00:01:50.560And then there'll be a lunch where the G7 is sort of talking about Middle East sort of events and affairs.
00:01:56.920So tomorrow is sort of a Middle East day tacked on top of the meeting with Zelensky.
00:02:03.380But it's interesting, you know, the European Union, which isn't the same as the G7, but the European Union is touting peace talks between Moldova and Ukraine, which seems to be a little off program.
00:02:16.320The E4, which is the U.K., France, Germany, and Italy, they have said that they're heartened by the developments with the ceasefire with Iran and the memo of understanding.
00:02:29.260And they will also work to lift sanctions on Iran, their own sanctions on Iran, if the peace process continues.
00:02:38.120So we'll see how it plays out, as you were saying before.
00:02:41.340Well, isn't that the big news is that – yeah, isn't that the big news?
00:02:45.620He's got Besson went to London and now he's going to join him.
00:02:48.080Is that the EFOR, the other European nations that we've worked for years on these sanctions?
00:02:51.980And Besson has warned, if you take these sanctions off, it's going to be very difficult to put them back on.
00:02:58.540So this is kind of a monumental moment about our economic war with Iran and the Persians because, like I said, once these sanctions are lifted, the mechanics are doing it.
00:03:09.320And this is how Bessett brought them to their knees back in January when, you know, millions took to the streets and, I don't know, 20, 30, 40,000, depending who you're talking to, were killed by the regime.
00:03:20.920But E4 seems like because they want to get in on the action also, it seems like they're open to lift these sanctions.
00:03:27.660And that's one of the biggest issues of these pre-meetings subject to the signing or the digital unveiling of this MOU on Friday, sir.
00:03:35.560I would suggest that the moment of sanctions on the Iranian regime, it has passed, and
00:03:46.000that everybody is now looking to be friends with the Iranians.
00:03:50.460And this is sort of their excuse or their cover to sort of, you know, make up, connect.
00:03:58.040You know, the Strait of Hormuz closing really scared a lot of people, and it caused a lot
00:04:02.740of damage and a lot of confusion and complications that people weren't expecting. And so now,
00:04:10.380having seen what the Iranians can do when they put their mind to it, I think everybody just
00:04:15.260wants to move forward in this brave new world where we're getting along with the Iranians.
00:04:19.520And the sanctions are going to pass. And then, like you said, there's no way putting them back
00:04:26.300gone again. Very tough. Governor Newsom of California announced that the DOJ is investigating,
00:04:34.780I think, his wife. We don't know for what, but he did a four-minute video. I don't know if we
00:04:39.360have a chance to play that later, but a four or five-minute video talking about how DOJ investigators
00:04:43.880have already started showing up, something to do with his wife. Also, President Trump, I believe
00:04:48.100it just came out, a Truth Social calling for the investigation of Kamala Harris on activities
00:04:54.460about her campaign for president and money that was spent
00:04:57.360and kind of some, I guess, the untoward nature of some of that.
00:05:01.120Any ideas about, because you've had Pulte,
00:05:05.760they're moving heaven and earth to make sure Pulte doesn't take over
00:08:10.700There were a lot of people there, thousands of delegates, a lot of activity, so pleased to see that one of the eight legislative priorities is to ban Sharia, so they're making it part of their major initiatives.
00:08:25.060There was so much interest, so much curiosity, so much desire for education on what this means to the country, to, well, to Texas and obviously to the country.
00:08:33.820We had two breakout sessions over Sharia at the convention.
00:08:40.840I was on that panel with Amy Meck from Rare, Kevin Freeman from Economic War Room.
00:08:45.520We also had a woman on from Europe, and she really brought basically the whole room just felt the truth of what can happen with the caliphate that's occurring over there coming over here.
00:09:00.900and there was just so many unfortunately we only had about an hour and we went over
00:09:05.800but there was just so much curiosity about what does this mean for our country and what does it
00:09:10.280mean for texas so i think that was well received i think those two breakout sessions probably helped
00:09:15.620in people's confidence to make uh banning sharia one of the legislative priorities i think it's four
00:09:21.820on the list so that was good and i think over the weekend too on sunday or saturday we had an
00:09:29.220election in Fresco, which is, you know, a Texas town. It's one of our big Texas towns. And what
00:09:36.400we saw happen was that the candidate that many of the Christians were pushing for did not get
00:09:43.960elected. And what we found through looking at the numbers was that the candidate that did win
00:09:49.300won because a majority of the Muslim Hindu precincts, a high percentage of folks voted
00:09:56.940in those precincts. In fact, two of the polling locations by Moss had the highest turnout of
00:10:05.420voters. And unfortunately, Christians voted less than 25%. We really have an issue here,
00:10:15.600and I think it all stems from the Johnson Amendment back in 1954 that tried to say,
00:10:22.640churches aren't allowed to endorse candidates or they could lose their tax status. And that was
00:10:29.760reversed in an IRS ruling just last year. And also in 2017, Trump in an executive order gave
00:10:38.400more latitude to churches and churches just simply do not realize that they can stand at the pulpit
00:10:44.120and endorse candidates. They're not allowed to campaign for them, but they are allowed to
00:10:48.840endorse candidates. And it's crucial now at this point in time that our churches become bolder
00:10:55.240because our mosques are bold, but our churches are basically saying politics are dirty. We're
00:11:01.740not supposed to get involved in politics. Well, you know what? We may not have churches
00:11:05.200in a few years if the churches don't start speaking more boldly from the platform that
00:11:11.140they're given. So that's something that we learned from the Frisco race. And I wanted to bring that
00:11:15.440up. Also, another thing that we learned, you know, there are bad, hang on, hang on, hang on,
00:11:19.660hang on, ho, ho, ho, ho, slow down. Frisco is just not anywhere. I mean, Frisco is one of the most
00:11:26.360explosive towns economically in the country. It's also the home of the Professional Golfers
00:11:31.660Association, one of the big four major championships. I think the PGA is going to be
00:11:36.060held there. This is a, this is not some tiny out of the way place in, in West Texas. This is a
00:11:43.580significant growing metro area that has world-class events there just walk us through again they had
00:11:50.380a mayor's race a runoff they had a mayor's race you had a christian candidate and you had another
00:11:55.120candidate in that there was a hindu muslim alliance that came together and voted in the uh the other
00:12:01.560than the christian candidate well i would say the other candidate may call himself christian as well
00:12:06.440His platform was, I think it was Frisco Unity, but he did get the endorsement of the Muslim community.
00:12:14.800The other candidate, I believe, also had the Hindu, and they both had the Hindu endorsement.
00:12:21.500Unfortunately, some bad actors use some choice words as it relates to the residents or citizens of Frisco that really divided the swing voters.
00:12:33.780And that's something that we we as conservatives really need to pull away from racist comments.
00:12:41.680It's tainting the good citizens that are trying to save our country and trying to save this constitutional republic.
00:12:49.780If we aren't these bad actors, aren't these bad actors a lot of times paid for by the the opposition?
00:12:57.900I mean, they're not they're not coming in as patriots. Right. This over the top behavior.
00:13:01.780Well, you know, we really don't know. There's a suspicion and, you know, conspiracy theories out there that perhaps they're not being paid or they're being paid by the other side to create a rift or to make the conservatives that care about this country look like white supremacists or, you know, are racists.
00:13:22.240That is simply not what we're fighting for. We're fighting for this amazing melting pot of the United States of America. We want assimilation. We want to retain our Constitution Republic. We have the greatest nation on earth. The last thing we need to do is be divided from within.
00:13:40.100And we're and there are folks that are intentionally trying to divide our party through racist comments and through division in that regard.
00:13:49.060And that, you know, I would highly encourage folks to be very careful of associations with those kind of comments that we need to focus on the issues.
00:13:59.180We need to focus on on on preserving what makes this country what it is.
00:14:07.460I know you got to bounce because it's your birthday.
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00:14:19.520Oh, absolutely. Well, we do have did you have that one flyer?
00:14:22.660We want to make sure that folks know that today and I know Julie and Brandon and Mary Elizabeth are going to bring this up.
00:14:28.580But public comments are due for the SBOE tonight on one site.
00:14:33.980But you can still submit those comments via an email address and I'm sure they're going to share.
00:14:38.980But we also do need to get people down to Austin to actually testify, because what we're hearing is that the left and the red-green alliance have teamed up, and they are flooding the SBOE with comments, and they plan to come down in droves to testify.
00:14:57.500And we need to support our good conservative SBOE trustees with our voices, and so I would highly encourage that folks do that.
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00:16:19.140Nine, seven, two page nine, seven, two Patriot call. Talk to someone with the East Texas accent right now. One more thing about public comments. I want to do this again. Public comments do when and how do people get them in?
00:16:31.780So you can submit it by email on that that last flyer that was there. And I'm sure you'll bring it up when you bring the others. Oh, there you go. So testimony at SBOE dot Texas dot gov.
00:16:43.380if you email that it will go to all the board members and they will get your comments and you
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00:16:53.940they've been worked on by a lot of great people uh and you you are a great person on your birthday
00:17:02.580jenny thank you so much for joining us appreciate you glad to be here thank you thank you all the
00:17:07.200work patreon mobile let me go get mary castle but i want to go to julie pickering before i get to
00:17:11.500merit, because I want to do the State Board of Education, I want to focus on that. But Julie,
00:17:16.240I got to go to you first for a moment. My phone blew up over the weekend, ma'am, at this convention,
00:17:22.920which was amazing, the thousands of people there. But was there an incident that you were
00:17:27.960either verbally attacked or somebody tried to intimidate you from the Muslim Brotherhood?
00:17:32.400Can you give us the details, ma'am? Yes, Steve. First of all, it was an amazing convention. You
00:17:37.420You know, I've been at the Republican Party of Texas conventions almost my entire life.
00:17:41.320So for me, it feels a whole lot like a family reunion, getting to see a lot of friends and family members from across the state.
00:17:51.180What I was not expecting is whenever I walked into my SD convention on Thursday morning, just seven or eight seats down from me was sitting the founder and president of CARE.
00:18:03.620So you can imagine my surprise when I'm walking into the Republican Party of Texas Convention.
00:18:08.500And like I said, even in my SD, the founder and president of a terrorist organization as designated by the governor, by Governor Abbott, and as said by the FBI, the face of the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:18:19.820So it went on to be a little bit more shocking because of House Rep that's in SD11, who is also a senior ranking member of the House Public Education Committee.
00:18:30.500And, Steve, you know how we've been fighting CARE for public education, so this is particularly concerning that she is a ranking member of the House Public Education Committee, Texas House.
00:18:41.360But anyway, so she gets up, introduces the founder and the president of CARE, and just gives a glowing review to him, and then invites him up to the front podium as her guest and yields all of her speaking time to him,
00:18:55.800At which time he goes into what I call the CARE infomercial about how CARE is such a great organization.
00:19:01.860It's a humanitarian organization and our values are aligned with the Republican Party.
00:19:06.300Their values are aligned with the Republican Party of Texas and how every Republican should join and support CARE.
00:19:13.320So while he's doing his CARE infomercial, I'm standing on the back wall.
00:19:17.200There's about 200 people in my senatorial district meeting and I'm standing on the back wall.
00:19:21.740then all of a sudden he sees me standing on the back wall and the man just launches into screaming
00:19:28.080and yelling at me and calling me names from the front microphone. I start yelling back, of course.
00:19:34.820I'm just yelling back, you're a terrorist, you're head of a terrorist organization, according to
00:19:38.840the governor of Texas. You know, it's just, it's a mess at this point. He's screaming and yelling at
00:19:44.020me. I'm yelling back at him. The senatorial district delegates are like deer in a headlight
00:19:49.180they're caught so then the sergeant at arms starts trying to take the microphone from him
00:19:53.380because remember i am a state elected official and he's yelling a lot of horrible things at me okay
00:19:57.820so now the sergeant at arms is trying to take the microphone from him he's refusing it to give it
00:20:02.980the sergeant at arms so they kind of get into a kerfuffle while he continues screaming at me
00:20:07.960and so at that point i walk out because i realize that i'm not hold it hang on hang on hang on
00:20:12.980slow down. You say he's screaming terrible things. Be specific.
00:20:17.920Oh, you know, all the things that the left, that the communists and the radicals love to call us,
00:20:23.400Christian nationalists, racists, Islamophobes, you know, just the whole diatribe of names that
00:20:28.320they love to call us and scream at us. And so that's what he was doing at the front microphone
00:20:33.080because this house rep yielded her entire time to this man. And so it was awful, just awful.
00:20:40.780So what was the culmination of it? I don't understand how CARE, if you're designated by the Governor Abbott as a terrorist organization, how can they get into the Republican convention and not be rolled up and thrown in the who's gal? How does that work? What's happening in Texas that you have a terrorist organization heads there and able to start screaming and yelling at people that are state officials? Man.
00:21:07.440So, Steve, you're exactly right. That's what I was saying. And here he is screaming and yelling.
00:21:11.540Like I said, I'm a state elected official and he's screaming, yelling the most godawful things at me in front of 200 people.
00:21:16.520It's not like there's not any witnesses. OK. And so several times during the convention, my team and I tried to remove their credentials from them.
00:21:23.960But, unfortunately, we hit a lot of resistance, again, because this Texas House of Representative senior member and our Republican National Committee man kept going to the meetings, the committee meetings, where we were trying to take his credentials and just getting up and testifying for him, saying they've known him for years and he's the best thing ever and, you know, they've been friends and he's patriotic and he loves America.
00:21:46.920Meanwhile, he's the founder and president of a terrorist organization in Texas, the founder and president of CARE.
00:21:51.740So it was very strange to see within our own party who actually, the elected officials who were standing up to defend this terrorist organization against the governor, right?
00:22:03.160Governor has been very clear where he's at on this issue.
00:22:05.280So opposing the governor of Texas and then also, you know, opposing our sitting attorney, General Ken Paxton,
00:22:11.200And then our Republican nominee who's running for attorney general, Senator Mays Middleton, has said day one he's going after CARE as a terrorist organization.
00:22:21.380So to see these senior ranking members of the House, of the Texas House, and to see our national committee man, our Republican national committee man,
00:22:29.680who are coming in defense, standing against the governor, standing against the attorney general of Texas,
00:22:34.700God willing, standing against our future attorney general of Texas, it was very alarming and very shocking.
00:22:41.200Julie, hang on for a second. Let me bring in Mary Castle. Mary, you're director of government
00:22:46.960outreach for Texas Values. I want to talk about a lot of this fight is about this issue we've
00:22:52.140been covering at the state board of election. Can you walk us through what's going on? We've got a
00:22:55.640couple of minutes on this side of the break and then we'll hold you over. But what exactly is
00:22:59.420going on as this kind of culminates this fight about Texas Values and Texas school books and
00:23:05.460Texas education kind of comes to a head, ma'am. Absolutely, Steve. So we're heading into a week
00:23:12.260where we have a monumental vote at the Texas State Board of Education. Almost every decade,
00:23:17.260they take up a new subject at the Texas State Board of Education where they rewrite the standards
00:23:22.360for social studies. Back in 2022, when they attempted to do this, all of their attempts
00:23:28.220and drafts of the social studies standards were so riddled with critical race theory,
00:23:32.520A lot of different issues, LGBTQ issues that we told them to stop the process.
00:23:38.280And so now we're here in 2026, picking up that process again of rewriting the social studies, not rewriting history, but just rewriting the standards, refreshing them.
00:23:47.720So kids can have a good understanding of our American and Texas history and our values and our Christian foundation.
00:23:54.000But as always, every time we have left-leaning organizations who want to erase things like Moses as a lawgiver, who want to erase our Christian heritage, who want to say the pilgrims came to our country for some other reason besides religious liberty.
00:24:08.760And so we're trying to hold the line at Texas Values to make sure we have those good, solid standards that our Christian heritage is not erased and making sure that kids have a positive, well-rounded view of our American founding in our Texas history.
00:24:22.280Mary just walk us through the logistics you got public comments you're going to have a vote all
00:24:28.440that you said this is one of the most important weeks can you just walk us through the week
00:24:32.060what is going to happen what are the big events are going that are going to happen
00:24:35.860absolutely so first things first people should know that registration for public testimony
00:24:41.700opens tomorrow at 8 a.m it'll be open until Friday at 5 p.m so if you want to be at the
00:24:47.660State Board of Education and make your voice heard, which we're encouraging as many people
00:24:51.780from all over the state to travel to Austin to testify, then you want to make sure tomorrow at
00:24:56.9808 a.m. that you're on your computer. You go to the State Board of Education website. Just type
00:25:02.500that into your search engine, and you'll find the link for public testimony when you scroll down to
00:25:07.600the meetings. And be sure to register for Agenda Item 2 for social studies. After you register
00:25:14.120this week, by Friday at 5 p.m. on Monday, next Monday, they will have public testimony. That's
00:25:20.420when we want everyone to show up to make sure that the State Board of Education, good members
00:25:24.880like Julie Pickren and Brandon Hall, hold the line and make sure they head in a solid direction
00:25:29.700in preserving our history. That public testimony period begins at 8 on Monday. You want to prepare
00:25:35.300for a long day of staying there at the State Board of Education. And then throughout the week,
00:25:40.500they'll be making amendments to these standards to make sure that they're strong. But we're also
00:25:45.380trying to prevent bad amendments from the left-leaning groups who want to add more Islamic
00:25:50.280influence, who want to add more LGBT influence, who want to erase Christian history. We'll be
00:25:55.300watching for those amendments throughout the week and hopefully have a good solid vote on Wednesday
00:26:00.220and final victory on Friday. But just a reminder of those dates next Monday, June 22nd, 8 a.m. You
00:26:07.900want to be there for the testimony to watch what's going on and to testify. And tomorrow at 8am is
00:26:14.060when you should register to testify. Yep. Hang on, Mary. Just hang over a second. I'm going to hold
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00:26:35.980somebody with the East Texas Accent at their call
00:36:58.400I mean, CARA has been proven in court to be a terrorist organization.
00:37:01.880They're using the same tactics politically that they do for their terrorism in the Middle
00:37:05.220least which is that they use women and children for human shields they try to intimidate you and
00:37:09.580then when they come into the board meeting they send women and children in to speak for them
00:37:12.980that way if they get any pushback they can kind of run and hide and say that they're being bullied
00:37:17.500and so but we're not intimidated at all these people are cowards but we are ready to stand up
00:37:22.300because texas and america are worth saving and worth preserving just give us the once again the
00:37:29.000you've got to sign up tomorrow, but Monday is kind of, that's game week, right? We do all-day
00:37:35.360testimony, and then you're going to have various amendments. I guess you're going to vote on
00:37:39.320Wednesday, and we'll know on Friday if we win or not. Is that it?
00:37:43.920Yeah, that's right, Steve. This is the final vote. It all comes down to this. And so one thing that
00:37:49.100we know for sure, we know that CARE is going to show up with all of their Islamist supporters.
00:37:53.180We know the Marxists will be there. The question is, will God-fearing Texas patriots show up?
00:37:58.660Our people were working. They're busy. But we really need them to take time out to show up on Monday and testify.
00:38:04.680It works. Last time you mobilized your audience, and if we do it again, we can change U.S. history and Texan history and bring this back to preserve it for generations to come.
00:38:16.600Brandon, you're a hero. Where do people go to follow you? I know you'll be live tweeting a lot of this also. Where do they go?
00:38:22.240Yeah, I'll be live tweeting from Brandon Hall TX on X.com.
00:38:26.500thank you sir appreciate you thank you steve julie pickering you're the one that brought
00:38:33.100this to our attention the nation's attention a couple of months ago how high are the stakes
00:38:36.840this week ma'am this is very high steve because as you know about 20 states follow our standards
00:38:43.120so whatever we decide next week whatever our final vote is actually this will educate half
00:38:48.320of the children in america so this is very high stakes because once we take this final vote next
00:38:53.600week. We will not be able to reopen this, revisit it, come back to it for at least 14 years. So
00:38:59.780this is the highest stakes. And the Red-Green Alliance, they know this is their last chance
00:39:05.100to put in a Marxist indoctrination into our social studies standards or to rewrite U.S. and Texas
00:39:11.660history, how they've been asking to do. You know, they want us to teach that the Alamo was designed
00:39:15.600and built to honor Islam. So those are ridiculous requests. I'm sure we'll come back next week. But
00:39:20.740like I said, they are now resorting to intimidation and bullying and threats. So we're going to hold
00:39:25.800strong. My constituents, they have given me clear mandates. This office that I serve belongs to them
00:39:30.780and I'm going to fight this fight and I'm going to deliver this win for the great state of Texas.
00:39:35.580Do you believe that the intimidation is working? Not for you. I know you're tough as boot leather,
00:39:40.160but you think other people are having second thoughts like maybe I don't want to get involved
00:39:43.420in this. Maybe I shouldn't step up and defend Texas values and American values that they are
00:39:50.220in fact intimidated and they just want to slink away from this fight? Yes, sir. I think that is
00:39:55.900a real possibility. But my elected cohorts, my other elected State Board of Education members,
00:40:02.560they need to realize the oath they took when they swore into this office to defend and protect the
00:40:06.520United States Constitution from enemies, foreign and domestic. And we definitely have a domestic
00:40:10.720enemy right now. We actually have a foreign terrorist organization operating inside of Texas,
00:40:15.720which, by the way, Tarek Hussein, who was a delegate to the Republican Party of Texas,
00:40:20.220actually wrote and published a manual on how to take over the Republican Party from within.
00:40:24.500So this is a very coordinated attack on the Republican Party, on the great state of Texas.
00:40:30.000And so, yes, my my fellow elected officials, they just need to remember that oath of office that they swore before God and before Texas.
00:40:37.900Julie, where do people get you on social media, ma'am?
00:40:40.920They can follow me on Twitter at Julie for TX, Julie, the number for TX.
00:40:46.120That's my Twitter. And I'll also be live tweeting from the meeting.
00:41:49.160And it couldn't be anything more symbolic than in the 250th year of the commemoration of our birth of our nation, birth of the greatest nation in history.
00:42:04.520Maybe I'll talk about revolution now, or maybe I'll go and talk about Lynchburg, Virginia.
00:42:08.920I think I'll talk about Lynchburg or come back and talk about the book.
00:42:11.640Metax is his bestselling book, which is blowing away sales everywhere.
00:42:29.160Well, nationally, what the Democrats have been doing is trying to remove the ability of Republicans to select their own nominees in certain areas.
00:42:39.700And they have assaulted that effort by eliminating voter registration in Virginia.
00:42:45.520and the state party, the local state party in Lynchburg, which is a metro area, it's the fifth
00:42:50.780largest metro area in Virginia, Steve, and the only one of those five that delivers Republican
00:42:56.280majorities. Even though there's a Democrat plurality in Lynchburg, they've been successful.
00:43:03.160They have six Republicans on the city council, only one Democrat. And so they hold the firehouse
00:43:08.320primary so that the base can speak and determine who their candidates are. One of those who was
00:43:13.660running for re-election, is a controversial person on that council who has played the victim card,
00:43:20.020made accusations, is disruptive, and the Republicans rejected her in this firehouse primary.
00:43:26.140So she gathers together really 33 people, overwhelming majority or family members and
00:43:33.660a couple of families, and they seek to set aside the votes of 1,633 Republicans who voted.
00:43:41.140And they went inside baseball, and they've got friends, and you have to understand the incumbents who are in the state legislature don't like these firehouse primaries.
00:44:05.160Republicans come and they vote the way elections used to be, quite frankly.
00:44:09.740And there's there's absentee ballots and so forth that they take care of. But you vote in that day and Republicans, they can if it's a Republican run primary, they can set the rules.
00:44:22.280And so, therefore, they can require people to pledge support for the Republican Party to vote.
00:44:28.840In a state-run primary, there's no rules, because Virginia does not have voter registration.
00:44:36.820Democrats vote in the Republican primary.
00:44:39.860And, in fact, a lot of Republican incumbents like that.
00:44:42.980That way, they can defeat the more conservative candidate that's part of the base.
00:44:47.600So they don't like these party-run primaries.
00:44:50.860They want it open for Democrats to vote.
00:44:54.360In fact, some incumbents were running around encouraging Democrats to go vote anyway, and they did.
00:45:00.100There were some Democrat voters who pledged support for the Republican Party,
00:45:04.680people who'd given tens of thousands of dollars to Democrat candidates,
00:45:08.580and they will turn around and support Democrats in the general election.
00:45:12.440In any event, one of the persons who lost filed an appeal with the state,
00:45:18.120And the state Republican Party, in a decision that I'm highly critical of, had no evidence to support, invalidated that election.
00:45:29.100And their decision, Steve, removes Republicans from the ballot completely in the general election.
00:45:36.800So the Republican Party, which I have said for some time in Virginia, is captured by the consulting class.
00:45:43.480It's all about the monopoly of contracts for consulting and making money on radio mass or mass communications and so forth.
00:45:54.000But you do have a new chairman that's trying to change that, right?
00:46:00.180I mean, they've had a huge success on this redistricting where they came within inches or very close to defeating it with no support from the National Republican Party, let's say no support from the White House to come close.
00:46:13.560And then I think part of their show of strength led the courts to overturn it.
00:46:18.040So there has been at least some attempt to get the Republican Party to respond more to the grassroots, has it not?
00:46:24.060Well, there was a lot of effort to overturn that constitutional amendment.
00:46:31.380And the court, the Supreme Court of Virginia, gave clear indication they were going to do
00:46:53.140Hang on, but you're mixing – that was run by the governor and the clique around the governor.
00:46:59.180That was an absolute debacle, but it's kind of been at least a rebirth and trying to be a rebirth at some level on the grassroots level.
00:47:06.820Just hasn't. I've seen it. I don't know where you've been.
00:47:08.760This was a rejection of the grassroots.
00:47:11.300I think you're dead wrong in that, but continue on.
00:47:14.260Why did the GOP not come and back your play here?
00:47:19.440Well, I think it's to protect incumbents.
00:47:23.140There's a delegate named Wendell Walker. He doesn't want to have a firehouse primary. The state senator, Mark Peake, was highly critical. And this election was, and the Republican Party, by the way, and yes, under a different chairman, but this is the action of the state central committee.
00:47:38.720They have continuously dissolved local units. When these local units start to get boisterous, start to gain power and start to have voice, they don't want to be challenged in that.
00:47:51.900And, Steve, maybe Mr. Ryer is trying to build a grassroots movement.
00:47:57.720The Republican Party is wholly focused on this mass communication effort of the campaigns of the 90s while the Democrats have people on the doorstep.
00:48:28.400And I think that's because the consultants can't figure out how to make money from it.
00:48:32.760But in this election, there was not one allegation that the tally was wrong.
00:48:37.800Not one allegation that it wasn't transparent.
00:48:40.020Not one allegation an ineligible voter voted or that an eligible voter could not vote.
00:48:46.220And there was no evidence that anything that they claimed was wrong changed an outcome or changed one single vote.
00:48:54.740Nevertheless, they threw out the vote of 1633 people and then made a decision which violated all their rules of procedure.
00:49:04.360They made a decision that there would be no Republican on the ballot for city council this November.
00:49:11.020phil here's what i don't understand is that you talk about lynchburg i think it's the fourth or
00:49:16.820fifth metropolitan area but when you talk about maga or conservatism i mean it's the maybe not
00:49:22.960the city limits but that's the home of liberty university which is one of the most powerful
00:49:27.800institutions not simply in the commonwealth but in the country as far as conservative and christian
00:49:33.380values go how did that play into here is is are they basically saying that because i'm sure a lot
00:49:39.560of these 1,600 votes came from people that are at Liberty or associate with Liberty University.
00:49:44.800How did the state party just kind of say, tough luck here?
00:49:50.660Well, I think a lot of it, Steve, is the condition of our media today.
00:49:57.000I mean, there's really no media, very little, trying to understand this.
00:50:02.040And so people just hear that there's controversy, and they don't try to understand who's at fault for that controversy or what really happened.
00:50:11.700And so they believe they can get away with this stuff.
00:50:18.160And many of these large institutions, quite frankly, play it safe.
00:50:23.280Now, their employees, their students vote conservative, but the institution itself doesn't want to get involved in the middle of a dogfight.
00:50:31.840They've got other things to worry about, such as zoning and so forth.
00:50:35.160So very few institutions and even businesses really engage.
00:50:41.380Phil, we've got to bounce because we've got a hard out here.
00:50:43.720Where do people go to find more information about you and your organization and about this specific incident?