Carl Tepper

I'm your host, Brad Swail.

Today, I have the pleasure of welcoming to the show Representative Carl Tepper of House District 84, which is entirely within Lubbock County, Texas.

Representative Tepper is a father, Air Force veteran, and commercial real estate professional, and serves on the House Committees on Appropriations, Calendars, and Redistricting, and Intergovernmental Affairs, as well as the House Select Committee on Governmental Oversight, which we'll talk about today, which there is a hearing happening as we speak.

Representative Tepper, how are you?

So I think you'd get a lot more votes if you just did the right thing for the public and the voting public and the property tax paying public and just end those programs or find a contractor who can fulfill those duties.

Yeah.

Well, Representative Carl Tepper of House District 84, thank you so much.

I appreciate your time.

And it's supported by these Republicans.

So there's a couple different things going on here, right? Number one, you've got the Jeff Leaches and the Carl Teppers and the...

And Dyson's and Bryan College Station saying, oh, yeah, I'm going to support this bill that turned into a law that every Texan who buys automobile insurance has to contribute an extra dollar.

And we're putting in a fund and we're going to distribute that money to the Colleyville's of Texas, all these local governments.

And when I say depth, I mean, right, like, So Rove and and Cornyn and the KBH and the George W. crew are just much more moderate Republicans.

And I don't think Carl's actually very moderate personally, but he always has been wanting to get the most moderate Republican through the primary so that they have the best chance of winning the November election.

I get that.

Well, you know, I understand why Carl's really bright guy.

But folks like me have always wanted the movement conservative, and we usually have lost for the last 15 or 20 years.

So when I say I want to take us deeper, this is where I want to take us because they finger-wagged at us forever.

And by the way, I don't know if it's appropriate or not, but I'm going to disclose I'm holding Cal State position and packs in long just in case I have no idea.

They're not a sponsor of me or anything else.