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We are an independent voice on an independent station, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. socialism is not about free stuff that is the carrot that gets people to vote for it but ultimately socialism has to come down to force because as maggie thatcher said eventually with socialism you run out of other people’s money and then it comes down to force to get that money and it’s not compassionate and it’s not altruistic to take other people’s stuff whether or not it’s their rights their property freedom livelihood opportunity childhood or lives via force and force can be a weapon But it can also be policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fees, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, legislation, the agenda of the World Economic Forum and globalist elites. And the tools that they use are United Nations, but it trickles all the way to municipalities and school districts as well. Something’s a good idea. You should not have to use force to implement it. And on the show, we focus on the issues and we will mention the people behind those issues, but we work diligently to stay out of the personality infighting. I did want to say thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. And in fact, Susan Harris will be our featured guest in our number two. She’s since moved to Arizona and we are going to talk a little bit about elections in Arizona. Cause that’s very, very important. Our word of the day is reproach. And I want to say thank you to Dave for the suggestion that, It’s spelled R-E-P-R-O-A-C-H. And reproach could be to find fault with a person or group. Number two, to criticize severely, upbraid. Number three, to be a cause of blame or discredit. Number four, to blame or censure conveyed or disapproval. And number five, an expression of contempt. Number six, disgrace or discredit. And number seven, an object of scorn or contempt. And these definitions come from the Random House Webster’s College Dictionary. Our quote of the day, I went to Jordan Peterson. So many young people quote him on a regular basis. And I thought, well, I’d like to take a look at some of his quotes. And he was born June 12th, 1962. He is a Canadian psychologist, author, and media commentator. He received widespread attention in the late 2010s for his view on cultural and political issues. He’s often described as a conservative. However, he self-identifies as a classical liberal and traditionalist, which I think I probably would identify with that as well. But he said this, he said, don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care of yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your being. what you want to do and you focus on that, he said that basically the world will step aside and you can accomplish your goals. What I’ve learned, though, is sometimes what I think is my goals is not what the good Lord has in mind for me. But what I do know is every day getting up, working, being curious, learning, the doors that are supposed to open will open for you. And so every day you’ve got to focus on that. And again, that quote is from Jordan Peterson. Our bill of the day is Senate Bill 26-178, and you can weigh in on this. We have our bills posted. We posted six bills today, a cut in gauge. So you go to coloradotaxpayer.org, and we have them in chronological order. So the most recent six are at the top. And you can make your voice heard with the – prime sponsors of the bill, as well as you can include your state senator and your state representative. This particular one, Senate Bill 26-178, health insurance affordable measures. I don’t know about you, but health insurance is not affordable. And the reason is, is because of Obamacare. And they said it was going to be they called it the Affordability Act. There’s nothing affordable at all about Obamacare. In fact, just take a look at your premiums. But anytime government gets involved, as Dr. Joe Vecchio has said, the price goes up. the quality goes down, and the supply becomes limited. And so with this health insurance affordability measures, this is, I think, a step towards trying to move Colorado to socialized medicine. And the sponsors on this are all Democrats, Senator Kyle Mullica, Senator Iman Joda, Representative Kyle Brown, and Representative Lindsey Gilchrist. And this is the Colorado Union of Taxpayers position on it after careful analysis. It says the bill authorizes the Colorado Health Insurance Affordability Enterprise. And again, enterprise means that all of this revenue, everything that happens here, is that is outside of the TABOR caps. Colorado and Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights that moves all of that money out of calculating the revenue for the state of Colorado, moves that out of that calculation for you to receive your TABOR refunds. And so anytime you see enterprise, that is what’s happening. So this is our analysis. The bill authorizes the Colorado Health Insurance Affordability Enterprise to impose a one-time supplemental fee of $40 million allocated equally a month among health insurance companies that meet specified criteria. It authorizes a $100 million loan from the unclaimed property trust fund loan. Do you really think they’re thinking that they’ll pay that back? To the enterprise’s cash fund and allows tax credits for contributions to the enterprise cash fund. Again, what’s wrong with that, that you can have tax credits to contribute to this enterprise? CUT opposes this bill because it expands powers and funding of an unelected enterprise all outside of Tabor. This $40 million one-time fee will drive up costs for all private insurance ratepayers and establish a dangerous precedent for one-time, we have that in air quotes, fees and income from the unclaimed property trust fund outside of Tabor restrictions. The safety clause prevents voters from their right to repeal this egregious bill. And so cut is a hard no on this particular bill. And I want to say thank you. And when you see them out there, be sure and say thank you to my fellow volunteers, all my other volunteers. Thank you so much for joining us. And that way you will be informed about what’s happening down at the state house. But when you see these folks out there, say thank you to them. And that is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onozorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. And again, go to coloradotaxpayer.org and join us. Next thing, Ginny and I need to do, so my to-do list today is I have to make my voice heard on Cut Engaged. And then the deadlines are coming up regarding, first of all, the commercial fur sales that is moving through the bureaucratic Colorado Parks and Wildlife. And you need to make your voice heard on that by the 3rd, which that’s this weekend. And so the website for that, where you can find that is, you can go to engagecpw.org forward slash commercial dash fur dash sales. And so make your voice heard on that. And then also make your voice heard regarding the wolf issue. And you can go to the federalregister.gov and just put in Colorado wolves and you should be able to pull that up. 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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is kimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And another great sponsor of both The Kim Monson Show and America’s Veterans Stories is Hooters Restaurants. They have locations in Loveland, Westminster, and in Aurora. Great place to watch the Avs as the Avs are marching towards the Stanley Cup. And Hooters Restaurants has specials Monday through Friday for happy hour and for lunch. In particular, I love their nachos and their fish and chips. So be sure and check that out. On the line with me is former state senator and author of the Lundberg Report, Kevin Lundberg. Welcome to the show.
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Well, thank you. Glad to be with you as always.
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Well, it’s good to have you as well. And before we jump into some of these issues, next week is the Protect Kids Colorado celebration. So what’s the latest on that?
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Absolutely. We are working hard on making this an extraordinary event. Thanking all the thousands of people. I don’t expect thousands to show up because we’re It was thousands of people who helped us collect the signatures to put these three initiatives that we’ve been working on on the ballot. But we expect several hundred to show. And we encourage people, particularly if you were involved in any way with the effort to put these issues on the ballot, I urge you to go. And if you’re just wanting to jump on board today and help us on the next stage, which is the biggest one, which is to get the word out to every voter in Colorado that these issues are on the ballot, are important, and should be adopted. Come on out. If you go to my website and click on my newsletter, I’ve got a big, bold graphic on the front end of the newsletter talking about it, and just click on that and you’ll get the information. We’re not charging for admission, but we’re encouraging people to help help us defray the costs of it, and to help launch everything we’re doing between now and the election in the fall. I’m just so thrilled with all of the energy and the excitement that I’ve seen all across the state on these important matters that deal with children and how the transgender ideology is just infiltrated in so many ways. Honestly, this will get us back to what I think we’ll be talking about for the most part. Our state legislature has been going the exact opposite direction for several years, and they continue. Last night, House Bill 1322 was passed by a Senate committee, and this one is in direct defiance of what the United States Supreme Court struck down a couple of weeks ago. I mean, it’s just madness what’s happening down at the Capitol. But it’s the exact opposite at our event next week on the 7th. That’s a Thursday evening. It’s in the Larkspur area, which is kind of halfway between Colorado Springs and Denver, because they’re both very important hubs for our effort for what we’ve been doing this year.
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So, Kevin, and again, that’s next Thursday. You can get information. You can go to Protect Kids Colorado, that website, or to Kevin Lumberg’s website.
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Yeah, but let me explain. If you go to our PKC website, go to the events page, click on May 7th. There you’ll get it all.
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Okay, very good. Now, Colorado Union of Taxpayers has taken a position on this bill that you just mentioned. But for people that may not know about this bill, let’s see, it’s 1322, right? And I do want to give a shout out to Gammy. I talked with her yesterday. She has been writing… and testifying on so many different bills. And she has just really been a warrior on this and appreciate it. But this 1322 is very, very dangerous. So what’s your concerns about this, Kevin Lundberg?
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Well, this is on the heels of the bill that passed several years ago. I think it was 2019. Banning any mental health counselor, licensed mental health counselor in Colorado from doing anything but affirming a child’s confusion with gender dysphoria. In other words, you can’t talk to the child and say, well, let’s work this out and see if this really makes sense. Now, the left, they want to call that conversion therapy, which is just a misnomer entirely. Anyway, it goes all the way through the courts, and the Supreme Court votes eight to one against that law that says, no, you can’t control You can’t tell a mental health worker what they can’t talk about when they’re dealing with their patients. This is just, you know, ideological madness. Anyway, the court throws it out. So the legislature comes up with a bright idea of, okay, if we can’t outright ban it, we’ll just make it so difficult for we’ll kind of make it an open season on anybody who participates in what they call conversion therapy to lawsuits for the rest of their lives. And that’s not just the licensed counselor, but that’s the company they may be working for. That could be the parents who brought their child to the counselor. This just opens it up in such a way and makes it another unconstitutional law, which Big surprise. Every time the legislature dives into any of these subjects, the Supreme Court ends up throwing out, not the state Supreme Court, because they affirm all this nonsense. But unfortunately, there are cooler heads at the top right now. And yet, it’s such a clear picture of what we’ve been seeing in just about every aspect of our lives. gun controlling measures. Again, they’re just gnawing away at our Second Amendment rights. I mean, I could go on and on. Property rights, taxes, just overall regulations, wholesale buying into the climate extremists so as to grind the state of Colorado down to a you know, a halt economically. I mean, I was in the legislature for 16 years and I saw a lot of, a lot of funny things happening, but nothing like I’ve seen in the last now eight sessions.
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And they’ve, we’ve lurched so far to the left and, but, and I really do not think that these people are representing the, the big, broad, middle of Colorado. No, no. I’m so concerned about elections on this. But they act like they will never lose another election from what I can see.
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Well, that’s another huge issue is just how are these elections conducted? I’ve been focusing in on that subject for months now in my newsletter. This last newsletter, I think I’ve got eight links that that I direct people to, you know, want more evidence that we’ve got problems in our elections? Well, check these things out. Yeah, there is sort of this assumed entitlement that the legislature and the governor has that whatever we do, we will get away with. Let me go back to our celebration just a little bit for Protect Kids Colorado. I think those are related because we went after one of the most obvious, most egregious set of policies that the legislature has established over the last eight years. Oh, what do you know? We’ve had one governor during that time. I wonder if there’s any connection. But this, I hope, first and foremost, we stop these policies. practices of allowing men and women sports and child mutilating surgeries and giving sex traffickers of minors almost a free pass, not entirely. I mean, it’s illegal, but far too often the bad guy is put up back on the streets. So we’re trying to shake the population in Colorado and say, look at what’s been happening to our laws and to our state. I just finished. My wife and I, we drove out to Connecticut and back for a wedding. And it took us about two and a half weeks. And we stopped and talked to various friends and family, you know, all the way between. We went through 18 states and 4,700 miles. And every time we got around to talking about Colorado, people just shake their heads in disbelief. And it’s just what has happened to this state that used to be such a a golden jewel in the states, in the nation. And now it’s just turned into, you know, an economic mess, a social embarrassment, a legal morass. You pick the word and it’s not a good one. And that’s what we’ve gotten out of the folks that are under the gold dome. And they are proving it again this year with the way they just lockstep vote for the worst things. You know, go back to that newsletter I put together. I put a list of good bills and bad bills. And this is just a snapshot of the worst and what I consider the best. Well, the best are all dead. They kill those. And the worst bills, well, occasionally one will get killed. But I haven’t counted up yet. I think 90% or so are still either law now or on the fast track to getting into law. It’s overwhelming to me, and you get to the end of the session that we have right now, we’ve only got a little more than a week to go, and they are turning this session into just as bad a session as ever. And I can just go on and on and on, but I know we’ll probably have a break here pretty soon, won’t we?
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We do. So one quick question is, I went on and looked at the Colorado State Legislature, the official website, and it said that the last day of the legislative session was May 13th. But I spoke with Gammy, and she said that she thought the last… Day four bills was the sixth. Could you clarify what is the last day of this session, Kevin?
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Well, you know, I’m going to have to go look at this up myself because I was thinking the 13th as well. But then I was talking to one of our state legislators yesterday and he said, well, we’ve got eight actual scheduled days to go. And and so I’m a little confused myself. Yeah. I just wonder if everybody’s got to miss their mark on this. I don’t know. I’ll tell you next week what I know.
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Okay, that sounds great. That sounds great. Well, yes, let’s go… Let’s go to break, Kevin Lundberg, because we’ve got a lot to talk about. We’re talking with former state senator Kevin Lundberg, and he’s also the author of the Lundberg Report. I would recommend that you have that on your repertoire of things to check out each week. That comes out on Saturdays. And then also, of course, CUT, Colorado Union of Taxpayers. Join us there as well. Liberty Scorecard, Sue Moore and her group, they do a really terrific job as well. And then you might add in Drew Dix and Brad Padula’s podcast. podcast from the Center for American Values. It’s called Words from the Silo. And just a great perspective on things as well. You can get information on that by going to their website, which is AmericanValueCenter.org, AmericanValueCenter.org. And these discussions happen because of great people. One of those is Karen Levine for Everything Residential Real Estate.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And do check out the website for the USMC Memorial Foundation. They are having their big fundraiser, which is a great golf tournament, May 14th, out at the Ridge in Castle Pines North. And get your foursome together and support the memorial. You can do that by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. We’re talking with former state senator Kevin Lundberg. He is also the author of the Lundberg Report. And you alluded to this, Kevin Lundberg, but Colorado’s economy is, well, you’ve titled it Colorado’s broken economy. And this is because of public policy. It’s important that people understand that. And this governor and this radical legislature, these Democrats are not the Democrats of JFK or your grandpa or your grandma. JFK actually recommended to reduce taxes. This legislature, I feel like they are taking Coloradans, holding them upside down, and trying to shake out every last dime in our pocket, Kevin Lemberg.
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Yeah, you know, again, what they’ve been doing this year really underscores that. The first year I went into the legislature, back in 2003, we were in a recession, nationwide a recession. The economy was slowing down because it does go through cycles. And what I saw the legislature do, I was not too pleased with because they would take money from every cash fund they could and do everything to manipulate the budget so they could continue to pay for things. Well, they’re doing that this year as well, but there’s no recession nationally. Here in Colorado, though, I’m seeing some real strong warning signs. One thing that kind of surprised me when I ran across it last week was the office vacancy rate in downtown Denver and the Denver metro area in general. Now, there are some other factors when it comes to vacancy rates for offices because a lot of people work at home. But it’s at depression levels in downtown Denver. it’s like 35, 36% of the office spaces is not being occupied. And here’s another factor that I kind of developed when I was down in the legislature, because I’d drive to work, you know, down to the Capitol every day. I commuted from home. And so I’d go through a lot of traffic and I would notice that when traffic was really heavy, Man, the economy was booming, and the economic reports would come out that way. But then when things started to slow down, long before the economists came and gave us the bad news that, you know, things are slowing down, tax revenues are drifting down, and we’ve got some problems here, blah, blah, blah. I noticed that the traffic was just really light, and I could get down to the capital in, like, you know, 20 minutes sooner than, than what I was expecting. Well, last week I drove not, not to the Capitol, but I drove down to Denver and what I was expecting to be an hour and 20 minutes was less than an hour. And I thought, once again, I think the economy is falling flat and it just lines up with the vacancy rate. And it lines up with the other economic factor that, that I reported on in my newsletter, which is, uh, uh new government or new private uh business startups and it listed all 50 states now this was a little bit in retrospect because they don’t have that data in real time but i think it was from either 2024 or 2025 and colorado was at the bottom 49 states ahead of us on people want willing to start new businesses And that paints the same picture that I learned that I talked about earlier. We’re traveling around the country talking to friends, many of whom used to live in Colorado, and they’re just going to shake their heads in disbelief and say, I wish it was better. Well, I don’t want to be completely negative. This is why we’re doing what we’re doing with Protect Kids Colorado, is to change that. Because I believe Colorado is a wonderful state to live in with Fantastic people who have good, basic conservative values, but our government is not following the lead. They are pushing us the exact opposite direction. And you can see it in the economy. You know, mark my word, in next quarterly report for economics, we’ll show Colorado is drifting downward or dropping off a cliff, one of the two. But things aren’t booming here. Things are going the opposite direction. while much of the country is actually doing very, very well.
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So, Kevin, let’s talk about, because of this, this is something that will get people’s attention. And this election that is coming up is very, very important. The Colorado Republican Party is, is really in disarray. Now, yesterday we had Joe Altman on the line who is running for state GOP chair. Jeremy Goodall will be on the show in the second hour. He’s also running for state GOP chair. When I asked Joe Altman when the election was for the new state GOP chair, he said he thinks it’s at the end of May. Well, this is election season. How did we get to this point? We probably have some different races that we don’t even have candidates. What’s your thoughts on all this, Kevin Lumber?
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Well, okay. Let me try to clarify this a bit. The state party has been in significant disarray. But I don’t see the same thing at the county level. And I’ve got a little bit of history in this one, because I’ve counted it up. There’s about 10 elections that I was a candidate in. And so I kind of learned how the system works. And I discovered pretty quickly that the state party’s influence on actual And for me, it was mostly a couple of statewide things I ran for unsuccessfully. But in the state legislative arena, I was very successful. And I found that the state party didn’t have much influence one way or the other on my race. And that’s what I tell candidates today is, yeah, the state party is trying to figure its way out of a really complicated mixed-up mess. Um, but focus in on your, your, your county party system because most of those are good and healthy. I live in Larimer County and I’m on the executive board for the county GOP. And I can tell you that, that we’ve got a great team that have been aggressively moving in, in so many ways. Um, and we’re the ones that really can really support and help campaigns and, and so i’m not nearly as concerned with how it’s impacting the election directly except just by inference you know people kind of think oh they’ve got some problems now i’ll tell you one other thing and that is that uh we still do have a mechanism working and and i’m i’m hopeful that it’s working a little bit better now uh the vice chairman of the party eric grossman is his name i’ve had some conversations with him in the last week or so because I’m the chairman of the Lawson Committee challenging the open primary system, which we actually have some opportunities on right now. But Eric Grossman is very actively involved as the acting chairman right now. So it’s not like we’re, you know, rudderless, but we are in a change. And we’ve gone through – the biggest job of the state party is to hold the assembly, the state assembly, which we’re past now. And, yeah, it was kind of rough waters doing that, but they came through with the candidates now. And now I actually think that things will be moving along fairly well because the state party has an important role to play, but it’s not nearly as – essential for individual campaigns, as people may think. It can be a good resource, but candidly, I found that I was usually best off if I just kind of ignored what they did and ran my campaign and worked with the local county parties, and we were successful. We did a great job.
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Okay, well, that’s good to know. And let’s go to break because when we come back, we’re going to break a little bit early. In your Lundberg report, you mentioned a very dangerous bill that’s, I guess, it’s a law here in Colorado that the Supreme Court has accepted regarding transgenderism for preschoolers. And I don’t think I even was aware of that one, Kevin Lundberg. So let’s have a discussion about that. And we have these discussions because of our sponsors. And we’ll talk with him in the next hour. And that is John Bozen with Bozen Law.
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OK, let me correct one thing a little bit that you said, and that is government run preschool programs. And it is kind of a complicated thing because it’s not a specific this law or a bill that passed that set all this up. It’s just a whole cascade of the state has established, the legislature, I should say, and the governor have established a policy that supposedly protects anybody who has an obligation a gender identity or a sexual orientation, those are the words they use, to not discriminate against anybody who’s transsexual or LGBTQ, et cetera, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, they also set up universal preschool programs. Now, the preschool programs are actually administered, thankfully, largely through private entities. And so what it is is this preschool applies to the state to say, will you grant, will you give us the support so we can admit people who can’t afford to pay for our program, essentially. And so the state funds the preschool of private organizations.
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Okay, thanks for that clarification.
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Yeah, a Catholic parish has a preschool program And they were being required by the state to sign a nondiscrimination agreement in order to enroll in the state’s universal preschool program. And the agreement requires that preschool providers cannot enroll or deny families based on sexual orientation, religious affiliation, income, race, disability, or gender identity. Well, Because the state has established this policy that, you know, if you’ve got a preschool child and the parent says, well, little Johnny is really Susie now, then, you know, the preschool program has to go along with that. Just like the mental health counselors have to go along with accepting any gender dysphoria as being normal, natural, and you can’t even talk to the child about something other than that. And so, you know, this Catholic parish says, hey, we’ve got a preschool program. Colorado’s got a universal preschool system, but we can’t participate because they’re going to force us into a box that we consider to be morally wrong. And that’s what’s being challenged now at the Supreme Court level. And that’s a really complicated step or process to get there, by the way. So it’s not like you just call them up and they say, sure. No, you’ve got to go through all the pre-court steps or the lower courts, the inferior courts, through the system until you get to the Supreme Court. And then they don’t accept too many things, but they accepted this one, even as they have accepted several other issues in these areas that they beat back in Colorado. I mean, Colorado has the has a terrible record when laws are challenged at the Supreme Court level because the Supreme Court says, no, that’s unconstitutional, this is unconstitutional. Well, this one is too. Even as the bill I talked to about earlier, 1422, dealing with, again, the transgender issue, that one’s unconstitutional and it’ll be challenged eventually too. So anyway, This is the one that’s up against the court at this point. And I expect that the court will, they’ll probably hear the case next, in the fall of this year, and we probably won’t see a decision for another 12 months or so now, from now. But eventually, once again, the court will most probably even as they did with the mental health counselor issue, vote almost unanimously that Colorado got it wrong. And they are violating free speech. They are forcing people to accept or to speak in terms that disagree. And let me add one other thing. It’s not just who you let in, but it’s how you conduct your program. And this is where it impacts preschoolers most directly. That is, if you buy into this ideology of transgenderism for children, then you inevitably end up teaching these preschoolers all about these issues, you know, and causing them to question their own identity. You know, when they start talking about pronouns, they say, well, how are we going to address little Johnny here? Him, her, they, it. And this is, you know, this used to be considered lunatic language. But today, this is the normal stuff that the state of Colorado is forcing on everybody. And this one Catholic parish said, we’ve had enough of this. We’re going to stand up against it. And, you know, fortunately, the Supreme Court has now eventually picked it up and said, OK, well, we’ll look at this.
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Well, Kevin Lundberg, this is all connected. And with Protect Kids Colorado and the three ballot questions that, because of all these great volunteers, will be on our November ballot, there is a lot of people that don’t, I don’t think that they know what is happening in our schools with our young people. And I have mentioned this when I went to caucus last, This year, it was at one of the local high schools. And the classroom that I was in, there was no American flag. But on the wall, it was probably at least four feet wide. And that was a pride flag with the word A-L-L-Y blazoned across that. And so I’m like, what does this mean? The A-L-L-Y stands for kids that are straight, that are allies of those that are, you know, adhere to the LGBTQ pride flag. And this is in a high school that people think that this is in a conservative county. And I have on my list of things to do. I haven’t quite decided how to address this yet, but I am going to address that. But what this is, is kids have this pressure on. On a consistent basis, every day they go to school now that they’re getting their hands on, well, through funding on our little kids pre-K. This agenda is just being thrown at our children day after day after day. And then with this particular 1322, it basically ties parents’ hands to find anybody that can help them and their children work through this issue. It’s a very dark thing that’s happening here in Colorado.
SPEAKER 20 :
Absolutely. And, you know, yesterday in, in the, the Senate committee hearing for 1322 proved at one, once again, straight party line vote to, to support this nonsense. And, and let me throw one more thing at you because of, of, One of the important components in this is how the schools react to all this stuff. And you’re right, it’s just everywhere. I mean, go back and look at the film I helped put together, well, did put together, Art Club, where we dig deep into this and, you know, it’s everywhere. And we highlighted two families, the Lee family here in Colorado, but we spent a few minutes on another family, and that’s the Little John family down in Florida. which was our example of saying, look, it is everywhere, and we’ve reinforced with some other things. Well, there have been four court cases brought before the Supreme Court, starting with the Lee family, that the court has had the opportunity to look into this and to answer the question, should schools be allowed to do this indoctrination behind the backs of parents? And unfortunately, this week we received word that the fourth case was rejected and that was the little john case they rejected the lee case and there were two others and the court refused to hear this one either and we knew that they were right on the edge of accepting the lee case but you know i’ve talked about how the supreme court is doing the right things most of the time but but they have dodged the this uh this issue again And I’m not aware of any other cases that are moving through the system. I imagine there are somewhere. But we’ve got a lot of work to do still to get this fixed. And if you’re a parent with a public school student, I can almost guarantee that your child is being indoctrinated every day they walk into that class in that school.
SPEAKER 11 :
Absolutely. When you have that flag every day and kids go in, they see it. Absolutely. Kevin Lundberg, we are out of time. We will discuss this next week. We’ll figure out when the legislative session actually is really over, but it’s soon.
SPEAKER 20 :
I’m almost certain that it would be the 13th, but why people are saying it’s next week, I’m not sure, because they started late. They didn’t start until around the 13th in January, and it’s 128 days. It’s kind of an easy math situation that kind of wraps up on pretty much the same day. You know, a leap year kind of messes up once every four years.
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Okay. Well, we’ll get that figured out. We’ll talk with you next week. The quote for the end of the show is from Jordan Peterson. He said, can you imagine yourself in 10 years if instead of avoiding the things you know you should do, you actually did them every single day? That’s powerful. So, my friends, stay tuned for our number two. We’ll be right back.
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We are an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And I want to say thank you to the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show. We’ll talk with Susan Harris here in the segments two and three in this hour. So it should be quite interesting regarding elections, election integrity, and things that are happening down in Arizona. Our word of the day is reproach. R-E-P-R-O-A-C-H. And thank you to Dave. He had actually had suggested reproachment, but I just shortened it down to reproach. There are seven different definitions. One is to find fault with a person or group. Two, to criticize severely, upbraid. Three, to be a cause of blame or discredit. Four, to blame or censure, conveyed disapproval. Number five, an expression of contempt. Number six, disgrace or discredit. Number seven, an object of scorn or contempt. And reproach is spelled R-E-P-R-O-A-C-H. These definitions are from the Random House Webster’s College Dictionary. Our quote of the day is Jordan Peterson, born in 1962. He’s a Canadian psychologist, author, and media commentator. And… He received widespread attention in the late 2010s for his views on cultural and political issues. He’s often described as a conservative. However, he self-identifies as a classical liberal and traditionalist, which I think that’s how I self-identify as well. But he said this, he said, don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself and define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your being. And that’s Jordan Peterson. Our bill of the day is Senate Bill 26178, Health Insurance Affordability Measures, which that means it’s going to get more expensive. And it’s probably a move to try to move us to socialized health care here in Colorado. The sponsors on this are all Democrats, Senator Kyle Mullica, Senator Iman Joda, Representative Kyle Brown, Representative Lindsey Gilchrist. This is CUT’s position on this particular bill. Colorado Union of Taxpayers says this bill authorizes the Colorado Health Insurance Affordability Enterprise to impose a one-time supplemental fee of $40 million allocated equally among health insurance companies that meet specified criteria. It authorizes a $100 million loan from the unclaimed property tax fund to the enterprise’s cash fund and allows tax credits for contributions to the enterprise cash fund. CUT opposes this bill because it expands powers and funding of an unelected enterprise, which is all outside of TABOR, Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights. The $40 million one-time fee will drive up costs for all private insurance rate payers and establishes a dangerous precedent for one-time fees from the unclaimed property tax fund outside of taper restrictions. The safety clause prevents voters from their right to repeal this egregious bill. And taking this unclaimed property, these funds, this is people’s property. their property and they’re rating this for this particular bill. There’s another bill that they’re doing. So this is just, it’s, it’s actually, this is theft. It really is theft. And we need to unelect these people that are doing that. And that’s why we shed light on all of these issues every weekday. And it happens because of our sponsors. And we have one of, one of our great sponsors on the line. That’s John Bozen. John, welcome to the show.
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Good morning, Kim. So glad we got those folks looking out for affordability for us. Driving everything up. One-time fee.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. And there’s actually some other bills that are rating this unclaimed property tax fund as well. And we actually have some Republicans that have their name on that particular bill. It’s like, keep your names off those bills, my friends. But let’s talk about Bozen Law and and how important it is that you call the police if you have been involved in an accident. So walk us through that.
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Well, you know, a lot of these conversations that we have, Kim, revolve or are instigated by calls I have with actual prospective new clients. And again, last week, I have to have these conversations with folks because I You know, one of the things we ask people when they call in, they’ve been involved in a motor vehicle accident, were the police called? And when I hear no, I immediately, you know, kind of cringe because I know there’s a strong likelihood that the insurance company that is insuring the at-fault driver, the driver that caused the accident, is going to say they’re not accepting responsibility, they’re not accepting liability, right? because there was no determination of fault made by the police. That’s why you got to call them. And their insured is now changing their story, disputing that they were responsible for the accident. Happens on a regular basis, Kim. And then the other issue is sometimes the insured or the at-fault driver is doesn’t report the accident, and then refuses to talk with the insurance company, their own insurance company. So that insurance company is going to always deny liability. Doesn’t have to happen. Doesn’t happen if the police are called and allowed to make a determination of fault. That way, story can change. The at-fault driver’s story can change. The insurance company, they can’t get away with denying responsibility for the insured or the at-fault driver. So call the police if you’re involved in an accident. It’s the other driver’s fault. Turn that good heart off for just the 20, 30 seconds it takes to call the police to get out there. And I really shouldn’t put it that way. Because folks, I mean, folks want to be, okay, you don’t need to get a ticket. You’re accepting responsibility. I understand that, but it doesn’t work. People, you know, they’ll do things. Don’t take the chances. If you’re involved in an accident, call the police. Let them determine that it was the other driver’s fault. And you won’t have to deal with fighting the insurance company on liability or your attorney fighting that battle for you. It’s an unnecessary battle.
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Okay, a few years ago, I was at a stoplight and somebody ran into the back of my car. And he had State Farm Insurance, which they were wonderful to work with. He was wonderful to work with as well. And we actually pulled out of traffic. It was a very cold day. And my adrenaline certainly was really flowing fast. And we took pictures. We exchanged insurance information. I took a picture of his driver’s license as well. We called the police, but after 45 minutes, they had not arrived yet. And we agreed that we had places to go. So what would your suggestion be? I lucked out. He was up. He was upstanding. State Farm was upstanding. I lucked out, but I, after 45 minutes, we felt we needed to go along our way. What would you say to that?
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I would say if the gentleman is, or a lady is going to be forthright about accepting responsibility, say, you know, I really appreciate that. Just write out for me a statement and sign it and date it that you are accepting responsibility for this accident. And then we’ll leave the scene. I’ve heard stories of people waiting four hours and that, you know, it, it, If you don’t have any injuries, I think that is acceptable. The other alternative is to videotape if you’ve got a smartphone with you, the other individual accepting responsibility, no equivocation, just accepting that they were at fault for the accident. And if they don’t want to do either of those two things, then you better wait. You better call 911 again and And you better get the police out there because that person has just indicated that they’re one of those folks.
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And again, that’s John Bozen, Bozen Law, 303-999-9999. John, we’ll talk next week. Have a great week.
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Thank you, Kim. Have a great rest of your show.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And also check out the website for the USMC Memorial Foundation. They are hosting their big fundraiser, a golf tournament, May 14th out at the Ridge at Castle Pines. And get your foursome together and register. And that website is USMCMemorialFoundation.org, USMCMemorialFoundation.org. Pleased to have on the line with me, Susan Harris. And I do thank the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show as well. Susan, welcome. Good morning. Good to have you. And you have moved to Arizona, Colorado, this Colorado that we both love. Susan Harris is it’s it’s a dark spot right now. We talked with Kevin Lundberg in the first hour that Colorado is at the bottom of new private job creation or business creation. And the cities become dirty and dangerous. And so there’s a lot happening in this Colorado that we love. But you’ve moved to Arizona. And Arizona’s in the news right now regarding some things on elections. And I came across this from PBS News regarding a judge’s ruling about the top election official in Maricopa County. And Maricopa County is the most populous county in Arizona. So I know you’ve been watching election stuff in Arizona. What’s your take on this, Susan Harris?
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Well, I think what the court has said is basically the Board of Supervisors for the Maricopa County, which is the Board of Supervisors basically runs the county. It’s kind of like a city council for a city. Well, we have the Board of Supervisors for the county. And in the past, the recorder and the board of supervisors, they share some election functions, but for the most part, the law requires that the county recorder is responsible for most of what goes on in an election. But what’s interesting, and I think I better give some background information on this because From 1985 to 2019, so for over 30 years, there was what’s called the shared services agreement between the Board of Supervisors and the county recorder. And basically, the recorder pretty much ran the elections on behalf of the county. And the Board of Supervisors was available for very specific things. and also to support the county recorder should anything arise that he or she would want support regarding. But in, funny, in 2019, which I think is very interesting, the recorder, whose name was Adrian Fontes, and the supervisory board signed a new SSA that agreed to split election duties And so the recorder from that point on was going to handle early voting. And then the board was going to take over all the in-person voting and tabulation. Now, if you think about that, that is quite a shift in responsibilities. And it happened in 2019 where they made this decision. Now, interesting, 2019, the 2020 election in Maricopa County has been highly contested. And I just find that very interesting that for 30 years, they ran elections one way. And then for the 2020 election, all of a sudden, a new agreement was struck, and they decided to run them a different way, giving the Board of Supervisors a lot more power. But for whatever reason, that was done. And for the elections from 2019 all the way and through 2023, That’s the way elections were run. The recorder managed early voting, and the board was responsible for overseeing in-person voting and tabulation. Now, what happened after the horrific 2020 situation, there was an election for a new county recorder, and surprise, surprise, the county recorder that was running the 2020 election, was ousted. And there was a landslide vote against this guy, and we brought in a new person. And the former recorder was Stephen Richter, or Richter, I’m not sure how you say his name. But the new recorder was Recorder Heap, and I’m sorry, I can’t remember his first name now. Justin. Justin Heap, yes. So after… Justin Heath won this election. The lame duck recorder made a new agreement with the Board of Supervisors and behind closed doors transferred almost all election powers to the Supervisor Board. They transferred pretty much all of the election duties They reassigned all the personnel, reassigned all the IT responsibilities and staff, shifted all the funding, just rerouted all the public records relating to the elections, made that all the responsibility of the Board of Supervisors. So now the incoming clerk who was just elected in a landslide was stripped of all his powers before he got there by the incumbent and the sitting board of supervisors. So that’s kind of to set the stage of what we’re talking about regarding this case. So Recorder Heap came in and discovered that this had happened and proceeded to try to remedy the situation because legally he has responsibilities under the law, but administratively, he wasn’t going to be able to do any of those or fulfill any of those responsibilities because all the power had been stripped away. So he got with the attorneys, the state attorneys, and just said, is there anything I can do? What’s going on? And they said that actually any agreements that were signed before he was elected, he didn’t have to fulfill. And that’s what he decided to do. He wrote a letter to the board and said, I’m not going to agree to this new SSA that was done before I got in office. We need to come up with a new one. And here’s my proposal. And his proposal was basically to reinstate the former SSA that was there before he got there and before he got elected. So not even going all the way back to the previous um, SSA, which gave him pretty much full power, um, to run the elections or, or maybe it did give him a lot more than, than the previous one, but I don’t think it even gave him all the power that he had before. Um, so that’s the background of what happened, Kim. And it’s very unusual and, you know, just reeks of infighting amongst these, um, political bureaucrats, even though they are elected, I feel like they’re bureaucrats because something is going on that’s nefarious and it doesn’t make any sense.
SPEAKER 11 :
So what has happened now, yes, go ahead. So is the Board of Supervisors, are they Republican, Democrat, a combination?
SPEAKER 12 :
These are all Republicans. All these people, Republicans. Wow. I mean, it is mind-blowing. Now, I’m not sure. There are five members of the Board of Supervisors, and I’m not sure if they are 100% Republican. But Stephen Richer or Ricker was Republican, and Recorder Heap is Republican. And I know the woman who is in charge of the Board of Supervisors is Republican. So it’s… just really, really interesting. And to me, the fact that all of this started back in 2019, where they started ripping away the power from the recorder and pushing it to the Board of Supervisors, to me, that’s a big red flag in and of itself. So I guess Recorder, the Board of Supervisors basically did not respond. And no new agreement on how the elections were going to be run. No new shared services agreement or an SSA was put in place. And it’s still not in place because the board of supervisors would not cooperate and, and negotiate with him. And that is why he took it to court. Um, and you know, it’s just so interesting. Now the court has ruled in his favor. And they’ve said you have to give him back his personnel. You have to give him back his IT people and systems, all the equipment. You can’t override state law and use the budget money as leverage to take control of election duties. Basically, you have to follow the law. And the board is fighting this tooth and nail. They are going to probably, they’ve asked for a stay. on the judge’s decision, and they’ll probably appeal, and here we are up against an election right now, a primary. I did receive in the mail my 90-day notice that there’s an upcoming election, so someone’s doing their job still, thank goodness, but yeah, and honestly, I don’t know what’s you know, politically, I don’t understand personally, it sounds like there’s a lot of personal animosity going on and just a power struggle. And I don’t really have inside scoop or any knowledge about that, but it, you know, it’s just very, very strange. And it really just highlights again, that our elections are not being run properly.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and if we don’t have free, fair, honest, and transparent elections, then we don’t have America. So we’re going to continue the discussion with Susan Harris. And I do thank the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show. And also wanted to mention the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo. and doing great work. Check out, I mentioned this earlier, check out Drew Dix and Brad Padula’s podcast, Words from the Silo. They’ve completed the first season. They’re going to be working on the second season here soon. And you can find that by going to the website. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org, AmericanValueCenter.org. And we’re getting into time to do that exterior painting and spruce up the place. You can do that by reaching out to Radiant Painting and Lighting.
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SPEAKER 11 :
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SPEAKER 12 :
That’s not too strong a statement. It is absolutely true. And, you know, our elections, ever since the Board of Supervisors took over more of the power behind running elections, Our elections have been more and more contested regarding their integrity. When Governor Hobbs won the election, oh my gosh, literally people would go to the polls and machines were down and wouldn’t read the ballots. And the curious thing about that was they only went down in areas where conservatives tended to vote. So, you know, it’s just so frustrating. We had all these poll watchers set up because we tried to circumvent the ballot box stuffing problem that occurred in 2020. And so they just came up with a new plan to somehow have the machines malfunction. They claimed that somehow they didn’t service the machines properly before the election. It was an oversight. Well, if the Board of Supervisors is running that, then who is responsible for not having the machines serviced and brought up to speed so that they ran properly on election day? You know, it’s just a constant barrage of nefarious activities to make us all question whether or not our elections are run in a fair and proper manner. And now the board of supervisors, the woman who’s in charge of that committee, you know, she’s gone on local news stations and said how they would be happy to work with Recorder Heat to make sure that the elections run smoothly. They’re happy to assist. And, you know, it’s so interesting because they refused to negotiate a new shared services agreement. And, you know, but in public, the face they’re putting on it is that they are cooperating and that he is the problem. Whereas if you go back and look at the history of what happened, the power of the recorder has been slowly ripped away. And all Recorder Heap wants to do is restore his original record. you know, government, legislative required powers so that he can do his job. And it is very odd. The fact that most of these people are Republicans, if not all of them, again, just makes you question what is really going on behind the scenes.
SPEAKER 11 :
We have the same situation, well, I would say we have a similar situation in Colorado because, and I don’t quite know what to call it exactly, but people that, I would say it’s many of the consultants that have run the Republican Party, the Republican Narrative, They loathe the grassroots, the everyday people, and they’ve had control. I think it’s really somewhat of a uniparty. And it sounds to me like in a way that’s what’s happening in Arizona as well, is that the uniparty Republicans and Democrats work together. And what has happened is we have radical activists that have been elected and Okay, I understand politics. I understand the whole money thing. I get all that. But we’re at a totally different place now with that. And that is that here in Colorado, the radical activists… that have been in control. We now have abortion up until the time of birth. We have this radical activist transgenderism that is basically mutilating our children here in Colorado. And so it’s no longer about playing footsie with the other uniparty and, you know, greasing palms here or there. This is now, these are issues that are hurting people. And we’ve got to take a stand against this Susan Harris.
SPEAKER 12 :
I agree, and I think it’s very important for people in Colorado and Arizona to understand how important your local elections are. The people that are on the Board of Supervisors, they are elected. Unfortunately, at this right now, I feel like they’re more likely appointed, like they are handpicked. to run for election and nobody knows anything about these people. And so they get, if they’re on the ballot, they pretty much get elected. You know, instead of a true vetting process where people who are voting for these very local officials actually know what’s going on and know who they’re voting into office. And it’s very difficult to discern because The elections are not even well known. You know, people don’t do a lot of voting in these small local elections. And it’s very difficult to help people understand that the local elections might at this point be even more important than the national ones. They definitely are at least as important because we’re being, Overwhelmed from the top down with issues, but now we’re being overwhelmed from the bottom up. And I think these activists know that and then that that is their mode of operation. And we have to meet them where they are and fight back.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and to that, your assessment is absolutely correct that, for example, my city is having an election for new city council people in May. So here we are. People may not be paying attention now. They do send out the mail-out ballots, so people should all have received a ballot. But I had one of those, and this is the first time in a number of years that we’ve had contested races. So for my particular area, there’s three candidates, and I’d run into one of the candidates’ caucus, and he reached out and wanted to have coffee. Actually, I’ve met with all three candidates now, and they all are really, I think, great people and could be great representatives. But I thought, oh, you know what? I need to… reach out to the other candidates as well and have coffee and understand why they’re running. And then also the issue that I am going to take on is transparency of our local government. And I asked all three of them about that, and they said that they would be certainly in favor of that. And so whoever gets elected, I will interface with them. But I would suggest that all of us reach out to our local government elected representatives and have coffee with them. And to your point, we need to engage at this local level. So that’s great advice, Susan Harris. We’re just about out of time. How would you like to button this up, Susan?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I just, again, would like to encourage people. I know it’s hard to take time out of your day to deal with some of these political issues. You think that other people will handle it, and it’s just not true. Every one of us has a responsibility to get involved and really try to make a difference. That would be my message to people, especially all you grandparents out there. Your grandkids are counting on us. I feel like we kind of got ourselves in this quagmire, and it’s up to us to try to work our way out of it if we can. Our kids are all working really hard and trying to raise their families. So let’s support them by getting our governments back on track or getting them on track. I don’t know if they were ever on track, but let’s get them on track. Let’s have transparency. Let’s spend our money wisely, just like we would if it was our own money. That’s what I would suggest. And the reason I live in Arizona is because Colorado left me. I did not leave Colorado. It left me. And now I’m in Arizona and I’m seeing the same thing happening. And just as your guest earlier in the last hour said, this is everywhere. It’s not just Colorado. Colorado is, you know, it’s down the road a ways further than we are. But We all need to wake up and push back on these situations.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, we need to reclaim Colorado. You need to protect Arizona, and we will do that. Susan Harris, as always, it’s great to speak with you. We’ll talk with you next month, and have a great day. Thanks so much, Kim. You too. Bye-bye. And another great sponsor of the show is Lorne Levy for Everything Mortgages. He can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York. But if you know someone moving out of New York, Lorne can help them with that new mortgage.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. And the Colorado State GOP has a vacancy as the chair after Britta Horn stepped down. And Jeremy Goodall is throwing his hat in the ring to become the next Colorado State GOP chairman. And he’s on the line. Jeremy Goodall, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, thank you for having me, Kim.
SPEAKER 11 :
And you’ve been busy. Also, you are on the board of Protect Kids Colorado. And we had Kevin Lundberg on earlier in the show. And congratulations to you and the whole team on getting those ballot questions on the ballot. So congratulations.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, thank you. Thank you. It was a huge effort across the state. You know, 3,500 ticked off moms, dads, grandmas, grandmas, grandmas, grandparents. grandpas and uncles and aunts. And it’s just been a huge, it’s just been a huge upswelling. People want to protect kids and the Democrats want to mess them up and confuse them and make us have a parade to celebrate that confusion.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes. So congratulations on all that great work with Protect Kids Colorado. You are throwing your hat in the ring for state GOP chair. Question. Well, tell us a little bit more about you and then why you are doing that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, so I’ve been involved politically here in Colorado since. Well, I’ve been a precinct leader in El Paso County since 2006. I’ve been involved at the state level of the GOP since 2010. And I have had front row seats for every controversy, argument, misstep, success and failure of the state GOP, basically between now and then. And so I believe that I understand how we got into this mess. And I believe I have the vision and values to get us out of this mess.
SPEAKER 11 :
And it is a bit of a mess right now. Um, and this, so tell us about how this, uh, this chair is selected and when do you anticipate this is going to happen?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, we actually have gotten word that, uh, that the vice chair, uh, so we actually just had a, we actually just had the vice chair reelected, um, due to a, uh, Mr., uh, Mr. Holthorpe’s resignation. Effectively, the previous chair, Berta Horn, just ran off volunteers, other officers. That was just a constant thing. And so we did actually just reelect Mr. Eric Grossman, or elected Mr. Eric Grossman as the vice chair. And according to our bylaws, the vice chair is actually in charge of calling the election meeting for the chair. That’s one of the very few duties that they have. And so he has actually just announced that that will be actually occurring May 30th. And then that is an election from the state central committee. And so that’s all of the county officers, elected officials, and bonus members from the larger counties. And then we’ll have a big meeting and they will, they will elect just as the previous chair was elected by the same body back in March of last year. This will be occurring from the state central committee. roughly 500 of the top Republicans across the state.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. Jeremy Goodall, I hear from so many people that they’re concerned about the divisiveness in Colorado, the divisiveness in the Colorado Republican Party. How would you address that?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I grew up actually as a pastor’s kid, and my dad was basically brought in – like always to basically deal with churches that were in the midst of significant, let’s politely say dysfunction. And what you have generally in these types of situations is a pattern of toxic behavior. And so what you have to do is address that toxicity. And you do that by leading by example. That’s why I’m basically, my whole motto for this campaign is vision over vendetta. Because right now, when Republicans are infighting amongst ourselves, we’re doing the Democrats’ job for them. And what we need to do is actually protect our vision, protect our values, and protect our platform. And we need to basically remember what it is that we are as Republicans so that we can then communicate that to the broader population and be attractive to them rather than them seeing just a huge amount of catfighting.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and there seems to be a lot of that, which is not a good look whatsoever. What do you think about how to appeal to the unaffiliated voters? Because I think at least 50% of Coloradans are now registered as unaffiliated.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I think the unaffiliated is kind of a red herring. Because what’s happened is the Democrats in charge of our state have effectively disincentivized participation in party affiliation. Effectively, individuals, they get two ballots, especially for people that are not terribly involved, they get two ballots in the primary, and that doubles their voice, effectively. And so people are like, oh, well, then I’ll just be unaffiliated. Well, the problem with that is that unaffiliated are not Republicans. You’re choosing to not be Republican. You’re choosing to not be or not choosing choosing not to be Democrat. And so by being involved in the party and getting involved in like the caucus and the assembly process, this is actually where your voice is actually most magnified as as someone who has been involved in the caucus. It’s a unique Colorado feature that allows the individuals at the precinct level to connect and interact with fellow Republicans and see other or other party members, I guess, but in my case, Republicans. And it allows you to build those relationships to kind of get your face seen and to become part of a very, you know, a very connected body. And when we get connected, that’s where we get that’s where we get And that’s, you know, one guy standing alone is kind of vulnerable. But when you have two or three people standing together, then, well, we know what the Bible says about that. And when we get large groups of us getting together, you know, it becomes it becomes almost an army. And that’s that’s what we have to do is understand how to stand together on our vision, our values and our platform and stand together with a with a united voice saying that we are Republicans. And that is attractive to people. People don’t just stand in the center based on nuanced understanding of issues and careful consideration. They’re in the middle because they don’t think it matters. And it doesn’t matter because that’s apathy. The cure for apathy is passion and zeal. And that’s what we have to remind people of.
SPEAKER 11 :
What about the open primary? What’s your view on that?
SPEAKER 03 :
I think the open primary has been an absolute disaster for the Republican Party. Since the implementation of that, we have not won a single statewide race. That’s just the numbers. The idea of it is superficially attractive. We’ll have Like, you know, we’ll bring in the unaffiliated and we’ll bring in the stuff. It’s like, no, it’s, it’s like a kind of, kind of like falling back to your ex. I’m like, Oh, why did you leave me? Why? You know, like nobody, nobody, nobody finds that attractive. It just, it’s, it’s, it displays weakness. It displays a lack of conviction and people are not convinced by that. And so the open primary, I actually stood up at the state convention and assembly. I was the guy that stood up and actually, put forward a motion to actually compel our legal, the GOP legal team to actually pursue an injunction to actually achieve a closed primary for this cycle. And that was overwhelmingly supported to the point where they overruled the RNC parliamentarian who had come in to run the meeting on Brita’s behalf.
SPEAKER 11 :
OK, so, Jeremy, we’ve got just about 30 seconds left. How can people get more information about you, Jeremy Goodall?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yes. Well, if you’re on the state central committee, you’ll be getting my emails and probably phone calls. But it is an internal election. And so we don’t really we’re not going for like a big, broad, you know, Web site and all of that. But if they want to reach out to me, my phone number and I get texts all the time is seven one nine. 352-8405. Okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
Jeremy Goodall, thank you so much and wish you best of luck. Well, thank you so much, Kim. And our quote for the end of the show is Jordan Peterson. He said, can you imagine yourself in 10 years if instead of avoiding the things you know you should do, you actually did them every single day? That’s powerful. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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