Jenny Beth travels to Oil City, Louisiana to interview State Rep. Danny McCormick, affectionately known as "the man with a backbone." Danny tells about his time in the Louisiana State House of Representatives, the challenges he has faced, and some of the major issues he has seen as an outsider willing to stand up for what is right, no matter what.
Jenny Beth travels to Oil City, Louisiana to interview State Rep. Danny McCormick, affectionately known as "the man with a backbone." Danny tells about his time in the Louisiana State House of Representatives, the challenges he has faced, and some of the major issues he has seen as an outsider willing to stand up for what is right, no matter what.
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Danny McCormick (00:00:00):
They're ruining the greatest country on earth. I mean, there's no glory in that. I mean, the glory is in standing up for the people and doing the right thing. History tells us that we don't worship tyrants. We worship patriots. I mean, the Patriots are the ones that the songs get written about.
Narrator (00:00:17):
Keeping our Republic is on the line and it requires Patriots with great passion, dedication, and eternal vigilance to preserve our freedoms. Jenny Beth Martin is the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots. She's an author, a filmmaker, and one of time magazine's most influential people in the world. But the title she is most proud of is Mom To Her Boy, girl Twins. She has been at the forefront fighting to protect America's core principles for more than a decade. Welcome to the Jenny Beth Show.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:00:49):
Thanks for joining the Jenny Beth Show. I'm Jenny Beth Martin, and today I am interviewing Louisiana State representative Danny McCormick. We are in the office of his oil and gas company and I am really excited to share this interview with you, to get to know Danny, for you to get to know him. He's up for reelection in 2023 and it's going to be a really good conversation. Danny, thanks so much for opening your office and having us here today. You
Danny McCormick (00:01:16):
Bet. It's great for y'all to be
Jenny Beth Martin (00:01:18):
Here. We're in Oil City, Louisiana, right?
Danny McCormick (00:01:20):
Oil City. That's right.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:01:21):
So how did it get its
Danny McCormick (00:01:22):
Name? The first over the Water Oil Well was founded here on Cattle Lake and Oil City and it was a very shallow oil field. So it was part of the reason we were able to win World War II was this field was found and produced and helped provide the oil that we fought in World War II with.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:01:42):
Wow, that is so interesting. As we were driving up, I saw a lot of oil rigs, but they're smaller than some that maybe have seen in Texas.
Danny McCormick (00:01:50):
Yeah, because they're shallow. It's very shallow wells. We're on what you call the Sabina Uplift where a lot of it comes close to the surface of the earth.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:01:59):
Okay, very good. And you have an oil company? Yes ma'am. Let's talk. We're going to get into politics and your steep rep work, but let's talk about that for just a minute. You bet. How did you wind up owning this company? Have you owned other companies
Danny McCormick (00:02:16):
Before? Yeah, I've been in this business my entire life. When my dad was an electrician oil field on the weekends I'd go help him probably eight or nine years old. So I was born and raised in this business.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:02:29):
Wow, that's amazing. And now you have how many employees?
Danny McCormick (00:02:33):
I have six employees right now. We are just a mom and pop organization.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:02:38):
Alright, and your son and daughter work for you like you worked for your dad.
Danny McCormick (00:02:43):
That's correct. That's right. So
Jenny Beth Martin (00:02:44):
It's really a family legacy.
Danny McCormick (00:02:45):
You bet. You bet.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:02:46):
That's amazing. Now you've been an entrepreneur your whole life, right? A small business owner. Yes
Danny McCormick (00:02:52):
Ma'am.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:02:52):
That's correct. What other kind of businesses have you
Danny McCormick (00:02:54):
Owned? We've grown some pine trees, some soybeans. We had a pre-owned car lot at one time, had a restaurant and everything you can do in the shallow oil field to make a living. We've done that. We love the rural lifestyle. We love the freedom and the liberty that you're able to enjoy living that rural lifestyle.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:03:14):
So how does living a rural lifestyle differ from the city life?
Danny McCormick (00:03:22):
Well, first of all, we don't want anybody telling us what we can or cannot do on our property. That's right. Yours is, yours is what's mine and mine and a man's castle is his home. And I get to decide on my 25 acres where I live when I want to cut the grass or where I want to park my car. I just love the freedom of that.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:03:44):
You're a state rep. How long, when did you first run for office? The
Danny McCormick (00:03:48):
First time I ran for office, I ran in 2019. That's when I won. I took office in 2020.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:03:54):
Okay. And what have you experienced as state rep?
Danny McCormick (00:03:59):
Oh my goodness. One thing is they asked me what I was most surprised about and I said, well, they're dumber than I thought they were. And that's pretty bad. And honestly, I usually tell people when I first walked in that capitol, I could actually feel the president of an evil in that building. There's so much deceit in that building. It's really concerning that I honestly believe that most men and women go down there, have the right attitude when they go down there, but there's a lot of pressure in that building to do the wrong thing. And it takes a very principled person to be able to hold up to that. I mean, every bill has to be weighed against your principles. And we talk about compromise. Do we need to compromise? You bet. Are we going to cut taxes 1% or 0.9%? That's a compromise. There's certain things with our principles we don't compromise ever. Not one time, not one time period. And that's what's hard for people.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:04:59):
What are the principles that you lean on while you're in there and for your life?
Danny McCormick (00:05:04):
Everything that's country was founded on was liberty freedom. Just so I think something's wrong and I don't partake in it doesn't mean I should put other people in jail for doing these type things in a republic, which I always say a constitutional republic, so sick of people saying we live in a democracy because we live in a constitutional republic. In a republic, the rights and the responsibility belong to the individual and that's what we have to weigh everything against. I'll give you one example. I've been running constitutional carry bill since I've been in office for four years. We passed constitutional carry for retired deputies. We've passed constitutional carry for veterans. We've even passed constitutional carry for retired judges and bureaucrats. But they are scared to death for the law abiding citizens of this state to be able to constitutional carry. They don't trust them, they don't trust them with their freedoms. And that is very, very aggravating to me.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:06:07):
So they trust bureaucrats who worked for the government, but they don't trust the individual citizen.
Danny McCormick (00:06:13):
That's correct. And that's infuriating to me.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:06:18):
I think that they don't understand. I think that a lot of people who send to office and they run for office and they wind up being elected or they work for government oftentimes don't understand how our founding documents were created and why our rights are protected the way they are, especially in the Bill of Rights.
Danny McCormick (00:06:40):
You bet. I mean it is amazing how confused they are. I think people have started looking at government like their God. And when you look at government as your God, you go to government to get all your needs. You want to be healed. You go to government if you want to be fed, you go to government. If you need housing, you go to government. And what it does, it makes these elected officials turn into many gods and they start feeling that power and prestige. And I think most people get intoxicated by the power and prestige that they think that comes with elected office.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:07:14):
They have power and prestige and then they don't trust the very people who gave them the position of power. And by handing out and giving so many things like you just described, they wind up stripping the individual of human dignity. There is dignity in working.
Danny McCormick (00:07:37):
You bet.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:07:39):
You've worked since you were nine years old,
Danny McCormick (00:07:42):
Right when you said that, it made me think of something my mother would say at the breakfast table, there were three of us boys and she'd be cooking breakfast and she would say boys, she said, a man that says he loves his family won't go to work as a liar. That's the kind of principles I were raised with. I and that's the truth. Men should be men. We've got a country where men are trying to be women and women don't appreciate that. No. And my wife demands that I be a man and I appreciate that out of her. I tell you a little story, I was knocking on doors the first time I ran for office and I was coming home late every day and I was got home after dark an hour or so after dark every day. And I come home one day and it was earlier about seven 30, a little bit before dark.
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And I got out of my truck and my wife looked at me and she said, what are you doing home? I said, well, I've been knocking doors for months now. I was tired. I decided to knock off a little early. She said, you're not going to win that election sitting in that house. You're going to have to knock on those doors. You expect to win this election. And I said, at that time I was angry and loved her more. She expected that out of me. And I think men need women to expect things out of 'em. And we're not the smartest creatures in the world. The women have been using their brains for thousands of years. We've used our upper body string for years and we're just now starting to use our brains. So I love that about my wife. She expects me to be a man. She demands it out of me.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:09:16):
And when you say man, what do you think of? I think there's a huge difference in just being a male versus being a man.
Danny McCormick (00:09:23):
Yeah. Well, being a man is this, being a man is doing the right things for your family. Even if some man had a spouse that wasn't doing the right thing, he still has to do it because he's the leader in his family. As a Christian, I believe that. And he's got to do the right thing. Not that we don't make mistakes, we surely do, but you have to do the right thing all the time. Before I got married, I was a wild child, I guess you could say. And we had been married about a year, and I walked in and me and my wife, we had her son and I walked into his room one morning and looked down in the bed and there he laying. I thought, oh my goodness, I'm in charge now. I got to quit acting like this. And from that moment on, I've went long after that I got saved and started trying to live to be a better man, try to be an example for my family.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:10:20):
That is so important. And I think that it is lost on some people. And then I think that as we were saying a few minutes ago, when the government provides all of these things, it makes it hard to understand that if you work hard and provide, you're going to have way more than what the government can just hand out. You always will be able to create more for yourself. It doesn't mean you won't hit hard times, but you have found a way to do that. Yeah. You've done soybeans and pine trees and a car lot and restaurants and I mean you've had to do a lot to be able to provide for your
Danny McCormick (00:10:58):
Family. But what that has given me more than anything is freedom. And that's why I desire more than anything I've told people before, I've had the fire of liberty into my belly my entire life, and God put it there. I mean it was given to me by him. I don't know that it had come from anywhere else, but the ability to be able to earn your own living and control your own destiny is freedom. They're not going to hem me up. Government's not going to hem me up. So many people gave up so many freedoms during covid so quickly. Yes. Gosh, I was so disappointed. It was two weeks after the lockdown I was shooting a video letting people know this is how you destroy the greatest country in the world. Absolutely. I said, in two weeks we knew that the elderly and those with underlying conditions needed the most protection and the rest of us should have been able to make a choice to go to work.
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That was after two weeks and it took years for government, but government is power. They're force. That's the only, they have to take money from other people to be able to spend it. I mean, I forget which founding father said government at its best is a necessary evil. And it's worst. It's an intolerable one. We should never look for government to solve our problems. We should be solving our problems in our communities by voluntary exchange, by helping the elderly, by taking care of the widows and the orphans. And that's what gives us worth in this world.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:12:29):
That's right. And during the lockdowns, one of the things I kept reminding people is we are the most generous country on the face of the earth. If we have an elderly neighbor or someone who is sick and they can't go to the grocery store because they might get sick with this horrible disease, go take care of them. And we did. We stepped up and did that, but we didn't need the government to force us to do that. We are naturally that kind of people and the government even tried to strip us of the ability to be generous and kind
Danny McCormick (00:13:03):
And how wonderful that to be able to actually help your elderly neighbor. I mean that's just quite, that gives me worth, I mean, that makes me feel like a man. It makes me feel like an productive individual. I mean, what a joy is to do that. And my community was full of people doing that. We had a flood here in 2016 and we volunteered and had it cleaned up and about a week later, the government showed up to help. We don't need them. We need each other. We need to rely on our neighbor. I think that's lots of the problem you see when people not getting along in this world is because if you need your neighbor, you are going to be a lot nicer to him. And if he's going to need you, you have to have that relationship. And with government, they're stepping in and taking so many of those roles out of the community and they do a terrible job with every one of them. Absolutely. But we need each other.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:14:02):
When I was driving in here looking at all the oil rigs, I was thinking about the difference in this area versus in big cities and also in Washington dc So when you are in the capitol, do you see a disconnect between what you're seeing in Baton Rouge versus what you see here in your own community? I guarantee you there are major differences between Washington DC and here,
Danny McCormick (00:14:32):
Right? Yeah. I haven't spent enough time in Washington DC thank goodness to know completely. I've spent a little time there, but in Baton Rouge, it's completely disconnect. I had an old Marine, he actually died the other day, but he told me, he said, son, he said, if my roads get so bad, I'll buy a four wheel drive to get to town. Don't let them make you compromise your principles down there. So that's,
Jenny Beth Martin (00:15:10):
How old was he? He served our country.
Danny McCormick (00:15:12):
You bet.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:15:16):
And he was a neighbor and a friend, I'm sure.
Danny McCormick (00:15:19):
Yeah. Yep.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:15:22):
And that's why you're doing what you do.
Danny McCormick (00:15:24):
You bet. You bet. Yep.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:15:28):
There's a huge difference between what we're seeing with him and his heart versus what you see in the capitol.
Danny McCormick (00:15:36):
You bet. When we in Baton Rouge, one of the last votes we made was to whether to bust the spending cap. And basically what we were being asked to do was to vote on a bill that wanted to spend $2 billion and they didn't want to tell us where they were going to spend it. It was a Nancy Pelosi, you got to vote on it before what's in it, bill. And I have mayors that are actively campaigning against me right now because I was physically responsible because they were hoping if we did that, that they would get some crumbs thrown to 'em. The audacity of these people, the lack of integrity is just, and they're publicly saying that that's why they're opposing me. I mean, it's like they're not even ashamed of their disgraceful actions.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:16:27):
Talk about that more. It was like Pelosi pass it then. And what happened with that?
Danny McCormick (00:16:33):
Well, we were voting to whether we were going to bust the spending cap and they were wanting to spend 2 billion and they weren't going to tell us where it was going to be spent at, where we're going to have to vote to bust the spending cap. And then they were going to tell us where they were going to spend the money. The typical Nancy Pelosi, you got to vote on it. For what Senate? There's 105 of us in the house and there's 39 of us in the Senate. All 39 senators voted to bust the spending cap. And only 19 out of the 105 voted not to bust the spending cap. You got to be, it is like they're smoking crack down there. And this is what's so deceptive about it. A lot of the people that voted with them have come back and publicly said, I'm ashamed of my vote and I can respect that. But it was an easy vote. It was the Nancy Pelosi, you got to a vote on it for we know what's in it, spinning bill. And they voted to do that.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:17:39):
Let me guess. Did they wait until almost the last minute, the last day of session. So you had some tight deadline to force you to need to vote. Yes.
Danny McCormick (00:17:47):
Well, that was the final spinning bill was like seconds before the session was over with. And of course, of course I was screaming standing up, screaming, this is unconstitutional and all this. And somebody asked me later, was it unconstitutional? And I said, heck, I don't know. It ought to be though. I mean it just unbelievable. But what we did, I think it's important to know why that night team was so important. They're attacking us in these elections. They're attacking us every way. This system cannot stand if good men and women stand up and speak and do the right thing. You know what the senators are saying? Their interviews, we all 39 agreed it was a good thing to do. Well, but 19 of us in the house stood up and we shined a spotlight. It's like opening a room where the lights are off and flipping. The switches and the roaches run everywhere We shine that sunlight that we shine into that room where those roaches are making 'em run. And I'm enjoying every minute of it to be totally honest with you. Somebody said, was that a hard vote? And I said, no, is the easiest vote ever took? I mean, my people would die if I didn't vote against that. They expect more out of me than that.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:19:02):
And where's the $2 billion coming from? Is it tax revenue? Do you borrow money? You can't print money like Washington dc
Danny McCormick (00:19:09):
Most of it was money we had leftover from the money that was sent to us from Washington DC and also what we're projecting too three years down the road to have a $700 million deficit. We could saved it for a rainy day. We could have paid off debt. There were so many responsible things we could have done with it. I think one college got band uniforms out of there and somebody said it was at a cost of $3,000 per uniform. I mean, it's just ridiculous.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:19:39):
They sell, if they have a band, aren't they selling football tickets and
Danny McCormick (00:19:45):
Maybe they're wanting to spend that money on something else. It's all about the pork. That's what it's about. I mean, that's how Louisiana stayed last on every good list and top of every bad list is this Huey P Long, a hundred years worth of irresponsible spending.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:20:04):
Talk about that a little bit.
Danny McCormick (00:20:06):
Huey p Long's model was this. You bring all the money to Baton Rouge and then you send your state reps down here and they have to trade every principle they ever had to get a little bit of the money back home. And that's what we've been doing for a hundred years. And when the 19 of us voted against busting the spending cap, we stood up against that and people are squirming. I mean, there are people, they're having pressure put on them because of that, because we did the right thing and we are being targeted for that. The governor went in Louisiana, the governor has line eyed and veto all the 19 of us. He went into the budget and line eyed veto every project in our district. They tried to punish us, but like the old Marine said, not here.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:20:50):
That's right. That's right. They do that. Oftentimes they see this in Washington dc you see it in other parts of the country. They try to reward people for voting the way that the establishment or the leadership wants 'em to vote by giving projects to their area and then they punish you by taking that money away. I am fortunate enough that when in my area in Georgia, we had state reps who would just say, no, we don't want any projects here in our area. Just no, you keep that money, we don't even want it. And that kind of took some of the pressure off of them when it came to those kind of votes. I don't know if they still do that, but I know that we had a history of doing that. And you need more people who're willing to stand up that way.
Danny McCormick (00:21:48):
You bet. I mean, especially at the federal level. I mean, the federal government has taken the Constitution and ripped it to pieces and threw it out the window. And the federal government needs, 90% of it needs to go away. We need 50 experiments in 50 different states and let the ones that do the right thing be rewarded and the ones that do the wrong thing be punished. And I am looking forward to this having a conservative Republican governor in Louisiana, so hopefully we can start reversing a hundred years of Huey p long bad politics.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:22:20):
And I am very hopeful that it is a conservative governor who has a track record of standing up to corruption. I agree. And to big spending. I
Danny McCormick (00:22:32):
Agree.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:22:34):
Now, when we think of here versus Washington dc I just can't think of very many places in the country that more starkly show the opposite of what Washington DC is like. And even in the surround. So you have Washington DC and then you have all these counties that surrounded in Virginia and Maryland and they're all major. It's just a huge metropolitan area. And all these people feed into DC and they give their money either because they work for the government or they work for some organization that has ties to the government or they're lobbying the government. The industry is our tax dollars. That's what the industry is as if it's growing trees. It's not. It's us that are growing the trees and then they're taking half the trees from us and spending it. I think they're completely disconnected from this kind of life. And I can't see that 100% of the people are, but probably 95% of the people there are. I can't imagine that they would know what it's like to live here in this kind of rural area and to provide for the community and to create jobs for the community.
Danny McCormick (00:23:56):
It's really sad that they're that way. It's sad that it's like they're addicted to a drug that's wrong. They're serving a false God. I mean, it's so sad. I mean, you can look at 'em getting mad, but they're just poor things. I mean, what a useless life. They must live being non-productive. I mean, only the way they get something is they take it from someone else. They use the force of law and the point of gun to take it from somebody else, or they print money. I mean, they're ruining the greatest country on earth. I mean, boy, in another a hundred years ago, my grandfather worked in Washington DC and he made this country corrupt. And I mean there's no glory in that. I mean, the glory is in standing up for the people and doing the right thing. History tells us that we don't worship tyrants.
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We worship patriots. I mean the Patriots are the ones that the songs get written about. Not the tyrants do the right thing. It's doing the right thing that hard. It's, and I guess there's another way of looking at it too. I mean another way of looking at it too is what an opportunity, I have to be a part of history. The War II heroes wouldn't have been heroes without World War ii. I mean, it was a horrible thing that happened. But my daddy said, the cream always comes to the top so I get to prove if I'm willing to stand up. That's kind of an honorable thing to do.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:25:24):
And I think that Covid and the Lockdowns have provided, have just created, have shined that light that you were just talking about in a dark room full of cockroaches. You can see the people who are willing to respect individual freedom and personal decision making and the doctor patient relationship and personal autonomy over your body versus the people who are in Washington who want to make all the decisions for you and the people who don't even understand the consequences. If a business shuts down, they still have bills going out. If they shut down, the bills are still coming in, you have to pay that money, but you might not have income coming in. And they just sit there and our tax dollars keep feeding them. And if we don't have enough tax dollars, they just print more money, which drives the cost of everything for all of us
Danny McCormick (00:26:16):
Up during that period of time, through a series of events through my life, I feel like God led me to run for this office and I didn't know specifically what my intentions were. And then after I got elected and covid come along, the shutdowns come, I said, ah, this is what I'm here for. And from day one, I fought for the ability to, and like you just said, if you want to wear a mask, I support that. If you don't want to want a wear mask, I support that. If you want to get the vaccine, go for it. I'm not going to get it.
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But we have those rights to choose and the government's not going to take those rights away from me. The best example of the I got of that in was October of 2020 when Trump was still president. We thought he was going to bear our next president. I ran a bill in Baton Rouge saying that you couldn't make the Covid 19 vaccine mandatory. We took it into health and welfare. And they said, this is the craziest thing I've ever heard of. This is the solution looking for a problem. There's no way they'll ever make the C Ovid 19 vaccine mandatory. And the closing arguments, I said, I, they will make it mandatory. I said, I was wrong about one thing. I said, there's hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, maybe billions. I should have said tens of billions. I said, they will make it mandatory. I said, we just look back in history, these people are going to make this mandatory because they're going to make a lot of money off of it. And it got voted down tremendously. And two of the people that voted against my bill had been vaccine injured since then. And that's, you got a small committee, the odds of two people being vaccine injured on that committee is slim. You would think. But
Jenny Beth Martin (00:28:02):
Well, that's what happens when you don't do midterm and long-term testing of drugs. You only know with time what a drug is going to do to a person. And we didn't have that
Danny McCormick (00:28:13):
Time. And I know in Louisiana, the drug that had been approved was not the vaccine they were giving everybody. Now how deceitful is that we're going to approve this vaccine and the governor the whole time telling everybody, yeah, it is. Well, no, it's not. And you go through this yet is it is truly sad. I mean it is sad. I mean so cowardly, and I will tell you in Baton Rouge, we have more women that are standing up than men. And I'm proud of that. I'm proud we have 'em, but I'm so ashamed of the men in this state, in this country. I mean, man up, be a man. Right.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:28:54):
And what kind of things are the women standing up for?
Danny McCormick (00:28:56):
Well, the women probably by higher percentage voted not to bust the spinning cap. They were the first ones signing the petition. I mean, they were the one promoting health freedom. I mean, they were the one taking the lead because men were too cowardly to stand up. And I would've to probably say, white men seem to be the most cowardly. I don't know why I, why they are being such cowards, but in the Bible it says, men don't matter what color you are, you are supposed to stand up. And I don't know. I don't know. It's sad and it's sad to see that men aren't being men anymore.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:29:35):
Yeah. It is sad. It's very sad to see that. And then it's even more sad to see that our government largely, broadly speaking, and then also in specific instances is saying it's okay if a man wants to be a woman or a woman wants to be a, it can't happen. A man is a man and a woman is a woman, a girl's a girl, a boy is a boy. And yet they're deceiving people into thinking that this is okay. And then they wind up with harms to their bodies, sort of like the vaccine injured because they buy into the lie.
Danny McCormick (00:30:11):
Exactly. We passed the bill in Louisiana this year, thankfully that if you're under 18 years of age, you can't be given puberty lockers or have sex changes if you're under 18. And the governor vetoed it, but luckily we were able to override the veto. So we have made a little bit of progress in that ram of standing up and saying, if you're a minor, we don't want you destroying your life when you're a teenager. Your mind's confused anyhow. And if you've got somebody say, oh, oh, we're going well, oh, you're not really a boy. You're a girl. That's the problem. Well, at that point in our life, we're very vulnerable and we need to protect those young people from that.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:30:55):
And you overturned the V two.
Danny McCormick (00:30:58):
That's correct.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:30:59):
Do you have a super majority with Republicans in your legislature or did Democrats also vote for that?
Danny McCormick (00:31:06):
I think we did have some Democrats that voted with us when they seen where it was going to go. I would have to say our governor to a large extent kind of panders to the national Democrats, but I would say most of the Democrats and a larger percentage than most people would think are with a Republican governor are going to vote with the Republicans on those issues more than you think. I think I'm going to see Democrats like for instance in Louisiana, I had four Democrats vote for my constitutional carry bill. I mean, even the Democrats in this state have lots of, I think the same beliefs that we have. I mean it's a down to earth state and maybe not some of the New Orleans Democrats, but lots of the other areas. We have a lot of that in common, I believe.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:32:01):
So we can set aside the spending cap bust and be frustrated about that and also respect the fact that they're agreeing and that's how we're supposed to do judge people by their actions and hold them accountable to their actions.
Danny McCormick (00:32:14):
Yes, I agree. That's right. And be totally honest with you, I tell everybody, I've actually never had a crossword with a Democrat in Baton Rouge, but I've had four Republicans thinking they were going to give me a custodying about the bill I carried because they don't like conservative bills, then they have to vote yes or no. I had one actually tell me, you're making me bleed. I said, brother, it's a red button or a green button. Pick one. I mean, don't be a wimp. It's not a machine gun nest or a sniper. You're asking you, it's a red button and a green button. Just be a man. Pick one. Own it.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:32:50):
You are affectionately called the man with a backbone. Why is that? It sounds like those guys don't have backbones for
Danny McCormick (00:32:57):
Sure. Well, I agree and I think the public gave me that, but just because I'm willing to stand up and give the power back to the people, just tell it like it is. I mean, knocking on doors during this campaign has been so rewarding from just ordinary working people saying, thank you for representing us. And it's not really hard. It's just being simple and telling the truth and doing the best I can to do the right thing and not compromise my principles not one time.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:33:29):
That's so important. When you're knocking on doors, what are the things people are telling you they're most concerned about In Louisiana and at the national level
Danny McCormick (00:33:39):
In Louisiana? I would say the number one thing they're worried about more than anything is inflation. That's destroying the elderly and the middle class buying power. And I know that's a national issue, but we talk about insurance rates going up in Louisiana. Well, inflation is driving part of that, and we have no control of that. That's the bill back better bill back better. What does that mean when you print money? It's a hidden tax. Absolutely. And they're just transferring that debt over to the elderly and the working class people are being hit the worst. I would say it's inflation is what the number one concern that they have. And sad to say, I always try to tell the truth and I let 'em know that's money printing in Washington, and that's nothing we can do about that. Sad to say
Jenny Beth Martin (00:34:35):
It's very frustrating that the people in Washington don't understand that we're about to have, as you and I are talking, I'm not sure exactly when the podcast is going to air, but as we're talking, we're headed towards the September 30th end of the fiscal year going into the October 1st new fiscal year for the United States government. And there's a lot of back and forth right now, and the Republicans are trying to get us a continuing resolution deal and others are saying, no, wait, we're going to pass appropriation bills. You've got to pass these appropriation bills we promised in January. But the spending is just, it is staggering and the national debt is staggering. I think that I looked at the national debt clock this past weekend and it was $93,000 a person. It's going to be a six figure number probably in the next year.
Danny McCormick (00:35:39):
And being a follower, Ron Paul, which I am, and I really have enjoyed being, I guess mentored from a distance by Ron Paul, and he says, all countries whether cut spending or print money have always printed money. I mean, that was the fall of the Roman Empire, probably was them diluting the silver down in their coins was probably the main reason for the fall of the Roman Empire. But it's the easy thing to do. It's the easy thing to do for today, and it's like giving your kid a drug to put him to sleep. It's going to kill him in the long run, but in the short run, it's the easiest thing to do. But what I would dream of if I was in Washington, my dream would be a government shutdown. I would just like to try that one on for a while. I wonder if the states could actually run themselves and I wonder if the people could actually make decisions for themselves. And what if the people decided how to spend their own money for a change? I mean, that's the dream I have is a government shutdown. I think that's great. I'd like to try that for a while.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:36:48):
And we've had government shutdowns and the media, if it hasn't started already, there's going to be a countdown ticker until the government will shut down and the end of the world will happen and the earth will quit spinning on its axis and it'll quit going around the sun, except it doesn't. It keeps going around the sun and it continues to be on the axis and we continue to function. And we've watched this happen a few other times in the last 12 or 10 years even. And each time the reason that we're doing it or the reason that it has happened have been worthy fights. They've been worthy reasons, and I expect that the Biden administration will make it as painful as possible. Unlike what happened under the Trump administration and during his administration, it was we're like, well, we'll keep the national parks open so you'll still be able to go on your vacation, but the trash cans may be overflowing, so please be careful and clean up after yourselves. Okay, well why aren't we cleaning up after ourselves if that's what it takes all the time.
Danny McCormick (00:37:55):
I agree. I think the only people that would suffer was the people you talked about earlier. Those that make their living off the taxpayer dime.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:38:06):
Oh, they're not going to suffer. They're going to go home and not be able to go into work. That's true. And then they're going to come back in and get paid for all the time they were sitting at home.
Danny McCormick (00:38:13):
That's true. Who would think that the government worker should have to suffer the rest of the people in this country?
Jenny Beth Martin (00:38:21):
And if you have a bank with a national account, I'm sure the national cellular companies, you go onto the website to pay your bill, the rest of us in the country, and it'll say, if you're affected by the government shutdown, let us know and we will extend the deadline for when you have to pay your bills. They're not going to suffer. They'll pretend like they're suffering, but they're not suffering.
Danny McCormick (00:38:42):
Yeah, that's true. That is true. Yeah, I agree.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:38:46):
If they didn't get paid, that would be a different story. But they're going to get paid and everyone in the military will get paid and everyone with social security will get paid. It's not going to stop. It will get
Danny McCormick (00:38:56):
Paid. Exactly.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:38:59):
One thing in that continuing resolution deal that they talked about last week, and we'll see where it ultimately ends up. In addition to working to secure the border, they also were looking at an 8% cut in government spending. And I've never seen, none of us have ever seen that in our lifetime. So that would be quite historic.
Danny McCormick (00:39:20):
That would be historic.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:39:23):
I don't know that that cut was tied to the weaponization of the Department of Justice that I want to see happen, but it's hard to argue that that would not be a significant cut.
Danny McCormick (00:39:34):
Exactly. And is that a cut or is that just a cut and growth? That's what they like to claim, that if you're not increasing spending, that you're actually cutting.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:39:45):
I think that this would've been a real cut because they're going to, they're rolling back some of the covid levels, so they were higher and they're going back to a little bit lower numbers, and I believe that that was agreed to even in the debt deal. But we'll see. I mean, just because they agreed to it in the debt deal doesn't mean that they'll stick to it when they actually vote on spending bills.
Danny McCormick (00:40:07):
Yeah, no, I agree. And you talked about the national debt. What about the unfunded liabilities? I mean, we're talking about hundreds of trillions of dollars. We're on a collision course. I have a family, I have a wife. I have two children. I have six grandchildren. They're going to be able to look back and said, I fought. I didn't cower down.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:40:29):
That's right. How long have you been married to your
Danny McCormick (00:40:31):
Wife? I will be married 40 years in November.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:40:34):
Oh wow. Your anniversary's coming up soon.
Danny McCormick (00:40:37):
It is. It is. And she's still the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. So how
Jenny Beth Martin (00:40:41):
Did you meet her?
Danny McCormick (00:40:43):
Oh gosh. We were in a small rural town, so we were probably getting together on the parking lot, getting ready to fight that night and looked over there and there she was. We did that for entertainment. This is what the police would say to us when we'd get together on the parking lot. And it was two people that are willing to do it. It wasn't like one was picking on the other. They'd said, if y'all going to fight, get out of town. They didn't care if it was fault. They just didn't want us in town. But yeah, it was probably on the parking lot one night in town when we were, I told you we were acting. We were young and acting crazy. I seen her looked over there and there she was smiling, the big old cheeks. And I've been a sucker for her ever since. Oh, well,
Jenny Beth Martin (00:41:30):
That's great. That's great. I went to high school in a small city in Georgia, in Rome, Georgia. And what people would do on the weekends, on Friday and Saturday nights is they would go to the mall and they would just drive around the mall in circles around the mall, around and around and around.
Danny McCormick (00:41:50):
Basically that's what we'd done. We didn't have a mall. It was too small a town for a mall. We went to the grocery store and went in town to the Walmart parking lot on the other end of town. So yeah, that's what we did. That was our entertainment. Yeah.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:42:04):
Now what's very weird is my kids are now in college during the Lockdowns, their school, the school closed in March and it was one of the first school systems in the entire country to reopen. They opened in the first Monday of August, I don't remember. Or the first day or the first Monday of August. So either the first or the first Monday, whichever was first. And over that summer and the late spring and the summer, the kids would just go to the high school parking lot and sit in the high school parking lot, which is so weird because normally you want to get as far away from school as you possibly can, but they were all going to the high school parking lot to congregate and hang out with one another.
Danny McCormick (00:42:54):
I will tell you something that knocking on doors that concerns me, you know what? I almost never see knocking on doors, what kids outside playing
Jenny Beth Martin (00:43:04):
Spend too much time looking at
Danny McCormick (00:43:06):
These. That's exactly right. We spend a lot of our time with our kids on four-wheelers and hunting and fishing and doing things outside, and it's so rewarding. And I think that's it. We need to do that more. What we call, when we were young, they called, I guess they'd called us now, free range kids mama, and said, be home before the nightlight comes on. And we were able to go into the woods and now you can send 'em into the woods and with a cell phone, they could call you if they have problems. We just went into the woods, tell us where you're going. So if you don't come home, we'll go looking for you. But yeah, the kids spend way too much time communicating electronically. You lose lots of that personal experience if you're not verbally communicating and face-to-face looking people in the eye and learning how to get along with people, learning how to work together in different situations. So that's a concern of mine is how little time Children's been communicating face-to-face, learning how to play with each other. They almost done, one of the bills we passed, I believe it was this last year, was making 'em have at least 15 minutes of recess during the school day. I mean, especially young boys with their tendency to be more hyperactive, need to be able to run and burn off that energy during the school day.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:44:35):
Well, and it's still an important part of development and it's important part of human interaction. You have to know how to get along with people in the playground because you're going to have to get along with people later in life. That's
Danny McCormick (00:44:45):
Right.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:44:47):
And I think that the lockdowns make it much more difficult to say, you can't be on your screen because during the lockdowns, the government and schools and everybody else were saying, well, just get on Zoom. Just get on your computer and you can do classes from there. If that's all it took, we don't even need schools. We might not actually need them. A lot of what's being taught in them, but obviously as the society over the years, we have thought schools are very important, and yet we're just going, oh, that's unimportant. Just do it all on your computer and you just can't learn everything that
Danny McCormick (00:45:28):
Way. Yeah. We're going to be in a sad state of affairs when we learn as human beings, when we're not learning how to get along with each other and work through our problems. And that's a learning process. You don't want to be the bully and you don't want to be the bullied. You got to learn how to stand up for yourself, and that's something that you have to work through. That's a process. And you learn that at a young age.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:45:52):
Right. Okay. Now let's shift gears just a little bit. Am I right? You're part of the House Freedom Caucus in Louisiana?
Danny McCormick (00:46:03):
I am, yes, ma'am. That's correct.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:46:04):
And like in Washington DC you don't publish a list of who's part of it, but you're not afraid to let people know you're
Danny McCormick (00:46:10):
Part of it. No, no, not me. I'm going to yell it from the rooftop. I wanted to announce I was part of the Freedom Caucus before we even become a Freedom Caucus, but yes.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:46:19):
And then you were there beginning in 2020. When was the House Freedom Caucus started in Louisiana.
Danny McCormick (00:46:29):
This last year, I believe was the first year we had a Freedom Caucus. The year before that, I got a call from the Freedom Caucus in Washington, and they said they'd gotten my name, said, we'd like to start a Freedom Caucus in Louisiana, would you be interested in being part of it? And I said, yes, I sure would. I think that's great. Especially when they stood up to the speaker that was really in Washington that was really encouraging. I said, golly, maybe there's people in Washington that are actually standing. I didn't realize they existed that people standing up against that, but they are. And I said, what's the first thing we need to do? And they said, need to find a state director. I said, well, okay, I'll try to find some people to send you some resumes. And we looked and we looked and we looked and we looked, and I was just saying we couldn't just weren't working out. And I said, God, you're going to have to figure out. I can't find anybody. And then they called and said, we think that Connie Hare, which is Louis Goer's chief of which is from Baton Rouge, may be interested in coming back to Baton Rouge and being the state representative there for the Freedom Caucus. And she did. And I'm going to tell you that we were just, I mean, that's, God just takes care of you. That was a blessing.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:47:46):
Connie. I've known Connie, I think for a decade now, and she's an amazing hard worker. She will stand with you as an elected official when you are five. I spent so much time with Connie and Louie and his office during those tough, tough, tough votes. And he would have his Dr. Pepper, his whole refrigerator full of his Dr. Peppers. And I learned so much about the process. I know so much because it was learning from Louis and Steve King and Michelle Bachman, but Connie just was right there and just, she's stalwart. She's amazing.
Danny McCormick (00:48:27):
We've been blessed. And since we've been blessed as a Freedom Caucus in Louisiana, we need to be productive. We've got the leadership we need and we need to stand up and be productive. And I think we are. We're being a first year, we're just getting our feet wet. And I'm excited about the Freedom Caucus and what it has in store for Louisiana and a beacon of conservative principles. I'm excited about that.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:48:54):
That's really good. And have you seen a difference? I mean, you had the 19 who stood against the spending cap, busting the spending caps. Have you seen other differences having it in place this year versus the other year since you began in 2020?
Danny McCormick (00:49:07):
Yes. The biggest difference is this is we had a governor, the Democratic governor that was pushing back against everything conservative. And we had a leadership in the House and Senate that was pushing back against everything conservative, even though they're Republicans, they want to make this governor happy so they could get their pork and freedom. And the conservative people really didn't have a group. Now we have a group, we have a support group, and now we have a place to go and sit down and strategize and talk and think and work through these problems and decide beforehand how we're going to vote. And yeah, it's been great. It's been really, really good.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:49:49):
That is so I think it's so important, and having that network and strategizing, and also it probably gives you time to help make sure you're reading the bills and you understand what's in the bills, and maybe one person is catching something that you didn't catch or the other way
Danny McCormick (00:50:04):
Around. And that's true. And everybody's kind of got their specialty and you got to lean on the person with their specialty. And somebody in the group would be a little bit stronger in education. I may know more about the oil and gas industry. Then you have the lawyers that tell you what the bill actually says. So it is really important. And then your messaging, how do you want to go around and messages to the other people in the house and have an influence on 'em?
Jenny Beth Martin (00:50:32):
That is so very important as you're looking around the state. So your elections are coming up?
Danny McCormick (00:50:40):
That's correct. October the 14th, October
Jenny Beth Martin (00:50:42):
The 14th, and then the runoff is November 17th.
Danny McCormick (00:50:47):
I don't know the exact date. There's only me and one other competitor. So ours will be, we have Jungle Primaries in Louisiana. Right. So mine will be over in October the 14th.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:50:58):
That's good. Yes. And then have you met other candidates who are running, who might want to join the Freedom Caucus?
Danny McCormick (00:51:07):
Yeah, actually too, I actually work with Young Americans for Liberty in 2021. I was their Statesman of the year, and we've spent Congratulations. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. We've put on candidate academies, we've went out and helped try to recruit different candidates to run. And so yes, I'm very excited about that. The problem is, and the problem is mostly that the true Liberty candidates are the one with the least financial backing. And that's tough. In my four years, I've started a grassroots organization in Louisiana, operation Golden Arrow, and we have 60,000 members, and we communicate with 'em on a weekly basis. And so I depend on them for small donations coming from that grassroots organization help me get elected. So building list and being able to communicate with small donors is important for liberty minded people because we are not going to Baton Rouge as a business model. So that's representing the people has, it is harder to finance somebody that's representing the people.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:52:22):
It's true. Because they're not looking to help make corporations or special interests wealthy. They're just trying to make sure people are free. Exactly. And live with Liberty. And Liberty. What is Operation Golden Arrow. Exactly.
Danny McCormick (00:52:37):
It's just a grassroots organization that I started during the lockdowns. We started off by having protest rallies in front of the governor's mansion. The governor actually vetoed, I mean, excuse me. They actually outlawed dancing. So we had had a rally in front of the governor's mansion and I danced. It's kind
Jenny Beth Martin (00:52:58):
Of like foot loose. That's
Danny McCormick (00:52:59):
It. That's it. I think that was actually the song they played. Good.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:53:04):
I love that.
Danny McCormick (00:53:05):
I don't dance near as good as I used to if I ever did dance. Good. But it was enjoyable. We making, making fun of these. Tyrants is the most, they're so petty and small and their little brains just work. So think they're so important. And when you make fun of them, they just like their heads explode because they think they're the most important people in the world and they're not
Jenny Beth Martin (00:53:28):
At all.
Danny McCormick (00:53:29):
They're not.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:53:30):
And I bet that you were dancing out there and there was no major Covid outbreak.
Danny McCormick (00:53:34):
No. Can you believe that?
Jenny Beth Martin (00:53:36):
Yes. I can't believe that there was none. The governor probably could not have, but I can believe it. That's right. And you meet with them weekly or you give them updates weekly?
Danny McCormick (00:53:46):
We send out email updates weekly. Okay.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:53:48):
Yes. That is
Danny McCormick (00:53:49):
Great. Yeah. It's the way we try to keep 'em informed when we're in Baton Rouge Constitutional carry. It's been a big issue for Louisiana. It's Louisiana is probably the most, I think I've been told this, and based on my experience, maybe the most pro-life state in the nation, I would say it's probably the most second Amendment friendly nation. I mean, excuse me, the state in the nation, if not the top, it's in the top, whatever it is. The people in Louisiana are not that wealthy, but they love their freedom and they are willing to go to bat for it, and they just need the leaders to lead them. That's it.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:54:33):
That's right. Well, so the election is coming up, and then what are you telling people why they should vote for you?
Danny McCormick (00:54:44):
Well, I actually have a list I give them of the things we've accomplished, and mostly what I try to do is just represent the people, give them the freedom back. I would love to do away with the state income tax. I mean, that is such a burden on the people, and there's some simple ways of doing that. You can just freeze state spending. Just don't increase the budget any, and let it not take a natural course of decreasing spending and start giving the people their money back through lowering and eventually eliminating the income tax.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:55:20):
That would take not busting the spending caps
Danny McCormick (00:55:23):
That would, that's right. We'd have to be responsible for the money we had. That's exactly right. That's an important point you make. We had 2 billion extra dollars. You know how much we gave back to the taxpayers of Louisiana?
Jenny Beth Martin (00:55:35):
I bet. Zero.
Danny McCormick (00:55:36):
Zero. Poor little, the way they look at it, they don't know. They wouldn't do the right thing with their money if we gave it to 'em
Jenny Beth Martin (00:55:42):
With their money.
Danny McCormick (00:55:43):
Exactly.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:55:45):
It's very
Danny McCormick (00:55:47):
Frustrating. It's very aggravating. Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from throwing a chair through the window. But yeah, I mean it's really, and the thing about it is they're not good people with different ideas. They're evil people that want to take something away from somebody that worked for it using the force of law and the point of gun. That's not good people, good people don't do that. And they may be confused because that's what they've ever known. Maybe some of 'em are confused, but that's not good people.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:56:18):
No, it's coercion.
Danny McCormick (00:56:19):
That's exactly right.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:56:20):
Okay, so you tell people that you want a state income tax, you show a list of accomplishments and what else you want to get rid of the state income tax, and what else are you letting them know why?
Danny McCormick (00:56:33):
Of course, my constitutional carry bill is the first time I ran for office. When I knocked on doors, my number one ask question is, will you carry a constitutional carry bill? I mean, like I said, the people want to be left alone, so what do I need to do? I need to leave 'em alone. I need to take their regulations off of them. I need to take regulations off business. They call us lawmakers, but I like to think of myself as an un lawmaker and we need to look at every law, and we have license for braiding hair. We have license for everything because the government knows best. What would we do without government bureaucrats? One thing that I can say that I really like that Trump did was decreasing regulations. I think in my opinion, the Trump economy was based on the fact of decreasing regulations.
(00:57:30):
And it was my understanding that it was said that if for every one regulation put on the book that he wanted two taken off. I think it turned out for everyone put on the book, there were seven taken off. You just unleash the power. The people when you give them their freedom back and when, I hate it when government officials say, I've created so many jobs. They don't create jobs. Government doesn't create productive jobs anyhow. I mean, what we have to do is end the regulations on the business. Let 'em keep their own money, let them decide how to spend it, whether it's from doing away with the state income tax or whether it's taking the regulations off of 'em and let 'em run their own business. My people in district one want to be left alone, so that's my objective. Give 'em their second amendment rights back that they lost. Give 'em back their tax money that they're paying in, do away with the regulations. That's what government intent was in the very beginning. It's just a safe, just the basic safety of the community where people could prosper by using their individual liberties and freedoms.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:58:41):
That is exactly right, and I think that it certainly resonated when you use that to run before, and I'm sure that it will, will again. This time
Danny McCormick (00:58:51):
It is been really a pleasurable knocking on the doors and talking to people and them reassuring me that what I've done was good representation for them. That's really fulfilling because for instance, in Baton Rouge, you're in a room where you keeps hearing the same echo from people that you're doing the wrong thing. So it's nice to get out. You got to get out and talk to your people. I mean, you got to talk to 'em at church. You got to talk to 'em at the grocery store. You got to let, because they let you know you're doing the right thing. And that's very encouraging.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:59:26):
And they let you know when you're wrong too. Hey,
Danny McCormick (00:59:27):
And I like that.
Jenny Beth Martin (00:59:28):
And sometimes maybe you don't need that, but sometimes politicians need that to remember, wait a minute, what I heard inside those walls and that building actually isn't what the people outside the walls want.
Danny McCormick (00:59:40):
Exactly. I tell you what the people inside those walls thinks, and this is the most important thing I think your listeners can take from this podcast, is the first, when I was down there just a few months, we took a vote. This old man that, I'm not going to say his name, they'd been there for a while, come over and said, why didn't you vote for that bill son? I said, shoot sir. I said, my people would run me off if I voted for that bill. And this is what he said, this is what the people listening need to remember. He said they won't remember four months from now, much less four years. That's the important thing that the people need to try to be engaged enough. And it's hard. It's hard for people to be engaged. I mean, the young couples trying to, the men and woman both have to work to make a living. They got to change the diapers. Their property taxes just went up and they don't know why and they're having to work overtime. It's hard for 'em to stay engaged. And I think that's the relation I ship I have with my people is I try to, whether it's via Facebook or emails, I try to keep 'em informed. And I think they like that. I think they like that truthful information.
Jenny Beth Martin (01:00:46):
I think that it's very good that you're doing that. And what that man said to you, as disturbing as it is to hear is certainly what the United States Senators think. They definitely think that you'll notice that every five years or so, senators, I guess six years who are liberal and drive us all completely insane, even though they are conservative. One of my colleagues has said we can't call them moderate because there is nothing moderate about the spending levels in Washington dc So if they're supporting that, there's nothing moderate about it. But then all of a sudden you'll see them supporting conservative bills and introducing conservative things and you're like, yeah, wait
Danny McCormick (01:01:32):
To go. They've seen the light.
Jenny Beth Martin (01:01:33):
Yeah, they haven't seen the light. They just know what the calendar is saying. That's right. Their election is coming back up and they know people will forget what happened five, six years ago, but they're going to remember what happened in the last couple of
Danny McCormick (01:01:45):
Months. That's right. They seen the light because election was almost here, didn't they? You know what that tells me? That tells me they know what the right thing to do is. They're just not doing it. That's right. That's a whole lot's worse than not knowing what the right thing is and not doing it, but they know what the right thing is. They know what their people want. They're just not doing it. That's what makes 'em evil.
Jenny Beth Martin (01:02:05):
Very evil. Well, Danny, I really appreciate the time that you've spent with me. You are naive. You are. Thank you. You're filled with the spirit. You're filled with the fire of liberty and it's obvious that you love God and your family in this country and your community too. Thank you. So thank you for that.
Danny McCormick (01:02:24):
I appreciate that and I appreciate the time you coming all the way down here to Old City to do this interview. It's very humbling and I thank you.
Jenny Beth Martin (01:02:32):
Well, it's my pleasure. I love doing this because I get to see other parts of the country and really understand other parts of the country. It helps me stay connected and it helps me be able to go back and advocate for people when I go to Washington. I try to text as much as possible and avoid
Danny McCormick (01:02:48):
It. Well, thank you. My people are good people and they deserve being advocated for, so I appreciate that.
Jenny Beth Martin (01:02:54):
Well, thank you very much and good luck in your election. Thank you. And I look forward to continuing this relationship and getting to know you better.
Danny McCormick (01:03:02):
You bet. Sounds great. Thank you.
Jenny Beth Martin (01:03:04):
That is Danny McCormick. He is a state representative from Oil City, Louisiana, and he has an election coming up very shortly on October 14th. Be sure to check out his website and we'll post that in the comments. I'm Jenny Beth Martin and this is a Jenny Beth show.
Narrator (01:03:21):
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Jenny Beth Martin (01:03:41):
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