Join Kim Monson as she delves into Colorado’s legislative landscape, exploring the complex world of politics, property rights, and public policy. In this episode, Kim speaks with guests about the importance of civic engagement and how individuals can make a significant impact in their communities. From the intricacies of zoning ordinances to the nuances of state legislative bills, the discussions provide a deep dive into current affairs with clarity and insight.
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Okay. My friends, we’ve got quite the morning going here. The station has no internet. And the girls were over last night, and so I was planning on broadcasting from home. And so we’ve got this whole thing jerry-rigged. Joe is using… MacGyvering it this morning we’ve got Karen Gorday on the line with us and we’ve got all kinds of guests planned for the show but with the internet down the phones are down and so this is going to be really interesting today so our quote of our word of the day I’ll just get right over to that it’s a wiseacre it’s a person regarded as being disagreeably egotistical or self-assured It could be a learned or wise man or one who makes undue pretensions to wisdom. A would-be wise person hints in contempt a simpleton or a gun. So there’s an interesting word. Wiseacre. W-I-S-E-A-C-R-E. And we should be able to use that in a sentence today. Our quote today is from George Washington. And he said this. He said, 99% of failures come from people who make excuses. And so we just need to get it done. And somebody that gets it done on a regular basis is Karen Gorday. She is an entrepreneur, owner of Radiant Painting and Lining, and also working with the team regarding the special election in Lakewood to really preserve our neighborhoods. Karen Gorday, welcome to the show. Good morning, Kim. Glad to be here. And first and foremost, let’s talk about this special election that is going to occur very soon. And I know you and a team of other very concerned citizens are working diligently on that. So bring us up to speed on that, Karen. Yes, so the special election is on April 7th. We’re a couple weeks away from the full campaign launching, but we’re very busy behind the scenes getting things ready to go. We’re ready to rock and roll. Yard signs and banners have been ordered, so we’re almost there. It’s going to be interesting. We’re expecting a really tough campaign. We’ve already seen bits and pieces of the campaign that’s going to come towards us, and we’re going to have to fight with everything we have to repeal these zoning ordinances. Messaging is really, really important on this, Karen, and I know that you understand that. So how are you guys framing this? Yes. So you have to remember, city council determines the language of the ballot. It’s confusing on purpose. So it’s vote yes against the ordinances. Lucky for us, we have the top spot on the ballot and there’s all these studies about people just picking the top spot on the ballot. And so hopefully with our simple vote yes against, it’s yes for Lakewood, yes for the environment, yes for the horses, yes for our neighborhoods. It’s very, very simple. Vote yes against these ordinances. Don’t you find it crazy, Karen Gorday, what is happening not only in Lakewood, but we’ve got this House Bill 26-1001 down at the State House where it is a full-fledged attack against, I would say, single-family housing or single-family neighborhoods. And if someone wants to rent, live in an apartment, certainly i i have the freedom to do that but what we’re seeing is there’s all kinds of government money that is being used to change the fabric of our neighborhoods because they’re subsidizing many of these apartment buildings and i just saw yesterday that there was a um headline that apartment vacancy rates are at a 16-year high here in colorado but this is this whole thing is really to change the fabric of our communities yes 100 it is um i think that 26 1001 also um it’s not just our neighborhoods it’s um it’s going to overrule the home rule cities overrule zoning. There is a project slated in Lakewood. It’s a P3 project. P3, for short, is a public-private partnership. And Mike Rolick actually sent it over to me. I started digging into it yesterday. There is state-owned land in Lakewood. The state will have a 99-year ground lease, but then nonprofits, are going to build subsidized housing both apartments and housing on this property there’s already a planned development agreement in place and what concerns me is the government owns the land someone else owns the building um and because there’s a planned development agreement in place i don’t know that it can be stopped and um It’s just very, very concerning what’s going on. Now the place, the land, ironically this land, it’s right near one of the high schools, but there’s not a lot of single family homes in that area. So it might actually be a good place for it. But when you get into the government owning the land and someone else owning the buildings, I think that just opens up a whole myriad of issues. And it’s quite scary. Well, and we really need to start to know what these deals look like with these public-private partnerships. And very possibly what is happening then is the rents are being subsidized on those particular projects. So that’s where the public comes in normally is the public’s money. and subsidizing this so that the developers typically, they’re making that cash flow off of the project. So that could very well be what’s going on. One other thing, I think you said that you had received a campaign finance complaint, yes? Yes, yes. And so that’s why I was not at your house last night with the girls. We were working on that until 9 o’clock last night to cure things. And I think everything on there is curable. The city clerk has not made his ruling yet, but we were being proactive in getting that done right away because we need to focus on our campaign. Okay. And so that’s great. Let’s get over here because we are just regular people. We are entrepreneurs running our businesses and our lives, and we are not being paid like the bureaucrats. And we’re not going to be receiving cash flow like the developers probably will. So we’ve got to also make sure that we are taking care of our businesses. And during this early, well, I guess it’s late winter, early spring, you’re running a special, correct? That is correct. We’re running 20% off of interior projects that are over $2,500 through the end of March. And so, yeah, it’s a slower time of the year, and you can take advantage of that and get your interior spruced up, ready for spring. And how can people reach you, Karen Gordade? They can reach us at www.paintwithradiant.com. Okay. And that is paintwithradiant.com. Thank you for your flexibility in making all this work this morning. And you are such a valued partner of the show. And also, this is so important, what you’re doing. They’re really for property rights. So Karen Gorday, thank you so much. Absolutely. Thank you. Have a great day, Kim. And we are going to go to break. We’ll be right back.
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My friends, thank you for bearing with us. We do not have internet at the station. And I was planning on broadcasting from home. The girls were over last night. I have internet, but that doesn’t do any good regarding the station. And so I think that this is a big lesson to be so reliant on technology. I remember I was at a meeting. It was when I was on city council. It was a big luncheon. And… I think Obama’s head of transportation was there, and they were talking about driverless cars, or self-driving cars. And I’m thinking that could be a real problem, and it would be a real problem right now with the internet out. So we are jerry-rigging this. Joe is, I’m sure, pulling his hair out right now. But we’ve got one of my fellow board members on the line with me, and that is Dave Evans. And Dave, welcome to the show.
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Well, thank you, Kim, and happy Lincoln’s birthday. He didn’t have problems with the Internet.
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It is Lincoln’s birthday, for sure. And I need to do Lincoln’s quotes. I was going to have all that ready. And, of course, everything is blown up here. So, yes, happy Lincoln’s birthday. Let’s talk about what’s happening down at the state legislature. Our team at Colorado Union of Taxpayers is watching legislation. And there’s some very concerning bills down there. What’s the first one you’d like our listeners to be aware of?
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Well, I wanted to talk about HB 1005 that is entitled the Worker Protective Collective Bargaining Bill. And this is a repeat from last year. Governor Polis vetoed it last year. I think the bill is the same. I’m not 100% sure. And I’m going to try to talk through labor stuff. I’m no expert on it, so I hope I don’t muddle things up too badly. But first of all, our comment from cut as board says this bill eliminates the requirement under the Labor Peace Act to conduct a second election to negotiate a union security agreement clause in the collective bargaining process. This bill increases the power of unions and lessens the power of those workers who do not want to join the union or pay dues, even though they are non new members. It also makes it more difficult for Colorado to become a right to work state, like almost all our surrounding states, which puts us at a competitive disadvantage to attracting employers. And some of the background, the National Labor Relations Board, NLRB, enforces the Taft-Hartley Act from 1947, which prohibits closed shops where union memberships are mandatory. The Colorado Labor Peace Act, which was enacted right around that time, probably after the Taft-Hartley, requires two votes for unionization. The first requires a simple majority approval, and the second requires a majority vote of 75% of those who actually vote. If passed, it would eliminate the second vote requirement, this bill, if it passes. So Cut’s explanation of our position. Why does Cut think there should be a second election? Well, employees may like the concept of unionization, but dislike the union security agreement. This is the clause that requires employees to join and sets fees to the union as a condition for employment. One that may be a non-union employee but required to pay fees. So why does CUT say that right to work states are more competitive? Well, Colorado is not a right to work state. Workers at union companies here may be compelled to join or pay fees to the union. Right to work states are more competitive for attracting employers because for attracting employees because right-to-work states have lower production costs. This is largely why the newer auto and manufacturing companies are located in the southeastern right-to-work states or in foreign countries. How is the Labor Peace Act beneficial to Colorado? Well, the Labor Peace Act imposes a higher barrier to unionization here. Non-union companies, which have lower costs, make them more competitive. And so this helps business and employment opportunities here. So that, in a nutshell, is why CUT opposes HB 1005. okay and um what’s the next one that you’d like to to make sure that people know about dave evans um that’s that’s house bill 1015 1 1015 the colorado homeless contribution tax credit extension cuts common says that this bill extends the colorado homeless contribution tax credit through 2030. The combined money, the contributed money rather, goes to NPOs, non-profit organizations. DOLA, the Department of Local Affairs bureaucrats, will have oversight, management, and verification of donors and NPOs, thereby picking winners and losers. In a deficit budget year, this bill will increase state government by 1.56 full-time employees, There was no mention of the success rate of NPOs in getting the homeless out of the homeless cycle, nor any hard data regarding outcomes. The bill is yet another puzzle piece of the homeless industrial complex. In some of the background, Colorado does indeed have a very high homeless population. Homelessness has been promoted here first from then-Mayor Hickenlooper’s Path Home, followed by ccds the community the um city and county of denver’s welcoming banners and freebies most recently we had a huge wave of illegal aliens number three denver adopted a housing first approach even they even converted some privately owned properties notably the former embassy suites on east hampton where over 900 emergency responses happened in the first year that they used that building. Other municipalities rejected that approach with better results. I’m not sure Denver’s current approach but it sure isn’t working judging by the trash and the zombies I see walking around the freeway off ramps.
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Dave, the more money that we throw at this, there are people, I mean, there’s millions and millions of dollars that is going to the, I have this in air quotes, homelessness challenge that we have in America.
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in the metro area and we will never solve it as we put more and more money towards this because there are those that are making a lot of money off of the tragedy of homelessness in our community absolutely yes um in fact um the um less than one percent of the people served by the state programs um that are well that are operated by the state anyway Less than 1% are actually aimed at homelessness prevention. The rest of it is just maintaining people, you know, putting them in housing and so forth, but not really solving the problem.
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Yes, so people are making a lot of money on it, and it’s changing the demographics of our communities.
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It really is, yes, it’s a mess. And I see it every time I drive down Yale Avenue, which is kind of a minor arterial, but you see them along there all the time.
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Do you not think, Dave, because I think that every time we drive up to an intersection and we see somebody that is homeless, they’re holding a sign. I think it certainly touches my heart. I’m sad about it. I’m very sad about it. But I’m thinking, how did they get there? How did they get that sign? And… In a way, I feel like there’s a system to have the homeless out there front and center on a regular basis. I know this is conjecture on my part, so that they can continue putting more and more money towards the issue where, again, there are those in the industrial complex that are making more and more money on that. And so I think that there’s actually some…
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some um method to the method to that whole thing dave well yeah i think i think so because um you know as long as they they keep their programs going they get funded by the state and uh so where’s the incentive to actually do anything but um you know i think my my personal opinion is that there’s a real problem with mental health which is driving a lot of the homelessness but the state pretty much eliminated the big mental health programs that we had way back in the 70s and it it just continues to grow and nobody seems to be addressing that um and secondly i would say that in the past private charities have done the job and and i think those work better because they’re closer to the people they have more limited funding so there’s incentives to move these people to be self-sustaining whereas the government program um results in people just continuing on and on and on with the homelessness.
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Right. Well, Dave, really appreciate your analysis on this. Dave is my fellow CUT board member. That’s the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And we would encourage that you join us so that you will receive the emails with these analysis on bills that are going to be heard this week. And that goes out on Monday mornings. And this team is really amazing, Dave, that we get to work with. And we had our board meeting the other night. I so appreciate you and our whole team on what we do. And that team is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Canoes, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, who we’re talking with, Corey Onasori, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. It is really an amazing group of people that we’re working with at Dave Evans.
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Well, thank you, Kim, and it’s really an honor to serve, and we sure appreciate your leadership on all this.
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And yes, definitely. It’s a great group. And we’re all volunteers, but we care deeply about our state. And we are working to shed light, transparency, and working to reclaim the Colorado that we love. Dave Evans, thank you so much. We’ll talk again soon. All right. Bye. Okay. And we’re going to go to break. We’ll be right back. Thank you for bearing with us as we are having these challenges this morning. And we’ll be right back.
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Thank you so much for joining us. And we are MacGyvering it this morning because we did not have Internet at this station. It sounds like maybe they’re getting that worked out. And so we’re going to figure all this out and we’re making it work. And so thank you to Joe. I know he’s pulling his hair out right now as we speak. I was planning on broadcasting from home because the girls were over last night, and so this is making things really interesting. And I am pleased to have on the line with me Jessica Vaughn, and she is with the Center for Immigration Studies. Jessica, welcome to the show. Okay, let’s think about this, Joe. Okay. Okay, I cannot hear her. There we go. Jessica with the Center for Immigration Studies. Great to have you. Glad to be back with you, Kim. It’s been a while, and I thought I’d need to get you on. You had a recent publication regarding the difference between ICE in cities such as Minneapolis or areas where local government is cooperating with ICE. And what’s happening in the communities are two different things, yes? Yes. That’s right. That’s exactly right.
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A lot of people think that the unrest in Minneapolis is something that was triggered by an increase in immigration enforcement efforts. And that this is, you know, ISIS is having to use so many members of its staff to do enforcement, and that is not the case. What we’re seeing in Minneapolis is a result of the sanctuary policies there. And the same, you know, we’ve also seen similar problems for ICE in Chicago and California, Portland, Oregon, even in Maine, these are all sanctuary jurisdictions. But this is not the way immigration enforcement usually happens. The reason that ICE has to be out on the streets in these places is because the local law enforcement agencies are not allowed to cooperate with ICE. and hand over criminal aliens when they are still in jail, when an ICE officer can simply come pick them up and take them into custody directly without releasing them back to the streets. In the sanctuary jurisdictions, the local jails cannot hold people for ICE, cannot communicate with ICE to tell them when a criminal that is wanted by ICE is going to be released. So ICE has to go looking for them directly. at their places of work, their dwellings. They have to do surveillance on them to try to apprehend them out in the community. And this is, as we’ve seen, this can be problematic for everybody. It’s dangerous for ICE. It upsets communities. And who knows what can happen with these criminal aliens that they’re trying to apprehend. This is why it was so important that Tom Homan was able to negotiate more cooperation with the Minneapolis law enforcement agencies, the police departments. And it’s been kind of interesting to see how they are – in order to try to tamp things down there – Tom Holman was able to get the police departments and sheriffs to cooperate with him, kind of leaving the politicians like Tim Walz, the governor, and Mayor Fry out on their own advocating these sanctuary policies. So, you know, it just shows that throughout the country, if left on their own, there would be cooperation for immigration enforcement. It’s when sanctuary politicians get in the way of that that we start to see these problems.
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So things are going to or are getting better in Minneapolis then?
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That is what ICE is saying at this point, that they’ve been able to send 700 officers back to their normal duty locations. And we’re seeing Minneapolis police provide security for ice when they do have to go do an operation like around the perimeter of the ice offices where you know and the Places where they’re trying, you know, they’re holding individuals who are going to be removed. And so it’s really much safer. ICE is no longer as much at risk from these crazy activist groups that are trying to interfere with them and being incited to attack them. So now the police are creating secure environments and they’re handing criminal aliens they’ve agreed to directly over to ICE. So there doesn’t have to be this very public, unsafe situation. And it’s all compounded, of course, in Minneapolis by the presence of organized groups that want to make, you know, they want to interfere with things. ICE enforcement, and they want to kind of rile people up and tell them that they’re like freedom fighters protecting immigrants, which is nonsense. They’re really tools for these activist groups to create chaos, but they’re not going to be as effective anymore now that there can be cooperation. And I think this is hopefully… an approach that will bear fruit in other parts of the country that’s going to empower local police agencies to say, hey, sanctuary politician, we don’t want what happened in Minneapolis to happen here. You really need to let us cooperate with ICE. I’m hopeful that that is going to spread.
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So Jessica Vaughn with the Center for Immigration Studies. Tell us, first of all, a bit about the Center for Immigration Studies and And because you have been looking at immigration for a number of years, yes?
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Yes. We have been around since the mid-’80s and mid-1980s, and we are the nation’s only immigration research group that analyzes immigration policy and trends in immigration with an eye toward policy helping policymakers create reforms that are in our national interest. Our focus is on what kind of immigration policies serve the interests of Americans and American communities and how can we improve things rather than looking at things, you know, immigration is like some kind of human rights issue or civil rights issue or immigrant rights issue. And what we find is that our levels of immigration are too high right now, that they are displacing Americans from job opportunities, that the costs of immigration are huge because our policy admits people who, on the basis primarily of family relationships, And, you know, we have over two-thirds of immigrants’ households are using welfare programs, and that becomes very costly for taxpayers. And, of course, there are the national security and public safety implications. You know, we’re still reeling from four years of open borders with the Biden administration. At a hearing the other day before Congress, representatives of the Department of Homeland Security said said that they are going through the cases of all the people who were let in by the Biden administration. And a lot of them were allowed to apply for immigration benefits. And they have found more than a thousand people who are on the terror watch list who are allowed to come into our country. And so they’re sifting through those cases one by one to find them and remove them from our country. They’ve also found billions of dollars have been stolen from federal welfare programs by recently admitted immigrants. And so they’re now working on these investigations. You know, the fraud schemes like the one that was uncovered in Minneapolis, run by a number of Somalian immigrants, where they bilked taxpayers of billions of dollars by setting up fake daycare centers, you know, Home, you know, like transportation services, adult daycare centers and more. And so all of this is finally being uncovered. And, you know, we’ll see how much of this money they can recover for taxpayers. But it’s such a relief to have government agencies actually making it a priority to focus on this fraud.
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When we look at the debt and the spending, not only at the federal level, but at the local, the county, and the state level, the tentacles of this spending are so significant. And the person that is really being hurt is the everyday middle-class American with all of this money. fraud this debt if we were we’re not losing all of this money regarding fraud i think that we we would start to make a dent in the these um this government the budgets that you know every seems like every entity is saying they’re running you know they need more money they need more money well when we have money going going out the door because of fraud that’s a real problem and As you look at this, I guess I’m getting ready to frame this next question. Do you think that authorities, so electeds in many of these jurisdictions, do you think that they were aware of the fraud and what was going on? Because it’s just mind-boggling, you know, the numbers that they’re talking about.
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Well, I think that the sanctuary politicians and others who support mass immigration are just indifferent to it. They want more immigration to prop up the population in their own districts so that they can maintain these districts and They see these programs as almost entitlements for people in their districts. This is almost like a form of cronyism that they’re after as many taxpayer dollars as they can get and as many people present in their districts. There have been some studies out there that have found that if we did not count non-citizens in the census… that some of these blue states that have been sanctuaries for illegal immigration would actually lose representation in Congress, including the state of Minnesota, the state of California, Illinois, that they would have much less power in Congress and fewer seats if we only counted citizens in the census and if these politicians had to actually win votes from Americans rather than inflating their constituencies through immigration and especially illegal immigration. That’s ultimately why this matters to them so much is, you know, to keep their own power.
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So that’s what it is really about. Okay. We’re going to continue the discussion with Jessica Vaughn with the center for immigration studies. We’re going to go to break and we’ll be back in just a couple of minutes.
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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.com. We are talking with Jessica Vaughn. She is the Director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration the reaction to ICE in communities in sanctuary cities such as Minneapolis and the activists that are on the street my understanding is it appears that some of them are paid activists but I think there are also those that think that they are I think Jessica said that they’re freedom fighters that they’re standing up for immigrants. And so it’s made it very complicated in Minneapolis. But I’ve seen headlines, Jessica Vaughn, regarding migrant children that have come into America, and we didn’t know where they were. And it seems like this, and I have this in air quotes, this compassion for immigrants, it seems like if people were really concerned about immigrants, that one of the first places you’d be concerned about is children that have come here. But the headlines have been that the Trump administration has located many of these kids. So walk us through this, Jessica Vaughn. Sure.
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I’m glad you raised this. So for about more than 10 years, almost 15 years, human smugglers have been exploiting a loophole in our immigration law that allows children who cross the border on their own or in reality are brought across the border without their parents by human smugglers, um, go in, have to go into the custody of the U S government and then be released to sponsors in the United States. And, um, Under the Biden administration, more than 450,000 of these children arrived. And many of them, their parents have been duped by smugglers and traffickers to think that their children are going to be able to come and live in the United States permanently and go to school and then stay here and sponsor them later for a green card. In reality, what ends up happening is that many of them are trafficked for labor. They basically are put into indentured labor at American factories, farms, and other employment. Under the Biden administration, the policy was not to do a background check on people who would come forward and say they wanted to sponsor these kids. And they didn’t do any post-release monitoring on what happened with the kids after. And there were whistleblowers who found that there were known gang members and other criminals who were acting as sponsors, supposedly, for these kids. And they lost track of more than 300,000 of them, according to a government audit. The Biden administration was totally indifferent to this. They thought that they were saving kids. The answer was to throw more money at their crony contractors to supposedly provide services for them, give them lawyers to apply for green cards and so on. But really, they just lost track of hundreds of thousands of them. The Trump administration has made it a priority to find these kids, check on their welfare, and prosecute the people who were abusing these kids and exploiting them. And it was announced at this congressional hearing the other day that they have located 145,000 of the more than 300,000 who were lost by the Biden administration. And they have undertaken 71,000 criminal investigations in connection with these placements. They’ve already charged 500 of the sponsors with crimes. They’ve shut down more than 2,000 human smugglers and their operations. And they’re undergoing hundreds and hundreds of prosecutions of criminals. abuse of these kids. So they’re literally rescuing and saving the kids that the Biden administration facilitated into human trafficking. And so this is really important. It’s a tragedy what’s happened to these kids. They can never get their lost years back. But, you know, we cannot ignore this problem. We need to shut it down. And by the way, the kids are no longer coming across the border in such high numbers anymore because the catch and release policies have been shut down. And because Trump has announced, you know, we’re not just releasing these kids to anybody anymore. So they’ve taken, you know, they’ve just, you know, really shut down the business model of the human traffickers to stop this horrible problem.
SPEAKER 07 : 49:01
So you said that many of these kids were doing labor jobs, but many of them were probably abused in the human trafficking sexual arena as well, yes?
SPEAKER 05 : 49:22
Yes, unfortunately, there have been a lot of cases of that, especially the younger girls. You know, I certainly know from the work I’ve done on human trafficking and what I hear from law enforcement agencies that the school resource officers are seeing this happening in the schools because the gangs. know our immigration policies. Gangs like MS-13 literally took advantage and used this loophole in our immigration law as a recruiting tool to bring mostly young boys from El Salvador and other Central American countries to allow them to get into the United States They would other older gang members would serve as sponsors for the kids. And then these gang members would they would meet girls who were also coming in who had been brought in by smugglers. They would make contact with them in the shelters where the kids were housed for a couple of weeks before they were released. They meet they find them in the schools and they would entrap them. a lot of these girls into sex trafficking rings. It’s really sad. There have been some horrible cases uncovered in Virginia, in Tennessee, in Texas, and other places of girls abused in this way. And thankfully, you know, now federal agencies are actually doing something about it.
SPEAKER 07 : 51:01
Gosh, it sure seems like that would be a nice headline to have. Uh, on the mainstream media, uh, because I think Americans, this is what we, this is what we want to have happen is that, that we would rescue these children and find them. It is beyond belief that the Biden administration just turned a blind eye to this. That seems to be the dot to connect for me there, Jessica. Is that correct? That’s right.
SPEAKER 05 : 51:34
And it was really disturbing to see. They just, you know, it’s sort of like see no evil, hear no evil. It must not exist. We need these immigrants. You know, there’s no limit to how many we can absorb. More must be a good thing. We just look the other way at human trafficking and human smuggling and what’s going on. They just, you know, all they want is the numbers of people in their districts. You know, they refuse to acknowledge the harm that their policies caused, not only to taxpayers and American communities, as I said, but to the migrants themselves who were enticed and duped by these smugglers themselves. to turn their life savings over to them to come live in the United States when it was really a massive trafficking scheme.
SPEAKER 07 : 52:42
This is unbelievable as you are connecting this dot on this. The cruelty that this would subject these kids to trafficking is just, It is beyond belief to me, Jessica Vaughn. It’s been much too long since I’ve had you on the show. This is such important information. And it sounds to me like the Trump administration is doing the right thing. And we’ve just got to get the… the word out there so that people understand that instead of seeing these images that we’ve seen from such as Minneapolis and the unrest that we’ve seen there. We’ve got about a minute left, Jessica Vaughn. Great work that you’re doing. How would you like to button this up?
SPEAKER 05 : 53:31
Well, you know, I… I don’t have a lot of faith in a lot of the establishment media to cover this story, but I think Americans can see what’s happening themselves and interpret it themselves, and they understand why we have immigration laws, and they want them enforced, and not just against those who commit crimes, but against any individual potentially anyone who’s in the country illegally, because, you know, as long as we tolerate illegal immigration, we’re going to have more of it. And so what Americans want is an immigration system that serves our national interests. And that means less immigration, less weights, shorter weights for those we do admit and making sure that those who have exploited our immigration system are not allowed to remain here. And whatever it takes to get that done is what Americans want done so that we can continue to have confidence in a robust legal immigration system. And the more we have integrity in our system, the more Americans will support the more rational system that we have.
SPEAKER 07 : 54:53
Jessica Vaughn, great work that you’re doing at the Center for Immigration Studies. Thank you so much. We’ll talk again very soon. Thank you, Kim. And our quote for the end of the show is from Abraham Lincoln. It is his birthday today. He said, great men are ordinary men with… Let’s see. Great. Hold on. I had it here. Came with me. That’s not what I wanted to say exactly. Here we go. Great men are ordinary men with extraordinary determination. So, my friends, today, be grateful. Read great books. Think good thoughts. Listen to beautiful music. Communicate. 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 our number two.
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Yeah, and that is exactly what you have done this morning. And I greatly appreciate it because we have the flexibility. I’ve got this great rig that I can broadcast in different locations. But what that means is that we have to have Internet. I’m receiving a number of text messages that, hey, we can’t get you right now. That was earlier today. Now, I think everything is now, the Internet’s working. But it’s great when it all works, and when it doesn’t, it’s not great. And so what we had to do this morning… was basically Joe took his cell phone initially and put it up to the microphone so that then we could broadcast. And so I’m sure the quality is not what we normally like. But I just thank you, all of you, for hanging with us as we’re going through this kind of stuff. So thank you so much. So let’s get into it. Today is Lincoln’s birthday, and we’ve been highlighting George Washington because it is his birthday month. But there’s two other great presidents that were born in February as well, and that is Abraham Lincoln. Thank you, Dave Evans, and all that was going on. I had it on my calendar, but… just had missed that. So today is Lincoln’s birthday. And then Ronald Reagan’s birthday was February 6th. And so Lincoln, I pulled this quote. He said, nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. And he is absolutely correct on that. And, uh, so Abraham Lincoln, it today is his birthday. And, um, He basically helped abolish slavery in America. And as we have our young people that have been taught to hate America because America’s founders, many of them had slaves, you’ve got to realize that slavery was prevalent throughout the world. And so the fact that our little country, within basically two generations, abolished slavery, the founders knew that To have this vision for a country that I’m going to create an equal with these rights from God of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, that there’s no way that slavery could exist with that vision. But they could not get rid of slavery immediately as we were fighting for our independence. But within two generations, basically, slavery was abolished. And Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809. He died in 1865. He was our 16th president. And he was assassinated, obviously, in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederate states and playing a major role in the abolition of slavery. And so happy birthday to Abraham Lincoln, who he really was at the helm of. In the second founding of our country, the first founding obviously was Washington, the founders, the Revolutionary War, and then Lincoln, the Civil War. We are in our third founding. And talking with Jessica Vaughn with the Center for Immigration Studies, as I look at all of these apartment buildings, that are being subsidized. Many times they’re called public-private partnerships, which that’s straight out of the World Economic Forum. And what that is is that private entities are making money. So it depends on each of these deals how they are put together. But when I looked at House Bill 1001, those – units that they would be putting onto land owned by nonprofits or regional transportation districts or school districts, colleges, or universities. It says that those developments would be relying on government money, federal, county, local, state. And that is money that is being taken away from everyday people. And also, as Jessica connected the dot, the more bodies that are in an area, then that counts towards the census, which would count toward the number of representatives that the state would have in the House of Representatives. But it also affects our local elections big time as well. And so… I’m trying to connect the dot here to the word of the day that I’ve chosen, wiseacre. It’s W-I-S-E-A-C-R-E. It could be one, a person regarded as being disagreeably egotistical and self-assured. I would say that many of these PBIs are really wiseacres as they are pushing these policies. But number two, it could be a learned or wise man. Or number three, one who makes undue pretensions to wisdom, a would-be wise person, hence in contempt, a simpleton, or a dunce. And so your challenge is to use the word wiseacre in a sentence today. Our bill of the day, and Dave Evans, my fellow Colorado Union Taxpayers board member, I talked about several different bills, but I’ll use the House Bill 1015, the Colorado Homeless Contribution Tax Credit Extension. The sponsors on this are Representative Karen McCormick and Representative Rick Taggart. So there is bipartisan support on this. Senator Daphne Michelson-Genet and Senator Cleve Simpson. And it’s extending the Colorado Homeless Contribution Tax Credit through 2030. And this is picking winners and losers. I think that it’s playing into the homelessness industrial complex. And This is the commentary cuts, Colorado union taxpayers is a no on this. And this is our commentary. It says this bill extends the Colorado homeless contribution tax credit through 2030. The contributed money goes to NPOs, which is nonprofit organizations. DOLA, the department of local affairs and bureaucrats will have oversight management and verification of donors and NPOs thereby picking winners and losers. In a deficit budget year, this bill will increase state government by 1.56 full-time employees. There was no mention of the success rate of the MPOs in getting the homeless out of their homeless cycle, nor any hard data regarding outcomes. This bill is yet another puzzle piece of the homeless industrial complex. 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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.com. And make sure that you’re signed up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays. That way you will get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. And pleased to have on the line with me, Erin Meshke. And she is, you can find her at Substack at The Reluctant Activist. Erin Meshke, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me, Kim. And let’s talk. You’re watching some of this legislation down at the Statehouse, and there’s a lot of it down there. Let’s talk about Senate Bill 26032, Promoting Immunization Access. Break this down for us.
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Well, despite what the title says, there’s not actually any legislation lack of access to immunizations. The Democrat-run legislature has their hair on fire, as did the Board of Health for CDPHE in December, based on changes in vaccine recommendations from the national level. They really don’t like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. They really don’t like his new Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices panel. And They’ve been going about making new laws and rules at the Board of Health to try and make sure that people are going to have access, except that access has never been denied. There’s actually full access of everything, even some of the things that are no longer recommended at the federal level. But that’s kind of the basis for it’s a false premise for why this legislation is even being introduced.
SPEAKER 07 : 69:46
And so what is this exactly? Is this legislation here to continue to push more and more vaccines into our young children?
SPEAKER 09 : 70:05
It’s basically trying to codify insurance protection for for vaccines that may not be recommended at the federal level, but it also is expanding some liability coverage coverage. but just liability for manufacturers, people who administer vaccines. It’s actually also expanding who can administer vaccines and even prescribe vaccines. Now they want to allow pharmacists to prescribe vaccinations. But beyond that, one of the biggest things that’s happening in this bill is an expanded liability shield that – basically push all of the liability from the federal program or the manufacturer or a doctor who actually prescribes something that’s no longer recommended to the parents, the families, the people who are taking different vaccinations. So there’s a lot of underlying things and even changing definitions around the HPV vaccination It there’s there’s a lot of underlying meaning of things that’s happening. And really, from a from a broader perspective, the bill reads like it was written by a pharmaceutical lobbyist or a pharmaceutical company. It’s basically all protection for for a manufacturer and and nothing for people at home. And when this happened at the federal level in 1986, there was at least a program that when the government said, we’re not going to allow people to sue these companies anymore, the government assumed that liability, which is why we have the vaccine compensation program and some other things like that. Okay.
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So this is basically to, what I’m hearing you say is to protect pharmaceutical companies if there is an adverse outcome regarding a vaccine. Is that correct?
SPEAKER 09 : 72:16
Yeah, there’s already some federal protections around that. So generally, if you’re injured by a vaccine, you can’t go sue the manufacturer directly. You actually have to go through vaccine court at the federal level. But this legislation
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tremendous concern of what we’re seeing here. And the sponsors on this particular bill, the prime sponsors on it are Senator Lindsay Dotary, Senator Kyle Mullica, Representative Lisa Ferrett, and Representative Kyle Brown. And this is, it says it amends existing law and adds new provisions relating to access to vaccines. And that is pretty extensive. And so this
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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 we’re talking with Erin Meshke. And she is, you can find her at Substack under the Reluctant Activist. And we’re talking about Senate Bill 26032. which really is a shield for vaccine liability here in Colorado. And it’s pretty extensive on this, Erin Meshke. Before we continue on with that, I find the title of your sub-stack, Reluctant Activist, quite intriguing. So walk me through that. Thank you.
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Well, I never wanted to be involved in politics, Kim. I actually want, ironically, to talking about this bill this morning, the thing that got me testifying on my very first bill in 2021 was changes in the HPV vaccination. So in In 2021, there was a bill, I’m trying to think about, it was 2116. It was labeled as a STI prevention bill, but one of the things that it did was actually allow children as young as 12 to consent to vaccine, to receiving the HPV vaccine without their parents’ knowledge or consent. And because the HPV vaccine has such a dark history, so many damaging things around the world, Bill Gates is actually banned from the country of India because of his work with the HPV vaccine there. There’s a lot. It’s a lot of damage. So that was the first thing that kind of got me moved into that arena. And then in 2022, I was doing a lot of reading of bills around health freedom legislation. And because nearly every bill got killed in the committee that it was first heard in, I didn’t realize that bills crossed over. There was a lot of things I didn’t know in 2022. And so then towards the end of the session, when I started seeing some of the other bills that were in other committees. I, I, it just kind of was baffling. And then the next year I started reading every bill that came out and testifying on as many things as possible. I think they probably in, in 2023 years, they saw me at the Capitol. I was there every week. I was there, you know, two, two to three days or more a week, trying, trying to just get my head around everything that was happening and trying to figure out the whole process. And, um, And that’s just continued. So one of the things with my personality is I was feeling really despondent in the beginning of COVID because I felt like there was all this stuff happening that I did not understand that I didn’t that I didn’t agree with. But I didn’t feel like I had an avenue for anything. And so now, even though the voice that I give to my concerns is. doesn’t always make an effect. I can at least put it on record and feel like I’m doing something. And for me, that is a really big piece of sanity to feel like I’m doing what I can do. So the reluctant activist subtext, I just chronicle the bills that I’m following and And there are so many bills that are happening every single week that I don’t cover. But the things that I’m either interested in, think a few of the people that I know that subscribe to my FedSec are interested in. I just make sure that people know when committee hearings are happening and kind of give them an avenue to get into that. Not necessarily accurate, just to voice your concerns as a citizen. I think that that’s a really important part of a representative system of government. We have to we have to participate and make sure our feelings are known.
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Well, and Erin, with that, you were at the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, our legislative kickoff. And we’re trying to watch a lot of bills. And I know you’re a member of CUT as well, which we really do appreciate. And so we’re trying to shed light on this as well. So I assume that you’re probably using CUT as a tool as you’re going through all of this legislation, yes? Yes.
SPEAKER 09 : 78:50
I do. It’s a really valuable tool for me, especially for some of the things that right away, some of the financial bills are that’s less in my wheelhouse to kind of, you know, get to know right up front. It’s easy usually to see this is a bad bill, but to have some of the background that CUT provides, I think it’s just so valuable. When I found out about your organization, I don’t remember if that was in 23 or 24 years, But when I found out, I joined right away, and I have used your emails just to help me understand better. And sometimes it gives me a piece that I didn’t think about when I was reading a bill. And so I really appreciate the work that CUT does.
SPEAKER 07 : 79:34
Well, and we appreciate you as well. So this particular bill that we’re talking about, the Senate Bill 26032, It is pretty extensive as just in the bill summary of all of the things that it’s changing. But as I had gone down here, this shield, as you mentioned, You can see it right off the bat. This is says it adds a new limitation on liability for civil damages for injury or death of an adult caused by a vaccine or it has such trouble with that word immunization agent. If the vaccine or agent was administered according to the schedule of immunizations by the Board of Health. So this really is a pushback on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and what they are doing at Health and Human Services, yes?
SPEAKER 09 : 80:34
Yeah, yeah. The bigger issues of liability, I just – there’s – there’s no way that the state in its current financial situation can absorb liability. And they didn’t even try. Um, so I think that that’s, um, that should, that should be the thing that kills this bill. People should be concerned that, that they’re, If this passes, the state is going to try to like wave their hands like these are not the droids you’re looking for. But there is no other way for you to to have that. protection if the company has liability, if the doctors have liability and someone is doing something that’s against what the federal experts have have recommended. The Board of Health has already voted in December to say that they were only going to listen to the American Association or the American Academy of Pediatrics or the AAP. And they’re not going to listen to ACIP anymore. And they’re not going to listen to the ACOG, which is the obstetricians and gynecologists. They had five different groups that they used to reference. And in December, they took it down to only the AAP. And the AAP receives $34 million or more a year from pharma. So it’s not like they’re an unbiased organization. And they’re members through insurance incentives. When doctors hit a certain vaccination rate in their practice, they actually get bonuses from the insurance company because they’re billing a certain amount. And as long as they keep that there, they get extra financial incentives. And so those two things together, right, the AAP problem with funding and then this other kind of backroom incentive to push vaccinations, whether or not they are safe and effective. One of the doctors at the hearing in the Senate said that he doesn’t see measles or polio, but I bet that he sees a whole lot of chronic disease. And so if vaccines are actually safe and effective, my question to these committees is always, we should see the healthiest vaccines. kids and people of all time. And that is exactly the opposite of what we see. You know, there’s, there’s so much chronic disease. There’s such an increase in autism over the last 30 years. And you just can’t explain it away and say this thing that now we’re giving a new liability shield for is, is something we aren’t going to even look at it. That that’s, you know, safe and effective, you know, with big air quotes, but, but, But then we aren’t going to address what what’s causing all of this increase in illness and disease. So those are those are the things I think about when I look at a bill like this, because it’s just there’s so much more going on than, you know, trying to say we just want to make sure everybody has access to the shops that they want to have access to. If it was just that, I maybe wouldn’t have said anything on this bill because, you know, And if someone wants to get a vaccine, they should be able to. They should be able to take that risk if they want to. But I want to make sure that if something goes wrong, even those people are protected however they can be.
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Absolutely. So let’s go to another bullet point on this, Erin Meschke. This is Senate Bill 26032. And the very last one. The last bullet point in the summary says authorizes the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to purchase for the Children’s Basic Health Plan vaccines that are recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and other similar entities, in addition to those recommended by ACIP. So the American Academy of Pediatrics regarding this has really been captured by the pharmaceuticals. And so you can see how this all works then is you’ve got government that is purchasing these vaccines. Well, how does government purchase this? The only way they have money to do that is because they have taken it from everyday people. And so then the pharmaceuticals are making money on this. And so you can see how this circle is all connected together. American Academy of Pediatrics recommends it, use tax money to purchase it. Pharmaceutical companies make money. You can see how this is. It’s really kind of an incestuous circle, wouldn’t you say?
SPEAKER 09 : 85:18
Oh, definitely. If you look just in 1986, the number of vaccines that were actually out on the market, the number that were recommended, it was under 10. I think maybe it was eight. I’d have to double check that. But the over the next two decades after that immunity shield was introduced now we’re up to 72 doses of 17 back 16 or 17 vaccines and if you count in covid shots and additional flu things and other stuff that’s constantly being introduced to the market you know it’s not very long before they’re going to be recommending almost 100 shots in kids before they’re 18 and and If it was working, like I said before, if kids were the healthiest and the strongest of all time, I might not have woken up to think that maybe it’s not such a great idea. But when you have such chronic disease and other problems, you have to do the scientific thing to say, well, maybe we need to examine all of the factors. Yeah. So, yeah, but the incestuous relationship is is really it’s it’s it’s kind of from from that beginning point in 1986, because the whole reason that the pharmaceutical manufacturers went to Congress that year and that and that got pushed through is because they said, we’re going to go out of business and we’re not going to be able to give these life saving vaccines to people anymore because we’re being sued out of existence. because of major damages. And so when people could go, you know, in a capitalistic system, when people could go and actually try and get some recourse for injuries, the pharmaceutical companies were not going to be able to stay in business because the harms were so great, especially from the Tdap vaccination, which was The major litigated a shot at that point in time. So there’s just there’s there’s so much in the background. And and as with anything, when you allow lobbying, you don’t really get representation for the people in the way that that you should.
SPEAKER 07 : 87:27
Well, in 1986, so we’re celebrating birthdays of really great presidents. George Washington’s birthday is February 22nd. Abraham Lincoln’s birthday is today, the 12th. The 6th is Ronald Reagan. And Ronald Reagan, I guess the thing about it is we have to realize nobody is perfect because that liability shield, came into existence when Ronald Reagan was president. I think he signed that legislation, yes?
SPEAKER 09 : 87:59
Yeah, he did. And I don’t know if your listeners are familiar with Barbara Lowe Fisher from the National Vaccine Injury, what’s her, it’s NVICF, I can’t remember what all the letters stand for, but And she actually has said that there are some good pieces in that because what came out of it was a vaccine court, even though it’s so biased against the people who are trying to file claims, at least there’s something and Everybody doesn’t get it right all the time. And the amount of pressure that I think a person can feel, and especially when you don’t have the information that we have, I feel like we have so much more information about vaccine injury now. And and even just the impact that a liability shield can have on a company, there’s there’s less incentive for really great testing. You don’t actually have to to prove things the way that maybe you did previously to to ensure safety for your for your customers in this, you know, which are patients. But it’s I don’t know, it’s it. I love so many things that Reagan did. I think he was a great president. But this is one of those things that you just… I can’t imagine the pressure he was under and the weight of feeling like if he didn’t do this, that this thing that he trusted in was going to go away and people were going to, you know, be sicker or whatever. If he had the hindsight of, you know, almost 40 additional years, well, yeah, 40 years, he would, I think he would have made a different decision. I think he was a wise man and I think he had wise counsel around him and the people around him just, they didn’t know what we know now. So. I give him grace for that decision. And definitely there are a few things that did come out of that that were good in the middle of a bunch of bad, you know, liability shields and other things.
SPEAKER 07 : 90:00
Well, and that’s the other thing about legislation is ideally people that are representing us and passing legislation are to think about what are the long-term effects of this, and is this the proper role of government? Now, Erin, as you’re watching legislation, there is no way that our legislators can read all of these bills, but they’re getting passed, and they are putting in place law that controls our lives. And I think that it’s… It’s really a travesty that we are passing so many laws here in Colorado where there is no way legislators can read it. It’s irresponsible to pass these things into law. And I’m looking at it right now from our Bill Track 50 for cut. At this particular point in time, there are 345 bills and resolutions passed. session, and we’re only about a month into it. And the legislature does not adjourn until I think it’s the second week in May. And they’re on track to be – we don’t need another law. I don’t think we need to be repealing these, Erin Meschke.
SPEAKER 09 : 91:28
Oh, definitely. Oh, definitely. I totally agree, Kim. And really the – The bigger issue is that to repeal a law is way more difficult than to just pass something. And I… I just earlier this week testified in favor of a bill that was put out by Representative Weinberg from Loveland to limit the number of bills that a legislator could introduce over the session and another bill in the same hearing to shorten the session from 120 days to 90 days because we don’t need to give more time to pass bad legislation. The first year that I was doing seriously spending time at the Capitol in 2023, there were, you know, I don’t know, four or five hundred bills. I don’t I didn’t really look at the total that year. But the last couple of years, there’s been over 600. And last year there was over 700 bills in the course of 120 days. And and there are plenty of times where I am in a committee hearing and I have read the bill. And I can tell that people on the committee who are going to be voting on this bill have not read it. They have been given talking points from a lobbyist or from a bill sponsor if it’s something that they’re in favor of or that they’ve just been told by their party, this is how we’re voting. You know, so they don’t really – that’s not representative government. That’s just captured government. And I think that it’s a really big problem to think about people – not listening to their constituents. Some of these legislators, I know they get hundreds of calls, sometimes thousands of calls on a bill. And when the opinion is stacked in the opposite way of what their party tells them to vote, the majority of the time they still vote with their party. And maybe I’m an idealist, but I think that’s wrong.
SPEAKER 07 : 93:26
Well, I think it’s wrong as well. And the Democrats down at the Colorado Statehouse, they are radical activists. They are not the Democrats of JFK or your grandpa or your grandma. They are into government control of every aspect of our lives. And, Erin Maschke, one other thing. We are so concerned with two things at Colorado Union Taxpayer’s things but the new things I was going to mention is bills with the safety clause and the safety clause is in our Constitution that if a piece of legislation is necessary for the immediate protection or welfare of Coloradans they can put the safety clause on there and that prevents a piece of legislation it puts in a law basically immediately Otherwise, if the legislature passes a piece of legislation and it doesn’t have the safety clause, we the people could actually go to a vote and review that. And so there’s a real abuse of it. And so right now, out of 345 bills that have been introduced, or bills or resolutions, 118 of them have the safety clause on it, Erin. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 : 94:47
Well, I can guarantee you that 118 of those bills don’t actually, you know, impact the immediate safety necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety for the appropriations for the support and maintenance of the departments of the state and the state institutions. I can guarantee you that 118, maybe we could argue that like half a dozen, maybe you could find 10 or 12 that you could actually say the safety clause actually belongs on this bill. But the majority of the times that I see the safety clause, I’m like, are you kidding me? You know, and to take away the right to petition, right? a piece of legislation before it becomes law. It’s a double-handed thing. They justify it by by this. Like I said before, the hair on fire position that they’re taking. They say false things like we’re not going to have vaccine access, which is why the title is the way that it is. We are we are not we are going to lose our ability to do this. You know, someone has is going to lose their civil rights if we don’t do this. I don’t know. It’s it’s a it’s all in semantics. It’s a lot of lies that are packaged as as truth or as as, you know, some kind of a need for policy change because someone’s being abused. It’s I feel a lot of times like we do not live in the same reality as a lot of the Democrats that I see at the in committees and at the legislature. But even some of the. The witnesses that testify on some of these bills, I do not, we cannot be listening to the same news, reading the same articles. It feels like we don’t even live in the same country because the things that I hear people say, I’m just like, I don’t even know how you can get to that point with the things that are going on. unless you’re in just such an echo chamber with other activists who are telling you the same lies and repeating them over and over again. And if you say a lie long enough, then a lot of people will believe that it’s true. And so I think that we’ve got a lot of things that we’re fighting against, not just the legislation that comes out that has some of these lies baked in. Sometimes you read a legislative declaration. And there are lies that are being put into statute in a legislative declaration. That’s going to go – that is going to end up, you know, in law. And so to say some of these things are – it’s just – It’s disingenuous, and I don’t think that it actually – I don’t think it helps Coloradans to lie when you make something law. So we’ve got a lot of issues, and I’m really hoping that sometimes – Soon people are more and more people are going to wake up and realize that just because someone has a party, you know, a letter next to their name doesn’t mean they’re actually going to represent what we would traditionally think of as the values of that party. Like you said, from from the old Democrats or sometimes even old Republicans, there’s there’s just there are things that don’t make sense anymore.
SPEAKER 07 : 98:19
Well, and that is why we have to continue to shed light and transparency on all of this. And again, people can find you at Substack under the Reluctant Activist. This is Erin Meschke. And thank you for all the great work that you’re doing, Erin. And your final thought.
SPEAKER 09 : 98:39
Oh, my final thought is I just hope that people will get involved. The only reason that I spend a few hours every week categorizing the things that I’m going to be looking at and putting it out for other people is so that they feel like they can, you know, log into a hearing on their computer. and engage with the legislature. There are sometimes bills where I am the only person testifying and that should almost never be so. We have to use our voice or we will lose it. And the more and more that we have, we’re not a super majority right now, but the more and more that we have unequal representation across party lines, the more and more that we will lose our ability to speak on different issues And so I just I am encouraging people to to get involved however they can. And I am so thankful to to be able to talk with you this morning, Kim. Thanks so much for having me on. Well, Erin Meschke, thank you.
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SPEAKER 07 : 102:41
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 sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. And thank you to all of you who support us. We are an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity as we look at these issues. And several things, we’ve had quite the morning with technical difficulties and I do want to say thank you to Joe, Producer Joe, for just MacGyvering it and making everything work and many of you have texted and said that you were not able to get us online initially and that was the case. It is really difficult when we don’t have internet service or power. We’ve gotten to a point where we rely on that and we need to be able to adjust in our lives when some So several things. I did want to mention that it looks like there’s going to be some snow that is forecast. And it was really interesting, as I mentioned earlier in the week, Yvonne Piaz and Jill Glazer both joined me as I drove out to Holyoke for their Phillips County Lincoln Day dinner. It was a wonderful luncheon. And Yvonne, we were talking about how we have not had any moisture yet this winter and how mild it has been here in Colorado. Now, it’s not been mild back east, and they’ve had a lot of snow. But Yvonne said something that I thought was so interesting. Regarding Protect Kids Colorado, she said, Kim, I think that this is a God thing that we have not gotten moisture yet and that we’ll get moisture after the petitions are turned in. But with this mild weather, we’ve been able to have people out in front of grocery stores where people will stop and sign the petitions. And also from a logistics standpoint, to be able to get petitions out to all over the state. And if we were having major snow on roads, that would make it more difficult. And so she said that she thought it was a real God thing and that we, you know, afterwards that we will start to get moisture. And so I’m starting to see reports that we’re starting to get snow in the mountains. And so we pray for moisture for our farmers and which that plays out to our food supply. And I think we will as well. I think that we’re going to start to get some real moisture here and we pray for that. But I thought that was such an interesting perspective of Yvonne’s. And then last night, I wanted to also give a shout out to Patty McKernan, who she’s also been working diligently with the Catholic community on getting signatures. And everybody seems to be very optimistic that we will get the signatures necessary to get these three questions on the ballot. So stay tuned on that. Another thing that is quite interesting, and that is that there were two governors that… were disinvited to the White House. And the National Governors Association, they have their annual conference, and it says, this is AP News from two days ago, it says, the National Governors Association annual conference is unraveling as Trump disinvites two of the governors from attending. And one of those two governors was Jared Polis from Colorado. And I know the president is putting a lot of pressure on Polis to release Tina Peters. And so the fact that he did not invite Jared Polis and I think the other governor, I think, I can’t remember here. Hold on just a second. Uh, it’s, and this is from the AP two days ago, it says an annual meeting of the nation’s governors that has long served as a rare bipartisan gathering is unraveling after president Donald Trump excluded Democrat governors from white house events. The national governance association said it will no longer hold a formal meeting with Trump when governors are scheduled to convene in Washington later this month, after the white house plan to invite only Republican governors. It goes on to say, uh, hold on here. These pop-ups are such a problem. It says on Tuesday, 18 Democrat governors also announced they would boycott a traditional dinner at the White House. If the reports are true that not all governors are invited to these events, which have historically been productive and bipartisan opportunities for collaboration, we will not be attending the White House dinner this year, the Democrats wrote. And Democrat governors remain united and will never stop fighting, this is what they say, to protect and make life better for people in our states. Actually, what we’re seeing in these blue states with these blue governors is that these states are devolving into chaos. The budgets are not balanced. 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SPEAKER 15 : 109:49
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