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Indeed, let’s have a conversation. And welcome to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today, strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Wednesday, Producer Joe. Happy Wednesday, Kim. And if it’s Wednesday, that means that it is Wings Day at Hooters restaurants. You buy 20 wings, you get an additional 10 for free, and that is for to go or to dine in. And so great to partake on that as we are working our way through the basketball playoffs, the NBA playoffs, as well as the march towards the Stanley Cup in hockey. So partake of this great special every Wednesday because Hooters is world-renowned for their wings. 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And we are doing them with great journalistic integrity, sourcing them, checking, really giving both sides of the issue. I do have editorial comment on it. But make sure that you sign up for the Daily Digest. We will not automatically sign you up. You can email me at kim at kimMonson.com. And text line is 720-605-0647. And I thank all of you who support us as we do this important work. Probably one of the big news pieces that I wanted to share with you is that REMAX has been sold and will be moving their headquarters away from Colorado. And when we have Karen Levine on tomorrow, she is with REMAX Alliance. We’ll want to talk about that. But this is yet another company that is leaving Colorado, and it’s because of all of these terrible policies coming out of the legislature, also at state and county governments. And so I’m sad to hear that happen, but they will be moving it, their headquarters. And let’s see, I think they’re moving to Florida. Hold on just a second here. And let’s see. Oh, gosh. Well, I’ll get that for you here in just a minute so that I have that. I think it’s Florida. But anyway, they are moving out of Colorado. I want to say thank you to our goal sponsors. And our goal sponsor that we’ll highlight today is Laramie Energy. And it is reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant power from oil, natural gas, and coal, which are hydrocarbons, that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. And if you’re having any challenges with your own personal climate, reach out to Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. That number is 303-995-1636. And I thank LearnMe Energy for joining us at the Kim Monson Community and Newsroom as goal sponsors as well. Our word of the day is, it’s an interesting one, and I think I saw it in one of Rob Nadelson’s pieces. I should write down where I find the word, but it’s turgid. It’s spelled T-U-R-G-I-D, and it’s an adjective. And the first definition is probably the one that I will use. Excessive, ornate, or complex in style or language. I have to look that word up. So I would say that there is so much legislation that is turgid here in coming out of this Colorado State Legislature. But it could also mean swollen or distended as from fluid or bloated, or it could be number three, distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force. So it could be swells, swollen, bloated, inflated, those kinds of words. So your challenge is to use the word turgid, T-U-R-G-I-D, in a sentence today. Our quote of the day, I went to Francis Bacon, who was born in 1561, died in 1626. He was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. He argued for the importance of natural philosophy guided by the scientific method, and his works remained influential throughout the scientific revolution. And he said this, “…it’s not what we profess, but what we practice that gives us integrity.” And again, that is Francis Bacon. Our bill of the day, this is a real bad one. This is Senate Bill 26172, also known as the Front Range Passenger Rail District. And people are not riding the train as it is. Expansion of this is a terrible idea, very expensive. The sponsors on this are all Democrats. They are sponsor Nick Hendrickson, Kathy Kipp. And let’s see, they are both senators and then Representative Andrew Bosenecker and Representative Amy Paschal. This is CUT. CUT is taking a strong no position on this. And this is our commentary. It says the bill makes a number of changes to the boundaries and operation of the Front Range Passenger Rail District for the purpose of eventually providing rail service from Wyoming to New Mexico. Who’s going to ride that? What a boondoggle. RTD is a huge strain and strain on all taxpayers and has been for decades. It’s never had the ridership to justify its completed projects, yet alone even more projects. This plan resembles something that California has done with the infamous bullet train. This proposed legislation is not needed and unwarranted. There is simply no demand for such a boondoggle. It is a land grab that will entail a great deal of eminent domain all the way from Wyoming to New Mexico. And that is the Colorado Union of Taxpayers’ position on that. And I do want to give a shout-out to our Cup Board members. And they are Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, David Evans, Corey Onozorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. When you see these folks, say thank you and join us so that you will be informed on what is happening in our state and you will be a cut above all of your friends and family. And you can do that by going to coloradotaxpayer.org, coloradotaxpayer.org. And I am blessed to work with amazing sponsors. And I’m talking with show sponsor Carl Jones with Radiance Power, and it’s an electrical contracting company. And Carl, welcome to the show.
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Hi, how are you doing this morning?
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Well, I am doing well, and I know that you are very busy, which is always a great problem for an entrepreneur to have. But one of the reasons is, is because you focus on doing quality work at also a reasonable price. But you’re able to do that because why, Carl?
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One of the biggest reasons is we maintain a smaller company, so we have a lower overhead by reducing the need for large commercial spaces and many vehicles. We don’t have to pass that overhead cost on to the customer with additional service call fees and higher than normal hourly rates.
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And because of that, you’re quite busy. If somebody needs something done immediately, what’s the turnaround time right now if somebody needs to have something done regarding their electricity at their house?
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Yeah, so right now we’re kind of in the transitionary phase. We’re trying to bring on a couple more guys to our team to kind of help out with this. Right now we are in the busy season, so we’re booked out at least a couple of weeks just for basic service calls, bigger installs like generators and panel changes and stuff like that. We’re booked out about four weeks right now, which is pretty high for a service call company. So we’re definitely trying to get those numbers lower.
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Okay. And hiring new people, though, I remember a friend of mine has said that you hire slow and fire fast. And so it really does take time to find those right people to add into your company.
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Yeah. Yeah. And we’ve got two promising prospects that we’ve been working with for about a year now, trying to bring them on board full time. But it’s looking like it’ll probably be another couple of months before they’re both fully integrated.
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Okay. Yeah, it does take time. But with that, even though there’s a little bit of a wait time, people should give you a call and get on your schedule if they have things that they need to have accomplished. And, of course, regarding the generators, more and more people are really exploring having generators as backup, aren’t they, Carl?
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Yeah. And with generators as well, it’s three to four weeks isn’t that bad with such high demand right now for generators. They’re not even in stock at most places. So you’ve got about a four week lead time just to get them delivered on site. I know some of the bigger companies we compete against in the area are booked out three to four months just for generator installs.
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Okay. And generators are important if somebody has a medical condition that relies on machinery or whatever and electricity. Of course, so many people work from home. And if the power goes out, it affects their productivity, able to get things done. So it does make sense. But they’re not a small ticket item, are they, Carl?
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No, no. Usually a small generator job averages about, I’d say, $15,000 to $20,000. And they can go upwards of $50,000, just depending on how big of a home you have or how big your generator needs are.
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Okay. And so in order to explore getting a generator, people can reach out to you. Best way is the website?
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Yeah, the best way is the website. You can submit your information and we’ll reach out or you can call us directly and we’ll come out for a free walk-down quote. We can usually get a walk-down quote in much earlier than that, a couple of week lead time for our standard service calls. That way we can at least get you on the schedule and get it priced in front of you for the project.
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Okay, and what is that website? What’s your website?
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It’s going to be radiancepower.net.
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And that’s Radiance, R-A-D-I-A-N-C-E, power.net. And Carl, thanks so much. We’ll talk with you next week and have a great day.
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Yep, sounds great. You too.
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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. Also check out the website for the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo. And that website is AmericanValuesCenter.org. And they will be hosting their next On Value Speaker Series with Lieutenant Colonel Joe Lewis. And he and his wife were the co-founders of Angels of America’s Fallen. And so that is going to be on May 14th at 4 p.m. And you can get more information by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. On the line with me is Engaged Citizen. He’s with the Ralston Valley Coalition. Mike Rolick, welcome to the show. It’s good to have you.
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Kim, good morning. How are you?
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Good. Has your blood pressure been up a little bit this week as you’re watching this legislation?
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Well, I mean, no, it’s all just part of the process. It is some interesting stuff. But yeah, well, in particular, maybe maybe one of the things that have kind of kind of caught me a little bit in general, it’s just. In and of themselves. Some of these rail projects in and of themselves are not bad. It’s just how are they paying for it? How are they getting there? What’s fair for representation? What’s fair for taxation or not? And it just seems like it’s kind of trending in the wrong direction as far as the taxation side goes, as far as representation side goes. And yeah, that kind of gets me a little bit when projects look good on the surface, but then how do you pay for them?
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You’re alluding to something that sounds like taxation, representation. I remember there was a country that was founded on something that said no taxation without representation.
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Yes, it is interesting. And just a concept that I’m wrestling with more than anything right now is the fact that boards of appointed districts… or boards of appointed situations can actually be conferred the power to raise your taxes, yet they’re unelected. And for instance, there was a congestion impact fee that had come from, it was Senate Bill 24184 that said to pay for the Front Range Passenger Rail and to pay for Colorado Mountain Rail and to generally try to dissuade people from driving. We should put a $3 fee on top of every day you rent a car. And then when I was looking into CODOT, they actually have a board that’s unelected that was able to talk about raising that fee for inflation adjustments. And I’m like, well, gosh, I thought it was set at $3, and all of a sudden you have an unelected board. That’s only another $0.50, but every $0.50 matters. But now you have an unelected board that literally raised your tax or fee, I should say, feels like the same thing if you rent a car and you can’t vote on them. And I think that’s kind of a breakdown. That’s not really what I wanted to get into today, but that’s just it’s a concept I wrestle with really badly.
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OK, well, let’s get to the things that you want to make sure that you hit today, Mike Rollick.
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Absolutely. So first thing is very interesting. If anyone lives in a spot with smaller lots, there is a new Senate bill that’s coming up, 26177. It says access adjoining property to repair or maintain. And it will be today at 1.30 p.m. And the gist of this bill says If you have a very tiny setback or possibly a zero lot line, I know that happens a lot in Denver and other cities, you know, towards the inside of the city. If you need to make repairs and your neighbor says, no, you can’t access my property, you would, if this passes, would have a method to go to court and have the court impose on your neighbor that you or your contractors can go on the property for the prescribed maintenance. And… I find that to be possibly a quarter of the story here. They don’t talk about liabilities. They don’t talk about requirements for insurance. They don’t talk about what happens if someone destroys your lawn, possibly to get to the pipes that they need to get to and how do they put them back together. There is no specific situation where it says, this is what it looked like before. We took umpteen pictures of drones and what have you to say, this is what the neighbors looked like before. We’re going to have it back to exactly the same. And there’s not a lot of discussion on whether people could be contractors, off the books labor, things like that. Is everybody bonded? Is workman’s comp in place? Things like that. So if my neighbor doesn’t want my contractors on their yard, How do we work that out in a citizen fashion? And I was a realtor in California and it was always an interesting thing with twin homes and say we had a termite clearance one time and we had to put the termite tents up and what have you. How do you get the other side of the twin home out? I understand there’s a problem, but it also becomes a problem because now a court is saying thou shalt let someone else onto your property. What if there’s security concerns? What if you have dogs? What if you’re on vacation? How do you do this? And it’s just a very interesting bill. I don’t know if Cut looked at this one.
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You know, I don’t think that we did. And I guess that would fall under property rights. No, we didn’t take a position on that yet. I’ll have to ruminate on that just a little bit. Mike, what else do… Oh, go ahead.
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No, absolutely. It’s an interesting thing because We see more pressure towards smaller lots, and they have the lot split bill that’s, I think, still in the queue. And they’re saying now that the state can say to a city or county, you can’t prevent a smaller lot or a lot split. So someone can have a larger lot, say an acre, and break off a 1,200 square foot Section, if that happens to be close to your section, your lot, you might be in the situation where now they want to build a home or repair a home, a smaller home, and you have to let people onto your land. So it’s an interesting, like I said, property rights issue. Like how does this all work out and how are all the property owners indemnified? So I think it’s part and parcel to the idea that we’re going increasingly towards smaller and smaller lots.
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And they do this all because they say that we need to have more and more density. However, what I see is this is just a direct assault upon private property rights, this assault upon people living in single-family neighborhoods. And then we see these subsidized industrial apartment complexes that they’re just all over this metro area, which I’m just very concerned about that. What’s the next thing that you want people to know about microlics?
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Well, we had, um, Senate bill, uh, 26, one 72, and that deals with, uh, truncating the size of the front range passenger rail. But what’s interesting about it that, you know, I sat in and testified on this a little bit. Um, Senator Mullica was able to get Northland to be exempted from the district based on the fact that they didn’t have a station. Um, The stations will be Fort Collins, Loveland, Longmont, Boulder, Louisville, Broomfield, Westminster, Denver, Littleton, Sterling Ranch, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo. However, if you live in Arvada, Walmart, Centennial, Cherry Hills, Village, Columbine Valley, Edgewater, Englewood, Federal Heights, Glenwood, Greenwood Village, Lafayette, Lakeside, Lakewood, Littleton, Manitou Springs, Mountain View, or Sheridan, all the way down to Trinidad, you will be asked to pay for it. this through another half cent sales tax and that’s going to be a a direct vote in in november what had happened was northland didn’t have a station and senator malika was saying well gosh why are we going to be taxed if we don’t get the perceptible benefit and so the idea here was uh the sponsors had said well you know we had to draw a line somewhere and if you have a station within five miles of 20% of your population, you’ll be included in the taxing district, even if you don’t get a station. So you’re paying for potentially something you don’t have benefits from. So, you know, for instance, Arvada will not have a station, yet you’ll be asked to pay a half cent sales tax if this goes through. So now you’re looking at the 7.96 plus another 0.5, you’re looking at 8.46% sales tax. If this passes in November, again, no station available. potentially no perceptible benefit. Arvada reaches all the way past Highway 93. And so, you know, the folks over there, yeah, Arvada’s 35 square miles. The folks over there just get nothing out of this whole situation. So it’s a very interesting problem when you’re looking at asking other people to pay for stations that don’t really serve you.
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Well, and the ridership is terrible on RTD as it is. And When we have these PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties that opine about concern regarding affordability, when you add a half percent sales tax on top of what people are already paying for going out to eat or a variety of different things… it makes life a lot more expensive. It makes life expensive for everyday people. So this is, um, we’ve really got to organize to, to defeat this particular measure. We’ve got a couple of minutes left. Mike Rolick, how do you want to button this up?
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Oh, I also just want to talk about the fact in this bill, uh, the, the, um, front range passenger district will now be able to create sub districts and they, they get the power of a, uh, was it 32-1-1101? I know it’s just a CRS reference, but common financial powers definition. And it literally says the board gets to get the new powers, the sort of sub board that gets appointed by the board, which is neither are elected. They both get the power to levy and collect ad valerum taxes in value added taxes on and against all taxable property within the special district. So levy and collect taxes and collect revenue, whether, sorry, whenever any indebtedness has been incurred by a special district. That’s a dangerous one. So if you have a project overrun and you have a sub-district now that’s created by this new bill, this sub-board that’s unelected, appointed by other folks that are unelected, now have a power to levy a tax for indebtedness. And that’s kind of frightening stuff. And Letter C says to issue negotiable coupon bonds of this special district. So once again, now they’re adding more debt to the pile to possibly get a project over to finish line. So it’s not just to have sent sales tax. It’s the fact that this is getting funded by the rental car fees, the oil and gas fees that was passed in 2024. And now potentially this sub board would have the power to, to tax the sub-district to handle indebtedness. And I just question the wisdom here. If it’s a good economic idea, why wouldn’t BNSF themselves be sponsoring this and say, gosh, we’ve been doing freight for so long, we do so well, but we see a good economic need to use our own tracks to move people. Let’s make some money.
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Yeah, that’s an excellent point. Mike Raleigh, thank you so much for sharing all of your perspective and research on all this. We’ll talk with you next week.
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Sounds good, Kim. Have a great day.
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And boy, we’ve got to really stay on top of this. And thank you to Mike. And I know Gammy has been very involved in this as well. Thank you to her. She’s a real warrior on this. And all these discussions happen because of our sponsors. And one of those is Karen Levine.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. And on the line with me is Dr. Jill Vecchio. And you know her. She’s one of the few people that read the complete Obamacare bill, the Unaffordable Care Act, and was out on the stump talking about the dangers of socialized medicine. And she’s the one that said that when government gets involved in something, the price goes up, the quality goes down, and the supply becomes limited. So welcome Dr. Jill Vecchio. Good morning, Kim. How are you doing today? I should say good morning and good afternoon to your audience. Well, let’s jump into this, Jill. We decided that we would delve more into Agenda 2030, which we are seeing this agenda playing out not only from the globalist elites on the global level, but all the way to counties, municipalities, big time here at this Colorado State Legislature with this governor and even to special districts and school districts.
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Right. Well, and farming. Colorado has land trusts and all this conservation. I wanted people to understand a lot of this, what’s happening around our country, and I have specific examples happening in California and Nevada. Farms and farming operations, farmers are being attacked by environmental groups, And they’re trying to seize their land. If they’re leasing land or BLM land, Bureau of Land Management has grazing, they have grazing rights. They’re trying to take those away. This is all part of Agenda 2030. And I’m going to talk kind of fast because my phone is dying and it refuses to charge on any chargers. So it’s my phone this morning.
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Oh, man. OK.
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So we may drop out. I sent you a text. I talked to Joe about it anyway. So. So you may have to wing it if we get dropped off, but I’m going to blab kind of fast. So there’s a project within Agenda 2030 that is, and this is all part of Great Reset, Agenda 21, all the same, just new iterations of the same plan. It’s called 30 by 30. You can look this up, folks. Look it up on YouTube, Google it, and you just have to say 30, like the numbers, 30X30 land, and it will come up all over the place. It didn’t before, but now they’re getting so brazen about it. Now you can find all kinds of information. And now they’re changing the name of it. Biden changed the name of the program instead of 30 by 30. It’s called America the Beautiful. But you can find it under 30 by 30 and put like federal land or something. At this point in time, well, the idea of 30 by 30 is that by the year 2030, hence part of Agenda 2030, by the year 2030, 30% of the land in the United States will be owned, owned by the federal government. Now in the Western half of the United States, the Western section of the United, not the half, but the Western section of the United States from like, you know, kind of Utah, Nevada and out to California, they already, the federal government already owns or controls like 70% of the land. That’s wild. Nevada under Henry Reed, Harry Reed, right? Harry Reed, that Senator, under his stuff, I think it advanced remarkably, but something like 80% of the land in Nevada is owned or controlled by the federal government. I think it’s actually owned by the federal government. And then there are things called land trusts that can be governmental, non-governmental associations like the Cattlemen’s Association. All these different associations, non-governmental entities and so forth can have land trusts. And I think You know, Bill Gates, he owns a bunch of farmland. But when we say owns farmland, a lot of these are in these real estate trusts. That’s how he owns so much farmland. It’s not directly owning a lot of the land from my research from a few years ago. Anyway, what these trusts are doing and these environmental groups, especially the Nature Conservancy, the Nature Conservancy is the big hitter here. They spend billions of dollars in litigation and working with land trusts to kick farmers and ranchers off of their land. I have specific examples that we can give if my phone holds out. But they’re working. The land trusts will buy the land in secret agreements with ranchers or they’ll condemn the land outright. The trust will buy the land from the government. I mean, there are all these weird things. There’s public-private partnerships, NGOs behind this whole 30 by 30 project in order to boot farmers off of their land and essentially put them out of business. It’s happened in California, Point Reyes, California, which is up by, it’s like north of San Francisco, between San Francisco and like Napa area. And it’s on the ocean. It’s on the coast. It’s a beautiful area. My husband and I have been there. They’re famous for their cheese. Point Reyes blue cheese is like the best blue cheese ever. But they have a bunch of beef ranching and dairy ranching operations in Point Reyes. Well, the story goes that the federal government established the Point Reyes National Park in the 1960s, like 1962. And they bought all the land and reserved all the land at Point Reyes. And there were ranchers living on that land then, dairy and beef ranchers living on that land. They continued to own that land in 1962, continued to own the land, but they were surrounded by National Park. Okay, then in the late 1960s, The federal government condemned the park. Why? Who knows? And the ranchers kept going on their land. But for some reason, the federal government condemned the park. I don’t know how that works. In the 1970s, the federal government purchased the ranchers’ land from them, purchased land from them, using our tax dollars, and then gave the ranchers back long-term leases to use the land for the ranching. Then the Park Service late in the 1970s reintroduced a special kind of elk, a tool elk or something, some kind of elk into the Point Reyes Park. Yeah, you’re starting to see what’s happening here. Then the elk were so happy there and it had no predators and you couldn’t hunt them. There became too many elk and they started to starve and die because they didn’t have enough grazing land because the ranchers had fenced off. their leased ranch land. So then the ranchers started to be attacked in 2016 by lawsuits by the environmental groups to end the ranching on Point Reyes because it was hurting the elk. Okay. So then the government did this big study and found that the ranching should continue. That was their recommended environmental impact study. The government said in 2021 the ranching should continue because they needed to graze down the grasses for wildfire purposes, things like that. The impact that these ranching operations and dairy operations were having was actually beneficial to the region and not harmful. Then the environmental NGOs, including Nature Conservancy, sued the federal government again. They’re not going to let up. They’re always going to keep going, keep going, keep going. This time, there was a secret settlement and somehow some secret meetings, and all of a sudden, the government started teaming with the Nature Conservancy Group, and Nature Conservancy gets some hundreds of millions of dollars of our tax money in grants, in government grants, to do their thing. Yeah, there’s a secret settlement arrangement where they paid the ranchers for them to leave. Um, and then, but now there, but there have been a whole bunch of, these are big ranching operations, huge amount of people, workers live, have homes on the ranch on that lease ranch land. Well, there was no accommodation made for those people, but little guy, the ranchers who knows how much money they got. And now there there’s a volunteer, a volunteering lawyer, who’s doing pro bono work to represent the now indigent people that are being kicked off, kicked out of their homes that they’ve had sometimes for generations on these ranch lands. No accommodation was made for these folks. And the impact, the financial impact of these huge, these dairy operations, ranching operations, all the support systems that go along with that much ranching in that particular area are all going to be out of business, gone. Yeah, so this is how they operate. They harass people bit by bit by bit. It’s like death by a thousand cuts. And now when you’re… They’ve been going at it. That’s part of the project. That’s how they’re going to get 30% of this land owned by the federal government. And then we’ll go into Wildlands Project.
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Yeah, but they are playing long ball. Just like I think they’re playing long ball by putting up all these industrial apartment buildings that are being subsidized with our tax dollars again. You wonder where are all the people going to come from that’s going to be put into these apartment buildings that they look like prisons. This is all part of this, right?
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Yeah, yes. So there’s a thing called the Wildlands, W-I-L-D Lands, Wildlands Project. It was part of NAFTA. Hold on, let me pull up my, I have a slide of it. Okay, so it’s a map, and you can find it, just do wildlands project map. And this map will come up, and it’s like red, mostly red, but it’s some orange and yellow. This is called the – this is official. This was made up by our U.S. government, our government, Simulated Reserve and Corridor System to Protect Biodiversity. As mandated by the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Wildlands Project, United Nations and U.S. Man and Biosphere Program, and various U.N. U.S. Heritage Programs, and NAFTA, North American Free Trade Agreement, Bill Clinton. Okay, so this was started in, like, 1992. The most complete map, I think, was out in 2006 or 2007. When you look at the map, I’m going to kind of describe it to you. The vast majority of this map, and this is their goal, the vast majority of the map is red, red and orange. The red and orange, according to the legend, the red is core reserves and corridors, little to no human use. That is probably 30 to 40 percent of the United States. This is what they want to see. Almost the entire western United States, like just at maybe the, they don’t have the states outlined. That tells you something right there, right? So they don’t even have the states outlined, but somewhere in western Colorado or eastern Utah, it’s almost half of it is red for these core reserves and corridors little to no human use no people are allowed to live there even hike there nothing okay then we have orange much of this is orange buffer zones highly regulated use so around these areas where no people are supposed to be living i mean think again like 19 uh was it 1984 uh and uh some of these other uh ayn rand had a book where they’re talking about huge areas where people used to live in their abandoned houses. If people escaped from their confinement in their big cities and went out and they could find a house that hadn’t been lived in for 50 years. Right. And, you know, I don’t know if you know these dystopian books anyway. So they have these buffer zones around these areas where we’re not supposed to be. We’re not supposed to touch it. Then they have a buffer zone, highly regulated use. And then they have some faint green areas, like up and down the Midwest and South Central, like Texas, Iowa, farming areas, Nebraska, some in Colorado, and then the Southeast. And I think that’s probably maybe for some farming operations or something. Normal use zones of cooperation. Zones of cooperation. There is nothing here that says private property.
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Nothing. Okay.
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Jill, we need to go to break. Okay, I’m sorry.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. And do check out the website for the USMC Memorial Foundation. They’ve got their big golf tournament coming up on May 14th at the Ridge and Castle Pines. It should be a great day of golf and a great way to support the USMC Memorial Foundation. That website is USMC Memorial Foundation dot org. And then also Jody Henze and her team over at Mint Financial Strategies will be hosting their May event. It will be on Tuesday, May 12th, 5 p.m. It’s a virtual. And the subject is AI. And what you can expect on this is a fresh perspective on how AI is evolving beyond simple search, real world ways that people are beginning to integrate AI into everyday life, insights on how to think and use AI as a tool, and a look at what’s coming next and why it matters. And so to reach out and RSVP, you can RSVP at Jody, that’s J-O-D-Y, at Mint, M-I-N-T-F-S.com. That’s Jody at MintFS.com. We’re talking with Dr. Jill Vecchio. And Jill, I really work to stay focused on the issues, but it is important to… bring up the people behind these issues. So you, what you have just described out here in the West is that basically land is going to be put into, um, And it could be a variety of things. You said conservation easements or whatever. But one of these land trusts, there is one that is very concerning. It’s called the Gunnison Outdoor Resources Protection Act, the GORP Act. And it was introduced in May of 2025, which basically and they touted as homegrown conservation in and around the Gunnison Basin. But ultimately, it’s it’s it’s it’s this movement, what you are just describing. And that is it’s not going to be that we’re going to be able to go out and go into the wild. There’s wolves going to be everywhere unless we get that stopped and a variety of things. But the real problem on this is that the sponsors on this are Senator Michael Bennett, Democrat, Senator John Hickenlooper, Democrat and Representative Jeff Hurd, Republican. And it’s important that people understand that, Jill.
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Yeah, and when you look up land trust, Colorado has land trust all over the place. I mean, I think every single county has a land trust. And granted, it’s nice to have these open spaces and stuff. That’s great. But it’s also, the problem is it starts one way and evolves or devolves into something totally different. So it always starts out like a great idea, beautiful, love the parks and everything. But now when you’re going to the extreme of taking away land that has belonged to families for generations. And these aren’t, you know, it’s not like you’re a big city. Now, I wanted to finish with this map real quick. Where we’re supposed to live is in those little, is in those housing units, a little, there’s a, clusters of little tiny black dots on this wild plants project map that is where we’re supposed to live and that’s the only place we’re supposed to live and those black dots are probably those industrial apartment buildings one of our listeners said that that’s the plan and and it’s happening right before our eyes i hear jill and it’s been going on for decades and we never knew about it Why isn’t the government telling us this little plan? That’d be nice since it’s our taxpayer money that’s paying for this, and it’s our government that came up with this map. Our own government.
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Well, and the government does not have the money. We’re in significant debt. But yet, and we are seeing people on both sides of the aisle that are up the trough on getting incentives and grants to make all of this happen.
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Right, right. And it’s our tax dollars that are being granted to the Nature Conservancy to take away our property rights. Without property, we have no… you know, you cannot be independent without private property. And then the government and kind of the world economic forum, the, everybody who, all the world elites have to have us in a position where we have no independence, no independent authority to do anything. So, and that’s what, that’s what this is all about. Go back, you know, the road to serfdom, right? Go back to the way it used to be where there were Kings and Queens and, big landowners and lords and ladies and all of those little peasant serfs working on their farms. And it’s kind of like, wow, is this where we’re headed here?
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Well, it is actually where we’re headed if we don’t get this turned around. But I am very encouraged because everyday people are now stepping forward. This thing that happened out in Lakewood with citizens coming together and getting those four initiatives for a special election and defeated this upzoning that was happening in Lakewood. And so people across the region are starting to step forward. We’ve got about a minute left, and congratulations. I think your phone charge is going to make it. How would you like to button all this up? Jill Vecchio.
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Well, there is a great website, and you can find videos of this wonderful, very sharp lady who was a rancher in Nevada, and their family fought the federal government for 27 years in court, finally lost. They won every case and then lost the last one on a technicality, or their appeal was rejected on a technicality. But their website is American Stewards, S-T-E-W-A-R-D-S, American Stewards of Liberty, and the website is AmericanStewards.U.S. That’s AmericanStewards.U.S. And they have all kinds of great information on the 2030, on the 30 by 30 project. I mean, these folks know their stuff very, very well informed. And it was great to watch it because it’s like, wow, this is the stuff I’ve been talking about for years, too. And God bless them. They set this up, this website up and this organization up a long time ago. And they’re just I mean, they’re doing wonderful work, but trying to help farmers and warn farmers. What’s happening to them? The conservation easement line is changing, folks. The CRPs, which are conservation reserve programs, they’re offered to farmers here. You know, if you have a piece of land like we have one on one of our pieces of land because it was initially started for to prevent soil erosion. But if you have a difficult piece of land that is difficult to farm and you have a lot of soil erosion, You can sign up for this. You let it go fallow. You put some kind of grass cover or cover crop on it and don’t do anything with it. The government pays you for it. I mean, it’s not a good idea. But a lot of farmers depend on it and they’ve gotten used to it over decades.
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I know it. And this is all coming to a head on all this. We’re going to continue this discussion on a regular basis, Jill. And as always, thank you. I greatly appreciate it. Great. Take care, everybody. Our quote for the end of the show is from Francis Bacon, who said, we rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps. So my friends 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. God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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Indeed, let’s have a conversation, and welcome to our number two of the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for listening. You each are treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today, strive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body, my friends. We were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. It is Wednesday, Producer Joe. Happy Wednesday, Kim. And somewhat daunting conversation as we were talking with Dr. Jill Vecchio in our number one that will rebroadcast today on all KLZ 560 platforms one to two is this agenda, which basically will turn us into serfs. When we have these people that talk about no kings and they look at Donald Trump, Donald Trump got us out of NAFTA. Donald Trump is trying to push back on this embedded agenda. People are making big bucks. When we look at these industrial apartment complexes, and we are at a high right now in vacancies in apartments, but they keep going up. The only way that can happen is if there is government intrusion into that market, which what that means is that there are those that are at the government trough, making money because there are PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties that are funding these or giving incentives or a variety of things. And one of our listeners texted in and says, ultimately, the plan is to try to get us all to move into those particular apartment buildings so that there will be the haves. that will live in beautiful communities. And then there will be the have-nots, which they would anticipate is going to be all these people in these industrial apartment buildings. That’s why all these little things about lot splitting bills down at the statehouse, the upzoning in Lakewood, all of these things across the metro area, which is pushed by staff. We have well-meaning people that are elected to office. We also have those that are Socialists and communists that are in office as well. And so we need to be involved in these elections. We need to be stepping forward and having great candidates. And that’s why, as you know, I really I will focus on the issues. And that is why I am so concerned regarding Congressman Jeff Hurd having his name on the GORP Act. which will basically ultimately take a big chunk of the Gunnison area and ultimately will make it off limits to human interaction. And that could be all kinds of things. It could be recreation, but it could be mining, oil and gas, a whole variety of things. And so it’s important to understand that he has his name on that bill with Senator Michael Bennett and Senator John Hickenlooper. And you can get more information on that by going to, well, just, you know, just do a search for the Gunnison Outdoor Resources Protection Act, and you’ll get more information on all of that. So let’s go ahead, though, and get into this. Check out the website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Make sure you’re signed up for our weekly email newsletter and our daily digest. These news stories that we are publishing are really amazing. great journalistic integrity. So make sure that you check that out. You can email me at Kim at KimMunster.com. The text line is 720-605-0647. Thank you to all of you who support us as we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to use force to do it. And legislation law ultimately comes down to force. And the founders knew that there was supposed to be a proper role of government. And that is at the federal, the state, the county, and the local level. And all these levels. Now, granted, the Constitution gives a lot of power to the states and ultimately to the counties and local governments on how things are conducted. But Ultimately, all of these things have to fall within the vision of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. So what that means is, is there’s no special deals. So if there’s special deals for apartment developers, again, on both sides of the aisle, that they’re making big bucks on erecting these industrial apartment buildings and Well, we’re not being treated equally because they’re taking money by force from us and from our next generations in this debt and taxes to pay for that stuff. So it’s antithetical to the American idea. So we are at a juncture here 250 years later on the decisions that we make. And I think people, we’ve taken for granted this freedom thing. this liberty, this responsible exercise of freedom that has been given to us. And it is now our time to make sure that we can serve and preserve that for our next generations. And that’s why we do the show. And remember, if something’s a good idea, you should not have to use force to implement it. I did want to say thank you to the fellow board members of Colorado Union of Taxpayers, Steve Dorman, Greg Glansky, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, David Evans, Corey Onozori, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. And join us. You can do that by going to coloradotaxpayer.org. It’s only $25 a year. We are blessed with amazing sponsors. One of our goal sponsors is Laramie Energy, and they are a goal sponsor of the show and also of the newsroom and community. And it is reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant power, which this has all been under attack. but it’s from naturally occurring hydrocarbons such as oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. And if you’re having any challenges with your personal climate, being warm in the winter or cool in the summer, reach out to Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. And the headline that I wanted to hit, and we’ll talk with Karen Levine about this tomorrow because she’s with RE-MAX, is RE-MAX is being acquired and the headquarters are moving out of Colorado. And it’s moving to Miami, Florida. And this exodus of businesses is because of… Now, maybe not every business is because of this, but the majority of the businesses leaving Colorado is because of regulations and rules and taxes and policy. And that is all coming from… the state house, this governor, and they have Democrat behind their names. This is not the Democrat party though of JFK. These are radical activists that want to control every aspect of our lives. If they want to control every aspect of our life, wouldn’t that mean that they want to be Kings and Queens over our lives? So the real No Kings Day is July 4th, 1776, when we said we don’t want kings and queens that are trying to control every aspect of our lives, such as what is happening here in Colorado. And people don’t like that. And that’s why people are leaving Colorado, which Colorado used to be such a destination, a great place to live. to live and work, and we can reclaim that, and that’s why we do this show. The word of the day is turgid, T-U-R-G-I-D, and it could be excessively ornate or complex in style or language. That is what most of the legislation is down at this statehouse. It is turgid. But it could also be, number two, swollen or distended as from a fluid or bloated. Well, I’d say this government is turgid as well. It’s swollen. and very bloated. And the last, it could be distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force. So your challenge is to use the word turgid in a sentence today. Our quote of the day is from Francis Bacon. He was born in 1561. He died in 1626. He said, it’s not what we profess, but what we practice that gives us integrity. And as we look at many of these politicians, They say one thing, but they do another. And that’s, again, one of the reasons why CUT, Colorado Union of Taxpayers, is so important is because we will name people from both sides of the aisle. For example, there are people on both sides of the aisle that are rating the unclaimed property tax account. And that is wrong. And so just check that out. Our bill of the day is Senate Bill 26-172. I will just mention that one of those people is a state senator and she’s running for governor. And I’ll just leave it at that. Senate Bill 26-172 is also known as the Front Range Passenger Rail District legislation. Sponsors are all Democrats, Senator Nick Hendrickson, Senator Kathy Kipp, Representative Andrew Bozenegger, and Representative Amy Paschal. And this is an expansion of rail, and ultimately, it’ll be an expansion of eminent domain, because we’ve seen legislation that’s building on top of of itself regarding all of this rail, these transit-orientated developments in districts. So this is CUT’s position on it. We say the bill makes a number of changes to the boundaries in operation. dangerous there of the Front Range Passenger Rail District for the purpose of eventually providing rail service from Wyoming to New Mexico. As Mike Rolick said in our number one, that this would be governed by an unelected set of bureaucrats that would have taxing powers and also the power to incur debt that we would have to pay off. This is a bad deal all the way around. Continuing on, RTD is a huge strain and strain on all taxpayers and has been for decades. It has never had the ridership to justify its completed projects, yet alone even more projects. This plan resembles something that California has done with the infamous bullet train. This proposed legislation is not needed. It’s unwarranted. There is simply no demand for such a boondoggle. It is a land grab that will entail a great deal of eminent domain all the way from Wyoming to New Mexico. And so, again, that is cut position on this particular bill. These important discussions happen because we have amazing sponsors that care about our communities. They care about building businesses. providing great services, taking care of the families. One of those is the Roger Mangat Safe Farm Insurance Team, and they can create personalized insurance plans to cover all your needs from protection for your cars to your home, condo, boat, motorcycle, business, and renter’s coverage. 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SPEAKER 10 :
I’ve got some folks around Brush that have purchased some butcher hogs that are in my freezer and I need to get them in their freezer.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, well, I thought maybe it might be something political, given what’s happening out here in Colorado. First thing, Jenny had said, hey, ask Trent about beef production. She said she thinks it’s at a 70-year low here in Colorado. Is that the case?
SPEAKER 10 :
No, not just Colorado, the entire country. In fact, it’s not being reported by the USDA, but I had a gentleman I had a long conversation with this week that is feeding cows. And when I say feeding cows, that’s different than feeding steers. These are cows that typically go into a grind, which makes ground beef. We undoubtedly rely on other countries, now Brazil number one, Australia number two, and Argentina suddenly into the mix on that. But he believes, with his contacts, that 70% of the grind that we have now is coming in from other countries. Kim, this is a discussion that I’ve had really start to intensify just in the past couple of weeks because we’re losing land at an accelerated rate that’s not available for grazing. The cow numbers combined with drought, combined with 1.3 million acres in the beef state of Nebraska, that is not going to graze anything for the next two years due to the fires that took place in the last 45 days. I have a new level of concern about where the beef industry is today and what it’s going to be going forward. And on top of that, it’s not just a U.S. issue. My program this morning across the pond, which had Teresa Platt join me from France, we dove into this whole issue where in France, the cattle farmers are being targeted as well, and they have the large Paris Ag Show taking place right now. The attendance is down by 28%, mostly because there are no cows present because they would not let them come due to Lumpy skin disease, which is a virus that is affecting the cattlemen of France, but I talk to people in Australia and New Zealand. The cow numbers around the world are at a historic low, and it’s getting to be very concerning.
SPEAKER 16 :
So we are seeing this assault upon the beef industry here in America. And Ginny brought this up. And one of the things that here in Colorado is regarding our livestock, not just beef, is this introduction of the wolves. And right now, we can make our voices heard by going to the Federal Register, and they’re asking for comments regarding this wolf introduction here in Colorado. But it’s an assault upon our food source, ultimately. And so… Is this happening in, you said we’re importing beef from Brazil and Argentina. Are we seeing the same kind of agenda there that we are here with the reduction of grazing land, introduction of predators? Are we seeing that kind of assault in those two countries?
SPEAKER 10 :
I can’t speak to South America, but I can speak to Australia, New Zealand and European countries. And the answer is absolutely yes. And I discovered so much on my across the pond. It was all just organic. It just happened. Every year for this big Paris farm show, they have a mascot and the mascot is always a cow. And last year, you can look it up. The mascot was a limousine cow, which makes sense because limousines are native to France. The year before was a Normandy cow. The year before, a Charolais cow. And those are all major breeds that originate from France. But this year, the cow was a Brahmin. Brahmin cattle do not exist in France. Brahmin cattle exist in Africa and South America. And interesting to note, the farmers of France and that part of the whole European Union have been fighting this basically free trade deal where the headline is to import beef from South America into these European countries. And then the other part of that whole story is that this cow, which is there and posed as the mascot, could not come because of lumpy cow disease, lumpy skin disease, excuse me, in the cattle population. So they had a, oh, what do they call when the cow is like, figuratively there. There’s an image, a hologram, a hologram. They had a hologram of the cow. And I thought, this is so symbolic of what they want to do. They literally want to eliminate cows from earth, not just United States, from earth. And there are people, particularly in London and around the world, who believe that we will replace And in fact, they’re reporting that by 2035, 60% of protein consumption will come from cell cultured proteins.
SPEAKER 16 :
Which we talked about that last week.
SPEAKER 10 :
And we talked about the three large investors in that business, which are the three large meat packers.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, Trent, people are paying attention. I know you always say people need to get involved. People are getting involved. This seems like this is a freight train. However, we have, as Americans, stood against freight train before. It was 250 years ago. So I know you say get involved, but say if you’re a listener here and Trent’s saying, okay, get involved, what would you say to that person? What is their first step? What would you say that they should do?
SPEAKER 10 :
We’re at the point where your involvement needs to be to find your food supply. You need to know the person producing the food. If you are relying on XYZ grocery chain to deliver your food, particularly beef or meat items from a farm, you’re going to be sadly disappointed. You need to know who in the regional area you can work with. That’s your number one job. Find out who your food supplier is.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. Okay. then, of course, support these different businesses. So that’s first and foremost. Okay, next thing.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I never give up on the political system, but we need to accept that we need to be much more informed and not just fall prey to the narrative that they want us to believe. And we are really bad about doing that.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and that’s why what we’re doing at the Kim Monson Show with adding in this new community and this new newsroom is really important. And the interest in this is just significant. I’m very excited about that because more and more people are looking for trusted sources, such as what you do, Trent, and what I do as well. So what’s your final thought on this particular subject before we go to break and then we’ll come back?
SPEAKER 10 :
One of the other avenues that’s eliminating that local food supply in particular beef cattle is what is happening with property taxes. And I was at the state Capitol in Iowa on my way home last week, and I got into a great conversation with state representative Heather Hora. And we talked about what the state legislative body was doing to relieve Iowa property tax problems. There is nothing that’s going to be done at the state Capitol in Iowa, Des Moines, Lincoln, our Washington, D.C. to fix property tax problems. Until you go to your school board meetings and start holding them accountable to their abusive spending and ridiculous curriculums, we are going to eliminate the ability for food to be produced in our local regions because property taxes cannot be affordable. They are not affordable.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and then add on that all the other taxes as well. Sales tax, there’s a proposal for an additional sales tax for an area, front range, we’ll say that, for a front range train. And that just every time you put a new tax on it makes life less and less affordable. And it’s important that we have these discussions. And we get to do that because of sponsors such as Radiance Power.
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SPEAKER 16 :
And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And check out the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. And the 14th is going to be a busy day. You can actually, that morning, golf in the USMC Memorial Foundation’s golf tournament and then head down… To the Center for American Values at 4 o’clock for their On Values presentation with Lieutenant Colonel Joe Lewis. To get more information on both of those events, AmericanValuesCenter.org is the website for the Center for American Values. And the USMC Memorial Foundation is USMCMemorialFoundation.org. We’ve got six generation events. A rancher from Nebraska on the line with us, Trent Luce, he continues to shed light on the people that feed and fuel us. And we had Dr. Jill Vecchio on in our number one to talk about Agenda 2030 land grabs. I did mention this Gunnison Outdoor Program. Let’s see what’s the exact name. The Gunnison Outdoor Resources Protection Act, which would basically take hundreds of thousands of acres out of access for human interaction. And the sponsors on this, it was introduced in May in 2025, is Senator Michael Bennett, Senator John Hickenlooper, both Democrats. But we’ve got a Republican who has his name on that as well. That’s Representative Jeff Hurd. And this is really of great concern to me. Are you watching this at all, Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 10 :
Not that particular one. It sounds like it’s parallel to most projects that start as a public-private partnership and then all utilization of the resource is gone.
SPEAKER 16 :
And so we’re seeing this out throughout the West for sure. So, and I really, I really work to stay out of personality, fighting stuff and, In politics, Trent, but it’s important that we name the names of people that are, such as Representative Jeff Hurd, that is a sponsor of this particular very bad piece of legislation. So we will name names when it comes to something like that. What else is on your radar, Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, there are several things, but one that’s probably unique. Because I’m a little different to what we’ve normally talked about. You know, I do this TV show every morning with somebody from another country. And every Friday, Kelly Seaton joins me. And the last two Fridays, she’s said something very significant both weeks. Two weeks ago, she told us, and I want to remind people that the UK has been doing the same ill-guided measure of capturing carbon dioxide and burying it in the ground a mile and a half deep for a couple of years. Two weeks ago, the United Kingdom’s government started saying that, well, due to a shortage of CO2, you can expect food shortages this fall. Well, the government, using taxpayer dollars, just like the United States, has been bearing CO2. And you’re going to hear the same thing here. They’re going to blame CO2. They’re going to blame everything other than the real story, which is government has induced the reduction of acres and elements of nature to continue to produce food. It’s that simple. And then last week, she… And you’ll know… Every store, every gas station, every business today, they have a loyalty card program, right? Right. Do you really think that’s for your benefit?
SPEAKER 16 :
No, I think it’s they’re tracking us, and that’s why we’re seeing such a growth of data centers.
SPEAKER 10 :
So, no, I don’t think that has anything to do with why we’re seeing data centers, but I agree 100% we’re tracking them because I don’t think we need the amount of data. Utah is approving today a data center that will use, one data center is going to use 9 gigawatts of electricity, which is equivalent to the entire state of Utah. You can’t tell me that we need data at this level, like the one proposed in Logan County, Colorado, that would use 2 gigawatts. The city of Denver, the entire metropolitan area of Denver, uses 1.2 gigawatts. And we’re building these data centers using two, three, and four times more total electricity than the entire city or state. So I do agree with your concept that the loyalty programs are all about tracking us. And Kelly said there is a major grocery chain in the UK called Tesco. that announced last week that they’re going to the loyalty card pricing program and that they will take all of the data that they gather on you as a customer and the location of the store and determine what your ability or what your willingness would be to buy food items at a certain price. So if you and I walk into a grocery store You might buy a loaf of bread for $5.75 and my loaf of bread would be $4.25 because you spend frivolously. I’m a frugal consumer. I just made that assumption. But the point is food will no longer be priced at a price. They are going to use loyalty. Be willing to pay and charge every customer differently.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, I’ve thought about this. It’s called dynamic pricing. I’ve also wondered if that is one of the reasons why Excel is so bent on trying to get everybody onto a smart meter. And then I just realized that one day I drove up and there were Excel trucks outside. In front of my house and they were changing out my gas meter. This was and I said, well, why are you doing this? They said, oh, you know, you’ve just been randomly chosen to update your gas meter. But then as I’ve been talking with Mike Rolick over time, they’re now talking about putting me like smart meters on water. And I’m thinking on gas. So A, you can control it with these meters, but also they could do dynamic pricing where they could up the price. I know this sounds like it’s tin hat stuff, but I don’t think it is. Is that they could then determine that people would pay different prices. This seems like it’s totally unconstitutional to me, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 10 :
It’s not 10 hat conspiracy theory at all because this is happening. This is exactly what she walked through is exactly what they’re doing. So all of that leads me into one of the biggest concerns I’ve had about a problematic USDA for me from the get go. They announced last week that Palantir, I assume you know Palantir.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Not a friend. They’re not a friend. They’re a contractor for every government agency. They work with the CIA. They are into and they are leading the charge and collecting data on people. Peter Thiel is the co-founder of Palantir. He started PayPal. He’s one of the original co-founders of Facebook. He has been on the front line. I mean, he’s a satanic worshiper. There’s no doubt about that. You can just hear statements by him. And his partner in Palantir, Alex Karp, is a devout Jewish person who has point-blank said, we’re going to monitor people and evaluate their anti-Semitic statements. I mean, he said basically that’s his goal beyond the revenue. So the USDA… announced a $300 million no-bid contract to take farmers’ data and put that into a usable form. And what Brooke Rollins called it was one farmer, one file. The USDA has been in existence since 1862. They’ve got access to all the farmer data, every farmer, not me, because I don’t go in for any government programs. But they go in, they certify their acres. USDA knows everything a farmer is doing. They’ve got how many computers? They can’t compile all of this data. They have to give the farmer data to an outside entity that is doing spying around the world. And now all farmer’s data is going to be in this database. This is absolutely one of the most troubling things that USDA has done yet.
SPEAKER 16 :
How do we change this, Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 10 :
Dismantle the USDA. That’s the only answer.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. That’s the first time I’ve heard that one. We’ve talked about the Department of Education, but boy, what’s the chances of… That’s a pretty big ask, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 10 :
I’m sure that’s what they told George Washington, too.
SPEAKER 16 :
True that. True that. Well, let’s button up this particular segment, and then we’re going to bring in Colorado Representative Dusty Johnson, because she’s got a bill, a piece of legislation that she wants people to know about. And we’re coming in on the end of the legislative session, and so we’re going to add her in. What’s your final thought on all of this, Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 10 :
We’re in the heat of a primary battle here in Nebraska. Primaries are May 12th. And I’ve gotten more involved than normal because I want to replace a gentleman that’s been in the U.S. House District 3 representative for 20 years. He’s done nothing but make things worse. He He’s got an R behind his name, but he supports all big spending projects and it’s just time for him to go. And he did something the other day that I think a lot of Republicans have done. You know, HR 1100 was voted upon and HR 1100 was to expose the child or not child, the sexual offenders, the sex crimes that are being committed by legislators in Washington, DC. He was Adrian Smith. the 20 year incumbent was point black ask in a meeting that I was streaming, why did you vote to protect your colleagues instead of exposing these individuals for their crimes of, of sexual abuse or sexual misconduct is a better word. He said, well, because we want to protect the victims and we can’t have them have any more pain. I read HR 1100 in the last two days. Point blank says right in the last paragraph that all victims’ names will be redacted and will in no way, shape, or form be made public. And here’s a sitting congressman that point blank lied to a group of people. I suggest he maybe doesn’t even know he lied. But here’s the other problem. How many of these individuals, particularly at the federal level, never actually read the things they vote on? You want to talk about the problems we have? There’s number one at the federal level.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, well, and also at the state level, when we look at the amount of legislation that is being proposed here in Colorado, and it’s not because many of these representatives have talked to constituents and written this legislation. It’s because interested parties have come by and have tried to shop legislation with And then these things get put into law and there is no way humanly possible for all of our legislators to read all of this legislation that becomes law. And we’ve got to stop that because it is irresponsible to let our government continue on like that. In a very important way. And just a clarification, is that H.R. 1100, was that to protect Congress men and women and senators if they were misbehaving? Is that what that was about?
SPEAKER 10 :
Sexual misconduct. Correct. Okay, great.
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SPEAKER 16 :
Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And I wanted to mention Mint Financial Strategies. We’ve talked about AI. It is important that we know what it is. And they’re going to have an event Tuesday, May 12th, 5 p.m. It’s a virtual event regarding AI. And it’s a session that will explore how AI is changing the way we work, think, and manage our daily lives, what that means for you. And to RSVP, go to Let Jody Know at Jody, that’s J-O-D-Y, at Mint, M-I-N-T-F-S dot com, that’s MintFS.com. Sixth generation rancher from Nebraska, Trent Luce is on the line. And we are adding in Colorado Representative Dusty Johnson, she is representing District 63, which is a big chunk of the Eastern Plains. Representative Johnson, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 20 :
Good to hear from you, Kim, and thank you for having me.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, most definitely, and you’ve been running the gauntlet down there. This legislative session is just about over, but oh my, oh my, there’s been a whole bunch of stuff that’s happened, Representative Johnson.
SPEAKER 20 :
There’s been a lot. I hear more to come and we’re in the final two weeks. So I’m sure I know you’ll be watching and explaining it to everybody.
SPEAKER 16 :
And so Representative Johnson, before we get into your bill, my understanding is, is that the last day of session is the 13th of May. Is that correct? Correct. But the calendar, my understanding, doesn’t have a lot on it from the 6th to the 13th. Why is that?
SPEAKER 20 :
So they’ll be introducing more like we just saw a new health care bill introduced late last night that will be in committee today. So we’re going to start seeing more things happening just with less notice.
SPEAKER 16 :
OK, and that’s not not a good idea. And Trent Luce is on the line with us. But Representative Johnson, you have a piece of legislation that you want people to be aware of.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yes, it’s Senate Bill 147, and it really is to make the governor’s office, his team and the executive branch have to be transparent when they’re dealing with legislative when they’re when they’re meddling with our bills. Essentially, we want them to be transparent and accountable that people know what’s happening.
SPEAKER 16 :
OK. Do you have bipartisan support on this?
SPEAKER 20 :
We do. So Representative Froelich is with me. And then we have Senator Rod Pelton and Senator Cutter, along with 27 co-sponsors from both sides of the aisle and over 13 in the Senate.
SPEAKER 16 :
OK. And is there an ask that you have of our listeners regarding this particular bill?
SPEAKER 20 :
There is. So as you mentioned, we are counting down on the clock. And we need to get this bill to the House floor for Thursday and Friday because we have the second and third reading. But we need pressure on the House members, especially leadership, urging how important this is. This is the governor’s number one item he wants to veto. Imagine that. He doesn’t want transparency on himself. But if we have any chance of overriding his veto, we need to get it through the process and to his desk. before this weekend. So the ask would be, please start engaging with your representatives. Please reach out to leadership and just urge them that we need to get this moving.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. And again, what is that bill number?
SPEAKER 20 :
Senate Bill 26147. Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
I find it somewhat interesting that you’ve got such bipartisan support on this, because I’ve always thought that the governor pretty well, that the legislators did what the governor wanted. So I find that super interesting, Representative Johnson.
SPEAKER 20 :
It is true. He has a lot of pull with his party. I mean, he has a lot of power being the governor of the state. But we’re also seeing a lot of splintering because he will send in his team half an hour. Doesn’t matter, you know, Republican Democrat bill half an hour before committee and say, we don’t like it. Can you please kill it? No stakeholding, no chance to work with them on amendments. Some of these bills have been open for over a year, you know, in stakeholder in the summer, openly talked about, you know, since January, February, and then just to have that happen again. is during, you know, not only does it make us upset in the minority, but the majority is actually really frustrated, too.
SPEAKER 16 :
Interesting. Trent Luce, do you have any questions regarding this bill for Representative Johnson?
SPEAKER 10 :
I do. First of all, it’s just a travesty that we have to have legislation to demand transparency from servants of the people. But that’s the era that we’re in. But Representative Johnson, my question would be, what kind of legislation, I know you say transparency, which we need, but how do you legislatively create more transparency from a governor?
SPEAKER 20 :
Excellent point and question. And it’s good to talk with you, Trent. The governor represents all Coloradans in the state and often sometimes feels like he forgets that. And so we need transparency for the people to know who they elected and what they’re doing. The way to do it is currently lobbyists for organizations have to report to the Secretary of State on their stances. So anytime they start to actively engage on a bill, regardless of the position, support, oppose, amend, they have to document that. So that way the people can go and see that openly. The governor’s office, the executive branch do not have to do it. So we’re asking that they be held to the same standard. They have been asking a lot like lobbyists in every regard of the definition. so they also need to be regulated like lobbyists.
SPEAKER 10 :
And just as one follow-up that may or may not be related to this bill, I’ve experienced this year in multiple states, and I know it’s happening federally, that lobbyists are actually writing bills that then legislators sign on on as the author. How common is that, and how do you deal with that?
SPEAKER 20 :
I would say a good portion of the bills that’s happening because… lobbyists for organizations that organization comes and says, this is a priority. They help, you know, write this bill and then ask members to sponsor it. Um, sometimes it’s very great. We know, you know, like in the agricultural community, our farmers and ranchers are so busy doing what they’re doing. That’s why they need that representation here at the Capitol. Uh, you know, and you know, as well as I do, they are amazing at managing their water, their soils, Writing a bill or understanding how they change something like that is very hard. So there is a positive when it comes to lobbying where it gets very nerve wracking is when the governor and his team are the ones wanting to write the bills, acting as lobbyists and then coming in with that intent. So we just want to make sure they all are transparent so that way people can be following who’s doing this bill or who’s advocating for it.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. And we’ve got a couple of minutes left, Representative Johnson. What is your ear to the ground in some possible late-breaking bills that might be dropped?
SPEAKER 20 :
I know, and I haven’t had a chance to read it. I need to before committee today. The one I’m aware of, and I don’t have the number in front of me either, but it’s over 60 pages to deal with ABA therapy, which deals a lot with the autism behavioral sector. Um, like I said, it will be in committee today. It was just dropped last night over 60 pages. Um, so that’s one thing we’re going to see. We still have, uh, supposedly the, you know, the right to wait, the right to float bill. That’s going to be popping it, you know, ugly head around. Um, I don’t want to even try to imagine or give anyone ideas because they’re still pulling late bills, but we’re going to start seeing things popping up.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, very good. How can people get more information and reach you, Representative Johnson?
SPEAKER 20 :
Best way to reach me is if you go to Dusty4Colorado. So that’s Dusty4Colorado.com. It has my cell phone, my email, a lot of what I’m doing. They can reach out however it best fits them, whether it’s snail mail or social media. And then if they want to stay engaged with the process, they can just put in Colorado legislation and the first website that pops up. We’ll start showing them what the different bills are in the process.
SPEAKER 16 :
OK, great. Thank you so much. And good luck for the last sprint to the end here. Thank you. And you know how to get a hold of me if you have questions as things start to happen on the fly. OK, sounds great. Thank you, Representative Johnson. And we’ve got about a minute left. Trent Luce, how do you want to button this up?
SPEAKER 10 :
Um, we just all need to activate, but more importantly, we need to know where our supply of food is coming from and build the community strength and show up at these school board meetings. That’s top of mind for me today.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, and that is really important. So we’ll talk with you next week, Trent Luce. As always, thank you. And our quote for the end of the show is from Francis Bacon, and he said, We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps. 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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