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The Michael Berry Show

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The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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0:00.0

Washington, D.C. primary, held over the weekend.

0:11.0

I've lived in D.C. and I will tell you nobody lives in DC unless they are part of the

0:20.3

swamp. The District of Columbia is a relatively small tract of

0:29.9

land and there are two types of people who live there, three types of people who live there.

0:37.0

One is blacks who live almost exclusively in the black area.

0:46.0

Howard University, very high crime area,

0:49.2

think Marion Berry supporter. The second is the staffer who doesn't make that much

0:58.8

money by DC standards. Nobody makes less than 50. A lot of them start at 75. But that person often doesn't

1:08.8

have a car. There's a great transit system there.

1:13.7

And the reason is, because the federal government

1:18.4

has invested in their own little transit toy.

1:26.3

Communities around the country who have thought that they would do,

1:32.0

you know, oh, we'll go to the red line out to Sugar Land and the orange line out to the woodlands and the yellow line down to League City.

1:36.0

That's not how that works. It's a very tight little network, very small piece of land

1:42.1

and that was done for Congress by Congress using your money.

1:47.0

So you can live in DC I did without a vehicle and most staffers that's what they do because there's nowhere to

1:55.2

park and there's really good public transportation I think it's probably

2:00.4

the best public transportation in America. I think it probably is. And if

2:06.6

you're going to say the New York subway because you had a good time going

2:09.0

please don't. I think it is the best public transportation and most heavily used per capita of any

2:17.4

public transportation system in the country. It's a great rail system and everybody

2:22.3

knows all right that's Judiciary Square, that's everybody

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