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Ray Sullivan is a Texas media legend who served as the spokesperson for the Bush-Cheney Presidential Campaign and as Chief of Staff to Texas Gov. Rick Perry during a time of media transition from the 24 hour news cycles to omnipotent digital. Currently, his lobby clients include some of the most influential tech companies in the world. Sherry Sylvester spoke with Ray about what he sees and doesn’t see in media now.
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It’s Day 38 of Trump 2.0 and I joined the Cardle & Woolley Show on 1370 Talk Radio in Austin to announce the Winners & Losers of the week. Here’s who made the list:
Winner: Trump’s First Cabinet Meeting
The transparency of the Trump administration is dazzling but the game-changer that was on display during his first Cabinet meeting this week was the president’s absolute candor. Trump lets the entire world knows exactly what he thinks and why he thinks it. His forthrightness has disarmed the hostile media, at least when they are asking him questions—and they ask a lot of questions. One report revealed that Trump responded to nearly 1,100 questions in his first 30 days in office, compared to 140 by Joe Biden. The media can hate his answers, they can hate his cabinet members and they can certainly hate Elon Musk, but it is very hard for them to build a case that some crazed MAGA-wing conspiracy is going on when Trump and his team are all sitting around a table, responding to dozens of mostly hostile questions in a reasonable way.
It’s the exact reverse of what we witnessed with the Joe Biden presidency. The legacy media told us everything was fine, but in the rare instances that Biden was on TV, the whole country could see there were serious issues.
Now the legacy media is telling us that terrible things are happening, but we can see with our own eyes that Trump and his team are functioning across the board in real time. They have moved beyond campaign promises, the rubber hits the road every day—criminals are being deported, bureaucrats are being fired and sanity is returning to our institutions.
Trump also doesn’t think it is onerous for bureaucrats to be required to respond to an email to confirm they are working—a “pulse check,” as Musk said.
No workers in America are more coddled than federal bureaucrats. They are better paid, with better benefit packages, shorter work days and fewer actual work requirements. Plus, it is almost impossible to be fired. Taxpayers who work in the private sector have none of those protections and are still required to shell out big chunks of their paychecks every month to pay for the federal bureaucracy. The media is trying to whip up sad stories about poor federal workers, but it’s unlikely any outrage will erupt.
Winners: Sens. Brandon Creighton & Paul Bettencourt Draw Line in Sand Over DEI Compliance
Texas Senate Higher Education Chairman Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe and Local Government Chair, Sen. Paul Betterncourt, R-Houston, called out Texas public universities yesterday, charging many were not in compliance with Senate Bill 17, Texas’ anti-DEI law. In a letter to the universities, the Senate leaders, who both serve on the Senate Finance Committee, declared their requests for increased funding were frozen until the universities demonstrate they have done more than relaunch, rename or re-authorized racially divisive DEI programs.
Apparently unaware that the majority of Texans of every racial group oppose DEI programs and want the programs removed from colleges and universities, the Texas Tribune tried to suggest the moves against university funding are because Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is on a personal crusade against DEI. Here’s what they reported about an internal email they obtained from Texas A&M:
- “The rumor is the [lieutenant] governor will cut everyone’s institutional enhancement money to try to get higher ed’s attention,” Julie Kopycinski, a top government relations staffer, wrote to her boss, Texas A&M President Mark Welsh.
- “What part of our ‘attention’ is he trying to get,” Welsh responded, according to an email exchange obtained in an open records request.
- “That we have collectively lost our core mission and are still too [DEI] and leftist focused,” Kopycinski responded.
President Welsh apparently didn’t hear that Lt. Gov. Patrick made it clear at the Texas Public Policy Foundation Summit last week that he will not support continued funding for universities that don’t get rid of DEI programs. The universities could lose anywhere from $40 to $50 million each if they fail to comply with the law.
Meanwhile, the Goldwater Institute has just released a report showing that at least five Texas universities are requiring students to take DEI courses in order to graduate.
Loser: Federal Judge Who Blocked Trump’s Anti-DEI Executive Orders
U.S. District Judge Adam B. Abelson temporarily blocked Trump’s two executive orders that declare the racial preferences dictated by Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs to be illegal. Trump withdrew all federal funding from institutions, including colleges and universities, that persist in pushing DEI.
Abelson’s preliminary injunction is in response to a lawsuit from the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADHOE) and the judge assists them in pushing the myth that DEI programs are somehow part of civil rights protections, saying “ensuring equity, diversity, and inclusion has long been a goal, and at least in some contexts arguably a requirement, of federal anti-discrimination law.”
Nothing could be farther from the truth. According to NADHOE itself, their mission is to “engag[e] in ongoing ways to incorporate alternative narratives in the curriculum and provide robust learning opportunities on the history of racism, colonization, and conquest on how higher education and other sectors of society have been complicit in maintaining systems of privilege.”
“Alternative narratives” means rewriting history and dividing Americans into two groups, oppressors and the oppressed, based on immutable characteristics of race or gender.
Dr. Mr. Luther King was motivated by a dream that someday his children would be judged on the content of their character, not the color of their skin. The only “dream” of the NADHOE and the pro-DEI crowd is that one day every child in America will be judged only “by the color of their skin” and maybe their gender identity.
NADHOE President Paulette Granberry-Russell issued a written statement saying that Trump’s actions are a direct threat to their core values. You bet they are! That’s the point.
Winner: White House Press Shake-Up
As a former reporter, I can tell you that few things are greater than being a member of the press corps. Press credentials can get you to the front of the line at virtually any event. When I worked in New York I had a placard in my car that proclaimed: “WORKING PRESS,” which allowed me to park virtually anywhere—handicapped spaces, fire hydrants, and the sidewalk. I’ve had badges at national conventions that screamed “ALL ACCESS” in big baby blacks. It was a great feeling to think I was more important than virtually anybody.
I assume that’s how the people at the White House Correspondents Association felt until this week when Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt informed them that they would no longer get to decide who sits in the front row at the White House briefings, who gets to ask the first question and whose part of the smaller press pool.
Lefty reporters are screaming about the changes, but it is hard to imagine a more democratic move than dragging the White House news operation into the 21st Century and expanding the number of media outlets. Only a tiny fraction of Americans get their news from the New York Times or CBS, so why should they get all the access.
Meanwhile, the Associated Press is still in the penalty box for failing to acknowledge the Gulf of America—but it’s not just that. The AP Stylebook directs what every media outlet is supposed to say about virtually everything. It’s the AP that demanded that news outlets describe unnecessary mastectomies and castrations on children as “gender-affirming care,” as well as insisting that “Black” be capitalized when talking about people, but “white” should remain lowercase because, well, who knows why.
LOSER: MOVEON.ORG is Funding Anti-DOGE protests
There were anti-Trump and anti-Elon Musk marches in Austin last week and in other places around the nation. One of the groups organizing them was MoveOn.org which is putting millions into fighting DOGE with new chants claiming “Congress Works for Us, Not Musk.”
MoveOn.org is getting their funding from mega-lefty George Soros, but for those who may not have been around in 1998, here’s a reminder that they originally organized to encourage the country to ignore the fact that President Bill Clinton had sexual relations with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. They said it wasn’t a big deal and the country should just “MoveOn.” I guess their message now is that we should just MoveOn from the billions in bureaucratic waste in the federal government or the millions the Agency for International Development spent funding DEI programs around the world or the hundreds of thousands who have died from fentanyl coming across the open border.
Loser: Rachel Maddow’s Defense of Joy Reid
If you missed the story of how MSNBC host Rachel Maddow defended her colleague Joy Reid, who was fired this week, take a look at it here.
Joy Reid is a racist who hates just about everybody, so we can only assume that Maddow’s outrage is because she also subscribes to Reid’s hate-filled racism. Maddow said she still had “so much to learn” from Reid.
Winner: Californians are Trying to Recall Newsom Again
Californians frequently show up on my losers list for giving their governor, Gavin Newsom, such high approval ratings. However, a report came out this week announcing that Golden State residents are ready to try to recall him again. Here’s some great footage of Mel Gibson, who lost his home in the recent fires, explaining why Newsom has to go.
Winners: Longhorns are No. 1
The women’s basketball team at the University of Texas finally claimed the top spot in the national rankings this week after beating all the top teams in the SEC and a few others. They had a close call last night against Mississippi State but they kept their winning streak going and are currently 28 and 2. They are expected to take the No. 1 seed in the NCAA bracket coming up. They play Florida on Sunday afternoon in Austin, so go root for them.
Have a great weekend!
Sherry Sylvester is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and the former Senior Advisor to Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick.
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Recorded at the Texas Public Policy Summit’s 2025 Texas Policy Summit in Austin, TPPF Distinguished Senior Fellow Sherry Sylvester shares her Winners & Losers list from the week of February 21.
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TPPF’s Sherry Sylvester sits down with Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, author of “Take Two Aspirin and Call Me By My Pronouns” to discuss his journey as the “Paul Revere regarding medical schools being infiltrated by woke policies.”
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TPPF Distinguished Senior Fellow Sherry Sylvester testifies on the role of faculty senates before the Texas Senate Higher Education Subcommittee on November 11, 2024.
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Winners & Losers: Week of November 1
Every Friday morning at 8:30 a.m., I join the Cardle & Woolley show, Talk 1370 Radio, in Austin to pick the week’s top Winners & Losers. This is the last list before Election Day and the only thing we know for sure is not to believe anyone who says they are confident about the outcome on Tuesday night.
What we do know is that data guru Derek Ryan reports that 7.5 million people had voted in Texas as of Wednesday. Almost 2.5 million of those voters have a Republican history while 1.6 have a Democrat voting history.
Here’s who made the list this week:
Winner: Texas Women Voters
Of those 7.5 million Texas early voters, 52% are women, while 44% are men, indicating an eight point gender gap. Democrats view this as a positive sign for them because they believe women who vote are protesting the Republican position on abortion, but Republicans see these women voters as a good sign, noting that polls show the economy, border security and crime issues are their priorities. The GOP also believes that their closing attack ads that highlight Vice President Kamala Harris’ support for the transgender agenda—attacks Harris has not responded to—will persuade women voters to vote for Trump. Polls make it clear that the transgender agenda is a losing issue.
Winner: The White House Office of Stenography
Ann Sands, Director of the White House Office of Stenography, chided the White House Press Office this week for doctoring the official transcript of President Joe Biden’s recent remarks to make it appear he did not call supporters of former President Donald Trump “garbage.” According to Sands, the move by the Press Office to release a doctored transcript was a “breach of protocol and spoliation of transcript integrity between Stenography and the Press office.” Sands noted that the Press Office can withhold official transcripts, but they cannot change them.
Not only did I not know that “spoliation” was a word, I had lost hope that there were any bureaucrats left in Washington who possessed the kind of ethics and vigilance that Sands exhibited this week. Her final plea to the White House Press Office was an admonition that they have given an official transcript to the American public that is different from what will be placed in the National Archives. The country is lucky to have someone with a work ethic like this who is, literally, taking notes and has a larger perspective than next week’s election.
Loser: Insulting Voters, Part 1
Former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle spent the last week attacking Black men for supporting former President Trump. The former president has repeatedly noted that a decline in African-American support for Harris “seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.” To win them over, Obama told black men they were probably sexist and not comfortable with a woman president.
Insulting people to get them to vote for you hasn’t worked for Democrats in the past. After Hillary Clinton was defeated in 2016, Michelle Obama accused women who voted against Clinton—and millions did—of self-hatred. “You don’t like your voice, you like the thing you are told to like.” Insults usually don’t work if you are trying to get someone to like you.
Loser: Insulting Voters, Part 2
Almost as big as Biden’s “garbage” insult was Texan Mark Cuban’s slam against Trump this week saying “you never see him around strong, intelligent women” — denigrating not only Trump’s wife Melania, but dozens of women who have worked and continue to work with the former president. The backlash has been massive.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders and former Texas Public Policy Foundation CEO Brooke Rollins, who now heads the America First Policy Institute, have both called the Trump White House the most women friendly in history. Sanders notes that she was the first working mother to ever serve as White House Press Secretary and Rollins, who was rearing young children when she served as Trump’s Domestic Policy Advisor, has frequently described how the former president made sure her work for him did not interfere with her caring for her children and family.
Winner: Pictures worth a Thousand Words
One of the most important rules of political communication is “show it, don’t say it.” The contrast of these two images with Vice President Harris who made a speech in front of the White House this week, makes that point vividly clear.
Former President Donald Trump dons an orange reflector vest and rides in a garbage truck
Former President Trump does a shift at McDonalds
Loser: Puberty Blocking Drugs
The New York Times reported this week that a doctor who prescribes puberty blockers for children has completed a $10 million taxpayer funded study that shows the powerful drugs have no impact on the mental health of the child, despite being touted as essential to prevent suicide. Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy says she will not release the report because she believes it will be “weaponized” by people who oppose giving puberty blockers to children.
The “people who oppose giving puberty blockers to children” is just about everyone. Recent polling shows that almost 70% of Americans do not want children subjected to cross-sex hormones or mutilating surgeries in the name of changing their gender.
TPPF championed legislation last session to end this hideous practice in Texas. Importantly, most European countries, where these programs began, have abandoned them too, because, at best they don’t work and at worst, they are extremely harmful. It’s not exactly clear how a trans advocate doctor can withhold a report taxpayers paid for, but this is one more piece to add to the huge pile of evidence that the trans-agenda is not good for children and it is time for the country to move on.
Winner: Photo Voter ID
So far, nobody in Texas has complained that they are required to show a photo ID in order to vote, and the latest Gallup Poll shows that almost 80% of Americans believe it is a good idea. Democrats, including those in Texas, continue to insist that requiring a photo ID to vote is an attempt to suppress the vote.
Democrat states like California make sure no one can accuse them of voter suppression. According to the California Secretary of State’s Office, “in most cases you will not be required to show identification” in order to vote. If you are voting for the first time, you simply have to prove your address—an old utility bill will work, but no ID is needed.
My colleague, Chuck DeVore, joined me on the Sherry Sylvester Show this week and we discussed whether America should keep the Electoral College or elect the president by the popular vote. One of the arguments Chuck made against using the popular votes is that states don’t monitor who can vote in the same way. You can listen to the podcast here.
Winner: How About those Dodgers
They wrapped it up in five games after an amazing comeback, and now it’s in the history books.
Losers: New York Yankees fans
The two Yankee fans who ripped the ball out of Mookie Betts’ glove in Game 4 were beyond disheartening. In this election year, in our polarized country, sports has been an oasis for everyone, a mostly politics free zone, starting with the Olympics this summer and rolling into the terrific college football season we are having this year. Sports has been a place where we scream for our teams and relish the competition, without the vitriol that currently permeates too much of our lives. Those Yankee fans, like the UT fans who threw garbage on the field the other week, bring ugliness into one of the only refuges of shared community we have left. It has to stop.
Speaking of the Longhorns, they have a bye this week. The now No. 10 ranked Texas Aggies will take on the South Caroline Gamecocks at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow night.
Have a great weekend.
Sherry Sylvester is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and the former Senior Advisor to Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick.
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In the final countdown to next Tuesday’s election Sherry talks with Chuck DeVore, Chief of National Initiatives at TPPF, about the why the founders created the Electoral College and why it is critically important that it not be abolished.
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Every Friday morning at 8:30 a.m., I join the Cardle & Woolley show, Talk 1370 Radio, in Austin to pick the week’s top Winners & Losers. We are now sliding down the final 10 day countdown to Election Day as we try to discern what the long lines of people standing outside polling locations—at least where I live in San Antonio—are really thinking. As the final battle rages, here’s who made the list this week:
Winner: So far, GOP Early Voters
Derek Ryan is the Texas guy who analyzes who votes in Texas elections. He’s not a pollster or a spin guy, he just looks at who has actually voted and links them to their primary voting history. Ryan is a Republican but he is respected by both sides and, amazingly, even the Texas media, which spends lots of time every four years pushing the narrative that Texas is turning blue, or Texas will be turning blue, or, Texas is probably already blue, but Republicans won’t let the “real people” vote. Ryan doesn’t bother with any of that. He just does the math. His latest report reveals that 2,833,623 Texans voted in the first three days of Early Voting.
And 1,102,052 of those voters are people who have previously only voted in Republican primary elections. Another 715,180 are people who have only voted in Democrat primaries. And 63,460 additional voters are people who most recently voted in a Republican primary but have also voted in Democrat primaries at some point in their voting lives. That’s compared to 33,847 voters who are Democrats with the same mixed primary record. If you believe the adage that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, you can draw conclusions from those numbers, as long as you remember that an adage is not a fact.
Ryan reports that almost a million other Texans who only vote in General Elections, have voted in both Democrat and Republican primaries or have no voting history at all, also cast their ballots in the first three days. That’s what we know. Everything else is speculation. You can sign up for Ryan’s Early Voting reports here.
Loser: Harris’ Trip to Texas
I frequently caution conservatives against thinking that Democrats’ are politically stupid, just because their policy positions are so often asinine. However, as Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick succinctly pointed out yesterday, the decision by Vice President Kamala Harris to spend one of the final days of her campaign in Texas, when she’s sinking in swing states, is one of the “dumbest political decisions I’ve ever seen.” Patrick rightly pointed out that Harris has no chance of winning Texas or boosting Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Colin Allred to victory over U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, particularly after Allred’s steadfast support for the transgender agenda has been revealed.
Apparently the vice president has forgotten that Texas is ground zero for the over 10 million illegal aliens who have crossed the border on her watch. Since she’s only been to El Paso and Arizona, she may not realize that Texas a state with a 1,254 miles long border with Mexico.
As for bringing Beyoncé to the stage in Houston to help her campaign, it is unlikely it will help Harris and may hurt the big star herself. Just look at another loser this week, Taylor Swift. Despite the fanfare when Swift’s endorsement of Harris was announced, her unfavorable ratings have increased 20 points among Republicans since she declared her support for the vice president. Swift has learned the “Bud Light,” lesson—don’t ‘dis your audience. Swift’s endorsement of Harris barely even raises her popularity among Democrats. She got about 5 points. It is unlikely Beyoncé will have any impact on the election, either.
Beyond dragging celebrities to the stage to endorse her, it is is also tough to figure out why even Democrats are asking why Harris won’t simply answer direct questions about the border, the economy, crime, or anything, really. The vice president’s Town Hall on CNN this week has been panned across the board by her own side with former Obama advisor David Axelrod calling it a trip to “word salad city.”
Winner: Gov. Greg Abbott Takes on Tren De Aragua
When asked about Harris’ visit to the Lone Star State, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott suggested she spend her time in Texas declaring the Venezuelan gang, Tren De Aragua, a foreign terrorist organization, as he has done. Abbott notes that Harris is visiting Houston, where 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was raped and murdered by two Tren de Aragua gang members in June. Although Nungaray’s murderer was released on her watch, Harris has yet to apologize to her family or the other victims of violent crimes perpetrated by criminal illegal aliens. Abbott is right to press her on this outrageous omission every moment she is here.
Loser: DEI in the Military
Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Colin Allred helped shine a light on the problems with the United States military when it was revealed that he had just signed a letter asking Republicans to remove restrictions in the National Defense Reauthorization Act that would have prohibited the military from performing sex change operations on soldiers and allowing pride flags and drag shows on military bases. A Wall Street Journal op-ed this morning explains how such woke, DEI policies are fueling the decline in military enlistment.
We know that 80% of people who volunteer to serve in the military have family members who also served. But a new survey shows that many military family members no longer recommend that others join up—it’s down almost 20 points. Biden-Harris Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is pushing Biden’s order to embed DEI throughout the ranks of every branch of service, making diversity officially more important than competence, bravery or leadership.
Winner: City of Odessa Frees Women’s Restrooms
Striking a blow for women’s rights and security, the city of Odessa passed an ordinance this week that prohibits individuals from entering the restrooms of the opposite sex. We have fought this war before but Texans now have a clear understanding of the impact of opening women’s restrooms to everyone, and I predict Odessa will not be the only city that weighs in on the side of privacy for women and girls.
You gotta love how the Texas Tribune covered the issue. They put out a news story with the headline: “Odessa bans transgender people from using restrooms that don’t match sex assigned at birth.” So, before you even read the report that women in Odessa won’t have to worry about men coming in their restrooms, you must accept the theory, right there on the page in big baby blacks, that “sex is assigned at birth.” That’s quite a concept to swallow, particularly for anyone who has read a biology book.
Loser: University of Texas, Matthew McConaughey and those bottles on Texas Memorial Field
I am a big fan of Matthew McConaughey, but he was not nearly strong enough in admonishing his fellow Longhorn fans after the Georgia game on Saturday. “Not cool,” doesn’t begin to describe their move to throw bottles and trash on the field at Texas Memorial Stadium to protest a referee’s call. It was very badly done, especially for the team that, until late last Saturday, was ranked number one in the nation. No excuse will suffice.
UT has “Texas” in its name. Texas taxpayers pay for the flag ship school. Because of that, when you are on national television, you are representing the entire state, even Texans who proudly didn’t go to UT. Texas is a symbol of everything that is right about America and our great football teams are one of the ways we show the world who we are. Consequently, folks from the University of Texas can’t behave like a bunch of hockey fans from Saskatoon. Again, badly done.
UT has promised to track down the perpetrators and fine them for their offenses. Perhaps they should deploy the people who picked up the January 6 protesters. They got hundreds of those people using mostly using blurry clips from personal iPhones. The bad Longhorn fans were all on national TV. Should be easier.
Loser: Chicago is most rat infested city in the country.
Chicago was once again named the most rat infested city by Orkin, the pest control company. Chicago has now held the title for a decade. Don’t want to dwell on this yucky fact, but do want to note that no Republican-run city is on the top 10 list of rat-filled towns and no Texas city is in the top 20. Just saying.
Loser: Men Coming for Women’s Golf
Now there are a total of five women’s volleyball teams in the Mountain West that have forfeited their games rather than play San Jose State, whose team includes a man who thinks he’s a woman. The University of Nevada is the latest to bow out despite the administrators’ insistence that the game go on. The players didn’t back down, saying they “refuse[d] to participate in any match that advances injustice against female athletes” so despite the virtue signals of Nevada University bureaucrats they ultimately had to withdraw because they didn’t have a team.
That same injustice is threatening professional women’s golf. Now, 275 golfers in the LPGA have sent a letter to the LPGA brass saying they don’t want to play against men. This follows the inclusion of Hailey Davidson, a man who says he’s a woman, who is poised to qualify for the LPGA tour, beating out a woman for a coveted spot. The LPGA has developed “gender policies” that allow biological men to compete against women if they have undergone gender reassignment surgery. However, like in Nevada, it appears the folks in charge of the LPGA did not consult with the women who actually play golf before they changed the rules. LPGA players should take the same path as the volleyball players at the University of Nevada and simply take their sticks and walk away.
Another Big Game Day
Texas plays giant-killer Vanderbilt in Nashville tomorrow at 3:15 p.m. and Texas A&M will play LSU tomorrow night at 6:30 p.m. Hopefully, no fines will result.
Have a great weekend!
Sherry Sylvester is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and the former Senior Advisor to Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick.
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