Runoff Election Results And A Texas Civil Rights Lawsuit

A school district lawsuit turns into a much bigger fight over who really holds power in America. We start with the federal civil rights case filed against Houston ISD and then zoom out to the constitutional framework underneath so many modern political battles: what the First Amendment was meant to restrain, how the Fourteenth Amendment reshaped the relationship between states and Washington, and why the courts now sit at the center of disputes that used to stay local.

Then we shift to a very Texas problem with national implications: hyperscale data centers and AI infrastructure. Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is urging a pause on new projects until the state can assess impacts on the Texas power grid, water supply, land use, and rural communities. We walk through the arguments on both sides and land on a principle that cuts through the noise: the economy exists to serve the people, not the other way around.

From there, Michael Quinn Sullivan of Texas Scorecard joins us to break down the runoff election results across the state, including key statewide races and what the numbers say about voter priorities, endorsements, and the limits of big money campaigns. We also bring on Justin White from Senior Health Services to explain why Medicare Advantage and prescription drug plans may see disruptive changes this fall, especially for PPO members, and what to do before open enrollment catches you off guard.

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Transcript

Post Election Day Setup

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The voice of reason.

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative here the day after election day. And before you ask, yes, we do have all those election results. If you haven't yet seen them, first of all, thank you. For I'm sure maybe you were waiting for this show, you wanted to hear everything. Um, we will be doing that at the top of the second hour because we're gonna have Michael Quinn Sullivan, you guys know the founder of Texas Scorecard, he'll be coming on to talk all about election results all across the state, from of course the Senate race to the attorney general race, everything in between. And so if you're waiting for election results, you're gonna have to make it one more hour. But I mean, if at this point, if you've waited since last night, I'm sure, I'm sure we can make it another hour. I actually um I was I was reading up on it this morning. I I saw some of the results last night, and then other ones I totally forgot were going to a runoff. And I checked and I was just looking through all the results, and I realized, wow, there were a lot of different runoffs that I didn't get to vote in, all going on. And so we'll go over all those. We'll touch on as many as we can with with Texas Scorecard and anything that we don't get to, or maybe don't get to, I'll make sure that we get to in terms of the show itself after that that interview. Also at 7.30, you guys might remember Monday was Memorial Day. And so we did not have Justin White on with us from Senior Health Services. So we'll be doing Medicare Wednesday doesn't have quite the same ring to it, but we'll be having him on at 7.30 today. So that'll be what we have coming up in the second hour. Election results, senior health services, good stuff, good stuff, couldn't good stuff

HISD Lawsuit And Alleged Retaliation

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coming. But in the meantime, we still have lots to talk about, and I wanted to kick it off talking a little bit about civil rights and and and specifically because we have a a new lawsuit filed uh against HISD, which I don't think comes as a surprise to anyone. When you have a district as large, as problematic, and as issue-laden as HISD, Houston Independent School District, you expect that you're gonna wind up with some problems. I'm not saying that you want there to be lawsuits or that we shouldn't say, hey, maybe we're doing something wrong if we have lawsuits. But there is a level of the bigger the organization gets, the more problems the organization is going to have to face, right? That that's why you'll see a lot of the the mega corporations, even if you think that someone is innocent, they'll often pay these massive settlements. Why? And I know that then people would look at that and say, well, see evidence of guilt, you paid a settlement. But I've always said, you know, when your time, and somebody the math out, when your time is worth this many million dollars an hour and they're asking for ten million dollars to just completely settle the case, that that's a no-brainer. So you expect there to be some sort of backlash. Especially we know there's been a lot of firings, a lot of resignations, a lot of transfers, a lot of movement in the district. And so we expected there to be some sort of response to that from somebody. Well, there has been. Uh, a teachers union leader has now filed a federal civil rights lawsuit. This came out yesterday against HISD state appointed board and superintendent, as well as several district administrators and Lakeworth ISD's new superintendent after the district terminated her. Now, the Houston Education Association president, Michelle Williams, filed a civil rights action under the four first and fourteenth amendments, and the Texas Whistleblower Act after what the filing described as institutional retaliation against a veteran educator and union president who reported violations of state and federal law to appropriate authorities beginning in August of 2024. Williams, as a response, right, because you always, when you're when you're going to trial, it's not a settlement, you're asking for things. She's asking for reinstatement, back pay, and compensatory and punitive damages, among some other requests as well. The 26-year teaching veteran, who is also, by the way, running for Texas legislature, is also fighting for her job with the Texas Education Agency, where she's petitioned the commissioner to reverse the board's April decision to terminate her. And look, I'm not going to make any claims about whether her firings were justifiable. But I gave this advice uh to a friend a long time ago. You know, if if you are in a situation where you're consistently the problem, one of two things is going on. Either everybody else is wrong, or maybe you need to rethink your position. And I'm not saying you do, right? Uh in a world that's as messed up as ours, we know there's gonna be plenty of times where people hate us for what we believe. We know that. That's expected, right? We're not we're not living in a world where everything's perfect, and so if we do something wrong, we know it right away. Right? A lot of times, people will hate the things we say, even when we're speaking the truth, especially when we're speaking the truth. And so I'm not saying automatically that when you get in trouble, it's someone else's fault or it's your fault. We don't know. But there comes a point, right? If your buddy has been, you know, going to the bars and he's been kicked out of, you know, 50 bars, at some point you might start questioning, you know, maybe it's not the bars that are the problem. At some point, you might start thinking, if you haven't been there, maybe your buddy has an issue. That that might be the normal, just logical response. And so the board rejected an independent hearing examiner's recommendation to reinstate her and instead adopted HISD's proposal to reverse the hearing examiner's findings. And so she's not been reinstated as of now. It was the second time that HISD actually sought to remove her. She was dismissed in March of 2024 from her role as a third-grade math teacher, in part over her social media activity. She was reinstated after a two-day virtual hearing. HISD state-appointed superintendent Mike Miles recommended terminating Williams' contract in October of last year, and the board accepted his recommendation for what's called good cause. In her appeal, she requested a hearing before a TEA independent hearing examiner, which happened a couple months ago in February. The examiner found the district did not provide enough evidence to support terminating her contract. And during that hearing, uh Inne Myers testified on behalf of HISD. She was appointed in April to lead uh Lakeworth ISD state takeover, but she still represents HISD. Now, before the meeting, when the board ultimately voted to reject that recommendation last month, April 23rd, HISD's attorney submitted proposed revisions to the recommendation that sought wholesale modification and rejection of the examiner's finding of fact, legal conclusions, and final recommendations. In other words, I said we we are appreciative that your examiner put all this time and resources behind finding out the truth, but we disagree with the recommendations and the findings. We think that the examiner is actually wrong. And so Williams is asking the state's education commissioner to reverse the board's decision, arguing it was arbitrary and capricious. She alleges the board violated the state education code when it improperly modified andor rejected the examiner's findings of fact and exceeded the limited authority it has under state law by rejecting and modifying these findings, which were supported by evidence. Her federal lawsuit covers details of her second job removal and that she filed an ethics complaint in 2024 against HISD's former West Division Chief Laura Stout and Kylie Vasquez for violations of due process. After she was placed on home duty in August of last year, she was ordered to remain at home during the workday and called the district at the beginning and end of each day. She was diagnosed with adjustment disorder with anxiety in late February, and Williams notified HISD in writing that six months of home confinement had negatively affected her mental well-being. Williams' allegations included first and fourteenth Amendment violations. She alleges that HISD took adverse employment actions, including reassignment, home duty, termination, and the board's rejection of a favorable hearing examiner recommendation against her after she spoke at board meetings and filed complaints. She also alleged civil conspiracy involving school and district administrators, including the Texas Whistleblower Act violations. And so a lot of this we won't find out until it actually goes through. Depending on, you know, the board and the TEA could take certain actions regarding settlements, right? They could offer, hey, we'll do the back paper, we won't reinstate you. And she may accept those sorts of things. We don't know. It's all up in the air right

First And Fourteenth Amendment Debate

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now. We we just don't know. But I do want to use this as an opportunity to combat the mainstream narrative on both the First and Fourteenth Amendments, because I think that it's very important. I think that we live in a day and age where my interpretation of the Constitution, while accurate and while dedicated to the preservation of our heritage, dedicated to the preservation of our history, and dedicated to the truth of context, is all but lost to time. The modern reinterpretation of the Constitution has completely mangled the document. I mean, it we're not even really following the Constitution anymore. When you look at a lot of the legislation in regards to the Second Amendment, in regards to the First Amendment, I mean, really, in regards to the Constitution in general. When you look at the way the federal government operates today, it's operating so far outside the bounds. When nearly half of our federal budget is spent on some sort of welfare program, whether that's you know health care, whether that's related to food stamps, whether that's related to whatever it is, the scope of the federal government has has drastically changed from what it was intended to do. The job of the federal government primarily fell under interstate commerce and specific, very specific tasks the federal government was actually obligated to do. That was to protect from foreign and domestic threats and to make sure that there was good commerce between the states. That was about it. And that requires a level of taxation, it requires a level of authority, but that was not supposed to be never-ending and always expanding. It was never intended to do that. It has been, again, completely destroyed by modern narratives of what our Constitution meant. And the First and Fourteenth Amendments are both really good examples of how that's happened. And I want to be crystal clear because I know that people will often be taken out of context. And I I've had this issue many times before, where people will hear statements that I make and they'll assume the worst, right? That I'm saying that somehow my disagreement with the Fourteenth Amendment means that I supported slavery. Not true, not even remotely true, not even a little bit true. There's zero truth, actually, to it. But that does not automatically mean that every single thing that came up after the Civil War and in the Civil War was wise, constitutional, or good for the long-term health of our country. In fact, most of it was not. And one of the most consequential questions that America almost never seems to want to ask is did the 14th Amendment fundamentally break or change our constitutional system? Because there are very serious arguments that I think have a lot of weight that it did. Now, before the Civil War, you know that America kind of functioned primarily as a federation of sovereign states. That was ha why we originally had the Articles of Confederation. We were originally the United States of America. The states were primarily the authority for most people. Again, the federal government had a scope of authority, but we functioned primarily as states together. When the people said the United States are, that changed after the ratification of the 14th Amendment in the United States. That changed to the United States is. And those are different things. Because the United States are assumes a plurality of states that are working in conjunction with one another. The United States is assumes that we are one single entity. And that means a lot of different things. Primarily, it means that our system has changed a ton. Uh your state government was considered your primary government before. Washington was very limited, very restricted, and very narrow in the scope that it had. And the founders, you know this is true because the founders very much were very wary of centralized power. I mean, they had just fought a revolution against a a and distant authority that was consolidating a lot of power over your local life. Taxation without representation, because of course you can't be represented by a government far away that doesn't know you. But after the war, uh especially through the Fourteenth Amendment, the balance of power permanently, I say permanently with a little bit of pause there because I think it can be changed still, but as of now has still shifted to power away from the states and toward the federal government. The federal government increasingly became the referee over nearly every aspect of your life education, marriage law, criminal justice, elections, speech disputes, business regulations, social policy, climate change, literally everything started to fall under the purview of the federal government, all through interpretations that primarily flowed out of the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. And so, in modern, in many different ways, the modern federal supremacy that we're seeing in our country, that I think has destroyed a lot of our country rests on what happened after the Civil War. And so critics argue, of course, the amendment itself was passed under deeply questionable circumstances. If you remember, uh, the Southern states were largely under military occupation during the Reconstruction era. You had many, many former Confederate officials who were barred from participation in that. State legislatures were pressured heavily to ratify the amendment as really a condition for forced re-entry into the Union. If you want to come back, which you have to, you need to ratify this, was the argument. And so this was not some calm-natured national consensus, right, that emerged organically, that came from the people and what they desired. No, no, no. It was imposed after a devastating war where you stripped everyone of their rights to do so. And so that again, that doesn't mean that everything that happened in the South prior to the ratification of the Fourth Amendment was good. I'm not arguing that. What I am arguing is that the process matters and the results matter. And so the Fourteenth Amendment was supposedly about guaranteeing equal protection and basic civil rights, right? But over time, courts have transformed that, as of course they would because it's not limited the way that it should have been into a vehicle for judicial activism on an unbelievably massive scale. And so the the uh take the word, for example, subs uh substantive due process. That phrase alone has probably done more to reshape our country than most elections will do. Uh judges used the Fourteenth Amendment to discover rights that were nowhere explicitly found in our Constitution, right? Um, sometimes for causes that we've liked, many times for causes that we have not. Uh Roe v. Wade was a Fourteenth Amendment reasoning that justified abortion rights nationwide. Uh state uh federal courts overriding state morality laws and saying you can't do that, it was used under the Fourteenth Amendment. The incorporation doctrine, where nearly the entire Bill of Rights got applied against the states, also the Fourteenth Amendment. How about Obergefell, right, the gay marriage decision? Oh, that was also done under the reasoning of the Fourteenth Amendment. And now you have a lot of leftists who will cheer all of that, but if you believe in local government, in self-rule, and in constitutional restraint, there is a very real concern. And I think the question that it poses is that we did we trade one injustice for another kind of injustice under this centralized power? Because again, America before the Civil War and America after the Civil War are realistically two completely different constitutional systems with two different interpretations of what the Constitution actually means. And you can you can trace a straight line from that centralization to the modern administrative state. That's why when a lot of people cheer on Abraham Lincoln, I always say, well, I think we should pause for a moment. Both what Abraham Lincoln did at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of the war was actually immensely terrible for our system, even if you liked the guy. Undeniably, it was it was it was the bare it was the very basis for the sort of power that the federal government currently holds on to to justify the violation of our rights. Washington now teaches into every school district, every police department. Uh they reach into every hospital, every business, every election system, every hiring practice, HR, all of it run by the federal government. And that that did not happen in a single day. The constitutional doorway for all that to happen through the courts over time was the 14th Amendment. Critics also say the amendment accelerated the destruction of regional identity and local self-government, right? You can look back at Robert E. Lee, who had an obligation to his state first. We used to understand that because we were a people of states compiled together. And so instead of 50 states that were doing things differently, America increasingly has become a massive nationalized culture governed by federal courts and by bureaucracies that we all dislike, but you can trace a straight line from what we all dislike about the system today, all a lot of the major concerns that we have right back to the ratification of the 14th Amendment in the wake of the Civil War. And so this contrary to federal authority itself is a dangerous, is very dangerous, regardless of some of the issues we had. And so the same federal government that has consistently promised us justice has also been known to weaponize agencies, surveil on citizens, crush any sort of dissent, censor your speech, and impose ideological conformity. Think literally just a couple days ago, we covered this story of how you have this title company that's now suing to shut down a lot of these requirements on reporting people who do a transfer of mortgages without financing because people are viewed as suspicious. And they turned title companies into their own surveilling agents. Well, that's the federal government. That's the U.S. Department of Treasury, that is under the purview of the federal government. That is telling local businesses they have to report mandatorily everyday people who just want to buy a home and saved up the money to do it. And so once you permanently sort of separate federal authority from any sort of constitutional limit, which is what we did, you you you got some short-term victories. So it seemed fine. But you lost a lot of the structure that protects our liberty in the long-term fight. And so it's not that equal protection is inherently bad. It's not that the concept of civil rights is inherently bad, but the mechanism, and of course it was going to be because when you impose this sort of stuff on people, it doesn't always work. The mechanism used fundamentally altered our republic and our country from what it was supposed to be. And so that's the 14th Amendment has been used for untold evil because it's not limited in scope, has completely transformed the rest of the Constitution, and that goes back to the First Amendment as well. The First Amendment was always understood to be a limit on federal authority, not a limit on states. It was never read. The reason they put Congress shall make no law was very intentional. It was because our country, the national federal government, was supposed to be limited into what they could tell the people of states. That states actually had that particular authority. That if you needed to limit speech or religion, the founders would have zero issue with Texas saying no, you can't have a Muslim community. Not just because there's Sharia law and we oppose Sharia law, but because the states had the total right to rule on those sorts of things. That's not a violation of the First Amendment because the First Amendment can't definitionally be violated by the First Amendment. It can't be. Because it was never intended to apply whatsoever to the states. That was left up to the states to decide on their own. But that's been transformed too. And so the only reason that you're able to sue a district for these violations, it's not even the federal government's concern whether or not you were fired for good or bad reasons. That's a state concern. And if the state wants to say that you were, that this was a violation of your rights in the state, that's totally fine. I have no issues with that. But that's not what we're doing here. We have a federal case where the federal government is supposed to be able to come in and tell the state of Texas how we're supposed to run our business, which is The exact opposite of the system the founders desired. The exact opposite. And so people can say that I'm on the fringe, I'm a radical, far-right maniac. I just believe in history. I've said it before most of the things I believe about our country, about our constitution, about our republic, about our state, is rooted in history and historical reality in context. When you throw that away, when you don't teach proper history, people don't know what our country was supposed to look like. People are unaware of how our country today differs from our country before the Civil War and why that's actually incredibly dangerous. And it winds up in stuff like this, where the federal government has far more authority than the founders ever desired them to have. And it's resulted in catastrophic issues. Again, from things like Roe v. Wade to things like Obergerfeld, these massive decisions that resulted in grave moral evil forcing the states into these middle boxes that they have to abide by. That was never the authority the federal government had. They had certain things they had to do. And interestingly enough, it's the very things they're not really even doing. It's the very things that we have to call them out all the time for not doing while they're doing all the things they weren't supposed to be doing. Now, with that being said, when you get back from the break, we are going to talk about the attorney general commissioner, or the agriculture commissioner, pardon me, the agriculture commissioner, uh Sid Miller, who has now called for a pause on data centers here in Texas. Uh he's urging a temporary halt on new hyperscale data centers, warning that they are strained to Texas Power Grid, water supplies, and rural communities. We'll let more about the details of that call for pausing after the break. As always, if you would like to text into the show this morning, if you'd like to let us know your thoughts on any of the stuff that we're covering, if you have any questions, any disagreements, feel free to text in, let us know. That number does not change. It 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 return right after this break with the rest of that story. So stick around.

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Sid Miller Targets Hyperscale Data Centers

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Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller has caused for a has called for a pause on data center construction. Quote, it is time for a temporary moratorium on new hyperscale data center development in Texas until we fully assess the long-term impacts on our infrastructure, agriculture economy, and communities. Miller added that Texans champion growth, private enterprise, and innovation. But while we're doing that, we also need to have an honest conversation about the explosive growth of hyperscale data centers. He cited the usage of electricity, water, and land as his primary concerns. Quote, many consumers enough electricity to power entire towns. They draw massive volumes of water. Rural communities are now competing with corporate giants that can transform entire regions overnight. These concerns and questions are not hypothetical, with Miller citing a recent case in which a Georgia-based data center allegedly used 30 million gallons of water without initially paying for it. He also referenced Hill County's pause on rural data centers as proof of various communities imposing restrictions or bans over noise, water use, pollution, and infrastructure overload. Miller ties his call for a moratorium to the broader MAGA policies as a whole. He said President Trump's America First philosophy applies here. Economic development must benefit working Texans and strengthen our communities, not overwhelm overwhelm them. Texans demand balance. A temporary moratorium is not anti-progress, it is pro-Texas. I actually like this position a lot because it's not I know there's a lot of people who just say automatically zero data centers and no AI and we don't care, we don't need it. I think that's a little bit dramatic. I do. I think there needs to be an ability to have a balanced conversation. And balance is not always good. I know that people will often say that balance is inherently positive. It's not always true. Some things don't need balance, right? There there are there are a lot of things, actually, that don't need balance. I'll give an example of this. Uh when it when the Second Amendment says shall not be infringed. We don't need a balance on what infringed means, actually. We need the actual definition of what infringed means. Which is why you should become a member of our sponsor, Gun Owners of America. Like that segue. Gun owners of America understands that there is no balance in the phrase shall not be infringed. It means no compromise. And they're really the only gun lobby in the U.S. that actually believes and can work for no compromise. And they do that in a variety of ways. They don't just take one direction and say, hey, we need to make sure that good bills are passed, or hey, I guess if a bad bill is unfortunately put through or there's an illegal ordinance or executive order that's unconstitutional, that we that we sue that, they do. They will they will sue. They will lobby. They also campaign. Right now we're in the middle of election season. Right now, they're campaigning for candidates who are in support, in staunch defense of your Second Amendment rights. Because the phrase shall not be infringed means shall not be infringed. If you'd like to become a member, you can go to G-O-Ahouston.com. That is G-O-Ahouston.com is a $25 annual membership, $25 per year, which all goes right back to the continued fight for your God-given, constitutionally enshrined Second Amendment rights. Again, that is GOAHHUuston.com. Now we're running out of time in this segment, but I I want to talk a little bit more about these data centers, about AI, and why I think it's actually incredibly important that we're having these sorts of conversations because the reality is that no one's really wanting to do it. I've seen staunch conservatives on the right who have just all but said we need to stop data centers entirely. That these are not beneficial, they're not useful, they're pointless. I've also seen people on the left who with no and on the right who with no regard for the implications say, no, build as many data centers as we can, we have to be the best. We have to be the biggest, we have to have the most progress. I think both of those approaches are a bit unfair. I think both of those kind of ignore the larger issue. What is the larger issue that we're gonna kind of talk about in the next segment and kind of go over my position on a lot of this? And and I always do my best to make it clear where I'm coming from logically before I make a claim. Here's my logical background. Here's here's the logical position I'm trying to set up. The people do not exist to serve the economy. The economy exists to serve the people. It is an incredibly simple dichotomy, and yet it's something that most modern economists, business people, uh people in government seem to drastically misunderstand. They start to view the economy as independent of the people, and as our final and utmost concern, right? This is the justification for mass immigration. Well, will it help economically? Will our GDP go up? Probably. But is that how we should be judging our country? No. That is that is a metric that you can certainly use to see how happy your people are. But the goal is to produce that success for your people. And if you're not doing that, then I literally could not care less what your GDP is. And we'll talk more about how that applies to data centers when we get back. As always, if you would like to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative, and I'll be right back after this break. Talk all about the economy, data centers, and the rest. So stick around and we'll talk soon.

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Economy Serves People Not GDP

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listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your morning host, Michael Wilson. And I think one of the biggest problems in modern politics is that we've completely reversed the relationship between the people and the economy. The people do not exist to serve the economy. This is what I said before the break. The economy exists to serve the people. That sounds pretty obvious, right, if you think about it logically, but we don't govern like we believe it anymore. We govern the exact opposite. Every conversation about the way your country is going is GDP, growth charts, corporate expansion. Really, it's just what I would call line go up politics or line go up economics. Where as long as your line, whatever that line is, whether it's GDP, economic growth, stability, whatever it is, as long as that chart shows it going up, you're winning. And if you are questioning at all whether something actually improves the lives of ordinary Americans, you are immediately insulted and called anti-progress or anti-business or pro-socialism, right? Any of those number of things. But that's not what conservatism is supposed to be. A healthy economy should be able to be judged because it's strengthening families, communities, stability, ownership, homeownership. You know what the average age of a home buyer is today? 40 years old. That is that is unacceptable for a so supposed capitalist country. That's unacceptable. And so when you're judging it based on just, well, is the graph doing good? Okay, sure. But if you're judging it on the long-term health of the nation based on families, affordability, and all these sorts of things that the economy should be benefiting, it is not supposed to become some economic god that we end up sacrificing everything to like an idol. Right? And I think that's why I think Sid Miller in this in this article is kind of raising a legitimate concern with some of these hyperscale data centers. And I want to be clear, because again, I often get taken out of context. I am not saying that we should ban data centers. I think that would be ridiculous. I'm not saying that Texas should not be able to compete technologically. I'm not saying that all AI infrastructure or cloud computing or anything like that are inherently bad. That's that's obviously not true. We need technological infrastructure. Obviously, we want these industries in America instead of China. Certainly. But the question is, under what terms? Because right now, especially in rural America, rural Texas, it feels like local communities are expected to simply surrender whenever you have a massive corporation that shows up promising any sort of economic development. Oh, just let them come here. Just let them be here. It'll benefit us, it'll benefit the local economy. And sometimes that development does help. Sometimes it also looks a bit more like extraction. And conservatives, I think, really need to start understanding the difference between building an economy and strip mining a community because they are not the same thing. When you've got rural farmland that is getting covered in giant industrial facilities, when you have all of this rural, these rural areas where people are saying, I moved out here to be away from all the noise, and now there's noise. Now there's all these problems, now there's all this pollution from these these facilities that are that are consuming unbelievable amounts of electricity and water. I think ordinary Texans have the right to ask questions before we just rubber stamp everything. Who benefits? Who's paying for it? What happens to local water access? What happens to the power costs? What happens to the land? What happens, say, five, ten years from now, if these communities become entirely dependent on this instruction in infrastructure that was designed primarily to serve these multinational tech companies. And those are not some sort of extremist language-based questions. I think they're incredibly reasonable. And uh I'll give you an example. This is why I largely oppose mass immigration, to give you the logic as an analogy of sorts. You always hear economists say, uh, well, technically, bringing in immigrants grows the economy. Sure. In in raw line go up economics, in raw GDP growth numbers, it certainly does. But growth for whom? If if wages are stagnating, if people are having a hard time finding jobs, if schools are getting overwhelmed, if housing is getting more expensive, uh, then if if social trust, cultural cohesion, and communities become unrecognizable, then what exactly are we celebrating? Well, the GDP is higher, phenomenal. I'm glad to hear that. Again, the economy exists for the people, not the other way around. And in the same way that you say, well, then immigration is not inherently good, I think the same principle's true here. If these data centers are genuinely improving Texans' lives, then good. Let's build responsibly, still responsibly. Uh let's innovate, let's compete with China, let's secure American technological dominance. You know that I want American dominance and Texas dominance. But if rural communities are going to lose water access, watch their grid get strained, have constant industrial noise, and see their farmland transformed into corporate server complexes while getting very little in return other than some sort of vague promise that, well, well, future growth. Then then yes, maybe it's reasonable to pause for five seconds and think about it and evaluate where things are. Because not every bit of progress is automatically good progress or is automatically wise simply because it's profitable for somebody. Markets are tools. They are not moral authorities. And we need to stop treating them like they're moral authorities because they're not. Sometimes what is profitable for companies and for corporations is not healthy for communities. Sometimes the things that are increasing GDP are actually decreasing people's quality of life. And sometimes what looks like say economic progress on paper feels more like decline to the people that are actually having to live under it. And so I think Sid Miller's point and to his credit is that Texas should remain Texas not just become some giant industrial platform that has been optimized for the needs of some global entity that wants to make a profit. There has to be balance, there has to be good stewardship of the resources that God has given us, there has to be some level of protection for water, energy reliability, rural communities, and agriculture even otherwise you eventually wake up and you realize that your towns, your farmland, your infrastructure, and your natural resources were all transformed without the people who this this country is based on, the people ever really consenting to the vision in the first place, which is what you see happening all across the country right now. And that's not anti-progress to say, it is simply remembering the purpose of our of our economy in general, which is to serve the people. That'll do for this segment when we get back to wrap up the top of the hour, the bottom of the hour, to wrap up the first hour, the bottom of the first hour. 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Houston is all but guaranteed to get stoked today with a 90% chance of rain given by the National Weather Service though the primary concern is flooding from higher rainfall rates on already saturated soils. Now the highly rich highly moisture rich environment will easily support scattered to widespread showers and thunderstorms with risk for training cells as clusters progress east-northeast. According to the Weather Service in a forecast bulletin for today, from sunrise to midday Houstons can start the day with showers and possible thunderstorms to expect major delays during the morning commute. By the afternoon rain cool temperatures will be capped at 77 degrees which would be only a few degrees higher than the morning low temperature coastal areas that saw the higher rain amounts last week will be prone to quicker runoff and flash flood threat. Adding to the high probabilities for rainfall which began before dawn would continue into today. By the afternoon rain change will be as high as 90 percent total accumulated rainfall for today could be between an inch and two inches across the city. The said rainfall totals of one to two inches are expected though localized pockets of three to five inches will be possible where say training occurs, this sort of condition The said weather conditions for Wednesday afternoon and evening remain highly conditional, depending heavily on the exact timing path and its subsequent outflow. By Thursday and persisting in the upcoming weekend subtle short waves will continue to move across the region. Overall dynamic support will be minimal so rainfall totals to the weekend should remain on the lighter side if at all. Now Houston rain changes are going to be around 50% by this by the sun by the sunrise late afternoon time tomorrow, though it won't be nearly as bad. And those will drop to 20 percent uh during the end of the day. Houston's stretch of rainy weather is going to quiet down with only a 20% chance of light afternoon rain by Friday. Otherwise today should enjoy most of the sunny skies with temperatures breaking the 90 degree mark. So remainder of the week remains less active in terms of significant weather. And so it'll just be back to warm sunny skies. Regardless for the weather report this morning thanks everybody we'll be back at the top of the next hour with Michael Gwin Sullivan from Texas Scorecard to cover all the election results that you need this morning after election day yesterday. Stick around you're listening to Lone Star Conservative we'll be right back with Michael Gwen Sullivan from Texas Scorecard at the top of the next hour of Texas produced God loving Dick Trade voice of reset dark and start Michael Wilson Welcome back ladies and gentlemen I'm your host Michael Wilson and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative on the air with us this morning we have Michael Quinn Sullivan from Texas Scorecard joining us to go over all of the major election results.

Texas Scorecard Breaks Down Runoffs

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Welcome to the show Michael Hey it's great uh great to be on with you thanks for having me of course and I'm very excited to get into a lot of this and I I think we can kick it off just kind of jumping into the election results in general and then I kind of want to talk about a couple things in relation to that. Let's start off with some of the races that are actually incredibly important but maybe less sexy at times.

SPEAKER_07 53:42

The Court of Criminal Appeals place three I think was one of the big races you had Allison Fox and Thomas Smith how did that kind of end up panning out yeah look in that race you had uh uh Thomas Smith um uh leaning hard on his credentials as an assistant attorney general someone who has helped write the laws someone who's helped um uh you know kind of prosecute the laws if you will um and so now running as judge um on the other hand you had Alison Fox who was running kind of on her insider status as um as a staff attorney for the Court of Criminal Appeals voters took those two records and said we'll go with Tom Smith. You know I think that that that this might be one of those little little narratives that um uh that you kind of that that's going to be easy to miss when you talk of this election with oh you know the Donald Trump endorsement kind of thing. And you know you that that that's important. But equally important was it seems like the closer folks stood to Ken Paxton the better they did. Because uh Tom Smith uh worked for Ken Paxton. Um maze uh Ken Paxton was uh recorded as saying at a at a private event that he was going to be voting for Mays Middleton. Uh bo uh he spoke at an event for Bo French a couple of weeks ago um you know so there's a there's a very definite correlation between who won who will lost statewide and their relationship to Ken Paxton.

SPEAKER_12 55:10

Right and so that went to Thomas Smith. I also want to talk about this uh Houston area House district seat this this this house seat um how did that election go?

SPEAKER_07 55:21

Yeah so you um it had had this various contest that's it's emerged with a Stan Stanard actually uh two uh no a couple of state house seats I want to talk about but Stan Stannard um winning uh that race uh very familiar name um a fellow who was um kind of lost in that Democrat wave a few years ago from his county office uh but now heading to Austin bringing look uh you know from it it is it is unusual in Austin to have someone who has the kind of practical county government background uh that Stannard has it's going to be important if Greg Abbott is going to get his property tax relief package passed it's going to be important when we look at election reform and various other things uh so that's a that's a great win look on the other on on the other side it's easy for us because we're in Texas uh to forget that the Democrats had a primary runoff last night also right um and it was uh it was uh I know nothing about who who the opponent was but it was fun to see Democrats kick Herbert Vaux the scandal plague gas machine that has been uh Herbert Vaux kicking him out of the Texas house. Yeah very very exciting updates we also of course have some congressional runoffs as well and then also showcasing a lot of the same similar stuff can you kind of walk us through some of the the congressional results yeah so I'll I'm gonna stay on the Democrat side only because it's fun to laugh at the people who you think are problematic. Now let you know sticking there in the Houston area uh Al Green the the the decorumless um loud now to you know like you know you know yelling and screaming at the president during State of the Union addresses at inappropriate martens like that Democrat voters decided they were fed up and Democrat voters decided they were going to go with self skin I know nothing about the opponent the opponent is probably bad too because he's a Democrat. Yes but look but at the end of the day uh getting rid of that incumbent important in the same way you move up to North Texas the highly repugnant Julie Johnson she was a far leftist member of the Texas House a far leftist um uh the member of the U.S. House she was defeated last night in a primary runoff with Colin Allred many of us will remember he was a guy who made kind of a lackluster run for the states uh for the U.S. Senate two years ago he'd been in Congress before that um you know look as Democrats go um he's he's certainly not a conservative Democrat he's also not a a radical progressive either um so it's kind of fun to see see that on the Republican side of things uh last night on the congressional seats um you know probably the the the race that had the most folks paying attention to it certainly in the Houston area uh was that of Alex Mueller and uh Briscoe Kane um of course that was a that was a unique race and you had Greg Abbott and Donald Trump splitting their vote and you saw um uh Mueller win that race that was the Donald Trump candidate Briscoe Kane who's been serving in the Texas House had Greg Abbott's endorsement and um and Mr. Kane did not win. Um and the and this Paxton thing kind of continues on to here while I think there'd been some effort to patch up the relationship there I think a whole lot of voters remembered that Briscoe Kane was one of the guys leading the charge impeaching Ken Paxton a few years ago in that uh crony establishment farce of an impeachment. And I think that while Mr Kane did try to repair some of that uh relationship there, I think a lot of voters weren't quite ready to move on from it.

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Right, right. Um you also had CD 38 here in the Houston area as well um which I thought was an interesting race between Shelley Dezevelos and John Bonk. It was you know Wesley Hunt's seat who kind of gave it up to run for U.S. Senate uh back in March. How did that how did that turn out?

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Yeah uh Bonk won that seat and I'm I'm I'm sorry my my screen died where I had all my little cheap sheet numbers on it. Um but um but look you know again I I think in in a lot of these in a lot of these races you saw um in these congressional seats um you saw uh folks who were um who were who were making commitments to doing bold and aggressive things uh john bonk uh winning there over uh desaldius um we got i in in in some of these races where i think we do have to be very careful in some of these case i'm gonna um pivot over to the attorney general recipe we can say this about about the age race too in in many of these races you didn't have a good guy and a bad guy alex mealer Briscoe Kane uh Bonk uh Zavaldius um you know I'm not sure there was a good guy or a bad guy there was a preference you know for a lot of people um you had a you know style preference a a focus preference you think about the AG we can talk about this more in a second um you know there's you know a focus preferencing things like that but at the end of the day you were talking about in in in in nearly all of these races just a scattering view did you have a real good guy bad guy scenario um what you really had was a win-win scenario uh for for the voters um and that's you know kind of the embarrassments of riches that I think conservative activists have been working towards and I feel like in the gamification of politics we we sometimes let ourselves get past you know to to overlook the stride that we made I mean it was only a few years ago Michael that you know in in every race you were lucky to have someone who might possibly pretend to be a conservative right um and and then and in this cycle we now had in the AG race and these a lot of these congressional races uh you know you just go on and on on we're we're all the candidates were very acceptable conservative options and then it really you really were getting to take on things other than is is this person lying to me better than the other people have been lying to me you know it's a it's a whole different world for conservatives in Texas.

SPEAKER_12 1:01:48

Right and after we get past all these election results I do want to mention a lot of a lot of that theming that I saw throughout the night um I I I want to touch on these last three big races that I have here which is the AG race um how that kind of played out I I know that there was a lot of even even among the grassroots there was a lot of disagreement as to how this race was going to pan out. How did that end up going last night?

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Yeah look and again I want I want to stress this really hard particular in this race in the first round for the attorney general race there were four options for Republican candidates. I contended at the time I continue to maintain today that any of the four of those individuals running for attorney general back in March would have been at a minimum the second best attorney general in Texas history and one of the best state attorneys general in U.S. history I and if if if anyone wants to nitpick about any one of the candidates shoot me an email Michael at Texascorecard.com and I'll be happy to explain why your nitpicking is wrong and based on your timification rather than facts. All four of the candidates running in that first round would have been scheller attorneys general for the state of Texas voters narrowed it down to two in that first round between Mays Middleton and Chip Roy both of them would have you know after a term probably been buying for better than Pimpax. Now for different reasons um Mays Middleton a whole lot of state knowledge um a guy who um given his track record in the Texas House and the Texas Senate put a lot of emphasis on reforming um state agencies holding state agencies accountable things like that Chip Roy on the other hand who's you know um you know did some outstanding work in Congress uh would certainly be able to continue the the Paxton tradition around and made a credible case he could continue that Paxton tradition of suing the federal government of going after or using the power of the state of Texas to go after those the wayward federal agencies um both of them making strong commitments about continuing the efforts of the Paxton era of going after um left leaning corporations and um big tech surveillance and things like that. So um you you had guys who had slightly different focuses, slightly different personality types. Chip Roy um has never found a fight he didn't want to pick uh maze Middleton a little more convenient right um but yet you know I mean th those are now style differences that a lot of folks were able um to vote on. And so in the end you had Maze Middleton um again facts and effect going on there. Maze Middleton um you know winning by 10, 11 12 points all said and done last night. Again, not a slam against Chip Roy, but just a preference of what voters are looking for.

SPEAKER_12 1:05:01

Right. I think that also carries into even the Railroad Commission race um railroad commission how did that go?

SPEAKER_07 1:05:07

Yeah you know you know I always like to say this remember the railroad commission has nothing to do with CUCHU trains. The Railroad Commission is uh 100% focused on the oil and gas industry right um that is that is what the uh that is what it does uh the regulation of the oil and gas industry therefore making it a very important um agency and an important agency not only because of the oil and gas industry but also because of what kind of the rules and regulations promulgated by the agency into the oil and gas industry reflect and mean for the broader economy. And this is one of the points that BoFrench who who won a this is this is the narrowest of statewide um races last night just a couple of points between Bo French and Jim Reich incumbent. But BoFrench made a big pitch last night Or mean over the past couple of months, culminating last night in looking at the operations of the Railroad Commission, saying, look, this is a commission that's got too much of the left-wing DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion philosophy built into it. When the agency could do more conservative things, it's not, was kind of the pitch that Bo French was making. And Jim Wright never really tried to answer any of that. He, you know, kind of made jokes about DEI, made jokes about ESG, but he never actually answered the substance of the question. Meanwhile, uh Bo French also recognizing that voters don't necessarily understand the finer, most voters don't understand the finer details of oil and gas regulation nuance. Um, he was spending a lot of time also talking about kind of the broader issues um facing Texas. And again, Jim Wright didn't want to do that. Um, I would argue this is probably one of the countering what I said a moment ago, this is one of the very few races where there really was a clear ideological difference um between between the candidates. He had Bo French, a very strong conservative activist, uh Terrant County GOP chairman, you know, on and on and on. Um versus Jim Wright, a guy who you know gave as much money to Democrats as he did to Republicans before he held public office. He uh kind of snuck into uh into office. Um so you know, a very interesting uh uh race here from fitting you know kind of the the goal along to get a goal along crowd of the of the Bush administration versus someone promising action and voters don't want the action guy, Bo French.

SPEAKER_12 1:07:48

Right. And lastly, we of course have the big Senate race between Ken Paxton and John Cornyn. Um how did that how did that go? And I mean we've been talking about that for a very long time now, um, and there was some massive differences. How did that how did that end up?

SPEAKER_07 1:08:04

Well, I mean, I think that what you you you you were seeing glimmers of this six years ago, eight, nine years ago, of people begging um credible, uh uh credible folks to run for the office so they could get rid of John Corner. Um my my organization um will do you know booths at various conferences and conventions, and we'll have our little uh lanyards that people can grab to put their you know convention uh uh credentials on it. Um and uh a couple of years ago, when it when it kind of struck me that folk that Republicans were done with John Cornyn, was John Cornyn sponsored the official lanyard of the Texas GOP convention. And yet uh we ended up having all of those because people came to our boats, uh, ripped off the Cornyn lanyard and put on our lanyard. No, I mean I knew I'd like to use buses weren't because I just didn't want John Cornyn hanging around their neck. Right. Um and and the problem and people literally said that very clever, you know, lanyard hanging around their neck, John Cornyn. Um but people were wanting, and but no good, no, no good candidates came up. No credible candidates came up for a couple of cycles. Um now, though, you did have two credible candidates in both Wesley Hunt um and Ken Paxton running against John Cornyn. So I think that most folks should have no one should be surprised that Ken Paxton trounced John Cornyn last night because the move has been overwhelming. And remember, not only did he trounce him, John Cornyn and his affiliates and associates spent well north of $100 million trashing Ken Paxton and trying to protect John Cornyn. Ken Paxton, for his part and his supporters um spent about $15 million. Okay. $15 million for Ken Paxton versus $111, $125, as much as $150 million being spent there on behalf of John Cornyn. And voters said, we don't care how much you're spending, we're voting for the guy who's not John Cornyn. We're voting for the guy with a track record of fighting. Again, that's you know, kind of a kind of a good theme for last night. Every single one of these folks who who won, um, you know, we're were making making a more credible case to the electorate that they were going to be fighting for them.

SPEAKER_12 1:10:39

Right. And that's another thing is when you look at the the data from the outcome, you look at the Ken Baxton race, for instance, you you mentioned blow out of the water, despite the hundred million dollar difference in spending, Ken Baxton walked away with nearly 64% of the vote as opposed to Cornyn's 36%. I mean, it was not close. Um, as I think a lot of people expected, Ken Baxton would either lose or be pretty close. It didn't seem close at all.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:02

No, it it it it it wasn't close. It wasn't close from the moment early voting results started coming in and it stayed not close the entire evening. Um everyone knew where this was going. You know, uh a week ago you had Donald Trump uh make an endorsement of Ken Paxton. That kind of sealed the deal. But in many ways, Donald Trump made that endorsement because everyone already knew where the race was going. Uh Ken Paxton's team was already starting to shift their focus and their campaign dollars from going after John Cornyn and drawing the distinctions with John Cornyn to focusing on James Talerico. Um, yeah, and and and look, I I you know, there's I feel sorry for John Cornyn in some ways uh because last week trying to muster up that, you know, the the the the courage of the little boy about to have his tooth pulled and oh, this isn't going to hurt, you know, kind of thing. Um he sat there and he tweeted, um, posted to social media that Tuesday was going to be judgment day for Ken Paxton. And as it turns out, it was. Um, it's just that the people judge Ken Paxton to be a better U.S. senator than John Cornyn. Um, but you know, that that kind of hubris is what I think folks have gotten very frustrated with coming out of Washington, D.C. And look, that's what um, you know, whether you're talking about Alex Mueller or you're talking about Ken Paxton, um, anyone who uh go goes into Washington, D.C., goes into uh goes into Congress, this is the demon they're going to have to fight. That that that hubris that comes from being in the being in the swamp of Washington, D.C.

SPEAKER_12 1:12:45

Right. I think a lot of it also, and I might be wrong on this, but to me, it signals a lot of rejection of the Bush-era GOP. A lot of it signals a rejection of the establishment uh narrative that you vote for the guy who has all this, you know, he's been in the Senate this this many years, and that's true across the board. Um, it seems like a lot of people are saying, hey, we want candidates who are going to do something, who are not scared to pick a fight, uh who are not scared to stand up for things, right? From Bo French to Ken Paxton and Mays Mills, all across the board, really, saying, hey, we're kind of tired of a lot of these perspectives coming from people who want the bipartisan bills to be passed, who want those sorts. We don't want that. We don't want bipartisan. We want you to fight and we want you to stand up for what's true and what's right. And I think that was true across the board.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:32

Yeah, but maybe the biggest uh the biggest exposed loser last night. It's a it's a close contest, uh, but the biggest exposed loser last night was Carl Rove. Um, the the longtime Bush political consultant, you know, he of the of the weird little whiteboard on Fox News fame. Um Carl Rove has been peddling for years his opposition to Ken Paxton. Um he hates Ken Paxton, he thinks he hates everything Ken Paxton represents as an elected official. Um and he, you know, was he got Wall Street Journal and Fox News completely pregnant with the idea uh that the Democrats were right and that Ken Paxton um is a horrible person and has to go away. And so you know he took two kind of vaunted institutions down with him in his um filling support for John Cornyn. As recently as yesterday, you had Fox News um, oh, well no, they're still, you know, John Cornyn's very popular with Republicans. You know, he's he's you know, Carl Rove tells us he's on the path to victory, and of course then he loses by nearly 20 points, um yeah, or 25 points. You know so it's a uh kind of it's a real indictment about who Carl Rove is, who he listens to, and what he's trying to accomplish. The other really big loser from uh from this runoff election is something that philosophes may not have tracked, but certainly, I think, very indicative of where the world is at the moment. Um uh Las Vegas Sands uh Incorporated is a Nevada-based company that you think, oh, they must run the Sands Casino. No, they don't run any casinos in Texas, they run casinos predominantly in China. Okay, so Las Vegas Sands has been trying to start running casinos now in the United States, and they've got a they want crony uh monop government monopoly casinos, kind of like they run in China, uh, to be opened here in Texas. And they've been spending big, I'm talking hundreds of millions of dollars jumping into Texas politics. They gave uh they they lost every race they participated in uh during the primary. Um this time around, uh, they gave half a million dollars to Jim Wright, the railroad commissioner. What does a railroad commissioner have to do with casinos? Not a thing. But they they wanted to put money in there hoping maybe, maybe, maybe, because this was a Greg Abbott in Dorsey, um, and a Dan Patrick in Dorsey. Maybe by you know giving him money that would somehow make them happy. I don't know what their weird contorted logic was, uh, but they put half a million dollars into that race and uh and and that again backfired. Um maybe the casino lobby, maybe uh Las Vegas Sands is going to be getting the message that Texans just aren't overly interested in government monopoly casinos. But you know, who knows? Maybe they want to keep sending money.

SPEAKER_12 1:16:35

We'll find out. Yeah, maybe they just want to keep pouring money down the drain. They got plenty of it. Uh, with that being said, Michael, as always, we greatly appreciate you coming on. How can people keep out of date with all the election reporting and everything else going on statewide when you guys are not here on the show on Wednesday mornings?

SPEAKER_07 1:16:49

Hey, we'd love to have folks check out our work at TexasScorecard.com. Uh, team has been uh not only cranking out analysis lots, Michael and continues to do so today, looking at these races in more and more uh fine detail so that uh you and yours and your friends uh can all be better informed and better engaged. That's what we try to do at Texas uh Texas Scorecard is make sure that the people of the Lone Star State can effectively dominate both their government and the culture with our reporting. So uh look check out TexasScorecard.com.

SPEAKER_12 1:17:21

Excellent. Well, as always, we greatly appreciate you coming on and giving us your time this morning for keeping us updated on all the election results. Thanks so much. And Lord willing, we'll talk to you again in the future. Thanks, Michael. You're a great patriot. Thank you so much. With that being said, when we get back in the next segment, we're gonna have on Justin White from Senior Health Services. If you'd like to text in, 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. I'll be right back after this break.

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Medicare Advantage Changes This Fall

SPEAKER_12 1:23:02

On the air with us this morning, we have Justin White from Senior Health Services coming on the show for Medicare Wednesday. Does not have quite the same ring as Medicare Monday, but I'm excited to get into it nonetheless. Welcome to the show, Justin. Hey man, good to be here as always. Thank you. Of course. And I want to kick it off because, of course, time is moving very quickly. And if we don't start talking about a lot of this stuff well in advance, people are going to be, I think, kind of blindsided by a lot of the changes that could be coming uh to the way the system is going to operate.

SPEAKER_22 1:23:30

Yeah, no, that's that's exactly right. I mean, at this point it's pure conjecture and some speculation, but it's educated conjecture and educated speculation on things that are rolling around in the industry, and uh this fall is gonna be another disruptive one in in terms of plan changes and stuff like that. And uh even though I don't know what they are uh exactly, I do know what's being discussed largely and can uh kind of start letting people know what they may be, uh how what to expect possibly, and uh and then as we get closer, uh we'll be able to actually put more meat on the bones. But yeah, to your point, I think it makes perfect sense to kind of chat about it early so people can start rolling around in their minds.

SPEAKER_12 1:24:15

Right, of course. And I know we talked about before some of those changes to funding itself. Uh the reimbursement percentage I know was much lower than was hoped for, and so that'll produce in and of itself a lot of changes. What are what are some of these changes in terms of just general, broad sort of categories that we might expect to see uh come maybe the October time frame this fall?

SPEAKER_22 1:24:36

Well, you know, the reimbursements that were as we talked about before, which were supposed to be uh, you know, 0.09% actually ended up being you know about two and a half percent. So they came up quite a bit as we discussed on them a few weeks ago. So that was good, but the carriers needed five to six to kind of stay even, and that's a lot of money. So what they're what they're doing is they're still having to go into the planned benefits and adjust to the decreases in money coming from the Fed, and uh, and that's gonna cause these plans to alter. And by plans, what I mean by that particularly are the uh Medicare Advantage and the prescription drug plans. So if you're in a Medicare supplement, there's actually different forces pulling on that, and you'll feel those also in your standalone drug plan. But for the actual plan changes that we're discussing for the purposes of today will be focused mainly on uh the Medicare Advantage programs and the drug plans themselves that would affect the supplement people. But they're they're just they're just gonna have to go in and react to the government pressures to start spending money on traditional insurance things like doctors, hospital drug tests, stuff like that, and probably less on the extra benefits that people like and certainly need, don't get me wrong, but uh Medicare is wanting them to spend money on those core insurance benefits, and it's forcing them to do so through uh funding.

SPEAKER_12 1:26:12

Right, absolutely. And I think it's gonna be uh for a lot of people, as we kind of talked about before, it'll entirely depend on your particular plan and what you specifically need, right? A lot of people may walk away, I'll say, unscathed, uh, maybe not even realizing there's been much of a change. Whereas other people might walk into this and say, wow, my plan is changing almost entirely from what I had before.

SPEAKER_22 1:26:32

Well, that's absolutely true. And and that that actually warrants a special warning to uh people in PPOs. PPOs are very popular because they don't have to have referrals and they can go pretty much wherever they want to go uh with little issue, but the carriers are getting killed on PPOs from a claim standpoint, and so there's been radical changes. Anybody that's listening to this that has a PPO knows exactly what I'm talking about. I mean, some of them have been canceled entirely, and uh co-pays and coinsurances are being adjusted a lot, and we expect that to be we expect the PPOs to be especially effective this this fall. Um, and then smaller companies generally those changes take a little longer to go through smaller companies because they don't have such a gigantic client base that they have to filter them through. Like the the largest carriers that have millions of clients, they can't they can't go out there and add or subtract them because they they can't they can't bleed. Let me say this this way they can't bleed through a benefit very long if they don't have funding for it, because when you've got a few million people using it, that ends up the real money right away. And if the funding mechanism that used to be there is not, they've got to plug that hole. Whereas the smaller carriers that might have you know thousands or tens of thousands of people on there. That hole is nowhere near as large and it's and it's not leaking anywhere near as fast. So the smaller carriers usually have a little bit more time to adjust. The bigger carriers do not. And so that's that's you know, so you'll see the bigger carriers adjust the most as they have so far, with the smaller carriers following suit um to maybe a lesser degree immediately, and then but very definitely coming down the pike in the in the next several years to come.

SPEAKER_12 1:28:25

Right. And this is, I think, another one of the situations where we see, you know, this sort of artificial suppressing of costs, but the real world costs of things, on paper at least. Uh, but the real world costs don't always disappear. I think they get shifted around. And a lot of what we're seeing is that now everyday people, their plans are gonna look differently. They're gonna have to grapple with a lot of changes, some of which, even best case, are not gonna be enjoyable changes. Um, and I think that that kind of draws the importance of handling a lot of this stuff with with a lot of a lot of thought being put into it, um, where you where you don't wind up with a scenario where you're like, ah, well, we're gonna we're gonna reduce a lot of the costs here on paper. And then people say, well, the costs weren't actually reduced for me. In fact, now I lost this coverage or this coverage is shifting to something I have to now pay for up front differently. Um, and so I also think that's where you guys come in as senior health services, because people are gonna need, as go, especially going into this fall and and in the next few years with a lot of these changes, they're gonna need someone who knows what those changes are, and more importantly, how best to grapple with them.

SPEAKER_22 1:29:25

Yeah, and I and that's that's a great point because uh we're a brokerage, and brokers that means that we contract with basically all the carriers in an area, certainly the relevant ones, if there's some itty-bitty Johnny Chum lately carrier that's tiny, that's you know, that's not proven their worth of their metal, sometimes we will hand them right away, but all the rest of the carriers that have been around and proven traffic for them. And we've got the infinite traffic and the infinite ear in every single one of them so that we can you know talk internally what everybody else is, but we can talk internally with their main thing. Hey, what do you mean with these things? What are you guys trying to do? Where are you going? What are you doing? And and then we can leave to the client in a meaningful way to help them navigate um all of the things we don't believe and we don't care. Ultimately we can that we read we can make sure that they covered the wheel. Ultimately, what we do then is we get a computer program, and then we can point people in that direction we can point in. And we can really what people want. Like listen to this channel, we're resilient. All we need to know is what the name of the game is. And once we understand the name of the game, then we're able to adjust. Because we're not we don't worry so much about the day to day. We worry about it a little bit, but you know, we we have our faith elsewhere, but but we do like to know so we can react as best we can.

SPEAKER_12 1:31:15

Right, absolutely. Well, with that being said, as always, Justin, we greatly appreciate you coming on. Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to check out Zen Earth Services, if you're hearing a lot of this and you're thinking, hey, I don't know what I'll be dealing with, I don't know how to handle a lot of this, uh, they're there. Free, totally free consultation, by the way, at 281-894-7540. Justin, we appreciate you giving us your time this morning. I know it's a little bit different than our normal schedule, but we greatly appreciate you making the time to come on and keep everybody informed, especially with a lot of the changes we see coming in the future.

SPEAKER_22 1:31:41

Hey, man, holiday holiday weekends and stuff make us be flexible. I'm just glad to be here anytime I can.

SPEAKER_12 1:31:47

Absolutely. And Lord Willing, we'll talk to you again on Monday. You got it, buddy. Thank you so much. Of course. And one more time, ladies and gentlemen, you can go to senior health services.com or give them a call at 281-894-7540. And again,

Inflation As A Hidden Tax

SPEAKER_12 1:32:02

I think this ties back, and this is not, you know, this is not coming from Senior Health Services, this is my own, you know, political opinion. This goes back to that same conversation. We have to stop pretending that economics aren't real. Just looking at a graph and treating that like it's it's the bare bones of the country. It's not true. You cannot endlessly increase obligations, you can't endlessly cap prices, suppress reimbursement growth, and expand all of your promises to people without eventually creating pressure somewhere. Right? You you can't artificially inflate or reduce things. The world doesn't work that way. We're not just pieces of paper the government can endlessly print with no response. That's why I've said over and over and over again that inflation in and of itself is a tax. You have to understand this. Inflation is not just some random compilation of numbers on a chart somewhere. It's meaningful changes. And if your dollar yesterday bought you a gallon of milk and die and today buys you half a gallon, you're you were just taxed 100%. Right? You were you would just your money just became half of what it was worth. And when you look from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, even the early 2000s to today, you look at the cost of housing, of things like Medicare, when you look at a lot of the changes that have occurred, they're able to justify and say, well, taxes haven't risen all that much. But they have because your money isn't worth as much. And when you try to artificially print things as a response to real world changes, the the existent truth is going to be that people suffer as a result of that. Real people really suffer. And so again, um, if you're in that boat of people who needs assistance, doesn't know what's coming, is not sure what's going to change, and you're just looking for some help, senior services is great. We love them a lot. We're we're very happy to be a partner with them. You can call them at 281-894-7540 or just check out senior health services.com. Before we go to our final break, I do want to wrap up this segment just real quickly. We talked about a lot of the runoff races, but I do want to highlight just a few more. Uh first and foremost, I want to highlight the Harris County Judge primary runoffs. Um in the Democrat slot, you of course had the runoff between Letitia Plummer and Anise Parker. And I'm sure we'll actually have Charles Blaine talking about some of these runoffs come Friday. So we're just gonna lightly touch on them. We don't need to spend a lot of time. Letitia Plummer walked away with 51% of the vote, give or take, uh 57,700 votes to Anise Parker's 55,213 votes. On the Republican side, uh, you had Orlando Sanchez walk away with the win over Warren Howell uh for the Harris County Judge Republican primary runoff. I also want to mention Fort Bend County. Uh not only do we have a few different Fort Bend County runoffs for the Democrat Party, the Fort Bend County judge had a runoff, uh, which, by the way, was a blowout runoff. Dexter McCoy walked away with 74 percent of the vote over Rachel uh Rochelle Carter. You also had the Fort Bend County clerk, uh, where Sonia Jones uh kind of eked out a win over Mariah Jackson. You also had the Fort Bend County treasurer uh where you had Jeffrey Bonney walk away over 65 percent of the vote over Sarah Khan. I also wanted to highlight, since we have the time here real quickly, uh that Fort Bend County had its own issues yesterday that you might have heard about.

Fort Bend Voting System Error

SPEAKER_12 1:35:16

Officials said the voting system disruption was caused by human error after the wrong election file was uploaded into the voter check-in system ahead of the primary runoff election. Um, election officials emphasized that the integrity of the voting process was not compromised. But during a press conference, interim Fort Bend County judge Daniel Wong said the issue was caused by human error. He said that election and administrative staff began working on the issue as soon as it was identified and restored the system shortly after 5 P.M. He described the issue as administrative in nature and said there was no concerns regarding the integrity or security of the election process. But I I actually don't think that's true. I think inherently there's concern about the integrity and or security of the election process, regardless of if it was intentional. And this is what I've tried to highlight a bunch of times. Things don't have to be intentional in order for them to be problematic. I I know that that's a little bit difficult for people to hear because we always draw a line between intention and result, but that's not the case. You can have the best intentions in the world, and if your results are abysmal, then we judge you and say your results were abysmal. And no amount of, well, it was an accident, or well, it was just a mistake, or well, it wasn't done with intent changes that. No amount of that's gonna fix it. And this is why um, you know, I I think it's fair to walk away and say that there is even talk um about the the extension to the vote. Uh you have the Fort Bend Republican Party chair who requested an hour extension for voting, saying, hey, you know, people expected to have this time to vote, they weren't able to make it out in time. We need an hour extension for people to still be able to show up and vote. Allegedly, the Fort Bend Democrat chair opposed that extension, but we don't know too much about that. Regardless of any of that, I think the reality is that that is indicative of the kind of concern people have. It's not always bad actors doing bad things that causes us pause. I I mean, I know that we all have negative feelings about Democrats who oppose things like the SAFE Act and Republicans who oppose the SAFE Act. But I think there's a lot of truth to be said that not everyone who opposes those things are doing so with the negative intent of desiring people to vote who shouldn't be able to. A lot of them have supposed good intent. And yet the result is exactly the same that we have insecure elections that people are reasonably concerned about. And so it's not always about your intent. It's not always about, hey, we we don't want to hurt people, we don't want to have insecure elections. When you do have them, when those issues do inevitably arise, the response needs to be a resounding, this was a massive mistake that should never happen again, and not be slipped under the rug as an accident. I know that's the exact wrong way to approach it. Now, with that being said, when we get back from the break, we have a couple different directions we could go, uh, but I think I want to go NASA. Uh Texas companies are winning and losing NASA contracts as the agency is now pushing towards a moon base. You might have heard some talk of that during the Artemis II mission, that that was the ultimate goal of a lot of this was to establish a permanent presence on the moon. We'll talk about some of those contractual changes. We'll get back from the break. As always, if you would like to text in to the show, this is your final opportunity during the morning show today. The number, as always, and you can text in with any thoughts that you have, 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 Lord willing, I'll be right back to wrap up the morning show after this final break. So hang tight, and we'll be right back.

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NASA Moon Base Contracts And Texas

SPEAKER_12 1:43:11

Awarding work to one Texas company while passing over another firm based in Houston. Central Texas-based Firefly Aerospace is now going to deliver NASA's aerial scouts, proposal propulsive drones, build off the technology developed for the Ingenuity Mars helicopter to the moon. But Houston's intuitive machines will not continue its work as an unpressurized vehicle for astronauts to drive. NASA selected California-based Astro Lab and Colorado-based lunar outposts to build those lunar terrain vehicles. The answers came as NASA continues its momentum, which they started again by the Artemis II astronauts who flew around the other side of the moon last month, and seeks to meet President Donald Trump's mandate to build the first elements of a permanent moon base by 2030, which sounds like it's still a few years away. It is going to be here before you know it, I promise you. NASA administrator Jared Isaacman said during yesterday's event, quote, in the time since Artemis II, we've been extremely active. We've been reviewing feedback from the ignition events, speaking to industry, addressing supply chain challenges, having the tough conversations with those failing to meet expectations, and offering NASA's assistance to solve problems. Firefly Aerospace, headquartered outside of Austin in Cedar Park, received a $75 million subcontract to deliver the Moonfall drones that are being developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The company's Blue Ghost Lander made a soft lunar touchdown back last year. For this Moonfall mission, Firefly Aerospace will use a version of its ELITRA dark spacecraft, which is designed for orbit, to carry the drones to the Moon's orbit. It'll slow down and release them about 30 miles above the South Pole, where the drones are going to then land by themselves. They are expected to take propulsive hops around the moon's South Pole in 2028 to scout the area. Lots of changes, lots of exciting stuff, but that'll have to do it for the show today. As always, I want to thank everybody for texting in, everybody for tuning in to the election results today and everything else that we covered. Lord willing, I'll be back bright and early tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. In the meantime, enjoy the rest of your Wednesday, though there will be some rain. That's coming to a close after this. Enjoy your Wednesday and Godspeed.