Alabama syndicated Newstalk leader right side radio Phil Williams
here live in the right side studios man we
got the local the state of national covering down
at all the issues and oh yeah I like
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right welcome to our number three on this Christmas Eve
eve and somebody else Christmas Christmas Adam Christmas Adam
because Adam comes before Eve intro the topic right
for the top of the hour I'm talking about
term limits wow listen down in Montgomery when I
was in the state Senate I was one of
the only senators who would consistently cosponsor bills for
term limits and they never came out of committee I
mean you couldn't get them moving myself a trip
Pittman a couple other guys and then we all
term limited ourselves too like I was there for
eight years and decided that running for a third
was not what I was supposed to do because
it was not my identity and yet so many
in public office they get in there and it's
not just their career it's their identity they don't
know what to do with themselves if they're not
elected and that's why too often you see somebody
who has been in office for 3 5 40
years and they're well into their 80s is like
they don't care that they have grandkids I could
care less they don't want to do with themselves
if they're not in power and so they never
leave and we got a massive problem with this
right now with this representative K Ranger story I'm
gonna bring somebody on to this kind of opine
with me about it a minute a guy that
I just think the world of a state representative
Ernie Yarbrough represents district 7 up in the north
Northwestern part of our state it's Lawrence Colbert Morgan
County and he's a constitutionalist and he's even been
a guest host on right side he's a true
right side Ruffin Ernie Yarborough how are you doing
I am doing fantastic we got happier when I
heard that I get to come on the show
and talk for a minute I have had knee
surgery and so I have been stove up recovering
but as you can imagine somebody like me I
don't like to talk and it's very shy to
enjoy being around people hiding away in my house
has been disappearing natural thing for me not by
the way you just have knee surgery you had
like knee reconstruction after you just tore the whole
thing to pieces 4 3 years old and running
running route on Astroturf at the Auburn athlete training
facility we're in multiple inch stitch dress shoes probably
is not a good idea no something about when
your kneecap was on your thigh later on is
what I heard called out made it for a
purpose which includes attaching at the bottom of your
kneecap and holding them in place so intelligent design
has many many important use it does and it's
a good thing you had intelligence surgeons to put
it back in place I am I am glad
that you are are you are you gonna be
mobile again and that the very least year you're
still able to talk but hey let me so
did you hear the story by the way Ernie
this representative cake range she's a career I mean
not I guess she is a career politician but
she's she's a longtime Republican from Texas and she
has been in Congress since like 19 90 or
something and and she was the mayor of Dallas
she's been AWOL since July no one knew where she
was and they just found her in the dementia
ward of a nursing home but she's still holding office
in Congress yeah when I heard storage I was
on different sites and I was like she's fixing
to finish a 14th term 8 1 years old
right elected in like 19 9 6 and mind
blown as you said that she's been AWOL for
all this time and nobody no comments from anybody
and anybody that that she's in a different condition
and he struck me when I read the story
there's a whole as you know my campaign slogan
is Mike Alabama local again I'm writing a book
called make America local again which I hope to
have out early in the spring and so so
so but the whole concept behind that the whole
issue behind this is which is the question of
well as you brought up term limits right is
the whole concept of the structure of American politics
and what that are founders in versus what it's
to come and I think we have so it
gets back to you for me I want to
challenge the American people right cause we're supposed to
be a grass route bottom of the country of
a politics and so I think behind us there's
a bigger story here of how Americans have to change
their mindset about public service and taking control of
and taking charge of their own political future I
completely agree and I realize too that some of
what happens in our especially in the legislative branches
runs on seniority and I know that and but
at the same time that does not mean that
you have to stay there for 3 5 40 you
don't have to be there till you're 80 90 years
old and I look at these people I think
do you not have a life is this your
life is this all you have because it's it's
just right that 16 00 pages yeah no one has
supposed to as opposed to 1 20 pages off
of a few post on X and I think again
behind us you have people who were there all
this time decades and decades they form all these
these relationships unhealthy with lobbyist backdoor dollars backdoor interest
and so that becomes their way of hey I
come in with the net worth of 2 00,
000 I'm gonna leave with the net worth of
80 million right in the reality is behind us
here's what I think is the digger Takeaway yeah
because I think so Austin the government has this
idea of invested interest of the problem was with
the government the problem was with the feds blame
the sad and the federal will solve the problem
no the problem here I love my constituents in
the American people and then we acknowledge that default
is ours then we can fix it the problem
is the American people we have failed to take
responsibility for our elected officials and let you know
what you're meant to be there for a few terms
and you're out because the whole idea of representative
government right is that it's of buying for the
people and it's like you know growing up that
you know your generation and then before you my
dad generation right it's my military service it was
like you're in for a few years it's good for
a man to serve he gets out he goes
about his duty right and the same concept here
and about the founders intended political office has never
meant to be a revere it wasn't meant to
be a way to make a living right then
the initial initial continental Congress they make a salary
they were all on their own businesses but they
came in and serve and they went home so
they had short terms and I think behind us
we've got your we've got to reevaluate and change
that political career should not be a career it
should be a true method of public service or
by someone comes in desert duty and get out yes
absolutely and I can't I can't feel that stronger
than I feel it right now I mean I'm
looking at and you know granted in Montgomery you
and I both seen people whose actual identities are
being elected they don't know what to do with
themselves if they weren't in the state legislature or
doing something in the state government but but in
DC and almost feels like it's a pandemic of
decrepit I mean I'm looking at Kay Granger she's
they find her in a dementia ward and no one
said boo about it to a constituent for six
months people are livid now that you're finding out
then you got like Mitch McConnell McConnell had another
fall the other day he's had multiple health events
that were clearly indicators that he is no longer
firing on all cylinders and he now has a
concussion that he's getting over with just from a few
days ago when he fell in the in the
capital building and when you got articles being written
by politico and Vox and others that are saying
this kind of stuff you know it's not just
the Republicans saying it and it's a bipart is
an issue at Ted Dianne Feinstein she was I'm 8
9 years old 8 9 and no longer had
the cognitive or physical ability to even do her
job but she was still in office and it's
just crazy from Connecticut or whatever talking about talking
about how we need female don't crash on these
because there's a gender inequality and crash on this
kind of insanity and stupidity it is so not
so far divorced from a Christian world but for
even even anybody that has one eye and half
cents but this is where again my plea back
to the American people is what if we had
a pet what if we had the same passion
to raise a public servant as we did for
our football teams like don't even supersede your lover
football just match it and what she was fine
instead of having our young people obsessed with making
that next sports team if we modeled for our
young people the next debating the next bullet and
we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna have a competition
and work towards the next person 's in the
serve the next two terms and you're done it's
all about how we have the adults in the
room instead of as Americans being obsessed with pleasure
and ease and comfort and and and all the
things that don't inconvenience me it gets back to
you right as not what what your country can
do for you so what you can do for
your country and it's high time and this is
my players about Hope and faith for future a
country that we make talk about making America great
again how about making public service grade again in
the sense that this is my contribution I'm gonna
do it and I'm gonna handle the time and
keep going handle the time and keep going and
there's a I see this on local government all
the time but there's a crisis in local government
of a refusal or a lack of ability to
know how to hand the baton off to the
next generation or to the next group of people
coming through who need to step into those roles
of public service and when you when you view
power in public service as a way to give
you a platform and a position of prosperity and
influence that you would otherwise not have through honest
labor as a huge problem that's a huge problem
and you're and you're so right I love the
idea of passing the baton but but I think
there are times though that we're gonna need to
have to figure out a way to literally rest the
baton out of their Cragie fingers because they won't let
it go and and I don't know they will
ever get a people don't realize that we need
term limits it's the people you want a term
limit that have to vote for the bill to term
limit themselves and good luck with that but there
has to be a fire in the grass to change
so again you can complain about term limits but
if you're not willing to churches and community groups
to raise up individuals to fund them enable them
equipped them and hold them accountable you're just blowing
smoke which gets back to the American people I've
got to take a long hard look in the
mirror people of Alabama I've gotta take a long
hard look in the mirror and say if we
really believe that and it's not just talking points
because we wanna sound like we're conservative cool cat
what is the actual cost gonna look like for
us to accomplish this man as always I knew
you'd nail it I knew you would I knew
you'd nail it listen we gotta take a break
brother Ernie and then wanna come back and change
gears with you and Christmas being tomorrow I wanna
talk about faith in the public arena and your
thoughts on that before we close up all right all right
we're taking a break right now where with state
representative Ernie Yarborough who's so able represents the folks
of state house district 7 up in the north
Northwest state he is a rough and Phil Williams
right side radio y'all stay tuned we'll be right
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with a state representative Ernie Yarbrough represents the house
district 7 up yonder in Northwest Alabama Lawrence Colbert
Morgan County so Ernie I was switching gears on
here real quick I've got a segment I'm doing
called faith rising and there are some who are
studying this and saying that Christianity the in particular
is sort of falling by the wayside and yet
at the same time their studies saying that there
are more first time buyers than ever before right
now in the United States I got some great quotes
that I'll run later after you and I finished
up talking about you know Cardinal Dolan especially up
in New York City talking about you know faith in the
public Square but your thoughts on that as we
had into Christmas incredibly exciting to see I believe
God 's at work as you know history tours
I've been Scotland electric church history yeah there was
a time in Scotland and over 90 % of
the people couldn't even read and it was through
a desire to buy Bibles and read Bibles that
is spark the entire not only birth of western
civilization but even the scientific revolution and I think
that knowing history is so encouraging because you know
it teaches you what God has done in the
past it's been worse than it is now and
what God has done and it gives you such
per perspective I think with all this happening with
the Trump and like a national awakening what seems
to be the death of mainstream media the rise
of just like in the 15 00s write the
birth of the Guttenberg printing press the free flow
of information all of that was they were under
the charity of the pope of Rome at that
time right controlled financial spiritual and that was just
the situation of that historical contact you 5 00
years ago people people got burnt at the stake
for wanting to read the Bible in English or
whatever so a desire for knowledge and the free
flow of information write the exchange of ideas and
I think in the context of all that's happened
in this historical campaign and now leading the Christmas
new Charles Dickens said that Christmas time changes our heart seems
whether we wish it so or not as a
power and becoming of Christ that has over the
most obdurate unbeliever that simply cannot be escaped and
I think you see this coming to fruition as
well so I seen some reports that came out
that says now there are now for the first
time since like 19 70 or something like that
long time ago that there are more there are
more men young men going to church than women
now and this is all burst out of the context
of things like Charlie curve going into all of
these campus is sharing the gospel and sharing political
freedom and ideas and I think that all of
these things have had to happen Covid Biden bullets
flying vote stole stolen all these things have had
to happen in order in the mercy of God
to shake us to our senses and I'm very
actually I'm actually very excited for the future listen
thank you for that and that was that wasn't that
was an amazing statement but but but you're right
and I really do believe that there is that
you could sense it I mean it's one of
those things you can feel in your spirit there's
there's a there's just a shift in the in
the spiritual in my opinion right now and I
believe that people are looking to Jesus far more
than they were before and I've even got I've
got a pole here they came off of CBS News
believe it or not saying that more Americans are
hopeful about 20 2 5 and they were for
20 2 4 and wants to go duh but
you know I look at it go this is
great I mean they're looking at a 5 7
% stay they're now hopeful as opposed to 4
7 % last year going into the new year
and I find that to be an amazing thing
but I think faith is the heart of it
I think the fact that you seen massive amount
of un untrustworthy deceitful practices and I think what's
exciting me too is people learning about the old
if I could say the old God the old
way of thinking that's dominated the public discord for
the last 50 to 1 00 years well I
can't put it any better than G K Chesterton
he said he said you know the new rebel
is a skeptic and will not entirely trust everything
he has no loyalty therefore he could never really
be a revolution there's no truth right my truth
to your truth he says for all the pronunciation
implies a moral doctrine of kind but the modern
revolution is that's not only the institution that he
announces but the doctrine by which he announces it
then he says that he writes one book complaining
that imperial oppression insult the security of women and
then write another book about the sex problem in
which he insulted himself he curses the sultan because
Christian girls lose their virginity and then curses Mrs.
Grundy because they keep it as a politician he
will cry that war is a waste of life
and then as a philosopher that all life is
a waste of time right even announce his marriage
is a lie and then announced as a aristocratic
pro for treating it as a lie right he
says that the men of the school goes first
through a political meeting break complains that savages at
that savage are treated bad and they said we
are we are animals right so people are learning
the bankruptcy of thought and are learning to turn
elsewhere to find something to believe in you are
the man we appreciate you merry Christmas to you
and yours and will talk to you again soon
brother merry Christmas yeah that state representative Ernie Yarbrough
and we're coming right back with more on that
faith rising we'll talk about it