind of performatively lessen other responsibilities?

SPEAKER_17 44:27

So it does seem that way. But I mean you're right. The council does have a thing in it and have a role. You know, the reason that they're approaching this crisis the way they are is because last year the year before, they decided not to continue with the deal and nation plant that they had planned to build. And they and they did not have a doctor plan for it. And so they just move forward without it, and now here we are. So you can't blame it all on the mayor, definitely a city council too, but they're trying to use her as a scapegoat effect.

SPEAKER_16 44:52

Right, right. And I want to contrast that and just get your take real quickly on this before we wrap up. You have the mayor of Magnolia, who uh I I believe this happened originally back last October. There's this woman, her name is uh she's the city secretary, her name's Christian Gable, uh, who was in Fort Worth uh with this this mayor, his name's uh uh Matthew Danzer, Danzer. They were in Fort Worth uh for the Texas Municipal League Conference. And sounds like a ripping good time. I sounds like something that I definitely want to spend my time attending. Uh she was pregnant at the time, and she said uh that he was commenting on her clothing, tried to pull her pants down, that he grabbed her by the throat, and that there were witnesses to this. And she filed a city complaint and they wrapped it up, didn't even tell her they'd wrapped it up, and just said, Yep, it nothing happened. So they filed a second complaint, and then they finally let her know, well, it's a he said, she said scenario, we're not gonna do anything, close it down again. And then they got the news hearing that the Texas Rangers came in and said, Well, we're gonna investigate this then. And that's that's where they're at now is that the Texas Rangers are investigating this guy who's basically saying this is all purposeless because I'm not running for re-election or my terms up in May, so it does it really matter.

SPEAKER_17 46:05

Leave me alone. Anything I did during my term is no longer counting. I mean, that's that's enough. That is truly not. I mean, and that's the thing. You often see this happening is just like I don't want to I don't want to blame all the small town counties and mayors, but you do see a lot of this happen with some of the smaller towns, and they don't get the same kind of scope that some of the bigger ones do. And so I think we really need to be starting to pay better attention to what's going on in these smaller, smaller jurisdictions.

SPEAKER_16 46:28

I know. I mean, we talk all the time about Houston, Harris County, because there is so much corruption and spending and deficit, but then you look out and you're like, they just raided like 200 game rooms and hit like what's what's going on in these small counties with this corruption and backdoor deals and people being fired and there are arson attacks in some of these small counties, and you're like, what happened here?

SPEAKER_17 46:49

It's unbelievable. And I think you know it's good that we have the attention on the bigger places, but I think that lack of attention on the smaller places has kind of just allowed them to fly under the radar without seeming as dumb as some of them are getting as bad as they are.

SPEAKER_16 47:02

Right, especially when you see the mayor being accused of these things, and then the city connected to the mayor essentially just says, Yeah, he said she said, Nothing to really do about it. We'll just kind of move on.

SPEAKER_17 47:10

Unbelievable, right?

SPEAKER_16 47:11

Just think I get if there's no evidence, but did you even try? Right. Did you even look under the hood? Like you just take a glimpse under there. No, nope, not at all. Not at all. All right, Charles, as always, we appreciate you coming on. Can you tell everyone how they can keep up to date with all the work that you're doing over urban reform when you're not here on the air?

SPEAKER_17 47:29

Just check out urban reform org or CJ Blay 10, all across social media, and you'll find out everything that we do there.

SPEAKER_16 47:35

Perfect. As always, we appreciate it. Thank you for giving us your time this morning for the weekly local recap. And Lord willing, as always, we'll talk to you again next Friday. Looking forward to it. Thanks for having me. Of course. With that said, ladies and gentlemen, when we get back from the break, we're gonna jump over and talk about Paxton, who's now withdrawing from the Islamic School Choice Eligibility case. As you have this ongoing rift with the state comptroller Kelly Hancock still growing. We'll talk more about the details of that when we get back. Text in 713-779-5978. 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 the break.

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Claims Of Islamic Influence In Schools

SPEAKER_16 52:42

So a dispute over our new school choice program has escalated into a public and legal rift between Attorney General Ken Paxton and acting comptroller Kelly Hancock, culminating now in Paxton withdrawing his office from representing the comptroller in ongoing federal litigation. The conflict, of course, stems from the lawsuits challenging the state's administration of the Texas Education Freedom Account Program, particularly decisions ultimately related to exclude certain Islamic schools over those schools' alleged ties to terrorist organizations like the Council on American Islamic Relations and the Muslim Brotherhood. A federal judge last we heard extended the program's application deadline while allowing those schools to apply as the case proceeds, right? Which I is such a mess of a case of a choice anyway, because I I don't even have a problem necessarily. I mean, I do. But the problem right now is not even that we're going to let the Islamic schools participate. The issue is not the deadline itself and extensions of those deadlines. The issue is unlike a normal TRO, this is like a reverse TRO, unlike a normal TRO, uh temporary strikeing order or or temporary injunction, where while the case proceeds, these things have to be put, you know, stopped or you're allowed to continue doing your business while the case proceeds, this is directly related to the case proceeding. This doesn't make any sense. Because if you say that they're eligible, what happens if you rule in the case in two months and determine they're not eligible? What about all the people that applied they got accepted? Do we then have to do another acceptance? Is there like a are we supposed to have a backup list of people that they then would get accepted over the students who got accepted who are no longer eligible to attend their school? It'll be a whole massive infrastructural and bureaucratic mess if that's what if that's what occurs. The only reason I can only think of for the judge doing this is the judge already, which should really tell you something very dangerous about the case, already has preconceived decisions about what he wants to do. And so he's gonna let them apply so that they can be applied before the deadline. That way when he rules in their favor, they at least already got to apply. But that would tell you that he went into the case already knowing what he was going to decide, which is not how the court is supposed to operate. Nevertheless, Hancock's in a letter to Paxton earlier this week urging additional legal action, including presenting new evidence to the court, revoking corporate charters of certain schools, and taking broader steps against entities he said may be linked to terrorist organizations. A couple days after that letter, Paxton responded by formally withdrawing the office of the attorney general from representing his case, his office in those cases. In a letter dated yesterday, Paxton said Hancock's actions had made continued representation impossible, citing what he described as a breakdown in the attorney-client relationship. He said, You have single-handedly destroyed my ability to defend the comptroller's office in these cases. Paxton added that Hancock had withheld basic information necessary to defend these cases and chosen to communicate with our lawyers through press releases rather than private conversations. He also wrote that Hancock's actions recklessly risked waiving attorney client privilege and made brand new and incendiary claims without providing any confidence that diligent investigation supported them. In other words, you went public with all these details, you risked our relationship and and you you withheld this information from us until it was too late, and then when you did release it, you put it out publicly rather than privately, so we can't even address it correctly. And so I think that's a reasonable, a relatively reasonable response. Uh in the letter, he said that the dispute had led to an irreparable breakdown in the attorney-client relationship, making it impossible. Uh he said and by the way, Hancock, in his earlier letter this week, pointed to Houston Koran Academy and argued the federal court may not have had full information when issuing its recent order. He said the court cannot protect against threats it does not know exist. In a press release, Paxton reiterated that Hancock's actions had deliberately destroyed that relationship and affected the state's legal defense. He also disputed the claims regarding an enforcement of state laws. Uh and it's un again, the frustrating part a lot of this is that it's unfolded the way that it has, um, because you also have Paxton criticizing Hancock in a post over on social media and calling on Governor Greg Abbott to replace him with Don Huffein's. Um and so again, this is a massive program already. As we highlighted, we have 229,000 applicants as of the last update, which was days ago at this point, so it's probably been more, uh bare minimum, at least a thousand more people. We've more than doubled the original expected number, or at least the number that we are able to actually support and allow to participate in the program. And so it's it's it's blown up to be a massive program by comparison. And it's frustrating because we all want to see that these Islamic schools don't receive federal or or state tax dollars. We all want to make sure that our tax dollars are not going to schools that not only are associated, of course, with terrorist organizations, but are not associated with the teaching on Sharia law, the teaching on the subjugation of the West and the destruction of Western civilization, which is what they're teaching there. And for us, I mean, we are we are literally funding our own destruction. It's the same thing as mass immigration. When when you allow in all these people through H1B visas, citizenship, w whatever the application process looks like, you are directly destroying your own culture. We're doing it to ourselves. It's not just that there's some foreign invasion that we're trying to push back against. We're not pushing back against it. We're just letting it happen and in fact contributing to it through our own legal processes in such a way that we are causing it. The country is causing its own downfall. And there's a very clear example of it when you're you're questioning, hey, should we give our tax dollars uh through our school choice program to Islamic schools? And you have to think to yourself, how how much worse of an idea could you possibly even have that we want to pay for children in the state of Texas to be taught that Texas culture should be destroyed and wiped away. We are funding our own destruction through these programs. And it is absolutely heinous that we're doing that, that we're allowing that to happen. It's also absolutely heinous that all these things are coming out. Um and I I again I don't have an issue with the transparency, but because they unfolded publicly first, rather than in private conversations, rather than us being updated as time went on, instead it was done so publicly that it made that relationship irreparable, cause those sorts of rifts between, of course, the attorney general's office and the controller's office, where now we're having to to see the case basically just given up on by the attorney general. And so it is certainly a frustrating turn of events uh regardless of everything else that's going on. At the same time, uh the there was a a massive thing that came out uh just, I want to say, j I mean, this happened a while back, but it came out just very recently uh because apparently the MSA, it's a Muslim Brotherhood linked organization, is uh using Umbel ISD. Umble ISD essentially loaded 30 plus students from Kingwood High and uh Atasca Cita High into taxpayer-funded buses and delivered them straight to the Islam in Spanish Centro Islamico, which is a Dawah center that glorifies the Islamic conquest of Spain and claims your roots are in Muslim Spain, uh, for students that are of Hispanic descent. And so the trip, which was done days before Ramadan this year, uh, was organized in part by the Kingwood High School Muslim Students Association, a group with, again, deep historical ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. And they said we were blessed to have high school students mixed with Muslims and other faiths, an opportunity to wipe away stereotypes. Um again, it's not education. This is a Dawah center, it's Islam's planned step to expand Sharia in America. And so it it's absolutely wild that again, this is what our public schools are doing. This is where our tax dollars are going. These these public school students were taken to visit and be educated in Islamic uh ideology. And that's something that should never happen, should never have happened, should never happen again. And I think that not enough is being done to address these concerns. Uh all our legislators and and and politicians talk about Sharia law being bad, but they're not discussing the civilizational crisis that we're causing by allowing Islam to have a continual presence in our country in the first place. That's what leads to Sharia law. We're we're trying to stop the end goal while not addressing what's going to lead there. So we're gonna get the end goal either way if we don't stand up against the precursors.

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SPEAKER_16 1:01:08

It's like if you come out and you say, Hey, I am anti-meth. I don't want meth in my country. And then you let all of the cartels ship in the drugs used to make meth and you do nothing about it. And then when there's meth everywhere, you say, Well, we're against meth. We're trying to get it rid of all this stuff, but we don't know how. There's too much meth. Yeah, because you let them ship the drugs and they're using to make meth in the first place. And that is directly uh compared to what we're doing right now with Islamic regimes here in the state of Texas, here in America. And again, it is it is absolutely wild. With that being kind of related, on a related note, when we get back from the break, we're gonna jump over because the House interim is charged has has numerous charges, includes everything from studying Sharia influence, eliminating educator misconduct, evaluating data centers, quite a few things on their list of charges they're gonna deal with, but we're just gonna set uh to guide priorities for the next legislative session coming up again before we know it. We'll talk all about the details of those interim changes when we get back from the break. As always, if you'd 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, and I'll be right back with that update after this break. Stick around, we'll talk soon.

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Speaker Dustin Burroughs has released a sweeping set of interim charges that will shape what the Texas House studies between now and the 2027 session, touching everything from elections and education to property taxes, immigration-related issues, and state power over local governments. So the 89th legislature's interim work plan assigns each standing and select committee a series of topics to monitor and study in preparation for an upcoming session. The House Elections Committee is going to be tasked with citizenship and voting, specifically to ensure that only U.S. citizens are able to register and vote here in the state of Texas. Lawmakers are also tasked with examining voter roll maintenance and county voter registration systems, including offline systems. So that's where the House Elections Committee will be making sure, really verifying that only people who are allowed to vote should be voting. The Public Education Committee is directed to monitor major new laws on school finance, the overhauled accountability system, and testing changes, student device policies, the new education savings account program, a whole wide swath of things. It must also review the state of education and educator misconduct, which of course come under increased scrutiny following hundreds of reports of inappropriate conduct from teachers and staff in the public school system. And so they're going to be addressing all of those things. The higher education committee is charged with examining affordability, foreign adversary influence, and research security, and how well universities align degrees and research with workforce and national security needs. In other words, are our colleges working? Are they safe? Are they secure? The Ways and Means Committee is ordered to build on the property tax relief provided by the 89th legislature, reviewing further rate compression, homestead exemption increases, the appraisal system, and the sustainability of state revenue backing tax cuts, which just as a side note, um I I will say one of the big things that I think would make a massive difference in the property tax debacle. I know they're talking about eliminating property taxes, which uh we're not going to get into my position on that right now. Again, we don't have the time. But I think one of the easiest, wisest, most fair things you would possibly do right now that would still guarantee you the same money you're getting is to stop basing property taxes on updated appraisals and instead base property taxes on the purchase price of the home. Right. That would by nature increase a sort of exemption because if you bought your home um, you know, fifty years prior, then and you bought it for a cheaper cost, then you're paying lower property taxes. So you'd have a sort of exemption by nature of purchase history and and it would also incentivize people keeping a home and building long-term homes, which is good, by the way, to have a set home that you stay at, that you you know keep your family in, that you have a sense of normalcy and a home, right? All those things are good. And it would stop with this insane stuff where people's housing goes up by appraisals, even though nothing they've done changes, their income doesn't change, they're they're still in the same income area, and yet they're having to pay significantly more in property taxes because you're telling them their house is worth more. Absolutely insane. So that's one direction we could go with the appraisal system to say that's enough, shut that whole thing down. Whatever you purchase your house at, because you know what your property tax rate will be, when you buy your house, that's what it's going to stay. It's not going to go any higher than that. That that is the that is that is the appraisal, is what you bought it for. That's it doesn't matter what somebody comes in and says it's worth irrelevant to your taxes, it's what you bought it at because you knew what you were getting into property tax-wise when you purchased your home, and it shouldn't get higher than that. Nevertheless, let's get into the rest of this. A new select committee on governmental oversight is taxed with enforcing the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act, hunting for local ordinances that conflict with state preemption, and recommending additional areas where the state should rein in local regulation. Uh, it's also reviewing the educational foundations, third profit, third-party nonprofit spending of public funds, and the reach of the Texas Public Information Act. Notably, the committee is set to study the constitutional, statutory, fiscal, and economic implications of adding Texas one or more contentious counties of New Mexico, and recommend drafts of any requisite legislation or resolutions to initiate that process, which is a wild thing to hear. The Energy Resources Committee is going to monitor oil and gas-related legislation and the global impacts of the Middle East and L and G disruptions on Texas energy. State affairs is going to oversee nuclear energy developmental support, grid reliability measures, microgrids and distributed energy resources, data centers, and their impact on grid planning and battery storage safety. Natural resources is instructing to focus heavily on water, groundwater management, export projects, water supply strategies, data center water use, implementation of the new Texas Water Fund, which we unfortunately created. And while we don't have like a border committee specifically, several panels are receiving charges that intersect with immigration enforcement. So the Homeland Security, Public Safety, and Veterans Affairs Committee is tasked with studying foreign adversary influence, illicit financial networks, and protecting critical infrastructure from foreign controlled remote access technologies. The Transportation Committee is charged with evaluating foreign holders of commercial driver's license operating in Texas and whether their presence correlates with increased traffic incidents, as well as reviewing English proficiency and safety standards. State affairs is going to examine employer use of the federal H1B visa program to identify risks related to foreign influence, intellectual property theft, and access to sensitive systems. The Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee is assigned to review whether foreign law, including Sharia law, is influencing Texas courts, examine limitations on liability for gender mutilation procedures on minors, and look at court-ordered mental health services and their impacts on parental rights. The Human Services and Public Health Committee are directed to examine child welfare, due process, abuse registries, fraud and abuse in Medicaid and SNAP, social media and AI impacts on youth mental health and abortion, adjacent maternal and infant health issues. And lastly, the Land and Resource Management Committee is to examine municipal utility districts, local fees, permitting delays, and the pre-approval of residential building plans as part of a broader push on housing affordability and regulatory reform. There's just no world where we're actually going to be able to address each and every one of these, unless we did a whole show dedicated to, hey, what are we being charged with? But let's just say all of those are very important. And I hope you heard this segment because all of those committees are essentially going to drive what our next legislative session looks like. What they look into, what they discover, what they what conclusions they come to will be very indicative of what bills are written and passed come the 90th legislature next year. And so all these are very important. All these committees are ultimately going to determine where we go. And so this is kind of your little foretaste of what we expect coming out of the next legislative session. Is a lot of these issues are what's going to be at major play, uh, apart from special sessions and governor specific calls and those sorts of things, some bills that you know slip through the cracks. This is the general direction that it looks like our state's gonna go in the next legislative session. With that being said, to wrap up the show when we get back, we're gonna talk about a man who was found guilty in the 2023 killings of a pregnant teen, her boyfriend and her unborn child. For this guy's name is Christopher uh Preciato. This came out, the jury reached its verdict yesterday afternoon. Um, this girl was 18 years old, her name was Savannah Nicole Soto, her boyfriend, 22-year-old Matthew Guerrera, and their unborn child. Talk more about the details of that case, what the jury concluded, and what that means. When we get back from the break, as always, if you would like to text in, this is your final opportunity to do so. If you have concerns, disagreements, things that you want me to talk about, text in at 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. 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So, Prasadio, Christopher Prasadio, has uh found been found guilty in the December 2023 killings of 18-year-old Savannah Nicole Soto, 22-year-old Matthew Guerra, and their unborn child, his father, 53-year-old Ramon Ramon Presciato, was charged with abuse of a corpse for allegedly helping his son move the bodies. According to reports, the jury reached the decision after approximately one hour and 56 minutes of deliberations, and he was sentenced to bum ba da bum life in prison without the possibility of parole. And so this guy murdered an 18-year-old girl, murdered a 22-year-old guy, and of course, by extension, murdered an unborn child because she was pregnant. And now, I mean, again, when you when you paint it in the right language, because of course you you have the mainstream, which of course will say, well, now he'll be off the streets permanently. We solved the crisis, he'll never be allowed to do this again. You can word it however, you can word almost anything however you want to get to elicit the right response that you that you desire. But let's paint this in the real terminology of what it is. This guy murdered three innocent human beings. And I mean innocent in terms of sin, I mean innocent in terms of criminally. Um they they were innocent human beings who did not deserve who did not deserve death for anything they had done, uh, in terms of for me, again, a criminal perspective. And now all three of them have been murdered by this guy, and the taxpayers are on the hook to make sure that he gets to live and eat and sleep and make friends, and you know, of course, prison's not like this lavish, nice place to be. Well, a lot of them are, but that's not even the point. The point is that we're not on the hook for millions, and I mean millions of dollars. Again, this this guy, this, this, this man was was 21 years old. Uh, if he lives to the average age, right, that's gonna be like what 55 years of life left at$33,000 per year, we're spending two million dollars or more on this guy's incarceration. We're gonna spend millions of dollars to house him. When the right response, the just response, is not that the taxpayers bear the brunt of that, and it's not that he gets to live out a long life, it's that he's put to death for what he did. And I don't understand how you can literally murder three people, have a capital murder trial, murder a baby, uh, an 18-year-old girl, and her boyfriend, and walk away getting to live out the rest of your life. It just doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Nevertheless, that will do it for the show today and the show this week as it is Friday, as you're all probably well aware. Ladies and gentlemen, you've been listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. Enjoy not only the rest of your Friday, but enjoy the weekend. Tomorrow, again, should be a beautiful day. Highs in the upper 70s, sunny skies, low humidity. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. Lord willing, I'll be back bright and early Monday at 6 a.m. In the meantime, Godspeed.