Why Officials Dodge Consequences In Houston Politics

When local leaders embarrass the county on a national stage, you find out fast who believes in consequences and who believes in damage control. We start with the Harris County Rodeo controversy involving County Judge Lina Hidalgo and the response at Harris County Commissioners Court, where even clear criticism can get watered down into a resolution that changes nothing. Then we zoom out to the bigger question hanging over Houston politics: if officials won’t apologize or accept repercussions, how does public trust survive? 

Texas Scorecard’s Daniel Greer joins us to walk through a troubling statewide pattern: governments rewriting “public participation” to mean less time, fewer chances to speak, and more barriers for everyday citizens. From Blanco County to HISD to Plano, the mechanics matter, because you can silence people without ever banning speech outright. We also break down a viral Harris County courtroom video involving Judge Nathan Milliron and an IT technician, and why accountability is not a partisan weapon but a basic expectation of leadership. 

We round out the hour with fast-moving headlines that still hit home: a listener asks whether war with Iran can be justified and what “success” even looks like, a federal court dismisses a church challenge to the IRS and the Johnson Amendment, and Texas cities issue Ramadan proclamations that reignite debates over faith, culture, and what public officials choose to celebrate. If you care about Houston local government, Texas politics, free speech at public meetings, and the standards we set for leaders, you’ll want to hear this one. 

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Welcome And Today’s Lineup

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

Rodeo Blowup And Resignation Talk

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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 Texellent AC Service. First and foremost, welcome to Wednesday. A couple updates for you guys. First of all, of course, it is Wednesday, which means Texas scorecard is coming on at their usual time of 7 o'clock for an interview. But more than just that, at 7:30, we're going to have another very special guest coming on, and that will be none other than Tom Ramsey from Harris County Commissioner's Court to give us some updates on what went on this week, particularly in regards to our very own Lena Hidalgo, Rodney Ellis, people being away from another meeting. This being the meeting, if you guys remember, where we were finally supposed to address what happened at the rodeo, potentially calling on her to resign. And some wild updates came out given that, of course, they don't actually have the stones to do anything. And I'm not talking about Tom Ramsey, the lone Republican on Commissioner's Court. I'm talking about everybody else that can see the direct unprofessionalism on display in terms of what happened with Lena Hidalgo. And that is not, it's not like it's a one-off and she made a mistake, and then she came out and apologized, and they're calling on her to resign. No, no, no, no, no. She's made countless mistakes and apologized for precisely none of them. And in fact, has blamed other people for her mistakes. Unwilling to take responsibility for her own actions and has consistently made the wrong decisions. When you have that sort of pattern that results in what Tom Ramsey called unfounded accusations, I I think it results ultimately in this sort of position where no one really trusts the county judge, which is, by the way, a very important position, especially for a county like Harris County. It's important in any county, but especially one the size of ours. Now, with that being said, I actually want to jump over because we actually have a video up on our social media pages. I'm actually going to play uh the video here on the show. Um at least at least part of it, because I think it's important that people hear what went on at Commissioner Scorpion. We'll try to get the audio. Let's see if it works.

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But I'm also going to call attention to some unfortunate remarks uh made by the county judge. I think uh they're unfounded accusations. And when you make unfounded accusations about such an historic uh organization, there should be something said. You just shouldn't ignore it and say, well, it didn't happen. I uh well, surely uh it wasn't as presented. No, it was as presented. Unprecedented removal of Judge Hildago's credentials from attending the rodeo, that's never happened. And so the sense of entitlement from the judge's chair in that episode out there is just incredible. And finally, whereas Judge Hildago's entitled behavior and misuse of her official position has embarrassed this Commissioner's Court and the people of Harris County time and time again. And now her unfounded comments about those who devote their lives to making the world's largest rodeo an annual success should be grounds for resignation and a bipartisan call for apologies. And whereas that be resolved, the Harris County Commissioner's Court recognizes the Houston livestock show and rodeo, and that is a resolution I would put up for a vote.

Listener Text On The Iran War

Viral Judge Clip Tease

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And so it goes on, and you can you can go back and watch the whole video. That's on our social media channels. I don't want to pog down the show by playing the whole thing. But all of that to say, so he presents this very reasonable resolution, right? This is not out, this is not insane. Uh, this is not crazy. This is not him uh having some sort of of agenda other than to do the right thing. This is very obviously not some sort of calculated takeover of commissioner's court. This is not some backdoor deal to get rid of the county judge that he doesn't like. This is very obviously public. Uh he's been public with calls for resignation now for a couple of weeks. This is not new. Uh in fact, we expected it at the last commissioner's court meeting, but they said they would postpone it to this one. Uh of course, Lena Hidalgo has still not shown up to Commissioner's Court. I think I think Adrian Garcia was out as well, I believe. Um I think Leslie Brionis from Precinct IV actually stepped in as well to support the removal um uh of language calling for resignation. So he didn't have any backup here. Um you had Leslie Brionis was like, no, no, no, we're not, we're not gonna do that. But you also had Rodney Ellis because he said Ramsey was talking about how the rodeo was disparaged, again, these unfounded accusations, kind of what went on. And Ellis kind of came out and said, Well, I like the resolution that we acknowledge it was disparaged, that we acknowledge that there were issues, and that we acknowledge the unprofessionalism, but let's take away the resignation. Let's take out the part that actually does anything. We can acknowledge what happened without having any repercussions for it. And by the way, this is the exact same principle you see on display over and over and over again in regards to our justice system in general. You consistently have these people, whether it's in commissioner's court or it's on the judicial bench, wherever it is, where we're totally content with pointing out when there's a problem. That's not really the issue. The issue it comes in when you start trying to say, well, what do we do about the issue? What do we do about the problem? What do we do about the thing we're all willing to admit is problematic and evil and unprofessional? How do we grapple with that? What does that look like from a practical perspective of changing the way we operate? How how do we handle those people and those issues? And seemingly, every single time that question gets asked, the answer is absolutely nothing. Or a formal acknowledgement of the problem. The issue there, of course, is that nothing ever changes because a formal acknowledgement does literally nothing other than acknowledge what everyone already knew. Nothing is different today because of that. It's not like we all woke up, saw Commissioner's Court, and now we say, Oh, okay. So Lena Hidalgo acted unprofessionally. I didn't realize that before. I didn't know that happened. Right? You we all already knew it. Anyone who's willing to pay attention to commissioner's court are the same people who, for sure, but in fact, much much fewer people, many fewer people were were going to pay attention to commissioner's court than were obviously going to know what happened with Lena Hidalgo at the rodeo a few weeks ago. And so this is not some major breakthrough where, well, I'm glad we acknowledged that. We already know. And so the fact that we're willing to do nothing about it is absolutely insane. So he moved, he moved to strike down the resignation language. Leslie Bronas backed him up, and then he moved forward to the vote. And so they they essentially passed the item, they passed the resolution, but an amended version of it that did not call for her resignation. That was essentially just a formal acknowledgement that something bad happened. Uh instead focusing on recognizing and celebrating the rodeo and its contributions. And so it and then, of course, Commissioner's Court ended, I think, early, and it was just a wild turn of events to see because not only did Lena Dalgo not show up, not only did again you have this scenario where things got tabled, but now it it's off the table entirely because we already passed it. We just removed the call for her to resign. And I know, I know, we're gonna say, well, it was a call for her to resign, but she that doesn't mean that she had to anyway, but at least it would have had some sort of repercussion attached, right? At least it would have had some sort of uh teeth to it where we at least said, hey, this deserves our resignation. Right? We we can't force it, but it deserves one. And we removed that entirely. We'll talk way more about that, of course, at 7:30, because we're gonna have Tom Ramsey actually coming on the show to give us more details about what happened, about the background and all that sort of stuff. In the meantime, before we get into the next story and into the next segment, we got a text in yesterday. Uh I think this was yesterday afternoon. And I wanted to address it because uh somebody reports, and I've said this all the time, if you want to text in when I'm not here on the air, you can do that, and I'll get to it when I see it when we're here on the air. Your texts still come through our text in line, and I can access those during the show. It says, uh, hey, this is Ethan, I've been listening to your show, I love it. I think we may have a disagreement, which could be interesting. It sounds as though you're not a fan of the war in Iran. I could be wrong. I actually haven't heard your position too much on it. Do you not think that it could be considered a just war because we are overthrowing a tyrant? There's other benefits, I would think, also, like positioning ourselves against China. I think it's very nuanced conversation, and I'd be curious to hear your thoughts. Now, I don't talk a lot about national and international policy because this show is designed to be more of a localized show dealing with hu areas in the greater Houston area, dealing with issues in Harris County, Fort Bend County, we, you know, Brizzouria County, Galvison County, Montgomery County, et cetera. So we don't typically engage in a lot of conversation. It'll be usually a side comment here or there just relating to things. But since you asked, I'll give you my overall position, which isn't much of one, uh, because again, it's not my area of expertise. It's not something that I usually speak on. But I think the question in in any conflict we're engaged in is whether or not it's worth doing. Right? Because you could make an argument for almost any conflict. Almost any conflict you could make some sort of argument for, right? Otherwise, we wouldn't be involved in the first place. Even if we disagree on it, someone's making an argument that the war is just, that the war is good. And we understand that many wars have, at the end of the day, not been worth it. Uh, whether that's lives lost, financial loss, debt, whatever it is, there have been many conflicts in which we as Americans have been engaged that we should not have been engaged in. We all recognize that. Uh-huh. That it is a harsh reality. There are things that we got involved in that we should not have been involved in. When we look at Iran, a lot of the conversation, I think, needs to center around what the goal is, what we've thus far achieved, and where we go from here. Because I don't think the question is whether or not the world would be a better place if you had a better leader in Iran. I don't think that's really a question. I think we all can agree largely that that's true. Unless you're a staunch Muslim who wants Iran to run the world, right, you probably think that the leadership in Iran is bad. The question is not whether the leadership is bad. The question is what does America do about it? What does that look like? What what what time frame does that look like? All those sorts of things that contribute to the overall conversation. And I said, uh I I believe it was Friday night, early Saturday morning when the first strike was announced, uh, and I had a special show at our Pistols and Pizza event at Aegis Arms where I discussed it. And I said, look, uh thus far, it looks like the claim at least is this is going to be very short-lived, uh, that we'll lose no American lives. And the end result is that we, you know, basically install uh a better leader who's not going to have the sort of issues that we've had, and it will be largely beneficial because of the impact that it'll have on countries like China and a lot of their oil tradings with Iran. And I acknowledge that would be a positive overall. But I also said on that day, I distinctly remember saying, but we can't really judge the thing until we see the outcome, right? We can't really know whether or not what the goal is or what the ends will achieve until we see how it kind of goes. And unfortunately, this has not, in my at least opinion, so far been the makings of a short-term successful engagement. Um, as of yet, we don't appear to have put boots on the ground, but that I think is still an overwhelming concern for many Americans because it's it's dragging on. You know, we say that we want to install better, more friendly leadership. The problem, largely, of course, is that arguably the person that's now the leader of Iran is actually worse than the person that we that we killed. Uh, this is, of course, the son of the last leader of Iran. And from everything I'm hearing about this guy, he's actually more radically Muslim. He's actually more radically anti-American, anti-Western civilization, uh, anti-Trump, anti-everything that we we value. He's actually worse. And so, again, if we're looking at what our end goal is in any conflict, especially one like this one, I I think we have to largely address, well, where does this end then? Because we've we've now executed a leader, we've we've uh from my understanding, we've destroyed everything that we really need to destroy. And yet we're still involved. We're still fighting, we're still there. And I think there's still concerns about putting American lives at risk for that. We've already lost American soldiers. And and on top of that, of course, you know, we've had civilians in Iran who've been killed. There was a school that was bombed with little girls present who who were killed by those bombs. And of course, you know, you had American leadership that came out and said, well, we don't know if that was America or if that was an Israeli strike. So we don't know really who's who's responsible for that. But that's how war unfortunately goes. And you have to weigh what's going to happen in that with whatever your goal is to find out if it's worth it. And from my understanding, I'm not seeing where the worth it section comes in as of now. If this had been a short thing, like like I'll give you a good example of a of a conflict I think was beneficial, right? We can look at a recent example in Venezuela, where we lost no American lives. It was actually a very quick and precise engagement, where we arrested the the quote unquote president, the dictator of Venezuela and brought him to justice here or are bringing him to justice here, right? Where we've now made Venezuela more friendly, where we've had the end result of making sure that our hemisphere is in good working order as much as is possible. That's very you can very obviously see the positive benefit with very little risk ratio. Everyone's fine. There's not going to be any boots on the ground, no American lives are going to be lost. No lives of Venezuela are going to be lost, right? It was a win-win-win all the way around. You contrast that with ongoing strikes in another hemisphere. And uh you you you see very quickly that it's not gonna be short, right? It's not like we we brought the leader to justice and now we've kind of fixed the situation. Uh no, we've actually ended up with someone who arguably could be worse, more dangerous for American lives, uh, who could end up being more problematic for what America hopes to achieve. And so I think it's important that we acknowledge that and say, so what's what's our goal and is it worth it? Uh Mark Goloby, who we've had on the show, ran for governor. Uh, he put out a Facebook, I just want to read this to kind of give you a take of where a lot of people are. He said this war in Iran is creating angst at all levels for many reasons, all of them valid. The MAGA supporters feel betrayed, another uniparty excursion, derailing, making America great again, the issue of U.S. going to war without congressional approval, then there's the whole issue of not a single participant seems up front with the American people. Trump is starting to sound like the mulahs to carrying massive victories and achievements that have nothing to show for it and backtrack. For example, June 2025, President Donald Trump set off a firestorm when he announced the U.S. strikes he ordered had obliterated Iran's nuclear sites. Americans are not subjects and deserve to know what is the need for all this activity. America saw Trump completely manipulated by the COVID propaganda of Dr. Fauci. Then, in what seems to be this sort of complex, he cannot accept he allowed himself to be misled, hence why he still says, Well, we delivered the vaccine and we did this and we did great. When everyone now knows that was not a positive benefit, that it was not played out well. Kamala Harris is completely unacceptable to the UNI Party. Was a pact established that Trump could be president with provisions? Deep dive into the situation, like many of these entanglements, the history is complex, but post-World War II, most of the world intrigue is the CIA and whose ever interests they serve. Iran is no exception. In 1953, Operation Ajax was launched after the democratically elected Prime Minister Mossadet nationalized the predominantly British-controlled oil industry in Iran. The installed Shah was then overthrown in 1979, with the exiled Ayatollah bring popularity brought back. This regime is in place by popular demand. The list of dictators coming to power by popular choice is extensive. A warning, by the way, for America in the midterms. Then there's the recent treachery of our last two Democrat presidents. Obama sent them back$400 million in principle and$1.3 billion in interest. The American taxpayers had to pay the regime interest. They should have been glad to get their principal back. Biden had abandoned$7 billion in military hardware in Afghanistan. Strategically, Afghanistan sits on the eastern border of Iran. We could be using that equipment. And so he also said if this is not resolved soon, November midterms could be very ugly. Republicans are losing many of the special elections being held across America and Texas because of the ongoing conflict that we're in from a president who said, you know, no new wars. And so I think it's very obvious that there are these sorts of concerns. I'm not saying inherently that, you know, best case outcome, even from here, is that we get an update, you know, tomorrow, uh, that we've done everything we need to do, and that we actually have something to show for it, right? Because as of now, what's the major change been? And if there's been major enough changes, why are we still there? Right? It's like a catch 22 for the administration right now and whatever claims they make. If you're gonna claim that we've been so wildly successful, then what are we still doing? Because from my understanding, one wild success was all we really needed. That was all the only point it was supposed to be a very again, very short-lived, enough that Trump would even argue this isn't really even a war. This is a minor conflict that's gonna be resolved in a couple of days. And now here we are, right, a pretty solid period of time later, still wondering, hey, what's the goal? What does the end look like? What does success look like? And if it's installing a more radical leader, then is it really success at all? And I think that's where we're at. It's not that I'm coming out and saying that as of now, I think the war in Iran has absolutely been awful. Uh, but it is me coming out and saying I'm I'm at a loss to justify it. I'm not seeing the justification. I'm not seeing the end goal. I'm not seeing an end in sight. I'm not seeing how we've largely ended up actually being very beneficial if we do leave right now. If we do leave right now, I I don't think overall that we've actually achieved much of anything in terms of of what our actual goal is, right? If we want to talk about dealing with China and trying to create some sort of benefit on that side of things, well, I I don't think we've done much of that at all. I think China will be still be basically just as benefited by Iran if we leave right now than if we'd have never started it in the first place. And so again, whenever you talk about foreign conflicts, whenever you talk about risking Americans' money, whenever you talk about ultimately risking their lives, uh, which we have done, and Americans have been killed now in this conflict, or as a result of it, I I think we then need to question, is it worth it? And the answer to justify the loss of life and the loss of our money should be very extreme. And I'm not seeing extreme claims of success and of goals. In fact, if anything, I'm actually seeing things get worse. And so that's my position on it. And it's not whether or not it could be considered a just war, it's not whether or not I think there's ever a time for foreign conflict, whether whether we should be isolationists, those are not the claims that I'm making. But I am saying I think there should be a strict barometer that we apply to decide whether or not something is good for us or is worth what we're doing. And I'm not seeing that strictly applied in the case of our ongoing conflict with Iran, unfortunately. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we're gonna jump over and talk about this Harris County judge. You guys might have heard of him, Judge Nathan Miliron, who has recently come under some serious fire on social media after some clips have surfaced of this interaction between this Harris County judge, Nathan Milliron, and the sort of rebuke of the IT technician in the courtroom in this viral video. We'll talk more about the details of what happened and some of the backlash when we get back from the break. As always, if you would like to text into the show, the number is 713 779 5978. That is 713 779 KYST. You are listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. I'll be right back after the break.

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We are going to hold the judge story for after the next break because we have a major update that's come out from the president of our station. We've been we've been and talks about this for months, by the way. There have been a lot of conversations over the past few months with him and I, uh, some of our sales team, uh, some of the just kind of understanding the future of where we want the station to go. What we want the station to do. Um, because as we've always said, our goal is to transform Houston. Our goal is to be a light here in the Houston area for what is good. And so for months, we've been talking about what that needs to look like in practical application. That means if any changes need to be made to our lineup, um, if ownership changes, right, God forbid need to come. All those sorts of conversations we've had trying to determine where the station needs to go. Uh, and it seems like we've gotten some updates on what we want that to look like effective immediately. Uh, this is this is uh unsurprising to some of you who have been paying attention to the radio landscape in general and what we've seen sort of come out of a lot of radio stations, not just here in the Houston area, but all across the nation. Effective immediately, Patriot Talk 920 a.m. has been sold to a new ownership group, uh, which uh is, of course, ultimately they don't say it's owned by, but it's an ownership group that is run by George Soros. As a part of this transition, we are apparently rebranding to woke wave 920 a.m. Our new program lineup for those who are curious is going to still be my show, but we're renaming it. It's no longer gonna be the Lone Star Conservative, it's going to be the Lone Star Liberal with Michael Wilson. Of course, my pronouns, he, him. We're also gonna have the Safe Space Hour where callers are going to be pre-screened for emotional safety. The Equity Report, uh, where the outcomes are far more important than the effort that you put in. Cancel culture countdown, counting on the latest things that you're no longer allowed to say here on the station or in general, things that you should be canceled for saying. Uh, we of course want to thank all of our loyal listeners for your support, and this change might come as a surprise. Uh, we're confident that this bold new direction is gonna help us look like we're good people who care. So you can feel free to tune in for our first broadcast as woke wave 9 20 a.m. here on the Lone Star Liberal. I'm glad that I'm the one that gets to make this announcement uh because we got we got a text in, you're spoiling it. We the person who texted in, you spoiled it. Yes, it is, of course, April Fools. You know, I have I have a lot of a lot of people who I used to be friends with, um, who either went off to college or out to the workplace after being pretty strong conservatives and were convinced of liberal propaganda. And it it's always been baffling to me. And I don't know if it's that they didn't know where their truth was rooted. I don't know if it's because they didn't know why they believed what they believed or they didn't have a strong defense for their beliefs, they just believed it because they were raised in a culture that believed it. I I couldn't possibly tell you. Uh I don't talk to them anymore. That that's uh by the way, it's a vice versa decision. They don't want to talk to me either, I promise you. Um and and so it's always been wild to me because I've said like I know where my beliefs are are are rooted in. I know what my beliefs come from. I I know why I believe what I believe, and I have a very strong defense for every belief that I have. Uh that doesn't mean that I'm perfect, doesn't mean that I'm always gonna be right on everything most of the time. Uh but what it does mean is that I have very strong convictions about the overall principles which I adhere to. Right? The the principles of family, of faith, and of freedom, uh, the principles of American history, of Christian history, of Christian ethics. Means I believe strongly in the Word of God. Means I believe strongly, largely in the overall agenda of the America First Movement, of the movement to be truly conservative, to be traditionalist in nature. Uh and that's sometimes very radical to modern ears, as you uh all of our listeners are probably well aware. But the reality is that what that means, now that we've kind of given the April Fool's joke, what that does mean is that that's never going to happen. Let me be clear. Never will anything I'm on, unless I'm being interviewed for a purpose of a debate or disagreement be on anything title liberal whatsoever, completely uninterested. You're never gonna see some sort of massive shift where I go to the other side of the aisle, wow, what happened to that guy? It never gonna happen. And never. Nothing could do that because I know why I believe what I believe. And by the way, so does our president. The station is never getting sold to Joris Soros. The station is never going to be some sort of woke programming. We are never going to support the liberal agenda of transgenderism and diversity, equity, and inclusion and cancellations based on things that you say that I don't necessarily agree with. Those things are insane. And regardless of which direction the station goes, what podcasts we get into, what video content we produce, what our social media pages are putting out, regardless of any of that, the guiding principle will be the same. We are a Christian conservative station. This is a Christian conservative show. And it's going to stay that way, I promise you, uh, until my final breath, right? Until I have nothing left to say about it and I have no authority over my show, until I'm gone, until our president is gone one day, that is what this station will be. That's not gonna change no matter what the day is, no matter what's happening in the world, even if that means one day, goodness gracious, we're we're thrown in prison for our beliefs, or like I like what's happened, certainly in places like in places like the UK, where unfortunately we have seen results like that. Even in such a time as that, I will not be silencing myself. I will continue to speak the truth here on this show and in my day-to-day life with my family and with my friends and with my neighbors and with my community and with my church. That will never cease to be the case. And so, happy April Fool's. Um, you know, I've seen a lot of bad jokes go around, but there's some good classic ones, right? Like, you know, uh freezing the cereal, put putting cereal and milk in a bowl and then with a spoon in and then throwing it in the freezer. You know, those sorts of harmless pranks are always fun. Um, so so do something fun today. Enjoy the day. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we'll go over that Harris County Judge video, kind of the backlash on social media as a result of the way that people are at least seeing this IT technician as having been treated and all that. If you would like to text in, feel free to do so at 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You are listening to the Lone Star Liberal, I mean the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. I'll be right back with that update after the break.

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Judge Milliron Video And Accountability

SPEAKER_12 37:30

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative brought to you by Texellent AC Service. So Heritage Judge Nathan Milliron is now facing widespread criticism on social media after a video of a courtroom dispute with an IT technician went viral. The video, which does not capture the beginning of the conversation, we don't know what led up to this, appears to hear the technician questioning whether there was ever an audio issue, as Milliron had earlier reported. Now, Milliron can be seen asking an off-camera witness whether he made up the issue, to which the woman can be heard to reply, no. After briefly checking the equipment, the technician told Milliron, You're good, and that the report was a false alarm. He seemed like he took advance of this comment. I think I think he assumed that the technician was saying that he had lied, I guess. I guess that was the sort of uh belief he had going into this was that the accusation was one of not that things fixed themselves or that maybe you clicked the wrong button, but that it was his fault that this had gone wrong. And uh so Mill Iron said, no, it wasn't a false alarm. The technician laughed, so I think it must have been a false negative. Right, just making a joke. Uh he then apologized after seeing the look on the judge's face, not one laughing along with the obvious joke. He said, Don't joke around. I'm serious about this, it was happening. The technician responded, I understand. I'm just saying I can't see it, sir. Millen responded, we're good, thank you. Get out of my courtroom. After the technician left, Milliner had seen saying, Fine a supervisor. Sick and tired of this BS today. After the incident, uh Millinion posted to Facebook stating the video's been edited, right? That's not that's not how I acted. The postcard did over 400 comments, overwhelmingly rebuking the judge. It has sparked outrage on social media, leading multiple accounts to post additional footage of him behaving in a similar manner. Um he, of course, has not responded to any requests for comment. He's tried to stay relatively silent on the issue. And look, I I understand that like if he's doing a a good job as a judge, that I don't want him like removed uh for not being the nicest person in his day-to-day dealings, right? That's not my goal. Uh, especially when it's hard to come by solid Republican judges as it is. But what we do need to acknowledge, right? The same as and and this is the same thing, by the way, with any politician or any leader in general, is they must be held accountable, right? We we should not bend over backwards to just die on the hill of defending them. This is the same thing I've said uh about Trump for a very long time now. Do I support Trump largely? Sure. Did I vote for Trump in 2020 and 2024? Of course I did. That's not even a question. Obviously I did. Does that mean that I agree with everything Trump is doing? No. Does that mean that I think that Trump has said and done things that are actually arguably very bad? Of course I do. And am I going to call out when that happens? Am I going to be honest and truthful and transparent and say, hey, let's be honest about what happened. This is bad. This is not good. And you should be held accountable for these things. Absolutely. And we we are not a people that have some elite ruling class that gets to make all the determinations for us and that we can never speak out against, we can never have disagreements with, we can never criticize anything they do. That's not the kind of country that we live in, right? There are plenty of countries that are just like that. If you want to enjoy that, enjoy North Korea, right? Go to North Korea and see how it works when you speak out against the guy, Kim Jong-un, in charge of North Korea. See how that goes for you. Right? Where you get in very serious legal trouble if an inspector comes to your house and the framed photo you must have that every resident must have in their home of Kim Jong-un has dust on it. That's the sort of country that we're talking about. That's not America. We are allowed to disagree with our legislators, we are allowed to disagree with every branch of government, we are allowed, and in fact, in many cases, should disagree with people who are in leadership-elected positions. Because we're the ones with the power, right? They're actually under, they're subservient to us and and what we desire. That's the way the country is set up. We are a republic, we are not a monarchy, we are not an oligarchy, we are not a technocracy, we are a republic. And that means when you have bad behavior, when you have unprofessionalism, that we're willing to speak out against it and say, hey, this needs to not be a pattern, this is objectively bad, this is unprofessional, this is misbehavior, and it needs to be addressed. And there needs to be an apology for it, right? I'm not I'm not like the left left woke crowd that demands that you apologize for everything you've ever said. Right. And in fact, in many cases, I think you should stand if you believe, you should stand on your principles and refuse to back down and apologize for things that you believe in, right? Don't apologize for the truth. But there's also things that we can do that when we do them and it becomes public knowledge that we step up and we say, Yeah, I I I shouldn't have behaved that way. I I should have acted differently. There have been plenty of moments in my life that I've done things or behaved in ways that I shouldn't have. And you know what? In every single case, that required a level of personal responsibility for me to say, Hey, I shouldn't have done that thing. This was wrong of me. Uh offered apologies to the people that I wronged in the ways that I wronged them, been intentional about that. Or said the same thing on the show. If there's something that I get corrected on that I come back later and I change my mind on, or I say, hey, I was wrong, or or I I, you know, say things that I shouldn't say. I'm antagonistic or rude to people that I shouldn't be antagonistic towards, right? If that sort of stuff happens, I've said before, I I'm going to come out and I'm going to, I'm going to say it. I'm going to apologize or I'm going to explain myself, right? That that's going to happen. What is so frustrating about this case isn't actually his attitude, right? He could have had a very late night. There could have been a stressful case on the agenda. And I think it's totally fair to say that he was stressed out. I think it's totally fair to say, hey, I was having a really bad day. That's my bad. I I shouldn't have treated him that way. The problem that I have isn't actually the behavior that much at all. It is the seeming lack of care to what he did.

unknown 43:35

Right?

Why Leaders Should Apologize

SPEAKER_12 43:35

Which when he came out and he said, This is edited, right? All a lot of the comments were saying, So you're allowed to make a joke, but your IT technician isn't? Do you think that you're above him? Do you think that you're superior to him? Do you think you're worth more than he is? Right? That that sort of conversation. And so the frustrating part of this is that we're not seeing an apology. We're not seeing an explanation at all. Where you acknowledge, hey, yeah, I I I acted in a way that I shouldn't have. I was especially rude. I I I acted like I was better than somebody else, and for that I was wrong. Anything like that. Or even something as simple as, yeah, I was really stressed that day. That's my bad. Even something said in such informal language would at least direct us to understand what happened and offer some sort of explanation for why things went the way they went. But we didn't get any of that. No, instead, he's basically just ignoring the problem, which I think is where a lot of the backlash is going to continue coming from. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we're going to jump over and talk about the weather. It is the last segment of the first hour. So we'll go over the weather, what we see coming out, not only today, but now for the rest of this week, especially now that we're getting closer to when we expect one of those storms to kind of roll in, cool fronts coming over Easter weekend, all those updates when we get back. If you would like to text in, the number, as always, 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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Severe storms are expected across parts of Texas this week with threats of damaging winds, hail, and isolated tornadoes from the Red River Valley all the way to the Rio Grande. For Southeast Texas, including the Houston area, the main concerns will be rounds of showers and thunderstorms. Some of those storms could produce heavy rainfall, especially heading into the weekend. Now, an atmospheric determinants moving across the state today is going to help spark scattered thunderstorms, some of which could turn severe across North and West Texas. The greatest risk, as we mentioned before, is expected along the Red River Valley, south toward the Rio Grande. Here, storms that develop late this afternoon into the evening could bring large hail, damaging wind, and even tornado risk. Closer here to home in the Greater Houston area, storm changes are going to be more limited, but a few storms could develop before noon. Storms that that do form today, by the way, should stay below the threshold for severe weather, which I think is qualified by like 58 miles per hour or higher wind or hail an inch in diameter. But but without that technical qualification of quote unquote severe, we can still produce some locally heavy downpours. Now, rain chances are going to increase tomorrow as a cold front approaches and stalls near Southeast Texas. The highest coverage of storms is expected closer to that frontal boundary, particularly across the Brazos Valley and Piney Woods. Still, isolated storms could extend all the way down to the coast. Most forecast guidance shows storms developing north and west of Houston on Wednesday, moving closer to the Iton corridor by midday tomorrow. While widespread severe weather is not expected in Houston, a few storms could produce heavy downpours and brief street flooding, especially in low-lying areas. Now, after a relatively quieter Friday, especially by comparison with only isolated coastal showers, a stronger cold front is expected to move into the region Saturday evening into the night. This cold front will bring a more widespread round of showers and thunderstorms compared to earlier this week. With moisture levels climbing, localized downpours will be possible. A few strong storms are possible, especially if the cold front arrives earlier in the day when the instability in the atmosphere is higher. The National Weather Service's weather prediction center is at places under a level one out of four risk, which is not like the highest risk of flood potential, but it's on the list of risk, meaning we could have some isolated flooding. Now, uh where we're at right now, we're still expecting highs in the middle to upper eighties and warm muggy nights in the upper 60s to low 70s. The cold front that's expected to push through by late Saturday or early Sunday is going to bring cooler and drier air into the region. High temperatures are going to drop back to near 70 degrees Sunday and Monday, offering a noticeable break from the recent stretch of warmth and humidity. Some models suggest highs may not get out of the 60s on Sunday. That also means accompanying lows in the 40s and 50s. So another little snapback to winter for a moment, a little pause in the warm agenda. With that being said, that'll be over the first hour of the show. When we get back from the break at the top of the next hour, we're gonna have on Daniel Greer coming on to talk about what's going on with some of our local policies in regards to the public participation in policy changes, uh, whether that's a limitation of public input, kicking out conservatives from school board meetings, all those sorts of things we'll talk about when we get back from the break. If you'd like to text in the number 713-779-5978, I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You are listening to the Lone Star Conservative. We'll be back with Daniel Greer from Texas Scorecard at the top of the next hour.

SPEAKER_10 52:48

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Daniel Greer On Limiting Public Comment

SPEAKER_12 53:33

Welcome to the show, Daniel. Hey, thanks for having me, Michael. Of course, I want to kick this off uh with where it seems like maybe a lot of this started over in Blanco County, which we've talked about actually here on air before, back when you guys did a documentary on sort of these these uh, I want to say clubs of people who kind of end up running these sort of rural communities or or communities in general. And we have another story coming out from there that kind of kicked a lot of this off. So can you kind of paint the picture from us from that county as to what happened to start all of this?

SPEAKER_23 54:02

Sure. And yeah, we'll start at the beginning and then we'll get it all wrapped together and show why it's important for us to be looking at uh governance and gut and the people that are in charge all over the state because it ultimately impacts everyone, including people in Houston, Texas. So yeah, Blanco County, uh there was an activist there who was testifying in county court regularly, and the county judge hated it. So uh you have the county attorney right to the attorney general's office, and uh they said, hey, we've got the guy that's showing up, he's testifying on everything, it's taking up too much time, and we want you guys to let us limit the amount of time that he's showing us uh and participating in government. Um and unfortunately, the attorney general's office said you can limit it and you can change the way that he's interacting with the government uh in a way that uh that it ultimately limited his ability to have an impact. Uh and the really, really frustrating thing about this story is the correct thing is that the attorney lied to the attorney general in order to get this in. Um at least as far as I can tell, uh and then it's not the name. And so it's the exact same uh pattern of behavior happening in city, school board, county, county uh county government level, all over the place.

SPEAKER_12 55:38

So you're telling me that an elected official was willing to lie to to get their agenda passed through?

SPEAKER_23 55:44

Yeah, absolutely. They were really upset with the guy showing up, had no problem uh misrepresenting, lying, uh, to the attorney general's office to get an opinion that they wanted, got it, and unfortunately, because of that, you know, that starting point, we see bad behavior limiting people's ability to impact government happening all over the state now.

SPEAKER_12 56:04

Right, which of course, as a representative of the republic, is one of the very, very cinched points in how we're called to operate, because we have to know what the will of the people is in order to enforce it, in order to move in that direction. Now, it opened the floodgates, and I want to talk a little bit about how it opened those floodgates because it kicked off there, but has made its way, as you mentioned, to cities, counties, and communities, school boards all over the state. Uh, let's kick it off talking in the next little area here about HISD and how that kind of took place uh a little bit ago with Bonnie Wallace.

SPEAKER_23 56:33

Sure, yeah. So for those who don't know, Bonnie Wallace is an activist who has been for years trying to get uh explicit books taken out of school libraries and libraries around Texas. Uh and so what she does is she she's uh she's also from the Texas Hill Country. She goes around and works with parents, uh, organizing them, educating them about methods that they can use to go into school board meetings or libraries, you know, she has several different levels of government, uh and for them to you know use freedom of speech to draw awareness to the fact that we have the absolutely for the book in libraries available to kids all over the place. Uh and so one of the tools go into school reading and reading from these books available to children in the library. Um a couple weeks ago she did this. She went in and start reading from this book. Uh she was immediately told, uh, if you read from that book, if you read from that book, we're gonna kick you out of it. Uh and she started reading from the book. Uh she's never done that when it comes to uh being told she can't you know exercise her freedom of speech, engaging with the government. Um and so she started reading and they said we got you next one warning, they gave her a second warning. Uh they said we're gonna kick you out. Yeah. When she was going to sit back down, uh some police officers, I think three of them for memory, that kind of converged on her as she was sitting down, and she was escorted to her car uh and and kicked out of the meeting for reading from a book that again is available to kids in libraries.

SPEAKER_12 58:19

Right. And I understand, right? I understand that there can be an argument for having certain rules of decorum uh that guide, right? We don't want people coming into these meetings and just provocatively using language and and grotesque explicit things being uttered in our school board meetings. I understand that there's a reason for that, and that can be good in a civil society. I also understand that if we're going to have those rules, those same rules have to be applied equally across the board. Right? We can't say, well, you can't talk about this issue to the federal government when the federal government is doing the issue that you have to be talking about because that issue is ruled too explicit. Well, now talking about literally what's happening is is you're not allowed to talk about it because we've ruled that that breaks decorum. I think that's an issue here because these are books, the books that she's reading from, are books that are in HISD's libraries for kids to access. And so if you're gonna rule that as so explicit that it breaks the rules of decorum for a school board meeting, then how in the world are we going to justify putting that in front of children in our school libraries?

SPEAKER_23 59:17

Yeah, that's exactly right. It's uh it's a catch pointy two uh reveals the hypocrisy of the policy having these books available to kids when you yourself uh don't want to hear it in an open room because it's so offensive. Uh and uh believe me, the content in these things is very offensive. Um also this is this surprise me. I was talking about after hearing they're actually built in the library today. Um really explicit words in there. Uh idiot and absolutely targeting children, trying to corrupt trying to corrupt them, rob them of their innocence and this is a stuff that she is actively trying to get rid of, and that unfortunately, uh uh uh the government is being allowed to stop her from doing it.

SPEAKER_12 1:00:35

Right. She's being silenced for merely reading from what she's trying to fight against in our school libraries. Now I'm hearing that Houston is not the only area that's dealing with that sort of issue. Uh of course we already mentioned Blanco County, but it's kind of spread out from there. Recently I've got an update coming out from Plano. Can you give us some background details on what Plano's doing right now?

SPEAKER_23 1:00:54

Sure. What's happening in Plano is I think might be it might be on a lot of people's radar. So there's been uh a development called Epic City. And what Epic City is, it's it's a uh it's a development that's uh all Muslim, Muslim exclusive development. And once people found out about it, they started showing up. Uh started showing up to city council meetings, started showing up to uh county meetings, the development actually kind of split counties, so there's people showing up in lots of places to voice their concern and opposition to this development. Um Plano said, wow, we've got a lot of people showing up. Uh we don't like it. And so what they've done is they've again going back to the Flaco case, they've said, How can we structure meetings in a way that uh limits the amount of time that we're having to hear from people and actually discourages them from testifying? So what they've done instead of letting people come and testify at every meeting, they've said, hey, listen, if you just want to come here and talk about a thing that you're concerned with, then we're just gonna have one meeting a month for that, and it's gonna be at the very end of the meeting. Um and again, the structure is meant to dictate the behavior. And the structure that you see there is uh one, we want to shrink the number of opportunities that you have in a month. Two, we want to raise the friction for you to actually stay and testify. So it's you have to show up, you have to register, and you have to wait through this entire meeting in order to have your voice heard. And that is again an example of somebody creating a structure that's meant to actually limit the thing that they want to limit.

SPEAKER_12 1:02:40

Right. And I I think again, this is a very clear example of silencing people through policy, where the and you mentioned the structural design of the thing, it it is it is inarguably designed in such a way that the end goal is obviously that less people are allowed to speak about less things. And unfortunately, the argument, of course, should be uh from the people that that is that is probably the most important part of the meeting is hearing from your constituents. Because if you're going to be a representative, which is what we believe this government is, what this government was founded on, the principles that guide the country in general, and especially our local government, even more so arguably, than the higher levels of government, because this is where you deal with your day-to-day life, your taxes, your policies, your life, your your zoning rules, whatever it is, this is where that sort of comes in. And so it's arguably the most important part of any local meeting is hearing from the people to find out where their concerns are, what they want to see you do as their representatives. And so for them to come in and structure this in such a way that people have less opportunity, there's less opportunity for people to speak and to issue their concerns, it is denying the very fabric of, I think, what largely is you know pursued American greatness, the option for people through their representatives to get past what they desire to see past and to strike down what they desire to see struck down. And that's being limited now. I think one of the big questions, Daniel, in everyone's mind uh is and is going to be and should be where we sort of go from here. Because obviously uh there's uh not been enough pushback on this. There's obviously not been enough happening to stop it. It's it's spreading far and wide from Houston to Blanco County to Plano, it's all across the state uh where people are either intentionally or through structural policy being silenced, having their voices taken away. And I think a lot of people are wondering where do things sort of go from here? Do they just continue spiraling out of control? Or is there some sort of mechanism we can use to sort of push back on this? And I think that's gonna be a big question, uh, whether that's for the Attorney General's office in saying, hey, bad opinion, we're changing that. Clearly, we were lied to, and it was certainly not supposed to be some sort of model for how every single county, city, and school board is supposed to run and and what that process even looks like.

SPEAKER_23 1:04:59

Sure. So, like with uh most problems that I see arising in my time in Texas politics, uh, first you have to recognize it, second, you have to discover the source. So when I see these things popping up in lots of different places, the immediate thing I think of are these associations uh that that uh sit in Austin and think about ways that they can protect their people. And their people aren't the taxpayers, they are uh the county judge and the county court, the city council and the city council members, uh the school boards and the school board members. These groups sit on top uh in Austin and find out ways that again they can protect their people, which are those very it's a very narrow group of votes. How can we protect these people from the citizens? How can we protect protect the citizens from our uh from from the systems that have uh too often uh used, abuse, and ignored them? No, no, no. They're they're they're looking after their their own. So one, we need to raise the awareness of it, and two, yes, we have to find all. This is a very new thing, and it's a thing that uh uh we're gonna be tracking and and looking for looking at a kind of figure to the top. We have to kind of expose what's been happening in order to create that ground swell of energy uh so that we can get something done about it. Uh, because I think that it's gonna need to be something that is from the top down and not from the bottom up because it's happening everywhere, but until everybody knows, like, oh hey, we're not alone. I I think it's gonna be hard for us to get some action. But I appreciate you letting me talk about it.

SPEAKER_12 1:06:41

No, yeah, and I think that's kind of the catch 22 of where we're at from a bottom-up perspective. Usually you want grassroots movement in that sort of position. But the issue is the catch 22 you mentioned where you know, the opportunity you have to stand up against this is the very opportunity they're taking away, right? That's the kind of irony of it, is the ability for you to say, hey, this is bad, that opportunity is the thing that's being stripped away from you. And so this is gonna have to have a lot of movement across the state, kind of working cohesively together if we want to make any change. And as you mentioned, the first step in that equation, of course, is being aware, exposing it, uh, being knowledgeable about it, knowing what's going on. And that's where Texas Scorecard comes in. Daniel, can you tell everyone how they can keep up to date with all this reporting uh of stuff going on around the state and in our local areas so they can be aware of how they can get involved?

SPEAKER_23 1:07:31

Sure, yeah. Visit TexasScorecard.com. You can sign up for our email newsletter. We send one out every day. It's really short, but keeps you in the know. Uh, and a lot of people use it to figure out what they need to uh what they need to what they need to do to have uh Texas government reflect the way that they want to see it governed.

SPEAKER_12 1:07:49

Awesome. Well, Daniel, I appreciate you coming on this morning and giving us your time.

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I appreciate it, Justin. Michael.

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Churches Sue IRS Over Johnson Amendment

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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 Texellent AC Service. U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker in the Eastern District of Texas, who was nominated by President Donald Trump in 2019, ruled yesterday that the concerns presented by churches fall outside of the court's jurisdiction. The decades-old requirement known as the Johnson Amendment prohibits nonprofits from intervening in candidates' political campaigns or risk losing their tax exempt status. The two churches, along with the national religious broadcasters and intercessors for America, argued that the Johnson Amendment is unconstitutional and sought a ruling prohibiting the IRS from enforcing it. The churches of First Baptist Church, Wascomb and Sand Springs Church in Athens. Michael Ferris, general counsel for national religious broadcasters and lead counsel in this lawsuit, said the plaintiffs plan to file an appeal in the Fifth Circuit. In a July court ruling, the IRS said it would allow houses of worship to endorse candidates when addressing congregants in good faith, likening it to a family discussion. The agency said the interpretation was in keeping with the IRS's treatment of the Johnson Amendment in practice. After Barker said the court wouldn't approve the proposed settlement between the organization and the IRS, what happens now is is pretty unclear. The future of the IRS's new interpretation of the Johnson Amendment is confusing since it was proposed by the agency itself. The amendment which Congress moved back in 1954 when Lyndon B. Johnson was a senator has been criticized by many people. Despite the unanswered questions, they said that yesterday's decision is a win for separation of church and state advocates, which is a loss for everybody else that's normal. They said the win has been at the sails of a movement of reducing the space between separation of church and state. So this is quite something. Americans United for Separation of Church and State cheered the dismissal. We're glad the Johnson Amendment remained a strong bulwark to stop religious extremists from exploiting houses of worship. It should fund charitable work, not partisan policies. Pure insanity, but that'll do it for this segment. We don't have time to address it because we're going to have on Tom Ramsey from Commissioner's Court here in Harris County. When we get back from the break, as always, if you would like to text in, 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, and Lord willing, I'll be right back with Tom Ramsey in the next segment.

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SPEAKER_12 1:20:48

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SPEAKER_08 1:21:02

Great. Good to be here. Thank you.

SPEAKER_12 1:21:04

Absolutely. And we have Tom on this morning because we have some pretty wild developments coming out really over the last couple of weeks. Of course, it's all kicked off with Lena Hidalgo's I mean, I I can't even call it a temper tantrum breakdown at the rodeo when for the first time ever someone tried to tell her, hey, that just doesn't work this evening. Um, of course, she was escorted from the premises. Uh her her uh directorship was revoked, her ex officio director status was revoked by the rodeo. And so I think it was fair uh when people came out and said, hey, maybe there should be some sort of consequence for this. Maybe there should be some sort of formal apology, especially in the wake when she put out this massive letter uh where there were these crazy allegations of racism and sexism and possibly illegal manhandling uh that she talked about. And so I think it was fair when you came out a couple weeks ago and you said, Hey, I think we need to bare minimum put a resolution forth to not only thank the the Houston Rodeo, but to say, hey, we're sorry, and we're calling for her resignation. And so that was I I believe that was tabled during the last meeting.

SPEAKER_08 1:22:07

Yeah, they were they chose not to deal with it at that point. That would have been a perfect time to deal with it because the rodeo was still going on, everybody was still focused on what's going on after they had they'd more recently heard the outlandish remarks. Maybe uh within two weeks ago for a week of an courageous manner, we're gonna do that. This would be clean length. And no one is gonna say anything about it. And that's just that's just not right. It's absolutely embarrassing.

SPEAKER_12 1:24:15

Right, and it would have been bad enough had it all ended with what literally happened, right? If it had all ended the night of the rodeo, that already would have been a massive embarrassment for the county. Uh already that your county judge is having to be thrown out. I think that already was was uh too many steps too far. That alone. You throw in that we all know Lena's history, right? We all know how she's left for concerts, how she's just not shown up to meetings, the temper tantrums. I mean, I'm sure you remember bringing in the kids to try to bully Commissioner's Court into passing her early child care program. This is a pattern of behavior. It's not one mistake. And then in the wake of that mistake, there might have even been a little respect gained had she come out the next morning and said, I'm so sorry. Uh I behaved awfully last night. I even said on my show, I said, you know, we probably would have all said, Wow, what a what a mature response. Is she changing? But of course we didn't get that. We got then on top of that those allegations of racism and sexism and manhandling and just berating the rodeo and the rodeo leadership. And so they tabled that and said at the next meeting we'll address it. And the last meeting I understand was yesterday. Can you kind of give us some breakdown as to what happened yesterday?

SPEAKER_08 1:25:26

So we started with again, I wanted to honor the rodeo. I think that that's a reasonable thing to do. They just completed their most successful uh rodeo on record. You know, the total economic impact of the rodeo in this region, three hundred and twenty-six million, six hundred and ninety forty eight, forty nine. When you look at the number of volunteers that everybody everybody know what the rodeo making it worked. I'm making it all doing the right thing. Maybe she wasn't there yesterday. I was hoping she would be there. And maybe to your point earlier, maybe she could have said then, I apologize. I'm sorry. You know, that wouldn't be that wouldn't re re rebuild everything, but it would have been something. She's not owned up to any of her remarks.

SPEAKER_12 1:28:19

Right. And that's kind of the thing is maybe even if she had bare minimum, if she had shown up, and this is crazy to me, because of course, you know, regardless of the power or authority of the commissioner's court, for you guys to come out and there be the option, because going into this, everyone thought that maybe it would get passed. For there to be a resolution calling for her resignation and for everyone to be aware of it and her not show up knowing that could happen is already insanity. But if she had shown up and said, hey, I'm not going to resign, the people duly elected me. But what I will do is say I was wrong. And I apologize. Even weeks later, uh, where we say you should have done this sooner, even then there would have been a level of cordial response among among commissioners to say, Well, thank you for that. Like bare minimum, thank you. But none of that. She didn't even show up.

SPEAKER_08 1:29:02

You know, you know, she went uh three nines in a row to the rodeo. And the rodeo yeah. And she expected to have the three and a half. Well, you know, if I was in it, you would let me in. I thought the rodeo response to that one. If you were in it, you wouldn't be angry.

SPEAKER_12 1:30:03

Yeah, and that's kind of the same thing with with Donald Trump. They want to bring Donald Trump into it. You could just easily say, Yeah, you know what? If Donald Trump was the Harris County judge, I don't think we'd have this problem.

SPEAKER_08 1:30:13

Exactly. Exactly.

SPEAKER_12 1:30:15

And so now, of course, you have this this sort of they turned it into this sort of partisan battle of Republicans versus Democrats. And of course they did that. That's not really a surprise to many of us. But the result of that now is the the Democrats are acting like, you know, Rodney Ellis over here, we're successful. We thank Houston Rodeo. We did our job, we passed our resolution. It's like, no, you passed an amended resolution that on uh it's both sides of your mouth. On the one hand, you're saying, yeah, we're we're thankful, we thank you for everything you do. Uh, but all the disrespect and disparagement that you suffered as a result of our leadership that we're largely responsible for, that's our county. We're not gonna say anything about it at all. Nothing to nothing to say about it. Um and and again, it's this sort of pattern of behavior.

SPEAKER_08 1:31:00

It's insulting to the rodeo. To not even address it. To not even say they don't even say they they didn't even say they said, yeah, we celebrate the rodeo. What if we judge your behavior? Wouldn't you call them? Wouldn't you call them? Right in front of now we we changed a resolution then. We we we challenged her on that one. We said you lack decorum. So if we would do it there, why would we do it for the rodeo? I it's just it's just mind-numbing.

SPEAKER_12 1:32:00

Yeah, it's it's it is baffling. And I think it again speaks leaps and bounds about our leadership in general and how much of a change that we really need in a lot of these positions. Because on top of obviously all the bad policies and taxpayer concerns, you just throw in the blatant lack of decorum and lack of respect uh that that our politics used to be known for, right? There's a reason that we're like we wear suits to these things, we dress nice. Right. There's a level of class that you're supposed to have in certain places, in certain positions, and on top of all the policies, to throw in the very obvious distaste, uh, just the disrespect, and then to refuse to say anything about it at all is is baffling to me. I think it's baffling to it should be to everybody. On again, you mentioned not being political. It should be baffling to everyone of of every belief and every ideology. It should be baffling, and I think it needs it to be go ahead.

SPEAKER_08 1:32:50

Mark my words. Uh the problem isn't going to be handled. If you ignore a problem, it's not gonna go away. We will be we will be sitting here in in a few short weeks. It could either be anything related to related ability to even think comfortable you know, people will accuse me of being parson and trying to pick on uh the judge or I'm not taking on anybody, I just expect everybody to behave in a certain manner, and she is not behaving to anybody's standard at this point.

SPEAKER_12 1:33:43

Right, and to be honest, if you because all of us here in Houston, all the listeners to this show, we know what's kind of going on here with Judge Adalga, we know who she is, and we know the pattern of abuse that we've gone through. But if you were to take somebody from outside, uh even from another country, and and just bare minimum show them, hey, this is what happened the night of the rodeo. This was her letter formal response with these allegations. Here's all of the evidence. Do you trust that person to run one of the largest counties in the country uh known for having possible weather disasters? Is that a good idea? I don't know that I've ever met a living soul who'd say yes. Right.

SPEAKER_08 1:34:23

All right. Well, here we go. Thank you.

SPEAKER_12 1:34:26

Thank you, Tom, for coming on. Thanks for being a part of the show and for keeping us updated. And thank you. Furthermore, I know often when you read the articles and the headlines, you hear the lone Republican on Commissioner's Court. That gets uttered all the time because you often find yourself alone on one side of the aisle trying to fight for what's right. And so I appreciate uh, in the midst of all that, you displaying that courage and that willingness to continue to speak the truth.

SPEAKER_08 1:34:47

Okay, thank you very much.

SPEAKER_12 1:34:49

Thank you, Tom. With that being said, ladies and gentlemen, when we get back from the break to wrap up the show, we're gonna jump over and uh talk about speaking of kind of ruining American culture, Texas cities are now approving Ramadan proclamations all across the state. The Islamic season, of course, been recognized by mayors and city councils. We'll talk about what some of that approval looks like when we get back to wrap up the show. If you would like to text into the show, the number is 713-779-5978. That is going to be basically your last opportunity for the morning. If you'd like to call in, text in, let us know, shoot a text over. We'd love to get your take on things before we wrap up the show. Again, that is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. I'll be right back to wrap up the morning show after this last break.

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Ramadan Proclamations And Cultural Conflict

Final Thoughts And Sign Off

SPEAKER_12 1:39:54

A growing number of Ramadan proclamations have been approved by city councils and mayors across Texas. The City of McKinney, DeSoto, Richardson, and Cedar Park are among those confirmed to have made the announcements, recognizing the Islamic season. We also know that we've had that happen here in Houston. The City of McKinney Ramadan proclamation states that the season marks the first revelation of the Quran to the prophet Muhammad, and was signed by Mayor Bill Cox. Cox is a professed member, supposedly, of the first United Methodist Church of McKinney and cites this as a reflection of his strong faith. McKinney has also issued a proclamation in the past recognizing Diwali, a major Hindu holiday. Now I know this is confusing for many of our elected leaders who are, let's just say historically illiterate. I think that's the kindest way I could possibly word that. Historically illiterate who do not understand that Christianity is fundamentally at odds with these religions, and these religions are fundamentally at odds with one another. That when you honor another religious holiday, you are by nature extending an invitation of what that holiday ultimately represents. And we all know when it comes to Islam and Ramadan that what you're inviting ultimately, I mean, and this is true of every religion, right? If you're if you're inviting Diwali with with Hindu mythology and whatnot, already you're sort of approaching a level of disdain for Christian ethics that we have here in America. But then you throw in Islam, which is uh inarguably more violent and and and more vile by basically every single metric we have. And you celebrate this sort of stuff, we're left to wonder what what is our country actually supposed to look like? Because if you're claiming to be a Christian and you're supposed to be a political leader in the community, for you to come out and and say this marks the first revelation of the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad, and that's a good thing, and we should celebrate it, we should proclaim it. What you say speaks. I know that's a shock, but what words exit your mouth are indicative of what you believe. And when you say this marks the first revelation of the Quran, no, as a Christian, you don't believe there was a revelation to the prophet. He wasn't even a prophet. You believe that this man, or you should, was a pedophilic, violent, evil man, largely illiterate, by the way, who deserves no honor, no praise. In fact, if anything, there should be a proclamation of disavowing. There should be a proclamation of the evil of Ramadan and its celebrations, and that it has no place here in Texas or in the country. But it continues. Uh a post by the city of DeSoto states that Mayor Rachel L. Proctor released a proclamation recognizing the holy month of Ramadan. The proclamation purportedly honors a time of prayer, fasting, reflection, generosity, and service observed by Muslims around the world. Uh, they're so generous they're willing to uh freely gift you bombs because they love you so much. They're so generous and reflective and service-oriented uh that they would love nothing more than to completely subjugate you to their vile demands. And a Facebook uh post commenting on Richardson Mayor Amir Omar's proclamation of Ramadan, Imam Saeed Purcell of MAS Dallas said with Epic, that's East Plano Islamic Center, and everything else going on, these sorts of public recognitions of Islam are very vital because they help raise awareness. The Ismaili youth of the Southwestern USA praised Mayor Jim Peniman Morin of Cedar Park's proclamation of Ramadan as highlighting the city's dedication to fostering inclusion, pluralism, and celebration of diversity. The proclamations come after the House, Tech the Texas House passed a resolution last year recognizing the month of Ramadan, stating that the House here in Texas extends to Muslims across the Lone Star State's sincere best wishes for a joyous and meaningful observance. As of now, only one confirmed proclamation of the Christian season of Holy Week has ever been made by a Texas mayor as of 2026. Only one. As we're literally going into springtime, as we're getting ready to celebrate Easter. We of course had Palm Sunday, we have Good Friday coming up day after tomorrow. As we're going through all of that, and we know the truth, which is that the one and only God was was willing to go to death on a cross for the remission of sins, for the propitiation of our of our evil, for our atonement. As we have all of that happening right now, we're focused on a quote unquote holy observance of a foreign holiday, one that disparages the name of our Lord and Savior, one that believes in violence and subjugation against Christians and those of other faiths, and one that, if it had its way, uh would completely transform how the world operates under Allah. And so these are demons. This is not a God, it's a demon. And if we're going to do any proclamations, it should be it should be proclamation for Easter, for the Holy Week of Christianity, because we are in a Christian nation, and it should be a plot proclamation that the evil of Islam will never destroy our country. That'll do it for the show today. I want to thank everyone for tuning in, for listening. You've been listening, by the way, to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. Welcome to the month of April. Enjoy your very first April day here on Wednesday. I'll be back bright and early tomorrow at 6 a.m., Lord willing. In the meantime, Godspeed.