Charlotte Dem votes with GOP to pass ICE cooperation law (07-29-2025--Hour3)

What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, go to vpetclenarshow dot com. Make sure you hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for your support. So last hour I went over a bunch of the overrides that were completed today in the North Carolina General Assembly. One of those overrides, I said, I was going to circle back in true jen Psaki style, was House built three eighteen And the name of that is an act to modify eligibility for release and require notification of release to Immigration and Customs enforcement when a prisoner is subject to an immigration detainer and administer creative warrant. Okay. So this is to close the loophole that certain sheriffs in North Carolina all Democrats in the cities you know Asheville or Bunkham County, Wait County, Durham, and Mecklenburg where they do not alert ice before they release some illegal alien that has been arrested for some violent offense. They don't tell ICE, Hey, this guy is bonding out. We're getting ready to release him. And so they wrote a law they tried to force these sheriffs to cooperate to keep the community safe. But these sheriffs ran on explicit platforms of not cooperating with ICE, so they have found every way possible to avoid fully cooperating with ICE. While Sheriff Gary not my fault, McFadden continues to claim that he is cooperating with ICE and that ICE should cooperate more with him, him or something. So we got another law that Governor Stein tried to veto or did veto, and now it's been overridden. In order for the veto to get an override, you got to have three fifths majority in each chamber. Well, the Republicans in the Senate control three fifths of the seats, so they have a supermajority. They can override vetos without a single Democrat vote over In the House, the Republicans are one vote shy of a supermajority, so they need to get at least one Democrat to vote with them on any override. And they got one. And the one they got on this measure was Carla Cunningham, a Democrat from Mecklenburg County, and she got up and delivered a floor speech that well, I'll say it this way. I could see her fellow Democrats around her, because I don't know if you've ever seen the way the legislature, the House side is laid out. They all have their desks and they're pretty tight together, and so when you rise to speak on something, there's a microphone at your desk, and you pick up the microphone and you just speak right from your chair, right from the desk, and you're surrounded on She's surrounded by fellow Democrats and just watching them during this speech. They were squirming. They were squirming over what she said, and then they were trying to stop her too. Like I mentioned last hour, Destin Hall had to warn the gallery, this is not an opportunity for you to chant and applaud and cheer and scream things. This is the time for the members to debate. These members represent the eleven million people in North Carolina. And so this is what he told them that when you're trying to shout somebody down, you're saying that your voice is more important than all the other people in North Carolina. I mean, just think about the selfishness and narcissism required to do that. Yes, but Democrats have been doing this for years, ever since Republicans took control of the General Assembly. They started it with the moral Monday movements, shut down the operations, try to prevent the legislative body from working, from meeting, from debating, and so over the years though they have developed. The Republican leadership has now developed this method of you know, you get a warning and then we're going to have you removed by the sergeant at arms. And they're like, they don't put up with this stuff anymore. So Carla Cunningham, once again Democrat from Mecklenburg County. Today is a new day, but I'd like to take a moment to reintroduce myself to each of you. I am ados American descendants of slaves. I am a Black American, and i am an American. I'm going to present my case in support of House Built three eighteen as it is time for my unapologetic truth to be shared with all of you. First, as a people, we need to recognize that it's not just the numbers that matter, but also where the immigrants come from and the culture they bring with them to another country. As the social scientists report, all cultures are not equal to Some immigrants come and believe they can function and isolation, refusing to adapt. They have come to our country for many reasons, but I suggest they must assimilate, adapt to the culture of the country they wish to live in. No country is going to allow people to come in and not acknowledge it's constitution, legal systems, and laws. They were not tolerated. So do you think I can go to another country and set up my own rules to live by, use the language I choose, and then tell that country that you must speak my language. That's not going to happen, nor should it. As a country, the United States has been more tolerant than most other countries. Other countries are making it much more difficult to get citizenship. We have been naive. We have been exploited and abused by the different tactics to gain citizenship in America. It's time to wake up. Global migration in the past was not projected to be as it is today. We must establish new rules to address us distinct type of migration that we are facing in our country, state and cities. It's time to turn the conveyor belt off. Oh my goodness, I wonder if any of her colleagues actually listen to what she's saying with an open mind. Why would she be saying these things. This is stuff that some radical right wing nazi would say, right. And adopt a global migration suitable for the times that we're in and that is not destabilizing our communities. A large number of people entering a country can change it forever. In conclusion, let me share with you all what happens when a woman lawmaker like myself choose to move differently. Yes, I was degraded for my vote. Yes I was called racist for my vote, and yes I was said I was trash. However I figured it out. They want me to stop elevating my ancestors history. They want me to be silent in my country. They want me to line up behind their priorities while my people and communities continue to struggle in our country. All right, so you probably can hear a little bit in the background there some of these frequent flyers, these democrats, these leftists that packed the gallery for these things they've now started like fake coughing in order to disrupt her speech, and the speaker of the House testin hall, he's about to shut that down in quite comical fashion. All Right, if you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app and it's a website and it combines news from around the world in one place so you can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground, dot news slash pete. I put the link in the podcast description too. I started using ground News a few months ago and more recently chose to work with them as an affiliate because it lets me see clearly how stories get covered and by whom. The blind spot feature shows you which stories get ignored by the left and the right. See for yourself check dot ground, dot news slash pete. Subscribe through that link and you'll get fifteen percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature. Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground news as they make the media landscape more transparent. I do have some texts here. Sorry, I fell behind on the the text line a little bit. Okay, So this was in reference to Laura Bud saying that it's not a god given right to possess a gun, to own a gun. That representative it was speaking, probably went to a school where they did not teach her the Second Amendment to the Constitution. That's possible. She's an attorney though, That's what's amazing. Not really, though, Does Laura Budd seriously think people in private schools would not be vetted properly who they would have volunteer with a conceal carried permit? I have a conceal carried permit and had to go through proper training for it. Common sense. She must have been left out in the common sense department. I don't know what happened to House Bill fifty. I don't know which one that is off the top of my head. Okay, so I'm caught up on the text line, So let me resume this audio clip. This is Carla Cunningham Democrat from Charlotte Mecklimer County here, and she voted with all of the Republicans, seventy one of them, to override Governor Stein's veto of this Cooperation with Ice bill, so this will now become law. And she played the first chunk of it, and she's wrapping up, and you can start to hear these leftists in the gallery start doing these fake coughs and sound effects to register their displeasure with her, and she is calling out people like them, if not them, specifically for the abuse that she has been subjected to for daring to cross the Democrat line. Because when she voted for this bill originally before it went to the henor for his signature or veto, which you got, Vito, she started getting the kind of abuse that Tricia Cotham got on the school voucher issue. Tricia Coffam, educate, former educator, right state representative, and she switched parties to become a Republican because she was subjected to this kind of abuse from her own party members. So now you've got the Speaker of the House who's about to interrupt Carla Cunningham in order to shut down this behavior that these democrats in the gallery are engaging in mister. Speaker, lady will spin momentarily. Members, it's not a kindergarten class. I look up and I see full grown adults, many of you senior citizens, and you're clearly trying to make noise like a young child might when there's having to sit in a classroom and listening. So please, you're not doing anything by making these noises. And if the sergeant in arms sees the lady who just was making the noise, the sergeant arms has the chairs direction to go ahead and remove the lady. Again, folks, please, you're allowing folks on both sides of this issue to speak. If you want to come down here and debate, go run for bublic office. Thank you. Lady continues to have a. Floor, Thank you, mister speaker. As I was saying, they want me to line up behind their priorities while my people and communities continue to struggle in our country. Is this not your country? This is my country, with the good and the not so good. This is my country. It is a bee now. If you want to adapt to my country, not isolate yourself, and come here, I welcome you. But today I am telling you I am not going to be silenced by those who disagree with my ideology on the issue at hand. Mister speaker, Representive Cunningham, what purpose is the lady from New handad repsent of Butler? I feel like. We're getting into personal territory and maligning the character of the members of this body. Well, I think the lady is speaking of the personal attacks that she received from folks outside of this body. Unless I misheard what she said, and the lady is correct that it's not appropriate to talk about personal attacks of members of the body. Again, I understand her to be saying some personal things that she received from outside. But mister speaker, in that case, I would move the previous question. Okay, ladies not recognized formation Representive Cunningham. All right, So what that was? Deb Butler? Deb Butler from New Hanover County, most famously of the I will not yield biscus Speaker. Remember that it's been a few years. This was when they overrode former Governor Roy Cooper's veto on something when the Democrats failed to show up in sufficient numbers and Republicans looked around and they were like, hey, we got enough votes right now to override that veto. So they pulled it up and they were like, let's vote on this, and by refusing to, she grabbed the mic and she's like, I refuse do you just went on this rant. It went viral, of course, and she made appearances on MSNBC as a defender of the democracy. And the kicker on it was that had the Democrats just left, there would not have been a quorum and then they would not have been able to vote on anything. But because she had this tantrum, this meltdown, they took the vote and they override the governor. They overrode the governor's veto. So Cunningham now concludes here just forty seconds. He could change it down the floor. Thank you, just to speaker. Oh and note how she tried to silence Carl Cunningham as well there by calling the question. See, it was my ancestors who came over as slaves, built this country with a strain on their backs. They sweat pouring from their bodies in the rice fields, the cotton fields, and the tobacco farms. For this country lived as servants. And was the footstool, I said, the footstool for far too many feet to step on so today, if you asked me to line up behind another group of people to raise awareness about their plight, I don't apologetically say no. There you go. Me thinks the Democrat Party has some bit of a riff. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. 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Call or text eight two eight three six seven seventy sixty eight or check out all there is to offer at Cabinsofashville dot com and make memories that'll last a lifetime. Here's an email from John up in Jersey for you have given me hope for a Democrat to so eloquently articulate what sensible conservatives have tried to express for so long. I now have to rethink my position that we might be in the end times. Well, you know, you never know. Maybe from the text line, I don't know. It's from somebody in Wisconsin. This week's Hero of the Week Carla Cunningham. Finally another crack in the North Carolina Democrat Party, or in the another crack in the party dam Kudos to Carla Cunningham for truly standing up for common sense, the rule of law, and doing what's right for her constituency and North Carolina citizens. At large. Oh James, that's James in Waxaw. Well, the phone number is identified as a Wisconsin number on the text line, so that's all it says. Gary on Twitter says, I one hundred percent support the Democrat representative from Mecklemburg County speech. She is correct. Our country is being flooded with cheap labor is going to far more harm anyone without a college degree. It was the cause of fewer jobs and decreased pay while driving up the cost of used vehicles and housing. Yeah, that's one of those things. I'm always amazed how nobody ever makes the connection between the housing crunch and allowing millions and millions of extra people into the country every year. Like that's like I kind of feel like that's related. Right, all right, So you heard Carla Conningham's speech, and one of the things that she said a couple times there at the end was she was talking about my country. This is my country. Right. That prompts a response from former judge Marsha Morey, Democrat from Durham, and this awful is going to rebut her fellow Democrats argument. We've heard passionate debate about this, and I'm going to be from the first one to say, this is not my country. This is our country. Oh so brave, just please stop, just stop. You're not like this. That's not clever, right, it's our Well, who's our Who do you include in our will? She tell us. Oh, I bet she does, and I bet her definition is a bit more, shall we say, expansive than mine. This is our country. Native Americans, African Americans, immigrants, we have all built this country. Okay, so you hear what she just did there. She conflates all immigrants legal with illegal. Right, she conflates them all together, because most Americans are fine with legal immigration. Most Americans understand that this is a nation of immigrants coming from all over the world, attracted by an idea, a concept, the free market, guaranteed rights endowed by our creator. Despite what that Democrat lawyer said from the House floor earlier, right, these are god given, inalienable rights, and our constitution limits the government in a way that it does not do so for like any other country on the planet. It says, this is it like these are the enumerated power. Everything else is reserved to the states and the people. Right, these concepts, this ability to work, hard play by the rules, get ahead. That's the draw freedom right. In one word, it's freedom. It's not the democracy, it's freedom. So when Carl Cunningham is up there talking about illegal immigration and this creating all sorts of problems, and it's displacing her people who are black Americans who have borne the brunt of the competition for the lower paid positions because the illegal aliens that come in, they get taken advantage of by disreputable employers that are willing to pay them less money to do the same job that an American would require more to be paid. And so she's pushing back on this, but she's got the the apt white female liberal from Durham who's going to tell her how it really is. It's our country, don't you see. And then she conflates legal with illegal immigration. But what does this bill do? It denies that immigrants are an essential part of our community. It doesn't. It denies that they are neighbors, that they are co workers, that they are our friends. Doesn't that they are any of that family. No, none of that. We all agree we wan't safe communities. But as we have heard, that's no longer the issue with this bill. It is scapegoating. It is scapegoating immigrants, and research has shown us that the immigrant community is less likely to commit crimes than the US citizen. She never says the word illegal. It's always just immigrant community, immigrant, this immigrant that. That is a fact. We need to work towards finding solutions, not creating divisiveness and ignoring community concerns. This is furthering an anti immigrant agenda no matter what the cost, and when police act as immigration agents, witnesses or victims of crime are going to be less likely to report crime, to be protected by our communities, and forcing law enforcement to cooperate with ICE has led to racial profiling of black, brown, and immigrant communities, with law enforcement targeting people based on appearance and not criminal behavior. Again, this is to ensure that the sheriffs call ICE when an illegal alien has been arrested for something violent and they're in the jail. That's what this bill is. This isn't sending cops out into the streets to go target people. This is about Hey, Sheriff Gary McFadden, not my fault, McFadden, pick up the phone and call ICE so we can come take custody of this suspect and do it in a safer way than out on the street. That's it. You know. Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. 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She's very attractive and at least if you were into the you know, the voluptuous good looks that sort of thing as attractive. Okay, So she also has blonde hair and blue eyes. See Nazi, Nazi, Nazi all over the place. It just like screaming Nazi at us. Yeah, MSNBC headline Sidney Sweeney's edge shows an unbridled cultural shift towards whiteness. Advertisements are always mirrors of society, and sometimes what they reflect is ugly and startling. Here was Yeah, here is ABC's Good Morning America. They did a they did a brief piece on this as well. I'm check the pulse. We begin with the backlash of our new ad campaign featuring actress Sidney Sweeney. Yeah. The ads are for American Eagle and the tagline is Sidney Sweeney has great genes. Now. In one ad, the blondehair, blue eyed actress talks about jeees as in DNA, being passed down from her parents. The play on words is being compared to Nazi propaganda with racial undertones. The coun good cheat. This is this is uh, let me see your name. Robin landa professor at Keen University, never heard of. It activates a troubling historical associations for this country. The American eugenics movement and it's prime between like nineteen hundred and nineteen forty, weaponized the idea of good genes just to justify white supremacism. You know what. It also justified planned parenthood. Yeah, uh huh do you know Charles Krault, the newsman guy. His father, I believe, was the Mecklenburg County Director of Health and he was a big Eugenesis guy. They named a building after him, I think at one point here. Yeah, so there's a she. So the ad campaign is she's dressed in all denim and she she talks to the camera and she's like, oh, you know, my parents gave me good genes or something because she's attractive. See, like that's why. Oh I'm attractive because my parents passed down the good genes and then good genes. And then she crosses out g E n e S on one billboard and writes Jenes j e a n s. Right, you get it, good gens. It's a play on words. She has good genes because she's attractive. She has good genes because they're American eagle. That's literally all there is to this people. But no, we can't have nice things. So here's a sample of the kind of dumbassery that has been occurring. You guys are complaining about that Sydney's Sweeney jeans, and so I went and saw it. That's Nazi propaganda. Wow. I thought it was gonna be like kind of fad that's gonna be in history book. I will be the friend that's two woke because those Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ads are weird, like fascist weird, like Nazi propaganda weird. Would we be surprised that a company whose name is literally American Eagle is making fascist propaganda like this? Probably not okay. So just to paint the picture here, both of those women that you just heard speaking have nos rings ones in front of a trans flag. They both have the big glasses. It's right, like right out of Central Casting. Here, only the dog, here's the dog whistle. I'm not sure how many times we have to go over this, but only the dogs hear the whistle. If you are hearing a whistle about a jeans ad with Sidney Sweeney saying I have good jeens because she's attractive. But you see white blue eyes and you think, oh my gosh, they're you genesists and Nazis, Like you're the dog in the dog whistle metaphor. David Harson at the Washington Examiner. He says, I'm not a sociologist, but I think the Sweeney ed shows an enduring cultural desire to see hot people on TV. I think, yeah, I think that might actually be it. I think that's all that's going on here. But yes, in case you are, if you are wondering, we have indeed entered the zone, in the zone of dumb mass. Now, on the bright side, this one's probably only going to be very short lived. I don't see this one having a lot of legs, unlike Sydney. So I'm sorry. That's terrible joke. Terrible joke. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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