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HoustonCurmudgeon, am sorry that you dislike Jon Matthews, but appreciate you tuning in. Perhaps you can help give us the details??? Would appreciate it. I am listening right now to commercials, so I am still on 'standby.' >

I assume you are asking why I don't like Jon? If so :

He talks of being a Marine all the time but seldom points out he was a reservist. That's ok but he plays on the jargon all the time and acts like he has some idea what is going on. Last month he and a local congressman were mad because on-duty Navy personnel where paying for their meals. He had never heard of seperate rations pay.

He bitches about our school district all the time (we live in the same town) and says send your kids to private school or home school them. BOTH his boys went to and graduated from, FBISD schools. Why didn't he home school them given his wife doesn't work and has a teaching degree? He NEVER attends a board meeting.

He bitches about our city council and makes PERSONNEL attacks upon members without ever attacking their policy. This is liberal crap. I welcome facts, not his calling people he disagrees with names. He NEVER attends council meetings.

He talks Ft Bend politics but refuses to let you complete a sentence when you call him on it. He talks over you, repeats the same stupid question over and over, or changes the subject.

He attacks politicians appearance and in one case their wife. He has done this repeatedly, though he is short, over weight, ugly and has a wife who I have NEVER heard speak six words, though I have met her a dozen times. Attacking policy is great, liberals attack appearance. It is really odd when you aren't much to look at yourself.

Jon repeatedly gripes about education. He has about a year of college.

He supports local politicians he likes, regardless of their ability to do the job. I on the other hand have people I love and would give my life for, but would never vote for. I will also support a more conservative, less ego driven person, even though I don't care for them.

If you want more, FReep mail me. BTW I have told Jon most of this to his face, and some of my problems with him do not show up on the air but do in his local newspaper column.

Well, no HC, I wast asking per se, but thank you for sharing. All I have ever heard Jon do is echo what callers have said. The fact that he was a reservist does not lessen him in my eyes. It's far more than I have done for my country. I too hate the public school system. I *do* send my daughter to private school, but I also understand the need of many who are teachers and participants of the public school system to 'hold the fort' as it were, and perhaps influence within the system. That again is far more than what I have and can contribute. I am not a teacher. Matthew's wife is (as far as I know she is or WAS a teacher.) Perhaps she doesnt say anything because there isnt much to add when you have a husband who already saying it. Just because a person is silent doesnt mean they are stupid or cowed.

I know I bitch about the school system because my husbands paycheck is held for ransom to pay for all the idiotic things that go on in the public school system. And why should he attend school board meetings when his kids are already out of school? He no longer has a dog in that fight,,,but by no means does that mean he should shut up about it. AGain, I only hear him echo what callers say.

City councils deserve getting critcized. Otherwise they develope the nasty habit of believing they are unaccountable. 'Nuff said.

And you're saying the only people who CAN gripe about education are those who have college degrees???? I wouldn't be surprised if you told me, a college graduate, that the only way MY opinion could be legitimate is if I have a GRADUATE degree, something I havent found worthy of my time yet. When does it stop?