Blaise Ganey
speaker
124 appearances
23 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 21 Jul
Blaise Ganey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 22 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 10.
Appearances
Scheduled speakers include Steve Bannon and Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon.
For NPR News, I'm Blaise Gainey in Grapevine.
Last night, Tallarico began the event by thanking Crockett and addressing the Democrats who voted for her in Tuesday's primaries.
The move is important because in order for Democrats to win the statewide race in Texas, they'll need all the votes they can get.
The last time a Democrat won a statewide race in the Lone Star State was 1994.
While not the best indicator, Democratic turnout in the primary race outpacing Republicans shows that there may be a chance to break the streak if the party's voters can unify around the Austin area's state representative.
For NPR News, I'm Blaise Gainey.
Being a border state, one of the constant themes in the questions was around immigration laws.
This debate took place just hours after a man was killed by immigration law enforcement officers in Minneapolis.
When asked what they would do about ICE's funding and whether it should be abolished, this is how Tallarico answered.
Crockett voted against the House bill that provides more funding to ICE this week.
She says the agency needs to be cleaned up from top to bottom.
For NPR News, I'm Blaise Gainey in Austin.
Up First from NPR · Mideast Ceasefire Continues, Irish Elections, Texas Politics · 30 Nov 2024
podcast
Well, they already have a program going called Operation Lone Star. They've spent $11 billion on that program. It was created in March of 2021 by Governor Greg Abbott to respond to the rise in illegal immigration because he said President Biden's administration wasn't doing enough.
He's bused tens of thousands of migrants to blue states, deployed miles of razor wire along the border, and extended a floating buoy barrier in the Rio Grande. And Abbott was recently on Fox News. Here's what he had to say on immigration.
So if Trump increases border patrols, then that could free up Texas from having to invest so much of its own resources.
Yeah, exactly. Another way we might see that play out, though, is the state's general land office offered the incoming Trump administration more than 1,400 acres of South Texas borderland to, quote, construct deportation facilities. But there's already been a lot of pushback on mass deportation, not only from immigrant advocates, but business leaders as well.
They say it could be dangerous for the economy and workforce.
Yeah, I mean, vouchers have been a big ticket item in several states. There's already 16 states with a program so far. Texas is not one of them. The governor has been trying to pass a bill since 2023 with no luck. He even called three special sessions for it, but it never got passed.
But this election cycle, he was successful in getting several of the rural Republicans that voted against it out of office. We'll have to wait and see. But at the time, it does look like he has the votes. Okay, well, what else are you hearing might be a priority? Yeah, so making a return from 2017 session is the bathroom bill.
Showing 101–120 of 124 · page 6 of 7
← Previous
Next →