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Michael Crain: “Our permitting process and everything else can be very, very…”

Featuring: Michael Crain, Fort Worth City Council, District 3 | Texas

Haircolor Confessional “Councilman Michael D. Crain of Fort Worth,TX” S2E11

Published October 9, 2023 | Video Starts at 22:35

You know, 80% of businesses are really small businesses. So when you start thinking about what we can do to help there and anybody that's tried to open a business understands that Our permitting process and everything else can be very, very tough. I don't know the best adjective I want to use, but tough. Yeah, I'll just leave it at that. There's about a million I could use. But we broken down some barriers. (22:35–22:46)

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“My wife and I were both in the George W. Bush 43 administration.”
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“From 06 to 09, I was chief of staff at the US embassy in Beijing with the ambassador.”
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“We got there in 2006 and did not really know that much about China.”
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“The position I took there was only 13 in the world, and they were tied to a political ambassador.”
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“We knew we were being monitored 24/7. So the Chinese were watching us.”
Haircolor Confessional “Councilman Michael D. Crain of Fort Worth,TX” S2E11 | Uploaded October 9, 2023 | 05:31-05:37
“We knew our house, our apartment was bugged. We knew our phones or our blackberries.”
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“The Chinese government wants to control and understand what everybody's doing.”
Haircolor Confessional “Councilman Michael D. Crain of Fort Worth,TX” S2E11 | Uploaded October 9, 2023 | 08:35-08:40
“The Chinese government still won't admit Tiananmen Square actually happened.”
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“Their Internet's monitored, their phones are monitored.”
Haircolor Confessional “Councilman Michael D. Crain of Fort Worth,TX” S2E11 | Uploaded October 9, 2023 | 08:48-08:52
“Every single major thing that we think of, like Google or Venmo or something, they have their own software that does that.”
Haircolor Confessional “Councilman Michael D. Crain of Fort Worth,TX” S2E11 | Uploaded October 9, 2023 | 08:52-09:01
“Instead of Google, they use Baidu.”
Haircolor Confessional “Councilman Michael D. Crain of Fort Worth,TX” S2E11 | Uploaded October 9, 2023 | 09:00-09:03
“Instead of Facebook, it's WeChat.”
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“I moved back and enrolled in the culinary school and was doing some other things. And then eventually started working for Uber, doing all…”
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“Working in the state legislature, trying to get a statewide bill through.”
Haircolor Confessional “Councilman Michael D. Crain of Fort Worth,TX” S2E11 | Uploaded October 9, 2023 | 12:37-12:41
“The census last Census was about 956,000, but we add 20,000 people every year.”
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“We never had a sitting city council, Fort Worth city council member on the Trinity Metro board.”
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“We're still struggling with public transportation in Fort Worth, Texas.”
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“We have now, if you are zip zones that are in certain zones, so TCU et cetera will get them around.”
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“80% of businesses are really small businesses.”
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“I went out and worked with the Kauffman foundation and got it was $15,000 grant to help [the Hispanic Chamber] stand up a small business…”
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“The city of Fort Worth had a studio, has a TV studio. It doesn't now because they shut down the central library.”
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“There will be [a TV studio] set up in the new City hall when that's all open and running.”
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“Foodie Philanthropy is a great organization with great supporters.”
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“On one night, we get restaurants, they donate a table of 10, we put a host at the restaurant.”
Haircolor Confessional “Councilman Michael D. Crain of Fort Worth,TX” S2E11 | Uploaded October 9, 2023 | 28:43-28:49
“There's a charity, a new charity every year that's picked; this year, it's James L. West, the Alzheimer's Center, Dementia.”
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“Most of fundraisers at the time for organizations were big ballroom events.”
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“A lot of money goes to the hotel or ballroom.”
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“All we're asking the restaurants is to dedicate a table.”
Haircolor Confessional “Councilman Michael D. Crain of Fort Worth,TX” S2E11 | Uploaded October 9, 2023 | 30:23-30:26
“The money all goes to charity.”
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“Every year, we've been able to give more and more to the charity of choice.”
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