Houston Sanctuary Policy Fallout And The Fight Over Public Safety

Houston is staring down a political self-inflicted wound: a city policy fight that could cost roughly $110 million in public safety funding, spark a state investigation, and push police morale even lower. We walk through why the state is reacting so aggressively, what Mayor Whitmire is signaling about a potential repeal, and the bigger principle underneath it all: if government actions have no consequences, more bad actions follow. That’s true in city hall, and it’s true everywhere else.

Then we bring on Adam Cahn from Texas Scorecard to map what’s changing across Texas higher education. We talk Texas Tech moving to phase out sexual orientation and gender identity credentials, Ken Paxton’s investigation into DEI activity at the University of North Texas, and the new undercover footage alleging DEI is still operating inside social work programs at UT Arlington. We also get into the uncomfortable but essential detail: “accreditation” and academic exemptions can become the loopholes that keep DEI alive even after lawmakers say it’s banned, which is why the next wave of reforms may get more legally complex.

We close with parental rights and student safety, including the State Board of Education approving a more parent-informed trustee training syllabus, plus a disturbing case out of Goose Creek CISD that underlines why vigilance matters. If you care about Texas politics, Houston public safety, DEI in Texas universities, and parental rights in schools, you’ll leave with a clearer map of what’s happening and what to watch next. 

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Welcome And Wednesday Preview

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Hlich ja mal Michael Wilson.

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. And what a good morning it is here on this fine Wednesday morning. And since it is Wednesday, you know what that means at the top of the second hour we're going to have on Texas Scorecard today, specifically, just so you guys know, so you can prepare, we're going to have Adam on this week. Adam Kahn going over a little bit of the latest in, let's say, higher education, the fact that Texas Tech is supposedly phasing out teaching on sexual orientation, gender identity, this investigation into the University of North Texas over continued DEI efforts, the professor who manufactured Play-Doh censorship hoax, this was a big thing, who resigned from Texas AM, and UT Austin, which has now accelerated the consolidation of ethnic and gender studies programs. And so we'll go over kind of what's going on in the higher education realm, what we need to be looking out for, what we need to be doing to fix those sorts of issues. But step one in all of that, as I've made very clear and continue to make clear, is that we have to know what it is. We cannot fix things that we do not know are happening. Step one of anything is to identify the problem. Um this is true with almost anything. Any problem you have, it's not just politics, not just mathematics, literally any problem you have. Step one, identify the identify the problem. And if you skip that step and you don't identify the problem, uh usually that comes back to bite you. Because at the end of the day, you go to fix it and you don't actually really know what it is you're supposed to be fixing because you didn't identify the problem. And so that's what we do here on this show. That's what Texas Scorecard does, why we have them on every Wednesday. Uh, because they understand that step number one, an unskippable step, if you will, in making sure that we fix anything, right? At the local level, at the state level, at the federal level. If we want to change anything in our country, you know, it's going to require that we identify the problem so that we can address it correctly. And that's the aim of this show. And we

NRA Meeting And Conservative Community

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have lots of time to do that this morning, and lots of ways that we're going to do that this morning here over the next two or so hours. Before we get into that, quick, quick note that I want to remind you guys about. And that is that we have the NRA annual meeting coming up later this week. But at this point, we're starting the day after tomorrow. And so it's going to be here before you know it. I would highly encourage it. We'd love to see it. We're going to be there. Patriot Talk 920 is going to be there. I'm going to be there all weekend. Uh, our president's going to be there. Lots of people gonna be there. And it's not just Patriot Talk 920, of course, it's a whole lot of other people. We talked uh with Tom Gresham from Gun Talk, who's gonna be there. Uh, we talked with Bruce Brentson uh from Houston Gun Collectors Association, who's gonna be there. We also are gonna have the armed attorneys. Uh that's of course going to be Emily Taylor and Richard Hayes, who are gonna be there on Saturday from like 10 to 11 a.m. Uh anyways, all of those tickets, all the ticket information, everything you could want uh to make sure that that you are able to attend, you just have to, it's very easy. You just have to go to n-ram.org. One more time. That is n-ram.org. That sounds for the National Rival Association annual meeting, if you need to remember why it's N-R-A-A-M. That's why. And so again, Patreon.920 and Gun Talk will be there in the voices of the Second Amendment section of the expo. Uh it's gonna be a phenomenal opportunity. Lots of like-minded people going to be there, which as I've highlighted on this show many times, a lot of why we go out to the gun shows and why we go out to the Republican events and and whatnot and what have you, is because we believe that community is very important to our cause. We we believe that wholeheartedly, actually. That if we want to change anything, we kind of have to have, and I'm not trying to be some sort of weird communist collectivist Marxist, but we have to have a sense of community among ourselves. And by the way, that's actually part of the reason why the left has for so long been pretty successful. Because while, yes, uh, they're insane and they're very disordered, and they're very perverted, and they're very illogical, sure, all of those things are true. One thing that they have on us is that they're very good at banding together. And they're very good at showing up for for one another. I remember I was I was listening to this child who had kind of been, I'll say, indoctrinated by the LGBTQ community. At this point he'd he'd kind of grown up in it. Uh he was 15, 16 years old, decided that he wanted to transition to be a girl. And when you actually talked to this this teenage boy, uh it became very clear very quickly that he didn't really believe he was a girl. I mean, there were days you know, he felt feminine or what whatever that means. Uh, but it was very clear that he didn't genuinely believe that he had become a female. So you gotta get down to the root of, well, then why are you doing this? Why why are you becoming why are you becoming a part of this community? Why are you turning and and deciding that you want to transition and cut off body parts? What's what's driving that? And in all honesty, you want to know what it was? That the transgender community was so welcoming, was so passionate, was so interconnected, like intertwined with one another, where they they just were always there for each other. Uh they'd have your back no matter what. They defend you to the death, literally. Um that he wanted that. He didn't feel like he was getting that from his family, he didn't feel like he was getting that from his friends or his peers, and he wanted the sense of community that other people in the transgender community had. And so, as we've highlighted, the left has been very good at developing this sense of community. Now, they've also kind of gotten so crazy recently that they'll kick people out of that community uh for the mere crime of not agreeing with every little thing the left happens to believe on any given day. Uh, if you're not following them over the edge of a cliff, uh you're out. That's how it works. But seriously, they've been very good at that. And I've said we here at Patriot 920 believe heavily that that's a very successful strategy. And that's not the only reason we do it, we also do it because it's good to do. There's a reason it's successful because God designed us to be in communion with one another. God designed us to have fellowship with one another. God designed us as human beings. Uh and you can read this from even the old philosophers that didn't believe in some sort of higher power, or at least not the one we believe in, who understood how how socially created man is. Um of course we tried to explain that way of evolution and this and that. But the reality is God made us to be connected with other human beings. We're supposed to have friends, we're supposed to be clues with our family, we're supposed to go to church and have friends there. That's all good. And when you start building those relationships, wouldn't you know it, you also get a more successful political animus. We also kind of get better at politics. We manage to band together and to succeed. But that requires intentional effort.

Houston Ordinance Sparks State Showdown

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Now, I did mention that the left has gotten a lot crazier recently, and you know, that they they will it doesn't really matter what you do, if you break one of their religious rules, you're out. That's it. That's the end of your career as a Democrat, right? That's that's what they do now. Uh Mayor Whitmeyer is learning that the hard way because of course he came in, and you know, he he's he's he's warned that, you know, oh man, I don't I I told you guys there would be financial losses. I told you guys that we would have issues with the state and fiscal repercussions and and potentially it breaking the law. I warned all of you, I told you this would happen. Um but then he voted for it because of course he wanted to get to join the club again. He realized it wasn't so fun uh losing the endorsement of the Democrat Party, having really no one behind him, because you can't have Republicans behind you because you're a Democrat, and now the Democrats aren't behind you because you're not a good enough Democrat. And so he kind of felt like, or at least I feel like he felt like he was alone. Getting out in the ether of Houston politics, and what do you do when you're alone? Well, you do crazy things you wouldn't normally do to get attention. Like maybe voting for a policy that you've warned about and said it's a bad idea for months, you decide to vote for it. Which makes sense to almost no one on either side of the political aisle. And now, uh, on top of him saying, Hey, I warned everybody about this, we got new updates yesterday. Uh, we found out that on top of, of course, the whole governor Greg Abbott is threatening to pull out $110 million, uh, which by the way is is certainly I I mean totally fine. I will say I read a post from the governor, kind of explaining, because of course you have people coming out and saying, well, that's not right. This is a bully tactic. This has nothing to do with, you know, actual success. This has nothing to do with you just doing what you're supposed to as the governor. You're trying to bully local communities into following whatever sludge you want them to. Uh that's the claim. But of course, he came out and explained what's going on. He said, Houston received more than $100 million from the state based on a written agreement that they will comply with immigration enforcement. If they refuse to comply, they better get out their checkbook. It will be costly if they refuse to keep their streets safe. And so, in in our mind, in Greg Abbott's mind, in the mind of most conservatives, uh yeah, this is totally fair. Totally game. You can say, well, this hurts Houstonians, this is negative, this is bad. Yeah, so is your policy. And if we let you just keep doing policies that are negative for everybody, uh that really look like they're in violation of state law, that look like they're in violation of your agreements, and we do nothing to you. Uh ha has anyone ever found out what happens when a child throws a temper tantrum and then you let them do that? It's it's this whole gentle parenting nonsense. Has anyone seen how that works? Because I can tell you firsthand how that works. I've seen it. I was a uh a martial arts instructor in high school, and that's when gentle parenting was kind of becoming a new big thing. And I the number of times that I saw little kids who they would be doing that they were absolutely not supposed to be doing, I would tell them that they needed to listen because they're of course in a facility that they're being taught at. Uh and I would eventually have to go to their parents and say, hey, they're not listening. This is not going to work. They can't be part of this class. And they'd say, well, just let him come down. He needs to feel his feelings. And I just, I just could not understand any of that. But do you know what happened? Because as it turns out, things did not get better when they felt their feelings. As it turns out, uh, they did not get more successful, more patient. They didn't get better at not throwing tantrums, they didn't get, you know, less emotional and managed to kind of figure it out on their own. No, no, no, no, no. Uh things got worse and worse and worse until eventually most of the parents realized, okay, we gotta do something about this. This is absolutely egregious behavior. If you just let someone get and it's not just kids, right? We know this about crime too. That's why we've talked over and over and over about why we need our crime, our criminal justice system to be more retributive, to be more punitive, to be more harsh. Because whatever we're doing right now is driving more people to commit crimes. When you see the crime rate going up and up and up, and I know you'll have the DA office reports that are now saying crime is on the down. It's it's going down, we're winning. And all I have to say to that is that doesn't take into account any of the crimes that you're refusing to prosecute. That's all I'm saying. I'm not, I'm not making any sort of grandiose claim that crime is worse than it's ever been, but I am saying you can easily fudge the numbers when you have a vested interest in pretending like crime is going down. But that's the same principle applied here. If the state of Texas was to look at the the ordinance that Houston just passed and do absolutely nothing about it, do you know what that signals? Not only to Houston, uh, but to Dallas, to Austin, to San Antonio, to even the rural communities, you know what all of them are going to see? They're gonna see, hey, you know what? We're allowed to pass ordinances that essentially violate state law, violate written agreements, um, and and what have you, and nothing's gonna happen to us. No one's gonna do anything. We'll be totally fine. There'll be no punitive response, no issues. We're just kind of allowed to do whatever we want. At the end of the day, we'll figure it out. No worries. That's what they'd see. And so you can be as upset as you want, say that Governor Gregory Avana is being a bully and this, that, and the other. I'm sorry, but you do have to check your government. You actually do have to punish people. There actually does have to be a response to politicians that don't know their place. Uh, if you're gonna violate state law and violate really your entire job, which is to protect the people of Houston. That's that's the underlying principle of everything you do is for the benefit of the people of Houston, not the illegal aliens here. If you're willing to undercut all of that, someone has to hold you accountable in the moment. You have to face repercussions for that. We're not gonna wait years and say, well, maybe we should get rid of you later. Uh yeah, we should. Also, in the meantime, someone needs to punish you. Maybe, maybe, even, and this is what we're gonna get into, this is the mi the biggest newest update. Maybe even force you to change course and realize, hey, maybe, maybe you were wrong. Maybe you'd like to have a second chance to vote on that again. Maybe you could bring it back up, and someone could say, hey, we messed up, we're very sorry. Here we are. We we were eating the crow. We're saying the truth, we messed up, we made a mistake, our massive apologies. Please give us our funding back. Please stop this investigation. That I think that's the best strategy here. I it's easy, it just requires these people to stop being so utterly prideful. But nevertheless, the biggest update we're we're getting now uh is coming out just over the past couple days from Mayor Whitmeyer. Uh he was speaking after a press conference kind of about the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the big soccer tournament, football soccer tournament being held, uh, part of the games here in Houston. And so he said the city has no choice uh but essentially to change course. Essentially to kind of change what their plans were. He said, We've got to correct that policy. There's only one opinion that matters, and that's the governors. We can't survive in a city that does not have public safety funding to the tune of losing $110 million. He, of course, also pointed to uh the three people who wrote the ordinance. He's like, those

Why Consequences Matter In Government

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guys, uh, they they they elevated the issue unnecessarily, and he's saying they're running for office and they wanted to look good, right? Because you have, of course, Alan Salinas, who's running for Harris County attorney, so they wanted to kind of look better. Nevertheless, that's the newest update we have. Uh that we have this upcoming oh, I I kind of teased it by saying this quote, uh, but he has announced that they're going to hold a kind of an emergency city council meeting where it's looking like they may have this conversation of changing what they already did. Uh apparently, he has called for this special city council meeting on Friday. That's Friday morning, that's the day after tomorrow, uh, to kind of vote on whether to repeal the ordinance. And so we've got, of course, got the investigation from the Attorney General's office. We've got $110 million being taken away by the governor's office. On top of the fact that you have the the Houston Police Officers Union, and by extension, a lot of the Houston police officers who are very unhappy feel like they are being targeted and not taken care of and not protected. It's not like you already have a big enough issue with people not wanting to be police officers in Houston or anything. It's not like we already have that massive problem, which we do, but now they feel unnecessarily targeted. And like your concern is not primarily them as it as their city council, but your concern is the illegal aliens that they're having to deal with on a daily basis. And so it's a it's an all-around a big loss. And as Douglas Griffith pointed out, I pointed it out, multiple people pointed it out, all these big losses, a statewide investigation, 110 million dollars in lost funding, police officers who want to leave, and you did all of that for 75 arrests last year that may have happened literally anyway. 75. That is what happens when you start prioritizing your own political agenda above what actually works, above what's actually good, above what's actually true. You're willing to justify 75 people that had committed crimes, that were in this country illegally, got arrested, and as a result, we risked $100 million in funding. We ended up in a statewide investigation, we broke potentially state law, and our police department hates us. But hey, now there won't be 75 people this year getting arrested that deserve to be. Look at us go. And of course, that doesn't even include the incentivization, which we've talked about before. Where the illegal and of course are going to see, well, Houston is basically a sanctuary city. They're not gonna stop us there. So this is like a free-for-all now if we don't, if we don't revoke this. So hopefully that's what happens. We're really hoping to see Friday enough people realize their mistake that that maybe, maybe they can um reverse course before we we lose all of that. With that being said, when we get back from the break in the next segment, we're gonna jump over and uh talk about this undercover video coming out, which shows, of course, continued DEI at UT Arlington. Uh there's been multiple of these, by the way. This is not new. I mean, this is new, this particular story. Uh, but if you're wondering, that sounds familiar. Yeah, it's been happening at colleges all around the state of Texas recently. It's crazy. We'll talk about this undercover video and what we discovered when we get back from the break. As always, if you would like to text into the show, let us know your thoughts. 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 that undercover video of DEI in our colleges after the break.

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Undercover DEI Video And Listener Text

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Kind of going over what's going on at the University of Texas at Arlington, UT, because an activist group has released another undercover video that shows a social work staff member at the University of Texas at Arlington discussing how the institutions maintain diversity, equity, and of course, inclusion in their schools. Now, before we get further into that, we had a text-in that I want to go over. We always answer our text-ins. It says, let's get into this. DEI, NGOs, it all has to go. Yesterday I received an invite from the HSE department at my company to attend required in-person training for 10 of our leaders facilitated by an NGO called Climate Fresk. In person, 10 different people driving 50 miles each to attend a required training and get this emissions. Get rid of all this ineptitude and bring back common sense. You know, it's so fascinating to me. Can I this isn't really gonna answer? This isn't this isn't really gonna this is gonna be a little bit of a rabbit hole slash tangent that is it's tangentially related, but it's not it's not necessarily responding to your attacks. But I I I want to mention this because it kind of hit my brain as soon as I read that. What's going on with people? Can I, just for a moment, there is something genuinely wrong. I don't know how to say this in a way that it's gonna make sense, because of course we know there's something genuinely wrong with people on the left. I mean, if you can murder a child nine months, there's something wrong with you. But I don't mean that they're crazy, though they are. I don't mean that they're evil, though they are. Of course, if you're able to murder a child, or you're able to justify cutting kids' genitals off, or you're able to justify mass illegal immigration displacing the actual population and hurting the country, you're evil. Right? Obviously, all those things. But one thing that that that all makes sense. What I don't understand, because you mentioned this sort of ineptitude. You mentioned there's there's what is happening here, and and I I want to harp on that for a moment because one thing that baffles my mind at least is that it seems like they're completely incapable of genuine reasoning. Maybe that's the best way I can say I I even the ones that are supposedly the debaters and the smart ones, you talk to them and their fundamental understanding of the way the world works is just wrong. And and of course they're smart, so they're great at debating. Uh they they've memorized a whole lot of facts. They may even have gotcha moments on you in these debates because they're very bright, they're very quick, witted. But then you wonder if you're so smart, how in the world did you reach this conclusion in the first place? Wha and and so it's not even just that they're evil. I'm often finding myself at a loss to understand how did you end up there. Like how how do you go from being an intelligent person to believing that there is some sort of difference in a child after it passes to the birth canal than right before. That that that human being is worth any less the moment before birth goes through. I don't know where that comes from. I don't know where that concept really originates. But otherwise, people that I would consider they're obviously foolish, not wise, but people I would consider to be relatively intelligent, who are just incapable of basic understanding, basic reasoning, basic, as you mentioned, common sense. And I obviously understand where a lot of it's coming from. And so when you mention, hey, we need to get all this out of here, we need to return to basic common sense, these sorts of principles, it's absolutely true. Of course, that has to start in our schools. That has to start in not only our our elementary, middle, high schools, it also has to start in our institutions, our colleges, our universities. We are continually teaching some of the craziest ideas ever known to mankind as if they are objective fact. We we I I understand there have been worse cultures in other time periods. Right, I get that. If you look at a lot of what the Aztecs did, if you look at a lot of what the Mayans did, if you look at a lot of what's been done by barbarians, etc. and so on and so forth, yes, there have been worse cultures that have that have done, you know, this sort of egregious stuff, maybe. But even those ones, they didn't have access to the kind of education systems that we have. They didn't have access to the kind of information and knowledge that we have. And despite all of that, we're teaching somehow that it is a good thing to racially discriminate on the basis not of merit, but of quotas. That's what DEI ultimately is. We're teaching critical race theory. This all, of course, critical race theory in general started largely in law school, it was a legal concept, and then of course, kind of flowed down the pipeline through colleges and then into your public school system. But you're teaching critical race theory, which of course goes hand in hand with DEI, uh, that white people are inherently racist, against black people specifically, and that black people are inherently victims of the racism of other people, and therefore they get a free pass. This is the essential concept and construct of critical race theory. And then, of course, you get into everything from transgenderism, LGBTQ in general, what they teach about immigration policy, uh, what they teach about uh really anything that isn't just your run-of-the-mill math formula, anything they're teaching in any regard to social studies, even their English classes, goodness gracious, are filled to the brim with woke agendas. And I know this because I took them. And there's a class, I don't like admitting it, there's a class, the only class I ever got a B in here in college, and I ended up retaking it because my brain just I would not I was not content with graduating with a B. What it all A's, but I got a B in that class, and I knew, I've told the story before, but I knew that that that was gonna be the case once I had a it was a government class, but it was judged on English, and I wrote a paper, I got the paper back, it was a C on this paper, and the reason for the C was that there were a couple of misplaced commas, which one was not true. My commas were not misplaced. I want everyone to know that I was actually correct. Uh, but two, a couple of misplaced commas never earns you a C. Even an upper level English class, you don't get a C from a couple of misplaced commas. And so I got a C. And I sat there and I wondered what went wrong. Oh, wouldn't you know it? This is gonna come as a massive shock. Can you believe my paper was supposed to be an argumentative essay where I broke down the analysis of an article I found online and showed why it was illogical. And the article I picked was one from CNN going over why Trump was so evil. And I broke it down, I dismantled it, I said, This is crazy, this is insane, this is not rooted in reality, and I explained all my points, and she couldn't say it was because I opposed CNN. She couldn't say it's because I was a Trump fan at the time. She couldn't say any of that. All she could say was, Well, misplaced commas, here's your C. And to be clear, that came from a supposedly Christian conservative university. So imagine these universities that don't believe that. And so when we talk about all the NGOs and the woke stuff and this and that and the other, all of this stuff. Where do you think it's coming from? Where do you think it's originating? You think it just happened at the companies? No. No, it happened at the schools, it happened in the education system. It happened by allowing our institutions to be taken over by radical crazy leftists who desire nothing but the downfall of Western civilization. That's what happened. And if we want to win, which maybe it's just me, I would like to win, it's going to require standing up, showing up. It's going to require b being a part of something. It's going to require a lot of effort and a lot of fight, but it's all going to be worth it when we win. Notice I said when, not if, when we win, because I believe that's coming. But again, that requires intentional effort. And it's not just in our schools. Let me be clear. This fight is not just over the institutions, that's important. It's not just over city council, that's important. It's not just over our school boards, that's important. It's not just over our state board of education, that's important. It's not just over our presidency, or our congressmen, or our senators, or our attorney generals, or our governors. No. It's all of those things. It's also fights over our constitutional rights. It's D. All of the above are fights that we need to be partaking in. And you might think to yourself, Michael, that's a lot of fights. I can't do all of that. You're right. Which is why we all have certain lanes that we're in. We all have specific fights that we're dedicated to. I consider myself a jack of all trades. I'm trying to kind of be involved in all of them at once. Doesn't always work so well, but I do my best. But we know we can't get

Activism, Schools, And Common Sense

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. As we get into this, uh pretty crazy stuff coming out from the mayor of Magnolia here. Apparently, his name's Matthew Danzer, and he's been arrested amid an ongoing investigation held and led by the Texas Rangers. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office confirmed that Danzer was taken into custody on a Tarrant County warrant for felony assault of a pregnant person. I don't know why they couldn't just say woman there. I don't know why they did that. Nevertheless, he is currently being held in the Montgomery County Jail. The investigation began after a complaint was filed by Macknolia City Secretary, Christian Gable. Now, in the complaint, Gable alleged that while she was pregnant, Danzer sexually harassed her and grabbed her by the throat during a work conference in Fort Worth back in October. Apparently, there's also a federal complaint filed by the city's former human resources director. In that filing, the former employee claims she was pushed out of her position after reporting the alleged incident involving Gable. In other words, uh human rights was involved, or human resources was involved. And after making that report, she was essentially forced out of her job because obviously there's this sort of in-club, and regardless of what they do, they don't get in trouble. And if you don't participate, if you're not willing to cover it up with them, you're out of there. And so the lawsuit accuses the city of First Amendment retaliation, failure of citywide policies, and violations of the Texas Whistleblower Act. Uh Danzer, of course, has denied the allegations in a statement that he released last month through his attorney. He said he denies all claims and is asking for privacy and patience as the investigation continues. And so the full statement from his lawyer says this We, on behalf of Matthew Danzer, categorically deny the allegations. Mr. Danzer maintains his innocence and looks forward to the opportunity to defend himself in the appropriate legal process. Mr. Danzer remains dedicated to faithfully serving the citizens of the City of Magnolia. We respectfully ask for privacy and patience as this matter proceeds. No further comments will be made of this time out of respect for the ongoing investigation, all parties involved. And so that's really the only update we have. If you guys remember, we reported on this a while back because we had all the claims, and I said a lot of this seems suspicious, but we'll have to see what comes out of the Texas Rangers investigation, if there ends up being any charges. And then, of course, after there's the charges, whether or not he's actually, you know, convicted in a court of law under due process here in the United States. All of those are stipulations that we had back when we originally reported on the story before me coming out and saying, wow, what a terrible guy.

Magnolia Mayor Arrest And Due Process

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It required that we meet those standards. Well, we met number one, that we met the first standard in the list. There now, not only has the Texas Rangers investigation uh kind of concluded that there needs to be felony charges, uh, but now it's gonna go to court. And just by the way, I don't wanna again, I don't want to violate due process and and say, see, he's guilty. But given that this was all already dismissed by the city before, and the ex Rangers got involved and they said, we're just gonna look into it, and now they're charging him, I I think it it certainly does not bode well for what's going to happen in court. It doesn't look good. And optics again matter. I think we should have higher standard, as I've said a million times, I think we should have higher standards than a person who's accused by multiple different people in multiple different departments and charged by Texas Rangers for doing things that are really, really awful. I I think we should demand better of our representation. I know there's such things as false allegations and false accusations. I know those exist. And if that turns out to be the case, right, I think that people that are involved in that uh should be charged very strictly. Indeed. But if they turn out to be true, turns out that there is some weight to the allegations, uh obviously you're wondering, well, what should happen to him? Well, one, it depends exactly what happened. It depends what information is revealed in court. Uh if it ended up rising to the occasion of, say, something like sexual assault, death penalty at C C. Uh, if it was not that, if it's just a basic harassment, uh bare minimum, I think the guy should be removed from office. Maybe there should be some sort of uh restitution paid. Maybe we can financially compensate the victim by making him work for the money that he's gonna pay back. Uh we can we can determine that at a later date. Right now, the important thing is that this goes to court, uh, the due process plays out, but it's crazy. How many of these I don't want to say it's a small town, but how many of these sort of more rural outside the city mayors and and leadership positions are frequently having very real issues. I know that we talk about the corruption because of how big Houston and Harris County is, and we have issues with Lena Hidalgo and Mayor Whitmeyer and our city council. And our our treasurer who breaks into cars but then gets the case dropped and all sorts of wild stuff that happens in Houston. But it's not just Houston, ladies and gentlemen. It's the small towns that have issues with uh illegal gambling machines tied to your leadership that have issues with sexual harassment and assault and all the other things. Uh absolutely bizarre term events. With that being said, to wrap up the first hour of the show, you guys know we have the weather report up and coming where we'll go over what we expect to come out of today. Uh and of course, we're getting closer to the end of the week. We have the NRA commission coming up, so kind of getting your preparations in mind uh for what that's gonna look like over the weekend. We'll go over all of that when we get back. As always, if you would like to text into the show, let us know your thoughts. If you disagree, let us know. If there's a story that you specifically would like to see reported, uh text in, let us know. The number is 713-779-5978. One more time. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and I'll be right back to cover our daily weather report to wrap up the first hour of the show after this tour break. Stick around.

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Houston Weather And Weekend Cold Front

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Uh here in the Great Houston area than it is mid-April. But a noticeable shift is coming by the weekend. Now that change comes a cold front is going to sweep across the region, I believe, on Saturday, uh, bringing with it cooler and less humid weather into early next week. But first, enjoy a few more warm days. Now, weather through today and tomorrow will be much like it was earlier this week as the region sits just south of a more active storm system. The one exception uh is today. As a number atmospheric storm system sweeps across the plains, it could come just close enough uh to get a few light showers going on across Southeast Texas today, mainly earlier in the day. So just watch out for that. Uh you could have some pockets of rainfall popping up during the afternoon, uh especially at North Houston, College Station, Lofkin, etc. Uh temperatures in the mid-80s are gonna come along with humid and breezy weather, with southerly gusts hopping up between 20 and 25 miles per hour. Now, today's isolated shower chance, which is somewhere at a paltry 10 or 20 percent, is gonna drop even further by tomorrow. Uh temperatures under mostly sunny skies could reach anywhere up to 90 degrees, uh, but breezy southerly winds will likely keep temperatures just shy of that 90. Uh regardless, between the near 90 degrees and the flagrant humidity that we have, the weather's gonna feel barely like a little a little trailer for what you can expect over the next couple of months. Now, rain chances are gonna remain pretty hard to come by through Friday. Uh even as we have a slim chance for a passing sprinkle. Generally, rain chances are gonna stay at or below 10 percent uh until we have that cold front reach the the region. Uh most data suggests the cold front is gonna stretch from the Dallas-Fort Worth area to Austin by Saturday morning. Uh ahead of that cold front, daytime highs under partly the mostly gladly skies could reach the mid-80s here in Houston, uh, while heat index values, or humidity like the the feels-like temperature you see, could reach above 90 degrees. Now, scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop north of Houston in the afternoon heat and humidity. Uh that should reach us by the late afternoon or evening. Now, we don't expect severe storms or widespread flooding, but heavy rainfall could lead to briefish water pooling in low-lying portrange areas as you usually would expect. A cooler, less humid Sunday is gonna follow those storms. Uh it may be a tad early to kind of lock that in and say that Sunday is is gonna be very nice. Uh, but now's the time to start thinking, eh, you know, Sunday might be pretty nice. Uh blusterly blustery northerly winds are gonna result in peak Sunday temperatures likely staying in the middle to upper 70s, as dew points fall down into the dry 50s, meaning that it won't be muggy and it won't be warm. It's just gonna be nice. And so a lingering shower, two gonna be impossible Sunday morning or afternoon. Uh the cooler air is not gonna stick around for too long. After Sunday and Monday, highs in the 70s are gonna get replaced by again temperatures in the mid-80s. So be prepared for that. With that being said, after we get back from the break, we're of course gonna have uh Ann uh Kahn coming on, Adam Kahn coming on from Texas Scorecard, which you will not want to miss. We're going over higher institutions, colleges, universities, what's happened to our institutions when we get back. Stick around, you're listening to Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, I'll be right back at the top of the next hour.

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host,

Adam Kahn On Higher Ed Shift

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Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative on the line. Very excited to be with us this morning. We have Adam Kahn coming on from Texas Scorecard to go over a lot of big things that are going on in our higher institutions right now. Welcome to the show, Adam. Thanks for having me. Of course. And I want to kick it off just saying uh kind of an open-ended what in the world happened here? I mean, we've been uncovering, uh, you've been covering a series of major developments across Texas Universities, things like DEI investigations, curriculum changes, academic scandals. Before we dive into those specifics, big picture, lay it out for me. What's going on with our higher education here in the state of Texas?

SPEAKER_04 53:54

Well, so you may see a lot of uh that's actually a really good question to lead off with. And you know, you may see a lot of different sort of stuff going on. Um but I would say that it is all in the process of slowly but surely making Texas taxpayer subsidized higher education institutions slightly less low by the week.

SPEAKER_01 54:24

Slightly.

SPEAKER_04 54:27

Yeah, and I know but um basically if you take it sort of at the uh at the biggest, sort of broadest level, um, you know, we've talked in the past about how over the last kind of couple years, the political will in Texas, especially somewhat nationally, but especially in Texas, really has kind of shifted. And now you're starting to see uh some of the fruits of that at pretty much every major university system in the state.

SPEAKER_01 55:01

Yeah, for sure. And I want to talk a little bit about some of the more finer details on that. Since

Texas Tech Phases Out SOGI Content

SPEAKER_01 55:05

we've kind of seen the big picture, we have a lot of this stuff going on. I want to get into some of it for our listeners. Kicking it off, uh, I want to talk a little bit about Texas Tech. Uh, what exactly are they changing when it comes to sexual orientation, gender identity instruction? What does that look like? What's happening there?

SPEAKER_04 55:21

Well, as of last Thursday, they are completely eliminating it. Um it's gonna be done a little bit in phases because um any current student um pursuing uh uh degrees that touch on that stuff will be grandfathered into the new policy, so it may take a year or two um before this stuff is like fully 100% gone. But Chancellor Clayton, who I guess we all know in the Houston area, he released a policy memo last Thursday uh to guide the phase out of these programs. And they're not gonna offer academic credentials credentials in these fields, um currently enrolled students will be able to complete their degrees, and then um basically what they're doing is they are going to completely prohibit um this type of material from being taught in mandatory classes and lower level introductory classes or higher level things which uh defined uh courses uh labeled as 3,000 or higher. Um they may have exemptions for what they're calling strictly defined academic purposes, which is to say, you know, um you're working on a per uh on a program person actually said this thing, and like you need to address it in a paper, like you may need to make a limited a limited uh except for something like that. But generally speaking, um you know the teaching of a lot of this stuff should be fairly um gone. Should be gone except for very limited circumstances, I'd say in a year or two.

SPEAKER_01 57:42

Right, right.

SPEAKER_04 57:43

Especially as those they're gonna stop, they're going to stop letting new people start these programs effective immediately.

SPEAKER_01 57:53

Right, right, absolutely. So this is just uh it's it's very rare exceptions for specific papers, maybe, and people that are already in the program. Otherwise, uh, we're kind of getting rid of it. Now, I want to jump into another one. We got a couple of these, and so I want

Paxton Probe And DEI Accreditation Loopholes

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to get into all of them this morning. Uh, Paxton, get back to this investigating the University of North Texas over this DEI stuff, uh, coming out over I actually, you know what, I'll ask it. Kind of shifting into that story. What what triggered the launch of this investigation?

SPEAKER_04 58:21

Okay, so have you ever heard of an activist group called Accuracy and Media? I have. Okay. They released this video. They are doing some sort of it appears now. I have not spoken to them, so you'd have to ask them what their actual objective is. This is me just sort of taking an educated guess, observing their behavior from the outside, but it appears that they've got some sort of ongoing active investigation into areas where DEI is continuing to be used in higher education institutions in Texas um for various aspects. So last week they had a video that they released of uh a woman, she was a staff member in the University of North Texas's social work school, um, talking about how they still have to use DEI to maintain their accreditation with the um with a national group called the Council on Social Work Education that um accredits them. Right. So that came out last week, and then like a day or two after that, um, Attorney General Paxton announced his investigation. Since then, um yeah, okay. Since then, on Monday, they released a second video showing continued usage of DEI in the social works school at UT Arlington.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:19

Right.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:20

Um so that came out Monday. I actually had a story about that that went up yesterday at Texas Scorecard. Um Attorney General Paxton has not announced any investigations related to this second video, although it would not surprise me if like we got a press release along those lines. It's 7.16 a.m. on my clock right now. It wouldn't surprise me about that if we got that at like 9.30 or 10 this morning. Right. Um, but that has not officially been announced yet. Now I will say to both of those institutions' credits, once these videos came out, um, they did not try to defend them. Both of those employees who were explicitly caught in this stuff are um no longer employed with the institutions in question. Um, but it actually does, again, I'm not sure exactly what angle accuracy in media is trying to work here, but I will say just observing this on my own, um social work education continues to be a um a major source of kind of problematic content. So we were discussing the Texas Tech story a minute ago, right? And I definitely think the type of thing that like Brandon Creighton's doing at Texas Tech right now is the most important first step we can take. Uh, but once we get some of that really, really, really egregious uh like grievance study stuff and like weird sex study stuff taken care of, social work is going to be um another area that needs to get looked at at like a lot of different institutions. Um I'm also gonna just think it's important to point out that in 2022 the legislature passed a law to prohibit DEI in a lot of the day-to-day university operations, um, especially in their HR policies. Um but that bill, that law contains specific exemptions for accreditation and um academic course content. So this might be previewing something that the legislature is going to take another look at in 2027. Um I'm not I have no specific knowledge on that subject. It's just kind of a logical extrapolation from some of the stuff that we're seeing. Um, and it could be a sensible next step, um, albeit this might be one that is a little bit more legally complicated than um the DEI in human resources policy ban that like that that that was a little bit more legally simple to do. So you may want to consult with lawyers on um next steps in a way that was not as necessary for what's been done previously.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:47

Of course. Now I do want to jump over because another another big story. I believe, Adam, we had you on actually cover when this originally kind of came out, uh, where this guy was teaching Play-Hoh with some pretty wild opinions on what Play Doh thought. Uh, and now we're hearing some updates from Texas AM, specifically from that professor, kind of what's happened

Play Doh Hoax And A And M Turmoil

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since we had you on last to talk about that.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:08

So that professor, his name is Martin Peterson. He's currently teaches in the philosophy department at Texas AM. Um has apparently decided to take a position, weirdly enough, uh uh in charge of AI ethics at Southern Methodist University. Which means that he will be going from a taxpayer a heavily taxpayer subsidized institution to at least a nominally private one. Although any uh he he will be going to Southern Methodist University starting in August.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:00

Right.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:02

Um, although it is worth pointing out that even private schools, if they take federal student loans, have a pretty big public component.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:10

Of course, of course. And so that's a big update. We're also getting another big update, right, from Texas AM.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:16

Yeah, um, so they have had a series of going back to 2020 and the era of coming out of the pandemic, um they've honestly they've had more university presidents than they've even had football coaches. Um head football coach at Texas AM has been a bit of a revolving door recently, like you should see what's going on in the president's office. Um but they are now The border region for the capital system has announced the soul final president for taxation. At least based on a preliminary investigation that we just so this came out at like five o'clock on Monday. And you know, we just really had the time to just sort of put some feelers out there and see what there was in terms of low-hanging fruit. So the good news is that there was at least no low-hanging fruit. This woman just sort of appears to be kind of a career, which um compared to Texas and um previous higher president, um a bit of an improvement. She's supposed to be rumored that she's fairly close to AM Chancellor Glenn Hager, who's the controller prior to 2025. So maybe that means something. We'll just sort of have to wait and see. But yes, they do have um their newest long-term, they're calling her a permanent president. Um although I will have to say, based on the rate at which Texas AM has been going through campus presidents at this point, uh who knows if she's really still serving in the position in 2028.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:59

I was gonna say long term means at least just one year. If we can make it one year, we have it on the case.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:04

Like, like it wouldn't

UT Austin Consolidates Identity Studies

SPEAKER_04 1:08:05

like like we'll see if she gets through the entire 2027 calendar year. Oh, crazy. Now we're getting close to the break. Like to some degree, if I were Texas AM, uh I would like use that as the first mark of some stability.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:20

If we can just get past really one and a half years, just get to a year or so and we'll be second.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:25

Well, get to 2028.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:27

Right, right. Now, so we're getting close to the break, but I real quickly want to get just kind of a short little segment here on UT Austin and this consolidation uh with ethnic and gender studies. What's what's going on there?

SPEAKER_04 1:08:39

So um UT Austin was kind of the first um, they were the first public university in Texas to offer any of this sort of type of course material. So they um development developed with them, but basically they're the department of like Latino studies, black studies, women, yada yada yada. They are consolidating those into a department of I think it's like social and cultural studies under the College of Liberal Arts. Um and then they're doing a review of course content for those for those classes, and um that is still ongoing. So basically, they're launching the new administrative structure. Um, they're gonna be doing it this fall. It has been previously been rumored to be happening in 2027, though no formal announcement was ever made. The formal announcement has now been officially come out that the new organizational structure will take effect this fall. We don't really know what the review is going to yield yet, although, based on everything else we are seeing in both at UT Austin specifically and writ large in higher ed, I think you're gonna see a lot less of the sort of content that we've seen in the past that has raised so many public objections. Um we'll just kind of have to wait and see on some of the details for that.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:28

Right, absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:30

Um but generally speaking, I would say across the board, um every major public university system in Texas today is a little bit less low than it was at the end of March.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:50

Right. Which is a positive, it's baby steps, it's it's getting things out of there when something happens.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:55

Yeah, and I mean I will caution folks like you know, we're still in the early part of a long journey. So don't be surprised as you know crazy continues to be discovered. Um, this is very much like part of the process. You have to you have to figure out what's going on with the problem before you can do anything about it. So you know, I would urge just new information coming out in the context of the broader sort of environment that we've got going on here. But yeah, I I I look for whatever reason, uh the powers that be in Texas decided to take some of this stuff a lot more seriously starting a few years ago. Uh, we're really starting to see some made some some some real fruits in this area.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:00

No, of course. And as I've highlighted to our listeners before, the reality is that Rome wasn't built in the day, but also the bad stuff in our institutions also is not built in the day. And so dismantling them is gonna take equally as long as it took to put them up in the first place.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:16

Well, hopefully it doesn't take a hundred years. But, you know, don't be surprised. Hopefully it doesn't take a hundred years, but like don't be surprised if it takes ten.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:27

Right, right, of course. Now, Adam, with that being said, can you tell everyone how they can keep up to date with all the reporting that you're doing in higher education and everything else, as well as uh all the statewide news from things going on all over the state of Texas?

SPEAKER_04 1:12:39

I mean, generally speaking, if you go to TexasScorecard.com or follow us on all major social media platforms, uh that should be uh that should be the easiest way to find out what's going on, what we're working on. Um, you know, if you're looking for higher ed coverage specifically, I would say go to Texas Scorecard and just kind of search for my byline.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:08

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:08

Well, as always, Adam, we appreciate 90% of what I'm gonna be doing is gonna be higher ed related. I do occasionally do a side business and covering the various misdeeds in the city of Austin. Um but yeah. Absolutely. 90% of that's gonna be higher ed if you look for me at TexasScorecard.com.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:28

Right. That's your field. Well, Adam, as always, we appreciate you coming on, giving us your time this morning, and of course, for all your reporting in higher education and keeping everybody across the city of Texas updated. All right, thank you. Of course. With that being said, ladies and gentlemen, when we get back from the break, we're gonna talk all about parental rights. We got stuff going on in school districts. This is not just higher institutions. We also know we have a variety of problems going on in our non-higher institutions, our public schools, elementary, middle, high school. We'll talk all about some of those updated issues when we get back. 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. I'll be right back after this short break.

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Parental Rights Training Wins Changes

SPEAKER_01 1:18:21

Now, listen, because you're not going to believe this, the State Board of Education members sided with parent advocates approving a hybrid trustee trading syllabus on parental rights and tossing the original version. Now, you guys might remember we talked a little bit about the State Board of Education insofar as they had all the issues going on with the curricula that they were updating, the Islamic influence, care testifying, liberals testifying, and they still approved something that I think worked in everyone's favor. Now, this this new version of this training syllabus is the result of a new state law that requires all school district trustees to receive training on the rights of parents in regards to their child's education. Now, the new law directed the State Board of Education and the Texas Education Agency to develop the training. A work group was created by the Table Board of Education Committee on School Initiatives last fall to now create a syllabus based around this. Now the board gave initial approval to the product in January and postponed final approval in February until, of course, you guessed at April this month. Now, during this time, parental rights activists had shared concerns that the course syllabus posted on the SPOE website, the State Board of Education website, was missing much of what the work group had proposed while putting the training together, leading to a motion during the board's meeting last week to swap out the posted syllabus for something that is more digestible, relevant, and they called it parent-informed. Now, Will Hickman, a member of the State Board of Education, vote for the substitute proposed by Paula Hilliard, a grassroots activist and member of the work group committee. Hilliard, who focuses on parental rights and education advocacy, said, quote, the TEA version of the training was missing trade's law and HP 4623, recent court cases, and even the new Texas constitutional amendment on parent rights. While it was a highly professional and thorough listing of laws, I thought there were a few ways to make it more digestible and relevant. And so upon the release of the agenda for the board's April meeting, Hilliard noticed that the board had made very few changes from previous suggestions given by parental rights activists, prompting her to send a more comprehensive suggestion in the form of slides to each member of the board, creating a sort of hybrid product of the work's group and the TEA's designs. And so you had the vice chair of the State Board of Education, Pam Little, said that she was impressed with the substitute training, noted it contained real-world scenarios that were relevant to what parents frequently experience in their school districts. She said it included many new Texas laws, including the state constitutional amendment on parental rights. It presented a robust training for school board trustees, which our constituents wanted to see. I also had the SBOE attorney, Tim Davis, review it, and he felt it was a very good training document. And so the motion to substitute the hybrid program ultimately passed over the weekend. Board members also adopted a rule that will require the course to be five hours long for the first year and three hours for the subsequent years. All school district trustees are required to complete the training by September 1st of 2020. The training will be available, of course, on the TEA website. Nevertheless, one thing that I think is crucial to note here is we had to talk about this with Adam in the last segment with higher institutions. But a lot of the successes that we're going to get are going to take a long time. And I want to present a sort of balanced approach to understanding what I mean by that. Here's what I do not mean. What I do not mean is that we all sit here and say, hey, it's going to take a while, so no worries. We're just content with uh the status quo, how things are being run right now. We can wait. Uh we'll wait a few years before we really have any issues with uh any of uh any of the stuff going on, whether it's DEI, a revocation of parental rights, issues with secret transgenderism in public schools, right? Regardless of what it is, we cannot tonightly buy and say, doesn't matter, it's gonna take time, no worries, you'll figure it out. That's that's bad. That's one side of the ditch. The other side of the ditch is that we and this happens all the time, right? I'll give you a great example of this, people that have entirely given up on Donald Trump. And I don't mean in the sense uh that that we call him out for issues, right? Like when he posts uh a photo of him that is I know that people are saying he was dressed up like uh like maybe you know, someone from the Catholic Church, or I think he came out and said he was dressed up like a Red Cross worker. Uh but I think pretty obviously it was at least as intentionally posted, appeared to portray Donald Trump as Jesus. I think it's fair for us as Christians to say, yeah, that's not good. You should not do that. And really, more than just take it down, I think you should apologize. I I think that's a positive thing to do. We should hold every single one of our elected officials accountable when they do bad things. But here's kind of the problem. When you're so demanding, and I don't mean demanding in the sense that we should call for every single fix we can and be persistent in that. But when you have certain expectations that this gets done in this amount of time and it doesn't, it doesn't meet your standards, that's

Patience Without Giving Up The Fight

SPEAKER_01 1:23:10

when people will frequently say, Well, I'm just done. I just give up then. Right? The the higher institutions, we need the DEI gone, the critical race theory gone, the sexism gone. We need all of the issues uh with with indoctrination and woke stuff out of there. And if that doesn't happen by tomorrow at 9 a.m., I quit. And that's also a really bad ditch to find yourself in. And so, yes, it's going to take time to fix a lot of these issues. It is. We have to be honest about that, which means there is a level of patience that we must exhibit uh because it's not gonna happen tomorrow. It's not gonna happen in 2026. It's going to take us a very long time. I've said this before. There are many things, many issues that we've had over the the course of Western history that we knew the things that we were building, the things that we were fighting for, uh in order for them to be fully realized, it was probably gonna be beyond our lifetime or maybe even our kids' lifetimes. That maybe our great grandchildren would see the fruits of our labor. And that was okay. And now, because we're such modern people where everything has to happen in the next five minutes or it's not good enough, we have no patience, we have no ability to fight if we don't see the immediate results. And you have a lot of people that just give up. They start this whole uh we call it black pilling, but it's essentially where people just say, Yeah, we lost, it's over, but there's nothing we can do. Because they didn't fix it in five minutes. They don't realize, yeah, you're gonna have to fight for it for the rest of your life if you want to see something change. Yeah, it's gonna be a lifelong battle. Literally. And I understand that. And that's why when we have stories of parendo rights, I celebrate those little victories. Even when they seem like they're not the biggest victories in the world or there's some issues or this or that, I celebrate them because I know that it is a step in the right direction and that every little step takes us the right way, gives us more momentum to keep going. Right. And again, we can't take that celebration and use it as an example of we won, we beat them, we finished. No, we we have years left to go. But if we pretend like we're getting no wins at all and everything's just lost, we're we're gonna we're gonna give up. That's how it works. And I don't want any of us to give up. Certainly, I'm not giving up, but I hope you won't either. I hope you'll stay on this train with me till the bitter end. With that being said, and we get back. We got an update coming out from uh Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District. Uh this is not good. A former Goose Creek CISD high school counselor is now wanted on charges related to alleged an alleged sexual relationship with a student. I mean, I I knew you knew where it was going the moment I said this is not good in relation to a school district. Uh so apparently court documents say the suspect allegedly met the victim in middle school, moved to Goose Creek Memorial High School to be with him before the assaults began. And now I I it appears like um this individual, Lorenda Bicardo, is now wanted and has not turned herself in yet. We'll talk all about the details of that case when we get back. 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 Lord willing, I'll return right after this short break. So stick around, don't go anywhere. Hang tight, because we'll be right back.

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Goose Creek Counselor Allegations And Warrant

SPEAKER_01 1:30:41

And as we get into this story, this is pretty bizarre. Uh this woman, Lorenda Bicardo, she's 43 years old, by the way, was a counselor at Goose Creek Memorial High School. Now, uh Goose Creek CISD uh confirmed that she is no longer employed to the district, obviously, and her separation date was January 5th of 2026. Now, she has been charged with an improper relationship with a student and indecency with a child. She is not in custody, as of now, according to court records and reporting information. Now, Bicardo is accused in court documents of engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a 15-year-old male student. Records indicate that at the time of at least the allegations, she was forty-one years old. And so court documents say that school officials first became aware of concerns on December 12th of 2025, after a Goose Creek Memorial High School assistant principal reported unusual comments made by the student. Now, according to the report, the student asked another campus staff member, what happens to a district employee if they sexually assault a student? Investigators later began reviewing the situation after the student's mother also contacted the school, prompting an internal inquiry. Court records say the victim later described the situation to detectives as a weird relationship with a lady. The student told investigators he first met Picardo while in middle school. He described her as very nice and cool, saying she would give him fidget toys and snacks while he completed schoolwork in her office. She allegedly also made repeated inappropriate comments, calling him handsome, saying she loved him. He described the situation as inappropriate and said he did not initiate it. After he finished middle school and started at Goose Creek Memorial, the student said he encountered Bicardo again on campus. Court records alleged she told him in the hallway that she had transferred to the school to be with him. Documents said she later asked him if he was interested in dating an older person and if he'd be interested in dating her. According to the student statement in court documents, sexual interactions with Bicardo started happening in her office at Gruce Creek Memorial High School during the school day. Their first physical contact reportedly involved Bicardo walking over to the victim and kissing him before sitting back down at her desk and saying, See, was that just so hard? The student also said he spent significant time in her office doing schoolwork and speaking with her, and that interactions became more frequent over time. I mean, this is if this is not kind of making you a little bit queasy inside, if this is not making you a little cringed out by how just gross and I I mean it it really is just very nasty to have to read this sort of stuff, but he said she would kiss him aggressively, uh, exposing herself to him during one alleged physical interaction. She reportedly said it's wrong, but it feels so good. This, by the way, is the sort of people you have teaching your children. I just want to be clear, this is a teacher. And I'm not saying all teachers are like this. Don't I'm not doing that. I'm not gonna come out. I know we we like teachers, whatever. They're they're very important to the success of a civilization. But these people are out there, and I I I mean, I don't know what to say other than they're they're just incredibly gross. Uh the student also told officials that she told him about picking him up if she ever if he ever wanted to, you know, have a good time in her vehicle. Court records say other students began to question why the victim was spending so much time with the counselor who wasn't even assigned to his grade. He also said his mental health had deteriorated from depression and stress stemming from the alleged abuse, and his grades had begun to slip. Court records state the student later disclosed the situation to school staff and asked that he no longer be required to have contact with Bicardo. Investigators reportedly reviewed messages between the two that occurred outside of school hours. Some of the communications, according to records, contained emotionally suggestive language, including Bicardo allegedly uh sending this numeric code, it's 143, which is apparently code for I Love You, on two separate occasions, this sort of emotional manipulation, uh especially coming from someone in their forties. Right? And look, I'm not gonna come out and say weird stuff, but if you have a substitute teacher who's like 20 years old and a 17-year-old student, I understand there's still power dynamics and you still have to be very cautious. But we can look at that and say that's very different uh than meeting a boy in middle school when you're in your forties and then following him to a high school uh to sleep with him and to emotionally manipulate him and buy him things. I mean, it's it's incredibly gross. I th that that's the that's the I think that's the epitome of what I can say is that it's entirely gross. And we I wanted, apparently, on felony charges, not been caught yet. I don't know if she's running away or if she's just I didn't know I was wanted. I know I did very illegal things. I did not know that I was wanted. She's wanted. Uh she as of as of right now, as far as we are aware, according to court records, she has not yet turned herself in. Uh, we don't have any updates on what's going on there. Uh of course, until she turns herself in, we can't have, you know, any sort of let's say due process, justice to come out of this. Uh could you imagine though? And this is this is why I always say, like, yes, we have to get a lot of stuff under this, like, under control. We we have to go after these sorts of teachers and educators. We have to give them uh some of the strictest, harshest punishments we've ever given. It has to be very punitive and retributive. All true. But with that being said, you also really need to not send your kids to these places. I I don't know how else to phrase it. You need to do everything in your power to keep your children as far away from the government school system as you possibly can. And I understand it's easy. I'd say it's free, but it's just no added cost because you're paying property taxes anyway. Uh it's it's affordable. Like imagine if this was your son. Or imagine if roles were if if if genders were reversed and this was your daughter. Could you imagine that that being your family? Uh on top of the fact that obviously it all happened and it's all very gross and and whatever, the lasting, potentially lifelong impacts that has on children is is unbelievable. All the studies on this, this is why fathers are called to protect their children so so aggressively. This is why it is so crucial that we do that, because stuff like this is life ruining. At bare minimum, it has massive impacts, even if it doesn't ruin your life, it has massive impacts on the way you function, the way that you think. It does terrible things for people's health. And this is all preventable if you keep an eye on your children. And I get it, this is not to victim blame or go after this kid's parents and say you should have not had your kid. I'm not doing any of that. Obviously, the person at fault ultimately is the teacher who did these disgusting, perverted, degenerate, debaucherous things. But we have a responsibility as parents, we do. And to ignore that responsibility in lieu of, well, it's cheap, it's free, it's this, it's that, I think is is a terrible, a terrible lie that we tell ourselves to justify putting our children in potentially dangerous scenarios. And so I think it's I think it's very important that we make sure that we are watching our children, protecting our children, keeping our children out of the public school while still fighting to hold people like this accountable and fix our system. With that being said, oh, this story never ends. Did you guys hear that there's been another update coming out from the turkey leg hut? I mean, you're thinking, what in the w we've had charges related to drug dealing, crossing state lines, uh, bankruptcy, divorce, arsenic, and and the list goes on. Well, now, we have got an update. 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Turkey Leg Hut No Bill And Sign Off

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As we are about to wrap up the morning show, let's kick it off just talking a little bit about this update from Turkey Leg Hut. Nikia Holmes, the co-owner of Turkey Leg Hut, has been cleared after a Harris County grand jury declined to move forward with charges against her. According to an official statement that was released again over the weekend, uh grand jury returned a no-bill after reviewing the evidence in the case, meaning the jurors found basically insufficient grounds. Doesn't mean uh it means legally she's not guilty. It doesn't mean that we don't think she did stuff or she wasn't involved. It just means they didn't have enough evidence presented to them to say, hey, we think we should move forward with the trial here. Now, uh, according to her lawyer, she said, This outcome confirms what I have maintained from the beginning. I complied, provided the requested documentation, and trusted that a full and fair review would lead to the truth. Holmes said she's grieved over the outcome, but indicated the situation raises concerns. Uh, I'm thankful for those who stood by me. My focus now is my family, my businesses, and continuing to build. Now, Holmes was previously arrested in in connection with allegations that she helped an accused kidnapper who was wanted by authorities. Authorities at the time alleged she assisted the suspect following the reported kidnapping, uh, but according to the grand jury's decision, which is relatively final, uh, no charges will be filed against her. Now, can I just say I I I've said this before, but I want to say it again. I know they're making like a docuseries about the Turkey Leg Hut stuff. I know that's actually supposed to be a thing they're doing. Could you imagine if they just would have done a real Turkey Leg Hut was popular enough. What if they'd have done a reality TV show? Like a real life, not breaking bad, but a real life documentary. But reality TV live, where you had I guess if it would have been live, then the police would have showed up sooner. Not live, all recorded. Uh, but you have the arsenic, uh the the man's wife divorcing, bankruptcy, her pretending, allegedly protecting a kidnapper before the charges get dropped on her, him being in jail, fighting against the lawyer who used to be his lawyer, who's now representing his friend, who's now basically turning on. I mean, it is one of the wildest just twist and turn style stories of all time. Uh with that being said, that'll do it for the show today. As always, I want to I want to say a huge thank you to our listeners uh for being a part of the show, being here, tuning in, not only because you give us your time uh and your energy, but also because it makes a statement as to what you believe and what you want to see happen to Houston uh and the state of Texas. So we appreciate you being here, working with our station. Lord willing, I'll be back bright and early tomorrow at 6 a.m. In the meantime, enjoy the rest of your Wednesday and Godspeed.