The spotlight turns to educational controversies, particularly within the Cherry Creek School District, where issues of nepotism and administrative inefficiencies have surfaced. Kim and her guest, Molly Lamar, discuss the importance of transparency and accountability in educational institutions. As they navigate these unsettling revelations, they emphasize the need for community involvement to ensure a resilient and honest education system for future generations.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
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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 eat your treasured, your 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 I get to work with. That is Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Friday, Producer Joe. Happy Friday, Kim. I’m laughing. It’s been quite a week, my friend. Quite the week.
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It has been quite the week, and you wouldn’t even know. I’ve been up since midnight.
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Oh, bless you. There’s a lot to make this show happen, and I do appreciate it. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Make sure you’re signed up for our weekly email newsletter. You’ll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. Email me at kim at kimmonson.com. The text line is 720-605-0647. And I do thank each and every one of you for all of your support and also our great sponsors. Let’s see here. As you know, we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you shouldn’t have to force people to do it. And it’s never compassionate nor altruistic to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their property, their freedom, their livelihood, their opportunities or their childhoods or lives via force. Force can be a weapon, but it’s policy, an unpredictable and excessive taxation. Fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, and this agenda by the World Economic Forum, which is playing out, and the globalist elites, is playing out right here in our neighborhoods now. And remember, if something’s a good idea, you should not have to use force to implement it. And on the show, we focus on the issues, and we’ll mention the people pushing those issues, but we really stay out of the personality fighting. And I want to say thank you to the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, my fellow board members. They’re doing amazing work. I took a quick look at, as of right now, there’s 100. And let me just tell you here, get over here to Bill Track 50. At this point in time, and it may clear out a little bit, but there’s 125 bills right now that are scheduled for a hearing for next week. And as of right now, there’s 353 bills and resolutions that have been introduced. This is madness. This is absolutely madness down there. But when you see these folks, my fellow volunteer board members, say thank you to Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onozorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. Our word of the day is nihilistic, and it could be of or believing in nihilism, obviously, which is the total rejection of established laws and institutions. It could, number two, embracing anarchy, terrorism, and destruction. And number three, it is the philosophy or believing in extreme skepticism, believing in nothingness. And I would say this legislature, which is controlled by radical activist Democrats, this is not the Democrat Party of JFK, or your grandpa or your grandma, is nihilistic. And our bill of the day, Pam Long sent this over to me, and Aaron Meshke also, who was a guest yesterday. And that is… Oh, gosh, here. Let me get to it. Hold on here. Got too many screens going. And we are totally in… This is just another step for Colorado to become… just a really evil place. And it’s Senate Bill 26097, and it is concerning decriminalizing commercial sexual activity among consenting adults. The sponsors on this are Senator Nick Hendrickson, Senator Lisa Cutter, Representative Lorena Garcia, Representative Rebecca Stewart. And as Pam had noted, is that now in colorado that basically 12 year olds can have consent she said here we go she said age 12 is now the consent for almost everything in colorado so you think about that it is just it’s really it’s really sad what’s happening to our state But that’s why we have to engage in this battle of ideas. We’ve got to work to make sure that our elections are free, fair, honest, and transparent. But that is the bill of the day, and that is 097. And let’s see, next thing, our quote of the day comes from The Medal of Honor Quote Book, which you can purchase by going to the website for the Center for American Values. That website is AmericanValuesCenter.org. And this is from Michael E. Thornton, United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient. He was born in 1949. Actions taken 10-31-1972. This is his… A citation, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while participating in a daring operation against enemy forces. Petty Officer Thornton, as Assistant U.S. Navy Advisor, along with a U.S. Navy Lieutenant serving as Senior Advisor, accompanied a three-man Vietnamese Navy SEAL patrol on an intelligence gathering and prisoner capture operation against an enemy-occupied naval river base. Launched from a Vietnamese Navy junk in a rubber boat, the patrol reached land and was continuing on foot towards its objective when it suddenly came under heavy fire from a numerically superior force. The patrol called in naval gunfire support and then engaged the enemy in a fierce firefight, accounting for many enemy casualties before moving back to the waterline to prevent encirclement. Upon learning that the senior advisor had been hit by enemy fire and was believed to be dead, Petty Officer Thornton returned through a hail of fire to the lieutenant’s last position, quickly disposed of two enemy soldiers about to overrun the position, and succeeded in removing the seriously wounded and unconscious senior naval advisor to the water’s edge. He then inflated the lieutenant’s life jacket and towed him seaward for approximately two hours until picked up by support craft. By his extraordinary courage and perseverance, Petty Officer Thornton was directly responsible for saving the life of his superior officer and enabling the safe extraction of all patrol members, thereby upholding the highest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service. And this is what he said. 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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 George Washington, this is his birthday month. So we’re talking about George Washington to see what we can learn. And he was our first American president, commander of the Continental Army, president of the Constitutional Convention. And he was a farmer. And through these roles, he exemplified character and leadership. And this is from Mount Vernon. This is his childhood and education. He was born at his family’s plantation on Pope’s Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia, on February 22, 1732. to augustine and mary ball washington george’s father was a leading planter in the area and served as a justice of the county court augustine washington’s first wife jane butler died in 1729 leaving him with two sons lawrence and augustine jr and a daughter jane george was the eldest of augustine and mary’s six children george elizabeth samuel john augustine charles and mildred And the Ferry Farm, around 1734, the family moved up the Potomac River to another Washington property, Little Hunting Creek Plantation, later renamed Mount Vernon. In 1738, they moved again to Ferry Farm, a plantation on the Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg, Virginia, where George spent much of his youth. Little is known of George Washington’s childhood. It remains the most poorly understood part of his life. When he was 11 years old, his father, Augustine, died, leaving most of his property to George’s adult half-brothers. The income from what remained was just sufficient to maintain Mary Washington and her children. As the oldest of Mary’s children, George undoubtedly helped his mother manage the Rappahannock River plantation where they lived, and there he learned the importance of hard work and efficiency. which those would be nice things that we should be teaching our children. And that’s why education is so important. We’ve got Molly Lamar on the line. She had been a candidate for Colorado Board of Education, cares deeply about our children. and has been keeping us up to date on what is happening with the Cherry Creek School District, the superintendent, his wife, which is, well, we’ll find out, the head of human resources, Molly Lamar. Welcome to the show. Good morning, Kim. Thanks for having me on. Well, it’s good to have you, Molly. So what’s the new developments with Cherry Creek School District?
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Well, we have another administrator who has gone on administrative leave, this time for insubordination, which is interesting. We don’t have the back story yet, but so this is the 4th. administrator in you know a group of power couples that we have who have overseen our district for the last few years where we now have a toxic work culture nepotism we’ve lost a lot of wonderful teachers and administrators to this environment and So this was really good news. This was one of the, his name is Tony Poole. And it was a consistent complaint that was coming out of the buildings about him. So that’s a big success for students. I was listening to the promotion, you know, before COVID. we started talking and what I really appreciated was Kim Monson, you know, seeks the truth. And I think that that is really what’s going on here is we just, as parents, we want, we want the truth. We want to know what happened. We’d like to root out the problems and then get back to what is really Unfortunately, we’re not done yet. We still have the rod is systemic, so we still have a ways to go. But this was very good news.
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Well, ultimately, Molly Lamar, the school board is responsible for this, I think. Yes, ma’am. And we need to make sure that people understand that. And also, we need to vote for school board members that are really representing the community members and families and parents. And so we need to remember that. Tony Poole, what was his position with the district?
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He was an associate superintendent who oversaw special populations. He promoted his wife to director of neurodiverse populations. In 2016, he was quoted as saying to a group of teachers, I think there were 12 teachers, two of whom were black, you need to know who your master is. He rules with an iron fist. Really awful reports coming from just People who showed up every day to do their job and work with children and were intimidated, bullied, really unacceptable behavior and just this attitude of entitlement. We’re learning that they took travel on the taxpayer’s dollar, trips to Portugal, Costa Rica, all under the guise that they were going for educational conferences or speaking opportunities, but unbelievable amounts of money from you know, the taxpayers dime going towards these trips. One of the trips was to Costa Rica where I believe it’s seven administrators from Cherry Creek went for an entire week. And so that’s the current board of administration has frozen any administrative travel, district travel while we investigate. What really needs to happen is we need to have an external audit working with a firm that has never done business with Cherry Creek Schools or our board in the past because we Parents need to, and teachers need to know that this isn’t just gonna be a whitewash. This is going, we’re going to have a true investigation here and get to the bottom of this. It’s quite a mess.
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And the thing about it is there is so much money, and I think Cherry Creek recently passed, did they pass a bond? What’s the finances? Nine hundred fifty million dollars.
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well quite a bit of money you know um and and now here we have how much how much taxpayer money is being spent on these legal fees and administrative leave salaries for the pools and and the smiths and um is the is the public going to see the full accounting of these costs you mentioned the board my concern is that we have board members that have been complicit in all of this. Two of our board members have sat on the board for six years during the entire time of Chris and Brenda Smith’s reign, if you’ll have it. And now that we’re in the media, we’ve been in the media for about a month, a little over a month, It started in December. So now that we’re in the news, the claim is, okay, we’re gonna take a look at this. But they have had warning signs since 2021, shortly after Brenda and Chris took over in Cherry Creek. She was the chief of HR. She was hired as superintendent. People were waving red flags. That’s not gonna work. In 2022, they received a letter from a former board president saying there are complaints and people are talking about these conflicts of interest. They rewrote policy to allow the relationship to continue. continue there. And then in 2024, 14 months ago, they received an eight-page letter from two very respected principals, one from Eagle Crest and one from Grandviews, outlining all of this horrible behavior that has gone on. Marriages that, you know, where the spouse is an administrator and now the wife is a director. We have instances of that everywhere. We have Jason Koenig, who is our, information technology officer he just hired his wife as to oversee our websites so she’s our website manager just multiple instances of this nepotism and our employees don’t feel like they can turn to anyone if they have a you know a concern or Truly, they’re being bullied at work.
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Isn’t it interesting? And our board has just overlooked it. It’s so interesting that what you will see. So, like this anti-bullying, I’m sure that that’s probably something that Cherry Creek says that they’re focused on. I guess I’m surmising. I should know what I’m talking about. Right. I feel like 95% sure that that’s probably the case. Yes, that’s the case. But what they say, for example, that they are trying to prevent in school is exactly what they’re doing. So, Molly Lamar, we’ve got about a minute left, and I really appreciate you keeping us up to speed because what happens in Cherry Creek could be happening other places as well. And so I really appreciate you keeping us up to speed on this topic. So what’s the takeaway for this morning?
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Well, I was going to say, you know, oftentimes what happens pillars in education for the state. I hope that we will get back to being, you know, a good example as to what can happen when children are given an excellent education. That is the objective and the ultimate goal here. We have a Board of Education special session this morning where They’re going to make promises about working with a K-12 investigative team to do a full audit. We’ll see. The other night, on Monday night, we had over 100 parents show up for the school board meeting. It was so refreshing and fascinating. You know, for you and for you and me, Kim, who really care about education, it was amazing to see parents show up. The passion, the speeches were great. They really wanted and parents aren’t showing up to fight the district. They’re showing up to fight for the district. This is a beloved district and we just want to give back. to being great. So I’ll, I’ll, as long as you’ll have me, I’ll keep coming on and updating you. This is, it’s, I think we’re making progress and headway. We still have a ways to go, but so far it’s been, I’m optimistic that we’ll get there.
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Well, we are going to stay on it with you, Molly Lamar. Thank you so much. And we’ll talk with you next week. Thank you, Kim. Have a great day. Have a great day as well. And all of these discussions happen because of our amazing 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 check out the website for the Center for American Values. That is AmericanValueCenter.org, AmericanValueCenter.org. And their collection of… The portraits of valor of our Medal of Honor recipients. The only other place that there is such a collection is the Pentagon. And we can’t get into the Pentagon to see it. So make it on your bucket list to visit the Center for American Values. To get their hours, go to AmericanValueCenter.org. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org. And on the line with me is Jay Davidson. He is the founder and CEO of First American State Bank, which is a community bank located right here in the metro area. Jay Davidson, welcome to the show.
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Thank you, Kim. It’s an honor to be with you.
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Well, it’s good to have you. And First American State Bank is a community bank which has helped many entrepreneurs become successful because of the relationships that you create with your clients. And that’s what we like to do here at the Kim Monson Show as well, is create relationships. Because in this day and age, it’s really important.
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Yeah, that’s really what community banking is all about. It’s relationships with our clients, our employees, our suppliers and vendors. It’s bringing people together to get the job done. We simply facilitate our customers’ desire for capital or their needs for handling their cash using treasury management products.
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And you are also coming into the 2026 for our young entrepreneurs as well.
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Yeah, that’s very true. Kicking and screaming, I might add. And I’m not part of the technology group. I tell you that right now. But, you know, it’s fascinating to see what these younger people do on their iPhones. I’m just blown away. And we have a full suite of treasury management products that people can manage their entire banking relationship from ACH to balance transfers to applying for a loan or applying for a new account on their iPhone. It’s a very robust technology suite. that’s sitting out there trying to help the young entrepreneur, the business person, the individual.
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Okay. That’s FASBank.com. Jay Davidson, there’s so much that is happening from an economic standpoint. And you and I both talk on a regular basis about our concern regarding the national debt. I’m also concerned what we’re seeing at the local school district, county, and state level as well. But you had shared a piece that Kimberly Strassel had written for, I think it was the Wall Street Journal. And you said that perhaps Russell Vogt, who is the head of the Office of Management and Budget, OMB, that… That maybe they’re starting to think about cutting some spending. Is that even remotely true at all?
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Well, I pray it is. But honestly, well, we looked at Doge and Elon Musk when he was there, and they uncovered it. Unbelievable excess spending and spending that was unconscionable. In a normal situation, if somebody took money from us and used it for what they did, that would be pure fraud and embezzlement. They would be in jail. And yet this is the way the government works. So I think… What I’m finding is that we’re electing people to go into Washington or to our state house or our city councils, and we expect them to control themselves. I mean, and that’s a reasonable expectation because we as citizens control ourselves because we have to. I mean, it’s called discipline. It’s putting off immediate gratification for a future benefit that would be even greater. That’s why you save money. You don’t spend it today. You save it. So if you think about it, it’s kind of silly on our part to assume that a politician is going to go into a federal or state or local government position, have the power over our money, have the ability to tax us or create fee income from us and not abuse the relationship. I mean, it’s human nature, isn’t it? I mean, how many honest politicians have you ever met in your life? Honestly, not as many as you’d like to think you did. So the missing ingredient here is what the founding fathers figured out. And we take it for granted. It’s just, oh, representative government. Well, that’s a big word. Those are two big words. What it means is that we as citizens and civilians, as the people who are being taxed, as the people who are contributing our hard earned money to a government entity, we need to be the police. We can’t rely on an individual who is going to be subject to greed, who’s going to want to get reelected, to not abuse this system. And we see it time and again on both parties. You can say you’re a Republican or Democrat. I couldn’t care less. They all do it. And I don’t mean to knock politicians. I have a lot of politician friends who are honorable, but they get very frustrated dealing with this gigantic beast that is built to take more and more money from the American public.
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Jay, I think we are getting to the point where the. The turnip is just about dry. I don’t know if they can get a whole bunch more out of us. On the property tax side, I have had three different either sponsors or listeners reach out regarding their property tax bills that they’ve just been notified of. And The founders knew that property was inherent in liberty, the fact that we could own property and keep most of the fruits of our labor. One example is I was talking to a businessman, and his property taxes were $10,000 two years ago. They went up to $19,000 last year, and they’re $24,000 this year. This is a wealth transfer opportunity. taking wealth from everyday hardworking Coloradans and Americans, and it’s transferring it to PBIs, politicians and bureaucrats and interested parties who are taking a cut. And many times then they’re maybe buying votes with that by giving away freebies as well. And I don’t think that we’re to a point where this is not sustainable whatsoever, Jay Davidson.
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I couldn’t agree with you more, Kim. I think we’re all feeling the pinch. And there’s a lot of things happening to us in the economic situation that are making that pinch even more difficult to handle. We’re spending more on taxes, and as Common Sense Institute has proven, we’re spending much more on fees. So the government is getting a lot more money from us, the state government. Then I look at the state government, and they can’t balance their budget. They can’t keep their income and expenditures at least equal. They’re going into debt. And then I look at the Denver roads and all the other things that are happening. There’s no infrastructure being built here. And then, you know, my property tax goes up because the imputed value of my home has gone up so much. When you think about it, can you sell your house for what the tax value is? I don’t think so. I mean, it’s gone up so drastically, it’s ridiculous. But you have to pay tax on that. That’s your property tax. And guess what? Two-thirds of that property tax goes to your local school district. and and then look at what the school district is teaching it’s okay if you want to cut off your appendages kids uh that’s great you can be a transvestite uh it’s okay if you uh if you uh believe in dei and and want to go down that road or it’s okay if you hate america you know what you don’t need to come to class you can go protest ICE and illegal immigrants up in Minnesota today. I mean, who are these teachers? And why are we spending so much money to support a left-wing communist cause with them? So it’s just… We the people, we the citizens, like I was saying earlier, have got to take responsibility and control of this gigantic beast that we have allowed to consume more and more of our earnings. And I know what the… you know the argument that the other side makes well it’s always about the poor individual person and honestly i agree with him i you know i don’t want this poor lady i don’t care if she’s legal or not to be honest with you with little kids to starve or you know not not survive i i get that But then you say, well, that translates to this guy and that guy. And Trump has done one thing right. He’s proven that the number of illegal immigrant criminals in America was vast. And he’s done an incredible job at getting them out. I think he’s gone too far between you and me. That’s another discussion. But, man, he closed the borders. He got these illegal gang members out of the country. And I think we’re seeing some things happening. But the point I’m trying to make is that the left will take the example of the one individual that can tear your heart apart. It’s always going to be a kid or a single mother and say, you know, this we need to contribute. You’re greedy if you don’t want to take care of this person. Well, I submit to you that sending your money to Washington, D.C. or to Denver, Colorado, to take care of these people is the worst possible way to take care of these people. There’s nothing worse than that.
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And there may be some money that does trickle down to whatever they purport, whoever they’re trying to help. But as you were saying this, I’m thinking, as you said, send the money to Washington or down to the Capitol in Denver in It’s almost like support a bureaucrat, send your money to the Capitol, because I think that’s really what’s happening. And many of these school superintendents, city managers are making exorbitant salaries. And we can find that by going to Open the Books, which they’re on the show regularly. And they have information regarding many of the entities out there. And interesting, Cherry Creek School District, which has been in the news lately, I had looked up. I wanted to find out what their superintendent, who just resigned and retired, I guess, what he was making. And I couldn’t find it on their website. So I reached out to open the book, said, hey, I can’t find this on the website. And they said, well, check on it. And so they checked on it, and they have requested that information from Cherry Creek School District. And the response has been that they would charge them an enormous amount of money to provide those records to open the books. And so the lack of transparency is… is staggering to me. And so we’ve got to continue to shed light on this. We’re going to continue the discussion with Jay Davidson. He is a co-founder and CEO of First American State Bank. When we come back, I want to get his take on what I just mentioned regarding a lack of transparency in many of our governmental institutions. These discussions happen because of our sponsors for everything mortgages. Reach out to Lorne Levy.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And check out the website for the USMC Memorial Foundation. A couple of things that are going to be happening is there will be the President’s Challenge for Palo Saro’s birthday in March, a great way to support the Marine Memorial. And then also they have a golf tournament in May where you can get early bird pricing if you go to their website, which is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. We’re talking with Jay Davidson regarding really government spending. And what began the conversation is a piece that Kimberly Strassel had in the Wall Street Journal that maybe, just maybe, the Trump administration might be trying to lower government spending, which… that would be so welcome if that’s the case. Are you hopeful that that may actually be the case, Jay Davidson?
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I’m a little ambivalent right now. I’ve heard more from the Trump administration than I have any other one, including both of the Bushes. And the only president that, two presidents that actually did say The spending cuts for Reagan and his was minimal. And believe it or not, Bill Clinton, but only when Newt Gingrich ran the House. So was Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton actually reduced spending. So the magnitude of the spending in America is so vast that I think people cannot get their heads around it. And the entire source, and we go into some detail if you want to, we probably bore people that are not economically oriented, but the whole source of the malice that we feel of the reason for the inflation that we’re experiencing in pricing on products is government spending. That is, if you get to the heart of the issue, that is the problem and that is the solution. And the solution is to reduce government spending, reduce government employees. Sad, but you know what? People, you’re going to have to come and work in the private sector and suffer the consequences of that. But, you know, we cannot support the incredible bureaucratic monster that we have created since 1910 and Woodrow Wilson started on his quest. And you nailed it, Kim. We’re at the breaking point. We cannot go into more debt. And when, you know, Trump and his guys talk about reducing the debt, well, I haven’t seen it yet, folks. And, you know, if you want to talk about it, great. Let’s get it done because there’s so much incredible waste out there. And we are being robbed blind. You know, people who work for a living are working a third of the year at least just to pay the government. You don’t make anything. So you get maybe two thirds of what you’ve earned and the rest goes to the government. And when you add in the fees that have been increased dramatically, it’s an even smaller number. So you know what? It’s time for us to say enough is enough. I don’t need a government solution for everything. I don’t need them regulating a hair color specialist or regulating this, that or the other thing. They can go away. We don’t need them. So the crux of the problem that we’re experiencing is excessive government spending. And what excessive government spending means, think government spending equals more taxes, more money out of your pocket. That is a hard line right there. And when they talk about, even Trump talks about building some new multi-trillion dollar program to help save us, I’m thinking, Mr. Trump, that is the wrong attitude. I don’t need another government program to save me. I don’t want it. Get them out of my life.
SPEAKER 06 : 46:12
And I think people, we are at a point where I think people are realizing this and realizing When we have seen what has happened up in Minneapolis with the fraud, it’s staggering the amount of fraud that was uncovered there. That is just one state. I think that we can actually start to make a dent in our national debt. If we get rid of this fraud. And what creates that fraud is a government program. It’s money that’s taken from hardworking people to help somebody. It’s daycare or refugees or transportation services, school. All of this that’s taken from us. And I think people are looking at that saying, wait a minute. This is a time that we really need to be engaging in this battle of ideas, shedding light on this, because I think that this is the opportunity where people will say, enough is enough. You’ve taken advantage of our goodwill. You’ve taken advantage of the fact that we care deeply about our fellow man. You’ve robbed us in doing so. That’s the bottom line, Jay Davidson.
SPEAKER 17 : 47:33
Yeah, amen. I’ll tell you, hallelujah. I’m preaching to the choir here, I’ll tell you. You nailed it, and that’s the issue. And the sooner we come to the realization that, well, I just go back to the Founding Fathers, the brilliance of what they did in the most simplistic of manners. They created the strangest document, I think, that’s ever been created, and it’s called the Constitution. And it says, you know what? Government’s a necessary evil, but it’s not the solution to any of our problems. We have to have a government to allow interchange and protect our borders and so forth. But beyond that, we need to limit the government because its tendency will be to grow. And 250 years ago, they saw it. And guess what? It’s grown all out of proportion to what it should be and where it should be. And so so our founding fathers had the brilliant idea. Well, how are we going to control government? Well, the Constitution tells us the government exactly what it can do. And then it goes further and says you cannot do anything that we have not specifically told you you can do. And so when did the government get the opportunity or the right to come and tax me for some school district that teaches things that I don’t want my grandchildren to see, that I don’t agree with? When did they have that right? Talking about Cherry Creek school system. So and, you know, you name it, whatever it is out there, they don’t. And it needs to stop. And you’re right. The final straw is one little piece that weighs an ounce or two. And the camel’s back is broken. And we’re the camels. Denver just voted themselves two multibillion-dollar tax increases. For what? To protect mice? To create some bike lanes that nobody uses? What kind of unconscious imbecility is going on in America today across the board? I don’t get it, Kim. It just blows my mind.
SPEAKER 06 : 50:00
Well, I… I’ve been troubled with these headlines, and I’ve been troubled as the president of CUT, Colorado Union of Taxpayers, all-volunteer group. We’re going through the legislation down at the statehouse that’s scheduled for hearing for the next week. And there are things that are being proposed that our government is way, way, way out of its lane. One of the proposals, I don’t have the bill number right here in front of me, is regarding data centers. And data centers are the hot new thing. I get it. However, they are offering, through this legislation, for any data center of 250 people, million dollars or more, all kinds of tax breaks and all kinds of special treatment. And that is not the way it’s supposed to be. Government is supposed to treat, in the vision of our declaration, all men are created equal. So that means all men or businesses, our businesses are to be treated equal. There’s not to be any special treatment. And if they’re offering Something over here where they’re not going to have to pay their taxes, then we need to connect the dot. Everybody else is going to have to pay more in taxes. And that is, it’s antithetical to just the foundational declaration of independence, Jay.
SPEAKER 17 : 51:31
Yeah, exactly. I mean, when did the government become the arbiter of what private businesses should do? And yet here they are. They’re doing it time and time again with the subsidies that they do. As much as I appreciate Elon Musk, I think he’s brilliant. but he took advantage of a government loophole with the electrical cars. I mean, brilliant, but you know what? Everybody else paid for the reduction in price that he got on his cars because the taxes were reduced. Everybody else paid for some guy to go buy a $100,000 electrical vehicle. And it’s just time and time and time again. And people, the citizens have to put their foot down and say enough is enough. And until that happens, it’s not going to happen, period.
SPEAKER 06 : 52:19
Well, and that’s why we have to understand what is going on. And that House Bill number, I’ve got it for you. It’s House Bill 1030, Data Center and Utility Modernization. And we talked about it on the show the other day, but I wanted to just share with you. I’m getting to it right now. It says that… It creates a data center development and incentive program operated by the Colorado Data Center Development Authority. So it’s special treatment, and then it’s bureaucrats that are going to administer it. What could go wrong with that, Jay Davidson?
SPEAKER 17 : 52:59
Yeah, you know, it’s going to be perfect because these administrators have your best interests at heart. After all, they’re more pure. They’re not driven by greed.
SPEAKER 06 : 53:10
Right. When young people say to me, oh, capitalists are greedy, I am responding with, what’s the greediest thing into your paycheck? And that is your taxes there. And you have no choice on that. Just to finish this up, you’re going to love this, Jay. This is in the bill summary. To incentivize efficient data center development, the program allows a 100% state sales and use tax exemption on qualified purchases. If that’s not picking winners and losers, I don’t know what is, Jay Davidson.
SPEAKER 17 : 53:45
Yeah, amen. And like you said, and that’s the beautiful dotted line that you drew, everybody else is going to pay for that. The government’s not going to reduce their spending. They’re just going to say, hey, put your data center here and we’ll give you some freebie taxes. You don’t have to pay them. So that’s income for you, for the business. And it’s another expenditure out of our pockets to cover that.
SPEAKER 06 : 54:11
And that’s why we need to say no, and we did take a no position on this as well at the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. Jay Davidson, fascinating conversation. I can feel both you and I have some real passion about what is going on right now. This has got to stop. How would you like to button this up?
SPEAKER 17 : 54:31
Well, for the sake of our grandchildren, because, you know, we’ve made it. We’re okay. But for the sake of our grandchildren, the kind of government spending and the debt that the government is incurring, which, oh, by the way, every citizen has to pay back. And when when did the government come and ask you if it’s OK if they put you into debt? generations not years i’m talking decades of debt repayments and believe me the debt repayments that you’re making on the 36 or 39 trillion dollars in government debt which amounts to over a trillion dollars a year that money is coming out of your pockets out of your business’s pockets it is depressing the economic activity in america and making us look and and making our situation as bad as it is in a third world country and that’s the reality of what the big government politicians and they’re on both sides of the aisle but big government politicians have done for us
SPEAKER 06 : 55:46
And that is why we have to say no, and that’s why we’re shedding light on this. Jay Davidson, as always, fascinating conversation. I greatly appreciate you. I greatly appreciate First American State Bank. We’ll talk with you next month, and thank you.
SPEAKER 17 : 56:01
Thank you, Kim.
SPEAKER 06 : 56:02
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And it’s not fair just because you’re a big business that you get a break on this and the little guy doesn’t.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
SPEAKER 06 : 57:54
Indeed, let’s have a conversation. 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. Thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Friday, Producer Joe. Happy Friday, Kim. Should we tell everybody what we did yesterday? I don’t think we said what happened exactly yesterday, and I think we should tell them, because when I said you MacGyvered it… So yesterday I was going to broadcast from home. We’ve got this great little unit that comes directly into the studio board. And Joe and I always talk at 530 to go over what’s going to happen on the show. And about 540, you called and said, there is no Internet, which means that I can’t come in on the unit. It also means there’s no phones to talk to the guests. And he said, okay, can you get in here? Well, I was planning on broadcasting from home, no makeup, sweats, takes 20 minutes. You know this is radio, right? Yeah, this is radio. and that voice was lauren levy and karen levine are in studio as well and so what you did is you took your phone and and put it around one of the microphones in the studio right then i took my phone and put it on a speaker and then i merged each of the guests in on my phone and that’s how we did the first part of the show yesterday it was wild
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It was absolutely insane. I still can’t believe I figured that out.
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I can’t believe you did either. And Sondra actually had sent a text message today. She said a big thank you to Joe for keeping KLZ’s radio waves humming. So there we go. Okay, let me get into this.
SPEAKER 02 : 59:50
I thought you were going to say that Joe got a haircut. That was the big news.
SPEAKER 06 : 59:53
You did get a haircut, too. That is the big news. Okay, let’s get into, let’s see, our word of the day is nihilism, which is going to be really easy to use in a sentence today. Just say, Colorado State Legislature, nihilism. How’s that? It’s spelled N-I-H-I-L-I-S-M. It could be the doctrine that nothing actually exists or that existence or values are meaningless. Number two. Relentless negativity or cynicism suggesting an absence of values or beliefs. Or number three, political belief or action that advocates or commits violence or terrorism without discernible constructive goals. I’m not at this time saying that number three is what’s going on with this legislature, but I could go with one and two on these particular issues. word of the day. And our quote of the day is from the Center for American Values and their Medal of Honor quote book. And this is – I just realized I don’t think I gave the quote in the first hour. This is from Michael E. Thornton, United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient, born 1949, actions taken 10-31-1972. And he says this, throughout our history, many men and women sacrificed the utmost for our great country and the freedoms we are privileged to enjoy. Always remember and honor our fallen comrades. And a great way to do that is to support the Center for American Values located in Pueblo. That website is AmericanValueCenter.org. You can order that book, and also you can find their hours by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. Our… Bill of the Day is we are now legalizing prostitution in Colorado, in addition to being a sanctuary place for trans surgeries on kids. We’re just, it’s pretty nihilistic down there. The Senate Bill 26097, Decriminalize Adult Commercial Sexual Activity. The sponsors on this are Senator Nick Henriksen, Senator Lisa Cutter, Representative Lorena Garcia, and and Representative Rebecca Stewart. And just the first paragraph in the bill summary, the bill requires the statewide decriminalization of commercial sexual activity among consenting adults. It declares that decriminalizing commercial sexual activity among consenting adults is a matter of statewide concern and expressly preempts statutory or home rule requirements City, town, city and county, or city, county ordinances, resolutions, regulations, or codes criminalizing commercial sexual activity. And then Pam Long, who had brought this to my attention via text, said, remember that 12-year-olds can now consent to almost anything. Maybe not tattoos. I don’t know if they can do that, but they can consent to almost anything in Colorado. And so, Karen Levine, I’m looking at you and the look on your face is like, this is unbelievable.
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I’m trying to find the words to express the, I don’t want to use this word, but the disgust. And yet we’re responsible. I’m sorry. We elected those people.
SPEAKER 06 : 63:23
Well, that’s why we must have free, fair, honest, and transparent elections. And that’s why we also have to engage in these ideas and make sure people know what’s going on. So I need to say, Karen Levine, Remax Realtors in Studio, as well as Lorne Levy, who is Everything Mortgages, great sponsors of the show. But, Karen, you said, you know what, I’m going to keep that. We’re going to talk about that when we come back. And that is a conversation that you had with some of your friends yesterday. Because we have Teddy Collins on the line. And Teddy is co-owner of Spartan Defense, which is a great firearm store, the largest family-owned firearm store in Colorado. He’s also running for state senate. Teddy Collins, welcome. Thank you.
SPEAKER 03 : 64:14
Hey, thanks for having me on, Kim. Good morning.
SPEAKER 06 : 64:16
Good morning. Teddy, did you just hear what I, this Senate bill that I just mentioned, 26097, that we are legalizing prostitution in Colorado now?
SPEAKER 03 : 64:28
Yeah, I did come across that yesterday. Yeah, it’s unfortunate turning Colorado into Sodom, it seems, but yeah.
SPEAKER 06 : 64:38
Well, and as Karen said, we’ve elected these people. But that’s why it’s also really important to have good candidates. And Teddy, you and your family have made a decision for you to run for State Senate. And this is a big deal.
SPEAKER 03 : 64:57
Yes, ma’am. I’m running for State Senate District 4. That’s Mark Baisley’s former seat. I’m running with his endorsement. And I’ve got some big shoes to fill, but I hope to be able to fight for the state and fight for my constituents.
SPEAKER 06 : 65:08
And how’s the campaign coming along?
SPEAKER 03 : 65:10
It’s going very well, Kim. I’ve got a lot of support that’s come out, and it’s been really heartwarming to see. And I think we’re going to win this thing. With everybody’s support, we’re going to make it happen.
SPEAKER 06 : 65:22
And how can people get more information about your campaign, Teddy?
SPEAKER 03 : 65:25
They can go to www.collinsforcolorado.com, and they can find out everything they need there or anything they want. And if they have any other questions, they can reach out to me personally, which is on there as well.
SPEAKER 06 : 65:37
Okay, and let’s move over to Spartan Defense. And you and your wife have the largest family-owned firearm store in Colorado. You have… a product that you can’t find anyplace else in Colorado as well. Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, and so a great gift would be a gift certificate for your loved one to Spartan Defense, right?
SPEAKER 03 : 66:02
Sure, they can come in and get gift cards. We have all kinds of things, and we do have some Valentine’s Day specials going on that are in-store only, so come on in and check it out and see what we can find for you.
SPEAKER 06 : 66:13
And where are you located, Teddy?
SPEAKER 03 : 66:15
Located in Colorado Springs off of Barnes and Tut near Powers on the east side of the springs.
SPEAKER 06 : 66:21
Okay. And regarding, I wanted to just ask you about some of the product that you have that is exclusive with Spartan Defense in Colorado.
SPEAKER 03 : 66:35
Yeah, we’ve got about 28 exclusive brands for the city and for the state. Spartan Defense, everything from Cabot to Alchemy to Bull Armory or Race City. If you’re looking for something unique, we’re definitely the shop to come to, especially in the firearms world. We carry a little bit of everything. We’ve got stuff that you find at your regular stores, but we also have stuff you’re not going to find in your big box stores. So come out, support local, and support a family-owned and operated business.
SPEAKER 06 : 67:03
Well, and the other thing is, is you do a price match, yes?
SPEAKER 03 : 67:07
I do. So if someone is lower out there, as long as it’s above our cost, we will match it. And we also do include a lifetime warranty on every firearm sold.
SPEAKER 06 : 67:14
Okay, and what’s that website, Teddy Collins?
SPEAKER 03 : 67:17
It’s www.SpartanDefense.com.
SPEAKER 06 : 67:20
Okay, Teddy, keep up the great work. We’ll talk next week. And again, that’s SpartanDefense.com.
SPEAKER 03 : 67:26
Thanks, Kim. You have a great day.
SPEAKER 06 : 67:28
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SPEAKER 02 : 72:10
Yeah, I mean, this is an article from 2023. I just brought it up because I remember talking about it with you back in the day when they legalized it there. And we have to see more with this bill because it’s just introduced. Does it include exclusions around schools? Or is there going to be middle schools with prostitutes on the corners out front? Hopefully someone will just kill this thing. But there’s always massive unintended consequences.
SPEAKER 06 : 72:41
There really are. And the thing about it is, I don’t know what it is in California, but in Colorado, the age of consent for lots of different things is now 12 years old. So connect that dot. And I’d like to know what those things are. One of them would be psychotropic, so drugs. So, for example, we now have… Mushrooms. I don’t know if it’s that for sure, but, for example… kids we now have uh in colorado there are medical clinics that are actually on on school property and that’s not just medical clinics for students that’s medical clinics where the community can come in and so that means that there is pharmaceuticals that are available there well in colorado Kids can be changing their name at school and their parents don’t even know. So the fact that they might be able to get certain drugs at school and their parents not know as well, it’s just a big dot to connect. And I bet you I’m going to have all of you listeners out there. If we could get a list of things that 12 year olds can give consent to, that would probably be a good idea. Good question.
SPEAKER 08 : 73:56
And the reason I ask is that we can say a lot of things. And I’m like, well, what are those a lot of things? Because they can’t vote yet at 12. They can’t drive a car yet at 12. So those are the things I’m pondering in my head. Good question.
SPEAKER 06 : 74:14
Yeah. Good question. I have to be careful about saying something without knowing exactly what those things are.
SPEAKER 02 : 74:21
I know my kids thought they knew everything at 12, so that should be fine.
SPEAKER 06 : 74:24
Uh-huh. They did whatever. They thought they knew everything.
SPEAKER 02 : 74:26
They thought they knew everything. When they were 12, they should be fine. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 06 : 74:30
So, yes, we need to do more research on this.
SPEAKER 08 : 74:35
Yeah, I think what’s… A little bit, I would say, scary about the fact that even a bill such as this is being introduced. It tells you where the values of mankind, as well as the values of Coloradans, have gone. And that we know that… When we make those choices, the end results are never good. They’re not good. It’s a life of sin, and sinful behavior creates destruction.
SPEAKER 06 : 75:05
Well, and it’s not good. It’s really not good for women. Now, granted, it is the—hold on here. Okay. Lauren, thank you.
SPEAKER 02 : 75:15
I’ve always been quick with the Google.
SPEAKER 06 : 75:17
We appreciate that. In Colorado, 12-year-olds can legally consent to various health services without parental permission, most notably outpatient psychotherapy, specific vaccines, and in certain situations, substance abuse treatment. They can also access confidential services for contraception, STI testing, and under specific Romeo and Juliet provisions, potentially consent to sexual activity with a partner less than four years older.
SPEAKER 08 : 75:46
Wow. What do you think of that? At 12 years old, I was lucky to get dressed and get to school.
SPEAKER 06 : 75:55
I know. I know. Yeah. And… And prostitution is known as, I think, the most ancient profession, certainly. And we get that. But we need to be focusing on high ideals.
SPEAKER 08 : 76:12
Right. Not the lowest common denominator. Exactly. And I think what else is disturbing is… And I don’t have the data, which Lauren maybe can Google this as well, but sex trafficking along the Front Range here in Colorado is one of the highest in a metropolitan area. And that is very unsettling to me that there are predators at our schools and children are being… And we’re going to make this now legal. Everything’s turned upside down, Kim, as we’ve discussed.
SPEAKER 06 : 76:55
Well, and Representative Scott Bottoms had a bill basically was our children are not for sale. And that didn’t make it out of committee, if you can believe that. So we can’t have a bill that says children are not for sale. And then we have kids that can consent to stuff. Well, it doesn’t. It splinters. It splinters. Yeah. So let’s see. This came in from one of our listeners. So the state needs money, and they want to pimp out women and young girls. And then a school district could possibly have a class on how to make money on this. And we need to get back to foundational principles. That’s the bottom line. Okay. I wanted to talk about, well. There’s a lot going on. Okay. Subsidized housing. And there’s three bills that I think ultimately go after single family homes. I think single family home ownership is really under attack, Karen. And I know you always make sure that if I make a statement that I can back that up. But with what I see down at the State House, particularly this House Bill 26-1001, and go to coloradotaxpayer.org, that’s the CUT website, and you can weigh in on this bill and send a message to the sponsors on it as well as your legislators. But this particular bill, I think, will change the fabric of our neighborhoods. And it’s a requirement. And that is the word in this. It says… The bill requires a subject jurisdiction on or after December 31, 2027, to allow a residential development to be constructed on a qualifying property that does not contain an exempt parcel. And that exempt parcel might be if there was not water, sewer available to get to that. Subject to an administrative approval process. That means it doesn’t go through planning and zoning. And it could be a property of a nonprofit organization, a nonprofit organization that provides public transit. A nonprofit organization can hire another nonprofit organization to do this, a school district, state college or university, housing authority, or a regional transportation authority. So what this means is parcel five acres or less, you could have a subsidized housing apartment building plopped right into your neighborhood. I’m really concerned about this. Karen, what do you think?
SPEAKER 08 : 79:34
Well, there’s two sides to every story, Kim. Okay, let’s hear the other side. So you look at it, and I think it’s valid what you’re saying. You’re going to plop an apartment building on the playground of a school. That’s the visualization that I see. It also could be that they plop small single-family homes that provide housing, affordable housing, to the communities that need housing for employment to support those communities. So I understand what you say. People want their single family home and they’re willing to drive for it. But the person that is working, let’s say it’s a husband and wife and they work in the restaurant industry. They don’t have the financial wherewithal to drive the hour and a half to get to their job in downtown Denver. And yet they work in downtown Denver and they need housing. And we would like them to have ownership housing. Rental housing doesn’t create wealth, and we know that. It is a stepping stone, and sometimes it is appropriate because of our lifestyles, our jobs, et cetera, to live in rental housing for a period of time. So there are both sides. We know we have a housing shortage nationwide, and that’s because we have lots more people. are let’s just say the baby boom generation is living substantially longer than the previous generation and that’s why there’s this bottleneck i agree with we do what do i want to say Picking winners and losers is generally not appropriate, and yet I continue to ask the question, how do you bring affordable housing to a marketplace without government assistance? And I haven’t figured it out, and we’ve had one speaker on the show, and I don’t know that the listeners particularly liked his suggestion. So it’s a challenge. It’s a challenge.
SPEAKER 06 : 81:43
Well, I think that housing has gotten expensive. One of the reasons is because of all the rules and regulations.
SPEAKER 08 : 81:49
Yes, and that I would totally agree with.
SPEAKER 06 : 81:51
And so that would be the first place to start before you start subsidizing all of this because, Lauren, we ultimately are paying for all of this.
SPEAKER 02 : 81:59
I agree, and I understand what Karen’s saying. The challenge I have with this is that it preempts local government. It’s state rules, and it’s overriding the local, what people in that community might want and might want to have a meeting about and might decide. The state’s saying, no, the municipalities can’t override this. It’s required that it be allowed. So that’s the part that I have a problem with it.
SPEAKER 06 : 82:28
Right, taking away our voices. And I think that’s probably the real reason why this should really shut down is it totally takes away our voices. With what you just said, they don’t have to go through the normal process that those that might want to be building single-family homes are, and that is to go through planning, zoning, and all these rules and regulations. They get a pass on this. So government’s picking winners and losers and taking away our voices, Lauren.
SPEAKER 02 : 82:56
Yeah. I mean, I think, you know, if you live in Lone Tree or wherever you live and you should be able to go to the town meetings and voice your opinion on whether something should be built or not, there should be a vote. And if it’s better for the community, I’ll be it.
SPEAKER 06 : 83:10
Well, I’m thinking of my community. There is a park. My understanding is the school district owns part of the land right around that park. So conceivably, the state could come in and say, you have to, in this single-family neighborhood, put this. Not have to. You have the opportunity to. No, it says required.
SPEAKER 02 : 83:32
No, it’s required that they allow it if you want to do it.
SPEAKER 08 : 83:35
That they allow it, not that they do it.
SPEAKER 02 : 83:37
Right. So if the school said, we want to build 10 homes right here, they’re allowed to. That’s the required. That’s the required. Your community cannot stop it from happening.
SPEAKER 08 : 83:48
They’re not required to build anything on it. But if they choose to build and they’re given the opportunity to build. They can’t stop them. And the reason that they weren’t given the opportunity to build initially is typically schools, that land was deeded.
SPEAKER 06 : 84:04
for a school well it was deeded for a school and the school didn’t pay for that land we paid for that land right now it says that the subject jurisdiction you know what let’s go to break we’re at break time so we’ll come back this is good this is good stuff and these discussions happen because of our sponsors and karen gorday with radiant painting and lighting That’s her business, entrepreneur. She and a whole team are working on this special election in Lakewood to preserve their voices regarding their communities. And I greatly appreciate all that she’s doing.
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SPEAKER 06 : 86:12
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 be sure and check out Little Richie’s Pizza and Pasta in Golden and in Parker. And they have wonderful calzones, so be sure and check that out. And again, that’s Little Richie’s in Parker and in Golden. In studio with me is Karen Levine, RE-MAX Realtor, and Lauren Levine. Lauren Levine. I’ve got my brain is just… The word salad is… We got you all worked up. Yeah. Yeah, you do. Sorry. Lauren Levine for Everything Mortgages. You can help people in all the states except just not New York.
SPEAKER 02 : 86:54
Correct.
SPEAKER 06 : 86:55
But that’s okay. Because people are moving out of New York.
SPEAKER 02 : 86:59
Maybe. You would think. Yeah. I was just reading earlier that Mondani is like a leader in the clubhouse for governor next time or something. It’s crazy.
SPEAKER 06 : 87:09
Wow. It breaks my heart that we have expended blood and treasure to fight communism, and now we’re voting it in in our country. It just absolutely breaks my heart. okay so this one this house bill 26 1001 which was the first bill out of the the shoot on this now it looks to me like they’re not focusing though on single-family homes it says in this that a subject jurisdiction shall not disallow construction of a residential development on a qualifying property and As long as it’s no more than three stories tall. And it goes through other things. So it looks to me like they’re pushing for apartments.
SPEAKER 08 : 87:55
Kim, that is a bad assumption. And you need to stop because three stories are houses today. Houses are three stories tall these days.
SPEAKER 04 : 88:05
Okay.
SPEAKER 08 : 88:06
So you are making assumptions. So I want you to be careful. I’m not saying it’s a good bill. I’m just saying that we have to be, I’m going back to what Lauren said, which is state should not be mandating these type of things when it’s local decision.
SPEAKER 06 : 88:25
Also, we’re subsidizing things.
SPEAKER 08 : 88:27
Which we can’t figure out how you do it without subsidizing.
SPEAKER 06 : 88:31
Well, how about if we lower taxes? How about if we lower property taxes? How about you mentioned the people that are two people working in the hospitality industry? Well, Governor President Trump. said that he would, and I don’t really like picking winners and losers, I just wish that we would lower taxes across the board, but said we are not going to, or we’re going to give a tax break on tips. No more taxes on tips in overtime. Colorado had the opportunity to make that happen here, but Colorado didn’t. Colorado said, no, we’re going to tax you on your tips. And so you were connecting the dot during the break, is that let’s take a look at why life is so expensive. It is because of government. And you can’t subsidize something for one group over here without taking from other people over there.
SPEAKER 08 : 89:27
Correct. And I don’t – but we’re also a people that have always felt that it’s important to help – the poor, which I think that we do. But the problem is, is we have extended that help. And what has happened is our citizens have become dependent on government. Life is easier because guess what? They can sit on the couch and watch their big screen TV and have their telephone and not go to work. That’s a problem. So, yes, we’ve created this dynamic. So I agree with that. I also know that regulation has increased the cost of housing. So government’s increased it. And yet we don’t have anything affordable because of that.
SPEAKER 06 : 90:20
So it’s not solving the problem.
SPEAKER 08 : 90:22
Exactly, exactly.
SPEAKER 06 : 90:23
This came in from Mark. He said housing is not the proper role of government. I do agree with him on that. Lauren? Help me.
SPEAKER 02 : 90:31
You want me to bail this water out of this boat?
SPEAKER 04 : 90:33
Yeah, I do. Get all the water out.
SPEAKER 02 : 90:36
I’m just sitting back and watching YouTube. No, listen, I say this to you all the time, and sometimes I feel like, you know, I don’t want to be in the wrong, but we have to wait for stuff like this prostitution bill. You know, it’s just come out of committee. So you hope that these four, I don’t know these people, but we’ll just say these sponsors are, I don’t know, maybe they’re on drugs. You know, something’s not right with this bill to just blanketly… legalized prostitution right you don’t nobody wants it around schools i mean even when the dispensaries all got legalized they had to be a certain distance from schools they couldn’t be there’s got to be more to this there’s just got to be than these three paragraphs that were being proved but it’s only out of committee so then it goes to discussion right that’s the next right there could be an open forum it could get killed it could be completely changed so Always have to just be careful. And that’s why I always try to tell people outside of when I talk here is I say, look, I haven’t had a chance to research this thing yet. I can’t really provide you my opinion until I do homework. Yeah. And that’s all we have to be careful of is just do the homework. I’m the one that sent you this post article with these three amendments a couple weeks ago when they were talking about what the state was going to do with this forced requirements that the local governments allow these properties to be built on. And it’s a good article. Just have to figure out what does it exactly mean? I understand what Karen’s saying about there hasn’t been a way to be figured out how to make housing affordable without the government getting involved. But there’s many different ways of subsidizing. It could just be letting the buildings build and cut regulation, but then help the people trying to buy the home. individually that’s a different way to do it you know but yeah you are picking winners and losers and what karen says is sometimes like no not everybody can apply for welfare right you have to have certain like medicaid you have to be destitute right you can’t just get on medicaid and that’s technically picking winners but it’s the government helping the destitute so
SPEAKER 06 : 92:39
Or that’s what they say they’re doing.
SPEAKER 02 : 92:40
That’s what they say. And there’s all kinds of fraud and everything, and we know that. And that needs to be eradicated, and that’s what I’ve always pushed for. I’ve said, if you want to hire and you want to fix unemployment, which we don’t really have bad unemployment, I’ve always maintained hire an army of people, pay them a minimum salary with a big commission, and go after fraud in every area and pay them on the recovery of the fraud. I think that you you find someone being fraudulent on workers compensation because they’re not really injured. You claw back their money or you find someone getting Social Security on a spouse that passed away five years ago and they pay it back. The investigator gets a commission on that recovery. We’ll have all this army of people, you know, working on commission on the fraud they uncover and recover for the government. And that was that’ll fix our budget real quick.
SPEAKER 06 : 93:28
I think it would. A good point here, one of our listeners said, churches and private citizens should help the poor, not the government. So if you lowered, if we had more money in our pocket, and we know somebody in our sphere of influence who needs help, We help them. We help them. Yes. And to your point, to be receiving a phone, subsidized housing, food stamps, and sitting on the couch watching TV or whatever, that’s not how it’s supposed to be. A friend of mine, I think you knew Barbara Urich. Do you remember her? Maybe not. She and I did a lot of volunteer work together. And she has since passed on. And she said when she was a kid, though, she lived up in the Loveland area, that they had what was called a pound party. So if, in fact, one of your neighbors fell on hard times, neighbors showed up with a pound of something, a pound of sugar, a pound of flour, a pound, and to try to help them. Or if the barn burned down, they came together and they helped build that. But they also expected… those that they were helping to help their themselves as well and this whole government program stuff subsidized housing i i’m not sure that i buying into this that there’s not enough housing when i see this headline this week that that apartment vacancies in colorado are at a 16 year high there’s just not a connect with me when i see all of these apartment buildings And I just don’t see that there’s this housing shortage. I see that there’s a shortage of homeownership stuff, but I don’t see a shortage on that. But they hide under that we don’t have affordable housing. Government created it. It’s a real dichotomy for me, Karen, as you know.
SPEAKER 08 : 95:26
It is. Well, and I think we talked about the amount of apartment buildings being developed in the front range and the fact that it felt like there were too many. And this is a result, the vacancy rate. But government built, assisted, subsidized, however you look at it, not building affordable apartments. They built luxury apartments. And so when the rents are $3,500 a month, I’m guessing that’s why some of the vacancies are going up. And so there’s downward, you know, potential downward pressure on rents. And what’s Let’s just acerbate the whole conversation. I believe the bill was killed and I was trying to find the number. The vacancy one? The vacancy one. Yes. But now we’re going to punish people because stuff is vacant? Do I not, as a property owner, have the right to leave my house vacant if I want? I mean, it just was, again, acerbating the situation, not helping the situation.
SPEAKER 06 : 96:38
which we might see that bill come back, and that really was a tax. It would be an additional property tax on a vacant property. What’s the definition of a vacant property? Well, it could be your second home.
SPEAKER 08 : 96:53
And you’re just supposed to let whoever you want rent your second home when you bought the second home to have freedom to go and spend time somewhere outside of your primary residence. Right.
SPEAKER 02 : 97:06
And then you also have a lot of places that don’t allow for VRBOs or short-term rentals. But then they don’t want vacant homes. So you have to put someone in a lease.
SPEAKER 08 : 97:17
But then you can’t go to your second home. That you bought to have freedom, which is what we also talk about is taking away our freedoms. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 : 97:27
So let’s see. This came in from Patty. She said, these restaurant workers don’t have money to buy a house because we’re overloaded in affordable housing. The prices will come down due to vacancy rates. We tried to push homeownership. during the George W. Bush era and had a meltdown in the financial industry. And so government should really be as limited in this as possible. This is an important discussion that we’re having. We will continue this discussion. And if you’re having any challenges with your own personal climate, be sure and reach out to Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling.
SPEAKER 12 : 98:08
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SPEAKER 15 : 98:52
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SPEAKER 01 : 99:34
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SPEAKER 06 : 99:53
oh that’s right we are doing i forgot we were doing that joe so i need to get to that and that is george washington and the founders never dreamed that this is where we would be where we would be taking money from people to give to other people to subsidize their lives I don’t think they ever believed that that was the proper role of government. So George Washington was born at his family’s plantation in Pope’s Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia, on February 22, 1732, to Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. George’s father was a leading planter in the area and served as a justice of the county court. Augustine Washington’s first wife, Jane Butler, died in 1929. leaving him with two sons, Lawrence and Augustine Jr., and daughter Jane. George was the oldest of Augustine and Mary’s six children. I can’t quite figure this out exactly because he was born in 1722. Anyway, around 1734, the family moved up the Potomac River to another Washington property, and little is known about George Washington’s childhood. And we’re going to continue to talk more and more about George Washington throughout the month. And let’s see, today, another birthday in February is Karen Levine’s birthday. This is true. Yes, it is. Okay. Government is not the answer. Joe said during break that zoning can be a real problem. And it really can be a problem. But it can also be a protection for single-family neighborhoods. But this legislature, this governor, wants to get rid of all of this zoning. And the goal is ultimately to have… have apartment buildings in single-family neighborhoods.
SPEAKER 08 : 101:53
Well, you see it as that. I don’t believe that’s true, but that’s how you see it. But I also think what’s interesting is the gentleman that we had on when I hosted the show in your absence, his recommendation for affordability is to get rid of zoning. And the Metroplex of Houston does not have zoning requirements. And that is his answer to affordability.
SPEAKER 06 : 102:23
But you could have a neighborhood that you would come together and say this neighborhood is single-family homes, right? Correct. Okay.
SPEAKER 08 : 102:30
I mean, I think. I think that’s true. But it is interesting because there was a lot of pushback from the listeners that we like zoning protection. And so it’s finding that balance for the community, which goes back to what Lauren said, which is those should be local decisions.
SPEAKER 02 : 102:49
Well, it’s no different, in my opinion, than like HOAs, right? A lot of people have bad thoughts or impressions of HOAs because they make rules and they can determine what you can and cannot do with your property. But I can tell you many times I’ve been driving around with my wife, I don’t know what we were doing, but we’re like, oh, you go into this neighborhood and you’re like, oh, clearly no HOA here because you have a pink house and then a lime green house and then, you know, a house with a moat built around it with walls and you’re like, what is going on in this area and what does that do to everyone else’s values? So HOAs serve a purpose as do zoning rules. So everything needs to be a conversation and I just think that the people that live in that area should have the say on what they want. If they don’t want zoning or they don’t want HOAs, well, that’s up to them in that area.
SPEAKER 06 : 103:39
This came in on the text line that 20% of Coloradans are on Medicaid. I think one fifth of Coloradans are on Medicaid and hardly 20 percent of Coloradans are destitute. But that’s the narrative is what Medicaid is supposed to be.
SPEAKER 02 : 104:02
But again, that’s where I say I’m not saying that that text line person is wrong. There’s obviously ways to get on Medicaid if you’re unable, if you’re being fraudulent. Evidently, there must be if there’s 20 percent. So let’s go after that. and find the fraud and stop it and reward the people that find the fraud and shut it down and then all that money that’s going out. You know, this whole stuff in Minneapolis or Minnesota with this daycare center stuff where they were saying millions and millions are being poured into these fraudulent daycare centers. Okay. Set a little army out there. Find the fraud. Take back the money from the people that were being fraudulent. Give a commission to the people that found it and put it back in the state coffers or the federal coffers.
SPEAKER 04 : 104:47
Okay, Joe, you wanted to weigh in on this. I think ultimately what really concerns me, though, is who decides, like the zoning thing. Who decides the zoning? Especially if we have counties that are trying to get rid of public comment. Now, I don’t even get to say that I dislike a zoning decision that they’re having.
SPEAKER 06 : 105:06
That’s a good point. And we’re seeing that in jurisdictions and counties where They’re trying to or are taking away public comment. And I think that’s a real problem.
SPEAKER 08 : 105:18
Again, be careful who you are voting for. Because they are… The Constitution, when laid out, was they were to represent the people. And if there’s this amount of angst in the room today, the people are not being represented, we assume, because of the decisions that are being made. And if they’re shutting down public comment, public comment is generally against what they’re doing, a lot of times for, but it is disturbing. It’s unsettling.
SPEAKER 06 : 105:55
Well, once you get government money, you get grants, incentives, tax credits, it starts to totally skew the market. And it opens up opportunity for fraud. So if we kept government in its proper role, doing the proper things it’s supposed to do, limited taxation, this is how people… are able to thrive and flourish. People don’t thrive and flourish when they are living off of government programs, in subsidized housing, and they’re not incentivized to get out of it then. And it’s difficult to get out of that trajectory that they’re on. And so those that say that they’re doing something, for example, homelessness. John Hickenlooper said, we’re going to get rid of homelessness here in the metro area. Let’s just put some money towards it. We’ll get rid of it. Mike Johnston says, we’re going to get rid of homelessness. Well, it’s become an industrial complex. Millions and millions of dollars. Do you think, Lorne, that people are going to solve a problem if they’re making big banks off of that problem?
SPEAKER 02 : 107:03
No, I mean, not in that manner. No, I mean, it’s the same way people argue with pharmaceutical drugs, right? They’re making the drugs just to keep you alive long enough to keep taking their drugs, rather than curing the disease that you wouldn’t need the drugs anymore.
SPEAKER 06 : 107:22
There is that narrative out there, certainly, yes.
SPEAKER 02 : 107:24
I guess homelessness might fall under the same thing. You know, the problem is, again, this is an opinion I don’t have, is you watch a lot of the homelessness and there are people that are addicted to drugs or other things like that, mental illness. It’s not that they don’t have a house. So some of these people you can take and give them a house and it’s not going to matter. Right. They can’t hold a job. They can’t physically get to a job because they can barely walk.
SPEAKER 06 : 107:51
But we have them on the streets.
SPEAKER 02 : 107:52
Right. But there’s no way to get them off the street because they’re zombies.
SPEAKER 06 : 107:55
Well… But we’ve created this in our society. We’ve created this.
SPEAKER 08 : 108:03
But some people have chosen that as a lifestyle. And then we support it as a lifestyle so it does not motivate them to change their lifestyle.
SPEAKER 06 : 108:11
Right. Right.
SPEAKER 08 : 108:12
And those who are dependent on the government have become comfortable depending on the government. So they don’t want the budget to balance and take away their comfort, which is at our cost. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 06 : 108:26
Well, and Karen, you said yesterday you were with some friends and discussing what’s going on. And I really think that your response to them was very eye-opening. So tell us about that.
SPEAKER 08 : 108:38
Well, we were discussing general home ownership things that come up. And I have a good friend who is also a client. She’s looking to sell her home in the early summer. And It needs a new water heater. The water heater is going out. And so she called her plumber. And when I started in this business, a water heater was $450, $500. She was quoted $7,500. $7,500 for a water heater because of all the changes in building codes to bring it up to code so that it will pass if they pull… when they pull a permit. She’s on a fixed income, and $7,500 is not in her budget. So then another gal talked about that there’s apparently grant programs out there for you to get a new water heater. So then the question is, how do you get a hold of those grant programs to utilize that opportunity? But why are those grant programs there? I’m sure there’s some good rationale. But again, as Lauren said, is that being abused? So the cost goes up. Like you’re saying, Kim, if you subsidize somewhere, it’s going to cost somebody else something. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 06 : 110:03
This has been a robust conversation. Lauren Levy, we need to make sure that people know how to reach you regarding anything mortgages.
SPEAKER 02 : 110:13
Easiest way is just call 303-880-8881.
SPEAKER 06 : 110:17
And Karen Levine for Everything Residential Real Estate. And to have these discussions. Oh my gosh, yes.
SPEAKER 08 : 110:22
If you’re looking for housing, need help with housing, buying or selling, give me a call. 303-877-7516. And I thank all of you.
SPEAKER 06 : 110:34
Love this. This came in on the text line. Kim, you’re such a hardliner. It’s always great when you both are here. Lauren Levy, Everything Mortgages, and Karen Levine, Everything Residential Real Estate. Our quote at the end of this show is from George Washington. He said, And that is George Washington. And 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, and God bless America.
SPEAKER 09 : 111:24
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SPEAKER 14 : 112:13
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